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TUESDAY, 26 JUNE 2018

There never going to be any difficulty in their first season, PEDIGREE INSIGHTS: SEA THE when was priced at i85,000 and at ,125,000 and they respectively covered 136 and 131 . The STARS & is that there isn't an endless supply of breeders prepared to invest heavily in untried but high-priced and events showed that not even Sea The Stars and Frankel were immune to the fluctuating demand that affects so many young stallions in their first four seasons. It now seems hard to believe that Sea The Stars's totals in those first four years were 136, 83, 138 and 82 mares. Frankel's figures were 131, 128, 104 and 105. Perhaps Frankel's arrival as a in 2013 was partly to for Sea The Stars's book falling to 82 mares, but their main problem was that these unproven horses were competing against stallions whose ability to sire top performers had been proven time after time. Cont. p2

Crystal Ocean | Racing Post IN TDN AMERICA TODAY by Andrew Caulfield There was something of a family affair about the most TDN Q&A: ’S FIRST YEARLINGS successful stallions at Royal Ascot last week, with the six Lucas Marquardt chats with Coolmore’s American nominations stallions responsible for two or more winners featuring , manager Adrian Wallace regarding the first yearlings by Triple Crown winner American Pharoah (Pioneerof the Nile). Click or Galileo's son Frankel and Galileo's half-brother Sea The Stars. tap here to go straight to TDN America. Of course this trio features two of the most extraordinary racehorses ever to have graced the turf, with Frankel and Sea The Stars's combined efforts amounting to 22 wins from 23 starts, the only defeat coming on Sea The Stars's debut. Between them they landed 16 Group 1s and took high rank on 's list of all-time greats, with Frankel improving his rating from 143 at three to 147 at four, while Sea The Stars achieved a figure of 140 at three. Sea The Stars's physique suggested that he too might have pushed his rating even higher had he stayed in training at four. Both these superstars are imposing physical specimens, both were group winners at two, both won the G1 2000 Guineas and the G1 International and both linked to Galileo, who had already claimed the first of his nine sires' championships before Sea The Stars commenced his stallion career in 2010. Galileo was a four-time sire by the time Frankel made his debut at Banstead Manor in 2013. Consequently, the path to stardom as a stallion might have been expected to be as smooth and straight as it could possibly be, but even these exceptional Classic winners have had to go through a few trials and tribulations along the way. TDN EUROPE/INTERNATIONAL • PAGE 2 OF 8 • THETDN.COM TUESDAY • 26 JUNE 2018

Sea The Stars & Crystal Ocean Cont. from p1

In Sea The Stars's first four years, his half-brother Galileo covered books of 175, 215, 196 and 191 mares, whereas Frankel's first four years clashed with the rise of , whose book stood at 136, 157, 157 and 157. Needless to say, Frankel and Sea The Stars have both quickly proved that they belong among the small club of elite stallions, with Sea The Stars's fee now standing at i135,000, as opposed to the original i85,000, and Frankel's at ,175,000 from the initial ,125,000. Breeders who used them at these increased fees this year will have been reassured by their respective performances at Royal Ascot. Frankel had 18 individual representatives in the 30 races, all from his first two crops, and they clocked up three wins (from , Monarch's Glen and Baghdad), two seconds and five thirds. Compare this to Galileo's tally of two winners, two seconds and two thirds from a total of 24 runners. Sea The Stars had fewer representatives but his comparatively small fourth crop, which numbers 74 foals, provided two of the meeting's star performers. Firstly, bravely took the G1 Gold Cup and then Crystal Ocean won the G2 Hardwicke S. in Sea The Stars now has eight Group 1 winners, six Group 2 the style of a future Group 1 winner. Crystal Ocean and winners and 11 Group 3 winners to his credit from his first four Stradivarius had finished second and third, separated by only a crops. That's 25 group winners from a total of 382 foals in those short head, behind the winner in a hot edition first four crops, which equates to an impressive 6.5%. And those of the St Leger. Group 1 winners have garnered a Derby, an Irish Derby, a , an Oaks, a King George, a , a Prix d'Ispahan, a and now a Gold Cup, which CRYSTAL OCEAN, C, 4 amounts to a highly prestigious collection. Lifetime Record: MGSW & G1SP-Eng, 9-5-2-2, $642,121. Good things are worth waiting for, and this applies to Sea The Stars and his progeny. Although he won two of his three juvenile starts, including the G2 Beresford S., Sea The Stars improved Foreign Courier (Ire) considerably from two to three--by no less than 31lb according (GB) (Ire) to his Timeform ratings. So far only two of his 25 group winners Sea The Balidaress (Ire) Stars (Ire) Mr. Prospector have succeeded in winning at that level at the age of two, these Hopespringseternal being the G3 Prix des Chenes winner , who Lombard (Ger) Allegretta (GB) developed into a Group 2 winner at three and a Group 1 winner Anatevka (Ger) (GB) at four, and the G3 Park S. winner My Titania. (GB) Crystal Star Delsy (Fr) This suggests that there are group winners still to come from (GB) (Ire) Sea The Stars's current 3-year-olds from his 93-strong fifth crop, Homage (GB) SW & GSP-Eng, Home 6-2-1-0, $47,340 conceived after Sea The Stars had finished seventh among the Crystal Cavern 8Fls, 5Wnrs, first-crop sires of 2013 (beaten by , but also by 1SW, 3GSWs, 16-3-1-3, What a Treat 2Chs. $54,611 Intense Focus, Captain Gerrard, Dandy Man, Bushranger and 11Fls, 8Wnrs, 2SWs Krisalya (GB) (GB) 13Fls, 7Wnrs, 1G1SW Sassalya (Ire) Champs Elysees). Cont. p3 TDN EUROPE/INTERNATIONAL • PAGE 3 OF 8 • THETDN.COM TUESDAY • 26 JUNE 2018

Vice President, International Operations Gary King Twitter: @garykingTDN [email protected] + 1.732.320.0975 Sea The Stars | The Aga Khan Studs

International Editor Pedigree Insights: Sea The Stars & Crystal Ocean Cont. Kelsey Riley Twitter: @kelseynrileyTDN The best of his 3-year-olds so far are the listed winners Sea of [email protected] Class and Knight To Behold, and there is also Stream of Stars, who disappointed when favourite for the G2 Queen's Vase--a European Editor race won last year by Stradivarius. Emma Berry It will be interesting to monitor the progress of Sea The Stars's Twitter: @collingsberry 2018 juveniles, which come from his first crop sired at a fee of [email protected] i125,000. This crop is his largest of his first six crops, at 135 Associate International Editor foals. Around a dozen of them are out of mares by Sadler's Heather Anderson Wells, who number and the Classic-placed Storm The Twitter: @HLAndersonTDN Stars among their four black-type winners from 59 foals. This is comfortably the most numerous cross for Sea The Stars. Marketing Manager Sea The Stars's progeny have an average winning distance of Alayna Cullen 11 furlongs, which is very close to Galileo's figure of 11.2 Twitter: @AlaynaCullen furlongs. Although Sea The Stars has excelled with daughters of [email protected] such as Monsun, , Silver Hawk and Sadler's Wells, perhaps Contributing Editor it would be worth employing a similar policy to the one taken Alan Carasso with Galileo in recent years, whereby a strong emphasis has Twitter: @EquinealTDN been placed on giving him mares with speed. Sea The Stars's Group 1 winners include and , who are out of Cafe Racing mares by the champion juveniles and . Then there's Sean Cronin Cloth of Stars and Zelzal, who are among the four black-type Tom Frary winners sired by Sea The Stars from 12 foals out of mares by the [email protected] top miler . Irish Correspondent Crystal Ocean's broodmare sire, the 2000 Guineas and Queen Daithi Harvey Elizabeth II S. winner Mark of Esteem, is another top-class miler with a fine record with Sea The Stars. There are only five foals of Regular Columnists racing age bred this way but four have raced and all four have Andrew Caulfield won, another being Across The Stars, winner of the G2 King John Berry Edward VII S. in 2016. Interestingly, Galileo also has a fine record Kevin Blake with daughters of Mark of Esteem, siring the likes of the Irish Tom Peacock Derby winner and the Group 2 winners Kite Wood and Mikhail Glinka from only 13 foals. Cont. p4 TDN EUROPE/INTERNATIONAL • PAGE 4 OF 8 • THETDN.COM TUESDAY • 26 JUNE 2018

In 2018, Royal Ascot was competing with the FIFA World Cup during the same time slot. Thursday=s coverage was shown only on ITV4, as there were two World Cup matches displayed on the main ITV . On Tuesday, an average of 741k (11.7%) viewers was above the 719k (10.7%) set in 2017, while Wednesday=s average was 727k (9%) versus 2017's 830k (11.5%). During Thursday=s ITV4 coverage, the average viewership was 366k (4.9%), with 968k (13%) set a year ago. The numbers were closer to par on Friday with 803k (10%) versus 927k (12%) in 2017, with the final day setting an average of 613k (7.6%) compared to 892k (10.2%) last term. The highest peak rating was set on Wednesday=s card with 1006k, just under 2017's 1,156k.

Tuscan Evening | Sarah K. Andrew TO Pedigree Insights: Sea The Stars & Crystal Ocean Cont. Crystal Ocean's dam Crystal Star was unbeaten at two, winning seven furlongs, and was group-placed over that distance at three. She has developed into a wonderful producer, with three group winners and a listed winner. Although all four are by different sires, two of them are by father and son, with that fine Crystal Capella being by Sea The Stars's sire Cape Cross. All four of her stakes winners stayed at least a mile and quarter, another being , a Dancer who won the G2 King Edward VII S. and the GI Canadian International. Crystal Ocean's third dam Krisalya produced the G1 Poule d'Essai des Pouliches winner Rose Gypsy and was a half-sister to the G1 Prix d'Ispahan winner Sasuru. Fourth dam Sassalya produced 16 named foals, most of them above average. In addition to Sasuru, there was Sally Rous, winner of two group Laurens after the Longines | Scoop Dyga races over seven furlongs, including the Jersey S. at Royal Ascot. Another of Sassalya's daughters, The Faraway Tree, produced the American Grade I winner Tuscan Evening. G1 French Oaks heroine Laurens (Fr) (Siyouni {Fr}) will sidestep next month's G1 at The Curragh and instead head straight for the G1 Yorkshire Oaks on Aug. 23.Having rounded off her juvenile campaign with a Group 1 triumph in the Fillies' Mile at Newmarket, Karl Burke's star filly has continued in the same vein this season, finishing second in the G1 1000 Guineas before landing the G1 Prix Saint-Alary and the G1 Prix de Diane. "She has come out the race really well and there have been no issues," said the North Yorkshire handler. "She will have a nice easy two or three weeks. We are not going to go for the Irish ROYAL ASCOT VIEWING STATISTICS RELEASED Oaks. We will miss that and hopefully go for the Yorkshire Oaks. The 22.5-hour ITV Racing Team broadcast, plus the five-hour We certainly hope we will go back to France for the Arc. The The Opening Show, which utilised 270 personnel, resulted in Yorkshire Oaks will tell us a lot more when we step up in trip viewing figures on average of 721k (9.6%) on the ITV main again.@ channel over four days compared to 867k (11.6%) last year. Cont. p5 TDN EUROPE/INTERNATIONAL • PAGE 5 OF 8 • THETDN.COM TUESDAY • 26 JUNE 2018

Laurens to Yorkshire Oaks Cont. Burke continued, AIf there is any reason she doesn't stay the mile and a half [of the Yorkshire Oaks], we have got the G1 Prix de l'Opera to consider. We've also been very kindly given an invite to a very valuable filly and mares race in in November and of course there is also the Breeders' Cup, so there's plenty to think about. The main thing is she's healthy and well and as tough as she is, she is good as well. She has lots of ability. Everyone says she keeps having hard races. I think she is only doing what she has to do and I think that is why she keeps backing up in these races. Long may it continue."

Redkirk Warrior | Bronwen Healy EYES INTERNATIONAL CAMPAIGN In other news, G1 King=s Stand S. runner-up and =s MG1SW Hawkbill (Kitten=s Joy) came out of his MG1SW (Ire) ( {Ire}) will not take part and third-place effort in the G1 Prince Of Wales=s S. in good order instead point to the G2 King George S. at Goodwood on Aug. 3. and is headed abroad according to trainer Charlie Appleby. A AHe won't run in the July Cup,@ said Sheikh Hamdan Al brilliant winner of the G1 at Meydan Maktoum=s racing manager Angus Gold. AHe wouldn't get six earlier in the year, the flashy chestnut disappointed on his furlongs in a horsebox on the way he ran the other day. We'll return to Britain in the G1 at Epsom at the probably look towards Goodwood and York [for the G1 beginning of June. Hawkbill looks set for a second tilt at the GI Nunthorpe S. on Aug. 24] again, I'd imagine. Northern Dancer S. in Canada in September--he lost by a head in 2017--following his fine effort in defeat at Royal Ascot. "He ran a solid race [at Ascot],@ said Appleby. AI was pleased with his performance and that is the sort of level we are with him. Campaigning him around the world, I'm sure he will pinch WILDCARDS ADDED TO ARQANA SUMMER another race for us. We will do a bit of travelling with him. We Seven wildcards have been added to the Arqana Summer Sale will probably look towards the Northern Dancer in Canada." scheduled for Deauville on July 2-4. The septet will go under the hammer on the final day at 11 a.m. local time and are led by Fifth Element (Fr) (Most Improved {Ire}) (lot 250), a winning filly out of Miryale (Fr) (Anabaa), consigned by trainer Jean-Claude >WARRIOR= TO JULY CUP Rouget. She is out of a half to SW & G1SP Afandem (Fr) (Zoffany {Ire}) and is from the same family as G1 Bayerisches Three-time Group 1 winner Redkirk Warrior (GB) ( Zuchtrennen victress Elliptique (Ire) ( {Ire}) and {GB}) will remain in the Northern Hemisphere and point to the MSW & MGSP Cicerole (Fr) ( {Ire}). Stephane Wattel July 14 1200-metre G1 July Cup co-trainer David Hayes told consigns lot 370, the SP sprinter Mon Ami L=Ecossais (Fr) Racing.com on Monday morning. The chestnut, who is also (Orpen). The seven-lot Yves Borotra Dispersal have also been trained by Ben Hayes and Tom Dabernig, ran an uncharacteristic added to the Summer Sale as lots 289A-289G. Go to poor race to be 10th behind Merchant Navy (Aus) (Fastnet Rock www.arqana.com for the complete catalogue. {Aus}) when contesting the G1 S. at Royal Ascot on Saturday. AWe were really disappointed with the run,@ Hayes told Racing.com. AHistory tells us that he=s let us down very few times, but every time he=s traveled, he=s never run to his best, so Follow the TDN staff on Twitter there was always that nagging doubt in the back of our minds. Daily News Looking forward, Newmarket is where he=s trained, he doesn=t have to travel and he worked very well on the course proper @garykingTDN @kelseynrileyTDN @collingsberry there, so we think that we=re here, we might give him one more chance [in the July Cup].@ @DaithiHarvey @EquinealTDN @HLAndersonTDN TDN EUROPE/INTERNATIONAL • PAGE 6 OF 8 • THETDN.COM TUESDAY • 26 JUNE 2018

FIRST-SEASON SIRES WITH RUNNERS

Tuesday, June 26, 2018:

UNITED KINGDOM Alhebayeb (Ire) (Dark Angel {Ire}), Tara Stud 128 foals of racing age/2 winners/0 black-type winners 14:00-BEVERLEY, 7.5f, ALHEBABA (IRE) i20,000 RNA Goffs November Foals Sale 2016; 15,000gns RNA October Yearling Sale 2017 - Book 3 Coach House (Ire) ( {GB}), Bucklands Farm & Stud has a pair of runners at Newbury on Tuesday. (GB) Haras de Bouquetot 76 foals of racing age/2 winners/0 black-type winners 14:45-BRIGHTON, 6f, MORE THAN LIKELY (GB) 7,500gns RNA Tattersalls December Foal Sale 2016; 8,572gns Tattersalls Ireland Ascot Sept. Yearling Sale 2017

Gregorian (Ire) (Clodovil {Ire}), National Stud 85 foals of racing age/4 winners/0 black-type winners 18:40-NEWBURY, 6f, PERFECTLY (GB) ITBA UNVEILS 2018 EDUCATIONAL 3,000gns Tattersalls December Foal Sale 2016; 16,000gns RNA PROGRAMME Tattersalls October Yearling Sale 2017 - Book 3 The 2018 educational programme schedule, hosted by the (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}), Irish Thoroughbred Breeders Assocation (ITBA) with financial 43 foals of racing age/1 winner/0 black-type winners support and commitment from the Department of Agriculture, 19:10-NEWBURY, 7f, ISLAND REEL (IRE) under its Equine Technical Support & Breeding Scheme Project, ,12,000 RNA Goffs UK Premier Yearling Sale 2017 was revealed on Monday. From July 2-13, the Summer Educational Series, designed for Toronado (Ire) ( {Ire}), Haras de Bouquetot breeders of both flat and national hunt disciplines, will take 121 foals of racing age/2 winners/0 black-type winners place at ITBA headquarters. Topics covered in week one--with 19:10-NEWBURY, 7f, LOLITA PULIDO (IRE) Quality & Qualifications Ireland accreditation where possible-- i 10,500 Goffs November Foals Sale 2016; 40,000gns Tattersalls include: Hazard Identification & Risk Assessment, Accident October Yearling Sale 2017 - Book 1 Investigation, Chemical Safety Awareness, Fire Safety 19:10-NEWBURY, 7f, TRONADA (GB) Awareness, Safety Statements Production, First Aid Awareness, 20,000gns Tattersalls December Foal Sale 2016; 23,000gns RNA Height Safety Awareness, Manual Handling, and a three-day Tattersalls October Yearling Sale 2017 - Book 3; 42,000gns First Aid Responders course. QQI Level 5 accreditation will be Tattersalls Guineas Breeze-Up & HIT Sale 2018 awarded to those who complete all modules and successfully (War Front), Coolmore Stud required assessment. In week two, courses include managing 112 foals of racing age/3 winners/0 black-type winners staff, GDPR requirements, financial planning and stud farm 14:00-BEVERLEY, 7.5f, VICTORY COMMAND (IRE) office administration. On July 25, there will be an ITBA Next 6,000gns Tattersalls December Yearlings Sale 2017 Generation Seminar & Race Day at ITBA HQ & Naas Racecourse. Xtension (Ire) (Xaar {GB}), Rathbarry Stud The ITBA heavily subsidizes the costs for those who attend. 25 foals of racing age/1 winner/0 black-type winners Places on all of the courses are limited and on a first come first 19:10-NEWBURY, 7f, ROOM TO IMPROVE (IRE) served basis. For the complete schedule and to sign up, go to i3,000 RNA Goffs Open Yearlings HIT Sale 2017 www.itba.info.

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Ideal Candy (Ire), f, 3, (Ire)--Forever More (Ire), by Galileo (Ire). Chepstow, 6-25, 8f 14yT, 1:33.52. B-Brian O=Neill (IRE). *i18,000 Wlg >15 GOFNOV; ,4,000 Ylg >16 GOUKSI. Cosmic Love (GB), f, 3, Sea the Stars (Ire)--Soodad (GB), by Monday=s Results: King=s Best. Chepstow, 6-25, 8f 14yT, 1:33.90. B- 2nd-Royal Windsor, ,5,800, Mdn, 6-25, 2yo, 6f 12yT, 1:14.62, Stud (GB). *90,000gns Ylg >16 TATOCT. g/f. Jahaafel (Fr), c, 3, Style Vendome (Fr)--Irisijana (Ger) (SP-Ger), WATCHMYEVERYMOVE (IRE) (c, 2, War Command--Glympse by (GB). Chepstow, 6-25, 10fT, 2:08.61. B-James Henry {Ire}, by Spectrum {Ire}) broke in the second rank and raced mid Atkinson (FR). *i45,000 Ylg >16 AROYRG; i400,000 2yo >17 division through the initial stages of this first go. Scrubbed along ARQMAY. approaching the quarter-mile marker, the 12-1 chance wove a green passage to the front entering the final eighth and kept on TATTERSALLS TO SPONSOR S. well for continued whipless rousting late on to by 3/4 of a The G3 Sovereign S. at Salisbury on Aug. 16 will be sponsored length from Shanghai Grace (GB) (Kyllachy {GB}), becoming the by Tattersalls, the sales company announced on Monday. Held third winner for his freshman sire (by War Front). He is also the over a mile for 3-year-olds and up, the Sovereign will carry sixth scorer and latest foal produced by a half-sister to MGSP prizemoney of £76,500 in 2018. sire Smooth Performance (Seattle Slew). He shares his MSW & ATattersalls are delighted to sponsor the Sovereign S. at MGSP second dam Seasonal Pickup () with MGISW Salisbury and add it to our extensive list of race sponsorships,@ Hong Kong Horse of the Year Designs On Rome (Ire) (Holy said Tattersalls Marketing Manager Jason Singh. AThe Sovereign Roman Emperor {Ire}) and the dam of this year=s G1 Irish 2000 Stakes is also perfectly timed to coincide with the publication of Guineas hero (Ire) (Holy Roman Emperor {Ire}). Sales Book 1 of the Tattersalls October Yearling Sale [held on Oct. 9- history: i11,000 Ylg >17 TIRSEP; 50,000gns 2yo >18 TATHIT. 11].@ Lifetime Record: 1-1-0-0, $4,977. Video, sponsored by Fasig- Tipton. 1ST-TIME STARTER. O-T W Morley; B-D J Maher (IRE); T-Stuart Williams.

CONDITIONS RESULTS: CONDITIONS RESULTS: 7th-Royal Windsor, ,5,800, Cond, 6-25, 3yo/up, 8f 31yT, 6th-Saint-Cloud, i28,000, Cond, 6-25, 4yo/up, 10 1/2fT, 1:45.05, g/f. 2:12.46, g/s. KAANOON (GB) (c, 3, Bated Breath {GB}--Going For Gold {GB}, WAI KEY STAR (GER) (h, 5, Soldier Hollow {GB}--Wakytara by Barathea {Ire}) Lifetime Record: 3-2-0-0, $10,337. O-Sheikh {Ger}, by Danehill) Lifetime Record: Hwt. 3yo-Ger at 9.5-11f, Ahmed Al Maktoum; B-James Ortega Bloodstock Ltd (GB); MGSW-Ger & GSP-Ity, 12-4-3-2, i153,748. O-Stall Salzburg; T-Roger Varian. *30,000gns Ylg >16 TAOCT. **1/2 to Chicadoro B-Gestut Park Wiedingen (GER); T-Sarah Steinberg. *1/2 to (GB) ( {Ire}), SP-Eng. Wheredreamsare (GB) (Monsun {Ger}), GSP-Ger.

6th-Wolverhampton, ,5,800, Cond, 6-25, 3yo/up, 7f 36y (AWT), ADDITIONAL MAIDEN WINNERS: 1:29.31, st. Style de Vole (Fr), g, 3, Vol de Nuit (GB)--Anowe de Jelois (Fr), MOQARRAB (c, 3, Speightstown--Grosse Pointe Anne, by Silver by Reg Guest (Ire). Saint-Cloud, 6-25, 10 1/2fT, 2:19.20. Deputy) Lifetime Record: 3-2-0-0, $11,520. O-Godolphin; B-Michel Guillois & Mme Reynald Jeanne (FR). *1ST-TIME B-WinStar Farm LLC (KY); T-. *$400,000 Ylg '16 STARTER. KEESEP. NOMINATIONS OPEN FOR FRENCH GSSSA Nominations for the Trophees du Personnel des Courses et de ADDITIONAL MAIDEN WINNERS: l=Elevage, the French version of the Godolphin Stud and Stable Deputise (GB), c, 2, Kodiac (GB)--Dolly Colman (Ire), by Diamond Staff Awards, opened on Monday. For the third year in a row, Green (Fr). Wolverhampton, 6-25, 5f 21y (AWT), 1:03.27. has joined with sponsors Godolphin to celebrate B-Whitsbury Manor Stud (GB). *70,000gns Wlg >16 TATFOA; those working in the racing industry, with racing and breeding 125,000gns RNA Ylg >17 TAOCT; 110,000gns 2yo >18 TATBRE. professionals called upon to nominate their candidates. Cont. p8 TDN EUROPE/INTERNATIONAL • PAGE 8 OF 8 • THETDN.COM TUESDAY • 26 JUNE 2018

Nominations Open for French GSSSA Cont.

Winners from seven categoriesBthe Leadership Award (stud or stable), the Dedication to Racing award, the Rider/Groom Award, the Stud Staff Award, the Administration Award, the Newcomer Award (stud and stable employees) and the Employee of the Year Award--will be revealed at ParisLongchamp on Nov. 24. To nominate a candidate, go to www.tropheesdupersonnel.fr.

Sunday=s Results: DID YOU KNOW? CPI PG CESKE DERBY (NB), Kc2,500,000 (,84,965/i96,562/ G2 Coventry S. winner Calyx (GB) ( {GB}) US$112,822), Velka Chuchle (Prague), 3yo, 2400mT, 2:33.52, gd. was tabbed as a “TDN Rising Star” 1--BLESSED KISS (FR), 125, f, 3, Kentucky Dynamite--Blanc Sur Blanc (Ire), by Hold That Tiger. (i3,000 RNA Ylg >16 OSASEP; Visit the TDN Rising Stars section on our website! i19,000 2yo >17 OSAAPR). O-Staj Yerbol Baizhasrkinov; B-EARL Haras du Taillis & Bernhard Wenger; T-Igor Endaltsev; J-Wladimir Panov; Kc1,000,000. Lifetime Record: 7-2-0-0. Ninety-one horses sold from 93 offered for a clearance rate of *1/2 to Blessed Silence (Fr) (Siyouni {Fr}), GSP-US, MSP-Fr, 97.9% and a gross of R14,145,000. The average was R155,440 $178,393. (US$11,348/£8,545/€9,696) (+91.5%) and the median was 2--Poldi=s Liebling (Ger), 128, c, 3, Tai Chi (Ger)--Pinea (Ger), by R60,000 (US$4,423/£3,330/€3,779) (+140%). Platini (Ger). O-Stall Audenhove. Kc550,000. 3--Mon Cheri (Fr), 128, c, 3, (GB)--Skyweeper (Fr), by (Ire). (i25,000 RNA Ylg >16 ARQAUG; i60,000 AUSTRALIAN-SIRED WINNERS 2yo >17 ARQNOV). O-Staj Lokotrans. Kc350,000. Margins: NK, 2, HF. Odds: 30-1, 5-1, 8-1. VIDEO IN JAPAN: Avior (Jpn), f, 3, Redoute=s Choice (Aus)--Velda (GB), by Observatory. Tokyo, 6-24, Plate Race, 8fT. Lifetime Record: 2-2-0-0, $113,636. O-Teruya Yoshida; B-Shadai Farm (Jpn); T-Noriyuki Hori. *1/2 to (Fr) (Orpen), Hwt. 2yo Filly-Fr, CAPTAIN AL FILLY TOPS BSA SUPER SALE GSW & G1SP-Fr, G1SW-Eng, $498,143. The single-day Bloodstock South Africa Super Sale enjoyed JAPANESE GROUP 1 RACES B 2018 gains across the board at Greyville Racecourse on Monday. The filly Best Kept Secret (SAf) (Captain Al {SAf}) (lot 44) topped the Date Race Track sale at R2.2 million (US$162,056/£122,024/€138,462) on the bid Sept. 30 Sprinters= S. Nakayama of Maine Chance Farms from the draft of Mayfair Speculators. Oct. 14 Shuka Sho Kyoto The two-time winner, an Rx CTS Premier yearling in 2016, is out Oct. 21 Kikuka Sho (St Leger) Kyoto of Secret of Victoria (SAf) (Goldkeeper), who was a MGSW in her Oct. 28 Tenno Sho (Autumn) Tokyo native land and played the bridesmaid in the G1 Allan Robertson Nov. 11 Queen Elizabeth II Cup Kyoto Fillies Championship. Best Kept Secret is also a full-sister to Nov. 18 Mile Championship S. Kyoto South African champion juvenile filly and MG1SW All Is Secret Nov. 25 Tokyo (SAf) and Grade 1 winner The Secret Is Out (SAf). SIRE LISTS Sponsored by

Leading First-Crop Sires by YTD Earnings for stallions standing in Europe through Sunday, June 24 Earnings represent worldwide figures, stud fees listed are 2018 fees.

Rank Stallion BTW BTH GSW GSH G1SW G1SH Starters Wnrs Highest Earner Earnings 1 No Nay Never 1 3 -- 1 -- -- 19 8 43,819 191,021 (2011) by Scat Daddy FYR: 2016 Stands: Coolmore Stud Ire Fee: i25,000 Cosmic Law (Ire) 2 Bungle Inthejungle (GB) 1 1 ------30 11 26,695 131,137 (2010) by Exceed and Excel (Aus) FYR: 2016 Stands: Rathasker Stud Ire Fee: i5,000 Jungle Inthebungle (Ire) 3 Kingman (GB) 1 1 1 1 -- -- 5 1 90,240 94,592 (2011) by (Ire) FYR: 2016 Stands: Banstead Manor Stud Eng Fee: ,55,000 Calyx (GB) 4 Sommerabend (GB) ------5 3 19,660 46,519 (2007) by FYR: 2016 Stands: Haras de Saint Arnoult Fr Fee: i2,500 Tudo Bem (Fr) 5 Le Vie Infinite (Ire) ------9 3 19,464 45,761 (2007) by Le Vie Dei Colori (GB) FYR: 2016 Stands: Ity Fee: N/A Angkor Wat (Ity) 6 Gregorian (Ire) -- 1 ------16 4 10,338 45,447 (2009) by Clodovil (Ire) FYR: 2016 Stands: National Stud Eng Fee: ,4,500 Greach (Ire) 7 Garswood (GB) ------9 3 16,838 44,591 (2010) by Dutch Art (GB) FYR: 2016 Stands: Cheveley Park Stud Eng Fee: ,4,000 Dollis Hill (GB) 8 (Ire) ------12 3 12,588 44,429 (2010) by Choisir (Aus) FYR: 2016 Stands: Haras de Bouquetot Fr Fee: i12,000 Mintd (Ire) 9 (Ire) ------18 4 12,450 42,634 (2011) by Invincible Spirit (Ire) FYR: 2016 Stands: Haras de Bonneval Fr Fee: i20,000 Charming Kid (GB) 10 Kuroshio (Aus) -- 1 ------11 5 14,502 38,372 (2010) by Exceed and Excel (Aus) FYR: 2016 Stands: Darley Northwood Park EUR (Exp) Daphinia (GB) 11 Toronado (Ire) ------11 2 19,042 34,209 (2010) by High Chaparral (Ire) FYR: 2016 Stands: Haras de Bouquetot Fr Fee: i12,000 Baylagan (Fr) 12 Slade (Ire) ------20 3 10,640 33,905 (2009) by Dutch Art (GB) FYR: 2016 Stands: Kildangan Stud Ire Fee: i15,000 Oh My Oh My (Ire) 13 Gale Force Ten (GB) -- 1 ------15 1 24,032 30,838 (2010) by Oasis Dream (GB) FYR: 2016 Stands: Irish National Stud Ire Fee: i5,000 Dom Carlos (Ire) 14 Morpheus (GB) ------17 2 11,896 30,702 (2010) by Oasis Dream (GB) FYR: 2016 Stands: Tally-Ho Stud Ire Fee: i4,000 Joza (Ire) 15 War Command ------14 2 16,259 30,686 (2011) by War Front FYR: 2016 Stands: Coolmore Stud Ire Fee: i8,000 Victory Command (Ire) FOR ALL TDN SIRE LISTSBINCLUDING INDIVIDUAL CROP-YEAR REPORTS--VISIT WWW.THETDN.COM/TDN-SIRE-STATS/

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Q&A: AMERICAN PHAROAH’S MADAKET STABLES BUYS INTO MIDNIGHT BISOU FIRST YEARLINGS Madaket Stables of Sol Kumin has purchased a minority interest in Grade I winner Midnight Bisou (Midnight Lute), it was announced Monday. The GI Santa Anita Oaks winner will race under the ownership of Bloom Racing Stable, Madaket Stables and Allen Racing LLC when she runs in the GII Mother Goose S. for trainer Steve Asmussen Saturday. Never off the board in six career starts, Midnight Bisou captured the Jan. 7 GII Santa Ynez S. and Mar. 3 GIII Santa Ysabel S. en route to her win in the Apr. 7 Santa Anita Oaks for trainer Bill Spawr. She shipped east to finish third behind Monomoy Girl (Tapizar) in the GI Kentucky Oaks May 4. Plans call for the filly to remain on the East Coast with Asmussen and Click above to watch a video interview with Coolmore’s Adrian target a start in the GI Alabama S. at Saratoga in August. Wallace discussing American Pharoah’s first yearlings. Cont. p6 (click here) by Lucas Marquardt It was no surprise to see the name of the 2015 Triple Crown IN TDN EUROPE TODAY and Breeders’ Cup Classic winner American Pharoah on top of the TDN list of the 2017 sires of leading weanlings. The only sire PEDIGREE INSIGHTS: CRYSTAL OCEAN to sell a million-dollar weanling last year, he sent two such Andrew Caulfield examines the pedigree of Royal Ascot winner Crystal Ocean (GB) (Sea The Stars {Ire}). Click or tap offerings through the ring. How has his progeny developed into here to go straight to TDN Europe. weanlings? Lucas Marquardt went out to visit Coolmore’s American nominations manager, Adrian Wallace, to talk about the upcoming sales season.

LM: The reception of American Pharoah’s weanlings last year; we expected a lot of money, you expected them to sell well, but you know, to easily top $400,000 on average and to have two seven-figure yearlings: was that at all a surprise to you or, having seen those weanlings, is that something that was expected?

AW: There's always a certain amount of trepidation when you come to any sales market, whether it'd be your first foals by a certain sire or the first yearlings. But given what he achieved himself, given his look, given the quality and the amount of mares he covered, I think we were all reasonably confident that they were going to be a highly sought after in the marketplace. He covered some of the best mares, he covered the strongest book of mares we've ever had here. You looked down through the list and every single time you look at it, you're like, `Oh, wow.’ He covered 48 Group 1 winners or producers. Cont. p1 All Purpose. All Places. All Power.

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Q&A: American Pharoah’s First Yearlings cont. from p1 LM: What of progression have you seen from them I mean it's mind-boggling. And among the others, there were physically from their weanling years to the yearling years? And no slouches either. They were the sisters of Grade I winners, the what kind of buzz are you hearing from breeders about his daughters of Grade I winners, Group 2, Group 3 winners. So the yearlings? strength and depth in his book is something that certainly at this AW: The buzz is good. We've been farm we've never seen before. touring the farms, and we've seen And you know, given the a lot of them. We've seen a lot of reception he had, given what he them from foal days to now as achieved as a 2-year-old and then yearlings starting their prep. We've obviously went on and won the got a lot of them here ourselves, so Grand Slam as a 3-year-old, I think we're in constant contact with the breeders who bred to him. He's a our expectations were very high good-size horse himself. He's 16.2. coming into the November sales at He's very correct. Very good both Fasig-Tipton and Keeneland. mover. He's as good-moving a dirt And then again with this, this year's horse as you're going to find, and January sale, at Keeneland, that he's passing that on. They're they were going to sell very well. generally very good size. They've And you know, you saw that with American Pharoah | Coolmore photo got plenty of scope and strength to the Untouched filly selling them. They're generally very correct. Good movers, fairly for a million dollars, and then 's brother selling for a uncomplicated horses. As Tom VanMeter said, after Pharoah million dollars in January. They're highly credentialed horses and won the Triple Crown, "If you want a big brown horse that can they were received by the marketplace the way they should run fast, you’re looking to American Pharoah," and I think that's have been. what we're seeing in his first crop. TDN HEADLINE NEWS • PAGE 4 OF 7 • THETDN.COM TUESDAY • JUNE 26, 2018

LM: You talked a little bit about his size. He's a big-framed horse. He's just a perfect Classic-look horse, but he's got some speed influences in his pedigree being out of a Yankee Gentleman mare. What kind of mares were breeders sending to him? You've bred quite a few, so I'm assuming you've seen some variety.

AW: It really was a cross-section of mares. We bred 35 mares to him in his first crop, including , who's the dam of our own , who won the 2000 Guineas in England this year. He then bred the likes of the dam of Songbird, Ivanavinalot. He bred the dam of Acapulco, who was a champion sprinter. He bred the dam of Caravaggio, a champion 2-year-old. So he got a whole cross section of mares, turf mares who were classic producers and also top 2-year-old producers.

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LM: He has been shuttling to , so the expectation that maybe he'll get some grass runners, particularly maybe firm ground runners. But like you've mentioned, he's a terrific mover, something that the Europeans typically gravitate to. So is the expectation that his yearlings from this first crop will be popular with European buyers?

AW: You would imagine. Obviously, he never ran on the turf himself. Bob Baffert always said he was a horse, that, had he run him on the turf, he had no doubt in his mind that he would have been a superior turf runner as well. To me, he doesn't necessarily look like your typical dirt horse. He's a very free, easy-moving horse. On the mares he's been getting, there's certainly quite a lot of turf influences in them. It remains to be seen how he does with his first foals down in Australia, but you'd imagine that he should be successful on dirt and on turf as well. TDN HEADLINE NEWS • PAGE 5 OF 7 • THETDN.COM TUESDAY • JUNE 26, 2018

LM: Certain sires tend to very much stamp their youngsters, AW: It’s a rising-tide-raises-all-boats kind of thing. With Justify while others get very different types, but they all seem to run. doing what he's done so far, I think it has put the spotlight back Any indication at this point whether American Pharoah is on this business and this industry again. You know, Pharoah really stamping them or is he getting kind of a wide variety of obviously broke the 38-year gap since, since Affirmed did it in physical? 1978, and I think having it happen again, it doesn't really take away from Pharoah's legacy. I think it enhances it. I think it AW: Generally they tend to be bay; there's not too much enhances our business. I think it puts a spotlight on our business chrome or too much flash. He's only got a white star himself. So again, and certainly it bodes well for the yearling sale season they're generally big, bay, correct, good size, good scope to coming up, which gets going with Fasig-Tipton July in a short two them, very easy movers. He's a pretty uncomplicated horse to weeks. breed to. He'll put size and quality into a mare that needs it, but I think it’s a helpful fact as well that both of these Triple Crown he's also not overly big where you're going to be worried that winners in Justify and American Pharoah are graduates of the you're going to get something that's uncommercial or probably public auction sphere. We know that American Pharoah was a going to take a long time to mature. We think they'll be quite high-priced buyback, but both of them were available to the precocious horses. He was champion 2-year-old himself, let's public to be bought. And I think that should give buyers and not forgot. Sometimes we think of him as just being a Kentucky agents an awful lot of confidence that these horses are being Derby, Preakness, Belmont and Breeders' Cup Classic winner. sold by their breeders. These horses are available for everybody. But he also was a dual Grade I winner at two. So he was an early They're not being kept by the likes of a Claiborne Farm or a horse and we think he'll pass that onto his progeny as well. Darley-Godolphin or Coolmore. I think that is something that should put a lot of confidence in buyers’ minds. LM: What do you think that the impact of having two Triple Crown winners in American Pharoah and Justify so close together has been for the sport? TDN HEADLINE NEWS • PAGE 6 OF 7 • THETDN.COM TUESDAY • JUNE 26, 2018

Madaket Stables Buys Into Midnight Bisou cont. from p1 SANTA ANITA HANDLE UP, HITS $1B Capped off by a closing-day Pick 6 pool of over $6 million Sunday, all-sources handle at the 102-day Santa Anita winter/spring meet totaled $1,018,268,136, an increase of over $75 million and 8% over last year’s number. On-track attendance rose 1%. “We want to sincerely thank all of our fans, those here on-track and around the country for supporting our racing in such a substantial way from late December through today,” said Tim Ritvo, Chief Operating Officer for The Stronach Group. “We also want to thank the owners and trainers and all of our staff for their support and cooperation. We have many stakeholders and together, we feel we can accomplish great things and build upon what we've been able to establish these past six months. Midnight Bisou | Benoit photo Looking forward, our goals are to provide safe surfaces and “We are thrilled to partner up with Sol on this amazing filly,” larger, more attractive fields to bet on. We've very optimistic for said Bloom Racing’s Jeff Bloom, who picked out Midnight Bisou the future and we look forward to welcoming everyone back for for $80,000 as an OBS April 2-year-old in training. “We have had our Autumn Meet in late September.” great luck together in the past and look forward to enjoying this exciting ride with Sol and his team.” Through Madaket and a number of his other stables, Kumin has won 36 stakes races--including 12 Grade Is--in the first half BREEDERS’ CUP ADDS THREE JUVENILE TURF of 2018. SPRINT QUALIFIERS Three “Win and You’re In” qualifying races have been added to the 2018 Breeders’ Cup Challenge Series, all toward the new Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Turf Sprint. The new qualifiers are: The Futurity S. Oct. 6, a Santa Anita turf sprint the CAPLA TEMPTRESS TO RETURN TO U.S. FOR same day whose details will be announced later, and the Indian BELMONT OAKS Summer S. Oct. 7 at Keeneland. Team Valor International’s globetrotting Capla Temptress (Ire) Breeze Easy LLC’s Shang Shang Shang (Shanghai Bobby) (Lope de Vega {Ire}), who shipped to North America to capture became the first horse to for the Juvenile Turf Sprint with the GI S. at Woodbine last September, will return for her win in Thursday’s G2 Norfolk S. at Royal Ascot. the GI Belmont Oaks July 7, Team Valor confirmed Monday. “We look forward to establishing a late fall stakes program of Conditioned by Marco Botti, the filly finished a close fourth, automatic qualifiers with three major racetrack partners to beaten just a half-length, in the May 13 G1 Poule d’Essai des provide ‘Win & You’re In’ opportunities for the new Breeders’ Pouliches (French 1000 Guineas) in her lone start of 2018 May Cup Juvenile Turf Sprint,” said Dora Delgado, Breeders’ Cup 13. She was among the final field for last Friday’s G1 Coronation Senior Vice President of Racing and Nominations. “We thank the S. at Royal Ascot, but was scratched on Thursday after Team Keeneland Association, the New York Racing Association and the Valor CEO Barry Irwin lined up a flight to New York this Stronach Group at Santa Anita for their support of this turf weekend. division and expanded participation in the Challenge series.” Capla Temptress will be ridden by Javier Castellano in the . She captured her first two starts in England for Botti last summer before running third in the G3 German- Thoroughbred.com Sweet Solera S. as a precursor to her Natalma success. She was a troubled seventh in the GI Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf S. for trainer Bill Mott before returning to Botti’s care in Europe.

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2--La Divina (Per), 123, f, 3, Southdale--Tossa de Mar (Arg), by Indygo Shiner. O-Stud Unicornio; B-Haras Los Eucaliptos (Per); T-Augusto Olivares. P$17,400. 3--Zurda, 115, f, 3, (Ire)--A J’s Gal, by Monashee Mountain. ($1,000 Ylg ‘16 KEESEP). O-Stud Dona Licha; B-Omega & Mike Maeza (KY); T-Arturo Morales. P$11,600. FED BIZ COLT NAMED CHAMPION OF MHBA Margins: NK, 1HF, 1 1/4. Odds: 6.60. YEARLING SHOW Also Ran: Olgiata, Plaza de Acho (Per), Chicuela (Per), Si Que Es Buena (Arg), Jewels (Per), Princesa Cata (Per), Siberia (Per), A homebred by Fed Biz out of the Elusive Quality mare Princess Winner (Per), Romana (Per), Sonora (Per), Ave Proficient for Robert Manfuso took home the Chanceland Farm Flamenca (Chi), Cydonia (Per). Challenge Trophy for grand champion at the 84th annual Click for the Racing Post chart or the free Equineline.com Maryland Horse Breeders Association’s Maryland-bred yearling catalogue-style pedigree. Hipodromo de Monterrico Video. show Sunday at the Timonium Fairgrounds. “I love the horse,” said Manfuso. “When I watch horses mature, they go a certain way and he’s just happened to put the SMART CHOICE (ARG) pieces together to go that way. He’s got a great stride, he’s got WIN AND YOU’RE IN ™ the balance, he’s not too big or too small, great shoulders on connection earnings include: him.” • Automatic berth into #BC18 F/M Turf A total of 96 yearlings in four classes were judged by Grade I- • $60,000 in pre-entry & entry fees winning trainer Rick Violette. • Travel award up to $10,000 for domestic “There were a bunch of nice horses here,” said Violette. “I starters and $40,000 for international starters kept going back and forth, especially between the top two. You’re really [splitting] hairs at the end, and I could have Click HERE for the full 2018 switched them around and not lost any sleep. I’d take any one of #WINANDYOUREIN rules and race schedule. those four home. They’re nice horses.” All yearlings who entered the show ring are now eligible for Sunday, Hipodromo de Monterrico, Peru the $40,000 premium award, which will be split evenly between CLASICO JOCKEY CLUB DEL PERU-G1, P$172,520 (US$52,753), the exhibitors of the contestants who earn the most money as 2- Hipodromo de Monterrico, 6-24, 3yo/up, 2400m, 2:32.88, ft. year-olds in 2019 and the exhibitors of the highest-earning ones 1--STORM RODRIGO (CHI), 127, c, 3, by Midge as 3-year-olds in 2020. 1st Dam: Tarte Tatin (Chi), by Hussonet 2nd Dam: Reginskaia (Chi), by Kazaroun 3rd Dam: Perusa (Chi), by Tantoul 1ST BLACK-TYPE WIN. 1ST GROUP WIN. 1ST GROUP 1 WIN. O-Stud Dona Licha; B-Haras Porta Pia (Chi); T-Arturo Morales. J-Martin Chuan. P$75,000. Lifetime Record: 6-4-0-0. *1/2 to Huracan Rodrigo (Chi) (Hurricane Cat), SW-Per; and Mr. Sunday, Hipodromo de Monterrico, Peru Rodrigo (Chi) (Hurricane Cat), G1SW-Per. Werk Nick Rating: CLASICO PAMPLONA-G1, PER$197,200 (US$60,252), C+. Click for the eNicks report & 5-cross pedigree. Hipodromo de Monterrico, 6-24, 3yo/up, f/m, 2000mT, 2:00.69, 2--Kodiak Boy (Per), 134, h, 6, Museeb--Seth’s Choice, fm. by Rahy. O-Stud Couet; B-Haras La Qallana (Per); T-Juan 1--SMART CHOICE (ARG), 130, f, 4, by Grand Reward Suarez. P$22,500. 1st Dam: Sweet Speech (Arg), by Victory Speech 3--Romeo (Per), 134, h, 5, Minister’s Joy--Bayola, by Action This 2nd Dam: Sweet (Arg), by Southern Halo Day; O-Stud El Herraje; B-Haras Gina Santa Rosa (Per); 3rd Dam: The Sweet Swinger, by Le Fabuleux (Fr) T-Augusto Olivares. P$15,000. 1ST BLACK-TYPE WIN. 1ST GROUP WIN. 1ST GROUP 1 WIN. Margins: 6HF, 12HF, 3/4. Odds: 8.30. O-Stud Starbucks; B-Haras La Quebrada (Arg); T-Juan Suarez. Also Ran: Barbon (Per), Siempre Alerta (Arg), Americo Song, J-Martin Chuan. P$58,000. Lifetime Record: 14-6-4-2. *1/2 to Paso Real (Per). Patola (Arg) (High Yield), Ch. Older Mare-Per, G1SW-Per; full to Click for the Racing Post chart or the free Equineline.com Sweet Beauty (Arg), GSW-Arg. Werk Nick Rating: A. Click for catalogue-style pedigree. Hipodromo de Monterrico Video. the eNicks report & 5-cross pedigree. Saturday, Downs, post time: 5:56 p.m. EDT BASHFORD MANOR S.-GIII, $100,000, 2yo, 6f PP HORSE SIRE OWNER TRAINER JOCKEY ML 1 Shanghaied Roo Shanghai Bobby Tom R. Durant Calhoun Saez 120 2 Weiland Yes It's True John Ennis Ennis Villasana 122 3 Baytown Glory K Morning Line McEntee Racing Inc. McEntee Gilligan 120 4 Sir Truebadour More Than Ready Whispering Oaks Farm LLC Asmussen Santana, Jr. 120 5 Mr Chocolate Chip Biondetti J D Farms Davidson Prentice, Jr. 120 6 The Song of John Colonel John Rey Hernandez Hernandez Leon 120 7 Eye Cloud Point of Entry Mike Powers Norris Miranda 120 8 Mr. Granite Bustin Stones Wayne W. Rice Rice Vickers 120 9 Tales of Chaucer Forty Tales Iavarone, Michael, Iavarone, Jules, Sequel Racing, Casse Leparoux 120 Freeman, Samuel R., Jackson, Dorsey & Cardinal Hill 10 Dalliance Dublin Wayne W. Rice Rice Cox 122 11 Toothless Wonder K Street Boss ERJ Racing, LLC and Reddam Racing LLC O'Neill Gutierrez 120 12 Cat Addiction K Tale of the Cat Woolsey, Erv and Asmussen, Keith Asmussen McMahon 118 13 Overanalyzer Overanalyze Elliott Ventures Elliott Ulloa 120

Breeders: 1-Tom Durant, 2-BHMFR, LLC, 3-Dixiana Farms LLC, 4-Two Stamp stables, 5-J D Farms, 6-Bill Rasco, 7-Steve M. DeMaiolo &Beechwood Racing Stable LLC, 8-Windylea Farm, LLC, 9-Sequel Stallions New York, 10-Stone Bridge Farm LLC, 11-Ginny McKinlay, et al. LLC, 12-K & G Stables, 13-V. Gail Ray IN ORDER OF PURSE: ONTARIO COUNTY S., $50,000, Finger Lakes, 6-25, (S), 3yo, 6f, IN ORDER OF PURSE: 1:11.56, ft. 4th-Thistledown, $35,700, (S), Alw (NW3X)/Opt. Clm 1--BEN Z ROLLS, 116, c, 3, Mission Impazible--Toot Z Roll, by ($25,000), 6-25, 3yo/up, 6f, 1:10.88, ft. Catienus. 1ST BLACK TYPE WIN. O-Joseph L. Maloney Racing; BROWN BUCKEYE (g, 4, Big Brown--Prizes {MSP, $162,120}, by B-Joseph L. Maloney (NY); T-M. Anthony Ferraro; J-Kevin Prized) romped home by 10 1/4 lengths in his debut against Navarro. $30,000. Lifetime Record: 4-3-0-0, $48,845. state-bred foes last June and added an allowance tally in July 2--P J Advantage, 116, g, 3, --Weefc, by Tapit. O/T-Paul W. before heading to the sidelines. He resurfaced with a 1 1/2- Barrow; B-Andiamo Farm (NY). $10,000. length victory versus open company going 5 1/2 furlongs at this 3--What a Catch, 124, c, 3, Justin Phillip--Catch My Fancy, by Yes oval May 29. The 1-5 favorite was away awkwardly and was It's True. ($90,000 Ylg '16 SARAUG; $265,000 2yo '17 shuffled back to last soon after the break. He rushed up on heels FTFMAR). O-Gary Barber; B-Castleton Lyons & Kilboy Estate and was forced to check behind a wall of horses down the (NY); T-Todd A. Pletcher. $5,500. backstretch before ranging up three wide nearing the stretch. The dark bay grabbed the lead at the top of the lane and Margins: HF, 2, 2 3/4. Odds: 17.30, 9.10, 3.35. strode clear without being asked to win by 3 1/2 lengths. Master Also Ran: Morning Breez, Stormy Highway. Scratched: My Man Mick (Two Step Salsa) was second. The winner is a half-brother Mo, Tender Boy. to Proper Discretion (Discreetly Mine, MSW, $400,611). Prizes, Ben Z Rolls defeated $15,000 maiden claimers to win his debut out of a half-sister to multiple graded stakes winner Crafty at Finger Lakes last November and added a track-and-trip Friend (Crafty Prospector), produced a colt by Louie Villain in allowance Nov. 20. He resurfaced to be a closing third over a 2017 and was bred back to Mineshaft. Click for the sloppy track last time out May 22. The chestnut colt was Equibase.com chart or VIDEO, sponsored by Fasig-Tipton. unhurried early and raced at the tail of the field as What a Catch Lifetime Record: 4-4-0-0, $79,600. and favored Morning Breez (Morning Line) battled on the front O/B-Bruce Tallisman (OH); T-Benny R. Feliciano. end through fractions of :22.32 and :45.67. With the pacesetters beginning to tire, P J Advantage assumed control and was drawing away with a furlong to run. But Ben Z Rolls was unleashing a powerful late rally down the center of the track and he surged to the lead in the dying strides under a perfectly timed ride by Kevin Navarro. Toot Z Roll=s third dam Nijit ( II), is also the third dam of Untouched Talent (Storm Cat), who produced Grade I-winning sire Bodemeister. Toot Z Roll produced a colt by El Pradrino in 2017 and a colt by by Bustin Stones this year. Click for the Equibase.com chart. IN JAPAN: Aster Pegasus, c, 2, Giant=s Causeway--R Heat Lightning (GISW, $952,800), by Trippi. Hakodate, 6-24, Maiden Race, 6fT. Lifetime Record: 1-1-0-0, $63,636. O-Hisae Kato; B-Stonestreet Thoroughbred Holdings LLC (KY); T-Kazuya Nakatake. *$150,000 Ylg >17 KEESEP. **AHe is still green, but won very Brown Buckeye (Big Brown) makes it four-for-four gamely today,@ said winning jockey Ryoya Kozaki. VIDEO. with allowance tally at Thistledown Monday. TDN REGIONAL REPORT • PAGE 2 OF 3 • THETDN.COM TUESDAY • JUNE 26, 2018

Matera Sky, c, 4, Speightstown--Mostaqeleh (GSP-Fr), by Rahy. Hanshin, 6-24, Hananomichi S., 6f. Lifetime Record: 18-5-3-0, $764,091. O-Tsuyoshi Ono; B-Lynch Bages Ltd (KY); T-Hideyuki Mori. *$140,000 Wlg >14 KEENOV; $350,000 Ylg >15 KEESEP. **1/2 to Nawwaar (Distorted Humor), MSW-UAE, $330,994; Raagheb (Street Cry {Ire}), MSP, $237,886; and Murillo (Scat Daddy), GSP-Ire & Eng. ***AHe jumped quickly from the gate and took the lead,@ said pilot Yutaka Take. AThis is the way he likes to run.@

IN BRITAIN: Moqarrab, c, 3, Speightstown. See ABritain@.

5th-Thistledown, $32,000, 6-25, (NW1X), 3yo/up, f/m, 1m, 1:40.00, ft. OHIO GOLD (m, 5, Wilburn--Philadelphia Gold, by Touch Gold) Lifetime Record: SW, 27-6-6-7, $261,690. O-Charlie J. Williams LLC; B-Michael E Evans II, Travis A Evans & Sheltowee Farm (OH); T-Charlie J. Williams. *$27,000 RNA Ylg '14 KEESEP.

ALLOWANCE RESULTS: 8th-Oak Tree Pleasanton, $27,612, 6-24, (NW1$X), 3yo/up, 6f, 11th-Santa Anita, $65,859, (NW2$X)/Opt. Clm ($62,500), 6-24, 1:11.15, ft. 3yo/up, 1 1/4mT, 2:01.74, fm. J C'S NIGHTCAP (g, 4, Mr. Nightlinger--One O Seven {MSW, UNAPOLOGETIC (g, 5, Temple City--Seekingvindication, by $178,253}, by Vice Regent) Lifetime Record: 14-2-2-5, $60,660. Vindication) Lifetime Record: 23-5-4-2, $210,535. O-Tom Acker, O-J. C. Racing Stable; B-Dan W. McGough (TX); T-Manuel Badilla. Allen Racing LLC, Michael Bloom & Jon Lindo; B-Darrell & Lendy *$10,000 Wlg '14 TEXOCT; $22,000 2yo '16 TTAAPR. **1/2 to Brown (KY); T-William Spawr. *$22,000 Wlg '13 KEENOV; My Master Plan (Oratory), MSW, $226,647. $67,000 Ylg '14 KEESEP. ADDITIONAL MAIDEN WINNERS: 6th-Parx Racing, $51,330, 6-25, (NW1X), 3yo/up, 1 1/16mT, Whendowerunpappy, g, 3, Desert Party--So N So (SW), by 1:42.52, fm. Freud. Finger Lakes, 6-25, (S), 6f, 1:13.97. B-Newman Racing CHAMPAGNE CHUCK (g, 4, Tizdejavu--Calamari, by Storm Boot) (NY). *1/2 to Absatootly (Mineshaft), MSW, $404,357. Lifetime Record: 16-4-3-2, $86,810. O-Twinkling Star Stable; Graduate of Donna Freyer’s Custom Care Equine LLC B- McLean Sr., Marc McLean & Pope McLean Jr. (KY); Blessed Bloom, f, 3, Flower Alley--Pleasantly Blessed (MSW, T-Patricia Farro. *$17,000 Ylg '15 KEESEP. $409,586), by Pleasant Tap. Louisiana Downs, 6-25, 1mT, 1:37.76. B-Coteau Grove Farms (LA). *$3,700 3yo '18 EQL2YO. Promoted, g, 3, Jump Start--Smarter Sister, by Maria's Mon. 7th-Delaware, $36,375, (NW1X)/Opt. Clm ($16,000), 6-25, Presque Isle Downs, 6-25, (S), 6f (AWT), 1:11.62. B-Jonathan 3yo/up, 7 1/2fT, 1:30.11, fm. Sheppard (PA). NO BULL ADDICTION (g, 6, Bullsbay--In the Crease, by Mr. Zill Stormy Charmant, g, 3, Roi Charmant--Novato, by Bartok (Ire). Bear) Lifetime Record: 21-2-2-2, $70,140. O/B-Drift Rock Farm Oak Tree Pleasanton, 6-24, 6f, 1:12.67. B-Harold May & Neale (MD); T-Sherene Bracho. Jensen (CA). *$5,500 RNA Ylg '16 NCAAUG.

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Honor the D, c, 3, To Honor and Serve--Cryston, by Woodman. Thistledown, 6-25, (S), 1m 70y, 1:47.82. B-Carmen Pecord (OH). *$30,000 Ylg '16 FTKOCT.

FIRST-CROP STARTERS TO WATCH: TUESDAY, JUNE 26 He's Had Enough (Tapit), Woodford , $5,000 78 foals of racing age/0 winners/0 black-type winners 2-Thistledown, Msw 5f, SHE'S WILD ENOUGH, 7-2 $4,500 OBS WIN yrl BIG BROWN, Brown Buckeye, g, 4, o/o Prizes, by Prized. AOC, 6-25, Thistledown SECOND-CROP STARTERS TO WATCH: TUESDAY, JUNE 26 BULLSBAY, No Bull Addiction, g, 6, o/o In the Crease, by Mr. Zill (Aus) (Lonhro {Aus}), Darley Kelvinside Stud, $15,000 Bear. AOC, 6-25, Delaware 47 foals of racing age/13 winners/0 black-type winners DESERT PARTY, Whendowerunpappy, g, 3, o/o So N So, by 7-Fairmount, $50K Peach Queen S., 6f, CHECOTAH, 15-1 Freud. MSW, 6-25, Finger Lakes FLOWER ALLEY, Blessed Bloom, f, 3, o/o Pleasantly Blessed, by Duke of Mischief (Graeme Hall), Equine Veterinary Hospital of Pleasant Tap. MSW, 6-25, Louisiana Downs Northern Indiana, $2,500 JUMP START, Promoted, g, 3, o/o Smarter Sister, by Maria's 53 foals of racing age/5 winners/0 black-type winners Mon. MSW, 6-25, Presque Isle Downs 3-Thistledown, Msw 5 1/2f, CHASIN A DREAM, 8-1 MISSION IMPAZIBLE, Ben Z Rolls, c, 3, o/o Toot Z Roll, by Catienus. Ontario County S., 6-25, Finger Lakes Ghaaleb (Unbridled's Song), Wildwood Farm, $0 ROI CHARMANT, Stormy Charmant, g, 3, o/o Novato, by Bartok 21 foals of racing age/7 winners/0 black-type winners (Ire). MSW, 6-24, Oak Tree Pleasanton 6-Fairmount, $50K Southern Illinois Sophomore S., 6f, CALEB'S TEMPLE CITY, Unapologetic, g, 5, o/o Seekingvindication, by HEIR, 8-1 Vindication. AOC, 6-24, Santa Anita 7-Fairmount, $50K Peach Queen S., 6f, GHAALEB'S APPEAL, 8-1 TIZDEJAVU, Champagne Chuck, g, 4, o/o Calamari, by Storm 6-Fairmount, $50K Southern Illinois Sophomore S., 6f, Boot. ALW, 6-25, Parx Racing GHAALEB'S WINNER, 5-2 TO HONOR AND SERVE, Honor the D, c, 3, o/o Cryston, by 7-Fairmount, $50K Peach Queen S., 6f, ISABELLACANNETELLA, 10-1 Woodman. MSW, 6-25, Thistledown 8-Fairmount, Msw 6f, ST. LOUIE WOMAN, 5-1 WILBURN, Ohio Gold, m, 5, o/o Philadelphia Gold, by Touch 6-Fairmount, $50K Southern Illinois Sophomore S., 6f, W W Gold. ALW, 6-25, Thistledown COOKIE MONSTER, 5-1

Overanalyze (Dixie Union), WinStar Farm, $10,000 193 foals of racing age/47 winners/5 black-type winners 2-Thistledown, Msw 5f, DRAGON BREATH, 8-1 $1,000 KEE JAN yrl; $5,500 FTK OCT yrl

Congratulations to last week=s JockeyTalk360.com Jockey of the Week Tyler Gaffalione, who won the Mystic Lake Derby aboard Sniper Kitten (Kitten=s Joy) and the Lady Canterbury S. aboard I=m Betty G (Into Mischief) Saturday night at the Minnesota oval.