FRIDAY, JULY 21, 2017 COMPETITIVE SAFETY IN CHRB SPOTLIGHT AT DEL MAR MEET By T.D. Thornton SCHUYLERVILLE KICKS Book-ended by last summer=s spate of equine fatalities at Del Mar Thoroughbred Club and the track=s highly visible hosting of OFF SPA MEET the Breeders= Cup World Championships this autumn, the California Horse Racing Board (CHRB) met at Del Mar July 20 and led off by detailing new safety measures that have been instituted for the just-started season. AIf there=s an upside to the experience we all had last summer, it=s that the board, working with [Del Mar], has come up with provisions that we think are going to better safeguard horse and rider,@ said CHRB executive director Rick Baedeker. AAnd these are things that we think can continue going forward.@ Cont. p4 (Click here) IN TDN EUROPE TODAY Saratoga | Sarah Andrew BOLGER MAKES MAGIC AT LEOPARDSTOWN Trainer Jim Bolger sent out Godolphin’s Moonlight Magic (GB) (Cape Cross {Ire}) to best Deauville (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}) in Trainer Todd Pletcher has won the GIII Schuylerville S., Thursday’s G3 Meld S. at Leopardstown. Click or tap here to Saratoga=s traditional opening day feature, six times and he go straight to TDN Europe. looks to add to that total Friday with Stainless (Flatter), an impressive first-out winner at Gulfstream Park May. 29. The StarLadies Racing colorbearer shipped north following that effort and has been drilling steadily at the Spa in recent weeks. Drawn to the far outside in a field of nine, the gray figures to secure a tracking spot behind a number of speedy rivals to her inside. J. Kirk and Judy Robinson=s 3-1 morning line favorite Buy Sell Hold (Violence) is likely to be forwardly placed on the heels of a pace-pressing victory in the May 4 Kentucky Juvenile S. at Churchill. The gray--who became the first winner and stakes winner for her freshman sire--is one of two entries in the Schuylerville for Hall of Fame trainer Steve Asmussen, who also sends out recent Churchill maiden winner Laudation (Congrats). Asmussen has won the Schuylerville three times previously-- most recently in 2013 with Brazen Persuasion (Indian Charlie). Owner John Oxley and trainer Mark Casse teamed to take down the Spa=s biggest juvenile filly prize last year when Pretty City Dancer (Tapit) dead-heated for a win in the GI Spinaway S., and the duo appears to have another nice daughter of Tapit in Snowfire, a four-length winner in her June 29 debut beneath the Twin Spires. Cont. p3 PRESIDENT & CO-PUBLISHER Barry Weisbord @barryweisbord [email protected] SR. 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Ray Villa [email protected] TODAY’S GRADED STAKES WORLDWIDE INFORMATION EST Race Click for TV International Editor 5:02p Schuylerville S.-GIII, SAR TJCIS PPs SAR Live Kelsey Riley @kelseynrileyTDN 5:40p Lake George S.-GIII, SAR TJCIS PPs SAR Live [email protected] European Editor Emma Berry [email protected] Associate International Editor Heather Anderson @HLAndersonTDN Newmarket Bureau, Cafe Racing Sean Cronin & Tom Frary [email protected] 60 Broad Street, Suite 100 Red Bank, NJ 07701 732-747-8060 | 732-747-8955 (fax) www.TheTDN.com TDN HEADLINE NEWS • PAGE 3 OF 9 • THETDN.COM FRIDAY • JULY 21, 2017 Schuylverville S. Preview cont. Buy Sell Hold | Coady photo The $500,000 Fasig-Tipton Saratoga yearling purchase is the only Schuylerville entrant with experience at the race=s six- furlong distance. AWe're excited about her,@ Casse said. AI thought her first race was really good. We were able to breeze her here at Saratoga the other day and she went extremely well. We're expecting a big effort out of her.@ Best Performance (Broken Vow) enters the Schuylerville off a runner-up finish in the June 8 Astoria S. at Belmont--a race in which she made a sweeping, wide SCHUYLERVILLE S.-GIII, 2yo, f, 6f move to reach PP. Horse Sire contention before 1. Mel's Gone Wild Wildcat Heir evening out late. 2. Buy Sell Hold K Violence The chestnut has a 3. Best Performance K Broken Vow pedigree that 4. Dream It Is K Shackleford suggests she will 5. Limited View Freedom Child relish added 6. Pacific Gale K Flat Out distance and can 7. Laudation K Congrats benefit from a 8. Snowfire Tapit contested early 9. Stainless K Flatter pace. (see Graded Stakes Entries) Trainer Barbara Minshall holds a wildcard in Dream It Is (Shackleford), a two- time winner in as many starts over Woodbine=s Tapeta surface. The bay recently captured the five-furlong My Dear S. in dominant fashion June 24 and has been working over the dirt training track in Toronto in the interim. TDN HEADLINE NEWS • PAGE 4 OF 9 • THETDN.COM FRIDAY • JULY 21, 2017 FIFTY FIVE HOPES FOR SMOOTH SAILING IN from her rail draw Friday. While Fifty Five can provide Brown with his first stakes win of LAKE GEORGE the Saratoga meet, trainer Mark Casse has two shots to get on the board with GIII Herecomesthebride S. winner Dream Dancing (Tapit) and GI Natalma S. heroine Victory to Victory (Exchange Rate). The former was last seen finishing third in the Wonder Again after racing uncharacteristically close to the early pace, while the latter has gone off form since kicking off her 2017 season with a commanding score in an Apr. 23 Keeneland allowance test. The Lake George also grants >TDN Rising Stars= Proctor=s Ledge (Ghostzapper) and Sweeping Paddy (Paddy O=Prado) a rematch after the pair finished first and second in the June 17 GIII Regret S. at Churchill. Proctor=s Ledge ran out of ground in that race after being allowed to lag nearly 13 lengths off the pace, and obtains the services of Javier Castellano in Friday=s affair. Fifty Five | Christie DeBernardis Phillips Racing Partnership and Pam Gartin=s Defiant Honor (Speightstown), a full-sister to GSW Recepta, looms as a live Peter M. Brant=s Fifty Five (Get Stormy) chased stablemate longshot with tactical speed. Drawn towards the inside in post New Money three, the homebred could be sent to the front beneath John Honey (Medaglia Velazquez. d=Oro) home in LAKE GEORGE S.-GIII, 3yo, f, 1 1/16mT second in the PP. Horse Sire June 8 GIII 1. Fifty Five Get Stormy Wonder Again S. 2. Fizzy Friday (GB) Royal Applause (GB) Safety in Chrb Spotlight at Del Mar Meet cont. from p1 at Belmont, 3. Defiant Honor Speightstown Although last year=s deadly problems were only referred to completing a 4. Chubby Star Malibu Moon obliquely in a discussion that instead focused on positive K one-two finish for 5. Corporate Queen Colonel John initiatives moving forward, the policy changes are partially K trainer Chad 6. Super Marina Warrior's Reward based on pressure from animal welfare activists, who protested K Brown. That 7. Party Boat Into Mischief outside the CHRB=s Aug. 25, 2016 meeting at Del Mar and then 8. Proctor's Ledge Ghostzapper performance testified in a public commentary session that the number of 9. Sweeping Paddy Paddy O'Prado proved to be a training and racing fatalities was as high as 19 at the time of that 10. Victory to Victory Exchange Rate mere preface to meeting. 11. Dream Dancing Tapit Brown=s stunning One improvement, Baedeker said, is that the CHRB and Del (see Graded Stakes Entries) 1-2-3 finish, Mar now jointly scan the InCompass race entry software system headed once to identify and flag horses that Amerit additional scrutiny.@ That again by New Money Honey, in the July 8 GI Belmont Oaks. Fifty means they could require Amultiple examinations before those Five was slated to be Brown=s fourth entrant in the lucrative horses run.@ Oaks, but scratched in favor of a tilt at a shorter distance in That list, Baedeker said, will include Aany 4-year-old that has Friday=s GIII Lake George S. at Saratoga. Privately purchased never raced; horses that have ever been placed on the vets= list after capturing the GIII Florida Oaks for trainer Tom Bush Mar. for injury or lameness [or] been placed on the stewards= list for 11, the bay has hit the board in two subsequent stakes tries in poor performance; or have not started for 120 days or more.@ New York and will likely have the benefit of a ground-saving trip Cont.