MONDAY, APRIL 20, 2015 732-747-8060 $ TDN Home Page Click Here NUCLEAR SCAN FOR SHARED BELIEF DURAMENTE DOMINATES JAPANESE GUINEAS Shared Belief (Candy Ride {Arg}) will undergo a Sunday Racing=s Duramente (Jpn) (King Kamehameha nuclear scan after being pulled up as the 3-10 favorite {Jpn}) had displayed talent in his four previous outings in Saturday=s GII Charles Town Classic. AHe=s going for at Tokyo Racecourse, never finishing worse than a scan at a facility near the track and see if they can second, but the bay showed a new dimension Sunday find anything,@ Dan Ward, assistant to trainer Jerry when rolling down the middle of the track to dominate Hollendorfer, confirmed Sunday at Santa Anita. AWe his G1 Satsuki Sho (Japanese 2000 Guineas) foes while don=t think it=s serious.@ Shared Belief broke awkwardly earning his first stakes victory. Dispatched as the in Saturday=s Charles Town Classic and was not bettors= third choice, Duramente dropped back to near travelling well when Mike Smith pulled him up entering last soon after the break and had just one trailing as he the second turn. Track veterinarian Dr. Elizabeth Daniel galloped along the rail noted soft tissue swelling in his right stifle after the race. around the first bend. Biding his time down the backstretch under GET HAPPY MISTER UPSETS SAN SIMEON Mirco Demuro, Annette Bishop=s Get Happy Mister (First Samurai), Duramente improved a who had put together a string of five straight victories few positions on the at Arapahoe Park in his native state of Colorado, run into the final bend, returned from seventh months on the sidelines and but as the field swung found himself right at home on the Santa Anita turf, into the straight he charging to the lead late to take the GIII San Simeon S. Duramente faced a wall of horses by one length. Dismissed at 12-1, the 5-year-old JRA in front of him. gelding settled in third as Sweet Swap (Candy Ride Duramente caused {Arg}) and Pure Tactics (Pure Prize) opened up a five- some drama when, angled out by Demuro, he swerved length advantage while sailing through fractions of dramatically, causing some interference, but that :22.16 and :43.84 over the downhill turf course. Get mishap was overshadowed by his sparkling turn of foot Happy Mister on once in the clear. He swept past fellow Sunday Racing the inside and Holy colorbearer Real Steel (Jpn) (Deep Impact {Jpn}) in the Lute (Midnight closing strides to post a clear-cut 1 1/2 length victory. Lute) from the Favored Kitasan Black (Jpn) (Black Tide {Jpn}) failed to outside swarmed show his usual fire but stuck on for third. Cont. p9 past the pacesetters in the final sixteenth, with Get Happy Mister going best of all late. Favored Home Run Kitten (Kitten=s Joy) rallied from last to be third. The San Simeon was the first stakes victory for trainer Annette Bishop leads Get Happy Mister into Mark Tsagalakis. AI winner’s circle. Benoit have a very good trainer,@ the Denver-based Bishop said of her conditioner and son-in-law. AHe calls the shots.@ When asked how many years he has been training, Tsagalakis said, AToo many to count, probably close to 25 years. I=ve won some races, but never a stakes. The race came up, he was ready to go, we were eligible for it, it was like >Let=s give it a try.= We had him out on the turf the other day, he seemed to like it, and he did.@ Cont. p3 See the 145 NY-bred 2-year-olds in training offered at OBS Spring — April 21-24 catalog pages >> nytbreeders.org | 518.587.0777 For more information visit our website or call 518.388.0174 BREEZE PHOTO BY SERITA HULT © IN THIS ISSUE President & Co-Publisher: Barry Weisbord [email protected] @barryweisbord Sr. V.P. & Co-Publisher: Sue Finley [email protected] @suefinley V.P., International Operations: Gary King I’m a Chatterbox Tunes Up [email protected] @garykingTDN EDITORIAL Leading GI Kentucky Oaks contender I’m a Chatterbox [email protected] Editor-in-Chief: Jessica Martini (Munnings) tuned up for the May 1 Classic with a five-furlong Managing Editor: Alan Carasso drill at Keeneland Sunday. 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Flight Risk Newmarket Bureau, Cafe Racing: Sean Cronin & Tom Frary Racing Post [email protected] Page 6 60 Broad Street, Suite 100 Red Bank, NJ 07701 732-747-8060 | 732-747-8955 (fax) www.thoroughbreddailynews.com www.thetdn.com EST Race 9:55a Prix Noailles-G3, Lon TDN P HEADLINE NEWS • 4/20/15 • PAGE 3 of 10 • thoroughbreddailynews.com Winning rider Tyler Baze was impressed with his charge=s performance. AHe was really nice to ride, a really classy horse,@ Baze said. AI=ve never been on him, but I watched all his replays and rode him accordingly. It looks like he can do anything; he loves to run. I let him run out of there and had a beautiful trip. When Pure Tactics and Sweet Swap hooked up in front of me and opened up five, I knew they were flying. I just took Get Happy Upsets San Simeon (cont. from p1) my time. When the time was right he just...he=s so big As for what is next for Get Happy Mister, Tsagalakis and strong and he has a huge stride. Just a really added, AThe plan is to go back home to Colorado and classy horse.@ then come back here in the fall and run here again. The winner=s dam, Sara Margaret, was a homebred We=ll play it by ear, but for breeder Willard Burbach and was twice stakes- that was the original plan placed at Arapahoe Park. and we=ll just enjoy it for now and think about that Sunday, Santa Anita Park next week.@ SAN SIMEON S.-GIII, $100,500, SAX, 4-19, 4yo/up, Get Happy Mister a6 1/2fT, 1:13, fm. began his career with 1--@GET HAPPY MISTER, 118, g, 5, by First Samurai four dominant victories at 1st Dam: Sara Margaret (SP), by Elusive Quality Arapahoe Park in the 2nd Dam: Kinda Beau, by Beau's Eagle summer of 2012. 3rd Dam: My Kinda Lady, by Canadian Gil Wintering at Oaklawn Get Happy Mister ($46,000 yrl '11 COLAUG). O-Annette Bishop; Park with trainer Kelly Benoit B-Willard Burbach (CO); T-Mark D Tsagalakis; J-Tyler Von Hemel in 2013, the Baze. $60,000. Lifetime Record: 14-11-0-0, bay came away with a victory in the Northern Spur S. $384,928. Werk Nick Rating: A+. Click for the and was off 11 months before finishing fourth in the eNicks report & 5-cross pedigree. Santana Mile at Santa Anita last March for Tsagalakis. 2--Holy Lute, 118, h, 5, Midnight Lute--Holy Christmas, A four-time stakes winner in Colorado last summer for by Holy Bull. ($65,000 wnlg '10 KEENOV; $115,000 Ken Gleason, Get Happy Mister was making his first RNA yrl '11 KEESEP). O-Class Racing Stable; B-Lynn turf appearance in his first start since winning the B Schiff (KY); T-James M Cassidy. $20,000. Arapahoe Classic last August. AI bought him at a 2-year-old sale in Arapahoe,@ 3--Home Run Kitten, 120, c, 4, Kitten=s Joy--Grand Annette Bishop, who has been involved in racing for Slam Girl, by Grand Slam. O-Tarabilla Farms Inc; about 15 years, recalled. AHe has a little history with his B-Kenneth L & Sarah K Ramsey (KY); T-David E name, Get Happy Mister. We were sitting at the auction Hofmans. $12,000. and I was with my trainer, Butch Gleason. He was Margins: 1, 1, NK. Odds: 12.60, 2.50, 2.20. getting nervous because everyone was bidding on him. Also Ran: Outside Nashville, Sweet Swap, Pure Tactics, U S Citizen.