SATURDAY, OCTOBER 12, 2013 732-747-8060 $ TDN Home Page Click Here TO WAR ALTERITE SEEKS GRADE I DOUBLE IN QEII Newmarket=s G1 Dubai Dewhurst S. has crowned A strong and well-matched group of nine 3-year-old countless juvenile champions, and while today=s fillies lines up for today=s GI Queen Elizabeth II renewal boasts little of its usual strength in depth, it Challenge Cup S. at Keeneland. Marty Schwartz=s plays host to one who is almost Alterite (Fr) (Literato {Fr}) seeks her second-consecutive there already in War Command Grade I from as many (War Front). Joseph Allen=s Stateside tries while homebred must rate as one of looking to provide the most impressive winners of conditioner Chad Brown the G2 Coventry S. in that race=s with back-to-back history when storming to a six- renewals of this length success at Royal Ascot prestigious event. June 18, and his subsequent War Command Purchased privately after Racing Post success in The Curragh=s finishing third by a neck G2 Futurity S. Aug. 24 in last October s G1 Prix Alterite NYRA/Coglianese amounted to another display of his considerable = prowess. His sole blip came when third over six Marcel Boussac, the furlongs in the latter venue=s G1 Phoenix S. 13 days former Jean-Claude Rouget trainee came up a nose earlier, which Aidan O=Brien put down to lack of peak short of Boussac winner Silasol (Ire) (Monsun {Ger}) in fitness. AHe ran in the Futurity and he worked after this May=s G1 Prix Saint-Alary at Longchamp. She was racing at the Curragh a few weeks ago,@ O=Brien sixth behind eventual G1 Prix de l=Arc de Triomphe commented. AHe is in good form and we are looking heroine Treve (Fr) (Motivator {GB}) in the June 16 G1 forward to the Dewhurst.@ Godolphin enjoyed a first Prix de Diane at Chantilly before joining the Brown barn. success in this race 12 months ago with Dawn Given a 3-1 chance for connections who have done so Approach (Ire) (New Approach {Ire}), and rely solely on well in the past with European imports, the bay stalked their supplemented homebred Outstrip (GB) (Exceed and pounced to a 1 1/2-length success in Belmont=s and Excel {Aus}). He had Cable Bay (Ire) (Invincible GI Garden City S. Sept. 14. AShe=s a special filly,@ Spirit {Ire}) three lengths back in third when taking the offered Baldo Hernandez, assistant to Brown. AShe=s G2 Champagne S. at Doncaster last time Sept. 14, and really nice. I think she=s going to run big on Saturday.@ Racing Manager Simon Crisford is hoping for a bold Fellow foreign transplant Concise (GB) (Lemon Drop show. AWe won the Dewhurst last year with Dawn Kid) was third in the Garden City, while GII Lake Placid Approach and whichever horse wins the race on S. winner (via DQ) Caroline Thomas (Giant=s Causeway) Saturday, it tells you that you have a live Classic horse could only manage a seventh-place run. Cont. p3 for the following season, which is always a nice position to be in. We gave Sunday's [G1] Prix Jean-Luc Lagardere at Longchamp a miss with Outstrip, hoping for better ground in the Dewhurst. That is a decision that might backfire--we will have to wait and see. His Champagne victory was a top-notch effort and we are very pleased with him.@ Cont. p5 THE MIDDLE MAN Already successful in the G1 Phoenix S., Fitri Hay and Susan Magnier=s Sudirman (Henrythenavigator) bids for a second top-flight victory in today=s G1 Middle Park S. at Newmarket. Second behind Toormore (Ire) (Arakan) in the G1 Goffs Vincent O'Brien National S. when trying seven furlongs at The Curragh last time Sept. 15, the high-class Sudirman performer, who also took the Racing Post June 29 G2 Railway S. as well as the Aug. 11 Phoenix at The Curragh, has only No Nay Never (Scat Daddy) above him in the ratings over this trip. Cont. p5 In This Issue Juddmonte Fillies Game Time Decisions 60 Broad St., Suite 100 Red Bank, NJ 07701 Juddmonte Farms’ pair of multiple Grade I- (732) 747-8060 winning 3-year-old fillies Close Hatches (First (732) 747-8955 (fax) Defence) and Emollient (Empire Maker) are more www.thoroughbreddailynews.com likely than not to run in the GI Breeders’ Cup Distaff www.thetdn.com and GI Filly & Mare Turf, respectively, but farm manager Garrett O’Rourke told the TDN yesterday that both must work well in the coming weeks to be Barry Weisbord, co-publisher Emollient Keeneland/Coady taken out to California. 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The Andrew Stone colorbearer finished a fast- closing second in a Saratoga optional claimer July 25, and again arrived too late on the scene in the Lake Placid, still checking in fourth beaten less than a length. Showing much-improved speed under new rider Edgar Prado last time in the Garden City, the bay was bottled up on the rail in upper stretch, likely costing her second to GI Del Mar Oaks heroine Discreet Marq (Discreet Cat). AShe=s an improving filly,@ offered Motion=s racing manager Jane Buchanan. AShe breezed Saturday at Fair Hill (five furlongs on the all-weather in 1:04.60) and shipped here after the work.@ The connections of Say (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}) will hope that lightning strikes twice, but that rain stays away. Aidan O=Brien and the Coolmore contingent annexed the 2011 QE II with another daughter of Galileo, Together (Ire), who was coming off a runner-up finish in the GI First Lady S. against her elders a week earlier. While Saw was a disappointing sixth last Say Racing Post week in the First Lady, that race was contested in a torrential downpour that forced the GI Shadwell Turf Mile off the grass two races later. Say adds blinkers this time, switches pilots from Joe Bravo to James Graham, and could prove a major factor if she returns to her Irish form. The bay annexed the G3 Dance Design S. at The Curragh Sept. 1, and was a close third in Leopardstown=s G1 Matron S. just six days after that. Hit The Board Stables=s I=m Already Sexy (Ready=s Image) figures to have a say from start to finish. The Wayne Catalano pupil cruised to a 4 3/4-length victory in a division of the Hatoof S. at Arlington two back Aug. 17, and she enters off a similarly convincing box- to-wire score in that venue=s GIII Pucker Up S. Sept. 14. For more on that runner and her ownership group, click here. Field p4 TDN TODAY Headline News.. 12 pages 859-873-7270 • www.airdriestud.com TDN P HEADLINE NEWS • 10/12/13 • PAGE 4 of 12 • thoroughbreddailynews.com Saturday, Keeneland, post time: 5:21 p.m. EDT QUEEN ELIZABETH II CHALLENGE CUP-G1, $400,000, 3yo, f, 1 1/8mT PP HORSE OWNER BREEDER TRAINER/JOCKEY ML 1 Sarach Wertheimer & Frere Wertheimer & Frere-KY Mandella 10-1 (f, 3, Arch--Eximius {GB}, by Atticus) Garcia 2 Say (Ire) Smith/Magnier/Tabor Smythson-IRE O’Brien 10-1 (f, 3, Galileo {Ire}--Riskaverse, by Dynaformer) Graham 3 Caroline Thomas Joyce Young Bonner Young-KY Tagg 12-1 (f, 3, Giant’s Causeway--Bit of Whimsy, by Storm Cat) Napravnik 4 Alterite (Fr) Martin Schwartz Eccurie La Vallee Martigny-FR Brown 9-5 (f, 3, Literato {Fr}--Ana Luna {GB}, by Dream Well {Fr}) Velazquez 5 Emotional Kitten Ken & Sarah Ramsey Ken & Sarah Ramsey-PA Ward 6-1 (f, 3, Kitten’s Joy--Silent Emotion, by Ghazi) Hill 6 Concise (GB) Andrew Stone Cliveden Stud Ltd-GB Motion 12-1 (f, 3, Lemon Drop Kid--Cut Short, by Diesis {GB}) Prado 7 Kitten’s Dumplings Ken & Sarah Ramsey Ken & Sarah Ramsey-KY Maker 3-1 (f, 3, Kitten’s Joy--Granny Franny, by Grand Slam) Leparoux 8 Leigh Court Melnyk Racing Stables Inc Eugene Melnyk-KY Carroll 10-1 (f, 3, Grand Slam--Padmore, by French Deputy) Boulanger 9 I’m Already Sexy Hit the Board Stables Equus Farm-KY Catalano 8-1 (f, 3, Ready’s Image--Klohho, by Trempolino) Geroux All carry 121 pounds.