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BILL OPPENHEIM’S VALUE SIRES HEADLINE ...p. 4 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 WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 20, 2006 DA STOOPS TO SEQUEL AFTER MALIBU WEEKEND PEDIGREE Next Tuesday=s GI Malibu S. at Santa Anita will have added significance for Da Stoops (Distorted Humor-- PERSPECTIVES Glamourous Lady, by by Alan Porter Kingdom of Spain), as the three-year-old colt looks Saturday, Hollywood Park to end his racing career HOLLYWOOD FUTURITY-GI, $441,500, HOL, 12-16, with a bang in the seven- 2yo, 1 1/16m, 1:42, ft. furlong opening-day fea- 1--sSTORMELLO, 121, c, 2, by Stormy Atlantic ture. Yesterday, Stone- 1st Dam: Wilshewed, by Carson City wall Farm announced that 2nd Dam: So Cozy, by Lyphard it had agreed to purchase 3rd Dam: Special Warmth, by Lucky Mike Da Stoops, winner of the O/B-Al Eisman & William Currin (KY); T-William L Da Stoops Sunshine Millions Dash S. Currin; J-Kent J Desormeaux; $264,900. Lifetime Benoit photo earlier this year, and will Record: 7-3-0-2, $545,100. *1st GISW for sire (by stand the four-time stakes Storm Cat). winner at Becky Thomas=s Sequel Stallions in Ocala, Click for the brisnet.com chart or the free brisnet.com Florida. ADa Stoops has the speed, the conformation catalogue-style pedigree. Video, sponsored by Taylor and the pedigree, for me the three key ingredients that Made. make a stallion,@ said Da Stoop=s trainer, Bob Baffert. ABut his best attribute is his athleticism. He=s got all the Yesterday my colleague Andrew Caulfield charted the right parts and uses them very well.@ Added Thomas, remarkable rise of Stormy Atlantic. As related in that AWe can=t wait to get him down here. Bob has told me article, the Storm Cat son sired his first four crops what a talented and good-looking racehorse he is. while standing in Florida at Stonewall is suddenly making a big impact on the fees ranging from $3,000 to Florida market with yet another outstanding stallion $6,000, and his fifth crop-- prospect.@ Sequel is also standing the Stonewall Farm currently two-year-olds--in stallions Unforgettable Max and Frisco Star. On the his first year in Kentucky, board in 14 of his 15 starts, Da Stoops has banked when standing at $12,500. $625,906 thus far. In other Malibu news, Juddmonte=s In terms of class--as one Latent Heat (Maria=s Mon) worked a bullet six furlongs in 1:11 1/5 (best of 18) over Hollywood=s Cushion might expect, given those Track. fees--Stormy Atlantic got very little help for his mares. What a closer look reveals, Stormello UPCOMING MAJOR NORTH AMERICAN STAKES however, is that several of Horsephotos Date Race Track his mates did supply him Dec. 26 GI Malibu Santa Anita with clever pedigree patterns, and there is little doubt in GIII Sir Beaufort Santa Anita our mind that those patterns, whether intentional or Dec. 30 GI La Brea Santa Anita not, have been a major part of Stormy Atlantic=s suc- GIII Frances Genter Calder cess story. GIII Stage Door Betty Calder Alan Porter cont. p2 www.winstarfarm.com TDN P HEADLINE NEWS • 12/20/06 • PAGE 2 of 9 Alan Porter cont. Stormy Atlantic=s second crop yielded six stakes winners, several with notable pedigrees. The best run- We can kick off with the first graded stakes winner ner of this group, Grade II scorer Twice As Bad, is out from Stormy Atlantic=s first crop, Atlantic Ocean. This of a mare by Diablo--a Hail to Reason (by Turn-to)/Bold $1.9-million two-year-old-in-training sales purchase is Ruler (by Nasrullah) cross--with a second dam by Iron out of a mare by Seattle Slew. Since Stormy Atlantic is Constitution--a Nasrullah/Hail to Reason (by Turn-to) also out of a Seattle Slew cross--and a third dam by Rexson--a Bold Ruler (by mare, Atlantic Ocean has Nasrullah)/Turn-to cross. This really plays into the male Seattle Slew 3x2 in her pedi- line of Stormy Atlantic=s broodmare sire, Seattle Slew, gree, and this two-time as Slew=s sire, Bold Reasoning, is a Bold Ruler (by graded winner owns the Nasrullah)/Hail to Reason (by Turn-to) cross. All Hail honor of being the first win- Stormy, a stakes winner of nearly $260,000, is out of a ner at that level to carry a mare by Hail the Ruckus, who is by Boldnesian (Bold Seattle Slew double. That Ruler/Nasrullah) out of a mare by a son of Hail to Rea- son, so again very similar to Bold Reasoning (Boldnesian first crop contained four out of a Hail to Reason mare). For good measure, the other stakes winners, includ- second dam of All Hail Stormy is by a son of Nijinsky II Gators N Bears, ing another with an interest- (genetic relative to Storm Bird, the grandsire of Stormy who now stands at ing pedigree in multiple Atlantic), so his dam is virtually a reverse cross to Maryland Stallion Station graded scorer Gators N marylandstallions.com Stormy Atlantic. Also worth mentioning here are Florida Bears. He is out of a mare by Keys and Ride Her Out: the dam of Florida Keys is by Notebook, and that horse=s Saratoga Six, a reverse Bold Ruler/Raise a Native cross sire, Well Decorated, is a reverse Bold Ruler/Majestic to Stormy Atlantic=s dam. The dam of Ride Her Out is a Prince cross to Hail Atlantis, the dam of Stormy Atlan- reverse Buckpasser/Raise a Native cross to Coastal (sire tic (and herself winner of the GI Santa Anita Oaks). of the second dam of Stormy Atlantic), and out of a mare by Barrera (reverse Raise a Native/Bold Ruler cross STORMELLO, c, 2004 to the dam of Stormy Atlantic). Northern Dancer There are several more gems among the six stakes Storm Bird South Ocean winners in Stormy Atlantic=s third crop. Graded scorer Storm Cat Secretariat Sea Siren has a granddam bred on a Northern Terlingua Crimson Saint Dancer/New Providence cross (the same cross as Storm Stormy Atlantic Bold Reasoning Bird), while her third dam is a Northern Providence/ Seattle Slew My Charmer Nearctic cross (reverse cross to Storm Bird). In a similar Hail Atlantis Coastal vein, Stormy Atlantic=s other graded stakes winner from Flippers Moccasin that cross, Indian Ocean, has Storm Bird=s sister Raise a Native Oceana as her third dam, giving a 3x3 cross to the Mr. Prospector Gold Digger brother and sister. Stormy Venus, a stakes winner from Carson City Blushing Groom (Fr) that crop is out of a mare by Rahy (reverse Nasrullah/ Wilshewed Blushing Promise Hail to Reason cross to Bold Reasoning, the sire of 10-0-0-2, Summertime Promise Seattle Slew), with a second dam by a son of Northern $17,000 Northern Dancer So Cozy Lyphard Dancer, again something of an inversion of the cross 3Fls, 1GISW SW, 4-2-0-0, Goofed which produced Stormy Atlantic, and Hot Storm, who $32,262 Special Warmth Lucky Mike has earned over $785,000, is out of a mare by a son of 14Fls, 4SW 16Fls, 2SW Piece of Pie Seattle Slew, giving that horse 3x3. Alan Porter cont. p3 859.455.9388 vinery.com TDN P HEADLINE NEWS • 12/20/06 • PAGE 3 of 9 There were another four stakes winners, including graded scorers She Says It Best and Quite a Bride, in P N E W S T O D A Y P Stormy Atlantic=s fourth crop, but the one we would particularly like to note is the NATC Futurity victor FALLON COMMITTED TO RETURN Kieren Fallon What=s Your Edge. His dam is by Tactical Advantage spoke out yesterday about his future riding career, (dam a Hail to Reason/Bold Ruler cross, the reverse of which is threatened by the trial into alleged race fixing Bold Reasoning) and his second dam is by Alysheba. set to begin in September. In an exclusive with Racing He=s particularly interesting here, as he is a Raise a Post, Ballydoyle's retained jockey made it clear that he Native/Nantallah cross, like Stormy Atlantic=s would return to the saddle if cleared in the high-profile granddam, Flippers, with the Nantallah coming through case, which results from the City of London Police's Lt. Stevens (broodmare sire of Alysheba) and his sister, longstanding investigation. AIf people have written that I Horse of the Year Moccasin (dam of Flipper). was considering retirement because of the effect of all Coming right up to date, in his first Kentucky crop, this, then they have got that wrong,@ he told the Post. Stormy Atlantic has four two-year-old stakes winners. AI never meant to say that, it was only taken that way. Two of these, Stormello, who became his first Grade I The point is that if Coolmore had appointed another winner when taking this weekend=s Hollywood Futurity, jockey, I would have been finished. I did not say I had and Miss Atlantic City, are out of mares by Carson City. lost the stomach to go on. I promise you that I feel as There are actually already six stakes winners by sons of well, if not better, than ever right now--physically and Storm Cat out of Carson City mares, and it=s no sur- mentally. Next year, I will be better than ever.