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Midway Road Moved to Lane’s End Texas HEADLINE ...p. 1-ATW 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 TUESDAY, DECEMBER 20, 2005 PROMISING HALF OURS BEGINS COMEBACK Barry Schwartz and Aaron & Marie Jones’s Half Ours P EDIGREE INSIGHTS (Unbridled’s Song), who was so impressive earlier in BY ANDREW CAULFIELD the spring winning the Three Chimneys Juvenile S. by 4 Saturrday, Hollywood Park 1/4 lengths, has returned HOLLYWOOD FUTURITY-GI, $407,250, HOL, 12-17, from injury and is preparing 2yo, 1 1/16m, 1:42, ft. for his three-year-old cam- 1--sBROTHER DEREK, 121, c, 2, by Benchmark paign. Undefeated in two 1st Dam: Miss Soft Sell, by Siyah Kalem starts, the colt suffered a 2nd Dam: Solamente Un Vez, by Relaunch hairline fracture to his right 3rd Dam: Gavel Gertie, by Flit-To Half Ours hind cannon bone in late ($150,000 yrl '04 KEESEP; $275,000 2yo ‘05 Four Footed Fotos spring and was sent to BESMAR). O-Cecil N Peacock; B-Mary H Caldwell Schwartz’s Stonewall Farm (CA); T-Dan L Hendricks; J-A O Solis; $244,350. in New York to recuperate. The gray had his first listed Lifetime Record: 5-3-0-1, $502,080. *Full to move Sunday at Palm Meadows Training Center in Don'tsellmeshort, MSW & GSP, $402,365. Florida, breezing a relaxed three panels in :39 2/5 for Click for the brisnet.com chart or the free brisnet.com trainer Todd Pletcher. Buzz Chace, bloodstock advisor catalogue-style pedigree. Video, sponsored by Taylor for both Schwartz and the Joneses, said the work was Made. actually his second since resuming training. “The first one, he just went a quarter mile in :25,” said Chace, By a nice coincidence, Hollywood’s Grade I juvenile adding, “He came back from [Sunday’s] work nice and races both fell to youngsters with a pedigree featuring easy.” Asked about a timetable for Half Ours’ return to Alydar, the outstanding son of Raise A Native who will the races, Chace said, “We’ll let him tell us, but hope- always be remembered more for his gallant Triple fully by the end of January or the first couple weeks in Crown defeats by Affirmed than for his six Grade I February, if everything goes right, he’ll be on his way.” victories. Half Ours opened his account with a debut 10 3/4- Of course there is nothing unusual about Alydar’s length romp at Keeneland in mid-April before his tally in name appearing in the pedigree of a major winner. It is the May 7 Three Chimneys Juvenile (video). far more unusual, though, to see his name in the male line of a Grade I winner, such as the Hollywood Futurity Folklore Back to Work... winner Brother Derek, than in the broodmare sire line, In other news, Folklore (Tiznow) breezed for the first as in the pedigree of the Hollywood Starlet heroine time since winning the GI Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies. Diplomat Lady. The Bob and Beverly Lewis colorbearer worked five The unpalatable truth is that Alydar--for all his furlongs in 1:00 3/5 at Santa achievements and excellent bloodlines--was a fairly Anita Monday, the 18th fastest disastrous sire of sires. Although he had over 50 sons of 50 moves at the distance. at stud in the early 1990s, his male line is now hanging Trainer D. Wayne Lukas told by a thread and I think there is only one grandson--Easy TVG Sunday that the filly was Goer’s son Will’s Way--with graded winners to his doing well and that she had put credit. Perhaps Benchmark, the sire of Brother Derek, on weight since her Breeders’ still has time to remedy this situation, as he comes Cup victory. Lukas told the net- from Alydar’s final crop, sired before the Calumet star’s A Coglianese work that he was eyeing a mid- controversial death at the age of 15 in 1990. January return for the daughter of two-time GI Breeders’ Cup Classic winner Tiznow. Andrew Caulfield cont. p2 www.juddmonte.com TDN P HEADLINE NEWS • 12/20/05 • PAGE 2 of 6 Caulfield cont. It wasn’t to be. Turkoman, who stood the 2005 Even in his prime, Alydar had a reputation for being season at a fee of $3,000 in California, proved much more of a filly sire, thanks largely to the magnificent less effective as a stallion, even though he supplied the start he made with his outstanding Grade I winners Man From Wicklow and Turk Passer; first-crop daughters Althea and Criminal Type, who got caught up in Calumet’s prob- Miss Oceana. Although he soon lems, was soon sold to Japan, leaving Grade II and added further Grade I-winning fillies Grade III winners behind; and Saratoga Six, although to his tally in the form of Alydar’s still plying his trade at the age of 23, has sired only one Best, Endear, Clabber Girl, I’m Grade I winner. Sweets and Cadillacing, he wasn’t Alysheba--the sire of one Grade I winner--is now long in showing that he could also resident in Saudi Arabia, while Strike the Gold headed get top-class sons. His second crop for Turkey after failing to sire a single graded winner. was headed by Saratoga Six and Perhaps Easy Goer would have set the record straight Turkoman, with Turkoman becom- had he lived, as his legacy included the Grade I winners My Flag, Furlough and Will’s Way, but it could be ar- Alydar & Affirmed ing the first of three sons of Alydar gued that he should have done even better with the B Coglianese to take the title of champion older horse. The other two, Alysheba and exceptional mares he received. Criminal Type, also took the Horse of the Year title, Bearing in mind some of the features of Benchmark’s while Easy Goer was the champion of his division at racing career, he didn’t look a prime candidate to sal- two. With a Kentucky Derby winner, Strike the Gold, vage Alydar’s record as a sire of sires. Unraced at two, also among his nine American Grade I-winning sons, he was unplaced on his only appearance at three. By Alydar could have been expected to found a dynasty in the time he turned six in 1997, he had managed only much the same way as Mr. Prospector, another son of seven starts for three minor victories, but he then made Raise A Native, has done. a successful stakes debut in the GII San Bernadino H. The winning trainer, Ron Ellis, commented that “He BROTHER DEREK, c, 2003 should have been named ‘Patience’ for all we’ve been Native Dancer through with him.” Raise a Native Raise You The six-year-old continued to reward that patience, Alydar On-and-On adding further Grade II successes Sweet Tooth Plum Cake in the Del Mar H. and Goodwood Benchmark Northern Dancer Breeders’ Cup H. Ankle surgery Danzig Pas de Nom then put Benchmark back on the Winter’s Love The Axe II sidelines in 1998, but his debut at Cold Hearted Turn to North stud coincided with the emer- gence of his very talented half Mr. Prospector Raise a Native Gold Digger sister Tranquility Lake. This Siyah Kalem Keeneland’s $9.7 million Graustark daughter of Rahy became a Grade Miss Soft Sell Lady Graustark Storm Cat - Tranquility Lake Unraced Inyala I winner in the Gamely Breeders’ Bill Straus 7Fls, 1GISW, In Reality Cup H. and later took the Yellow Solamente Un Vez Relaunch 1SW, 1SP MSW, 17-6-0-1, Foggy Note Ribbon S. Tranquility Lake hit the headlines again this $126,470 Gavel Gertie Flit-To year when her second foal, by Storm Cat, fetched a 10Fls, 4wnrs 10Fls, 2SW Marisa jaw-dropping $9.7 million at Keeneland. Cont. p3 www.coolmore.com TDN P HEADLINE NEWS • 12/20/05 • PAGE 3 of 6 Caulfield cont. Inbreeding to Raise A Native through Mr. Prospector and Alydar has been fairly extensive, its finest adver- That colt was obviously bought with a view to even- tisements probably being Horse of the Year Point Given tually becoming a major stallion, so his buyers must be (inbred 4x4), the champion juvenile Anees (4x3) and encouraged by Benchmark’s the Jockey Club Gold Cup winner Wagon Limit (3x4). achievement of siring two Mention of Point Given reminds me that his first two Grade I winners. Brother dams are by Turkoman and Relaunch, the latter also Derek’s predecessor is Silent being the sire of Brother Derek’s second dam, the Signs, who inflicted the first stakes-winning Solamente Un Vez. Brother Derek’s defeat on Halfbridled in win- third dam, Gavel Gertie, is also the fourth dam of an- ning the Santa Anita Oaks. other of this year’s graded-winning juveniles, namely Benchmark has also sired the Deputy G, winner of the GIII Bashford Manor S. It was Grade II scorer A to the Z a son of Relaunch who sired Deputy G’s second dam. Brother Derek winning the and the Grade III winner With his earnings now in excess of $500,000 (includ- Hollywood Futurity Standard Setter, with his ing $90,000 earned from his fourth in the Breeders’ Benoit photo four graded winners coming Cup Juvenile), Brother Derek has proved a very shrewd from a total of little over 200 named foals in his first buy at the $275,000 he cost at Barretts in March--that four crops--all sired at modest fees in California.