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SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 2012 732-747-8060 $ TDN Home Page Click Here CHAMP THRASHES BELDAME FOES The champ is back. Besilu Stables= Royal Delta (Empire Maker) signaled her readiness for a defense of her title in the GI Breeders= Cup Ladies= Classic Nov. 2, coming from just off the pace of market rival It=s Tricky FLAT OUT JOINS SELECT GROUP (Mineshaft) before accelerating away for a Preston Stables LLC=s Flat Out (Flatter) added his comprehensive 9 1/2-length victory in the GI Beldame name to an elite group of horses including Nashua, Invitational S. at Belmont Park. Cont. p6 Kelso, Creme Fraiche, Skip Away and Curlin in ‘DUDE’ AWESOME AGAIN successfully defending While Flat Out was busy across the country his title in the prestigious defending his title in the Jockey Club Gold Cup, Game GI Jockey Club Gold Cup, On Dude (Awesome Again) was following suit at Santa a AWin and You=re In@ Anita, drawing clear in the final sixteenth of a mile to event for the GI Breeders= win the stakes named in honor [formerly Goodwood] of Cup Classic. The athletic his sire for the second year in a row. Cont. p9-10 6-year-old ran down pacesetting Stay Thirsty BAFFERT, ‘RAFFY’ SWEEP JUVENILE STAKES (Bernardini) in the final Trainer Bob Baffert and jockey Rafael Bejarano Flat Out Adam Coglianese strides, with GI Whitney teamed to win both juvenile events Saturday at Santa H. hero Fort Larned Anita, taking the GI Chandelier (formerly Oak Leaf) S. (E Dubai) a well-beaten third as the 5-2 chalk. Cont. p3 with J “TDN Rising Star” J Executiveprivilege (First Samurai) before following up in the Saturday, Belmont Park GI FrontRunner (formerly Norfolk) S. with the maiden TVG JOCKEY CLUB GOLD CUP INVITATIONAL S.-GI, Power Broker (Pulpit). Cont. p10-11 $1,000,000, BEL, 9-29, 3yo/up, 1 1/4m, 2:01 2/5, gd. 1--FLAT OUT, 126, h, 6, by Flatter 1st Dam: Cresta Lil (MSW), by Cresta Rider 2nd Dam: Rugosa, by Double Jay TDN TODAY 3rd Dam: Rose, by Sailor ($11,000 wlng '06 OBSOCT; $85,000 yrl '07 Headline News.................... 19 pages FTKJUL). O-Preston Stables LLC; B-Nikolaus Bock (FL); T-William I Mott; J-Joel Rosario. $600,000. Lifetime Record: 19-6-4-2, $2,042,383. *1/2 to Our Best Man (Runaway Groom), MSW, $328,565. Click for the eNicks report & 5-cross pedigree. Werk Nick Rating: B+. Consigned by BLUEWATER SALES at FTKJUL ‘07 PINHOOKED BY AND RAISED AT MACHMER HALL 2--Stay Thirsty, 126, c, 4, Bernardini--Marozia, by Storm Bird. ($160,000 yrl '09 KEESEP; $500,000 2yo >10 FTFFEB). O-Repole Stable; B-John D & John Darren Gunther (KY); T-Todd A Pletcher. $200,000. Trained at Crupi’s New Castle Farm BRED, RAISED & CONSIGNED BY 3--Fort Larned, 126, c, 4, E Dubai--Arlucea, by Broad Brush. O/B-Janis R Whitham (KY); T-Ian R Wilkes. $100,000. Margins: HD, 5HF, 2. Odds: 3.65, 11.60, 2.85. Also Ran: Atigun, Fast Falcon, Ron The Greek, Game Ball, Hymn Book, San Pablo, Ruler On Ice. Click for the brisnet.com chart, the brisnet.com PPs or the free brisnet.com catalogue-style pedigree. Video, sponsored by Taylor Made Sales. In This Issue FRANKEL WORKS AT NEWMARKET 60 Broad St., Suite 100 Red Bank, NJ 07701 World champion Frankel (GB) (Galileo {Ire}) continued his buildup to (732) 747-8060 Ascot's Oct. 20 G1 QIPCO Champion S. with a racecourse gallop under regular (732) 747-8955 (fax) partner Tom Queally at Newmarket yesterday. 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Weld Park S.-G3, CRG (brisnet.com PPs) HR/TVG Business Development 11:15a Juddmonte Beresford S.-G2, CRG (brisnet.com PPs) HR/TVG Gary King, Director of Business Development 4:02p Matron S.-GII, BEL (brisnet.com PPs) HR/TVG [email protected] 5:06p Futurity S.-GII, BEL (brisnet.com PPs) HR/TVG 8:08p John Henry Turf-GII, BEL (brisnet.com PPs) TVG TDN Newmarket Bureau: Cafe Racing [email protected] Sean Cronin Tom Frary P TDN HEADLINE NEWS • 9/30/12 • PAGE 3 of 19 • thoroughbreddailynews.com Stay Thirsty, third as the favorite in last year=s Gold FEATURE PRESENTATION • GI JOCKEY CLUB GOLD CUP S. Cup, was hustled away from the two hole by Ramon Dominguez, but was forced to go hard up front, as Ruler On Ice (Roman Ruler), conqueror of Stay Thirsty in last year=s GI Belmont S., and stable companion San Pablo (Jump Start) forced him into an opening quarter in :23.49. Fort Larned took up a perfect position in fourth, while Joel Rosario was able to get Flat Out-- drawn one from the outside in nine--down onto the rail and just behind centerfield by the time the field eased into the backstretch. Not To Be Out-Done... Stay Thirsty went along evenly through the middle Flat Out was very much under the radar well into his stages of the race and led them into the final turn, but 5-year-old season and was a 13-1 chance when he Fort Larned appeared to be traveling ominously well as made his Belmont debut in the GII Suburban H. last he rolled up alongside the pacemaker at the five- July. His 6 1/2-length thrashing (Beyer 113) of Hymn sixteenths. Flat Out was going nicely a bit further back Book (Arch) was followed by runner-up efforts to and came with a run three wide at the head of the Tizway (Tiznow) in the GI Whitney H. in August and to stretch. Stay Thirsty was able to absorb the best shot eventual Horse of the Year Havre de Grace (Saint Liam) Fort Larned had to offer and disposed of that one at in the GI Woodward S. the next month. His 2 1/4- midstretch, but Flat Out came after the Repole runner length success from Drosselmeyer (Distorted Humor) in inside the final sixteenth of a mile and outslugged that this catapulted him into tepid favoritism for the one for the victory. GI Breeders= Cup Classic, but he could do no better AIt looked like [jockey Joel Rosario] let him pick off a than fifth to the WinStar upsetter and closed the couple of horses on the backside, and he was doing it season with a disappointing third behind Wise Dan under a hold,@ said Hall of Famer Bill Mott. AThat was a (Wiseman=s Ferry) in the GI Clark H. Nov. 25. Unplaced good thing. He hadn=t asked him to run. The horse was in the GIII Fort Lauderdale S. on the Gulfstream turf just striding out and picking up horses. That other horse Jan. 14 and behind Hymn Book in the GI Donn H. Feb. [Stay Thirsty] fought on pretty well. Todd [Pletcher] 11, the striking bay was transferred to this barn and looked like he had him ready today, we just had ours a resumed with a useful runner-up effort in the GII little more ready. And it wasn=t by much.@ Monmouth Cup S. July 7. Though he was third behind Mott=s other runner, GI Santa Anita H. winner Ron Fort Larned and Ron the Greek (Full Mandate) in the the Greek, was a bit of a disappointment, finishing a Aug. 4 Whitney, he was running on well in the latter one-paced sixth as the 3-1 second choice. stages, setting him up perfectly for this title defense. AWe have to see,@ said Mott of Ron the Greek, referring to his participation in the Classic. AHopefully it will be the case where he just had an off day. We know that he likes Santa Anita and maybe five weeks from now it will be his day. You can=t ever count him out.@ Fort Larned also remains a candidate for the Breeders= Cup, and trainer Ian Wilkes was philosophical in defeat. AYou have to look at the bright side,@ said Wilkes, who noted that Drosselmeyer and Blame (Seeking the Gold) both placed in the Gold Cup before going on to win the Classic in 2011 and 2010, respectively.