Turf at Del Mar Godolphin to Go Down Under
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THURSDAY, JULY 17, 2014 732-747-8060 $ TDN Home Page Click Here SURF AND (NEW) TURF AT DEL MAR GODOLPHIN TO GO DOWN UNDER On the heels of the announcement that it will play The Godolphin blue silks will become a regular sight host to the world at the 2017 Breeders= Cup, the on Australian racecourses after the operation historic Del Mar Thoroughbred Club, equipped with a announced yesterday that it will establish a permanent brand new turf course, opens the doors on the 2014 base Down Under. summer season with a 10-race program highlighted by John O=Shea, appointed head trainer for Darley earlier the traditional opening-day featured Oceanside S. This this year, will be Head Trainer for Godolphin and all year=s opening has been pushed back by one day, with horses in his care will race in the Godolphin blue from the San Diego County Fair running through Aug. 1. July 6, in order to allow maintenance workers to Sheikh Mohammed has prepare the grounds and racing surface. It is the first made a significant investment time in 15 years that the track has opened on a in the Australian industry Thursday. Del Mar is also slated to stage a fall meeting under the Darley banner over for the first time, a total of 15 live dates between the last 15 years, a key Nov. 7 and Nov. 30, before racing returns to Los development occurring when Alamitos in early December. Santa Anita will resume on he purchased the famed its traditional opening date of Dec. 26. Woodlands Stud and its AOur fall race meeting starting this year will be totally bloodstock for a reported separate from our summer session,@ noted Del Mar $415 million in 2008. Darley Thoroughbred Club president and CEO Joe Harper. Australia has developed one AThey will be two different animals. We know our of the country=s leading summer meet is a winner; we=ve proven it over and Sepoy stallion rosters and has bred over again. And we expect our autumn run can be Racing and Sports and campaigned the winners special, too, in its own way. With the backing of our of 32 Group 1 races, horsemen and all our many racing fans in the San Diego including world champion 3-year-old sprinter Sepoy area, we think we can put on a first-rate show here in (Aus) (Elusive Quality), three-time Group 1 winner the fall and help to keep racing in Southern California Helmet (Aus) (Exceed and Excel {Aus}) and this year=s strong and successful.@ G1 Blue Diamond S. victress Earthquake (Aus) (Exceed Offering the richest purse structure on the circuit, Del and Excel {Aus}). Mar will stage a total of 43 black-type events worth over $8 million over the course of the 36-day stand, Godolphin in Australia cont. p4 which runs through Wednesday, Sept. 3. The meet is anchored by the $1-million GI TVG Pacific Classic Sunday, Aug. 24, one of a trio of stakes on the afternoon. Del Mar Opening Day cont. p3 A bird’s-eye view of Del Mar dmtc.com IN THIS ISSUE CO-PUBLISHERS President: Barry Weisbord [email protected] @barryweisbord Vice President: Sue Finley [email protected] @suefinley BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT Diana Heads Saturday Action Director of Business Development: Gary King [email protected] While the G1 Darley Irish Oaks will be the center of attention internationally at the weekend, the domestic schedule of Saturday graded action is headed by Saratoga’s EDITORIAL GI Diana S. at nine furlongs on the grass. A well- [email protected] matched field of 10 will face the starter in the wide-open Editor-in-Chief: Jessica Martini betting affair and with the lone exception of the multiple Managing Editor: Alan Carasso graded-stakes placed Caroline Thomas (Giant’s Racing Editor: Steve Sherack Causeway), each of the other nine runners is a graded- Racing Analyst/Social Media Director: Brian DiDonato Associate Editor: Justina Severni stakes winner. Half the field has a Grade I victory to their Assistant Editor: Christie DeBernardis credit, including the comebacking Garden City S. victress Assistant Editor: Heather Likins Alterite (Fr) (Literato {Fr}), while Tannery (Ire) (Dylan Thomas {Ire}) will try to give owner Richard Santulli a Tannery Horsephotos second consecutive Diana following the exploits of ADVERTISING Laughing (GB) (Dansili {GB}) last summer. [email protected] Director of Advertising: Alycia Borer Page 4 Art Director: Lia Kusch Sr. Ad Coordinator/Dir. of Distribution: Sarah K. Andrew Advertising Designer: Amanda Crelin Late-Season Campaign for ROTW Advertising Assistant: Amanda Foster CUSTOMER SERVICE Last year's G1 Investec Derby winner Ruler of the World (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}), a late withdrawal from the June 7 G1 Coronation [email protected] Cup after pulling muscles in his flank the day before the race, is set Director of Customer Service: Vicki Forbes to reappear in late summer. Harry Herbert, racing advisor to part owner Al Shaqab Racing, told Racing UK, "Ruler of The World is INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY in good form and it was very unlucky for [trainer] Aidan [O'Brien] Director of IT: Robert Williams and all of his team that he pulled muscles in his flank the day [email protected] before the Coronation Cup. I saw his last piece of work, and he could not have been more impressive so we were all gutted that he Database Admin./Programming Specialist: Gregg Casillo Ruler of the Worldcouldn't run." [email protected] Racing Post Page 5 WORLDWIDE INFORMATION International Editor: Kelsey Riley Cassatt Returns a Winner [email protected] Things didn’t look especially good for Fox Hill Farm’s J “TDN Rising Star” Newmarket Bureau, Cafe Racing: Sean Cronin Newmarket Bureau, Cafe Racing: Tom Frary J Cassatt (Tapit) at the start of a five-furlong allowance yesterday at Delaware [email protected] Park, spotting the field a three-length start. But the fleet grey filly had bridged the gap by the time they’d reached the turn, slingshot past her rivals approaching the 60 Broad Street, Suite 100 • Red Bank, NJ 07701 stretch and drew off with authority, earning comparisons to another Fox Hill filly 732-747-8060 | 732-747-8955 (fax) with the initials HDG. www.thoroughbreddailynews.com ATW p1 www.thetdn.com TDN P HEADLINE NEWS • 7/17/14 • PAGE 3 of 5 • thoroughbreddailynews.com Opening Day at Del Mar cont. from p1 New Kids At the Shore... The Del Mar meeting always attracts the cream of Six additional Grade I races feature on the schedule, the crop of the training ranks, and this year will be no the first of which--the Eddie Read S. for older males at different. Top conditioners such as Doug O=Neill, who nine furlongs on the turf--takes place this coming led the Santa Anita spring standings, Bob Baffert, Peter Sunday afternoon. Two-year-olds get their chance at Miller, John Sadler and Jerry Hollendorfer will all be Grade I glory at the tail end of the meet in the GI Del strongly represented, but there are a few top horsemen Mar Debutante for the fillies Aug. 30 and the Del Mar who will be making their Del Mar debuts. Trainer Mark Futurity for the boys on closing day. Five of the stakes Casse, who recently won his first Queen=s Plate with offer all-fees-paid entries for this year=s Breeders= Cup at the filly Lexie Lou (Sligo Bay {Ire}), is expected to have Santa Anita. The GI Bing Crosby S. (Turf Sprint), the as many as 40 head stabled at the seaside oval this GI Clement L. Hirsch S. (Distaff), the GII Del Mar H. summer. AThis will be a new experience for us and (Turf), the GII Pat O=Brien S. (Dirt Mile) and the Pacific we=re excited about being there,@ Casse told Del Mar Classic (Classic). The overnight purse structure also publicity. AMy wife, Tina, and some of the family will be remains strong, with open and Cal-bred maidens with us for the summer. We=re hoping to have the kind running for a $75,000 and allowance purses between of success that will open the way for a year-round $77,000 and $85,000. Bottom-level claiming horses presence in Southern California. I=d like that a lot.@ will race for a $20,000 pot. Casse, whose major clients include John Oxley, Ernie Semersky and Dory Newell=s Conquest Stables and >Turf=s= Up... Californian Gary Barber, figures to be represented by SP As part of a broader strategy, officials at Del Mar Unbridled Reward (Warrior=s Reward); SW & GSP announced just after the conclusion of the 2013 meet Conquest Titan (Birdstone); GIII Illinois Derby winner that the existing turf course would be replaced in favor Dynamic Impact (Tiznow); Lexie Lou; 2012 Sovereign of an expanded course some 80 feet wide around the Award winner Spring in the Air (Spring at Last); and entire circumference of the track. Such a move would Sisterly Love (Bellamy Road), who carried Barber=s silks allow races on the to a victory in Keeneland=s GIII Doubledogdare S. this grass to be past April. conducted with as Another old, but new face this summer is Phil many as 14 runners D=Amato, the former assistant to trainer Mike Mitchell, as opposed to the who took over the string upon Mitchell=s retirement in previous number of April. A graduate of the University of Southern 10 horses. After California and of the University of Arizona=s Racetrack approximately a Industry Program, D=Amato previously worked for month=s worth of Chuck Simon in the east and midwest before hooking Laying the new sod at Del Mar delays, Del Mar took up with Mitchell.