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HEADLINE THREE CHIMNEYS NEWS The Idea is Excellence. For information about TDN, SMARTY JONES Filly has 3 Straight call 732-747-8060. Wins by a Combined 20 Lengths www.thoroughbreddailynews.com SUNDAY, MAY 10, 2009 Click to watch most recent win TDN Feature Presentation HE’S THE MAN Mr. and Mrs. William K. Warren's Charitable Man G1 POULE D’ESSAI DES POULICHES (Lemon Drop Kid), winner of last term's GII Futurity S., made up for a disappointing seventh-place finish while making his sophomore debut in the Apr. 11 GI Blue Grass S. with an impressive 3 3/4-length victory over Imperial Council (Empire Maker) in yesterday=s GII Peter Pan S. at Belmont. Sitting in second as the blinkered LE SALES GRADS FINISH 1-2 Hello Broadway (Broken Vow) was eight lengths clear IN THE GRADE 2 PETER PAN S. through a half mile in :44 4/5, Charitable Man gained a 1st - Charitable Man (Lemon Drop Kid) short lead entering the stretch, and outkicked Imperial 2nd - Imperial Council Council to take it in style. A[After the Blue Grass] he cooled out in five minutes; he disliked the Polytrack,@ THE MAIN FEATURE McLaughlin offered. AWe figured that, and Mr. Warren Longchamp is the centre of the European focus to- was very kind enough and patient enough not to wheel day, and the chief attraction looks set to be Fantasia him right back in the Kentucky Derby or the Preakness.@ (GB) (Sadler's Wells), who heads McLaughlin added, AHe settled well [in the Peter Pan]. to post for the G1 Poule d'Essai [Jockey] Alan Garcia deserves a lot of credit. He did des Pouliches in the famed everything right and rode a great race.@ The dark bay George Strawbridge silks. Her may start next in the June 6 GI Belmont S. Five horses trainer Luca Cumani has handled have completed the Peter Pan/Belmont double, includ- some serious material through- ing A.P. Indy in 1992. AWe=ll talk with Mr. Warren out his illustrious career, and it is about the possibility of the Belmont,@ McLaughlin con- significant that he chose the tinued. AWe=ll take a look and see how the Preakness route trodden by one of his past goes. He is definitely bred to get a mile and a half, he starlets Gossamer (GB) (Sadler's likes this track, and he did it the right way today, so Wells) for his latest sensation. we=ll look at it.@ Charitable Man was sidelined last fall Newmarket photo After smooth successes in a with a knee fracture while training for the GI Cham- Newmarket maiden at the July pagne S. Peter Pan cont. p6 meeting and G3 Prestige S. at Goodwood the following month, Fantasia was second to Rainbow View (Dynaformer) in the G1 Fillies' Mile, a race her prede- cessor annexed in 2001. While her Ascot conqueror failed to read the script on her sophomore bow last Sunday, Fantasia could hardly have struck a finer chord with an exhilarating seven-length success in the G3 Nell Gwyn S. at Newmarket last time Apr. 15. "She was pretty much similar to Gossamer in being hugely tal- ented from the beginning and a quick learner who knew what to do," said Cumani. In typically grounded fash- ion, he added, "The other day, she was visually very impressive, but I'm not sure what she beat there. Like Gossamer, she will never be a big filly, but she is quite lengthy and has a good shoulder and hindquarters, and is in the same category in terms of class." Pouliches preview cont. p2-3 VOCALISED: Ready to Sing in Poule d=Essai des Poulains?... p3-5 RAIL TRIP UPSET: Ball Four (Grand Slam) wires GII Mervyn Leroy H. ... p7 TDN P HEADLINE NEWS • 5/10/09 • PAGE 2 of 14 TDN Feature Presentation cont. Keeping Things in Proportion... Khalid Abullah has registered wins in this Classic with Houseproud (Riverman) in 1990 and Zenda (GB) (Zamindar) seven years ago, while Criquette Head- Maarek has saddled six winners in Three Troikas (Fr) (Lyphard), Silvermine (Fr) (Bellypha {Ire}), Baiser Vole (Foolish Pleasure), Ravinella (Mr. Prospector), Matiara (Bering {GB}), and Always Loyal (Zilzal). Those factors may temper enthusiasm for Fantasia's chances, but the wide draw handed to their representative Proportional Proportional APRH (GB) (Beat Hollow {GB}) will not aid her cause. She had Martin Schwartz's Elusive Wave (Ire) (Elusive City) three lengths back in second in the G1 Prix Marcel Boussac over this track and trip on Arc day, but looked short of that standard when only third behind Ecurie la Vallee Martigny and Lydia Rabineau's Tamazirte (Ire) (Danehill Dancer {Ire}) and Arno Curty's Soneva (Chero- kee Run) in the G3 Prix de la Grotte back here last time Apr. 12. Recent Marcel Boussac winners to have come back and conquered here include Divine Proportions (Kingmambo) and Zarkava (Ire) (Zamindar), while the Grotte has played host to three of the last four Pouliches heroines. Cont. p3 Sunday, Longchamp, France, post time: 4:00 p.m. POULE D'ESSAI DES POULICHES-G1, €400,000, 3yo, f, 1mT SC PP HORSE OWNER BREEDER TRAINER/JOCKEY 1 10 Proportional (GB) Khalid Abullah Juddmonte Farms Head-Maarek (Beat Hollow {GB}--Minority {GB}, by Generous {Ire}) Pasquier 2 9 Soneva Arno Curty Mineola Farm/Houchin/Hirshmann De Nicolay ( Cherokee Run--Lakabi, by Nureyev) Soumillon 3 7 Doriana (Fr) Ecurie la Perrigne Ecurie la Perrigne de Royer-Dupre (Kendor {Fr}--Urgence {Fr}, by Snurge {GB}) Thulliez 4 1 Tamazirte (Ire) Ecurie La Vallee Martigny/L Rabineau Churchtown Bloodstock Rouget (Danehill Dancer {Ire}--Tanami Desert {GB}, by Lycius) Mendizabal 5 3 Entre Deux Eaux (Fr) Roger Jesus & Mlle Micheline Vidal Roger Jesus Rob Collet (Ange Gabriel {Fr}--Goutte d’Eau {Fr}, by Vacarme) Murtagh 6 4 Providanza (Fr) Claude Lambert & Mikel Delzangles Claude Lambert Delzangles (Okawango--Hill Tigress {Ire}, by Robellino) Mosse 7 11 Oh Goodness Me (GB) June Judd & Jackie Bolger Sir Eric Parker Bolger (Galileo {Ire}--Coyote {GB}, by Indian Ridge {Ire}) Manning 8 6 Undaunted Affair (Ire) Rutherford, Hillen & Ryan J Collins Ryan (Spartacus {Ire}--Party Bag {GB}, by Cadeaux Genereux {GB}) Peslier 9 5 Elusive Wave (Ire) Martin S Schwartz Pier House Stud Rouget (Elusive City--Multicolour Wave {Ire}, by Rainbow Quest) Lemaire 10 2 Fantasia (GB) George Strawbridge Ronchalon Racing UK Ltd Cumani (Sadler’s Wells--Blue Symphony [GB}, by Darshaan {GB}) Dettori 11 8 Queen America (Fr) Mme Christian Wingtans Mme Christian Wingtans Rob Collet (American Post {GB}--Gandelia {Fr}, by Ganges) Boeuf All carry 126 pounds. P TDN HEADLINE NEWS • 5/10/09 • PAGE 3 of 14 TDN Feature Presentation cont. Vocalised will break from the six stall in his bid to go For Goodness Sake... one better than Creachadoir (Ire) (King's Best), whom Jim Bolger's presence in the European Classics is Bolger sent here off the back of a win in the Tetrarch, almost a given at present, and the master of Coolcullen only to be runner-up two years ago. "He's very well supplies another live contender in Oh Goodness Me and we are expecting him to run well," Bolger told PA (GB) (Galileo {Ire}), who has the widest post position to Sport. "They are saying the ground is on the good-to- contend with. Her hard-fought success in the Mar. 22 soft side at the moment, but we don't mind what it is." G3 Park Express S. at The Curragh on her latest outing needs improving upon, but underestimating one of the Bouncing Back?... yard's contenders in the Classics is not an option. Of Sheikh Hamdan bin Rashid Al Maktoum's colors have the outsiders, Roger Jesus's Listed Prix Isonomy winner yet to be carried to success here, but it is not difficult Entre Deux Eaux (Fr) (Ange Gabriel {Fr}) appears to to envisage Naaqoos (GB) (Oasis Dream {GB}) hoisting have little chance of reversing a two-length defeat by the renowned blue-and-white to glory this afternoon. Elusive City in the G3 Prix Imprudence at Maisons- Last year's G1 Prix Jean-Luc Lagardere hero will first Laffitte Apr. 10, while the unknown quantity Un- need to reverse a surprise defeat at the hands of Gerard daunted Affair (Ire) (Spartacus {Ire}) needs to have Augustin Normand's Le Havre (Ire) (Noverre) in the progressed quickly since a latest fifth in the Mar. 29 Apr. 10 Listed Prix Djebel at Maisons-Laffitte, and that Leopardstown 1000 Guineas Trial S. trial has a poor recent record as a pointer to success in this. Sheikh Hamdan's Racing Manager Angus Gold told PA Sport, "Obviously, it was disappointing to get POULE D’ESSAI DES POULAINS beaten, but I think the winner is a good horse. I think 10 MAY, 2009 [trainer] Freddy [Head] feels he has improved a fair bit and that he may have been a little easy on him in the LONGCHAMP lead up to that race. Last year, he looked a horse with a lot of potential. He's a fine, big horse who has im- LOUD AND CLEAR proved physically from two to three, so we'll see if he's Jim Bolger provided a late twist ahead of today's got the class to win a Classic over a mile." Another G1 Poule d'Essai des Poulains when substituting the with smart juvenile form who needs to rebound from a G1 Dewhurst S. hero Intense Focus (Giant's Causeway) below-par comeback is Shaweel (GB) (Dansili {GB}), with Vocalised (Vindication), fifth behind Vocalised in the Greenham on his debut in and that decision could be a the Godolphin colors.