Alan Porter Examines Jazil HEADLINE p. 2 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 WEDNESDAY, JUNE 14, 2006 BARBARO CONTINUES TO IMPROVE PERCY GROUNDED BY DRY SPELL? Kentucky Derby winner Barbaro (Dynaformer) contin- Connections of the G1 Epsom Derby winner Sir Percy ues to please veterinarians at the George D. Widener (GB) (Mark of Esteem {Ire}) may sidestep both the Hospital for Large Animals at the University of Pennsyl- July 2 G1 Irish Derby and July 8 G1 Eclipse S. if rain vania=s New Bolton Center. Dr. Dean W. Richardson, does not arrive. Having returned from Newmarket sore who inserted 27 screws in after the May 6 G1 2000 Guineas, run on fast ground, Barbaro=s right hind leg May connections are wary of running him again on a fast 21 after the colt suffered mul- surface. He=s very well in himself and not nearly as bad tiple fractures, replaced the as he was after the Guineas, but the Derby was the cast Tuesday. AHis leg looks second race he=s had on ground that was really too firm excellent,@ said Dr. Richardson. for him,@ warned Victoria Pakenham, who co-owns the AThe incision has healed well, Blue Riband hero along with husband Anthony. AI don't and judging by the radio- think we'd intentionally swerve both the Irish Derby and graphs, the graft is opacifying Eclipse, unless [trainer] Marcus [Tregoning] thinks we Barbaro Horse Photos [taking]. Callus is forming need to, but we need more rain to get the ground back nicely, and all of the implants to what we want. Marcus won't rush him, and the [plates and screws] look unchanged.@ Barbaro, who was beauty of wanting to run him as a four-year-old is that placed under general anesthesia for the procedure, there is no hurry.@ enjoyed a very smooth recovery in the facility=s pool. The winner of the GI Florida Derby, GIII Holy Bull S. and Today’s Graded Stakes GIII Tropical Park Derby prior to the Derby, the imposing brought to you by bay was injured early in the May 20 GI Preakness S. SURREALIST BRINGS MAGIC MILLION RECORD After a blockbuster three days of the weanling por- tion of the Magic Millions National sale on the Gold Coast, the first session of broodmares continued on in the same record-setting fash- ion, with Surrealist (Aus) es- 2:00p Ballycorus S.-G3, LEP --------- --- tablishing a new mark for a All Post Times are Eastern Daylight Time. Thoroughbred at the event on BC Sprint/ Met Mile winner Silver the strength of Coolmore Train to Vinery after racing career Stud=s Michael Kirwan=s Click here for more... A$1.6-million bid. Kirwan, the Australian manager for P P R E V I E W S P Coolmore, outlasted the stub- born Hunter Valley bloodstock Covering sire of the topper Wednesday, Leopardstown, Ireland, post time: 7:00 p.m agent Tony Bott in a fierce Fastnet Rock coolmore.com BALLYCORUS S.-G3, i00,000, 3yo/up, 7fT bidding duel that kept the SC PP HORSE SIRE TRAINER WT sales complex in rapt. Oaklands Stud consigned the 1 1 Lord Admiral El Prado (Ire) C O=Brien 135 topper. AWhat more can I say?@ Kirwan commented 2 3 Tiger Dance Storm Cat A O=Brien 135 afterwards. AShe=s a magnificent mare. She=s only 9, 3 4 An Tadh (Ire) Halling Lyons 125 and she fit our criteria.@ Magic Millions cont. p9 4 2 Misu Bond (Ire) Danehill Dancer (Ire) Smart 125 TDN P HEADLINE NEWS • 6/14/06 • PAGE 2 of 9 WEEKEND PEDIGREE Seeking the Gold=s current crop of sophomores has corrected the oversight to such effect that it has pro- PERSPECTIVES duced two Grade I-winning colts. First, Seeking the by Alan Porter Gold=s son Bob and John took the GI Wood Memorial S. from his hard-charging paternal half-brother, Jazil. Saturday, Belmont Park Then, in this weekend=s GI Belmont S., after Bob and BELMONT S.-GI, $1,000,000, BEL, 6-10, 3yo, 1 1/2m, John had set a fast early pace, Jazil unleashed a power- 2:27 4/5, ft. ful charge which carried him home 13 lengths clear of 1--@#sJAZIL, 126, c, 3, by Seeking the Gold the game Bluegrass Cat. Jazil is Seeking the Gold=s 1st Dam: Better Than Honour (GSW & MGISP, 74th stakes winner and 17th Group/Grade I winner. His $250,920), by Deputy Minister best, in addition to the males mentioned above are 2nd Dam: Blush With Pride, by Blushing Groom (Fr) champion three-year-old filly Heavenly Prize; champion 3rd Dam: Best in Show, by Traffic Judge ($725,000 yrl '04 KEESEP). O-Shadwell Stable; juvenile filly Flanders; Seeking the Pearl, a champion B-Skara Glen Stables (KY); T-K P McLaughlin; J-F and Group 1 winner in France and Japan; Japanese Jara; $600,000. Lifetime Record: 8-2-3-0, $872,217. Grade I winner Gold Tiara; and GI Breeders= Cup Distaff Click for the brisnet.com chart or the free brisnet.com heroine Pleasant Home. Jazil also has a pedigree which catalogue-style pedigree. Video, sponsored by Taylor is well-up to classic standard on the distaff side. His Made. dam, Better Than Honour, was one of the leading fillies Seeking the Gold has long been recognised as one of of her crop, winning the GII Demoiselle S., finishing Mr. Prospector=s most important stallion sons. Until, second in the GI Acorn S. and GIII Comely S. and third this year, however, there was something of an anomaly in the GI Mother Goose S. in his stud career in that he had never been represented cont. p3 by a colt who had been first past the post in a U.S. Grade I event (his son, Cape Town did take the GI JAZIL, c, 2003 Florida Derby, but only on the disqualification of Lil=s Native Dancer Raise a Native Lad). From that statistic, one might infer that Seeking Raise You Mr. Prospector the Gold is a filly sire, but in fact his best runner is the Nashua Gold Digger brilliant, though ill-fated Dubai Millennium, winner of Sequence Seeking the Gold seven of his eight starts, including the GI Dubai World Tom Fool Buckpasser Cup, G1 Prix Jacques le Marois, G1 Queen Elizabeth II Busanda Con Game S. and G1 Prince of Wales=s S. Prior to this year, other Hasty Road Broadway Seeking the Gold colts to gain Group/Grade 1 laurels Flitabout were Lujain, successful in England=s G1 Middle Park S.; Northern Dancer Vice Regent Secret Savings, who took the G1 Doncaster H. in Aus- Victoria Regina Deputy Minister tralia; and Meiner Love, who took the Sprinters S., a Better Than Bunty’s Flight Mint Copy Japanese Grade I event. Honour Shakney GSW & MGISP, Red God 8-2-4-2, $250,920 Blush With Pride Blushing Groom (Fr) Runaway Bride (GB) Alan Porter may be contacted at 5Fls, 1G1SW MGISW, $536,807 Best in Show Traffic Judge [email protected]. Please cc TDN management 15Fls, 3GSW 18Fls, 1Ch, 4GSW Stolen Hour at [email protected]. www.adenastallions.com (800) 975-5641 TDN P HEADLINE NEWS • 6/14/06 • PAGE 3 of 9 Porter cont. Porter cont. A daughter of Deputy Minister, Better Than Honour is Belmont S. winners haven=t generally been at the top a sister to Turnberry Isle, a winner of the of commercial breeders= hit lists recently, G3I Beresford S. and second in the G2 with the focus continually moving toward Royal Lodge S. at two while running in speed. As far as JazilB-who of course may Europe. Better Than Honour=s Danzig well prove capable of winning major races half-sister, Smolensk, also did her best at shorter distancesB-is concerned, it work in Europe, where she won the G2 shouldn=t be overlooked that Seeking the Prix d=Astarte and took second in the G1 Gold is also turning out to be a useful sire Coronation S., and another half-sister, of sires, with Dubai Millennium, the Sadler=s Wells daughter, Maryinksy Mutakddim, Petionville, Cape Town and never won a stakes, but was second in Secret Savings all getting Group or Grade I the G1 Fillies= Mile. winners in their early crops, and that no Better Than Honour=s dam, Blush With less than 11 descendants of Best in Show Seeking the Gold claibornefarm.com Pride, was an ever better runner than her have already sired Group or Grade 1 win- daughter, capturing four graded events, ners. including the GI Santa Susana S. and GI Kentucky Oaks. Blush With Pride was no better than she was bred to be, as she was by Blushing Groom out of P LETTERS TO THE EDITOR P Broodmare of the Year Best in Show. One of the most significant tap-root mares of the last 50 years, Best in I was excited to learn that ABC/ESPN would be cov- Show is ancestress of more than 65 stakes winners, ering the Belmont Stakes and the Breeders Cup this including El Gran Senor, Try My Best, Aldebaran, Aviance, year. But after last Saturday's performance,I'm not so Chimes of Freedom, Spinning World, Malinowski, Xaar, sure. Between the technical glitches and the perfor- Yagli, Strong Hope, Bahamian Pirate, Domedriver, mances of Terry Gannon and Brent Musberger, a lot of Umatilla, Hurricane Sky and Redoute=s Choice.