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TUESDAY, OCTOBER 25, 2011 732-747-8060 $ TDN Home Page Click Here RED LETTER DAY AT TATTERSALLS BREEDERS’ CUP Red Gulch (GB) (Kyllachy {GB}) topped day one of Tattersalls= Autumn Horses In Training Sale in BULLETIN Newmarket yesterday when selling for 250,000gns 13 days after his victory in the Listed Prix du Ranelagh at Longchamp. The 4-year-old gelding, who had been Havre de Grace Drills at Keeneland purchased for 40,000gns at Fox Hill Farm=s GI Breeders= Cup Classic contender the same sale a year ago to Havre de Grace (Saint Liam) prepped for her Nov. 5 join his rookie Newmarket engagement with a five-furlong spin in :58.60 over the trainer Ed Walker, had many Keeneland Polytrack Monday morning. Pilot Gabriel admirers in the ring this Saez was in the irons, guiding the 4-year-old through time. Anthony Stroud and fractions of :35.60 and :47 flat with a six-furlong David Loder, who gallop-out in 1:12 flat. The work was the second- traditionally shop at this sale fastest of 14 at the distance. for Sheikh Mohammed=s AI couldn=t have wanted it to go any better,@ trainer various entities, outlasted Red Gulch (GB) Larry Jones said. AIt=s what we needed. She was Kentucky-based Joe Miller of Tattersalls Photo blowing a little bit [afterward], but she didn=t drink a Kern Lillingston for the whole lot of water. session topper. Californian agent Jamie Lloyd, Alastair We=re ready. I would Donald of Sackville Donald and New Zealand agent Guy like to have run last Mulcaster all made spirited attempts for the horse, but Saturday. She can=t were out gunned. get any better.@ AHe has been bought to race at the Dubai Carnival for The 4-year-old filly a long-standing client and fitted the profile we were began her work about looking for,@ said Stroud. AHe hasn=t been allocated [to a a furlong behind trainer] yet and I thought he looked magnificent. Ed Jones, who was Walker has done a great job with him.@ galloping maiden Tattersalls coverage cont. p6 2-year-old Reason to Havre de Grace be Proud (Proud Keeneland/Coady Photography Citizen) at the time. The three-time Grade I winner passed her stablemate around the quarter pole. AI wanted to be real close to Gabriel so I could scream at him in case he needed some coaching,@ Jones quipped. A[Trainer Bob] Baffert uses walkie-talkies. I=m not that innovative yet. I=ve either got to do it this way or use smoke signals.@ He continued, ATo be honest, I thought my horse was running and she just come by me like >Whoa.= We were just lucky to watch. I really wasn=t planning on her catching me until we turned for home, but she came on by me quick.@ Saez added, AShe was doing it easy. When she saw another horse in front of her she put her ears up and she was like >Come on, let=s go get him.= That=s the way she is. In her races she does the same thing.@ Jones said he will ship Havre de Grace to Churchill Downs next Monday. For video of the work, click HERE. Breeders’ Cup Bulletin cont. p2 TDN P HEADLINE NEWS • 10/25/11 • PAGE 2 of 11 • thoroughbreddailynews.com Flay Acquires French Filly for Breeders’ Cup Bid Super Espresso (Medaglia d=Oro) and Her Smile Celebrity chef Bobby Flay revealed yesterday that he (Include) will also carry Flay=s silks on Breeders= Cup has purchased French listed stakes winner Dear Lavinia Friday. The former has been pre-entered in the (Grand Slam) from owner/breeder Joseph Allen, and will GI Ladies= Classic, while the latter will go in the GI Filly enter her in the Nov. 4 GII Breeders= Cup Juvenile Fillies and Mare Sprint. AI think the Ladies= Classic is a wide- Turf. Flay got his first taste of Breeders= Cup glory when open race if Havre de Grace goes in the Classic,@ noted More Than Real (More Than Flay. AThe Filly and Mare Sprint also looks like it will be Ready)--also acquired by wide open--Turbulent Descent (Congrats) is very fast private purchase--won the and will probably be favored, but Her Smile is just sort Juvenile Fillies Turf last term. of learning to run at these distances. We bought her as ADear Lavinia was brought to a distance filly, but we dropped her back to six furlongs our attention by bloodstock for the GI Prioress S. and she won. I draw a line right agent Michel Zerolo, who through the Charles Town Oaks [last time Sept. 17]-- does a lot of good work there was a lot of bumping and it=s an odd race with the bringing horses from Europe way the turns are there.@ to the United States,@ Flay told the TDN. AThe thing that “The Works” Bobby Flay Horsephotos most impressed us was how consistent she=s been during Churchill Downs her first five races--she=s won three times with a second Horse (Sire), BC Race distance, time, rank and a third. She s already a stakes winner, and she s Animal Spirits (Arch), JT 4fT, :52.60, 2/3 = = Country Day (Speightstown), TS 5fT, 1:01.20, 1/6 always right there. We also liked the fact that she=s a Courageous Cat (Storm Cat), M 5fT, 1:02.60, 2/6 late foal, so there=s lots of upside going forward.@ Court Vision (Gulch), M 5fT, 1:02.80, 3/6 Trained by Jean-Claude Rouget, the bay finished a Hamazing Destiny (Salt Lake), S 4f, :46.20, 1/58 close third to G1 Prix Marcel Boussac heroine Elusive Hunt Crossing (Corinthian), JS 5f, 1:02.60, 46/60 Kate (Elusive Quality) in a Listed event at Deauville in My Miss Aurelia (Smart Strike), JF 5f, 1:01.20, 17/60 Northern Passion (First Samurai), JF/JFT 5f, 1:02.00, 32/60 July, and most recently annexed the 7 1/2-furlong Optimizer (English Channel), J 5f, 1:01.00, 11/60 Grand Criterium de Bordeaux at Bordeaux le Bouscat Prospective (Malibu Moon), J 5f, 1:02.00, 32/60 Oct. 13 (video). Flay said that a defense of More Than Sabercat (Bluegrass Cat), J 5f, 1:01.20, 17/60 Real=s Breeders= Cup title was not a factor in the Seeker (Hard Spun), JS 5f, 1:00.20, 5/60 Sky High Lady (Sky Mesa), JF 5f, 1:02.40, 39/60 decision to purchase Dear Lavinia, explaining, AI=m Spirited Miss (Sky Mesa), JF/JFT 5f, 1:01.80, 30/60 always on the look-out for young fillies that have some Switch (Quiet American), LC/F+MS 5f, 1:01.20, 17/60 capabilities, and this one just sort of came up at the last Tapizar (Tapit), DM 5f, 1:00.40, 6/60 second.@ Flay=s new acqusition will arrive in the States Wilburn (Bernardini), DM 5f, 1:00.80, 8/60 on Saturday. Churchill Downs Training Track Hansen (Tapit), J 5f, 1:00.60, 1/7 " " " Keeneland Great Attack (Greatness), TS 5fT, 1:04.40, 4/4 Havre de Grace (Saint Liam), C/LC 5f, :58.60, 2/14 Never Retreat (Smart Strike), F+MT/M 4fT, :49.80, 1/1 Pleasant Prince (Indy King), Ma 6f, 1:14.00, 3/3 www.facebook.com/thoroughbreddailynews Turallure (Wando), M 5fT, :59.40, 1/4 P TDN HEADLINE NEWS • 10/25/11 • PAGE 3 of 11 • thoroughbreddailynews.com Asmussen Brigade Hits the Track Leading juvenile filly My Miss Aurelia (Smart Strike) led a five-horse contingent of Breeders= Cup hopefuls from the Steve Asmussen barn to work yesterday at Churchill Downs. The GI Frizette S. winner breezed five furlongs in 1:01.40. With exercise rider Carlos Rosas in the saddle, the GI Grey Goose Breeders= Cup Juvenile Fillies contender clicked off fractions of :12.80, :24.80 and :36.80. She galloped My Miss Aurelia Reed Palmer out six furlongs in 1:14.20. AWe=re extremely pleased with her,@ Asmussen said after the work. AShe=s been very special at every stage and has looked the part and has come through. Her talent was obvious, but the races that she=s run have shown another dimension.@ Also working from the Asmussen barn, which expects to send out seven Breeders= Cup runners, were GI Dirt Mile contenders Tapizar (Tapit) and Wilburn (Bernardini). Ron Winchell=s Tapizar covered five furlongs in 1:00.40 and galloped out six furlongs in 1:14. Stonestreet=s Wilburn went the same distance in 1:00.80 and out six furlongs in 1:14.20. Winchell Thoroughbreds Sabercat (Bluegrass Cat), prepping for the GI Grey Goose Juvenile, worked Tapizar five furlongs in company in Reed Palmer 1:01.20 and Ron Winchell=s Juvenile Sprint hopeful Seeker (Hard Spun) covered the same distance in 1:00.20, also in company. Asmussen=s Breeders= Cup runners also include Cathy and Bob Zollars= GI Juvenile Turf contender Daddy Nose Best (Scat Daddy) and Vinery Stable=s GI Turf Sprint hopeful Regally Ready (More Than Ready). AI am happy with the group of them,@ Asmussen said. AI feel that they=re very fresh, sound and happy at the right time.@ Breeders’ Cup Bulletin cont. p4 Breeders= Cup Leading Trainers by Races Won Total D W Lukas 18 C McGaughey 9 B Baffert 7 P TDN HEADLINE NEWS • 10/25/11 • PAGE 4 of 11 • thoroughbreddailynews.com Baffert Trio Drill at Santa Anita Suit Ready for Goldi Challenge Trainer Bob Baffert sent a trio of Breeders= Cup Strong Suit (Rahy) was the subject of an upbeat hopefuls out to work at Santa Anita yesterday.