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SOVEREIGN AWARD NOMINEES 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, DECEMBER 10, 2005 ROCK HARD TEN TO LANE’S END ‘LUCK’ AND ‘MISSILE’ WITHDRAW FROM HK Multiple Grade I winner Rock Hard Ten (Kris S.-- U.S.-based Designed for Luck (Rahy) and Great Tersa, by Mr. Prospector) will enter stud in 2006 at Britain-based Majestic Missile (Ire) (Royal Applause William S. Farish’s Lane’s End {GB}) have been withdrawn from their respective races Farm for a fee of $50,000, in the Cathay Pacific Hong Kong International Sunday. live foal. Retired last month, Designed for Luck, winner of the 2004 GI Shoemaker the four-year-old is scheduled Breeders’ Cup Mile, developed lameness in his right to arrive at the Versailles, hind fetlock and will miss a start in the G1 Cathay Kentucky nursery Dec. 12. Pacific Hong Kong Mile. MGSW Majestic Missile, en- Bred by Madeleine Pickens tered in the G1 Cathay Pacific Hong Kong Sprint, con- and raced by the partnership tracted a fever and blood abnormality after shipping to Rock Hard Ten Equi-Photo of Pickens and Mercedes Sta- Hong Kong and has been scratched. bles. The big colt captured the seven-furlong GI Malibu S. and the nine-furlong GII Swaps Breeders’ Cup S. at Rakti Puts in Final Move... three, and also ran second to champion Smarty Jones Rakti (GB) (Polish Precedent), winner of this year’s in the GI Preakness S. At four, Rock Hard Ten was G1 Juddmonte Lockinge S., worked perfect in three starts, winning the 10-furlong GI Santa a strong 400 meters in :22.8 yes- Anita H., the GII Goodwood Breeders’ Cup H. and the terday with jockey Philip Robinson GII Strub S. He was produced by French champion two- aboard in preparation for a start in year-old filly Tersa, a half sister to GI Kentucky Derby Sunday’s G1 Cathay Pacific Hong Kong Mile. “He has a lot of speed, hero Gato del Sol. this horse, even though he has a pedigree for middle distances,” NOTHING TO LOSE RETIRED Rakti hkjc.com trainer Michael Jarvis commented. Grade I winner Nothing to Lose (Sky Classic-- “We cannot make tactics. We’ll just Cherlindrea, by Clever Trick) has been retired from have to see how the race pans out, but it is important racing. No stud plans have been an- he breaks with the rest of the field.” nounced yet for the five-year-old, who raced in the red and white colors DANEHILL INFLUENCE AT HKIS of breeders Ken and Sarah Ramsey. A total of 27 colts and geldings--25 juveniles and a Winner of the GIII Tropical Park Derby pair of three-year-olds--are set to go under the hammer and the GIII Palm Beach S. in his only at this afternoon’s Hong Kong International Sale, to be two starts as a three-year-old, the held in the parade ring at Sha Tin Racecourse. The late, bay was sidelined for 11 months, but great Danehill has left his mark at racetracks and sales became a force in the turf division as venues all over the world, and Hong Kong is no excep- a four-year-old in 2004. He set a tion. As the sire of over 300 worldwide black-type Nothing To Lose course record at Saratoga in the GII winners and counting, the stallion is responsible for six Adam Coglianese Fourstardave H. before romping by champions in the SAR and a pair of winners on Interna- 4 1/2 lengths in the GI Shadwell Turf tional Day--Fairy King Prawn (Aus) and Lucky Owners Mile at Keeneland. He was unplaced in both the GI (NZ). Two of his sons, Scintillation (Aus) and The Duke Breeders’ Cup Mile and the GI Citation H., and was (Aus), sold well at this sale and are slated to go scheduled to return to the races this year, but came up postward in tomorrow’s G1 Hong Kong Mile, where with some minor problems. Nothing to Lose retires with they finished third and fourth last year, respectively. a record of 15-6-3-1 and earnings of $809,210. HKIS Sale Preview cont. p2 www.coolmore.com TDN P HEADLINE NEWS • 12/10/05 • PAGE 2 of 5 HKIS Sale Preview cont. Danehill’s lone two-year-old in today’s auction figures Today’s Graded Stakes to attract his fair share of attention. Catalogued as hip brought to you by 17, the Oct. 15 foal is a brother to the Hong Kong Derby ticketed Ample Gains (Aus) and MSP Danalaga (Aus). The bay colt has addi- tional appeal down the page as his dam, Tamarino (Ire) 3:44p Queens County H.-GIII, Aqu brisnet.com PPs TVG Hip 17 hkjc.com (Caerleon), is a half-sister to 7:05p Native Diver H.-GIII, Hol brisnet.com PPs TVG GI Breeders’ Cup Turf hero All Post Times are Eastern Standard Time. Northern Spur (Ire) and to Oenothera (Ire), the dam of Click here to download all brisnet.com PPs of today’s graded races. MGSW and MG1SP Sundrop (Jpn). He was purchased RULER’S COURT Retires for NZ$475,000 at the Karaka Premier Yearling Sale in to Vinery Stud in Florida! 2004. “He’s progressed very well since he got here,” Click Here for More... commented Mark Player, the manager of international races, sales and development for the Hong Kong Jockey Club. “He breezed very well and looks a gem of P P R E V I E W S P a horse, like his brother. He should give buyers a good bit of confidence.” For those who can’t get to the Saturday, Aqueduct, post time: 3:44 p.m. EST Danehill, there are five horses available by his increas- QUEENS COUNTY H.-GIII, $100,000, 3yo/up, 1 3/16m ingly popular sons. Redoute’s Choice (Aus), the sire of PP HORSE SIRE TRAINER WT no fewer than 15 black-type winners from his first two 1 Summer Book Notebook O’Callaghan 112 crops, including three at Group 1 level, is represented 2 We Can Seek (Chi) Seeker’s Reward Hennig 113 by one offering in the sale. There are also juveniles by 3 Philanthropist Kris S. McGaughey 114 Danehill Desert King (Ire), sire of the great Makybe Diva 4 Trapped Again Deputy Commander Gorham 116 (GB), Danzero (Aus) and 2004 champion Australian 5 Evening Attire Black Tie Affair (Ire) Kelly 117 juvenile Dance Hero (Aus). Also available are two-year- 6 West Virginia Tomorrows Cat Pletcher 115 olds by Acatenango (Ger), Anabaa, Cape Cross (Ire), Saturday, Hollywood Park, post time: 4:05 p.m. EST Encosta de Lago (Aus), Fantastic Light and Montjeu NATIVE DIVER H.-GIII, $100,000, 3yo/up, 1 1/8m (Ire). There are two American-bred horses in the cata- PP HORSE SIRE TRAINER WT logue. Hip 8 is a son of King’s Best--Joop (Zilzal), a 1 Coronado’s Pride Coronado’s Quest Knapp 114 $60,000 Keeneland September grad, while hip 18 is a 2 Bully Hayes Sultry Song Headley 114 colt by Bahri--Secret (Secreto), purchased for $140,000 3 Spellbinder Tale of the Cat R Mandella 116 at the same sale. Last year’s HKIS proved successful, 4 Keep On Punching Silver Deputy Saavedra 113 with 19 horses selling for a total of HK$43 million, an 5 Trotamondo (Chi) Hussonet de Seroux 117 average of HK$2.2 million. There are three scratches 6 McCann’s Mojave Memo (Chi) Gallagher 118 from the sale: hips 12, 27 and 29. 7 Courtly Jazz Dixieland Band G Mandella 116 8 No Giveaway He’s Tops Forster 118 All horses in the TDN are bred in North America, 9 Preachinatthebar Silver Charm Baffert 118 unless otherwise indicated 10 Saint Buddy Saint Ballado Becerra 115 TDN P HEADLINE NEWS • 12/10/05 • PAGE 3 of 5 Cat on the Warpath.... TRACKSIDE at Sha Tin Some 40 miles to the west of Hong Kong across the with Alan Carasso mouth of the Pearl River lies Macau. Encompassing just 8.6 square miles, the island is home to about a half- million people and to Warcat (NZ) (Felix the Cat), the BUSINESS AS USUAL FOR CRUZ tiny nation’s representative in the G1 Hong Kong Trainer Tony Cruz has every reason to be downcast, Sprint. While the rest of the foreign contingent was given the unfortunate circumstances surrounding his forced to travel to Hong Kong by plane while shipping superstar pupil Silent Witness (Aus). But the legendary in from as far away as London and Los Angeles, he Hong Kong jockey, well on his way to an equally suc- enjoyed a leisurely boat ride. Not surprisingly, the trip cessful career as a conditioner, is anything but down as seems to have taken very little out of the four-year-old the International Race meeting approaches. Although gelding, who has made a favorable impression during the big horse will be back in his stall, Cruz will have a his morning gallops over the Sha Tin all-weather sur- busy afternoon, saddling horses in two of the Group 1 face. A winner of eight of his 13 career starts, Warcat events. He reflected on his recent fortunes during Fri- will clearly need to draw upon all of his talent to have a day morning trackwork. “You set a program for these say in Sunday’s outcome. But before dismissing him horses and sometimes it works and sometimes you are completely, it is worth taking a look at the results of disappointed,” the trainer explained.

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