FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 2012 732-747-8060 $ TDN Home Page Click Here LADIES FIRST BREEDERS’ CUP For the third time in the last five years and the sixth time overall, Santa Anita Park in Arcadia, California, FRIDAY plays host to the Breeders= Cup meeting, and as has become its custom, the first of the two-day stand is LADIES’ CLASSIC-GI, $2,000,000, 3yo/up, f/m, dominated by races restricted to the fairer sex. In the 1 1/8m day=s centerpiece PP HORSE SIRE JOCKEY TRAINER ML event, the $2-milllion 1 Grace Hall K Empire Maker Castellano Dutrow 10-1 GI Ladies= Classic, ($95,000 yrl ‘10 KEESEP) Royal Delta (Empire 2 My Miss Aurelia K Smart Strike Nakatani Asmussen 4-1 Maker) will go ($550,000 yrl ‘10 KEESEP) favored to join 3 Class Included Include Baze Penney 30-1 Bayakoa (Arg) as the 4 Questing (GB) Hard Spun Ortiz McLaughlin 4-1 only back-to-back 5 Awesome Feather Awesome of Course Sanchez Brown 3-1 winner of the race ($2,300,000 2yo ‘10 FTKNOV) and will attempt to 6 Royal Delta K Empire Maker Smith Mott 9-5 give trainer Bill Mott ($8,500,000 HRA ‘11 KEENOV) his third consecutive 7 Include Me Out Include Talamo Ellis 15-1 win in the race and ($150,000 yrl ‘09 FTKJUL) Royal Delta Adam Coglianese fifth overall (Ajina, 8 Love and Pride K A.P. Indy Velazquez Pletcher 8-1 1997, Escena, 1998 ($380,000 RNA 2yo ‘10 KEEAPR) and Unrivaled Belle, 2010). Still, with the likes of the undefeated My Miss Aurelia (Smart Strike), also a BREEDERS= CUP POST TIMES - FRIDAY winner on Breeders= Cup day at Churchill last year, Juvenile Sprint 4:06 p.m. 2010 GI Juvenile Fillies heroine and also undefeated = Marathon 4:46 p.m. Awesome Feather (Awesome of Course) and the free- Juvenile Fillies Turf 5:28 p.m. wheeling Questing (GB) (Hard Spun), the Hall of Famer is taking absolutely nothing for granted. AI think it=s very Juvenile Fillies 6:08 p.m. competitive,@ Mott said. AYou have to respect a lot of F/M Turf 6:48 p.m. the horses in there. It looks like a good, fast pace. And Ladies= Classic 7:30 p.m. it looks like some horses have speed and good quality. All times Eastern Time There is no shortage of talent.@ This year=s running of the Juvenile Fillies may be short on numbers, but is also long on talent, and features an interesting clash between J “TDN Rising Stars” J Executiveprivilege (First Samurai), Dreaming of Julia (A.P. Indy) and Kauai Katie (Malibu Moon). As talented as that trio is, none has registered a speed figure as lofty as the 108 Beyer turned in by Beholder (Henny Hughes), who lands in this two-turn heat instead of the Juvenile Sprint. The Spendthrift runner, conditioned by Richard AMan-O@ Mandella--he of four Cup wins at Santa Anita in 2003--has drawn the fence, for better or for worse, and will have to go early for Garrett Gomez. In the afternoon=s other events, The Fugue (GB) (Dansili {GB}) will look to take the GI Filly/Mare Turf back to Europe, while the Richard Hannon-trained Sky Lantern (Ire) (Red Clubs {GB}) will be a strong choice in the GI Juvenile Fillies Turf. The GII Marathon, which has been moved to this program, is a wide-open affair with the 3-year-old Atigun (Istan) the lukewarm favorite. The Juvenile Sprint will kick off the Breeders= Cup portion of the program. 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(G1) 1992 Breeders’ Cup Classic (G1) 1989 Kentucky Derby (G1) 1989 Breeders’ Cup Classic (G1) 1990 Kentucky Derby (G1) 1990 Breeders’ Cup Classic (G1) www.WinStarFarm.com P TDN HEADLINE NEWS • 11/2/12 • PAGE 3 of 17 • thoroughbreddailynews.com Awesome Return to the Breeders’ Cup... It=s been a tumultuous two years for Awesome Feather (Awesome of Course) since she stood in the GI Breeders= Cup Juvenile Fillies winner=s circle after her victory at Churchill Downs in 2010. She wore the silks of her breeder, the Florida-based Jacks Or Better Farm, for that victory, which earned her Eclipse honors as champion 2-year-old filly, but was offered for sale just days later at Fasig-Tipton November, where she was scooped up by Stronach Stables for $2.3 million and turned over to trainer Chad Brown. With an undefeated juvenile campaign to her credit, including four stakes victories in Florida before her Breeders= Cup romp, Awesome Feather appeared to be on the path to stardom. Awesome Feather Adam Coglianese Hopes of a classic campaign, however, were derailed when she sustained a tendon injury in January 2011, but not all was lost for the year: although she made a belated sophomore debut, Awesome Feather managed to add three more victories, including the GI Gazelle S. at Aqueduct in November, and the Sunshine Millions Distaff at Gulfstream in January, before injury sidelined her again. She made her second major comeback Sept. 20, winning the Nasty Storm S. at Belmont. She is now on track for a second Breeders= Cup title, and Brown is optimistic about her chances. AI feel very good,@ he said. AMy filly has been training very well back home. She=s come to Santa Anita, been on the track three days in a row, and every day she=s looked dynamite out there. I=m optimistic that she=s going to come with a big race.@ Brown added that Awesome Feather is in Athe best shape of her career,@ and will be versatile in running. AThe great thing about her is that she has speed, she can carry it a long way, and she can adapt to any situation,@ Brown said. AIf there is no speed in the race, she=s the kind of horse that can go to the lead. She has no problem with that. If there is a quick pace, she can stalk and rate kindly. I think she is posted well [post 5]. She should be able to work out a fair trip from there. We=ll see how she goes from there.@ TELL IT TO THE TDN... Want to send a “Letter to the Editor” of the Thoroughbred Daily News? Our address is 60 Broad St., Red Bank, NJ, 07701; or send a fax to: (732) 747-8955; an e-mail to: [email protected]; or post in our new Forum section at http://www.thoroughbreddailynews.com/members/fo rum/. TDN P HEADLINE NEWS • 11/2/12 • PAGE 4 of 17 • thoroughbreddailynews.com Breeders= Cup Friday cont. Richard Mandella, who took the 2003 running of the GREY GOOSE JUVENILE FILLIES-GI, $2,000,000, Juvenile Fillies with subsequent champion Halfbridled 2yo, f, 1 1/16m and the 1993 renewal at Santa Anita with Phone PP HORSE SIRE JOCKEY TRAINER ML Chatter, feels the rest of the field will have a decision 1 Beholder K Henny Hughes Gomez Mandella 5-2 to make as he sends out the fleet Beholder.