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NYRA TO CONSOLIDATE? HEADLINE ATW p1 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 THURSDAY, OCTOBER 20, 2005 BUMPER ENTRY FOR THE BIG APPLE A total of 117 individual horses, including four de- BREEDERS’ CUP fending champions from last year’s event at Lone Star PRE-ENTRIES Park, were pre-entered Monday for the 22nd running of the Breeders’ Cup World Thoroughbred Championships CLASSIC - POWERED BY DODGE, $4,000,000, scheduled for Saturday, Oct. 29 at 3yo/up, 1 1/4m Belmont Park in New York. The num- Horse Sire Trainer ber of pre-entered horses is the high- A Bit O’Gold Gold Fever Day Phillips est since the 2000 Breeders’ Cup at Borrego El Prado (Ire) Greely Churchill Downs when 135 horses Choctaw Nation Louis Quatorze Mullins were pre-entered. Four of the eight Flower Alley Distorted Humor Pletcher fields were oversubscribed, including Jack Sullivan Belong to Me Butler the $4-million Classic, which is set Oratorio (Ire) Danehill O’Brien to feature a mouthwatering clash Perfect Drift Dynaformer Johnson between ‘Beast of the East’ Saint Rock Hard Ten Kris S. Mandella Liam (Saint Ballado), ‘Best of the Saint Liam Saint Ballado Dutrow Jr West’ Rock Hard Ten (Kris S.) and Sir Shackleton Miswaki Zito Borrego (El Prado {Ire}), who carried *Starcraft (NZ) Soviet Star Cumani his best left-coast form to New York and decimated the Suave A.P. Indy McGee field in the GI Jockey Club Gold Cup. The 10-furlong Sun King Charismatic Zito event could also have a kiwi flavor should the connec- Super Frolic Pine Bluff Cerin tions of Starcraft (NZ) (Soviet Star) choose to roll the Not Selected, In Order of Preference: dice. The winner of the G1 Queen Elizabeth II S. and Lord of the Game Saint Ballado Tomillo the G1 Prix du Moulin would be one of the choices in A. P. Arrow A.P. Indy Lukas the GI NetJets Mile and has that race as his first prefer- *20-percent supplement. ence. The lone returnee from last year’s Classic is Per- fect Drift (Dynaformer), who will become the first horse JOHN DEERE TURF, $2,000,000, 3/up, 1 1/2mT to run in the race for four consecutive years. The six- Horse Sire Trainer year-old gelding looms a longshot threat, as he comes Ace (Ire) Danehill O’Brien off a disappointing fourth to Super Frolic (Pine Bluff) in Alkaased Kingmambo Cumani the GII Hawthorne Gold Cup. *Azamour (Ire) Night Shift Oxx Bago (Fr) Nashwan Pease Better Talk Now Talkin Man Motion ORDER OF THE DAY English Channel Smart Strike Pletcher Time Race Fourty Niners Son Distorted Humor Drysdale Gun Salute Military Mott 1:20 Alberto VO5 Juvenile Fillies Laura’s Lucky Boy Theatrical (Ire) Mandella 1:55 Bessemer Trust Juvenile Leprechaun Kid Alphabet Soup Mitchell 2:35 Emirates Airline F/M Turf *Motivator (GB) Montjeu (Ire) Bell 3:10 TVG Sprint Shakespeare Theatrical (Ire) Mott 3:45 NetJets Mile *Shirocco (Ger) Monsun (Ger) Cumani 4:20 Emirates Airline Distaff Silverfoot With Approval Stewart 4:55 John Deere Turf Not Selected, In Order of Preference: 5:35 Classic - Powered by Dodge Shake the Bank Sandpit (Brz) Motion www.breederscup.com *9-percent supplement. www.hillndalefarms.com TDN P HEADLINE NEWS • 10/20/05 • PAGE 2 of 4 Breeders’ Cup Pre-Entries cont. NETJETS MILE, $1,500,000, 3yo/up, 1mT EMIRATES AIRLINE DISTAFF, $2,000,000, Horse Sire Trainer 3yo/up, f/m, 1 1/8m Ad Valorem Danzig O’Brien Horse Sire Trainer Artie Schiller El Prado (Ire) J Jerkens Ashado Saint Ballado Pletcher Funfair (GB) Singspiel (Ire) Motion Capeside Lady Cape Town Pletcher *Gorella (Fr) Grape Tree Road (GB) de Roualle Happy Ticket Anet Leggio Jr Host (Chi) Hussonet Pletcher Healthy Addiction Boston Harbor Sadler *Leroidesanimaux (Brz) Candy Stripes Frankel Hollywood Story Wild Rush Shirreffs Limehouse Grand Slam Pletcher In the Gold Golden Missile Zito *Majors Cast (Ire) Victory Note Noseda Island Fashion Petionville Polanco Sand Springs Dynaformer Mott Nothing But Fun Dixie Union Hushion Singletary Sultry Song Chatlos Jr Pampered Princess Indian Charlie Ma Wolfson **Starcraft (NZ) Soviet Star Cumani Pleasant Home Seeking the Gold McGaughey Three Valleys Diesis (GB) Frankel Society Selection Coronado’s Quest H Jerkens Valixir (Ire) Trempolino Fabre Stellar Jayne Wild Rush bin Suroor Whipper Miesque’s Son Collet Sweet Symphony A.P. Indy Mott Not Selected, In Order of Preference: Yolanda B. Too Two Punch Violette Jr Laura’s Lucky Boy Theatrical (Ire) Mandella Sir Shackleton Miswaki Zito Thought to be a candidate for this race, Island Sand *9-percent supplement. **20-percent supplement. (Tabasco Cat) has been retired after displacing her soft palate following a Sunday workout at Belmont Park. BESSEMER TRUST JUVENILE, $1,500,000, 2yo, The winner of this year’s GII Delaware H., the four- year-old filly had previously been operated on for an 1 1/16m entrapment. “Her epiglottis took so much damage when Horse Sire Trainer it became entrapped and and it displaced again,” trainer Brother Derek Benchmark Hendricks Larry Jones told the Blood-Horse. “There is a huge Dawn of War Catienus Romans polyp on it. It is restricting her air and we can’t keep it Dr. Pleasure Thunder Gulch Ward Jr from displacing.” Island Sand kicked off her three-year- First Samurai Giant’s Causeway Brothers old season with a victory in Aqueduct’s Busanda S. The Henny Hughes Hennessy McLaughlin Ivan Denisovich (Ire) Danehill O’Brien runner-up in the GII Fantasy S. and the GI Kentucky *Jealous Profit Trippi O’Neill Oaks, the dark bay posted her most important victory in Leo (GB) Pivotal (GB) Gosden the GI Acorn S. at Belmont Park. She retires with a Private Vow Broken Vow Asmussen career record of 19-5-5-2 and earnings of $1,182,777. Set Alight Hennessy Head-Maarek She will be bred next year to A.P. Indy. Sorcerer’s Stone Gulch Byrne Stevie Wonderboy Stephen Got Even O’Neill BREEDERS’ CUP CROSS-ENTERED HORSES Stream Cat Black Minnaloushe Biancone Horse 1st Preference 2nd Preference Superfly Fusaichi Pegasus Zito Laura’s Lucky Boy Turf Mile Not Selected, In Order of Preference: Sir Shackleton Classic Mile Sharp Attack Storm Cat Lukas Starcraft (NZ) Mile Classic Bear Character Dixie Union Greenwood www.breederscup.com Diabolical Artax Klesaris *9-percent supplement. GRADE 1 WINNER On October 16, for Freshman Sire REINA MUSICAL won off by 3 1/2 lengths KING CUGAT in the Grade 1 Kingmambo S Tricky Game Camarero. 2006 STUD FEE: $5,000 LIVE FOAL Phone: (859) 873-7300 P Fax: (859) 873-3746 P E-mail: [email protected] P www.lanesend.com TDN P HEADLINE NEWS • 10/20/05 • PAGE 3 of 4 Breeders’ Cup Pre-Entries cont. ALBERTO V05 JUVENILE FILLIES, $1,000,000, TVG SPRINT, $1,000,000, 3yo/up, 6f 2yo, f, 1 1/16m Horse Sire Trainer Horse Sire Trainer Attila’s Storm Forest Wildcat Schosberg Adieu El Corredor Pletcher Battle Won Honour and Glory Simon Along the Sea Anees Ziadie Elusive Jazz Elusive Quality Barnett Ann Summers Gold Yankee Victor Meehan Gygistar Prospector’s Music Hennig Diamond Omi Giant’s Causeway Baffert High Fly Atticus Zito Dressed to Kill Formal Gold Weaver Imperialism Langfuhr Mulhall Ex Caelis Fusaichi Pegasus Lukas Lifestyle Indian Charlie Ward Folklore Tiznow Lukas Lion Tamer Will’s Way Pletcher Keeneland Kat Hennessy Breen *Lost in the Fog Lost Soldier Gilchrist Knights Templar Exploit Vella Pomeroy Boundary Biancone Miss Norman Artax Gonzalez Roman Ruler Fusaichi Pegasus Baffert Original Spin Distorted Humor Mitchell Silver Train Old Trieste Dutrow Jr Sensation Dixie Union Hough Taste of Paradise Conquistador Cielo G Mandella She Says It Best Stormy Atlantic Foley Wildcat Heir Forest Wildcat Perkins Jr *Wild Fit Wild Event Mullins *9-percent supplement. *9-percent supplement. EMIRATES AIRLINE F/M TURF, $1,000,000, Europe’s Fearsome Foursome in Turf... 3yo/up, f/m, 1 1/4mT Europe had a five-race winning streak in the GI John Horse Sire Trainer Deere Turf snapped last year by the unheralded Better Angara (GB) Alzao Biancone Talk Now (Talkin Man), but put forth an excellent team Favourable Terms (GB) Selkirk Stoute in racing’s version of the Ryder Cup. Motivator (GB) Film Maker Dynaformer Motion (Montjeu {Ire}), five-length winner of the G1 Epsom *Flip Flop (Fr) Zieten Cecil Derby over the 12-furlong distance of the Turf, was Intercontinental (GB) Danehill Frankel upset by Classic contender Oratorio (Ire) (Danehill) in Karen’s Caper War Chant Gosden the G1 Coral Eclipse S. and in the G1 Irish Champion S. Luas Line (Ire) Danehill Wachman and was most recently fifth in the G1 Prix de l’Arc de Megahertz (GB) Pivotal (GB) Frankel Triomphe Oct. 2. The Niarchos Family’s Bago (Fr) Mona Lisa (GB) Giant’s Causeway O’Brien (Nashwan) was third in his title defense at Longchamp Ouija Board (GB) Cape Cross (Ire) Dunlop and has had a consistent, if not spectacular season. His Riskaverse Dynaformer Kelly lone win in five starts came in his seasonal bow in the Sundrop (Jpn) Sunday Silence bin Suroor G1 Prix Ganay in April. Azamour (Ire) (Night Shift) may Wend Pulpit Mott be the most formidable of the quartet. The Aga Khan Wonder Again Silver Hawk Toner homebred posted a 1 1/2-length victory over Ace (Ire) *9-percent supplement. (Danehill) in the G1 Prince of Wales’s S. in June fol- lowed by a 1 1/4-length success in the G1 King George TDN TODAY VI and Queen Elizabeth II Diamond S.