AWESOME AGAIN Elite Sire of 14 G1 Winners Only BC Classic Winner to Sire a BC Classic Winner AAAAA SSSSASS FRIDAY, AUGUST 26, 2016 WWW.BLOODHORSE.COM K A A K K K KK IN TODAY’S EDITION Ambitious Schedule for Runhappy 3 Millionaire Dads Caps Retired 4 Love the Chase to Fasig-Tipton November 5 Del Mar Critics Fire Back During CHRB Meeting 6 'Consummate Horseman' Mott Joins Walk of Fame 7 Campbell 'Big-Time Excited' for Walk of Fame 8 Shared Belief Stakes Emotional for Rome 9 BENOIT PHOTO Free Qualifying Tourney for BC 'Challenge' 10 Arrogate winning June 24 at Santa Anita Weak Market Plagues OBS August 11 Regere First Winner for Rule 12 TRAVERS BUZZ HORSE ARROGATE Nuovo Record to Make Breeders' Cup Bid 12 STEPS UP TO PLATE Dissecting a Strong Minnesota Market 13 By Alicia Wincze-Hughes Results 14 Entries 17 horoughbred racing allows for little time to dwell Leading Lists 24 Ton missed opportunities. No matter how tough the perceived beat, there is always another race go- ing to post, or another prospect coming into the barn who may make up for a setback. At the 2014 Keeneland September yearling sale the Juddmonte Farms crew, like many, were keen on a gorgeous gray colt from the Clearsky Farms con- signment. While Prince Khalid Abdullah's operation didn't prevail in the bidding for $2.2 million co-sale topper and future graded stakes winner Mohaymen, the "other" gray colt it ended up taking home suc- ceeded in bringing the farm to one of biggest stages in the 3-year-old male ranks. The buzz contender in the 14-horse lineup for Saturday's $1.25 million Travers Stakes (gr. I) is the Bob Baffert-trained, Juddmonte-owned Arrogate, who steps into graded stakes company for the first time while making his fifth career start. It is an ambi- tious outing for a horse that just debuted in April and broke his maiden June 5, but the move also speaks to the level of confidence from connections who don't normally dive into that deep of a pool unless they are fairly certain they can kick to the surface. (continued on page 2) BLOOD-HORSE DAILY Download the FREE smartphone app PAGE 1 OF 24 TRAVERS BUZZ HORSE ARROGATE STEPS UP TO PLATE (continued from page 1) WORLDWIDE 2-YEAR-OLD Purchased for $560,000, Arrogate was a larg- SUCCESS STARTS IN er-bodied specimen than his light-framed neighbor Mohaymen, and was earmarked by Juddmonte as SEPTEMBER one who would likely flourish with a little patience. Shin issues kept the son of Unbridled's Song from debuting until April 17 of this year, when he ran LADY AURELIA Prix Morny (G1) third going six furlongs at Los Alamitos, but he has impressed in winning three straight since including a 1 3/4-length allowance optional claiming triumph Aug. 4 going 1 1/16 miles at Del Mar. "He was actually stabled beside Mohaymen and we went into the ring to chase after Mohaymen," said Garrett O'Rourke, general manager of Judd- monte Farms. "But this horse was a lovely individ- ual. He's a bigger horse than Mohaymen and we gave him some time. He had some shin problems as a 2-year-old so we decided to give him the time and allow him to develop, hoping we'll get our LADY AURELIA ROLY POLY returns with him starting with this Saturday. Prix Morny (G1) Duchess of Cambridge S. (G2) Grangecon Stud S. (G3) "One of the things that has been very impres- BOYNTON sive is even thought he hasn't been running in Superlative S. (G2) BITUMEN black-type races, he's had adversity and he's got- Sanford S. (G3) ten a bit of an education." GUNNEVERA Arrogate's third outing, a 5 1/4-length win Saratoga Special S. (G2) CLASSIC EMPIRE June 24 going 1 1/16 miles at Santa Anita Park, Bashford Manor S. (G3) had Baffert toying with the notion of sending the CHAMPAGNE ROOM colt to the July 31, $1 million Betfair.com Haskell Sorrento S. (G2) LEVANTE LION Hakodate Nisai S. (G3) Invitational Stakes (gr. I). After facing pressure on NONNA MELA the front end from Chief of Staff down the back- Adirondack S. (G2) SYPHAX stretch, Arrogate put that one away handily on the Acomb S. (G3) final turn and found another gear when roused by jockey Rafael Bejarano in the lane. Were it not for the presence of champion Cali- fornia Chrome, Baffert said he the $1 Million TVG Pacific Classic Stakes (gr. I) even would have been SEPTEMBER an option for Arrogate. With Prince Abdullah al- YEARLING SALE ready "excited" about the prospect of running the colt as a 4-year-old, O'Rourke stressed they didn't MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 12 - SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 25 feel pressed to "play catch up" with the rest of the sophomore class this summer—unless Arrogate CATALOG AVAILABLE forces their hand with his results. "I think his ability at 1 1/4 miles is something that excites Bob about the Travers, because he is the kind of horse with a big, long stride, and you'd have to think that would be to our advantage go- ing a distance of ground," O'Rourke said. BH BLOOD-HORSE DAILY Download the FREE FRIDAY, AUGUST 26, 2016 PAGE 2 OF 24 smartphone app AMBITIOUS SCHEDULE FOR RUNHAPPY By Evan Hammonds rainer Laura Wohlers was "really superbly Tpleased" Aug. 25 with 2015 sprint champion Run- happy's first recorded work of the year. The 4-year-old son of Super Saver, who was given 60 days off after he was diagnosed with a bone bruise in mid-June, worked three furlongs in :34 4/5 at Keeneland and was also timed for the half-mile (:46) and five furlongs (:59). What lies ahead is an ambitious schedule for James McIngvale's star runner. The plan, as it has been all along this year, is to stretch Runhappy out to a mile and beyond. On the immediate radar is the one-turn mile Ack Ack Handicap (gr. III) Oct. 1 at Churchill Downs, with a year-end goal of the Nov. 5 Breeders' Cup Dirt Mile (gr. I) at Santa Anita Park. In Runhappy's final outing last Dec. 26, he won Santa Anita's seven-furlong Malibu Stakes (gr.I) against 3-year-olds. The "beyond" comes in the form of the nine-fur- long Pegasus World Cup (gr. I) in January. Entry into the $12 million race at Gulfstream Park is gained with a $1 million buy-in for a spot in the starting LAURA WOHLERS COURTESY gate. McIngvale purchased a slot in May. Runhappy's feed tub the morning of his first work Aug. 25 after a As for the work, Runhappy's first recorded work 60-day layoff since mid December, he shipped from his base at the Kentucky Training Center north of Lexington to Bred by Wayne, Gray, and Bryan Lyster, Run- Keeneland in the pre-dawn hours and was one of happy is out of the Broken Vow mare Bella Jolie. a handful of horses on the track around 5:30 a.m. A $200,000 Keeneland September sale yearling, EDT. By 8:30 he was back at the Training Center, he has won seven of eight starts for earnings of had spent time in his 350-gallon water Spa, and had $1,481,300. BH been turned out. "We didn't want it to be a big deal," Wohlers said LATEST HEADLINES FROM BLOODHORSE.COM of the pre-dawn outing. "If he has a group of people out to see him he starts to show off, so we wanted VEITCH'S SUSPENSION SENT BACK TO KHRC to go out early in the morning. John Veitch, the Hall of Fame trainer and former chief steward for Thoroughbred racing in "Today was a very good day," Wohlers said. "He Kentucky, has won another round in his lengthy couldn't have done it any better. He looked like court battle with the Kentucky Horse Racing a machine out there. We had been doing a few Commission over the convoluted Life At Ten eighths at the training center that he'd been doing case. in :11 and it was getting hard to pull him up. HARBOR THE GOLD COLT LEADS WASHINGTON "We'll take him over the Churchill sometime in SALE A Harbor the Gold yearling colt led the next few weeks and see how he likes the surface trade Aug. 23 at Emerald Downs during the some horses just don't care for it. If he does well Washington Thoroughbred Breeders and Owners then we could even go in the (Nov. 15) Clark (Hand- Association's summer yearling and mixed sale. icap, gr. I) if we wanted to. That would give him a The yearling session saw the average down a bit two-turn, 1 1/8-mile race." but a significant gain in median. BLOOD-HORSE DAILY Download the FREE FRIDAY, AUGUST 26, 2016 PAGE 3 OF 24 smartphone app MILLIONAIRE DADS CAPS RETIRED Caps," Scuderi said. "For four seasons he took on the By Blood-Horse Staff best sprinters of his generation and his record is a testament to his consistency and heart. wner Vince Scuderi announced Aug. 25 his mul- "We could campaign him another season, but we Otiple grade I-winning homebred Dads Caps has have had a few farms looking into his availability as been retired from racing. a stallion and he has certainly earned that opportu- A 6-year-old son of Discreet Cat, Dads Caps is nity.