MONDAY, JANUARY 21, 2013 732-747-8060 $ TDN Home Page Click Here SWEET VICTORY FOR MORE CHOCOLATE BEHOLDER RETURNS Michael Talla=s More Chocolate (Malibu Moon), Newly crowned champion Beholder (Henny Hughes) making her first start on dirt in Sunday=s GII La Canada will kick off her sophomore campaign in Monday=s S. at Santa Anita, came away GII Santa Ynez S. at Santa Anita. The Spendthrift Farm with an emphatic 1 3/4-length colorbearer, the only stakes winner in the field, has victory. The 4-year-old filly been off since cementing her championship title with a chased pacesetting Willa B front-running victory in the Nov. 2 GI Breeders= Cup Awesome (Awesome Gambler) Juvenile Fillies. Looking to upset the 3-5 favorite is through an opening half in Michael House=s Dawn=s Charm (Hard Spun). The gray :48.03. She took over as that filly is coming off a 10 3/4-length 11-1 outsider began to falter maiden-breaking romp at today=s midway on the turn and quickly 6 1/2-furlong distance at Betfair opened a clear lead. The Hollywood Park Dec. 14. AShe=s 5-1 shot was challenged by More Chocolate working good and she really Book Review (Giant=s Benoit improved a lot in her last race,@ Causeway) at midstretch, but said jockey Edwin Maldonado. drew off again late for her first graded stakes tally. Dawn=s Charm graduated in Beholder AI haven=t had a horse turn for home like she did for front-running fashion in her third Benoit me in a long time,@ commented winning rider Garrett start. AThe key with her is to be in front,@ Maldonado Gomez. AShe was looking around and in a high cruise continued. AShe never was in front before.@ Asked how control.@ Gomez did admit, AShe=s a work in progress. his mount was coming into her graded stakes debut, We know she has a lot of talent.@ Cont. p2 Maldonado said, AI was on for a couple of her works here and she went well. They were maintenance works, Sunday, Santa Anita but she=s ready for the race.@ Cicero Farms= Blushing LA CANADA S.-GII, $150,250, SAX, 1-20, 4yo, f, Angel (Macho Uno) closed to just get her head in front for 1 1/16m, 1:42 2/5, ft. a maiden victory at Santa Anita last time out Dec. 30. 1--#@MORE CHOCOLATE, 118, f, 4, by Malibu Moon Renee=s Titan (Bernstein), second in Hollywood=s Sharp 1st Dam: Little Treasure (Fr) (MGSW, Cat S. and sixth in the Dec. 8 GI Hollywood Starlet, $305,215), by Night Shift and Switch to the Lead (Songandaprayer), third in the 2nd Dam: Luminosity (GB), by Sillery GIII Sorrento S. and second in the Nov. 3 Breeders= Cup 3rd Dam: Bague Bleue (Ire), by Last Tycoon (Ire) Juvenile Filly Sprint Preview S., are the only other ($45,000 yrl '10 KEESEP; $310,000 2yo >11 stakes performers in the eight-horse field. Full field p4 FTFFEB). O-Michael Talla; B-Calumet Farm (KY); T-John W Sadler; J-Garrett K Gomez. $90,000. Lifetime Record: 8-3-1-1, $182,790. Werk Nick Rating: C+. Click for eNicks report & 5-cross pedigree. An IBS 2YO Auction Purchase Selected and Prepared by Barry Berkelhammer 2--Book Review, 118, f, 4, Giant=s Causeway--Clever Babe, by Distorted Humor. O/B-Gary & Mary West (KY); T-Bob Baffert. $30,000. 3--Willa B Awesome, 120, f, 4, Awesome Gambler-- Cause I'm Tricky, by Nineeleven. ($18,000 2yo >11 BESJAN). O-Phil Daniels, Patsy London, John Winters & Terry Lovingier; B-Terry C Lovingier (CA); T-Walther Solis. $18,000. Margins: 1 3/4, 2 1/4, NK. Odds: 5.30, 1.40, 11.00. Also Ran: Lady of Fifty, Ubelongtomemissy, Open Water. Click for the brisnet.com chart, the brisnet.com PPs or the free brisnet.com catalogue-style pedigree. Video replay. A.P. Indy - Praise, by Mr. Prospector RANKS AMONG THE TOP SONS OF A.P. INDY BY G1 WINNERS G1 Winners from first 3 crops 2013 Fee Bernardini 5 $150,000 CONGRATS 3 $35,000 Malibu Moon 2 $70,000 Mineshaft 1 $30,000 New to for 2013 859-873-1717 | www.WinStarFarm.com In This Issue Shanghai Bobby Tunes Up 60 Broad St., Suite 100 Red Bank, NJ 07701 A day after officially being named champion (732) 747-8060 juvenile, Shanghai Bobby (Harlan’s Holiday) took (732) 747-8955 (fax) to the track at Palm Meadows to tune up for his www.thoroughbreddailynews.com sophomore debut in the Jan. 26 GIII Holy Bull S. www.thetdn.com at Gulfstream Park. 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She added a Nov. 1 Santa Anita allowance two starts later and briefly led in the stretch of the Dec. 30 GIII Robert J Frankel S. before finishing third behind Qaraaba (GB) (Shamardal). AWe wanted to try her on the dirt,@ winning trainer John Sadler said of the surface change. AIt=s the last chance to run her with her own age group, that was the nice thing about it, the 4-year-old series. This race looked like it was coming up a good spot with a small CLEARLY NOW JOINS HOLY BULL FRAY field.@ As for what is next for More Chocolate, Sadler Up Hill Stable=s Clearly Now (Horse Greeley) has added, AWe=re going to look at the [Mar. 16 GI] Santa joined the list of contenders for the Jan. 26 GIII Holy Margarita, that=s for sure.@ Bull S. after working four furlongs in :48.11 at Palm Trainer Jerry Hollendorfer was mystified by the dull Meadows Saturday. The dark bay colt opened his fourth-place effort of favored Lady of Fifty (After career with back-to-back wins sprinting six furlongs at Market). AI was very surprised at how she ran,@ Woodbine last fall and was a well-beaten third when Hollendorfer said. stretching out to 1 1/16 miles for the Dec. 1 Display S. Michael Talla, a native of Arizona who used to ride AHe showed ability from the start with his first two rodeo races, was a founder of the high-end fitness club wins,@ trainer Brian Lynch reported Sunday morning. AI The Sports Club Company. He has owned racehorses might have had him a little too fresh for his first start since 2005 and campaigned 2010 GI Santa Anita Oaks going a distance in the Display, but I think I learned a winner Crisp (El Corredor). little bit about him that will help this time. This is the time of year [for a 3-year-old], you want to see what you have.@ Shanghai Bobby Tunes Up The morning after officially being named 2012 Eclipse Champion juvenile, Starlight Racing, Susan Magnier, Michael Tabor and Derrick Smith=s Shanghai Bobby (Harlan=s Holiday) tuned up for the Holy Bull with a five- furlong drill at Palm Meadows Sunday in 1:00.88. AIt went great,@ said trainer Todd Pletcher. AIt looks like everything=s on schedule.@ Shanghai Bobby worked in company with Verrazano (More Than Ready), tabbed a J “TDN Rising Star” J after his 7 3/4-length debut victory at Gulfstream Jan. 1. AThey went head and head and finished evenly,@ Pletcher added. AIt was a nice work for both of them.@ Also working for the Holy Bull yesterday at Palm Meadows, GII Sanford S. winner Bern Identity (Bernstein) turned in a bullet five-furlong drill in :59.33 Garrett Gomez, Michael Talla and John Sadler for George and Lori Hall and trainer Kelly Breen. Benoit TDN P HEADLINE NEWS • 1/21/13 • PAGE 4 of 7 • thoroughbreddailynews.com Hay List Could Return in Newmarket... BLACK-TYPE PREVIEWS Hay List (Aus) (Statue of Liberty), the world=s second- highest rated sprinter of 2012 behind Black Caviar Monday, Santa Anita Park, post time: 6:36 p.m. EST (Aus) (Bel Esprit {Aus}), could make his first start since SANTA YNEZ S.-GII, $150,000, 3yo, f, 6.5f March in the G1 Newmarket H.