Tuesday, Thoroughbred Daily News May 7, 2002 TDN For information, call (732) 747-8060. HEADLINE NEWS DAY TABBED FOR BOOKLET P EDIGREE INSIGHTS Pat Day has picked up the mount on Booklet (Note- book) for the Preakness S. May 18, trainer John Ward BY ANDREW CAULFIELD Jr. said yesterday. He will replace Jorge Chavez. Book- let is among 14 horses currently eyeing the middle KENTUCKY DERBY-GI, $2,175,000, CDX, 5-4, 3yo, jewel of the Triple Crown. Explaining the switch, Ward 1 1/4m, 2:01, ft. said, "We're going to race a little more in the Midwest 1--sWAR EMBLEM, 126, c, 3, by Our Emblem this year than we have and Pat is based here. He also 1st Dam: Sweetest Lady, by Lord At War (Arg) knows the Preakness and that racetrack very well. With 2nd Dam: Sweetest Roman, by The Pruner Pat doing more riding for us, it was a logical move." 3rd Dam: I Also, by *Sky High 2nd Day has won the Preakness five times. Booklet's pres- ($20,000 yrl '00 KEESEP). O-The Thoroughbred Corp; ence in the Preakness all but guarantees that Kentucky B-C Nuckols, Jr & Sons (KY); T-B Baffert; J-V Espinoza; Derby winner War Emblem (Our Emblem) won't be $1,875,000. Lifetime Record: 8-5-0-0, $2,241,000. allowed to relax on the lead, as he did in the Derby. *1/2 to Pretty Gale (Mountain Cat), SW, $204,826. And Ward doesn't think Booklet will be the only horse pressing the Derby winner. "I think War Emblem is England had its Wars of the Roses, between the going to be attacked by everyone in the field," he said. houses of York and Lan- "With Booklet, the kind of fractions that horse set in caster in the 15th cen- the Derby is coasting." In other Preakness news, trainer tury, and Kentucky’s Ken McPeek said he is still on the fence regarding the “Run for the Roses” could status of Harlan's Holiday (Harlan) for the race, adding these days be described that he blundered in not telling jockey Edgar Prado to as a war between the use the horse's tactical speed in the Derby. "We'll make houses of Raise A Native up our minds about the Preakness in about a week," he and Northern Dancer. said. "It's a possibility. He came out of the Derby in For example, this year’s great shape, but we'd like to get him back to the track Kentucky Derby shaped up largely as a battle be- before we make up our minds. I said repeatedly that 2002 Kentucky Derby Four Footed Fotos there wasn't going to be any pace in the race. I should tween the Northern have told Edgar [Prado] to send this horse. I'm very Dancer male line, represented by Harlan’s Holiday, angry with myself. I'd rather tell him something like Medaglia d’Oro, Johannesburg, Lusty Latin and Easy that and let it be my own fault if it backfires rather than Grades, and the Raise A Native line, whose hopes just leaving everything up to him." As far as Take rested on Came Home, Saarland, Castle Gandolfo, War Charge Lady (Dehere), the beaten favorite in the Ken- Emblem, Private Emblem and Proud Citizen. tucky Oaks, McPeek said he is leaning toward running The contest proved one-sided, with the Raise A Na- her next in the GI Acorn S. June 7 at Belmont. tive line--or, more accurately, the Mr. Prospector branch--increasing its domination of this premier dirt TEMPERA BURIED AT JONABELL classic. First and second places went to colts by sons Champion Tempera (A.P. Indy) was buried last week of Mr. Prospector and War Emblem’s impressive display at Sheikh Mohammed’s Jonabell Farm in Lexington, made him the sixth member of the Mr. Prospector clan Kentucky, reports the Blood-Horse. The GI Breeders’ to win in the last 13 years. This magnificent collection Cup Juvenile Fillies’ winner was euthanized Apr. 28 comprises one son (Fusaichi Pegasus), three grandsons following an attack of colitis and laminitis. The filly was (Unbridled, Thunder Gulch and War Emblem) and two preparing for last weekend’s Kentucky Oaks when her great-grandsons (Grindstone and Real Quiet). fatal affliction surfaced. Pedigree Insights cont. p2 $7,500 Live Foal TEAGUE makes it three in a row ADENA SPRINGS SOUTH with a 5 1/4 length romp vs. Stakes company Ocala, Florida Inquiries to Jack Brothers by Buckaroo Toll Free 1-877-945-2020 LITE THE FUSE www.adenastallions.com 5 SWs S 8 Stakes Horses from first two crops TDN P HEADLINE NEWS • 5/7/02 • PAGE 2 of 6 Pedigree Insights cont. Personal Ensign produced a total of five foals by Mr. If this statistic makes you think that Mr. Prospector’s Prospector and among them were Miner’s Mark, winner omination is bound to continue for many years, perhaps of the GI Jockey Club Gold Cup over 1 1/4 miles, and I should remind you that Bold Ruler had an even more Traditionally, winner of the GI Oaklawn H. over 1 1/8 impressive record in the Derby in the 1970s. Thanks to miles. Bred to Easy Goer, a Raise A Native line horse his son Secretariat, his grandsons Dust Commander, with considerably more stamina than Mr. Prospector, Cannonade, Foolish Pleasure, Bold Forbes and Spectac- she produced the excellent My Flag, winner of the CCA ular Bid and his great-grandson Seattle Slew, Bold Oaks. Ruler’s male line provided seven winners in the space of Of course, it was Our Emblem’s illustrious lineage, as 10 years. This year the Bold Ruler male line, which much as his racing record, which earned him a place alongside his sire at Claiborne at a fee of $10,000 in survives mainly through Seattle Slew, was responsible 1997. He proved popular enough, attracting books of for only one Derby contender, Essence of Dubai. 49, 67, 60 and 69 mares in his first four seasons. Considering that War Emblem’s sire Our Emblem Unfortunately, his first juvenile runners failed to make never won a stakes race during a 27-race career, he much of a splash in 2000, with only three of them could be considered a very unlikely candidate to sire a winning, and a reduction in his fee to $7,500 wasn’t Kentucky Derby winner. However, he was a much enough to prevent his book slipping to 31 mares in better horse than the bare facts seem to indicate. He 2001. With no great upturn in his first crop’s results, was beaten only a nose by Lite The Fuse in the GI Our Emblem was relocated to Maryland last fall, with Carter H. as a four-year-old, when he was also second his fee adjusted to $4,000. in the GII Tom Fool H. and GII Forego H. His other Our Emblem’s second Claiborne crop has quickly efforts in 1995 included an excellent third, beaten a proved much superior to its predecessor. As many as nose and the same by Not Surprising and You And I, in 10 of his two-year-olds were successful, which is a the GI Vosburgh H., a creditable third in the Metropoli- respectable effort by a stallion who didn’t show his true tan H. and a five-length sixth in the Breeders’ Cup worth until he was four, and two of those 10, War Sprint. The International Classification handicappers Emblem and the Arkansas Derby winner Private Em- awarded him 119 pounds, just eight pounds less than blem, improved enough to make it into the Derby field. the year’s top sprinters. Our Emblem clearly merits much more respect than he That Our Emblem was essentially a sprinter could received at last year’s yearling sales, when his third- also be held against him as a potential sire of a Ken- crop youngsters averaged less than $10,000. tucky Derby winner, except that the same could be said War Emblem made only $20,000 at Keeneland the previous year. With his first three dams respectively of Mr. Prospector, sire of Fusaichi Pegasus. Mr. Pros- being daughters of the Argentine import Lord At War, pector’s son Gulch earned the title of champion sprinter the turf-loving The Pruner and the Australian import Sky but that didn’t stop him siring Thunder Gulch. High II, he couldn’t exactly be said to have a stallion’s Gulch was no doubt helped by the fact that his dam, pedigree, but that doesn’t mean his pedigree isn’t re- Jameela, was a top-class winner at up to 1 1/4 miles spectable. and Our Emblem has a similar background. His extraor- Lord At War was consistently under-appreciated as a dinary dam, Personal Ensign, gained two of her eight stallion. The facts are that this winner of the Santa Grade I victories over 1 1/4 miles, with another three Anita H. ranked as high as sixth on last year’s APEX coming over 1 1/8 miles. Her brother Personal Flag was table of leading sires by “A” runners index. runner-up in two Grade I races over 1 1/2 miles. Pedigree Insights cont. p3 www.coolmore.com TDN P HEADLINE NEWS • 5/7/02 • PAGE 3 of 6 Pedigree Insights cont. Buddha Heads to Travers: Buddha (Unbridled’s Song), who was withdrawn from The stallions above him were A.P. Indy, Danzig, the Kentucky Derby Friday morning because of lame- Storm Cat, Nureyev and Sadler’s Wells and those im- ness in his left foreleg, reportedly will now head to the mediately below him were Kingmambo, Rainbow Quest, GI Travers S.