MONDAY, OCTOBER 2, 2017 HORSE VERSUS MAN SIGNIFICANT FORM--AND TALENT--ON DISPLAY IN MISS GRILLO LOOMS IN CLASSIC Significant Form (Creative Cause) crossed the wire first in her Aug. 27 unveiling at Saratoga, only to be disqualified for drifting inward and causing interference into the first turn. She put that all behind her Sunday, producing the same result--minus the antics--and capturing the GIII Miss Grillo S. at Belmont. The gray, a $575,000 OBS April 2-year-old purchase for Stephanie Seymour Brant, tracked the pace and pounced in the stretch, holding off the highly regarded pair of Best Performance (Broken Vow) and Orbolution (Orb) to prevail. After the race, trainer Chad Brown confirmed that the winner likely punched her ticket for the starting gate for the GI Breeders= Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf Nov. 3. AI was really impressed with how she fought back late in the stretch when [Best Performance] challenged her,@ said Brown. AThis win is really encouraging going forward and heading into the Breeders' Cup.@ Cont. p3 Gun Runner may be the only horse standing in the way of a Bob IN TDN EUROPE TODAY Baffert trainee winning the Breeders= Cup Classic | Sarah K. Andrew ARC ANGEL The Week in Review, by Bill Finley Juddmonte’s Enable (GB) (Nathaniel {Ire}), with Frankie Dettori Gun Runner (Candy Ride {Arg}) has earned the right to be in the irons, earned her fifth victory at the highest level in the called the best horse in the U.S. and he will come into the GI G1 Qatar Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe at Chantilly on Sunday for trainer John Gosden. Click or tap here to go straight to TDN = Breeders Cup Classic riding a streak of three straight Grade I Europe. wins, all of them impressive ones. Trainer Steve Asmussen and his owners, Winchell Thoroughbreds and Three Chimneys Farm, have no reason to fear any horse. That doesn=t mean they shouldn=t be afraid. Bob Baffert is lying in wait. Baffert seems uber-focused on winning the Classic again and he has the ammunition to do so. That=s a dangerous combination. We already knew that Baffert had three outstanding candidates for the Classic in Arrogate (Unbridled=s Song), West Coast (Flatter) and Collected (City Zip). It looked like Cupid (Tapit) would be the fourth bullet in his chamber, but that may no longer be the case. He ran fourth in Saturday=s GI Awesome Again S. at Santa Anita. But just as one Baffert- trained horse might have exited the door when it comes to the Classic, another one smashed the door down. Mubtaahij (Ire) (Dubawi {Ire}) had been one of those good horses who was never quite good enough. Coming into the Awesome Again, he had lost 10 straight and had not visited the winner=s circle since the March 28, 2015 G2 UAE Derby. Yet, the 5-year-old is good enough to have won the UAE Derby and finish second in the GI Woodward and the G1 Dubai World Cup. 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Director of Information Technology Ray Villa [email protected] INCREASED SUPPLY, DEMAND AT MIDLANTIC FALL 12 Bookkeeper Bolstered by noteworthy graduates on the track like champion Terry May Stellar Wind (Curlin) and last year's GI Kentucky Oaks heroine [email protected] Cathryn Sophia (Street Boss), an expanded two-day renewal of Fasig-Tipton's Midlantic Fall Yearlings Sale begins Monday in Timonium. WORLDWIDE INFORMATION International Editor Kelsey Riley @kelseynrileyTDN [email protected] European Editor Emma Berry [email protected] Associate International Editor Heather Anderson @HLAndersonTDN Newmarket Bureau, Cafe Racing Sean Cronin & Tom Frary [email protected] 60 Broad Street, Suite 100 Red Bank, NJ 07701 732-747-8060 | 732-747-8955 (fax) www.TheTDN.com TDN HEADLINE NEWS • PAGE 3 OF 13 • THETDN.COM MONDAY • OCTOBER 2, 2017 Significant Form (cont. from p1) Farms (KY); T-Todd A. Pletcher. $20,000. Sunday, Belmont Park HINKLE FARMS BRED, RAISED & SOLD MISS GRILLO S.-GIII, $200,000, BEL, 10-1, 2yo, f, 1 1/16mT, Margins: 1, 1 1/4, 2 1/4. Odds: 1.05, 6.50, 2.20. 1:42.29, fm. Also Ran: Bramble Queen, Codrington, Africa (Fr), Life Time 1--#@SIGNIFICANT FORM, 115, f, 2, by Creative Cause Citizen, Indy Union, Southampton Way. Click for the 1st Dam: Church by the Sea, by Harlan's Holiday Equibase.com chart, the TJCIS.com PPs or the free 2nd Dam: Witness Post, by Gone West Equineline.com catalogue-style pedigree. VIDEO, sponsored by 3rd Dam: Most Likely, by Fappiano Fasig-Tipton. ($75,000 Ylg '16 FTKJUL; $575,000 2yo '17 OBSAPR). O-Stephanie Seymour Brant; B-Brereton C. Jones (KY); T-Chad C. Brown; J-Irad Ortiz, Jr. $120,000. Lifetime Record: 2-1-0-0, $120,415. *1/2 to Hay Dakota (Haynesfield), GSW, $236,070. Click for the eNicks report & 5-cross pedigree. *Werk Nick Rating: F. 2--Best Performance, 118, f, 2, Broken Vow--Give My Regards, by Smart Strike. ($185,000 Ylg '16 KEESEP; $300,000 2yo '17 FTFMAR). O-West Point Thoroughbreds, Tango Uniform Racing LLC & Robert Masiello; B-Mercedes Stables LLC (KY); T-Christophe Clement. $40,000. Raised & Sold by BURLESON FARMS 3--Orbolution, 121, f, 2, Orb --My Rachel, by Horse Chestnut (SAf). ($370,000 Ylg '16 KEESEP). O-StarLadies Racing; B-Hinkle Significant Form | Joe Labozzetta TDN HEADLINE NEWS • PAGE 4 OF 13 • THETDN.COM MONDAY • OCTOBER 2, 2017 Significant Form was sent postward at a shade over 3-1 in her final furlong, but Significant Form was going best of all and career debut and won like a heavy favorite. However, she was outfinished her foes to notch a decisive victory. placed seventh after triggering a chain reaction of steadying Winning rider Irad Ortiz Jr. said, AShe broke good and we were towards the rear of the pack in that grassy Spa maiden race. The really close. We weren't going too fast. We ran a little slow, so I filly posted three works in the ensuing wanted to just hold my position. I was weeks and entered this graded stakes good where I was. I knew when I'd event as the heavy favorite. asked her, she'd be there for me.@ "In her first start, it was unfortunate Significant Form is the first horse situation where she was disqualified, owned by Seymour Brant, an actress but we understand the decision and and supermodel. the situation,@ Brown said. AShe's trained forwardly in the mornings Pedigree Notes: since that race and today she got a A $75,000 Fasig-Tipton July yearling good trip and really showed great prior to her sale at OBS April, ability.@ Significant Form is a half-sister to Perched on the outside and a bit GIII Commonwealth Turf S. winner eager tracking the pace through Hay Dakota (Haynesfield). Her dam, measured fractions of :24.60 and Church by the Sea (Harlan=s Holiday) is :49.23, she settled down the herself a half-sister to GSW & GISP backstretch before mounting a Significant Form and Stephanie Seymour Brant Hello Liberty (Forest Camp) and SW & menacing bid around the far turn. She Chelsea Durand GSP Pious Ashley (Include). She is also struck the front in upper stretch and quickly braced for a pair of responsible for a yearling filly by Cairo Prince named Hay Flo and challenges from Orbolution and Best Performance, who fanned a weanling filly by that same sire. wide entering the stretch. It was a three-horse scramble into the TDN HEADLINE NEWS • PAGE 5 OF 13 • THETDN.COM MONDAY • OCTOBER 2, 2017 Sunday, Woodbine 3--Tale of Vienna, 115, g, 2, Tale of Ekati--Rubywood, by GREY S.-GIII, C$125,000, WO, 10-1, 2yo, 1 1/16m (AWT), Woodman. ($10,000 Ylg '16 FTKOCT). O-Laurie Silvera & 1:44.56, ft. Dennis Moss; B-Charles Fipke (KY); T-Laurie Silvera. C$13,750. 1--#@ARCHAGGELOS, 115, c, 2, by Temple City Margins: 2 1/4, 1HF, 2 1/4. Odds: 9.50, 0.50, 42.90. 1st Dam: Mien, by Nureyev Congratulations to all the connections from Paramount Sales 2nd Dam: Miasma, by Lear Fan 3rd Dam: Syrian Circle, by Damascus Also Ran: Piven, Like What I See, Lookin to Strike, Leopold.