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MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 2013 732-747-8060 $ TDN Home Page Click Here SWEET WIN IN THE SPINAWAY BEST OF BRITTAIN Sweet Reason (Street Sense), making her second Trying seven furlongs for the first time yesterday, career start and finding a second Sheikh Rashid Dalmook Al Maktoum=s Rizeena (Ire) sloppy surface, skipped over the (Iffraaj {GB}) justified trainer Clive Brittain=s lofty Saratoga mud to record a opinion of her by winning The Curragh=s G1 Moyglare sparkling 5 3/4-length victory in Stud S. Successful over five Sunday=s GI Spinaway S. The furlongs in the G2 Queen Mary S. victory gave Leah Gyarmati her at Royal Ascot June 19 and placed first Grade I win, and the trainer over six in both the G2 Duchess of credited the patience of longtime Cambridge S. at Newmarket July client Jeff Treadway. 12 and G1 Prix Morny at Deauville AObviously, it=s very, very Aug. 18, the 9-2 shot swooped exciting, and it couldn't happen Rizeena and James Doylefrom the rear under James Doyle to to a better owner,@ Gyarmati Racing Post upstage the 13-8 favorite Kiyoshi said. AJeff Treadway has tons of (GB) (Dubawi {Ire}) in the final 100 yards, and hit the patience. He=s done all the right Sweet Reason line with ears pricked 3/4 of a length ahead of that A Coglianese things as an owner. He=s always subsequently demoted rival. AI=ve said for some time done the right things for his that this filly was in the class of Sayyedati, who won horses, and it paid off.@ Cont. p5 this race for me before, and she certainly is,@ her trainer commented. AShe has never stopped improving and Sunday, Saratoga could be exceptional.@ Cont. p3 SPINAWAY S.-GI, $300,000, SAR, 9-1, 2yo, f, 7f, 1:23 2/5, sy. SPECIAL REMATCH IN THE HOPEFUL 1--#@SWEET REASON, 119, f, 2, by Street Sense Saratoga=s leading trainer Todd Pletcher will saddle 1st Dam: Livermore Leslie (SP, $205,192), three in today=s GI Hopeful S., including 3-1 morning- by Mt. Livermore line favorite Corfu (Malibu Moon). The unbeaten 2nd Dam: Whitesburg Express, by Whitesburg $675,000 BARMAR topper set a wicked pace in the 3rd Dam: Frozen Expression, by In a Trance 6 1/2-furlong GII Saratoga Special S. Aug. 11, and ($185,000 yrl '12 KEESEP). O-Treadway Racing gamely fended off Wired Bryan (Stormy Atlantic) by a Stable; B-Brent & Beth Harris & Darley (KY); T-Leah nose. AHe's pretty fast, and speed is his weapon, so Gyarmati; J-Alex O Solis. $180,000. Lifetime Record: we'll look to continue to take advantage of that," 2-2-0-0, $237,600. *1/2 to Don=t Forget Gil Pletcher said. Cont. p11 (Kafwain), GSW & GISP, $370,737. Click for the eNicks report & 5-cross pedigree. Werk Nick Rating: C. Trained at Crupi’s New Castle Farm 2--Stopchargingmaria, 119, f, 2, Tale of the Cat--Exotic Bloom, by Montbrook. ($47,000 yrl '12 KEESEP; $220,000 2yo >13 OBSMAR). O-Repole Stable; B-Harvey Clarke & Brookdale Farm LLC (KY); T-Todd A Pletcher. $60,000. Bred, Raised & Sold by Brookdale Woodford Training and Sales Graduate Trained at Crupi’s New Castle Farm 3--Dancing House, 119, f, 2, Tapit--Tout Charmant, by Slewvescent. O-Godolphin Racing LLC; B-Darley (KY); T-Kiaran P McLaughlin. $30,000. Margins: 5 3/4, 4 3/4, 5HF. Odds: 2.50, 5.30, 13.90. Also Ran: Sweet Whiskey, Designer Legs, Bahnah, True Blue Nation, Art of the Game, Brazen Persuasion. Click for the brisnet.com chart, the brisnet.com PPs or the free brisnet.com catalogue-style pedigree. 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May 30, Clive Brittain declared that she was in the league of his past stars Pebbles (GB), Sayyedati (GB) and Crimplene (Ire), and that statement was upheld when she added Sunday, Curragh, Ireland the Queen Mary to her tally at the Royal meeting. If her MOYGLARE STUD S.-G1, i225,000, Curragh, 9-1, subsequent reversal under a penalty at the hands of 2yo, f, 7fT, 1:22.91, gd/fm. Lucky Kristale (GB) (Lucky Story) in the Duchess of 1--sRIZEENA (IRE), 126, f, 2, by Iffraaj (GB) Cambridge at Newmarket=s July meeting was a surprise 1st Dam: Serena=s Storm (Ire), by Statue of Liberty at the time, it was put into better light after that rival 2nd Dam: Princess Serena, by Unbridled=s Song subsequently added York=s G2 Lowther S. under her 3rd Dam: Serena=s Sister, by Rahy own penalty. Staying on best of all in the Prix Morny, (50,000gns yrl >12 TATOCT). O-Sheikh Rashid she looked in need of this extra distance on that Dalmook Al Maktoum; B-Round Hill Stud; T-Clive occasion, and entered this race with valuable Brittain; J-James Doyle; i130,500. Lifetime Record: experience behind her as she took on the lightly- GSW-Eng & G1SP-Fr, 7-4-1-1, i278,270. Werk Nick campaigned and much-vaunted Kiyoshi and Tapestry. Rating: A. Click for the eNicks report & 5-cross pedigree. Held up off the honest pace set by the two other of 2--Tapestry (Ire), 126, f, 2, Galileo (Ire)--Rumplestiltskin Ballydoyle=s Galileo trio Perhaps (Ire) and Wonderfully (Ire), by Danehill. O-Susan Magnier, Michael Tabor, (Ire), she enjoyed a clear passage out wide, which was Derrick Smith & Flaxman Stables Ireland Ltd; something denied Joseph O=Brien and Tapestry as B-Orpendale & Niarchos Family; T-Aidan O=Brien; Kiyoshi bumped her and kept her in a pocket with a i45,000. quarter mile remaining. As Kiyoshi took over a furlong *3--Kiyoshi (GB), 126, f, 2, Dubawi (Ire)--Mocca (Ire), later, she was a sitting duck for her fellow British by Sri Pekan. (32,000gns wnlg >11 TATDEC; raider, and duly succumbed soon after as Tapestry 80,000gns yrl >12 TATOCT). O-Qatar Racing Ltd; stayed on when in the clear. B-Lowther Racing; T-Charles Hills; i22,500. Cont. p4 Margins: (3/4, HD, 3HF). Odds: 9-2, 2-1, 13-8. Also Ran: Carla Bianca (Ire), Perhaps (Ire), Wonderfully (Ire), Touch of Snow (Ire). Click for the Racing Post result, the brisnet.com PPs, or the free brisnet.com catalogue-style pedigree. VIDEO, courtesy attheraces.com. *Kiyoshi finished second, but was demoted to third. We won and we’re in! Rizeena=s connections earn: *Automatic berth into the BC Juvenile Fillies Turf *$10,000 in pre-entry fees *$10,000 in entry fees *$10,000 or $40,000 travel award for ALL Championship starters (based outside CA) Click here for the complete W&YI race schedule. Racing Post photo TDN P HEADLINE NEWS • 9/2/13 • PAGE 4 of 15 • thoroughbreddailynews.com AIt=s been a big week and this is a good end to it,@ the AI know she=ll get the mile and this was an important newly appointed Juddmonte number one jockey James race in my heart.@ J “TDN Rising Star” J Tapestry Doyle commented. AShe ran a cracking race against the was placed ahead of Kiyoshi after an inquiry concluded colts in the Morny, having got a bit of a knock early on that she had been hampered by the second and that which took her out of her rhythm, and the step up to cost her the place, but Aidan O=Brien was not seven obviously suited. I thought they=d go a really downhearted.