WEDNESDAY, MARCH 28, 2018 BODY & SOUL: MAKING MAYHEM F-T GULFSTREAM SALE by Robert D. Fierro, DataTrack International WEDNESDAY It's one thing when a stallion comes along with some really nice horses in his first couple of crops, but it's a whole 'nother smoke when the next three crops come along and he hasn't sustained the drive, so to speak. At that point the market usually determines he was just into mischief in the sandbox and won't be able to make mayhem in the whole schoolyard. In the case at hand, however, we have a horse actually named Into Mischief (Harlan=s Holiday), now well beyond kicking sand in his rivals' blinkers and on his way to writing a remarkable tale that has a basis in at least four different qualities ranging from pedigree to biomechanics. As a racehorse, Into Mischief came along before his multi-year champion half-sister Beholder (Henny Hughes) and his GI Breeders' Cup Juvenile Turf-winning half-brother Mendelssohn (Scat Daddy). Cont. p5 Fasig-Tipton Gulfstream | Fasig-Tipton by Jessica Martini IN TDN EUROPE TODAY HALLANDALE BEACH, Fl - After a well-attended under-tack show Monday, shoppers were out in force at the sales barns CHURCHILL TO SHUTTLE TO COOLMORE OZ Tuesday ahead of Wednesday=s Fasig-Tipton Gulfstream Multiple champion and dual Classic hero Churchill (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}) will shuttle to Coolmore Australia this coming Selected 2-Year-Olds in Training Sale. season. Click or tap here to go straight to TDN Europe. AWe are busy as hell,@ confirmed consignor Eddie Woods. AWe=ve been flat out since 8 a.m. with all the right fellas. What it leads to yet, I don=t know--if they all land in the same spots again like they do a lot of times, historically, at this sale. But listening to the guys talking, it seems like there is a little bit more to go around. I don=t know if there is. At OBS, there was no out-of-the-park horse, but there were a lot of horses who sold really, really well. And hopefully that is the case here. I haven=t heard who the out-of-the-park horse is here yet. Usually, you hear the chiming in the trees and I haven=t heard that yet. But several people who would know what they=re talking about have said this a really good-looking group of horses. So that would be great--more to go around.@ The Gulfstream auction has led off the 2-year-old sales season for the last several years, but this year it follows on an OBS March sale which produced mixed results, with the average down 10% and the median up nearly 16% from 2017 figures. AThe OBS median was up and hopefully the median here will be up,@ Woods said. AThe median is the real number at the end of the day.@ Cont. p3 STALLION LEADING 3YO & NEXT START STALLION EARNINGS 1 INTO MISCHIEF AUDIBLE $1,350,821 FLORIDA DERBY (G1) 2 MALIBU MOON MAGNUM MOON $1,047,082 ARKANSAS DERBY (G1) 3 TAPIT MADISON’S LUNA $909,465 PAT DAY MILE (G3) SOURCE: TDN SIRE LISTS, 3/27 LOOK FOR 2YOs AT F-T FLORIDA MALIBU MOON INTO MISCHIEF The Breeders’ Farm spendthriftfarm.com | 859.294.0030 PUBLISHER & CEO Sue Morris Finley @suefinley [email protected] V.P., INTERNATIONAL OPERATIONS Gary King @garykingTDN [email protected] EDITORIAL [email protected] Editor-in-Chief Jessica Martini @JessMartiniTDN Managing Editor Alan Carasso @EquinealTDN Wednesday, March 28, 2018 Senior Editor Steve Sherack @SteveSherackTDN Racing Editor Brian DiDonato @BDiDonatoTDN News and Features Editor Ben Massam @BMassamTDN Associate Editors Christie DeBernardis @CDeBernardisTDN Joe Bianca @JBiancaTDN Assistant Editor Bobby Klatt ADVERTISING [email protected] Director of Advertising Alycia Borer Advertising Manager Lia Best Advertising Designer Amanda Crelin Advertising Assistants Alexa Reisfield Rachel McCaffrey Photo Editor/Dir. of Distribution Sarah K. 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Bookkeeper Terry May [email protected] AMBITIOUS SPOT FOR MAIDEN WINNER 11 WORLDWIDE INFORMATION Juddmonte Farms homebred Hofburg (Tapit), an impressive maiden International Editor winner going two turns at Gulfstream Park Mar. 3, will make just his Kelsey Riley @kelseynrileyTDN third career start and first in a stakes in Saturday's GI Xpressbet.com [email protected] Florida Derby. European Editor Emma Berry [email protected] Associate International Editor Heather Anderson @HLAndersonTDN Newmarket Bureau, Cafe Racing Sean Cronin & Tom Frary [email protected] 60 Broad Street, Suite 100 Red Bank, NJ 07701 732-747-8060 | 732-747-8955 (fax) www.TheTDN.com Horse of the Year HORSE OF A LIFETIME Fastest Breeders’ Cup Classic (G1) winner ever and sire of: 11 G1 winners, 3 STAKES WINNERS on Sunday, 7 millionaires & incl. RUNAWAY GHOST 4 champions who is Kentucky Derby (G1) bound after a runaway victory in the $800,000 Sunland Derby (G3). 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Hopefully that=s in better shape Frommer will send six juveniles through the ring Wednesday here than it has been before, but the one at OBS was very afternoon, including a City Zip colt (hip 1) who worked Monday good.@ in :10 1/5 and who will be Consignor Cary Frommer sold two first through the ring when of the three seven-figure lots at last bidding begins in the year=s Gulfstream sale, including Gulfstream paddock at 3 p.m. the $1.5-million sale-topping filly by AI think it was a tough track Uncle Mo, and she was responsible to work on [Monday] and the for a $1-million Uncle Mo colt at the horses, for the most part, did auction in 2016. their job,@ Frommer said of AIt=s been crazy,@ Frommer said in her under-tack show results. a rare break between showings at AOur horses here are very the sales barn Tuesday morning. nice. We paid more for them AIt=s been very, very busy.@ than we have in the past, we Frommer admitted she was stretched to buy a really slightly disappointed with her good horse. They did their Cary Frommer | Fasig-Tipton results at the March sale two weeks job and hopefully we=ll get ago, when only two of her seven horses through the ring sold. rewarded for it.@ AWe=re certainly busy [at Gulfstream], but we were busy at Tom McCrocklin sent out two fillies to work during Monday=s OBS, so I=m a little tentative about getting excited about the under-tack preview, including a daughter of Orb (hip 54) who traffic here,@ Frommer said. AI think I had very nice horses [at turned in the bullet quarter-mile drill of :21 flat. 2018 Fee: $15,000 Stands and Nurses TWO OF THE TOP KENTUCKY OAKS CONTENDERS ARE BY MIDNIGHT LUTE THE BEST IN THE WEST Oaks-Bound Midnight Bisou, who broke her maiden in the Santa Ynez Stakes (Gr. 2), won the Santa Ysabel S. (Gr. 3) in a hand ride on March 3rd. A BEAST IN THE EAST Now 4 wins in 5 starts, Midnight Disguise won the $200,000 Busher S. at Aqueduct with authority. She is one of two Oaks fillies by Midnight Lute with their sites set on the first Friday in May. 640 N. Yarnallton Pike, Lexington, KY 40511 (859) 255-8290 • fax (859) 281-6148 www.hillndalefarms.com LGB, LLC 2018 / Photo: Benoit / Chelsea Durand / Lee Thomas TDN HEADLINE NEWS • PAGE 4 OF 12 • THETDN.COM WEDNESDAY • MARCH 28, 2018 AHow could you not be,@ McCrocklin said when asked if he was happy with the filly=s work. AI think it was a really, really nice work. She trained very well all week. She prepped the week before the breeze show on Monday and she really duplicated it on breeze day.@ The filly is out of Taboo (Forestry), a daughter of Grade I winner Dream of Summer (Siberian Summer) and a half to Creative Cause (Giant=s Causeway) and Destin (Giant=s Causeway). AShe=s scary talented,@ McCrocklin, who signed the ticket on the filly for $130,000 at last year=s Fasig-Tipton Saratoga sale, said. AShe already has a built-in pedigree. I think she=s the whole package for a racing or broodmare prospect.@ McCrocklin agreed action at the barns Tuesday was frenetic.