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BLUE GRASS COULD BE WHITE OUT WILL HE >JUSTIFY= Assuming a potential snowstorm Friday night doesn=t put a THE HYPE? damper on things, a full field is set to go postward in Saturday=s GII Toyota Blue Grass S. The conversation about contenders must start with $1-million KEESEP yearling (), who broke his maiden emphatically in the GI Breeders= Cup Juvenile at Del Mar en route to Eclipse Award honors. Heavily favored in the GII Xpressbet Fountain of Youth on seasonal debut at Gulfstream Mar. 3, he settled for a non-threatening third with no obvious excuse. Flameaway (), second in the Mar. 10 GII Tampa Bay Derby behind expected scratch Quip (Distorted Humor) after annexing the GIII Sam F. Davis S. there in February, took a rained-off renewal of the GIII Bourbon S. in the slop last October. Cont. p3

Justify | Benoit Photo IN TDN EUROPE TODAY ASTUTE AGENT HAS GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE >TDN Rising Star= Justify (Scat Daddy), almost certainly the Kelsey sat down with Australia based Frenchman most highly regarded in the world to have not yet taken Louis Le Metayer to get his thoughts on various aspects of on stakes company, will get his class test on Saturday when he the Australian racing scene. Click or tap here to go straight faces the likes of MGISW Bolt d=Oro (Medaglia d=Oro) in the to TDN Europe. GI . A 9 1/2-length jaw-dropping debut winner going seven panels here Feb. 18, the $500,000 KEESEP yearling made short work of optional claimers in the slop over an additional furlong Mar. 11. Originally slated to ship to Oaklawn for next week=s GI , Hall of Famer opted to keep the colt at home after Grade I-winning stablemate McKinzie () was ruled out of this race and taken off the GI trail. Already favored in last month=s third Derby future wager pool at 6-1, Justify could go even shorter in the final pool that closes Sunday if he reproduces anything close to his first two efforts against the tougher company. The aforementioned Bolt d=Oro is certainly no slouch, and had a very good case for the juvenile Eclipse Award last year after taking the GI Del Mar Futurity and GI FrontRunner S. The $630,000 Fasig-Tipton Saratoga grad settled for third after blowing the break in the GI Breeders= Cup Juvenile, but returned to battle McKinzie to within a head in the GII San Felipe S. Mar. 10. Bolt d=Oro and McKinzie made contact repeatedly in the stretch that day, and after a long deliberation the stewards put up Bolt d=Oro in what was a much-talked-about decision. Cont. p3 PUBLISHER & CEO Sue Morris Finley @suefinley [email protected]

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Santa Anita Derby cont. from p1 Larry Best=s $1.05-million OBSMAR acquisition Instilled Regard (Arch) was a close third behind BC Juvenile runner-up Solomini (Curlin) and McKinzie when the stewards reversed the order of finish between those two stablemates in the GI in December. He made a strong case for the strength of this year=s California contingent when an easy winner of the GIII Lecomte S. at Fair Grounds Jan. 13, but was a somewhat puzzling fourth in the GII S. back there Feb. 17. Finishing one spot ahead of him that day was >Rising Star= Noble Indy (Take Charge Indy), who came back a of the GII .

Blue Grass S. cont. from p1

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Dale Romans boasts wins in the 2012 and 2016 Blue Grass, and Free Drop Billy () for this one. The Albaugh Family Stables colorbearer will look to complete the same double his connections= Brody=s Cause (Giant=s Causeway) completed when he took the 2015 GI Claiborne Breeders= Futurity in the fall and following year=s Blue Grass. Doug O=Neill played spoiler in last year=s Blue Grass with the star-crossed Irap (Tiznow), and has two chances for an upset this time around with GIII Jeff Ruby Steaks one-three finishers Blended Citizen (Proud Citizen) and Arawak (Uncle Mo). The Southern California-based sophomores seem strong again this year and will be represented in this spot by Kanthaka (Jimmy Creed). A powerful winner of the GII San Vicente S. around one turn Feb. 10, he was a distant third behind Bolt d=Oro (Medaglia d=Oro) and McKinzie (Street Sense) in the GII San Felipe S. a month later.

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ENTICED HEADLINES WOOD MEMORIAL

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Enticed (Medaglia d=Oro), a smart winner of the GIII Gotham S. Mar. 10, returns to the Big A as the horse to beat for Saturday=s GII Wood Memorial S. The son of MGISW It=s Tricky (Mineshaft) made up for a puzzling fourth as the favorite in the GII Holy Bull S. with a 2 3/4-length tally over Old Time Revival (Brethren) in the one- turn mile Gotham. Last year=s GII Kentucky Jockey Club S. hero, the 6-5 choice on the Wood Memorial morning-line, stretches out to 1 1/8 miles for the first time here. AWe're happy with him and we're there trying to win an important race,@ said trainer Kiaran McLaughlin, who captured this race with Frosted in 2015. AEven if it doesn't have Grade I status, we feel like it is a Grade I. It's a huge race for a horse in his career, especially for a prospect." Bob Baffert ships in Restoring Hope (Giant=s Causeway) following a good-looking restricted maiden win with blinkers off going 1 1/16 miles at Santa Anita at third asking Feb. 2. The Hall of Famer took the New York route to Louisville with previous Wood Memorial winners (2001) and (2006). "We've always been very high on him and he worked really well the other day so I thought we'd take a shot,@ Baffert said. AWe're like everybody else, we're trying to see if he fits. We took the blinkers off and he came back and ran well [last time out]. Now, he's training like a good horse, so that's why he's there.@ Vino Rosso (Curlin), perfect in two starts at two including a debut win in South Ozone Park, followed a third-place finish in the GIII Sam F. Davis S. Feb. 10 with a lackluster fourth with blinkers added in the GII Lambholm South Tampa Bay Derby last time Mar. 10. Cont. p5 5-time G1 winner by Dynaformer

Undefeated first-crop 3yoANALYZE IT made his highly-anticipated seasonal debut Friday, winning the $150,000 Transylvania S. (G3) in dominant fashion on opening day at Keeneland to remain untested in his first three starts with a combined margin of victory of 15 ¾ lengths.

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Enticed cont. MONOMOY GIRL TOUGH TO GET PAST "He's a horse that's trained very well all winter and in company with some very good that have gone on to be successful," four-time Wood Memorial-winning trainer said. "So, we've been a little frustrated with his races this year. We're excited to get him back to Aqueduct. It's where he broke his maiden and stretching out to a mile and an eighth is going to allow him to show his true ability." With 170 total qualifying points for the GI Kentucky Derby up for grabs, the Wood is 100 points to the winner, 40 points to second, 20 to third and 10 to fourth.

Monomoy Girl | Amanda Hodges Weir/Hodges Photography Nearly unbeaten Monomoy Girl (Tapizar) looms an imposing presence in Saturday=s GI Central Bank Ashland S. at Keeneland Analyze It (Point of Entry) picks up where he left off in the GIII Transylvania S. as she looks to solidify herself as one of the favorites for next month=s GI . The Brad Cox trainee started her career two-for-two on the grass, but handled the switch to the main track just fine when she aired by 6 1/2 lengths in " " " Churchill=s S. in October. Cont. p6 TDN HEADLINE NEWS • PAGE 6 OF 15 • THETDN.COM SATURDAY • APRIL 7, 2018

Ashland cont. Undefeated >TDN Rising Star= Army () makes Upended by a neck by the subsequently sidelined Road to his highly anticipated stakes debut in Saturday=s GI Carter H. at Victory (Quality Road) in the GII Golden Rod S. back under the Aqueduct. Twin Spires Nov. 25, she showed a different dimension in the A runaway debut winner at three at Belmont last spring, the Feb. 17 GII S. at Fair Grounds when going last $825,000 EASMAY juvenile returned from the bench with to first. Fourth in that heat was Texas-bred Patrona Margarita another jaw-dropping tally after missing the break in an optional (Special Rate), who previously upset Churchill=s GII Pocahontas claimer at Gulfstream Jan. 31. He earned a 102 Beyer Speed S. back in September. Figure for the latter. On figures, Eskimo Kisses (To Honor and Serve) appears most "His maiden race and allowance race were both very likely to give the chalk a run for her money. Conditioned by two- impressive," trainer Todd Pletcher said. "It's a big jump from a time Ashland winner Ken McPeek, the chestnut stepped forward one-other-than to a Grade I, but we feel like he has that type of off a graduation score to air by 11 1/2 lengths in a sloppy ability. This was a good opportunity for him and the Grade I Oaklawn allowance Feb. 22, earning a 92 status is important. So, we felt like instead of taking another that=s one point higher than Monomoy Girl=s top. She followed incremental step in an allowance race that we'd go ahead and up with a head second in the GII Fair Grounds Oaks, defeating test where he is with the big boys." three also-rans from the Rachel Alexandra. Three-time graded winner and last term=s GI Forego S. runner- Don Alberto homebred Andina del Sur (Giant=s Causeway) is up Awesome Slew () makes his first start since one of the more interesting Ashland entrants, as she=ll try a finishing third in the GI Breeders= Cup Dirt Mile at Del Mar surface other than turf for the first time. The chestnut pulled off Nov. 3. The streaking GIII Tom Fool H. winner Skyler=s Scramjet a 13-1 upset in Tampa=s GIII Florida Oaks Mar. 10, and will be (Creative Cause) enters off three straight wins at the Big A. Last looking to avenge trainer Tom Albertrani=s neck second in the year=s 54-1 Carter upsetter Green Gratto (Here=s Zealous), 2009 running of this race with another talented turfer in Gozzip meanwhile, hasn=t had his picture taken in 10 subsequent starts. Girl (Dynaformer). Dale Romans took the GII Gulfstream Park Oaks a week ago with a somewhat later-developing filly in Coach Rocks (), IT=S GO TIME FOR >BISOU= and will look for a similar result here with C. S. Incharge (Take Charge Indy), who broke through in start number five before annexing Tampa=s Suncoast S. next out Feb. 10.

ALL EYES ON UNBEATEN ARMY MULE

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Midnight Bisou (Midnight Lute), heroine of the GII Santa Ynez S. Jan. 7 and GIII Santa Ysabel S. Mar. 3, will look to continue her ascension in Saturday=s GI Santa Anita Oaks. Second, beaten only a nose, behind the sidelined >TDN Rising Star= Dream Tree (Uncle Mo) in her first two trips to the post, the 6-5 morning-line favorite heads into the Oaks riding a two- Army Mule | Lauren King race winning streak. Cont. p7 FOLLOW THE CROWD

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Santa Anita Oaks cont. Talented Finley=sluckycharm (Twirling Candy) is another due AWe=re happy with where she is now,@ trainer Bill Spawr said. to get a Grade I on her resume at some point. A close second in Spectator (Jimmy Creed), winner of last term=s GII Sorrento S. the 2016 GI La Brea S. going this distance, she=s a three-time and third-place finisher in the GI Del Mar Debutante S., returned graded winner, including a score in the six-panel TCA here in from the shelf with a narrow tally in a 6 1/2-furlong optional October. Ninth in the F/M Sprint, she was second in the grassy claimer at Santa Anita Mar. 18. She stretches to a route for the Mardi Gras S. at Fair Grounds Feb. 13. first time here. We All Have Dreams () heads straight to the big leagues following a blowout maiden win at second asking going OAKS TRIP ON THE LINE IN GAZELLE 6 2 furlongs in Arcadia Mar. 11. Midnight Disguise (Midnight Lute), a half-sister to Friday=s GII Distaff H. heroine Surprise (Harlan=s Holiday), looks to punch her ticket to the GI Kentucky Oaks in Saturday=s GII AMI=S MESA MAKES SEASONAL DEBUT IN Gazelle S. at the Big A. The streaking dark bay captured the Busanda S. over this course and distance Jan. 25 and added the MADISON one-mile Busher S. here Mar. 3. The re-opposing Sara Street (Street Sense) and My Miss Lilly (Tapit) were second and third in the Busher, respectively. "She's been doing well and I was very pleased with her coming out of the Busher," trainer Linda Rice said of the 8-5 morning- line favorite. "I'm sure the competition will be much tougher in this race, but she's proven at the distance and she's gaining experience with every race. She's becoming more professional; switching her leads better and things like that, so we're really excited for it." Smokinpaddylassie (Paddy O=Prado) has kicked off her career with three straight wins, headed by Laurel=s Beyond the Wire S. at a one-turn mile Mar. 17. The Gazelle is New York's final Road to the Kentucky Oaks qualifier, offering 100 points to the winner, 40 to the runner-up, Ami=s Mesa | Breeders= Cup/Eclipse Sportswire 20 to third place and 10 to fourth.

Nearly perfect if not for a brutal nose defeat in the GI Breeders= Cup F/M Sprint in November, >TDN Rising Star= Ami=s Mesa (Sky Mesa) seeks a first Grade I tally in Keeneland=s Madison S. Saturday. AThe only question going into the [Breeders= Cup] was the dirt,@ said trainer Josie Carroll, who sent out Ami=s Mesa to three 2017 graded tallies--two at Woodbine and one at Presque Isle, all over Tapeta. AAfter the Breeders= Cup, she got five weeks off at the farm in Florida.@ Carroll has had some success at Keeneland in recent years with dirt sprinters: Leigh Court (Grand Slam) cruised to victory in the 2014 GII TCA S., while Ami=s Mesa=s relative Ami=s Flatter (Flatter) turned in a career-best effort to take the GIII Commonwealth S. on this card two years ago. One who already boasts a victory at the highest level is Kaleem Shah=s lightly raced American Gal (Concord Point). Twice Grade I-placed at two for Bob Baffert, she was transferred to Simon Callaghan ahead of a clear-cut victory in Belmont=s GIII Victory Ride S. July 9. The homebred was last seen dominating Saratoga=s prestigious GI Test S. going this distance back in August. TDN HEADLINE NEWS • PAGE 8 OF 15 • THETDN.COM SATURDAY • APRIL 7, 2018

ENGAGE RETURNS VS. A FAMILIAR FACE

Ed DeRosa of TwinSpires.com takes on TDN's Steve Sherack and Brian DiDonato as they handicap each prep race leading up to the GI Kentucky Derby. The three will make $100 Win/Place bets --highest bankroll after the Lexington S. wins.

Engage | Sarah Andrew DeROSA: Last Week=s Results: What a weekend last week and what a weekend on tap! and Audible both Engage (Into Mischief), off since a 3 1/2-length win at third delivered strong performances in the U.A.E. & Florida Derbys, asking in Belmont=s six-furlong GIII Futurity S. Oct. 14, returns in respectivelyCthe type of performances that other years might Saturday=s GIII Bay Shore S. on the GII Wood Memorial S. earn them favoritism in the Kentucky Derby Presented by undercard. The $550,000 OBSMAR graduate worked four Woodford Reserve, but there is a race on Saturday likely to furlongs in :49 3/5 (19/54) at trainer Chad Brown=s Palm settle that: the Santa Anita Derby featuring Bolt d=Oro and Meadows base Mar. 31. Justify. DeROSA BANKROLL: $4180. The lone blemish in Engage=s three-start career came at the hands of National Flag (Speightstown) after those two bumped GI Santa Anita Derby - I=m siding with experience and Bolt repeatedly down the stretch at Saratoga Aug. 5. Fifth in the d=Oro with the thought that if Justify beats me this time I=ll just GI Hopeful S., National Flag resurfaced from the bench in style try to beat him again in four weeks. But everything about my with a sharp optional claiming win at the Bay Shore distance of handicapping style can=t let me take a horse in his stakes debut seven furlongs at Gulfstream Mar. 2. at odds on against seasoned foes. Selection: #3 Bolt d=Oro (6-5). "He's been successful at this distance and eventually we will stretch him out," trainer Todd Pletcher said. "We just felt like GII Wood Memorial S. - In the Wood, I do like Enticed as the this was his second race of the year and he's already proven that most likely top Derby candidate, but Old Time Revival is tough he can win at this distance. So, rather than trying to stretch him for me to dismiss at the price figuring to get a similar trip as last all the way out to a mile and an eighth [in the Wood Memorial], time and maybe this time the 1 1/8 miles helps him hold on if we'd just stick with what we know he does well and then go things are slower earlier. Selection: #4 Old Time Revival (6-1). from there."

GII Blue Grass S. - Champion Good Magic figures to be too short against a deep Blue Grass that attracted Jeff Ruby Steaks winner Blended Citizen, who=s in search of points and a Derby berth. Both his El Camino and Jeff Ruby Steaks are competitive here, the question is if he=s competitive on dirt. At the price, I=ll pay to find out. Selection: #7 Blended Citizen (15-1).

SHERACK: Last Week=s Results: Another weekend, another second-place finish with a longshot (Hofburg completed the exacta at 8-1 in the GI ). Running out of time, but still have a couple of more big swings left. SHERACK BANKROLL: $2270. Share this job

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GI Santa Anita Derby - Every chance that the unbeaten and GII Blue Grass S. - Before opening the past performances for this extremely talented Justify has the edge in this round, but will race I was already mentally committed to taking somebody still side with Bolt d=Oro, who is the one that I want going ridiculous. I guess I felt the need to compensate for chalking out forward. Selection: #3 Bolt d=Oro (6-5). in the day=s other two preps, and this just feels like a good race to play for something weird to happen. I was torn between the GII Wood Memorial S. - King Zachary was visually impressive two late-running Tapits, and ultimately landed on Zing Zang. I enough in his two previous starts this season at Gulfstream to picked him in the Southwest, and didn=t think he ran terribly give him the nod here. The chestnut returned from a freshening there while still a green. He was a mile back early in the with a huge third after getting checked sharply in the early going Rebel, but was putting in a big move when he got completely sprinting Feb. 24, then successfully stretched to two turns with a stopped along the rail. He wasn=t winning, but it cost him a few runaway maiden win after stalking a very slow pace Mar. 18. spots for sure. The parallels with fellow Asmussen trainee Pricey son of Curlin is bred to run all day and can certainly make are obvious, so let=s hope he finishes Derby prep season some noise at a price (probably will be half of his morning-line the way that one did. Selection: #1 Zing Zang (30-1). quote) with another step forward in what looks like a rather weak renewal of the Wood. Selection: #7 King Zachary (20-1).

GII Blue Grass S. - Tiz Mischief=s form was solid enough at Friday, Keeneland twoBfell just a head short in a very live running of the GII KENTUCKY UTILITIES TRANSYLVANIA S.-GIII, $150,000, KEE, 4-6, Kentucky Jockey Club S. and also broke his maiden going two 3yo, 1 1/16mT, 1:45.60, yl. turns at KeenelandBto give him one more chance at a big 1--ANALYZE IT, 123, c, 3, by Point of Entry number. He didn=t run awful when a distant third returning from 1st Dam: Sweet Assay, by Consolidator the bench in the GII Holy Bull S. and he never had a fair chance 2nd Dam: Assay, by Unbridled's Song attempting to close into glacial fractions in a merry-go-round 3rd Dam: A. P. Assay, by A.P. Indy renewal of the GII Tampa Bay Derby. He appears to be training >TDN Rising Star= ($130,000 Ylg '16 KEESEP; $190,000 2yo '17 well since and has never been higher than 5-1 in six prior career OBSMAR). O-William H. Lawrence; B-P. Headley & Nancy Bell starts. Not impossible if he gets some pace up front in this big & NATO (KY); T-Chad C. Brown; J-Jose L. Ortiz. $90,000. field. Selection: #9 Tiz Mischief (30-1). Lifetime Record: 3-3-0-0, $195,000. Werk Nick Rating: B. Click for the eNicks report & 5-cross pedigree. DiDONATO: Last Week=s Results: Reride wasn=t winning the HOPPEL SALES GRAD • (352) 895-7013 UAE Derby regardless, but he didn=t have the greatest trip and checked in third. was a bit disappointing in the Florida Derby, but it sounds like he had an excuse. Still within striking distance of Ed, but we better get going. DiDONATO 2--Captivating Moon, 118, c, 3, Malibu Moon--Appealing Storm, BANKROLL: $3380. by Valid Appeal. O/B-Lothenbach Stables Inc (KY); T-Chris M. Block. $30,000. GI Santa Anita Derby - Part of me is hoping Bolt d=Oro has a 3--Admiralty Pier, 118, g, 3, English Channel--Full Steam Ahead, tough trip or isn=t 100% cranked in here so I can bet him back at by Kitten's Joy. ($100,000 Ylg '16 FTSAUG). O-Hoolie Racing Churchill, but I=ve got to go with him again in this spot after Stable, LLC & Bruce Lunsford; B-Calumet Farm (KY); T-Barbara getting a bit lucky to be put up in the San Felipe when both my J. Minshall. $15,000. opponents had McKinzie. Justify seems like a total monster and could certainly handle the class test, but the hype is slightly EQB yearling purchase • www.EQB.com over-the-top for him to likely go favored over a more battle- Margins: 5 1/4, NO, HF. Odds: 0.80, 8.00, 11.30. tested multiple Grade I winner. Probably won=t be betting this Also Ran: Dragon Drew, Maraud, Tigers Rule, Funny Duck, one with real dollars, but it=ll be fun to watch. Selection: #3 Bolt Golden Dragon, King Valero, Tap Daddy, Beer Pressure. d=Oro (6-5). Scratched: Determinant. Click for the Equibase.com chart, the TJCIS.com PPs or the free Equineline.com catalogue-style GII Wood Memorial S. - Enticed=s last win is going to be good pedigree. VIDEO, sponsored by Fasig-Tipton. enough to take this a large percentage of the time, and there=s no real reason to expect him not to show up. An additional He employed different tactics than he did in two smashing furlong should help him if anything, and he=s tractable enough successes last season, but the result was the same for talented to make his own trip. Selection: #5 Enticed (6-5). >TDN Rising Star= Analyze It as he rated kindly before kicking away impressively in Keeneland=s opening day feature. TDN HEADLINE NEWS • PAGE 10 OF 15 • THETDN.COM SATURDAY • APRIL 7, 2018

Transylvania S. cont. Pedigree Notes: A 6 1/4-length debut winner over a pair of next-out graduates One of 19 winners and the first graded winner for his Adena going the one-turn mile at Belmont last October, the bay Springs-based sire, Analyze It--whose full-brother was foaled shipped West to contest Del Mar=s GIII Cecil B. DeMille S. and Feb. 28--is out of a winning half-sister to SP Catchy Tune ran like it was no class hike at all. He was 4 1/4 lengths clear of (Bernstein), but it is his rich and productive third dam that takes Pubilius Syrus (Candy Ride {Arg}), a two-time stakes winner since up the bulk of the page. Racing for the partnership of Trudy then. McCaffery and John Toffan, A.P. Assay was a top distaff sprinter With the far-outside post and perhaps a bit of rust seemingly on the Southern California circuit, upsetting the likes of Exotic his main obstacles, Analyze It broke a bit flat-footed but moved Wood in the 1998 GII A Gleam H. and finishing second to the up under his own power to avoid much ground loss into the first boys in the GIII Ancient Title BC H., with champion Kona Gold in bend and sit third down the backside. Longshot Beer Pressure fifth. A.P. Assay=s half-brother Came Home (Gone West) was (Silent Name {Jpn}) opened up a double-digit advantage through speedy and precocious enough to win the GI Hopeful S. at two, a half in :48.83 over yielding sod, but Jose Ortiz always seemed but stretched out nicely to win the 2002 GI Santa Anita Derby supremely confident on the chalk. Analyze It tugged his way closer heading for home, put away pesky foe Dragon Drew (Get and bested his elders in that year=s GI Pacific Classic. The cross Stormy) in midstretch and poured it on from there. of Dynaformer over is responsible for GISW A[Trainer] Chad [Brown] drew it up perfect for me,@ said Ortiz, Harmonious and Baptize, himself winner of the Transylvania S. in whose brother Irad had taken the other graded race of the day 2001. Australian Group 1 winner (It=s) Somewhat is by in New York. AHe said hopefully two or three horses would go Dynaformer out of a by Royal Academy, who was a half- and you can sit tight, third or fourth. And that=s what I did. brother to Storm Cat=s dam Terlingua (). [Analyze It] relaxed very well. The fast pace helped me a lot. When I asked him to go, he went so well, so smooth. He=s a really, really nice horse.@ Friday, Aqueduct Brown, who mentioned the GI Belmont Derby July 7 as a DISTAFF H.-GIII, $150,000, AQU, 4-6, 4yo/up, f/m, 7f, 1:22.98, ft. potential longterm target after being asked about the possibility 1--HOLIDAY DISGUISE, 117, f, 4, by Harlan's Holiday of heading to Royal Ascot, added, AI have a great jockey on the 1st Dam: Thin Disguise, by Yes It's True horse and my team=s done a terrific job with this horse. It=s a 2nd Dam: Naughty Natisha, by Known Fact really good win for the home team. This horse was raised just 3rd Dam: Noble Natisha, by Noble Commander miles from here at Mill Ridge Farm. [He=s a] Keeneland sale grad. 1ST GRADED STAKES WIN. ($70,000 Wlg '14 KEENOV; Pete Bradley, who bought the horse for us, has a big business $220,000 Ylg '15 SARAUG). O-Lady Sheila Stable; B-Dr. William here in Lexington, so I feel it=s a huge win for the home team. B Wilmot & Dr Joan M Taylor (NY); T-Linda Rice; J-Irad Ortiz Jr. $90,000. Lifetime Record: 7-5-1-0, $329,150. *1/2 to Midnight Disguise (Midnight Lute), MSW, $257,600. Werk Nick Rating: B+. Click for the eNicks report & 5-cross pedigree. i i FOUR STAR SALES GRADUATE i i Bred by Stepwise. Sold by Denali HOPPEL TRAINED • (352) 895-7013

2--Divine Miss Grey, 120, f, 4, Divine Park--Seattle Grey, by Friends Lake. ($100,000 Ylg '15 KEESEP). O-Corms Racing Stable; B-Brereton C Jones (KY); T-Danny Gargan. $30,000. 3--Torrent, 117, f, 4, Blame--Tidal Pool, by Yankee Gentleman. O/B-Westrock Stables LLC (KY); T-Ron Moquett. $15,000. Margins: 1, NK, 4 3/4. Odds: 4.10, 1.05, 13.10. Also Ran: Sounds Delicious, Picco Uno, Berned, Anydayismyday. Scratched: Highway Star. Click for the Equibase.com chart, the TJCIS.com PPs or the free Equineline.com catalogue-style Analyze It | Coady Photo pedigree. VIDEO, sponsored by Fasig-Tipton. TDN HEADLINE NEWS • PAGE 11 OF 15 • THETDN.COM SATURDAY • APRIL 7, 2018

Distaff H. cont. Pedigree Notes: Already a two-time stakes winner against fellow New York- It could be a big weekend for daughters of Thin Disguise, as breds, Holiday Disguise continued a strong run in open company Holiday Disguise=s streaking 3-year-old half-sister Midnight for those hailing from the Empire State with a comfy score Disguise is the 8-5 favorite for Saturday=s GII Gazelle S. here. Friday afternoon. Thin Disguise is a half-sister to hard-knocking and popular New Away well, the bay settled in fourth down the backside while York-bred graded stakes winner Naughty New Yorker (Quiet off the fence. Pushed along by Irad Ortiz, Jr. into third behind a American). She has a 2-year-old colt by Verrazano and a yearling :44.99 half, she continued on widest into the lane and took filly by Tiznow and was bred back to Bodemeister. Holiday some encouragement to level off, but eventually powered past Disguise, the 49th graded winner and 93rd stakes winner for her Sounds Delicious (Yes It=s True) for the victory. Sounds Delicious, late sire, follows in the hoofsteps of fellow New York-breds Mind a fellow Linda Rice trainee, was subsequently disqualified and Your Biscuits (Posse) and Audible (Into Mischief), winners of the placed fourth for cutting off longshot Torrent, who was making a G1 Dubai Golden Shaheen and GI Florida Derby last week, strong move up the fence. respectively. AI got a perfect trip,@ Ortiz said. AWe didn't think she was going to break that quick out of there, but she did, and it's been hard to come from off the pace today, so I just decided to let her be there and she was there for me at the end.@ Holiday Disguise strung together three wins last April and May capped by Belmont=s Bouwerie S., and picked up right where she left off with an easy tally in Aqueduct=s restricted Biogio=s Rose S. Feb. 8. She was second behind a powerhouse performance OGDEN PHIPPS II APPOINTED TO NYRA BOARD from Divine Miss Gray last time in the open Heavenly Prize Invitational S. Mar. 10. AThey went pretty fast early,@ trainer Linda Rice said. A[Holiday Disguise] ran terrific and to get a win in a , it's really great for her. She's versatile. She can lay close, and she was pretty close today and actually broke on top. Our plan was for her to settle off of it for a bit, and Irad rode her beautifully. She's great at seven-eighths, she's OK at six and can probably run a mile well, so she's quite versatile, similar to her sister, Midnight Disguise.@

Ogden Phipps II (right) | Horsephotos Ogden Phipps II has been appointed to the New York Racing Association Board of directors effective Apr. 4, filling the seat made vacant by the resignation of Bobby Flay. Flay, a celebrity chef and prominent horse owner and breeder who has campaigned the likes of Grade I winners Creator, Her Smile and More Than Real, was appointed to the NYRA Board of Directors in 2012. AThe NYRA Board of Directors extends its profound appreciation to Bobby Flay for his many years of service to the NYRA Board,@ said Michael Del Giudice, Chairman of the NYRA Board. AThrough his focus on the integrity of the sport, and willingness to speak to the concerns of the next generation of racing fans, Bobby has distinguished himself as an ambassador Holiday Disguise | Coglianese Photo for the sport. We wish him all the best.@ Cont. p12 TDN HEADLINE NEWS • PAGE 12 OF 15 • THETDN.COM SATURDAY • APRIL 7, 2018

Ogden Phipps II cont. JAMISON NAMED GENERAL SUPER FOR STRONACH Mr. Phipps, son of the late former NYRA Chairman and The FLORIDA SURFACES Jockey Club President Ogden Mills ADinny@ Phipps, hails from John Jamison has been named General Superintendent for The one of the most prominent racing and breeding families in Stronach Group=s track surfaces in Florida--Gulfstream Park, American history. A fourth-generation horseman, the 40-year- Gulfstream Park West and Palm Meadows--it was announced old co-owns and manages Phipps Stable, and is a co-founding Friday. A second-generation horseman with over 40 years of partner of the New York City-based private equity firm Snow track maintenance experience, Jamison has been the track Phipps. He serves on a number of corporate boards, and is a superintendent at Palm Meadows since September. He has trustee of the Bessemer Trust, Bessemer Securities, Wake Forest previously served as track super at Lone Star Park, Sunland Park University and New York-Presbyterian Hospital. and Indiana Grand and was the official starter at Sam Houston, "Our family has always felt so fortunate to have enjoyed a long Indiana Grand, Hipodromo de las Americas and Manor Downs. history with the New York Racing Association," said Ogden AJohn brings an abundance of knowledge and experience to this Phipps II. "NYRA plays a central role in the future of position,@ said Gulfstream Park General Manager Bill Badgett. , and sets the industry example when it comes to AOur track surfaces are of paramount importance to us and all constantly improving both the guest experience and quality of horsemen. John is a fine addition to our great Florida team.@ racing. I'm honored to be able to add my voice to this accomplished board and to play a direct role in bettering a sport that means so much to so many people." Del Guidice added, AFew families have contributed more to the fabric and history of racing in New York and THURSDAY=S ARCI CONFERENCE RECAP throughout the country than the Phipps family,@ added Del Giudice. AOgden Phipps II carries on that legacy through his passion for breeding and racing, commitment to the Phipps Stable and appreciation for NYRA's history and vision moving forward. We are pleased to welcome him to the NYRA Board and look forward to his contributions in the years to come.@ Click here for more on the NYRA Board of Directors.

SUPER DERBY GRADE REINSTATED AFTER MOVE BACK TO DIRT The Super Derby at Louisiana Downs, which lost its Grade III status for 2017 when it was switched to the turf, has been ARCI CEO Ed Martin (seated) & Alan Foreman, chair of the THA reinstated as a Grade III for 2018 by the American Graded Stakes Committee after it was announced that it would return to its by Jennie Rees previous dirt surface. AThe committee has reviewed this change HOT SPRINGS, Ark.--Three perspectives on how to achieve from 2017, and has determined that because the race will be North American uniformity of regulations reverting to its historical conditions after only one year as a turf were presented on Thursday=s second day of the Association of race and has run under those historical conditions in two of the Racing Commissioners International=s 84th annual conference last three years, the race=s Grade III status will be reinstated for on Equine Welfare and Racing Integrity. 2018,@ a release explained. James Gagliano, president of The Jockey Club, batted leadoff and pushed for a proposed federal bill that would put control of drug testing in the hands of the United States Anti-Doping Agency--a move widely opposed by the major horsemen=s associations, most racing regulators and privately by many racetracks. Cont. p13 TDN HEADLINE NEWS • PAGE 13 OF 15 • THETDN.COM SATURDAY • APRIL 7, 2018

ARCI Conference cont. field, integrity of the sport, protection of the betting public and Alan Foreman, chairman and CEO of the Thoroughbred the protection of the health and welfare of the horse. Horsemen=s Association, countered that the Interstate Compact AY We drug test, we identify prohibited substances and don=t on Anti-Doping and Drug-Testing Standards spearheaded by permit prohibited substances,@ he said, adding that Athe Mid-Atlantic states is a template for achieving the uniformity enforcement might be differentY But ladies and gentlemen, we that counts without adding a costly and unnecessary are uniform. What we=ve tried to do over the years--and some bureaucratic layer. people beat us up for this--is we try to do it better.@ The New Jersey Racing Commission, which is part of the Foreman said that 97% of betting on horse racing in America Mid-Atlantic alliance, adopted a third approach by changing its comes on states that have adopted the RMTC=s Controlled laws to where the ARCI model rules automatically go into effect Therapeutic Substances list. in the Garden State--a method known as Aby reference.@ The ASo when they tell you that we=re not uniform, put it in model rules are created and approved by the ARCI board to perspective as to who is not doing this, and does it really provide the blueprint for individual jurisdictions in the matter?@ he said. regulation of the sport. Foreman said the Mid-Atlantic states represent 40% of the Gagliano painted a picture of an American industry that needs national handle on a daily basis as the nation=s largest H.R. 2651, titled the Horseracing Integrity Act, to stay viable concentration of racing, including at times when 12 internationally by establishing a single authority to create and Thoroughbred tracks within 200 miles might run at the same implement a national uniform medication program while putting time. As such, the Mid-Atlantic has led the charge toward medication oversight in the hands of USADA, which does not do uniformity, with its regional regulatory group mushrooming and actual testing but contracts with existing labs. creating what has become a potentially national compact in the He said that since 2012, only 11 states have passed all Interstate Compact on Anti-Doping and Drug-Testing Standards, components of the industry-developed Racing Medication and he said. Testing Consortium=s National Uniform Medication Program: AEveryone who has skin in the game at this segment of our medications, penalties, laboratory accreditation and third-party business, and they=re not there to bring their agendas,@ he said administration of the anti-bleeding medication known as Lasix. of the current working group. AThey are there to help Calling The Jockey Club a staunch supporter of the RMTC, collectively to move us forward to see if we=re complying with Gagliano said, AWe simply can=t agree with the RMTC and the national program. Are there next steps to take? What are others= assessment of progress or accept the status quo. the problems we need to address?@ AUntil and unless states agree to adopt the ARCI model rules Foreman noted a 23% reduction in positive findings among by reference, all effective on the same date and so long as the post-race drug tests in 2017 from 2016 in the region, including National Uniform Medication Program remains a living only three in New York last year, and a 27% decrease in equine document, we most assuredly will never achieve uniformity in fatalities from 2013 to 2017. He said that four years ago only a our current regulatory system,@ he said. AWe and our colleagues handful of racing laboratories had national accreditation, but at the Coalition for Horse Racing Integrity and hundreds of that today only one state=s lab is not accredited. members of the Water Hay Oats Alliance and others believe the AYou hear all this stuff in the media about chaos and confusion unified body is contained in H.R. 2651Y It will provide a level and lack of uniformity,@ he said. AIs that chaos? Is that playing field within North American racing and will be a confusion? That=s compliance with a program. foundation for harmonizing U.S. racing with international racingY We as a racing nation--and arguably the leading racing nation in the world--cannot continue to ignore the concerns of our international colleagues with our glacial progress toward uniform rules.@ Foreman said there is uniformity where it matters. AAnd facts in a different context than what you may hear in other forums,@ he told assembled legislators. AThere=s been a steady drip of releases the past few weeks and narratives from those who support federal legislation and reported in essentially industry-controlled media sites with this drumbeat of steady criticism of the way you all are regulating this businessY. We all know our principle tenets: fairness of competition, level playing TDN HEADLINE NEWS • PAGE 14 OF 15 • THETDN.COM SATURDAY • APRIL 7, 2018

ARCI Conference cont. Foreman added that in the Mid-Atlantic, every lab tests to the AA compact is a streamlined way of getting us all collectively to level of graded-stakes protocols. adopt a rule and implement it at one time. It requires legislation Martin said everyone agrees Aon most aspects of where we in every state that wants to join. Maryland became the first need to be. state last week to unanimously adopt the compactY I expect by AThere is a lot of money being spent on people to argue from end of the year we=ll have Delaware, New Jersey, New York; and both sides of this issue. I sit on the board of the RMTC, and I West Virginia will be next year because we=re beyond their look at the amount of money committed to research. I look at [legislative] deadlineY. The compact is not being created to the number of strains of EPO (Erythropoietin, used in blood become this new rule-making body.@ doping) that nobody in the world--in horse racing lab or human-- Compacts don=t have Aopt-out@ provisions, but the can detect. And where our challenge is with emerging threats, Mid-Atlantic=s compact--open to any state to join--requires that the amount of money we=re spending disagreeing over what 80% of member jurisdictions vote in favor for a compact rule to route we should take (to uniformity), if that money was given to pass. the RMTC to do research, we might be better off. AIt=s a protection device to insure there is at least the ability to AThis is a tough sport to police, whether you=re in California, discuss and send back for further consideration a proposed New York, Washington, France, Great Britain. We need to rule,@ Foreman said. AIt is designed as the next logical step, and collectively figure a way to pool certain resources and focus in that is: If you have a consensus and want to make a change, we on real threats we have to the integrity of this sport as well as can do it one time and do it quickly. Our horsemen want it, our the health and welfare of our horses. There might be some regulators want it. It=s in everybody=s best interest, and it=s times when we just have to agree to disagree. But in the totally non-threatening. scheme of things, they are relatively minor.@ AThe Mid-Atlantic has agreed to do this. And if nobody else does, that=s fine. This is not one of these >OK, we=ve got a Roundtable: Emerging drug threats include national thing here and because Nevada and Wyoming didn=t Aresearch chemicals@ bought online join you don=t have a national compact and we=ve got to run to One of the daunting challenges for racing=s testing detectives the federal government because they=re the only ones who are trying to ferret out illegal substances in horses is the ability of going to get it done.= We=re going to do it for the people for people with a credit card and mailing address to purchase from whom it=s important.@ unscrupulous websites medications and drugs that have the Ed Martin, ARCI=s chief executive officer, cited states, including potential to affect performance in a race, said Dr. Rick Sams, those outside the Mid-Atlantic, that have approved various laboratory director of the LGC Science Inc. that does Kentucky forms of enabling legislations to join a compact. horse racing=s testing. AThere are more states looking at it for next year, and you are Sams said that the some substances showing up in post-race seeing some concrete advancement on this concept,@ he said. samples are listed as research chemicals Asold with disclaimer AIt=s not a theoretical.@ that they are for research purposes only and not to be Judy Nason, deputy director of the New Jersey Racing administered to humans or animals... Some have never been Commission, said her state looks forward to being in the tested in animals or humans for any purpose. They are sold on compact. In pursuit of uniformity in 2014, New Jersey opted to the internet and can end up in people or horses that are entered adopt ARCI=s model rules by reference. to race. AWhen ARCI updates the rules and amends them, New Jersey automatically incorporates those amendments and supplementations by reference,@ she said. AIt keeps us current with the work of this body.@ Eric Hamelback, CEO of the National Horsemen=s Benevolent and Protective Association that fiercely opposes the federal bill, asked Gagliano from the audience about his repeated references to international racing and Grade I stakes. AAre you talking about a class separation in integrity and a variation in testing?@ Hamelback asked. ABecause you distinctly left out what I would consider 95% of racingY. We all agree essentially that North American racing is the leader in the world. So why does the international comparison continue to be utilized?@ TDN HEADLINE NEWS • PAGE 15 OF 15 • THETDN.COM SATURDAY • APRIL 7, 2018

AWe have to know the identity of these substances in order to AWe know the labs are going to do their best work on it,@ she enter them into our databases so that we can make said. ABut what we need to find out is if your samples that you identifications when we encounter them,@ Sams said as part of a send in as a commission are treated the same wayY This is the roundtable discussion on drug testing. AMethods to identify only program like this in the world. We are learning a lot about some of these substances will require innovative methods, and the laboratories and their capabilities this way. The laboratories that will require considerable research funding. are doing fairly well. In some cases we=re finding that we ADelays in our ability to find these substances are risk factors administer drugs and none of the laboratories can find them, for integrity of racing and also potentially damaging to the which doesn=t necessarily mean that=s a failure of laboratories. It health and welfare of the horse and human participants in means we need to do more work on that specific medication or racing.@ substance because no one can find them. Other areas of concern for the testing labs: selective androgen AThe goal here is we can certify that these labs can do the best receptor modulators (known as SARMs) that appear to build work in the world. They were talking earlier about >super testing= muscle and burn fat but none of which are approved for use in [for major races]. Virtually every laboratory in the country is medicine; designer drugs that include synthetic opioids; drugs capable of--and most of them are doing--super testing on resurfacing in racing samples after being discontinued because everything from a $5,000 claimer to the Kentucky Derby. It=s not of side affects or addiction liability, and peptides, some of which a situation anymore where we have many levels of testing. are designed to have an anabolic-steroid effect. We=ve moved the needle quite a bit.@ AThere are qualitative issues in regard to these substances,@ Sams said of such online purchases. AIn some instances they are impure. In some instances they don=t contain what they are SARATOGA SEASON PASSES NOW ON SALE labeled to contain, or they contain too much or too little based Season admission passes for the 2018 on label claim.@ meet are now available for purchase by the general public, the Dr. Dionne Benson, executive director of the RMTC, said the New York Racing Association announced Friday. For more consortium no longer focuses on therapeutic medication with information and to purchase passes, visit precious research dollars. AWe=re focusing on things that should www.nyra.com/Saratoga. never be in a horse, and eliminate those threats,@ she said. She said that the RMTC is also starting Adouble blind testing@ of T.I.P. AWARD APPS AVAILABLE the country=s racing testing labs, sending out doctored samples Applications for The Jockey Club Thoroughbred Incentive along with legitimate post-race regulatory samples to see if the Program=s (T.I.P.)=s two annual non-competition awards, the lab detects what her staff put in it. RMTC currently is doing Thoroughbred of the Year Award and the Young Rider of the single blind testing, where the lab is told to test urine and blood Year Award, are now available online at tjctip.com. Applications samples that it knows were prepared by the RMTC. are due June 30, 2018.

Saturday, , post time: 6:30 p.m. EDT SANTA ANITA DERBY-GI, $1,000,000, 3yo, 1 1/8m PP HORSE SIRE OWNER TRAINER JOCKEY ML 1 Instilled Regard K Arch OXO Equine LLC Hollendorfer Rosario 5-1 2 Orbit Rain K Ruis Racing LLC Ruis Blanc 50-1 3 Bolt d'Oro Medaglia d'Oro Ruis Racing LLC Ruis Castellano 6-5 4 Jimmy Chila Jimmy Creed Reddam Racing LLC O'Neill Gutierrez 30-1 5 Pepe Tono K Bodemeister Juan J. Garcia Garcia Espinoza 20-1 6 Justify K Scat Daddy China Horse Club, Head of Plains Partners LLC, Baffert Smith 4-5 Starlight Racing, WinStar Farm 7 Core Beliefs Quality Road Gary Broad Eurton Baze 20-1 Breeders: 1-KatieRich Farms, 2-Machmer Hall, 3-WinStar Farm, LLC, 4-Highclere Inc. & Springtown Show Stable, 5-Sanford R. Robertson, 6-John D. Gunther, 7-Thomas J. Young

Saturday, Keeneland, post time: 5:45 p.m. EDT CENTRAL BANK ASHLAND S.-GI, $500,000, 3yo, f, 1 1/16m PP HORSE SIRE OWNER TRAINER JOCKEY ML 1 Monomoy Girl K Tapizar M. Dubb, Monomoy Stables, LLC, The Elkstone Cox Geroux 4-5 Group LLC & Bethlehem Stables LLC 2 Eskimo Kisses To Honor and Serve Magdalena Racing, Gainesway Stable & Lerner McPeek Lanerie 2-1 3 Patrona Margarita Special Rate Craig D. Upham Calhoun Hernandez, Jr. 15-1 4 C. S. Incharge Take Charge Indy William Pacella, Frank L. Jones, Jr. & Frank Shoop Romans Saez 10-1 5 Andina Del Sur Giant's Causeway Don Alberto Stable Albertrani Leparoux 6-1 6 Ipanema Beach Candy Ride (Arg) Narola, LLC & Grant Davies Arnold, II Landeros 20-1 7 Tyfosha Flatter Zedan Racing Stables Inc O'Neill Ortiz, Jr. 15-1 Breeders: 1-FPF LLC & Highfield Ranch, 2-Gainesway Ltd., 3-Craig D. Upham, 4-Pacella Racing, Frank L. Jones Jr. & Frank Shoop, 5-Don Alberto Corporation, 6-Dr. Christoph Berglar, 7-Lazy Lane Farms, LLC

Saturday, Aqueduct, post time: 4:44 p.m. EDT CARTER H.-GI, $400,000, 4yo/up, 7f PP HORSE SIRE OWNER TRAINER JOCKEY ML 1 Spartiatis Scat Daddy Constantine Peter Beler Rodriguez Albarado 30-1 2 Army Mule Friesan Fire St. Elias Stable Pletcher Bravo 5-2 3 Favorable Outcome Flatter Klaravich Stables, Inc. & William H. Lawrence Brown Carmouche 8-1 4 Do Share Candy Ride (Arg) The Estate of Anthony Miuccio Rice Alvarado 5-1 5 Great Stuff K Quality Road Bruce Golden Racing & David Jacobson Jacobson Davis 5-2 6 Petrov K Flatter Rialto Racing Stables, LLC, Ron Moquett Moquett Franco 20-1 & Head of Plains Partners LLC 7 Red Dragon Tattoo Bellamy Road Ten Strike Racing Guerrero Lopez 30-1 8 Green Gratto Here's Zealous Grant Grant & Anthony Grant Grant DeCarlo 30-1 9 Skyler's Scramjet Creative Cause SJB Stable & Marcello Micozzi Nevin McCarthy 3-1 10 Fellowship Awesome of Course Fred J. Brei Decker Rose 20-1 11 Awesome Slew Awesome Again Live Oak Plantation Casse Velazquez 4-1 Breeders: 1-C. Peter Beler, 2-Hope Hill Farm, 3-Charles T. Matses, 4-Colts Neck Stables, LLC., 5-Stonestreet Thoroughbred Holdings LLC, 6-Sun Valley Farm, 7-Patrick Alexander Randal, 8-Kaz Hill Farm, 9-Tommy G. Ligon, 10-Jacks or Better Farm Inc., 11-Live Oak Stud Saturday, Santa Anita Park, post time: 7:30 p.m. EDT SANTA ANITA OAKS-GI, $400,000, 3yo, f, 1 1/16m PP HORSE SIRE OWNER TRAINER JOCKEY ML 1 First Dudette First Dude Blinkers On Racing Stable, J. Lyons, C. Robin, Koriner Maragh 30-1 J. VanDrie & L. Wagner 2 Spring Lily K Union Rags Pam & Martin Wygod Shirreffs Espinoza 6-1 3 Midnight Bisou K Midnight Lute Allen Racing LLC & Bloom Racing Stable LLC Spawr Smith 6-5 4 Fool's Paradise K Pioneerof the Nile Reddam Racing LLC Cecil Gutierrez 30-1 5 Finess Bere (Fr) Pedro the Great Bradley Thoroughbred LLC, Madaket Stables Van Dyke Baffert 15-1 LLC & Swift Thoroughbreds, Inc. 6 Exuberance Archarcharch Seltzer Thoroughbreds Kruljac Nakatani 12-1 7 Spectator Jimmy Creed Rick & Sharon Waller D'Amato Castellano 3-1 8 We All Have Dreams K Shackleford Jim & Donna Daniell McCarthy Rosario 12-1 9 Thirteen Squared Liaison Arnold Zetcher LLC Baffert Baze 9-2

Breeders: 1-Gerald & Mary Bennett, 2-Emily Wygod, 3-Woodford Thoroughbreds, 4-Calumet Farm, 5-S.N.C. Regnier & San Gabriel Inv Inc., 6-Lakland Farm, 7-Eric & Sharon Waller, 8-Copper Penny Stables, 9-Arnold Zetcher LLC

Saturday, Keeneland, post time: 5:10 p.m. EDT MADISON S.-GI, $300,000, 4yo/up, f/m, 7f PP HORSE SIRE OWNER TRAINER JOCKEY ML 1 Sailor's Valentine K Mizzen Mast Semaphore Racing LLC & Homewrecker Racing Kenneally Lanerie 20-1 2 Lewis Bay K Alpha Delta Stables Brown Ortiz, Jr. 7-2 3 Salty Quality Road Gary Barber, Baccari Racing Stable LLC & Chester Prince Casse Gaffalione 10-1 4 Ms Locust Point K Dialed In Jim Reichenberg & Cash is King LLC Servis Vargas, Jr. 12-1 5 Tequilita Union Rags Dorothy Alexander Matz Matz Saez 20-1 6 Teresa Z K Smart Strike St. Elias Stable Margotta, Jr. Jimenez 50-1 7 Berned K Bernardini Three C Stables LLC, West Point Thoroughbreds & Motion Lynch 20-1 Robert Masiello 8 Miss Sunset Into Mischief Alan Phillip Klein & Philip Lebherz Bonde Leparoux 9-2 9 Natural Wonder Copper Cap Farm Schu Landeros 50-1 10 Ami's Mesa Sky Mesa Ivan Dalos Carroll Contreras 6-1 11 American Gal Concord Point Kaleem Shah, Inc. Callaghan Ortiz 4-1 12 Finley'sluckycharm K Twirling Candy Carl R. Moore Management LLC Calhoun Hernandez, Jr. 4-1 13 Mines and Magic Mineshaft G. Watts Humphrey, Jr. Oliver Lezcano 30-1

Breeders: 1-Curtis C. Green, 2-Alpha Delta Stables, LLC, 3-Seclusive Farm, LLC & Prince Farm, LLC, 4-Lesley Campion, 5-Dorothy A. Matz, 6-Besilu Stables, LLC, 7-AR Enterprises, LLC., 8-Premier Thoroughbreds LLC & Alan Klein, 9-Copper Cap Farm Inc., 10-Tall Oaks Farm, 11-Kaleem Shah, Inc., 12-Lakland Farm, 13-G. Watts Humphrey Jr., Susie Keller, Vicki Oliver & G. Watts Humphrey III

Saturday, Keeneland, post time: 6:23 p.m. EDT TOYOTA BLUE GRASS S.-GII, $1,000,000, 3yo, 1 1/8m PP HORSE SIRE OWNER TRAINER JOCKEY ML 1 Zing Zang K Tapit Jackpot Farm Asmussen Bridgmohan 30-1 2 Sporting Chance K Tiznow Robert C. Baker & William L. Mack Lukas Saez 10-1 3 California Night Midnight Lute Three Diamonds Farm Maker Gaffalione 30-1 4 Kanthaka Jimmy Creed West Point Thoroughbreds Hollendorfer Leparoux 10-1 5 Quip Distorted Humor SCR SCR 6 Marconi K Tapit Bridlewood Farm, Mrs. , Derrick Smith & Pletcher Moore 15-1 Michael B. Tabor Cont. Next Page Blue Grass S. cont.

7 Blended Citizen K Proud Citizen Greg Hall & SAYJAY Racing, LLC O'Neill Frey 15-1 8 Gotta Go K Shanghai Bobby Lothenbach Stables, Inc. Wilkes Landeros 30-1 9 Tiz Mischief K Into Mischief Frank L. Jones, Jr. Romans Lanerie 30-1 10 Free Drop Billy K Union Rags Albaugh Family Stables LLC Romans Ortiz, Jr. 5-1 11 Good Magic K Curlin e Five Racing Thoroughbreds & Stonestreet Stables Brown Ortiz 2-1 12 Flameaway K Scat Daddy John C. Oxley Casse Lezcano 6-1 13 Machismo K More Than Ready Ron Paolucci, Ashley Quartarolo & R & C Ritchie Quartarolo Radosevich 20-1 14 Arawak Uncle Mo C T R Stables LLC, R3 Racing LLC & Steven Keh O'Neill De La Cruz 30-1 Also Eligible: 15 Determinant K Tapit John C. Oxley Casse Gaffalione 20-1

Breeders: 1-Gainesway Thoroughbreds Ltd., 2-Hunter Valley, 3-James H. Tolliver, 4- Farm LLC, 5-WinStar Farm, LLC, 6-Brushwood Stable, 7-Ray Hanson, 8-Machmer Hall, 9-T/C Stable, LLC, 10-Helen K. Groves Revokable Trust, 11-Stonestreet Thoroughbred Holdings LLC, 12-Phoenix Rising Farms, 13-Pin Oak Stud, LLC, 14-Parrish Hill Farm & Ashford Stud, 15-Courtlandt Farm

Saturday, Aqueduct, post time: 5:55 p.m. EDT WOOD MEMORIAL S. PRESENTED BY NYRA BETS-GII, $750,000, 3yo, 1 1/8m PP HORSE SIRE OWNER TRAINER JOCKEY ML 1 Heartfullofstars K Astrology Agave Racing Stable, Little Red Feather Racing, D'Amato Davis 20-1 Bran Jam Stable, and Clark, D. 2 Firenze Fire Poseidon's Warrior Mr. Amore Stable Servis Franco 6-1 3 Evaluator Overanalyze R and H Stable Dilger Carmouche 20-1 4 Old Time Revival Brethren Fred J. Brei Decker Rose 6-1 5 Enticed Medaglia d'Oro Godolphin Racing, LLC McLaughlin Alvarado 6-5 6 Catch Twenty Two K E.V. Racing Stable Chatterpaul Reyes 50-1 7 King Zachary K Curlin Thomas F. Conway Romans Albarado 20-1 8 Restoring Hope Giant's Causeway Gary & Mary West Baffert Prat 4-1 9 Vino Rosso K Curlin Repole Stable & St. Elias Stable Pletcher Velazquez 9-2

Breeders: 1-Terrazas Thoroughbreds, LLC, 2-Mr Amore Stables, 3-EKQ Stables Corp., 4-Jacks or Better Farm Inc., 5-Godolphin, 6-Aschinger Bloodstock Holdings, LLC, 7-Waymore LLC, 8-Gary & Mary West Stables, Inc., 9-John D. Gunther

Saturday, Aqueduct, post time: 3:38 p.m. EDT GAZELLE S.-GII, $300,000, 3yo, f, 1 1/8m PP HORSE SIRE OWNER TRAINER JOCKEY ML 1 Mo Shopping Uncle Mo Repole Stable Pletcher Velazquez 9-2 2 Virginia Key K Distorted Humor Blue Heaven Farm Pletcher Prat 15-1 3 Midnight Disguise Midnight Lute William B. & Devin T. Wilmot & Joan M. Taylor Rice McCarthy 8-5 4 Smokinpaddylassie Paddy O'Prado Edward Bruzek Coletti, Jr. Bisono 3-1 5 Sara Street Street Sense Godolphin Racing, LLC McLaughlin Davis 7-2 6 My Miss Lilly K Tapit Courtlandt Farms Hennig Bravo 5-1

Breeders: 1-Repole Stable Inc, 2-Blue Heaven Farm, 3-Dr. William B. Wilmot & Dr. Joan M.Taylor, 4-Richard Simoff, 5-Godolphin, 6-Winchell Thoroughbreds LLC Saturday, Keeneland, post time: 4:35 p.m. EDT SHAKERTOWN S.-GII, $200,000, 3yo/up, 5 1/2fT PP HORSE SIRE OWNER TRAINER JOCKEY ML 1 Frisky Magician Street Magician Michael Dubb Abreu Gaffalione 50-1 2 Commute K Hold Me Back Gabe Grossberg & Sagamore Farm Casse Lezcano 5-1 3 Kid Perfect Majesticperfection Jaguar Racing LLC Montano, Sr. Hernandez, Jr. 50-1 4 Zapperini Lloyd Madison Farms, IV LLC Foley Beschizza 50-1 5 Bucchero Kantharos Ironhorse Racing Stable LLC Glyshaw De La Cruz 5-1 6 Commend War Front Claiborne Farm & Adele B. Dilschneider Mott Ortiz 12-1 7 Will Call Country Day Klein Racing Cox Bridgmohan 8-1 8 Tombelaine K First Defence Michael & Jules Iavarone & Regal Horses, LLC Day Phillips Leparoux 8-1 9 Big Handsome Street Boss Team D, Head of Plains Partners LLC & ERJ Racing, LLC Dutrow Geroux 6-1 10 Loose On the Town K Speightstown Jim & Susan Hill Lynch Saez 10-1 11 Latent Revenge K Latent Heat Steve Vanovich, Steve Andriot, Brad Cain & P.J. Herald Foley Saez 30-1 12 Bound for Nowhere K The Factor Wesley A. Ward Ward Garcia 20-1 13 Disco Partner Disco Rico Patricia A. Generazio Clement Ortiz, Jr. 5-2 14 Flashaway K Eskendereya John C. Oxley Casse Lanerie 20-1 Also Eligible 15 Mooose Pleasantly Perfect Chamerolles Farm LLC Jurado Leon 50-1 16 Recruiting Ready K Algorithms Sagamore Farm DePaz Gaffalione 50-1 Breeders: 1-Richard & Kay Zwirn, 2-Meritage LLC, 3-Sovereign Farm LLC, Brereton C. Jones, Ingordo Bloodstock LLC & Padua Stables, 4-Lloyd Madison IV, LLC, 5-Southern Chase Farm, Inc. & Karen Dodd, 6-Claiborne Farm & Adele B. Dilschneider, 7-Richard & Bert Klein, 8-Juddmonte Farms Inc, 9-Rabbah Bloodstock LLC, 10-Anderson Farms Ont. Inc., 11-Westwind Farms, 12-Wayne, Gray & Bryan Lyster, 13-Patricia Generazio, 14-Dell Ridge Farm, LLC, 15-James & Priscilla Potter, 16-Claiborne Farm

Saturday, Santa Anita Park, post time: 7:00 p.m. EDT ROYAL HEROINE S.-GII, $200,000, 4yo/up, f/m, 1mT PP HORSE SIRE OWNER TRAINER JOCKEY ML 1 Instant Reflex K Quality Road D P Racing Cassidy Espinoza 20-1 2 Sophie P (GB) Bushranger (Ire) D P Racing Cassidy Van Dyke 12-1 3 Beau Recall (Ire) Sir Prancealot (Ire) Slam Dunk Racing & Medallion Racing Callaghan Rosario 4-1 4 Mdnght Crssng (Ire) K Dark Angel (Ire) Abbondanza Racing, LLC & Medallion Racing Baltas Blanc 6-1 5 Thundering Sky Sky Mesa Matthew Schera Weaver Maragh 5-1 6 Enola Gray Grazen Nicholas B. Alexander D'Amato Baze 3-1 7 Madame Stripes (Arg) Equal Stripes (Arg) Gainesway Stable Drysdale Desormeaux 7-2 8 Mongolian Shopper Any Given Saturday Mongolian Stable Ganbat Elliott 15-1 9 Sassy Little Lila K Artie Schiller Jeff Drown & Michael J. Ryan Mandella Castellano 6-1 Breeders: 1-Fred W. Hertrich III & John D. Fielding, 2-New Hall Stud, 3-Tom Wallace, 4-Tom & Geraldine Molan, 5-Almar Farm, LLC, 6-Nick Alexander, 7-Alvarez, Gustavo Javier, 8-Dagvadorj Ganbaatar, 9-Dr. John A. Chandler

Saturday, Keeneland, post time: 4:00 p.m. EDT COMMONWEALTH S.-GIII, $250,000, 4yo/up, 7f PP HORSE SIRE OWNER TRAINER JOCKEY ML 1 Heartwood Tapit James K. Chapman & Stuart Tsujimoto Chapman Valdivia, Jr. 20-1 2 Behavioral Bias K Shackleford Brittlyn Stable, Inc. Stall, Jr. Lezcano 6-1 3 Westwood Bernardini Godolphin Racing, LLC McLaughlin Ortiz, Jr. 5-1 4 Warrior's Club K Warrior's Reward Churchill Downs Racing Club Lukas Contreras 12-1 5 Conquest Windycity K Tiznow David Staudacher Maker Ortiz 4-1 6 Limousine Liberal Successful Appeal Katherine G. Ball Colebrook Lanerie 6-5 Cont. Next Page Commonwealth S. cont. 7 Crewman K Candy Ride (Arg) Dundalk 5 LLC Poulos Landeros 20-1 8 Shut the Box K Hard Spun Two Dimes Stable Montano, Sr. Geroux 15-1 9 Awesome Saturday K Any Given Saturday Chuck Hovitz Calhoun Hernandez, Jr. 20-1 10 First Premio K Pure Prize Team Valor International Casse Gaffalione 12-1

Breeders: 1-Blue Heaven Farm, LLC, 2-Doug & Felicia Branham, 3-Darley, 4-John O'Meara, 5-WinStar Farm, LLC, 6-Mike & Katherine Ball, 7-Emory A. Hamilton, 8-Southern Equine Stables, LLC, 9-Craig L Minten, 10-Ronald G. McPeek

Saturday, Aqueduct, post time: 5:17 p.m. EDT BAY SHORE S.-GIII, $250,000, 3yo, 7f PP HORSE SIRE OWNER TRAINER JOCKEY ML 1 I'm an Ocala Dude First Dude Michelle Nevin & Tom F. McCrocklin Nevin McCarthy 20-1 2 A Different Style K The Factor Leonard C. Green Servis Carmouche 6-1 3 Justaholic K Justin Phillip Lucky Man Racing LLC Nations Ferrer 8-1 4 National Flag K Speightstown WinStar Farm LLC, China Horse Club Int’l Ltd. Pletcher Prat 7-5 & SF Racing LLC 5 Engage K Into Mischief Woodford Racing, LLC Brown Velazquez 9-5 6 Aveenu Malcainu K Into Mischief Gold Square LLC Englehart Franco 5-1 7 Aqua Bel Sar Trinniberg Ryan Racing, Inc. Parboo Arroyo 30-1

Breeders: 1-Helen Barbazon & Joseph Barbazon, 2-Fletcher Gray & Carolyn Gray, 3-Gabriel Duignan, Patrick Costello, BenMcElroy & John Wade, 4-Siena Farms LLC, 5-Woods Edge Farm, LLC, 6-Taylor Brothers Properties LLC,George E. Saufley & Brian B. Kahn, 7-Ryan Racing, Inc.

Saturday, Aqueduct, post time: 4:11 p.m. EDT EXCELSIOR S.-GIII, $150,000, 4yo/up, 1 1/8m PP HORSE SIRE OWNER TRAINER JOCKEY ML 1 Backsideofthemoon K Malibu Moon Lake Lonely Racing O'Brien McCarthy 8-1 2 Discreet Lover Repent Uriah St. Lewis St. Lewis Franco 8-1 3 Zanotti Gio Ponti Ten Strike Racing Guerrero Lopez 7-2 4 Wild About Deb K Eskendereya Marisa Lizza Rodriguez Velazquez 5-1 5 Harlan Punch K Harlan's Holiday David Jacobson Jacobson Davis 5-2 6 Admiral Blue Admiral Alex Leon J. Blusiewicz Rodriguez Alvarado 15-1 7 Control Group Posse Dubb, Michael and Simon, David Rodriguez Carmouche 2-1

Breeders: 1-Doug Branham, 2-Woodford Thoroughbreds, 3-Castleton Lyons & Kilboy Estate, 4-Northwest Farms LLC, 5-Rosemont Farm LLC, 6-Daniel T. O'Ryan & Katherine S. O'Ryan, 7-Colts Neck Stable & Alan Goldberg

Saturday, Santa Anita Park, post time: 4:30 p.m. EDT PROVIDENCIA S.-GIII, $150,000, 3yo, f, 1 1/8mT PP HORSE SIRE OWNER TRAINER JOCKEY ML 1 Rider Lucky Pulpit Mr. & Mrs. Larry D. Williams Puype Nakatani 9-2 2 Lexington Grace (Ire) Sir Prancealot (Ire) Doug Hames Kruljac Castellano 8-1 3 Treasuring (GB) Havana Gold (Ire) Qatar Racing Limited Callaghan Maragh 10-1 4 Paved K Quality Road Ciaglia Racing LLC & Eclipse TB Partners McCarthy Van Dyke 2-1 5 Ms Bad Behavior K Blame Sayjay Racing LLC, Greg Hall & Brooke Hubbard Baltas Desormeaux 5-2 6 Fatale Bere (Fr) Pedro the Great Benowitz Family Trust, Head of Plains Partners, Powell Rosario 6-1 Mark Mathiesen & Mathilde Powell 7 Retro K Giant's Causeway LNJ Foxwoods Mandella Smith 10-1 8 Florista (Ire) Casamento (Ire) Al & Saundra S. Kirkwood Glatt Conner 20-1 9 Deep Breath (Ire) Bated Breath (GB) Casner Racing, ERJ Racing & Equilete Stable Harty Baze 50-1

Breeders: 1-Mr. & Mrs. Larry D. Williams, 2-Tally-Ho Stud, 3-The Pocock Family, 4-St. George Farm, LLC, 5-Ron Clarkson, 6-SNC Regnier and San Gabriel Inv., Inc., 7-Barronstown Stud, 8-T. Monaghan, 9-Endeavour Bloodstock Sunday, Keeneland, post time: 4:57 p.m. EDT APPALACHIAN S. PRESENTED BY JAPAN RACING ASSOCIATION-GII, $200,000, 3yo, f, 1mT PP HORSE SIRE OWNER TRAINER JOCKEY WT 1 Daddy Is a Legend K Scat Daddy Jim & Susan Hill Weaver Bravo 123 2 Rushing Fall More Than Ready e Five Racing Thoroughbreds Brown Castellano 123 3 Lounge Act K Creative Cause Hidden Brook Farm, Brian Kahn, Steve Laymon Cox Geroux 118 & William L. Robbins 4 She's Pretty Lucky Will Kari Kenneally Lanerie 118 5 Cash Out (Ire) G. Watts Humphrey, Jr. Arnold, II Hernandez, Jr. 120 6 Dixie Moon K Curlin Sean & Dorothy Fitzhenry Day Phillips Smith 120 7 Heavenly Love Malibu Moon Debby M. Oxley Casse Leparoux 118 8 Ultima D K Scat Daddy For the People Racing, Andrew Farm, Ward Garcia 118 Mrs. John Magnier, & Mrs. Paul Shanahan 9 Thewayiam (Fr) Thewayyouare Great Point Stables, Michael Dubb, The Elkstone Motion Ortiz 123 Group, Al Shahania Stud, & Bethlehem Stables 10 Beach Waltz Treasure Beach (GB) Kenneth L. & Sarah K.Ramsey Maker Gaffalione 118 11 Goodthingstaketime (Ire) Canford Cliffs (Ire) Madaket Stables, Tim & Anna Cambron Abreu Rosario 118 & Bradley Thoroughbreds Breeders: 1-HnR Nothhaft Horseracing LLC, 2-Fred W. Hertrich III & John D. Fielding, 3-Brian Kahn, 4-Will Kari, 5-G. Watts Humphrey Jr., 6-Sean Fitzhenry & Dorothy Fitzhenry, 7-Debby Oxley, 8-Hunter Valley Farm, Jayne Johnson &Keith Lazarz, 9-SCA La Perrigne, 10-Kenneth L. Ramsey & Sarah K. Ramsey, 11-David Keoghan & Casey McLiney

Sunday, Keeneland, post time: 4:24 p.m. EDT BEAUMONT S. PRESENTED BY KEENELAND SELECT-GIII, $150,000, 3yo, f, 7f PP HORSE SIRE OWNER TRAINER JOCKEY WT 1 Happy Like a Fool Distorted Humor Merriebelle Stable, Michael B. Tabor, Derrick Smith, Ward Gaffalione 118 & Mrs. John Magnier 2 Kelly's Humor Midnight Lute Thrash, Ike and Dawn Cox Ortiz 118 3 Dream It Is K Shackleford Hoolie Racing Stable, LLC Minshall Saez 118 4 Uppercut K Discreet Cat Johnson, S., Exline-Border Racing LLC, Eurton Smith 118 Ciaglia Racing LLC & S. Dorfman 5 Gas Station Sushi K Into Mischief Riley Racing Stables, LLC, Jason & Megan Tackitt Baltas Nakatani 118 & Mike Hensen 6 Upset Brewing K Justin Phillip Allied Racing Stable, LLC Bradley Lanerie 118 7 Summer Sunday Silent Name (Jpn) Anne & William J. Scott Simon Leparoux 120 8 Sunny Skies K Normandy Farm McPeek Hernandez, Jr. 118 9 In the Mood Eskendereya Stephen S. & Brenda Sandy Sandy McKee 118 Breeders: 1-Wesley Ward, 2-Chappell Alpine Farm, 3-Chiyoda Farm, 4-Stonehaven Steadings, 5-Spendthrift Farm, LLC, 6-Castleton Lyons & Kilboy Estate, 7-Trinity West Stables LTD., 8-Normandy Farm LLC, 9-Kenneth L. & Sarah K. Ramsey

Sunday, Santa Anita Park, post time: 4:30 p.m. EDT TOKYO CITY CUP S.-GIII, $100,000, 4yo/up, 1 1/2m PP HORSE SIRE OWNER TRAINER JOCKEY WT 1 Infobedad (Arg) Dancing for Me (Arg) Waldorf Racing Stables LLC Drysdale Desormeaux 120 2 Noble Nick K Zensational Scott Herbertson Herbertson Antongeorgi III 120 3 Hoppertunity K Any Given Saturday Karl Watson, Michael Pegram & Paul Weitman Baffert Prat 120 4 Moonman Malibu Moon Roger Rashall Desormeaux Van Dyke 120 5 Twentytwentyvision Pollard's Vision Hronis Racing LLC Sadler Baze 120 6 Beaumarchais Big Drama Saldana, Reed and Urbina, Leopoldo Saldana Pedroza 120 Breeders: 1-Anaruth S.R.L., 2-Coronation Investments, 3-Betz/D.J. Stable/Kidder/J. Betz/Robenalt, 4-Castleton Lyons & Kilboy Estate, 5-Peter O. Johnson, 6-Palm Beach Racing, LLC SIRE LISTS Sponsored by

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Rank Stallion BTW BTH GSW GSH G1SW G1SH Starters Wnrs Highest Earner Earnings 1 Into Mischief 3 8 1 5 1 1 60 14 $803,520 $1,868,046 (2005) by Harlan's Holiday Stands: Spendthrift Farm KY Fee: $100,000 Audible 2 Scat Daddy 2 4 2 3 -- -- 19 5 $1,200,000 $1,854,875 (2004) by Stands: Ashford Stud USA (Dead/Ret/Exp) Mendelssohn 3 Malibu Moon 2 3 2 3 -- -- 32 8 $577,800 $1,014,297 (1997) by A.P. Indy Stands: Spendthrift Farm KY Fee: $75,000 4 ------59 17 $139,625 $982,517 (2000) by Unbridled Stands: Gainesway Farm KY Fee: $85,000 Koma Bisho (JPN) 5 Tapit 2 7 1 5 -- 1 40 12 $223,800 $977,388 (2001) by Pulpit Stands: Gainesway Farm KY Fee: $300,000 Hofburg 6 Hard Spun ------48 11 $111,362 $871,457 (2004) by Danzig Stands: Jonabell Farm KY Fee: $40,000 Ask Hard Spun (JPN) 7 Violence 2 6 1 3 -- -- 47 17 $132,500 $844,711 (2010) by Medaglia d'Oro Stands: Hill 'n' Dale Farms KY Fee: $25,000 Cosmic Burst 8 Ghostzapper 2 3 1 1 -- -- 24 9 $483,960 $772,938 (2000) by Awesome Again Stands: KY Fee: $85,000 Runaway Ghost 9 Medaglia d'Oro 2 4 2 3 -- -- 16 6 $240,000 $758,235 (1999) by El Prado (Ire) Stands: Jonabell Farm KY Fee: $250,000 Bolt d'Oro 10 More Than Ready 2 4 -- 2 -- -- 29 9 $90,600 $704,115 (1997) by Southern Halo Stands: WinStar Farm KY Fee: $60,000 Title Ready 11 Creative Cause 1 2 1 1 -- -- 35 9 $412,000 $690,283 (2009) by Giant's Causeway Stands: Airdrie Stud KY Fee: $20,000 My Boy Jack 12 Curlin -- 4 -- 3 -- -- 36 7 $180,000 $671,455 (2004) by Smart Strike Stands: Hill 'N' Dale Farms KY Fee: $150,000 Solomini 13 Midnight Lute 2 3 1 1 -- -- 32 7 $200,000 $667,345 (2003) by Stands: Hill 'N' Dale Farms KY Fee: $15,000 Midnight Disguise 14 Street Cry (Ire) 2 3 1 1 -- -- 15 6 $310,000 $645,851 (1998) by Machiavellian Stands: Darley USA (Dead/Ret/Exp) Gold Town (GB) 15 Jimmy Creed 2 4 1 1 -- -- 34 10 $168,000 $615,096 (2009) by Distorted Humor Stands: Spendthrift Farm KY Fee: $15,000 Kanthaka

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2nd-SA, $54,345, Msw, 4-6, 3yo, 5 1/2f, 1:04.93, ft. MOST AMUSING, c, 3, by Malibu Moon 1st Dam: Comic Marvel, by Distorted Humor 2nd Dam: Media Nox (GB), by Lycius 3rd Dam: Sky Love, by II Lifetime Record: 1-1-0-0, $32,400. O/B-Juddmonte Farms Inc (KY); T-Bob Baffert. Click for the Equibase.com chart, the free Equineline.com catalogue-style pedigree or VIDEO, sponsored by Fasig-Tipton.

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Most Amusing (Malibu Moon) was hammered down to 1-5 favoritism for his career bow Friday at Santa Anita and lived up to the hype with a dominant victory to become the newest >TDN Rising Star= for Hall of Famer Bob Baffert. Pressing from a close- up second in the initial stages, the Juddmonte homebred swept past pacesetting Highly Distorted (Distorted Humor) to take IN ORDER OF PURSE: control just as they registered an opening quarter in :22.39. 5th-KEE, $75,832, Alw (NW1X)/Opt. Clm ($75,000), 4-6, 3yo, f, Showing the way into the lane, the bay powered clear under a 7f, 1:24.96, ft. motionless Drayden Van Dyke to win as he pleased by 4 1/2 HOLD HER TIGHT (f, 3, Proud Citizen--Langcita, by Langfuhr) lengths. Stablemate and fellow firster Lontani (Giant=s rallied for second in her debut at Fair Grounds Jan 12 before Causeway) rallied up the fence late to be second before earning her cap and gown there Feb. 8. The 7-2 shot traveled galloping out in front. Baffert and Juddmonte were also the widest of all while last of the seven down the backstretch team behind fellow >TDN Rising Star= and champion Arrogate through a :22.90 opening quarter. She remained five wide on (Unbridled=s Song), who, like Most Amusing, is out of a Distorted the far turn and was within striking range turning for home. The Humor mare. chestnut continued to grind away at the leader Devine Mischief Most Amusing comes from a long line of Juddmonte (Into Mischief) inside the final furlong and made one last push homebreds. His dam Comic Marvel, a daughter of MGSW Media past her in the final strides to score by 3/4 of a length. Devine Nox (GB), won three times for Hall of Famer Bill Mott before Mischief was another 8 3/4 lengths clear of the rest of the field. retiring to the Juddmonte broodmare band. Her second foal was Hold Her Tight is the first foal out of three-time winner Langcita, GSP Eloquent Riddle (Harlan=s Holiday); and her recent produce who recently produced a weanling filly by Cairo Prince, and she includes the juvenile filly Comic City (City Zip), a yearling filly by is bred on the same cross as Bret Jones=s GI Kentucky Oaks Malibu Moon and a Tapit filly born Mar. 25 of this year. Comic winner Proud Spell. Lifetime Record: 3-2-1-0, $78,400. Click for Marvel is a half-sister to MG1SW Nebraska Tornado (Storm Cat); the Equibase.com chart or VIDEO, sponsored by Fasig-Tipton. MGSW & G1SP Mirabilis (Lear Fan); and GSW Burning Sun O/B-Brereton C. Jones (KY); T-J. Larry Jones. (Danzig). TDN REGIONAL REPORT • PAGE 2 OF 9 • THETDN.COM SATURDAY • APRIL 7, 2018

rail around the far turn behind fractions of :22.58 and :46.10. She found an opening along the inside just past the eighth pole and took command, then held off a late run down the center of the track from longshot Miner=s Cat (Mineshaft) to make it seven straight by 1 1/4-lengths. Sister Kan is the only winner out of maiden Sister Charlie. She also has a juvenile filly named Charlie=s Candy (Twirling Candy) and a yearling filly by Gemologist. She visited Oxbow last year. Sales history: $7,000 Wlg '14 OBSOCT; $27,000 Ylg '15 OBSAUG; $10,000 2yo '16 EASMAY. Lifetime Record: 15-7-2-4, $198,336. Click for the Equibase.com chart or VIDEO, sponsored by Fasig-Tipton. O-Naveed Chowhan; B-Kevin O'Gorman (FL); T-Bernard S. Flint.

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6th-KEE, $72,640, Alw, 4-6, (NW1X), 4yo/up, 1 1/8mT, 1:54.69, yl. COMPASS ZONE (g, 4, Hard Spun--Turn Away {SW & MGSP, IN ORDER OF PURSE: $185,332}, by Empire Maker) made one start as a 3-year-old for 6th-OP, $81,000, Msw, 4-6, 3yo/up, f/m, 6f, 1:12.12, sy. Bill Mott when seventh on the Gulfstream Park main track last HEIDI'S WISH (f, 3, Bodemeister--Pro Pink {SW & GSP, February. He sold later that season for $42,000 at the Keeneland $204,521}, by ) finished second on debut over the November sale. The dark bay graduated when making his first track and trip Feb. 16 and was a well-beaten eighth last time start on the turf and for his new connections at Fair Grounds here Mar. 11. Adding blinkers for this one, the 5-2 shot was Jan. 20 and finished seventh there last time out Feb. 18 in his away alertly and took immediate control, zipping through first try against winners. The 8-1 shot broke a step slow, but split opening splits of :21.79 and :45.83. Turning for home on a clear horses passing the wire for the first time to take the lead into lead, the bay cruised to a 3 1/2-length victory over Ettalusive the clubhouse turn. He continued a length in front around the (Elusive Quality). The winner is the most recent produce from far turn, kicked away once he changed leads at the eight pole her dam, who visit English Channel last spring. Lifetime Record: and had to hold off an on-rushing Devamani (Fr) (Dubawi {Ire}) 3-1-1-0, $63,860. Click for the Equibase.com chart or VIDEO, in the final stages to pull off the mild upset. The winner hails sponsored by Fasig-Tipton. from the family of MGISW Defensive Play (Fappiano). Turn Away O-Novogratz Racing Stables Inc.; B-Joe Novogratz (KY); T-McLean is also represented by a juvenile full-brother to Compass Zone Robertson. named Unfold and a yearling filly by Into Mischief. She was bred back to that Spendthrift stallion last season. Lifetime Record: 7th-KEE, $74,000, Msw, 4-6, 3yo, 6 1/2f, 1:18.11, ft. 4-2-0-0, $68,780. Click for the Equibase.com chart, VIDEO, ALMITHMAAR (g, 3, Tapit--Gotta Have Her {MGSW & MGISP, sponsored by Fasig-Tipton or Thorostride video. $1,132,608}, by Royal Academy) missed by just a head in his O-Marc Detampel; B-Juddmonte Farms Inc (KY); T-Brad H. Cox. Gulfstream unveiling Mar. 4 and went one better this time with a front-running graduation on Keeneland=s opening day. Seizing the early advantage, the 2-1 shot ticked off early fractions of :22.17 and :45.75 under Eclipse winner Jose Ortiz with several 8th-KEE, $67,124, Alw (NW3$X)/Opt. Clm ($80,000), 4-6, rivals in hot pursuit. Turning for home in front, the $625,000 4yo/up, f/m, 6f, 1:11.31, ft. KEESEP purchase was briefly challenged by favored D Squared SISTER KAN (f, 4, Kantharos--Sister Charlie, by Indian Charlie) (Speightstown), but swiftly shut the door on the rival and rolled entered Friday off six consecutive victories dating back to last clear to score by 1 3/4 lengths. Longshot Just Like Richie (Divine June, ranging from a $40,000 claiming event to optional claiming Park) and $925,000 KEESEP purchase Corot (Pioneerof the Nile) company at Fair Grounds Mar.4 last time out. The 2-1 favorite came running on late to finish second and third, respectively. settled into midpack down the backstretch and stayed along the D Squared settled for fourth. Cont. p3 TDN REGIONAL REPORT • PAGE 3 OF 9 • THETDN.COM SATURDAY • APRIL 7, 2018

KEE7 - Almithmaar cont. 1st-AQU, $70,000, Msw, 4-6, 3yo/up, 6 1/2f, 1:17.77, ft. EARNED SUCCESS (g, 3, Mineshaft--Valiant Passion {GISP, Almithmaar=s dam Gotta Have Her won give graded stakes and $132,900}, by Lion Heart), dispatched as the 3-1 second choice placed twice at the highest level for earnings over $1.1 million in this unveiling, was hustled right to the lead by Irad Ortiz, during her career on the track for Green Lantern Stables. The clocking early fractions of :22.77 and :45.63 with 4-5 favorite gray gelding is the most recent foal out of the 14-year-old mare, Candygram (Candy Ride {Arg}) hot on his tail. The $350,000 KEESEP buy always had the chalk=s measure, however, and who RNA=d for $1.05 million at the 2010 Fasig-Tipton November edged clear every time that rival confronted him to register a sale. The winner hails from the family of French Highweight and half-length graduation. Candygram finished four lengths clear of MG1SW sire Lope De Vega (Ire) (Shamardal); and MGSWs Lady the show horse. The winner=s dam Valiant Passion, named a Blessington (Fr) (Baillamont) and Da Big Hoss (). >TDN Rising Star= after a 9 1/4-length debut win at Saratoga, was Lifetime Record: 2-1-1-0, $53,860. Click for the Equibase.com purchased by Stonestreet for $210,000 in foal to Proud Citizen chart or VIDEO, sponsored by Fasig-Tipton. at the 2013 KEENOV sale. The 10-year-old mare has a juvenile O-Shadwell Stable; B-Green Lantern Stables LLC (KY); T-Kiaran colt by Tiznow and a yearling filly by Street Sense. She was bred McLaughlin. back to Hard Spun. Lifetime Record: 1-1-0-0, $42,000. Click for the Equibase.com chart or VIDEO, sponsored by Fasig-Tipton. O-Klaravich Stables, Inc.; B-Stonestreet Thoroughbred Holdings LLC (KY); T-Chad C. Brown. de Meric Stables Graduate FIND US ON FACEBOOK Elm Tree Farm Sales Graduate www.facebook.com/thoroughbreddailynews

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and she went on to win a pair of Grade Is on turf and three other graded events for earnings of over $1 million under trainer John Shireffs= care. Out of MGSP To the Hunt (), Starrer is a half-sister to fellow MGISW millionaire Stellar Jayne (Wild Rush), who was purchased by Godolphin for $3.6 million at the 2004 Keeneland November sale just days after finishing third to Hall of Famer Ashado in that year=s GI Breeders= Cup Distaff. This is also the family of GISW American Royale (American Standard) and GSW & MGISP Nemoralia (More Than Ready). Movie Moment is the most recent produce for Starrer, who visited Honor Code last term. Lifetime Record: 3-1-0-0, $33,090. Click for the Equibase.com chart or VIDEO, sponsored by Fasig-Tipton. Shanghaied Roo | Coady O/B-George Krikorian (KY); T-John Shireffs.

3rd-KEE, $57,399, Msw, 4-6, 2yo, 4 1/2f, :52.20, ft. 1st-KEE, $47,607, Msw, 4-6, 2yo, 4 1/2f, :52.02, ft. SHANGHAIED ROO (c, 2, Shanghai Bobby--Hollye Lynne {MSW, TRUE SAINT (c, 2, Yes It's True--Girlsasaint, by Saint Liam) was $222,820}, by Uncle Abbie) chased from a close-up third sent off as the 2-1 second choice behind 4-5 favorite through an opening quarter in :22.30. Slipping through on the Onthewaytonevrland (Ire) () in the first race of fence in the stretch, the 7-2 shot kicked clear in the final furlong Keeneland=s opening day card. Breaking sharply, True Saint was for a two-length score, giving owner/breeder Tom Durant and outrun by the chalk and pressed from second through an trainer Bret Calhoun a clean of the day=s 2-year-old races opening quarter in :22.62. The bay drew even with as they won the first race with True Saint (Yes It=s True). Onthewaytonevrland in mid-stretch and it was a two-horse race Myhotrodlincoln (Verrazano) finished second and heavily from there with True Saint wearing down the pacesetter late favored No Bang No Boom (Ire) (No Nay Never) was third. The and kicking clear for a 1 1/4-length score. Onthewaytonevrland winner has a yearling half-sister named Hollye=s Roo finished 5 1/2 lengths clear of the third-place finisher. The (Competitive Edge). Lifetime Record: 1-1-0-0, $36,000. Click for winner has a yearling half-brother named Bring Me a Check the Equibase.com chart or VIDEO, sponsored by Fasig-Tipton. (Fast Anna) and his dam was bred back to Liaison. Lifetime O/B-Tom Durant (KY); T-Bret Calhoun. Record: 1-1-0-0, $26,820. Click for the Equibase.com chart or VIDEO, sponsored by Fasig-Tipton. O/B-Tom Durant (TX); T-W. Bret Calhoun.

5th-TAM, $20,250, Msw, 4-6, 4yo/up, f/m, 5fT, :57.40, fm. ELECTRIC (f, 4, Smart Strike--Mon Belle, by Maria's Mon) hit 8th-SA, $55,380, Msw, 4-6, 3yo, f, 1 1/8mT, 1:48.85, fm. the board once in three starts at Aqueduct and Belmont for MOVIE MOMENT (f, 3, Paynter--Starrer {MGISW, $1,043,033}, Linda Rice, including a sixth place effort last time out Nov. 12. by Dynaformer) was a non-factor ninth when unveiled in a turf Making her first start for Jonathan Thomas, the 11-10 favorite sprint here Dec. 26 and could only manage sixth last time going went straight to the front and guided the field through a :21.56 a mile over this course Feb. 3. Sent off at 6-1 in this extension to first quarter. The bay began to open up the margin turning for nine panels, the homebred kept a watchful eye on pacesetting home and kicked away to a 3 3/4-length graduation. First-time Rancor (Oxbow) from second through early fractions of :23.43 starter Mo (Munnings) rallied to complete the exacta at 12-1. and :48.10. Maintaining that position heading into the lane, the Electric, a $450,000 KEESEP purchase, is a half to Supreme bay overtook the leader in the final furlong and skipped clear to (Empire Maker), SW & GSP, $162,789. Their dam is a full-sister score. It was two lengths back to Party Dancer (Artie Schiller) in to 2001 GI Kentucky Derby winner (Maria=s Mon). second and Rancor completed the trifecta. Movie Moment is the Lifetime Record: 4-1-0-1, $22,150. Click for the Equibase.com 28th winner from the first crop of Paynter (Awesome Again). chart or VIDEO, sponsored by Fasig-Tipton. Owner/breeder George Krikorian picked up the winner=s dam O-Barry K. Schwartz; B-Peter E. Blum Thoroughbreds, LLC (KY); Starrer for just $35,000 at the 1999 Fasig-Tipton October sale T-Jonathan Thomas.

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2nd-AQU, $70k, Msw, 3yo/up, 1 1/8mT, 1:31 p.m. EDT Sunday, April 8, 2018 Whisper Hill Farm=s 2015 Keeneland September sales-topper 6th-NKY, -13,720,000 ($128k), Allowance, 3yo, 1800m TAPIT HIGH (Tapit) makes his belated debut in this nine-furlong A respectable fifth behind future GSW Mr Melody (Scat Daddy) turf test. Purchased for $2.1 milion, the gray=s second dam is on debut at Tokyo in November in what has become a key race, 1988 GI Kentucky Derby heroine (Caro {Ire}), JASPER WIN (c, 3, Jimmy Creed--Chick Flick, by Tapit) most also the granddam of GI Ashland S. hopeful Eskimo Kisses (To recently overcame a high draw to graduate at Chukyo Jan. 21 Honor and Serve). He shows a steady worktab for trainer John (video, gate 14). A half-brother to SP Flowmotion (Warrior=s Kimmel over the Palm Meadows turf, capped by a half-mile Reward), the $70K KEESEP yearling hails from the female family breeze around dogs in :50 4/5 (13/20) Mar. 31. TJCIS PPs of GISW Behaving Badly (Pioneering). B-Spendthrift Farm LLC

2nd-SA, $54k, Msw, 3yo, 6 1/2fT, 3:00 p.m. EDT 9th-HSN, -36,200,000 ($338k), Open Class, 3yo, 2000mT A few pricey firsters open their accounts in this full field of turf RANDONNEE (f, 3, Blame--Loure, by A.P. Indy) makes her sprinters. Zedan Racing Stables= ALFAREED (Orb) was the fourth- third start in the space of seven weeks, but has yet to set a foot most expensive lot at last May=s Fasig-Tipton Midlantic Sale after wrong. A debut second over 1800m at Tokyo Feb. 18, she selling for $710,000 off of a :10 flat breeze. The dark bay=s handled a stretch out to this distance with aplomb, scoring by second dam is seven-time Grade I winner Sharp Cat (Storm Cat), three front-running lengths at this venue Mar. 17 (video, gate who is also a half-sister to MGISW turfer Royal Anthem 2). A half-sister to SW Do the Dance (Discreet Cat), Randonnee is (Theatrical {Ire}). He completed preparations for this unveiling out of a winning daughter of French Group 3 winner Loving with a local three-furlong bullet work from the gate in :34 2/5 Pride (Quiet American). B-Winchester Farm (KY) (1/23) from the gate Apr. 2. Alex and JoAnn Lieblong=s Scat Big Dad (Scat Daddy) debuts for trainer Richard Mandella. The dark 12th-FKS, -19,950,000 ($186k), Allowance, 4yo/up, 1200mT bay, from the second-to-last crop of his sire, sold for $450,000 SALINERO (f, 4, Uncle Mo--Aguilera, by Unbridled=s Song) cost as a Keeneland September yearling and flashed speed with a connections $350K at the 2016 FTFMAR sale and repaid some of five-furlong gate work in 1:00 2/5 (3/78) here Apr. 1. TJCIS PPs that bill with a first-out success in November 2016 (video, gate --@JBiancaTDN 3). Though she has failed to hit the board in five subsequent appearances, her value has nevertheless been enhanced by the aforementioned Mr Melody, a half-brother to Salinero=s unraced dam, who recently transitioned to turf to win the G3 Falcon S. and could be headed to Group 1 company. B-Gaines-Gentry TBs, John Hardy, Olin Gentry, Jude Thompson & Thomas Gaines (KY)

DID YOU KNOW? IN SINGAPORE: Rushing Fall (More Than Ready) Target, g, 5, War Front--Temperence Gift, by Kingmambo. Kranji, was tabbed as a 4-6, Hcp. ($61k), 1700m (AWT), 1:46.80. B-Dattt Farm LLC (KY). “TDN Rising Star” *Formerly Cockatoo Island. **1/2 to Gozzip Girl (Dynaformer), Visit the TDN Rising Stars section GISW, $814,194; and Lady Tapit (Tapit), GSP. VIDEO TDN RISING STAR in 2YO debut at Del Mar & twice G1-placed as a juvenile, including behind Champion Shanghai Bobby in the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile (G1)

Captured the sire-making King’s Bishop (G1) at Saratoga

First 2YOs this year.

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Havana Gold (Ire) (Teofilo {Ire}), Tweenhills Farm & Stud, $8,500 168 foals of racing age/24 winners/4 black-type winners 5-SA, $150K GIII Providencia S., 1 1/8mT, TREASURING (GB), 10-1 32,000gns TAT FOA wnl

Heavy Breathing (Giant's Causeway), Irish Hill & Dutchess Views Stallions, $2,500 33 foals of racing age/1 winner/0 black-type winners First-/second-crop starters to watch: Saturday, April 7 8-OP, Msw 6f, SAN JUAN DIEGO, 30-1 Farm and fee represent current information $24,000 OBS AUG yrl; $90,000 OBS OPN 2yo Alternation (Distorted Humor), Pin Oak Stud, $7,500 143 foals of racing age/18 winners/0 black-type winners Hunters Bay (Ghostzapper), Adena Springs North, $4,000 9-GP, Msw 6f, ALTER RHYTHM, 8-1 20 foals of racing age/1 winner/0 black-type winners 7-LRL, Msw 5 1/2f, MISS GRAY, 10-1 Animal Kingdom (Leroidesanimaux {Brz}), Jonabell Farm, $35,000 215 foals of racing age/18 winners/3 black-type winners Indian Evening (Indian Charlie), Victory Rose Thoroughbreds 2-SA, Msw 6 1/2f, CALIFORNIA KING, 20-1 36 foals of racing age/5 winners/1 black-type winner $90,000 KEE SEP yrl; $180,000 BAR JUL 2yo 6-GG, Msw 5 1/2f, EVENING JAZZ, 8-5 7-SUN, Msw 6f, WILD WILD KINGDOM, 6-1 6-GG, Msw 5 1/2f, LIL INDIAN ANNIE, 3-1 $52,000 KEE SEP yrl Jimmy Creed (Distorted Humor), Spendthrift Farm, $12,500 Brethren (Distorted Humor), Pleasant Acres Stallions, $6,000 183 foals of racing age/29 winners/4 black-type winners 100 foals of racing age/7 winners/0 black-type winners 9-SA, $1000K GI Santa Anita Derby, 1 1/8m, JIMMY CHILA, 30-1 10-AQU, $750K GII Wood Memorial S. presented by NYRA Bets, $25,000 OBS AUG yrl; $95,000 OBS APR 2yo 1 1/8m, OLD TIME REVIVAL, 6-1 10-KEE, $1000K GII Toyota Blue Grass S., 1 1/8m, KANTHAKA, 10-1 $38,000 RNA FTK JUL yrl; $140,000 BAR MAR 2yo Data Link (War Front), Claiborne Farm, $7,500 11-SA, $400K GI Santa Anita Oaks, 1 1/16m, SPECTATOR, 3-1 186 foals of racing age/14 winners/1 black-type winner 12-GP, Msw 7 1/2fT, DATUM, 8-1 Justin Phillip (First Samurai), Castleton Lyons, $12,500 $85,000 KEE NOV wnl 124 foals of racing age/20 winners/1 black-type winner 2-SA, Msw 6 1/2f, ROSSMAN, 20-1 8-HAW, Msw 5 1/2f, AVA ATTICUS, 9-5 $75,000 KEE SEP yrl $8,500 OBS AUG yrl 9-AQU, $250K GIII Bay Shore S., 7f, JUSTAHOLIC, 8-1 Flat Out (Flatter), Spendthrift Farm, $10,000 $33,000 KEE SEP yrl; $40,000 OBS APR 2yo 230 foals of racing age/29 winners/1 black-type winner 2-AQU, Msw 1 1/8mT, BALLARD HIGH, 2-1 Liaison (Indian Charlie), Spendthrift Farm, $10,000 $110,000 FTK OCT yrl; $220,000 OBS OPN 2yo 166 foals of racing age/18 winners/2 black-type winners 11-KEE, Msw 1 1/16mT, CHATEAU, 50-1 11-SA, $400K GI Santa Anita Oaks, 1 1/16m, THIRTEEN $5,500 FTK OCT yrl SQUARED, 9-2 9-GP, Msw 6f, HELPING LISA D, 6-1 $70,000 KEE SEP yrl Orb (Malibu Moon), Claiborne Farm, $25,000 5-MVR, Alw 6f, SHE'S FLAT OUT, 5-1 195 foals of racing age/16 winners/1 black-type winner $4,500 FTK OCT yrl 2-SA, Msw 6 1/2f, ALFAREED, 6-1 $170,000 FTK OCT yrl; $710,000 EAS MAY 2yo Graydar (Unbridled's Song), Taylor Made Stallions, $15,000 12-GP, Msw 7 1/2fT, KING ORB, 10-1 193 foals of racing age/29 winners/1 black-type winner $300,000 KEE SEP yrl 7-SUN, Msw 6f, LITIGATOR, 10-1 9-SA, $1000K GI Santa Anita Derby, 1 1/8m, ORBIT RAIN, 50-1 $32,000 RNA KEE NOV wnl; $65,000 FTK JUL yrl; $42,000 FTK $110,000 KEE SEP yrl; $95,000 OBS OPN 2yo HRA 2yo 12-GP, Msw 7 1/2fT, OROSCOPO, 12-1

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$75,000 KEE SEP yrl; $325,000 OBS APR 2yo $250,000 KEE SEP yrl 12-GP, Msw 7 1/2fT, SCRAPPER, 9-2 11-KEE, Msw 1 1/16mT, MENACING, 20-1 $100,000 FTS AUG yrl; $600,000 OBS MAR 2yo $100,000 RNA KEE NOV wnl; $175,000 KEE SEP yrl 3-KEE, Msw 6 1/2f, MIMI'S RUBY BOBBY, 30-1 Overanalyze (Dixie Union), WinStar Farm, $10,000 $20,000 KEE NOV wnl; $95,000 KEE SEP yrl; $95,000 RNA OBS 193 foals of racing age/33 winners/5 black-type winners APR 2yo; $7,000 OBS OPN 2yo 10-AQU, $750K GII Wood Memorial S. presented by NYRA Bets, 9-GP, Msw 6f, SHANGHAI SHUFFLE, 5-1 1 1/8m, EVALUATOR, 20-1 $275,000 KEE SEP yrl $30,000 SAR AUG yrl 7-LRL, Msw 5 1/2f, WOLVERETTE, 8-1 7-LRL, Msw 5 1/2f, TOMA, 15-1 $49,000 RNA KEE JAN yrl; $57,000 RNA FTK JUL yrl $5,500 EAS OCT yrl Smiling Tiger (), Harris Farms, $5,000 Paynter (Awesome Again), WinStar Farm, $25,000 125 foals of racing age/11 winners/1 black-type winner 218 foals of racing age/28 winners/1 black-type winner 4-SA, $200K Evening Jewel S., 6 1/2f, SMILING TIGRESS, 4-1 11-KEE, Msw 1 1/16mT, BARTOLOME MURILLO, 30-1 $20,000 BAR OCT yrl $70,000 RNA KEE SEP yrl 4-SA, $200K Evening Jewel S., 6 1/2f, SPICED PERFECTION, 4-1 2-SA, Msw 6 1/2f, PAINT ME LUCKY, 20-1 $6,500 BAR OCT yrl; $50,000 BAR MAR 2yo $21,000 KEE SEP yrl; $250,000 OBS APR 2yo Swagger Jack (Smart Strike), Dana Point Farm, $7,500 Pedro the Great (Henrythenavigator), Haras de la Haie Neuve, 10 foals of racing age/2 winners/0 black-type winners $3,000 5-LRL, Msw 5 1/2f, VIRGINIA FABLE, 10-1 72 foals of racing age/11 winners/2 black-type winners 5-SA, $150K GIII Providencia S., 1 1/8mT, FATALE BERE (FR), 6-1 Take Charge Indy (A.P. Indy), Kor, $20,000 i14,000 OSL ATE yrl 202 foals of racing age/37 winners/5 black-type winners 11-SA, $400K GI Santa Anita Oaks, 1 1/16m, FINESS BERE (FR), 15-1 9-KEE, $500K GI Central Bank Ashland S., 1 1/16m, C. S. i20,000 OSL ATE yrl; i90,000 ARA RC 2yo INCHARGE, 10-1 6-GP, Aoc 7 1/2fT, FOREVER TAKEN, 10-1 Point of Entry (Dynaformer), Adena Springs, $25,000 $40,000 KEE SEP yrl 147 foals of racing age/17 winners/2 black-type winners 11-KEE, Msw 1 1/16mT, KILRONAN, 20-1 Trinniberg (), Rockridge Stud, $7,500 $35,000 KEE SEP yrl 23 foals of racing age/4 winners/1 black-type winner 9-AQU, $250K GIII Bay Shore S., 7f, AQUA BEL SAR, 30-1 Poseidon's Warrior (Speightstown), Pleasant Acres Stallions, $6,500 101 foals of racing age/10 winners/1 black-type winner Violence (Medaglia d'Oro), Hill 'n' Dale Farms, $15,000 10-AQU, $750K GII Wood Memorial S. presented by NYRA Bets, 248 foals of racing age/44 winners/5 black-type winners 1 1/8m, FIRENZE FIRE, 6-1 9-GP, Msw 6f, BEACH GIRL, 4-1 $55,000 KEE SEP yrl; $165,000 OBS APR 2yo Rattlesnake Bridge (Tapit), Hartley/De Renzo Thoroughbreds| 8-LRL, Aoc 6f, OH HECK YEAH, 5-1 LLC, $7,500 $3,000 KEE SEP yrl; $15,000 EAS MAY 2yo 92 foals of racing age/7 winners/0 black-type winners 3-KEE, Msw 6 1/2f, RIZZOLI, 3-1 4-MVR, Alw 6f, SEVEN LILIES, 8-5 8-LRL, Aoc 6f, THREE HAWK, 8-1 $16,000 RNA OBS MAR 2yo DID YOU KNOW? Shanghai Bobby (Harlan's Holiday), Ashford Stud, $20,000 Unique Bella (Tapit) 237 foals of racing age/22 winners/3 black-type winners was tabbed as a 3-HAW, Msw 1m, AVIATING, 3-1 “TDN Rising Star” 8-OP, Msw 6f, BOBBY JACK, 15-1 Visit the TDN Rising Stars section $12,000 FTK OCT yrl; $30,000 OBS APR 2yo 10-KEE, $1000K GII Toyota Blue Grass S., 1 1/8m, GOTTA GO, 30-1 TDN REGIONAL REPORT • PAGE 8 OF 9 • THETDN.COM SATURDAY • APRIL 7, 2018

$79,545. O-Kelly Brinkerhoff; B-Westwind Farms (KY); T-Val Brinkerhoff. *$67,000 Ylg '16 KEESEP. **1/2 to B G Suavecito (Suave), SW, $103,424; and Latent Revenge (Latent Heat), GSP, $221,146.

6th-LRL, $50,442, 4-6, (NW1X), 3yo/up, 5 1/2f, 1:03.59, ft. ALLOWANCE RESULTS: BESTKINDOFTROUBLE (g, 4, Shackleford--Fancy Diamond {SW, 8th-OP, $83,000, (NW1$Y+X)/Opt. Clm ($45,000), 4-6, 4yo/up, $276,695}, by Eastern Echo) Lifetime Record: 8-3-1-2, $106,424. 6f, 1:10.32, sy. O-Cynthia McGinnes & Francis Clemens; B-Charles McGinnes MATROOH (g, 8, Distorted Humor--Rockcide, by Personal Flag) (MD); T-Timothy L. Keefe. *$9,500 RNA Ylg '15 EASOCT. Lifetime Record: GSW & GISP, 22-7-1-3, $419,429. O-Crystal Racing Enterprises and Contreras Stable Inc.; B-WinStar Farm, 7th-GP, $41,000, (C)/Opt. Clm ($62,500), 4-6, 3yo/up, f/m, LLC (KY); T-Cipriano Contreras. *$550,000 Ylg '11 KEESEP. **1/2 7 1/2fT, 1:28.83, fm. to Rule (Roman Ruler), MGSW & MGISP, $1,162,350. PRINCESS GIBRALTAR (FR) (m, 5, Rock of Gibraltar {Ire}-- Princess Sofia {UAE}, by Pennekamp) Lifetime Record: SW-Ger & SP-Fr & US, 12-4-0-2, $103,488. O-Stella Thayer and Linda & 4th-AQU, $80,000, (NW2$X)/Opt. Clm ($62,500), 4-6, 4yo/up, Leverett Miller; B-Jean-Francois Gribomont (FR); T-Christophe f/m, 6fT, 1:10.18, fm. Clement. *i200,000 Ylg '14 ARAUG. **Full to Prince of Gibraltar TOUCH OF BLING (m, 5, Tale of the Cat--Got Bling {MSP}, by (Fr), G1SW, $822,689. Langfuhr) Lifetime Record: 19-4-6-1, $229,733. O-Three Diamonds Farm; B-Langsem Farm, Inc (OH); T-Michael J. Maker. 6th-PEN, $28,000, 4-5, (NW1X), 4yo/up, f/m, 1 1/16m, 1:48.06, ft. *$100,000 Ylg '14 KEESEP. AMANDA'S BEST (m, 6, Best of the Rest--American Hour, by American Chance) Lifetime Record: 41-8-12-3, $135,089. 2nd-KEE, $78,000, (NW2$X)/Opt. Clm ($62,500), 4-6, 4yo/up, O-James C. Wolf; B-Allen Kinard (SC); T-Timothy C. Kreiser. f/m, 6 1/2f, 1:17.13, ft. KIRBY'S PENNY (m, 5, Macho Uno--Spirit Seeker {MSP, 8th-EVD, $27,880, (C)/Opt. Clm ($30,000), 4-5, 4yo/up, f/m, $224,189}, by Peace Rules) Lifetime Record: 11-6-2-0, 5 1/2f, 1:04.26, ft. $218,916. O-Kent Spellman; B-Hidden Springs Farm (KY); OVERTHEGARDENGATE (m, 5, Forefathers-- T-Wesley A. Ward. *$70,000 Ylg '14 KEESEP; $75,000 RNA 2yo Thruthegardengate, by Lydgate) Lifetime Record: 20-7-5-2, '15 OBSMAR; $50,000 2yo '15 EASMAY. $193,480. O/B-Dede McGehee (LA); T-W. Bret Calhoun.

7th-AQU, $66,000, (S), 4-6, (NW1$X), 4yo/up, f/m, 6fT, 1:10.96, fm. 3rd-GG, $27,648 (NW1$X)/Opt. Clm ($40,000), 4-6, 3yo, PURRAGEOUS DYNA (f, 4, Courageous Cat--Dyna Vision, by City 1 1/16m (AWT), 1:46.92, ft. Zip) Lifetime Record: 6-2-2-0, $73,930. O-Hibernia Farm; B-Barry TORTOSA (c, 3, Cape Blanco {Ire}--Dalian, by Lemon Drop Kid) R Ostrager (NY); T-Edward T Allard. *$7,500 RNA Wlg '14 Lifetime Record: 7-2-3-0, $49,185. O/B-Edward & Theresa FTNMIX. DeNike (KY); T-Jose Bautista.

7th-SA, $57,725, (S), 4-5, (NW1$X), 3yo/up, f/m, 1mT, 1:35.39, 6th-CT, $24,000, (S), 4-5, (NW2L), 3yo/up, 7f, 1:27.72, ft. fm. OWEN'S WAY (c, 3, Scat Daddy--Holly's Way {SW, $197,743}, SPEAKERS (f, 4, Unusual Heat--Wallis of Windsor, by Wavering by Seattle Fitz {Arg}) Lifetime Record: 9-2-2-0, $37,619. Monarch) Lifetime Record: 10-2-3-0, $104,940. O-Eclipse O/B-James Franklin Miller (WV); T-Kevin J. Joy. *$22,000 RNA Thoroughbred Partners; B-M. Auerbach, L.L.C. (CA); T-Patrick Ylg '16 FTKOCT. Gallagher. *$75,000 Ylg '15 BARSEL. **Full to Beltene, SW, $195,508 7th-HAW, $21,528, 4-5, (NW1$X), 3yo/up, f/m, 5 1/2f, 1:02.75, ft. MIZ CLIPPER (f, 4, --Silver Clipper, by Silver 3rd-SA, $56,690, (NW1$X)/Opt. Clm ($75,000), 4-6, 3yo, Deputy) Lifetime Record: 9-3-3-2, $55,220. O-William Stiritz; 6 1/2fT, 1:13.63, fm. B-Alfonso Figliolia (FL); T-Scott Becker. *$23,000 Ylg '15 RESTRAINEDVENGENCE (g, 3, Hold Me Back--Cupids Revenge OBSAUG. **1/2 to Silver Cloud (Rahy), SW & MSP, $281,822; {MSW, $215,694}, by Red Ransom) Lifetime Record: 5-2-1-0, and Piloting (Tapit), SP, $196,608. TDN REGIONAL REPORT • PAGE 9 OF 9 • THETDN.COM SATURDAY • APRIL 7, 2018

6th-TAM, $21,000, (NW2X)/Opt. Clm ($32,000), 4-6, 4yo/up, 1m 40y, 1:43.81, ft. FOALING NEWS sponsored by ARCHANOVA (g, 5, Archarcharch--Toscanova, by Giant's Causeway) Lifetime Record: MSP, 18-3-3-4, $140,954. O-Peter Edwards & Diamond M Stable; B-Gainesway Thoroughbreds Ltd. (KY); T-Ian R. Wilkes. *$40,000 Ylg '14 FTKJUL.

ADDITIONAL MAIDEN WINNERS: Notnthemoodforthat, f, 3, Smoke Warning--Actual Charges, by Peruvian. HAW, 4-5, (S), 5 1/2f, 1:04.50. B-Smokey Creek Farm (IL). Lite the Storm, g, 3, Stormy's Majesty--Miss Cheetah, by Lite LAKEVILLE, 19, Evansville Slew--Feathers of Hope, by the Fuse. CT, 4-5, (S), 4 1/2f, :52.78. B-Maurice F. Casey (WV). Dynaformer Leroy, g, 4, Big Bad Leroybrown--Could She, by Lear Fan. SA, Foal born Feb. 25, a filly by Vancouver (Aus) 4-5, (S), 6f, 1:12.12. B-Old English Rancho, Sal & Patsy Berumen Owned by Paula K. Taube (CA). *1ST-TIME STARTER. **1/2 to He Will (Cyclotron), SW & Boarded at Dove Crossing Thoroughbreds GSP, $374,964. Accomplishments: MSW, $100,775 Dhafeera (GB), f, 4, Shamardal--Anqooda, by Oasis Dream (GB). SA, 4-6, 1mT, 1:40.25. B-Shadwell Estate Company Limited JOY, 8, Pure Prize--Safe Journey, by Flatter (GB). *8,500gns 3yo '17 TATJUL. Foal born Feb. 26, a colt by Malibu Moon Yerevan Song, g, 4, Thorn Song--Yerevan Storm, by Tactical Cat. Will be bred back to GG, 4-6, 6f (AWT), 1:11.31. B-Bud Petrosian (CA). *1/2 to Owned by/boarded at Dark Hollow farm Family Code (Desert Code), SP, $190,120. Accomplishments: MSW, $250,544.

ARCHARCHARCH, Archanova, g, 5, o/o Toscanova, by Giant's SHAMARDAL, Dhafeera (GB), f, 4, o/o Anqooda, by Oasis Dream Causeway. AOC, 4-6, Tampa Bay (GB). MSW, 4-6, Santa Anita BEST OF THE REST, Amanda's Best, m, 6, o/o American Hour, by SHANGHAI BOBBY, Shanghaied Roo, c, 2, o/o Hollye Lynne, by American Chance. ALW, 4-5, Penn National Uncle Abbie. MSW, 4-6, Keeneland BIG BAD LEROYBROWN, Leroy, g, 4, o/o Could She, by Lear Fan. SMART STRIKE, Electric, f, 4, o/o Mon Belle, by Maria's Mon. MSW, 4-5, Santa Anita MSW, 4-6, Tampa Bay BODEMEISTER, Heidi's Wish, f, 3, o/o Pro Pink, by Touch Gold. SMOKE WARNING, Notnthemoodforthat, f, 3, o/o Actual MSW, 4-6, Oaklawn Park Charges, by Peruvian. MSW, 4-5, Hawthorne CAPE BLANCO (IRE), Tortosa, c, 3, o/o Dalian, by Lemon Drop STORMY'S MAJESTY, Lite the Storm, g, 3, o/o Miss Cheetah, by Kid. AOC, 4-6, Golden Gate Lite the Fuse. MSW, 4-5, Charles Town CIRCULAR QUAY, Miz Clipper, f, 4, o/o Silver Clipper, by Silver TALE OF THE CAT, Touch of Bling, m, 5, o/o Got Bling, by Deputy. ALW, 4-5, Hawthorne Langfuhr. AOC, 4-6, Aqueduct COURAGEOUS CAT, Purrageous Dyna, f, 4, o/o Dyna Vision, by TAPIT, Almithmaar, g, 3, o/o Gotta Have Her, by Royal Academy. City Zip. ALW, 4-6, Aqueduct MSW, 4-6, Keeneland DISTORTED HUMOR, Matrooh, g, 8, o/o Rockcide, by Personal THORN SONG, Yerevan Song, g, 4, o/o Yerevan Storm, by Flag. AOC, 4-6, Oaklawn Park Tactical Cat. MSW, 4-6, Golden Gate FOREFATHERS, Overthegardengate, m, 5, o/o UNUSUAL HEAT, Speakers, f, 4, o/o Wallis of Windsor, by Thruthegardengate, by Lydgate. AOC, 4-5, Evangeline Wavering Monarch. ALW, 4-5, Santa Anita HARD SPUN, Compass Zone, g, 4, o/o Turn Away, by Empire YES IT'S TRUE, True Saint, c, 2, o/o Girlsasaint, by Saint Liam. Maker. ALW, 4-6, Keeneland MSW, 4-6, Keeneland HARLAN'S HOLIDAY, Holiday Disguise, f, 4, o/o Thin Disguise, by Yes It's True. Distaff H., 4-6, Aqueduct HEY CHUB, Brother Chub, g, 6, o/o Sassy Broad, by Arch. AOC, 4-6, Laurel Park HOLD ME BACK, Restrainedvengence, g, 3, o/o Cupids Revenge, by Red Ransom. AOC, 4-6, Santa Anita KANTHAROS, Sister Kan, f, 4, o/o Sister Charlie, by Indian Charlie. AOC, 4-6, Keeneland MACHO UNO, Kirby's Penny, m, 5, o/o Spirit Seeker, by Peace Rules. AOC, 4-6, Keeneland MALIBU MOON, Most Amusing, c, 3, o/o Comic Marvel, by Distorted Humor. MSW, 4-6, Santa Anita MINESHAFT, Earned Success, g, 3, o/o Valiant Passion, by Lion Heart. MSW, 4-6, Aqueduct PAYNTER, Movie Moment, f, 3, o/o Starrer, by Dynaformer. MSW, 4-6, Santa Anita POINT OF ENTRY, Analyze It, c, 3, o/o Sweet Assay, by Consolidator. Kentucky Utilities Transylvania S., 4-6, Keeneland PROUD CITIZEN, Hold Her Tight, f, 3, o/o Langcita, by Langfuhr. AOC, 4-6, Keeneland ROCK OF GIBRALTAR (IRE), Princess Gibraltar (Fr), m, 5, o/o Princess Sofia (Uae), by Pennekamp. AOC, 4-6, Gulfstream Park SCAT DADDY, Owen's Way, c, 3, o/o Holly's Way, by Seattle Fitz (Arg). ALW, 4-5, Charles Town SHACKLEFORD, Bestkindoftrouble, g, 4, o/o Fancy Diamond, by Eastern Echo. ALW, 4-6, Laurel Park Holiday Disguise became the 49th graded stakes winner for the late Harlan=s Holiday with her win in the GIII Distaff H. Friday | C. Durand .

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ASTUTE AGENT HAS FRENCH FRESHMAN SIRES UNDER THE SPOTLIGHT By Emma Berry GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE Despite the nascent stage of the Flat season, there have already been 11 freshman sires in Europe represented by runners. Rathasker Stud's Bungle Inthejungle (GB) has been the quickest out of the gates, with two winners from his eight runners. His counterparts have had just one or two runners each, including two French-based first-season sires, Olympic Glory (Ire) and Sommerabend (GB). There's a quintet of stallions in France with first-crop runners this year and it seems fair to expect Al Shaqab's Olympic Glory to play a major part in the freshman championship in Europe. Anecdotally, his yearlings were well liked by breeders and buyers, and he received strong support from the start, covering 167 in his first season at Haras de Bouquetot, followed by 119 and 160. His first-year tally made him the busiest new stallion in France in 2015, and behind only Rajsaman (Fr), Le Havre (Ire), Siyouni Nicolas de Chambure, Nicolas Lefevre (Fr), Evasive and the now National Hunt-orientated Rail Link (GB) and Louis Le Metayer | Sharon Chapman overall. Olympic Glory's popularity is hardly surprising. His sire Choisir (Aus) has been a hugely dependable source of precocity and speed since his retirement in 2004, and he has been sadly Q&A by Kelsey Riley absent from Coolmore's northern hemisphere division since the A little more than five years after launching Astute Bloodstock year of Olympic Glory's retirement. Starspangledbanner (Aus), in Sydney, Frenchman Louis Le Metayer has enjoyed success another son of Choisir, made an eye-catching start to his stud with horses purchased both domestically and overseas. A career despite widely publicised fertility issues, and supplied Al highlight came just last month when European imports Harlem Shaqab with his first-crop Group 1-winning son The Wow Signal (GB) (Champs Elysees {GB}) and Ventura Storm (Ire) (Zoffany (Ire), who sadly died last month. Meanwhile, another of Choisir's {Ire}) finished first and third in the G1 Australian Cup. TDN top-class juvenile colts, The Last Lion (Ire), retired to Darley after International Editor Kelsey Riley caught up with Le Metayer as his busy sole season which started with his Brocklesby win and he prepares to shop the Inglis Easter Yearling Sale to talk about a ended with victory in the G1 Middle Park S. wide range of topics from Australian speed and the shuttle Olympic Glory's own career lasted for a season longer but also stallion debate to finding value at sales. started and ended with a win, the first on debut at Goodwood at two, with his swansong coming in the G1 Prix de la Foret. In the KR: You=re from France and have worked all over the world in interim, the good-looking bay strung together a CV which the racing and bloodstock industries. Why did you decide to included the G1 Prix Jean-Luc Lagardere, G1 Queen Elizabeth II base your business in Australia? S., G1 Lockinge S., G2 Superlative S., G2 Vintage S., and G3 Greenham S. Cont. p2 LLM: I grew up on Haras du Buff in France so was fortunate to grow up around horses, and have worked all over the world in IN TDN AMERICA TODAY the Thoroughbred industry. My parents encouraged me to travel so I spent time in England, Ireland, America and South Africa. SUPER SATURDAY STATESIDE When I first arrived in Australia it was supposed to be for six Saturday’s action in the US features Triple Crown prep races in New York, Los Angeles and, weather permitting, Central months and I wasn=t planning on staying much longer, but it just Kentucky. Click or tap here to go straight to TDN America. felt like a very interesting vibe. Cont. pxx TDN EUROPE/INTERNATIONAL • PAGE 2 OF 9 • THETDN.COM SATURDAY • 7 APRIL, 2018

French Freshman Sires Under The Spotlight cont. One of Olympic Glory's fellow challengers for leading French freshman honours is Haras du Quesnay's Anodin (Ire). It would His immediate family is not heavily imbued with black type but have been nigh on impossible for him to have emulated the his bottom line traces back to one of the finest broodmares of extraordinary feats of his illustrious elder sister Goldikova (Ire), the post-war era, the Moller brothers' Violetta III, ancestress in but he came within a length of claiming the race she made her the modern era of top-level winners Sir Percy (GB), Rule Of Law own when finishing second to Karakontie (Jpn) in the GI and Montare (Ire). In short, there's plenty to like about Olympic Breeders' Cup Mile at Santa Anita, and also took runner-up slots Glory. to (GB) in the G1 Prix Jacques le Marois and Cirrus Des Though standing in France, plenty of his first 2-year-olds have Aigles (Fr) in the G1 Prix d'Ispahan, having won the G3 Prix Paul made their way into yards in Britain and Ireland, with his former Moussac at three. trainer Richard Hannon unsurprisingly having recruited at least Anodin followed his sire Anabaa to the Head family's stud and five for his stable, while other trainers of his young stock include was another to receive decent support in 2015, when he Mark Johnston, Ger Lyons, Richard Hughes, William Haggas, covered 138 mares. Since then his books have dropped to 107 James Fanshawe, David Barron, Brian Meehan and Karl Burke. and 86. Of that first crop, 62 yearlings sold last year for an average of 18,538gns or i22,277 and top price of i150,000 from an initial fee of i7,500. Fewer of his yearlings were sold outside France, but Archie Watson, Karl Burke, John Berry and David Menuisier are among the British trainers with an Anodin 2-year-old, while at home his juveniles are widely spread, including with Jean-Claude Rouget, Eric Libaud, Carlos Laffon-Parias, Christophe Ferland and Didier Guillemin. Farther afield, young Spanish trainer Patrick Olave Valdivelso, who spent several seasons assisting Francois Rohaut, is training the colt Dom Alvaro (Spa) in Madrid. Anodin's former trainer Freddy Head has been assigned a Wertheimer-bred half-brother to listed winner Enlighted (Ire) ( {Ire}), named Anecdotic, among the four by the stallion in his stable. Sommerabend (GB) was a typically durable graduate of the elite German breeding establishment Gestut Schlenderhan, remaining in training until the age of seven and winning nine of Olympic Glory at Haras de Bouquetot | Zuzanna Lupa 29 starts. His seven stakes victories included the G2 Europa In France, Fabrice Chappet, who can usually be relied upon to Meile and G2 Prix du Muguet, also over a mile. have plenty of juvenile winners, is listed as having seven Olympic Glory youngsters in his Lamorlaye yard, while Henri-Francois Devin, Jean-Claude Rouget, Francois Rohaut, Pia Brandt, Francis Graffard and Antoine de Watrigant are also on the training roll. Christophe Ferland will train Al Shaqab's Olympic Glory filly out of the GI Breeders' Cup Turf Sprint winner Mizdirection (Mizzen Mast), while Andre Fabre will guide the career of a colt in the same colours, a son of the G2 Windsor Forest S. winner Strawberrydaiquiri (GB) (Dansili {GB}). Last yearling season, a top price of 180,000gns was paid for Al Daiha (GB), a daughter of Alpen Glen (GB) (Halling) and thus a half-sister to the stakes-placed trio of Montalbano (GB), Glade (GB) and Indian Sommerabend | Haras de Saint Arnoult Blessing (GB), bred by Jocelyn Targett. In total, Olympic Glory's 77 yearlings to pass through a sales ring returned an average of The son of Shamardal out of the listed-winning Monsun (Ger) 42,240gns or i51,892 (including vendor buy-backs) from an mare Sommernacht (Ger) retired to Larissa Kneip's Haras de opening fee of i15,000, which was reduced to i12,000 for Saint Arnoult for a i3,500-a fee which has dropped to i2,500 2018. for this year-and covered 68 mares in his first year, followed by 64 and 50 in the ensuing seasons. TDN EUROPE/INTERNATIONAL • PAGE 3 OF 9 • THETDN.COM SATURDAY • 7 APRIL, 2018

French Freshmen Sires cont. He had his first runner, Storm Katy (Fr), who is owned and trained by Kneip, at Chantilly on Tuesday, but we can expect to see more from his offspring as they mature. Only 22 Sommerabend yearlings came onto the market last year, selling for an average of 8,782gns or i10,556, with Tina Rau paying the top price of i45,000 for a half-brother to the multiple graded stakes winner Itsinthepost (Fr) (American Post {GB}) at Arqana's October Sale. Another admirable campaigner to have raced until he was seven is Joshua Tree (Ire), a son of Montjeu (Ire) who was sharp Vice President, International Operations Gary King enough to win the G2 Royal Lodge S. at two for Aidan O'Brien Twitter: @garykingTDN and then pulled off the perhaps unique feat of winning the same [email protected] Grade 1 contest, Woodbine's Canadian International, three + 1.732.320.0975 times for three different trainers-O'Brien, Marco Botti and Ed Dunlop. He also finished second in the 2011 Canadian International Editor International to the John Hammond-trained Sarah Lynx (Ire), Kelsey Riley sparking a Montjeu quinella. Sons of Montjeu are feted in the Twitter: @kelseynrileyTDN National Hunt world and Joshua Tree will doubtless pick up [email protected] plenty of AQPS mares. Indeed, his book sizes at Haras du Grand i European Editor Courgeon, where he started at a fee of 2,500, have taken an Emma Berry upward curve, starting with 47 in 2015, then rising to 111 and Twitter: @collingsberry 131. Three members of his first crop are in training with [email protected] Henri-Alex Pantall, including Moudir (Fr), a son of the listed winner Mayyadah (Ire) (Invincible Spirit {Ire}) who is owned by Associate International Editor Sheikh Abdullah Bin Khalifa Al Thani. Heather Anderson Dubawi's globetrotting G1 Deutsches Derby winner Waldpark Twitter: @HLAndersonTDN (Ger), whose half-sister Waldmark (Ger) (Mark Of Esteem {Ire}) is the dam of G1 St Leger winner Masked Marvel (GB) (Montjeu Marketing Manager {Ire}), returned to Europe after a stint in Australia with Anthony Alayna Cullen Twitter: @AlaynaCullen Freedman. Taking up stud duties at Haras du Thenney, he [email protected] started out for a fee of i3,000 and covered a book of 51 mares in his debut season. His level of patronage rose to 76 and 75 in Contributing Editor 2016 and 2017. Marc Pimbonnet sent out Waldpark's first Alan Carasso runner, Lady Arkadina (Fr), to finish third at Lyon Parilly on Twitter: @EquinealTDN Thursday, but, like Sommerabend, we can expect to see more from his runners later in the season. Cafe Racing Sean Cronin Tom Frary [email protected] SPRINTING CAMPAIGN FOR BARRAQUERO Irish Correspondent By Chris McGrath Daithi Harvey Barraquero (Ire) (Zebedee {GB}) was on Friday definitively Regular Columnists ruled out of the G1 QIPCO 2000 Guineas picture by Brian Andrew Caulfield Meehan, who will now prepare him for a sprinting campaign John Berry instead. The G2 Qatar Richmond S. winner, sidelined by a shin Kevin Blake issue after his Goodwood success, was to have been given the Tom Peacock opportunity of testing the Classic water in the G3 Greatwood Greenham S. at Newbury on April 21. Cont. p4 TDN EUROPE/INTERNATIONAL • PAGE 4 OF 9 • THETDN.COM SATURDAY • 7 APRIL, 2018

Barraquero cont. A minor but untimely hold-up had put that plan in doubt, FIRST-SEASON SIRES however, and now the decision has been made to switch to Plan WITH RUNNERS B. "It's just been too difficult to get the necessary work into him so we've decided to wait for the [G2] Sandy Lane at Haydock Saturday April 7: with a view to running in the [G1] Commonwealth Cup at Royal UNITED KINGDOM: Ascot," Meehan explained. Heeraat (IRE) (Dark Angel {Ire}), Mickley Stud Asked whether the disappointment could ultimately prove a 71 foals of racing age/0 winners/0 black-type winners blessing in disguise, given doubts about the colt's ability to see 13:30-KEMPTON PARK, 5f, ARBUCKLE (GB) out a mile, the Manton trainer replied, "You could have a little bit of that at the back of your mind but it's more about his condition, really. We have tried everything to get him ready-and he's just not going to be. He's sound, he's working, but he's just not there yet.@ "When he coughed three weeks ago I thought we'd be okay, there was still that window of time. But he coughed after working again the other day so we've decided just to back off and change the plan." Whatever he may yet achieve, Barraquero already looks well bought at ,30,000, by Sam Sangster, from the Goffs UK Premier Yearling Sale at Doncaster in 2016. "He's done extremely well over the winter," Meehan stressed. "He's bigger and stronger than he was last August, his weight is good and he's moving well. But while he's doing all the right things, I'm just not 110 per cent happy."

Heeraat is the only first season sire represented in Europe on Saturday | Mickley Stud

Friday=s Results: 7th-LIN, ,5,800, Cond, 4-6, 3yo/up, f/m, 10f (AWT), 2:05.18, st. ALBIZZIA (GB) (f, 4, Archipenko--Altitude {GB}, by Green Desert), who was fourth on her sole start over an extended mile a year ago at Leicester, broke slowly and languished in rear receiving wake-up calls along the way. Finding her stride in the home straight, the 15-8 favourite surged down the inner to overwhelm Juneau (Ire) (Dubawi {Ire}) in the final yards and wonn a shade cosily by a half length. Altitude is a descendant of Kirsten Rausing=s incredible matriarch Alruccabaa (Ire) (Crystal Palace {Fr}), whose achievements in the paddocks have Barraquero winning at Goodwood last year | Racing Post Photo bestowed legendary status upon her. Bought with her friend Sonia Rogers of Airlie Stud for just 19,000gns in 1985, the grey FIND US ON FACEBOOK mare is the head of a dynasty of stars including Aussie Rules www.facebook.com/thoroughbreddailynews (Danehill), Alborada (GB) (Alzao), Quarter Moon (Ire) (Sadler=s Wells) and her full-sister Yesterday (Ire). Cont. p5 FOLLOW THE CROWD

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7th-LIN, cont. Her influence goes on and on, with new members of the family looking to add more gravitas being Ballydoyle=s exciting 3-year- old colt Amedeo Modigliani (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}), last year=s ADDITIONAL MAIDEN WINNERS: G2 Ribblesdale S. winner Coronet (GB) (Dubawi {Ire}) and her Tresorerie (Fr), f, 3, Intello (Ger)--Treasure (Fr) (SW & GSP-Fr, 3-year-old half-brother and fellow John Gosden trainee $102,145), by Anabaa. SPV, 4-6, 10fT, 2:10.29. B-Haras du Photographer (GB) (New Approach {Ire}). Next up from the dam Quesnay (FR). *i52,000 2yo >17 ARQNOV. is an as-yet unraced 3-year-old filly named Alsamara (GB) by Chanpour (Fr), c, 3, Le Havre (Ire)--Cherana (Fr), by Sinndar (Ire). Photographer=s sire and a 2-year-old daughter of SPV, 4-6, 12fT. 2:39.27. B-H H The Aga Khan=s Studs SC (FR). Leroidesanimaux (Brz) named Alpine Air (GB). Sales history: Aubevoye (Fr), c, 3, Le Havre (Ire)--Keira (Fr), by Turtle Bowl 35,000gns RNA Ylg >15 TAOCT. Lifetime Record: 2-1-0-0, $5,614. (Ire). SPV, 4-6, 10fT, 2:10.39. B-Franklin Finance SA & Mme Video, sponsored by Fasig-Tipton. Elisabeth Vidal (FR). O-Miss E. K. E. Rausing; B-Miss K. Rausing (GB); T-Ralph Beckett.

Astute Agent Has Global Perspective cont. from p1 Friday=s Result: It felt like it was booming and on the rise. I also didn=t want to 1st-DUN, i16,000, Mdn, 4-6, 2yo, 5f (AWT), 1:02.23, st. be in competition with my family; my mother runs the farm and OFFLINE (IRE) (c, 2, Requinto {Ire}--Poppy=s Rose {GB}, by Diktat my brother has a bloodstock business in France so I just wanted {GB}), who traded as the 15-8 favourite, missed the break and to do my own thing and create my own identity in the market. was detached in last early. Travelling into contention strongly at I was lucky enough to work for four years for Lindsay Park and the top of the straight, the bay struck the front approaching the four years for Arrowfield, and that gave me a really good base to furlong pole and stayed on to secure a 3 1/2-length success from understand the industry and make good contacts. It was Cedars of Lebanon (Ire) (Dandy Man {Ire}). The dam, who also probably the best start, to work for a great trainer and a very has a yearling full-sister to the winner, is a daughter of the successful stud farm. listed-placed sprinter Perfect Peach (GB) (Lycius) whose own I started my own business in January 2013 and started very dam was the fast listed scorer Perfect Timing (GB) (Comedy small and slowly. Now we=ve had a couple big results. Our first Star). Sales history: i4,800 RNA Wlg >16 GOFNOV; i2,000 RNA yearling that won a stakes races was called My Country (Aus) Ylg >17 GBSOCT. Lifetime Record: 1-1-0-0, $12,064. Video, (Poet=s Voice {GB}) [A$140,000 yearling]. That helped me to get sponsored by Fasig-Tipton. a few more clients on board. Then we had a horse called Wolf O-Mrs Christina Phelan; B-M. Phelan (IRE); T-Andrew Slattery. Cry (Ire) (Street Cry {Ire}) [A$320,000 yearling] who turned out to be a group performer as a 2-year-old, so we started with CONDITIONS RESULT: small numbers but high quality, and that is what has been our 3rd-DUN, i17,000, 4-6, 3yo, 7f (AWT), 1:28.29, st. philosophy. MASUCCI (IRE) (g, 3, Zoffany {Ire}--Meeting In Paris {Ire}, by Dutch Art {GB}) Lifetime Record: 5-2-0-1, $27,526. O-Sean KR: You have had a lot of success especially lately with Jones; B-A. R. W. Marsh (IRE); T-Ger Lyons. *i85,000 Wlg >15 European imports you purchased. We know that demand from GOFNOV; i90,000 Ylg >16 TIRSEP. the likes of Australia and the Middle East is pushing up the prices of these horses; is there a way to find value in the tried The wet weather continues to play havoc with Irish and British horse market? racing fixtures and Sunday=s flat card at Naas has been cancelled. However Horse Racing Ireland have reacted quickly LLM: The tried horse market is very interesting. I spend three and rescheduled it for Friday April 13. Fresh entries will close by months of the year in France--all of July, August and October-- 12 noon on Monday April 9 with declarations as normal to be and my assistant, Nicolas Lefevre, is there from Royal Ascot to made by 10a.m. on Thursday. In respect of the G3 Gladness S. Christmas basically. and the G3 Toals.com Alleged S., these two races will revert I don=t think you can find value in the horses in training back to entry stage and fresh forfeits/supplementary entries for market. Having said that, if you find the right horse it will pay for both races must be made by 12 noon on Monday 9 April. itself in Australia because the prizemoney is so good. Cont. p6 TDN EUROPE/INTERNATIONAL • PAGE 6 OF 9 • THETDN.COM SATURDAY • 7 APRIL, 2018

When you buy horses in training you realize eight horses out of LLM: The market is going up and up and up and we=re finding it 10 fail the vet. That doesn=t mean they can=t race, but if you=re is harder to buy the top yearlings. Having said that, Nicolas and I going to pay a lot of money for a horse and you know it has look at 7,000 yearlings a year between Australia and Europe. It is something that could become an issue, you have to decide hard to find value but when you look at so many horses you=re whether to take the risk. Also, a lot of the top European horses bound to find some that fall through the cracks. If you only look are not suited to Australian racing. Here, we have tight tracks at the Redoute=s Choices, Snitzels and Fastnet Rocks, it would be with short home straights. We have fast ground and we find that hard to find value. But if you look at every single horse on the a lot of horses in Europe are not suited to that. The challenge is market and you=re looking for only one thing, which is a superior to find a horse that one, is very good; two, is buyable; three, athlete, every now and then there=s going to be a nice horse that passes the vet; and four, has the physical attributes to suit you can buy at a reasonable price. We often find the horses we Australia. When you put all those factors together, it=s a huge prefer as yearlings are not necessarily that expensive in elimination process and you end up with very few options. comparison to some of their peers. I think your value comes by doing your legwork and having a wide net and making sure you=ve had every single horse out of its box and looked at. Now we have all this information on our iPads and every time a horse wins a race we can go back and look at our notes. We learn from that and we find there are specific comments that we write on our books that keep coming up when we look back two years down the road. You=re always learning about what defines a superior athlete. And sometimes there are horses that don=t look like much of an athlete but they have the heart and the will to win and that=s the hardest thing to identify.

IF YOU LOOK AT EVERY SINGLE HORSE ON THE MARKET AND YOU’RE LOOKING Harlem | Darren Tindale FOR ONE THING, A SUPERIOR ATHLETE, So, if you find the right horse that ticks all the boxes, we=re quite happy to pay a big price for them. Harlem (GB) (Champs EVERY NOW AND THEN THERE’S GOING Elysees {GB}) cost about a million dollars [520,000gns], but has TO BE A NICE HORSE YOU CAN BUY AT earned about A$1.4-million in prizemoney [since arriving in Australia]. So while it looks very expensive at the time, it=s A REASONABLE PRICE. actually good value. The first horse we bought out of Europe was Louis Le Metayer called Pilote d=Essai (GB) (Oasis Dream {GB}). We bought him for about ,250,000, and he=s won the Ballarat Cup and the Pakenham Cup, and he basically reimbursed himself. We have another horse, Ventura Storm (Ire) (Zoffany {Ire}) [bought privately], who ran second to Winx and third to Harlem in the KR: There is much discussion about the fact that the Australian Group 1, so he=s Group 1-placed twice now. He cost a fair bit of breed has become so focused on speed. What is your take on money as well but he has every chance to reimburse his this? Is this a good thing? A bad thing? purchase price. So value is not what we=re looking for: we=re looking for a LLM: Australian racing is very focused on speed, and I think it is a superior athlete that=s going to be able to perform in Australia. good thing because that=s what Australians are renowned for. It=s really Australia=s point of difference; we=re very good KR: Similarly, I remember you mentioning at Magic Millions producers of 2-year-olds and fast horses. I do think it=s a good that the strength of the Australian yearling market has caused thing overall, but I think being the best at producing sprinters prices for horses to rise considerably. Has that caused you to has made us the worst at producing stayers. In that sense, it=s change how you do business? Are there any spots in the not that good because the whole market and the racing industry yearling market where value can be found? are all focused on speed. Cont. p7 TDN EUROPE/INTERNATIONAL • PAGE 7 OF 9 • THETDN.COM SATURDAY • 7 APRIL, 2018

TDN Q & A cont. from all walks of life to have a small interest in a horse. That The problem we have is that a third of our Group 1 races are leads to stronger attendance at the racecourse, because they above 2000 metres, but only 8% of our overall races are above bring their kids, they bring their friends and families. 2000 metres. We don=t have the program to teach horses to stay I think that=s what sets Australia apart. One in about every 300 from their early starts, and we don=t have the training centers. Australians owns a racehorse. In France it would be the To train a stayer you need those long, uphill tracks like they have opposite. There might be one or two owners per horse. And in Chantilly or Newmarket. It is very difficult for Australian sometimes you have these exceptional racecourses with some of trainers to train stayers on tight tracks. Horses that are bound to the best horses in the world running, and the racecourse is half become stayers here tend to have their first start over 1200 empty. I find that sad. I love going to France and I spend a lot of metres or 1400 metres, where in Europe a horse that=s bred to time there and try to do a lot of business there, but they need to stay will have his first start over 2000 metres and learn to learn from the Australian model a bit more and stop the elite become a stayer from day one. mentality and include people in the sport.

KR: Another common topic of discussion is the colonial vs shuttle stallions debate, and which are more effective. Where IF WE DIDN’T HAVE SHUTTLE do you fall on this? STALLIONS WE WOULDN’T HAVE HAD LLM: I=m very pro shuttle stallions. I think it=s an international STREET CRY, DANEHILL AND THUS industry and we need to have an international mindset. If we didn=t have shuttle stallions we wouldn=t have had Street Cry, REDOUTE’S CHOICE, SNITZEL AND Danehill and thus Redoute=s Choice, Snitzel, Fastnet Rock; I=m FASTNET ROCK. very pro shuttle stallions because Thoroughbreds are extremely Louis Le Metayer inbred. If you look at any Thoroughbred=s pedigree, sometimes there will be duplications of different stallions 10 times. Obviously a lot of the shuttle stallions don=t work, but I think Australian breeders have to support a shuttle stallion that may bring a different bloodline and that has the physical attributes to suit Australian racing. Arrowfield has brought some horses from KR: Do you think there is a way to get the culture of racehorse Japan and I think it is a great idea. We need a new influx of ownership and syndicates to catch on in other countries? blood. The whole of Australia is saturated with Danehill blood so I=m very pro shuttle stallion, knowing that otherwise we LLM: I=m sure there is. In France where I grew up, at Haras de wouldn=t have had the likes of , More Than Ready Buff, it is very close to a town called Alencon. In Alencon there and Street Cry. are 40,000 people and there are 10 pony clubs. What that says to me is there is a very strong horse culture and a lot of people KR: What do you think are the main strengths of the Australian out there who like horses. There are a lot of people in France industry, and subsequently, the challenges? who really enjoy the animal and the outdoor life and they ride horses on the weekend. France Galop needs to convert those LLM: The main strength is that the Australian industry is very people and say >hey, why don=t you come to the races?= And well governed at the moment, and it is inclusive of everyone. make it fun for them. But when you have five big owners who People can buy 2% of a horse or take a 10% share with a friend, control the sport and who have most of the runners in all the big or five people can have 2%, 1%; I think there=s an average of races, it=s not that exciting. about seven to eight owners per horse in Australia, which means I think there is huge opportunity for France to capitalize on that when you have a card of nine races, with 20 horses in each those young people who are growing up around horses and it is race, and you multiply that by seven, you end up with 1000 just a matter of inviting them and having initiative and owners. welcoming those people to our sport. All you have to do The owners are the best promotion for the sport and sometimes is just open the doors, have an open day. I=m sure syndication companies in Australia have done a very good job. I there are plenty of kids who live in Chantilly who have never think there are better syndication companies now than there been able to go to the training center, and it is one of the most ever were with some very dynamic companies that are really beautiful things in the world. The stud farms are extremely marketing the sport and allowing moms and dads and people beautiful and some people who grew up in the same village may TDN EUROPE/INTERNATIONAL • PAGE 8 OF 9 • THETDN.COM SATURDAY • 7 APRIL, 2018 never have had the opportunity to go there and pat a foal and I expect him to do well in Europe too because he=s a big, rangy visit the farm. horse and has a lot of scope about him. I can imagine his I think the best introduction to the sport is getting young progeny being good milers in France. people to spend time with young foals. I=ve seen it with my friends and family. I have friends who have no interest in horses or racing, but if I put them in the paddock with foals, they can=t help but fall in love with the animal. I think sometimes when you=re a professional in the industry you don=t think about these things.

KR: What first-season sires have caught your attention this year?

LLM: Deep Field. I=m a big fan of Deep Field. I was a big fan of him as a yearling and he was a wonderful horse. He had a lot of speed, he has no Danehill blood, he is by Northern Meteor, who was a big loss to Australian racing because he was a great stallion. He produced six Group 1 winners from his first four = crops and he s out of an exceptional mare and is a full-brother to Scissor Kick | Arrowfield [G1 Caulfield Guineas winner] Shooting To Win. I thought his yearlings looked outstanding. We tried to buy three and managed to buy one. I think the market agrees, the market seems very keen on them as well so a lot of people must have AUSTRALIAN-BRED WINNERS seen what we=ve seen. Last year we tried to buy Zoustars because we were really impressed with them and it seems like he=s going the right way. [Editor=s Note: Zoustar, also by IN SINGAPORE: Northern Meteor, is the current leading first-season sire]. Olympian Eager (Aus), g, 5, I Am Invincible (Aus)--Laughter (NZ), Deep Field wasn=t an early horse himself, so I just hope that by O=Reilly (NZ). Kranji, 4-6, Hcp. (A$79k), 1100m (AWT), they=re not going to be pushed too early. They look early but 1:05.72. B-Jacob Park Thoroughbred Pty Ltd (ACT). *Formerly sometimes that doesn=t work out. Northern Meteor wasn=t a Ideal Express (Aus). **SP-Aus. ***A$100,000 Ylg >14 INGCLS. 2-year-old and Deep Field wasn=t a 2-year-old so I hope the VIDEO trainers give them enough time because it=s a good way to ruin a stallion, by pushing the progeny if they=re not going to be early. IN MACAU: But he ticks all the boxes for me. Even though he wasn=t a Group Sacred Missile (Aus), g, 4, Smart Missile (Aus)--Hula Here (Aus), 1 winner he was so fast and an amazing horse. He=s out of an by Dehere. Taipa, 4-6, Hcp. (A$58k), 1500mT, 1:28. B-Raffles Elusive Quality mare, so there you go, another shuttle stallion. Dancers (NZ) Pty Ltd (NSW). *SP-Mac. **NZ$200,000 2yo >15 NZBRTR. VIDEO KR: Are there any lesser-talked about sires that you think offer To=s Family (Aus), g, 4, Snitzel (Aus)--Hamsa (GISP-US, value? $160,768), by . Taipa, 4-6, Maiden (A$30k), 1200mT, 1:10. B-R Harding (Vic). *Formerly Orodoro (Aus). LLM: I really like a horse called Scissor Kick. He=s by Redoute=s **A$110,000 Ylg >15 INGEAS. VIDEO Choice from an amazing Juddmonte family, the family of Dansili, Hasili, Intercontinental; it=s one of the best Juddmonte families. © Copyright Thoroughbred Daily News. He was a very good horse without being a champion. He=s a big scopey horse and we organized for him to shuttle to Haras This newspaper may not be reproduced in any form or by any d=Etreham. I think that Scissor Kick is not a horse that is probably means, electronic or mechanical, without prior written permission of the copyright owner, MediaVista. Information as to the American on everyone=s radar, but fundamentally he comes from a great races, race results and earnings was obtained from results charts sireline, has a big pedigree, he=s a beautiful horse, a scopey published by The Jockey Club Information Services and utilized horse, and he has an international pedigree. He=s pretty good here with their permission. value [at A$16,500]. TDN EUROPE/INTERNATIONAL • PAGE 9 OF 9 • THETDN.COM SATURDAY • 7 APRIL, 2018

>LILAC= CAN STAY PERFECT IN OKA SHO The first Japanese Classic of the year takes place on Sunday when Hanshin hosts the G1 Oka Sho or Japanese 1000 Guineas. A full field of 18 fillies will line up for the 1600m contest and all eyes will be on last year=s champion 2-year-old filly Lucky Lilac (Jpn) (Orfevre {Jpn}) who bids to extend her unbeaten run to five. The filly was three for three last year including when beating a number of Sunday=s rivals in the G1 Hanshin Juvenile Fillies in December and she proved she had trained on nicely as a 3-year-old when making a stylish winning return in the G2 Tulip Sho over the course and distance March 3. On that occasion she confirmed her dominance over both Mau Lea (Jpn) (Deep Impact {Jpn}) and Lily Noble (Jpn) (Rulership {Jpn}) and her trainer Mikio Matsunaga is hopeful the filly will again prove her class on Sunday. AShe looks better for losing her winter coat,@ he said. @She=ll probably be about 500kg going into the race and I feel she=s getting stronger as she develops. She=s relaxed and has a good appetite. This time it=s a full field of strong horses, and being a horse race, we don=t know what might happen. Of course I feel some pressure, but I=m really looking forward to her doing her best with the condition she=s in,@ he added. Almond Eye (Jpn) (Lord Kanaloa {Jpn}) is an interesting contender and after a light juvenile campaign that saw her break her maiden on her second start, she reappeared in 2018 at Kyoto in January when she beat Tsuzumimon (Jpn) (Strong Return {Jpn}) in the G3 Shinzan Kinen. Her trainer Sakae Kunieda sent out Apapane (Jpn) (King Kamehameha {Jpn}) to win the Oka Sho in 2010 and he commented, AEverything=s gone well in training. She seems more adult, and I have no worries with her. The jockey=s also happy with her. With a strong favorite in the race, it takes the pressure off a bit. The Hanshin 1600 meters on the outer course is easy to handle, and I think she has what it takes to get a result if the race is run to suit her.@ Liberty Heights (Jpn) (King Kamehameha {Jpn}) also lines up on the back of a last time out stakes win and her performance in the G2 Hochi Hai Fillies= Revue over seven furlongs at Hanshin on March 11 makes her a serious contender. She also had a number of Sunday=s challengers behind her that day including Encore plus (Jpn) (Deep Impact {Jpn}) and Dernier Or (Jpn) (Stay Gold {Jpn}) and her trainer Tomokazu Takano said, AI think she can adjust to any pace and is capable of producing in a Grade 1. She=s been moving well this past week, and we=re trying not to overdo things with her.@

GROUP ENTRIES

Saturday, Royal Randwick, New South Wales, Australia, post time: 4:30 p.m. (2:30 a.m. EST/7:30 a.m. GMT) DONCASTER MILE-G1, A$3,000,000 (US$2,303,980/£1,639,710/€1,878,975), 3yo/up, 1600mT SC PP HORSE SIRE TRAINER JOCKEY WT 1 4 Humidor (NZ) Teofilo (Ire) Weir Zahra 128 2 8 Tosen Stardom (Jpn) Deep Impact (Jpn) Weir Williams 126 3 1 Happy Clapper (Aus) Teofilo (Ire) Webster Shinn 125 4 3 Endless Drama (Ire) Lope de Vega (Ire) Waller Schofield 118 5 5 Prized Icon (Aus) More Than Ready Lees Melham 118 6 11 Crack Me Up (NZ) Mossman (Aus) Baker Collett 117 7 12 Invincible Gem (Aus) I Am Invincible (Aus) Lees Walker 115 8 14 Tom Melbourne (Ire) Dylan Thomas (Ire) Waller McEvoy 115 9 2 Kementari (Aus) Lonhro (Aus) Cummings Avdulla 114 10 7 Comin’ Through (Aus) Fastnet Rock (Aus) Waller Clark 114 11 13 Lanciato (NZ) Per Incanto Newham King 112 12 9 Egg Tart (Aus) Sebring (Aus) Waller Newitt 111 13 10 Arbeitsam (Aus) Snitzel (Aus) Waterhouse/Bott Dee 110 14 16 Mister Sea Wolf (Ire) Amadeus Wolf (GB) Waller Ford 110 15 6 Cool Chap (Aus) High Chaparral (Ire) D&B Hayes/Dabernig Parish 110 16 15 D’argento (Aus) So You Think (NZ) Waller Brown 108

Saturday, Royal Randwick, New South Wales, Australia, post time: 3:50 p.m. (1:50 a.m. EST/6:50 a.m. GMT) T J SMITH S.-G1, A$2,500,000 (US$1,919,690/£1,365,726/€1,564,900), WFA, 3yo/up, 1200mT SC PP HORSE SIRE TRAINER JOCKEY WT 1 6 Redzel (Aus) Snitzel (Aus) P&P Snowden McEvoy 129 2 11 Le Romain (Aus) Hard Spun Lees Schofield 129 3 2 Brave Smash (Jpn) Tosen Phantom (Jpn) Weir Williams 129 4 7 Jungle Edge (Aus) Dubawi (Ire) Bell Forrester 129 5 1 Takedown (Aus) Stratum (Aus) Moore Shinn 129 6 8 Thronum (Aus) Snitzel (Aus) D&B Hayes/Dabernig Zahra 129 7 4 Fell Swoop (Aus) Not A Single Doubt (Aus) Dale Ford 129 8 3 In Her Time (Aus) Time Thief (Aus) Smith Brown 124 9 12 English (Aus) Encosta de Lago (Aus) Waterhouse/Bott Clipperton 124 10 10 Global Glamour (Aus) Star Witness (Aus) Waterhouse/Bott Clark 124 11 13 Missrock (Aus) Fastnet Rock (Aus) Laing Oliver 124 12 9 Trapeze Artist (Aus) Snitzel (Aus) Ryan Angland 124 13 14 Showtime (Aus) Snitzel (Aus) M, W&J Hawkes Avdulla 124 14 5 The Mission (Aus) Choisir (Aus) Perry Purton 124 Saturday, Royal Randwick, New South Wales, Australia, post time: 3:10 p.m. (1:10 a.m. EST/6:10 a.m. GMT) AUSTRALIAN DERBY-G1, A$2,000,000 (US$1,536,151/£1,093,080/€)1,252,250, Set Weights, 3yo, 2400mT SC PP HORSE SIRE TRAINER JOCKEY WT 1 2 Ace High (Aus) High Chaparral (Ire) Payne Angland 124 2 4 Vin De Dance (NZ) Roc de Cambes (NZ) Baker/Forsman Waddell 124 3 10 Tangled (Aus) Snitzel (Aus) Waller Walker 124 4 6 Mongolianconqueror (NZ) Ocean Park (NZ) Autridge/Richards Bosson 124 5 14 Capital Gain (Aus) Ad Valorem Butterworth Melham 124 6 3 Levendi (Aus) Pierro (Aus) Gelagotis Zahra 124 7 5 Astoria (Aus) Medaglia d’Oro Cummings Schofield 124 8 8 Furore (NZ) Pierro (Aus) Lees Avdulla 124 9 19 Salsamor (NZ) Tavistock (NZ) Busuttin/Young Purton 124 10 1 Weather With You (Aus) Teofilo (Ire) Baker/Forsman Collett 124 11 18 The Lord Mayor (NZ) Rock ‘n’ Pop (Aus) Waller Brown 124 12 9 Mission Hill (Aus) Teofilo (Ire) Baker/Forsman Lane 124 13 16 Endowment (NZ) Savabeel (Aus) Gibbs Oliver 124 14 17 Belfast (Aus) Teofilo (Ire) Busuttin/Young McEvoy 124 15 20 Mongolian Marshal (NZ) High Chaparral (Ire) Baker/Forsman Williams 124 16 12 Main Stage (NZ) Reliable Man (GB) Busuttin/Young Shinn 124 17 15 Condor (Aus) Fastnet Rock (Aus) Perry Newitt 124 18 13 Pissaro (Aus) Pierro (Aus) Laing Clipperton 124 Emergencies: 19 7 Yuralla Boy (Aus) Dreamscape (Aus) Howlett No Rider 124 20 11 Love Waves (NZ) Azamour (Ire) A&E Cummings No Rider 124

Saturday, Royal Randwick, New South Wales, Australia, post time: 2:30 p.m. (12:30 a.m. EST/5:30 a.m. GMT) ATC SIRES’ PRODUCE S.-G1, A$1,000,000 (US$768,515/£546,665/€626,289), Set Weights, 2yo, 1400mT SC PP HORSE SIRE TRAINER JOCKEY WT 1 13 Encryption (Aus) Lonhro (Aus) Cummings Schofield 124 2 2 Long Leaf (Aus) Fastnet Rock (Aus) D&B Hayes/Dabernig McEvoy 124 3 15 Not A Single Cent (Aus) Not A Single Doubt (Aus) Purcell Shinn 124 4 7 Spin (Aus) I Am Invincible (Aus) P&P Snowden Clark 124 5 14 Bondi (Aus) Snitzel (Aus) P&P Snowden Zahra 124 6 3 Seberate (Aus) Sebring (Aus) D&B Hayes/Dabernig Collett 124 7 5 Tchaikovsky (Aus) Redoute’s Choice (Aus) P&P Snowden Rawiller 124 8 10 Outrageous (Aus) All Too Hard (Aus) M, W & J Hawkes Avdulla 124 9 6 Ragged Rascal (Aus) Denman (Aus) Perry Parr 124 10 9 Ringerdingding (Aus) Sebring (Aus) O’Rourke Melham 124 11 4 Adana (Aus) Snitzel (Aus) Waller Walker 124 12 11 Affogato (Aus) More Than Ready Roche Newitt 124 13 8 Oohood (Aus) I Am Invincible (Aus) McEvoy Purton 119 14 1 Seabrook (NZ) Hinchinbrook (Aus) Price Oliver 119 15 12 El Dorado Dreaming (Aus) Ilovethiscity (Aus) Smith Brown 119

Saturday, Te Aroha, New Zealand, post time: 4:20 p.m. (12:20 a.m. EST/5:20 a.m. GMT) FIBER FRESH NZ THOROUGHBRED BREEDERS S.-G1, NZ$200,000 (US$146,188/£103,825/€119,057), WFA, 4yo/up, f/m, 1600mT SC PP HORSE SIRE TRAINER JOCKEY WT 1 7 Thee Auld Floozie (NZ) Mastercraftsman (Ire) Marsh Harris 125 2 5 Coldplay (NZ) Savabeel (Aus) Baker/Forsman Cameron 125 3 9 Darscape Princess (NZ) Darci Brahma (NZ) Auret Parkes 125 4 2 Heni (NZ) Towkay (Aus) Breslin Myers 125 5 1 Cote D’Or (NZ) Makfi (GB) K&B Kelso Johnson 125 6 10 Miss Wilson (Aus) Stratum (Aus) Bary Colgan 125 7 11 Montoya Star (Aus) High Chaparral (Ire) M&M Pitman McNab 125 8 8 Nicoletta (NZ) Savabeel (Aus) Baker/Forsman Collett 125 9 4 Ruud Not Too (NZ) Bernardini Marsh Spratt 125 10 12 Adriatic Pearl (NZ) Zed (NZ) Pender Thornton 125 11 3 Symphonic (NZ) O’Reilly (NZ) P&D Williams Coleman 125 12 6 Caprikosa (NZ) Alamosa (NZ) P&D Williams Du Plessis 125

Sunday, Hanshin, Japan, post time: 3:40 p.m. (2:40 a.m. ET/7:40 a.m. GMT) OKA SHO (JAPANESE 1000 GUINEAS)-G1, ¥234,790,000 (£1,558,665/€1,787,590/US$2,196,419), 3yo, f, 1600mT PP HORSE SIRE TRAINER JOCKEY WT 1 Lucky Lilac (Jpn) Orfevre (Jpn) Matsunaga Ishibashi 121 2 Amalfi Coast (Jpn) Daiwa Major (Jpn) Makita Hamanaka 121 3 Liberty Heights (Jpn) King Kamehameha (Jpn) Takano Kitamura 121 4 Encore Plus (Jpn) Deep Impact (Jpn) Tomomichi Fujioka 121 5 Red Sakuya (Jpn) Deep Impact (Jpn) Fujiwara Matsuyama 121 6 Scarlet Color (Jpn) Victoire Pisa (Jpn) Takahashi Iwata 121 7 Tosen Bless (Jpn) Deep Impact (Jpn) Kato Shibata 121 8 Harlem Line (Jpn) Manhattan Café (Jpn) Tanaka Ono 121 9 Lily Noble (Jpn) Rulership (Jpn) Fujioka Kawada 121 10 Aonbharr (Jpn) Lord Kanaloa (Jpn) Fujioka Fujioka 121 11 Cordierite (Jpn) Daiwa Major (Jpn) Sasaki Wada 121 12 Dernier Or (Jpn) Stay Gold (Jpn) Ikee Ikezoe 121 13 Almond Eye (Jpn) Lord Kanaloa (Jpn) Kunieda Lemaire 121 14 Red Regnant (Jpn) Lord Kanaloa (Jpn) Otake M Demuro 121 15 Primo Scene (Jpn) Deep Impact (Jpn) Kimura Tosaki 121 16 Finift (Jpn) Deep Impact (Jpn) Fujiwara Fukunaga 121 17 Mau Lea (Jpn) Deep Impact (Jpn) Tezuka Take 121 18 Tsuzumimon (Jpn) Strong Return (Jpn) Fujioka Akiyama 121

Sunday, Sha Tin, Hong Kong, post time: 4:05 p.m. (4:05 a.m. EST/9:05 a.m. GMT) SPRINT CUP-G2, HK$4,000,000 (£361,874/€415,004/A$664,565/US$509,651), 3yo/up, 1200mT SC PP HORSE SIRE TRAINER JOCKEY WT 1 4 Mr Stunning (Aus) Exceed and Excel (Aus) Size Rawiller 128 2 7 Beat the Clock (Aus) Hinchinbrook (Aus) Size Moreira 123 3 8 Amazing Kids (NZ) Falkirk (NZ) Size Prebble 123 4 5 Not Listenin’tome (Aus) Dylan Thomas Moore Berry 123 5 6 Peniaphobia (Ire) Dandy Man (Ire) A Cruz Callan 123 6 2 Born in China (GB) Shamardal Lui Whyte 123 7 3 Dundonnell First Defence Lor Schofield 123 8 1 Winner’s Way (Aus) Starcraft (NZ) A Cruz Purton 123

Sunday, Sha Tin, Hong Kong, post time: 4:35 p.m. (4:35 a.m. EST/9:35 a.m. GMT) CHAIRMAN’S TROPHY-G2, HK$4,000,000 (£361,874/€415,004/A$664,565/US$509,651), 3yo/up, 1200mT SC PP HORSE SIRE TRAINER JOCKEY WT 1 1 Time Warp (GB) Archipenko A Cruz Purton 128 2 3 Beauty Generation (NZ) Road to Rock (Aus) Moore Whyte 128 3 9 Helene Paragon (Fr) Polan (Fr) Moore Clipperton 123 4 2 Pakistan Star (Ger) Shamardal A Cruz Moreira 123 5 8 Beauty Only (Ire) Holy Roman Emperor (Ire) A Cruz Callan 123 6 7 Fifty Fifty (NZ) Thorn Park (Aus) Ho Teetan 123 7 4 Western Express (Aus) Encosta de Lago (Aus) Size Rawiller 123 8 10 Pingwu Spark (NZ) Mastercraftsman (Ire) Yung Leung 123 9 6 Dinozzo (Ire) Lilbourne Lad (Ire) Size Doleuze 123 10 5 Joyful Trinity (Ire) Zanzibari Fownes Mosse 123