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Taking Stock: Baffert=S Way with Sires FRIDAY, MAY 18, 2018 TAKING STOCK: BAFFERT=S THURSDAY=S PREAKNESS REPORT: JUSTIFY RECEIVES HIGH PRAISE FROM BAFFERT WAY WITH SIRES by Steve Sherack BALTIMORE, Md--It couldn=t have rained any harder during training hours at Pimlico Thursday morning. That is, of course, until it was time for GI Kentucky Derby winner Justify (Scat Daddy) to stretch his legs. With the rain coming to a halt almost on cue during the renovation break, a small crowd began to emerge from cover by the stakes barn as Justify walked under tack at 8:15 a.m. Led out by longtime Bob Baffert assistant trainer Jimmy Barnes aboard a stable pony, a slew of media and fans were lined up with their cameras and cell phones raring to go as Justify made his way to the gap. With the sloppy, sealed track still being worked on for a few minutes, Justify, as always, stood patiently and never turned a hair. Cont. p5 (click here) Bob Baffert with Justify | Eclipse Sportswire IN TDN EUROPE TODAY by Sid Fernando THE LION ROARS AGAIN Back in the early days when Bob Baffert was a cowboy Qatar Racing’s Roaring Lion (Kitten’s Joy) bounced back transitioning from quarter horses to Thoroughbreds, he took a from a subpar seasonal debut to dominate the G2 Betfred trip to Lexington to get an education. He visited some major Dante S. Thursday at York. stud farms like Claiborne and Lane=s End to see to see what good Click or tap here to go straight to TDN Europe. Thoroughbreds looked like. AIt was =89--the year Secretariat died,@ he said. AI saw him at Claiborne, I saw Nijinsky, Mr. Prospector, Fappiano. After seeing all the horses, when I saw Danzig, I said, >I can do this.= I loved Danzig.@ The blocky and heavily-muscled son of Northern Dancer appealed to Baffert=s speed-loving quarter horse eye. Ironically, Baffert isn=t known for his Danzigs, but that=s because he couldn=t afford to buy them. AWhen I first got in, I had a small pocketbook,@ he said. AI was looking for $20,000 horses and trying to stretch it to $30,000.@ He wasn=t known for training Scat Daddys, either, until Justify popped up. AI didn=t even look at Scat Daddys [at the sales]. I figured they=re going to be turf, and Coolmore=s going to buy them all up, the good ones, anyway.@ For that matter, Baffert isn=t particularly associated with any one big-name sire, like D. Wayne Lukas was with Storm Cat or Aidan O=Brien is with Galileo and War Front. What Baffert=s resume clearly shows, however, is a penchant for training one of the best, if not the best, offspring of any random sire, good or bad. That=s a skill. Cont. p3 PUBLISHER & CEO Sue Morris Finley @suefinley [email protected] V.P., INTERNATIONAL OPERATIONS Gary King @garykingTDN [email protected] EDITORIAL [email protected] Editor-in-Chief Jessica Martini @JessMartiniTDN Managing Editor Alan Carasso @EquinealTDN Friday, May 18, 2018 Senior Editor Steve Sherack @SteveSherackTDN Racing Editor Brian DiDonato @BDiDonatoTDN News and Features Editor Ben Massam @BMassamTDN Associate Editors Christie DeBernardis @CDeBernardisTDN Joe Bianca @JBiancaTDN ADVERTISING [email protected] Director of Advertising Alycia Borer Advertising Manager Lia Best Advertising Designer Amanda Crelin Advertising Assistants Alexa Reisfield Rachel McCaffrey Photo Editor/Dir. of Distribution Sarah K. Andrew @SarahKAndrew [email protected] Social Media Strategist Justina Severni Qatar Racing's Roaring Lion (Kitten's Joy), impressive winner of the G2 Dante S. at Director of Customer Service York, pictured as a yearling at Keeneland September 2016. He was purchased by David Vicki Forbes Redvers from Taylor Made Sales for $160,000. Click here for race replay. [email protected] Photo: Kelcey Loges/Taylor Made Sales Marketing Manager Alayna Cullen @AlaynaCullen BRETTE BEGINS NEW CHAPTER FOR LAMBHOLM 6 Director of Information Technology Ray Villa Ben Massam gets the scoop on former Michael Matz [email protected] assistant Peter Brette, who is now becoming the farm trainer for Lambholm South. Bookkeeper Terry May [email protected] TODAY’S GRADED STAKES EST Race Click for TV WORLDWIDE INFORMATION International Editor 10:30a Mansionbet Yorkshire Cup-G2, YRK -------------- ----- Kelsey Riley @kelseynrileyTDN 2:39p Adena Springs Miss Preakness S.-GII, PIM TJCIS PPs TVG [email protected] 3:43p Pimlico Special S.-GIII, PIM TJCIS PPs NBCSN European Editor 4:48p Black-Eyed Susan S.-GII, PIM TJCIS PPs NBCSN Emma Berry [email protected] 5:57p Allaire Dupont Distaff S.-GIII, PIM TJCIS PPs TVG Associate International Editor Heather Anderson @HLAndersonTDN Newmarket Bureau, Cafe Racing Sean Cronin & Tom Frary [email protected] 60 Broad Street, Suite 100 Red Bank, NJ 07701 732-747-8060 | 732-747-8955 (fax) www.TheTDN.com TDN HEADLINE NEWS • PAGE 3 OF 16 • THETDN.COM FRIDAY • MAY 18, 2018 Keeneland--AI didn=t have a hand in this one,@ he said; WinStar, China Horse Club, and SF Bloodstock bought the John D. Gunther-bred colt for $500,000--but he=s since seen photos of the chestnut as a weanling and yearling, and said he was Cont. from p1 picture-perfect and looked like a halter horse even then. Justify, who=s out of the Ghostzapper mare Stage Magic, is AHe=s the most gorgeous horse. He=s between 16.2 and 16.3, odds-on to become his sire=s best runner, just like American he=s big and strong, but he=s not big like a Point Given, who was Pharoah is for Pioneerof the Nile a big, slab-sided horse. He=s a and Arrogate was for Unbridled=s muscular horse, muscle on Song. West Coast is one of six muscle, and that makes him look millionaires for Flatter, but is his even bigger, and it makes him sire=s only Eclipse Award winner. look fast.@ And fast horses have These three were consecutive always been Baffert=s champion 3-year-olds for Baffert, preference and trademark. He just and Justify is on a path to make it prefers a bit more leg, stretch, four straight. A win tomorrow in and scope now, added to the Preakness would solidify his Danzig-like musculature, and he=s chances. got that combination in Justify. The post-cowboy Baffert who When did he know Justify was now favors crisp white out of the ordinary? The colt was button-down shirts at the sales initially with his assistant at Los has evolved through the years in Justify as a yearling | Photos by Z Alamitos instead of among the his tastes for yearlings and first string horses with Baffert at 2-year-olds, too. He didn=t see Justify as a yearling at Santa Anita. Cont. p4 TDN HEADLINE NEWS • PAGE 4 OF 16 • THETDN.COM FRIDAY • MAY 18, 2018 AWe got him in in November.@ said Baffert. AElliott Walden had put a good foundation in him at WinStar and then he=d had a few breezes at Keeneland with [Rodolphe] Brisset before they sent him to me. We like to go easy with them at first, not ask them for too much speed. But my assistant in Los Alamitos was telling me he was special. When I got him, first time I worked him in January, I knew he was really, really special. Elliott Walden kept telling me, >I sent you a really, really nice colt.= After I worked him, I told him he was a really nice colt, and Elliott said, >I=ve been telling you that. That=s why I was trying to get him over to you [at Santa Anita].=@ Justify=s remarkable ascension in a short time frame is a testament to his sire, family, constitution, and physique, and it=s easy to assume that any competent trainer could have developed such a well-bred horse similarly. But Baffert has accomplished a few things with Justify that have shattered some barriers: he won the Kentucky Derby with a horse that hadn=t raced at two, who was the first Storm Cat-line winner of that Classic, and whose sire was more widely renowned for turf horses, not for 10-furlong horses on dirt. Baffert=s uncanny ability in developing lesser-pedigreed horses, some by stallions well off the commercial path, brings into sharper focus his skills as a trainer and manager and his eye for a horse. Here=s a partial list from an old blog post of mine of Grade I winners trained by Baffert that were the best offspring for their sires: Cavonnier (Batonnier) Real Quiet (Quiet American) Silver Charm (Silver Buck) Captain Steve (Fly So Free) Chilukki (Cherokee Run) Tuzla (Panoramic) River Keen (Keen) General Challenge, Excellent Meeting, and Magical Allure (all by General Meeting) Point Given (Thunder Gulch) Congaree (Arazi) War Emblem (Our Emblem) Friendly Michelle (Artax) Behaving Badly (Pioneering) Downthedustyroad (Storm and a Half) Midnight Lute and Pussycat Doll (both by Real Quiet) E Z=s Gentleman (Yankee Gentleman) Drill (Lawyer Ron) Coil (Point Given) Secret Circle (Eddington) First Dude (Stephen Got Even) Hoppertunity (Any Given Saturday) Dortmund (Big Brown) Bayern (Offlee Wild) Mor Spirit (Eskendereya) 2018 Fee: $15,000 Stands and Nurses HORSES WHO WON THE GRADE 1 BREEDERS’ CUP CLASSIC AT THREE Look for first crop yearlings at Fasig-Tipton July. TDN HEADLINE NEWS • PAGE 5 OF 16 • THETDN.COM FRIDAY • MAY 18, 2018 AThere=s some sires I just wouldn=t buy, and I=ve been burned The unbeaten >TDN Rising Star= got acquainted with the by them,@ Baffert said. AMy wife Jill tells me now, >Don=t be a sire Pimlico main oval by galloping a very easy 1 1/2 miles while snob when you go to the sales.
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