TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 2019 SPAN OF ARCH LEGACY SEPARATIONOFPOWERS TO SELL AT FASIG NOVEMBER KEEPS GROWING Multiple Grade I winner Separationofpowers (Candy Ride {Arg}) will be offered at Fasig-Tipton November’s Night of the Stars Nov. 4, consigned by Elite Sales. Campaigned throughout her career by Seth Klarman’s Klaravich Stables and trainer Chad Brown, the ‘TDN Rising Star’ won the GI Frizette S. as a juvenile in 2017 and the GI Longines Test S. last summer at three. Originally bought for $190,000 at Keeneland November, the bay added the GIII Bed O’ Roses Invitational S. earlier this year and sports a record of 10-4-0-2 with $964,000 in earnings. “The Frizette and Test are the premier races for 2-year-old and 3-year-old fillies going one turn in New York. To win both puts her in a rare group, becoming just the fifth horse to do so,” said Elite Sales’ Bradley Weisbord. Cont. p6 Arch | Claiborne photo IN TDN EUROPE TODAY by Chris McGrath POSITIVE MOOD AHEAD OF TATTS IRELAND The yearling sale circuit moves to Fairyhouse this week for His own name describes one who protects something, typically the upwardly mobile Tattersalls Ireland September Yearling historic buildings or artifacts, from the degradation of time. But Sale. Preservationist, who might well prove the most demanding of Click or tap here to go straight to TDN Europe. the senior pros if lining up against Code Of Honor in the GI Jockey Club Gold Cup on Saturday, could yet become a conservationist, too. Because his pedigree gives him every chance, wherever he ends up at stud, of protecting the environment around him- -specifically, the Thoroughbred gene pool--from the damage caused by mankind's heedless quest for a fast buck. When Arch died, aged 21 in January 2016, his most feasible heir Blame was on a rapid slide from an opening fee of $35,000 to just $12,500. On the track, meanwhile, Preservationist himself remained an unraced 3-year-old, who would not break his maiden for another two years. Arch's last crop are now 3-year-olds, but it has turned out that his legacy was already in good hands. Blame has so turned things round at Claiborne that he is now back in strong demand at $30,000, having only a few days ago notched his fourth Grade I winner through Abscond in the Natalma S. And Preservationist, having spread just four starts across his first three seasons, has achieved a remarkable flowering as a 6-year-old. Cont. p3 AT BELMONT PAT ON THE BACK became racing’s newest millionaire with a game win in Saturday’s $300,000 KELSO H. (G2), posting a 103 BEYER in the 8th stakes win of his career. [ watch race ] Undefeated 2YO filly NAKED AVENGER , 2-length winner of the $150,000 JOSEPH A. GIMMA S. on 9/18. PAT ON THE BACK [ watch race ] A.P. 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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 8 • THETDN.COM TUESDAY • SEPTEMBER 24, 2019 Span of Arch Legacy Keeps Growing cont. from p1 similarly proximate inbreeding to Sadler's Wells. His Grade I breakthrough in the Woodward S. last month Certainly if you buy into the principle that you can't have too makes him look eligible to join Blame as a conduit for this much of a good thing, then Arch can be counted a very good branch of the Hail To Reason line, but in the meantime the merit thing indeed. There's something characteristically worthy, of tapping into Arch's influence something understated but was magnified the very same solid, about the way he (setting day, on the opposite coast, by an example to Blame, who the GI Del Mar Debutante S. followed him to the same farm) success of Bast. This represented reversed a plunge in fee, in his spectacular vindication for the case from $20,000 to $5,000 bold pairing of her mother, before he had even had a Arch's daughter Laffina, with runner. Winding up with a ratio Uncle Mo, whose damsire is of stakes horses tipping 10%, he Arch. maintained a career-high fee of Laffina was carrying this 3x2 $40,000 through his last four package in utero when years. purchased privately--having Arch's track career had a failed to meet her Keeneland corresponding solidity, albeit November reserve at $290,000-- seeming to leave him just a 10 months after Arch's death. Preservationist wins the Woodward | Sarah Andrew notch below the very best. But Bast, who is her first foal, his candidature at stud was proceeded to make $500,000 as a Saratoga yearling, so maybe massively buttressed by a maternal line that finds its celebrated her purchasers Baoma Corp. are fans of the model that gave us nexus in third dam Courtly Dee, whose 15 winning foals included the European champion, Enable (GB) (Nathaniel {Ire}), who has three apiece at Grade I and Grade II level. Cont. p4 TDN HEADLINE NEWS • PAGE 4 OF 8 • THETDN.COM TUESDAY • SEPTEMBER 24, 2019 The best was Alydar's champion juvenile filly Althea, whose it's worth noting that two of Blame's four elite winners to date, own fertile yield included Arch's stakes sprint-winning dam European Classic winner Senga and now Abscond, have come on Aurora. She was by Danzig, who was also responsible for the turf; a third, Fault, is also a Grade II winner on grass. family's two premier sires in Europe, Bertolini (out of a sister to It certainly doesn't always happen that a mix of opposites Althea) and the outstanding Green Desert (out of an unraced yields a balanced blend, but in this instance the dirt speed of his half-sister by broodmare sire dam and turf titan Sir Ivor). stamina/acceleration of his sire That turf resonance to his appear to have given Arch a maternal family is pretty comprehensive range. His complemented in Arch's first elite scorers, for instance, sire-line, his father Kris S. having were turf sprinters in South given us an Epsom Derby winner Africa and Britain, namely in Kris Kin as well as two Overarching and Les Arcs (the Breeders' Cup winners on grass, latter having notoriously Prized and Soaring Softly; while reverted from hurdle races); Kris S.'s own sire Roberto whereas the most illustrious of famously won the Derby his dozen Grade I winners was, himself. Of course, the hulking of course, a Breeders' Cup Kris S. also sired top-class dirt Classic winner. In depriving horses (not least another three Zenyatta (Street Cry {Ire}) of her Bast Wins the Del Mar Debutante | Benoit Breeders' Cup winners) but he unbeaten record on her final has certainly contributed to the overall versatility of the Roberto start, Blame ensured a memorable showcase for the Roberto line, alongside the likes of Red Ransom, Silver Hawk and sire-line on dirt--the victim of "the Arch villain", so to speak, Dynaformer, who all gained a degree of traction in Europe. And herself being out of a Kris S. mare. Cont. p5 TDN HEADLINE NEWS • PAGE 5 OF 8 • THETDN.COM TUESDAY • SEPTEMBER 24, 2019 At that same Breeders' Cup, moreover, Uncle Mo's Juvenile success gave Arch a flying start as a broodmare sire, his dam Playa Maya being a winner from his very first crop. (Two other stallions out of Arch mares are Uncaptured (Lion Heart) and I'll Have Another (Flower Alley).) Uncle Mo's dam is out of a Dixieland Band mare--and so, too, is Preservationist. Overall the parentage of Preservationist really takes us back, his late dam Flying Dixie having been foaled when Dixieland Band was 25 years old. The Lane's End patriarch was of course a splendid broodmare sire; while the next several dams are likewise by copper-bottomed influences: A.P.