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FRIDAY, DECEMBER 14, 2012 732-747-8060 $ TDN Home Page Click Here ANIMAL KINGDOM BREEDING RIGHTS SOLD AWESOME FEATHER RETIRED A majority interest in the breeding rights to 2011 Stronach Stables= champion Awesome Feather GI Kentucky Derby winner and recent GI Breeders= Cup (Awesome Of Course--Precious Feather, by Gone West) Mile runner-up Animal Kingdom (Leroidesanimaux {Brz}-- has been retired, it was announced Thursday. The bay Dalicia {Ger}, by Acatenango {Ger}) has been acquired capped a perfect six-for-six juvenile season for breeder by John Messara=s Australia-based Arrowfield Stud. Fred Brei=s Jacks Or Better Farm The chestnut will enter stud in time for the 2013 and trainer Stanley Gold with a Southern Hemisphere breeding season next September sharp 2 1/4-length win in the and will, in all likelihood, shuttle to the Northern 2010 GI Breeders= Cup Juvenile Hemisphere in early 2014, though not necessarily to Fillies at Churchill Downs North America. The deal is subject to Animal Kingdom (video). Purchased by Frank passing importation protocols, which involve blood Stronach=s operation for $2.3 work that should be finalized in the next few days. million two days later at the Robin Bruss of Northfields Bloodstock brokered the FTKNOV sale, the Florida-bred deal. showed her class after returning AI really planned on running the horse another full Awesome Feather from a tendon injury to capture Adam Coglianese year, but I told my people that if someone would meet the GI Gazelle S. late in her my formula, that I=d consider retiring him >prematurely= 3-year-old season and also went on to add Gulfstream=s and John Messara fits that mold,@ commented Team $300,000 Florida Sunshine Millions Distaff S. this Valor President Barry Irwin. AWe wanted to continue to January and the Nasty Storm S. at Belmont Park in run the horse in 2013, stay in for a nice percentage September. AWorking for Bobby [Frankel], I was around (25%) and he had to go to a place that had a history of several of the Stronach=s best runners and Awesome making stallions. John Messara has developed two of Feather was right up there with the best of them,@ the world's most successful sires in Danehill and his trainer Chad Brown commented. AShe is a rare horse to son, Redoute's Choice. No way I was going to pass up overcome a tendon injury, like she did, and maintain top this opportunity. To get a guy like this involved form. She is truly special. The daughter of multiple motivates me and he can do the job like no one else @ stakes winner and multiple graded stakes placed can.@ Precious Feather suffered her first career defeat when Said Messara, AAnimal Kingdom excites us as a rare kind of athlete with a truly international pedigree who is off-the-board in the GI Breeders= Cup Ladies= Classic at able to express his class on a range of surfaces. He is Santa Anita Nov. 2. She retires with a record of already rated among the world=s elite turf milers and 11-10-0-0 and earnings of $1,912,746. Breeding plans has the potential to become a global superstar in have not yet been finalized. 2013.@ Cont. p3 Animal Kingdom Horsephotos In This Issue Into Mischief Gets Stud Fee Boost 60 Broad St., Suite 100 Red Bank, NJ 07701 On the strength of three first-crop stakes (732) 747-8060 winners, including TDN Rising Star Goldencents, (732) 747-8955 (fax) officials at Spendthrift Farm have announced that www.thoroughbreddailynews.com Into Mischief (Harlan’s Holiday) will stand the www.thetdn.com 2013 breeding season for a fee of $10,000. He was Barry Weisbord, co-publisher originally set to command $7,500, but the stallion [email protected] • @barryweisbord was represented by Sittin At the Bar and Vyjack, Sue Finley, co-publisher black-type winners at the Fair Grounds and Aqueduct, respectively, last weekend. Vyjack [email protected] • @suefinley NYRA Photo Editorial Coverage page 3 [email protected] Jessica Martini, Editor-in-Chief Alan Carasso, Managing Editor Marie Kizenko, Senior Editor Christina Bossinakis, Senior Editor Lazy Lane’s Allbritton Passes Away Lucas Marquardt, Features Editor Steve Sherack, Racing Editor Joe L. Allbritton, who campaigned 1991 champion Brian DiDonato, Racing Analyst/Soc. Media Dir. 3-year-old colt Hansel (Woodman) to victories in the Justina Severni, Assistant Editor GI Preakness S. and GI Belmont S., passed away Dec. 12 in Kelsey Riley, Assistant Editor a hospital in Houston. He was two weeks shy of his 88th Advertising birthday. Allbritton, who purchased the former [email protected] Brookmeade Farm in Virginia and renamed it Lazy Lane Alycia Borer, Director of Advertising Farm, also campaigned GISW Secret Hello and bred no Lia Kusch, Senior Advertising Designer Sarah K. Andrew, Adv Assistant/Distribution fewer than 32 stakes winners on the farm. Amanda Crelin, Advertising Assistant Amanda Foster, Advertising Assistant Coverage page 4 Customer Service [email protected] Vicki Forbes, Director of Customer Service Information Technology Trio of Horses on ‘Song’ Thursday Robert Williams, Director of IT [email protected] Taylor Made’s Unbridled’s Song had a noteworthy Thursday afternoon, Gregg Casillo, DB Administrator, Programming accounting for three high-quality maiden-allowance winners. Two of those [email protected] came at the Fair Grounds, as Ali Maccool (c, 4), a son of the top-class Business Development Oonagh Maccool (Giant’s Causeway), landed the day’s third race, while Gary King, Director of Business Development Melody Song (f, 2), a daughter of MGISW millionaire Lady Tak [email protected] (Mutakddim), ran out an impressive winner of the seventh. Over at TDN Newmarket Bureau: Cafe Racing Gulfstream Park, Chairman Garey (c, 2), trying the turf for the first time, [email protected] rallied late to score at odds of 10-1. Sean Cronin Tom Frary Coverage ATW p6-7 P TDN HEADLINE NEWS • 12/14/12 • PAGE 3 of 5 • thoroughbreddailynews.com Animal Kingdom to Arrowfield cont. from p1 INTO MISCHIEF STUD FEE RAISED Irwin said that Messara inspected Animal Kingdom a Given the late-season success of GIII Delta Jackpot few days prior to his Breeders= Cup effort, where he S. hero and J “TDN Rising Star” J Goldencents was defeated 1 1/2 lengths by champion-elect Wise and the additional stakes winners Vyjack and Sittin At Dan (Wiseman=s Ferry) after encountering significant the Bar, officials at B. Wayne Hughes=s Spendthrift trouble at some key junctures. Farm have announced that Into Mischief (Harlan=s AAfter he ran big, I think it sealed the deal,@ Irwin Holiday--Leslie=s Lady, by Tricky Creek) will stand the commented. AJohn=s got a lot of mares by Danehill and 2013 breeding season for a fee of $10,000, up from the Blushing Groom-line has crossed well with the previously Danehill,@ he added. announced fee of Indeed, the female family of Leroidesanimaux has $7,500. AInto Mischief crossed spectacularly with the is having a terrific year former Coolmore and Arrowfield with his first crop of stallion, as his first dam 2-year-olds, and the Dissemble (GB) (Ahonoora {GB}) demand from breeders is a half-sister to Hasili (GB), has been who produced Dansili (GB), overwhelming,@ said Banks Hill (GB), Intercontinental Ned Toffey, general (GB), Cacique (Ire) and Champs manager of Elysees (GB), all to the cover of Spendthrift. Into Into Mischief spendthriftfarm.com Danehill. Team Valor will form Mischief, a half- broodmare partnerships to breed brother to GI Breeders= Cup Juvenile Fillies victress to Animal Kingdom, with the Beholder (Henny Hughes), has been represented by John Messara plan of selling and racing his seven winners from 21 first-crop foals to race and arrowfield.com.au offspring around the globe. currently sits second on the list of North American- Team Valor will call the shots based freshmen sires with progeny earnings of on the colt=s next two starts, to come in the $1,087,849. AThe fact that he's already had three GI Gulfstream Park Turf H. in February as a prep for the stakes winners from just 21 2-year-old starters (14.3% G1 Dubai World Cup Mar. 30. He is set to become the stakes winners to runners) has gotten a lot of attention, first Kentucky Derby winner since Silver Charm in 1997 and all three stakes winners have run fast numbers at to embark on a 5-year-old campaign. But he will not top racetracks,@ added Ken Wilkins, Spendthrift's return to the U.S. thereafter. He will instead be flown stallion director. Sittin at the Bar, a courageous third in to England and will be considered for a start in June or the GIII Delta Princess S., earned an 88 Beyer for her July, including a possible appearance at the Royal easy victory in the Louisiana Champions Day Lassie S. Ascot meeting. He will remain under the care of at the Fair Grounds Dec. 8, while Vyjack posted a lofty Graham Motion. 96 Beyer in winning Aqueduct=s Traskwood S. Dec. 9. Irwin added that there was additional interest in the colt from Japan, England and France, all of whom showed more interest than domestic farms. 8 Copyright Thoroughbred Daily News. This newspaper may not be reproduced in any form or by 60 Broad St. any means, electronic or mechanical, without prior written Suite 100 permission of the copyright owner, MediaVista. 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