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Caulfield focuses on New Economy HEADLINE p. 2-3 NEWS For information about TDN, DELIVERED EACH NIGHT call 732-747-8060. BY FAX AND INTERNET www.thoroughbreddailynews.com TUESDAY, DEC. 31, 2002 CAN ‘POLLY STAY ON A ROLL? R E S U L T S Today’s GIII Monrovia H. at Santa Anita will feature P P Rolly Polly (Ire) (Mukaddamah), who puts her unbeaten record Sunday, Ohi, Japan over the Arcadia turf on the line. TOKYO DAISHOTEN-G1-NAR, ¥136,000,000, 12-29, The four-year-old captured the Ohi, 3yo, 2000m, 2:05.6, gd. GIII Las Cienegas H. back in April 1--GOLD ALLURE (JPN), 121, c, 3, by Sunday Silence and added a last-jump win in the 1st Dam: Nikiya, by Nureyev GIII Sen. Ken Maddy H. Oct. 12. 2nd Dam: Reluctant Guest, by Hostage Following that victory, the Irish- 3rd Dam: Vaguely Royal (GB), by *Vaguely Noble bred bay carried her form cross- O-Shadai Race Horse; B-Oiwake Farm; T-Yasuo Ikee; town to Hollywood Park and se- J-Yutaka Take; ¥80,000,000. Lifetime Record: cured the Safely Kept H. going Rolly Polly (white cap) 13-6-1-1, ¥270,162,000. Benoit Photo 5 1/2 furlongs Nov. 17. A win by 2--Biwa Shinseiki (Jpn), 126, c, 4, Forty Niner--Oceana, Rolly Polly in the Monrovia could lift trainer Bobby by Northern Dancer. O-Biwa Inc.; B-Hayata Farm. Frankel to a new earnings record, if stablemate Sumitas 3--Regent Bluff (Jpn), 123, h, 6, Park Regent--Sally (Ger) does his part in the day’s fifth race, a $70,000 Belle (Jpn), by Goodly (Fr). O-Akihiro Ohara; allowance. With $17,739,940 in earnings for the year, B-Takashi Yoshida. Frankel is $102,418 shy of the D. Wayne Lukas bench- Margins: 1 1/2, 2 1/2, 1 1/2. Odds: 1.50, 7.50, 6.70. mark of $17,842,358, set in 1988. Gold Allure rebounded from a close fifth in the G1 Japan Cup Dirt to take his third Group 1 victory of Tuesday, Santa Anita, post time: 4:07 p.m. PST 2002. The chestnut colt had captured the G1 Japan MONROVIA H.-GIII, $100,000, 3yo/up, f/m, a6 1/2fT Dirt Derby July 4, then added the G1 Derby Grand Prix PP HORSE SIRE TRAINER WT Sept. 23 before running fifth at Nakayama Nov. 23. He 1 Repository Ocala Slew Lukas 114 now has five wins in six starts on dirt. 2 Pina Colada (GB) Sabrehill Sahadi 115 3 Gabriellina Giof (GB) Ashkalani (Ire) McAnally 114 Saturday, Sonoda, Japan 4 Company B Lost Soldier Paasch 113 HYOGO GOLD TROPHY-G3-NAR, ¥30,000,000 to 5 Onslaught Fit to Fight Josephson 115 winner, 12-28, Sonoda, 3yo/up, 1400m, 1:26.8, gd. 6 Les Yeux Mauves (Fr) Tot ou Tard (Ire) J Canani 116 1--NOBO TRUE, 130, h, 6, by Broad Brush 7 Adoration Honor Grades Hofmans 115 1st Dam: Nastique (MGISW, $843,121), by Naskra 8 I’m The Business (NZ) Spectacularphantom Stein 116 2nd Dam: La Fantastique, by Le Fabuleux (Fr) 9 Lil Sister Stich Seattle Bound O’Neill 116 3rd Dam: Witherite, by Ky. Colonel 10 Miss Puzzle (Aus) Citidancer (Ire) Bray 113 ($110,000 yrl ‘97 KEESEP; $200,000 2yo ‘98 11 Medalha Milagrosa Miner’s Mark Lobo 113 FTFFEB).O-Ikebata Inc.; B-Mr & Mrs J S Moss; 12 Rolly Polly (Ire) Mukaddamah Frankel 122 T-Hideyuki Mori; J-Yutaka Take. Lifetime Record: Also Eligible 42-9-6-5, ¥430,820,000. *1/2 to Thunder Kitten 13 Nanogram Quiet American Vienna 113 (Storm Cat), GSW, $253,138. 14 Southern House (Ire) Paris House (GB) Capestro 110 2--Divine Silver, 123, c, 4, Silver Deputy--Be My Baby, by Ogygian. ($190,000 yrl ‘99 FTSAUG). O-Tadashi The brisnet.com ‘Race of the Day’ is the Sakural; B-Redwood Partners. GIII Monrovia H. from Santa Anita. 3--Yamakatsu Suzuran (Jpn), 121, m, 5, Jade Robbery-- For pps and a complete race analysis, click here. Fujino Taka Komachi (Jpn), by Kolymsky. O-Hiroyasu Yamada; B-Okazaki Farm. Margin: 3/4, 1/2, NK. Odds: 2.10, 7.10, 1.60. Keeneland’s January 6-10 Horses of All Ages Sale Excellent opportunities abound at Keeneland in January. Look for promising yearlings by such sires as Coronado’s Quest, Deputy Minister, El Prado (IRE), Forestry, Fusaichi Pegasus, Lemon Drop Kid, (800) 456-3412 www.keeneland.com Our Emblem, Quiet American, Thunder Gulch and Unbridled’s Song. TDN P HEADLINE NEWS • 12/31/02 • PAGE 2 of 3 P EDIGREE INSIGHTS Towards the end of her broodmare career Soaring became a regular visitor to members of the Ribot BY ANDREW CAULFIELD male line and she hit the jackpot with Mehmet, her 1978 colt by His Majesty. A late developer who was Saturday, Calder equally at home on dirt and turf, Mehmet collected LA PREVOYANTE H.-GII, $200,000, CRC, 12-28, over $650,000 as a four-year-old, when his wins 3yo/up, f/m, 1 1/2mT, 2:28 2/5, fm. included the GI Monmouth H. on dirt and two GII 1--@NEW ECONOMY, 113, f, 4, by Red Ransom races on turf, where the opposition included the 1st Dam: Sunyata, by Proud Truth legendary John Henry. 2nd Dam: Far Beyond, by Nijinsky II In the circumstances, it was hardly surprising that 3rd Dam: Soaring, by Swaps Mehmet’s half-sister Far Beyond, a minor winner by O/B-R S Evans (KY); T-H Graham Motion; J-R B Nijinsky, spent most of her broodmare career visiting Homeister Jr; $120,000. Lifetime Record: 14-5-3-1, Ribot-line stallions. Among her 15 foals were two by $326,687. His Majesty, one by His Majesty’s brother Graustark, Click for the free brisnet.com catalogue-style pedigree. five by Graustark’s son Key to the Mint, three by Graustark’s son Proud Truth and one by Tom Rolfe. I have no idea how much Robert S. Evans paid The incentive to stick with this stratagem came when he bought Sunyata privately around five years from Far Beyond’s first two foals, the stakes-placed ago, but chances are that this daughter of Proud Battle Creek Girl, a daughter of His Majesty, and Truth wasn’t expensive. Sunyata had cost only Wings of Grace, a GIII-winning daughter of Key to $38,000 as a yearling in 1990; she had failed to the Mint. make it to the races; and her first two foals, a gelded Battle Creek Girl has enjoyed tremendous success son of Majestic Light and a filly by Clever Trick, had- as a broodmare, with the likes of Wavering Girl, n’t made much of an impact in 1997, although the Tricky Creek, Parade Ground, Speed Dialer and Pa- gelding was a winner. rade Leader among her six stakes winners. Perhaps So what was this mare’s attraction to a man who her greatest achievement, though, was to produce a has campaigned Grade I winners? I suspect her ap- Kingmambo colt at the age of 22 which sold for peal stemmed from the fact that Sunyata was carry- $5,300,000 as a yearling. ing a foal by Roberto’s fast son Red Ransom, coupled Wings of Grace has also excelled as a producer. A with her being a member of the very successful fam- visit to Roberto resulted in that very good turf filly ily descending from Soaring, a daughter of Swaps. Plenty of Grace (GI Yellow Ribbon Invitational S.) and Soaring’s main claim to fame nowadays is probably she later did even better with Roberto’s son Kris S., that she is the second dam of Ballade, who visited producing the champion turf female Soaring Softly Halo to produce a remarkable trio of high-class win- (GI Breeders’ Cup F/M Turf). ners in Glorious Song, Devil’s Bag and Saint Ballado. Halo, of course, shared the same sire, Hail to Reason, CURRENCY CONVERSIONS as Roberto. Glorious Song has raised the family’s Unit/US$ Unit/GB£ profile even higher by becoming the dam of Rahy, a Euro 1.04563 0.652031 very successful stallion, and Singspiel, an interna- Japanese yen 0.00844931 0.00526877 tional star on the racetrack who has an eye-catching U.S. dollar 1.00 0.623574 record with his first runners. www.coolmore.com TDN P HEADLINE NEWS • 12/31/02 • PAGE 3 of 3 Caulfield cont. Of course these are just a couple of the major Graded-Stakes Winners winners produced by the Roberto-Ribot cross, ex- Roberto over Ribot ploited so successfully by the Darby Dan team. Horse Sire Level Among the others are the champion turf performers Blazing Fury Dynaformer GIII Sunshine Forever and Ryafan, plus such runners as Brian’s Time Roberto GI Memories of Silver, Brian’s Time and Dynaformer. Celestial Storm Roberto GII No wonder Robert Evans has largely pursued this Hail to Reason route with Sunyata, sending her to Crystal Symphony Red Ransom GIII Saint Ballado in 1998 and 2000 and to Red Ransom Dynaformer Roberto GII in 1999. The first Saint Ballado mating produced a Fool’s Prayer Roberto GIII colt which sold to John C. Oxley for $850,000. Graceful Darby Darby Creek Road GIII Sunyata’s Red Ransom colt has been placed at two Grass Wonder Silver Hawk GI in Japan this year and will come into his own as he Haunting Kris S. GIII matures and the distances lengthen, judging by the Julie Jalouse Kris S.