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Biomechanics & Cardio Scores HEADLINE for Yearlings, 2YOs, Racehorses, Mares & Stallions NEWS BreezeFigs™ at the Two-Year-Old Sales For information about TDN, DATATRACK call 732-747-8060. www.biodatatrack.com www.thoroughbreddailynews.com SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 2009 Bob Fierro • Jay Kilgore • Frank Mitchell STARS OF TOMORROW, TAKE 1 BREEDERS’ CUP The 2009 Fall Meet at Churchill Downs kicks off today with the Stars of Tomorrow I card, featuring 11 races for juveniles. Dublin BULLETIN (Afleet Alex), who hit the national radar with a sharp win in the GI Three Chim- ZENYATTA GETS IN THE GROOVE neys Hopeful S. on Labor Day at Unbeaten Zenyatta (Street Cry {Ire}) tuned up for her Saratoga, saw his Breeders= Cup--and date with destiny by breezing six furlong in 1:12.40 at championship--hopes dashed when he Hollywood Park yesterday morning. Regular rider Mike was a flat fifth at 3-5 in the GI Cham- Smith piloted the big pagne S. at Belmont Oct. 10. The chest- mare, who moved nut colt has two solid works under the Horsephotos past stablemate Twin Spires in the interim, and adds Green Cat (Stormin blinkers this time. AHe has done very well since the Fever) with ease in Champagne,@ said Hall of Fame trainer D. Wayne Lukas. the lane (video). AShe AI did not consider the Breeders= Cup with him, because went very well and I did not want to run him on the artificial [Pro-Ride everyone was surface at Santa Anita].@ Lukas added, AHe=s my best pleased,@ said trainer two-year-old, and he may be one of the best in the John Shirreffs. AWe=ll country. Over the past few years, he ranks right with discuss whether she the best that I have had. I have been high on him since will run in the Classic day one. He has a good pedigree and lots of ability.@ Zenyatta (left) yesterday at Hollywood [Nov. 7 or the GI La- Cont. p9 Horsephotos dies= Classic Friday, Nov. 6] as soon as DON’T FORGET TO we sit down with [owners] Mr. and Mrs. Moss. We=ll TURN YOUR CLOCKS BACK... see how she comes out of the work and make a deci- Standard Time begins at 2 a.m. sion.@ Zenyatta=s splits were 24.60, :36.60, :48.40 and 1:00.20, and she galloped out in 1:25.20. Green Cat stopped the clock in 1:13.60. BC Bulletin cont. p2-3 COMING UP ROSES FOR ROSANARA? J “TDN Rising Star” J Rosanara bids to extend her unbeaten record after an impressive success in the G1 Prix Marcel Boussac at Longchamp last time Oct. 4 when she takes on colts in to- day=s G1 Criterium International at Saint-Cloud. AShe is in very good form at the moment and that is why we are attempting France Galop/APRH this race, assuming the ground stays reasonably soft,@ Georges Rimaud, racing manager for her owner/breeder His Highness The Aga Khan, told PA Sport. AMaybe she acts on fast ground as well, but she does seem to go very well on soft ground. She is in very good shape, but it is going to be a very tough race. I wouldn=t want to think about next year too much at this stage as we=ll have to see what happens, but obviously at this stage she does look like a candidate for the French Guineas.@ Cont. p9 TDN P HEADLINE NEWS • 11/1/09 • PAGE 2 of 10 Breeders= Cup Bulletin cont. The Dirt on Mr. Sidney Summer Bird Staying Busy Circle E Racing=s Mr. Sidney (Storm Cat) drew into The Jayaramans= homebred Summer Bird (Birdstone) the $2-million GI TVG Breeders= Cup Mile, but his con- breezed five panels in :59.40 at Santa Anita yesterday. nections are opting for the GI Dirt Mile on Santa Anita=s AHe galloped out strong,@ Pro-Ride instead, Daily Racing Form reports. Though the trainer Tim Ice said of his five-year-old was not selected into the main body of charge, who has notched that $1-million race, a spot has opened up due to the wins in the GI Belmont S, defection of Sweet Hearth (Touch Gold), as well as GI Travers and GI Jockey Karelian (Bertrando), first on the preference list, headed Club Gold Cup. AI got him to the Mile on grass. Mr. Sidney, who won the [galloping out] in 1:12.@ GI Maker=s Mark Mile at Keeneland in April, is coming Ice isn=t too concerned off a third in the GI Shadwell Turf Mile over that course with where the chestnut Oct. 10. The $3.9-million KEESEP purchase has made will be in the early stages just one appearance on an all-weather surface, finishing second by a half-length in a Keeneland allowance last of the GI Breeders= Cup October. The turf mile looked extra deep, trainer Bill Horsephotos Classic next Saturday. A @ Mott told the Form. "Our horse actually handled the AMy horse will run accord- synthetic very good in his one race, and we just ing to how the pace scenario sets up, Ice said. He @ A thought it made some sense to give it a try." Regular definitely can lay up close, and I also think he can be rider Kent Desormeaux will be in the irons. AKent would four or five [lengths] off of it. I think it=s just a matter of be the first to tell you [that it was a] horrible ride; six- seeing how the race sets up, let >em break and see wide, overly confident thought we were going to win where you=re at.@ Ice added, AIf we can get a head start easy, we were second," owner Lee Einsidler told DRF. on them [into the stretch], I know we can kick away, "We ran a '2' on the [Ragozin] sheets that day. If we and my colt, he doesn=t stop until the wire comes. If run back to that race, that's a winning-type race in this they head him, he=s going to have a lot of fight.@ race, we think." SANTA ANITA Beautician “The Works” (Dehere), JF 4f, :49.40, 47/60 Cocoa Beach (Chi) (Doneraile Court), LC 5f, :59.40, 4/72 Evita Argentina BELMONT (Candy Ride {Arg}), F&MS 6f, 1:11.40, 2/20 Fatal Bullet Aikenite (Red Bullet), S 5f, :59.20, 3/72 (Yes It’s True), J 5f (tr), •:59.94, 1/37 Get Funky (Straight Man), TS 6f, 1:10.60, 1/20 Eskendereya (Giant’s Causeway), J/JT 5f (tr), :59.95, 2/37 House of Grace (Limehouse), JFT 5f, 1:02.80, 64/72 Diamondrella (GB) (Rock of Gibraltar {Ire}), TS 4f, :48.13, 5/58 La Nez (Storm Creek), JFT 5f, 1:01.80, 50/72 Game Face (Menifee), F&MS/TS 5f (tr), 1:02.91, 26/37 Lord Shanakill (Speightstown), TS 6f, 1:11.80, 3/20 Gio Ponti (Tale of the Cat), C 4fT, :52.45, 1/1 Magical Fantasy (Diesis {GB}), F&MT 5fT, 1:00.80, 3/4 Interactif (Broken Vow), JT 4f (tr), :50.47, 75/99 Neko Bay (Giant’s Causeway), DM 5f, :59.80, 2/72 Noble Court Quality Road (Elusive Quality), C/DM 5f (tr), 1:01.27, 4/37 (Doneraile Court), TS 5fT, •1:00.20, 1/4 Smart Seattle Ready’s Echo (Ready’s Image), DM 4f (tr), :49.30, 39/99 (Smart Strike), JFT 4f, :48.80, 32/60 Square Eddie (Smart Strike), TS/S 6f, 1:13.40, 9/20 Summer Bird HOLLYWOOD (Birdstone), C/T 5f, :59.40, 4/72 Tapitsfly (Tapit), JFT 5fT, 1:00.60, 2/4 Zenyatta (Street Cry {Ire}), C/LC 6f, 1:12.40, 2/16 Zilva (Successful Appeal), JFT/JF 4f, :48.80, 32/60 P TDN HEADLINE NEWS • 11/1/09 • PAGE 3 of 10 Aikenite Drills at Belmont BREEDERS’ CUP 2009 Dogwood Stable=s Aikenite (Yes It=s True) tuned up Sires with 3 or more pre-entered for the GI Breeders= Cup Juvenile with a five-furlong Sire BC Entrant Race drill in :59.94 on the Belmont training A.P. Indy Eldaafer Mar track yesterday morning. Jockey Girolamo DM/C Alan Garcia was aboard for the bullet Music Note LC work, in which he bested stablemate Telling T Eskendereya (Giant=s Causeway) by Candy Ride (Arg) Capt. Candyman Can S :.01. AThis was the colt's best work Chocolate Candy DM/C to date, as far as his enthusiasm Evita Argentina FMS goes," said Dogwood President Cot Danehill Dancer (Ire) Alfred Nobel (Ire) JT Campbell. "In the past, Aikenite has Lillie Langtry (Ire) JFT Mastercraftsman (Ire) DM/C Z/Keeneland been rather lethargic as a workhorse, but he has become enthusiastic for Dansili (GB) Delegator (GB) M Father Time (GB) Mar the task at hand, and has a spark that would indicate Proviso (GB) LC that he is coming up on a gangbuster race." Third in the Zacinto (GB) M GI Three Chimneys Hopeful S. at Saratoga on Labor Distorted Humor Justenuffhumor M Day, the bay colt rallied from ninth to finish second by Raging Wit JT a half-length in the GI Dixiana Breeders= Futurity at Regal Ransom C/DM Keeneland Oct. 10. The Todd Pletcher trainee is sched- Giant’s Causeway Cowboy Cal M/DM uled to fly out of New York Tuesday afternoon. Eskendereya JT/J AAikenite has an easy-going character, and I expect him Man of Iron Mar to handle the flight and his new surroundings with no Neko Bay DM problem," Campbell added.