BILL OPPENHEIM HEADLINE ...p. 4 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 WEDNESDAY, MARCH 14, 2007 LAVA MAN CONFIRMED FOR DUBAI WEEKEND PEDIGREE Jason Wood and STD Racing Stable=s Lava Man (Slew City Slew), who became just the third horse in PERSPECTIVES history to capture two by Alan Porter runnings of the GI Santa Anita H. Mar. 3, has been FAIR GROUNDS OAKS-GII, $396,000, FGX, 3-10, 3yo, confirmed for the $5-million f, 1 1/16m, 1:44, ft. G1 Dubai Duty Free. The 1--@MISTICAL PLAN, 121, f, 3, by Game Plan 1,777-meter (about nine fur- 1st Dam: Mistical Bel, by Bel Bolide longs) turf race is part of the 2nd Dam: Mistical Mist, by Mehmet Dubai World Cup card Mar. 3rd Dam: Cloud Ho, by Cohoes 31. AHe=s doing great,@ said O-J Paul Reddam; B-Carol Anderson (CA); T-Doug F STD Stable=s Steve Kenly. O'Neill; J-Corey S Nakatani; $240,000. Lifetime Record: 8-4-1-1, $475,765. AWe wouldn=t be going other- wise. We wanted to see how Click for the brisnet.com chart or the free brisnet.com catalogue-style pedigree. Video, sponsored by Taylor Lava Man he came out of the last race Benoit photo Made. and if he would be ready to run in four weeks, and everything looks good.@ Kenly Yesterday, my colleague Andrew Caulfield considered said the horse is scheduled to work Sunday and will the pedigree of Rags to Riches. Winner of the GI Santa ship to Dubai on Tuesday. He added that the human Anita Oaks, Rags to Riches has about as rich a back- connections of Lava Man would likely head to Dubai on ground as one could contemplate, being an A.P. Indy Tuesday, Mar. 27. half-sister to a GI Belmont Stakes winner, out of a Deputy Minister mare from a fabulous family. THE GREEN MONKEY NEARING RETURN Today, we are going to look at another three-year-old The world-record $16-million The Green Monkey filly who took a major stakes at the weekend--the GII (Forestry) is nearing a return Fair Grounds Oaks victress Mistical Plan--but who has a to training. A Coolmore pedigree from the opposite end spokesman yesterday con- of the fashion spectrum. Inci- firmed that the colt, who be- dentally, the Fair Grounds came the highest-priced Oaks victory, which came over horse ever to sell at auction a very accomplished field, rep- when knocked down to resented a big performance Coolmore=s Demi O=Byrne at step forward for the Cal-bred. last year=s Fasig-Tipton Cal- Purchased privately by J. Paul der sale, is still at Ashford Reddam after a maiden win at Stud in Kentucky, but said Santa Rosa, Mistical Plan did win the state-bred Cover Mistical Plan (left) the three-year-old was slated The Green Monkey Gal S. last year, and take the Horsephotos to rejoin trainer Todd Horsephotos six-furlong Sunshine Millions Pletcher=s stable in the com- Oaks this term, but she had been beaten in four graded ing weeks. Last August, Pletcher reported that the colt events, doing best when second in the GIII Pocahontas had pulled a gluteal muscle and gave him a few weeks S., and third in the GIII Santa Ysabel S. off. He came back to record four works last October before returning to the sidelines. Alan Porter cont. p2 www.taylormadesales.com TDN P HEADLINE NEWS • 3/14/07 • PAGE 2 of 5 Alan Porter cont. Mistical Plan=s sire, Game Plan, never ran and now stands in California, at a fee most recently advertised at $3,500. Still, while he lacked performance, Game Plan did take to stud a top-class pedigree. A son of Danzig, he was out of Cadillacing, herself winner of the GI Ballerina S. and a sister to Champion Easy Goer, and half-sister to Grade I winner Easy Now (by Danzig, and so a three-parts sister to Game Plan). Cadillacing=s Mistical Plan dam was champion Re- Benoit photo laxing, a daughter of Buckpasser and the Acorn S. winner Marking Time, this being a very suc- cessful branch of the La Troienne family. Game Plan himself is a brother to the short-lived GI Futurity S. victor Strolling Along, and to The Jogger, a minor win- ner who has sired graded stakes winners in New Zea- land, and half-brother to multiple graded winner Cat Cay and to graded-placed Lion Hearted, now a sire in Maryland. Mistical Plan is Game Plan=s first graded scorer, but vinery.com he has sired a total of 12 stakes winners from his first seven crops, which have totaled 313 foals, and have supplied 204 starters and 154 winners (for approxi- Mistical Plan is the only winner from the first three mately 6 percent stakes winners to runners, and 75 starters produced by her dam, Mistical Bel. She was a percent winners to runners). Those 12 stakes winners daughter of the Bold Bidder horse Bel Bolide, a Group 2 also include Bedlam Bertie, a black-type winner this winner in England at two, and third in the G1 2000 year at four who placed third in the 2006 GIII Bay Guineas the following year, and subsequently a four- Meadows Derby, and Melanyhasthepapers, a stakes time graded stakes winner in California. He also appears winner of over $300,000 who also ran second in the as broodmare sire of the Grade I-winning sprinter Rich- GIII All American H. ter Scale. Mistical Bel=s dam Mistical Mist was only a minor MISTICAL PLAN, f, 2004 winner, and she never produced a black-type winner, Nearctic Northern Dancer although her Distinctive Cat colt Mysterious Cat took Natalma Danzig third in the GII San Bernardino H. and is still racing in Admirals Voyage Pas de Nom 2007 at the age of nine. Mistical Mist was half-sister to Petitioner (GB) Game Plan the minor stakes winners Salem Ho and M. A.=s Date, Raise a Native Alydar but she is also a sister to Princess Met, a stakes pro- Sweet Tooth Cadillacing ducer who also features as granddam of the three-time Buckpasser Relaxing graded scorer Windsor Castle. Another half-sister to Marking Time Mistical Mist, Kay Ho, has also made her name as a Bold Ruler Bold Bidder producer, and is ancestress of eight stakes winners, High Bid Bel Bolide including the GI Vanity International H. heroine Private Graustark Lady Graustark Persuasion. Mistical Bel Inyala 8-2-0-1, $16,785 His Majesty 5Fls, 1GSW Mehmet Mistical Mist Soaring 5-1-1-0, $4,500 TDN TODAY 8Fls, 1GSP Cloud Ho Cohoes Headline News.................... 5 pages 15Fls, 2SW Cloud High TDN P HEADLINE NEWS • 3/14/07 • PAGE 3 of 5 Alan Porter cont. P N E W S T O D A Y P Mistical Plan s dam, Mistical Bel, has an intriguing = OUIJA BOARD CONFIRMED IN FOAL Ouija Board pedigree with the brothers Graustark/His Majesty ap- (GB) (Cape Cross {Ire}), one of the most accomplished pearing 3x3 and, although it didn't help Mistical Bel racemares in recent years, has been confirmed in foal to develop into a runner of note, the inbreeding may be Kingmambo, according to Racing Post. She was cov- the key to the upgrading in Mistical Plan's ability. What ered Feb. 26. AI am glad to say that Oujia Board is con- is important to note here is that Graustark and His firmed in foal,@ owner Lord Derby told Racing Post. Majesty play very strongly into the background of both AShe has taken first time, which is really great news as Danzig (grandsire of Mistical Plan) and his sire Northern we were concerned because she is a six-year-old mare.@ Dancer. Northern Dancer is by Nearctic (by Nearco, a She is scheduled to remain at Lane=s End Farm for the Pharos/Havresac II cross), out of Lady Angela (by next 80 days before returning to England. Bred by Lord Hyperion, out of a mare by a son of Tracery), and has a Derby=s Stanley House, the popular dark bay captured second dam by Mahmoud. Graustark is by Ribot (re- seven Group 1 races over a career spanning four sea- verse Havresac II/Pharos cross to Nearco) out of a mare sons, including the G1 Epsom Oaks, G1 Irish Oaks and by Alibhai (by Hyperion out of a mare by Tracery) and GI Breeders= Cup F/M Turf at three, when she was has a second dam by Mahmoud. Danzig adds to the honored as the Cartier Horse of the Year in Europe as mix as his granddam is by Petition, who a grandson of well as champion turf female in the U.S. A splint injury Fairway (brother to Pharos), out of a mare by Artist=s led to an abbreviated four-year-old campaign capped by Proof, a Gainsborough (sire of Hyperion)/Tracery cross, a triumph in the G1 Hong Kong Vase, but she returned so again reinforcing the strains shared by Northern at five to take the Breeders= Cup as well as another Dancer and Graustark/His Majesty. We can note that Cartier and Eclipse again under the guidance of Ed crossing stallions carrying Danzig with mares carry Dunlop. Her other top-level wins were the G1 Prince of either Graustark or His Majesty has also produced group Wales=s S.