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- RAVEL INJURED
- NO BIZ ALL BUSINESS IN GULFSTREAM WORK
Nobiz Like Shobiz (Albert the Great), who has raced
erratically at times, was well-behaved during a work Tuesday at Gulfstream. Working with famous stablemate Funny Cide (Distorted Humor), the Barclay Tagg trainee went five furlongs in a bullet :59 4/5. AIt was perfect and just what I wanted,@ Tagg said Wednesday. AI wanted him to work on both turns, so we went from the half-mile pole to the mile pole. I wanted to work him in company and there aren=t many I could send with him other than Funny Cide. I knew >Funny= would get a little tired at the end and >Nobiz= went past him and he didn=t go over on him. He doesn=t lug in in the mornings. I don=t know why he=s done it in his races.@ Nobiz Like Shobiz, coming off a third-place effort in the Mar. 3 GII Fountain of Youth S., is preparing for the Apr. 7 GI Wood Memorial S. at Aqueduct. The colt is expected to ship to New York on Apr. 5. Plans for Kentucky Derby winner Funny Cide, off since running fourth in the Oct. 21 Empire Classic, are still up in the air. AHe=s doing great and he looks great,@ Tagg said of the chestnut gelding. AI=ve only got three works into him, though. The plan was to start on the turf [at Gulfstream], but I=ve got to wait a little longer.@
Ravel (Fusaichi Pegasus), winner of the Feb. 3 GIII
Sham S., has been knocked off the Kentucky Derby trail with what looks like the beginnings of a fracture in his left front cannon bone. The colt had been preparing for the Apr. 7 GI Santa Anita Derby when he appeared Aa little off in his left front@ over the weekend, trainer Todd Pletcher
told Daily Racing Form. AWe can=t
find anything on the x-rays, but the feeling, based on the nuclear
Ravel
Benoit scintigraphy, is that he=s starting to develop a fracture and it would turn into a condylar fracture if we breezed him,@ Pletcher said. AIt=s a tough blow. He=s obviously a talented horse, but it wasn=t meant to be.@ Ravel will likely miss three months of training, but surgery is not needed. With Ravel=s absence, Pletcher may start GI Santa Anita Oaks winner Rags and Riches (A.P. Indy) in the Santa Anita Derby. AShe=ll breeze this week and then we=ll decide,@ Pletcher said.
EIGHT LIKELY FOR WORLD CUP
A field of eight, led by U.S. Horse of the Year Invasor
(Arg) (Candy Stripes), looks likely to go postward in the
Mar. 31 G1 Dubai World Cup at
P P R E V I E W P
Nad al Sheba. Invasor suffered the lone loss of his career at Nad al Sheba in last year=s G2 UAE Derby and will get a chance to avenge that loss to Derby winner
Discreet Cat (Forestry). Discreet
Cat is expected to make his 2007 debut in the World Cup after being forced out of a prep race with an elevated tempera-
Saturday, Turfway Park LANE=S END S.-GII, $500,000, 3yo, 1 1/8m
- PP HORSE
- SIRE
Menifee Tale of the Cat Belong to Me Lemon Drop Kid Husbands Holy Bull Gone West Smart Strike Stormin Fever
Stephen Got Even
Danzig
JOCKEY
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Highest Degree Starbase Sports Town Approval Rating Bullara Forefathers Twilight Meteor Helios
Quinonez Thompson
S Bridgmohan
Invasor and McLaughlin
Horsephotos
Velazquez Leparoux Prado Hill Mena Pino Desormeaux Bejarano ture. The unbeaten four-year-old has not started since winning the GI Cigar Mile H. last November. The likely World Cup field also includes recent King=s Cup winner
Premium Tap (Pleasant Tap), Japanese invader Vermil-
ion (Jpn) (El Condor Pasa) and British group winner
Kandidate (GB) (Kabool {GB}).
Joe Got Even
10 Hard Spun 11 For You Reppo 12 Sedgefield All carry 121 pounds.
El Corredor Smart Strike
Likely Dubai World Cup Carnival cards p2
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NAKHEEL THOROUGHBREDS DUBAI SHEEMA
CLASSIC-G1, $5,000,000, 4yo/up, 2400mT
DUBAI WORLD CUP
Nad Al Sheba ! Mar. 31, 2007
LIKELY FIELDS
HORSE Bellamy Cay (GB) Kris (GB)
- SIRE
- OWNER
K Abdullah
- Godolphin
- Best Alibi (Ire)
Collier Hill (GB) Honey Ryder Host (Chi) Laverock (Ire) Obrigado (Fr)
Oracle West (SAf)
Pop Rock (Jpn) Quijano (Ger) Red Rocks (Ire) Sir Percy (GB) Sushisan (Aus)
King=s Best Dr Devious (Ire) Hall/Abell/Crowe Lasting Approval Glencrest et al Hussonet Octagonal (NZ) Godolphin
EMIRATES AIRLINE DUBAI WORLD CUP-G1,
$6,000,000, 4yo/up, 2000m
Melnyk Racing Stbl
- HORSE
- SIRE
- OWNER
Bullish Luck Discreet Cat Forty Licks (Arg) Invasor (Arg) Kandidate (GB) Premium Tap
Storm Mayor (Arg)
Vermilion (Jpn)
Royal Academy Wong Wing Keung Forestry Godolphin Not for Sale (Arg) Sultan Al Kabeer
Enrique (GB) Western Winter A Geemooi
Seidler & Vegso
Helissio (Fr)
Acatenango (Ger) Stiftung Gestut Fahrhof
K Yoshida/Pop Rock Synd
Candy Stripes Kabool (GB) Pleasant Tap Bernstein
Sheikh Hamdan
A J Richards
King Abdulla& Sons Tirki bin Badr bin Saoud Sunday Racing Co Ltd
Galileo (Ire)
Mark of Esteem (Ire)
J Paul Reddam A E Pakenham
Fuji Kiseki (Jpn) Atkinson/Velty Towers Racing
El Condor Pasa
Vengeance of Rain (NZ) Zabeel (NZ)
Youmzain (Ire) Sinndar (Ire)
Raymond Chow Hon Man
Jaber Abdulla
DUBAI DUTY FREE-G1, $5,000,000, 4yo/up, 1777mT
- HORSE
- SIRE
End Sweep Western Winter Mrs S Plattner King=s Best Godolphin
OWNER Riichi Kondo
GULF NEWS DUBAI GOLDEN SHAHEEN-G1,
$2,000,000, 4yo/up, 1200m
Admire Moon (Jpn) Bad Girl Runs (SAf)
Best Name (GB)
HORSE Agnes Jedi (Jpn) Agnes World
Areyoutalkintome Smokester
- SIRE
- OWNER
Takao Watanabe Mrs C Cyzer
Daiwa Major (Jpn) Sunday Silence Keizo Oshiro English Channel Smart Strike Flashy Wings (GB) Zafonic Formal Decree (Ger) Diktat (GB) Irridescence (SAf) Kapil (SAf) Lava Man Linngari (Ire)
Miesque's Approval
Mystical (Ind) Pompeii Ruler (Aus) Genuine (Jpn) Seihali (Ire) Alzao Stormy River (Fr) Verglas (Ire)
James Scatuorchio Jaber Abdullah Godolphin Team Valor
Fullard, et al
Bishop Court Hill Holy Bull Bounty Quest (GB) Fasliyev Friendly Island Crafty Friend Harvard Avenue You and I
Melnyk Racing Stable Malih Lahej Al Basti
Anstu Stables Ron Crockett Inc
Summer Place Farm et al
Caesour Jallad
Kelly=s Landing
Marchand d'Or (Fr) National Colour (SAf)
Patton
Slew City Slew STD Racing Stbl/J Wood Indian Ridge (Ire)Atkinson/Walichnowski
Miesque=s Son Live Oak Plantation
Alnasr Alwasheek (GB)Poonawalla Family
Marchand de Sable J l Giral National Assembly C J H Van Niekerk
Nightmare Affair Out of Place
Timber Side/Borgese/Marano
Secret Savings Farooq Racing
Seeking the Gold Kazuko Yoshida
Salaam Dubai (Aus) Seeking the Best (Ire)
Bridsan Bloodstock Synd Sheikh Ahmed Ecurie Mister Ess As
Terrific Challenge Royal Academy Sh Rashid bin Mo’d Al Maktoum Thajja (Ire) Thor=s Echo
Daylami (Ire)
Swiss Yodeler Sheikh Rashid bin Moh’d Al Maktoum
Sheikh Hamdan
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SAEED & MOHAMMED AL NABOODAH HOLDING LLC
UAE DERBY-G2, $2,000,000, NH/SH3yo, 1800m
P N E W S T O D A Y P
HORSE Adil (KSA)
Asiatic Boy (Arg) Not for Sale (Arg)
Bartola (Arg) Day Pass Eu Tambem (Brz) Wild Event Folk Greetings (Brz) Choctaw Ridge Haras Interlagos Jack Junior Songandaprayer Roldvale & Gold Group Int’l Joe Louis (Arg) Lode Sultan Al Kabeer
SIRE Torrey Canyon King Abdulla & Sons
OWNER
SAHM DIES Shadwell stallion Sahm (Mr. Prospector--
Salsabil {Ire}, by Sadler=s Wells) died Tuesday in Kentucky after an intestinal tract illness. The 13-year-old stallion won the 1998 GII Knickerbocker H. From only four crops to race, Sahm sired Irish group winner Mustameet, as well as stakes winners Adaala, Sahmkindawonderful, Irish Dreamer, Chenia and Mr. Fixed Income. He is the sire of 64 winners from 97 starters with progeny earnings over $3.8 million.
Sh Mohd Bin Kalifa Al Maktoum Prince Tirki Bin Badr Bin Saoud
Godolphin
Roy Five Star Day
Godolphin
Quiet American Godolphin
Limehouse (SAf) Rich Man=s Gold Sh Moh’d bin Khalifa Al Maktoum & De Kock
ICON TO BYPASS SHEEMA Paul & Susan Roy's G1
St Leger winner Sixties Icon (GB) (Galileo {Ire}) will bypass a possible engagement in the Mar. 31 G1 Dubai Sheema Classic and instead point to the Apr. 21 G3 John Porter S. at Newbury en route to a tilt at the June 1 G1 Coronation Cup at Epsom, trainer Jerermy Noseda has revealed. "Sixties Icon is a non-runner in the Sheema Classic," the Newmarket trainer told official website www.jeremynoseda.com. "After consultation with his owners Paul and Susan Roy, we just felt that putting him through a hard preparation at this stage of the season would not be ideal. We have decided that his first main objective of the year will be the Coronation Cup and, all being well, we are hoping to start him off in the John Porter at Newbury. The plan would then be to head on either to the [G2] Jockey Club S. at Newmarket or the [G3] Ormonde S. at Chester."
- Monzante
- Maria=s Mon
War Chant Point Given More Than Ready Mrs Fritiani Hay
Yoshinori Sakae K Abdulla Godolphin Prime Equestrian
Rallying Cry Seal Point Traffic Guard Victory Tetsuni Gone West
ETISALAT THOROUGHBREDS GODOLPHIN MILE-G2,
$1,000,000, 4yo/up, 1600m HORSE Boston Lodge (GB) Grand Lodge
- SIRE
- OWNER
Fawzi Abdulla Nass
Court Masterpiece (GB) Polish Precedent Godolphin Dixie Meister
Fusaichi Richard (Jpn) Kurofune
Gharir (Ire) Machiavellian
Gold for Sale (Arg) Not for Sale (Arg)
- Holzmeister
- Gary A Tanaka
Fusaro Sekiguchi
Sh Hamdan Bin Rashid Al Maktoum
Sultan Al Kabeer Stud Piccollino
Impossible Ski (Brz)
Jack Sullivan Killybegs (Ire) Merlerault
Ski Champ
Belong to Me Int’l Carnival Partnership
Orpen Godolphin Royal Academy Malcolm Parrish
Summerhill Stud Synd & Clements
Nelore Pora (Brz) Romarin (Brz) Stud AML
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AJeremy believes the filly is fairly forward and it is quite possible she could run before the Guineas meeting as long as the ground is suitable," Ogden's Racing Manager Barry Simpson told Racing Post. "Frankie [Dettori] rode the filly in a breeze with a companion, she went extremely well and his view was that she had strengthened up an awful lot. She worked on the grass, which was the softer side of good. We know she is better on good ground, but, because she is a stronger filly, it wouldn't necessarily stop her running if the ground was soft."
P C L A S S I C C O R N E R P
GUINEAS ENTRIES REVEALED Teofilo (Ire) (Gali-
leo {Ire}), Europe's highest-rated juvenile of 2006, heads the 76 three-year-olds which have been nominated to the G1 2000 Guineas at Newmarket May 6, while 70 fillies, including stable companion Finsceal Beo (Ire) (Mr. Greeley), are still on target for the G1 1000 Guineas one day later. "He's in very good form and well on target for Newmarket," trainer Jim Bolger told PA Sport of Teofilo. "He's the same height this year as he was last year, so he hasn't grown [but] he has just filled out. He will go straight to Newmarket and that will tell us where we go after, but obviously we will have Epsom in mind. The Guineas is often the best trial for the Derby anyway." Aidan O'Brien's Ballydoyle barn, successful four times in Britain's first Classic of the year, boasts the highest number of entries for the Stan James-sponsored event with 18 and is also numerically strongest for the fillies'
BEO AN OAKS NO GO Ante-post favorite Finsceal
Beo (Ire) (Mr. Greeley) was the most notable absentee when the list of 73 nominees for the G1 Vodafone Oaks was revealed for the June 1 Classic yesterday. "We just don't see her as a mile-and-a-half filly," trainer Jim Bolger told PA Sport. "She won over a mile last year, and we are not ruling out 10 furlongs, but we will know more when she has run in two equivalent with a current team of six. Teofilo has maintained ante-post fawell-run races over a mile and, hopefully, they will be the English and Irish
“We run our clients’ ads in the TDN because we
voritism for the 2000 Guineas, but
dual Group 1 winner Dutch Art (GB)
(Medicean {GB}) has eased closer in the betting since the recent retirement
Guineas. If the ground was good at Leopardstown we could go there for a prep, but if not, she will go straight to Newmarket." The G1 Prix Marcel of Holy Roman Emperor (Ire). "I was very frightened of Holy Roman Emperor, as he was in the same mould as Dutch Art," trainer Peter Chapple-Hyam told Racing Post, adding, "My fellow is on target to run in the [G3] Greenham S., but if the ground is shaping up to be tacky at Newbury he would have a racecourse gallop at Newmarket during the Craven meeting instead." G1 Prix Marcel Boussac winner Finsceal Beo is vying for market supremacy with Sir Robert Ogden's
Sander Camillo (Dixie Union) in the
1000 Guineas. Not seen since trouncing the opposition in last July's G2 Cherry Hinton S., the Jeremy Noseda trainee is reported to have worked well in recent weeks.
know the people we’re trying to reach read it every day.”
Boussac and G2 Rockfel S. winner's surprise omission has paved the way for Juddmonte Farms' G1 Criterium de
Saint-Cloud winner Passage of Time
(GB) (Dansili {GB}), one of four Henry Cecil-trained possibles, to claim the mantle of new favorite for the ,375,000 contest. Aidan O'Brien is again numerically strongest with seven contenders, including the
-Benny Bell Williams, owner, The Bell Group
unraced pair All My Loving (Ire)
(Sadler's Wells), sister to Oaks runners-up Quarter Moon (Ire) and Yester-
day (Ire), and Cherry Hinton (GB) (Green Desert), a
half-sister to 2001 Derby hero Galileo (Ire) and Oaksplaced fillies Melikah (Ire) and All Too Beautiful (Ire).
TDN P HEADLINE NEWS • 3/22/07 • PAGE 5 of 5
(Classic Corner cont.)
FOALING NEWS:
DERBY ENTRIES UP Entries for the June 2 G1
Vodafone Derby have increased 21 percent as 165 contenders, up from 136 last year, stood their ground at the March 6 forfeit stage, it was announced yesterday. European juvenile highweight Teofilo (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}), winner of last term's G1 National S. and G1 Dewhurst S., retains ante-post favoritism and remains on target for the ,1.25-million contest, Europe's richest race, having also been confirmed a probable for the May 5 G1 2000 Guineas. Aidan O'Brien, successful with Galileo (Ire) in 2001 and High Chaparral (Ire) in 2002, boasts a monster entry of 38, which includes G1 Criterium International victor Mount Nelson (GB) (Rock of Gibraltar {Ire}), G2 Royal Lodge S. hero
Admiralofthefleet (Danehill), G2 Beresford S. winner Eagle Mountain (GB) (Rock of Gibraltar {Ire}) and G1 Criterium de Saint-Cloud runner-up Soldier of Fortune
(Ire) (Galileo {Ire}). Peter Chapple-Hyam claimed Blue Riband glory with Dr Devious (Ire) in 1992 and the resurgent Newmarket handler holds another strong chance with G1 Racing Post Trophy winner Authorized (Ire) (Montjeu {Ire}) still engaged. There are two further opportunities for horses to be added to the field, an ,8,000 second entry stage Apr. 4 and a ,75,000 supplementary entry stage May 28.
ELROSE, 8, Deputy Minister--Bonnie=s Poker, by Poker Foal born Feb. 10, a colt by Harlan=s Holiday. Owned by Suarez Racing and Venerri Racing. Accomplishments: Dam of Super Freaky (Smart Strike), SW, $134,640.
COY (IRE), 6, Danehill--Demure (GB), by Machiavellian Foal born Feb. 11, a colt by Pivotal (GB). Will be bred back to Pivotal (GB). Owned by/boarded at Cheveley Park Stud, England. Accomplishments: SW-GB.
FINALLY (AUS), 13, Snaadee--Miss Woodleigh (NZ), by Amyntor (Fr) Foal born Feb. 13, a colt by Mutakddim. Will be bred back to Mutakddim. Owned by Farfellow Farms. Boarded at Taylor Made, Ky. Accomplishments: MSW-NZ & SP-US.
BIG SCORE, 7, Grand Slam--Voluptuous, by Cozzene Foal born Feb. 18, a colt by Successful Appeal. Will be bred back to Dixie Union. Owned by Gulf Coast Farms. Boarded at Taylor Made, KY. Accomplishments: MSW of $217,739.
THURSDAY,
MARCH 22, 2007
FUNDS FOR KHRA, DRUG TESTING HANG IN THE BALANCE
by Tom LaMarra, courtesy The Blood-Horse
The Kentucky horse racing industry and some state lawmakers are rallying around legislation that would spare racetracks the cost of drug testing and provide millions of dollars a year to fund the Kentucky Horse Racing Authority. The bill is expected to be discussed in Afree@ conference committee--that means changes can be made to the document--March 26 or March 27, the last two days of the Kentucky General Assembly session for 2007. Since it was first offered in January, the bill has been subject to much negotiation and amendment. The bill, introduced in the House of Representatives because it deals with budgetary issues, would provide about $5 million a year in a revolving fund to support the KHRA, which in a recent state audit was said to be under-funded. The money would come from the pari-mutuel excise tax after statutory deductions for the Kentucky Thoroughbred Development Fund, Kentucky Equine Drug Research Council, and the University of Louisville equine business program are made. An alternative also being discussed would suspend racetrack license assessments for another year to raise about $1.2 million for the KHRA. A similar plan was enacted in 2006 but only for one year. Thoroughbred tracks pay $3,500 and Standardbred tracks $1,750 per live racing day. Republican Sen. Damon Thayer, an advocate for using the about $5 million from the pari-mutuel tax to support the KHRA, said the proposal stems from the state audit that suggested the authority needs more money and personnel to properly perform
its duties. Click for the complete story.
RECIO JOINS ADENA SPRINGS Mike Recio has
joined the team at Frank Stronach=s Adena Springs as sales administrator. A third generation horseman, Recio previously served as account manager at Taylor Made. He will handle stallion nominations and marketing efforts from Adena Springs= Midway facility and will relocate to the new Paris, Kentucky location later this year. AMike is a welcome addition to the Adena Springs staff,@ said Stronach. AHe brings a wealth of experience and expertise to this position and will be a strong asset to our program and a benefit to our
