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HAPPY HOLIDAYS!!!! HEADLINE NEWS For information about TDN, DELIVERED EACH NIGHT BY FAX AND FREE BY E-MAIL TO SUBSCRIBERS OF call 732-747-8060. www.thoroughbreddailynews.com FRIDAY, DECEMBER 22, 2006 BROTHER DEREK TUNES UP FOR MALIBU RAMONTI TO GODOLPHIN Trainer Dan Hendricks sent out three-year-old Brother Italy=s champion miler Ramonti (Ity) (Martino Alonso Derek (Benchmark) for his final piece of serious work in {Ire}) is set to race in Godolphin=s royal blue next year advance of next Tuesday=s GI Malibu S. at Santa Anita. after his fine third in the Dec. 10 G1 Hong Kong Mile at The colt drilled five panels at Holly- Sha Tin. According to the paper Lo Sportsman, the deal wood Park in 1:00 1/5 (8/40) with to secure the four-year-old from owner-breeder Emilio exercise rider Luis Ortega in the Balzarini of Scuderia Siba is in the process of being irons. AHe=s thriving right now; he=s finalized. Last year=s G2 Premio Parioli (Italian 2000 doing very well,@ said Hendricks. AHe Guineas) scorer Ramonti also captured the G1 Premio did the last eighth in :11 and Vittorio di Capua, G2 Premio Ribot and G2 Premio change.@ It=s been an up and down Emilio Turati this term. Siba also sold their homebred season for Brother Derek. Owned by Becrux (Ity) to Team Valor, who went on to enjoy suc- Cecil Peacock, he capped off a four- cess in the GI Woodbine Mile. Brother Derek race winning skein this spring with a Horsephotos tally in the GI Santa Anita Derby, but hasn=t won in five starts since. Though he hasn=t found the winner=s circle, he has put up a number of solid Barbaro efforts, including a good dead-heat fourth in the GI Kentucky Derby and, in his most recent, a fifth in the GI Breeders= Cup Classic. AThere were a lot of highs at Update the beginning of the season, and things just leveled off,@ said Hendricks. AOf course we=re very disappointed with that, and would like to get back to the winning BARBARO EXAMINED BY PODIATRIST streak he had. But when we look back, there are very by Gail Luciani, Director of UPenn Office of Communications few things we=d change. The horse has gone out and, KENNETT SQUARE, PA...Kentucky Derby winner in every race but the El Cajon [fourth at 2-5 odds in Barbaro was examined yesterday by Dr. Scott September], he=s tried his heart out for us and done Morrison, head of the equine podiatry service at Rood very well, and we don=t want to complain or make and Riddle Equine Hospital in Lexington, Kentucky. excuses. We=ve got a healthy horse with very few races "Barbaro is stable and comfortable although we underneath him right now going into the new year, and remain concerned about the long term management we=re going to start with a very prestigious race series of his left hind foot," said Dr. Dean W. Richardson, here that we hope to finish out with the [GI] Santa Chief of Surgery. According to Barbaro's medical Anita H. [Mar. 3].@ The Malibu is the first leg of the team, Dr. Morrison did some minor work on Barbaro's Strub Series, which is also comprised of the 8 1/2- left hind foot, and made recommendations concerning furlong, Jan. 13 GII San Fernando Breeders' Cup H. and the management of that foot. "There is no timetable the nine-furlong Feb. 3 GII Strub S. As for the seven at this moment concerning Barbaro's discharge from panels of the Malibu, Hendricks added, AI don=t think it the hospital," said Dr. Richardson. "His comfort on suits his style--he=s a two-turn horse--but it=s a Grade I, both hind limbs is good and his overall condition is and it=s a great race for three-year-olds at the end of excellent." The next update will be posted on the year.@ As Brother Derek aims to get back on track, Tuesday, Jan. 2, unless there is a significant change he may be doing it with a new jockey. A Hollywood in Barbaro's condition. Park release said that his regular rider, Alex Solis, has chosen to ride Arson Squad (Brahms) instead. AIf we For more info on Barbaro, please see www.vet.upenn.edu. don=t have Alex, we=ve got [Garrett] Gomez as a back- up,@ said Hendricks. (859) 233-4252 www.claibornefarm.com TDN P HEADLINE NEWS • 12/22/06 • PAGE 2 of 2 N E W S T O D A Y HUSSONET SIRES 100th STAKES WINNER P P Arrowfield stallion Hussonet (Mr. Prospector), who started his stud career in Chile, was represented last TAGG DUO POINTED FOR GULFSTREAM MEET week by his 100th stakes winner in that country. The Nobiz Like Shobiz (Albert the Great) and Showing Up 15-year-old stallion has reached the milestone from just (Strategic Mission) both ended their 2006 campaigns in nine crops to race. His 100 black-type winners have style and will spend the winter months at Barclay come from a total of 458 runners, an amazing ratio of Tagg=s Gulfstream Park barn. Lael 21.8 percent stakes winners-to-runners. The sire of no Stables= Showing Up began his ca- fewer than 17 champions, Hussonet has sired a total of reer at the Hallandale racetrack 24 Group 1 winners, including Wild Spirit (Chi) and with two straight victories on the Host (Chi), both winners at the highest level in the main track, but really blossomed United States. The son of Sacahuista has gotten off to once switched to turf. The chest- a promising start in Australia and sits atop the current nut boasted victories in the GI Sec- first-season sire list, with three winners, including retariat S. at Arlington Aug. 12, the Group 3 victor Husson Lightning (Aus). Hussonet=s GII Jamaica Breeders= Cup H. at current crop of yearlings totals 121, of which 35 will be Belmont Oct. 14 and the GI Holly- offered at the upcoming Magic Millions Yearling Sale on wood Derby last time Nov. 26. the Gold Coast. "There's really not much to run him in at Gulfstream other than the [GI Gulfstream Park Breeders' Cup Turf KEENELAND SEEKS TO PROTECT SALE H., Feb. 24], and that's at a mile HORSES FROM EHV-1 and three-eighths and I'd hate to courtesy of www.bloodhorse.com Nobiz Like Shobiz start him out at that distance," Because of the recent equine herpesvirus-1 (EHV-1) Adam Coglianese Tagg told Daily Racing Form. "It's a outbreak in Florida, Keeneland officials have issued long year and I'd really like to get a championship for additional requirements that must be met before horses him if I can. But you never know. We'll just see how enter the sale grounds in Lexington for the January things go." Elizabeth Valando=s Nobiz Like Shobiz won horses of all ages auction. "With the outbreak of two of three starts this term, including an impressive EHV-1, we have to take all precautions to guarantee 6 1/2-length tally in Aqueduct=s GII Remsen S. Nov. 25. the health of all the horses that are going to be sold "He's training normally, but won't work until around here," said Geoffrey Russell, Keeneland's director of New Year's since he's not going to run until Feb. 3," sales. "We have horses coming here from all over North Tagg continued. "He'll probably be a little different as a America, so we want to make sure everything is taken three-year-old than a two-year-old and I'll have to get a care of." The requirements were listed in a letter to line on him as we go along, but the plan at the moment consignors, dated Dec. 20. They are as follows: is to get him started in the [GIII] Holy Bull S., run back --Health certificates (Certificates of Veterinary Inspec- four weeks later in the [GII] Fountain of Youth S. tion, CVI) must be provided upon arrival at the sale [Mar. 3], and then give him five weeks to the [GI] grounds. The CVI must be signed and dated by a li- Wood [Memorial, Apr. 7]. The back-up plan would be to censed veterinarian within 72 hours prior to arrival. keep him here for the [GI] Florida Derby [Mar. 31] if the weather in New York became too harsh.@ For the complete story, click here. www.winstarfarm.com FRIDAY, DECEMBER 22, 2006 H E A S T H Yesterday=s Results: 5:06p 9th-FGX, $75K, Esplanade S., 3yo/up, f/m, 5 1/2f 8th-LRL, $32,000, Alw, NW1X, 3yo/up, 1m, 1:38 4/5, TVG HOT STORM (Stormy Atlantic) is looking for her first win ft. since taking a minor stakes at Mountaineer in August. The LUCKY BACHELOR (g, 3, Broken Vow--Bounding Lass, bay has completed the trifecta in her last three, including by Boundary) broke his maiden in his second start going the GIII Thoroughbred Club of America S. at Keeneland seven furlongs at Laurel Nov. 16. Sent postward the Oct. 14 and the Very Subtle S. at Churchill on the Breeders’ 2-1 second pick adding a furlong here, the $75,000 Cup undercard Nov. 4. She’s had a trio of maintenance KEESEP yearling was angled to the rail and saved works since and her trainer, Dallas Stewart, has been red ground as the leaders set a slow pace.