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DAILY WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 2015 WWW.BLOODHORSE.COM IN TODAY’S EDITION CLARK HANDICAP APPEARS WIDE OPEN 2 COMMISSIONER TO WINSTAR FOR 2016 3 NEW SHOOTERS FOR LA STALLION RANKS 4 HOLLENDORFER MAY HIT MILESTONE AT ZIA 4 PA RACING FUNDING BILL PROGRESSES 5 CHANGE IS GOOD FOR LADY LARA 5 THE ART OF MANAGING INCENTIVES 6 LOUISE REINAGEL RESULTS 7 Three Chimneys stallion Yes It's True, who had progeny earnings of more than $58.8 million through Nov. 23, was euthanized ENTRIES 8 after unsuccessful emergency surgery LEADING LISTS 14 YES IT'S TRUE, 19, EUTHANIZED By Eric Mitchell hree Chimneys Farm stallion Yes It's True, a T19-year-old son of Is It True, was euthanized Nov. 23 after emergency surgery to repair a perforated BENCHMARK TRAINING CENTER intestine was unsuccessful. Yes It's True, a grade I-winning sprinter, entered stud in Florida and got off to a fast start in 2004 with grade I winner Proud Accolade and three other TURNING OUT SUCCESSFUL RUNNERS stakes winners in his first crop. By September 2004, he had been relocated to Three Chimneys. Yes It's True has 51 black-type stakes winners and Full Service Training Facility with total progeny earnings exceeding $58.8 million. His top Quality Services. runner this year is graded stakes winner La Verdad. Call about our "It is always sad to lose a stallion but more so to Competitive Pricing! lose one you enjoyed being around," said Sandy Hat- field, stallion manager at Three Chimneys. "He was true to himself in what he produced and consistent. BENCHMARK TRAINING CENTER Gerwyn “Taffy” Jones, Owner/Trainer The mares bred to him this year are owned by a lot Mark Brennan, Farm Manager 9645 County Road 2300 • Quinlan, TX 75474 of the same people who have been breeding to him Phone/903.356.2998 • Fax/903.356.3480 for years." www.benchmarktc.com • Email: [email protected] Yes It's True bred 117 mares in 2015. BH BLOOD-HORSE DAILY Download the FREE smartphone app PAGE 1 OF14 LATEST HEADLINES FROM BLOODHORSE.COM KENTUCKY OAKS WINNER KEEPER HILL DEAD AT 20 Mill Ridge Farm has announced that 1998 Kentucky Oaks (gr. I) winner Keeper Hill died Nov. 20 at age 20. SWISS SPIRIT COLT LEADS TATTERSALLS SESSION A colt from the first crop of group III winner Swiss Spirit topped opening day of the Tattersalls December foal sale Nov. 24, when selling for 33,000 guineas (US$52,262). ROUSING SERMON TO RANCHO SAN MIGUEL IN 2016 Rousing Sermon, California's champion COGLIANESE PHOTOS Keen Ice, one of nine entered in the Nov. 27 Clark Handicap, won the 2-year-old of 2011, has been retired and will Travers Stakes at Saratoga in August stand in 2016 at Rancho San Miguel. NYQUIST HEADS POOL 1 OF DERBY FUTURE CLARK HANDICAP APPEARS WIDE OPEN WAGER Breeders' Cup Juvenile (gr. I) winner Nyquist is the likely individual choice, but the By Claire Novak ever-popular "all others" wager is the morning- line favorite for the first pool of the 2016 ven with the absence of Dortmund due to a Kentucky Derby Future Wager. Equarter crack, the $500,000 Clark Handicap (gr. I) Nov. 27 drew another intriguing field. CHURCHILL UNVEILS DERBY SIRE FUTURE Three sophomores—Keen Ice, Mr. Z, and WAGER Churchill will offer a new twist to its future wager menu with the debut of the Shotgun Kowboy—bring interesting storylines: the Kentucky Derby Sire Future Wager. Travers Stakes (gr. I) upsetter who handed Ameri- can Pharoah his only 2015 defeat, the Ohio Derby PENDER HARBOUR: FAREWELL TO 'THE KING' winner still gunning for that top-level win, and the On Nov. 29, with a final run in the $150,000 Valedictory Stakes (Can-III), Pender Harbour's Oklahoma-bred runner making his first start out- reign as one of the top Ontario-sired horses of all side his native state. time will come to an end. Of the older horses, defending Clark winner Hoppertunity must rebound from a runner-up MORE IMPROVEMENTS PLANNED FOR finish to rival Race Day in the Fayette Stakes (gr. II), LEOPARDSTOWN Leopardstown Racecourse will start work early in 2016 on the next phase of the while Race Day shares co-highweight assignment overall redevelopment that will cost about €12 of 122 pounds with Effinex, the surprise Breeders' million, Horse Racing Ireland said. Cup Classic (gr. I) second-place finisher. Grade II winner Protonico, second in last year's Clark, needs to improve over his recent Fayette fifth. West Virginia Governor's Stakes winner Looks to Spare is a longshot while the mare Frivolous could make her final career start here or could defend her title in the Nov. 26 Falls City Handicap (gr. II). BH BLOOD-HORSE DAILY Download the FREE WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 2015 PAGE 2 OF14 smartphone app COMMISSIONER TO WINSTAR FOR 2016 homebred outfinished Kentucky Derby and Preak- By Blood-Horse Staff ness Stakes (both gr. I) winner California Chrome and Wicked Strong. BH ommissioner, a classic-placed, multiple graded Cstakes-winning son of A.P. Indy, will be retired to stud at WinStar Farm near Versailles, Ky., at the end of 2015. Winner of the Skip Away Stakes and Pimlico Special (both gr. III) in back-to-back starts this spring, the colt is being pointed to the $250,000 Hawthorne Gold Cup (gr. II) Nov. 28 prior to his retirement. Commissioner's stud fee is set at $7,500 stands and nurses, and he will participate in WinStar's "Dream Big" program, which offers breeders the opportunity to earn a lifetime breeding right to the stallion after producing just two live foals from his first books. Commissioner's dam is multiple stakes winner Flaming Heart, a Touch Gold mare who also produced 2013 Breeders' Cup Sprint (gr. I) runner-up Laugh Track. Commissioner set the pace and led until the EBERHARDT ANNE M. final yards of the 2014 Belmont Stakes (gr. I) before Commissioner, who won the Pimlico Special in May, is expected to run he was headed by Tonalist, but the WinStar Farm in the Hawthorne Gold Cup Nov. 28 and then retire to stand at WinStar Farm in 2016 BLOOD-HORSE DAILY Download the FREE WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 2015 PAGE 3 OF14 smartphone app NEW SHOOTERS FOR LA STALLION RANKS By Myra Lewyn omprehensive and lucrative breeding and stallion Cawards are major incentives to attracting new stallions to Louisiana, which will see several new ad- ditions for 2016, including three launching their stud careers: Call Me George, Speighter Man, and Koh I Noor. Each brings an attractive pedigree. Point Given's New Orleans Handicap (gr. II) winner Call Me George is out of multiple stakes winner Sassy Chimes from the family of Kentucky Oaks winner Silent Beauty. His initial fee is $1,500 at Gulf Coast Equine. Speighter Man, by Speightstown—Sweet Damsel, by Turkoman, is a half brother to Colonel John, who is among the leading juvenile sires this EBERHARDT ANNE M. year. He will stand at All Star Thoroughbreds for Trainer Jerry Hollendorfer, who has three horses in stakes at Zia Park $2,000. Nov. 25, heads into the program at the New Mexico track with 6,999 career victories A half brother to grade I-winning sprinter The Big Beast, stakes-placed Koh I Noor, by Harlan's Holi- day—V V S Flawless, by Deputy Minister, will stand HOLLENDORFER MAY HIT MILESTONE AT ZIA for $2,000 at the Louisiana Center for Equine Repro- By Frank Angst duction at Copper Crowne. Other new Louisiana stallions include Tidal Wave hile trainer Jerry Hollendorfer has started hors- (Stormy Atlantic) and Podium (Pulpit). BH Wes throughout the country in his Racing Hall of Fame career, it still is a bit surprising that his 7,000th career win could come at Zia Park in New Mexico. Hollendorfer will saddle three horses in stakes at Zia Nov. 25, and classic-winning rider Martin Garcia is scheduled to ride each starter. The Zia Park runners will appear in successive rac- es, beginning with race eight when Never Ends goes in the Zia Park Oaks off a pair of Santa Anita Park allowance-optional claiming wins. She'll be followed by Point Piper, going for his second 2015 stakes win in the Zia Park Championship Handicap, and stakes winner Oligarch will try to extend his win streak in the Zia Park Sprint. Hollendorfer enters the day with 6,999 wins from 30,048 career starts. His Zia entries are his only Wednesday starters; the following day he has five en- ALEXANDER BARKOFF/HODGES PHOTOGRAPHY tered at Golden Gate Fields and one at Del Mar. BH Call Me George, who defeated Albano and Moreno in this year's New Orleans Handicap at Fair Grounds, will stand in Louisiana in 2016 Contact us (800) 582-5604 or (859) 278-2361 Comments, Story Ideas [email protected] Advertising Questions [email protected] Customer Service © 2015 Blood-Horse LLC [email protected] BLOOD-HORSE DAILY Download the FREE WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 2015 PAGE 4 OF14 smartphone app PA RACING FUNDING BILL PROGRESSES missions—one Thoroughbred and the other Stand- By Tom LaMarra ardbred—and create one larger commission. The regulatory agency would remain under the state he Pennsylvania House Agriculture and Rural Af- Department of Agriculture. BH Tfairs Committee Nov. 23 approved legislation that would greatly alter pari-mutuel law, in part to provide stable funding for horse racing regulation and drug testing. The bill, a rewrite of legislation introduced earlier this year, would transfer money from the Pennsyl- vania Race Horse Development Fund, revenue gen- erated from casino slot machines, to pay for equine drug testing and regulation, money that currently comes from a percentage of live pari-mutuel handle.