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FAVOURED FILLIES DRAW WIDE IN SLIPPER HENDERSON BREATHING Houtzen (Aus) (I Am Invincible {Aus}) and She Will Reign (Aus) RAREFIED AIR (Manhattan Rain {Aus}), the top two betting choices for Saturday=s A$3.5-million G1 Longines Golden Slipper, did not fare wonderfully in the draw for the world=s richest juvenile race on Tuesday, landing in barriers 16 and 13, respectively. The trainers of both fillies were looking on the bright side, however, as rain continued to fall at Rosehill during the draw. "I was a bit deflated to start with but you look at the weather outside right now, it might be the best barrier,@ Toby Edmonds, who trains the unbeaten Magic Millions 2YO Classic winner Houtzen, told Racing.com. "If you draw close and you get that pressure from the outside we could end up in an awkward spot in behind horses and copping a lot of the backwash, so the draw might not be that bad." Cont. in Worldwide News p8

Nicky Henderson, Noel Fehily & JP McManus celebrate IN TDN AMERICA TODAY Buveur d=Air=s victory | Racing Post ORB COLT REACHES SEVEN FIGURES AT OBS OPENER A sleek-looking colt by first-season sire Orb (Malibu Moon) fetched By Emma Berry $1.25 million to top the opening session of the OBS March Sale in For the last four years Willie Mullins has been the leading Central Florida. Click or tap here to go straight to TDN America. trainer at the but Gordon Elliott and stole an early march on the Irish champion with five winners between them on the opening day of the meeting. While Elliott was responsible for a trio of those wins, Tuesday very much belonged to Henderson, who increased his tally as the most successful trainer at the Festival to 57--11 ahead of Mullins. Thirty-two years after the famously fragile See You Then (GB) ( {GB}) won the first of three consecutive Champion Hurdles for the Lambourn trainer, Henderson returned to the Prestbury Park winner's enclosure with a record sixth victory in the race courtesy of Buveur d'Air (Fr) (Crillon {Fr}), who led home his stablemate My Tent Or Yours (Ire) ( {Fr}), the latter settling for the bridesmaid role for the third consecutive year. "You feel sorry for My Tent Or Yours," said the trainer. "It's wonderful--we have won the Champion Hurdle--but that is now three Champion Hurdles he has been second in as well as a Supreme Novices' Hurdle. What else can you say about a horse who has done that again and again? He has been sensational. But the youngster has got home, and that is great." Cont. p2 TDN EUROPE/INTERNATIONAL • PAGE 2 OF 10 • THETDN.COM WEDNESDAY • 15 MARCH, 2017

Henderson Breathing Rarefied Air cont. from p1 Both Buveur d'Air--who has also won twice over fences this season--and My Tent Or Yours are owned by one of jump racing's biggest patrons, JP McManus, who was also enjoying his sixth victory in the Champion Hurdle, the first three having come his way courtesy of the legendary Aidan O'Brien-trained (Ire) (Sadler's Wells). "Nicky insisted that Buveur d'Air went back to hurdling and in the end I let him have his way," admitted McManus, who also owns the race favourite, Yanworth (GB) (Norse Dancer {GB}), who faded into a disappointing seventh after starting to struggle at the third-last. Earlier, one of the bankers of the meeting, Altior (Ire) (High Chaparral {Ire}), stuck resolutely to the script and can now be regarded as one of the most thrilling chasers around following his six-length victory in the G1 Racing Post Arkle Trophy. Unbeaten in 10 starts over obstacles, the 7-year-old had led home Buveur d'Air in last year's G1 Sky Bet Supreme Novices' Hurdle, the pair separated only by the high-class Min (Fr) (Walk In The Park {Ire}), who is currently sidelined through The 8-year-old David Pipe trainee has now run at the last three injury. Festivals, winning back-to-back editions of the G3 Ultima Altior provided not just the icing on the cake of a super day for Handicap Chase. Henderson but yet another chance for Nico de Boinville to shine The opening day also marked a second Cheltenham success for at the Festival two years after he won the G1 Cheltenham Gold Tiger Roll (Ire) (Authorized {Ire}). Trained by Gordon Elliott for Cup on Coneygree (GB) (Karinga Bay {GB}), a triumph followed Michael O'Leary's Gigginstown House Stud, the 7-year-old first no less emotionally by the dramatic return of Sprinter Sacre (Fr) came to prominence as a juvenile when winning the G1 JCB (Network {Ger]) in last year's G1 Queen Mother Champion , and he was back for more in the four-mile Chase. De Boinville, a key member of the Henderson team who National Hunt Challenge Cup under first-time Festival rider Lisa rides Altior at home every day, just as he did Sprinter Sacre, is as O'Neill. The race for amateurs was named in honour of the stand-out amateur rider of the modern era, JT McNamara, who modest as he is talented. suffered paralysis from a fall at Cheltenham in 2013 and died last "You try to keep as cool as much as you can, but you are aware July. of the expectation for a wonderful horse," he said of the 1-4 In a theme which is certain to continue for years to come, favourite. "It took me a while to get him into gear, but once he Tiger Roll was not the only winner on the card sired by a son of did he took off up the hill. My horse travels and jumps and Montjeu (Ire). Notching his first Festival winner was the Jean-Luc wherever you put him he's a great horse to ride. Once Altior Lagardere-bred G1 Grand Prix de Paris hero Montmartre (Fr). gets into gear he's hard to stop--when he's gone through the His wayward son Labaik (Fr) sprung the biggest surprise of the gears he just takes off." meeting so far, not only by winning the G1 Sky Bet Supreme Tuesday was certainly a day when it paid to take note of Novices' Hurdle but by consenting to race in the first place. The previous Cheltenham form. Un Temps Pour Tout (Ire) (Robin 25/1 shot, who previously raced on the Flat for John Hammond Des Champs {Fr}), bought as a 4-year-old for ,450,000 at the in the colours of Sheikh Hamdan, has refused to participate on DBS Hennessy Sale of 2013, has only just passed that mark in his four of his last eight racecourse appearances. Between these lifetime earnings from eight victories in 26 starts, but he has bouts of petulance, he won not only a Grade 3 hurdle at Navan given owners Caroline Tisdall and Bryan Drew a great run for but also a leg of the Corinthian Challenge at Leopardstown in their money. October. Cont. p3 TDN EUROPE/INTERNATIONAL • PAGE 3 OF 10 • THETDN.COM WEDNESDAY • 15 MARCH, 2017

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His jockey that day was none other than keen amateur Sheikh Fahad Al Thani, and the sheikh's thrill in snaring a leg of the series he devised will have been matched by that of Labaik's most recent jockey, Jack Kennedy, the former pony racing champion who, at the tender age of 17, now has his name on the Cheltenham roll of honour. The Elliott-trained hat-trick was completed by Apple's Jade BUVEUR BREEDER TAKES THE LONG ROAD (Fr) (Saddler Maker {Ire}), who also gave Michael O'Leary a TO FESTIVAL GLORY By Emmanuel Roussel double on the day when winning the G1 OLBG Mares' Hurdle. "I had to do most of it the wrong way around," says Gerard Her victory will have been extra hard for Willie Mullins to Ferte, a farmer in Cher county in France and the proud breeder swallow as not only did she run down his duo of Vroum Vroum of 6-year-old AQPS Buveur d'Air (Fr) (Crillon {Fr}), winner of the Mag (Fr) (Voix du Nord {Fr}) and Limini (Ire) (Peintre Celebre), 2017 G1 Stan James Champion Hurdle. who had to settle for the minor honours, but the 5-year-old While many AQPS horses originate from sport-horse mares winner had been in his care until the removal of all Gigginstown being bred to Thoroughbred stallions, the pedigree of the House Stud horses from his stable at the beginning of the Champion Hurdler reflects the opposite approach, as Ferte current season. explains. The Festival is very much a marathon, not a sprint, however, "I go hunting quite a lot and [Buveur d'Air's third dam] Keen and Mullins has some pretty potent charges to unleash in the Dancer had been a great cross-country mare back in the 60s coming days, not least odds-on favourite Douvan (Fr) (Walk In when I bought her. She was a Thoroughbred but I wanted to The Park {Ire}) in today's feature race, the G1 Betway Queen breed jumpers so I mated her to a half-bred sire and got Lili Mother Champion Chase. Dancer (Fr), the second dam of Buveur d'Air and Punchestowns

The Gordon Elliott-trained Labaik en route to Grade 1 Supreme Novices' Hurdle glory at Cheltenham | Racing Post/Edward Whitaker

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(Fr) (Morespeed {GB}), who was also a Grade 1 performer at the Festival with Nicky Henderson. But Lili Dancer became famous in France long before that. She was the French cross-country champion of 1985 and the dam of Fujiyama (Fr), twice a winner of the Grand Steeple de Craon." In other words, the nephew of a great French cross-country chaser won the fastest hurdle race of Great Britain. "That's a journalist's shortcut," he says. "My horses are great VICE PRESIDENT, INTERNATIONAL OPERATIONS jumpers too. But it's always great to be here." Gary King Twitter: @garykingTDN [email protected] + 1.732.320.0975

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Newmarket Bureau, Cafe Racing Gerard Ferte (left), breeder of Buveur d=Air, and Audoin Maggiar, Sean Cronin breeder of Vroum Vroum Mag. | Laurence Salphati/AQPS Association Tom Frary [email protected] Ferte was at Cheltenham on Tuesday with his son Hubert, manager of a private school in London, but he credits his wife Irish Correspondent Daithi Harvey Odile for their major success. "I was taking care of the matings but she was in charge of the horses on a day-to-day basis while I Regular Columnists was working at the farm. She couldn't make it to the races today Bill Oppenheim Andrew Caulfield but she's seen it all on TV back at home." John Berry Nicky Henderson is not new to converting French imports to Kevin Blake Tom Peacock British ways of jumping, and he's won a record six Champion Hurdle races at the Festival now, but he still thought Buveur Send Press Releases to: d'Air was a nice chasing prospect after he finished third in the [email protected] G1 Supreme Novices' Hurdle last year behind baby goliaths Send Advertisements to: Altior and Min. [email protected] As his heritage suggests, Buveur d'Air has indeed won both his novice chases this season, but the trainer decided it would be wiser to aim him back to the Champion Hurdle and his charge proved him right. Eight years passed between the births of Punchestowns and Buveur d'Air and in many ways the latest success is bittersweet as their dam, History (Fr) (Alesso {Fr}), died along with her Coastal Path (GB) foal earlier this year. Even though one of the greatest AQPS mares ever, Vroum Vroum Mag, had to settle for second in the G1 OLBG Mares' Hurdle, it was still a great success for French jumps breeders since the Thoroughbred winner, Apple's Jade, is by Saddler TDN EUROPE/INTERNATIONAL • PAGE 5 OF 10 • THETDN.COM WEDNESDAY • 15 MARCH, 2017

Maker, who was based in the heart of AQPS land, the Haras de GOFFS UK GRADS ELIGIBLE FOR SWEDISH SERIES Cercy in Burgundy, until his untimely death. Meanwhile, Goffs UK has made all 152 2-year-olds catalogued for its third-placed Limini (Ire) (Peintre Celebre) started her career in Doncaster Breeze-Up Sale on Apr. 11 and 12 eligible for the France under the care of Chantilly-based Nicolas Clement. Swedish Derby and Oaks series in an initiative with the Swedish It was also a great day for Pierre Boulard since the French Racing Authority. bloodstock agent spotted the first three in the OLBG Mares' The 10-race series has been created by the Swedish Racing Hurdle, while the first two home in the Supreme Novices' Authority for 3-year-olds to be run in 2018 and is worth SEK9.4 Hurdle, Labaik and Melon (GB) (Medicean {GB}), are both million (,864,000/i992,000). The series runs from mid-June to Arqana graduates. mid-August and the value of the Swedish Derby will be doubled in 2018, with a prize fund of SEK3 million (,275,000/i316,000). Alongside the Derby, eligibility for this series includes entry in to the SEK1.2 million Voter and the SEK1 million Hurricane, whilst the Sofiero and the Derby Day Sprint are worth SEK500,000 each. In addition, the Derby Consolation and the Derby Trial are worth SEK300,000 each whilst the SEK1.4million Swedish Oaks and the SEK400,000 Altamira are restricted to fillies only. There is a Triple Crown bonus of SEK1.5 million, ED PROSSER, EUROPEAN REPRESENTATIVE which will be awarded if the same horse wins the Swedish FOR KEENELAND Derby, the Voter and the Hurricane. This initiative was born of the fact that Goffs UK Breeze-Up graduates have excelled in Scandinavia in recent seasons, with Victor Kalejs (Spring At Last) named Sweden=s 2-year-old champion last year. Multiple stakes winners Easy Road (GB) (Compton Place {GB}) and Hoku (Ire) (Holy Roman Emperor {Ire}) were bought from the same sale. AWe are delighted to have made the entire Breeze-Up catalogue eligible for the lucrative Swedish Derby and Oaks Series as it offers all owners, both domestic and international, the opportunity to run for substantial sums of money in these prestigious races,@ said Goffs UK Managing Director Tony Williams. AThe Goffs UK Breeze Up Sale has outperformed all others in Scandinavia in recent years and we are extremely excited to be growing this relationship in 2017 and beyond.@ Cinema or box set? Cinema Homecooked Sunday roast or fancy restaurant? Sunday roast out Video game or board game? 2016 2-Year-Old G1/G2 Winners in Ireland Board game Race Horse Win the Derby or at Royal Ascot? G1 Phoenix S. Caravaggio (Scat Daddy) Would take either G1 National S. Churchill (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}) Cereal or fry-up? Porridge G1 Moyglare Stud S. Intricately (Ire) (Fastnet Rock {Aus}) Apple or Android? Apple G2 Railway S. Medicine Jack (GB) (Equiano {Fr}) Flat or jumps? Both G2 Galileo E.B.F. S. Churchill (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}) Beer or wine? Yes please G2 Debutante S. Rhododendron (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}) Keeneland photo G2 Beresford S. Capri (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}) TDN EUROPE/INTERNATIONAL • PAGE 6 OF 10 • THETDN.COM WEDNESDAY • 15 MARCH, 2017

Tuesday=s Results: 2nd-WOL, ,4,750, Mdn, 3-14, 3yo/up, 9f 103y (AWT), 2:01.48, stn. LONG JOHN SILVER (IRE) (c, 3, Rip Van Winkle {Ire}--Tropical Lady {Ire} {MGSW-Ire, $499,806}, by Sri Pekan), a debut runner- up going a sliver over one mile at Lingfield last time Feb. 11, was positioned in a handy fourth after the initial strides of this return. Cruising into third rounding the home turn, the 2-5 lock challenged full of run entering the final eighth and drew off late under a near-motionless Jamie Spencer to prevail by an easy 2 3/4 lengths from Oxford Don (GB) (Archipenko). The 50,000gns TATFOA foal and i160,000 GOFORB yearling, kin to a 2-year-old filly by Kodiac (GB), is the third winner produced by MGSW This filly from the first crop of champion 2-year-old and 3-year-old G2 Royal Whip S. victress Tropical Lady (Ire) (Sri Pekan) and hails miler Gleneagles is a half-sister to Group 3 winner Panama Hat. She from a family which includes G1 Prix Marcel Boussac-winning was bred by Jimmy Murphy of Redpender Stud. | Coolmore French highweight Tropicaro (Fr) (Caro {Ire}) and European highweight sprinter and MG1SP sire Lucayan Prince (Fast Play). FIND US ON FACEBOOK Lifetime Record: 2-1-1-0, $4,836. Video, sponsored by Fasig- www.facebook.com/thoroughbreddailynews Tipton. O-Michael Buckley & T Hyde; B-George Kent (IRE); T-Jamie Osborne. For $300, your job will run on this page in the TDN, be posted on the careers section of our website for one month, and be promoted through our social media channels:

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British Report cont. 7th-CHY, i28,000, Cond, 3-14, 4yo/up, 6 1/2f (AWT), 1:16.97, stn. ADDITIONAL MAIDEN WINNERS: GALANTES IVRESSES (FR) (f, 4, Nombre Premier {GB}--Loyal Gnaad (Ire), c, 3, Invincible Spirit (Ire)--Areyaam, by Elusive Lass, by Cadeaux Genereux {GB}) Lifetime Record: 16-4-2-0, Quality. SOU, 3-14, 5f (AWT), :58.79. B-Rabbah Bloodstock Ltd i92,500. O/B-Ecurie ABU (FR); T-Yves de Nicolay. *1/2 to Sainte (IRE). *1/2 to Go Angellica (Ire) (Kheleyf), SW-Eng. Amarante (Fr) (Le Havre {Ire}), MSW & MGSP-Fr, $178,847. Magic Approach (GB), f, 3, Piccolo (GB)--Diane=s Choice (GB), by Komaite. WOL, 3-14, 5f 216y (AWT), 1:14.81. B-Mrs Y E Mullin 6th-CHY, i18,000, Cond, 3-14, 4yo/up, 9 1/2f (AWT), 1:55.66, & B McGarrigle (GB). *2,000gns Ylg >15 TAOCT. stn. PRIMUS INCITATUS (IRE) (h, 6, Mastercraftsman {Ire}--Chaibia {Ire} {GSW-Fr & MGSP-US, $163,453}, by Peintre Celebre) Lifetime Record: 34-4-4-2, i81,190. O-Alain Michel Haddad & Tarek El Sharif; B-Malcolm Parrish (GB); T-David Smaga. Tuesday=s Results: *i115,000 Ylg >12 ARAUG. 1st-CHY, i25,000, Mdn, 3-14, 3yo, c/g, 9f (AWT), 1:53.64, stn. OPERATOR (FR) (c, 3, Cima de Triomphe {Ire}--Respected {Ire}, by Invincible Spirit {Ire}), a debut fourth going one mile here EUROPEAN-BRED WINNERS last time Nov. 22, was well away to claim immediate control of this sophomore bow. Holding sway throughout, the 4-1 chance was nudged along passing the two pole and kept on powerfully IN AUSTRALIA: under mainly whipless rousting to comfortably account for +Last Week (GB), c, 3, Tamayuz (GB)--World Class (GB), by Ospector (Smart Strike) by three lengths. Operator, kin to the Galileo (Ire). Bendigo, 3-14, Maiden (,14k/i16k), 1400mT, 2-year-old colt Notorius (Fr) (Manduro {Ger}) and the yearling 1:24.61. O-Limerick Lane (Mgr: Mr G T Ryan) & Mr A McGregor; filly Lady In Power (Fr) (Evasive {GB}), is out of an unraced B-Deerfield Farm; T-Darren Weir. *A 26,000gns Tattersalls half-sister to G3 Prix Eclipse runner-up Invincible Force (Ire) October Yearling acquisition by John Foote Bloodstock, Last (Invincible Spirit {Ire}), who in turn is out of an unraced half to Week was sent off a $6 (5-1) chance for this first career trip to MGSW G1 Tattersalls Gold Cup third Make No Mistake (Ire) the post and was shuffled back to last while tossing his head (Darshaan {GB}). Lifetime Record: 2-1-0-0, i15,200. Video, around for the first 700 metres or so. Settled better down the sponsored by Fasig-Tipton. side, he was shifted O-Jan Romel; B-JBS Invest NV (FR); T-Elie Lellouche. out wide into the lane by Dean 2nd-CHY, i25,000, Mdn, 3-14, 3yo, f, 9f (AWT), 1:55.06, stn. Yendall and came VIOLA DA TERRA (FR) (f, 3, Requinto {Ire}--Khandaar {Ire}, by with big, round Xaar {GB}), who hit the board going one mile at Saint-Cloud in strides in the final her only prior start Nov. 8, raced in a midfield seventh for most furlong to graduate of this second go. Angled outside to launch her bid approaching by 1 1/4 good- the final quarter mile, the 43-10 chance quickened impressively looking lengths. to seize control at the eighth pole and ran on strongly from Derrinstown Stud=s Tamayuz Last Word is out of there to hold the late thrust of Cadencia (GB) (Shamardal) by a derrinstown.com an unraced neck. From a family which includes MSW G1 Irish 1000 Guineas daughter of SW Out third Khaytada (Ire) (Doyoun {Ire}) and leading sire Kaldoun (Fr) West (Gone West), the dam of champion and 2005 G1 Epsom (Caro {Ire}), the i50,000 ARAUG yearling is a half-sister to the 2- Derby hero Motivator (GB) (Montjeu {Ire}), GSW & G1SP year-old colt Styly (Fr) (Style Vendome {Fr}) and a yearling filly by Macarthur (Ire) (Montjeu {Ire}) and SW Imperial Star (Ire) Rio de la Plata. Lifetime Record: 2-1-0-1, i16,550. Video, (Fantastic Light). His now 2-year-old Oasis Dream (GB) half-sister sponsored by Fasig-Tipton. was knocked down to Stephen Hillen Bloodstock for 100,000gns O-Robert Ng; B-Ecurie du Grand Chene (FR); T-Francis-Henri at last year=s October sale, while World Class produced a filly by Graffard. Kingman (GB) in 2016. --Alan Carasso

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ALL TOO HARD COLT TOPS ADELAIDE SALE The second and final session of Book 1 of the Magic Millions Adelaide Yearling Sale took place on Tuesday, with a son of All Too Hard (Aus) becoming the sale=s overall topper when hammered down to Macdonald Gluyas Racing for A$190,000. Favoured Fillies Draw Wide In Slipper cont. from p1 The sale got off to a rather slow start on Monday and while trade livened up on Tuesday, figures remained down on 2016. A Trainer Gary Portelli said the wide draw could be an advantage total of 250 yearlings were sold over two days at a buyback rate for She Will Reign, who comes into the Slipper off her first of 17.8% (up from 15.7% last year) while the gross, at defeat when second in the G2 Reisling S. on Mar. 4. A$10,256,500, was down from A$10,279,500 last year with 13 "I was actually hoping she would draw out a little bit even more sold. The average was down 6.2% at A$41,026, while the though we don't know how the track's going to play," he told median dipped 11.8% to A$30,000. Racing.com. "With her being that little bit slow for the first "We've finished with a gross right in line with last year," Magic stride or two means she can just go through her gears rather Millions Managing Director Vin Cox said. "All in all today was a than having to kick up and have to hold horses out." lot stronger than yesterday, which was pleasing. The standout The father/son training team of Peter and Paul Snowden won thing from this sale has been the participation of the trading last year=s Slipper with >TDN Rising Star= Capitalist (Aus) (Written market--the pin hookers for the 2-year-old sales and also into Tycoon {Aus}), and they will look to make it a double on the Asian market." Saturday with another >TDN Rising Star= in Pariah (Aus) Leon Macdonald of Macdonald Gluyas Racing had outlasted (Redoute=s Choice {Aus}). That G3 Canonbury S. winner, who was trainer Gary Moore to secure the session co-topping Stratum last seen finishing second in the G1 Blue Diamond S. at Caulfield (Aus) colt for A$170,000 on Monday, and it was a case of deja vu on Feb. 25, drew low in barrier four. on Tuesday, with Macdonald once again outbidding Moore on Pariah=s Blue Diamond conqueror Catchy (Aus) (Fastnet Rock lot 145, a colt by All Too Hard from Gerry Harvey=s Baramul Stud, {Aus}) will be one of four sent out by Lindsay Park trainers David for A$190,000. and Ben Hayes and Tom Dabernig, and she landed in barrier Macdonald, after ending the sale as leading buyer with three eight. Her stablemate and Blue Diamond third Formality (Aus) bought for A$400,000, said of the colt, "He's a lovely colt. I (Fastnet Rock {Aus}) will exit gate two, while Tulip (Aus) (Pierro bought the two colts I wanted--the Stratum and this bloke. I {Aus}), who backs up from a win in last weekend G3 Magic Night thought they were as good as any colts on the complex." S., drew barrier 10 with Madeenaty (Aus) (Exceed and Excel He added, "I've never had one [by first-season sire All Too {Aus}) one to her inside in nine. Hard] but I know Johnny Hawkes [trainer of All Too Hard] has great faith in him and he doesn't do a bad job with a horse." The All Too Hard colt is inbred 2x3 to Lady Capel (Aus), the dam of All Too Hard=s sire Casino Prince (Aus) (Flying Spur {Aus}).

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Magic Millions Adelaide Sale cont. 286 c So You Think (NZ) Starspangled (Ire) 155,000 Gary Moore gained redemption later in the session with the B-Mr J & Mrs K Sheather (NSW) purchase of lot 286, a colt by So You Think (NZ) for A$155,000. Consigned by Bowness Stud The colt is out of the Danehill mare Starspangled (Ire), herself a Purchased by Gary Moore Racing daughter of User Friendly (Slip Anchor), who counts the G1 194 c Hussonet Miss Piggy Bank (Aus) 140,000 B-G Hicks (SA) Epsom and Irish Oaks and the G1 St Leger among her five Group Consigned by Cornerstone Stud Farm 1 wins. Purchased by John Foote Bloodstock "He's coming off a great stud farm," Moore said of the 217 c Snitzel (Aus) Passiflora 130,000 Bowness Stud-consigned bay. "So You Think is doing the job at B-Arrowfield Group Pty Ltd, Cloros Bloodstock (NSW) stud--I really love So You Think. His second dam is User Friendly, Consigned by Arrowfield Stud who was racing at the same time as when I was riding in France. Purchased by Lyndhurst Farm It's a beautifully balanced pedigree--he might be my first Derby winner.@ FRENCH FERN ADDED TO CHAIRMAN=S John Foote Bloodstock spent A$140,000 on the session=s third- Last year=s G2 Reisling S. winner French Fern (Aus) (Lope de most expensive yearling, a son of Hussonet (lot 194), while Vega {Ire}) has been added to the Inglis Chairman=s Sale - Elite Arrowfield sold a son of its leading sire Snitzel (Aus) (lot 217) Breeding Prospects session on Apr. 7 as a wildcard. The 3-year- from the family of Danehill to New Zealand=s Lyndhurst Farm for old filly was the winner of a Canterbury handicap prior to her A$130,000. stakes score. She is out of the stakes-winning La Famelia (Aus) Book 2 of the Magic Millions Adelaide Yearling Sale takes place (Strategic {Aus}) from the family of G1 Blue Diamond S. winner on Wednesday beginning at 10 a.m. Forina (Aus) (Vibrant {GB}) as well as multiple champion and five-time Group 1-winning sprinter Schillaci (Aus) (Salieri). AShe=s a well-conformed filly, very athletic and proved herself a fantastic 2-year-old, winning last year=s Reisling S. on her way to competing in the Golden Slipper,@ said trainer David Payne. AShe=s from a very strong family and I expect she will make a good broodmare.@ Also added to the Chairman=s Sale on TuesdayBthis time the Elite Racing Prospects session on Mar. 30Bwas Nick and Lloyd Magic Millions Adelaide Yearling Sale Williams=s Chance To Dance (Aus) (Teofilo {Ire}). The 6-year-old gelding won a 2400 metre Caulfield handicap on Feb. 4 and was CUMULATIVE 2017 2016 most recently fourth in the G2 Adelaide Cup. Chance To Dance • Catalogued 333 314 holds an entry for the G1 Sydney Cup at The Championships. • No. Offered 304 281 $ No. Sold 250 237 $ RNAs 54 44 $ % RNAs 17.8% 15.7% $ High Price A$190,000 A$230,000 $ Gross A$10,256,500 A$10,279,500 $ Average (% change) A$41,026 (-6.2%) A$43,737 $ Median (% change) A$30,000 (-11.8%) A$34,000 Tuesday=s Result: KUROFUNE SHO-Listed, -31,500,000, Kochi, 3-14, 4yo/up, 1400m, 1:28.20, hy. 1B#BLASON DE LIS (JPN), 123, h, 5, Nobo Jack--Brian's Sono SESSION TOPPERS (Jpn), by Mayano Top Gun (Jpn). O-Normandy Thoroughbred Racing; B-Kiyoshi Murashita; T-Kazuyuki Ogata; J-Hiroyuki Uchida; -21,000,000. Lifetime Record: 18-7-5-3, -138,218,000. MAGIC MILLIONS ADELAIDE YEARLING SALE 2--King's Guard (Jpn), 123, h, 6, Sinister Minister--Kings Berry Lot Sex Sire Dam Price (A$) (Jpn), by King Halo (Jpn). O/B-Nisshin Farm; -4,850,000. 145 c All Too Hard (Aus) Lady Paget (Aus) 190,000 3--Graceful Leap (Jpn), 127, h, 6, Gold Allure (Jpn)--Rabbit Foot, B-Harvey (NSW) by Seeking the Gold. O-Shinji Maeda; B-North Hills; Consigned by Baramul Stud -2,700,000. Purchased by Macdonald Gluyas Racing Margins: 3/4, 1HF, 1. Odds: 3.60, 4.20, 11.50. MARCH 2016 TDN WEEKEND ROSÉ, SUN AND HORSES AT CAGNES SUR MER

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JAPANESE GROUP 1 RACES B 2017

Date Race Track Mar. 26 Takamatsunomiya Kinen Chukyo Apr. 2 Osaka Hai Hanshin Apr. 9 Oka Sho (1000 Guineas) Hanshin Apr. 16 Satsuki Sho (2000 Guineas) Nakayama Apr. 30 Tenno Sho (Spring) Kyoto May 7 NHK Mile Cup Tokyo May 14 Victoria Mile Tokyo May 21 Yushun Himba (Oaks) Tokyo May 28 Tokyo Yushun (Derby) Tokyo June 4 Yasuda Kinen Tokyo June 25 Takarazuka Kinen Hanshin Oct. 1 Sprinters= S. Nakayama Oct. 15 Shuka Sho Kyoto Oct. 22 Kikuka Sho (St Leger) Kyoto Oct. 29 Tenno Sho (Autumn) Tokyo Nov. 12 Queen Elizabeth II Cup Kyoto Nov. 19 Mile Championship S. Kyoto Nov. 26 Japan Cup Tokyo Dec. 3 Champions Cup Chukyo Dec. 10 Hanshin Juvenile Fillies Hanshin Dec. 17 Asahi Hai Futurity S. Hanshin Dec. 24 Arima Kinen Nakayama Dec. 28 Tokyo Daishoten Ohi

Amazing Kids (NZ) (Falkirk {NZ}) (left), shown here beating Amber Sky in the G3 National Day Cup H., finished second to boom sprinter Click here to download Lucky Bubbles (Aus) (Sebring {Aus}) in a 1000-metre barrier trial up the straight course Tuesday morning (video). Amazing Kids makes his next start in the G1 Al Quoz Sprint (1200mT) on Dubai World Cup night Mar. 25 | HKJC photo GROUP ENTRIES

Thursday, Ellerslie, New Zealand, post time: 5:03 p.m. (11:03 p.m. EST) SISTEMA S.-G1, NZ$200,000 (US$139,127/£114,006/€131,691), 2yo, 1200mT PP HORSE SIRE TRAINER JOCKEY WT 1 Felton Road (NZ) Pins (Aus) Pike Innes 124 2 Summer Passage (Aus) Snitzel (Aus) L/A O’Sullivan & Scott Shinn 124 3 Irish Flame (NZ) Zed (NZ) Wheeler Allpress 124 4 Star Treasure (NZ) Lonhro (Aus) McKee Du Plessis 124 5 Super Phan (NZ) Nadeem (Aus) Wiles Spratt 124 6 Melody Belle (NZ) Commands (Aus) S/J Autridge & Richards McNab 120 7 Hasahalo (NZ) Savabeel (Aus) McKee Johnson 120 8 Gold Fever (NZ) Savabeel (Aus) S/J Autrirdge & Richards Lammas 120 9 Princess Rihanna (NZ) Showcasing (GB) L/A O’Sullivan & Scott Grylls 120 10 Ujjayyi (NZ) Iffraaj (GB) Pike Colgan 120 11 Aquamosa (NZ) Alamosa (NZ) Ritchie Collett 120

Thursday, Ellerslie, New Zealand, post time: 5:41 p.m. (11:41 p.m. EST) BONECRUSHER NEW ZEALAND S.-G1, NZ$200,000 (US$139,127/£114,006/€131,691), WFA, 2000mT, PP HORSE SIRE TRAINER JOCKEY WT 1 Kawi (NZ) Savabeel (Aus) Sharrock No Rider 130 2 Volkstok’n’barrell (NZ) Tavistock (NZ) D/C Logan & Gibbs Colgan 130 3 Benzini (Aus) Tale of the Cat A/H Bull Myers 130 4 Authentic Paddy (NZ) Howbaddouwantit Latta Hannam 130 5 Maygrove (Aus) Authorized (Ire) Baker & Forsman Grylls 130 6 Sound Proposition (NZ) Savabeel (Aus) L/A O’Sullivan & Scott Coleman 130 7 Von Tunzelman (NZ) Zabeel (NZ) James Innes 130 8 Seventeen Seventy (NZ) Captain Rio (GB) M, Mf & Mi Rogers Spratt 130 9 Consensus (NZ) Postponed McKee A Collett 125 10 Sofia Rosa (NZ) Makfi (GB) Marsh Johnson 125 11 Lizzie L’Amour (NZ) Zabeel (NZ) Baker & Forsman Cameron 125 12 Sierra Beel (NZ) Savabeel (Aus) Allen S Collett 125

Australasian Group Fields cont.

Thursday, Ellerslie, New Zealand, post time: 6:21 p.m. (12:21 a.m. EST) BARFOOT & THOMPSON AUCKLAND CUP.-G1, NZ$500,000 (US$347,822/£285,004/€329,229), Open, 3200mT, PP HORSE SIRE TRAINER JOCKEY WT 1 El Soldado (NZ) Colombia (NZ) Devcich Bradley 128 2 Mister Impatience (GB) Hernando (Fr) Moroney Spratt 125 3 Nymph Monte (NZ) Tavistock (NZ) Nicholson Collett 123 4 Jacksstar (NZ) Zed (NZ) Vile Lammas 123 5 Storming the Tower (NZ) Storm Creek Bell Hannam 123 6 Pentathlon (NZ) Pentire (GB) Wheeler Allpress 121 7 Five to Midnight (NZ) Domesday (Aus) Latta Johnson 121 8 Megablast (NZ) Shinko King (Ire) Tiley Coleman 121 9 Marciano (NZ) Faltaat P/D Williams Du Plessis 121 10 King Kamada (NZ) Shinko King (Ire) Latta Myers 121 11 Gentil Tonton (Ire) Yeats (Ire) L/A O’Sullivan & Scott Shinn 121 12 Smedley (NZ) Colombia (NZ) Stevenson Nor Azman 121 13 Pop ‘n’ Scotch (Aus) Husson (Arg) SCR SCR SCR 14 Fanatic (NZ) Shocking (Aus) G/D Sanders & Sweeney Hills 120 15 Chenille (NZ) Pentire (GB) Pike Innes 118 16 El Pistola (NZ) El Hermano (NZ) N/K Hanley & Whiting Thornton 117 17 Perfect Start (NZ) Perfectly Ready (Aus) Hillis McNab 117 18 Snow Secret (NZ) Sakhee’s Secret (GB) Ritchie Cameron 117

Saturday, Rosehill, Australia, post time: 4:10 p.m. (1:10 a.m. EST) LONGINES GOLDEN SLIPPER-G1, A$3,500,000 (US$2,643,304/£2,178,966/€2,487,385), 2yo, 1200mT. PP SC HORSE SIRE TRAINER JOCKEY WT 1 4 Pariah (Aus) Redoute’s Choice (Aus) P & P Snowden Shinn 124 2 11 Veranillo (Aus) Medaglia d’Oro O’Shea Avdulla 124 3 5 Trapeze Artist (Aus) Snitzel (Aus) Ryan Clark 124 4 3 Single Bullet (Aus) Not A Single Doubt (Aus) Portelli Angland 124 5 7 Diamond Tathagata (Aus) Hinchinbrook (Aus) Newnham G Schofield 124 6 18 Trekking (Aus) Street Cry (Ire) O’Shea Buick 124 7 15 Invader (Aus) Snitzel (Aus) P & P Snowden Bowman 124 8 1 Menari (Aus) Snitzel (Aus) Ryan No rider 124 9 8 Catchy (Aus) Fastnet Rock (Aus) D & B Hayes & T Dabernig Williams 120 10 2 Formality (Aus) Fastnet Rock (Aus) D & B Hayes & T Dabernig Moore 120 11 10 Tulip (Aus) Pierro (Aus) D & B Hayes & T Dabernig McEvoy 120 12 13 She Will Reign (Aus) Manhattan Rain (Aus) Portelli Melham 120 13 17 Frolic (Aus) Husson (Arg) M Freedman Berry 120 14 14 Teaspoon (Aus) Snitzel (Aus) M Freedman Purton 120 15 16 Houtzen (Aus) I Am Invincible (Aus) Edmonds Lloyd 120 16 9 Madeenaty (Aus) Exceed and Excel (Aus) D & B Hayes & T Dabernig Bayliss 120 Emergencies 17 19 Chauffeur (Aus) Snitzel (Aus) Ryan Parr 124 18 6 Showtime (Aus) Snitzel (Aus) M, W & J Hawkes No rider 124 19 12 The Mission (Aus) Choisir (Aus) Perry No rider 124

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 15, 2017

2017: BIG WINNERS SO FAR ORB COLT LEADS by Bill Oppenheim THE WAY AT OBS Curlin retired at the end of 2008 with record earnings for a North American-trained horse of $10,501,800. California Chrome broke his record last year, and retired after the GI Pegasus World Cup with new record earnings of $14,752,650. After winning the Pegasus, >TDN Rising Star= Arrogate (Unbridled=s Song) now has earnings of $11,084,600; if he wins the G1 Dubai World Cup, for which he=s odds-on, with fellow Americans Gun Runner (Candy Ride {Arg}) and Neolithic (Harlan=s Holiday) to beat, he=ll become the new record-holder with over $17 million, and if he should go on to win the GI Breeders= Cup Classic as well, he=d retire the earner of over $20 million. Of course, it all sounds so simple when it trips off your tongue, and we all know the many pitfalls between imagining it and it actually happening, but if he stays healthy, gets a clean run and wins two more races it could actually happen. Cont. p14 $1.25-million Orb colt heading to the sales ring | C Stafford IN TDN EUROPE TODAY by Brian DiDonato & Steve Sherack OCALA, Florida--Continued strength at the top end and a diverse HENDERSON BREATHING RAREFIED AIR buying bench fueled by an influx of new money led to a strong Nicky Henderson increased his win tally as the most day of trade at the opening session of the Ocala Breeders= Sales successful trainer at the Cheltenham Festival to 57 on Company=s March Sale of 2-Year-Olds Tuesday. Tuesday. Click or tap here to go straight to TDN Europe. A total of 137 juveniles changed hands for gross receipts of $26,320,500, good for an average of $192,120 and median of $110,000. The RNA rate was 34.1%. At the conclusion of last year=s first session, 160 horses sold for $25,718,500. The average was $160,741 and median was $115,000. After OBS added subsequent post-sale transactions, the gross climbed to $26,418,500, while the average ended up at $156,322 and median was $110,000. Hip 127, an Orb colt consigned by Crupi=s New Castle Farm, Agent V topped the session with a $1.25-million winning bid from agents Solis and Litt. There were several new buyers at the top end of the market, including Saudi Arabian Amr Zedan, Margaret Fauber=s Rattler Racing and agent Kerri Radcliffe. AI think we got off to a good start,@ OBS president Tom Ventura said. AIt certainly was very strong at the top end. Of the top 10 horses sold, there were nine different buyers. So, at the top, there was a lot of competition. Below that, it was similar to what we=ve seen at previous sales, but some of the RNAs have been getting sold, so from that aspect we=ll wait until the sale is over before making a complete assessment.@ Cont. p3 $320,000 FIRST 2-YEAR-OLD AT OBS MARCH Fourth-highest price by a freshman sire on Day 1

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Orb Colt Leads the Way at OBS (cont. from p1) Ventura also noted that Tuesday marked the 10-year anniversary of subsequent Grade I-winning juvenile and popular Of the fresh faces on the buyers= list, Ventura said, AIt=s sire Into Mischief (Harlan=s Holiday)=s trip through the OBS sales exciting to see new buyers come in at any level, but when they ring when he was purchased by B. Wayne Hughes for $180,000. come in at the very top, it=s even better. The money was spread Into Mischiefs sold Tuesday for up to $550,000. The second and out domestically and internationally, and certainly it=s more than final session of the March sale kicks off Wednesday at 10:30 a.m. welcome to see some new players.@

OBS MARCH SALE SESSION TOTALS 2017 2016 $ Catalogued 338 306 $ No. Offered 208 225 $ No. Sold 137 169 $ RNAs 71 56 $ % RNAs 34.1% 24.9% $ No. $500K+ 12 8 $ High Price $1,250,000 $1,300,000 $ Gross $26,320,500 $26,418,500 $ Average (% change) $192,120 (+22.9%) $156,322 OBS sales grounds | Courtney Stafford photo $ Median (% change) $110,000 (n/c) $110,000 TDN HEADLINE NEWS • PAGE 4 OF 17 • THETDN.COM WEDNESDAY • MARCH 15, 2017

Orb Colt Out of This World at OBS March A colt from the first crop of 2013 GI Kentucky Derby winner Orb (Malibu Moon) was the only juvenile to reach the seven-figure mark at OBS March Tuesday, topping the first day of trade when bringing $1.25 million from the partnership of the Roth family=s LNJ Foxwoods and Nancy Favreau and Kathy Psoinos. The fledgling LNJ Foxwoods has already been represented by Grade I winners Constellation (Bellamy Road) and Nickname (Scat Daddy), while the latter two women teamed up to campaign 2014 GI Hopeful S. Hip 127 | Courtney Stafford winner and Coolmore sire Competitive Edge (Super Saver). AWe=re big fans of the sire,@ advisor Alex Solis, II said of Orb after signing the ticket out back. AWe have [the Orb colt=s] half- sister [$650,000 FTSAUG graduate] Wrath of Ruthie (Distorted Humor), who we thought was probably one of the best fillies we=ve ever had that didn=t get black-type. She ended up getting hurt. When we saw him breeze... the gallop-out was very strong. He=s done everything right. If you saw him back here [at the barn], he was really calm and collected, and just really a well- balanced individual. He was a $350,000 [KEESEP] yearling. I couldn=t be more excited.@ Orb was very well-received at last year=s yearling sales, leading all freshman sires by average ($148,318), according to TDN Sales Statistics. Orb was also represented by a $500,000 colt at the Fasig-Tipton Gulfstream 2-Year-Old Sale. He commands a $25,000 stud fee at Claiborne Farm. AAs yearlings, we liked them,@ Solis said of Orb=s progeny. A[Partner Jason Litt and I] weren=t lucky enough to get any--we tried. We were really impressed with them all winter and we went out and bought a share in Orb for the Roths about a month ago. We were pretty high on the stallion. When we got here at the first sale [Fasig-Tipton Gulfstream], we saw them breeze well and watching them breeze well again at this sale gave us a good feeling.@ Cont. p5

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Solis concluded, AHopefully we get lucky here, it would be a nice home run for the Roths.@ Solis added that Tuesday=s OBS March session topper was headed to WinStar Farm in Kentucky and that a trainer would be decided at a later date. Solis/Litt also signed for Hip 27, a colt by freshman sire Animal Kingdom from the Eddie Woods consignment, for $550,000. Consigned as Hip 127 by Crupi=s New Castle Farm, Agent V, the OBS MARCH -- Tuesday=s Top Colts bay son of Orb glided through an eighth of a mile workout in :10 Hip Sire Dam Price ($) at the breeze show. Produced by the unraced Forest Wildcat 127 Orb Remember 1,250,000 mare Remember, the Mar. 24 foal was bred in Kentucky by Dattt ($350,000 yrl >16 KEESEP) Farm. She is also represented by a Will Take Charge yearling colt B-Dattt Farm (Ky) and was bred back to Pioneerof the Nile. Remember is a half- Consigned by Crupi=s New Castle Farm, Agent V sister to GISW Dancing Forever (Rahy). Purchased Solis/Litt AJust look at him--he looked like a man as a yearling and he=s 223 Curlin Storm Hearted 950,000 really a man now,@ Jimmy Crupi said while pointing out the ($120,000 RNA yrl >16 KEESEP) juvenile back at Barn 6 on a very unseasonably cool afternoon in B-CRK Stables (Ky) Ocala. AClass--he just stands there. And when you ask him, he=s Consigned by Imagine... ready to go. I=ve bought three Orbs and they can really run. Purchased by Rattler Racing, Inc. These are runners. He=s definitely going to make a sire. Every 295 Scat Daddy West Side Dancer 950,000 Orb at this sale could run. He just ran a little faster.@ B-Ocala Stud (Fl) Hip 127's second dam is GISP Dancinginmydreams (Seeking the Consigned by Ocala Stud Gold)--herself a full-sister to champion Heavenly Prize and GISW Purchased by Live Oak Plantation Oh What a Windfall. -@SteveSherackTDN 323 Union Rags Alexandra Rylee 950,000 ($135,000 yrl >16 KEESEP) B-The Elkstone Group (Md) Consigned by Bobby Dodd, Agent I Purchased by Dennis O=Neill 155 Union Rags Sangrita 685,000 B-Dorothy Matz (Ky) Consigned by Randy Bradshaw, Agent VI Purchased by Simon Callaghan, agent 153 Super Saver Sandi=s Ready 625,000 ($30,000 yrl >16 KEESEP) B-WinStar Farm (Ky) Consigned by de Meric Sales, Agent XXIV OBS sales grounds | Courtney Stafford Purchased by Kerri Radcliffe, agent TDN HEADLINE NEWS • PAGE 6 OF 17 • THETDN.COM WEDNESDAY • MARCH 15, 2017

126 War Front Rehear 595,000 116 City Zip Receivership 700,000 B-W S Farish & Lazy F Ranch (Ky) ($400,000 i/u >14 FTKNOV) Consigned by Eddie Woods, Agent XXXII B-Gainesway Thoroughbreds (Ky) Purchased by Carolyn Wilson Consigned by Eddie Woods, Agent XVIII 027 Animal Kingdom Miss Lombardi 550,000 Purchased by Graham Motion, agent ($100,000 yrl >16 KEESEP) 043 More Than Ready Music Score 600,000 B-Herringswell Stables (Ky) ($200,000 yrl >16 KEESEP) Consigned by Eddie Woods, Agent IX B-CFP Thoroughbreds (Ky) Purchased by Solis/Litt Consigned by Niall Brennan Stables, Agent III 058 Into Mischief Nefertiti 550,000 Purchased by Kerri Radcliffe, agent ($125,000 i/u >14 KEENOV; $200,000 yrl >16 KEESEP) 310 Ghostzapper You Asked 460,000 B-Woods Edge Farm (Ky) B-Colts Neck Stables (Ky) Consigned by Crupi=s New Castle Farm, agent Consigned by Crupi=s New Castle Farm, Agent IV Purchased by Woodford Racing Purchased by Jamie McCalmont, agent 034 Medaglia d=Oro Moment of Majesty 425,000 Tuesday=s Top Fillies ($180,000 yrl >16 FTKOCT) B-Regis Farms LP (Ky) Hip Sire Dam Price ($) Consigned by Niall Brennan Stables, Agent VIII 211 Exchange Rate Spring Jump 850,000 Purchased by Mike Ryan, Agent for Allen Wise ($50,000 i/u >14 KEENOV; $125,000 yrl >16 KEESEP) B-Woods Edge Farm (Ky) Consigned by Eddie Woods, Agent IX Purchased by Baoma Corp.

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Fauber Doubles Her Stable Size Margaret Fauber stepped up big time Tuesday afternoon to add a pricey purchase to her fledgling stable, Rattler Racing. The Key Largo, FL resident, who is president of her family=s American Metal Chemical Corporation, went to $950,000 for a Curlin colt (hip 223) who breezed a furlong in an easy-looking :10 1/5 | ThoroStride video. A $120,000 KEESEP RNA, the chestnut half-brother to flashy California 2-year-old MSW Wake Up Nick (Cindago) was consigned by Marne Fauber and Heidi Cecil=s Imagine... Margaret Fauber is Marne Fauber=s mother. AI was familiar with him, I knew he=d been training really well and I saw that everybody--all the smart people-went to look at him,@ said Margaret Fauber, who did her bidding alongside agent Mersad Metanovic. AYou watch him breeze and think >Golly, that=s got to be slow.= But it=s way faster than you think-- he does it so easily.@ Metanovic noted that added familiarity with the colt gave he and Fauber more confidence to put up big money. AAt the end of the day, he was the best 2-year-old colt in the sale--that=s our opinion,@ he said. AWe also watched him train on dirt [at Imagine...], and if they thought he worked well here, he worked like King Kong on a dirt track. He was exceptional.@ Fauber said she has not yet decided on a trainer for her new purchase, but noted that she would be bringing in some of her friends to partner on the horse. She also has a 2-year-old by $950K Scat Daddy Colt to Live Oak Curlin=s sire Smart Strike acquired last year as a yearling. Live Oak Plantation=s Bruce Hill won a prolonged battle to take --@BDiDonatoTDN home a well-related Florida-bred son of the late Scat Daddy for $950,000 as session one of the OBS March Sale hit the homestretch late Tuesday afternoon. The dark bay, consigned by breeder Ocala Stud as Hip 295, worked a quarter mile in :21 3/5 at the breeze show. AJust all the typical stuff,@ Hill, sitting alongside trainer Mark Casse, replied when asked what he liked (l-r) Mersad Metanovic, Marne Fauber, Margaret Fauber, Uri about the Valentine=s Linares & Steve Asmussen | Thorostride photo Day foal. AHe ticked off all the boxes--all the cliches. We really liked him a lot and we really Bruce Hill | Courtney Stafford value Ocala Stud and their comments and the way they handle their horses and take care of them--we think that=s a big plus.@ TDN HEADLINE NEWS • PAGE 8 OF 17 • THETDN.COM WEDNESDAY • MARCH 15, 2017

Hill continued, AMore than likely Mark Casse will train--it=s not O=Neill Gets >Rags= Colt for New Saudi Client absolute though. [The price] was right where we thought it New money was a trend at the top end of Tuesday=s OBS would land.@ March auction, and agent Dennis O=Neill was one of those Longtime prominent owner Charlotte Weber continues to be a spending it. He somewhat new and major player at the top-end at the 2-year- stretched to $950,000 old sales in recent years, including the purchase of the $1.4- million Bernardini sale topper at OBS March in 2015. Live Oak late in the day to scoop also purchased three juveniles for a total of $1.25 million at the up hip 323 for new Fasig-Tipton Gulfstream Sale earlier this month, headed by a Saudi Arabian client Amr $500,000 Into Mischief colt. Zedan. AWe just shifted gears a little bit--Ms. Weber did,@ Hill said of Out of SW Alexandra targeting the juvenile sales the past few years. AIt just cuts out a Rylee (Afleet Alex)--who little bit of the attrition.@ shipped in from The winning mare West Side Dancer (Gone West), a $250,000 Pennsylvania to KEESEP yearling acquisition campaigned by the late E. Paul Saratoga to take an Robsham, has already produced Travelin Man (Trippi), GSW, always-tough Travers $330,734; Discreet Dancer (Discreet Cat), GSW & GISP, Day 2-year-old maiden $365,900; Sweet N Discreet (Discreet Cat), SW & GSP, $366,447; special weight first out and has another very exciting prospect at the races right now. in 2010--the Feb. 16 foal Her 3-year-old filly Florida Fabulous (High Cotton), a $400,000 was consigned by Bobby OBS April graduate, earned >TDN Rising Star= honors after airing Dodd, Agent I on behalf Dennis O=Neill | Courtney Stafford at first asking by 10 3/4 lengths for e Five Racing Thoroughbreds of Brad Grady=s Grand Oaks. The $135,000 KEESEP buy breezed and trainer David Fawkes at Gulfstream Feb. 16. West Side in a sharp :10 flat. Dancer had a More Than Ready colt in 2016 and was bred back to Liam's Map. -@SteveSherackTDN Cont. p9 There are three fillies by Tapit being offered at the OBS March sale in Ocala. Will one of them be Tapit’s Newest Star?

Sweet Loretta (G1) Pretty City Dancer (G1) Untapable (G1) Stardom Bound (G1) Tapitsfly (G1) Joyful Victory (G1) Careless Jewel (G1) Dance Card (G1) Laragh (G1) Zazu (G1) Tell A Kelly (G1)

Selling on March 15th Fillies: Hips 349, 637, 650

Colts: Hips 354, 425, Don Alberto Stable’s MGSW Unique Bella 509, 613 is a strong morning line favorite Gainesway Farm 859.293.2676 / Michael Hernon 859.621.6295 for the 2017 Kentucky Oaks (G1)

Ian Tapp 678.429.2755 / Neil Howard 859.621.6273 LGB, LLC 2017 / Photo: Chelsea Durand Brian Graves 859.621.6270 TDN HEADLINE NEWS • PAGE 9 OF 17 • THETDN.COM WEDNESDAY • MARCH 15, 2017

AHe=s new to the business,@ O=Neill said of Zedan. AHe=s a polo guy from Saudi Arabia. He spends a lot of time in Dubai. In fact, they just won the Dubai Gold Cup polo match last Friday... Now he=s getting into Thoroughbreds, wants to compete at the top end and I told him this was the best horse in the sale and he said, >Let=s get him.= We went a little higher than we wanted to, but obviously we were in love with him.@ Zedan is chairman and CEO of Zedan Group, a holding company for several companies in the infrastructure and energy sectors. Zedan was born in California and still spends time in the States, and hip 323 will be based out west with trainer Doug O=Neill. AWe analyzed his stride a little bit and he had a huge stride on him,@ Dennis O=Neill said of the colt. AHis gallop-out was absolutely fantastic. He just had a beautiful way of going. I love the way he goes, and physically he=s gorgeous. He vetted good, so he hit all the bells and whistles, and obviously we had to pay for it.@ O=Neill said he had found competition tough at the top end, and admitted he paid a bit more than he wanted to for hip 323. AThe good ones are really, really hard to buy,@ he said. There were a couple we tried to buy earlier that we had to stop on. For this horse, we probably overpaid. We wanted to be at $700,000 or $800,000, but Mr. Zedan let us keep going... It=s kind of the same old thing, where the top end is really hard, and the middle and lower ones, you kind of get what you want. When you do something like this, you=ve got to be right, or you=re in deep trouble. So we=ll see how long I keep it going with this new deal.@ --@BDiDonatoTDN

Familiar Faces Land Exchange Rate Filly The dynamic duo of Hall of Fame trainer Bob Baffert and bloodstock agent Donato Lanni stretched to $850,000 to take home an Exchange Rate filly Tuesday for Susan and Charlie Chu=s Baoma Corp. The bay was consigned by Eddie Woods, Agent IX as hip 211, and stopped the clock in :20 4/5. AAt this sale, for those horses that check all the boxes, everybody comes out for them,@ Lanni said. AIt=s tough to do everything they=re supposed to do here, and they=re really tough to buy. She=s a nice filly. She jumped every hoop. She did well on the racetrack--she did her job and looked good at the barn.@ Exchange Rate died last January at age 19, but has had a recent renaissance on the track, led by >TDN Rising Stars= El Areeb and Stallion Heiress. The former, a $340,000 OBSMAR grad last year, is a Triple Crown candidate off the strength of his victories in the GIII Jerome S. and GIII Withers S. Stallion Heiress upped her record to a perfect three-for-three with a front- running stakes score over the Fair Grounds turf this past Saturday. TDN HEADLINE NEWS • PAGE 10 OF 17 • THETDN.COM WEDNESDAY • MARCH 15, 2017

AI don=t think I=ve ever bought an Exchange Rate,@ Lanni Motion Gets Full-Sis to Palace revealed. When asked if that was a lot to pay for a horse by that Trainer Graham Motion, bidding on behalf of a new, sire, he replied, AThat=s a lot to pay for any horse.@ undisclosed client, fended off bids seemingly from all over the Hip 211 is the first OBS complex to secure a full-sister to multiple Grade I-winning foal out of stakes- sprinter Palace (City Zip) for $700,000 Tuesday afternoon. placed juvenile Consigned by Spring Jump (Jump Eddie Woods, Start). Agent XVIII as hip The Chus have only 116 on behalf of been involved in her breeder racing for the past Gainesway five years or so, but Thoroughbreds, have enjoyed the bay covered a uncommon success quarter in :21 flat in that short time. during Thursday=s They campaign breeze show. Baffert-trained 2016 AI loved the champion sprinter Graham Motion | Courtney Stafford filly=s breeze,@ and >Rising Star= Motion offered. AJane Buchanan, my stable manager, was here Drefong (Gio Ponti), and watched all the breezes and she was very impressed with and have also been Donato Lanni | Courtney Stafford her. I liked her when I looked at her yesterday, and I liked her represented by the even more this morning. Plus she=s a full to a Grade I winner-- likes of graded stakes winners Chitu (Henny Hughes) and Super you can=t do much better than that.@ Ninety Nine (Pulpit). --@BDiDonatoTDN A Proven World Class Sire in Both the Sales Ring and on the Racetrack

The colt was the second highest selling horse of the sale.

Congratulations to buyer Rattler Racing, Inc.

Stud Fee: $150,000

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Gainesway paid $400,000 for hip 116's dam Receivership (End Radcliffe >More Than Ready= for OBS March Sweep)--a seven-time winner and half-sister to MGSW 2-year- Bloodstock agent Kerri Radcliffe went to $600,000 to secure a old and subsequent GSW producer French Park (Ecton Park)-- daughter of More Than Ready at Tuesday=s first session of the while she was carrying hip 116 at the 2014 Fasig-Tipton OBS March 2-Year-Olds in Training Sale. The bay will be heading November sale. Palace had completed a Saratoga sprint double to Europe to join Radcliffe=s husband Jeremy Noseda=s yard at for owner Antonino Miuccio and trainer Linda Rice in the Shalfleet in Newmarket. GI Alfred G. Vanderbilt H. and GI Forego S. that August. Palace Noseda has enjoyed success with the WinStar stallion before. himself was a $160,000 acquisition by Doug Cauthen at this sale He conditioned Nemoralia (More Than Ready), heroine of the in 2011. Palace is in his second season at stud at Spendthrift G3 Sky Bet City of York S., runner-up in the GI Frizette S. and Farm, where he commands a $6,000 fee. third in the GI Breeders= Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf. Nemoralia, "Plain and simple, she's a City Zip and she's beautiful,@ Woods campaigned by Peter Brant and Joseph Allen, was acquired for said after congratulating Motion and Buchanan. AI didn't think $170,000 at this same auction two years ago. she'd bring what she did, but that's the way it is--[buyers] jump Radcliffe didn=t disclose who she was shopping for Tuesday. on the nice horses and that's what it takes." AI love More Than Ready, he=s a great stallion,@ Radcliffe, As for her pedigree appeal, last year=s leading consignor sporting a black Nemoralia jacket, said out back. AShe=s a special added, AWe=re not at a broodmare sale--we=re at a 2-year-old filly coming from a great consignor.@ sale--but she=s worked good, she looks great and she has the Radcliffe was also an active buyer at the Fasig-Tipton pedigree: her brother=s a fashionable [young] sire in Kentucky.@ Gulfstream Sale, signing for an $800,000 Scat Daddy filly and a Receivership produced a colt by Gainesway=s superstar stallion $750,000 Uncle Mo filly. She later added a $625,000 colt (Hip Tapit in 2016. --@BDiDonatoTDN 153) by Super Saver from Nick de Meric=s consignment at OBS March. AThe Scat Daddy filly is going to Europe with Jeremy as well,@ Radcliffe revealed. AThe Uncle Mo is going to Bob Baffert.@ 2017 Fee: $20,000 Stands and Nurses

An Exceptional Racehorse who is a Proven Source of Top Cla ss Runners 128 Current 2YOs Out of His Best Mares Ever.

This is th e Year. $290,000 OBS March 2YO

Congratulations to consignor Crupi’s New Castle Farm and to buyer Klaravich Stable, Inc.

Look for the following Hips at the OBS March Sale: 469, 516, 627

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Consigned by Niall Brennan Stables, Agent III, the More Than Speedy Breezer Makes Huge Score for Pate Ready filly (Hip 43) breezed an eighth in :10 at the OBS March Ocala horsemen Danny Pate and Robert Vickers were all smiles under-tack show. She previously brought $200,000 at last year=s as they walked out of the sales pavilion midway through KEESEP sale. Tuesday=s OBS March session. Pate paid just $30,000 for a Super AShe=s a very special filly,@ Brennan said after thanking the Saver colt at last year=s Keeneland September sale, but the bay aforementioned husband-and-wife team. AI=ve been lucky to blossomed down in Florida, and turned in an unblinkered :20 have three graded-stakes winning fillies by More Than Ready. 1/5 breeze--the co-fastest quarter in OBS history--last week. And she=s the best one I=ve ever had. I=m very confident of that. Consigned to the sale by Pate=s friend Nick de Meric, the May 21 She=s got a lovely pedigree. He gets fillies, colts, dirt, turf... She=s foal (hip 153) went to Kerri Radcliffe for $625,000 (see Radcliffe a filly for the future. She=s a May [6] foal. She showed her >More Than Ready= for OBS March for more). brilliance. I think she=ll do it all.@ AHe had great breezes at home, too,@ beamed Pate, who Hip 43 was bred in Kentucky by CFP Thoroughbreds. Her dam operates Solitary Oak Farm at the Starting Point Horse Complex Music Score (Storm Cat), a half-sister to G1 Dewhurst S. heroine in Morriston. ARobert was working him one day at home and he Distant Music (Distant View), was purchased by Carl Pollard for worked faster than any horse we=d ever had over that track-- $180,000 at the 2011 KEENOV sale. Music Score, most recently and we=ve had some good horses: The Cliff=s Edge, Premium bred to Flatter, hit the board in her lone start over the Tampa Tap, Showing Up. So we just kind of slowed him down a little bit. Bay turf in 2010. -@SteveSherackTDN Then we prepped him here with blinkers and he went in :21 1/5. [WinStar Farm=s] Elliott Walden was watching him, and he had his head up and he was climbing a little bit. So we took the blinkers off, and the rest is history.@ When asked about the colt=s attributes, Pate responded: AHe=s so smart--nothing bothers him. He=s never had a cold, never had a sore spot, never had a gram of bute. He=s just a good all- around horse.@ Out of stakes-placed Sandi=s Ready, hip 153's year-older half- sister Sandy=s Surprise (Drosselmeyer) was a maiden special weight winner at Santa Anita last term. Bruce Grossman paid $12,000 for Sandi=s Ready in foal to Artie Schiller at last year=s Keeneland January sale. --@BDiDonatoTDN

Another Pair of Homers for Pete Bradley After a sensational showing at last year=s OBS March Sale, Pete Bradley was back at it again during Tuesday=s opening session of the two-day auction. Selling through longtime pinhooking partner Eddie Woods, Bradley was represented by: $Hip 27, a $550,000 colt from the first crop of Animal Kingdom--Miss Lombardi (SW, $301,670), by Unbridled Jet - purchased by Solis/Litt; breezed in :21; $100,000 KEESEP yearling purchase; 1/2 to Miss Bullistic (Bullsbay), SW, $183,270. $Hip 211, an $850,000 filly by Exchange Rate--Spring Jump (MSP, $121,883), by Jump Start - purchased by Baoma Corp; breezed in :20 4/5; $125,000 KEESEP yearling purchase. AWhen you have real nice horses, the market pays for them,@ Bradley said with a smile. AThere=s not much room for error and there was no error on these two. Again, I said it last year when we had a big day here. CLOSES APRIL 15 DERBY WEEK STAKES

LONGINES KENTUCKY OAKS, GRADE I WILLIAM WALKER KENTUCKY JUVENILE

$1,000,000 $100,000 $100,000 Runs Sat., April 29 Runs Thurs., May 4 Runs Fri., May 5 Three-year-olds Two-year-olds Second Closing SIX FURLONGS, Dirt FIVE FURLONGS, Dirt Fillies, Three years old ONE MILE AND ONE-EIGHTH, Dirt

KENTUCKY OAKS DAY KENTUCKY DERBY DAY

LA TROIENNE, GRADE I ALYSHEBA, GRADE II WOODFORD RESERVE HUMANA DISTAFF, PRESENTED BY SPIRITED FUNDS TURF CLASSIC, GRADE I GRADE I $300,000 $400,000 $300,000 Runs Fri., May 5 Runs Fri., May 5 $500,000 Runs Sat., May 6 Fillies & Mares, Four-years-old and Up Runs Sat., May 6 Fillies & Mares, Four years old & Up ONE MILE AND Second Closing Four years old & Up ONE MILE AND ONE-SIXTEENTH, Dirt Four-year-olds and Up SEVEN FURLONGS, Dirt ONE-SIXTEENTH, Dirt ONE MILE AND ONE-EIGHTH, Turf

EIGHT BELLES, EDGEWOOD, GRADE III GRADE II AMERICAN TURF, CHURCHILL DISTAFF PRESENTED BY FORCHT BANK GRADE II TURF MILE, GRADE II $200,000 PRESENTED BY RAM TRUCKS PRESENTED BY LONGINES Runs Fri., May 5 $150,000 Runs Fri., May 5 Fillies, Three years old $300,000 $300,000 Fillies, Three years old SEVEN FURLONGS, Dirt Runs Sat., May 6 Runs Sat., May 6 ONE MILE AND Three-year-olds Fillies & Mares, ONE-SIXTEENTH, Turf ONE MILE AND Four years old & Up ONE-SIXTEENTH, Turf ONE MILE, Turf

TWIN SPIRES TURF CHURCHILL DOWNS, PAT DAY MILE, GRADE III SPRINT, GRADE III GRADE II PRESENTED BY LG&E AND KU

$150,000 $500,000 $250,000 Runs Fri., May 5 Runs Sat., May 6 Runs Sat., May 6 Three-year-olds and Up Four-year-olds and Up Three-year-olds FIVE FURLONGS, Turf SEVEN FURLONGS, Dirt ONE MILE, Dirt

SPRING MEET: April 29 – June 30 To nominate, call (502) 638.3806, (800) 928.3372 or fax (502) 636.4479 Ben Huffman, Racing Secretary Dan Bork, Asst. Racing Secretary, Stakes Coordinator ChurchillDowns.com TDN HEADLINE NEWS • PAGE 13 OF 17 • THETDN.COM WEDNESDAY • MARCH 15, 2017

AWhen you have a horse that does everything right--moves forward, jumps through the hoops, passes the vet and looks like a real racehorse--hopefully, you reap these rewards because the ones who don=t do it, there=s no bottom on right now,@ Bradley explained. AThat=s what you need when you=re pinhooking--a couple of home runs.@ Last year=s OBS March class for Bradley included: GI Del Mar Futurity winner and >TDN Rising Star= Klimt (Quality Road) OBS MARCH -- TUESDAY ($140,000 FTKJUL turned $435,000 OBS March 2yo); GII San Hip Sex Sire Dam Price ($) Vicente S. winner Iliad (Ghostzapper) ($80,000 KEESEP turned 034 filly Medaglia d=Oro Moment of Majesty 425,000 $285,000 OBS March 2yo); GIII Sanford S. hero and >TDN Rising B-Regis Farm LP (Ky) Star= Bitumen (Mineshaft) ($110,000 KEESEP turned $280,000 Consigned by Niall Brennan Stables, Agent VIII OBS March 2yo); and GIII Sanford S. runner-up and >TDN Rising Purchased by Mike Ryan, agent for Allen Wise Star= Random Walk (Super Saver) ($80,000 FTKJUL turned Keats Grove Farm purchased this filly for $180,000 at last $300,000 OBS March 2yo). year=s Fasig-Tipton Kentucky October Sale. AEddie Woods is such a big part of this,@ Bradley added. ALast year we had four horses in here that were exceptional and all 071 filly Street Cry (Ire) Pamona Ball 330,000 four of them are now graded stakes horses. Those two horses B-Godolphin (Ky) that we had today have that potential and I hope for the buyers Consigned by Halcyon Hammock Farm, Agent I that potential bears out.@ Purchased by Cromwell Bloodstock Bradley will be represented by two more pinhooks Consignor Hal Hatch secured this Godolphin-bred filly for Wednesday--Hip 418, a filly by Union Rags-Category Seven (:21 $65,000 at the 2016 Keeneland September yearling sale. 4/5); and Hip 628, a colt by Orb-Jaramar Rain (:21 4/5). -@SteveSherackTDN 076 filly Violence Passion du Coeur 360,000 B-Elm Tree Farm (Ky) Consigned by Sequel Bloodstock, agent Purchased by Fiona Shaw, agent for Marc Keller Sequel Bloodstock=s Becky Thomas paid $30,000 for this youngster at last year=s OBS August sale.

124 colt Arch Regard 350,000 B-Berkshire Stud (NY) Consigned by Randy Bradshaw, Agent I Purchased by Klaravich Stable, Inc. Randy Bradshaw acquired this April-foaled colt for $65,000 at last year=s Fasig-Tipton Saratoga New York-bred Yearling Sale.

139 colt Kantharos Royal Promise 315,000 B-Montanari & Epstein (Fl) Consigned by Boutte Sales, Agent II Purchased by Richlyn Farm Marion Montanari purchased Royal Promise (Congrats), with this Kantharos colt in utero, for $18,000 at the 2015 OBS Winter Pete Bradley | Courtney Stafford Sale. The 8-year-old mare produced a colt by Uncaptured in 2016 and was bred back to Lea. TDN HEADLINE NEWS • PAGE 14 OF 17 • THETDN.COM WEDNESDAY • MARCH 15, 2017

179 colt Jimmy Creed Shiny Sheet 320,000 B-Sarah Wells (Ky) Consigned by Thoroughbred Champions Training Center LLC Purchased by Dennis O=Neill 2017: Big Winners So Far Jaime Mejia's Thoroughbred Champions Training Center (cont. from p1) bought this colt for $15,000 at the 2016 Keeneland January sale. If Arrogate does break California Chrome=s record in two weeks time, he will also propel his 191 filly Quality Road Sirmione 320,000 sire, Unbridled=s Song, into what surely would be B-St. George Farm (Ky) an insurmountable lead on the 2017 North Consigned by Hoppel=s Horse & Cattle Co., Inc., Agent II American General Sire List, and halt Tapit=s run of three Purchased by Eclipse Thoroughbred Partners consecutive sire championships; that would be $13 million in California businessman Joe Ciaglia, co-owner of last year=s earnings by the end of March for one horse alone. Already champion juvenile filly Champagne Room (Broken Vow), Unbridled=s Song purchased this filly for $130,000 at the 2016 Keeneland has a $4.3-million September Yearling Sale. margin over Ghostzapper (click here). Empire Maker, now back in Kentucky at Gainesway, is currently third, with Gainesway=s headline sire Tapit fourth, Arrogate w/Mike Smith aboard after the Pegasus although Tapit is | Adam Mooshian the leading NA/EU sire with eight 2017 Black-Type winners (BTW), and is Each sales day, we ask one also the leader by graded stakes winners, with four. buyer to look at the day=s Unbridled=s Song, who stood his entire career at Taylor Made, results, and choose the horse and whose 17th and final crop are 3-year-olds this year, has he or she thinks was the buy of the day. always been a very high-class sire, though not always a terribly consistent one from one crop to another. This isn=t so unusual; in four of his first 10 crops, Unbridled=s Song sired over 11% A Team DataTrack: Frank Mitchell, Runners from named foals, yet in another four he was under Jay Kilgore & Bob Fierro 7%. We can look at the overall totals for leading sires on the biodatatrack.com TDN Cumulative General Sire List (click here), for example this Hip 290 list has the top 100 North American sires by career progeny (f, Distorted Humor-- Warbling, by Unbridled=s Song); :10 2/5 earnings, and we can also look at the top 100 European sires Buyer: Rockbridge Bloodstock, agent for Brushy Hill Consigned by Randy Bradshaw, Agent I (click here). Each NA/EU sire crop will have on average three or Price: $82,000 four stallions who become top sires; from the 1998 NA/EU sire AWe all loved this filly--her BreezeFig (62), stride length (24.33), crop (that=s first foals 1998; they stood their first seasons in stride-mph (43.28), and slow-motion were all very good. 1997), the top three were Smart Strike and Unbridled=s Song in Physically, she is a big, powerful filly with strength through her North America, and Pivotal in Europe. The small accompanying quarters, gaskins and hocks, and also has excellent extension. table shows career totals, extracted from the TDN Cumulative She carries a little weight and is a bit short in the front legs, which may give her a downhill trajectory--she should be General Sire List. As you can see, from 17 crops of 3-year-olds, gathered and let loose late. Closing miler, might do better on Smart Strike has had 117 BTW, which is 7.73% of his 1,514 turf, good biomechanics and broodmare potential.@ named foals of racing age (this total does include 2-year-olds of 2017); Unbridled=s Song has 105 BTW (6.95% of 1,510 foals); Pivotal has 129 BTW, (8.27% of named foals.)

WEEKLY SALES TICKER by Bill Oppenheim

MAJOR UPCOMING 2-YEAR-OLD SALES

NORTH AMERICAN SALES EUROPEAN SALES

Date Sale Date Sale Mar. 14-15 OBS 2YOS IN TRAINING Apr. 5 TATTERSALLS ASCOT TWO- MARCH SALE YEAR-OLD BREEZE-UP SALE

Mar. 21 PEGASUS TRAINING CENTER (WA) Apr. 11-12 GOFFS UK BREEZE-UP SALE 2YOS IN TRAINING SALE Apr. 17-19 TATTERSALLS CRAVEN Mar. 29 BARRETTS SELECT TWO-YEAR- BREEZE-UP SALE OLDS IN TRAINING SALE Apr. 26 OSARUS SALES LA TESTE Apr. 4 TEXAS THOROUGHBRED BREEZE-UP SALE ASSOCIATION TWO-YEAR-OLDS IN TRAINING SALE May 4-5 TATTERSALLS GUINEAS BREEZE-UP & HIT SALE Apr. 25-28 OBS 2YOS IN TRAINING SPRING SALE May 11-12 ARQANA BREEZE-UP SALE

May 9 EQUINE SALES (LA) MAY May 25-26 GORESBRIDGE BREEZE-UP SALE TWO-YEAR-OLDS IN TRAINING SALE May 26 BADEN BADEN SPRING BREEZE-UP SALE May 17 BARRETTS MAY SALE OF TWO- YEAR-OLDS IN TRAINING & HORSES OF RACING AGE

May 22-23 FASIG-TIPTON MIDATLANTIC TWO YEAR OLDS IN TRAINING SALE

Jun. 13-15 OBS JUNE TWO YEAR OLDS IN TRAINING SALE AND HORSES OF RACING AGE Data compiled by Brianne Stanley

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Of the three, Smart Strike is the one who has emerged as the Potentially even more exciting, though, is the unbeaten GI best sires of sires so far, with Curlin, English Channel, Lookin At Kentucky Derby co-favorite and >TDN Rising Star= McCraken, Lucky, and California phenom Square Eddie representing him. who is from Ghostzapper=s eighth crop, sired at a $40,000 stud Pivotal=s best son is the Haras de Bonneval=s Siyouni, while fee. Bred and owned by Whitham Thoroughbreds and trained by Unbridled=s Song=s best son to date is arguably Darley=s dual Kentucky Derby-winning trainer Carl Nafzger=s long-time Midshipman, though he is standing for just $8,500 this year (a understudy, Ian Wilkes, McCraken went three-for-three last big bargain). Note we say >to date=, however; Will Take Charge year as a 2-year-old, including the GII Kentucky Jockey Club S. (first yearlings 2017) and Liam=s Map (first foals 2017) went to He came back with a good win in Tampa Bay=s GIII Sam F. Davis a stud with arguably considerably better credentials than his month ago, but as has been well-documented, had to miss last earlier sons, and there are others like Graydar and Cross Traffic Saturday=s GII Tampa Bay Derby. But he=s back on the work tab, also yet to have runners--not to mention Arrogate. Where and the Sam F. Davis form was franked in spades as the 2-3-4 Unbridled=s Song has excelled is as a broodmare sire: through that day came the end of 2016, he was the dam sire of 97 >unique= (counted back to run once) A Runners, whereas Smart Strike had 63 A Runners, and 1-2-3 on Pivotal (who made a slow start as a broodmare sire, no doubt a Saturday, result of his starting ,5,000 stud fee) had 52 A Runners. Both headed of Smart Strike and Pivotal are also considered very good broodmare course by the sires, but Unbridled=s Song is a real star broodmare sire. impressive Ghostzapper, who, it=s easy to forget, is a half-brother to City $1.2-million Zip, was bred by Adena Springs and raced by Stronach Stables, Saratoga and was trained by the incomparable Bobby Frankel. He won yearling Tapwrit nine of his 11 starts, including the GI Vosburgh S. (Beyer 116) (Tapit). With over older horses as a 3-year-old; went four-for-four as a the unfortunate

4-year-old and was named Horse of the Year in 2004, when he injury to >TDN McCraken | SV Photography ran Beyers of 128 in the GIII Iselin S. and 124 in the GI Breeders= Rising Star= Cup Classic. He won his only start at five, the GI Met Mile (Beyer Mastery (Candy Ride) after his win in the GII San Felipe S., 122), and went to stud in 2006 for a $200,000 stud fee. By 2010 McCraken, along with GII Fountain of Youth S. winner he was down to $30,000, and his 2012 and 2013 crops were Gunnevera, from Dialed In=s first crop, heads the Derby sired off a $20,000 stud fee; Shaman Ghost is from his 2012 reckoning. Ghostzapper has another GSW 3-year-old, Iliad, who crop. But all is about to be forgiven and forgotten: Shaman won the GIII San Vicente S. at Santa Anita before running second Ghost, for one, has already won $2.2 million this year, having to Mastery in the San Felipe last Saturday. run second in the $12-million GI Pegasus and won last We mustn=t feel too despondent on Tapit=s behalf. He has Saturday=s GI Santa Anita H. been champion sire the last three years, and probably one horse will have to win $15 million this year to stop him from winning it again. We mentioned Tapwrit, who was a convincing winner of the Tampa Bay Derby Saturday. He is one of eight BTW for Tapit already this year, and, very interestingly, six of the eight are 3-year-olds, from his ninth crop. Take a look at the TDN list of Leading Sires of 3-year-olds (click here). Tapit has 14 3-year-old winners this year, of which six are BTW (four GSW), and eight are black-type horses, and has 3-year-old earnings of $1.22 million. His four 3-year-old GSW include dual 2017 Grade II winner and >Rising Star= Unique Bella; the aforementioned Tampa Bay Derby winner, Tapwrit; and, the previous weekend, two 3-year-old Grade III winners on the grass at Gulfstream Park, the colt and fellow >Rising Star= Ticonderoga and the filly Dream Dancing.

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Second on the list of North American sires of 3-year-olds this EXECUTIVE ACTIONS ON IMMIGRATION year is Spendthrift=s Into Mischief, North America=s Leading Sire of 2-Year-Olds in 2016. From an amazing 71 3-year-old starters AND THE HORSE INDUSTRY already this year, he has sired 19 winners and the earners of Editor=s Note: The KTA/KTOB distributed this article on behalf over $1.15 million, including the unbeaten GIII Southwest S. of the American Horse Council, which we are reprinting in its winner One Liner (trained, like Tapwrit, by Pletcher), and the entirety. Fountain of Youth second Practical Joke.Contact Bill Oppenheim Recently, President Trump issued several executive orders at [email protected] (cc [email protected]). relating to increased immigration enforcement and border security. These actions will impact many employers, including those in the racing and showing segments of the horse industry, even those that rely on legal foreign workers. For many years horse farms, horse shows, trainers and others have had difficulty recruiting American workers. This has forced many to rely on foreign workers and utilize both the H-2B non-agricultural and H-2A agricultural temporary foreign worker programs to meet their labor needs even though these programs are often extremely burdensome to use. Additionally, many of the workers employed in the industry may lack legal status. Most foreign workers in the industry are directly responsible for the care of the horses upon which the entire horse industry is dependent. Without these workers to raise, train, and care for the industry=s horses, many other jobs held by Americans not Tapit | Gainesway only in the horse industry, but also supported by the horse industry will be in jeopardy.

PROMINENT SIRES: CAREER TOTALS

1st Fls 3yo Crops Cum. Rank Sire Foals BTW %Pct GSW %Pct G1W Wnrs %Pct $Earnings

First Foals 1998:

1998 17 NA2 Smart Strike 1514 117 7.73 61 4.03 15 872 57 $139,039,005 1998 17 NA6 Unbridled's Song 1510 105 6.95 56 3.71 22 785 52 121,575,603 1998 17 EU8 Pivotal 1560 129 8.27 71 4.55 23 831 53 86,829,616

First Foals 2007:

2007 8 EU4 Dubawi 902 107 11.86 65 7.21 21 515 57 $99,844,801 2007 8 NA40 Kitten's Joy 1029 75 7.29 32 3.11 10 511 49 64,919,600 2007 8 NA61 Ghostzapper 663 54 8.14 29 4.37 9 355 53 52,744,794

First Foals 2006:

2006 9 NA8 Tapit 1029 94 9.14 58 5.64 20 613 59 $109,853,804 2006 9 NA25 Medaglia d'Oro 1096 84 7.66 40 3.65 14 494 45 77,533,485 2006 9 NA28 Speightstown 838 77 9.19 34 4.06 13 525 62 76,118,761 2006 9 NA39 Candy Ride 1037 58 5.59 27 2.60 10 544 52 65,552,394

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Generally speaking, increased enforcement, increased Ask them to work with their party leadership to restore the competition for legal workers and greater demand for H-2B and H-2B returning worker exemption at the earliest opportunity. H-2A workers will make it more difficult for horse industry Tell them horse farms, trainers, horseshows, and others in the employers to fill many positions. horse industry are often unable able to find Americans who are President Trump=s new executive actions call for a wall along willing and able to take jobs as grooms, and stable attendants. the southern border, increased detention and expedited And despite substantial efforts to recruit American workers removal of undocumented immigrants, and will enlist the local the industry has been forced to rely on foreign workers and the law enforcement in these efforts. There are still many questions H-2B temporary worker program to meet their labor needs. regarding the magnitude of the impact President Trump=s The cap for H-2B visas for the first half of the fiscal year was actions will have. However, it is likely there will be an increase of reached on Jan. 10th. For many employers that means no H-2B audits and raids to identify and deport undocumented immigrants. workers will be available if they are needed in 2017. It is also possible many workers will leave the country on their Or email them here: app.muster.com/take-action/1KBtiFGTnz/ own and fewer will come due to increased enforcement. There continues to be many questions regarding the impact of Many employers in industries like agriculture and the horse these executive actions and the possibility of more executive industry who have a large percentage of foreign workers will actions and immigration legislation. The AHC will continue to face increasing pressure to find legal workers and stiff monitor this issue. Additionally, The AHC has worked for many competition for workers that are available. Already, the cap for years with a broad coalition of users to make both the H-2B and H-2B visas for the first half of the fiscal year was reached on Jan. H-2A programs less burdensome and to ensure the programs 10. There is a statutory cap on the total number of to H-2B visas are available to the horse industry. The AHC will continue this issued each year. Currently, Congress has set the H-2B cap at work and look for new opportunities to address the immigrant 66,000 per fiscal year, with 33,000 for workers who begin labor problem facing the industry. employment in the first half of the fiscal year (Oct. 1-Mar. 31) and 33,000 for workers who begin employment in the second half of the fiscal year (Apr. 1-Sept. 30). Because the cap has already been reached, for many employers that means no H-2B workers will be available if they are needed in 2017. There is no cap on the H-2A agricultural visa program, but those workers can only be employed by horse breeding farms and cannot be utilized by trainers at race tracks or horse shows. Simply put these executive orders, and existing problems with the H-2B program will make finding workers for many positions in the horse industry much more difficult. What should members of the horse industry do? First, horse industry employers should be prepared for increased worksite enforcement and make certain all required paper work is in order. This means that employers should make sure all Form I-9s are complete and accurate. Second, the most immediate need for the horse industry is H-2B cap relief and restoring the returning worker exemption. If you, your business or members of your organization rely on H-2B workers, please contact your Senators and Representative and let them know that it is vital Congress reinstate the H-2B returning worker exemption. Call your Senators and Representative today. If you do not know their direct numbers, you can reach them through the Capitol Switchboard at (202) 225-3121. Once connected to the All horses in the TDN are bred in office, ask to speak to the person who handles H-2B issues and North America, unless otherwise indicated tell him or her how important the H-2B program is to you.

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Charles Town Classic to Air on Fox Sports 2 Cont. for all peace officers in Texas, funding to increase death Post time for the first race on Charles Town Classic day will be benefits for the spouses and families of law 12:45 p.m., with the feature set to go off as the 11th of 13 races enforcement officers killed in the line of duty, and at approximately 5:35 p.m. donor-directed funding for 501(c)(3) charitable organizations operating in Texas. It would also increase purse money available for racing in Texas. Tuesday Cancellations AThe TTA would like to thank Senators Kolkhorst and PARX (snow storm) Buckingham and Representative Kuempel for sponsoring these bills and recognizing the importance of the racing and breeding industry in this state,@ said Mary Ruyle, executive director of the TTA. AWe encourage horsemen to voice their support for these bills.@

Five Bills to Benefit Racing Filed in Texas: Five bills have been filed with the Texas legislature that could Tuesday=s Results: benefit the Texas racing industry, Texas Thoroughbred 3rd-SUN, $24,500, (S), Msw, 3-14, 3yo/up, 5 1/2f, 1:03.44, ft. Association and Texas Horsemen=s Partnership announced +RIP (g, 3, Western Gambler--Seal, by Eddington), sent off at 5- Tuesday. 2 in this maiden voyage, rushed up to set a pressured pace from Sen. Lois Kolkhorst (R) filed three bills in the Senate: the bell. In charge after a half in :45.35, he drew clear to win ! SB #1971 (Co-authored by Sen. Dawn Buckingham (R))-- going away by 2 1/2 lengths. Prince Bob (Prince of Fame) was Would create a purse matching fund from the state=s second best. Lifetime Record: 1-1-0-0, $14,700. Click for the general revenue fund that is expected to increase Equibase.com chart or VIDEO, sponsored by Fasig-Tipton. purses by $25 million. Committee substitute language is O/B-Michael C. Stinson (NM); T-Joel H. Marr. expected to clarify specifics. ! SB #1972--Would shift Accredited Texas-Bred funds from the Texas Racing Commission=s budget and establish an escrow account for the money. INDUSTRY INFO ! SB #1973--Would utilize existing state tax revenue on simulcast wagers that currently goes to the Texas NTRA Issues 2016 Horse PAC Annual Report: general revenue fund in order to help pay the costs of The National Thoroughbred Racing Association (NTRA) operating the Texas Racing Commission. Presently, all of released the 2016 Annual Report for its bipartisan federal the costs of operating the Commission are borne by the Political Action Committee, Horse PAC announced Tuesday. racing industry through track and occupational license Horse PAC disbursed $290,500 to federal political candidates fees. and PACs in 2016, the largest amount since 2008. Horse PAC Rep. John Kuempel (R) of Seguin filed two bills in the House of supported 54 in-cycle candidates, with 51 winning in the Representatives. November elections. ! HB #3925--Would legalize account wagering on Texas The PAC annual report details legislative activities for the racing and create mechanisms for the Texas Racing 2015/2016 Congressional cycle, as well as providing an overview Commission to license and regulate account wagering of the NTRA=s successful efforts to secure a regulatory change in operators. the way the Internal Revenue Service and the Treasury ! HB # 3926--Would authorize purpose-driven Department treat pari-mutuel proceeds for horseplayers. The pari-mutuel wagering at the 10 Texas facilities currently regulatory change--secured with the support of key Members of licensed to conduct live or simulcast racing. Congress--is expected to take effect within the next few months Purpose-driven pari-mutuel wagering would provide after an obligatory comment period that runs through Mar. 30. funding for enhanced bulletproof vests and body armor Cont. p3 CALIFORNIA’S STALLION

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NTRA Issues Horse PAC Annual Report Cont. A former exercise rider, Gunderson is a passionate advocate of Thoroughbred aftercare. She has spent many hours on the Under the leadership of Chairman William S. Farish Jr., the backstretch watching for Thoroughbreds that may be nearing Horse PAC Board of Directors raised $498,737 for the the end of their racing careers. She has also worked with 2015/2016 fundraising cycle. More than 135 NTRA members organizations including Florida Thoroughbred Retirement and contributed to Horse PAC, including many first-time donors from Aftercare and Florida Thoroughbred Retirement Foundation to the horseplayer community, who joined in supporting efforts to find suitable post-racetrack homes for retiring Thoroughbreds. modernize the tax code. Originally started in celebration of TCA=s 25th anniversary and AHorse PAC continues to play a vital role in the NTRA=s efforts now in its third year, TCA Award of Merit recipients represent on Capitol Hill,@ Horse PAC President Margaret E. Hendershot those individuals and organizations working to uphold TCA=s said. AMembers of Congress remain our strongest link to mission among state breeders association=s constituencies. TCA legislation and regulation that will help our industry grow and Award of Merit nominees consist of individuals or organizations thrive.@ working to provide a better life for Thoroughbreds or the people A PDF version of the report can be found online here. For working with them, either on the backstretch or on the farm. more information on NTRA=s federal legislative efforts, visit Subsequent award of merit winners will be announced monthly. www.SupportHorseRacing.org.

TAA to Unite with Accredited Organizations at Equestricon: The inaugural Equestricon racing convention will be the site of the largest single gathering of accredited organizations in the history of the Thoroughbred Aftercare Alliance (TAA), organizers announced Tuesday. The TAA is the AOfficial Charity Partner@ of Equestricon--the first international racing convention, fan festival and trade show. IN PERU: The General Session for the convention will take place Aug. 14- Sheriff Pete, h, 7, Mineshaft--Siempre Lista, by Unbridled=s 15 at the Saratoga Springs City Center. Tentatively scheduled to Song. Monterrico, 3-9, Hcp., 1000m, :57.72. B-Kilroy appear in the Equestricon AAftercare Hub@ in the main Thoroughbred Partnership (KY). *MGSW-Per. **$11,000 Ylg convention hall are 20 TAA-accredited aftercare groups from all >11 KEESEP. VIDEO over the United States. AWe couldn=t be more excited about being so closely aligned with this forward-thinking, innovative industry effort,@ said TAA Operations Consultant, Stacie Clark Rogers. AAftercare has emerged as the preeminent issue tied to the future of our industry, and the team at Equestricon realizes that.@

TCA Names Raina Chingos Gunderson Award of Merit Winner: Second-crop starters to watch: Wednesday, March 15 Thoroughbred Charities of America has named Raina Chingos Sire (Sire’s Sire), current farm, 2013 Fee, #foals of racing age/Winners/ Gunderson, Gulfstream Park=s horsemen=s liaison, as the 2017 BlackTypeWnrs * Race #-track, race type, distance, runner, odds (if available) TCA Award of Merit recipient in the State of Florida. Award of REDEEMED (Include), Northview Stallion Station, $3K, 63/5/0 8-PEN, Alw 1m, Wolfinbarger, 6-1 Merit recipients are nominated by the leadership of state STAY THIRSTY (Bernardini), Ashford Stud, $17.5K, 160/30/2 Thoroughbred owners and breeders associations and are 3-GP, Msw 1m, Stay Fond, 7-2 presented at each state association=s annual awards THE FACTOR (War Front), Lane's End Farm, $15K, 218/22/3 ceremonies. 5-TAM, Msw 1 1/16mT, Viva Vegas, $190K OBS WIN yrl, 9-2 Gunderson was presented with the award Mar. 13 at the Florida Thoroughbred Breeders= and Owners= Black and White Gala event in Ocala.

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7th-HOU, $21,000, (NW2X)/Opt. Clm ($25,000), 3-14, 4yo/up, 1 1/16mT, 1:43.82, fm. LAWLESS WEST (h, 5, Giant=s Causeway--River Flower {MSP, $247,266}, by Strodes Creek) Lifetime Record: 20-3-2-2, $95,547. O-Bryan Hawk; B-Mikhail Yanakov (KY); T-Joe S. Rip (Western Gambler) Offolter. *$300,000 Ylg '13 KEESEP. **1/2 to Bubble Gum graduated at Sunland Park. (Awesome Again), GSP, $172,887; and Applicator (Henrythenavigator), SW, $160,390.

9th-HOU, $20,000, 3-14, (NW1X), 4yo/up, 5fT, :58.16, fm. BREEDERS’ EDITION KISSTHATBABYGOODBY (g, 4, Sing Baby Sing--Shaved Ice, by Lit de Justice) Lifetime Record: 17-4-4-3, $57,012. O-Molly Malone's Racing; B-Tom Durant (TX); T-Larry Stroope. STAKES RESULTS: STAR OF TEXAS S., $50,000, HOU, 3-14, (S), 4yo/up, 1m, ADDITIONAL MAIDEN WINNERS: 1:37.17, ft. Flyin' Orphan, c, 3, Early Flyer--Oh So Notised, by Stephanotis. 1--#WITT SIX, 118, g, 5, Drums of Thunder--Taitt Hill, by WRD, 3-14, 5 1/2f, 1:05.03. B-Keene Thoroughbreds, LLC Graeme Hall. O/B-Henry S. Witt, Jr. (TX); T-Amanda Barton; (TX). J-Sasha Risenhoover. $30,000. Lifetime Record: 36-9-4-9, Colonial Kendra, f, 3, Intimidator--Kendras Jones, by Seneca $213,431. Jones. HOU, 3-14, (S), 6f, 1:12.45. B-Keith I Asmussen (TX). 2--Lonesome Wind, 118, g, 5, Grasshopper--Dehere's Dream, by *$4,000 Ylg '15 BSCYRL; $20,000 2yo '16 TTAAPR. Dehere. O/B-Fletcher Properties, Inc. (TX); T-Robert A. Young. **SP. $10,000. Conquest Crown Me, c, 3, Kitten=s Joy--Royal Wonder, by 3--Spider's Alibi, 118, h, 5, Lookin At Lucky--Miss Missile, by Kingmambo. SUN, 3-14, 5 1/2f, 1:02.47. B-Kendall E. Hansen, Golden Missile. O-Terry Propps; B-Charles E. Smith & Terry L. M.D. Racing, LLC (KY). *$60,000 RNA Wlg '14 KEENOV; Propps (TX); T-Charles Edwin Smith. $5,500. $120,000 Ylg '15 FTKJUL; $27,000 2yo '16 KEENOV. Margins: 6, 2 3/4, HF. Odds: 2.10, 5.40, 14.20. LANE’S END Sales Graduate Lady London, f, 3, The Factor--Tioga (MSP), by Hadif. HOU, 3-14, ALLOWANCE RESULTS: 6f, 1:12.75. B-James W Rogers (OK). *$12,000 2yo '16 8th-WRD, $30,250, 3-14, (NW2X), 3yo/up, c/g, 6f, 1:09.77, OBSOPN. **1/2 to Certain Pride (Offlee Wild), SP, $200,814. ft. Alpha Bravo, g, 4, Afleet Alex--Highest Approval, by High Fly. WELDER (g, 4, The Visualiser--Dance Softly, by Tiznow) Lifetime HOU, 3-14, 1 1/16mT, 1:45.48. B-Glencrest Farm LLC & Record: SW, 10-6-2-1, $177,151. O-Ra-Max Farms LLC; B-Center Fox-Straus (KY). *$17,000 Ylg '14 KEEJAN. **1/2 to Roman Hills Farm (OK); T-Theresa Sue Luneack. Approval (Roman Ruler), MGSP, $583,763.