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HEADLINE THREE CHIMNEYS The Idea is Excellence. NEWS EXCHANGE RATE’s For information about TDN, First KY-Bred Foal Born Jan. 14 call 732-747-8060. FRIDAY, JANUARY 16, 2009 www.thoroughbreddailynews.com MY INDY IMPRESSIVE IN DUBAI TDN Feature Presentation My Indy (Arg) (Indygo Shiner), making his first start since a sixth in last year=s G2 UAE Derby on the Dubai GRADE 2 SANTA YNEZ STAKES World Cup card, returned to Nad Al Sheba to post an emphatic 5 3/4-length victory in the G3 Sheikh Maktoum Bin Rashid Al Maktoum Chal- lenge-Round I on open- STANDING AT LANE’S END: ing night of the Dubai 6 OF THE TOP 22 ACTIVE SIRES International Racing Car- nival. The five-year-old BY WORLDWIDE EARNINGS IN 2008 -TTT 1/5/09 Godolphin colorbearer, who pressed the pace PRETTY IN PINK Andrew Watkins while caught three-wide STD Racing Stable and Flintridge Stable=s Pinkarella around the turn, forged (Malibu Moon) heads straight to the big leagues in Sat- to the front approaching the 400-meter marker and urday=s GII Santa Ynez S. fol- widened under Frankie Dettori=s mild urging. AIt has lowing a very impressive debut been a great first night back and My Indy has won victory going 6 1/2 furlongs at well,@ Dettori said. AI assume the second round of the Hollywood Dec. 21 (Video). Maktoum Challenge will be his next target.@ Click for Let go at 8-1 in her unveiling the Racing Post chart or emiratesracing.com video. for trainer Doug O=Neill, Cont. p4. Pinkarella found herself in fifth in the early going after break- OVERBROOK TO OFFER STORM CAT AS A ing a tad slow from post four. Benoit photo QUARTER HORSE STALLION Guided to the inside by Joel Overbrook Farm=s Storm Cat, who was pensioned last Rosario, the bay took off within her own restraint to year after experiencing fertility problems, has been rocket to the lead, and enjoyed a length advantage given a second chance at a stud career--as a Quarter through an opening quarter of :22 2/5. Cont. p2 Horse sire. The 26-year-old sire of 164 blacktype win- ners impregnated just three of the 32 mares he covered during last year=s breeding season. But because the American Quarter Horse Association allows artificial insemination and has an open breed registry (meaning a Quarter Horse/Thoroughbred mix can be added to the AQHA registry as an Aappendix@ Quarter Horse), Overbrook is able to offer the renowned stallion to Quarter Horse mares for a $20,000 live foal fee. AStorm Cat does bring speed and precocity,@ noted Ric Waldman, stallion manager for Overbook. AAnd I think what=s important to Quarter Horse breeders is an outcross to their bloodlines, many of which are much the same, the result of many years of worse inbreeding of perhaps what we=ve experienced in the Thorough- bred industry. So I think the top Quarter Horse breeders will welcome a stallion of the notoriety of Storm Cat.@ cont. p9 KEENELAND JANUARY.............................p5 (859) 233-4252 www.claibornefarm.com TDN P HEADLINE NEWS • 1/16/09 • PAGE 2 of 10 Feature Presentation cont. from p1 She began to shake clear on the turn for home through a half mile in :44 4/5, opened daylight while racing on the wrong lead in the lane, and looked like a good thing once leveled off in deep stretch, streaking under the wire a 5 1/4-length victress. The daughter of the winning Storm Cat mare Stormy Monday earned an 82 Beyer Speed Figure for the effort. AGoing into the race, we figured she may have been a work short and also thought that six and a half [fur- longs] could be a bit too long first out,@ Steve Kenly of STD Racing admitted. AWe were pretty pleasantly sur- prised that she ran that well. We think there=s more to her. She=s really bred to route and she=s a big, long striding filly. She=s got a huge stride to her; she=s a really long bodied filly. She looks like a route filly; we really think her best will be going long.@ Pinkarella=s early speed was a bit of a surprise to Kenly. AWe didn=t think she=d be real speedy,@ said Kenly, who campaigns Pinkarella along with longtime friend Bill Decker. ADoug [O=Neill] said she had speed from the pole, but not out of the gate. We figured we=d be in a tracking position--right where she was early. The hole [on the inside] looked like it was pretty wide open and at that point, she kind of took off. [Rosario] wasn=t going to grab a hold of her and steady her, so she kind of started striding out. If you watch that replay, it looks like she did it really easy. It wasn=t like she was a speed www.pinoakstud.com horse and broke back. He just chirped at her a little bit, and she just grabbed the bit. When she went past AUnfortunately, we drew inside and all the tough ones those speed fillies, you look at the hands on the other are outside,@ he said. AWe don=t think she=s really a jockeys and can see that those guys were sending speed horse, but there=s not a whole lot of speed en- hard. She just kind of breezed up there.@ tered. It looks like there=s a lot of horses that like to The competition won=t be easy for Pinkarella off her track [the speed]. But the way the track plays, it=s maiden victory. She hooks a solid field of 10 in the tough to win on the lead, especially going seven- Santa Ynez, which includes GIII Sorrento S. and Mocca- eighths. These horses have all been flying from 10 or sin S. heroine Evita Argentina (Candy Ride {Arg}). 15 lengths out of it. It=s a big acid test for sure.@ AWhen you win like that, especially at this stage in Since her debut, the sophomore has posted only one the game when you=re two, just turning workout, a four-furlong move over the three, first [allowance] conditions are Hollywood Cushion in :48 4/5 Jan. 9. really hard to fill in California,@ Kenly AShe gallops really strong,@ Kenly said of entering his charge in a stakes said. AThat work was probably more race off a maiden win. A[The Santa like a six-furlong workout and a gallop Ynez] was a month out and seven out, than it was a four-furlong work- eighths. The entries have come up out. She did it nice and easy and really pretty tough--it=s a hard knocking race. kind of powered through it. She really Very hard...If she can compete with came home strong and galloped out. It these fillies or beat them, then you was a good workout for her.@ know you=re sitting on one of the better Steve Kenly & Lava Man Horsephotos Bred in Kentucky by B. Wayne fillies around, period.@ Hughes, Pinkarella has been through Pinkarella has been assigned the three hole Saturday. the sales ring twice, but RNA=d on both occasions. Rosario has retained the mount. Consigned by Taylor Made Sales Agency, agent for AWe were hoping to draw outside, and make it a little Spendthrift Farm, at the 2007 KEESEP Yearling sale, easy on her since it=s her first time against winners and the bidding stopped at $80,000. She was acquired going seven eighths,@ said Kenly, who=s STD Racing privately by Kenly=s operation following the sale, then also campaigned three-time GI Hollywood Gold Cup was sent to the following year=s BESMAR auction, hero Lava Man. where she was bought back for $60,000. cont. p3 P TDN HEADLINE NEWS • 1/16/09 • PAGE 3 of 10 The Quiet Storm... Stormy Monday (Storm Cat), the dam of GII Santa Ynez S. hopeful Pinkarella, captured one of five starts in Southern California while racing for breeder B. Wayne Hughes and trainer Ron Ellis before beginning her second career in the breeding shed. Of her first three foals, only Stormy Tuesday (Malibu Moon) found the winner=s circle, scoring three times and posting $54,248 in earnings. Showing no record for 2005, Stormy Monday returned the following sea- son to produce the aforementioned Pinkarella. Put through the ring in foal to Action This Day at the 2006 Keeneland November Sale, the 12-year-old mare was purchased by Joe Hamilton for a mere $30,000. ARight now, she=s getting prettier and prettier every day,@ the 52-year-old Ham- ilton beamed. ASatur- day, she might be the most gorgeous thing to ever walk on a farm. She walked into the ring and I was surprised we www.twoheartsfarmllc.com got her for that cheap. There was no big-time page on her yet, but I liked Action This Day, and there=s nothing wrong with Malibu Moon; so she had a lot going on for her. And being by Storm Cat, that was a heck of a buy for $30,000. She=s turning out really nice. I guess it was just one of those deals where everyone was out to lunch when she was in the ring. She=s also has a super nice Johar yearling and she=s back in foal to Johar.@ Hamilton operates Two Hearts Farm in Paris, Ken- tucky, along with partner Tony Braddock of Virginia.