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FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 2018 TAKING STOCK: ARROGATE, CITING REPUTATION, WOODBINE SEEKS STIFFER PENALTY FOR SHOCK WAVE CROSS TRAFFIC KEEP SIRE VIOLATION by Perry Lefko IN SPOTLIGHT Woodbine Entertainment Group (WEG) is seeking a stiffer penalty for a veterinarian who was fined and put on probation for a year for violating rules pertaining to the shock wave treatment of horses because it is concerned about its reputation among horsemen and bettors. In an appeal of the ruling issued by the Alcohol and Gaming Commission of Ontario (AGCO), which fined Dr. Brian Van Arem $7,500 and placed conditions on his license for a period of one year beginning on Oct. 4, WEG wants additional penalties to be imposed on the veterinarian, as first reported by Daily Racing Form. Specifically, WEG wants the AGCO to suspend Van Arem's license for six months from the date of the Sept. 19 decision on or 90 days from the date live racing commences at Woodbine Apr. 20, 2019. Cont. p7 IN TDN EUROPE TODAY The late Unbridled=s Song | Taylor Made photo QATAR’S PRIDE AS LION COMES HOME by Sid Fernando New stallions Roaring Lion and Lightning Spear were on Taylor Made's franchise stallion Unbridled's Song (Unbridled - parade on Thursday at Tweenhills Stud. Trolley Song, by Caro {Ire}) died five years ago at age 20, but the Click or tap here to go straight to TDN Europe. indelible mark he left on the industry continues. Last year, for instance, he led the North American general sire list with the help of Arrogate's Gl Pegasus World Cup Invitational and G1 Dubai World Cup wins and Forever Unbridled's Gl Breeders' Cup Distaff score, even though he had far fewer starters than any other sire in the top 30 and his youngest runners were three. Through 17 crops, Unbridled's Song was represented by 117 black-type winners, or 7% from foals--an excellent ratio in the big-book era--and 22 Grade l winners, 13 of them colts. With many quality runners, it was assumed a long time ago that his name would be carried forward in pedigrees through both his sons and daughters as they went to stud, but this has proven to be only partly true. While his daughters are sought-after broodmares who've produced 157 black-type winners around the globe to date, his sons haven't matched their consistency yet. Cont. p3 PUBLISHER & CEO Sue Morris Finley @suefinley [email protected] V.P., INTERNATIONAL OPERATIONS Gary King @garykingTDN [email protected] EDITORIAL [email protected] Editor-in-Chief Jessica Martini @JessMartiniTDN Managing Editor Alan Carasso @EquinealTDN Friday, November 16, 2018 Senior Editor Steve Sherack @SteveSherackTDN Racing Editor Brian DiDonato @BDiDonatoTDN News and Features Editor Ben Massam @BMassamTDN Associate Editors Christie DeBernardis @CDeBernardisTDN Joe Bianca @JBiancaTDN ADVERTISING [email protected] Director of Advertising Alycia Borer Advertising Manager Lia Best Advertising Designer Amanda Crelin Advertising Assistants Alexa Reisfield Amie Morosco Advertising Assistant/Dir. of Distribution Rachel McCaffrey Photo Editor Sarah K. Andrew @SarahKAndrew [email protected] That’s the “Spirit.” Rain, snow, and cold weather didn't stop breeders from attending Social Media Strategist Spendthrift's open house on Thursday. Multiple Grade I winner Mor Spirit Justina Severni (Eskendereya–Im a Dixie Girl, by Dixie Union) heads back to his stall after inspection. | Sarah Andrew Director of Customer Service Vicki Forbes [email protected] MIDSHIPMAN FILLY TOPS KEENOV THURSDAY 9 Marketing Manager A $50,000 weanling filly by Midshipman (hip 3976) topped the first Alayna Cullen @AlaynaCullen of two Book 7 sessions Thursday on the second-last day of trade at Director of Information Technology the Keeneland November Sale in Lexington. Ray Villa [email protected] Bookkeeper AUDIBLE AIMING FOR PEGASUS 10 Terry May Audible (Into Mischief), a runaway winner of the GI Xpressbet Florida [email protected] Derby and third-place finisher in the GI Kentucky Derby, has returned WORLDWIDE INFORMATION to Todd Pletcher's training base at Palm Beach Downs to continue International Editor preparations for a planned start in the $9-million GI Pegasus World Cup Kelsey Riley @kelseynrileyTDN Invitational at Gulfstream Park Jan. 26. [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 FRIDAY • NOVEMBER 16, 2018 raced Eight Belles, as well as Winslow Homer, Rockport Harbor, and Old Fashioned, and Fox Hill never got the satisfaction from those four that it did from some of its high-profile runners from other sires, such as Medaglia d'Oro (Songbird), Saint Liam (Havre In fact, Unbridled's Song hasn't had a son come anywhere de Grace), and Tapit (Joyful Victory). close to the type of sire he was, though he's had and does have several useful or regionally significant sons at stud, including Managed Differently Midshipman, Old Fashioned, Songandaprayer, Half Ours, Even The gray Unbridled's Song was a member of Unbridled's first the Score, Rockport Harbor, Fiber Sonde, etc. He's also had more crop and was a big, scopey horse and a man among boys--both than a few poor or indifferent sires at several prominent his sire and broodmare sire, Caro, were big horses--as a Kentucky farms, and others have since been exported after 2-year-old, when he won the Breeders' Cup Juvenile in his third timely offers, including Old Fashioned, Political Force, Eurosilver, start. At three, he won the Gl Florida Derby and the Gl Wood Dunkirk, First Defence, Emcee, Zensational, etc. Memorial and entered the Derby as the 3.5-1 favorite but But there is some hope around the corner that maybe one or finished fifth to Grindstone, another son of Unbridled. He'd more of his last major Kentucky-based sons could become the famously had a flake in an ankle at two--the reason he was big-time heir that eluded him during his lifetime. returned to the owner, Ernie Paragallo, from the Barretts sale These are positive signs: Juddmonte's Horse of the Year where he'd made a record $1.4 million on a Japanese bid--and Arrogate led all first-year covering sires at Keeneland's ran in in the Derby with a bar shoe after being plagued by foot November sale, with seven mares averaging $366,429 off a issues. He was never managed under optimum conditions, was $75,000 stud fee, and Spendthrift's relatively unheralded Cross plagued by a variety of health issues throughout his career, and Traffic, who entered stud in 2015 for a $12,500 fee, handily ultimately was retired in early 1997 after fracturing a cannon leads all freshman sires with progeny earnings of $1,942,157 at bone during a routine gallop as a 4-year-old. He went to stud as this writing, more than $900,000 ahead of Spendthrift's Taylor Made's first-ever stallion, with a record of five wins from second-place Goldencents (Into Mischief) with a month and a 12 starts and $1.3 million in earnings. His stud fee in 1997 was half to go for the title. Along with Three Chimneys' champion $30,000. Will Take Charge, who began for $30,000 and is currently #4 on His striking physicality, pedigree, race record, speed, and the freshman sire list, and Lane's End's Liam's Map, who started overall presence made him a popular horse from the beginning, off in 2016 for $25,000 and was #3 by first-year yearling average and he delivered early with horses that looked like him and had at Keeneland September behind American Pharoah and Honor Code, there is plenty to look forward to as these four major Grade l winners give it a go. Perhaps even Gainesway's Grade ll winner Bird Song, who stands for $5,000 and whose first foals arrive next year, and Taylor Made's Grade l winner Graydar, who started for $15,000 and has first-crop 3-year-olds racing decently this year, could be given outside chances to make it. As a group, these six stallions are also atypical of the type of stakes horses that gave Unbridled's Song a loud and perhaps unfair reputation for unsoundness: those late-season 2-year-olds or early season 3-year-olds that were honed for the Classics but got hurt along the way, such Gl Fountain of Youth S. winner Songandaprayer from his first crop (1998), Gl Wood Memorial winner Buddha (1999), multiple Grade lll winner Rockport Harbor (2002), Grade ll winner Old Fashioned (2006), Gl Breeders' Cup Juvenile winner and champion two-year-old colt Midshipman (2006), Gl Classic-placed Dunkirk (2006), Grade ll winner Mission Impazible, Grade lll winner Winslow Homer (2007), etc., and most notably, the Grade ll-winning filly Eight Belles (2005), who broke down and died on track after finishing second in the Gl Kentucky Derby. Rick Porter's Fox Hill Farm TDN HEADLINE NEWS • PAGE 4 OF 13 • THETDN.COM FRIDAY • NOVEMBER 16, 2018 the handiness and speed at two to suggest they'd be Classic hor didn't race at two and won his first race in September of his ses at three. By 2007, his fee was at its apex at $200,000. 3-year-old season and his first Grade I race at four a year later, As noted, many of his sons and daughters were initially in the Woodward S.