TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 2014 732-747-8060 $ TDN Home Page Click Here TATTS YEARLING TRADE ENDS ON A HIGH NYSGC APPROVES NEW DRUG RULES by Emma Berry The New York State Gaming Commission Lope De Vega (Ire) is leading all European freshmen unanimously approved an extensive set of medication sires on the track, and a member of his second crop rules which establish threshold limits for 24 therapeutic headed the final session of yearlings to go through the medications and restrict the use of three corticosteroids ring at Tattersalls in 2014 when selling for 325,000gns in racehorses during a meeting Monday. The rules, (US$535,941), the highest price at the December modeled on uniform medication Yearling Sale since 2006. rules developed by the Though nowhere near as prominent as the behemoth Association of Racing that is the October Yearling Sale, this end-of-year Commissioners International, are auction has nevertheless been responsible for a decent expected to take effect Jan. 1. number of high-class They were first introduced to the graduates, including commission last November and this year=s G1 Haydock bring New York regulations into Sprint Cup winner line with other states which have Christopher Kay G Force (Ire) (Tamayuz implemented the MidAtlantic {GB}) and Blazing Uniform Medication Program. Speed (GB) (Dylan Officials from the New York Racing Association were Thomas {Ire}), who quick to applaud the new measures. added the G2 Jockey AThese new rules are in the best interest of the health Lot 175, session-topping Club Cup to his and welfare of the racehorses, the safety of all Lope De Vega colt domestic participants and further promote the integrity of Tattersalls G1 Champions & Thoroughbred horse racing,@ said New York Racing Chater Cup win at Sha Association Chief Executive Officer and President Tin Sunday. Christopher Kay. AThe adoption of these regulations by Figures for this year's renewal were every bit as the Gaming Commission is another step forward in the buoyant, relatively, as its larger predecessor, with ongoing efforts of Thoroughbred racing regulators in turnover of 4,573,700gns representing the many states and other participants to adopt uniform second-highest aggregate for the sale and an increase and effective equine medication rules across the of 28% on 2013. The average and median were also country.@ For a list of the drugs and thresholds from the up, by 15% and 20%, at 28,408gns and 18,000gns, New York State Gaming Commissions, click here. respectively, while the clearance rate climbed one point to 79% for 161 yearlings sold from 203 offered.

(718) 978-8200 www.mersant.com Sponsors of the following stats for the: TATTERSALLS DECEMBER YEARLING SALE CUMULATIVE 2014 2013 Catalogued 247 226 No. Offered 203 185 No. Sold 161 145 RNAs 42 40 % RNAs 20.6% 21.6% High Price 325,000gns 200,000gns Gross 4,573,700gns 3,570,000gns Average (% change) 28,408gns (+15%) 24,621gns Median (% change) 18,000gns (+20%) 15,000gns

TDN TODAY Headline News...... 9 pages Rank (by Avg. price) ‘15 Fee ‘14 Sold ‘14 Avg ‘14 Top Colt ‘14 Top Filly ’13 sold ‘13 Avg

1 TAPIT $300,000 40 $611,125 $2,200,000 $1,150,000 46 $400,000 2 WAR FRONT $150,000 19 $591,353 $2,200,000 $1,523,705 48 $362,996 3 MEDAGLIA D’ORO $125,000 30 $337,500 $675,000 $1,500,000 34 $366,882 4 BERNARDINI $85,000 30 $337,400 $925,000 $1,200,000 24 $258,949 5 DISTORTED HUMOR $100,000 33 $267,966 $625,000 $500,000 33 $352,273 6 MALIBU MOON $95,000 51 $239,098 $550,000 $675,000 79 $205,671 7 TIZNOW $75,000 38 $237,956 $1,350,000 $1,100,000 52 $282,038 8 SMART STRIKE $100,000 33 $208,702 $500,000 $700,000 35 $279,429 9 KITTEN’S JOY $100,000 59 $197,689 $675,000 $500,000 37 $119,865 10 SPEIGHTSTOWN $80,000 42 $182,988 $500,000 $600,000 40 $176,875 11 GIANT’S CAUSEWAY $85,000 56 $169,148 $500,000 $522,535 63 $185,308 12 MORE THAN READY $50,000 21 $168,667 $485,000 $500,000 52 $121,517

*TDN Insta-tistics, three or more sold Joined WAR FRONT & TAPIT as the only stallions to sire both a million-dollar colt and filly at North American yearling sales in 2014. IN THIS ISSUE

Loco for Lope

Bloodstock agent Charlie Gordon-Watson found plenty to like in Monday’s Tattersalls session topper by hot young sire Lope de Vega (Ire). CO-PUBLISHERS

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BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT Stars Aligning at Tatts Director of Business Development: Gary King [email protected] Luke Lillingston kept busy at Tattersalls Monday, signing for a (Ire) filly on behalf of Lord Derby before switching EDITORIAL hats to sell another daughter of the champion. [email protected] Editor-in-Chief: Jessica Martini Luke Managing Editor: Alan Carasso Lillingston Racing Editor: Steve Sherack Racing Analyst/Social Media Director: Brian DiDonato Racing Post Associate Editor: Justina Severni Assistant Editor: Christie DeBernardis Page 4 Assistant Editor: Heather Likins Assistant Editor: Ben Massam

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Pedigree analyst Andrew Caulfield reflects on the WORLDWIDE INFORMATION remarkable broodmare career of the brilliant . The champion is the third dam of Saturday’s GIII Delta International Editor: Kelsey Riley Jackpot S. winner Ocho Ocho Ocho (Street Sense). [email protected] Newmarket Bureau, Cafe Racing: Sean Cronin Newmarket Bureau, Cafe Racing: Tom Frary [email protected]

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His dam, the dual winner Angels Story (Ire) ( {Ire}), is a half-sister to Dan Excel (Ire), who shares his sire with this colt and has won group races in Ireland, Singapore and Hong Kong, including the G1 Champions Going Loco For Lope... Mile at Sha Tin. Another The day's topper, lot 175, a Lope De Vega (Ire) generation back, the family three-quarter brother to consistent Australian group boasts Classic winners Love performer Puissance De Lune (Ire) (Shamardal), will race Divine (GB) (Diesis {GB}) for Sheikh Mohammed Obaid and be trained by Luca and Sixties Icon (GB) Cumani, who has come agonizingly close to scooping (Galileo {Ire}). the G1 Melbourne Cup on two occasions. "He's been bought for an "Who knows, maybe the Australians will want to buy English client and will go him down the line," said agent Charles Gordon-Watson into training with Luca after signing the docket for the Roundhill Stud offering. Cumani," said Will Douglass It is a family that has been good to stud owners of Charles Gordon-Watson Charlie Gordon-Watson Tattersalls Bobby Donworth and Honora Corrigan of late. A Bloodstock. "Shamardal has half-sister to this colt's dam, Princess Serena worked with the family (Unbridled's Song), produced dual Group 1 winner before and he's a rock-solid sire. This colt looked very Rizeena (Ire) (Iffraaj {GB}), while the dynasty can also straightforward, and he'll have phenomenal resale claim champion race filly and top-class broodmare value, if all goes to plan." Serena's Song (Rahy). Gordon-Watson added, AThe sire is doing so well and there's plenty going on in the family." A # will distinguish first-time stakes-winners, a @ will The agent was also in play for John Connaughton's indicate first-time graded stakes-winners, a s will Shamardal colt (lot 125), who was led out of the ring denote a first-time Grade/Group 1 winner, a + will unsold, but quickly found a buyer through a private sale indicate first-time starters, an (S) will be used for state- and ended the day as one of the most expensive lots at bred races, a (C) will be used for maiden-claiming races 140,000gns. and an (R) will be used for other restricted races. TDN P HEADLINE NEWS • 11/25/14 • PAGE 4 of 9 • thoroughbreddailynews.com

Derby Dreams... "Epsom awaits him," was the call from auctioneer John O'Kelly as Ballygallon Stud's colt by High Chaparral (Ire) paraded before potential buyers. Offered through Jamie Railton as lot 212, the son of Walkamia (Fr) (Linamix {Fr}), who has already produced a black-type horse, War Is War (Ire), by another Derby winner in Galileo (Ire), was eventually knocked down to an outfit that knows all about both stallions and, indeed, Epsom. Demi O'Byrne's signature appeared on the sheet, along with the sum of 240,000gns for the half-brother to five winners and relative of G1 Ascot Gold Cup winner Westerner (GB) (Danehill). O'Byrne confirmed that the March-born colt is to join the Coolmore ranks at Ballydoyle. High Chaparral's stud-mate Galileo (Ire) also featured among the sires of the top colts of the day with Marlhill House Stud's son of Belesta (GB) (Xaar {GB}) (lot 185) knocked down to Tom Goff of Blandford Bloodstock for 150,000gns.

Stars Aligned... Lord Derby, breeder of dual Derby winner and new Coolmore stallion Australia (GB) (Galileo {Ire}) from his outstanding mare Ouija Board (GB) (Cape Cross {Ire}), augmented his future broodmare ranks with the purchase of lot 197, a Sea The Stars (Ire) granddaughter of GI Canadian International S. winner Infamy (GB) (Shirley Heights {GB}). "We bought a beautiful Dutch Art (GB) filly for Lord Derby in [Tattersalls October] Book 1 and he decided that he wanted one to partner her," said agent Luke Lillingston. "This is a very special filly with a lovely pedigree, and she is by a Luke Lillingston very special stallion in Sea The Racing Post Stars." At 165,000gns, the Castlebridge consignee was the top-priced filly of the day. Lillingston switched hats from purchaser to vendor in the transaction of another daughter of Sea The Stars (lot 173), offered for a client of his Mount Coote Stud. Hugo Merry made a determined play for the filly, with the hammer falling in his favor at 140,000gns. A half-sister to G3 Ballyogan S. winner Majestic Queen (Ire), she is also closely related to Sea The Stars' first stakes winner, My Titania (Ire), their dams being full-sisters by Danehill.

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Artful Buy For Fanshawe... Glebe Stud's Showcasing (GB) filly (lot 119) will be Trainer James Fanshawe and agent Suzanne Roberts returning to the breeze-up sales after being bought by collaborated in the 130,000gns purchase of lot 182, Willie Browne for 68,000gns. A daughter of Rathbarry Stud's Dutch Art (GB) half-brother to the listed-placed Vive Les Rouges (GB) (Acclamation {GB}), admirable Mabait (GB) (Kyllachy {GB}), who is still she is a half-sister to winner Speedfiend (GB) (Bahamian going strong at the age of eight and counts the Listed Bounty {GB}), who was fourth in last year's G1 Middle Pomfet S. among his nine victories. Park S. Two of the leading players of the breeze-up "He's a lovely, strong colt. We tried on the scene had the filly on their lists, with Browne eventually [sales-topping] Lope De Vega colt, but we couldn't get getting the better of Jim McCartan. The successful near him," said Fanshawe. buyer said, "The stallion's stats speak for themselves, The stock of the listed-winning Kirkwall (GB) mare but I also have a couple at home by him and I Ronaldsay (GB) have been in demand in the sales ring in particularly like them, so it made it easy to go a bit recent seasons, with her further." Oasis Dream (GB) colt While there is no sale at Tattersalls today, Park Gale Force Ten (GB) Paddocks will see plenty of action as potential having topped the DBS purchasers take the chance to view more than 1,100 Premier Sale in 2011 at foals catalogued to sell from Wednesday to Saturday, ,280,000, followed by a with each session commencing at 9:30 a.m. local time. similarly good return for her Dubawi (Ire) colt Orkney Island (GB), who TATTERSALLS DECEMBER YEARLING SALE made ,180,000 in 2012. TOP LOTS This time around Bob Lot Sex Sire Dam Price (gns) James Fanshawe McCreery's Stowell Hill 175 c Lope De Vega (Ire) Princess Serena 325,000 Racing Post Stud offered a filly by B-Round Hill Stud (IRE) Exceed And Excel (Aus) Consigned by Round Hill Stud (lot 102), who made David Redvers's shopping list at Purchased by C Gordon-Watson Bloodstock 80,000gns. He said, "She's a nice filly with a nice page 212 c High Chaparral (Ire) Walkamia (Fr) 240,000 and looks value now that the market has turned to B-Ballygallon Stud Limited (IRE) foals. We've had success from this sale before." Consigned by Jamie Railton Her half-brother Gale Force Ten was runner-up to Purchased by Demi O’Byrne 197 f Sea the Stars (Ire) Meetyouthere (Ire) 165,000 Reckless Abandon in the G2 Norfolk S. in 2012 and (130,000gns wnl ‘13 TATDEC) returned the following year to win the G3 Jersey S.-- B-Mr & Mrs J. Davis & P. Mitchell B'stock (GB) credentials which have earned him a place on the Irish Consigned by The Castlebridge Consignment National Stud stallion roster for next year. Purchased by Kern/Lillingston Association The popularity of Lope De Vega hasn't waned 185 c Galileo (Ire) Belesta (GB) 150,000 throughout this season's sales, and an early leading (€200,000 RNA yrl ‘14 ARQAUG) light of the December Sale was his grandson of B-Rockhart Trading Ltd (IRE) GII Barbara Fritchie H. winner Smart 'N Noble (Smarten) Consigned by Marlhill House Stud (lot 70). Consigned by Acorn Stud, he made the early Purchased by Blandford Bloodstock running when knocked down to Ed Sackville of SackvilleDonald for 75,000gns. Lope De Vega ended All horses in the TDN are bred in North America, the December Yearling Sale as leading sire with four unless otherwise indicated lots sold for an average of 112,500gns.

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Monday, Tokyo, Japan TRADING LEATHER IN “GOOD FORM” FOR CUP TOKYO SPORTS HAI NISAI S.-G3, -61,670,000, Last year=s G1 Irish Derby winner Trading Leather (Ire) Tokyo, 11-24, 2yo, 1800mT, 1:47.90, fm. (Teofilo {Ire}) was the 1--#@SATONO CROWN (JPN), 121, c, 2, Marju (Ire) subject of a positive 1st Dam: Jioconda (Ire) (SW & GSP-Ire), by Rossini report from Pat 2nd Dam: La Joconde (GB), by Vettori (Ire) O=Donovan, assistant to 3rd Dam: Lust (GB), by Pursuit of Love (GB) trainer Jim Bolger, after (-58,000,000 yrl =13 JRHAJUL) O-Hajime Satomi; the 4-year-old put in B-Northern Farm; T-Noriyuki Hori; J-Ryan Moore. some light exercise over -32,469,000. Lifetime Record: 2-2-0-0. *Full to Jolie the Tokyo dirt course Jioconde (Ire), GSP-Ire; and Lightening Pearl (Ire), yesterday in preparation G1SW-Eng, MGSP-Ire, $219,028. Werk Nick Rating: for Sunday=s G1 Japan Trading Leather A++. Click for the eNicks report & 5-cross pedigree. Cup. Racing Post 2--Avenir Marcher (Jpn), 121, c, 2, Deep Impact (Jpn)-- "He just stretched his Vite Marcher (Jpn), by French Deputy. O-Carrot legs this morning and he did a right-handed jog just to Farm; B-Northern Farm. -13,134,000. let him see his new environment,@ O=Donovan 3--Sole Impact (Jpn), 121, c, 2, Deep Impact (Jpn)-- explained. AHe's in good form and he's moving well.@ Cream Only, by Exchange Rate. O-Yasushi Kubota; Trading Leather has not seen the winner=s circle since B-Shiaoi Farm. -8,067,000. his Classic score last June, but he has been placed in a Margins: NK, 3/4, NK. Odds: 7.10, 1.40, 29.30. number of Europe=s most important races in the interim. Click for the JRA chart and video. The Godolphin colorbearer has run just four times Satono Crown, a full-brother to the 2011 this year, most recently finishing third in the G1 Irish G1 Cheveley Park S. heroine Lightening Pearl (Ire), was Champion S. at Leopardstown Sept. 13. off the mark at first asking over this track and trip Oct. "He was trained specifically for this race,@ O=Donovan 25, and made the grade in his first black-type attempt added. AHe's had a light season and since his last start here. Off a beat slowly from his rail draw, the dark bay in September, he regularly did some fast work once a saved ground near the rear of the pack through the week. He's had his fast work done and he was very fit opening furlongs, and had crept up a few positions by coming here, so all we want to do is maintain his the time the field was rounding the turn. Switching out fitness.@ for running room coming off the bend, Satono Crown Canadian raider Up With The Birds (Stormy Atlantic) weaved his way between runners under a vigorous enjoyed an easy morning yesterday after galloping handride inside the final 200 meters and got up in the Sunday. nick of time. "The gallop yesterday was very easy and quiet,@ said Mark Ramsammy, assistant to trainer Malcolm Pierce. AHe came out of it very well and he's in very good SALES TODAY condition. We just wanted to let him stretch his legs-- not do too much, and he won't do any more fast work KARAKA CATALOGUES ONLINE until the race.@ The catalogues for New Zealand Bloodstock=s Up With The Birds, Canada=s 2013 Horse of the Year, National Yearling Sales Series at Karaka are now online. won last year=s GI Jamaica H. and added the The six days of selling kicks off Jan. 25 and 26 with GII Nijinsky S. in July. The Sam-Son Farm homebred the Premier Sale, which has 443 catalogued. The Select was most recently second in the GIII Knickerbocker S. Sale follows Jan. 28 to 30, and the series wraps up Oct. 11. with the Festival Sale Feb. 1. The NZB Yearling Sales Series produced 15 Group 1 winners last season, and over the past three seasons has provided 35% of Group 1 graduates from 21% of Love the TDN, but don’t get the auctioned yearling crop in Australasia. This year=s our daily emails? catalogues contain 31 siblings to Group 1 winners, and Use this QR code to sign up! the progeny of 20 Group 1-winning dams. Amongst the featured lots are close relations to recent standouts So You’ll get one email per day, You Think (NZ), Black Caviar (Aus), High Chaparral (Ire), indicating that the new TDN Atlantic Jewel (Aus), Redoute=s Choice (Aus), Dundeel has been posted, and offering (NZ), Ocean Park (NZ) and Silent Achiever (NZ). a handy link to download it. To view the catalogues, visit www.nzb.co.nz. TDN P HEADLINE NEWS • 11/25/14 • PAGE 7 of 9 • thoroughbreddailynews.com

PEDIGREE INSIGHTS B Y A N D R E W C A U L F I E L D

Saturday, Delta Downs DELTA DOWNS JACKPOT S.-GIII, $1,000,000, DED, 11-22, 2yo, 1 1/16m, 1:45 2/5, ft. 1--@OCHO OCHO OCHO, 119, c, 2, by Street Sense 1st Dam: Winner, by Horse Chestnut (SAf) 2nd Dam: Pennant Champion, by Mr. Prospector 3rd Dam: Personal Ensign, by Private Account ($50,000 yrl '13 KEESEP; $200,000 2yo >14 OBSAPR). O-DP Racing LLC; B-Siena Farms LLC (KY); T-James M Cassidy; J-Mike E Smith. $600,000. Lifetime Record: 3-3-0-0, $693,600. *1/2 to Private Ensign (A.P. Indy), GSP, $124,384. Werk Nick Rating: A. Click for the eNicks report & 5-cross pedigree.

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Click for the brisnet.com chart or the brisnet.com PPs. VIDEO. Virtually every edition of the Breeders= Cup lingers long in the memory, but anyone who attended the 1988 meeting at can count themselves especially fortunate. Among the male contestants were numerous luminaries whose names are still very familiar more than 25 years later, such as Alysheba, Seeking the Gold, Forty Niner, Easy Goer and . However, they were arguably outshone by the displays of some of the fillies, specifically the final appearances by two 4-year-olds whose brilliant careers were to earn them admission to the Hall of Fame. In landing her second GI Breeders= Cup Mile--and her 10th Group/Grade I--Miesque improved her career figures to 16-12-3-1. Less than an hour earlier Personal Ensign had brought down the final curtain on her career with a dramatic last-stride victory over GI heroine in the Distaff. That was her 13th win from 13 starts, even though her career had very nearly been ended by a fracture to a hind pastern after her win in the GI Frizette S. at two. The fracture required the insertion of five screws in the pastern and three months in her box. AWe never thought she=d race again,@ trainer Shug McGaughey admitted, but she was back in action 11 months after the Frizette and proceeded to win all four of her sophomore starts. Racemares of this exceptional quality sometimes prove less effective in the role of broodmare, but this accusation could never be made against either Miesque or Personal Ensign. Miesque numbered the Classic winners Kingmambo and East of the Moon among her four group winners and two of this year=s group- winning 2-year-olds--the Irish-trained I Am Beautiful and John F. Kennedy--descend from her. Cont. p9 TDN P HEADLINE NEWS • 11/25/14 • PAGE 8 of 9 • thoroughbreddailynews.com

Personal Ensign also has a notable 2014 2-year-old Personal Ensign=s third consecutive Mr. Prospector descending from her in the unbeaten Ocho Ocho Ocho, foal was Ocho Ocho Ocho=s second dam, the dual who collected $600,000 for his triumph in the winner Pennant Champion, and a later visit to the great GIII Delta Downs Jackpot S. This son of Street Sense is Claiborne stallion yielded Traditionally, winner of the the 11th graded-stakes winner descending from GI Oaklawn H. over a mile and an eighth. Personal Ensign and the third of 2014, another being Altogether, Personal Ensign produced 10 named Mr Speaker, who became a Grade I winner when he foals. Nine raced and all nine won. She had five held off Adelaide in the GI Belmont Derby Invitational. daughters by five different stallions and, remarkably, Personal Ensign went one better than Miesque in that four of the five have already produced a graded winner she produced three (the exception being her A.P. Indy mare Possibility, who individual Grade I has a couple of black-type winners to her credit). winners, in the My Flag leads the way amongst these daughters, as process adding she emulated Personal Ensign=s considerable feat of another accolade to replicating her Breeders= Cup success as a broodmare. her astonishing Her daughter Storm Flag Flying became the third tally. Not only did generation of Breeders= Cup winners when she she earn the Eclipse confirmed her status as 2002=s champion 2-year-old Award for older filly in the GI Juvenile Fillies. Appropriately Storm Flag female and Personal Ensign surges past Winning Flying went on to win the GI Personal Ensign H. as a admission to the Colors in 1988 GI Breeders’ Cup Distaff. 4-year-old, when she was also second in the Hall of Fame, but Horsephotos GI Breeders= Cup Distaff. she was also Personal Ensign=s Unbridled filly Salute was also awarded the title of Kentucky Broodmare of the Year in above average, as she showed when placed at two in 1996. She also had the rare distinction of being the the GII Demoiselle S. and GIII Tempted S. She visited first Breeders= Cup winner to produce a Breeders= Cup to produce Mr Speaker. winner, when her Easy Goer filly My Flag took the Title Seeker, Personal Ensign=s unraced daughter by 1995 Juvenile Fillies (as a prelude to three further Monarchos, made a bright start as a broodmare, her Grade I successes, including one in the CCA Oaks). first foal being Seeking the Title, a Grade I-placed My Flag was the second of Personal Ensign=s Grade I winner of the GIII Iowa Oaks. winners. The daughter of Private Account had started Pennant Champion=s contribution was her Arch filly her broodmare career with three rewarding visits to Mr. Animal Spirits, winner of the GIII Bourbon S. on turf as Prospector. The first produced Miner's Mark, whose a 2-year-old. Pennant Champion also has several finest moment came when he won the 10-furlong GI talented broodmare daughters. One, the Broad Brush Jockey Club Gold Cup. Next came the speedy, but mare Broad Pennant, is dam of the smart Broken Vow unfortunate Our Emblem. He had to be counted colt Interactif (third in the GII somewhat unlucky not to add to his dam=s Grade I Breeders= Cup Juvenile Turf score, as he was beaten just a nose in the GI Carter H. before winning the GII and two noses when third in the GI Vosburgh S. Of National Museum of Racing course, he made amends by siring War Emblem, hero of Hall of Fame S.). Another, the the 2002 Kentucky Derby and Preakness S. Forestry filly Rejoicing, also has a smart turf performer by Broken Vow, namely this OCHO OCHO OCHO, c, 2012 year=s GIII American Derby winner Divine Oath. Machiavellian Mr. Prospector Coup De Folie The daughter of Pennant Street Cry (Ire) Champion responsible for Helen Street (GB) Troy (GB) Waterway (Fr) Ocho Ocho Ocho is Winner, a Street Sense Horse Chestnut mare who Dixieland Band Mississippi Mud changed hands for $700,000 Bedazzle at Keeneland earlier this Ocho Ocho Ocho Majestic Legend His Majesty Long Legend month. Royal Oak Farm made Coady Photography the successful bid for the Fort Wood Sadler’s Wells Fall Aspen 12-year-old, who is in foal to Bernardini. Horse Chestnut (SAf) Horse Chestnut, of course, represented one of London Wall (SAf) Col. Pickering (SAf) Winner Nalatale (SAf) Claiborne Farm=s admirable (but ultimately 3-1-1-1 unsuccessful) attempts to introduce some new 7Fls, 1GSW Mr. Prospector Pennant Champion bloodlines to Kentucky. They were no doubt hoping 7-2-1-2 Gold Digger 13Fls, 1GSW Personal Ensign Private Account that he would develop into another Forli. Like Forli, 11Fls, 3SW Grecian Banner Horse Chestnut had also shown great versatility, but in South Africa not Argentina. Cont. p9 TDN P HEADLINE NEWS • 11/25/14 • PAGE 9 of 9 • thoroughbreddailynews.com

A grandson of Sadler=s Wells, Horse Chestnut had UPCOMING MAJOR NORTH AMERICAN STAKES won eight of his nine starts in South Africa, from five furlongs to a mile and a half, in the process of earning Date Race Track Horse of the Year honors. Nov. 27 GII Falls City H. CD Like Forli, Horse Chestnut also created quite a stir in GII Hollywood Turf Cup DMR winning his first start in the U.S., the GIII Broward H. GIII Fall Highweight H. AQU over 1 1/16 miles on his dirt-track debut at the start of Nov. 28 GI Clark H. CD 2000. This impressive victory raised realistic hopes that GII Seabiscuit H. DMR Horse Chestnut was going to prove just as brilliant in GIII Go For Wand H. AQU his new base as he had been in South Africa, but an Nov. 29 GI Cigar Mile AQU injury in a workout ended his career just a couple of GI Hollywood Derby DMR weeks later. Horse Chestnut was returned to South GII Demoiselle S. AQU GII Remsen S. AQU Africa in 2009, his legacy in North America amounting GII Golden Rod S. CD to five graded winners headed by the Grade I turf GII Kentucky Jockey Club S. CD winner Lucifer=s Stone. GII Hawthorne Gold Cup HAW It remains to be seen whether Ocho Ocho Ocho GIII Comely S. AQU possesses sufficient talent to develop into a Triple GIII Jimmy Durante S. DMR Crown contender, but there can be no doubt that he GIII Native Diver H. DMR possesses enough stamina to do so. Nov. 30 GI Matriarch S. DMR With the Kentucky Derby and GI Travers S. winner GIII Berkeley H. GG Street Sense as his sire and the South African Derby GIII Cecil B. DeMille S. DMR winner Horse Chestnut as his broodmare sire, he is Dec. 7 GIII Valedictory S. WO virtually guaranteed to stay at least a mile and a Dec. 13 GI Starlet S. LRC quarter. Personal Ensign numbered two victories in the GIII Sugar Swirl S. GP 10-furlong Beldame S. among her eight Grade I victories Dec. 20 GI Los Alamitos Futurity LRC and her high-class brother Personal Flag took the GI Dec. 26 GI La Brea S. SA Widener and GI Suburban H. over the same distance. GI Malibu S. SA Then there=s the Jockey Club Gold Cup winner Miner=s GII Sir Beaufort S. SA Mark, who was a brother to Ocho Ocho Ocho=s second Dec. 27 GIII La Prevoyante H. GP dam Pennant Champion. No wonder Ocho Ocho Ocho GIII Mr. Prospector S. GP stayed on so well at the end of a mile and a sixteenth GIII W.L. McKnight H. GP at Delta Downs. Jan. 3 GIII Dania Beach S. GP GIII Old Hat S. GP Jan. 10 GII Fort Lauderdale S. GP GIII Hal’s Hope S. GP GIII Marshua’s River S. GP GIII Sham S. SA Jan. 17 GIII Col. E.R. Bradley H. FG Congratulations to last week=s JockeyTalk360.com GIII Lecomte S. FG Jockey of the Week Mike Smith, who won the GIII Jan. 24 GII Forward Gal S. GP Delta Downs Jackpot S. aboard Ocho Ocho Ocho GII S. GP (Street Sense). GII Santa Monica S. SA GIII Tampa Bay S. TAM GIII Hutcheson S. GP IN OTHER NEWS... GIII Connally Turf Cup HOU A Daily Roundup of Racing Articles in Non-Industry Media

Status quo good call at Saratoga Believe me, I love hot apple pie a la mode, but 54 days of it would discourage me from including it in my diet for a few years. The same principles apply to the Saratoga racing calendar. Paul Daley, Lowell Sun.

All about Runningrailitis on international trial day Sunday’s preludes at Sha Tin were all about running rails – at least one rail, anyway, in the wash-up of a day on which things seemed to become simultaneously clearer and more confusing, whether it’s good to be drawn near the fence or not. Michael Cox, South China Morning Post. AROUND THE WORLD TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 2014 ROOKIES First-crop starters to watch: Tuesday, November 25 Open House for Silver Charm at Old Friends Dec. 1: Sire (Sire’s Sire), current farm, 2011 Fee, #foals of racing age/Winners/ Bob and Beverly Lewis=s champion and dual Classic BlackTypeWnrs * Race #-track, race type, distance, runner, odds (if available) hero Silver Charm (Silver Buck) is set to arrive at Old GREELEY'S CONQUEST (Mr. Greeley), Midway KY, $1K, 22/1/0 Friends Thoroughbred Retirement Center this week and 6-ZIA, Msw, 5 1/2f, +Telequest, 6-1 will be available to the public during an open house at LINE OF DAVID (Lion Heart), Spendthrift Farm, $6K, 49/6/0 the Georgetown, Kentucky farm Dec. 1 from 1 p.m. to 2-FL, Msw, 5 1/2f, Line Move, $20K OBS OPN 2yo, 4-1 2 p.m. The Bob Baffert charge garnered Eclipse Award LOOKIN AT LUCKY (Smart Strike), Ashford Stud, $15K, 100/22/3 honors as champion 3-year-old colt in 1997 after wins 2-FL, Msw, 5 1/2f, Westside Tapstress, $32K OBS APR 2yo, 4-1 in the GI Kentucky Derby and GI Preakness S., added NACIMIENTO (Gone West), 12/2/0 the G1 Dubai World Cup as a 4-year-old and was 11-ZIA, Msw, 1m, Naci Knothead, 6-1 inducted into the Hall of Fame in 2007. Retired with 9-ZIA, Msw, 4 1/2f, Larryslegacee, 4-1 $6,944,369 in purse money and a dozen wins from a SOUTHWESTERN HEAT (Gone West), A & A Ranch, $3K, 18/6/0 9-ZIA, Msw, 4 1/2f, Full Moon Heat, 5-1 24-race career, the grey began his stallion career at 9-ZIA, Msw, 4 1/2f, Hotnthebunkhouse, 20-1 Three Chimneys Farm before relocating to Japan. Silver Charm=s progeny have earned in excess of $16 million First/second-crop starters to watch: Tues. November 25 to date. In October, it was announced that Silver Charm Sire (Sire’s Sire), current farm, 2010 Fee, #foals of racing age/Winners/ would retire from breeding and return to the United BlackTypeWnrs * Race #-track, race type, distance, runner, odds (if available) States, spending the rest of his days at Old Friends. COLONEL JOHN (Tiznow), WinStar, $15K, 186/48/3 Silver Charm will enter a three-week quarantine period 3-PRX, Msw, 6 1/2f, +Delta Johnnie, $72K RNA EAS MAY 2yo, 4-1 following Monday=s open house. STONE CANYON (Mt. Livermore), 6/0/0 9-ZIA, Msw, 4 1/2f, +Blue N Stone, 12-1 • KENTUCKY HORSE PARK HOLIDAY HOURS •

Tuesday, November 25: Closed Wednesday, November 26: Closed Thursday, November 27: Closed Friday, November 28: Open, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday, November 29: Open, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. IN PANAMA: Sunday, November 30: Open, 9 a.m to 5 p.m. #Eminencia, c, 2, Big Brown--Irish Ides (SW), by Proud *The Southern Lights holiday driving event will be open Irish. Hipodromo Presidente Remon, 11-23, Clasico every night from 5:30 p.m. to 10 p.m. Cuerpo de Bomberos, 1200m. B-Golden Goose Enterprises LLC & Dominic Debellis (KY). *Won by 7 3/4 lengths. **1/2 to Illustre (Roman Ruler), SP-Pan. ***$8,000 yrl >13 FTKOCT. IN PERU: Platinum Bird, c, 2, Summer Bird--Sapphire Hill, by Salute the Sarge to E.A. Ranches: Smart Strike. Monterrico, 11-22, Maiden, 1000m. Salute the Sarge (Forest Wildcat--Dixie Ghost, by B-Michael P Callanan, J Patrick Morell & Appletree Silver Ghost), winner of the GII Best Pal S. and the Stables (KY). *$26,000 yrl >13 KEESEP. **Eighth GIII Hollywood Juvenile Championship S. as well as winner for freshman sire (by Birdstone). placing in the GI Del Mar Futurity and GI Norfolk S. in Dra. Lauri, f, 3, Even the Score--Sorrow=s River, by Mr. 2007, will relocate to E. A. Ranches in Ramona, Greeley. Monterrico, 11-21, Cond., 1400m. B-Philip California for the 2015 breeding season for an Needham & Bena Halecky (KY). *$6,000 yrl >13 introductory fee of $1,000. The Eric Guillot trainee KEEJAN; $25,000 yrl >12 KEESEP. earned $346,639 from 12 starts. At stud, Salute the Rodchenko, c, 4, More Than Ready--Saucy Countess, Sarge has sired graded-stakes winner Salutos Amigos by Tabasco Cat. Monterrico, 11-22, Hcp., 1400m. from three crops to race, with $2,763,202 in progeny B-Spendthrift Farm LLC (KY). *1/2 to Lotsa Mischief earnings. The stallion will be available for inspection at (Into Mischief), SW, $129,404. **$14,000 yrl >11 E.A. Ranches by appointment throughout the month of KEESEP. December. Capo di Monte, h, 5, Point Given--Show Me the Wire, Did You Know?... by Beau Genius. Monterrico, 11-21, Hcp., 1000m. Havana (Dunkirk) B-C Gary Edelen (KY). *Fifth consecutive victory. was tabbed as a **$7,500 yrl >10 KEESEP; $20,000 2yo >11 OBSJUN. J “TDN Rising Star” J War of Saints, h, 5, War Front--St. Hildegard (SP, Visit the TDN Rising Stars section on our $103,941), by Arch. Monterrico, 11-22, Hcp., 1000mT. website! B-A Lakin & Sons Inc (KY). *$8,500 yrl >10 KEESEP. TDN P AROUND THE WORLD • 11/25/14 • PAGE 2 of 3 • thoroughbreddailynews.com

U.S.-bred Winners Abroad cont. Yesterday=s Results: 2nd-WOL, ,4,500, Mdn, 3yo/up, 9f 103y (AWT), IN SOUTH KOREA: 1:59.40, ft. New Secret Socks, g, 2, Flatter--Arty=svirginiagirl RAZOR WIND (IRE) (c, 3, Dubawi {Ire}--Tender Is (MSW, $301,017), by My Boy Adam. Seoul, 11-22, Thenight {Ire}, by Barathea {Ire}), runner-up over a mile Maiden ($45k), 1000m. B-E H Beau Lane III (KY). at Kempton last time Nov. 10, was sent off the 1-3 *$22,000 yrl >13 FTKOCT. favorite and stalked the early pace. Taking command Bred, Raised, and Sold by BEAU LANE BLOODSTOCK with a quarter mile remaining, the 85,000gns TATDEC Cheonmang, g, 2, Noonmark--Boatman Road, by Lord weanling, who is a half-brother to the promoted at War (Arg). Seoul, 11-23, Maiden ($45k), 1200m. G1 Poule d=Essai des Pouliches scorer Tie Black (Ire) B-Anthony Grey (NY). *1/2 to Segal (Harlan=s (Machiavellian), G1SW-Fr, $400,456, drew away to Holiday), GSP; and Belief System (Read the score by 3 3/4 lengths from Westwood Hoe (GB) (Oasis Footnotes), SW, $165,094. **$30,000 2yo >14 Dream {GB}). Razor Wind=s dam is a half-sister to OBSAPR. GI Breeders= Cup Mile and dual British Group 1 winner Sun Shot, f, 2, Scat Daddy--Holy Mackerel, by Marlin. Last Tycoon (Ire) (Try My Best); the dam of dual Group Seoul, 11-23, Cond. ($45k), 1200m. B-Miguel 1 winner and record-priced broodmare Immortal Verse Navarro (KY). *$15,000 yrl >13 KEEJAN; $40,000 yrl (Ire) (Pivotal {GB}) and the dam of Grade I winner Sense >13 FTKJUL; $57,000 2yo >14 OBSAPR. of Style (Thunder Gulch) and G1 Poule d=Essai des PINHOOKED & RAISED AT MACHMER HALL Pouliches victress Valentine Waltz (Ire) (Be My Guest). Lifetime Record: 4-1-2-1, ,6,616. VIDEO, courtesy SELECT SALES Graduate...Exceeding Expectations attheraces.com. Purchased & Consigned by de Meric Sales O-Godolphin. B-Stone Ridge Farm (Ire). T-Charlie Pokpung Choegang, c, 2, Stephen Got Even--Belladia, Appleby. by Silver Deputy. Busan, 11-23, Maiden ($36k), 1000m. B-Edward Seltzer & Beverly Anderson (KY). *$25,000 yrl >13 FTKOCT. Jilpung Daese, f, 3, Roman Ruler--Epitome of a Lady (SW), by Poteen. Seoul, 11-22, Cond. ($70k), 1400m. B-John R & Martha Jane Mulholland (KY). Tuesday, Chantilly, post time: 3:55 p.m. *$5,000 yrl >12 FTKOCT; $27,000 RNA 2yo >13 PRIX ISONOMY-Listed, i55,000, 2yo, 8fT OBSAPR. SC PP HORSE SIRE JOCKEY TRAINER Bred, Raised & Sold by Mulholland Springs 1 3 Svoul (Fr) Siyouni (Fr) Peslier Graffard 2 11 Fox Trotter (Ire) Scratched Scratched Scratched Spring Gnarly, g, 4, Master Command--Spring Tide, by 3 8 Snow and Ice (Fr) Panis C Demuro Castanheira Unbridled=s Song. Busan, 11-23, Cond. ($68k), 4 6 Vedouma (Fr) Dalakhani (Ire) Pasquier Ryr-Dupre 2000m. B-Taylor Asbury MD & Franklin S Kling Jr 5 1 Ines (Fr) Lope De Vega (Ire) Hardouin Bollack-Badel (KY). *$17,000 RNA yrl >11 FTKOCT; $16,000 2yo 6 2 Passiflore (Fr) Siyouni (Fr) Guyon Brandt 7 7 Stand up in Paris (Fr) Rip Van Winkle (Ire) Marchelli Fortineau >12 OBSAPR. 8 9 Albicocca (Fr) Naaqoos (GB) Badel Bollack-Badel 9 5 Texalila (Fr) Sunday Break (Jpn) Androuin Poirier 10 4 Pradara (Fr) Aussie Rules Werle Pantall 11 10 La Khaleesi (Fr) Alexandros (GB) Crastus Gourraud All carry 120 pounds, bar Svoul, Fox Trotter & Snow and Ice.

National Jockey Day Raises ,10,000 for IJF: Betfair=s inaugural National Jockey Day at Haydock Racecourse Nov. 22 raised ,10,000 for the Injured Jockeys Fund. Betfair donated ,1 for every use of the #NationalJockeyDay hashtag on social media, and Irish Vet Banned for Steroid Possession: racing fans were encouraged to use a text mechanic John Hughes, a retired vet with Ireland=s Department allowing them to donate ,5 to the IJF. In addition, of Agriculture, has been banned five years by the Irish Betfair added a >price rush= to the fees of all jockeys Turf Club after being found in possession of who rode at Haydock Saturday, giving an additional Acommercial quantities@ of the anabolic steroid ,100 on top of every rider=s standard race fees. Nitrotain, according to Racing Post. Betfair spokesperson Naomi Totten said, ATo be able Hughes pled guilty last October to possession of the to give ,10,000 to the Injured Jockeys Fund after the anabolic steroid, which has an anabolic index of 19. first-ever National Jockey day is fantastic. We hope the Stanozolol, which was the drug in question in the case day will grow and become a recognized annual of Mahmood Al Zarooni last year, has an anabolic index celebration of jockeys and the sport of horse racing. We of 3.8. The drugs were detected when the packages would like to personally thank the racing community containing them were intercepted by customs at Dublin and fans, and also all our partners for their support in Airport. The packages were from Australia and were making National Jockey Day happen.@ found to contain six kilograms of Nitrotain. Hughes refused to name the trainers he worked for. HALLWAY FEEDS THE WHOLE FAMILY HAPPY THANKSGIVING FROM HALLWAY FEEDS

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ADDITIONAL MAIDEN WINNERS: Scharnhorst, g, 3, Northern Afleet--Rowdy (MSP, Lemaire Injured in Japan Fall: $186,300), by Malibu Moon. ZIA, 11-24, 6 1/2f, French-based jockey Christophe Lemaire has suffered 1:15 4/5. B-Mary Voss (MD). $27,000 wlng '11 a hairline fracture of his right tibia after being unseated KEENOV. from a mount at Kyoto Racecourse in Japan. The rider=s agent Helen Barbe reported Lemaire to be in good spirits, although she noted they are unsure how long he will be sidelined. B R E E D E R S’ E D I T I O N "We don't know how long he will be out yet,@ Barbe said. AWe will know more in the next few days about EUROPE his injury and when he will be coming back to France. He's in good spirits and when you see the fall, it could ADDITIONAL MAIDEN WINNER: have been a lot worse." +Mohadjer (Fr), c, 2, Lord of England (Ger)--Nicara (Ger) (SW & GSP-Ger), by Nebos (Ger). ARG, 11-24, EUROPEAN-BRED WINNERS 1950mT, 2:07 2/5. B-K Hofmann. *1/2 to Big Memory (Fr) (Duke of Marmalade {Ire}), GSW-Aus, IN ARGENTINA: $438,040. Karamela (Ire), c, 4, Mastercraftsman (Ire)--Kincob, by Kingmambo. San Isidro, 11-22, Cond., 1600m. • ON THE WORKTAB • B-Airlie Stud. *1/2 to Gemstone (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}), AQUEDUCT SW & GSP-Ire. **i45,000 yrl >12 GOFORB. Salutos Amigos (Salute the Sarge), 3f, :39.91, 1/1 CHURCHILL DOWNS B R E E D E R S’ E D I T I O N Holy Boss (Street Boss), 5f, 1:02.20, 2/15 GULFSTREAM PARK AMERICA Merry Meadow (Henny Hughes), 4f, :48.64, 14/52 GULFSTREAM PARK WEST ALLOWANCE RESULTS: R Free Roll (Rockport Harbor), 4f, :49.00, 5/21 8th-PRX, $47,500, Opt. Clm. ($25,000), NW2X, LOS ALAMITOS 3yo/up, 6f, 1:10 4/5, wf. Enchanting Lady (Tale of the Cat), 4f, :48.20, 5/19 CAST A DOUBT (g, 5, Wildcat Heir--Casting Pearls, by SANTA ANITA ) Lifetime Record: 24-6-5-3, Nashoba’s Gold (Smart Strike), 3f, :37.20, 9/15 $226,247. O-Marshall K Gramm. B-Shelley Huber (FL). Tom’s Tribute (Lion Heart), 3f, :35.40, 2/15 T-Lisa Guerrero. *$19,000 yrl '10 OBSJAN; $50,000 Secret Circle (Eddington), 5f, :59.80, 6/51 2yo >11 OBSMAR. 8th-ZIA, $32,500, NW3L, (S), 3yo/up, f/m, 1 1/16m, 1:45 2/5, ft. ILIKEWINNIN (f, 3, Desert God--I Like Tricks, by Tricky Fun) Lifetime Record: SP, 9-3-1-2, $80,070. O-Dale Taylor & Lee R Lewis. B-Joe Allen (NM). T-Todd W Fincher. *Full to Iplaytricks, MSW, $522,690. 7th-ZIA, $27,500, NW1X, 3yo/up, 6f, 1:10 2/5, ft. ZIP TRIP (g, 3, City Zip--Morakami (SP, $145,532), by Fusaichi Pegasus) Lifetime Record: 11-2-3-3, $56,291. O-Teed Off Stable LLC. B-G Watts Humphrey Jr, Susie Keller, Vicki Oliver & G Watts Humphrey III (KY). T-Justin R Evans. *$28,000 wnlg '11 KEENOV; $54,000 yrl '12 FTKOCT. PINHOOKED BY AND RAISED AT MACHMER HALL SELECT SALES Graduate...Exceeding Expectations 4th-MVR, $22,000, (S), 3yo/up, f/m, 6f, 1:14 2/5, gd. CAVIAR N CHAMPAGNE (m, 5, Formal Dinner--Arctic Did You Know?... GI Champagne S. one-two finishers Dove, by Dove Hunt) Lifetime Record: MSW, Havana (Dunkirk) and Honor Code (A.P. Indy) were 32-11-7-4, $405,544. O-Loooch Racing Stable Inc. both named J “TDN Rising Stars” J B-Dr D W Frazier (OH). T-Jeffrey A Radosevich. Visit the TDN Rising Stars section on our website! *$13,000 yrl '10 OBSAUG. NYRA/Coglianese Photo