HEADLINE NEWS For information about TDN, call 732-747-8060. MONDAY, MAY 4, 2009 www.thoroughbreddailynews.com GLORY FOR GHANAATI TDN Feature Presentation Unexposed and largely ignored by the crowds prior to yesterday=s G1 stanjames.com 1000 Guineas, Sheikh GRADE 1 KENTUCKY DERBY Hamdan=s Ghanaati (Giant=s Causeway) led her rivals on a merry dance at a huge 20-1 to bring another Classic success to her illustrious family. As with Saturday=s Guineas hero Sea the Stars (Ire) (Cape Cross {Ire}), TOP SIRE LANGFUHR she boasts one of the fin- SIRE OF UNDEFEATED WOODSMOKE, WINNER OF THE est pedigrees of the past $126,495 FURY S. AT WOODBINE click for video 20 years being a grand- CONGRATULATIONS OWNER/BREEDER GUS SCHICKEDANZ daughter of Height of Fashion (Fr) (Bustino ‘Mine’ Fine After Big Upset... {GB}), whose Nashwan The morning after springing one of the most improba- (GB) (Blushing Groom) bly upsets in GI Kentucky Derby history, Double Eagle tasted glory in the 2000 Ranch and Bueno Suerte Equine=s Mine Getty Images Guineas and Epsom Derby That Bird (Birdstone) was in fine fettle, in 1989. Despite her blue quietly munching grass as his connec- blood, with a mere maiden win on Kempton=s Polytrack tions entertained a sizeable crowd of to her name prior to tackling Rainbow View well-wishers and media types. Trainer (Dynaformer) and company, the bay had escaped most Chip Woolley Jr. and owners Mark of the attention. Always prominent, the homebred Allen of Double Eagle and Dr. Leonard gradually asserted from the quarter pole to beat Cuis Blach of Bueno Suerte, along with Ghaire (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}) by 1 1/2 lengths in 1:34.22, winning jockey Calvin Borel, even ap- smashing the record of Finsceal Beo (Ire) (Mr. Greeley) peared on NBC=s ASunday Today@ set two years ago and gaining the honor of being the show. AIt=s an unbelievable feeling,@ said Woolley. AIt=s fastest ever Guineas runner. Cont. p2 actually a little bit hard to get your arms around right at the moment. It=s hard to believe that you actually came Saturday, Newmarket, Britain in here and won this thing.@ Cont. p7 STANJAMES.COM 1000 GUINEAS S.-G1, ,400,000, Newmarket, 5-3, 3yo, f, 1mT, 1:34.22 (NSR), gd/fm. 1--s@#GHANAATI, 126, f, 3, by Giant=s Causeway 1st Dam: Sarayir (MSW-Eng), by Mr. Prospector 2nd Dam: Height of Fashion (Fr), by Bustino (GB) 3rd Dam: Highclere (GB), by Queen=s Hussar (GB) O-Sheikh Hamdan bin Rashid Al Maktoum; B-Shadwell Farm LLC; T-Barry Hills; J-Richard Hills; ,227,080. Lifetime Record: 3-2-0-1, ,231,663. Werk Nick Rating: A+. Click for the eNicks report and 5-cross pedigree. 2--Cuis Ghaire (Ire), 126, f, 3, Galileo (Ire)--Scribonia (Ire), by Danehill. O-Mrs J S Bolger & D H W Dobson; B/T-Jim Bolger; ,86,080. 3--Super Sleuth (Ire), 126, f, 3, Selkirk--Enemy Action, by Forty Niner. O-Mrs Lucinda Freedman; B-Cliveden Stud Ltd; T-Brian Meehan; ,43,080. Margins: 1HF, 1 1/4, NK. Odds: 20-1, 12-1, 33-1. Also Ran: Heart Shaped, Rainbow View, Penny=s Gift (GB), Serious Attitude (Ire), Pursuit of Glory (Ire), Nashmiah (Ire), Lahaleeb (Ire), Shimah, Seradim (GB), Devotee. DNF: Aspen Darlin (Ire). Scratched: Again (Ire). www.overbrookfarm.com P TDN HEADLINE NEWS • 5/4/09 • PAGE 2 of 12 1000 Guineas Coverage cont. Her owner-breeder was quick to praise the role of Barry Hills, who has spent recent years battling throat A Rising Star... cancer. AHe kept quiet about her, but then told me she Trainer Barry Hills says Ghanaati had shown potential was coming the right way at the Craven meeting and from the start. AShe=s a very good filly who has always was very happy with her then,@ Sheikh Hamdan said. done things very well,@ he said. AI=m very confident ATrainers with experience know their animals and you she=ll get a mile and a quarter, so I didn=t want to run can=t push them. To me, he lives for his horses and that her over seven in a trial. It=s very special.@ is what you look for in a trainer.@ Richard Hills added his Confined to a pair of seven-furlong maidens on Kemp- own tribute to the 72-year-old master of South Bank in ton=s Polytrack last term, Ghanaati followed an encour- Lambourn, who was doubling his 1000 Guineas tally 31 aging third in September with a six-length success back years after the exploits of Enstone Spark (GB) (Sparkler there the following month. Despite the obvious promise {Ire}). AHe overcame a lot last year and to get his head of the latter performance, there was little evidence to down, get his horses running well and win a Classic is a suggest she would be able to scale these heights with- big achievement,@ Hills added. Click for the Racing Post out further seasoning, but Hills had exuded a quiet chart or the free brisnet.com catalogue-style pedigree. confidence leading up to this test. Sharpened by a racecourse gallop here at the Craven meeting, she More Placings for Bolger and Meehan... spent the first half mile in the firing line between Cuis Third in Saturday=s feature with Gan Amhras (Ire), Ghaire (Ire) and Devotee (Elusive Quality) and it was trainer Jim Bolger witnessed another progeny of Galileo clear she had the measure of the former by the time (Ire) edged out of Classic glory, but was pleased with Richard Hills asked her to assert passing the quarter the effort of Cuis Ghaire. AWe=re very happy--if you pole. Drawing away on the uphill climb, she was com- have to be second, this is the best place to be second,@ fortably on top there as Cuis Ghaire clung gamely to Bolger told PA Sport. AWe are expecting her to come on the runner-up spot. for the run--the ground has been a bit soft in Ireland ALast year, we thought a lot of her and she=s thrived and we were not able to get in a final gallop. She will all winter,@ her jockey commented. AShe was a big filly stick at a mile and probably go for the [May 24] G1 and late in coming, so dad wanted to come straight Irish 1000 Guineas at The Curragh.@ here with a prep gallop behind her. We always thought Brian Meehan, whose Delegator (GB) (Dansili {GB}) that she had it and with each gallop, she just got better filled the runner-up spot 24 hours earlier, was third this and better. I knew dad was feeling the excitement and time with Super Sleuth (Ire) (Selkirk) and had a tinge of I was and so were the people around her. When you regret afterwards. AI think if we had got rain this week- ride her, she has so many familiarities with other mem- end, I might have won two Guineas,@ he told PA Sport. bers of her family and they improve with experience. AShe would prefer more cut in the ground, but she ran a She has a lovely cruising speed and broke really good race in her trial and has worked very well since. I well--four out I was traveling really well and I wanted to think she will go for an Oaks now and my first thought is the G1 Prix de Diane [at Chantilly June 14]. make sure I had her running before the >dip= and after @ Coverage cont. p3 that I couldn=t hear anything behind. I really think 10 furlongs could be her best and it wouldn=t surprise me if TDN she turned up on Oaks day--it could be a big year for All horses in the are bred in North America, unless otherwise indicated her.@ TDN P HEADLINE NEWS • 5/4/09 • PAGE 3 of 12 1000 Guineas Coverage cont. P R E S U L T S P Over for Rainbow... George Strawbridge=s Rainbow View (Dynaformer) surrendered her unbeaten record when a non-threaten- TENNO SHO (SPRING)-G1, -256,780,000, Kyoto, 5-3, ing fifth as the 8-11 favorite and trainer John Gosden 4yo/up, 3200mT, 3:14.40, fm. 1--s@#MEINER KITZ (JPN), 128, h, 6, by Chief Bearhart was ruing the lack of rain.@I=m very clear in my mind 1st Dam: Takara Kanna (Jpn), by Soccer Boy (Jpn) she was in great form before the race and has trained 2nd Dam: Crimson Rattler, by Crimson Satan on, but the only thing is she had never been on firm 3rd Dam: Falina=s Dancer, by Rattle Dancer ground in her life,@ he said. AShe plain hated it and O-Thoroughbred Club Ruffian; B-Big Red Farm; Jimmy [Fortune] said after three furlongs he knew he T-Sakae Kunieda; J-Masami Matsuoka; was going to win nothing. We need to get a bit of juice -135,906,000. Lifetime Record: 29-6-7-2. *1/2 to in the ground and when I walked the track this morn- Meine Canna (Jpn) (Agnes Tachyon {Jpn}), ing, I shook my head but I couldn=t pull her out--that GSW-Jpn, $944,940. Werk Nick Rating: First SW would have been madness. I knew very quickly she from this cross. Click for the eNicks report and 5-cross pedigree. was not traveling and it=s nobody=s fault--the rain didn't 2--Al Nasrain (Jpn), 128, h, 5, Admire Vega (Jpn)-- come and we ended up with firm ground and that was Elatis, by El Gran Senor.