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HEADLINE NEWS For information about TDN, WAR CHANT call 732-747-8060. New SW & Sales Topper (p1 & 8 ATW) www.thoroughbreddailynews.com THURSDAY, MAY 8, 2008 BIG BROWN JOGS AT CHURCHILL RECAPTURETHEGLORY TO PREAKNESS Big Brown (Boundary) returned to the track for the Louie Roussel III and Ronald Lamarque=s first time since his dominating run in Recapturetheglory (Cherokee Run), who stayed on to Saturday=s GI Kentucky Derby, jogging finish fifth in the GI Kentucky Derby, has joined the a mile alongside a pony at Churchill GI Preakness S. field. AFirst of all, we know that we Wednesday morning. Regular exercise belong,@ said Lamarque from New Orleans. AOf the rider Michelle Nevin was in the irons. 33,000 horses that were foaled three years ago, 20 of ABig Brown came out of his race well,@ them made it to the Derby and we beat 15 of them. Big trainer Rick Dutrow Jr. said. A[Today] Brown is a bear, but we=re he gallops and we=ll really know for not going to run in it to run sure as to where we stand. For now, second. We=re there to win we can tell everyone we=re as excited and we believe it is a speed- as ever about this horse and how well favoring racetrack. I=ll look he is doing.@ The two week turnaround at all the other entrants. for the GI Preakness S. remains They don=t scare me at all Dutrow=s biggest concern. AComing and I believe our horse defi- Big Brown at nitely belongs and we feel back in two weeks, he is stacked up Churchill against it,@ Dutrow said. AHe=s not a like the Preakness is our Recapturetheglory Wednesday kind of race.@ The GII Illinois Horsephotos robot. He has run fast races and fast Reed Palmer numbers and two weeks is not ideal Derby winner jogged a mile timing. You need time to regroup, and we haven=t got and galloped a mile at Churchill Wednesday. ARight now that kind of time.@ he=s doing very, very well,@ Lamarque continued. AWe wouldn=t be considering Baltimore if we didn=t think we ‘Big’ Stud Deal Looms... had a contender. I don=t want to go with a pretender. I hope everyone who is entering, their horse better be at Offers to stand Big Brown at stud have begun to pour the top of their game. He looks better today than he did in, according to IEAH co-president Michael Iavarone. before the Derby. When he came out of the race, I AObviously, Big Brown has garnered a lot of attention thought he would be lethargic. Now we=re getting ready and we are seriously considering an for the Preakness and I pray to God they know what offer for his breeding rights at this they=re getting into. They are going against Big Bad time,@ Iavarone told the TDN. Leroy Brown. We=re ready to go against him. You never AWe've had many offers following know what=s going to go on in the ring, because we=re his incredible Derby win, as we not afraid.@ knew we would, and have one right now that we are considering. Racecar Rhapsody Baltimore Bound... We are very much looking forward Jerry Carroll, Stan Kaplan, Ronald Plattner and Mark to the Preakness and realize the Guilfoyle=s Racecar Rhapsody (Tale of the Cat) has also excitement will only increase been confirmed for the GI Preakness S., according to Horsephotos should he win and head to the trainer Ken McPeek. The $400,000 FTSAUG yearling Belmont S. for a shot at the Triple purchase rallied from 17 lengths back to complete the Crown." IEAH Stables purchased a majority interest superfecta in the GII Coolmore Lexington S. at from Paul Pompa Jr. following Big Brown=s Saratoga Keeneland Apr. 19. AI have been talking it over with Mr. maiden win last summer. Big Brown is also co-owned Carroll and we feel like he will like the added distance,@ by Gary Tolchin's Golden Goose Enterprise LLC, An- McPeek said. AMaybe we will just be running for sec- drew Cohen and James Tagliaferri's Pegasus Holding ond, but that=s not all bad.@ Racecar Rhapsody worked Group Stables LLC. --Steve Sherack five furlongs in 1:01 at Churchill May 2. www.hillndalefarms.com P TDN HEADLINE NEWS • 5/8/08 • PAGE 2 of 8 Borrachos & Moon Work for Preakness... Tres Borrachos (Ecton Park), most recently third in the GII Arkansas Derby Apr. 12, drilled five furlongs in :59.60 at Churchill yesterday in preparation of the second leg of the Triple Crown. AIt looked like he didn=t get out of a gallop,@ trainer and co-owner Beau Greely said. AI had him in :59 2/5 and [galloped] out in 1:13. He went beautiful. I will breeze him next Tuesday, probably an easy half, and then ship to Pimlico Wednes- day.@ Greely, who owns Tres Borrachos in partnership with his brother John Greely IV and Phil Houchens, said that the GI Preakness S. should suit his charge better than the GI Kentucky Derby. AThe Giant Moon turns are a little tighter and it Horsephotos looks like it carries speed, or it has in the past,@ he continued. AHopefully, it will suit him well and it gives him five weeks in between the Arkansas Derby and Preakness.@ Fellow Preakness candidate Giant Moon (Giant=s Causeway), a close fourth in the GI Wood Memorial S. Apr. 5, worked five furlongs in 1:01.04 at Belmont Park. AHe=s fit,@ trainer Rick Schosberg of the New York-bred. AHe=ll work an easy half Tuesday, depending on the weather, and we=ll ship down Thursday after training to get acquainted with the track.@ Thursday, Chester, Britain, post time: 2:45 p.m. CHESTER VASE-G3, ,65,000, 3yo, 12f 66ydsT Today’s Graded Stakes SC PP HORSE SIRE TRAINER brought to you by 1 8 All the Aces (Ire) Spartacus (Ire) M Jarvis 24Doctor Fremantle (GB) Sadler=s Wells Stoute 3 7 Donegal Menifee Balding 4 5 Feared in Flight (Ire) Hawk Wing B Hills 5 1 Pampas Cat Seeking the Gold Gosden 6 6 Vivaldi (Ire) Montjeu (Ire) A O=Brien 72Wassily Kandinsky (GB) Montjeu (Ire) A O=Brien Click for TV 8 3 Yahrab (Ire) Dalakhani (Ire) C Brittain 9:15a Huxley S.-G3, CHE -------------- ---- All carry 124 pounds. 9:45a Chester Vase-G3, CHE -------------- ---- Twelve months ago, Soldier of Fortune (Ire) grabbed victory from the jaws of defeat here before going on to All Times Eastern Standard Time. success in the G1 Irish Derby, and his trainer, Aidan G1SW PURGE O=Brien, unleashes Vivaldi and Wassily Kandinsky this Also Won the G2 Peter Pan Stakes time. The former is the number one on jockey bookings By More Than Six Lengths and has potential to leave the form of his narrow Click here for more... maiden win at Gowran Park in July behind him. Sir Michael Stoute saddled the great Shergar (Ire) to win this in 1981 and Papal Bull (GB) to follow up two years P P R E V I E W S P ago and relies on Doctor Fremantle. He was runner-up in the same Newmarket handicap that the latter took en A # will distinguish first-time stakes-winners, a @ will route to success here and represents the Juddmonte indicate first-time graded stakes-winners, a s will connection responsible for Arabian Gulf (GB), denied by denote a first-time Grade/Group 1 winner, a + will first- a short-head in last year=s edition. time starters, an (S) will be used for state-bred races. Previews cont. TDN P HEADLINE NEWS • 5/8/08 • PAGE 3 of 8 Previews cont. Zarkava Tuned cont. Thursday, Chester, Britain, post time: 2:15 p.m. HUXLEY S.-G3, ,60,000, 4yo/up, 12f 75ydsT AShe worked very well a month ago and was going to SC PP HORSE SIRE TRAINER WT run, but her blood sample wasn=t quite right and for 10 1 1 Maraahel (Ire) Alzao Stoute 131 days afterwards she was very quiet and wasn=t very 2 6 Stotsfold (GB) Barathea (Ire) Swinburn 129 well,@ her trainer told PA Sport on Tuesday. AShe 34Championship Point (Ire) Lomitas (GB) Channon 126 bounced back in the last couple of weeks; I took the 42Majounes Song (GB) Singspiel (Ire) Johnston 126 chance of running her yesterday and it came off. If the 53Multidimensional (Ire) Danehill Cecil 126 ground at Longchamp came up very soft, I=d give seri- 6 5 Spice Route (GB) King=s Best Bell 126 ous consideration to running there as she is very well. If it=s anything other than soft, we will miss it as it will be Saturday, Hollywood Park a hot race.@ Ireland will be represented by the Ballydoyle JIM MURRAY MEMORIAL H.-GII, $250,000, 3yo/up, duo Halfway to Heaven (Ire) (Pivotal {GB}) and Psalm 1 1/2mT (Ire) (Sadler=s Wells), who were second and seventh, PP HORSE SIRE JOCKEY WT respectively, in the Apr. 6 G3 Leopardstown 1000 1 Boule d=Or (Ire) Croco Rouge (Ire) T Baze 115 Guineas Trial. Of the British challengers, Jaber 2Champs Elysees (GB) Danehill Dominguez 119 Abdullah=s G3 Albany S. winner Nijoom Dubai (GB) 3 Church Service Pulpit V Espinoza 113 (Noverre) and Robert Barnett=s G3 Fred Darling S. 4 Sudan (Ire) Peintre Celebre Valdivia Jr. 115 scorer Dream Day (GB) (Oasis Dream {GB}) are intended 5On the Acorn (GB) Inchinor (GB) Blanc 115 runners.