MONDAY, 16 MAY, 2016

STRAIGHT GIRL DEFENDS MILE TITLE DEAUVILLE DELIVERS Straight Girl (Jpn) ( {Jpn}) became just the second A CLASSIC WEEKEND mare to win back-to-back G1 Victoria Miles when successfully defending her title at Tokyo on Sunday. Settled midpack and on the outside as Red Reveur (Jpn) (Stay Gold {Jpn}) and Smart Layer (Jpn) ( {Jpn}) dueled for the lead, Straight Girl had plenty of running room when the field turned into the straight and charted a course up the four path. She needed only hand urging to get to the lead in midstretch, and three reminders with the stick once she got there, but she ultimately cruised clear in deep stretch to win by a comfortable 2 1/2 lengths in a track-record time of 1:31.50. Last year=s G1 (Japanese Oaks) winner and race favourite (Jpn) (Deep Impact {Jpn}) made a late bid to grab second, just holding off her G1 Japan Cup conqueror (Jpn) (Deep Impact {Jpn}). Cont. in Worldwide News p15

A packed house at Deauville for Guineas day | Scoop Dyga IN TDN AMERICA TODAY by Emma Berry NYQUIST CONTINUES TO IMPRESS Deauville, more used to coming under the group-race spotlight GI Kentucky Derby hero Nyquist (Uncle Mo) continued his in high summer, dusted off its Sunday best and emphatically preparations for next Saturday’s GI Preakness S., galloping a dispelled any doubt as to its suitability as the temporary host of strong mile at Pimlico Sunday. Click or tap here to go straight the first two French Classics of the season. to TDN America. There=s no question that a cloudless blue sky and a horde of Parisiens enjoying the extended public holiday weekend went a long way to enhancing the feel-good factor on the first really big day of the French season but, following a blockbuster breeze-up sale at Arqana on Saturday, the Normandy track added a certain sparkle to the French Guineas meeting which is rarely felt at Longchamp. The equine Deauville (Ire) ( {Ire}) battled hard but failed narrowly to win York=s G2 Dante S. on Thursday, but the G1 Poule d=Essai des Poulains victory of his stablemate and paternal half-brother The Gurkha (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}) was never in doubt from a long way out along the fast, straight mile of Deauville=s La Touques racecourse. Five-and-a-half lengths split him and his nearest pursuer, the Simon Crisford-trained First Selection (Spa) (Diktat {GB}), who has been an honourable flagbearer for Spain since his purchase from Madrid=s yearling sale by Con Marnane. But the day belonged to the mightily impressive colt who, according to his trainer, is lucky to be alive after enduring two operations for colic as a juvenile. Cont. p2 b/br. (IRE) 2006 - - Marie Rheinberg SIRE OF ANOTHER CLASSIC WINNER

La Cauvinière bred LA CRESSONNIERE remains unbeaten with an impressive victory in the Group 1 Poule d’Essai des Pouliches at Deauville yesterday.

Many congratulations to all the winning connections

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Shortened significantly in the betting for the G1 Investec Derby on June 4 following his Poulains romp, The Gurkha=s options are still wide-open. O=Brien continued, AThat=s another decision for the lads to make. He could go to Epsom or the French Derby or the St James=s Palace S. We thought he would get a mile and a quarter, and sometimes those horses have a chance to get a mile and a Deauville Delivers A Classic Weekend Cont. from p1 half. We always thought he was a good horse but he=s lucky to Quizzed tirelessly at a press day on Monday about the have lived, as he had two colic surgeries as a 2-year-old. From G3 Chester Vase performance of US Army Ranger (Ire) (Galileo the very first day he worked we knew he was good, but very few {Ire}), another of his colts to have shot to Derby prominence horses come back from that.@ earlier in the season, Aidan O=Brien barely The Gurkha=s victory was O=Brien=s fourth win in the Poule had time to mention The Gurkha, whose d=Essai des Poulains, a race which, sole win prior to Sunday had been in a remarkably, still eludes one of France=s heavy-ground maiden at Navan. The elite trainers, Jean-Claude Rouget. If presence of Ryan Moore on his back that Rouget was disappointed with a day should have dropped a heavy hint at best-placed fourth for George Patton (War the regard in which he is held in-house. Front) from his three runners, that would AHe was very green in his first race, but have been assuaged by a third successive he has improved and he won his maiden triumph in the fillies= Classic for the Pau very easily the next time at Navan, which is trainer thanks to the unbeaten La a very tough track. For a Galileo, he has a Cressonniere (Fr) (Le Havre {Ire}). lot of speed and he travels really well,@ said Aidan O=Brien | Racing Post the trainer in Deauville on Sunday. Cont. p3 TDN EUROPE/INTERNATIONAL • PAGE 3 OF 16 • THETDN.COM MONDAY • 16 MAY, 2016

Deauville Delivers a Classic Weekend Cont. Zarak, the son of Zarkava (Ire) (Zamindar), had tracked the Seven years ago Le Havre stormed the G1 Prix du Jockey-Club small pack up the stand=s rail well away from the rest, but was for Rouget and owner Gerard Augustin-Normand, who was then unable to make a major impression and wound up fifth. The in the early stages of turning his attention to Gurkha was providing Aidan O=Brien with a fourth renewal, and racing after being a significant investor in trotting. His the trainer was on hand to pay tribute to the winner, who has subsequent decision to turn down an offer from a major made a meteoric rise from anonymity. AWe always thought he Japanese stud farm and to stand his Classic winner in his was good, but last year he had colic twice and was not really beloved Normandy has been one to have benefitted not only trained, and that is why we didn=t enter him in the top races himself, but also the wider French breeding community. early on,@ he explained. AWe had to supplement him for this and Augustin-Normand is now the proud owner of Le Havre=s two he has a lot of scope and speed and won like a top-class horse.@ Classic winners, his homebred La Cressonniere having followed Like every resident at Ballydoyle, The Gurkha had live potential the example of the stallion=s first-crop daughter on pedigree to reach the top as a 2-year-old, with his dam being (Fr) in winning the G1 Poule d=Essai des Pouliches. Both fillies the G3 CL Weld Park S. scorer Chintz. Bred to Galileo each time, were born and raised at Haras de la Cauviniere, home to Le her second foal was the >TDN Rising Star= Queen Nefertiti (Ire), Havre since his retirement to stud, which coincided with an who was third in last year=s G3 Brownstown S. and descends encouraging resurgence in the French stallion ranks. from the outstanding producer Brooklyn=s Dance, responsible La Cauviniere=s commercial manager Mathieu Alex said, AIt=s a for the shock G1 Prix de l=Arc de Triomphe heroine Solemia (Ire) dream come true for Le Havre to have produced two Classic (Poliglote {GB}) and the G1 runner-up winners from his first three crops. It makes it extra special for us Prospect Park (GB) that both fillies were bred at La Cauviniere--and these are from (Sadler=s Wells). Also mares when he was standing at i5,000.@ from the family of He continued, AHe=s still a young stallion--he=s only 10--and the 2012 G1 Prix he=s been covering some really good mares in the last few Marcel Boussac and seasons; it=s very exciting. Full credit to his owner, who has 2013 G1 Prix Saint- supported him from the start, and we tried to do the rest with a Alary winner Silasol lot of support from the French breeders.@ (Ire) (Monsun {Ger}), Rouget was also responsible for the facile winner of the and the G2 Prix Hocquart, Mekhtaal (GB) (Sea The Stars {Ire}), whose hero Authorized commanding performance left his stablemate Thewayyouwish The Gurkha and Ryan Moore | Scoop Dyga (Ire), The Gurkha had (Thewayyouare) trailing six lengths in his wake and gave Al the shape of a Shaqab Racing another potent weapon in its Classic armoury, middle-distance prospect and, once over his problems, looked whether the colt remains in France or heads to Epsom. as if he might need extra than a mile when staying on into third on his debut at Leopardstown Apr. 6. Turning that logic on its head at Navan just 11 days later, the bay was given a positive ride by Ryan Moore and barely needed encouragement from the saddle to easily leave Saafarr (GB) (Teofilo {Ire}) well behind. PUT TO THE SWORD That form was given a significant boost when the runner-up Aidan O=Brien may say that he got it wrong with Air Force Blue went on to run a close-up fifth in the G3 Derrinstown Stud Derby (War Front) at Newmarket, but the Ballydoyle stable was where Trial, and The Gurkha was given due respect by the Deauville it is used to being on Sunday as The Gurkha (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}) crowd despite his inexperience lining up against Zarak and co. tore up the G1 Poule d=Essai des Poulains at Deauville. Having Following First Selection on the far side of the main group up the strung out the opposition by upwards of nine lengths over this centre while Zelzal (Fr) (Sea the Stars {Ire}) led a group of four trip in a Navan maiden Apr. 17, he traded at 15-2 on the PMU, racing against the stand=s rail, the Irish challenger was with the focus on >TDN Rising Star= Zarak (Fr) (Dubawi {Ire}). As committed with 1 1/2 furlongs remaining and was soon clear in it turned out, Derrick Smith=s colourbearer never saw that 2-1 an emphatic show of superiority. The winner=s targets are favourite, as he raced behind the leaders of the main group up everywhere, according to Aidan O=Brien. the centre before taking control inside the last quarter-mile. AHe could possibly run in the G1 Prix du Jockey Club [at Bounding clear under hand-riding from Ryan Moore, he had Chantilly June 5] or the [June 4] G1 Epsom Derby,@ he said. AHe 5 1/2 lengths to spare over the long-time leader First Selection has speed, though, so it could even be the G1 St James=s Palace (Spa) (Diktat {GB}), who led home a bunch finish in behind. S. [at Royal Ascot June 14] next.@ Cont. p4 TDN EUROPE/INTERNATIONAL • PAGE 4 OF 16 • THETDN.COM MONDAY • 16 MAY, 2016

Put to the Sword Cont. Sent to the front approaching the two-furlong pole, the bay Simon Crisford, who was reaching a personal milestone with stayed on gamely to register a length success from Nathra (Ire) First Selection placing in a Classic, said of the runner-up, AHe was (Iffraaj {GB}), who closed late to deny the 10-3 favourite much too fresh and keen, but he has run a great race today. (Ire) (Danehill Dancer {Ire}) by a head, and therefore also deny Unfortunately, the owner could not be there to see him and the winning trainer Jean-Claude Rouget a one-two. La we=ll see what to do next when we get together.@ Cressonniere was providing Rouget with a third straight victory Chintz has a yearling full-sister to the winner waiting in the in the Classic and a fourth overall renewal after Elusive Wave wings. (Ire) (Elusive City) became his first Classic winner in this seven years ago, just four weeks before Le Havre gave his stable glory in the G1 Prix du Jockey Club. AShe is top-class,@ her trainer said. AShe didn=t have the best of races with the one draw and never Sunday, Deauville, France got cover, but kept finding more and more and won well in the POULE D=ESSAI DES POULAINS-G1, i550,000, DVL, 5-15, 3yo, c, end.@ 8fT, 1:36.97, gd. Successfully introduced over seven furlongs at Clairefontaine 1--#@&THE GURKHA (IRE), 128, c, 3, by Galileo (Ire) in July, La Cressonniere went over an extended mile next time at 1st Dam: Chintz (Ire) (GSW-Ire, $149,166), Craon in September and registered a five-length win, which by Danehill Dancer (Ire) paved the way for an entry into black-type territory. Making all 2nd Dam: Gold Dodger, by Slew o= Gold in the Listed Prix Isonomy over this course and distance the 3rd Dam: Brooklyn=s Dance (Fr), by (GB) following month, she defied a subsequent penalty in O-Derrick Smith, Susan Magnier & Michael Tabor; B-Chintz authoritative fashion in Chantilly=s Listed Prix Herod back at Syndicate (IRE); T-Aidan O=Brien; J-Ryan Moore. i314,270. seven in November before again dominating from the front Lifetime Record: 3-2-0-1, i322,515. *Full to Queen Nefertiti when making virtually all in the Camargo. After that contest, (Ire), GSP-Ire. Werk Nick Rating: A+++. *Triple Plus*. Click for jockey Cristian Demuro was adamant his mount could have won the eNicks report & 5-cross pedigree. by more than the 2--First Selection (Spa), 128, c, 3, Diktat (GB)--Villa Sonata (GB), official 2 1/2 lengths, by Mozart (Ire). (,42,000 2yo >15 BBASC2). O-Abdulla Al but she was meeting Mansoori; B-D Gonzalo Ussia Figueroa (SPA); T-Simon Crisford. several fillies here who i125,730. had already flown 3--Dicton (GB), 128, c, 3, Lawman (Fr)--Saying, by Giant=s higher and a more- Causeway. O-Robert Ng; B-Wertheimer & Frere (GB); vaunted stablemate in T-Gianluca Bietolini. i62,865. Qemah, so was slightly Margins: 5HF, NO, HD. Odds: 7.60, 54.10, 9.00. under the radar as a Also Ran: George Patton, Zarak (Fr), Crazy Horse (GB), Taareef, consequence. As La Cressonniere | Scoop Dyga Moon Trouble (Ire), Attendu (Fr), Jimmy Two Times (Fr), Zelzal straightforward in this (Fr), Alignement (GB), Birchwood (Ire). elite test as she had been in her warm-ups, La Cressonniere Click for the Racing Post result or the free Equineline.com enjoyed a tow from Qemah=s pacemaker and her own stable=s catalogue-style pedigree. Video, sponsored by Fasig-Tipton. Positive Vibration (Ire) (Canford Cliffs {Ire}) to halfway, after which she had Come Alive (GB) (Dansili {GB}) for company. Soon DEJA VU gaining that rival=s measure, she responded to every call to ward off a line of rivals and keep her perfect tally intact. As with Two years after the Haras de la Cauviniere-based sire Le Havre Avenir Certain, the winner is set to contest the G1 (Ire) was responsible for the unbeaten G1 Poule d=Essai des at Chantilly June 19 and attempt to become the fourth filly to Pouliches winner Avenir Certain (Fr) for Gerard-Augustin pull off the Classic double in nine years. AShe has the pedigree to Normand and Antonio Caro, it was a case of more of the same at stay and a lot of heart, so she will most definitely go for the Deauville on Sunday, as the same silks were carried to glory by Diane,@ Jean-Claude Rouget said, before adding of the third, his latest flag-bearing daughter La Cressonniere (Fr). Last seen AQemah did a bit too much during the race and definitely does extending her flawless sequence in Saint-Cloud=s Listed Prix la not stay any further than a mile. If there is a chance of her Camargo over a mile Mar. 20, the 15-2 shot enjoyed a winning a Group 1, it will be over this trip so she could go for the straightforward trip after showing speed from the gates to race G1 Coronation S. [at Royal Ascot June 17].@ Cont. p5 in a share of second under Cristian Demuro. TDN EUROPE/INTERNATIONAL • PAGE 5 OF 16 • THETDN.COM MONDAY • 16 MAY, 2016

Deja Vu Cont. Sunday, Deauville, France PRIX HOCQUART-G2, i130,000, DVL, 5-15, 3yo, c/f, 10fT, She will meet Nathra there, according to Bruce Raymond. 2:07.03, gd. AWe=re absolutely delighted with her run. She obviously ran 1--#@MEKHTAAL (GB), 128, c, 3, by Sea the Stars (Ire) better then she did at Newmarket,@ the owner, Abdullah Saeed 1st Dam: Aiglonne (GSW-Fr & GSP-US, $139,160), Al Naboodah=s, racing manager said. AWe feel the more level by Silver Hawk track suited her, as she stayed on to get close at the line. Frankie 2nd Dam: Majestic Role (Fr), by Theatrical (Ire) [Dettori] was really delighted with her. I think she=ll go to Ascot 3rd Dam: Autocratic (Ire), by Tyrant [for the Coronation].@ (i300,000 Ylg >14 ARAUG). O-Al Shaqab Racing; B-Haras du La Cressonniere=s second dam Lil=s Jessy--a half-sister to the Mezeray & Skymarc Farm (GB); T-Jean-Claude Rouget; GI Hollywood Derby third and sire Lone Bid (Fr) (Priolo)--who J-Gregory Benoist. i74,100. Lifetime Record: 3-2-1-0, i93,400. was the winner of the G3 Nell Gwyn S., also had the Listed *1/2 to Aigue Marine (GB) (Galileo {Ire}), MGSW-US & SW-Fr, Revidere S. winner and G2 Blandford S.-third Paris Winds (Ire) $423,555; Democrate (GB) (Dalakhani {Ire}), GSW-Fr, from a mating with Galileo (Ire), along with Absolute Lady. $139,381; and Apophis (Ire) (Rainbow Quest), SP-Fr, $176,569. Lobmille has three black-type winners to her credit and was Click for the eNicks report & 5-cross pedigree. Werk Nick bred from a full-sister to The Queen=s Prix de Diane and 1000 Rating: B. Guineas heroine (GB). Absolute Lady has a 2-year-old filly by Air Chief Marshal (Ire) named Tonneville (Fr) and a 2--Thewayyouwish (Ire), 128, c, 3, Thewayyouare--Faby Douglas yearling full-brother to La Cressonniere named Gratot. (Ire), by Danetime (Ire). (9,000gns Ylg >14 TAOCT; i15,000 2yo >15 BBAPR). O-Claudio Marzocco; B-Samuel William Ormsby (IRE); T-Jean-Claude Rouget. i28,600. 3--Royal Julius (Ire), 128, c, 3, Royal Applause (GB)--Hflah (Ire), Sunday, Deauville, France by Dubawi (Ire). (25,000gns Wlg >13 TATFOA; i40,000 Ylg >14 POULE D=ESSAI DES POULICHES-G1, i450,000, DVL, 5-15, 3yo, ARAUG). O-Mme Jade Prescillia Angelini; B-Old Carhue Stud f, 8fT, 1:36, gd. (IRE); T-Antoine de Watrigant. i13,650. 1--@&LA CRESSONNIERE (FR), 126, f, 3, by Le Havre (Ire) Margins: 6, HF, HF. Odds: 2.30, 13.00, 6.70. 1st Dam: Absolute Lady (Ire), by Galileo (Ire) Also Ran: Dalgarno (Fr), Barwod (GB), Ventura Storm (Ire), 2nd Dam: Lil=s Jessy (Ire), by (GB) Incitator (Fr). 3rd Dam: Lobmille (GB), by Click for the Racing Post result or the free Equineline.com O-Gerard Augustin-Normand & Ecurie Antonio Caro; B-Franklin catalogue-style pedigree. Video, sponsored by Fasig-Tipton. Finance SA (FR); T-Jean-Claude Rouget; J-Cristian Demuro. After a highly promising start when successful over this trip at i257,130. Lifetime Record: 6-6-0-0, i365,630. Werk Nick Saint-Cloud Mar. 12, Mekhtaal was upset when second as the Rating: A+. Click for the eNicks report & 5-cross pedigree. 2-5 favourite for a conditions race at the same distance at 2--Nathra (Ire), 126, f, 3, Iffraaj (GB)--Rada (Ire), by Danehill. Maisons-Laffitte last time Apr. 13. Showing his true colours with (270,000gns Ylg >14 TAOCT). O-Abdullah Saeed Al Naboodah; a commanding performance in this G1 Prix du Jockey Club trial, B-Pier House Stud (IRE); T-. i102,870. the chestnut was sent to the lead after the initial strides by 3--Qemah (Ire), 126, f, 3, Danehill Dancer (Ire)--Kartica (GB), by Gregory Benoist and surged away from overmatched rivals in Rainbow Quest. (i200,000 Ylg >14 ARAUG). O-Al Shaqab the straight to hit the line strong with daylight to spare over Racing; B-Haras du Cadran, SCEA Bissons & SAS IEI (IRE). Thewayyouwish. i51,435. AIt is best to forget his last race, as he banged himself coming Margins: 1, HD, HD. Odds: 7.40, 8.40, 3.30. out of the gates and lost his balance and never traveled,@ trainer Also Ran: Besharah (Ire), Spectre (Fr), Sasparella (Fr), Alice Jean-Claude Rouget commented. AHe still ran a good race, but Springs (Ire), Come Alive (GB), Syrita (Fr), Aim To Please (Fr), we saw the real Mekhtaal today. He=s a very nice sort and will Kenriya (Fr), Antonoe, Huda (Fr), Positive Vibration (Ire). most probably go straight to the G1 Prix du Jockey Club [at Click for the Racing Post result or the free Equineline.com Chantilly June 5].@ Cont. p6 catalogue-style pedigree. Video, sponsored by Fasig-Tipton. TDN EUROPE/INTERNATIONAL • PAGE 6 OF 16 • THETDN.COM MONDAY • 16 MAY, 2016

G2 Prix Hocquart Cont. After his taking re-introduction in the Listed Martin Molony S. over 12 1/2 furlongs at Limerick Apr. 23, Bondi Beach was a bet The winner=s dam is the G3 Prix Fille de l=Air winner Aiglonne, only for the very rich or very reckless here, and he gave them who is making a real both some anxious moments before recording an ultimately name for herself as a comfortable success. Settled last of the trio by Seamie producer courtesy of Heffernan, last year=s G3 Curragh Cup winner--who was runner- the likes of up in York=s G2 Great Voltigeur S. in August and G1 St Leger at Democrate, who Doncaster in September--needed the whip to be waved to took this race eight concentrate his mind and years ago, and the get to Toe the Line with a GIII Long Island H. furlong remaining. After scorer Aigue Marine. gaining the upper hand Aiglonne=s half-sister shortly after, the bay-- Mekhtaal | Scoop Dyga Gaily Tiara (Caerleon) who is bound for the produced the G1 Prix G1 Gold Cup at Royal Saint-Alary winner Germance to a mating with Silver Hawk, and Ascot June 16-- appeared is from the immediate family of the champions White Muzzle to look around, and his (GB) (Dancing Brave) and Almutawakel (GB) (Machiavellian). rider confirmed that Bondi Beach | Racing Post Aiglonne also has a 2-year-old by New Approach (Ire) named impression. Aiguillon (Ire) and a yearling filly by Dawn Approach (Ire). Joseph O=Brien, representing his father, Aidan, said, AWhen he gets to the front he idles. He settled well and it was a very tactical race. The one in front didn=t go very quick.@ Bred on the highly successful Galileo-Danehill cross, Bondi Sunday, Navan, Ireland Beach is out of an unraced full-sister to the G1 Fillies' Mile and COOLMORE VINTAGE CROP S.-G3, i65,000, NAV, 5-15, 4yo/up, G1 Falmouth S-winning Simply Perfect (GB) who in turn 14fT, 3:05.03, g/f. produced the group scorer Mekong River (Ire) to a mating with 1--BONDI BEACH (IRE), 132, c, 4, by Galileo (Ire) Galileo. Both are daughters of the G1 Moyglare Stud S. 1st Dam: One Moment in Time (Ire), by Danehill runner-up Hotelgenie Dot Com (GB) (Selkirk), herself a half to 2nd Dam: Hotelgenie Dot Com (GB), by Selkirk the G1 Moyglare Stud S. heroine Bianca Nera (GB) (Salse). Bondi 3rd Dam: Birch Creek (GB), by Carwhite (Ire) Beach has a yearling full-brother to come. O-Lloyd J Williams, Susan Magnier, Michael Tabor & Derrick Smith; B-One Moment In Time Syndicate (IRE); T-Aidan O=Brien; J-Seamus Heffernan. i38,350. Lifetime Record: G1SP-Eng, 8-4-3-0, $426,453. Werk Nick Rating: A+++ *Triple Plus*. Click for the eNicks report & 5-cross pedigree.

2--Toe The Line (Ire), 127, m, 7, Shantou--Bluebell Line (Ire), by Charnwood Forest (Ire). O-Exors of the Late A Lillingston; B-A Lillingston (IRE); T-John Kiely. i13,000. 3--Silwana (Ire), 127, m, 5, Peintre Celebre--Simawa (Ire), by Anabaa. (i320,000 4yo >15 GOFNOV). O-Kawakami Racing Syndicate; B-H H The Aga Khan=s Studs SC (IRE); T-Takashi Kodama. i6,500. Margins: 1HF, 4 1/4. Odds: 0.11, 8.00, 14.00. Scratched: Zannda (Ire). Click for the Racing Post result or the free Equineline.com Click here to listen to Joseph O=Brien discuss the stable=s winners catalogue-style pedigree. Video, sponsored by Fasig-Tipton. at Navan on Sunday and The Gurkha | Racing Post photo TDN EUROPE/INTERNATIONAL • PAGE 7 OF 16 • THETDN.COM MONDAY • 16 MAY, 2016

Sunday, Hoppegarten, Germany COMER GROUP INTERNATIONAL 45TH OLEANDER-RENNEN-G3, i55,000, HOP, 5-15, 4yo/up, 16fT, 3:26.10, gd. with Graham Motion 1--#@WASIR (GER), 123, c, 4, by Rail Link (GB) 1st Dam: Wellola (Ire) (GSP-Ger), by Lomitas (GB) In this series, the TDN catches up with European expatriats 2nd Dam: Well Known (Ger), by Konigsstuhl (Ger) working in the Thoroughbred industry around the world. 3rd Dam: Well Proved (Ger), by Prince Ippi (Ger) Today=s installment features trainer Graham Motion of (i64,000 Ylg >13 BBAGS). O-Darius Racing; B-Gestut Rottgen Herringswell Stables. (GER); T-Andreas Wohler; J-Rafael Schistl. i32,000. Lifetime Hometown? Herringswell, near Newmarket, hence the stable Record: 9-2-3-0, i58,700. Werk Nick Rating: B+. Click for the name. eNicks report & 5-cross pedigree. 2--Alex My Boy (Ire), 130, h, 5, Dalakhani (Ire)--Alexandrova How did you end up where you are now? My dad chose to (Ire), by Sadler=s Wells. (i75,000 Ylg >12 ARAUG). O-Jaber move the family when I was 16. He and my mum had already Abdullah; B-Orpendale, Chelston & Wynatt (IRE), T-Andreas moved across the Atlantic once; my sisters were both born in the Wohler. i12,000. U.S. We started off in 3--Bebe Cherie (Fr), 120, f, 4, Youmzain (ire)--Shamaniya (Ire), upstate New York. by Doyoun (Ire). (i20,000 Ylg >13 ARNOV; i9,000 3yo >15 BBAGBZ). O-Dr Alexandra Margarete Renz; B- Hassan What have you found to (FR); T-Markus Klug. i6,000. be the major difference Margins: 2, 2, NK. Odds: 16.00, 1.50, 25.40. between Also Ran: Rock of Romance (Ire), Walzertakt (Ger), Lovato (Ger), racing/breeding in Iraklion (Ger), The Twisler (GB), Space Cowboy (Ger). America and your home Click for the Racing Post result or the free Equineline.com country? Probably the catalogue-style pedigree. confines of the racetrack Fourth in the 14-furlong G3 Deutsches St Leger at Dortmund in are the biggest September and second in Cologne=s Listed Silbernes Band over difference, although Fair an extended 19-furlong trip the next month, Wasir was ninth in Hill has a European feel the Mar. 3 G3 Nad Al Sheba Trophy at Meydan back at the to it. However, when I first started, training former trip prior to finishing sixth in the Listed Prix Right Royal Graham Motion over nearly two miles at Maisons-Laffitte at the start of April. centres were not fashionable. Assuming his customary front-running role here, the bay extended the elastic at the end of the back straight and it failed Name one home comfort that you miss? Simple things like pub to snap as the accomplished Alex My Boy struggled and food, bakeries and the village life. ultimately failed to get on terms under his seven-pound penalty. Wasir is the last living foal for Wellola, who was a group-placed Favourite sport or hobby outside of racing? I really don't have daughter of the dual stakes-winning Well Known, who was also one, but plan to take up sailing this summer, something I can do runner-up in both the German fillies= Classics and has five black- in my retirement! I do enjoy traveling with my family, even type performers to her credit. They are headed by the G1 Preis though most of it is horse-related. von Europa hero Well Made (Ger) (Mondrian {Ger}). The third dam is the G3 German 1000 Guineas heroine Well Proved (Ger), What would you say is your proudest accomplishment? who is also the dam of the G3 Prix de Psyche scorer Welluna Obviously what we did with Animal Kingdom was very satisfying. (Ger) (Lagunas {GB}). Perhaps bringing him back from injury and finishing second in the Breeders= Cup off a long layoff, and then winning the Dubai FIND US ON FACEBOOK World Cup. www.facebook.com/thoroughbreddailynews TDN EUROPE/INTERNATIONAL • PAGE 8 OF 16 • THETDN.COM MONDAY • 16 MAY, 2016

Muntazah: One Step Back, Two Steps

It must be extremely irritating for those still Forward... hoping to win the damned thing to hear so many No horse, the winner included, is likely to build on his Dante curmudgeons mistaking a wide open G1 Investec performance more than Muntazah (GB) (Dubawi {Ire}). For it Derby for a mediocre one. Often, of course, you was precisely because his race went so wrong, in so many only get the kind of stand-out favourite people respects, that he is likely to prove the more battle-hardened of seem to be craving precisely when his peers are the pair should he proceed to Epsom. not up to standard. If anything, the fact that so many colts are He already had the advantage of the winner, in terms of clustering together on the Epsom road will place an exceptional seasoning, having had four starts last year. But he was a colossal premium on those assets--speed, stamina, agility--that make the juvenile, and still too weak really to see out his only test outside great race such a reliable platform for future stallions. maidens, when third in the G2 Royal Lodge S. York was his first Certainly a maximum field of 20 would call for an exceptionally start since, and he proved extremely fresh through the first half adept racehorse--and that raises the one obvious caveat about of the race. It was a curious affair in that respect, several others the overnight sensation, Wings Of Desire (GB) ( {GB}). racing freely early despite sectionals that amply entitled the Here is a colt who winner to come from so far back. One of these was Midterm was not given his first (GB) (Galileo {Ire}), who will surely bounce back from a strangely half-speed until insipid performance, but the only one who managed to get back Mar. 15, and showed on the bridle as the race took shape was Muntazah. corresponding Unfortunately, having needed cover to try and settle his inexperience on his mount, Hanagan then found himself short of room as the winner debut at the Craven was produced down what had tended to prove quicker ground. meeting. True, even Eventually the big horse had to squeeze through a gap hard on the most obtuse the rail and, while staying on well enough for a clear fourth, observer could Wings of Desire (l) | Racing Post flattened out a little as all his wasteful exertion told. hardly fail to register Whether such a big animal can cope with Epsom remains to be the way he woke up through that race--witness the fact that no seen, but if so he may yet give the rookie trainer Owen Burrows other horse has so far found his way into this series, after defeat in a maiden--and John Gosden turned him out just 10 days later an even better chance than the G1 2000 Guineas runner-up, to take in three turns round Wolverhampton. But his Massaat (Ire) (Teofilo {Ire}). Muntazah is out of Rumoush performance in the G2 Betfred Dante S. was nonetheless a (Rahy), once trained revelation. in the same yard, It was interesting that Dettori elected not to cut in from his who finished third in wide draw. This reluctance to risk any bumping and tunnelling the G1 Oaks and suggests that connections' priority was to learn about the colt, second in the rather than to teach him, and the jockey even took a pull in the 14-furlong G2 Park straight to avoid flummoxing him with the loneliness of a Hill S. That seam of premature lead. Once Dettori did start driving him forward, stamina doubtless Wings Of Desire duly drifted away from the whip and there must traces to the great be a concern that he may lack the streetcraft for a test as mare Height unsparing as Epsom so early in his career. Of Fashion (Fr) Massaat | Racing Post His saving grace is a nearly catatonic temperament, while his (Bustino {GB}), the brawn is hardly of the hulking, grand piano type that might undo dam of ( {Fr}), Nayef (Gulch) and a horse round Epsom. He does not pound the ground: he has a Unfuwain () as well as Rumoush's mother, fluid, flowing action ideally tailored to summer going. As such, so Sarayir (Mr. Prospector). Presuming he proves less gassy with long as he takes another forward step in the Derby, connections this run under his belt, Muntazah looks ready for a breakout could do worse than start planning the rest of his campaign performance over the extra distance at Epsom. around the G1 Breeders' Cup Turf. Cont. p9 TDN EUROPE/INTERNATIONAL • PAGE 9 OF 16 • THETDN.COM MONDAY • 16 MAY, 2016

Weekly Wrap Cont. Leading fancies disappointed in both the Deauville Classics-- All That Glitters... notably the numerous fillies, such as Qemah (Ire) (Danehill Dancer {Ire}), who failed to settle--but take nothing away from Massaat's stamina for the Derby trip is in some doubt--his dam Dicton (GB) (Lawman {Fr}), who just failed to snatch second in was very quick--but the door remains ajar for the colt who beat the G1 Poule D=Essai des Poulains. His acceleration through him at Newmarket. Galileo Gold (GB) (Galileo {Ire}) retains his heavy traffic as The Gurkha opened up demands that he now be Epsom entry as he takes in the G1 Tattersalls Irish 2000 Guineas recognised as an authentic Group 1 colt; and a similar this weekend, and connections may well have spotted the endorsement for the elite calibre of his Italian trainer, Gianluca runaway success of Imperial Aviator (GB) (Paco Boy {Ire}) in Bietolini, who claimed him from Freddy Head for just €22,000 what had looked an extremely competitive handicap over 10 last autumn. furlongs at Newbury on Saturday. This colt, likewise, is by Highclere Stud's flourishing stallion out of a Galileo mare and-- those "CC" genes notwithstanding--it may yet prove that Galileo Floats Like a Butterfly, Stings Like a Bee... Gold can stretch his speed beyond a mile. Sprinters tend to be all-action types and you seldom see one move with the buoyancy of Magical Memory (Ire) (Zebedee Oaks Jockeys Must Hold Their Nerve... {GB}). That, rather than some uncontainable physical gusto, is the root of the way he again travelled in the G2 Duke of York Gosden and Dettori also won the big fillies' trial at York, albeit Clipper Logistics S. before seeming to idle once hitting the front. her trainer and jockey are just about all So Mi Dar (GB) (Dubawi Those light feet qualify him as an especially potent tool on fast {Ire}) has in common ground, so it's edifying that Dettori is already urging Charles Hills with Wings Of Desire-- to consider a race about which European trainers seem to have apart, that is, from a become culpably defeatist--the GI Turf Sprint at the Breeders' top-class British nursery. Cup. Hills would have liked to take Muhaarar (GB) (Oasis Dream So Mi Dar was issued {GB} to the GI Breeders= Cup Mile last year, so let's hope he gets with a crossed noseband some deferred fulfilment from this project. and two handlers through the preliminaries and So Mi Dar | Racing Post certainly produced a high-energy performance in the G3 Tattersalls Musidora S, >ROCK= ON heavily restrained early before scuttling through from last place Already successful in a G1 Prix de Diane trial in Saint-Cloud=s to go four lengths clear. G3 , the unbeaten Camprock (Fr) (Myboycharlie There appears to be nothing sinister about these traits. She {Ire}) bids to both maintain her perfect run and also book a doesn't seem like a nervous or fragile filly, but simply to have a ticket to that June sharp, expressive outlook, consistent with a fairly businesslike 19 Chantilly physique. She has already proven herself round Epsom, but the Classic in track would be the last thing you would worry about for her Monday=s anyway. Nonetheless both she and Minding (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}) G1 Pour Moi will need a degree of nursing to get home in the Investec Oaks, Coolmore Prix on account of demeanour and pedigree respectively, and it will Saint-Alary at be gripping to see two master jockeys switching off their mounts Deauville. Having and daring the other to blink first. beaten the subsequent listed Bravo Signor Bietolini... scorer Besotted Camprock | Scoop Dyga (Ire) (Dutch Art Worthy as it was, the success of Belardo (Ire) (Lope de Vega {GB}) in the Listed {Ire}) in the G1 Al Shaqab Lockinge S. means that the older Prix Rose de Mai over this trip at Saint-Cloud Mar. 12, Ecurie du milers have yet to lay down too intimidating a marker for the Grand Chene=s bay had another winner in that category in The Classic generation. And that, you would think, may well Juliet Rose (Fr) (Monsun {Ger}), back in second in the Penelope influence Coolmore's strategy with The Gurkha (Ire) (Galileo over a half-furlong further next time Apr. 18, and it is difficult to {Ire}) after his stunning performance on Sunday. know when she will stop at present. Cont. p10 TDN EUROPE/INTERNATIONAL • PAGE 10 OF 16 • THETDN.COM MONDAY • 16 MAY, 2016

>Rock= On Cont. From Britain is Susan Magnier=s Knife Edge (Ire) (Zoffany {Ire}), Hugo Palmer has enjoyed the limelight with his 3-year-olds in who was a short-head second to Tasleet (GB) (Showcasing {GB}), 2016, and saddles Hawksmoor (Ire) (Azamour {Ire}) sporting with the subsequent Listed Carnarvon S. winner Log Out Island blinkers for the first time. Successful in the G3 Prestige S. over (Ire) (Dark Angel {Ire}) 12 lengths behind, in the G3 Greenham S. seven furlongs at Goodwood in August, she was third in the re-routed to Chelmsford Apr. 16. G2 Rockfel S. also over that trip at Newmarket the following Last year=s G3 Preis des Winterfavoriten runner-up Degas month before filling third spot behind Minding (Ire) (Galileo (Ger) (Exceed and Excel {Aus}) and Listed Junioren-Preis winner {Ire}) and Nathra (Ire) (Iffraaj {GB}) in the latter venue=s Noor Al Hawa (Fr) (Makfi {GB}) are others who should make G1 Fillies= Mile in October. AShe=s in very good form. I believe their presence felt, while ScanVet Stallions=s acquisition Omar she=ll stay and we=ll find out,@ her trainer commented. AI=m really Bradley (War Front) has claims on his third in September=s looking forward to starting her season off. She=s a very exciting G3 Prix la Rochette over seven furlongs at Longchamp. filly. I hope the turning track will suit her and I think the blinkers will help her.@ Last year=s G1 fourth Left Hand (GB) Monday, Cologne, Germany, post time: 5:05 p.m. (Dubawi {Ire}) has to bounce back from a disappointing return 31ST MEHL-MULHENS-RENNEN - GERMAN 2000 GUINEAS-G2, effort when only sixth behind Come Alive (GB) (Dansili {GB}) in a i153,000, 3yo, c/f, 8fT mile conditions event over Maisons-Laffitte=s straight course PP HORSE SIRE JOCKEY TRAINER 1 Molly King (Ger) Lando (Ger) Pietsch Hirschberger Apr. 19, and was a place behind His Highness The Aga Khan=s 2 Veneto (Ger) New Approach (Ire) Schistl Lowe Rosvana (Fr) (Dansili {GB}) on that occasion. Out of the G1 Prix 3 Degas (Ger) Exceed and Excel (Aus) de Vries Klug Marcel Boussac winner and G1 Prix de Diane runner-up 4 Noor Al Hawa (Fr) Makfi (GB) Pedroza Wohler Rosanara (Fr) (Sinndar {Ire}), Rosvana has since finished second 5 Knife Edge (Ire) Zoffany (Ire) Moore M Botti to stablemate Asterina (GB) (Dalakhani {Ire}) in a mile maiden 6 Baroncello (Ger) Medecis (GB) Starke Lowe on the round course there May 2. 7 Royal Shaheen (Fr) Myboycharlie (Ire) Silverio Wohler 8 Omar Bradley War Front Graberg Velin 9 Millowitsch (Ger) Sehrezad (Ire) Helfenbein Klug 10 Parvaneh (Ire) Holy Roman Emperor (Ire) Lerner Hickst Monday, Deauville, France, post time: 2:50 p.m. All carry 128 pounds bar Parvaneh, 125. POUR MOI COOLMORE PRIX SAINT-ALARY-G1, i250,000, 3yo, f, 10fT Monday, Deauville, France, post time: 3:20 p.m. PP HORSE SIRE JOCKEY TRAINER PRIX DE SAINT-GEORGES-G3, i80,000, 3yo/up, 5fT 1 Jemayel (Ire) Lope de Vega (Ire) Benoist Rouget PP HORSE SIRE JOCKEY TRAINER WT 2 Left Hand (GB) Dubawi (Ire) Guyon Laffon-Parias 1 Signs of Blessing (Ire) Invincible Spirit (Ire) Pasquier Rohaut 126 3 Tierra Del Fuego (Fr) Champs Elysees (GB) Peslier Mikhalides 2 Spirit Quartz (Ire) Invincible Spirit (Ire) Harley Cowell 128 4 Restiana (Fr) Kendargent (Fr) Spencer Sogorb 3 Monsieur Joe (Ire) Choisir (Aus) Peslier Midgley 126 5 Camprock (Fr) Myboycharlie (Ire) Barzalona Brandt 4 Son Cesio (Fr) Zafeen (Fr) Cheminaud Pantall 132 6 Rosvana (Fr) Dansili (GB) Soumillon Royer-Dupre 5 Sir Maximilian (Ire) Royal Applause (GB) Spencer I Williams 126 7 Meri Devie (Fr) Spirit One (Fr) Pasquier Clement 6 Ride Like the Wind (Ire) Lope de Vega (Ire) Barzalona Head 128 8 Hawksmoor (Ire) Azamour (Ire) Dettori Palmer 7 Pupa di Saronno (Fr) Orpen Veron Pantall 122 9 Magnanime (GB) Elusive City Piccone Chappet 8 Gengis (Fr) King's Best Rispoli Doleuze 128 All carry 126 pounds. 9 Mirza (GB) Oasis Dream (GB) Dettori Guest 128 10 Finsbury Square (Ire) Siyouni (Fr) Soumillon Chappet 126 ON A KNIFE EDGE Monday sees Cologne play host to the G2 Mehl-Mulhens- DERBY OPTION FOR ULYSSES Rennen (German 2000 Guineas), which is always finely balanced Flaxman Stables homebred Ulysses (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}) is under between staying at home or going overseas depending on the consideration for the G1 Investec Derby June 4 after breaking strength of the domestic defence. Heading that this year is Dr. his maiden impressively at Newbury on Friday. The Sir Michael Alexandra Renz=s Millowitsch (Ger) (Sehrezad {Ire}), who Stoute charge, who holds the distinction of being by a Derby captured the 8 1/2-furlong G3 Dr Busch-Memorial at Krefeld last winner and out of an Oaks winner, his dam being the time Apr. 24. Previously successful in the i200,000 Ferdinand G1 Investec Oaks victress Light Shift (Kingmambo), exited his Leisten-Memorial at Baden-Baden and third in the third start in good order, according to Flaxman Racing Manager G3 Baden-Badener Zukunftsrennen in September, the bay is a Alan Cooper. solid proposition in a renewal lacking a flashy protagonist. Cont. p11 TDN EUROPE/INTERNATIONAL • PAGE 11 OF 16 • THETDN.COM MONDAY • 16 MAY, 2016

Derby Option for Ulysses Cont. "Time Test is in good form,@ confirmed trainer Roger Charlton. "He won very nicely and has taken the race very well," said "He will run where the ground is suitable for him and the first Cooper. "As for plans, we will regroup with Sir Michael, Ryan possible outing he might have is the Tattersalls Gold Cup. He has [Moore] and the racing team and see what Sir Michael thinks we done well over the winter. He has not really changed much from should do next. He's in the Derby, but he's just won his maiden. three to four, but I would say We are going to give his programme good thought and when we he is more relaxed than he know, all will become clear. The way he won the other day was was." exciting." Time Test would be likely to face last year=s G1 Champion S. winner Fascinating Rock (Ire) (Fastnet Rock {Aus}) and GI Breeders= Cup Turf winner FRENCH DERBY FOR FOUNDATION Found (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}) if he Time Test | Racing Post Highclere Thoroughbred Racing=s Foundation (Ire) (Zoffany runs in the Tattersalls Gold {Ire}) is bound for the G1 Prix du Jockey Club June 5 on the back Cup. of his third-place finish behind stablemate Wings Of Desire (GB) (Pivotal {GB}) in the G2 Dante S. at York May 12. In that contest, last year=s G2 Royal Lodge S. winner was trapped in the lane and, once getting out late, made up ground to hit the board. "He ran a great Sunday=s Results: race,@ said Highclere 1st-RIP, ,5,000, Cond, 5-15, 2yo, 6fT, 1:13.06, g/f. Chairman Harry TOP SCORE (GB) (c, 2, Hard Spun--Windsor County, by Elusive Herbert. Quality), a debut third going five panels at Newmarket last time "Unfortunately, May 1, stalked the leaders in third after the initial exchanges of [jockey] William this one. Shaken up when angled into the clear at the quarter- [Buick] wasn't able to mile marker, the 4-6 chalk was pushed to the front entering the Foundation | Racing Post extricate himself final furlong and drew off under whipless urging to score by when he needed to, but he ran very well and was only beaten 3 3/4 lengths from Montataire (Ire) (Cape Cross {Ire}). Top Score 1 3/4 lengths by the winner.@ (GB) (Hard Spun) is the first, and currently only, living foal for "William felt we should stick to a mile and a quarter, for the the unraced Windsor County (Elusive Quality), whose dam time being, and the French Derby looks a very good target for Ascutney (Lord at War {Arg}) landed the G3 Miesque S. and also him@ Herbert added. "It will be very exciting for everyone produced Windsor County=s G1 Breeders= Cup Classic-winning involved to have a runner in the French Derby--I don't think own-brother Raven=s Pass. Ascutney herself is full to the stakes- Highclere have ever had a runner in the race before--so we'll winning Words of War, whose progeny is headed by the G1 Del certainly look forward to that." Mar Oaks victrix No Matter What (), herself a multiple stakes producer headed by MG1SW champion juvenile Rainbow View (Dynaformer). Lifetime Record: 2-1-0-1, $6,052. Video, sponsored by Fasig-Tipton. TIME COULD GET TATTERSALLS TEST O-Godolphin; B-Darley (GB); T-Saeed bin Suroor. Khalid Abdullah=s Time Test (GB) (Dubawi {Ire}), widely 2nd-RIP, ,5,000, Cond, 5-15, 2yo, 6fT, 1:13.61, g/f. considered a Group 1-winner in the making last year after +CUPPACOFFEE (IRE) (c, 2, Intense Focus--Breedj {Ire} {SP-Eng}, winning Royal Ascot=s G3 Tercentenary S., could get another by Acclamation {GB}) knew her job from the gate and raced in a shot at a top-level score in the Tattersalls Gold Cup at The prominent second after breaking alertly from the outside box. Curragh May 22. The bay, who was only fourth in the Inching into a slender lead approaching the final quarter-mile, G1 Juddmonte International in August but rebounded to win the the 7-2 chance came under pressure when threatened by Vaux G2 Joel S. in September, has not been seen since finishing 10th (Ire) (Sir Prancealot {Ire}) soon after and was driven out inside in the GI Breeders= Cup Mile Oct. 31. the final furlong to outgame that rival by a half-length. Cont. p12 TDN EUROPE/INTERNATIONAL • PAGE 12 OF 16 • THETDN.COM MONDAY • 16 MAY, 2016

2nd-RIP Cont. Cuppacoffee (Ire) (Intense Focus) marks the first winner for Breedj (Ire) (Acclamation {GB}), who ran second in the Listed Marygate Fillies= S. as a 2-year-old. Breedj (Ire), who also has a Sunday=s Results: yearling colt by Footstepsinthesand (GB), is the leading COOLMORE STUD POWER S.-Listed, i47,500, NAV, 5-15, 3yo, performer bred from Kildare Lady (Ire) (Indian Ridge {Ire}), 5f 182yT, 1:10.60, g/f. herself a daughter of the Listed Firth of Clyde S. victrix Braari 1--WASHINGTON DC (IRE), 129, c, 3, by Zoffany (Ire) (Gulch), whose other progeny is headed by the black-type 1st Dam: How=s She Cuttin= (Ire) (SP-Eng, $111,446), scoring and group-placed Shaard (Ire) (Anabaa). This is the by Shinko Forest (Ire) family of GI Hollywood Futurity hero Stormello (Stormy 2nd Dam: Magic Annemarie (Ire), by Dancing Dissident Atlantic). Sales history: i12,000 Wlg >14 GOFNOV; i20,000 Ylg 3rd Dam: Magic Garter (GB), by Precocious (GB) >15 TISEP. Lifetime Record: 1-1-0-0, $4,646. Video, sponsored by (75,000gns Wlg >13 TATFOA; i340,000 Ylg >14 GOFORB). Fasig-Tipton. O-Susan Magnier, Michael Tabor & Derrick Smith; B-P Hyland O-A Starkie, C A Gledhill & B Craig; B-Mrs Brid Cosgrove (IRE); & C & J McHale (IRE); T-Aidan O=Brien; J-Seamus Heffernan. T-Ann Duffield. i28,025. Lifetime Record: SW-Eng & G1SP-Ire, 8-4-3-0, $190,620. ADDITIONAL MAIDEN WINNERS: 2--Diamond Fields (Ire), 124, f, 3, Fastnet Rock (Aus)--Question Amazement (Ger), c, 3, Lope de Vega (Ire)--Aglow (GB), by Times (GB), by Shamardal. (i55,000 Ylg >14 GOFORB). O-Ms Spinning World. RIP, 5-15, 9fT, 1:54.01. B-Gestut Ammerland Mary Slack. i9,500. (GER). *i28,000 Ylg >14 BBAGS; 48,000gns Ylg >14 TATYEA. 3--Only Mine (Ire), 124, f, 3, Pour Moi (Ire)--Truly Mine (Ire), by **1/2 to Altair Star (Ire) (Kris Kin), SW & MGSP-Ger, SP-Fr; and Rock of Gibraltar (Ire). (i80,000 Ylg >14 GOFORB). O-Mrs C C Aden Gulf (Ire) (Medicean {GB}), SP-Ger, $197,566. Regalado-Gonzalez. i4,750. Margins: 2 1/4, NK, 3/4. Odds: 1.63, 16.00, 9.00. Also Ran: Most Beautiful (GB), Shrill (GB), Blood Moon (GB), OBSERVATIONS Waterloo Bridge (Ire), Miss Elizabeth (Ire), Promised Money on the European racing scene (Ire), Taexali (Ire), Juliette Fair (Ire), Independence Day (Ire). Disappointing when only seventh in the G3 Pavilion S. over six furlongs at Ascot last time Apr. 27, last year=s Listed Windsor 7.30 Windsor, Mdn, ,4,500, 3yo/up, f/m, 8f 67yT Castle S. winner and G1 Phoenix S. runner-up, who had taken SNOW PIXIE (Flower Alley) is a half-sister to the remarkable six- the seven-furlong Listed Loughbrown S. at Dundalk at the start times Group 1 winner Snow Fairy (Ire) (Intikhab), who took of last month, bounced back to his fluent best to book a ticket Cristina Patino=s back to the Royal meeting. Settled on the heels of the leaders, Anamoine Limited the bay was produced by Seamie Heffernan to lead with 1 1/2 and trainer Ed furlongs remaining and drew away to score in convincing style. Dunlop on such a AHe won well in fairness to him and the ground was a big help,@ memorable said Joseph O=Brien, representing Aidan. AIt was a bit slow for journey through him the last day and a the English and few things didn=t work Irish Oaks and on out--he got a bump. He to Japan and has a lot of pace and Hong Kong. was a good 2-year-old. Representing the Snow Pixie is a half to globetrotting Group 1 I=d say he=ll go for the same owner and winner Snow Fairy | Racing Post [G1] Commonwealth trainer, the Cup [at Royal Ascot unraced dark bay encounters another notable debutante in June 17]. He=s a quick George Strawbridge=s I Am (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}), a John Gosden- horse and fast ground trained half-sister to the 2010 G2 Cherry Hinton S. winner is the key to him, as Washington DC | Racing Post Memory (Ire) (Danehill Dancer {Ire}). he=s a low mover. Five or six is his trip.@ Cont. p13 TDN EUROPE/INTERNATIONAL • PAGE 13 OF 16 • THETDN.COM MONDAY • 16 MAY, 2016

Listed Coolmore Stud Power S. Cont. 8th-NAV, i12,000, Mdn, 5-15, 3yo, 13fT, 2:59.67, g/f. Washington DC=s stakes-placed dam How=s She Cuttin=, who IMMORTAL BRIDGE (IRE) (c, 3, Fastnet Rock {Aus}--Aymara also has an as-yet unraced 2-year-old colt Cuttin= Edge (Ire) (Rip {GB}, by Darshaan {GB}), fifth over an extended nine furlongs at Van Winkle {Ire}), hails from the family of the G1 Cheveley Park Gowran Park last time Apr. 24, started at 6-1 and tracked the S. and G1 Coronation S. winner and 2-year-old champion filly early pace in third. Laboring to get to the lead approaching the Magic Flute (GB). Her most prominent descendant is the two-furlong marker, the half-brother to Klammer (GB) (Exceed G1 Dewhurst S. and G1 St. James=s Palace S. hero and leading and Excel {Aus}), GSW-Eng & SW-Fr, $721,291, and to Byrama sire Grand Lodge. Click for the Racing Post result. Video, (GB) (Byron {GB}), GISW-US, $659,067, was headed soon after sponsored by Fasig-Tipton. by Magnolia Rose (Ire) (Fastnet Rock {Aus}) and, after looking booked for second, dug deep to regain the advantage close 2nd-NAV, i16,500, Mdn, 5-15, 2yo, 5fT, 1:02.16, g/f. home and score by a half-length. The dam, who is best known CALLENDER (IRE) (c, 2, Exceed and Excel {Aus}--Much Faster for producing the GI Vanity H. winner Byrama, is from the family {Ire} {MGSW & G1SP-Fr, $197,289}, by Fasliyev), who was of the G3 Queen Mary S. scorer Gwydion, who in turn produced headed close home when second on heavy ground at The the G3 Greenham S. winner and G1 2000 Guinea runner-up and Curragh last time Apr. 3, took a keen hold on the tail of the early sire Enrique (GB). She has an unraced 2-year-old full-sister to leaders. Sent to the front with 1 1/2 furlongs to race, the 5-2 the winner named Aussie Rock Star (Ire) and a yearling colt by joint favourite held the other joint market-leader Imagine If (Ire) Galileo (Ire). Lifetime Record: 4-1-0-0, $8,542. Video, sponsored (Dream Ahead) by a half-length. Currently the last living foal of by Fasig-Tipton. the appropriately-named G2 Prix Robert Papin and G3 Prix de O-Michael Tabor & Derrick Smith & Mrs John Magnier; Bois winner Much Faster, Callender hails from the extended B-Glenvale Stud (IRE); T-Aidan O=Brien. family of the top-level scorers Midships (Mizzen Mast), Zambezi Sun (GB) (Dansili {GB}) and Temida (Ire) (Oratorio {Ire}). Lifetime Record: 3-1-1-1, $16,822. Video, sponsored by Fasig-Tipton. O-Richard Barnes; B-Grange Con Stud (IRE); T-P J Prendergast. Sunday=s Results: 7th-NAV, i14,500, Mdn, 5-15, 3yo/up, 8fT, 1:43.40, g/f. 2nd-DVL, i34,000, Cond, 5-15, 3yo, c/g, 10fT, 2:08.98, NEW CLASSICISM (IRE) (c, 3, New Approach {Ire}--Chan Tong gd. {Brz} {G1SW-Brz}, by Hampstead {Uru}), fourth over a mile at CRAVEN=S LEGEND (IRE) (c, 3, Invincible Spirit {Ire}--Prudenzia Dundalk Apr. 18, was sent to the front from the outset. Tackled {Ire} {SW-Fr}, by Dansili {GB}), who broke through over this trip and briefly headed by Kidd Malibu (Malibu Moon) in the last at Compiegne in his third go last time Apr. 21, broke sharply furlong, the 7-1 shot re-asserted 50 yards from the post to from the inside gate to seize immediate control here. Nudged prevail by a neck. Cockatoo Island (War Front), Ballydoyle=s along when threatened soon after turning for home, the 18-5 half-brother to the 2009 GI American Oaks heroine Gozzip Girl chance was ridden out inside the final furlong to comfortably (Dynaformer), shaped with encouragement on debut to be hold Dance of Life (Fr) (Mastercraftsman {Ire}) by 3/4 of a fourth. The winner, who is a half-brother to Ivoire (Brz) (Know length. The winner realised the second-highest price at Arqana=s Heights {Ire}), MG1SW-Brz, is out of the Brazilian Group 1 2014 August yearling sale when selling for i1,100,000, and is a heroine Chan Tong, who has three stakes performers to her half-brother to G1 Irish Oaks victress and G1 Prix de Diane credit. He also descends from a full-sister to the Brazilian Group runner-up Chicquita (Ire) (Montjeu {Ire}), Hwt. Older Mare-Ire at 2 scorer Spring Star (Brz), who is the dam of the six-times 11-14f, G1SW-Ire, G1SP-Eng & Fr, $859,094, who herself graded-stakes winner Spring House (Chester House), as well as a became Ireland=s highest-priced Thoroughbred when selling for half to the dual Brazilian Group 1-winning champion juvenile filly i6-million at Goffs=s 2013 November sale. The winner is a Verinha (Brz) (Baronius {Brz}). Chan Tong also has an unnamed half-brother to a yearling filly by Galileo (Ire). Lifetime Record: yearling colt by Iffraaj (GB). Lifetime Record: 3-1-0-0, $10,582. 4-2-0-1, i35,250. Video, sponsored by Fasig-Tipton. Video, sponsored by Fasig-Tipton. O-Mayfair Speculators SARL; B-Ecurie des Monceaux & Ecurie O-Godolphin; B-Darley (IRE); T-Willie McCreery. Skymarc Farm (IRE); T-Andre Fabre. TDN EUROPE/INTERNATIONAL • PAGE 14 OF 16 • THETDN.COM MONDAY • 16 MAY, 2016

French Report Cont. 1st-HOP, i8,750, Mdn, 5-15, 3yo, 8fT, 1:39.20, gd. 1st-ANG, i33,000, Cond, 5-15, 3yo, 11 1/2fT, 2:28.84, sf. +AMALIE (GER) (f, 3, Areion {Ger}--Azalee {Ger}, by Lando SOTTEVILLE (FR) (f, 3, Le Havre {Ire}--Sandsnow {Ire}, by {Ger}) dwelt at the break, but immediately recovered and Verglas {Ire}) Lifetime Record: 5-3-1-0, i41,200. O-Gerard tanked into a pressing third after the initial exchanges of this Augustin-Normand; B-Franklin Finance SA (FR); T-Jean-Claude unveiling. Looming large in early stretch, the 53-10 chance Rouget. *Full to Crisolles (Fr), MGSP-Fr, $200,851. cruised to the fore inside the two pole and was ridden clear inside the final eighth to easily account for Saxone (Ire) (Tiger ADDITIONAL MAIDEN WINNERS: Hill {Ire}) by three lengths. Amalie (Ger) (Areion {Ger}) is the Elennga (Fr), f, 3, Exceed and Excel (Aus)--Elva (Ire) (GSP-Fr), by second foal and first winner bred from the winning Azalee (Ger) King=s Best. DVL, 5-15, 9 1/2f (AWT), 1:57.92. B-H H The Aga (Lando {Ger}), who is a half to the stakes-winning Andorn (Ger) Khan=s Studs SC (FR). *1/2 to Ervedya (Fr) (Siyouni {Fr}), (Monsun {Ger}) and who also has an unraced 2-year-old colt by MG1SW-Fr & G1SW-Eng, $1,318,145. Adlerflug (Ger) named Adler (Ger) in training with Markus Klug. Soho Starlight (GB), c, 3, Pivotal (GB)--Soho Star (GB), by Smarty The third dam is Aiyana (Ger) (Last Tycoon {Ire}), whose other Jones. ANG, 5-15, 8fT, 1:40.10. B-GB Partnership (GB). progeny is headed by the 2007 G1 German Derby hero and prolific young sire Adlerflug (Ger) (In the Wings {GB}) and the G2 Oppenheim Union-Rennen hero Arrigo (Ger) (Shirocco {Ger}). Lifetime Record: 1-1-0-0, i5,000. O/B-Gestut Gorlsdorf (GER); T-Roland Dzubasz. Monday, Hannover, post time: 4:45 p.m. GROSSER PREIS DER HANNOVERSCHEN VOLKSBANK - DERBY ADDITIONAL MAIDEN WINNERS: TRIAL-Listed, i25,000, 3yo, 11fT Bastille (Ger), f, 3, Saddex (GB)--Boccassini (Ger), by Artan (Ire). PP HORSE SIRE JOCKEY TRAINER WT HOP, 5-15, 8fT, 1:39.10. B-Gestut Westerberg (GER). 1 Bora Rock (Ire) Rock of Gibraltar (Ire) V Schiergen P Schiergen 123 *i17,000 Ylg >14 BBAGS. 2 Antares (Ger) Kallisto (Ger) Ganbat Dzubasz 123 3 Moonshiner (Ger) Adlerflug (Ger) Minarik Carvalho 128 4 Tassilo (Fr) King's Best Hellyn Hickst 130 5 Dschingis Secret (Ger) Soldier Hollow (GB) Seidl Klug 128 6 Light of Air (Fr) Youmzain (Ire) Bojko Wohler 128 7 Saloonmedicus (Ger) Medicean (GB) Suborics Hofer 123 8 Larry (Fr) Literato (Fr) Piechulek Stech 128 9 Boscaccio (Ger) Mount Nelson (GB) D Schiergen Sprengel 128 VA BANK RETURNS TO ACTION Polish Triple Crown winner Va Bank (Ire) (Archipenko) took his Sunday=s Results: record to a perfect nine-for- 2nd-HOP, i5,000, Cond, 5-15, 3yo, f, 10fT, 2:10.10, gd. nine (Video) after landing a MEERGORL (GER), (f, 3, Adlerflug {Ger})--Mouette {Ger}, by 2000-metre event in 2:01.58 Tertullian), who hit the board over this course and distance in at Sluzewiec Racetrack near her only prior start Apr. 24, raced in a handy fourth until turning Warsaw, Poland, Sunday. It for home in this return. Scrubbed along at the top of the was a new course record. straight, the 3-1 second favourite challenged wide with 300 Twice a champion in Poland, metres remaining and was driven out to deny Wild Approach the Airlie Stud-bred Va Bank (Ger) (New Approach {Ire}) by a neck in the dying strides. Va Bank | torsluzewiec.pl captured the 2015 edition of Meergorl (Ger) (Adlerflug {Ger}) marks the first winner for the Triple Crown and was last Mouette (Ger) (Tertullian), a granddaughter of the smart seen landing the Great Warsaw Race against older horses Sept. 27. producer Meerdunung (GDR) (Tauchsport {GDR}) whose Tracking from near the rear of the field without cover through descendants include the G1 Oaks d=Italia heroine and stakes the early going, the €4,500 Tattersalls Ireland September producing Meridiana (Ger) (Lomitas {GB}), who also landed the yearling began to improve approaching the final turn, despite his G2 Orchid H. and G3 Bewitch S. following her move to the four deep perch. He had tugged his way into second by upper United States, as well as the dual group-winning champion stretch and took dead aim on Temperament (Pol) (Fast and juvenile Monami (Ger) (Sholokhov {Ire}). Mouette (Ger) also has Furious {Fr}), as that one began to shake loose from the chasing a yearling filly by Soldier Hollow (GB) named Movie Star (Ger). pack. Set down for the drive, Va Bank overhauled the longtime Lifetime Record: 2-1-0-1, i3,000. leader and fended off the rallying Masterpower (Ire) O/B-Gestut Gorlsdorf (GER); T-Roland Dzubasz. (Mastercraftsman {Ire}) to remain perfect. TDN EUROPE/INTERNATIONAL • PAGE 15 OF 16 • THETDN.COM MONDAY • 16 MAY, 2016

2--Mikki Queen (Jpn), 121, f, 4, Deep Impact (Jpn)--Musical Way (Fr), by Gold Away (Ire). (-100,000,000 yrl =13 JRHAJUL) O-Mizuki Noda; B-Northern Farm. -38,092,000. 3--Shonan Pandora (Jpn), 121, m, 5, by Deep Impact (Jpn)--Cutie Gold (Jpn), by French Deputy. O-Tetsuhide Kunimoto; B-Shiraoi Farm. -23,546,000. Margins: 2HF, NO, 1 1/4. Odds: 16.70, 2.40, 3.40. Straight Girl Defends Mile Title Cont. from p1 Also Ran: Smart Layer (Jpn), Rouge Buck (Jpn), Magic Time (Jpn), Straight Girl had come agonizingly close to Group 1 glory on Ukiyono Kaze (Jpn), Queens Ring (Jpn), Sundarbans (Jpn), Let's Go Donki (Jpn), Win Primera (Jpn), (Jpn), Uliuli three occasions in 2014, finishing third in this before checking in (Jpn), Red Reveur (Jpn), Cafe Brilliant (Jpn), (Jpn), second in the G1 Sprinters S. and third in Sha Tin=s G1 Longines Tosen Victory (Jpn), Chaleur (Jpn). Hong Kong Sprint, each time beaten a length or less. An Click for the Racing Post chart or the free Equineline.com unflattering 13th of 18 first-up in the G1 Takamatsunomiya catalogue-style pedigree. JRA Video. Kinen last year, Straight Girl bounced back to win this GROUP 1 WINNER PEEPING DIES contest by a head, This year=s G1 Coolmore Classic winner Peeping (Aus) (Redoute=s Choice {Aus}--Miss Marielle {Aus}, by Encosta de and exacted further Lago {Aus}) has died due to complications from colic, according revenge when to published reports. Trained by Ron Quinton and campaigned winning the Sprinters as a homebred by Tom Kelly and Suffolk Vale & Co, the in October. Slated for 4-year-old Peeping won the retirement after a Listed Sebring S. as a ninth-place finish in 3-year-old and the Straight Girl | JRA last year=s Hong Kong G2 Golden Pendant S. last Sprint, Straight Girl=s connections instead decided to give her September. She had finished another season on the track. Ninth first-up behind Smart Layer third in a Group 1-quality in the G2 Hanshin Himba S. Apr. 9, Straight Girl rewarded her field in the G2 Guy Walter S. connections with a cozy victory Sunday. Feb. 27 and was trying Group Jockey Keita Tosaki said, AHer response was terrific and we 1 company for the first time Peeping | Racing and Sports were very fortunate to find a clear path open right in front of us in the Coolmore Classic Mar. in the homestretch. I felt I didn=t have to use my whip, but with 12, where she bested the next-out G1 Queen Of The Turf S. top Group 1 competition chasing us, I drove her to the finish winner Azkadellia (NZ) (Shinko King {Ire}), with subsequent G1 line just in case. The Hanshin Himba S. was a good start to get Queen Elizabeth S. winner Lucia Valentina (NZ) (Savabeel {Aus}) her back in form.@ back in fourth. Peeping was spelling in New South Wales when she suffered the colic attack.

Sunday, Tokyo, Japan -G1, -181,760,000, Tokyo, 5-15, 4yo/up, f/m, EXTREME CHOICE SISTER TOPS SCONE SALE 1600mT, 1:31.50 (NTR), fm. A Duporth (Aus) half-sister to this year=s G1 Blue Diamond S. 1--STRAIGHT GIRL (JPN), 121, m, 7, Fuji Kiseki (Jpn) winner Extreme Choice (Aus) (Not A Single Doubt {Aus}) was the 1st Dam: Never Period (Jpn), by . dearest lot sold at Sunday=s Inglis Scone Yearling Sale, fetching a 2nd Dam: Future Happy (Jpn), by Danehill new sale-record price of A$115,000 from Inglis as agent for an 3rd Dam: Taisei Kagura (Jpn), by Morning Frolic undisclosed client. Lot 83 is the fifth foal out of Extremely (Aus) O-Toshihiro Hirosaki HD Inc; B-Okamoto Farm; T-Hideaki (Hussonet), who has produced four winners from four to race Fujiwara; J-Keita Tosaki. -96,822,000. Lifetime Record: G1SP-HK, and was herself sold for A$735,000 to Yu Long Investments at the 31-11-4-3. Werk Nick Rating: A++. Click for the Inglis Australian Broodmare and Weanling Sale earlier this month, carrying a full-sibling to Extreme Choice. Both Extremely and her eNicks report & 5-cross pedigree. Duporth daughter were consigned by Bell River . Cont. p16 TDN EUROPE/INTERNATIONAL • PAGE 16 OF 16 • THETDN.COM MONDAY • 16 MAY, 2016

Extreme Choice Sister Tops Scone Sale Cont. Following the theme set by the major Australian yearling sales this year, the Scone sale enjoyed gains across the board. A total of 172 horses sold for A$2,605,250, up from the 184 that sold for A$2,039,090 last year. The average climbed 36.7% to A$15,147, and the median was up 25% to A$10,000. The buyback rate was up slightly, but still healthy at 12.7%. Inglis also signed as agent for the sale=s top-priced colt, a A$82,000 son of Foxwedge (Aus) (lot 162) who is the first foal out of the winning Pinocchio (Aus) (Encosta de Lago {Aus}), a full-sister to champion 3-year-old Racing To Win (Aus) and a half to G3 Caulfield Guineas Prelude winner Purrealist (Aus) (Tale of the Cat). He was consigned by Tyreel Stud. Darby Racing was the buyer of the third-highest priced lot of the day, lot 115, for A$75,000. That colt, from Watagan Grange, is by popular young sire I Am Invincible, and is the fourth foal out of Irish Loup (Aus) (Loup Sauvage), who has produced three winners from three to race.

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INGLIS SCONE YEARLING SALE

Lot Sex Sire Dam Price (A$) 83 f Duporth (Aus) Extremely (Aus) 115,000 B-Bell River Thoroughbreds Consigned by Bell River Thoroughbreds Inglis As Agent

162 c Foxwedge (Aus) Pinocchio (Aus) 82,000 INGLIS SCONE YEARLING SALE B-Wallings Bloodstock Pty Ltd SESSION TOTALS 2016 2015 Consigned by Tyreel Stud • Catalogued 206 209 Purchased by Inglis As Agent • No. Offered 197 199 • No. Sold 172 184 • RNAs 25 15 115 c I Am Invincible (Aus) Irish Loup (Aus) 75,000 • % RNAs 12.7% 7.5% B-Mr. J Manning • High Price A$115,000 A$66,000 Consigned by Watagan Grange • Gross A$2,605,250 A$2,039,090 Purchased by Darby Racing • Average (% change) A$15,147 (+36.7%) A$11,082 • Median (% change) A$10,000 (+25%) A$8,000

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GAMBLE=S GHOST GETS UP IN SELENE NYQUIST CONTINUES Ivan Dalos=s Gamble=s Ghost (Ghostzapper) outbattled TO IMPRESS pacesetting Caren (Society=s Chairman) to take the GIII Selene S. by 1 1/4 lengths Sunday at Woodbine. The >TDN Rising Star= broke well from her inside post, but was unhurried and settled near the back of the six-horse field as Caren led the way through fractions of :24.55 and :48.85. Gamble=s Ghost made eye- catching progress turning for home and ranged up four wide into the stretch to take a narrow advantage. She looked home free, but Caren fought back gamely along the rail only to have Gamble=s Ghost find a bit more late to win going away. Thrilled (Uncle Mo) was third. AShe has so much heart,@ Dalos said of his homebred filly. AHer dam was a wonderful mare and she got that from her.@ Trainer Josie Carroll is also impressed with how Gamble=s Ghost, winner of last year=s GIII Mazarine S., has matured. AShe=s a very elegant filly,@ Carroll said. AShe filled out. She didn't get real tall, but she has a nice shape to her.@ Cont. p5 Nyquist gallops at Pimlico | Maryland Jockey Club photo

GI Kentucky Derby winner Nyquist (Uncle Mo) continued IN TDN EUROPE TODAY preparations for next Saturday=s GI Preakness S., galloping a DEAUVILLE DELIVERS A CLASSIC WEEKEND strong mile at Pimlico Sunday. The Gurkha (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}) and La Cressonniere (Fr) (Le AHe=s a special horse,@ said trainer Doug O=Neill. AWhen you Havre {Ire}) were the big winners on Guineas weekend in get here in the morning and walk down the shedrow and you=re France. Click or tap here to go straight to TDN Europe. able to look in his eye, you know you=re right alongside greatness. What he did today gave you goose bumps, but he does that every day. It=s only been eight days since he won the Derby, so you=d expect a little deflation in his energy level, but he was as strong as ever.@ Of Sunday=s gallop, O=Neill added, AWe=re very happy. The plan going into today was to have a comfortable gallop. We got him going a minute and 55 seconds for a mile, under a two-minute lick. [Exercise rider] Jonny [Garcia] was happy. The way he looked out there left us all smiling.@

ALLARD WAITS WITH ABIDING STAR Trainer Ned Allard is hopeful he=ll be able to saddle Abiding Star (Uncle Mo) in next Saturday=s GI Preakness S., but the colt=s participation in the second leg of the Triple Crown is contingent on the quarantine at his home base of Parx Racing being lifted in time to make it to Pimlico. Parx has been under quarantine since Apr. 1 due to an outbreak of equine herpesvirus. Cont. p3 JOE D’ORIO ©

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FEATURE PRESENTATION • GI PREAKNESS S. DAZZLING GEM WORKS Dazzling Gem (Misremembered), possible for the GI Preakness S. or the Sir Barton S. on Saturday=s under-card at Pimlico, worked a half-mile Sunday at Churchill Downs in :49.60. ANo decision has been made nor has a rider been confirmed,@ trainer Brad Cox said after the work. AWe=ll have a decision in the next day or two.@ Working on his own, Dazzling Gem set fractions of :12.60, :24.60, :49.60 and galloped out five furlongs in 1:02.80 and six Allard Waits with Abiding Star (cont. from p1) furlongs in 1:16.40. The work was the 16th fastest of 30 at the AWe still need the quarantine to be lifted on Tuesday, but distance. everything I=ve heard from everyone is that it will be a shock if AI thought he worked really well; nice and steady,@ Cox said. it=s not,@ Allard said Sunday. AHe is fit and I didn=t want to do a lot with him. It was just a The Maryland Jockey Club has announced special precautions maintenance work.@ for Parx-based horses shipping to Pimlico, should the quarantine Dazzling Gem was third in the GII Louisiana Derby and fourth be lifted. Parx horses would train at 5 a.m. before regular in the GI Arkansas Derby. training hours and would be housed in isolation stalls on the Pimlico backstretch. Stonehedge=s Abiding Star is currently on a five-race win streak. He most recently won the May 7 Parx Derby. ACAPULCO ON TO ROYAL ASCOT Allard is hopeful the quarantine may ultimately be a good Acapulco (Scat Daddy) exited her win in Saturday=s Unbridled thing for Abiding Star and stablemate Always Sunshine (West Sidney overnight stakes at Churchill in fine shape and is now Acre), who would contest Saturday=s GIII Maryland Sprint H. Royal Ascot-bound, according to trainer Wesley Ward. AAs it=s turned out, at least we were able to find some races in AI=m standing in front of her right now and she looks good to between as far as keeping them racing, and the purses were me,@ Ward said via telephone good,@ Allard continued. AIt really hasn=t been as inconvenient as with the Churchill press office. you might think. Who knows? It might have been beneficial AShe did beautiful and she kind because they got some races into them, built up their of took the worst of it being on confidence and picked up some money to boot. We did miss the inside, but the most some races, and who knows how they would have turned out? important thing is that we But they had some races and built up their confidence.@ came out with a win, so confidence-wise we can really push forward on to Royal Acapulco | Coady Photography Ascot. She galloped out strong and came out in good order. She came back tired, which is a good thing. It was her first race since February, but she came out great and gave it 100%.@ Cont. p4 TDN HEADLINE NEWS • PAGE 4 OF 7 • THETDN.COM MONDAY • MAY 16, 2016

Acapulco, who won last year=s G2 Queen Mary S. at the Royal McLaughlin was happy with Mohaymen=s Derby effort. Ascot meeting, could start in either the June 14 G1 King=s Stand AHe ran very well,@ the trainer said. AHe didn't break really or the June 17 G1 Commonwealth Cup. well, but he got his best number on the sheets so far, but AI would certainly lean toward the Commonwealth,@ Ward Nyquist is a star.@ said. AIt=s straight 3-year-olds and would be the easiest of the McLaughlin also gave an upbeat two you would think, but the decision lies with Coolmore and bulletin on Grade I winner Frosted whatever decision they want to make. We=re excited about her; (Tapit), most recently fifth in the G1 she=s a really great filly.@ Dubai World Cup. The 4-year-old Acapulco was given the rest of the year off after finishing breezed a half-mile in :48.20 last second againt older horses in the G1 Coolmore Nunthorpe S. last Friday at Greentree Training Center August. She returned to take an optional claimer at Turfway in Saratoga. Feb. 19. AHe=s working on Fridays and we're Mohaymen Ward=s six-horse Royal Ascot contingent also includes pointing for the [June 11 GI] Met Coady Photography Kentucky Juvenile winner Silvertoni (Tapit). Mile,@ McLaughlin of Frosted. AWe were going to go a different direction, but the Met Mile is such a valuable race. A mile isn't necessarily an ideal distance for him, but it is when they go :22, :44 and 1:09. So we=ll point to the Met Mile with him and [GI MOHAYMEN GETS SOME R&R Malibu S. runner-up and >TDN Rising Star=] Marking Shadwell=s Mohaymen (Tapit), fourth in last week=s (Bernardini).@ GI Kentucky Derby, will get some time off before being pointed Of Stonestreet Stable=s Cavorting (Bernardini), five-length towards a summer campaign at Saratoga. winner of Saturday=s GI Ruffian S., McLaughlin said, AShe came AWe brought him to the clinic [after the Derby] just to get him back great.@ The >TDN Rising Star= will likely start next in the checked out and got a full bill of health," said trainer Kiaran June11 GI Ogden Phipps S. McLaughlin. AHe=s getting a few days to stand around in tall grass and then he'll go to Saratoga and settle in up there.@ TDN HEADLINE NEWS • PAGE 5 OF 7 • THETDN.COM MONDAY • MAY 16, 2016

STELLAR WIND ON TRACK FOR VANITY AIt was a better race than it looked,@ Carroll said of Gamble=s Ghost=s Florida Oaks effort. AShe left the gate and slipped a little Hronis Racing=s Stellar Wind (Curlin), last year=s champion in behind and it took her a little while to get rolling after that. I 3-year-old filly, worked six furlongs in 1:13.40 under jockey think it=s a much better race than it looks on paper.@ Victor Espinoza Sunday at Santa Anita. The 4-year-old worked in Ivan Dalos=s Tall Oaks Farms purchased the winner=s dam, company with stablemate That=s a Lady (City Zip), who was Gambling Girl, for $8,029 as a yearling out of the 1994 CBS credited with a 1:13.60 work. September sale. Winner of the 1996 La Prevoyante S., the mare Stellar Wind, off since finishing second, beaten just a neck by produced a filly by Scat Daddy in 2015 and was bred back to Stopchargingmaria (Tale of the Cat), in last year=s GI Breeders= Afleet Alex. Cup Distaff, is expected to make her 2016 debut in the June 4 GI Vanity Mile. AShe went very well,@ trainer John Sadler said Sunday. AShe Sunday, Woodbine went out [seven furlongs] in [1:] 26 and change. She usually SELENE S.-GIII, C$174,600, WO, 5-15, 3yo, f, 1 1/16m (AWT), works in company when she=s getting ready to run. She=s right 1:45.05, ft. on schedule.@ 1--GAMBLE'S GHOST, 121, f, 3, by Ghostzapper 1st Dam: Gambling Girl (SW, $209,073), by Secret Claim 2nd Dam: Dawn's Deputy, by Deputy Minister 3rd Dam: Ivory Dawn, by Sir Ivor Gamble=s Ghost Gets Up in Selene (cont. from p1) >TDN Rising Star= O-Ivan Dalos; B-Tall Oaks Farm (ON); T-Josie Gamble=s Ghost earned >TDN Rising Star= status when she Carroll; J-Luis Contreras. C$108,000. Lifetime Record: 6-3-2-0, romped home by 8 1/4 lengths in her debut over the Woodbine $273,829. *1/2 to Purrfect Bluff (Lion Heart), MSP, main track last August. Switched to the turf, the dark bay filly $368,944. Click for the eNicks report & 5-cross pedigree. finished second behind Werk Nick Rating: A. Canadian Horse of the Year Catch a Glimpse Registered Ontario-Bred (City Zip) in the Sept. 12 2--Caren, 121, f, 3, Society's Chairman--Jo Zak, by Vilzak. GII Natalma S. before ($45,000 Ylg '14 FTKOCT). O-Robert Marzilli; B-James A. winning the Oct. 4 & Janeane A. Everatt & J. Arika Everatt - Meeuse (ON); GIII Mazarine S. over the T-Michael P. De Paulo. C$37,800. synthetic surface. She Registered Ontario-Bred concluded her juvenile 3--Thrilled, 121, f, 3, Uncle Mo--Excited, by Giant's Causeway. campaign with a runner- O-Michael B. Tabor; B-Chelston (KY); T-T Pletcher. C$16,500. up effort behind Caren Gamble=s Ghost | Michael Burns Margins: 1 1/4, 3 1/4, 2 3/4. Odds: 2.45, 5.30, 1.00. in the Nov. 1 Princess Also Ran: Treasuring, Inconclusive, Niigon's Legacy. Scratched: Elizabeth S. In her only previous 2016 outing, Gamble=s Ghost Luckbe Tanya. Click for the Equibase.com chart, the TJCIS.com was a close-up sixth, beaten two lengths, over the turf in the PPs or the free Equineline.com catalogue-style pedigree. Mar. 12 GIII Florida Oaks at Tampa Bay Downs. VIDEO, sponsored by Fasig-Tipton.

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Friday, Pimlico, post time: 4:50 p.m. EDT Friday, Pimlico, post time: 2:39 p.m. EDT BLACK-EYED SUSAN S.-GII, $250,000, 3yo, f, 1 1/8m PIMLICO SPECIAL H.-GIII, $300,000, 3yo/up, 1 3/16m PP HORSE SIRE JOCKEY TRAINER WT PP HORSE SIRE JOCKEY TRAINER WT 1 A P Majetstic Majestic Warrior Carrasco Trombetta 116 1 Page McKenney Eavesdropper Karamanos Eppler 118 2 Dothraki Queen K Pure Prize Leparoux McPeek 120 2 Stanford K Malibu Moon Castellano Pletcher 124 3 Land Over Sea K Bellamy Road Gutierrez O'Neill 122 3 Savoy Stomp Medaglia d'Oro Velazquez Pletcher 118 K 4 Ma Can Do It Majesticperfection Albarado Romans 116 4 Golden Glint K Medaglia d'Oro McCarthy Eppler 118 5 Go Maggie Go Ghostzapper Saez Romans 122 5 Idolo Porteno (Arg) Jump Start Geroux Correas, IV 118 K 6 She's a Warrior Majestic Warrior Stevens Eurton 116 6 Hesinfront War Front Saez Romans 118 7 Downdraft K Warrior's Reward Cruz Lawrence, II 116 7 Noble Bird Birdstone Leparoux Casse 118 8 Double Entendre American Lion Spieth Walder 116 8 Warrioroftheroses A. P. Warrior no rider Dilodovico 118 9 Midnight On Oconee Midnight Lute Saez Jones 116 10 Kinsley Kisses K Congrats Velazquez Pletcher 116 Owners: 1-Adam Staple & Jalin Stable, 2-Stonestreet Stables LLC, Magnier, 11 In the Navy Now K Midshipman McCarthy Trombetta 116 Susan., Tabor, Michael B. and Smith, Derrick, 3-Team Valor International & 12 Flora Dora First Dude Alvarado Coffey 122 Southern Equine Stable LLC, 4-Adam Staple, 5-Pozo de Luna, Inc., Guerra, 13 Cced K Curlin Geroux Asmussen 116 Jose Luis and Fantini, Fernando, 6-Frank L. Jones, Jr., 7-John C. Oxley, 14 Mom's On Strike First Dude Rocco, Jr. Sharp 116 8-Richard J. Hackerman Owners: 1-Triple Threat LLC, 2-Magdalena Racing (Sherri McPeek), Breeders: 1-Dr. James E. Bryant & Linda P. Davis, 2-WinStar Farm, LLC, 3-Reddam Racing LLC, 4-Kyle W. Nagel, 5-Mike Tarp, 6-C R K Stable, 3-Southern Equine Stables, LLC, 4-Adena Springs, 5-La Esperanza, 6-Frank 7-Matthew Schera, 8-Loooch Racing Stables, Inc. and Ellis, Glenn K., Jones, 7-Jack Swain, 8-Richard J Hackerman 9-Cottonwood Stables LLC, 10-Cheyenne Stables LLC, 11-R. Larry Johnson & R. D. M. Racing Stable, 12-Coffeepot Stables, 13-LNJ Foxwoods, 14-XYZ Racing & 3C Stable Breeders: 1-Triple Threat, LLC, 2-Liberty Road Stables, 3-Jack Swain III, 4-Hargus Sexton, Sandra Sexton &Silver Fern Farm, LLC, 5-Mike Tarp, 6-T.C. Flounders, 7-Hunter Valley, 8-Dr. Jeff Allen, 9-Cottonwood Stables, LLC, 10-Stonestreet Thoroughbred Holdings LLC, 11-Greenwood Lodge Farm, Inc., 12-Dizney Double Diamond LLC, 13-Pauline Drazin, 14-Courtney Meagher & Chad Meagher TDN HEADLINE NEWS • PAGE 7 OF 7 • THETDN.COM MONDAY • MAY 16, 2016

Friday, Pimlico, post time: 3:44 p.m. EDT FIRST WINNER FOR TRAINER SHELBE RUIS ALLAIRE DUPONT DISTAFF S.-GIII, $150,000, 3yo/up, f/m, 1 1/8m Trainer Shelbe Ruis saddled her first career winner Sunday PP HORSE SIRE JOCKEY TRAINER WT 1 Theogony K Curlin Leparoux Casse 118 when longshot Rockport Babe (Rockport Harbor) upset the first 2 Engaginglee Fusaichi Pegasus Saez Romans 118 race at Santa Anita at odds of 20-1 (video). A 25-year-old native 3 Camille Claudel Broken Vow Boyce Abbott, III 118 of Descanso, California, 4 Mei Ling K Empire Maker Velazquez Pletcher 122 Ruis is the daughter of 5 Ahh Chocolate Candy Ride (Arg) Hernandez, Jr Howard 118 owner Mick Ruis, Sr. and 6 Savings Account K Medaglia d'Oro Rosario Proctor 118 the sister of former jockey 7 America K A.P. Indy Alvarado Mott 118 8 Joint Return K Include Carmouche Servis 118 Mick Ruis, Jr. 9 Super Majesty K Super Saver Geroux Asmussen 118 AI=m just really excited 10 Tiger Ride Candy Ride (Arg) Prado Motion 118 about this,@ said Ruis, Owners: 1-Conrad Farms, 2-Lichtefeld, Paul A. and Stewart, Jack D., whose first racetrack job 3-Sycamore Racing II, 4-Barry K. Schwartz, 5-Stoneway Farm, 6-Heider came as a summertime Family Stables LLC & Craig Bernick, 7-Bobby Flay, 8-Main Line Racing Stable, pony rider for the late Shelbe Ruis | Zoe Metz photo 9-LNJ Foxwoods, 10-Dixiana Farms LLC Mike Mitchell at Del Mar at the age of 16. AThis filly was my Breeders: 1-A. Lakin and Sons, Inc., 2-Paul Lichtefeld & Jack Stewart, 3-Gail fourth starter and I didn=t expect her to show that much speed. Cullen & Jeanne Owens, 4-Mr. & Mrs. Larry D. Williams, 5-Stoneway Farm, But it looked like the one was the only other horse with speed, 6-Dell Ridge Farm, LLC, 7-B. Flay Thoroughbreds, 8-Virginia D. Moore & Include Syndicate, 9-WinStar Farm, LLC, 10-Dixiana Farms LLC so we told Fernando [Perez] that if she went, to try and sit second, and if she didn=t, to just go.@ Friday, Pimlico, post time: 5:54 p.m. EDT Rockport Babe is owned by Ruis=s father and mother, Wendy. ADENA SPRINGS MISS PREAKNESS S.-GIII, $150,000, 3yo, f, 6f The family=s Ruis Racing LLC was active at last month=s OBS April PP HORSE SIRE JOCKEY TRAINER WT sale, purchasing five juveniles, including a $375,000 daughter of 1 She's All Ready Girolamo Carmouche Ryerson 120 Union Rags (hip 640). 2 Ultra Brat Uncle Mo Ortiz, Jr. Motion 116 As for where Rockport Babe might start next, Ruis, who 3 Right There K Eskendereya Desormeaux Desormeaux 120 currently has 11 horses stabled at Santa Anita, said, AI think 4 Lost Raven Uncle Mo Velazquez Pletcher 120 she=ll run all day, but I just want to see how she comes back, and 5 Quick Release Trappe Shot Castellano Dini 116 go from there.@ 6 Moment Is Right Medaglia d'Oro Prat Callaghan 120 7 One True Kiss K Warrior's Reward Leparoux Asmussen 116 8 R Girls a Charmer In Summation Saez Casse 118 9 Banree K Macho Uno McCarthy Ward 118 10 Simple Surprise Cowboy Cal Geroux Asmussen 118

Owners: 1-Nirvana Stables, 2-Alex G. Campbell, Jr., 3-Big Chief Racing, LLC, Justice, James C. and Shelton, Billy R., 4-Repole Stable, 5-Ballybrit Stable, LLC, 6-Ten Broeck Farm, Inc., 7-J. Kirk & Judy Robison, 8-Gary Barber, 9-Mark Dodson, 10-Winchell Thoroughbreds LLC Breeders: 1-Kings and Queens Farm, 2-Alex G. Campbell, Jr. Thoroughbreds, Horse racing: Too soon to think about a Triple Crown? With a LLC, 3-Stonestreet Thoroughbred Holdings LLC, 4-Repole Stable, Inc., 5-Colts victory in Saturday=s GI Preakness S., Nyquist would head to the Neck Stables, LLC., 6-Woodford Thoroughbreds, 7-Pat Murphy, 8-Ocala GI Belmont S. in New York three weeks later with a shot at Stud, 9-Adena Springs, 10-Winchell Thoroughbreds, LLC winning the Triple Crown. What a turn of events that would be for horse racing--a record 37-year drought between Triple Crowns followed by back-to-back Triples for only the second time in history. Richard Rosenblat, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Gamble’s Ghost (Ghostzapper) gets up in GIII Selene S. REGIONAL REPORT MONDAY • MAY 16, 2016

RAWNAQ TRIUMPHS IN EPIC IROQUOIS Doyle shook up Rawnaq and urged his mount forward as they neared the last of 18 fences, with Shaneshill closing and Nichols by Don Clippinger Canyon holding on resolutely. Rawnaq dug in and steadfastly The Irish invaded Tennessee on Saturday with two world-class held off Shaneshill, ridden by Danny Mullins, to win by a neck. competitors, but they could not get past a dead-game Rawnaq Nichols Canyon, who made some jumping mistakes in midrace (Ire) (Amazour {Ire}), who led for most of the $200,000 G1 with top Irish jockey Ruby Walsh, held on well for third, three Calvin Houghland Iroquois, the signature race of the 75th annual lengths farther back. Bruton Street US's Scorpiancer (Ire) Iroquois Steeplechase in Nashville. (Scorpion {Ire}), second in the Gwathmey, finished fourth. Nichols Demonstrative (Elusive Quality), the two-time Iroquois winner Canyon (GB) and defending victor, faded on the final turn and finished fifth. (Authorized Rawnaq, an Irish-bred purchased last summer, ran the Calvin {Ire}) went Houghland Iroquois' distance in 5:42.40 on firm turf. with Rawnaq Naylor, whose 2016 purse earnings now exceed $400,000, for much of credited his entire team. the three-mile "The jockey rode a superb race,@ Naylor said. AHe was always race over 18 in the right place at the right time. The horse jumped superbly. National The trainer had him in perfect condition. It all came together." Fences, and To be sure, the competition was formidable, Naylor said, but his stablemate on race day he realized that Rawnaq had a chance to take down Rawnaq, with Jack Doyle up, wins the Shaneshill the $120,000 first-place purse. G1 Iroquois Steeplechase | Horsephotos (Ire) (King's "When we got here, we realized we had him as good as we Theatre {Ire}) sat in the sweet spot right behind them heading could have him," Naylor explained. into the final turn. Both top hurdlers from the stable of Murphy said Rawnaq probably will have the summer off champion jumps trainer Willie Mullins took their shots, but before tackling the championship races in the fall, including the neither could get the job done against the resolute Irish-bred. G1 Grand National, in which he finished third last year. Ridden by Jack Doyle, Rawnaq simply refused to lose in a "We'd have three months in the winter to prepare for steeplechase race for the ages. Irv Naylor's Rawnaq prevailed by Cheltenham.@ a steady neck, with Nichols Canyon three lengths farther back. The victory made Rawnaq eligible for the $500,000 Brown Advisory Cheltenham-Iroquois Challenge, and Naylor picked up CALVIN HOUGHLAND IROQUOIS HURDLE S., (NB) $200,000, the challenge. Now, on to England for the G1 Ryanair World PW, 5-14, 4yo/up, 3mT, 5:42.40, gd. Hurdle next March and a shot at a payday approaching 1--RAWNAQ (IRE), 158, g, 9, Azamour (Ire)--Sharemata (Ire), by $1-million in purse and bonus. Doyoun (Ire). (28,000gns Wlg '07 TATFOA; 3,500gns 3yo '10 "I think this horse will represent the United States well in TATHIT). O-Irvin S. Naylor; B-Jim Monaghan (IRE); T-Cyril England next year," the owner declared after accepting the Murphy; J-Jack Doyle. $120,000. Lifetime Record: 50-10-8-9, historic Iroquois trophy with trainer Cyril Murphy, jockey Doyle, $372,955. and his wife, Diane. The bonus is awarded to a horse who wins 2--Shaneshill (Ire), 158, g, 7, King's Theatre (Ire)--Darabaka (Ire), the two three-mile races in a 12-month period. by Doyoun (Ire). (i33,000 Wlg '09 GONO1). O-Andrea & Rawnaq's triumph was his second graded victory of the year, Graham Wylie; B-Declan Johnson (IRE); T-William P. Mullins. after an impressive win in the G3 Temple Gwathmey at the $36,000. Middleburg Spring Races on Apr. 23. The Irish challenge in the Iroquois was certainly world-class. 3--Nichols Canyon (GB), 158, g, 6, Authorized (Ire)--Zam Zoom Mullins arrived with Nichols Canyon, third in the Champion (Ire), by Dalakhani (Ire). (48,000gns Ylg '11 TAOC). O-Andrea Hurdle at Cheltenham in March, and multiple winner Shaneshill. & Graham Wylie; B-Rabbah Bloodstock Limited (GB); T-William Both owned by English tech entrepreneur Graham Wylie and his P. Mullins. $20,000. wife, Andrea, they were regarded as the race favorites, with Rawnaq the third choice. Margins: NK, 3, 13HF. Rawnaq had to run every step of the three miles after keeping Also Ran: Scorpiancer (Ire), Demonstrative, Syros, Italian pace with Nichols Canyon for much of the race, before Wedding, Pierrot Lunaire. Shaneshill took up the running nearing the final fence. Click for the Equibase.com chart. Video (race begins at :21.07).

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along the rail in the early stages and appeared a bit eager down the backstretch as Winter Games (A.P. Indy) set the pace through fractions of :49 flat for the half and 1:13.72 for six Sunday=s Results: furlongs. Launching a steady bid on the far turn, he split horses FLAT OUT S., $100,000, BEL, 5-15, 4yo/up, 1 3/8m, 2:15.73, ft. and rallied up the rail to seize control into the stretch. Kept to 1--TURCO BRAVO (CHI), 120, g, 7, Caesarion (Ire)--Turkish his task in the final furlong, Turco Bravo held safe a late bid from Queen (Chi), by Barkerville. O-Winning Move Stable; B-Haras Securitiz to earn a comfortable tally. "I was in a perfect Carioca (CHI); T-Gary C. Contessa; J-Javier Castellano. $60,000. position,@ said winning trainer Gary Contessa, who added that Lifetime Record: MSW & G1SP-Chi; MSW & GSP-US, Turco Bravo could start next in the GII Brooklyn Invitational June 50-13-14-7, $441,968. 11. ASometimes you run a horse and feel like it's never in doubt, 2--Securitiz, 116, c, 4, Tiznow--In Secure, by A.P. Indy. ($350,000 and I was watching the horse's body language and where Javier Ylg '13 KEESEP). O-Centennial Farms; B-Tom Evans, Tenlane [Castellano] had him was just perfect. It was exactly where I Farm & Oratis (KY); T-James A. Jerkens. $20,000. wanted to be. The horses in front of him really hadn't gone this Foaled, Raised & Sold by Trackside Farm distance before and he really is a specialist at going a route of 3--Neck 'n Neck, 123, h, 7, Flower Alley--Bootery, by Storm ground, so I felt really good about him and he ran really, really Boot. ($195,000 6yo '15 KEENOV). O-Waldorf Racing Stables well.@ LLC; B-A. Stevens Miles (KY); T-Ian R. Wilkes. $10,000. Click for the Equibase.com chart or VIDEO, sponsored by Fasig- LANTERN HILL FARM Sales Graduate Tipton.

6th-BEL, $75,000, Msw, 5-15, 3yo/up, 1 1/4mT, 1:59.94, fm. Margins: 1 1/4, 2 1/4, NO. Odds: 4.00, 1.85, 4.40. MONGOLIAN PRINCE (NZ) (c, 4, St Reims {Nz}--Lady Pedder Also Ran: Catholic Cowboy, Elnaawi, Winter Games. {Aus}, by Orpen) had a good deal of success as a 3-year-old last Long-distance specialist Turco Bravo earned a graded stakes year in China, winning three times and finishing second twice in placing when third in Aqueduct=s GIII Excelsior S. last out Apr. 9, his five starts, and returned to the winner=s circle with a score in the Sunday including a 21- feature in Elmont. Group 1 placed in his native Chile, the length romp in a chestnut earned stakes Oct. 10 in his first U.S. Wuhan. He made stakes victory in his United States the Stymie S. over debut Mar. 18 on the inner track at the Gulfstream dirt Aqueduct in and ran an even March 2015. fifth at 4-1. Second behind Switching to turf the ill-fated here, the bay broke Mongolian Prince (NZ) Adam Coglianese Turco Bravo | NYRA Photo Tacticus (A.P. well at 16-1 and Indy) in stalked a ground- Saratoga=s Birdstone S. going 1 3/4 miles Aug. 12, he concluded saving third past a sharp quarter in :22.76. Continuing in the the 2015 season with a seventh-place finish in the GIII pocket as the pace normalized down the backside, he rode the Greenwood Cup at Parx Sept. 7. Turco Bravo took a few starts to rail on the far turn and tipped out to challenge the pacesetter hit his best stride this year, but showed signs of rounding back entering the lane. Surging to the front between horses at the into form when closing well to complete the trifecta in a 1 1/16- furlong pole, he dug in to hold off the late challenge of Revved mile optional claimer at Aqueduct Feb. 20. The 7-year-old broke Up (Candy Ride {Arg}) and prevail by a nose. Lifetime Record: through to notch a repeat score in the Stymie at odds of 20-1 2-1-0-0, $45,400. Click for the Equibase.com chart or VIDEO, Mar. 13 and used that as a springboard to his third-place effort sponsored by Fasig-Tipton. behind Kid Cruz (Lemon Drop Kid) in the 10-furlong Excelsior. O-Inner Mongolia Rider Horse Industry; B-R C Y Hui (NZ); T-Todd Away in good order, Turco Bravo found himself in a bit tight A. Pletcher.

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2nd-BEL, $60,000, (S), Msw, 5-15, 3yo/up, f/m, 6f, 1:10.13, ft. 4th-CD, $50,864, Alw, 5-15, (NW1X), 3yo/up, 7f, 1:22.18, ft. +EMPRESS JINGU (f, 3, Warrior=s Reward--Oriental Rose, by HOLLYWOOD CRITIC (g, 4, Blame--Kalosca {Fr} {MSP, Orientate) drilled steadily over the local training track in $118,984}, by Kaldoun {Fr}) began his career under the care of preparation for this career unveiling and was bet down to 3-2 trainer Barbara Minshall and registered a pair of third-place favoritism for this ever-dangerous barn. Away a touch slowly, finishes as juvenile maiden in Woodbine=s GIII Grey S. and listed the bay rushed up into contention along the rail and raced in Display S. Subsequently transferred to this barn after a brief second behind a quarter-mile in :22.44. Left with Young Anna stint under the care of trainer Thomas Drury, the bay captured a Lee (Posse) to catch turning for home, she rallied to the front in seven-panel Keeneland maiden dash in April 2015 and followed tandem with Judy=s Fudge (Sidney=s Candy) to her outside and with a third-place run over this same trip and track one month dug in resolutely to edge clear in the final yards. Judy=s Fudge later. Sent to the sidelines for the remainder of 2015, the was a half-length back in second, 2 1/2 lengths clear of a tiring homebred resurfaced with a gritty runner-up effort in a 5 1/2- Young Anna Lee. Sales History: $15,000 Wlg '13 FTNMIX; furlong allowance test over the Fair Grounds turf Mar. 6 and $110,000 Ylg '14 SARAUG. Lifetime Record: 1-1-0-0, $36,000. recently set the pace before leveling off to check in sixth going a Click for the Equibase.com chart or VIDEO, sponsored by Fasig- grassy mile at Keeneland Apr. 16. Let go at odds of 10-1 for this Tipton. return to the main track, Hollywood Critic pressed the pace from O-Eclipse Thoroughbred Partners & Gary Barber; B-Pillar the outside through a half-mile in :45.49 and kicked clear to Property Services Inc (NY); T-Todd A. Pletcher. score by 1 1/4 lengths. Capital Letters (Afleet Alex) rallied to complete the lucrative exacta as a 19-1 outsider. The winner is a INDIAN CREEK SALES GRADUATE half to 2006 Canadian Horse of the Year and champion turf mare Arravale (Arch), MGISW, $1,129,697; as well as last term=s Victoria S. hero Hollywood Hideaway (Zensational). Lifetime Record: 10-2-3-3, $126,344. Click for the Equibase.com chart or VIDEO, sponsored by Fasig-Tipton. O/B-W. Bruce Lunsford (KY); T-Albert M. Stall, Jr.

Sunday=s Results: 7th-CD, $53,776, Alw (NW2X)/Opt. Clm ($62,500), 5-15, 3yo/up, 1 3/8mT, 2:18.32, fm. 8th-CD, $45,092, Msw, 5-15, 3yo/up, 5 1/2f, 1:03.69, ft. GENEROUS KITTEN (g, 5, Kitten=s Joy--Philanthropy Lady, by EL VENUE (c, 3, Tale of the Cat--Great Venue, by Unbridled's Desert Style {Ire}) broke his maiden going nine furlongs over Song) battled for much of the race and was just outfinished by this course last June and added a second win in a Saratoga repeat winner Front Pocket Money (Uncle Mo) going 5 1/2 starter allowance test in September. Third in a 1 3/16-mile furlongs on debut at Oaklawn Apr. 15. Hammered down to 2-5 allowance at Keeneland Oct. 21, he wrapped up 2015 with a favoritism for this second trip to the post, El Venue non-factor fifth-place run in a 10-furlong off-the-turfer here demonstrated a new dimension, taking back to stalk the pace in Nov. 12 and a third over a grassy 1 7/16 miles at Gulfstream on the early stages as Condominium (Tiznow) jetted through a New Year=s Eve. The bay was last seen rallying to victory in an quarter-mile in :21.88. Sent up three wide cornering for home, optional claimer over that same course and distance Jan. 31. the colt took control in the stretch and was all out to hold off a Sent postward as the 9-5 second choice in this spot, Generous late bid from 70-1 outsider Majestic Endeavor (Lookin At Lucky) Kitten raced off the pace in sixth as favored O=Prado Ole (English by 3/4 of a length. The winner, a $280,000 OBSAPR juvenile Channel) doled out splits of :50.72 for the half and 1:16.33 for purchase, is a half to El Kabeir (Scat Daddy), MGSW & GISP, six furlongs. Rallying wide into the lane, the gelding responded $853,237. El Venue=s dam is a half to MGSW Too Much Bling well and leveled off to score by 1 1/4 lengths over the (Rubiano). Lifetime Record: 2-1-1-0, $40,160. Click for the pacesetter. Sales History: $45,000 RNA Ylg '12 KEESEP. Lifetime Equibase.com chart or VIDEO, sponsored by Fasig-Tipton. Record: 10-4-0-3, $133,823. Click for the Equibase.com chart or O-Iron Horse Racing LLC (Clark); B-Rustlewood Farm, Inc. (FL); VIDEO, sponsored by Fasig-Tipton. T-Randy L. Morse. O/B-Kenneth L. & Sarah K. Ramsey (KY); T-Michael J. Maker. de Meric Sales Graduate TDN REGIONAL REPORT • PAGE 4 OF 9 • THETDN.COM MONDAY • MAY 16, 2016

six furlongs again there Feb. 10, and closed out her winter campaign with a dull sixth-place effort in the wake of subsequent GIII Beaumont S. heroine Lightstream (Harlan=s Holiday) and >TDN Rising Star= Kareena (Medaglia d=Oro) over Sunday=s Results: seven furlongs at Gulfstream Mar. 6. Away without incident as 3rd-PIM, $42,520, Msw, 5-15, 3yo/up, f/m, 5fT, 1:00.56, gd. the 4-5 chalk, Bodacious Babe pressed the pace through a COCO AS IN CHANEL (f, 3, Awesome Again--Surf N Sand {MSW, quarter-mile in :22.70. Given her cue under confident handling $244,655}, by Boston Harbor) reported home a one-paced sixth turning for home, the filly kicked clear and coasted home a two- when unveiled at Santa Anita Jan. 31 and went one better going length winner. First timer My Country (Belong to Me) finished six panels there Mar. 12. Stretched to 1 1/16 miles, the bay well to be second best. The winner, a $70,000 Keeneland dropped back to sixth at Keeneland Apr. 15 and was sent off as a September yearling, is out of a half-sister to GSW Cinemine 5-1 shot in this turf bow and return to sprints. In charge a few (Mining). Blossomed is responsible for the unraced juvenile colt jumps from the gate, Coco as in Chanel was lightly pressed Speedmeister (Bodemeister) and a weanling filly by Orb. through a :22.60 opening quarter, but leveled off nicely in the Lifetime Record: 5-1-2-0, $37,720. Click for the Equibase.com home straight and extended clear to win by 2 1/2 lengths over chart or VIDEO, sponsored by Fasig-Tipton. the closing duo of Tizadoozi (Bullsbay), who was a head in front O-Panic Stable; B-Hubert H. Vester (KY); T-Jane Cibelli. of Tizasong (Tiznow). Surf N Sand produced Brighten My Day, a Sold by Blandford Stud for Hubert Vester full-brother to the winner, in 2015. Lifetime Record: 4-1-0-0, $24,370. Click for the Equibase.com chart or VIDEO, sponsored by Fasig-Tipton. O-Heider Family Stables LLC; B-Mary C. Heider (KY); T-Thomas F. Proctor.

6th-PIM, $41,320, Msw, 5-15, 3yo, f, 6f, 1:12.38, ft. Sunday=s Results: +TEJANA (f, 3, Curlin--Tia, by Giant's Causeway) was bet down 3rd-GP, $37,800, Msw, 5-15, 3yo/up, f/m, 6f, 1:11.07, ft. to 5-2 for this debut off of several sharp Fair Hill breezes, MOREA (f, 4, Indian Charlie--Crosswinds, by Storm Cat), a half- punctuated by a bullet four furlongs from the gate May 10 in sister to shock GI Central Bank Ashland S. heroine Weep No :48. Away in good order under Edgar Prado, the chestnut More (Mineshaft), $362,269, was four lengths adrift of D=oro homebred was fastest early, taking over from 2-1 favorite Tomorrow (Medaglia d=Oro) when second in the Gulfstream slop Tizsomethingroyal (Tizway) and clicking off a moderate quarter at first asking Jan. 28. Unsettled in the gate, the dark bay could in :23.43. Pressed by Bawlmer Hon (Silver Train) through a only finish fourth behind >TDN Rising Star= Apologynotaccepted :47.28 half, she began to edge away from her pace foe on the (Fusaichi Pegasus) over a fast Hallandale strip Mar. 11 and latter part of the turn and opened up past the three-sixteenths rebounded to be runner-up going seven furlongs there Apr. 24. marker. Staying clear in the stretch, Tejana bounded home Pounded down to .50 cents on the dollar, Morea scampered impressively to score by 4 1/2 lengths over the chalk. The straight to the head of affairs and sped through solid fractions winner=s dam, a full-sister to Chief Havoc, GSW, $218,478, has a yearling filly by Kitten=s Joy and a weanling full-sister to the while lightly pressed by a rival to her outside flank. The chalk winner. Her second dam is MGSW La Reina (A.P. Indy), a half- began to shake loose with a quarter mile remaining and poured sister to GISW Brahms. Lifetime Record: 1-1-0-0, $22,800. Click it on down the lane to win by 5 1/4 lengths over the rail-rallying for the Equibase.com chart or VIDEO, sponsored by Fasig- Tizacity (Tizway). Crosswinds, a daughter of MGISW Flute Tipton. (Seattle Slew) and a half-sister to GSW & MGISP Filimbi (Mizzen O/B-Emory A. Hamilton (KY); T-Claude R. McGaughey III. Mast), produced a colt by Blame in 2015 and a colt by Curlin in 2016. Sales history: $135,000 Ylg '13 KEESEP; $200,000 2yo '14 5th-MTH, $34,620, Msw, 5-15, 3yo/up, f/m, 6f, 1:11.74, ft. OBSAPR. Lifetime Record: 4-1-2-0, $38,520. Click for the BODACIOUS BABE (f, 3, Mineshaft--Blossomed, by Deputy Equibase.com chart or VIDEO, sponsored by Fasig-Tipton. Minister), fifth on debut in a six-panel dash at Gulfstream Dec. O-P D Horse Stable; B-Hinkle Farms, Inc. & Robert Kessinger 9, finished a distant second behind next-out Gasparilla S. winner (KY); T-Gustavo Delgado. R Girls a Charmer (In Summation) in Hallandale Jan. 2. The dark HINKLE FARMS AND B. KESSINGER BRED, RAISED AND SOLD bay filled out the exacta behind Firsthand Report (Blame) going TDN REGIONAL REPORT • PAGE 5 OF 9 • THETDN.COM MONDAY • MAY 16, 2016

7th-GP, $36,000, Msw, 5-15, 3yo/up, f/m, 7 1/2fT, 1:28.48, fm. S. going six panels Oct. 12, the bay ran fifth in Retama Park=s SHARP KITTY (f, 3, Kitten=s Joy--Miss Luann {SP}, by Unbridled's Clever Trevor S. behind GSW and eventual GI Kentucky Derby Song) finished seventh in her Jan. 31 debut over course and fifth-place finisher Suddenbreakingnews (Mineshaft) Nov. 6 for distance, then ran third at 12-1 behind >TDN Rising Star= Smart Shea Stuart. Tranferred to the J. R. Caldwell barn, Texas Chrome Mission (Smart Strike) Feb. 21 before running into another bounced back with a third last time in the Bachelor S. at Rising Star when fourth to Take These Chains (Ire) (Fastnet Rock Oaklawn Part, with Saturday=s GIII Lazaro Barrera S. hero I Will {Aus}) Mar. 27. Off at 22-5 in this softer spot, the $340,000 Score (Roman Ruler) second Apr. 15. Fasig-Tipton August purchase was first out of the gate, but Click for the Equibase.com chart or VIDEO, sponsored by Fasig- settled to run in fourth along the rail on the clubhouse turn. Tipton. Tipped out a path to avoid the collapsing pacesetter on the far bend, she split horses willingly inside the three-sixteenths pole and kicked away in the final furlong to triumph by two lengths. 6th-PRM, $32,000, Alw (C)/Opt. Clm ($35,000), 5-15, 4yo/up, Firster Doubelievenmagic (Majestic Warrior) won a photo for 6f, 1:09.81, ft. the place. Lifetime Record: 4-1-0-1, $27,600. Click for the SPACE MINE (g, 4, Mineshaft--Spacy Tracy {GSW, $249,690}, by Equibase.com chart or VIDEO, sponsored by Fasig-Tipton. Awesome Again) won two of his first three starts at Canterbury O-Hardacre Farm LLC; B-Blue Devil Racing, LLC (KY); T-Amy and took his show on the road with a decisive score in an Tarrant. optional claimer here last July, earning a career-top 92 Beyer Speed Figure in the process. Sidelined following a seventh-place finish trying turf in the one-mile Mystic Lake Derby back in Minnesota Aug. 29, the gelding returned in this spot as the 4-1 second choice for a barn that excels with layoff returnees. In hot Sunday=s Results: pursuit of pacesetter and fellow Mercedes Stables homebred TEXAS STALLION S., $75,000, LS, 5-15, (C), 3yo, c/g, 1m, 1:39.64, stablemate Candy Ruby (Candy Ride {Arg}) through a blazing ft. quarter-mile in :44.94, he was fully extended to catch that rival 1--TEXAS CHROME, 120, c, 3, by Grasshopper in the lane. Space Mine crossed the wire 3/4 of a length in front, 1st Dam: Margarita Mistress, by Naevus and Candy Ruby held on to complete the exacta. Lifetime 2nd Dam: Four O'Clock Post, by Regal Classic Record: 6-4-1-0, $82,540. Click for the Equibase.com chart or 3rd Dam: Fatal Hour, by Briartic VIDEO, sponsored by Fasig-Tipton. ($10,000 Ylg '14 TEXOCT). O-Keene Thoroughbreds LLC; O/B-Mercedes Stables LLC (KY); T-Robertino Diodoro. B-Craig D. Upham (TX); T-J. R. Caldwell; J-Iram Vargas Diego. $45,000. Lifetime Record: 8-5-0-2, $242,562. 2--Grass Court, 120, g, 3, Grasshopper--Positive Spin, by Valid 5th-AP, $32,000, Msw, 5-15, 3yo/up, f/m, 6f (AWT), 1:12.87, ft. Expectations. O/B-W. S. Farish & E. J. Hudson Jr. Irrevocable +BLACK ANGEL (f, 3, Hold Me Back--Macchiati, by Scorpion) Trust (TX); T-Danny Pish. $15,000. posted a trio of five-furlong works across town at Hawthorne in 3--Ship Rock, 120, g, 3, Indygo Mountain--Pete's Five, by Arch. preparation for this unveiling and was dismissed as a 22-1 O-Douglas Scharbauer; B-Valor Farm, Inc. (TX); T-W. Bret longshot breaking from the outside post. The bay chased the Calhoun. $8,250. pace from the outside through a quarter-mile in :22.10 and was Margins: 10HF, 3/4, 3/4. Odds: 0.90, 20.90, 13.70. set down for the drive in close pursuit of pacesetting Sparr Also Ran: Golden Thread, Duca's Bling, Better Than Magic, Jet Princess (Run Away and Hide). The two battled down the lane, Over, D. Shifflett. but Black Angel had more energy in the final furlong and edged Texas Chrome, already a three-time stakes winner, added away to score by 2 1/4 lengths. Sales History: $7,000 Wlg '13 black-type win number four as the favorite at Lone Star Sunday. KEENOV; $7,000 Ylg '14 OBSAUG; $10,000 RNA 2yo '15 Breaking outwardly, the sophomore brushed with a rival to his OBSOPN; $10,000 RNA 2yo '15 OBSOCT. Lifetime Record: outside, but righted the ship and sat four deep through a 1-1-0-0, $19,200. Click for the Equibase.com chart or VIDEO, dawdling opening quarter in :25.35. In a clear cut third turning sponsored by Fasig-Tipton. for home, Texas chrome cruised into contention with a half-mile O-Pedro Davila; B-Diana Shoop (KY); T-Ramon Davilla Aguayo. to travel, stuck his head in front on the final bend and motored clear to a commanding victory. A winner of Zia=s Governor=s Cup TDN REGIONAL REPORT • PAGE 6 OF 9 • THETDN.COM MONDAY • MAY 16, 2016

8th-AP, $32,000, (S), Msw, 5-15, 3yo/up, 6f (AWT), 1:11.87, ft. frontrunner under Martin Garcia after a :44.87 half, WHATEVERYBODYWANTS (c, 3, Giant Oak--Bella Cardella, by Bellamentary kicked away turning for home in the stretch and Hard Spun), sent off at odds of 9-2 for this career debut, raced was never seriously threatened thereafter, earning her first off the pace in seventh behind a quarter-mile in :22.53. Circling stakes triumph by a comfortable margin over Forever Darling. up six wide on the turn, the colt got up to score by 3/4 of a Click for the Equibase.com chart or VIDEO, sponsored by Fasig- length over favored Unscathed (Bring the Heat). The winner=s Tipton. dam produced a colt by Mizzen Mast last year and was bred back to Proud Citizen. Lifetime Record: 2-1-0-1, $22,400. Click ALCATRAZ S., $75,000, GG, 5-15, 3yo, 1mT, 1:35.43, fm. for the Equibase.com chart or VIDEO, sponsored by Fasig- 1--#ED JOHNSON, 120, c, 3, by Paddy O=Prado Tipton. 1st Dam: Sassy Gal (SP, $125,252), by Malagra O-Tom Renaudo; B-The Farm 4 LLC (IL); T-Kellyn Gorder. 2nd Dam: Broken Thoughts, by Guilty Conscience 3rd Dam: Plenty Sassy, by Soy Numero Uno ($65,000 Wlg '13 KEENOV; $50,000 Ylg '14 KEESEP). O-Frankfurt Stable; B-Relentless Racing LLC (LA); T-Steven Specht; J-Russell A. Baze. $45,000. Lifetime Record: 5-3-0-0, $81,010. Sunday=s Results: PINHOOKED BY AND RAISED AT MACHMER HALL ANGELS FLIGHT S., $80,035, SA, 5-15, 3yo, f, 7f, 1:22.10, ft. SELECT SALES Graduate...Exceeding Expectations 1--#BELLAMENTARY, 120, f, 3, by Bellamy Road 1st Dam: Shananies Song (SW, $158, 270), by Eltish 2nd Dam: Shananies Presence, by Shananie 2--Pure Comedy, 120, c, 3, Pure Prize--Comedy Girl, by Comic 3rd Dam: Presenting, by President (Fr) Strip. ($33,000 Ylg '14 NCAAUG). O-N. Auyeung, C. Carpenter, ($175,000 2yo '15 OBSAPR). O-Little Red Feather Racing & F. Desimone, G. Kelly, A. MacLennan et al; B-H & E Ranch (AZ); R/M Racing; B-Charles T. Matses (KY); T-Philip D'Amato; T-Bill McLean. $15,000. J-Martin Garcia. $47,400. Lifetime Record: 5-3-1-0, $135,400. 3--He's a Tiger, 120, c, 3, Sky Mesa--Red Duchess, by Helmsman. Foaled and Raised at Sheltowee Farm ($57,000 Wlg '13 KEENOV; $150,000 Ylg '14 KEESEP; $95,000 2--Forever Darling, 124, f, 3, Congrats--Darling My Darling, by 2yo '15 BARMAR). O-Allen J., Aldrich, David Daou & Stuart Deputy Minister. ($8,000 Ylg '14 KEESEP; $65,000 RNA 2yo '15 Downey; B-Takeshi Fujita (KY); T-Jeff Bonde. $9,000. OBSAPR). O-Katsumi Yoshida; B-Debby Oxley (KY); T-Richard Baltas. $15,800. Margins: 2 1/4, NK, 11. Odds: 0.50, 5.50, 2.80. PINHOOKED BY MACHMER HALL AND HAYMARKET FARM Also Ran: Admiral Boom, Land of Oz. Ed Johnson did not factor in his first two starts on dirt and 3--Kay Kay, 120, f, 3, Pleasantly Perfect--All of Her Twist, by synthetic, but showed an immediate affinity for the turf, Forest Wildcat. ($75,000 Ylg '14 KEESEP). O-Holly & David graduating in wire-to-wire fashion over course and distance Wilson; B-K & G Stables (KY); T-Vladimir Cerin. $9,480. Sept. 27. Given some time away from the races during the LANE’S END Sales Graduate winter months, the gray returned in sharp form with another pacesetting victory in a one-mile optional claimer Apr. 16. Margins: 2 1/4, 1 1/4, 2 1/4. Odds: 3.40, 3.60, 18.90. Tabbed as the clear choice to make it three in a row, Ed Johnson Also Ran: Everqueen, Lucky Folie, Kiss N Scat, Fervent Femme, made use of his speed and quickly opened up to race in the clear Mitzi Winks. through a half-mile in :47.40. Never headed, the colt held a Bellamentary finished second in her September debut after steady advantage down the lane and reported home well in breaking a bit awkwardly, then easily broke her maiden front of Pure Comedy. AHe=s a nice colt, and if I can ever get his stretching out to a mile locally Oct. 1. Off a bit slow again and feet healthy, he=ll be even better,@ said winning trainer Steve facing a speed duel Mar. 18 over track and trip, she had little Specht. AHe had a bad quarter crack after his win last year and I difficulty pulling away to a clear score. Coming into this event off had to stop on him. I got that one cleared up and then he got a a non-threatening fifth behind Songbird (Medaglia d=Oro) in the small one on another foot. But I could patch that one. Now he=ll GI Santa Anita Oaks, the $175,000 OBS April buy was away get another break and we=ll look at the Robert Dupret Derby sharply from the outside stall and stalked a longshot leader from [Aug. 6 at Santa Rosa].@ Click for the Equibase.com chart or a close second past a :22.42 quarter. Easily moving by that VIDEO, sponsored by Fasig-Tipton. TDN REGIONAL REPORT • PAGE 7 OF 9 • THETDN.COM MONDAY • MAY 16, 2016

2nd-SA, $60,000, Alw (NW2$X)/Opt. Clm ($62,500), 5-15, 3yo/up, 1 1/16m, 1:41.55, ft. WIN THE SPACE (c, 4, Pulpit--Teamgeist {Arg} {MGSW & MG1SP-Arg, $180,040}, by Mutakddim), off the mark at sixth Sunday=s Results: asking going a grassy mile at Del Mar last August, dropped to AUBURN H., $50,000, EMD, 5-15, 3yo, c/g, 6 1/2f, 1:14.21, ft. seventh behind Om (Munnings) in the GII Del Mar Derby Sept 5. 1--BARKLEY, 121, c, 3, Munnings--Numero d'Oro, by Medaglia He rebounded back over the Santa Anita main track, landing a d'Oro. ($21,000 Ylg '14 KEESEP). O-Howard E. Belvoir & Rising 1 1/16-mile optional claimer by 4 1/4 lengths Oct. 25 before Star Stable III; B-Candy Meadows LLC (KY); T-Howard Belvoir; ending his season with an off-the-board finish in the GI J-Javier Matias. $27,500. Lifetime Record: 4-4-0-0, $77,275. Hollywood Derby returned to Del Mar Nov. 28. Sent off at 5-1 2--Mach One Rules, 121, g, 3, Harbor the Gold--Felice the Cat, Sunday, the grey rated at the tail of the field behind a :47.12 by Distinctive Cat. ($40,000 Ylg '14 WASSEP). O-R.E.V. Racing; half-mile. Given his cue, the 4-year-old swooped four paths off B-Bar C Racing Stables, Inc. (WA); T-Frank Lucarelli. $10,000. the fence in between horses in upper stretch and got the best of 3--Access This, 119, g, 3, City Zip--High Speed Access, by a gritty Doyouknowsomething (Awesome Again) by a nose. Win Kingmambo. ($80,000 Ylg '14 FTKOCT; $60,000 2yo '15 the Space is a half to House Rules (Distorted Humor), MGSW & OBSOPN). O-Peter Redekop B. C., Ltd.; B-G. Watts Humphrey GISP, $682,203; and has a yearling half-brother by Liaison. Jr. & St. George Farm LLC (KY); T-Blaine D. Wright. $7,500. Teamgeist (Arg) was bred to Into Mischief in 2015. Sales history: Margins: HD, 1, 3 1/4. Odds: 1.30, 1.30, 3.20. $65,000 Ylg '13 KEESEP; $360,000 2yo '14 FTFMAR. Lifetime Also Ran: William Crotty, Cliff's Turn, Seeking a Mystery. Record: 10-3-0-2, $132,227. Click for the Equibase.com chart or Scratched: Viewingthegold. VIDEO, sponsored by Fasig-Tipton. A winner of his first three trips to the post by a combined 5 3/4 O-Kretz Racing LLC; B-Spendthrift Farm LLC (KY); T-George lengths--all at Emerald Downs--Barkley added to his black-type Papaprodromou. haul in stalking fashion Sunday evening. The chestnut took an A Hubert Guy & King’s Equine Yearling Purchase • www.hubertguybloodstock.com Emerald allowance in his sophomore bow Apr. 17 and was the narrow second choice in this return. The 3-year-old saved ground near the fence in third as the dueling leaders cut out a quarter in :22 1/5. Angled off the rail around a tiring rival through a half in :44 2/5, he swept back to the inside in a move that proved decisive, to hang on for a slender victory. Click for 1st-SA, $56,345, Msw, 5-15, 3yo/up, f/m, 7f, 1:21.98, ft. the Equibase.com chart. ROCKPORT BABE (f, 3, Rockport Harbor--Charleston Girl, by Grand Slam) made belated headway to finish fifth on debut traveling a sloppy 5 1/2 furlongs here Apr. 9. Let go at odds of 20-1 for her second try, the dark bay went straight to the front and carved out a quarter-mile in :22.51. Widening her advantage through a half in :44.99, Rockport Babe drifted Sunday=s Results: toward the center off the strip late, but was never truly 10th-WO, C$48,600, (S), Msw, 5-15, 3yo, 6f (AWT), 1:11.02, ft. threatened in a 2 3/4-length victory. Heavily favored Tryst +LEO FROM HEAVEN (c, 3, Leonnatus Anteas-- (Candy Ride {Arg}) finished second, 5 1/4 lengths ahead of the Trufflesfromheaven, by You and I), tabbed a 3-1 chance in this others. Charleston Girl is also responsible for the unraced debut, took a few strides to get going, but soon charged to the juvenile filly Savannah Belle (Discreetly Mine), a yearling colt by front. The dark bay rattled off splits of :22.29 and :45.24 while Archarcharch, and a weanling colt by Majesticperfection. The under heavy pressure and opened up down the lane. Under fire from Maxsmiraclejourney (Victor=s Cry) in deep stretch, Leo winner=s dam is a half to MGSWs Sun King (Charismatic) and From Heaven got his nostril down on the wire. The winner is a Ocean Drive (Belong to Me). Sales History: $18,000 RNA Ylg '14 full to Born in a Breeze, SW, $154,759. Lifetime Record: 1-1-0-0, KEESEP; $32,000 RNA 2yo '15 BARMAR; $49,000 2yo '15 $20,868. Click for the Equibase.com chart or VIDEO, sponsored BARMAY. Lifetime Record: 2-1-0-0, $34,720. Click for the by Fasig-Tipton. Equibase.com chart or VIDEO, sponsored by Fasig-Tipton. O/B-Walnut Ridge Farm (ON); T-Mark R. Frostad. O-Alvin & Wendy Ruis; B-Sparks View Farm & Fox Straus KY (KY); Registered Ontario-Bred T-Shelbe Ruis. TDN REGIONAL REPORT • PAGE 8 OF 9 • THETDN.COM MONDAY • MAY 16, 2016

4th-SA, $58,690, (S), (NW1$X)/Opt. Clm ($20,000), 5-15, 3yo/up, 6 1/2fT, 1:14.23, fm. SEEDSANDSTEMSAGAIN (h, 5, Old Topper--Miss Pitz {GB}, by Cadeaux Genereux {GB}) Lifetime Record: 16-3-5-2, $154,788. O-Napoleon M. Lopez & Steve Miyadi; B-Jim Robinson, Ron Brewer & Jim Lyberger (CA); T-Steven Miyadi.

9th-CD, $52,075, 5-15, (NW1X), 3yo, 1 1/8mT, 1:49.82, fm. KEYSTONEFORVICTORY (c, 3, Shakespeare--Free Fee Lady {MSW, $337,691}, by Victory Gallop) Lifetime Record: 7-3-0-0, $63,410. O-Kenneth L. and Sarah K. Ramsey; B-Dell Ridge Farm, First-crop starters to watch: Monday, May 16 LLC (KY); T-Michael J. Maker. *$25,000 Ylg '14 KEESEP. Sire (Sire’s Sire), current farm, 2012 Fee, #foals of racing age/Winners/ EQB yearling auction purchase • www.EQB.com BlackTypeWnrs * Race #-track, race type, distance, runner, odds (if available) INDIAN FIREWATER (Indian Charlie), Doubletree Farm, $3K, 25/0/0 8-SRP, $40K C.O. Ken Kendrick Memorial S., 4 1/2f, +Vocally, 9-2 8th-PIM, $51,828, (NW1X)/Opt. Clm ($45,000-$50,000), 5-15, 3yo, f, 6f, 1:12.32, ft. BREEDERS EDITION STREET CRUIZER (f, 3, Quality Road--River Cruise {MSW, $169,720}, by Not For Love) Lifetime Record: 6-2-1-2, $86,354. O-The Estate of Howard M. Bender; B-Howard M. Bender (MD); STAKES RESULTS: T-Lawrence E. Murray. *1/2 to More Than a Cruise (More Than TEXAS STALLION S., $75,000, LS, 5-15, (C), 3yo, f, 1m, 1:39.21, Ready), SW, $260,854. ft. 1--MORE THAN MOST, 120, f, 3, Indygo Mountain--Better Than Most, by Elusive Quality. O-Douglas Scharbauer; 9th-WO, C$48,300, (S), 5-15, (NW1X), 3yo/up, f/m, 7f (AWT), B-Clarence Scharbauer (TX); T-W. Bret Calhoun; J-C.J. 1:23.48, ft. McMahon. $45,000. Lifetime Record: 10-3-1-3, $131,978. *1/2 FLASHY PATCH (f, 4, Giant Gizmo--Flashy Lil, by Bold n' Flashy) to W V Jetsetter (Jet Phone), MSW & MGSP, $165,900; and Lifetime Record: 7-2-0-5, $59,809. O-Polo Management Worldventurer (Wimbledon), SW, $270,508. Services; B-Wendy O'Leary (ON); T-Scott H. Fairlie. 2--Zippit E, 120, f, 3, My Golden Song--Final Trick, by Magic Cat. O/B-Wayne Sanders & Larry Hirsch (TX); T-W. Bret Calhoun. 9th-MTH, $39,900, (NW1X)/Opt. Clm ($20,000), 5-15, 3yo/up, $15,000. 6f, 1:11.30, ft. 3--Cosmo Cassis, 120, f, 3, Grasshopper--Dehere's Dream, by STILL KRZ (g, 4, Old Forester--Krz Exec {MSW, $408,718}, by Dehere. O/B-Fletcher Properties, Inc. (TX); T-Robert A. Young. Bold Executive) Lifetime Record: 14-4-2-1, $120,004. O/T-David $8,250. Jacobson; B-Sylon Stable and Partner (ON). *C$15,000 Ylg '13 Margins: 7 1/4, 1, 10HF. Odds: 0.70, 12.10, 3.70. CANSEP. ALLOWANCE RESULTS: 9th-SA, $63,555, (NW2$X)/Opt. Clm ($62,500), 5-14, 3yo/up, 5th-GG, $35,100, 5-15, (NW1$X), 3yo/up, f/m, 6f (AWT), 6 1/2f, 1:14.57, ft. 1:10.76, ft. GLACKEN TOO (h, 5, Smoke Glacken--Storm Prospect, by HER AGAIN (f, 4, Trapper--Waytoomuchfun, by Tinners Way) Stormy Atlantic) Lifetime Record: GISP, 19-3-5-4, $226,460. Lifetime Record: 15-6-4-3, $114,050. O/B-Joseph P. Morey Jr. O-Terra Di Sienna Stables; B-Sienna Farms LLC (FL); T-Philip Revocable Trust (CA); T-William E. Morey. D'Amato. *SW, $240,871. **1/2 to Kalambaka Queen (Pico Central {Brz}), SW, $240,871. 7th-IND, $34,000, (NW1X)/Opt. Clm ($30,000), 5-14, 3yo, f, 6f, 7th-BEL, $62,000, (S), 5-15, (NW1$X), 3yo/up, 7fT, 1:22.47, fm. 1:10.30, ft. THE CROCHERON KID (c, 4, Miracle Man--Five Songs, by TESSA'S TREAT (f, 3, Include--Dattts Lady Di, by Proud Citizen) Forestry) Lifetime Record: 12-2-1-1, $89,551. Lifetime Record: 3-2-0-0, $42,916. O-Midwest Thoroughbreds, O-Shooting Star Stable; B-Miracle Man Racing Partners LLC (NY); Inc.; B-Bret C. Jones (KY); T-Chris Richard. *$77,000 Ylg '14 T-David G. Donk. KEESEP. TDN REGIONAL REPORT • PAGE 9 OF 9 • THETDN.COM MONDAY • MAY 16, 2016

6th-EVD, $33,000, (S), 5-14, 3yo, 6 1/2f, 1:17.45, ft. ADDITIONAL MAIDEN WINNERS: CHATTANOOGAN (c, 3, Lone Star Special--Thistle Bear, by +My Golden Aura, c, 2, My Golden Song--Cat Tale, by Tale of Gators N Bears) Lifetime Record: 7-3-0-0, $77,900. O/B-Tigertail the Cat. LS, 5-15, 4 1/2f, :53.46. B-Danny Keene (TX). Ranch (LA); T-Danny Pish.

8th-EVD, $30,300, 5-14, 3yo/up, 5fT, :56.52, fm. Jes Jaa, r, 3, Big Drama--Gone to Paris, by All Gone. SA, 5-15, (C), WIN LION WIN (g, 5, Lion Tamer--Twinwinwin, by Twining) 5 1/2f, 1:03.42. B-Joseph Arango (FL). *$65,000 Ylg '14 Lifetime Record: MSP, 22-5-3-6, $170,497. O-Farm d'Allie Racing OBSAUG; $165,000 2yo '15 OBSAPR. Stable; B-Rebecca Farm LLC (LA); T-Allison Ramsay-Banks. Mystical Mitsy, f, 3, Early Flyer--Lea Larkspur, by Leo Castelli. LS, *$40,000 Ylg '12 BSCYRL. **Full to Heavy on Themister, MSW, 5-15, (S), 1m, 1:44.43. B-Springhill Farm (TX). $643,640. Eqho, f, 3, Giant=s Causeway--Quarayed (MSP-Fr), by Dynaformer. BEL, 5-15, (C), 1 1/16mT, 1:44.07. B-Marc Keller 7th-LS, $25,000, (NW1R6MX)/Opt. Clm ($25,000), 5-15, 3yo/up, (KY). 7 1/2fT, 1:26.93 (NCR), fm. Mr. Bob and Dave, g, 3, Launched Missile--Irish Trickster, by SUPERMASON (g, 4, Grasshopper--Folksy, by Midway Road) Belek. LS, 5-15, 5fT, :57.17. B-Miles Childers (TX). Lifetime Record: MSW, 17-6-2-2, $196,115. O-Brad Grady; B-W. Many Roses, g, 3, Many Rivers--Heirloom Rose, by Bertrando. S. Farish & E.J. Hudson, Jr. Irrevocable Trust (TX); T-W. Bret GG, 5-15, 6f (AWT), 1:11.64. B-Ellen Jackson, Jerry & Margaret Calhoun. *$25,000 Ylg '13 TEXAUG. Martin (CA). +Scrutinizer, g, 3, Native Ruler--Sharlilly, by Sharkey. PRM, 5-15, 7th-HST, C$25,000, (NW2X)/Opt. Clm ($23,187-$27,052), 5-15, (S), 6f, 1:12.09. B-Dream Farm LLC (IA). 3yo/up, 6 1/2f, 1:16.68, ft. Bralin's Grace, g, 3, Quien--Kentucky Band, by Dixieland Band. CRACKDOWN (g, 4, Scat Daddy--Placerita, by Gilded Time) PRM, 5-15, (S), 1m 70y, 1:46.20. B-Maynard Farm & Denise Lifetime Record: 6-4-0-0, $26,076. O-Kay & Sue Ohashi; Lynn Scoles (IA). B-Canyon Lake Thoroughbreds (FL); T-Patty Leaney. *$55,000 A. P. Bling, c, 3, Too Much Bling--White Wing, by A.P. Indy. LS, Wlg '12 OBSOCT; $70,000 Ylg '13 KEESEP. **1/2 to Saturday Nite 5-14, (S), 1m, 1:41.31. B-W. S. Farish (TX). Ride (Flower Alley), MSW, $220,471. Knight of Valor, g, 5, Candy Ride (Arg)--Joustabout (SW & GSP), by Apalachee. CD, 5-15, (C), 1m, 1:35.68. B-St. George Farm LLC (KY). *$275,000 Ylg '12 KEESEP. **1/2 to Mr. Commons 7th-SRP, $22,500, (S), 5-15, (NW2L), 3yo/up, f/m, 4 1/2f, :52.38, (Artie Schiller), MGSW & MGISP, $940,194; and Jungle Fighter ft. (Wild Rush), MSW & GSP, $355,971. ZUELLAS HEAT (f, 4, Southwestern Heat--Zuella, by Forestry) Lifetime Record: 12-2-0-0, $29,342. O-Jaime G. Aldavaz, Sr.; B-J. Kirk & Judy Robison (NM); T-Jaime G. Aldavaz, Sr. TDN CRITERIA The races covered in the TDN are as follows:

4th-LS, $22,000, 5-14, (NW1X), 3yo/up, f/m, 7 1/2fT, 1:28.04, • Stakes: purses of $50,000/up fm. • Allowance Races: purses of $20,000/up ARTISTIC LICENSE (m, 5, Heart of the Storm--Eye of the Artist, • Optional Claiming Races: purses of $20,000/up by Old Trieste) Lifetime Record: 27-7-5-2, $104,518. O-Carl R. • Maiden Special Weight Races: purses of $18,000/up Moore Management LLC; B-B.A. Man, Inc. & Richard Maynard • Maiden Claiming Races: purses of $18,000/up & a minimum (KY); T-W. Bret Calhoun. *1/2 to Dontbeshy I=ll Buy (Cherokee claiming price of $40,000 Run), SW & GSP, $142,541.

7th-LS, $22,000, (S), 5-14, (NW1X), 3yo/up, f/m, 7 1/2fT, Want to send a “LETTER TO THE EDITOR” 1:29.73, fm. of the Thoroughbred Daily News? PA LOLI (f, 4, Silent Picture--La Poli, by Hold That Tiger) Send an e-mail to: [email protected] Lifetime Record: 14-4-2-2, $32,688. O-G2W; B/T-Danny Jay Pish (TX).