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TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 2018 >JACK= BE NIMBLE IN SPLASHY WITH JUSTIFY, GLENNWOOD HAS ANOTHER DAZZLING PROSPECT by Bill Finley SOUTHWEST SCORE The father-daughter team of John and Tanya Gunther, who operate Glennwood Farm, only own about 20 mares. Anyone can get lucky with those kind of numbers and produce an occasional good horse. But this many good horses? Glennwood's hot streak continued Sunday at Santa Anita when Justify (Scat Daddy) broke his maiden in his debut by 9 1/2 lengths while earning a Beyer figure of 104 and >TDN Rising Stardom.= Trainer Bob Baffert was so impressed that he said afterwards he will point the colt to the GI Kentucky Derby, even though the race is less than 11 weeks away. AIt's not too late,@ said Baffert Sunday. AI've got a plan. We're looking for a graded stakes race. He's shown his brilliance in the morning.@ Cont. p5 (click here) IN TDN EUROPE TODAY With a face full of mud, My Boy Jack splashes to victory in the Southwest | Coady Photography FEANE READY FOR THE NEXT LEVEL John Feane has only just started his fifth year as a trainer, but already he is making an impression in Ireland. Daithi Harvey Last time out, making his first start on dirt since his debut, checks in. Click or tap here to go straight to TDN Europe. Don=t Tell My Wife Stables and Monomoy Stables LLC=s My Boy Jack broke well from the rail, but didn=t do much right after that, wasting energy pulling against his rider before ending up an even, well-beaten third in the GIII Sham S. Monday at Oaklawn Park, My Boy Jack broke well from the rail again, but this time, did everything right after that, and the result was a powerful victory in the muddy-track, $500,000 GIII Southwest S. to put himself squarely on the road to the GI Kentucky Derby. Made the fourth choice at 8-1 behind heavily-favored >TDN Rising Star= and local Smarty Jones S. hero Mourinho (Super Saver), the dark bay hugged the fence around the clubhouse turn while running third-last as the chalk was pressured up top through splits of :23.46 and :47.70. Galloping along smoothly down the backside with Kent Desormeaux sitting chilly, My Boy Jack continued to stay inside while advancing on the far bend and moved into contention past the quarter pole. Bursting through a rail opening soon after kicking for home as Mourinho began to sputter, he quickly took charge and poured it on in the final furlong to score by 4 1/2 lengths over Combatant (Scat Daddy), who took the long way around on the final turn. Cont. p3 NO. 2 COMPARABLE INDEX IN 2017 5.90 CI Only Tapit bred a better book of mares NO. 4 YEARLING SIRE IN 2017 $328,413 AVG. Ranked directly ahead of Scat Daddy & Curlin NO. 5 COVERING SIRE IN 2017 $817,142 AVG. 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International Editor Kelsey Riley @kelseynrileyTDN [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 13 • THETDN.COM TUESDAY • FEBRUARY 20, 2018 Southwest cont. 3--Sporting Chance, 117, c, 3, Tiznow--Wynning Ride, by Candy Monday, Oaklawn Park Ride (Arg). >TDN Rising Star= ($275,000 Wlg '15 KEENOV; SOUTHWEST S.-GIII, $500,000, OP, 2-19, 3yo, 1 1/16m, 1:46.00, $575,000 Ylg '16 KEESEP). O-Robert C. Baker & William L. my. Mack; B-Hunter Valley Farm (KY); T-D. Wayne Lukas. 1--MY BOY JACK, 119, c, 3, by Creative Cause $50,000. 1st Dam: Gold N Shaft, by Mineshaft Raised & Sold by Hunter Valley Farm 2nd Dam: Gold n Delicious, by Gold Alert Broken and Trained by Randy Bradshaw 3rd Dam: Beth's Song, by Quadratic 1ST GRADED STAKES WIN. ($14,000 RNA Wlg '15 KEENOV; Margins: 4HF, 2HF, NK. Odds: 8.80, 4.90, 4.70. $20,000 Ylg '16 KEESEP). O-Don't Tell My Wife Stables & Also Ran: Mourinho, Zing Zang, Kentucky Club, Retirement Fund, Monomoy Stables, LLC; B-Brereton C. Jones (KY); T-J. Keith Seven Trumpets, Road to Damascus, Ezmosh. Scratched: Desormeaux; J-Kent J. Desormeaux. $300,000. Lifetime Principe Guilherme. Record: 8-2-3-1, $425,145. Click for the Equineline.com chart, the TJCIS.com PPs or the free Equineline.com catalogue-style pedigree. VIDEO, sponsored by Fasig-Tipton. >TDN Rising Star= Sporting Chance, making his first start since capturing the GI Hopeful S., ran admirably to be third after chasing the pace and getting steadied in the stretch, while 2--Combatant, 115, c, 3, Scat Daddy--Border Dispute, by Mourinho held on to complete the superfecta. Boundary. ($320,000 Ylg '16 KEESEP). O-Winchell Runner-up at fourth asking in the Del Mar Juvenile Turf S. Thoroughbreds LLC & Willis Horton Racing LLC; B-Paget Sept. 3, My Boy Jack broke his maiden in the Zuma Beach S. at Bloodstock (KY); T-Steven M. Asmussen. $100,000. Santa Anita Oct. 9 before running seventh in the GI Breeders= Sold by Blandford Stud for Paget Bloodstock Cup Juvenile Turf and finishing behind unbeaten >Rising Star= McKinzie (Street Sense) in the Sham. Cont. p4 TDN HEADLINE NEWS • PAGE 4 OF 13 • THETDN.COM TUESDAY • FEBRUARY 20, 2018 My Boy Jack picks up 10 points in the Road to the Kentucky Pedigree Notes: Derby standings for his triumph. My Boy Jack is the third graded stakes winner for ascendant AIt looked like a repeat of the Razorback,@ winning rider Kent Airdrie Stud stallion Creative Cause from his two crops to race Desormeaux said of his trip, thus far, following in the footsteps of referencing Hawaakom=s rail- GIII Smarty Jones S. victor and >TDN skimming victory one race earlier. AI Rising Star= Pavel and GIII Miss Grillo have to say it was a great training job S. heroine Significant Form. His by Keith. Last time, the horse left the unraced Airdrie-bred dam is a half- gate quiet as a church mouse, but got sister to SW Precious Kiss (Kissin Kris) very aggressive early and I was just out of GSW/GISP Gold N Delicious, skiing around there. When I turned who was Brereton Jones=s entree into him loose, he just galloped home. He the family when snatched up for didn=t power home like he did today. $310,000 at the 2004 Keeneland It was a complete turnaround effort November sale. Sold for $8,000 to from his last start. Today he was quite Chad Schumer at KEENOV in 2016, calm and let me ride him and that was Gold N Shaft is responsible for a the biggest difference. He didn=t juvenile Cairo Prince filly named Play Kent Desormeaux looks to the sky after winning waste any energy, so he flew home.@ for Gold, an unnamed yearling filly by aboard My Boy Jack | Coady Photography Remarking on the condition of the the same sire and a filly by The racetrack after daylong rains, Desormeaux added, AThis was an Visualiser foaled Jan. 25. Third dam Beth=s Song was GISP and is eight-goggle day. The track=s consistency is like peanut butter. the second dam of a pair of group winners in Argentina. Their feet go into the ground and it=s trying to suck their shoes off. It=s sticky. The great thing is now we=re going to run in the Derby--it might be the Arkansas Derby, but we=re Derby-bound.@ TDN HEADLINE NEWS • PAGE 5 OF 13 • THETDN.COM TUESDAY • FEBRUARY 20, 2018 Glennwood/Justify cont. from p1 Justify | Benoit Photo The Gunthers are also the breeders of Vino Rosso (Curlin), a good third in the GIII Sam F. Davis S. at Tampa Bay and the co-breeders of Mo Town (Uncle Mo), winner of last year=s GI Hollywood Derby.