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RTIP Student Joe Pulli at the Symposium on HEADLINE Racing p. 3 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, DEC. 11, 2004 LEADING “MAN” HKIS CELEBRATES TENTH ANNIVERSARY Trainer Richard Mandella sent out Olmadavor to take The Hong Kong International Sale, featuring horses a record seventh running of the GIII Native Diver H. at purchased by the Hong Kong Jockey Club at yearling Hollywood Park in 2003. He goes for his eighth Native sales all over the world, celebrates its 10th anniversary Diver trophy with new acquisition Congrats (A.P. Indy) when it kicks off this morning at 11 a.m. “As sales go, this afternoon. The four-year-old makes his West Coast the Hong Kong International Sale is the most unique in debut after starting his career that we have horses from six countries in the sales with trainer Shug McGaughey ring,” said Paul Williams of auctioneer Magic Millions. out east. After winning six of his “The uniqueness of this sale makes it something special first 11 starts, including a 1 3/4- and we are proud to be associated with it.” For the first length score over Perfect Drift in time in the history of the event, horses will not need to the Apr. 30 Alysheba S. at Chur- be transported from Sha Tin Racecourse to the Conven- chill Downs, the bay tired to be tion Center on Hong Kong Island, as this year’s sale will Congrats Horsephotos fifth behind Seattle Fitz (Arg) and take place in the newly opened enclosed parade ring at Dynever (Dynaformer) in the June 12 GII Brooklyn H. the racetrack. A total of 20 two-year-olds have been He finished third in the July 31 GII Washington Park H., prepared by the HKJC and catalogued for the auction, but faded again in his most recent outing, running sixth which includes three geldings from the third-last crop of in the Aug. 22 GII Saratoga Breeders’ Cup H. “I got him the late Danehill. The former Coolmore stallion, who six or eight weeks ago,” Mandella said. “He was in died in May 2003, has always been a popular commod- good shape when we got him and he’s in good shape ity in Hong Kong, having sired the likes of Hong Kong now. He’s a big, beautiful horse and he should run well Sprint winner Fairy King Prawn (Aus) and last year’s G1 in the Native Diver.” Dynever was freshened after fin- Hong Kong Mile hero Lucky Owners (NZ) as well as ishing sixth in the GI Suburban H. in July, returning to Scintillation (Aus) and The Duke (Aus), both HKIS grad- be second in the Oct. 8 GII Meadowlands Cup. The uates and candidates for tomorrow’s G1 Hong Kong four-year-old flattened out after putting in an uncharac- Mile. Danehill has also excelled at teristic middle move in the Oct. 30 GI Breeders’ Cup this sale, accounting for five of Classic and ran eighth, but could be better suited to the the six highest prices during its shorter distance here. “A mile and an eighth and a fast first nine years of the sale. The track will be good conditions for him,” said Arneau most expensive of his progeny Delacour, assistant to trainer Christophe Clement. set to go under the hammer this afternoon is hip 17 , a son of Saturday, Hollywood Park, post time: 3:35 p.m. PST Escape To Victory (GB) (Salse), NATIVE DIVER H.-GIII, $100,000, 3yo/up, 1 1/8m purchased for 240,000 at last PP HORSE SIRE TRAINER WT i Hip 17 hkjc.com photo year’s Goffs Orby sale. A half 1 Supah Blitz Mecke O’Neill 118 2 Calkins Road Illinois Storm Shirreffs 114 sister to GI Breeders’ Cup Mile runner-up Hawksley Hill 3 Tizbud Cee’s Tizzy Sadler 114 (GB), Escape To Victory is already the dam of Benbaun 4 Black Bart Stage Colony Bainum 114 (Ire) (Stravinsky), group stakes placed in England and 5 Formal Attire Formal Gold Biancone 113 Italy. Other sires represented in the sale include Cape 6 Congrats A.P. Indy R Mandella 115 Cross (Ire), Daylami (Ire), Gone West, Miswaki, and 7 Dynever Dynaformer Clement 119 Montjeu (Ire). As is the custom with this sale, the Hong 8 Valid Again Awesome Again Hofmans 108 Kong Jockey Club will offer a HK$1 million bonus to 9 Mud Shark Deputy Commander Baffert 113 the connections of a 2004 HKIS graduate who accumu- 10 Truly a Judge Judge T C Bernstein 115 lates the most prize money at the end of the 2005-06 11 Sigfreto Spunky Rascal O’Neill 112 racing season in Hong Kong. www.coolmore.com TDN P HEADLINE NEWS • 12/11/04 • PAGE 2 of 4 Grand Vitesse heads an overflow field of 16 for one Today’s Graded Stakes of Argentina’s championship events. The six-year-old, brought to you by third in the Pellegrini last year, earned his third Group 1 victory in his latest, taking his second straight Copa de Oro over course and distance Nov. 12. Three-year-old Latency takes on his elders for the first time. The dark bay colt was second to Don Incauto in the G2 Ensayo S., but turned the tables on that rival in his latest, cap- turing the Oct. 16 G1 Jockey Club S. at San Isidro by 5:20p Gran Premio Carlos Pellegrini-G1, San Isidro two lengths over Shaggadelic (Arg), with Don Incauto 6:35p Native Diver-GIII, Hollywood third. Fifth in the 10-meter Jockey Club, Badajo Eastern Daylight Time stretched out to 2400 meters last time out and came home a head to the good in the G1 Dardo Rocha. The PURE PRIZE stars at dark bay has five wins and a second from his eight Keeneland November! career starts. Fire Wall capped a three-race winning Click here for more... streak with an eight-length romp in the Oct. 17 G1 Provincia de Buenos Aires. The chestnut comes off a P P R E V I E W S P second in the Nov. 13 G1 Nacional-Copa Secretario Turismo. Saturday, Hipodromo San Isidro, Argentina Sunday, Hollywood Park GRAN PREMIO CARLOS PELLEGRINI-G1, A$300,000, BAYAKOA H.-GII, $150,000, 3yo/up, f/m, 1 1/16m 3yo/up, 2400mT PP HORSE SIRE JOCKEY WT SC PP HORSE SIRE TRAINER WT 1 A.P. Adventure A.P. Indy Smith 117 1 19 Badajo (Arg) Roy Parisi 119 2 Coconut Girl Cryptoclearance Desormeaux 114 2 4 Dallas (Brz) Irish Fighter Pellegata 119 3 Keys to the Heart Wild Again Gomez 113 3 8 Don Incauto (Arg) Roy C Etchechoury 119 4 Essence Gulch Nakatani 115 3a 6 Fire Wall (Arg) Incurable Optimist C Etchechoury 119 5 Royally Chosen In Excess (Ire) Flores 116 4 16 Gold Award (Arg) Body Glove Neer 119 6 Born to Dance Service Stripe Douglas 114 5 12 Gold Jungle (Arg) Mutakddim Vigil 119 7 Miss Loren (Arg) Numerous Valdivia, Jr 116 6 10 Grand Vitesse (Arg) Potrillon (Arg) Maldotti 134 8 Hollywood Story Wild Rush Espinoza 115 6a 14 Latency (Arg) Slew Gin Fizz Maldotti 119 6b 13 Porto Rex (Arg) Potrillon (Arg) Maldotti 132 7 17 Lo Champ (Arg) Lode J Etchechoury 134 HONG KONG INTERNATIONAL SALE 8 5 Mi Rey (Arg) Louis Quatorze Colucho 119 Top Priced Lots (1995-2003) 9 9 Milonguero Wells (Arg) Poliglote (GB) Urbina 132 Year Pedigree Price (HK$) 10 15 Mr. Pulic (Arg) Numerous Gonzalez 132 2002 Desert King (Ire)--Very Droll (Aus) 4,800,000 11 2 Potro Card (Arg) Potrillon (Arg) Marsiglia 132 2002 Danehill--Swiftsynd (Aus) 4,700,000 12 18 Ronronero (Arg) Kitwood Acevedo 119 2001 Danehill--Caraniya (Ire) 4,500,000 13 1 Sixty Finder (Arg) Silver Finder Pavarini 119 2000 Danehill--Romantic River 3,800,000 14 3 Tino Wells (Arg) Poliglote (GB) Garcia 132 2001 Danehill--Spell On You 3,800,000 15 11 Un Capo (Arg) Green Means Go Alves 119 2003 Danehill--Secret Truth 3,600,000 16 7 Urodonal (Brz) New Colony Nickel 119 TDN P HEADLINE NEWS • 12/11/04 • PAGE 3 of 4 Before closing, McAlpine addressed the topic of slot At the Symposium on Racing machines at racetracks, stating that they are part of the ...with RTIP Student Joe Pulli solution, but are not the entire answer. “As [governments] give, they can take away,” he THE $900 BILLION MARKET said. “We can’t just build our foundation and business “We didn’t do it for us, we did it because we thought model on this form of revenue.” it was good for the industry,” reiterated Jim McAlpine, For the future, MEC is focused on two key forces: president and chief executive officer of Magna Enter- fiscal responsibility and partnerships. “I can assure you tainment Corp., throughout his presentation on the final that we at MEC strongly believe--what’s good for our day of the University of Arizona’s Symposium on Rac- industry is good for MEC,” said McAlpine. In closing, ing. McAlpine was referring to MEC’s acquisition of an McAlpine offered a challenge to each audience member. interest in Amtote, the creation and implementation of “Think about vision. Think about your part in the vision. Horse Wizard, and other company initiatives. Although Be passionate, and embrace change.” optimistic, McAlpine was very clear on what he be- lieves the racing industry needs to do to continue Technological Advances on the Way..