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TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 2012 732-747-8060 $ TDN Home Page Click Here ‘SHACK’ CONNECTIONS OPT FOR CLARK TWO WRIGHT RUNNERS IN CITATION Mike Lauffer, Bill Cubbedge and Phillips Racing B.J. Wright=s Jeranimo (Congaree) will face seven Partnership=s Shackleford (Forestry) will run in Friday=s accomplished foes as he looks to defend his title in GI Clark H. at Churchill Downs, trainer Dale Romans Friday=s GII Citation H. at Betfair Hollywood Park. An confirmed impressive winner of a key renewal of the Monday. The GI Shoemaker Mile in June, the 6-year-old comes off a GI Preakness sixth-place run in the GI Breeders= Cup Mile Nov. 3. The S. and GI Citation, which kicks off the track=s three-day turf Metropolitan festival, also features the return of Wright=s Ultimate H. winner was Eagle (Mizzen Mast), who took the GI Hollywood Derby also under during last year=s Turf Festival. The 4-year-old has been consideration off since a 10th-place finish in the GI Santa Anita H. in for Saturday=s March. Stuart S. Janney III=s GI Maker=s 46 Mile winner GI Cigar Mile Data Link (War Front) invades from the East Coast. H. at Aqueduct. Friday, Betfair Hollywood Park, post time: 7:35 p.m. EST Shackleford breezed four furlongs at Churchill AWe=re just CITATION H.-GII, $250,000, 3yo/up, 1 1/16mT Saturday in :47.80 (2/57) going to stay PP HORSE SIRE JOCKEY TRAINER WT Churchill Downs/Reed Palmer home and run 1 Ultimate Eagle K Mizzen Mast Pedroza Pender 119 here at our 2 Doubles Partner Rock Hard Ten Leparoux Pletcher 119 3 Data Link War Front Gomez McGaughey III 120 home track where he=s training everyday and not ship,@ K explained Romans. AHe=s run well here.@ Shackleford 4 Tle of a Chmpn Tale of the Cat Bejarano Mulhall 114 broke his maiden under the Twin Spires almost exactly 5 Calimonco Storm Cat Garcia Sadler 115 6 Jeranimo Congaree Valdivia Jr. Pender 122 two years ago. He was fourth in the 2011 GI Kentucky K Derby before winning the Preakness and finished up his 7 Temple's Door Lrdsnimx (Brz) Baze Mullins 114 8 Interaction (Arg) Easing Along Espinoza McAnally 117 sophomore campaign with a runner-up effort in the GI Breeders= Cup Dirt Mile at Churchill. The well-built chestnut annexed the GII Churchill Downs S. this May before taking Look for the K throughout the TDN graded stakes the Met Mile, but is looking to entries, denoting Keeneland sales graduates. bounce back from a seventh-place run in this year=s Dirt Mile at Santa Anita Nov. 3. The earner of more than $2.8 million to date is expected to retire to stud at Darby Dan Farm after the Clark. AHe=s a special horse; he=s been a big part of the stable and we=re sure going to miss him when he=s gone,@ Romans, who has already tallied eight Grade I wins this year, said. Romans Horsephotos AThis is a once-in-a-lifetime type of horse. He ranks right up there with the top horses I=ve ever trained. There are four or five in that elite group, and he=s one of them.@ Want your event listed on the TDN Industry Calendar, found on our website? Click here to email us with the details. 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 Marie Kizenko, Senior Editor Christina Bossinakis, Senior Editor Lucas Marquardt, Features Editor Steve Sherack, Racing Editor Peb’s TDN Sketch of the Week is available on Brian DiDonato, Racing Analyst/Soc. Media Dir. www.pebsite.com Currently accepting commissions. 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Vicki Forbes, Director of Customer Service Information Technology Coverage begins page 3 Robert Williams, Director of IT Churchill Downs/Reed Palmer [email protected] Gregg Casillo, DB Administrator, Programming [email protected] Marketing Gary King, Marketing Manager More Coverage [email protected] New Black-type Requirements Announced page 1-ATW TDN Newmarket Bureau: Cafe Racing Big Brown, Tiz Wonderful Get Winners in Japan page 3-ATW [email protected] Sean Cronin Fast November Colt Tops Goffs Opener page 3-ATW Tom Frary Returns Down at Arqana Autumn page 4-ATW TDN P HEADLINE NEWS • 11/20/12 • PAGE 3 of 7 • thoroughbreddailynews.com I=m pleased to say that there are other ways in which PEDIGREE INSIGHTS Galileo promises to follow the immaculate example set B Y A N D R E W C A U L F I E L D by his sire. We already know that he has made a great start as a sire of sires. Last week saw Teofilo Saturday, Churchill Downs represented by the 11th stakes winner from his first COMMONWEALTH TURF S.-GIII, $117,100, CDX, two crops, thanks to Paene Magnus, a colt who is 11-17, 3yo, 1 1/16mT, 1:42 1/5, fm. intriguingly inbred 3x2 to Danehill. Teofilo=s stakes 1--#@LEA, 118, c, 3, by First Samurai winners feature six Group winners, headed by the 1st Dam: Greenery (MSP, $109,140), by Galileo (Ire) Group 1 juvenile scorers Parish Hall and Loch Garman. 2nd Dam: High Savannah (GB), by Rousillon We have also seen New Approach take this year=s 3rd Dam: Stinging Nettle (GB), by Sharpen Up (GB) freshman sires= title by a substantial margin, thanks O-Claiborne Farm & Adele B Dilschneider (KY); largely to his unbeaten son Dawn Approach, who looks T-Albert M Stall Jr; J-Brian Joseph Hernandez Jr. likely to take the title of champion 2-year-old. The $66,068. Lifetime Record: 5-3-1-1, $200,728. owners of the 220 mares which made Galileo=s son Werk Nick Rating: A. Click for the eNicks report & 5-cross pedigree. Cape Blanco the busiest stallion in the U.S. earlier this year must be feeling pleased with themselves. When Sadler=s Wells clocked up the unique total of Considering the scope of the achievements by 14 sires= championships in the years between 1992 and Sadler=s Wells=s sons, it is easy enough to overlook the 2004, it seemed highly unlikely that any modern-day tremendous work done by his broodmare daughters. stallion would ever come close to matching his Although he has been dislodged from top place on the extraordinary achievements. There are already signs, broodmare sires= list by Danehill this year, he had been though, that his son Galileo has his sights set on doing champion sire in this division in each of the previous exactly that. At the age of 14, he is guaranteed to end seven years. Cont. p4 this year as Britain and Ireland=s champion sire by a huge margin, in the process recording his fourth To return to today=s edition of the TDN championship in the last five years. after viewing an external link, please be sure to use the back button on your All horses in the TDN are bred in North America, unless otherwise indicated Internet browser. TDN P HEADLINE NEWS • 11/20/12 • PAGE 4 of 7 • thoroughbreddailynews.com Caulfield cont. Before anyone leaps to the conclusion that this is the It is still very early days to be judging Galileo in this only route to success for a Galileo mare, I should point role, as his eldest daughters are still only nine years old. out that Danzig line stallions have many more foals out Galileo mares have just over 200 foals of racing age in of Galileo mares than stallions from other lines. For the Northern Hemisphere, of which 90 are 2-year-olds, example, the stallions with the largest representatives so many of them are still either unraced or lightly tried. (in both hemispheres) are Danehill Dancer (with Several of them have done sufficiently well, though, to 11 foals), Invincible Spirit (10), Fastnet Rock (9), Duke suggest that breeders should take a look at Galileo=s of Marmalade (8), Dylan Thomas (8), Oratorio (7), Oasis daughters at the upcoming breeding stock sales. They Dream (6) and Cape Cross (6). The only interloper is will have plenty to choose from, as there are Kingmambo=s son Dubai Destination, with seven. 11 scheduled to sell at Goffs later this week, including American breeders should note that Saamidd, the a winning sister to Teofilo, in foal to Lawman, and an first Group winner out of a Galileo mare, is by Street unraced sister to the Irish Derby winner Soldier of Cry and that Solemn, a recent winner of the Geelong Fortune, in foal to Fastnet Rock. Then there are 26 Classic in Australia, is by Bernardini. Over in England, catalogued at Tattersalls, plus another three at Arqana. Galileo mares had high-priced 2012 yearlings by Elusive Galileo=s daughters increased their total of Quality=s son Raven=s Pass and by Dubawi, which Group/Graded winners to six when the progressive Lea underlines the fact that breeders needn=t follow one came out on top in the GIII Commonwealth Turf S.