THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 2014 732-747-8060 $ TDN Home Page Click Here TOP END PROPELS NOVEMBER Current-year figures were especially encouraging Led by a $3.9 million mare and a North American- considering the 2013 sale was propelled by the E. Paul record $3 million weanling, Book 1 closed at Keeneland Robsham Stables dispersal and, to a lesser degree, the November yesterday with continued evidence of a dispersal of Eric Kronfeld=s equine holdings. The 2014 vibrant market for high-end Thoroughbreds. AIt was a November Sale doesn=t include any significant heck of a session today,@ dispersals. Keeneland Director of Topping yesterday=s session, and the sale so far, was Sales Geoffrey Russell the $3.9 million Aloof (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}), a group- said succinctly when the winning daughter of champion Airwave (GB) who sold curtain fell. in foal to War Front. Whisper Hill Farm=s Mandy Pope Building on the first beat out representatives of Moyglare Stud Farm for the session=s momentum, 5-year-old mare. Paramount Sales consigned Aloof as Day 2 saw 138 horses Hip 246. traded for $54,454,000, Maybe the star of the show, however, was a an average of $394,594. weanling Tapit filly from Serena=s Cat (Storm Cat) who Session topper Aloof Keeneland Photo That was a 15% boost sold to Bridlewood Farm=s George Isaacs for $3 million, from last year=s session- a North American record for a weanling. Pope was the two average. The session median of $235,000 was up direct underbidder. Hill >n= Dale Farm co-bred the filly 6.8%, while the session RNA was 22.5% from 40 with Dell Ridge Farm and sold her as Hip 402. The filly horses not sold. Last year=s session RNA was 19.9%. was the second-highest yesterday, edging out another Cumulative figures are now roughly equal to last Hill >n= Dale-sold horse, the $2.85 million broodmare year=s numbers. In total, 273 horses sold in Book 1 for Modeling (Tapit), who sold in foal to Distorted Humor $95,852,000. The $351,106 average was down 1.8%, to Don Alberto Corp. as Hip 353. The record filly=s while the median of $200,000 was down a more great granddam is the Hall of Famer Serena=s Song substantial 9%. The cumulative RNA is 24%; last year (Rahy). it was 20.4%. AIt=s the old adage that quality sells,@ said Russell. AThe filly comes from an exceptional family that everyone wants to get into. It=s hard to get into. We told people this would be the only opportunity they would get to buy her. She=ll never be resold.@ (718) 978-8200 KEENOV coverage cont. p3 www.mersant.com Sponsors of the following stats for the: KEENELAND NOVEMBER SALE SESSION TOTALS 2014 2013 Catalogued 238 202 No. Offered 178 161 No. Sold 138 129 RNAs 40 32 % RNAs 22.5% 19.9% No. $1m+ 11 8 High Price $3,900,000 $3,100,000 Gross $54,454,000 $44,277,000 Average (% change) $394,594 (+15%) $343,233 Median (% change) $235,000 (+6.8%) $220,000

CUMULATIVE 2014 2013 Catalogued 447 399 No. Offered 359 304 No. Sold 273 242 RNAs 86 62 % RNAs 24% 20.4% No. $1m+ 18 14 High Price $3,900,000 $4,000,000 Gross $95,852,000 $86,532,000 Average (% change) $351,106 (-1.8%) $357,570 Median (% change) 200,000 (-9%) $220,000 Throughout the sales | 12pm – 3pm Lunch will be served.

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CHAMPION SON OF THE WORLD’S LEADING SIRE GALILEO (IRE) 1st dam APPROACH (GB), by Darshaan (GB). 3 wins, 2 to 4 in England and NA, $187,940, Lord Weinstock Memorial S., 2nd WinStar Galaxy S. [G2] (KEE, $100,000), Rothmans Royals May Hill S. [G3]. Sister to =Intrigued (GB). Dam of 8 foals, 5 to race, 3 winners-- MIDAS TOUCH (GB) (c. by Galileo (IRE)). At 3 TF 122, champion 3yo colt in Ire, 2 to 4, 2 wins, 3 times 2nd, 3 times 3rd, Earned $799,196, 1st Derrinstown Stud Derby Trial [G2], 2nd Dubai Duty Free Irish Derby [G1], Ladbrokes St. Leger [G1], Displays the 3 Ps Great Voltigeur S. [G2], 3rd Underwood S. [G1], Makybe Diva S. [G2]. for Sire Success Streetcar To Stars (GB) (f. by Sea the Stars). TF 111. Winner at 3, 2014 in Ireland, 2nd King George V Nijinsky Cup, 3rd Ballyroan S. [G3]. Pedigree – by Galileo (IRE) from an 2nd dam exceptional female family of winners LAST SECOND (IRE), by Alzao. 4 wins in 6 starts, 2 to 3 in England and Ireland, and producers $236,155, Vodafone Nassau S. [G2], Sun Chariot S. [G2], etc. Half-sister to Physical – perfect conformation ALLELUIA (GB) champion at 3 in Eng, ARRIKALA (IRE), ALOUETTE (GB). Dam of 9 winners— Performance – Champion 3YO colt AUSSIE RULES (c. by Danehill). 4 wins, 2 to 3 in Ireland, England, France and in Ireland NA, $874,570, Gainsborough Poule d'Essai des Poulains-French Two Thousand Guineas [G1], Shadwell Turf Mile S. [G1] , etc. Sire. Intrigued (GB) (f. by Darshaan (GB)). Winner at 2 in England, $42,330 (USA$), 3rd E.B.F. Joan Westbrook Pinnacle S., etc. Dam of-- MICHELANGELO (GB) (c. by Galileo (IRE)). 2 wins at 3, 2012 in England, $271,600, Casco Cocked Hat S., 3rd Ladbrokes St. Leger [G1], Bet365 Gordon S. [G3], Qatar Racing Newmarket S. Gooseberry Fool (GB) (f. by Danehill Dancer (IRE)). Winner in 2 starts at 2 in England, placed in 1 start at 2 in Ireland, 3rd Silver Flash S. [G3]. 3rd dam ALRUCCABA Winner at 2 in Eng. Dam 13 foals— ALLELUIA. 6 wins at 3 in Eng. $69,071, champion 3YO filly in Eng. GNER Doncacster Cup [G3]. Dam of– ALLEGRETTO ($962,172, champion older female twice in Eng, French St. Ledger [G1]. ARRIKALA. 3 wins at 2 and 3 in Ire, $104,624, Curragh Cup, 2nd Blandford S. [G2], 3rd Irish Oaks [G1]. Producer. ALOUETTE. 3 wins at 2 and 3 in Ire, placed in Eng, Oyster S., etc. Dam of ALBORADA ($985,679, champion 3YO filly in Eur, Dubai Champion S. [G1]-twice, etc.), ALBANOVA ($486,783, champion older female twice in Eng, champion older female in Ger, etc.), ALMA MATER, Albinus, Alanbrooke. Granddam of DRAGON DANCER (August S., 2nd Epsom Derby [G1], etc.), ALVARITA. Midas T uch Now accepting 2015 nominations | $10,000 live foal

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Mandy Being Mandy BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT Director of Business Development: Gary King [email protected] Whisper Hill Farm's Mandy Pope added another collector's item to her broodmare band EDITORIAL yesterday after outlasting Moyglare Stud for the $3.9 million (Galileo {Ire}), a [email protected] Aloof (Ire) Editor-in-Chief: Jessica Martini group-winning daughter of champion Airwave Managing Editor: Alan Carasso (GB) selling in foal to War Front. Racing Editor: Steve Sherack Racing Analyst/Social Media Director: Brian DiDonato Associate Editor: Justina Severni Mandy Pope Assistant Editor: Christie DeBernardis Keeneland Photo Assistant Editor: Heather Likins Page 5 ADVERTISING Record Weanling at [email protected] Director of Advertising: Alycia Borer Art Director: Lia Kusch KEENOV Sr. Ad Coordinator/Dir. of Distribution: Sarah K. Andrew Advertising Designer: Amanda Crelin Advertising Assistant: Amanda Foster John Sikura had hinted he would be leading a Nichola Henry: Social Media Strategist special weanling into the Keeneland sales ring Wednesday afternoon and the Hill ‘n' Dale Farm owner delivered in a big way when hip 402, a CUSTOMER SERVICE daughter of Tapit, caused a bidding frenzy which [email protected] George Isaacs ended with Bridlewood Farm's George Isaacs' Director of Customer Service: Vicki Forbes Keeneland Photo $3-million bid. INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY Page 7 Director of IT: Robert Williams Stonestreet Lands [email protected] ‘Fiftyshades’ WORLDWIDE INFORMATION International Editor: Kelsey Riley [email protected] Fiftyshadesofhay (Pulpit), winner of this year's GII Ruffian S., will be joining the Newmarket Bureau, Cafe Racing: Sean Cronin Newmarket Bureau, Cafe Racing: Tom Frary broodmare band at Barbara Banke's Stonestreet [email protected] Farm after selling for $1.3 million at Keeneland Wednesday. Benoit Photo 60 Broad Street, Suite 100 • Red Bank, NJ 07701 732-747-8060 | 732-747-8955 (fax) www.thoroughbreddailynews.com www.thetdn.com Page 15 TDN P HEADLINE NEWS • 11/6/14 • PAGE 3 of 18 • thoroughbreddailynews.com

KEENOV cont. Russell continued, AAnd obviously, two end-users like Ms. Pope and George Isaacs went at it, and a new North American record [was established], and obviously a record for ourselves, too. So we appreciate the opportunity to sell her and we=re glad we were able to do it well.@ In all, 11 different buying entities have purchased 18 seven-figure horses at November. Last year, 12 different entities bought 14 seven-figure horses. AThere=s been very good diversity at the top of the market,@ said Russell. AIt was great to see Don Alberto back again after being our leading buyer last year. China Horse Club bought a couple today, and Stonestreet is still punching away, and so is John Malone of Bridlewood. It=s great to see new people in there and establishing their farms and building good broodmare bands.@ If you=ve had a well-pedigreed mare with foreign bloodlines, you=ve likely been well rewarded at November. Two mares by Galileo (Ire) brought seven figures. In addition to yesterday=s $3.9 million Aloof, the Coolmore stallion was represented by the $1.8 million Precious Stone (Ire), who sold in foal to War Front to Don Alberto. Reversing that cross, meanwhile, was Peace Preserver, a stakes-winning War Front mare who sold in foal to Galileo (Ire) for $1.9 million. Bridlewood purchased her. Adding to the international flavor of the sale was the Group 2 winner Strawberrydaiquiri (GB) (Dansili {GB}), the rare mare selling in foal to Dubawi (Ire), who commanded a $1.45 million bid from Al Shaqab Racing. AI think it shows how global our market is,@ said Russell. AAnd what the state of Kentucky can offer the international market. Keeneland is considered the core of it, and everyone knows this is where people come to buy. We get the international pedigrees, and those sort of pedigrees stand out here.@ Post time for today=s Book 2 opener--and for the remainder of the sale--shifts to 10:00 a.m. For catalogue, outs and results, or to watch the sale live, visit www.keeneland.com.

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307 Hard Not to Like Racing/B’mare Prospect 1,500,000 (m, 5, Hard Spun--Like a Gem, by Tactical Cat) Consigned by Michael C. Byrne, Agent for Hillsbrook Farm Purchased by Speedway Stables, Peter Fluor & K.C. Weiner 308 Her Smile i/f Tapit 1,500,000 (m, 6, Include--Hepburn, by Capote) Consigned by Gainesway, Agent XXVII KEENELAND NOVEMBER Purchased by KatieRich Farms 422 Strawberrydaiquiri (GB) i/f Dubawi (Ire) 1,450,000 (m, 8, Dansili {GB}--Strawberry Morn, by Travelling Victor) WEDNESDAY’S TOP 12 MARES Consigned by Brookdale Sales, Agent for Aislabie Bloodstock Hip Name Status Price ($) Purchased by Al Shaqab 246 Aloof (Ire) i/f War Front 3,900,000 297 Fiftyshadesofhay B’mare Prospect 1,300,000 (m, 5, Galileo {Ire}--Airwave {GB}, by Air Express) (f, 4, Pulpit--Quiet Kim, by Real Quiet) Consigned by Paramount Sales, Agent XXIX Consigned by Hill ‘n’ Dale Sales Agency, agent Purchased by Whisper Hill Farm LLC Purchased by Stonestreet Thoroughbred Holdings LLC 353 Modeling i/f Distorted Humor 2,850,000 409 Silver Bullet Moon i/f Midnight Lute 1,250,000 (f, 2, Tapit--Teeming, by Storm Cat) (m, 9, Vindication--Silverbulletday, by Silver Deputy) Consigned by Hill ‘n’ Dale Sales Agency, agent Consigned by Hill ‘n’ Dale Sales Agency, agent Purchased by Don Alberto Corp Purchased by Katsumi Yoshida 377 Peace Preserver i/f Galileo (Ire) 1,900,000 267 Captivating i/f Tapit 825,000 (m, 5, War Front--Preserver, by Forty Niner) (m, 12, Arch--Andrea Ruckus, by Bold Ruckus) Consigned by Hill ‘n’ Dale Sales Agency, agent Consigned by Eaton Sales, agent Purchased by Bridlewood Farm Purchased by Stonestreet Thoroughbred Holdings LLC 382 Precious Stone (Ire) i/f War Front 1,800,000 216 Touching Beauty i/f Speightstown 800,000 (m, 5, Galileo {Ire}--Anna Karenina {Ire}, by Green Desert) (m, 7, Tapit--Victory Road, by Ikat) Consigned by Eaton Sales, agent Consigned by Eaton Sales, agent Purchased by Don Alberto Corp Purchased by Don Alberto Corp 272 Ciao Bella i/f Speightstown 1,600,000 (m, 5, Giant’s Causeway--Bella Bellucci, by French Deputy) Consigned by Four Star Sales, agent " " " Purchased by Don Alberto Corp TDN P HEADLINE NEWS • 11/6/14 • PAGE 5 of 18 • thoroughbreddailynews.com

WEDNESDAY’S TOP 6 WEANLINGS Paramount Sales sold Aloof as Hip 246. Lot Sex Sire Dam Price ($) Standing out back alongside advisor Wayne Sweezey, 402 filly Tapit Serena’s Cat 3,000,000 Pope, who boards her mares at his Timber Town B-Dell Ridge Farm & Hill ‘n’ Dale Equine Holdings (KY) Stable, dug in gamely in a tough battle that boiled Consigned by Hill ‘n’ Dale Sales Agency, agent down to her and Moyglare=s Fiona Craig. Purchased by Bridlewood Farm Trained by David Wachman, Aloof won last year=s G3 232 filly Medaglia d’Oro Violent Beauty 850,000 Lavarack Fillies S. at Gowran and, through her career, B-Dell Ridge Farm & Hill ‘n’ Dale Equine Holdings (KY) placed in six other stakes events. Her dam Airwave was Consigned by Hill ‘n’ Dale Sales Agency, agent one of the best of her generation, winning the G1 Purchased by Richard O’Gorman, agent Cheveley Park S. in a championship season at two and, 316 filly Tapit Ithinkisawapudycat 750,000 as a 3-year-old of 2003, placed in the G1 Golden B-Ashview Farm & Colts Neck Stables (KY) Consigned by Ashview Farm LLC (Bryan & Gray Lyster), agent Jubilee S., G1 Sprint Cup and G1 Darley July Cup, Purchased by Roma Farm/J J Crupi, agent earning her top sprint honors. 229 filly Medaglia d’Oro Verdana Bold 600,000 Airwave=s been good in the breeding shed, too. In B-Edward A Seltzer, Beverly Anderson & Darley (KY) addition to Aloof, her offspring include SW Orator (Ire) Consigned by Warrendale Sales, Agent XL (Galileo {Ire}) and SW & GSP Meow (Ire) (Storm Cat). Purchased by Brookdale, agent for Intl. Equities Holdings AWe=re getting a little of the European flare going, 321 filly Tapit J Z Warrior 575,000 expanding our boundaries,@ Pope laughed after signing B-Grousemont Farm (KY) the winning slip, adding that she hoped that expansion Consigned by Eaton Sales, Agent for Grousemont Farm would help the marketability of foals from her Purchased by Stonestreet Stables LLC operation. 332 colt Tapit Lovely Regina 520,000 Pope, who indicated Aloof will visit War Front again B-Hill ‘n’ Dale Equine Holdings (KY) next spring, said the price was nearly double what she Consigned by Hill ‘n’ Dale Sales Agency, agent expected to pay. Purchased by Baccari Bloodstock AI thought $2 million, so about twice what I hoped she'd go for,@ she said. ABut I really wanted this one. Another Sale Topper For Pope... Galileo is the best stallion out there, along with Tapit, Whisper Hill Farm=s Mandy Pope added another and being in foal to War Front, you couldn't ask for collector=s item to her broodmare band yesterday after more. Plus she was beautiful and leggy, which I think outlasting Moyglare Stud for the will help the War Front a bit--they $3.9 million Aloof (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}), tend to be a little plain. I hope she a group-winning daughter of has a pretty War Front. She better!@ champion Airwave (GB) selling in foal Paramount=s Pat Costello agreed to War Front. with Pope that the price was more That=s the top price paid for a than expected. AThere were two horse at Keeneland November and strong bidders, and both of them marks the third time in the past three loved her,@ he said. AShe was a years that Pope has secured a sales queen all week, and we knew she=d topper at the November sales. Pope sell well. That was a little beyond landed the $10-million Havre de our expectations, but that=s what Grace (Saint Liam) at Fasig-Tipton in the market said she was worth. 2012 and purchased the sales- She=s a big scopey mare, and what topping Betterbetterbetter (Ire) she did on the racetrack was a (Galileo {Ire}) for $5.2 million at bonus. Plus she=s in foal to War Fasig a year ago. Front, who=s one of the hottest sires Aloof actually has plenty in in the world.@ common with Betterbetterbetter. Aloof will now head to Timber Mandy Pope Both are Irish group performers by Town, where she ll join Pope s other Keeneland Photo = = maybe the world=s best sire who luminaries. Pope offered an update were campaigned by the Coolmore on her stars, which in addition to Havre de Grace and principals. Both hail from impeccable families. And both Betterbetterbetter, included the $4.2 million Plum Pretty were offered in foal to War Front. (Medaglia d=Oro) and the $3.1 million Groupie Doll (Bowman=s Band). Cont. p6

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ABoth Havre de Grace and Plum Pretty are in foal to War Front,@ she said. AHavre de Grace is carrying a colt and Plum Pretty a filly. Last year, Havre de Grace had a Tapit filly who=s now at my farm [in Florida], and she=s outstanding, as you would expect. Plum Pretty has a very nice [weanling] Distorted Humor colt. Havre de Grace is going back to Tapit. Plum Pretty's probably going to go back to War Front, but after buying this mare, I may switch things around a little bit, since there's mare's definitely going back to War Front.@ Of the two-time GI Breeders= Cup F/M Sprint heroine, Pope said, AGroupie=s doing great. She=s got a nice shine on her coat, and she=s very happy. I=m glad we did stop on her when we did. She was getting a little arthritis in her knee, which is fairly evident at this point.@ Pope didn=t sign for a horse at Fasig-Tipton November Monday night and was making her first buy at Keeneland.

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Tapit Filly Sets Weanling Record at Keeneland... John Sikura had hinted he would be leading a special weanling into the Keeneland sales ring Wednesday afternoon and the Hill >n= Dale Farm owner delivered in a big way when hip 402, a daughter of Tapit, caused a bidding frenzy which ended with Bridlewood Farm=s George Isaacs= $3-million bid. The final price tag set a new North American record for a weanling. Mandy Pope was underbidder. AThat was a little unexpected,@ Isaacs smiled after signing the ticket on the bay filly, who is a half-sister to graded stakes winners Honor Code (A.P. Indy) and Noble Tune (Unbridled=s Song). The weanling is a daughter of stakes winner Serena=s Cat (Storm Cat) and her third dam is champion Serena=s Song. Isaacs has been at Bridlewood since 1989, when he became stallion manager for the farm=s owner at the time, Arthur Appleton. Now serving as general manager to new owners John and Leslie Malone, Isaacs admitted the farm=s long association with the weanling=s family contributed to his affinity for the filly. George Isaacs & John Sikura AMr. Appleton and Bridlewood at one time owned Keeneland Photo Serena=s Song,@ Isaacs explained. AWe owned the dam Imagining for years. We bred all these daughters out of Ï Ò this family and it is near and dear to my heart. Again, we=re trying to build a stellar breeding program and, to me, this is a genetic masterpiece and we=re trying to All European post times in the TDN are local time buy back into a family that has been so good to us.@ Cont. p8 TDN P HEADLINE NEWS • 11/6/14 • PAGE 8 of 18 • thoroughbreddailynews.com

Appleton purchased Serena=s Song for $42,000 as a A graded stakes winner on the track, Peace Preserver Keeneland November weanling in 1992. He sold her to is a half-sister to multiple graded stakes winner Jack Bob and Beverly Lewis for $150,000 at the following Milton (War Front). year=s Keeneland July sale. Also in 1993, Appleton purchased Serena=s Song=s dam, Imagining (Northfields), carrying a full-sibling to the champion, for Record Sale Bittersweet for Sikura... $180,000 at Keeneland November. The record-setting Tapit filly was co-bred by the Isaacs said the weanling represented all the new Justice family=s Dell Ridge Farm and Hill >n= Dale Equine owners of Bridlewood are looking for in their broodmare Holdings. The two partners also teamed up to sell a band. Medaglia d=Oro weanling for $850,000 Wednesday. AShe is everything we=re looking for,@ he said. AWe=ll Dell Ridge purchased the record-setter=s dam Serena=s own her until the day she draws her last breath. Cat for $1.4 million as a Keeneland November weanling Physically, she is the best filly on the grounds. You in 2003. couldn=t draw a picture any prettier.@ AI would have loved to have this filly,@ admitted Hill >n= Isaacs did his bidding from the back row of the sales Dale=s John Sikura. AI tried really hard to own her; I was pavilion while on the phone with John Malone, who is live-bidding up to $2.5 million, and it just got beyond chairman of Liberty Media Corp. where I could go. I have a partner in this filly and we AI think we were at our max, but Mr. Malone is a both had a number [a reserve], and after that, we each strong guy,@ Isaacs said of the final price. AHe gave me did our own thing. We thought she was an irreplaceable the green light to $2 million. I said, >Look, I=m good to filly.@ call it quits at $2.5 million,= and he said, >No, keep Sikura said selling horses like Wednesday=s record- going.= At $2.8 million, when they bid $2.9, he said, setter was simply part of his business plan. >Well, go ahead and bid $3 million.= You can=t scare him AWe=ve spent a lot of time and money accumulating away.@ super-elite bloodstock,@ he said. AWe try to have mares Isaacs has been busying all week at the November and families that other people don=t have. It=s a sales and the Tapit weanling was Bridlewood=s second strategic plan to monetize some of them at different seven-figure purchase of Wednesday=s session. Earlier times. You try to build families and establish value. Our in the day, Isaacs signed the ticket at $1.9 million for goal was to be the highest-priced filly to sell this year, Peace Preserver (War Front). Also consigned by Hill >n= and she achieved that. I thought we=d have what other Dale, the 5-year-old mare sold in foal to Galileo (Ire). people didn=t, and we=ve been rewarded.@ Cont. p9 TDN P HEADLINE NEWS • 11/6/14 • PAGE 9 of 18 • thoroughbreddailynews.com

Sikura continued, AThere is some reluctance to sell this kind, but I try to strategically monetize enough of our female families that are active and trading in the marketplace and also keep very strong stock at home. It=s hard to balance both, but I=m in the horse business. You can only validate being in the business if you buy and sell horses. If not, it=s a hobby. For me, it=s not a hobby. I have a huge investment in the business that I continue to broaden and deepen and I have to sell some horses, even some I love and don=t want to sell. We keep some, sell some and try to make the right decisions.@ The Tapit filly was the first weanling to sell at public auction out of Serena=s Cat (Storm Cat). Her first foal, Noble Tune, RNA=d for $300,000 at the 2011 Keeneland September sale. The 4-year-old graded stakes winner was campaigned by Martin S. Schwartz and Dell Ridge. The mare=s second foal, J “TDN Rising Star” J Honor Code (A.P. Indy), winner of last year=s GII Remsen S., is campaigned by Dell Ridge and Lane=s End Racing. The mare has a juvenile filly by Bernardini, who has raced once for Dell Ridge, as well as a yearling colt by Tapit.

Full Circle for Sikura... Hill >n= Dale=s John Sikura has had a long, circuitous history with the family of the $3 million Tapit--Serena=s Cat filly. It isn=t easy to follow, but here goes: Back in 1999, Sikura=s friend Jim Sapara of Winsong Farm purchased the first foal from multiple champion Serena=s Song (Rahy), the Mr. Prospector filly Serena=s Tune, for $1 million at the Keeneland July Sale. As a 3-year-old in 2001, Serena=s Tune had just won Santa Anita=s La Habra S. when Sikura traveled out to California to inquire about purchasing a half-interest in her. Sapara agreed, and Sikura was into a family that, over the decade, would consistently turn out stars in both the sales ring and on the track. Sapara and Sikura--who would later acquire a full- interest--sent Serena=s Tune to trainer Josie Carroll, and the filly won four of her next eight starts, including the Victoria Lass S. at Fair Grounds in the spring of 2002. AJim Sapara had a terrible fire at his factory and gave me the weekend to buy the other half as he was determined to get his plant back in production,@ Sikura explained. AHe was matter of fact and said that he had to rebuild his plant and was a seller. I have lots of respect for Sapara and told him that I did not want to be an opportunist. He said buy my half and stuck to his word like the gentlemen he is.@ Sikura sent Serena=s Tune to the breeding shed shortly after that win in Louisiana, and a year later sold her first foal, Serena=s Cat (Storm Cat), as a weanling for $1.4 million at the 2003 Keeneland November Sale. The late Frank Justice=s Dell Ridge Farm purchased her. Serena=s Cat was the co-highest filly to sell that year, and remains the co-ninth highest-priced weanling filly ever to sell at November. Cont. p10 $0.88

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As a producer, Serena=s Tune was turning into a BUYING AT THE TOP OF THE MARKET commercial superstar. Her second foal, Mutawahej (Storm Cat), made $3.1 million as a Keeneland 2014 KEENELAND NOVEMBER September yearling, and her third, Noble Sound There were 17 broodmare/broodmare prospects purchased (Vindication), made $2.8 million at September. Serena=s during Book 1 of the 2014 Keeneland November Sale for Tune=s fourth foal made Aonly@ $560,000, but Vocalised $1 million or more, compared to 14 in 2013. (Vindicaton) proved her best runner to date, winning a pair of group races in Europe. Buyer $1 mil/up - ‘13 $1 mil/up - ‘14 AShe was off to an amazing start,@ said Sikura. AI sold the first filly to get some money back from an Audley Farm 1 0 expensive purchase, and she had three more foals, Al Shaqab 0 2 including Vocalised, who was a graded winner.@ Bridlewood Farm 0 3 Sadly, that would be the end of Serena=s Tune=s China Horse Club 0 2 production. AShe foundered and died, and it was just Don Alberto Corp 0 3 the worst thing ever,@ said Sikura. AAfter, I was always Flaxman Holdings 1 0 so sick I sold that filly [Serena=s Cat].@ Some six years later, in 2012, Sikura would have a KatieRich Farms 0 1 chance to get back into the family. Dell Ridge Farm, Katsumi Yoshida 1 1 who remember had purchased Serena=s Cat as a M. V. Magnier 1 1 weanling, was racing her first foal, the juvenile colt Mt. Brilliant Farm 1 0 Noble Tune (Unbridled=s Song), with great success with R Bell, agent for Alpha Delta 1 0 Martin Schwartz. Sikura approached the Dell Ridge principals about buying into Serena=s Cat, and came Shadai Farm 1 0 away not only with an interest in her, but also with in Speedway Stbls (Fluor & Weiner) 0 1 an interest in another mare from a brilliant family, Stephen Hillen 1 0 Violent Beauty (Gone West). Like Serena=s Cat, Violent Steven W Young, agent 0 1 Beauty also had a standout juvenile in 2012. Tracing to St George Farm 1 0 Sky Beauty, Violent Beauty was the dam of the GI CashCall Futurity winner Violence (Medaglia d=Oro), Stonestreet T’bred Holdings 2 1 who when he was injured in 2013 would stand at Hill Town and Country 1 0 >n= Dale. Wertheimer et Frere 1 0 Bringing things full circle yesterday, prior to Hill >n= Whisper Hill Farm 1 1 Dale selling the North American record Tapit--Serena s = Total: 14 17 Cat filly $3 million, it sold the session=s second-highest priced weanling: a Medaglia d=Oro full-sister to Violence, who went to Richard O=Gorman for $850,000. -L Marquardt š › WHAT IS OPPENHEIM Ï Ò ON ABOUT NOW? Whether it=s sales, racing or breeding...read the latest musings from Bill Oppenheim! Click here for the latest posts on the TDN Blog You can find all of Oppenheim=s columns in the TDN Archive. TDN P HEADLINE NEWS • 11/6/14 • PAGE 11 of 18 • thoroughbreddailynews.com

Modeling Struts Her Stuff... Modeling, an unraced 2-year-old in foal to Distorted As ever, the best pages are sparking the most Humor on an Apr. 9 cover, was consigned by Hill >n= competition in the sales ring, and therefore the Don Dale, which has already experienced much commercial Alberto Corp team knew they=d have to dig deep into success with the family. John Sikura=s operation sold their pockets to secure hip 353, the young Tapit mare Teeming to Josham Farms for $1.5 million at this sale Modeling. That operation=s Fernando Diaz-Valdes noted, in 2001, and was also the consignor of her weanling however, they didn=t expect to have to go past $2 Bernardini filly that fetched $1.475 million at Keeneland million, but in the end they held sway to secure her for November in 2008. $2.85 million. AShe=s such a well-bred mare, so we knew from the A daughter of Teeming beginning to get her would be a difficult task,@ Diaz- (Storm Cat), Modeling is a Valdes reflected. AWe=re happy. We didn=t expect it half-sister to GI Hollywood would cost that much, but now that it=s over there=s Starlet S. winner Streaming nothing we can do. We didn=t expect her to get over $2 (Smart Strike) and million, but the market is the market, and there=s Canadian stakes winner nothing that we can do.@ Cascading. Her second Diaz-Valdes said no discussions had yet taken place dam, 2007 Broodmare of as to who Modeling could be bred to next, but that a the Year Better Than mare of her caliber, Ahas to go to the top stallion in the Honour (Deputy Minister), country.@ produced back-to-back GI Don Alberto was back in action a short time later to Belmont S. winners Jazil secure the 5-year-old Galileo (Ire) mare Precious Stone (Seeking the Gold) in 2006 (Ire), in foal to War Front, for $1.8 million. Out of Anna Fernando Diaz-Valdes and Rags to Riches (A.P. Karenina (Ire) (Green Desert) and a full-sister to multiple Keeneland Photo Indy) in 2007, and is also group winner Battle of Marengo (Ire), Precious Stone the dam of GII Peter Pan S. was a dual winner at three in Ireland for the Coolmore winner Casino Drive (Mineshaft) and Breeders= Cup partners and trainer David Wachman. She was Marathon victor Man of Iron (Giant=s Causeway). Better consigned by Eaton Sales, carrying her first foal, as hip Than Honour set a world record of $14 million for a 382. Diaz-Valdes insisted after signing the ticket that broodmare at FTKNOV in 2008 when Southern Equine Don Alberto was finished buying for the year. The Stables bought out Hill >n= Dale to own the mare operation bought a total of five mares at Keeneland outright. Better Than Honour is herself out of the Grade November for $7.75 million. I winner Blush With Pride and is therefore a half-sister ATo have a Galileo mare in foal to War Front, what a to Maryinsky (Ire) (Sadler=s Wells), who has laid the great combination,@ he said. AWe=ll hope for the best.@ foundations for a dynasty of her own through her --Kelsey Riley Classic-winning daughter Peeping Fawn (Danehill) and Group 1 winner and young sire-son Thewayyouare (Kingmambo). " " " TDN P HEADLINE NEWS • 11/6/14 • PAGE 12 of 18 • thoroughbreddailynews.com

Another Belle for Don Alberto... It has been a busy year for Ciao Bella. The 5-year-old Giant=s Causeway mare won her seasonal debut, a Gulfstream Park optional claimer, by 5 3/4 lengths for owner Michael Tabor Feb. 18 before jetting off to Kentucky for a date with Speightstown Mar. 17. Thirteen days later, Ciao Bella was back in the barn of trainer Todd Pletcher in Florida and recorded a career high when winning the GIII Rampart S. by 4 1/2 lengths. That proved the gray=s ultimate career outing, and she is now in Kentucky to stay after being picked up by Don Alberto Corp for $1.6 million yesterday. Don Alberto owner Liliana Solari was all smiles after signing for the mare. AShe=s a very nice mare, and she has a very good pregnancy,@ Solari beamed. AWe want to have good mares on the farm. You have to have good mares and breed to good stallions.@ Asked about how she was willing to go for Ciao Bella, Solari explained. AWe always see how the price goes, and if we=re willing to we=ll go up.@ Solari revealed that Don Alberto Farm currently has about 67 mares at its Kentucky base at the former Vinery Stud, but the original farm in Chile, Haras Don Alberto, which was founded in 1987, has 300 horses. Solari pointed out that the business plan includes not only buying top-class mares, but also standing stallions of the highest quality. Amongst the stallions leased by Haras Don Alberto for Southern Hemisphere services are Mastercraftsman (Ire), Henrythenavigator, Holy Roman Emperor (Ire), Proud Citizen and Dylan Thomas (Ire). ASo we have good mares for all those,@ Solari said. Ciao Bella was the second buy of the day for Don Alberto; they went to $800,000 for another mare in foal to Speightstown, Touching Beauty (Tapit) (hip 216), early in the session. Click here for a recent TDN feature on Don Alberto Farm. Ciao Bella was consigned as hip 272 by Four Star Sales, and that operation=s managing partner Kerry Cauthen was understandably delighted after sending through his highest-ever priced broodmare. AIt was definitely at the outer regions of what we might have expected,@ Cauthened commented on the price. AClearly, she was an absolutely drop-dead gorgeous mare with one of the nicest personalities. She was everybody=s dream. On price alone, she=s the nicest mare I=ve ever taken through. If you look at her physically, she=s the nicest mare I=ve ever had. We really did feel like she could make the million-dollar mark.@ Describing the market thus far, Cauthen added, AI=ve brought through three horses so far, but watching the market [Tuesday] and dealing with the three I=ve had [yesterday], it=s fantastic. There are a lot of people that are looking for the right horses. If you bring up a special one you=re going to get well rewarded. I=d say it=s pretty strong right now. The good ones are really getting a premium. I=m a seller, so this is my kind of market.@ --Kelsey Riley

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For Speedway, a Racing Prospect Hard Not to Like... Peter Fluor and K.C. Weiner, equal partners in the burgeoning Speedway Stable LLC, bought their first- ever horse on Monday night with the $1 million Leigh Court (Grand Slam), and didn=t wait long to double their holdings. Through advisor John Adger, they went to $1.5 million yesterday to acquire the 2014 Grade I winner Hard Not to Like (Hard Spun) at Keeneland November. Michael C. Byrne consigned the gray Ontario-bred as Hip 307. AShe=s a Grade I winner, and [bloodstock agent] Marette Farrell, who=s part of our team, liked her very much,@ said Adger. AI=ve watched her run before, and we=ll take a chance. Hopefully, we=ll have some luck racing her, and later on as a broodmare. We=ll see how she trains on early in the year, and hopefully she=ll have a year of racing at 6-years-old. If not, we=ll breed her.@ Fluor and Weiner haven=t picked a trainer yet for Hard Not to Like or Leigh Court. AThey've decided to buy a couple of racehorses and maybe a couple of 2-year-olds next year,@ Adger explained. AThey=re more interested in racing right now [than breeding]. We=ll see how that changes once they=ve had some luck. But these guys will be a great addition to Thoroughbred horse racing. Both are great guys, are great sports and they=re looking forward to it.@ Fluor is the chairman of the board and chief executive officer of Texas Crude Energy, an oil and gas exploration company. AThe company is based on a street in Houston named AWe were actually stabled in the same barn that Buffalo Speedway, and that=s how they got the name we=re in now [Barn 15], and I said to Garland yesterday, of the stable,@ said Adger. AThey=ve been really >If we didn=t buy that mare back for $350,000, we successful together in the oil and wouldn=t be standing here gas business, and their families now.=@ have been friends and partners As it was, Hard Not to Like for over 60 years.@ prove an exceptional first foal Adger helped build another for Like a Gem. Under the Houston-based operation, Robert tutelage of trainer Gail Cox and and Janice McNair=s Stonerside then Michael Matz, she placed Stable, into a racing powerhouse. in Keeneland=s GI Ashland S. at Asked if he met Fluor and Weiner three and in a trio of graded through the Houston Texans events last year before notching owner, McNair said, ANo no, I=ve a career-best in the GI Jenny known Peter a lot longer than Wiley S. here in April. I=ve known Mr. McNair. And I AShe=s a beautiful mare...just knew Peter=s father, who was a picture,@ said Byrne. ASelling quite a horseman himself. He her was a business decision. He was a part-owner in Alleged with Michael Byrne & John Adger has her dam--who=s in foal to Robert Sangster in the late >70s.@ Keeneland Photo Bernardini--and her granddam. Michael Byrne was consigning He also has a weanling full- Hard Not to Like on behalf of Garland E. Williamson=s brother to Hard Not to Like and a yearling half-sister by Ontario-based Hillsbrook Farm. It was the second time, More Than Ready, and so we just decided to was the in a way, that Williamson had offered her at Keeneland right time to sell.@ November. Hard Not to Like was in utero when her Williamson is involved in the snack-food business and dam, the Canadian Classic-winning Like a Gem (Tactical is a founder of Tropical Nut & Fruit Co., which sells Cat), was put through the 2008 November auction, but snack mixes, dried fruit, nuts, and seeds. -L Marquardt Williamson and Byrne decided to take Like a Gem home when bidding failed to eclipse her $350,000 reserve. AI think we got to $325,000 or $335,000 [of live š › money]--we were very close,@ said Byrne. One of Danzig’s Best Sons Exchange Rate is the sire of more Grade 1 Winners and Winners in 2014 than Danzig’s son War Front and is the sire of the same number of Stakes Winners as War Front.

Sire of Grade 1 Del Mar Debutante Winner Sunset Glow, who ran second in the $1,000,000 Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf (G1) and whose full-brother sold as a KEESEP Session Topper, Grade 2 Sands Point Winner Ball Dancing, who ran second, beaten less than a length, in the Grade 1 Queen Elizabeth II Challenge Cup Stakes, etc. Sire of 11 Stakes Winners in 2014. Sire of 11 Stakes Winners in 2013.

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KatieRich Reinvests... Larry Doyle=s KatieRich Farms, which enjoyed its high-water mark as sellers when it sold a Smart Strike filly for $700,000 at this year=s Keeneland September sale, was in action as buyers Wednesday, going to $1.5 million to acquire the broodmare Her Smile (Include). AWe are always looking to upgrade,@ Doyle said after signing the ticket on the 6-year-old mare. AShe was a nice winner at the track, she is in foal to Tapit and she is really good looking.@ Doyle added the mare would likely be bred back to Tapit. Consigned by Gainesway on behalf of SF Bloodstock as hip 308, Her Smile won the 2011 GI Prioress S. She sold for $1 million to Adena Springs at the 2011 Fasig- Tipton November sale and raced for Frank Stronach=s operation in 2012. Returned to the sales ring in 2013 while in foal to Ghostzapper, Her Smile was acquired by SF Bloodstock for $1.075 million. She produced a colt by Ghostzapper this spring and sold Wednesday in foal to Tapit. AWe=re very pleased with the result,@ said Gainesway=s Michael Hernon. AShe=s another quality young mare who is in foal to leading sire Tapit. She is positioned to be any kind of serious producer early in her career.@ Of the overall market, Hernon added, AThe market is solid and strong, but people are careful. There is a premium for the real top-drawer product, however you don=t want to be too aggressive [setting reserves]. Gainesway continues to sell at a very high clearance Al Shaqab Digs Deep For Dubawi Offering... rate.@ Dalham Hall resident Dubawi (Ire) has established himself as one of the world=s leading sires, a fact that was underscored by his popularity at last month=s Tattersalls October Yearling Sale, where he was the leading Book 1 sire by average with 10 sold for an average of 654,500gns. It came as little surprise, therefore, that the lone Keeneland November offering carrying to the son of Dubai Millennium sparked a bidding war last night, and in the end it was Benoit Jeffroy of Al Shaqab Racing who outlasted Man O=War Farm=s Michael Baum for the Group 2 winner Strawberrydaiquiri (GB) (Dansili {GB}) for $1.45 million. AWe=re really happy,@ a smiling Jeffroy said after signing the ticket. AShe=s in foal to Dubawi, so that=s good, and she=s a lovely mare. It=s really hard to get to Dubawi. They=re precious, so we=re happy. She=ll go back to France.@ With just two mares in foal to Dubawi set to be offered at Tattersalls= December Sale, opportunities to get a member of his 2015 crop will be limited. Credit must also go to Strawberrydaiquiri, however, Her Smile who was a high-class and hard-knocking racemare. NYRA/Coglianese Owned throughout her career by Fawzi Nass, Strawberrydaiquiri won the G3 Dahlia S. and the G2 Windsor Forest S. at Royal Ascot in 2010 as a 4-year- PEDIGREE INSIGHTS... old and placed in that year=s G1 Sun Chariot S. for Get pedigree expert Andrew Caulfield=s trainer Sir Michael Stoute. She placed in that same take on racing=s newsmakers! Newmarket feature the following year after Nass took You can find all of Caulfield=s columns over the reins as trainer. Cont. p15 in the TDN Archive. TDN P HEADLINE NEWS • 11/6/14 • PAGE 15 of 18 • thoroughbreddailynews.com

Al Shaqab cont. Fiftyshadesofhay to Stonestreet... Her first foal, a filly by Street Cry (Ire), was a Fiftyshadesofhay (Pulpit), winner of this year=s GII 125,000gns buy at Tattersalls October, and she had a Ruffian S., will be joining the broodmare band at weanling colt by Pivotal. Strawberrydaiquiri was Barbara Banke=s Stonestreet Farm after selling for $1.3 consigned by Brookdale Sales on behalf of Aislabie million at Keeneland Wednesday. Bloodstock as hip 422. AWe liked the mare-- AShe=s a nice mare by Dansili, who is a good we=ve seen her race,@ broodmare and she was a good racemare, so we=ll see Banke said. AShe is now,@ Jeffroy added. He said a 2015 mate for beautiful. Pulpit is a Strawberrydaiquiri would be decided on at a later date. great broodmare sire and Al Shaqab is building a stallion roster at its Haras de she has the looks and Bouquetot in France that will next year include the the frame to be a great exciting triple Group 1 winner Olympic Glory (Ire) addition to our (Choisir {Aus}), as well as Group 1 winners Planteur broodmare band, which, (Ire) (Danehill Dancer {Ire}) and Style Vendome (Fr) as you know, is a good (Anabaa). Al Shaqab=s dual Group 1-winning miler one.@ Toronado (Ire) (High Chaparral {Ire}) will retire to the Fiftyshadesofhay sold National Stud in Newmarket for 2015. as a racing or broodmare Strawberrydaiquiri was the second Keeneland prospect, but Banke November purchase for Al Shaqab after the operation confirmed the bay will went to $1.3 million for Scarlet Strike (Smart Strike) be retired. during Tuesday=s opening session. AShe is going to enjoy Barbara Banke Keeneland Photo A[The market] has been pretty strong,@ Jeffroy life at the farm. She=ll remarked. AI=ve been beaten quite a few times, so it=s a come and hang out with very good market. It=s strong. That=s good for Dayatthespa,@ Banke said. everybody.@ --Kelsey Riley Stonestreet purchased GI Breeders= Cup F/M Turf winner Dayatthespa (City Zip) for $2.1 million at Monday s Fasig-Tipton November sale. Cont. p16 š › = TDN P HEADLINE NEWS • 11/6/14 • PAGE 16 of 18 • thoroughbreddailynews.com

Cont. p16 Tapit Filly To Join New Castle Honor Roll... Fiftyshadesofhay was a $175,000 Keeneland Jim Crupi=s New Castle Farm has been the starting September yearling purchase in 2011. Racing for Mike point for such Grade I winners as Uncle Mo, Stay Pegram, Karl Watson and Paul Weitman, the 4-year-old Thirsty, Trinniberg, Little Mike and Zensational, and won the 2013 GIII Santa Ysabel S., GII Black-Eyed Crupi will be hoping those good fortunes can rub off on Susan S. and GIII Iowa Oaks. She added the GII Ruffian hip 316, a Tapit weanling filly he will be taking back to S. this term and retires with five wins from 20 starts his Florida base, after spending $750,000 on her and earnings of $1,097,951. She was consigned yesterday. Wednesday by Hill >n= Dale Sales Agency as hip 297. The January-foaled bay certainly has the right foundations for racetrack success. Her dam, the stakes- placed Ithinkisawapudycat (Bluegrass Cat), was Medaglia d=Oro Filly to Darley... purchased by Ashview Farm for $240,000 at this sale After the dust had settled on the first of several well- two years ago. Ashview partnered with Colts Neck bred Hill >n= Dale weanlings to go through the Keeneland Stable to breed this filly, whose second dam Unbridled sales ring Wednesday, Dick O=Gorman, bidding on Run (Unbridled) produced 2012 GI Alcibiades S. heroine behalf of Darley, was signing the ticket at $850,000 for Spring in the Air (Spring At Last), Canada=s champion hip 232. The filly, by Medaglia d=Oro, is out of Violent 2-year-old filly. The filly=s third dam produced GII Beauty (Gone West) and is a full-sister to 2012 GI Breeders= Futurity winner and sire Tejano Run, as well CashCall Futurity winner Violence. as the dam of G1 Racing Post Trophy winner Palace AShe=s a full-sister to Episode. a Group 1 winner and AShe=s a beautiful filly and by the right sire, as you she was a very nice can see from this sale,@ Crupi remarked. AI think she=s individual,@ O=Gorman got a big future.@ said. AHopefully she=ll The bay was one of a handful of high-priced yearlings be a racemare and a for her sire during the session. That group also included broodmare in the a $575,000 daughter of stakes-placed J Z Warrior future. She=ll race in (Harlan=s Holiday), sold to Stonestreet Stables; a America and hopefully $520,000 half-brother to multiple graded winner join Darley=s Thiskyhasnolimit (Sky Mesa), purchased by Baccari broodmares in the Bloodstock, and a $420,000 colt purchased by future.@ Sandridge Stable. Crupi said a decision had not been O=Gorman did his made as to whether she would be reoffered. bidding out back, Dick O’Gorman AShe=s going to Florida, and we=ll go from there,@ he while his chief Keeneland Photo said. Commenting on the market, he added, AIt=s been opposition, Peter very strong for a good horse.@ --Kelsey Riley Berglar of Stonereath Stud, was bidding from a doorway inside the pavilion. As the bidding passed the $800,000 mark, Berglar walked away, only to come back and make one more bid at $825,000. But O=Gorman answered back quickly and there was no " " " responding bid from Berglar. Hill >n= Dale=s John Sikura said the weanling was the complete package. AShe=s a sister to a Grade I winner, looked the part, she=s from a young female family tracing back to Maplejinsky and significant fillies over the last 20-30 years. She is a May foal, so for a May foal she looks the part, a lot of substance, a lot of strength. She has a smooth, good walk by a great sire with a pedigree that has worked before. Everything is indicative of a filly that hopefully will have a great future.@ The weanling was bred by Hill >n= Dale and Dell Ridge Farm.

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Aboughazale Strikes Gold... International Equities= Oussama Aboughazale made headlines at Fasig-Tipton=s October Sale when signing for the session-topping Super Saver colt for $370,000 on that sale=s opening day, at which time Brookdale Farms= Freddy Seitz revealed the Chilean resident=s desire to build a stable of high-quality runners with the aim of winning the GI Kentucky Derby. Aboughazale Michael T. Levy • (859) 253-1114 • www.muirfieldinsurance.com added another smart prospect to his burgeoning stable Hip Name Status Price ($) yesterday when extending to $600,000 early in the 295 Fashion Cat i/f Tapit 400,000 session for a Medaglia d=Oro filly out of the GIII Selene Consigned by Gainesway, Agent I S. winner Verdana Bold (Rahy). The filly=s third dam is Purchased by SF Bloodstock stakes winner Harbour Club (Danzig), who produced the Bethel Ridge Stable bought Fashion Cat (Forest Wildcat), a half-sister dam of GI Princess Rooney H. winner Game Face to MGISW Peace Rules (Jules), for $35,000 in foal to Artie Schiller at (Menifee). She was bred by Edward Seltzer, Beverly the 2012 renewal of this sale. The mare’s juvenile of 2013 Corfu (Malibu Anderson and Darley. Moon) went on to take last year’s GII Saratoga Special S., and her Artie AShe=s just a really pretty filly, and she looks well- Schiller filly--whose breeder is listed as Gainesway Thoroughbreds Ltd. raised,@ said Seitz after signing the ticket. AMr. & Brian Graves--brought $125,000 recently at Keeneland September. Aboughazale thought really highly of her--we all did. Having already paid for herself with the sale of that daughter of Artie She=s a top-notch physical with a great pedigree and by Schiller, the 12-year-old increased the profits here while selling in foal to a great sire, so we=re looking forward to some success Gainesway’s leading resident. on the racetrack.@ Seitz noted they had to go a bit higher than expected 316 wnlg, f, Tapit--Ithinkisawapudycat 750,000 to secure the January-foaled bay, who was consigned B-Ashview Farm & Colts Neck Stables (Ky) Consigned by Ashview Farm LLC (Bryan Lyster & Gray Lyster), agent by Kitty Taylor=s Warrendale Sales as lot 229. Purchased by Roma Farm/J J Crupi AIt was a little more than we wanted to spend, but Bryan and Gray Lyster’s Ashview Farm scooped up stakes-placed 3- she=s one of those types that you=ve got to stretch for, year-old filly Ithinkisawapudycat (Bluegrass Cat) for $240,000 here two because she=s an excellent type,@ he said. Seitz added years ago, just about a month after her half-sister Spring In the Air that the filly would be broken in next year at Bill (Spring At Last) annexed the local GI Alcibiades S. Bred to Tapit last Harrigan=s Miacomet Farm. Commenting on the season on a $125,000 cover, Ithinkisawapudycat’s resulting filly weanling market at Keeneland, Seitz added, AThere are provided a very nice return. a lot of nice weanlings here. It=s pretty strong as far as I=m concerned right now.@ 322 Karida i/f Stormy Atlantic 300,000 Aboughazale, better known as the owner of Suyama Consigned by Hill ‘n’ Dale Sales Agency, agent U S Stable, campaigned 2003 GI Ruffian H. winner Purchased by Reynolds Bell, agent Wild Spirit (Chi) (Hussonet) with trainer Bobby Frankel. The Maclean’s Music Partnership purchased this daughter of MGSW Aboughazale enjoyed a brief but successful stint as a Yearly Report (General Meeting) for just $22,000 at this sale a year ago. trainer last year when recording his first winner with his Perhaps bolstered by the exploits of her half sister--GI Spinaway S. first starter at Gulfstream Park last March, an A.P. Indy heroine Condo Commando (Tiz Wonderful)--Karida proved much more daughter of Wild Spirit named Diva Spirit who went on popular this time around in foal to another Hill ‘n’ Dale inmate in Stormy to add the Pollys Jet S. at Delaware under Atlantic. Aboughazale=s named last October. Aboughazale, who 329 Liszy’s Union i/f The Factor 300,000 is also a leading owner in Chile, has now entrusted his Consigned by Eaton Sales, agent horses to trainer Todd Pletcher. Aboughazale has Purchased by Whisper Hill Farm already enjoyed success--another of Wild Spirit=s Tom Goff and Richard Brown’s Blandford Bloodstock scooped up progeny, the 3-year-old gelding Energy Spirit (Medaglia Liszy’s Union (Dixie Union), a half-sister to GI Kentucky Oaks heroine d=Oro), bred and owned by Aboughazale and trained by Plum Pretty (Medaglia d’Oro), for just $75,000 at this year’s Keeneland Pletcher, broke his maiden at 26-1 at first asking at January sale. She was bred to young stallion The Factor (War Front) on Belmont Park Sept. 26. Wild Spirit=s grandson Protonico a $15,000 cover, and caught the eye of Mandy Pope here. (Giant=s Causeway) recently won the GIII Discovery H. --Kelsey Riley TELL IT TO THE TDN... Want to send a “Letter to the Editor” of the Thoroughbred Daily News? Our address is 60 Want your event listed on the Broad St., Red Bank, NJ, 07701; or send a fax to: TDN Industry Calendar, (732) 747-8955; an e-mail to: found on our website? 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Friday evening, Flemington, Australia, post time: 11:40 p.m. EST DARLEY CLASSIC-G1, A$1,000,000 (US$858,264), 3yo/up, 1200mT SC PP HORSE SIRE JOCKEY TRAINER 1 1 Buffering (Aus) Mossman (Aus) Browne Heathcote 2 11 Lankan Rupee (Aus) Redte’s Chce (Aus) C Schofld Price 3 9 Temple of Boom (Aus) Piccolo (GB) Harrison Gollan 4 2 Mmnt of Change (Aus) Brly a Moment (Aus) Nolen Moody 5 4 Slade Power (Ire) Dutch Art (GB) Lynam Lordan 6 5 Sidestep (Aus) Excd & Excl (Aus) McDonald O’Shea 7 8 Rebel Dane (Aus) California Dane (Aus) Williams Portelli 8 7 Famous Seamus (NZ) Elusive City Clark Mfld-Smith 9 6 Terravista (Aus) Captain Rio (GB) Bowman Pride 10 3 Chautauqua (Aus) Encsta de Lgo (Aus) Dunn Hawkses 11 12 Cluster (Aus) Fastnet Rock (Aus) Oliver Snowdens 12 10 Driefontein (Aus) Fastnet Rock (Aus) Duric Waterhse 13 13 Platelet (Aus) Strategic (Aus) Melham Weir All carry 129 pounds, bar Driefontein, Platelet.

Saturday, Flemington, Australia, post time: 12:20 a.m. EST EMIRATES S.-G1, A$1,000,000 (US$858,264), 3yo/up, 1600mT SC PP HORSE SIRE JOCKEY TRAINER WT 1 14 River Lad (Aus) Top Echelon (Aus) Berry McCall 129 2 6 The Cleaner (Aus) Savoire Vivre (GB) Arnold Burles 129 3 1 Speediness (Aus) Testa Rossa (Aus) Bowman Scott 126 4 12 Smokin’ Joey (Aus) Encsta de Lgo (Aus) Melham Hunter 125 5 4 Hooked (Aus) Casino Prince (Aus) Williams Thompson 123 6 2 Contributer (Ire) High Chaparral (Ire) McDnld O’Shea 122 7 5 Hucklebuck (Aus) Elvstroem (Aus) Tourneur Stokes 122 8 10 Stipulate (GB) Dansili (GB) Lordan Hys/Bbrng 122 9 15 Lucky Hussler (Aus) Husson (Arg) Boss Weir 121 10 3 Leebaz (NZ) Zabeel (NZ) Dunn Hawkses 120 11 9 Bull Point (Aus) Fastnet Rock (Aus) Oliver Waller 119 12 11 Honorius (Aus) Hly Rmn Emprr (Ire) Yendall Payne 119 Saturday, Churchill Downs, post time: 4:37 p.m. EST 13 17 Desert Jeuney (Aus) Desert King (Ire) Winks Blackiston 118 RIVER CITY H.-GIII, $100,000, 3yo/up, 1 1/8mT 14 16 I’m Imposing (GB) Danehill Dancer (Ire) Lane Waller 117 PP HORSE SIRE JOCKEY TRAINER WT 15 8 Rhythm to Spare (NZ) Pins (Aus) C Schofld Moroney 116 1 R. Great Adventure Limehouse Mena Williamson 115 16 7 Escado (Aus) Casino Prince (Aus) Baster Laurie 116 2 Gentleman's Kitten Kitten's Joy Hernandez Maker 115 Also Eligible 3 Set the Sail K Mizzen Mast Bridgmohan LoPresti 114 17 13 Spy Decoder (NZ) Testa Rossa (Aus) McEvoy A Cmngs 116 4 Villandry K Mr. Greeley Leparoux LoPresti 118 Saturday, Aqueduct, post time: 3:14 p.m. EST 5 Guys Reward K Grand Reward Lanerie Romans 119 LONG ISLAND H.-GIII, $200,000, 3yo/up, f/m, 1 1/2mT 6 Silver Max Badge of Silver Albarado Romans 123 PP HORSE SIRE JOCKEY TRAINER WT 7 Greengrassofyoming K Quest Hernandez Jr Tomlinson 116 1 Aigue Marine (GB) Galileo (Ire) Velazquez Clement 118 8 Hamp Sky Mesa Santiago Correas 115 2 Viva Rafaela (Brz) Know Heights (Ire) Bravo Pletcher 119 9 Aldous Snow Theatrical (Ire) Rocco Jr Pierce 117 3 Tabreed (GB) Sakhee Velasquez Clement 115 10 Dramedy K Distorted Humor Borel Aschinger 112 4 Maximova Danehill Dancer (Ire) Franco Clement 115 11 Under Control (Brz) Northern Afleet Cintron Motion 115 5 Danza Cavallo (Fr) Sunday Break (Jpn) Ortiz Jr. Brown 114 6 Hellenistic English Channel Arroyo Weld 113 7 Giant Shadow K Giant's Causeway Vaz Graham 112 THOROUGHBRED RACING ECONOMIC INDICATORS 8 Invading Humor Invasor (Arg) Ortiz Callejas 115 FOR OCTOBER 2014 9 Meri Shika (Fr) Spirit One (Fr) Wilson Attfield 115 10 Auld Alliance (Ire) Montjeu (Ire) Serpa Motion 115 Indicator U.S. Wagering* U.S. Purses Race Days 11 Embarr Royal Academy Davis Cooney 115 Oct. 2014 $824,523,157 $104,767,862 414 12 Angegreen (Ity) Ekraar Hill Catalano 116 Oct. 2013 $802,699,099 $94,121,505 411 % Change +2.72% +11.31% +0.73% 13 Songoficeandfire K Dynaformer Alvarado Mott 111

14 Bohemian Dance (Ire) Dansili (GB) Carmouche Dilger 112 YTD 2014 $9,059,693,002 $951,230,815 4,328 YTD 2013 $9,252,002,048 $953,965,620 4,418 A + will indicate first-time starters, an (S) will be used % Change -2.08% -0.29% -2.04% for state-bred races, a (C) will be used for maiden- claiming races and an (R) will be used for other Stats provided by Equibase Company restricted races. *Includes worldwide commingled wagering on U.S. races.

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Dual Classic Hero Big Brown to New York: Champion Big Brown (Boundary--Mien, by Nureyev) has been acquired by Andrew Cohen=s Sunrise Stables and Gary Tolchin=s Golden Goose Enterprises and will Yesterday=s Results: stand the 2015 season in New York. Both were 7th-AQU, $67,000, Alw, NW1$X, 3yo/up, f/m, 1mT, principals in the 1:40 1/5, gd. ownership of Big Brown FADE TO BLACK (f, 3, Street Cry {Ire}--Desert Song, during his racing career, by Unbridled's Song) graduated at fourth asking over which included the inner track here Feb. 28 after finishing second on powerful wins in the three prior occasions. Fifth next out in an allowance 2008 GI Kentucky here Apr. 4, she was a nose second when reappearing Derby and GI Preakness in a turfy Saratoga allowance July 19 after a brief S. Big Brown began his freshening. Second again in a grassy upstate optional career at stud at Three claimer Aug. 20, the chestnut was fourth going Chimneys in Kentucky. 1 1/16 miles on the Belmont lawn Sept. 12. Tracking AIn becoming the first from a ground-saving third, the 3-1 shot split rivals in horse in history to win the lane to take control and dug in gamely to hold off the Kentucky Derby Big Brown Flamingo Lane (Consolidator) by a nose. Sales history: from post 20 while threechimneys.com $200,000 yrl '12 FTSAUG. Lifetime Record: 9-2-5-0, earning the best Ragozin number in Derby history, Big $161,060. Click for the brisnet.com chart or VIDEO. Brown showed us what an extraordinary runner he O-MeB Racing Stables LLC & Brooklyn Boyz Stables. was, and his Preakness S. victory was just as B-Rabbah Bloodstock LLC (KY). T-Dominick Schettino. impressive,@ Cohen said. AAs a sire, he has given us Trained at Crupi’s New Castle Farm stakes winners at a wide variety of distances and Hidden Brook sold for Rabbah Bloodstock surfaces, and he has had Grade/Group 1 runners in three countries. Some of his most successful performers have been New York-breds and/or from New 8th-AQU, $56,000, Alw, Opt. Clm. ($40,000), York-bred connections.@ Big Brown will stand his first NW2$X, (S), 3yo/up, f/m, 6f, 1:10 2/5, ft. season in New York for an introductory fee of $8,500. BLITHELY (f, 3, Exchange Rate--Merryland Monroe, by The location will be revealed at a later date. Big Brown Allen's Prospect), a neck second in her state-bred has sired 11 stakes winners in his first three crops of Saratoga unveiling in August of last year, romped by racing age. He was represented by impressive debut 11 lengths next out against fellow New Yorkers a winner Dortmund at Santa Anita Nov. 2 and is also the month later at Belmont. Returning from an 11-month sire of J “TDN Rising Star” J Puca, an unlucky lay off, she was second again in a state-bred allowance sixth in the GI Breeders= Cup Juvenile Fillies. at the Spa Aug. 24 and won by daylight again last time in a New York-bred allowance at Belmont Sept. 17. Veterans Appreciation Day at the Big A Nov. 10: Keeping a watchful eye on the pacesetting duo from Edited Press Release third, the 7-5 chalk was coming with a three-wide bid The New York Racing Association Inc. will pay tribute after a half in :45.16. One of the leaders, La Bella to the nation's service members and veterans Monday, Valeria (Stonesider), tried to run away with it in the Nov. 10 at Aqueduct Racetrack. Veteran's Appreciation lane, but Blithely was not done yet and she wore that Day will be highlighted by two special ceremonies in rival down for a half-length success. The winner is a Aqueduct's winner=s circle, including a special trophy half to Merry Meadow (Henny Hughes), GSW, presentation recognizing the courage and sacrifices $539,170. Her dam Merryland Monroe sold to Fred made by service members and veteran employees; and Hertrich for $200,000 during yesterday=s session of the another trophy presentation featuring representatives of Keeneland November sale. Lifetime Record: 5-3-2-0, Hope for the Warriors, supporting post-9/11 service $138,800. Click for the brisnet.com chart or VIDEO. members, their families, and families of the fallen who O/B-David Howe & William Parsons (NY). T-Mark Hennig. have sustained physical and psychological wounds in Hidden Brook Raised the line of duty. NYRA Rewards members possessing valid military ID will be provided free admission to NY-BRED OWNER AWARD: $3,3600 nybreds.com Longshots, Aqueduct's new, simulcasting center.

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Nomination Deadline for Claiming Crown Nov. 8: IN MEMORIAM... Edited Press Release The nomination deadline for the eight Claiming Crown races is Nov. 8 and the supplemental horse nomination Herman Sarkowsky, original Seahawks owner, dies at 89 Herman deadline is Dec. 3. The regular nomination fee is $100 Sarkowsky, one of the men responsible for bringing the Seahawks and and the supplemental nomination fee is 5% of the Emerald Downs to Seattle, died on Sunday in Seattle after a long purse. The 2014 edition of the Claiming Crown races illness. He was 89. Jayson Jenks, The Seattle Times. will be run Dec. 6, opening day of Gulfstream Park=s Championship Meeting. Nomination forms with the Herman Sarkowsky, original co-owner of Trail Blazers who saved $100 nomination fee should be sent to either Claiming franchise with a timely phone call, passes away in Seattle Herman Crown Limited, P.O. Box 910668, Lexington, KY Sarkowsky, one of the original owners of the Portland Trail Blazers and 40591-0668 (E-mail [email protected]) or Michael the man behind the famous raincoat story that led to the team's Costanzo, Gulfstream Park, 901 South Federal founding, passed away Sunday in Seattle. He was 89. Jason Quick, Highway, Hallandale Beach, FL 33009 (E-mail The Oregonian. [email protected]). Total purse money for the eight Claiming Crown races is $1 million. Trail Blazers, Seahawks co-founder Herman Sarkowsky dies at age 89 Herman Sarkowsky died Nov. 2 at home after a long illness at the age of 89. Sarkowsky, who was born June 9, 1925 in Gera, Germany, was a giant figure in the Puget Sound region and nationally. He built his fortune in the home-building industry and then co-founded the Portland Trail Blazers and Seattle Seahawks. Patti Payne, Portland Business Journal. Yesterday=s Results: 9th-CDX, $44,973, Alw, Opt. Clm. ($62,500), NW2X, 3yo/up, f/m, 1 1/8mT, 1:51 1/5, gd. KITTEN'S QUEEN (f, 4, Kitten=s Joy--High Chant, by War Chant) has never been off the board since transferring from conditioner Wayne Catalano to Mike Yesterday=s Results: Maker four starts back. Third in a Churchill allowance in 8th-LRL, $49,489, Alw, Opt. Clm. ($25,000-$20,000), her debut for the Maker barn June 13, she was second NW2X, 3yo/up, f/m, 5 1/2fT, 1:01 4/5, fm. to eventual GI Queen Elizabeth II Challenge Cup winner TIZGALE (f, 3, Stormy Atlantic--Tizthen {SP}, by Crown Queen (Smart Strike) in a Saratoga allowance Tiznow) earned her diploma at fourth asking when July 20. Victorious next out at the Spa Aug. 6, the bay switched to the turf at Gulfstream Dec. 8 and scored was third in an optional claimer going 1 1/8 miles there again next out in a turfy allowance there Feb. 6. A non- last time Sept. 1. Hustled to the lead from the nine- factor 11th in Pimlico=s The Very One S. May 17, she hole, the 4-5 chalk skimmed the hedge while posting was third last time in the state-bred Jameela S. going moderate early splits. Showing the way into the lane, six panels over this course Sept. 27. Favored at 2-1, Kitten=s Queen zipped along to maintain a clear the dark bay broke sharply and quickly sprinted to the advantage and hit the line 1 1/2 lengths clear of Cara=s fore. Several lengths clear of the field, she clocked a Nay Nay (Kitalpha). The winner is a full to Csaba, quarter in :21.71 and still had daylight on the field in MGSW, $681,440. Lifetime Record: 15-3-2-5, the lane as she hit the half in :44.24. Tizgale was still $183,044. Click for the brisnet.com chart or VIDEO. going strong in the final furlong and hit the line a length O/B-Kenneth & Sarah Ramsey (KY). T-Michael J Maker. ahead of the late closing Previous Honor (Congressionalhonor). Lifetime Record: SP, 8-3-0-2, Kentucky Horse Park to Honor Cigar: $95,839.Click for the brisnet.com chart or VIDEO. Edited Press Release O/B-Sagamore Farm (MD). T-Ignacio Correas IV. A public memorial service for two-time Horse of the Year Cigar will be held at the Kentucky Horse Park 7th-LRL, $40,000, Msw, 2yo, f, 1m, 1:40 4/5, ft. Friday, Nov. 14 at 2 p.m. The service will be held at the ALEX'S ROSE (f, 2, Afleet Alex--Causey, by Giant's park=s Hall of Champions near Cigar=s gravesite and the Causeway), fourth on debut going six panels at paddock he occupied for most of the 15 years that he Delaware Oct. 16, stalked from fourth early through lived at the park. Cigar died moderate fractions. Three-wide in the stretch, the Oct. 7 at age 24 due to complications following surgery 9-2 shot steadily wore down the leaders and kicked for severe osteoarthritis in his neck. Kentucky=s First clear late for a 1 1/4-length victory over Super Sharp Lady Jane Beshear will pay tribute to the Hall of Famer (Super Saver). Sales history: $34,000 yrl '13 FTMSEP. and longtime visitor favorite at the Hall of Champions. Lifetime Record: 2-1-0-0, $24,600. Click for the Fans are welcome to bid a final farewell. For more brisnet.com chart or VIDEO. information about the memorial service for Cigar, O-Tim F Ritchey Racing Stables Inc & Beverly Frazier. contact the Kentucky Horse Park at 859-233-4303 or B-Woodslane Farm (KY). T-Timothy F Ritchey. 800-678-8813 or visit www.KyHorsePark.com. TDN P AROUND THE WORLD • 11/6/14 • PAGE 3 of 6 • thoroughbreddailynews.com

Kentucky Report cont. CD Milestone for Ramseys: ROOKIES Leading owners Ken and Sarah Ramsey won their unprecedented 400th career race at Churchill Downs Wednesday when 3-year-old gelding Sandbar prevailed First-crop starters to watch: Thursday, November 6 Sire (Sire’s Sire), current farm, 2011 Fee, #foals of racing age/Winners/ in the second race. The Ramseys are the all-time BlackTypeWnrs * Race #-track, race type, distance, runner, odds (if available) leading owners at Churchill Downs with Overbrook DISCREETLY MINE (Mineshaft), Lanes End, $10K, 97/14/0 Farm a distant second with 208 victories. The 2-CD, Str, 7f, Be Discreet, 4-1 Nicholasville, K.Y., couple has won a record 22 owners= 7-CD, Msw, 1 1/16m, Errant, $45K RNA KEE SEP yrl, 4-1 titles at the historic Louisville racetrack. Ramsey ESKENDEREYA (Giant's Causeway), Taylor Made, $18K, 104/5/0 celebrated his 79th birthday Monday just two days 7-CD, Msw, 1 1/16m, Pat's Shoes, 15-1 after winning the GI Breeders= Cup Turf Sprint at Santa 9-DED, Alw, 7 1/2f, Let Us Be Glad, 3-1 Anita with Bobby=s Kitten (Kitten=s Joy). AThis is a HARLEM ROCKER (Macho Uno), McMahon of Saratoga NY, $4K, 10/1/0 tremendous accomplishment,@ Ramsey said. AI never 2-FL, Msw, 1m, Time to Harlem, 5-1 thought I=d get to 400 wins, but I still need to get one IZZIE'S HALO (Halo's Image), 1/1/0 more across the way over there in the Derby before my 9-DED, Alw, 7 1/2f, Sun Gate, 12-1 time is up. But I=ll tell you, it=s difficult; I=ve started LOOKIN AT LUCKY (Smart Strike), Ashford Stud, $15K, 100/21/3 several horses in the Kentucky Derby and haven=t 7-CD, Msw, 1 1/16m, Otto Shootie, $35K OBS APR 2yo, 20-1 gotten a win there yet so that remains my number one SING BABY SING (Unbridled's Song), Lane's End Texas, $3K, 32/3/0 goal.@ He continued, AI really want to thank all the fans 2-CD, Str, 7f, The Lone Roo, 12-1 who have come out and supported us all this time. It=s taken me 79 years to get 400 wins here, so I hope it doesn=t take that long to get another 400. I definitely need to give credit to all the trainers, jockeys, farm managers, my son Jeff and everybody else who have helped us over the years. It=s definitely not a one-man RUST NAMED BHA CHIEF EXECUTIVE show. There=s so much work that goes into this and Nick Rust, currently the managing director, retail, of we=re just all very thankful for being able to achieve this Ladbrokes PLC, has been appointed the chief executive milestone.@ of the British Horseracing Authority. The appointment has been made by the BHA Board, following a thorough search and a recommendation by BHA=s Nominations INDUSTRY INFO Committee. He is expected to join BHA when he becomes available from Ladbrokes, in early 2015. AWe DRF Donates $61k to TAA: are delighted to have appointed Nick,@ BHA Chairman Edited Press Release Steve Harman stated. AThe quality of candidates was Daily Racing Form will donate $61,000 to the amongst the highest I have ever seen for any CEO Thoroughbred Aftercare Alliance as a result of DRF position, with a range of senior leaders from the UK handicapper Matt Bernier=s 6th-place finish in the business, consumer and leisure industries. Nick Breeders= Cup Betting Challenge. AWow, geez,@ said impressed us all the way through the process. AHe has Jack Wolf, President of the TAA and President/Founder been an avid Racing fan since childhood, has an of Starlight Racing when told of the donation. AWe impressive track record in his business life, and a great can=t thank Daily Racing Form enough for naming the understanding of the opportunities for the sport. Those TAA as the recipient of Matt=s fabulous tournament that know Nick know that he has a natural and play. At the end of the day, the Thoroughbreds are the collaborative leadership style with staff and real winners here.@ Matt Bernier began playing stakeholders alike, a good blend of humility and desire tournaments in 2012 and, at 23 years old, was the to get things done. He is comfortable from >stable to youngest qualifier at that time to gain entry into the boardroom= and understands how pivotal this sport is to 2013 DRF/NTRA National Handicapping Championship. jobs and UK PLC.@ Commenting on the appointment, Shortly thereafter, Bernier=s horseplaying captured Rust said, AGiven my lifelong passion for British Racing, Esquire Network=s attention and he was hired as the I am thrilled and honoured to be taking up the role of cast=s youngest handicapper for the show Chief Executive at BHA. Racing is a huge sport, and AHorseplayers.@ critical to many areas of the economy. It has many exciting opportunities ahead and I know that the Racing TDN CRITERIA industry can grasp these. I look forward to working The races covered in the TDN are as follows: with the new Board, and the wider team, as well as our Stakes - purses of $50,000/up many stakeholders, to build on what has already been Allowance Races - purses of $20,000/up achieved across racing and by Paul [Bittar] and his Optional Claiming Races - purses of $20,000/up team.@ Maiden Special Weight Races - purses of $18,000/up Maiden Claiming Races - purses of $18,000/up and a minimum claiming price of $40,000 Click here to access TDN Sales PPs TDN P AROUND THE WORLD • 11/6/14 • PAGE 4 of 6 • thoroughbreddailynews.com

Britain Report cont. Yesterday=s Results: TORONADO, PACO BOY STUD FEES ANNOUNCED BETDAQ 50% COMMISSION REFUND FLOODLIT Toronado (Ire) (High Chaparral {Ire} Wana Doo, by S.-Listed, ,37,000, KMP, 11-5, 3yo/up, 12f (AWT), B 2:32.78, ft. Grand Slam), impressive winner of this year s G1 Queen = 1--#GRENDISAR (IRE), 130, c, 4, Invincible Spirit Anne S. at Royal Ascot, will command a first-crop stud (Ire)--Remarkable Story (GB), by Mark of Esteem (Ire). fee of 15,000 at the National Stud, it was announced , (i15,000 wlng >10 GOFNOV; 30,000gns yrl >11 yesterday. The co-highweighted 3-year-old colt in TATOCT; 75,000gns 2yo >12 TATGNS). O-Mr Europe and England in 2013, Toronado defeated his Mohamed Albousi Alghufli; B-Old Carhue & Graeng elders in that year=s G1 Sussex S. and ran with credit in Bloodstock (IRE); T-Marco Botti; J-Martin Harley. defeat in Europe this season, with runner-up efforts to ,20,982. Lifetime Record: 21-5-8-1, ,71,897. Kingman (GB) (Invincible Spirit {Ire}) in defense of his 2--Fire Fighting (Ire), 124, g, 3, Soldier of Fortune Sussex title and to subsequent G1 Queen Elizabeth II S. (Ire)--Savoie (Fr), by Anabaa. (i70,000 yrl >12 winner Charm Spirit (Ire) (Invincible Spirit {Ire}). ARQAUG). O-Mr A D Spence. ,7,955. Toronado retires with six wins from 12 starts and 3--Rydan (Ire), 124, c, 3, Intense Focus--Lough Mewin earnings of $1,212,590. Paco Boy was the sire of (Ire), by Woodman. (i15,000 wlng >11 GOFNOV; several high-class runner from his first crop and will i15,000 yrl >12 GOFSPT; ,30,000 2yo >13 stand for ,9,000. His best performers include GSWs DONAPR). O-Jacobs Construction (Holdings) Limited. Smaih (Ger) and Beacon (GB) among his seven stakes ,3,981. horses. AToronado was an outstanding European Margins: NK, 1, 4HF. Odds: 3.33, 2.00, 1.88. Click for champion miler and with his wonderful looks, he will be the Racing Post result. VIDEO, courtesy Racing UK. highly sought after at ,15,000,@ said the farm=s Jake Confined mostly to the Polytrack so far in his career, Warren. AWe are also delighted that Paco Boy had Grendisar was second in the Rosebery H. over 11 seven stakes horses in his first crop and we hope furlongs here on his penultimate start Mar. 29 before breeders feel ,9,000 is a very attractive commercial filling the same spot in Lingfield=s All-Weather fee.@ Championships Apprentice H. over this trip on their Good Friday feature card Apr. 18. Returning from his PHOENIX REACH FILLY TOPS DBS AUTUMN SALE summer hibernation, the bay was confidently placed in A Winterbeck Manor Stud owned- and consigned son rear by Martin Harley throughout the early stages and of Phoenix Reach (Ire) was hammered down to trainer was full of energy locked in a pocket after moving into Gay Kelleway for ,70,000 to top Wednesday final contention in early stretch. Getting the gap approaching session of the DBS Autumn Sales. The Mar. 28 foal, the furlong pole, he was in front passing that marker catalogued as hip 403, is and appeared to idle as Fire Fighting tried hard on his a full-sister to Cosmic inner. Ray (GB), who won his maiden for these 4th-KMP, ,4,500, Mdn, 2yo, 7f (AWT), 1:27.04, ft. connections and trainer VICTORY MEGASTAR (GB) (c, 2, Medicean {GB}-- Andrew Balding at Bourbon Ball, by Peintre Celebre), seventh on debut Windsor in his most over seven furlongs at Newbury Sept. 20, started as recent appearance Oct. the 5-2 chalk and raced keenly in fourth early. Hooking 13. AA top price more up with Feng Shui (GB) (Iffraaj {GB}) with a quarter mile Session-topping hip 403 than double that of last remaining, the 60,000gns TATOCT yearling and dbsauctions.com year speaks volumes,@ 130,000gns TATAPR 2yo gave that rival a bump a commented DBS furlong later and finally asserted to score by a half Managing Director Henry Beeby. AThat was one of the length before surviving an inquiry. Lifetime Record: key drivers at today=s yearling sale which recorded a 2-1-0-0, ,2,911. VIDEO, courtesy Racing UK. high of ,70,000 and an average that advanced by 21% O-One Carat Partnership. B-Highbank Stud (GB). T-Clive backed up by a very respectable 79% clearance rate Cox. Hip #2249: 1/2-sis Simsational sells KeeNov with Hunter Valley (up 11 points). Those statistics tell the story of a no frills sale that delivers year after year. It=s not the biggest or the smartest, nor the best attended or most 2nd-KMP, ,4,000, Mdn, 2yo, f, 8f (AWT), 1:39.92, ft. reported but it provides a cost effective outlet for this +FEY (GB) (f, 2, New Approach {Ire}--Persinette, by level of the market as well as a steady flow of winners Kingmambo), sent off at 11-1, raced behind the leading for our purchasers. For full results, please visit trio throughout the early stages. Cajoled alongside www.goffsdbs.com. Waldnah (GB) (New Approach {Ire}) in the final furlong, the homebred edged ahead of that rival in the last yards Looking for opinion and to score by a neck. Fellow Godolphin runner Alhania perspective on matters (Medaglia d=Oro), the daughter of the 2003 GI Del Mar concerning the racing industry? Oaks heroine Dessert (Storm Cat), stayed on into third, Visit the TDN op/ed archive 3 1/4 lengths further behind. Lifetime Record: 1-1-0-0, on our website! ,2,588. VIDEO, courtesy Racing UK. O-Godolphin. B-Darley (GB). T-Charlie Appleby. TDN P AROUND THE WORLD • 11/6/14 • PAGE 5 of 6 • thoroughbreddailynews.com

Britain Report cont. Grand Prix Du Nord cont. Thoroughly exposed and unsuccessful in six prior 3rd-KMP, ,4,000, Mdn, 2yo, f, 8f (AWT), 1:41.05, ft. +NAMHROODAH (IRE) (f, 2, Sea the Stars {Ire}-- goes at stakes level, Garlingari lined up for this latest Independant {GB}, by Medicean {GB}), who was black-type attempt coming off a second in the Oct. 10 backed into 11-4 favoritism, broke best to lead initially Listed Prix Le Fabuleux at Maisons-Laffitte, and a last- before being restrained to race in a close-up third on the of-four in the Oct. 19 G2 Prix du Conseil de Paris at outside. Moving to the front approaching the quarter Longchamp. Positioned four lengths off the pace until sneaking up the inner to lead into the straight here, he pole, the i75,000 GOFORB yearling was headed by Melbourne Shuffle (Street Cry {Ire}) but stayed on to poached a decisive advantage approaching the final regain the advantage with 150 yards remaining en eighth and came under a vigorous drive in the closing route to a head success. Caroline Norton stages to just hold the late thrust of Kingoverthewater (Henrythenavigator), the half-sister to the 2010 G1 St for a career high. Leger hero Arctic Cosmos (North Light {Ire}), never threatened at any stage and finished ninth. Lifetime EUROPEAN-BRED WINNERS Record: 1-1-0-0, ,2,588. VIDEO, courtesy Racing UK. O-Mr Saeed Manana. B-Gevi International Bv (IRE). IN NEW ZEALAND: T-James Tate. +Pico Turquino (GB), f, 4, Teofilo (Ire)--Snow Peak (GB), by Arazi. Avondale, 11-5, Maiden, 1200mT. B-Raffles Dancers (NZ) Pty Ltd. *1/2 to Asset (Ire) (Marju {Ire}), MSW & MG1SP-Eng, $525,057. **150,000gns in utero >10 TATDEC. Yesterday=s Results: 3rd-DUN, i12,500, Mdn, 2yo, c/g, 6f (AWT), 1:12.74, ft. B R E E D E R S’ E D I T I O N SHARAASA (IRE) (f, 2, Approve {Ire}--Rumline {GB}, by Royal Applause {GB}), runner-up over this trip on AMERICA turf at Naas last time Oct. 19, was sent off the 2-1 second favorite and raced behind the early leaders. ALLOWANCE RESULTS: Gaining the lead approaching the furlong pole, the 6th-CDX, $47,755, Opt. Clm. ($100,000), NW3$TYX, ,50,000 DONAUG yearling asserted to best Bairns At 3yo/up, 5fT, :56 3/5, gd. Bay (Ire) (Big Bad Bob {Ire}). Sharaasa becomes the ANCIL (g, 5, City Zip--Le Grand Belle, by With 24th winner for her first-season sire (by Oasis Dream Approval) Lifetime Record: SW, 24-6-3-3, $268,780. {GB}). Lifetime Record: 3-1-1-0, i11,105. VIDEO, O-Scott Farmer & Kathy Thompson. B-George Pruette courtesy attheraces.com. (KY). T-Joan Scott. O-Sheikh Hamdan bin Rashid Al Maktoum. B-Yeomanstown Stud (IRE). T-Kevin Prendergast. 9th-ZIA, $31,585, 11-4, NW2L, (S), 3yo/up, 5 1/2f, 1:07 3/5, sy. HELLUVA LESTER (g, 3, Lesters Boy--Haliimaile, by Delineator) Lifetime Record: 6-2-2-0, $34,238. O-Gallegos Del Norte Racing. B-Dr Miguel L Gallegos (NM). T-Bart G Hone. Yesterday=s Result: GRAND PRIX DU NORD-Listed, i55,000, LAR, 11-5, 7th-TDN, $31,300, NW3X, (S), 3yo/up, 1m40y, 3yo, 10 1/2fT, time: n/a, hy. 1:43 1/5, ft. 1--#GARLINGARI (FR), 128, g, 3, by Linngari (Ire) CITY ZIPPIN (c, 3, City Zip--Flirting, by Pleasant Colony) 1st Dam: Garlinote (Fr) (MGSP-Fr), by Poliglote (GB) Lifetime Record: 10-4-2-2, $81,630. O-Charlie J 2nd Dam: Garling (Fr), by Garde Royale (Ire) Williams LLC. B-Langsem Farm Inc (OH). T-Sandra 3rd Dam: Corraleja (Fr), by Carvin II (Fr) Marie Adkins. *$54,000 yrl '12 FTKOCT; $37,000 O/T-Mme Corine Barande-Barbe; B-Mme Corine RNA 2yo >13 OBSJUN. Barande-Barbe & Mme Jeanine Massy (Fr); J-Frederic Spanu. i27,500. Lifetime Record: 23 starts, 4 wins, 3rd-TDN, $31,300, NW3X, (S), 3yo/up, f/m, 6f, 14 places, i159,200. 1:13 2/5, ft. 2--Kingoverthewater (GB), 128, g, 3, Dalakhani (Ire)-- DREAM BLING (f, 3, Too Much Bling--Dream a Bit Logjam (Ire), by Royal Academy. (i40,000 RNA yrl {MSP, $102,845}, by Slew City Slew) Lifetime Record: >12 ARQAUG). O-Colin Bryce. i11,000. 12-4-3-0, $80,188. O-Blazing Meadows Farm LLC & 3--Madurai (Ger), 128, c, 3, Marju (Ire)--Moonlight Top Notch Racing Partnership. B-Blazing Meadows Danceuse (Ire), by Bering (GB). (i38,000 RNA yrl >12 Farm (OH). T-Timothy E Hamm. BBAAUG). O-Gestut Am Schlossgarten. i8,250. Margins: NO, 2HF, 8. Odds: 3.30, 10.00, 1.40. Also Ran: Ashkannd (Fr), Firestorm (Ger), Yonna (Fr). All horses in TDN Headline News and TDN American edition are bred in North America, unless otherwise indicated Click for the Equidia VIDEO. TDN P AROUND THE WORLD • 11/6/14 • PAGE 6 of 6 • thoroughbreddailynews.com

Breeders= Edition America cont. Concorde's Cat, c, 3, Discreet Cat--Silk Concorde, by 6th-ZIA, $29,085, NW2X, 3yo/up, 5 1/2f, 1:05 3/5, my. Concorde's Tune. GPW, 11-5, 1 1/16mT, 1:43 1/5. FORIN SEA (g, 4, Brother Derek--Miss Shower, by B-E Paul Robsham Stable LLC (FL). Torrential) Lifetime Record: 17-8-2-2, $79,980. O-Mark Freethinker, f, 3, Empire Maker--Indy Trouble (SP), by Soto. B-Brereton C Jones (KY). T-Carlos O Alvidrez. A.P. Indy. CDX, 11-5, 1 1/8mT, 1:51 1/5. B-G Watts *$55,000 yrl '11 KEESEP. Humphrey Jr & St George F Racing, LLC (KY). Hidden Brook Sales Graduate Famous Graduate, f, 3, Magna Graduate--Famous Story, by Rahy. TDN, 11-5, 1m40y, 1:47 1/5. B-Tall 8th-FLX, $28,428, 3yo/up, 1 1/4m, 2:05, ft. Oaks Farm (ON). CRACKERJACK JONES (g, 4, Smarty Jones-- Comet Sixty Two, f, 3, Stroll--Romance Dance, by Confidently, by Storm Cat) Lifetime Record: 13-6-2-0, Vision and Verse. HAW, 11-5, 5 1/2fT, 1:02 4/5. $184,930. O/B-Chester & Mary Broman (NY). B- Ken Meeker & Phillip Cooper (FL). *1/2 to Four T-Christopher Progno. *1/2 to Khancord Kid (Lemon Left Feet (Trippi), SW, $321,089. Drop Kid), GSW, $167,343. Stirling Castle, g, 4, Imperialism--Starship Elaine, by Petionville. GPW, 11-5, 5fT, :57 1/5. B-James Webb 6th-TDN, $24,000, NW2X, 3yo/up, 1m70y, 1:45, ft. (FL). *$30,000 2yo >12 OBSAPR. PALTARREVENGE (g, 4, Milwaukee Brew--Bang Up Wake Up and Go, g, 4, More Than Ready--Relativa Play, by Waquoit) Lifetime Record: 12-4-1-1, $78,360. (Arg), by Parade Marshal. AQU, 11-5, (S), (C), O-Winning Stables Inc. B-Harold J Plumley (FL). 1 1/16mT, 1:47 4/5. B-William Bloom, John T T-Gerald S Bennett. *$5,000 yrl '11 OBSJAN. Behrendt & Charles Marquis (NY). *1/2 to Stormy Relations (Stormy Atlantic), SP, $177,518. 6th-MNR, $22,800, 11-4, NW3L, 3yo/up, f/m, 6f, 1:12 1/5, ft. BESSIE'S BULLET (f, 3, Wando--Laura's Pistolette B R E E D E R S’ E D I T I O N {MGSW & GISP, $545,711}, by Big Pistol) Lifetime Record: 8-3-1-0, $58,310. O-Georgia Walker. B-Daryl E EUROPE Anderson (IN). T-Timothy V Shorter.

6th-HAW, $21,000, C, (S), 3yo/up, 6f, 1:11 1/5, ft. ADDITIONAL MAIDEN WINNERS: HAWK'S IMAGE (g, 3, Ready's Image--Hawk n the Arcano Gold (Ire), c, 2, Arcano (Ire)--Azia (Ire), by Sheikh, by Sheikh Albadou {GB}) Lifetime Record: Desert Story (Ire). NOT, 11-5, 8f 75yT, 1:50.27. 9-3-1-2, $58,897. O-Leo Rodriguez Sr. B-John G B-Trevor Reilly (Ire). *i50,000 wlng >12 GOFNOV; Hillebrand (IL). T-Armando De la cerda. i48,000 RNA yrl >13 GOFORB; 60,000gns 2yo >14 TATAPR. **16th winner for freshman sire (by Oasis 4th-MNR, $20,000, 11-4, NW2L, (S), 3yo/up, 6f, Dream {GB}). 1:14 1/5, ft. Impedimanta (Ire), f, 2, Aussie Rules--Fontcia (Fr) (SW STEPHEN'S FATE (g, 3, Stephen Got Even--Ways of & GSP-Fr, $149,065), by Enrique (GB). LAR, 11-05, Fate, by Roy) Lifetime Record: 13-2-1-3, $40,970. 9fT, 1:57.80. B-Haras des Sablonnets (Ire). O-Germania Farms Inc. B-Patricia L Ramey & Maciej *i28,000 yrl >13 ARQOCT. Szwarc (WV). T-Jeff C Runco. *$16,000 yrl '12 Nebulla (GB), c, 2, Iffraaj (GB)--Kelowna (Ire) (SP-US), FTMOCT. by Pivotal (GB). NOT, 11-5, 8f 75yT, 1:49.40. B-The Lavington Stud (GB). *50,000gns yrl >13 TATOCT. 5th-MNR, $20,000, 11-4, NW2L, 3yo/up, 5 1/2f, 1:05 3/5, ft. SHIROTA (g, 3, Elite Squadron--Bellarama, by Old Corbata (Ire), c, 2, Invincible Spirit (Ire)--Farranjordan Trieste) Lifetime Record: 14-2-4-3, $45,602. O-Larry (GB), by Galileo (Ire). DUN, 11-5, 6f (AWT), Smith & Mark Kuntz. B-Candie A Baker & Pattons Creek Farm LLC (KY). T-Larry E Smith. 1:11 4/5. B-Newtown Anner Stud (IRE). Royal Dolois (Fr), c, 2, Silver Frost (Ire)--Mixture (GB), ADDITIONAL MAIDEN WINNERS: by Linamix (Fr). BLB, 11-4, 9 1/2fT, 2:22.43. She's Marvy, f, 2, Bellamy Road--Savasana, by B-Thierry de la Heronniere (Fr). *i18,000 yrl >13 Scatmandu. AQU, 11-5, (S), (C), 6f, 1:11 4/5. ARQOCT. **5th winner for freshman sire (by Verglas B-Christopher Shelli, Patrick Morell & Stephen Dallalis {Ire}). (NY). *$75,000 yrl '13 FTNAUG; $115,000 2yo Le Bambou (Fr), c, 2, Siyouni (Fr)--My Fantasy (Ire), by >14 OBSMAR. Desert King (Ire). LAR, 11-05, 9fT, 2:06.30. B-Michel Hank N Lefty Who, g, 2, Quinton's Gold--Fortunate Debeusscher (Fr). *18th winner for freshman sire (by Kate, by Fortunate Prospect. ZIA, 11-4, (S), 6f, 1:17 Pivotal {GB}). 4/5. B-Steve Prather & Sam E & Sammy Stevens Masterblaster (Fr), c, 2, Sunday Break (Jpn)--Monatora (NM). *Full to Lefty Who, MSW, $635,994. (Fr), by Hector Protector. BLB, 11-4, 8fT, 1:45.67. Abounding Spirit, f, 2, Read the Footnotes--Halle's B-SNC Regnier, Teddy Regnier & Francois Regnier Aptitude, by Aptitude. FLX, 11-5, 6f, 1:12 3/5. B-T (Fr). *i25,000 RNA yrl >13 ARQNOV; i70,000 2yo Scott Brawley (NY). *$2,000 yrl '13 FTKOCT. >14 OSAAPR.