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TUESDAY, JUNE 4, 2013 732-747-8060 $ TDN Home Page Click Here SAINT-CLOUD RETURN FOR CIRRUS FEATURE PRESENTATION • GI BELMONT S. Corine Barande-Barbe has set the June 23 G1 Grand Prix de Saint-Cloud as the comeback target for Cirrus des Aigles (Fr) (Even Top {Ire}), ruling out a tilt at the G1 Prince of Wales=s S. at Royal Ascot four days earlier. Off the track since finishing runner-up to Frankel (GB) (Galileo {Ire}) in the G1 Champion S. in October, the 7-year-old strained a ligament while preparing for the G1 Hong Kong Vase in December. AWe=re now thinking that Saint-Cloud is the better option due to timing,@ his trainer told the Racing Post, AHe=s in REPOLE SENDING THREE TO BELMONT extremely good form and, although he=s done no Mike Repole revealed Monday evening that he will serious work, I=m very pleased with him.@ send J “TDN Rising Star” J Unlimited Budget (Street Sense) as well as Midnight Taboo (Langfuhr) to ROYAL DATE FOR AL KAZEEM Saturday s GI Belmont S. along with the previously = John Deer=s Al Kazeem (GB) (Dubawi {Ire}) will take confirmed Overanalyze (Dixie Union). in the June 19 G1 Prince of Wales=s S. at Royal Ascot, Unlimited Budget, a MGSW and third trainer Roger Charlton announced yesterday. After last time in the GI Kentucky Oaks, beating Camelot (GB) (Montjeu {Ire}) in the will try to become the first filly to G1 Tattersalls Gold Cup at The Curragh May 26, the win the Classic since fellow Todd 5-year-old will cross swords with that rival again in the Pletcher trainee Rags to Riches (A.P. Indy) snapped a more than 100-year 10-furlong contest. AHe=s a magnificent horse and drought for members of the fairer sex patience has been rewarded,@ Charlton told PA Sport. in the 2007 Belmont. AI really think AAt the moment, he=s in great form and is lightly raced. that this year the fillies are just as He was impressive in Ireland and I see no reason why he wouldn=t have a great chance in the Prince of Repole Equi-Photo good as the colts,@ Repole said of his decision to run Unlimited Budget. Wales=s. The Arc is the ultimate goal and it=s the AShe=s been training great. She=s a very big filly--in fact, greatest test of the season. He=s adaptable, stays a mile when you see her in the race you=ll think she=s a colt.@ and a half and goes on soft ground, which he might Fittingly, Rosie Napravnik will ride Unlimited Budget, have to do at that time of year.@ while Garret Gomez will pilot Midnight Taboo. Of what it would mean to win the most prestigious race run in his backyard, Repole added, AGrowing up a kid from Queens, I've been watching this race since Woody Stephens won five in a row when I was 13-year-old... I love New York, I love racing at Belmont, Aqueduct and Saratoga and I'm never going to make it a secret how bad I want to win this race.@ FRAC DADDY CONFIRMED FOR BELMONT Trainer Ken McPeek confirmed Monday that Magic City Thoroughbred Partners= Frac Daddy (Scat Daddy) will run in Saturday=s GI Belmont S. ATalking to Carter Stewart, the principal partner for Magic City, he=s game,@ said McPeek, who sent out Sarava (Wild Again) to a 70-1 upset in the 2002 Belmont and Atigun (Istan) to a third-place finish here last year. AWe still believe this is a really, really good horse, but for whatever reason it hasn=t happened for him. Sometimes you throw deep and it goes incomplete, but you can=t score if you don=t throw. [Stewart] is the ideal client to throw deep and we won the [GI] Travers for him last year [with 33-1 dead-heat winner Golden Ticket {Speightstown}].@ Cont. p3 WinStar Farm stallions kicked off the summer with a bang, siring four new stakes winners from four different WinStar stallions, as well as the first winner by a freshman sire, over the June 1-2 weekend. 6/1 ARTIE SCHILLER MAIMONIDES Bellamy Road’s REIGNING CATFISH BELLAMY ROAD MORE THAN READY Springfield Stakes winner at AP BODEMEISTER PIONEEROF THE NILE Congrats’s KING HENRY COLONEL JOHN PURE PRIZE Penn Dash Stakes winner at PEN CONGRATS SIDNEY’S CANDY Harlan’s Holiday’s HITECHNOWEENIE DISTORTED HUMOR SPEIGHTSOWN* Panthers Stakes winner at PRM DROSSELMEYER SPRING AT LAST 6/2 GEMOLOGIST STREET HERO Distorted Humor’s LAUGH TRACK HARLAN’S HOLIDAY SUPER SAVER Vigil Stakes (G3) winner at WO HOLD ME BACK TIZNOW* Colonel John’s CASH CONVERSION KODIAK KOWBOY U S RANGER 1st two-year-old winner in MdSpWt at PID 3001 Pisgah Pike, Versailles, KY 40383 | (859) 873-1717 | Fax (859) 873-1612 | www.WinStarFarm.com *Taylor Made / WinStar Venture standing at WinStar In This Issue PEB’s TDN Sketch of the Week 60 Broad St., Suite 100 Red Bank, NJ 07701 (732) 747-8060 (732) 747-8955 (fax) www.thoroughbreddailynews.com www.thetdn.com Barry Weisbord, co-publisher [email protected] • @barryweisbord Sue Finley, co-publisher [email protected] • @suefinley Editorial [email protected] Jessica Martini, Editor-in-Chief Alan Carasso, Managing Editor Christina Bossinakis, Senior Editor Steve Sherack, Racing Editor Brian DiDonato, Racing Analyst/Soc. 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Information Technology Robert Williams, Director of IT [email protected] Gregg Casillo, DB Administrator, Programming Caulfield on Ruler of the World [email protected] Business Development It was another big weekend in Europe for Galileo, as the Coolmore Ireland Gary King, Director of Business Development resident sired both Saturday’s G1 Epsom Derby winner Ruler of the World (Ire) [email protected] and Sunday’s G1 Prix du Jockey-Club hero Intello (Ger). As Andrew Caulfield TDN Newmarket Bureau: Cafe Racing puts it, “Ruler of the World may have been an appropriate name for this year's [email protected] Derby, but it would have been even more appropriate for the colt's sire.” Sean Cronin Tom Frary Coverage begins page 5 TDN P HEADLINE NEWS • 6/4/13 • PAGE 3 of 7 • thoroughbreddailynews.com Frac Daddy cont. from p1 Frac Daddy finished second behind Belmont contender Overanalyze (Dixie Union) in the GI Arkansas Derby Apr. 13, but could only manage a 16th-place run in the GI Kentucky Derby. AI do believe the horse will run well,@ McPeek said of competing in the Belmont. AI think the pace in the Belmont will suit him well, too. He drew outside in the Derby and couldn=t get position, and I don=t think he handled the slop. He=s worked on a dry track a Frac Daddy Horsephotos couple times recently and worked freaky good. I think he=s got a big shot at it.@ Frac Daddy fired a four-furlong bullet in :47.80 at Churchill Downs May 31. He will be ridden by Alan Garcia for the first time since finishing second on debut going a mile in the Belmont mud last October. Orb Doing Fine after Sunday’s Work... Trainer Shug McGaughey said that Stuart Janney III and Phipps Stable=s GI Kentucky Derby hero Orb (Malibu Moon) was doing well following a :48.30 four- furlong breeze at Big Sandy Sunday. AHe came out of his work good, ate up good, walked this morning, seems to be fine,@ the Hall of Famer said Monday. With as many as 15 sophomores expected to contest the Classic, McGaughey admitted that he was concerned about traffic trouble for the late-running Orb, who figures to go favored Saturday. A[The large field is] more concerning than anything else because not all Orb & McGaughey of them in there belong, but they Horsephotos have as much right to run as anybody else, so I do think the race will be pretty spread out,@ said McGaughey. AHe ran with 18 in the Derby.@ Orb is looking to bounce back from a fourth-place finish in the GI Preakness S. three weeks ago. In other Belmont S. news... • Vyjack (Into Mischief)’s scheduled work Monday at Aqueduct was postponed until Tuesday because of rain. Julien Leparoux has secured the mount on the Pick Six Racing colorbearer. • Trainer Dominick Schettino said that a decision on whether Anthony and MaryEllen Bonomo’s Always in a Tiz (Tiznow) will run in the Belmont is expected Tuesday. TDN P HEADLINE NEWS • 6/4/13 • PAGE 4 of 7 • thoroughbreddailynews.com RACETRACK ROUND-UP PARIS AIM FOR OCOVANGO Prince Faisal=s Ocovango (GB) (Monsun {Ger}) will run next in the July 13 G1 Grand Prix de Paris, trainer Andre Fabre announced yesterday. Fifth with trouble in Saturday=s G1 Epsom Derby, the previously unbeaten G2 Prix Greffulhe winner will stick at a mile and a half for the Longchamp feature. AOcovango could have finished a bit closer, but he met two bits of trouble-- only what happens at Epsom all the time,@ Fabre told PA Sport. AI=m not complaining, he had his chance, and he may have been second or third at best with a clear run.@ Fabre also reiterated that Sunday=s G1 Prix du Jockey Club hero Intello (Ger) (Galileo {Ire}) will revert to a mile for the G1 Prix Jacques le Marois at Deauville Aug.