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WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 11, 2017 PEDIGREE INSIGHTS: HEAVENLY LOVE ARROGATE TO STAND by Andrew Caulfield AT JUDDMONTE AFTER At a recent Juddmonte function, a fellow guest asked me whether there were any stallions whose sons and daughters BREEDERS= CUP enjoyed a markedly different level of success. The answer, of course, is that there are some notable examples and the one I cited was Spendthrift=s veteran Malibu Moon, whose daughters outnumber the sons by almost two to one (27 to 14 to be exact) among his 41 graded stakes winners. I could just as easily have mentioned the excellent Montjeu, who had only five fillies among his 26 Northern-Hemisphere-sired Group 1 winners. I added, though, that in some instances these sex biases have a way of leveling out. Cont. p3 (click here) IN TDN EUROPE TODAY EXCEEDING EXPECTATIONS AT TATTS A daughter of Exceed and Excel (Aus) set a record price for a Arrogate winning the Travers | Sarah Andrew filly at Book 2 of the Tattersalls October Yearling Sale when selling to SackvilleDonald for 500,000gns on Tuesday. Champion and world=s highest-rated racehorse Arrogate Click or tap here to go straight to TDN Europe. (Unbridled=s Song) will retire to stud at Juddmonte Farms in Lexington, Kentucky after attempting to defend his title in the GI Breeders= Cup Classic Nov. 4 at Del Mar, Juddmonte announced Tuesday. He will join Mizzen Mast (Cozzene), currently the lone stallion standing at the farm. APrince Khalid is enjoying the career of Arrogate and the tremendous world of success he=s had, but we=re obviously an operation that has a huge breeding arm and all of us anticipated adding a magnificent stallion prospect to our roster,@ Juddmonte farm manager Garrett O=Rourke told TDN. AEspecially over here in the U.S., on the heels of the tremendous success we=ve had [in Europe] with Frankel and prior to that, Dansili, Oasis Dream, it=s something of great excitement and anticipation for us to have Arrogate here. But ultimately, it had to be Prince Khalid=s decision and he=s finally been ready to make that decision.@ The gray captured the GI Travers S. in a devastating track- record romp last summer at Saratoga before running down dual Horse of the Year California Chrome (Lucky Pulpit) in the Classic at Santa Anita en route to an Eclipse Award as champion 3-year-old colt. He followed up with wins in the inaugural GI Pegasus World Cup Invitational and G1 Dubai World Cup and was most recently second in the GI TVG Pacific Classic. Cont. p3 NEW MOON RISING Dominant FrontRunner S. 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As Arrogate (Unbridled’s Song) prepares to defend his title for what Justina Severni looms as one of the stiffest editions of the Breeders' Cup Classic in that race's history Director of Customer Service on a Del Mar surface that may be particularly challenging for him, the TDN Weekend Vicki Forbes brings you a special edition on the horse who put together a four-race series which [email protected] defied all superlatives. Click here to read more. | Eclipse Sportswire/Breeders' Cup Marketing Manager Alayna Cullen @AlaynaCullen VIOLENCE COLT TOPS OBS OCTOBER SESSION ONE RR1 Director of Information Technology A colt by promising freshman sire Violence topped the first Ray Villa session of the newly formatted OBS October yearling sale, [email protected] going for $275,000 to John Oxley. Alan Carasso has the details. Bookkeeper Terry May [email protected] TODAY’S GRADED STAKES EST Race Click for TV WORLDWIDE INFORMATION 4:24p JPMorgan Chase Jessamine S.-GIII, KEE TJCIS PPs TVG International Editor Kelsey Riley @kelseynrileyTDN [email protected] European Editor Emma Berry [email protected] Associate International Editor Heather Anderson @HLAndersonTDN Newmarket Bureau, Cafe Racing Sean Cronin & Tom Frary [email protected] 60 Broad Street, Suite 100 Red Bank, NJ 07701 732-747-8060 | 732-747-8955 (fax) www.TheTDN.com TDN HEADLINE NEWS • PAGE 3 OF 9 • THETDN.COM WEDNESDAY • OCTOBER 11, 2017 Arrogate to Stand at Juddmonte After Breeders= Cup cont. In recent months, Juddmonte had begun purchasing fillies and mares, including MGISW Paulassilverlining (Ghostzapper), in anticipation of breeding them to their star once he went to the HEAVENLY LOVE breeding shed. It was previously suspected that Arrogate would I was reminded of all this by the weekend=s be retired after the Breeders= Cup, but Tuesday=s announcement Grade I juvenile events in the U.S. When Free confirms that it will be the final racing engagement for the >TDN Drop Billy decisively won the GI Claiborne Rising Star=. The Bob Baffert trainee most recently recorded a Breeders= Futurity he became the first Union Rags five-furlong bullet workout in 1:00 1/5 (1/40) Tuesday at Santa colt to win a graded stakes, following four fillies Anita. from Union Rags=s first crop (the Grade I winners Paradise Arrogate will enter stud with the expectation of reinvigorating Woods, Union Strike and Dancing Rags and Grade II scorer the American-based stallion operation of Juddmonte, which Tequilita). The fillies lead five to three among Union Rags=s eight bought him for $560,000 as a Keeneland September yearling as black-type winners, but this could be a bias which will eventually part of a concerted plan to shift resources towards becoming even out. His one-eyed son Patch was third in the GI Belmont S., prominent in U.S. dirt racing once again. while another colt, No Dozing, is a graded-placed black-type AHe=s obviously huge for us, because everything we aspire to is winner. That said, Union Rags is a grandson of Dixieland Band, at the very top-class and he=s proven to be the greatest U.S. who had six fillies among his nine Grade I winners. runner that we have had at Juddmonte and I think that anyone Malibu Moon has been doing his best this year to level the sex has seen on an American racetrack in quite some time,@ bias, with sons Gormley and Ransom the Moon staging a O=Rourke said. AIt=s everything that makes us excited and want rear-guard action with their respective Grade I victories in the to get up in the morning. To produce the next Arrogate, Santa Anita Derby and the Bing Crosby S. No doubt their efforts hopefully by Arrogate.@ helped Malibu Moon=s colts at the 2017 yearling sales, where A stud fee has yet to be announced. they sold for such prices as $700,000, $650,000, $625,000 and, $480,000. Yet the best price for a filly was $500,000. Cont. p4 TDN HEADLINE NEWS • PAGE 4 OF 9 • THETDN.COM WEDNESDAY • OCTOBER 11, 2017 HEAVENLY LOVE, f, 2 Lifetime Record: GISW, 3-2-0-1, $322,000. Bold Reasoning Seattle Slew My Charmer A.P. Indy Weekend Secretariat Surprise Lassie Dear Malibu Moon Raise a Native Mr. Prospector Gold Digger Macoumba Green Dancer Maximova (Fr) Baracala Northern Dancer Vice Regent Victoria Regina Darling My Deputy Minister Darling Bunty’s Flight Mint Copy MSW & MGISP, Shakney 13-5-2-1, Mr. Prospector $352,359 Roamin Rachel Mining 11Fls, 5Wnrs, GISW, $528,778, I Pass 2GSWs, 1GISW 6Fls, 2SWs, 1Ch. One Smart Lady Clever Trick 10Fls, 7Wnrs, 1GISW Pia’s Lady Even so, Gormley and Ransom the Moon=s female counterparts have been more than holding their own. Malibu Moon already has a potential winner of the GI Breeders= Cup Juvenile Fillies in the undefeated Moonshine Memories, who last month added the GI Chandelier S. to her victory in the GI Del Mar Debutante. Then, over the weekend, we saw two other possible Malibu Moon contenders in action. Firstly the progressive Heavenly Love landed the GI Darley Alcibiades S. by more than five lengths on only her third appearance. Then Maya Malibu followed up her good second in the GI Spinaway S. with a less-pleasing third behind old rival Separationofpowers in the GI Frizette S. Heavenly Love | Coady Photography Whatever their fate at Del Mar next month, the chances are that Moonshine Memories and Heavenly Love have plenty to offer their connections as 3-year-olds. Of Malibu Moon=s previous graded stakes-winning juvenile fillies, Carina Mia went on to win the GI Acorn S. and Devil May Care both the GI Mother Goose and the GI CCA Oaks. Kauai Katie, Sara Louise and Farrell all scored at Grade II level. Cont. p5 GREENPOINTCRUSADER G1 Winner At 2 By Bernardini One of the fastest winners of the prestigious CHAMPAGNE STAKES (G1) at Belmont in the last decade 94 Beyer – As fast as champions UNCLE MO & SHANGHAI BOBBY New for 2018 Bernardini – Ava Knowsthecode, by Cryptoclearance Available for inspection.