MONDAY, AUGUST 12, 2019 SOLID OPENER TO F-T THE WEEK IN REVIEW: AT SARATOGA, SO MUCH FOR CONVENTIONAL WISDOM NEW YORK-BRED SALE by Bill Finley Two trainers seemed to have lost their minds Saturday at Saratoga. The result? Two graded stakes wins. In an era in racing where trainers can't space the races for their horses far enough apart, Mark Casse was setting himself up to look foolish when he dropped Got Stormy (Get Stormy) into the entry box for the GI Fourstardave H. It wasn't just that he was running a filly against boys, he was running her back off one week’s rest. Seven days earlier, she had romped in the Fasig-Tipton De La Rose S. Most anyone else would have backed off and looked for a race five or six weeks down the road. But it was actually owner Gary Barber who had other ideas. The Fourstardave is a $500,0000, Grade I race and is a "Win and You're In" race for the GI Breeders' Cup Mile. Cont. p7 Session-topping Hip 342 in the ring | Fasig-Tipton IN TDN EUROPE TODAY by Jessica Martini ROMANISED CAPTURES HIS SECOND GROUP 1 SARATOGA SPRINGS, NY--The Fasig-Tipton New York-Bred Deauville’s G1 Prix du Haras de Fresnay-le-Buffard Jacques le Yearling Sale opened Sunday evening with a session of steady Marois went the way of Classic hero Romanised (Ire) (Holy action capped by a son of Constitution who sold for $340,000 to Roman Emperor {Ire}). Click or tap here to go straight to TDN trainer John Terranova. Europe. “It was a solid opening session to the New York-Bred sale,” said Fasig-Tipton President Boyd Browning, Jr. “There was lots of interest across the board. We continue to see the strength of the New York-bred market. It was on display again tonight.” The two-day auction has a slightly different format this year, with Sunday evening’s somewhat abbreviated session of just 119 catalogued head to be followed by a longer session Monday. The change in format makes direct comparisons impossible. In all, 66 yearlings sold Sunday in Saratoga for a total of $5,972,500. The average was $90,492 and the median was $75,000. With 31 of 97 offered head failing to reach their reserve, the buy-back rate was 32%. During last year’s opening session of the New York sale, 80 of 136 offered yearlings grossed $8,326,000 for an average of $104,075 and a median of $75,000. The buy-back rate was 41%. “We can talk about overall results tomorrow after we get comparable figures for the two days because then it will be apples to apples,” Browning said Sunday night. 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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 | 732-747-8955 (fax) www.TheTDN.com TDN HEADLINE NEWS • PAGE 3 OF 14 • THETDN.COM MONDAY • AUGUST 12, 2019 F-T NY-bred Sale cont. from p1 The bay colt was consigned by Blake-Albina Thoroughbred “It was a pretty consistent marketplace tonight,” Browning Services on behalf of his breeder, Maurice and Samantha continued. “The median is virtually the same as last year and the Regan’s Newtown Anner Stud. He is out of Akris Queen (Arch), a average is down a little bit. But I think we’ve got a lot of mare Terranova trained on behalf of the Regans, and his second outstanding horses tomorrow.” dam is Catnip (Flying Paster), who produced graded stakes The session-topping son of Constitution, who was consigned by winners Indescribable (Pleasant Tap) and Micromanage Blake-Albina Thoroughbreds, was one of seven to sell for (Medaglia d’Oro). $200,000 or over. And the 11 highest priced horses of the “I actually trained the mare and she has big pedigree and she session, purchased by a seemingly even mixture of end-users was a nice sound filly,” Terranova said. “So it’s nice to see her and pinhookers, were acquired by 11 different buying interests. throw a good-looking colt like that.” The Fasig-Tipton New York-Bred Sale’s final session gets Multiple Grade I winner Constitution has been represented by underway Monday at noon in the Humphrey S. Finney Pavilion. seven winners to date, including graded stakes winners Amalfi Sunrise and By Your Side. “With everything lining up--with the sire getting as hot as he Constitution Colt to Terranova has been currently, and this horse’s physical was really, really Trainer John Terranova made a final bid of $340,000 to acquire strong–just all of the stars lined up at the same time. So we had a colt by hot first-crop sire Constitution during Sunday’s first the feeling he could bring that,” said Newtown Anner advisor session of the Fasig-Tipton New York-Bred Sale. Terranova, Nick Sallusto. bidding out back, purchased the yearling (hip 342) on behalf of an undisclosed client. Reeves Strikes for Runhappy Filly “We were really happy we got him,” Terranova said. “We Patti Reeves, who along with husband Dean, and R. A. Hill looked at him and thought he was the best horse in the sale. Stable, and Corms Racing Stable campaigns recent GII Jim Dandy Obviously, Constitution has gotten off to a fast start with his 2- S. winner Tax (Arch), teamed with those partners again to add a year-olds and he has had some versatile runners on the track filly by Runhappy to the roster when signing the ticket at already.” $300,000 on hip 380 Sunday in Saratoga. Cont. p4 TDN HEADLINE NEWS • PAGE 4 OF 14 • THETDN.COM MONDAY • AUGUST 12, 2019 Reeves did her bidding in the pavilion with Tax’s trainer Danny just needs somebody to give her more black-type. I turned to Gargan sitting not far away. my trainer this morning and told him it was his fault that she “We loved her from the start–she is just a gorgeous filly–and doesn’t have black-type because Awesome News ran her we love the incentive program for the New York-breds,” Reeves eyeballs out and they never tried to get black-type. She said. “The incentives for New York breds are heads and belonged to a syndicate and all they wanted to do was win. But shoulders above other states. We wish we had something like breeders want black-type.” that in the state in Georgia and if we ever get horse racing in the A longtime New York breeder, Malloy admitted it was state of Georgia, that’s what we will do.” gratifying to see the ever-expanding growth of the New York The yearling is out of stakes-placed Charismata (Curlin), a half- market. sister to stakes winner Little Dancer (Successful Appeal). She “The years behind us were pretty grim,” Malloy said. “And I’m was consigned by Gainesway on behalf of Fasig-Tipton President so proud of New York and the program and the people Boyd Browning, Jr. and partners. The mare, in foal to interested in New York-breds now.” Constitution, RNA’d for $42,000 at the 2016 Keeneland As New York-breds continue to succeed beyond the state’s November sale. Her Constitution colt, also bred by Browning borders, Malloy is watching horses she has bred compete across and Billy Terrell, sold for $70,000 at the 2018 Keeneland January the country. sale. “I have bred and sold two colts who are running at Del Mar,” she said. “One broke his maiden at Del Mar and another one Partnership for Twirling Candy Filly just got second. It’s great to see.” Johns Martin, Bill Rucker, Bob Hahn, and Richard Nicolai partnered to purchase a filly by Twirling Candy Sunday in Saratoga, with trainer Jeremiah Englehart bidding $260,000 to acquire hip 353 from the Denali Stud consignment. “This is a filly that we really like and hoped that she would fall in our range.