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TATTS PART ONE CONCLUDES HEADLINE p10-11 NEWS For information about TDN, DELIVERED EACH NIGHT BY FAX AND FREE BY E-MAIL TO SUBSCRIBERS OF call 732-747-8060. www.thoroughbreddailynews.com SATURDAY, OCTOBER 7, 2006 A GRADE ONE SATURDAY BEL AIR THE ALCIBIADES BEAUTY It’s four weeks until the 23rd running of the Breeders’ It isn’t often that Frank Brothers will send a maiden Cup at Churchill Downs Nov. 4, and no fewer than into a graded-stakes contest, but Bruce Lunsford’s Bel eight Grade I races will be decided from sea to shining Air Beauty (Smart Strike) made the conditioner look like sea this afternoon. At Belmont Park, the connections of a genius yesterday, just three horses were courageous enough to tackle the winning the featured assignment of taking on Bernardini GII Darley Alcibiades S. (A.P. Indy) in the GI Jockey Club Gold on opening day at Cup. In facing fellow sophomore and Keeneland. Sent off at Irish raider Dylan Thomas (Ire) odds of 47-1, the bay (Danehill), in some eyes Europe’s top filly bushed with GIII three-year-old, and two others, the Schuylerville S. winner Darley runner will be part of the small- Cotton Blossom (Bro- est Jockey Club field since Waquoit ken Vow) in upper Bel Air Beauty Pat Lang bested three other rivals by 15 lengths stretch, engaged fa- in 1988. “He’s done everything we vored Untouched Talent (Storm Cat) inside the final could have possibly asked him to do furlong and drove past for the victory. this year facing three-year-olds,” Alcibiades S. cont. p2 trainer Tom Albertrani said. “This is another challenge for him facing older Friday, Keeneland Race Course horses, but right now I’ve got a world DARLEY ALCIBIADES S.-GII, $400,000, KEE, 10-6, of confidence that this horse will go 2yo, f, 1 1/16m, 1:45 1/5, ft. out there and run his race. You have to take each race 1--@#BEL AIR BEAUTY, 118, f, 2, by Smart Strike individually and respect each horse that’s in there.” In 1st Dam: Awe That (SP), by Boundary the GI Vosburgh S., Henny Hughes (Hennessy) will try 2nd Dam: Bangled, by Alysheba to cement his status as the favorite for the GI Breeders’ 3rd Dam: Green Greek, by Green Ticket Cup Sprint, but must defeat Silver Train (Old Trieste), ($210,000 yrl '05 KEESEP). O-Bruce Lunsford; who looks to run his winning streak at Big Sandy to six B-Jaime S Carrion Trustee (KY); T-Frank L Brothers; straight. English Channel (Smart Strike) looks to regain J-F K Jara; $248,000. Lifetime Record: 2-1-1-0, some of his lost luster in the GI Joe Hirsch Turf Classic, $252,440. Film Maker (Dynaformer), on the board in the past two 2--Untouched Talent, 118, f, 2, Storm Cat--Parade runnings of the Filly and Mare Turf, may go favored in Queen, by A.P. Indy. ($310,000 yrl '05 KEESEP; the GI Flower Bowl and Fleet Indian (Indian Charlie) $500,000 2yo 2006 BESMAR ). O-Sikura, Tommy goes for her eighth straight win in the GI Beldame S. At Town Thoroughbreds, Vreeland, et al; B-W S Farish Keeneland, Miesque’s Approval (Miesque’s Son) & E J Hudson Jr Irrevocable Trust (KY); T-Jeff Bonde; squares off with Silent Name (Jpn) and G1 French $80,000. 2000 Guineas winner Aussie Rules (Danehill) in the GI 3--Her Majesty, 118, f, 2, Giant's Causeway--Slide, by Shadwell Turf Mile and Circular Quay (Thunder Gulch) Smarten. ($285,000 wlng '04 KEENOV; $650,000 looks to remain undefeated as he tries two turns in the yrl '05 FTSAUG). O-Derrick Smith & Michael Tabor; GI Lane’s End Breeders’ Futurity. The GI Ancient Title B-Pajet Bloodstock (KY); T-Patrick L Biancone; Breeders’ Cup S. at Santa Anita features Bordonaro $40,000. (Memo {Chi}) and top Breeders’ Cup chances Aragorn Margins: 3/4, 2HF, NO. Odds: 47.40, 2.60, 7.40. (Ire) (Giant’s Causeway) and Lava Man (Slew City Slew) Also Ran: Cotton Blossom, Gatorize, Appealing Zophie, go postward in the GII Oak Tree BC Mile and GII Good- Get Ready Bertie, She's Included, Beautiful Venue, Call wood BC H., respectively. the Kitty, X Star, Pro Pink, Lisa M, Boat's Ghost. www.coolmore.com TDN P HEADLINE NEWS • 10/7/06 • PAGE 2 of 11 Darley Alcibiades S. cont. Today’s Graded Stakes She’s A Beaut... brought to you by Bel Air Beauty had just the one previous start to her credit, a maiden over the Turfway Polytrack Sept. 9. Bet down to 7-2 for that one-mile affair, the $210,000 Keeneland September yearling graduate found herself close to a dawdling pace, but lacked room and was boxed in at the quarter pole. Once extricated from that predicament, she rallied nicely, but settled for second Click for TV by a head. Apparently, Brothers had seen enough to 8:10a Cornwallis S.-G3, ASC --------- --- merit the hike into stakes competition. Settled in 9:45a Autumn S.-G3, ASC --------- --- midpack as GI Spinaway S. victress Appealing Zophie 3:36p Beldame H.-GI, BEL (brisnet.com PPs) TVG (Successful Appeal) led through moderate fractions, Bel 3:50p Cotillion BC H.-GII, PHA (brisnet.com PPs) TVG Air Beauty advanced along the inside on the back- 4:08p Flower Bowl Inv. S.-GI, BEL (brisnet.com PPs) TVG stretch and right on to the heels of the leading group. 4:25p Phoenix BC S.-GIII, KEE (brisnet.com PPs) TVG Patiently handled approaching the stretch, she was 4:36p Oak Tree BC Mile S.-GII, OSA (brisnet.com PPs) TVG steered out in upper stretch and outfought Untouched 4:43p Vosburgh H.-GI, BEL (brisnet.com PPs) ESPN2 Talent to the wire. 5:00p Breeders’ Futurity-GI, KEE (brisnet.com PPs) ESPN2 Click for the brisnet.com chart or the free brisnet.com 5:20p JH Turf Classic Inv. S.-GI, BEL (brisnet.com PPs) ESPN2 catalogue-style pedigree. Video, sponsored by Taylor 5:40p Turf Mile S.-GI, KEE (brisnet.com PPs) ESPN2 Made. 6:00p Jockey Club Gold Cup-GI, BEL (brisnet.com PPs) ESPN2 6:17p Goodwood BC H.-GII, OSA (brisnet.com PPs) ESPN2 7:47p Ancient Title BC S.-GI, OSA (brisnet.com PPs) TVG 9:40p Indiana Derby-GII, HOO (brisnet.com PPs) TVG All Post Times are Eastern Daylight Time. TAYLOR MADE SALES AGENCY Click here to download all brisnet.com PPs of today’s graded races. AT FASIG-TIPTON NOVEMBER RIVA RIDGE-G2 WINNER SELLS ON SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 5TH FIRE SLAM TO VINERY! REGALLY APPEALING (I/F UNBRIDLED’S SONG) Click here for more... HIP 186 - DAM OF 2006 INDIANA DERBY [G2] STARTER MANTOLOKING P P R E V I E W S P (859) 885-3345 • www.taylormadesales.com You can also pick up a 9th-KEE (GII Darley Alcibiades S.) Bel Air Beauty copy of the TDN today (Smart Strike) belies her inexperience. on the Keeneland 8th-KEE (GIII Sycamore BC H.) Revved Up (Sultry backstretch courtesy of Song) gets the job done on opening day. TDN P HEADLINE NEWS • 10/7/06 • PAGE 3 of 11 Stakes Previews cont. Saturday, Belmont Park, post time: 5:20 p.m. EDT JOE HIRSCH TURF CLASSIC INVITATIONAL S.-GI, Saturday, Belmont Park, post time: 6:00 p.m. EDT $600,000, 3yo/up, 1 1/2mT JOCKEY CLUB GOLD CUP S.-GI, $750,000, 3yo/up, PP HORSE SIRE TRAINER ODDS 1 1/4m 1 Frost Giant Giant’s Causeway O’Brien 6-1 PP HORSE SIRE TRAINER ODDS 2a Icy Atlantic Stormy Atlantic Pletcher 4-5 1 Bernardini A.P. Indy Albertrani 1-2 3 Freedonia (GB) Selkirk Hammond 4-1 2 Dylan Thomas (Ire) Danehill A O’Brien 2-1 4 Dreadnaught Lac Ouimet Voss 8-1 3 Wanderin Boy Seeking the Gold Zito 5-1 5a English Channel Smart Strike Pletcher 4-5 4 Andromeda’s Hero Fusaichi Pegasus Zito 15-1 6 Interpatation Langfuhr Barbara 15-1 He may not have made the Churchill starting gate on 7 Royal Highness (Ger) Monsun (Ger) Bary 5-1 the first Saturday in May, but a win this afternoon from English Channel has a tendency to overrace when he Bernardini will earn him a spot as the favorite in the GI lands in a paceless race, so, with that in mind, owner Breeders’ Cup Classic on the first Saturday in Novem- Jim Scatuorchio reached into his pocket and acquired ber. But for a fourth on his Jan. 7 debut at Gulfstream Icy Atlantic to try to insure an honestly run affair. Park, a race in which he Runner-up in this a year ago and subsequently fifth in apparently bled, the striking the GI Breeders’ Cup Turf, the four-year-old bested bay would be undefeated. In Cacique (Ire) in the GI Woodford Reserve Turf Classic winning his subsequent five May 6, but the Juddmonte runner exacted his revenge starts, no horse has so and beat English Channel into fourth in the GI much as come close to warming up the Darley run- Manhattan H. June 10. The chestnut found the line a ner, who rose to national half-length better than Cacique in the GI United Nations prominence with his “tar- S. July 8, but he is coming off a lackluster fourth as the nished” success in the GI favorite in the GI Arlington Million. The top three from Preakness S. in May. With that Aug.