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THURSDAY, DECEMBER 31, 2015 HANSEN HOPING FOR FIRST IN JEROME REGAL RANSOM SUCCUMBS TO COLIC Regal Ransom (Distorted Humor--Kelli’s Ransom, by Red Ransom) was euthanized Tuesday after suffering complications from colic, Darley announced Wednesday. The nine-year- old stallion, a half-brother to Grade I winner Devil May Care (Malibu Moon), was a $675,000 Fasig-Tipton Florida graduate. Racing for Godolphin, he won the 2009 G2 UAE Derby and GII Super Regal Ransom | Darley photo Derby and he retired to Darley’s Jonabell Farm in Kentucky in 2012 with earnings of almost $1.9 million. Cont. p7 Kendall Hansen walking over for Derby with Hansen | Horsephotos by Jennie Rees One of racing’s most colorful owners hopes he has another TRAINER FORM: FACT OR FANCY? 3-year-old for the GI Kentucky Derby. But don’t look for Kendall Hansen to dye Let Me Go First (Paddy O’Prado)’s tail blue to James Willoughby uses the recently-slumping jumps match his silks, as the Newport, Kentucky pain doctor did with conditioner Paul Nicholls as an example to study champion Hansen (Tapit) four years ago. trainer form and patterns. Not that Hansen second-guesses having Hansen’s flaxen tail Click or tap here to go straight to TDN Europe. stained University of Kentucky blue hours before the ethereal-looking gray finished second in Keeneland’s GI Toyota Blue Grass S.--a coloration ordered washed out under threat of a stewards’ scratch. (Hansen did run with a blue-tipped tail in Mountaineer’s GII West Virginia Derby, a fourth-place finish in the colt’s final race.) “That’s just for white horses,” Hansen said by phone when asked what’s in store for Let Me Go First. Hansen recently bought a half-interest in the bay gelding, who runs in Saturday’s GIII Jerome S. at Aqueduct. Obviously Let Me Go First, a good-looking winner of a Parx Racing maiden race in his third start Nov. 22 (video), has a long way to go before earning the right for his owner--also known for throwing toy Hansen horses to fans as well as for bringing showgirls in his stable colors to the Kentucky Derby--to be so flamboyant. Or at least for people to notice. “If I had American Pharoah, I’d have had belly dancers, for sure,” he said of the Triple Crown winner, now retired to Coolmore’s Ashford Stud, where Hansen stood in 2013 until being sold to the Korea Racing Authority. Cont. p3 2016 Fee: $5,000 payable out of proceeds or by 12/31/18 Undefeated 2YO Mohaymen Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Champion New Year’s Day was the Highweight on the Experimental Free Hcp., ahead of Eclipse Champion Shared Belief. By Street Cry, the sire of over 100 Stakes Winners, he is a half-brother to Mohaymen, a $2.2 Million Co-Sales Topper and one of the favorites for the Kentucky Derby (G1). 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[But] I had a year that I was doing so well that I was even jealous of Hansen Hoping for First in Jerome (cont. from p1) myself.” The Mike Maker-trained Hansen, out of Dr. Hansen’s $5,000 Hansen’s only horse at the track was the claimer Tapanna, claim Stormy Sunday, went three-for-three and held off Union Hansen’s soon-to-be 8-year-old full-brother, when he got a call Rags by a head to win the from Ryan Patterson, a 25-year-old bloodstock agent from GI Breeders’ Cup Juvenile at Cincinnati asking if he’d be interested in Let Me Go First. Churchill Downs and the Owner-breeder Spendthrift Farm sent Let Me Go First to 2-year-old championship Blane Servis, the 28-year-old son of trainer John Servis. The for 2011. Hansen took mission was to win and sell the gelding, in which Spendthrift Aqueduct’s GIII Gotham gave Blane half-interest. before his Blue Grass Servis loved the horse, who is out of the Chief Seattle mare second, was ninth in the Aspen Mountain, making him a half-brother to graded-stakes winner Bolo (Temple City) and from the family of 2009 GI Kentucky Derby, then won Let Me Go First | Equi-Photo Prairie Meadows’ GIII Iowa Kentucky Derby winner Mine That Bird (Birdstone) and Dullahan Derby before retiring with a tendon injury after the West (Even the Score), who beat Hansen in the 2012 Blue Grass. Virginia race. Cont. p4 HEADLINE NEWS • PAGE 4 OF 7 • THETDN.COM THURS • DEC. 31, 2015 Let Me Go First finished fifth in a debut sprint, then improved things that falls into your lap. If he could finish one-two in the to a third around two turns--an even better performance Jerome and finish strong, then I’ll think we’ve got something.” considering that Let Me Go First lost a month’s training thanks to an equine herpes virus quarantine at Parx. Then came a 3 1/4-length victory. Time to sell. Saturday, Aqueduct, post time: 3:50 p.m.