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ROCK HARD TEN OUT ‘TIL FALL HEADLINE ...p7 NEWS For information about TDN, DELIVERED EACH NIGHT BY FAX AND FREE BY E-MAIL TO SUBSCRIBERS OF call 732-747-8060. www.thoroughbreddailynews.com SATURDAY, JULY 9, 2005 SOUTH AMERICAN GOLD MINE WHAT’S IN A NAME? Three of the last nine winners of the GI Hollywood Talented (Fusaichi Pegasus) will have the chance to Gold Cup have hailed from South America. Looking to live up to her name as she makes her graded-stakes follow in the hoofsteps of Siphon debut in today’s GI Prioress S. at Belmont Park. The (Brz), Gentlemen (Arg) and Total Im- bay filly dropped her bow to the undefeated and CCA pact (Chi), Al Arz (Brz) (Roba Fina Oaks-bound For All We Know, but has proved elusive in {Ire]) will break from the far outside her last two. An eight-length maiden winner at in post 10 this afternoon. The only Keeneland Apr. 27, the $700,000 FTSAUG yearling horse in the field with a victory at the overwhelmed the field by six 10-furlong Gold Cup distance, Al Arz lengths in winning the May 29 hit the line first in six of his eight Twist Afleet S. But she will starts in his native Brazil. He capped have to get past the lone pre- a four-race winning streak with a vious Grade I winner in the 4 1/4-length score going a mile and a Prioress, Sense of Style 2004 Gold Cup hero quarter in Group 2 company on Valen- (Thunder Gulch). Coupled Total Impact Benoit tine’s Day, 2004. The bay disap- with Maddalena (Good and peared for more than 15 months after Tough), the bay is winless in that effort, but returned with a promising second-place three tries since taking the GI finish behind Keep On Punching (Silver Deputy) in an Matron S. last September and Sense of Style Adam Coglianese optional claimer at Hollywood June 4. “That was his cuts back to a sprint following first start off a long layoff, and I think the extra dis- a nose defeat in the Revidere S. going two turns at tance will help him,” said trainer Paulo Lobo, who has Monmouth June 4. “I think she has a lack of stamina,” guided the career of the talented import Pico Central trainer Patrick Biancone admitted. “She won the [GII (Brz). Limehouse (Grand Slam) has tried 10 panels just Spinaway S. at seven furlongs] by 6 3/4 lengths, but once before, finishing fourth behind Smarty Jones in only won the Matron at one mile by a length.” Biancone the GI Kentucky Derby, but could be ready to tackle the added that the Prioress is not the main goal for his filly. route once again. The chestnut colt rebounded from a The $800,000 KEESEP yearling is being pointed for the troubled fifth-place finish in the Apr. 9 GII Oaklawn H. GI Test S. at Saratoga Aug. 6. “We’re just using the to take the May 6 Alysheba S. at Churchill Downs. He Prioress as a prep for that,” he said. Prioress field, p2 made it two in a row in the June 11 GII Brooklyn H. at a mile and an eighth and is the morning-line chalk to MADCAP ESCAPADE RETURNS make it three in a row. Off the board for the first time in her career when fifth in the May 7 GI Saturday, Hollywood Park, post time: 4:53 p.m. PDT Humana Distaff H. last time out, Mad- HOLLYWOOD GOLD CUP-GI, $750,000, 3yo/up, 1 1/4m cap Escapade (Hennessy) looks to get PP HORSE SIRE TRAINER ODDS Equi-Photo back on track in the GII Princess Rooney 1 Limehouse Grand Slam Pletcher 5-2 H. at Calder. Preview cont, p2 2 Borrego El Prado (Ire) Greely 8-1 3 Deputy Lad Mecke Mitchell 20-1 4 Pt’s Grey Eagle Pleasant Tap C Dollase 20-1 CAN HE MAKE IT EIGHT STRAIGHT? Undefeated Lost in the Fog (Lost Soldier) 5 Anziyan Royalty Anziyan C Dollase 6-1 bids for his eighth consecutive victory in the 6 Congrats A.P. Indy R Mandella 3-1 GII Carry Back S. Coming off a front-running 7 Lava Man Slew City Slew O’Neill 7-2 8 Musique Toujours Musique d’Enfer Sadler 20-1 victory in the June 11 GII Riva Ridge Breed- 9 Al Arz (Brz) Roba Fina (Ire) Lobo 12-1 ers’ Cup S., he faces five overmatched rivals in the six-furlong test. Preview cont. p4 10 Keep On Punching Silver Deputy Saavedra 15-1 Steve Sherack TDN P HEADLINE NEWS • 7/9/05 • PAGE 2 of 7 Saturday, Calder Race Course, post time: 5:44 p.m. EDT Today’s Graded Stakes PRINCESS ROONEY H.-GII, $500,000, 3yo/up, 6f brought to you by PP HORSE SIRE TRAINER ODDS 1 Sorbet Formal Dinner Ma Wolfson 20-1 2 Wild Speed Forest Wildcat Garoffalo 10-1 3 Molto Vita Carson City Stewart 6-1 4 Prospective Saint Saint Ballado Ma Wolfson 20-1 5 Happy Ticket Anet Leggio Jr 6-1 6 Savorthetime Gilded Time Asmussen 12-1 Click for TV 7 Sensibly Chic Distorted Humor Tullock Jr 5-2 9:00a Silver Trophy S.-G3, Lng 8 Madcap Escapade Hennessy Brothers 6-5 9:35a Prix du Ris-Orangis-G3, Dea Madcap Escapade suffered her first-ever defeat when 4:10p Azalea BC S.-GIII, CRC brisnet.com PPs TVG she stretched out to a mile and an eighth for last year’s 4:41p Smile Sprint H.-GII, CRC brisnet.com PPs TVG GI Kentucky Oaks, finishing third behind subsequent 4:45p Prioress S.-GI, Bel brisnet.com PPs TVG Eclipse winner Ashado. She came out of the race with a hip fracture and was sidelined for nearly 10 months, 5:28p Molly Pitcher BC H.-GII, Mth brisnet.com PPs TVG but looked as good as new as she reeled off wins in the 5:44p Princess Rooney H.-GII, CRC brisnet.com PPs TVG Feb. 19 GII Shirley Jones H. at Gulfstream and Apr. 13 5:53p A Gleam Inv. H.-GII, Hol brisnet.com PPs TVG GIII Madison S. at Keeneland. The bay faded after set- 6:01p Debutante S.-GIII, CD brisnet.com PPs TVG ting the pace in the Humana Distaff, but has been 6:12p Carry Back S.-GII, CRC brisnet.com PPs TVG working bullets for her return. She faces the unbeaten 7:23p Swaps BC S.-GII, Hol brisnet.com PPs TVG Louisiana-bred Happy Ticket. Seven-for-seven while 7:53p Hollywood Gold Cup-GI, Hol brisnet.com PPs TVG racing almost exclusively against state-breds last sea- Click here to download all brisnet.com PPs for today’s graded races. son, the four-year-old cruised to a 6 1/4-length score in her seasonal bow, the May 14 Suthern Accent S. She Third Winner for BRAHMS in took on graded foes for the first time in the June 18 EIGHT DAYS! Chicago BC H. and remained undefeated with a 3 1/2- Click here for more... length tally over the consistent SavortheTime. P P R E V I E W S P Saturday, Calder Race Course, post time: 4:41 p.m. EDT SMILE SPRINT H.-GII, $500,000, 3yo/up, 6f Saturday, Belmont Park, post time: 4:45 p.m. EDT PP HORSE SIRE TRAINER ODDS PRIORESS S.-GI, $250,000, 3yo, f, 6f 1 Toscani Chilito Lake 6-1 PP HORSE SIRE TRAINER ODDS 2 Silver Wagon Wagon Limit Ziadie 5-1 1a Sense of Style Thunder Gulch Biancone 4-1 3 Gregson Cherokee Run Standridge 12-1 2 R Fast Lady Artax Harty 15-1 4 Woke Up Dreamin Holy Bull Baffert 3-1 3 Acey Deucey Abaginone Morrison 15-1 5 Mister Fotis Diligence Ma Wolfson 8-1 4a Maddalena Good and Tough Pletcher 4-1 6 Hitthegroundrunnin Hazaam Van Worp 30-1 5 Contrast Unbridled Goldberg 3-1 7 Nightmare Affair Out of Place Azpurua 10-1 6 Burnish Menifee Zito 3-1 8 Abbondanza Alphabet Soup Tullock Jr 5-1 7 Slew Motion Slew Gin Fizz Rodriguez 6-1 9 Paradise Dancer Langfuhr Musgrave 20-1 8 Talented Fusaichi Pegasus Pletcher 5-2 10 Don Six Wild Escapade Lake 4-1 TDN P HEADLINE NEWS • 7/9/05 • PAGE 3 of 7 Smile Sprint H. cont. Saturday, Monmouth Park, post time: 5:28 p.m. EDT On the board in 12 of 15 local starts and perfect in MOLLY PITCHER BREEDERS’ CUP H.-GII, $300,000, two tries at the distance, Nightmare Affair won the 3yo/up, f/m, 1 1/16m Apr. 9 Sprint S. at Tampa and followed up with a solid PP HORSE SIRE TRAINER ODDS 1 1/4-length success over Toscani in this track’s 1 One for Rose Tejano Run S Attard 5-1 Ponche H. Apr. 30. Tried at a mile in his latest, the gray 2 Capeside Lady Cape Town Pletcher 5-2 was caught late in the June 5 Blazing Sword S. and 3 Emerald Earrings Helmsman B Alexander 6-1 should be well suited by the cutback in distance this 4 Bending Strings American Chance McLaughlin 4-1 afternoon. Woke Up Dreamin looms a slight favorite off 5 La Reason Labeeb (GB) Vance 7-2 his big-figure victory in the GII True North BC H. on 6 Ender’s Sister A.P. Indy Arnold 6-1 Belmont day, but must deal with a ton of other speed, 7 Friel’s For Real Sword Dance (Ire) Allard 10-1 including Don Six, who comes in off a 2 1/4-length 8 Madonna Lily Elusive Quality J Jerkens 15-1 score in the Longfellow S.