Stronach to Receive Eclipse of Merit Stronach Expanded His Participation in the Industry to Racetrack Ownership with the 1998 Acquisition of Santa Anita

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STRONACH TO RECEIVE NEW NYTHA PRESIDENT TARGETS WORKMEN=S COMP, ADDING NEW OWNERS ECLIPSE OF MERIT by Bill Finley With some of the best purses in the world and perhaps the sport=s most iconic racetrack in Saratoga, New York racing be should be a place everyone wants to race, but that=s not always the case. Joe Appelbaum, appointed last month as the new head of the New York Thoroughbred Horsemen=s Association, understands that there are impediments that keep some owners and trainers away from New York. He wants to change that. Appelbaum is one of two principals in Off The Hook, a breeding, racing and sales company with offices in New York and Ocala and says he=s been following New York racing for 30 plus years. Previously a member of the NYTHA Board of Directors, he expressed a desire to take over when prior president Rick Violette, Jr. decided not to seek reelection. He did not want to be one of the people sitting on the sidelines Frank Stronach leads Shaman Ghost into winner=s circle | Benoit complaining. (Click to continue to p4) Frank Stronach will receive the Eclipse Award of Merit in IN TDN EUROPE TODAY recognition of his outstanding success in racing, breeding, BREED SHAPERS, LIFE CHANGERS AT MAGICS racetrack ownership and support of retired racehorse programs, Kelsey Riley previews the Magic Millions Gold Coast Yearling the National Thoroughbred Racing Association, Daily Racing Sale which kicks off Jan 10. Form and the National Turf Writers and Broadcasters announced Click or tap here to go straight to TDN Europe. Tuesday. AI am flattered and touched to be recognized with the prestigious Eclipse Award of Merit,@ Stronach said. AHorses and racing have been my passion, my labor of love, since I was a boy. It=s been an honor to be part of this great sport and help in creating world-class races, facilities and training centers with our friends, partners and co-workers. What=s most important, however, has been working and being around the incredible horses. I want to share this award with all of those who have contributed to all our success.@ Stronach, a native of Austria, emigrated to Canada in the 1950s and built a one-man tool and die shop in a rented garage into Magna International, one of the world's largest and most diversified suppliers of automotive components with annual sales of more than $30 billion and over 120,000 employees in close to 30 countries. He purchased his first Thoroughbred in 1962 and by 1989 he established Adena Springs near Versailles, Kentucky. The farm has locations in Kentucky, Florida and Canada, and last year Stronach announced plans to expand to California. Cont. p3

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Stronach to Receive Eclipse of Merit Stronach expanded his participation in the industry to racetrack ownership with the 1998 acquisition of Santa Anita. (cont. from p1) He acquired Gulfstream Park and Golden Gate Fields the Stronach has captured the outstanding breeder Eclipse Award following year and, in 2002, he added the Maryland Jockey Club a record eight times (2000, 2004-2008; 2010-2011) and has tracks of Laurel Park and Pimlico, as well as Lone Star Park. been honored as the outstanding owner on four occasions Through a reorganization in 2007, the tracks are now owned (1998-2000, 2008). under the name of The Stronach Stronach-campaigned horses have Group, with Frank Stronach as its won five Eclipse Awards: Glorious founder and chairman. His daughter, Song, 1980 older female; Macho Belinda, now serves as chairman and Uno, 2000 champion 2-year-old president of the company. male; Ghostzapper, the 2004 Horse One of Stronach=s most recent of the Year and champion older trailblazing innovations is the male; and Ginger Punch, 2007 GI Pegasus World Cup Invitational. Worth $12 million for its inaugural champion older female. He has won running a year ago, starting berths in five Breeders= Cup races, including the world=s richest race were sold for the Classic twice with Awesome $1 million apiece to individual Again and Ghostzapper. Stronach ownership groups. The second also won the 2002 GI Preakness S. Pegasus World Cup, which will be held with Red Bullet. Belinda and Frank Stronach | Horsephotos Jan. 27, will now carry a record Adena Springs was also the $16-million purse. leading money-earning breeder in North America for 11 AYou=ve got to be innovative,@ Stronach said a few years ago. consecutive years (2003-2013), and was second in 2016. AIf you want to be number one, you need to make a big Stronach was the leading North American owner in earnings in investment to attract people. You know, a turtle only makes 2000, 2002 and 2007. progress if he sticks his neck out a little.@ Cont. p4 TDN HEADLINE NEWS • PAGE 4 OF 10 • THETDN.COM WEDNESDAY • JANUARY 3, 2018

Stronach created the Adena Springs Retirement program in 2004, with locations in Florida and in Canada and he also created aftercare and retirement programs at his racetracks. These endeavors earned him the inaugural Earle I. Mack Thoroughbred Retirement Foundation Champion Award, honoring outstanding efforts and influence on Thoroughbred welfare, safety and retirement. AFrank Stronach has had an undeniable impact on the Thoroughbred industry, accentuated by his tremendous commitment to excellence in so many facets of our sport,@ Alex Waldrop, NTRA President and CEO said. AThrough his indomitable will, spirit and bold business ventures, Frank has built a tower of tremendous accomplishments with The Stronach Group, Adena Springs and now the world=s richest horse race, the Pegasus World Cup. We salute him as a most deserving Award of Merit recipient.@ The 47th Annual Eclipse Awards dinner and ceremony will be held Jan. 25 in the Sport of Kings Theatre at Gulfstream Park.

New NYTHA President Targets Workmen=s Comp, Adding New Owners (cont. from p1) Appelbaum wanted to be part of the solution and understands that perhaps nothing is more important for New York horsemen than getting the workmen=s compensation situation under control. The system is complex and it requires payments from both owners and trainers to cover jockeys and backstretch help, but there=s no doubt that because of what are likely the highest workmen=s comp rates in the sport, there are people staying away. "There's no question people have second thoughts about racing in New York because of the huge costs,@ Violette told the Blood-Horse when still in office. Appelbaum has already helped broker a deal with NYRA whereby during the current winter meet, any owner and trainer who has a horse finish fourth through last will receive a $300 credit toward the amount they must pay into various workmen=s compensation pools. It=s both an incentive for people to race in the winter in New York and a way to ease the burden on horsemen. ANYTHA and NYRA got together as a way to help incentivize owners and trainers to race during the winter and both organizations know how burdensome the workmen=s comp situation is,@ Appelbaum said. AWhen people are racing for slightly smaller purses in the winter, this is a small way we can help keep guys in the game and get them through the winter when we hit them with the workmen=s comp costs, which usually come in January.@ Cont. p5 TDN HEADLINE NEWS • PAGE 5 OF 10 • THETDN.COM WEDNESDAY • JANUARY 3, 2018

But Appelbaum knows that more needs to be done to bring AOne thing I=d really like to work on is recruiting more owners down the costs and that, he said, is his number one mission. to come to New York,@ he said. AIf you followed either the AWe think we have made some good progress by switching to auction markets or, quite frankly, the owner=s standings over a private insurer this year. We=re bringing down the premium a the last decade, what we=ve seen is a flight of the middle class little bit. It=s the first step of many,@ he said. AOne of the things owners. Horses now can sell for any amount of money or they we want to do as an organization is to lower the barriers to tend to sell for nothing at all. Those small partnerships that were entry to competing in New York, and workmen=s compensation buying horses in the $50,000 to $150,000 range, which can get is a great example of this. And this is just one barrier. We would you a horse that can compete in New York, they have fled. The like to make New York a more bread-and-butter owners fled favorable place to do business as after the last recession and a horse owner so we can do more we=ve had a real problem business here and trainers can have more horses to work with-- getting them back. That hurts and NYRA can have more horses for a number of reasons to card races with.@ because if you have those guys, Though he said he understands a trainer that might have 20 that costs are high, he also noted horses would [instead] have that some have lost sight of the 30. That=s a big difference.@ benefits of racing in New York. Appelbaum would like to see You may be paying more in NYTHA and NYRA work overhead to compete there, but together to recruit more you=re also competing for huge owners that fall into the purses and the competition level economic level he discusses. is not that tough in the winter AIt=s just old fashioned once some of the bigger stables Joe Appelbaum | ThoroStride marketing,@ he said. AShow head to Florida. them the beauty of the game AClearly there are costs to doing business in New York, and how much fun ownership can be.@ however there is not a state that rewards owners and trainers Appelbaum touched on a handful of other topics. like New York does,@ Appelbaum said. Al=m not just talking about On winter racing, he believes a good balance has been struck Saratoga. Look at the purse structure at Aqueduct compared to the purse structure in states with more favorable climates this and would not want to see NYRA cut any more dates. time of year and what it takes to win those races, what kind of AWe have lost about 18 winter dates over the last three or four speed figure you need to win, what kind of horse you need to years, so the pruning has been done,@ he said. AWe are in a spot win a race.@ where any more cuts would make it difficult. Winter racing has Every track needs more horses than it has and NYRA is no benefits seen throughout the year. Its interlocked very tightly exception. Appelbaum said he realizes that=s not just because of with the New York-bred program, which is important to our workmen=s comp issues. Instead, he believes that what he calls racing eco system throughout the state.@ the Amiddle class@ owners have been chased from the sport, and it is imperative that they be brought back. Cont. p6 TWIRLING CANDY

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On the possible consolidation of the two downstate tracks, he thinking,@ Appelbaum said. ABy that, I mean there are a lot of says he has confidence that NYRA will come up with an effective people who pine for this idyllic time in racing. I=m not exactly plan for all involved. As head of the horsemen=s group, he says a sure when they=re talking about, maybe the mid-seventies. I main priority is that whatever started going to the track in >84. happens does not effect the Even then, everyone was number of racing days. complaining. It is important for us AWe=re not naive and we to have a modern approach and understand the current political to evaluate where we are today in situation,@ he said. AFor us, what=s 2018 and what we can do with important is that we maintain technology, modern management opportunities to race in New York techniques, all the things we=ve for as many horsemen as we can. learned in business over the last We=re hopeful that the facilities 30 years and apply that to the reflect that. It=s not my place to sport we love instead of comment on the specifics of the complaining there was a better facilities. What=s important to us is time. It might have been better, it we maintain the opportunities to might not have. Who knows? It race and maintain the quality of the doesn=t really matter. We are racing facilities.@ Winter racing at Aqueduct | A. Coglianese here today and we need to start He says a personal pet peeve is thinking about what the next 30 how people in racing seem to be stuck in the past, longing for years of horse racing should look like as opposed to what it used the Agood old days.@ to look like.@ (Click to return to p1) AI think it=s really important for horsemen, racetrack owners, everyone in our game, to understand we have to modernize our TDN HEADLINE NEWS • PAGE 7 OF 10 • THETDN.COM WEDNESDAY • JANUARY 3, 2018

ROMANS QUARTET TUNING UP FOR AHe=s doing well,@ Romans said. AHe worked really good Saturday. We won=t know [where he=ll run after Saturday], it=s SOPHOMORE BOWS by Joe Bianca very fluid with 3-year-olds on where we go.@ Dale Romans holds a potentially loaded hand heading into the Also on the Gulfstream worktab Saturday was Frank L. Jones, prep season for the GI Kentucky Derby, one that includes four Jr.=s Tiz Mischief (Into Mischief), who covered the same distance stakes winners or stakes placed as his stablemate in 1:00.01 (2/37). The runners, all readying to make $55,000 KEESEP acquisition, a third-out their sophomore bows in the next graduate Oct. 7 at Keeneland, just month or so. missed when second by a head in the The first of the foursome to run GII Kentucky Jockey Club S. in 2018 will be Albaugh Family Nov. 25 at Churchill. Stable and Brereton C. Jones=s AHe=s doing great,@ Romans said. AHe=s Dak Attack (Ghostzapper), who pointing towards [the GII Holy Bull S.] went two-for-two last summer Feb. 3.@ before being shelved for the rest In addition to Dak Attack, Romans has two other Derby hopefuls for the of his juvenile campaign with a Albaughs, including his most sore shin. The bay, a $625,000 accomplished sophomore, GI Claiborne Keeneland September purchase Breeders= Futurity hero Free Drop Billy who broke his maiden June 15 at Free Drop Billy winning Claiborne Breeders= Futurity | Coady (Union Rags). The chestnut, a $200,000 Churchill and captured the Ellis KEESEP pickup, has yet to resurface after finishing ninth in the GI Park Juvenile S. Aug. 20, returns in the Mucho Macho Man S. Sentient Jet Breeders= Cup Juvenile Nov. 4 at Del Mar. Saturday at Gulfstream. He completed preparations for that AHe=ll start working this week,@ Romans said. AWe=ll stay down engagement with a five-furlong bullet breeze in :59.06 (1/37) south with him for now and figure out what races to go [in] with over the Hallandale strip Dec. 30. him later.@ Cont. p8 TDN HEADLINE NEWS • PAGE 8 OF 10 • THETDN.COM WEDNESDAY • JANUARY 3, 2018

Romans also added that the Albaughs= >TDN Rising Star= winners of 213 races from 270 starters with 820 starts for Hollywood Star (Malibu Moon) will join Free Drop Billy in earnings of $26,202,164 in 2017. When including earnings from returning to the worktab this week. The $550,000 KEESEP buy, the Dubai World Cup, Bob Baffert finished atop the standings sixth in the Juvenile, was previously runner-up in both the with 84 wins from 115 starters with 315 starts and earnings of GII Saratoga Special S. and GIII Iroquois S. $27,312,912. Todd Pletcher, who has led the list 10 times, finished second for the second year in a row by North American earnings in 2017 with his horses having won 253 races from 327 ORTIZ, BROWN, JUDDMONTE >17 LEADERS starters with 1,053 starts for earnings of $22,444,161. Juddmonte Farms won 30 Jose Ortiz and Juddmonte Farms races from 147 starts and earned finished 2017 as the leading rider and $10,841,155 in North America in owner, respectively, by earnings for the 2017 to lead all owners after first time and Chad Brown repeated as finishing as the runner-up in the top-earning trainer, according to 2016. Juddmonte=s statistics final statistics released Tuesday by were 31 wins from 148 starts Equibase Company LLC. Ortiz reached and earnings of $16,841,155 the winner=s circle 270 times from 1,408 when including the G1 Dubai mounts and ended the year with World Cup results. Juddmonte=s earnings of $27,318,875. Finishing colors were carried by the year=s second after being the leading rider by leading money earner Arrogate earnings for the past four years was (Unbridled=s Song), who won the Javier Castellano with 223 wins from GI Pegasus World Cup, as well as 1,270 mounts and earnings of Chad Brown | Keeneland photo the Dubai World Cup. $25,099,317. Brown, who led all trainers Cont. p9 in earnings for the second consecutive year, sent out the TDN HEADLINE NEWS • PAGE 9 OF 10 • THETDN.COM WEDNESDAY • JANUARY 3, 2018

Completing the list of top 10 owners by North American HARMONIZE RETIRED TO BROOKDALE FARM earnings in 2017 were Godolphin Racing LLC, $7,090,867 (54 Grade I winner Harmonize (Scat Daddy--Mesa Fresca, by Sky wins/292 starts); Calumet Farm, $5,670,838 (75/556); Klaravich Mesa) has been retired from racing to Brookdale Farm, owner Stables Inc. and William Lawrence, $5,646,508 (60/216); Larkin Armstrong announced via Twitter Monday. According to Reddam Racing LLC, $4,981,387 (39/286); Winchell Armstrong, the GI Del Mar Oaks winner has been booked to Thoroughbreds LLC and Three Chimneys Farm, $4,950,700 (5/5); More Than Ready for the 2018 season. Stronach Stables, $4,931,860 (35/251); Ken and Sarah Ramsey, AShe has been a dream horse winning graded stakes at two, $4,783,871 (97/439); Live Oak Plantation, $4,520,283 (45/225); three and four,@ Armstrong wrote. and Gary and Mary West, $3,950,031 (51/187). Winner of the GIII J.P. Morgan Chase Jessamine S. at Arrogate led all Thoroughbreds in North American earnings Keeneland at two, the Bill Mott trainee rallied to capture the Del with $7,338,000. When including the results from his victory in Mar Oaks as a sophomore in 2016 and added a runner-up finish the Dubai World Cup, Arrogate=s total earnings for the year were in the GI Queen Elizabeth II Challenge Cup S. later that year. She $13,338,000. Gun Runner, who finished second in the Dubai made five starts as a 4-year-old in 2017, culminating with a neck World Cup before reeling off four consecutive Grade I wins, victory in Saratoga=s GIII Glens Falls S. Sept. 2. Bred in Kentucky including the Breeders= Cup Classic, finished second in earnings by Jack Swain III, Harmonize retires with a record of 5-4-1 from with $4,950,700 ($6,950,700 including Dubai). 16 career starts and earnings of $827,860. Harmonize=s dam, Mesa Fresca, sold to Cheveley Park Stud for $2 million in foal to War Front at the 2017 Fasig-Tipton November Sale.

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Dave Johnson, racecaller, host, Sirius/XM Radio=s Down the Stretch 2018 Professional Resolution: My first affection for Thoroughbred racing was through the eyes of my parents and grandparents. We loved the game at Fairmount Park, across the river from St. Louis. My family was not involved in racing, these were just outings that brought me to see the beauty of the sport, the excitement and the animal, while enjoying the company of my loved ones of all ages. Then I got a job in racing. Then writing, broadcasting and gambling became my main focus. Last year I had such fun writing for the TDN about the people, the horses and the stories surrounding the Royal Ascot meet that I want to get back and share the heartbeat of this daily spectacle with as many as I can, in person, in print and in my broadcasts on Sirius XM radio. That is my New Year's resolution, which I hope to fulfill. 2018 Personal Resolution: My pet peeve last year was how tracks trash their patrons (and hurt their bottom line) by running a race at the exact same time as another major track, sometimes at a venue owned by the same corporation! I resolve not to gamble on any race carded, scheduled or run at the same time as another race at a major track. If all horseplayers would do that, a light bulb might go on in the offices of those tracks guilty of this stupidity and malfeasance.

At New Year=s time, we thought it appropriate to ask our racing community for their resolutions. Each participant was asked for one racing-related resolution, and one non-racing one. Up today: Dave Johnson.

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2017 Leading General Sires by Graded Stakes Winners for stallions standing in North America through Sunday, Dec. 31 Earnings and Black-type represents worldwide figures & stud fees are for 2017

Rank Stallion BTW BTH GSW GSH G1SW G1SH Starters Wnrs Highest Earner Earnings 1 Scat Daddy 28 45 16 25 6 7 305 163 $777,040 $13,170,161 (2004) by Johannesburg Stands: Ashford Stud USA (Dead/Ret/Exp) Daddys Lil Darling 2 Kitten's Joy 16 33 13 22 3 11 355 176 $1,082,480 $14,096,817 (2001) by El Prado (Ire) Stands: Hill 'n' Dale Farm KY Fee: $60,000 Sadler's Joy 3 War Front 22 34 12 22 5 10 196 96 $843,061 $10,099,275 (2002) by Danzig Stands: Claiborne Farm KY Fee: $250,000 Lancaster Bomber 4 Medaglia d'Oro 17 29 11 18 7 9 212 104 $2,897,012 $15,309,804 (1999) by El Prado (Ire) Stands: Jonabell Farm KY Fee: $250,000 Talismanic (GB) 5 Tapit 19 33 11 20 4 4 297 152 $1,165,000 $14,136,162 (2001) by Pulpit Stands: Gainesway Farm KY Fee: $300,000 Tapwrit 6 Quality Road 16 28 11 19 3 5 207 115 $1,747,200 $11,071,284 (2006) by Elusive Quality Stands: Lane's End Farm KY Fee: $70,000 Abel Tasman 7 More Than Ready 12 30 9 15 2 5 268 123 $1,270,900 $10,558,731 (1997) by Southern Halo Stands: WinStar Farm KY Fee: $60,000 Roy H 8 Ghostzapper 16 24 8 13 2 4 217 120 $2,520,000 $11,474,534 (2000) by Awesome Again Stands: Adena Springs KY Fee: $85,000 Shaman Ghost 9 Malibu Moon 15 33 8 17 4 6 327 173 $790,000 $11,454,914 (1997) by A.P. Indy Stands: Spendthrift Farm KY Fee: $75,000 Gormley 10 Curlin 16 27 8 13 2 7 203 112 $1,216,600 $11,445,623 (2004) by Smart Strike Stands: Hill 'N' Dale Farms KY Fee: $150,000 Good Magic 11 Candy Ride (Arg) 17 30 7 20 3 7 250 128 $6,950,700 $15,432,953 (1999) by Ride the Rails Stands: Lane's End Farm KY Fee: $80,000 Gun Runner 12 Bernardini 12 22 6 12 1 2 261 101 $970,425 $6,753,279 (2003) by A.P. Indy Stands: Jonabell Farm KY Fee: $85,000 Imperative 13 Unbridled's Song 5 10 5 8 2 2 143 71 $13,338,000 $18,739,088 (1993) by Unbridled Stands: Taylor Made Stallions USA (Dead/Ret/Exp) Arrogate 14 Hard Spun 8 20 5 13 -- 2 282 137 $283,000 $9,082,961 (2004) by Danzig Stands: Jonabell Farm KY Fee: $40,000 Timeline 15 Giant's Causeway 10 24 5 10 -- -- 265 117 $371,644 $8,716,559 (1997) by Storm Cat Stands: Ashford Stud KY Fee: $75,000 Chief Whip

FOR ALL TDN SIRE LISTSBINCLUDING INDIVIDUAL CROP-YEAR REPORTS--VISIT WWW.THETDN.COM/TDN-SIRE-STATS/ Doraonpogyeongseon, c, 4, Kantharos--Smartybegone, by Smarty Jones. Busan, 12-30, Hcp. ($104k), 1200m. B-GoldMark Farm LLC (FL). *SP-Kor. **1/2 to Oldfashioned Style (Old Fashioned), GSP. ***$14,000 Ylg >14 OBSAUG; $50,000 2yo >15 Long Island Sound to Pleasant Acres Stallions: OBSAPR. Irish group winner and U.S. Grade I placed Long Island Sound (War Front--Treasure Trail, by Pulpit) will take up stud duties at IN PERU: Joe and Helen Barbazon=s Pleasant Acres Stallions in Morriston Bragado, c, 2, Bodemeister--Awesome Maneuver, by Awesome in 2018. Racing for Derrick Smith, Susan Magnier, Michael Tabor Again. Monterrico, 12-30, Maiden, 1000m, :58.48. B-Fred W and Joseph Allen, LLC, the 5-year-old stallion won the 2016 Hertrich III & John D Fielding (KY). *1ST START WIN. **$47,000 G3 Diamond S. and was second in the GI Secretariat S. for Ylg >16 FTKOCT. VIDEO trainer Aidan O=Brien. On the board in six of 10 starts, he won four times and earned $149,981. Warrior=s Gold, h, 5, Warrior=s Reward--Gold Revenue, by ALong Island Sound was absolutely brilliant winning his first Touch Gold. Monterrico, 12-29, Hcp., 1000m, :57.77. B- three starts,@ said Pleasant Acres= director of bloodstock Bernardo Alvarez Calderon & Teneri Farm Inc (KY). *1/2 to Michelle Hemingway. AHe is from the direct family of the Birdie Gold (Birdstone), G1SW-Per. **$32,000 RNA Ylg >13 peerless Zenyatta (Street Cry {Ire}), who won 19 consecutive KEESEP. VIDEO races in her 20-race career. We believe he will be very attractive to breeders in Florida.@ Tuesday Cancellations Long Island Sound, an $800,000 Keeneland November weanling in 2013, is out of a half-sister to champion Zenyatta, as well as to multiple Grade I winner Balance (Thunder Gulch). PARX (extreme cold) Long Island Sound is property of a syndicate and will stand for $5,000.

IN SOUTH KOREA: Second-crop starters to watch: Wednesday, Jan. 3 Title Match, g, 2, Bellamy Road--Cat Out (SP), by Forest Wildcat. Farm and fee represent current information Busan, 12-30, Hcp. ($52k), 1200m. B-Barak Farm (MD). Fort Larned (E Dubai), Adena Springs, $15,000 *$25,000 Ylg >16 FTMOCT; $60,000 2yo >17 FTMMAY. 96 foals of racing age/4 winners/1 black-type winner Cubaui Yeoljeong, f, 2, Majestic Warrior--Liz Hunter, by Smart 7-GP, Msw 1 1/16m, SIR SAHIB, 9-2 Strike. Busan, 12-31, Hcp. ($71k), 1200m. B-Damara Farm (KY). *$1,200 Ylg >16 KEESEP; $27,000 2yo >17 OBSJUN. Paynter (Awesome Again), WinStar Farm, $25,000 Blue Chipper, c, 2, Tiznow--Dixie City (GSW, $231,980), by Dixie 217 foals of racing age/13 winners/1 black-type winner Union. Busan, 12-31, Hcp. ($71k), 1200m. B-Diamond A Racing 5-GP, Msw 1 1/16mT, EIGHT MINUTE ELLIE, 12-1 Corp (KY). *$95,000 RNA Ylg >16 KEESEP. $40,000 KEE SEP yrl Ppudeut, c, 3, Tale of Ekati--Papier Mache, by Marquetry. Take Charge Indy (A.P. Indy), Kor, $20,000 Busan, 12-30, Hcp. ($85k), 1800m. B-Gugru LLC & Hedberg Hall 200 foals of racing age/24 winners/2 black-type winners Inc (KY). *7,000 Ylg >15 FTKOCT; $30,000 2yo >16 FTMMAY. 5-GP, Msw 1 1/16mT, C. S. INCHARGE, 6-1 TDN REGIONAL REPORT • PAGE 2 OF 2 • THETDN.COM WEDNESDAY • JANUARY 3, 2018

Big Ohio, g, 3, Mr. Big--Magnificent Miss, by Chester House. MVR, 1-2, (S), 6f, 1:14.13. B-Steve M DeMaiolo (OH). *1ST-TIME STARTER.

Congratulations to last week=s JockeyTalk360.com Jockey of the Week, Mike Smith, who won the GI La Brea S. aboard Unique Bella (Tapit) and the GI American Oaks aboard Daddys Lil Darling (Scat Daddy).

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It is also a rather unique feature of the Australian bloodstock BREED SHAPERS, LIFE market that its horses have a strong resale value to Asian markets, so even those that don=t hit the top tier still have a CHANGERS AT MAGICS chance to pay for themselves. Barbara Banke=s Stonestreet Stable has been both a buyer and a seller at the top of the market at Magic Millions in recent years, and in a promotional video produced by Aushorse, Stonestreet representative John Moynihan said, Aso many of the horses that the Australian breeders as a group raise come to the marketplace. You get a shot at buying what is considered the best down there and that was very appealing to us. They sell such a good product and they have so many offshoots for their product. People can buy that product and race it in Australia. They can go to Hong Kong and Singapore and be top-tier horses there.@ Cont. p2

Magic Millions graduate and successful young sire Pierro | Getty IN TDN AMERICA TODAY By Kelsey Riley The Magic Millions Gold Coast Yearling Sale has been on a FRANK STRONACH TO RECEIVE ECLIPSE OF MERIT steady upward trend over the last five years and Australasia=s Frank Stronach will receive the Eclipse Award of Merit in season-opening yearling sale, set for Jan. 10 to 16, is set to stay recognition of his outstanding success in racing, breeding, racetrack ownership and support of retired racehorse programs. true to its mantra Abreed shapers and life changers.@ The gross Click or tap here to go straight to TDN America. for Book 1 of the sale hit A$135,188,500 in 2017, up from A$67,984,500 in 2013. While the numbers catalogued have also risen so too has the quality, with the average reaching A$205,142 last year, having been A$134,092 five years ago. Perhaps the most significant figure is the sale=s clearance rate: it has been at least 85% the last five years and last year was 88%. It is well-documented that this healthy market is not singular to this sale alone in Australia, or even to Magic Millions; the racing and bloodstock industries are booming Down Under, and this is likely due to a myriad of factors, like a healthy prizemoney structure across all levels of racing, the popularity of syndicates that help fill out all levels of the market at the sales, and a heavily commercial breeding industry that sees many of the best yearlings offered for sale. A number of the truly top stallions over the last 20 years--the likes of Snippets (Aus), Snitzel (Aus), Not a Single Doubt (Aus), General Nediym (Aus), Testa Rossa (Aus), Savabeel (Aus), Written Tycoon (Aus) and Sebring (Aus)--have come out of the Gold Coast sale, and the fact that those kinds of multi-million dollar stallion prospects are available for purchase at all levels of the market has seen overseas buyers flock to Australia in recent years for a chance to get in on the action.

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Breed Shapers, Life Changers at Magics Cont. from p1 Sheikh Fahad=s Qatar Racing has become increasingly active Down Under with the first crop of its young sire Zoustar (Aus) now on the track, and his racing and bloodstock manager David Redvers said, AThe really exciting thing about the sales is you=re going to get a large number of the best-bred horses in Australia there. The majority of the breeders are commercial so they send their best stock to the market, whereas it=s very difficult for example in the UK to buy the best Dubawi or the best Galileo, because those are almost all in private hands.@ WinStar Farm has made a big splash in Australia, mainly in partnerships with China Horse Club, and it was rewarded earlier this year when Gold Coast graduate Invader (Aus) (Snitzel Aus}) stamped himself a serious stallion prospect with a win in the G1 Sires= Produce S. WinStar=s Elliott Walden explained the investment to Aushorse, saying, Aone of my first entries into Australia was going down to try to buy Pierro, and I found it extremely difficult, extremely competitive and extremely expensive. All three of those things led me to think it=s a good place to try to get some stallions.@

ATo be able to sell horses for good money but then they go on to be successful on the racetrack and end up being sold for enormous money or stand for great money, it=s quite fulfilling what we=re doing.@

A>Breed shapers and life changers= is our line this year, and the breed shapers is what we=re about, to be able to sell these colts,@ said Magic Millions Bloodstock Manager and soon-to-be Managing Director Barry Bowditch. AYou have so many of these

Magic Millions grad, sire prospect Invader | Bronwen Healy guys--the Henry Field syndicate, James Harron, Guy Mulcaster, Michael Wallace--stepping into the market to buy a racehorse that can potentially become a stallion. It must make them feel good about what they=re doing when they see so many stallions Results in the Ring and On The Track... coming out of this sale. And it=s been from the start, starting Fast-forward to the 2018 Magic Millions Gold Coast Yearling with Snippets and then Snitzel, Not A Single Doubt, Written Sale, and some serious stallion prospects--Pierro (Aus), Tycoon--the list goes on. Now we have your Vancouvers, your Vancouver (Aus), Capitalist (Aus) and Dissident (Aus) also came Pierros, your Capitalists, Dissidents. To be able to sell horses for out of this sale--and some genuinely great racehorses--think good money but then they go on to be successful on the racetrack Winx (Aus), who cost A$230,000 here, and Redzel (Aus), a and end up being sold for enormous money or stand for great A$120,000 graduate--will once again be on offer for those savvy money, it=s quite fulfilling what we=re doing. It makes us feel like enough to find them. The catalogue is up in numbers for the we=re doing a great job selecting a catalogue and the vendors third straight year, with 1,062 youngsters set to be offered in are supporting us with their very best stock, which is probably Books 1 and 2 through Jan. 14. the biggest token of our appreciation to them.@ Cont. p3 TDN EUROPE/INTERNATIONAL • PAGE 3 OF 8 • THETDN.COM WEDNESDAY • 3 JANUARY, 2018

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The turning heads from all around the world no doubt help, too. AYou have the WinStars, John Moynihans and Jon Kellys from America and in Europe you have Shadwell, and a lot of those good agents like Johnny McKeever and John Warren stepping down to have a look at what we=re doing and participate in our market,@ Bowditch said. AFrom where the sale was to what it has become is due to the fact that we are selling good horses, but all Vice President, International Operations the best buyers in the world are turning up here now. It=s a great Gary King look for us and we want to keep building on that.@ Twitter: @garykingTDN The catalogue includes plenty of pages that will be familiar to [email protected] buyers from around the globe, including a Fastnet Rock (Aus) + 1.732.320.0975 colt from the family of Holy Roman Emperor (Ire) (lot 188); a International Editor first-crop Deep Field (Aus) filly out of a daughter of the great Kelsey Riley producer Monsoon Wedding (Aus) (Danehill), a full-sister to Twitter: @kelseynrileyTDN three-time champion sire Redoute=s Choice (Aus) (lot 196); an [email protected] Exceed and Excel (Aus) colt from the family of Fastnet Rock (lot 225); colts out of three-quarter-sisters Ashley=s Kitty (Tale of the European Editor Cat) (by Deep Field, lot 514) and Heart Ashley (Lion Heart) (by Emma Berry Snitzel, lot 795), both stakes-winning sisters to this year=s GI Twitter: @collingsberry Gold Cup winner Cupid (Tapit); a Medaglia d=Oro colt from the [email protected] prosperous Niarchos family of champions Spinning World, Associate International Editor Pathfork and Aldebaran (lot 760); a Snitzel (Aus) half-sister to Heather Anderson world champion sprinter and effective dual hemisphere sire Twitter: @HLAndersonTDN Starspangledbanner (Aus) (Choisir {Aus}) (lot 767) and a Fastnet Rock granddaughter of Angelic Song (Halo), a Grade I-producing Marketing Manager half-sister to the great producer Glorious Song (lot 776). Alayna Cullen Twitter: @AlaynaCullen [email protected]

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Regular Columnists Australia=s Gold Coast | Courtesy Magic Millions Andrew Caulfield John Berry Kevin Blake The catalogue includes 60 yearlings that are out of or siblings Tom Peacock to Group 1 winners, and those include a full-sister to Pasadena Girl (Aus) (Savabeel {Aus}) (lot 132). Cont. p4 “The horses have tremendous bone and tremendous substance. I think that’s a combination of the sire lines that you see in Australia and the way the horses are raised there” – NED TOFFEY

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Breed Shapers, Life Changers at Magics Cont. Grand {Aus}) (lot 642); a half-sister to Caulfield Cup winner There is also a Fastnet Rock (Aus) colt out of Pear Tart (Aus) Fawkner (Aus) (Reset {Aus}) by first-season sire Shooting To Win (Dehere) and therefore a full to Group 2-placed 2-year-old Italia (Aus) (lot 651) and a full-sister to Sweet Idea (Aus) (Snitzel {Aus}) Bella (Aus) (lot 172); a full-brother to Single Gaze (Aus) (Not A and Showtime (Aus) (lot 733). Single Doubt {Aus}) (lot 229); a Snitzel (Aus) filly out of the dual Bowditch said record numbers of buyers have been inspecting Group 1 winner Response (Aus) (Charge Forward {Aus}) and the yearlings that reside in the Hunter Valley in recent weeks. therefore a half-sister to the stakes-placed Alter Call (Aus) AWe had a lot of people in the Hunter Valley looking at yearlings (Fastnet Rock {Aus}) (lot 235); a full-sister to G2 Silver Slipper S. with us,@ he said. AI heard there were up to 80 people going winner Headwater (Aus) (Exceed and Excel {Aus}) out of River around the Valley looking at the 550 yearlings within the Valley, Dove (Aus), whose progeny have sold for up to A$4 million (lot so that=s record numbers. It just shows the interest in the sale 240); a Snitzel filly out of Samaready (Aus) (More Than Ready) and the catalogue, and the reports coming back from most of (lot 269); the first foal of those guys is that they=re Shamal Wind (Aus) (Dubawi happy with what they=ve seen; {Ire}), a colt by Sea The Stars AThere were up to 80 people going around the Valley they=ve seen horses they=d like who is the lone representative looking at the 550 yearlings within the Valley, to try to buy. It=s a good of his sire in the sale (lot 292); so that=s record numbers.@ starting point.@ a Pierro filly out of four-time The fact that first-season Group 1 winner Streama (Aus) sires generate plenty of (Stratum {Aus}) (lot 352); an I Am Invincible (Aus) half-brother to interest and are sought after is a trend that transcends Sepoy (Aus) (Elusive Quality) (lot 435); a full-brother to Sizzling continental borders, but it is perhaps nowhere more true than (Aus) (Snitzel {Aus}) (lot 480); a half-brother to this year=s at Magic Millions. Three years ago a Sepoy (Aus) colt topped the Golden Slipper winner She Will Reign (Aus) (Manhattan Rain Gold Coast sale at A$1.3 million, a record public auction price for {Aus}) by first-season sire Time For War (Aus) (lot 635); a Fastnet a first-season sire (before he himself bettered it at Easter three Rock half-sister to Classic winner Fiveandahalfstar (Aus) (Hotel months later). Cont. p5 TDN EUROPE/INTERNATIONAL • PAGE 5 OF 8 • THETDN.COM WEDNESDAY • 3 JANUARY, 2018

Breed Shapers, Life Changers at Magics Cont. Also expected to create a stir with his 44 first-crop yearlings is Australian Horse of the Year and Gold Coast graduate Dissident The following year Pierro (Aus) was responsible for a A$1.6 (Aus) (Sebring {Aus}), who also stands at Newgate. Newgate also million colt and a A$1.4 million filly from his first crop. Last year stands Wandjina (Aus) (Snitzel {Aus}). Other first-season sires Dundeel (NZ) featured with a A$900,000 colt. include Darley=s speedy son of I Am Invincible, Brazen Beau A total of 104 sires are represented this year, with the 23 first- (Aus), with 27, and dual Group 1 winner Hallowed Crown (Aus) season sires making up 25% of (Street Sense) with 10. Haras de the catalogue. Newgate=s speedy Bouquetot shuttlers Olympic Group 2 winner Deep Field (Aus) Glory (Ire) (Choisir {Aus}) and (Northern Meteor {Aus}) leads Toronado (Ire) (High Chaparral all sires with 56 catalogued, and {Ire}) have 19 and six, also represented is his year- respectively. Coolmore=s speedy younger G1 Caulfield Guineas- Rubick (Aus) (Encosta de Lago winning full-brother Shooting To {Aus}) sits sixth among all sires Win (Aus) (31 yearlings), who with 38, and his barnmate, stands at Darley. It certainly Galileo=s G1 Cox Plate winner doesn=t hurt those two that the Adelaide (Ire), has four. first crop of Zoustar (Aus), AThe first-season sires this year another son of Northern are rather exciting,@ said Meteor, was popular at this sale Bowditch. AI think it=s a stronger, last year, and Zoustar=s first Barry Bowditch (right) and Vin Cox | Magic Millions deeper crop of first-season sires winner, Sunlight (Aus), is the than we=ve ever had. From a third favourite for the A$2-million Magic Millions 2YO Classic on selling point of view first-season sires have done really well at Jan. 13. this sale.@ Cont. p6 TDN EUROPE/INTERNATIONAL • PAGE 6 OF 8 • THETDN.COM WEDNESDAY • 3 JANUARY, 2018

Breed Shapers, Life Changers at Magics Cont. AThis year on the track Spirit of Boom, who is our leading first- season sire, he=s done a phenomenal job,@ he said. AHe=s had three stakes winners in five days and last weekend we had the first Epaulette and the first Zoustar win, which is the third- favourite for the Magic Millions, so the first-season sires are doing the job on the track, which creates a good image going forward for the ones who are going to sell this year.@

Building A Brand... After 12 years with Magic Millions, Bowditch will after this year=s Gold Coast sale graduate to the position of managing director, with Vin Cox headed to Godolphin. Looking back on the evolution of the company=s flagship sale, Bowditch said much of the credit can go down to its promotion as a brand. AThe brand has changed so much,@ Bowditch said. AThe image it=s created and the amount of people we can get to the sale--on the Friday afternoon before the raceday we can=t keep up with the catering. It just shows when you put a fair bit of effort into something and build the brand what a sale can become. Due to the fact we are selling the very best horses at the moment, we=re having an outstanding run on the racetrack and it all bodes well for this sale in particular but the brand itself.@ The Gold Coast sale is a carnival that the local community and iconic Australian brands truly rally behind. to get horses in by winning these races on Saturday. It=s showing ATourism Events Queensland are fantastic to us,@ Bowditch that the raceday is pulling horses to it.@ said. AWe=ve always got a great load of sponsors behind us, and With a whole carnival of events, and almost assuredly a then we build an event. We have a polo day to get people in champion or a few, set to be at the Gold Coast the second week town early. Then we go into the barrier draw on the beach, of January, there is a reason for everyone to make a visit to the which is an amazing spectacle, and then from there into the sale sunny Gold Coast. and then the A$10-million raceday. I daresay the Gold Coast Turf Club will be booked out; I don=t think you=ll be able to buy a ticket for the raceday. This far out to have it at that level is phenomenal.@ The Magic Millions raceday, which precedes an annually electric evening of selling across the street on the Saturday of the sale, celebrated its first A$10-million renewal last year, when it became the country=s first-ever A$10-million raceday. Bowditch said the interest in all this year=s races, not just the A$2-million 2YO Classic and A$1-million 3YO Guineas, has been WEATHERBYS BOOSTS INSURANCE TEAM unprecedented, with connections clamouring to get an entry for Insurance broker Weatherbys Hamilton has strengthened its their non Magic Millions grads in this past weekend=s four team with the addition of both Julian Taylor and Mark Egar as Doomben wildcard races. Non-Executives to its board. Taylor has been a partner of Millers AWe=re another year on with A$10 million and the interest in Insurance Services LLP, a leading Lloyd=s insurance broker for every race, not just the 2- and 3-year-old races, is outstanding,@ almost 30 years and brings with him a depth of industry said Bowditch. AWe have the wildcard races for the horses that knowledge. He is also a committee member of Huntingdon aren=t Magic Millions [they must be Australian-bred and not sold Racecourse and has horses in training with Venetia Williams and by another sales company]. There [were] plenty of people trying Henry De Bromhead. Cont. p7 TDN EUROPE/INTERNATIONAL • PAGE 7 OF 8 • THETDN.COM WEDNESDAY • 3 JANUARY, 2018

Grey (Ire) (Verglas {Ire}), herself a half to MG1SW British highweight speedster Kingsgate Native (Ire) (Mujadil), from a family which features G1 Irish 1000 Guineas heroine Las Meninas (Ire) (Glenstal). Lifetime Record: 1-1-0-0, ,4,140. Video, sponsored by Fasig-Tipton. 1ST-TIME STARTER. O-Godolphin; B-Peter McCutcheon & Andrew Rosen (IRE); T-Charlie Appleby.

CONDITIONS RESULTS: 4th-NC, ,30,000, Cond, 1-2, 4yo/up, 5f (AWT), :57.90, st. CASPIAN PRINCE (IRE) (g, 9, Dylan Thomas {Ire}--Crystal Gaze {Ire}, by Rainbow Quest) Lifetime Record: GSW-Ire & GSP-UAE, 77-18-5-7, ,631,809. O-Stephen Louch; B-Ballygallon Stud Ltd (IRE); T-Tony Coyle. *11,000gns Ylg >10 TATYEA; i20,000 HRA >13 DEANOV. **1/2 to Spirit Quartz (Ire) (Invincible Spirit {Ire}), Mark Egar | Weatherbys Hamilton Hwt. 3yo-Ity at 5-7f, GSW-Fr & Ity, MSW-Ire, G1SP-Eng, Weatherbys Boosts Insurance Team Cont. $620,693. Mark Egar is a land agent with Savills (UK) Ltd and has been the manager of the Whitbread family=s Southill Estate since 1981, as well as advising many other high-profile land owners in the UK. Weatherbys Hamilton specialises in the core areas of bloodstock, private client and farm & estate insurance and chief executive Charles Hamilton commented, AI have known both VEGA MAGIC COMEBACK DELAYED Julian and Mark personally and professionally for many years Dual Group 1 winner Vega Magic (Aus) (Lope De Vega {Ire}) and could not be more delighted that they are joining us. Both will miss the early part of the Sydney/Melbourne autumn season are widely known and respected in their different fields and will as he continues to recover from a paddock incident that be a perfect fit for our business with such relevant knowledge required significant veterinary attention. The gelding took fright and experience. They also identify with our ambition to grow during a storm and ran into a fence as co-trainer David Hayes the Weatherbys Hamilton brand significantly and I have no explained. doubt that we will benefit hugely from their advice and strategic AIt was a nasty cut that required 40 stitches,@ Hayes told vision.@ Racing And Sports. AThere were no problems with tendons or anything. Infection was the risk, so we've taken no chances with him.@ Cont. p8

Tuesday=s Results: 5th-NC, ,6,400, Cond, 1-2, 3yo, 7f 14y (AWT), 1:28.68, st. FIRST CONTACT (IRE) (g, 3, Dark Angel {Ire}--Vanishing Grey {Ire} {SP-US}, by Verglas {Ire}) was well away to stalk the pace in a prominent second from the outset of this debut. Nudged along at the quarter-mile marker, the well-backed 5-6 favourite hit the front entering the final eighth and was pushed out in the latter stages to assert by 1 3/4 lengths from Daltrey (GB) (Iffraaj {GB}). Kin to a yearling colt by Muhaarar (GB), the i300,000 GOFNOV foal is the first scorer out of Listed Jazzy S. runner-up Vanishing Vega Magic | Racing And Sports TDN EUROPE/INTERNATIONAL • PAGE 8 OF 8 • THETDN.COM WEDNESDAY • 3 JANUARY, 2018

Vega Magic Comeback Delayed Cont. Making his seasonal debut in the G1 George Ryder S. at Rosehill on Mar. 24 could see the 7-year-old take on Winx (Aus) Vega Magic began 2017 in fine style when he bagged the (Street Cry {Ire}). That prospect is nothing new to Happy Clapper G1 Darley Goodwood at Morphettville in May on his first start as he came out the wrong side of that argument with the for the Lindsay Park team of David and Ben Hayes and Tom brilliant mare on three occasions last year, though he did get to Dabernig. The 5-year-old doubled his top-level tally when he within 1 1/4 lengths of her when second in the G1 Colgate Optic won the G1 New Zealand Bloodstock Memsie S. at Caulfield in White S. at Randwick in September. While Happy Clapper is September before running second to Redzel (Aus) (Snitzel {Aus}) likely to take in a couple of barrier trials before the George in the inaugural running of The Everest in October. He signed off Ryder, Winx is set to resume racing next month with her trainer the year with a below par effort in the G1 Darley Classic and Chris Waller suggesting her performance in the George Ryder connections will now have to be patient before seeing Vega will determine whether she then embarks on an international Magic back in competitive action in 2018. campaign or remains in Australia. "He'll probably be back to defend his Goodwood win in May,@ said Hayes. AHe won't run in the Newmarket [in March], we haven't got time." AUSTRALIAN GROUP 1 RACES B 2017/2018 Date Race Track Feb. 10 C. F. Orr S. Caulfield Feb. 17 Lightning S. Flemington >CLAPPER= GEARING UP FOR AUTUMN Feb. 24 Blue Diamond S. Caulfield Happy Clapper (Aus) (Teofilo {Ire}) was a model of consistency Futurity S. Caulfield throughout 2017 when he racked up three wins and five Oakleigh Plate Caulfield seconds from 10 starts. One of those wins was gained in the G1 Mar. 3 Chipping Norton S. Warwick Farm TAB Epsom H. at Randwick in September and Patrick Webster=s Surround S. Warwick Farm gelding will again have Randwick on his agenda as his trainer Australian Guineas Flemington begins to focus on Autumn targets. Unlike last year, Happy Mar. 10 Randwick Guineas Randwick Clapper will be more selectively campaigned with just two major Canterbury S. Randwick races on his agenda. Australian Cup Flemington AI really only want to give him a short campaign and focus on Newmarket H. Flemington the George Ryder and the Doncaster,@ Webster told Racing And Mar. 17 Coolmore Classic Rosehill Sports. Mar. 23 William Reid S. Moonee Valley Mar. 24 Golden Slipper S. Rosehill George Ryder S. Rosehill Ranvet S. Rosehill The Galaxy Rosehill Rosehill Guineas Rosehill Mar. 31 The BMW Rosehill Vinery Stud S. Rosehill

THE CHAMPIONSHIPS Apr. 7 Doncaster H. Randwick T J Smith S. Randwick ATC Australian Derby Randwick ATC Sires= Produce S. Randwick Apr. 14 Queen Elizabeth S. Randwick Happy Clapper | Racing And Sports