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SUNDAY, JANUARY 3, 2021 ‘RISING STAR’ MAKES WINSTAR STABLEMATES OFF TO A FLYING START IN 2021 by Bill Finley ‘GOOD’ IN SHAM Coming off a banner year in which its fillies finished one-two in the GI Coaching Club American Oaks, WinStar Stablemates Racing burst out of the starting gate in 2021 going two-for-two on Friday. The victories included a win by Gulf Coast (Union Rags) in the Cash Run S. at Gulfstream. "It's nice to get of to such a great start and we are very excited for 2021," said WinStar CEO and President Elliott Walden. "To be two-for-two is great for our owners." The WinStar racing partnership is an offshoot of WinStar Stablemates, a club formed in 2011 that allowed members inside access to all things WinStar. Hoping to attract new owners into the business, WinStar branched out and started WinStar Stablemates Racing in 2018. The stable won with its first ever starter, capturing the 2018 Wayward Lass S. at Tampa Bay Life is Good | Horsephotos Downs with Well Humored (Distorted Humor). All of the Stablemates horses are fillies. Cont. p7 China Horse Club and WinStar’s Life is Good (Into Mischief) lived up to his dazzling, ‘TDN Rising Star’-worthy debut with a good-looking score in Saturday’s GIII Sham S. at Santa Anita. IN TDN EUROPE TODAY Romping by 9 1/2 lengths in his 6 1/2-panel unveiling at Del Mar SIYOUNI COMES OF AGE Nov. 22, he fired a pair of bullet works in the interim and was Emma Berry reviews the leading sires standing in France and hammered down to 1-5 favoritism to repeat in this first try at Germany in 2020. Click or tap here to go straight to TDN Europe. two turns. Not off to the fastest start from the outside post in this five- horse affair, the $525,000 KEESEP purchase seized the early advantage and galloped along on a clear lead, clocking a 23.56 first quarter and :46.67 half-mile. Turning for home alone, Life is Good was still going along at an easy gallop into the final sixteenth of a mile, but Mike Smith was forced to get busy thereafter as stablemate Medina Spirit (Protonico) closed the gap to 3/4 of a length at the wire. “He’s a good horse and I could tell that Mike was just cruising out there,” Hall of Famer Bob Baffert said. “It reminded me a lot of Authentic (Into Mischief) last year, when he did the same thing, he looked like a drunk out there coming down, he almost hit the rail and stuff. Just to get the two turns out of the way, it’s big. I always feel that the second race is most important, you’re going up against winners. I think Mike did a great job just sort of cruising around there and it was just the kind of race we were looking for. They ran pretty fast, these are two good horses. It is so exciting he passed the two turn test.” Cont. p3 PUBLISHER & CEO Sue Morris Finley @suefinley [email protected] SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT Gary King @garykingTDN [email protected] EDITORIAL [email protected] Editor-in-Chief Jessica Martini @JessMartiniTDN Managing Editor Sunday, January 3, 2021 Alan Carasso @EquinealTDN Senior Editor Steve Sherack @SteveSherackTDN Racing Editor Brian DiDonato @BDiDonatoTDN Deputy Editor Christie DeBernardis @CDeBernardisTDN Associate Editors Christina Bossinakis @CBossTDN Joe Bianca @JBiancaTDN News and Features Editor In Memoriam: Ben Massam (1988-2019) ADVERTISING [email protected] Director of Advertising Alycia Borer Advertising Manager Lia Best Advertising Designer Amanda Crelin Advertising Assistant/Dir. Of Distribution Rachel McCaffrey Advertising Assistants Amie Newcomb Kristen Lomasson Photographer/Photo Editor Tiz The Law (Constitution) arrived at Coolmore’s Ashford Stud in Versailles, Sarah K. Andrew @SarahKAndrew Kentucky Saturday morning to take up stud duties. The 2020 Belmont Stakes [email protected] winner, retired last week, will stand for a fee of $40,000 and will be available for Social Media Strategist inspection beginning Monday. Click to see video of his arrival. | Jon Siegel Justina Severni Associate Producer Katie Ritz ANOTHERTWISTOFFATE WINS THE SAN GABRIEL 5 Anothertwistoffate comes from off the pace to take Saturday’s Director of Customer Service GII San Gabriel S. at Santa Anita. Vicki Forbes [email protected] Marketing Manager CATEMACO WINS AFTER NEAR DEATH EXPERIENCE 9 Alayna Cullen @AlaynaCullen Near death as a foal, Cal-bred Catemaco debuted a winner at Santa Anita Friday afternoon. Director of IT & Accounting Ray Villa [email protected] TODAY’S GRADED STAKES [email protected] ET Race Click for TV WORLDWIDE INFORMATION 7:05p Santa Ynez S.-GII, SA TJCIS PPs TVG 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 | www.TheTDN.com TDN HEADLINE NEWS • PAGE 3 OF 11 • THETDN.COM SUNDAY • JANUARY 3, 2021 Life is Good | Benoit Pedigree Notes: Life Is Good is the 84th black-type winner and 36th graded winner for red hot sire Into Mischief. He is also the 104th black- type scorer and 48th graded victor out of a daughter of longtime leading stallion Distorted Humor. The winner=s second dam is SW & MGISW Bonnie Blue Flag (Mineshaft), who is a half-sister to MGISW Diamondrella (GB) (Rock of Gibraltar {Ire}). His dam Beach Walk did not have a foal in 2019, but had a Blame filly Life is Good holds off Medina Spirit | Benoit Feb. 27 of last year and was bred back to Candy Ride (Arg). TDN HEADLINE NEWS • PAGE 4 OF 11 • THETDN.COM SUNDAY • JANUARY 3, 2021 Saturday, Santa Anita Also Ran: Waspirant, Uncle Boogie. Click for the Equibase.com SHAM S.-GIII, $100,000, Santa Anita, 1-2, 3yo, 1m, 1:36.63, ft. chart, the TJCIS.com PPs or the free Equineline.com catalogue- 1--LIFE IS GOOD, 120, c, 3, by Into Mischief style pedigree. VIDEO, sponsored by Fasig-Tipton. 1st Dam: Beach Walk, by Distorted Humor 2nd Dam: Bonnie Blue Flag, by Mineshaft 3rd Dam: Tap Your Feet, by Dixieland Band Saturday, Santa Anita 1ST BLACK TYPE WIN, 1ST GRADED STAKES WIN. ($525,000 SAN GABRIEL S.-GII, $201,000, Santa Anita, 1-2, 4yo/up, Ylg '19 KEESEP). >TDN Rising Star= O-CHC INC & WinStar Farm 1 1/8mT, 1:46.63, fm. LLC; B-Gary & Mary West Stables Inc (KY); T-Bob Baffert; 1--ANOTHERTWISTAFATE, 122, h, 5, by Scat Daddy J-Mike E Smith. $60,000. Lifetime Record: 2-2-0-0, $94,200. 1st Dam: Imprecation, by First Defence Click for the eNicks report & 5-cross pedigree. Werk Nick 2nd Dam: Media Nox (GB), by Lycius Rating: A+++ *Triple Plus*. 3rd Dam: Sky Love, by Nijinsky II ($360,000 2yo '18 OBSOPN). O-Peter Redekop B C Ltd; B-Pursuit of Success LLC (KY); T-Peter Miller; J-Joel Rosario. 2--Medina Spirit, 120, c, 3, Protonico--Mongolian Changa, by $120,000. Lifetime Record: 10-5-2-0, $490,505. Click for the Brilliant Speed. ($1,000 Ylg '19 OBSWIN; $35,000 2yo '20 eNicks report & 5-cross pedigree. Werk Nick Rating: A+++ OBSOPN). O-Zedan Racing Stables Inc; B-Gail Rice (FL); T-Bob *Triple Plus*. Baffert. $20,000. 3--Parnelli, 120, c, 3, Quality Road--Sip Sip, by Bernardini. ($500,000 Ylg '19 KEESEP). O-C R K Stable LLC; B-Gainesway 2--Bob and Jackie, 120, h, 5, Twirling Candy--Fateer, by Thoroughbreds Ltd (KY); T-John A Shirreffs. $12,000. Eskendereya. ($190,000 4yo '20 KEENOV). O-Calvin Nguyen & Joey Tran; B-Zayat Stables LLC (KY); T-Richard Baltas. $40,000. Margins: 3/4, 13, 6. Odds: 0.20, 9.40, 4.60. Cont. p5 TDN HEADLINE NEWS • PAGE 5 OF 11 • THETDN.COM SUNDAY • JANUARY 3, 2021 San Gabriel cont. 3--Next Shares, 120, g, 8, Archarcharch--Two Dot Slew, by Evansville Slew. ($87,000 Ylg '14 FTKOCT; $190,000 4yo '17 KEENOV). O-Debby & Richard Baltas, Julia C & Michael Ivarone, Jerry McClanahan, Jeremy Peskoff, Ritchie Robershaw & Mark Taylor; B-Buck Pond Farm Inc. (KY); T-Richard Baltas. $24,000. Margins: 2 1/4, 2, NO. Odds: 2.80, 5.70, 10.30. Also Ran: Multiplier, Bowies Hero, Cleopatra's Strike, Count Again. Click for the Equibase.com chart, the TJCIS.com PPs or the free Equineline.com catalogue-style pedigree. VIDEO, sponsored by Fasig-Tipton. Anothertwistafate kicked off 2021 on a winning note, capturing the GII San Gabriel S. Adding blinkers for this event, Anothertwistafate | Benoit the 5-2 shot was quite eager early, tugging his way up to stalk from second through a :23.02 first quarter and :46.95 half- first win for Mr. Redekop. It=s a nice way to do it, in a Grade II, mile. Drawing even with the leader as three-quarters went in $200,000. We=ll look at the Pegasus, both the turf and the dirt. 1:11.62, the dark bay charged clear in the lane for an The dirt is more money, but obviously, there=s tougher horses in authoritative victory. there.@ AThe first half mile, he was a little rank, then Joel [Rosario] got A dominant winner of the 2019 El Camino Real Derby on the him to settle,@ said trainer Peter Miller. AJoel recommended the Golden Gate synthetic, Anothertwistafate missed by a neck in blinkers after his last race. He made the lead and was gawking the GIII Sunland Derby next out and completed the exacta in around.