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STOUTE DUO HEAD LOCKINGE HEADLINE p5 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 SATURDAY, MAY 19, 2007 WHO’LL RULE AT OLD HILLTOP? Super Mario’s ‘Home Court’ Advantage... Nine three-year-old colts will face the starter for this Of 49-year-old jockey Mario Pino’s nearly 5,900 afternoon’s second leg of horse racing’s Triple Crown, career winners, almost 4,900 have come on the Mary- the GI Preakness S. at Pimlico Race Course. And if land circuit. But there would be none recent history means anything at all, the news is pretty bigger than a win in the Preakness good for Jim Tafel’s Street Sense (Street Cry {Ire}), aboard Fox Hill Farm’s Hard Spun impressive winner of the GI (Danzig). For all his experience in the Kentucky Derby a fortnight saddle, little has, to this point, come ago. During the period from close to the feeling he felt at the quar- 1987 to 1996, just two horses ter pole on the first Saturday in May. who wore the blanket of “I’m trying to keep my composure,” the roses--Alysheba and Sunday Elliott City, Maryland, resident recol- Silence--were able to success- lected. “I’m thinking about all the years fully follow up at Old Hilltop. when I was little and now I’m turning But over the course of the last Mario Pino for home and I’m three in front and I’m decade, the skies have turned ntra.com still sitting there and I’m trying to keep considerably more sunny, as focused, because I know it’s a long seven Derby winners have way [in the stretch] at Churchill Downs and the roar of Street Sense and Hard Spun added the Preakness prior to the crowd was just something,”“I’ll never have that ready for rematch Horsephotos fruitless attempts to secure feeling, three in front in the Kentucky Derby and think- the Triple Crown. Street Sense ing it’s all over.” put a few hexes to rest two Saturdays back, becoming the first winner of the GI Breeders’ Cup Juvenile to RAID LEAVES SUSAN FOES BLACK-EYED double up at Churchill and the first two-year-old cham- Glencrest Farm LLC’s Panty Raid (Include) was the pion since Spectacular Bid in 1979 to take the Run for recipient of a well-timed ride by Maryland’s favorite son the Roses. Can the homebred take the next step along Edgar Prado and split horses the road to the coveted Triple Crown? “Let’s just put it late to land yesterday’s GII this way,” trainer Carl Nafzger said. “I’ve only got to Black-Eyed Susan S. on beat eight horses. If we get that done, we’ve done it. If Preakness eve at Pimlico. we don’t, well, we got beat. It’s easier than 19 and a The 2-1 second choice in lot better than 30,000 [foals born in this generation] the wagering was content when we started.” Jockey Calvin Borel, who hooked up to lay in fourth early on as with Street Sense and Nafzger yesterday morning, was Zayat Stable’s Baroness slightly more confident. “Right now, I don’t think he Thatcher (Johannesburg) can get beat,” he offered. “As good as he’s doing, I’m Panty Raid MJC/Jim McCue galloped along easily on the positive he’d have to fall or have something happen bad front end. Panty Raid came for him to get beat, because after I worked him this under a ride rounding the far turn, but was expertly week it was unbelievable. I couldn’t believe he would steered off the heels of Baroness Thatcher at go forward after running in the Kentucky Derby, with midstretch and was along late. Team Valor and Morris the race that he run there. If he don’t fall, there’s no Bailey’s Winning Point (Point Given) closed well late to way he’ll be getting beat.” snatch second money. Black-Eyed Susan S. cont. p3 www.coolmore.com TDN P HEADLINE NEWS • 5/19/07 • PAGE 2 of 11 Preakness S. cont. Pletcher Takes Two Cracks... Curlin No ‘B’ Teamer for Asmussen... Somewhat unbelievably, trainer Todd Pletcher has It has been a whirlwind 100 days for Curlin (Smart started just one horse in the Preakness, but he’ll triple Strike), who has gone from a Feb. 3 maiden victory at that total this afternoon with Circular Quay (Thunder Gulfstream Park to his third-place finish in the GI Ken- Gulch), sixth in the Derby; and King of the Roxy tucky Derby. Trainer Steve Asmussen has been to the (Littleexpectations), most recently runner-up in the GI Preakness before with the likes of Snuck In (5th in Santa Anita Derby Apr. 7. “Both of these horses are 2000) and Easyfromthegitgo (5th in 2002), but it doing very well,” the conditioner commented. Asked should be a different sort of experience this time whether he prefers to be in the shadows instead of the around. “Those were nice horses, but those horses spotlight--as in the Derby, where he saddled a quarter weren’t capable of doing what we feel this horse is of the field--he deadpanned, “No, I’d rather be here capable of doing,” Asmussen’s assistant, Scott Blasi, with the Derby winner.” The Preakness field is com- said Thursday morning. Blasi also thinks Curlin is im- pleted by Federico Tesio S. winner Xchanger (Exchange proving in more intangible sorts of ways. “I’ve seen Rate); Derby Trial hero Flying First Class (Perfect Man- horses sulk after a race, but this horse was very upbeat date); and C P West (Came Home) and Mint Slewlep and very energetic,” Blasi said. “Just watching him (Slew City Slew), second and fourth, respectively, in around the barn, I think he’s shown a little more life.” the GIII Withers S. More Preakness notes p9 Saturday, Pimlico Race Course, post time: 6:09 p.m. EDT 132nd Running of the PREAKNESS S.-GI, $1,000,000, 3yo, 1 3/16m PP HORSE OWNER BREEDER TRAINER/JOCKEY ODDS 1 Mint Slewlep Marshall E Dowell Brent & Beth Harris-KY Bailes 30-1 (c, Slew City Slew--Cry Me a River, by Gilded Time) Garcia 2 Xchanger Circle Z Stable Oscar Martinez-FL Shuman 15-1 (c, Exchange Rate--Saragoza, by Crafty Prospector) Dominguez 3 Circular Quay Michael & Doreen Tabor Doreen Tabor-KY Pletcher 8-1 (c, Thunder Gulch--Circle of Life, by Belong to Me) Velazquez 4 Curlin Stonestreet, Padua, Bolton & Midnight Cry Fares Farm Inc-KY Asmussen 7-2 (c, Smart Strike--Sherriff’s Deputy, by Deputy Minister) Albarado 5 King of the Roxy Team Valor Stables LLC Deborah Kopatz-OH Pletcher 12-1 (c, Littleexpectations--Marrakesh, by Bold Forbes) Gomez 6 Flying First Class Ellwood W Johnston Old English Rancho-CA Lukas 20-1 (c, Perfect Mandate--Flying in Style, by Flying Sensation) Guidry 7 Hard Spun Fox Hill Farms Inc M Moran & Brushwood Stb-PA Jones 5-2 (c, Danzig--Turkish Tryst, by Turkoman) Pino 8 Street Sense Jim Tafel LLC James B Tafel-KY Nafzger 7-5 (c, Street Cry {Ire}--Bedazzle, by Dixieland Band) Borel 9 C P West Robert V LaPenta Caldara Farm-KY Zito 20-1 (c, Came Home--Queen’s Legend, by Dynaformer) Prado All carry 126 pounds. TDN P HEADLINE NEWS • 5/19/07 • PAGE 3 of 11 Friday, Pimlico Race Course P R E S U L T S P ALLAIRE DUPONT BREEDERS' CUP DISTAFF S.-GII, $134,000, PIM, 5-18, 3/up, f/m, 1 1/16m, 1:42 4/5, ft. Friday, Pimlico 1--@ROLLING SEA, 118, f, 4, by Sefapiano BLACK-EYED SUSAN S.-GII, $250,000, PIM, 5-18, 1st Dam: Almost Sma, by Cure the Blues 3yo, f, 1 1/8m, 1:50, ft. 2nd Dam: Glitzy Gal, by Commemorate 1--#@PANTY RAID, 116, f, 3, by Include 3rd Dam: Starstruck Gal, by Stage Door Johnny 1st Dam: Adventurous Di (SP), by Private Account O-Millennium Farms; B-Asiel Stable LC (IL); T-Steven 2nd Dam: Tamaral, by Seattle Slew M Asmussen; J-Garrett K Gomez; $60,000. Lifetime 3rd Dam: Summer Legend, by Raise a Native Record: 20-8-3-4, $403,624. ($110,000 yrl '05 FTKJUL; $275,000 2yo 2006 2--Leah's Secret, 120, f, 4, Tiger Ridge--Lady Cruella, KEEAPR). O-Glencrest Farm LLC; B-Heaven Trees by Capote. ($50,000 yrl '04 OBSAUG). O-First Klass Farm (KY); T-Todd A Pletcher; J-Edgar S Prado; Stable LLC; B-Hartley/DeRenzo Thoroughbreds (FL); $150,000. Lifetime Record: 5-3-1-0, $242,275. *1/2 T-Helen Pitts; $40,000. to Franc (Woodman), SW-Fr, $153,319. 3--Kettleoneup, 124, f, 4, Victory Gallop--Bugs Rabbit, 2--Winning Point, 116, f, 3, Point Given--Bibical Sense, by Storm Cat. O/B-Tom Crouch (KY); T-Michael by Blushing Groom (Fr). ($30,000 yrl '05 FTKJUL; Tomlinson; $22,000. $30,000 yrl '05 FTMOCT). O-Bailey, Morris & Team Margins: 2 1/4, 3/4, 1 3/4. Odds: 5.80, 4.00, 1.20. Valor; B-The Thoroughbred Corporation, Stephen A Also Ran: Lexi Star, Amandatude, Gasia, Fiery Pursuit. DiMauro & Dan Morgan (KY); T-Edmond D Gaudet; Scratched: Take a Check, Promenade Girl, Peak Maria's $50,000. Way, Sugar Shake, Swap Fliparoo. 3--Baroness Thatcher, 120, f, 3, Johannesburg-- Rolling Sea made no fewer than a half-dozen starts at Natkeeta, by Gulch.