MONDAY, JUNE 29, 2020 DIVERSITY IN RACING: ANGEL CORDERO JR. DELAYED FASIG MIDLANTIC by Bill Finley SALE OPENS MONDAY Editor=s note: As many people in the United States and around the world question their personal views on diversity and racial inclusion, we decided to look inwardly on our industry, and we found it wanting. So we asked a tough question to several industry members: How do we make racing at its highest level more diverse? As a dark-skinned native of Puerto Rico trying to break into U.S. racing in the early Sixties against a largely white rider colony in New York, Angel Cordero Jr. may have faced more racism than anybody working in racing today. It happened to him inside and outside of the sport. More than 50 years later, much has changed in racing and Cordero said he was proud of the strides Hispanic jockeys have made. At most tracks, they dominate the riders= standings. Cont. p4 Fasig-Tipton Midlantic sales grounds | Fasig-Tipton photo IN TDN EUROPE TODAY by Jessica Martini MAGICAL STUNNING IN PRETTY POLLY TIMONIUM, MD - The Fasig-Tipton Midlantic 2-Year-Olds in Magical (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}) earned yet another top-level Training Sale, postponed from its traditional May date due to triumph in the G1 Pretty Polly S. at The Curragh on Sunday. the coronavirus pandemic, kicks off its two-day run at the Click or tap here to go straight to TDN Europe. Maryland State Fairgrounds in Timonium Monday morning with bidding scheduled to begin at 11 a.m. A total of 563 juveniles were catalogued for the auction, with 154 listed outs as of Sunday afternoon. Buyers were out in force on a steamy morning at the sales barns Sunday, with trainers like Barclay Tagg, John Servis, Ron Moquette, Mike Trombetta and Mark Hennig all making the rounds along with bloodstock agents David Ingordo, Dennis O=Neill, Joe Miller, Josh Stevens, Phil Hager, Patrick Lawley Wakelin, Alistair Roden and Patti Miller. Donato Lanni and owner Michael Lund Petersen who bought the $1.8-million future GI Acorn S. winner Gamine (Into Mischief) at last year=s sale, were out shopping Sunday morning and stopped by the consignment of Bobby Dodd, who sold the record-setting filly in 2019. Dodd, who returns with a five-horse consignment this year, is hoping for solid sales results despite uncertain conditions around the globe. AYesterday traffic [at the barn] was pretty good and today is better,@ Dodd said. 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Under the circumstances and the way the world is right now, I think that=s what a person needs to do, unless you are planning on going racing.@ Gamine=s seven-figure price tag was the most ever paid for a horse out of the Midlantic sales ring and highlighted an auction which set records for both gross and average. AWe sold a really nice horse a year ago and everyone is coming back and congratulating us,@ Dodd said. ALast year, I really thought that filly was special. Obviously, I didn=t know she was going to bring $1.8 million and I didn=t really know how special she was, but I thought she was a really nice filly. I have some nice horses this year, I don=t honestly think I have one like her. But you never know what=s going to happenBhow one is going to bloom.@ simply, AEverything,@ before adding, AIf you don=t like him, you don=t like horses.@ Brendemuehl purchased the colt for Robert Lambe for $40,000 from Sally Thomas=s consignment at last year=s Fasig-Tipton Midlantic October Yearling Sale. AI keep my mares with Sally in Kentucky, so when Sally tells me she likes a horse, I listen,@ Brendemuehl said. AMy client and I went to get lunch at Ryleigh's Oyster Bar and all of a sudden there were a bunch of outs and he was coming up, so I called Michael Lund Petersen sits below Gamine poster Peter Penny at the Fasig office and told him he had to bid on the at Bobby Dodd=s barn Sunday horse for me. So we bought him and we named him Mr. Penny. He=s been my favorite horse all year long.@ Action was constant at Danzel Brendemuehl=s Classic While declining to speculate on what the strength of the Bloodstock consignment Sunday morning. market will be in Timonium, Kip Elser said there were plenty of AObviously we are in very difficult times, so it=s very shoppers around his Kirkwood Stables consignment this encouraging to see this many people here. We=ve been run off weekend. our feet,@ Brendemuehl said. ATraffic is right about normalBcertainly no less,@ Elser said. Classic Bloodstock=s main pre-sale attraction is a colt from the AWhat that translates to for tomorrow and the next day, I first crop of red-hot freshman sire Not This Time (hip 213) who couldn=t begin to say, but so far we are right on par with the last worked in :10 1/5 during last week=s under-tack preview. couple of years as far as traffic.@ AYesterday we had 60 shows on 213 and probably more--I Elser had planned to offer a group of horses who would gallop didn=t record them all because I can=t keep up,@ Brendemuehl at the under-tack show ahead of Fasig-Tipton Gulfstream in said. March, but with that boutique auction cancelled, the group all Asked what she liked about the handsome chestnut, she said turned in quarter-mile works last week in Timonium. Cont. p4 TDN HEADLINE NEWS • PAGE 4 OF 11 • THETDN.COM MONDAY • JUNE 29, 2020 AThe [Gulfstream] sale was cancelled and the normal progression is that those horses would be breezing by this time of year,@ Elser said. ASo that=s what we did. We put more bottom in them. We were actually considering going three-eighths here with all of them and just showing the logical progression to get to the races. But the way the track is laid out here, I didn=t think coming right out of the paddock where it is gave them enough of a warm-up to go three-eighths. So we went quarters and galloped out. They were very consistent and did what they were supposed to do. And I hope that people see it as one more step on the way to getting to the races. This would have been our third year doing it. I still like the idea and the program just as much.@ While the recent OBS Spring Sale suffered declines, consignor David Scanlon is looking for increased action in Maryland as buyers adapt to market conditions and take advantage of the geography of an auction held within a few hours drive of several racetracks. AI am highly optimistic [about the sale],@ Scanlon said. AWe brought more up here, I thought maybe with the little bit later start, it would give everyone time to get going. After seeing one sale already happen, I think people are going to see it=s a buyers market.