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WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 28, 2013 732-747-8060 $ TDN Home Page Click Here LOPRESTI LOOKING FORWARD TO WEEKEND NO MORE FOR NO NAY NEVER While reigning Horse of the Year Wise Dan Wesley Ward yesterday announced that the unbeaten (Wiseman=s Ferry) will be tucked away in his stall this No Nay Never (Scat Daddy) will not race again in 2013. weekend, his older half-brother Successful Dan Having broken new ground with wins in the G2 Norfolk (Successful Dan) and rejuvenated fellow stable S. at Royal Ascot and the G1 Prix Morny at Deauville, companion Turallure (Wando) will fly the flag for trainer the largely Coolmore-owned colt will be rested before Charles LoPresti in Saturday=s GI Woodward S. and being targeted at next GII Bernard Baruch H., respectively, with Breeders= Cup year=s G1 St James=s goals on the horizon. Palace S. at the Royal Now seven, Successful Dan will face the starter for meeting. AHe is in beautiful just the 15th time in his career and is still in search of shape and came back from that elusive Grade I victory, after losing the 2011 Clark Deauville looking H. via a controversial decision from Churchill stewards. absolutely fantastic,@ Ward AIt would mean more to me told PA Sport. AI=ve spoken than any race than I=ve ever with Mr. [John] Magnier, won, and I don=t say that No Nay Never Mr. [Michael] Tabor, Mr. Racing Post photo lightly,@ LoPresti told a national [Derrick] Smith, Paul media teleconference Tuesday Shanahan and all the other wonderful partners involved morning. AI just think that this with the horse to see what we should do from here. He particular horse--we=ve been has done quite a bit already this year and I would hate through so much with him and I to push the envelope with him. I think we are going to Successful Dan would just like for everybody to give him a couple of months in the field here in Ashford Coady Photography see that he is as good a horse as in Lexington. I can t think of a more beautiful and I ve said all along. It would mean = = tranquil place for the horse to have some down-time a great deal to me to see this horse win. He has a and get some long grass. At the moment, we are special place in all our hearts.@ With nearly as many stops throughout his career as thinking of the G1 St. James=s Palace S. at Royal Ascot he has starts, Successful Dan has been plagued by next year and working backwards from there. That suspensory problems and a smattering of bad luck, but might seem a long way off, but, in the great scheme of has been brilliant at times. Winner at three of the things, next year actually isn=t all that far away and I GIII Northern Dancer S., he overcame a 13-month have had success previously when you have a target in absence to annex the GIII Fayette S. as a 4-year-old in your mind.@ Cont. p4 2010. After begin demoted from the victory in that year=s Clark, the homebred went missing again--this time for nearly a year and a half--returning to best subsequent GI Breeders= Cup Classic hero Fort Larned (E Dubai) in the GII Alysheba S. in May 2012. Sidelined off a runner-up effort to that Ian Wilkes trainee in the GIII Cornhusker H. the following month, Successful Dan wired this year=s GIII Ben Ali S. at Keeneland Apr. 21 and was a disappointing and inexplicable fourth behind Fort Larned in the GI Stephen Foster H. June 15. He took his chance against a star-studded bunch in the Whitney, but horror struck as they were leaving the paddock when he reared and fell to the ground. AHe has never, ever done that,@ LoPresti explained. AI think I had him pretty sharp for that race, but I don=t know why he did that. From what I understand, something spooked him, he ran backwards and lost his balance and over he went. He ran a great race in spite of that. I have to think that maybe it took a little bit out of him when he hit the ground as hard as he did. So maybe he wasn=t into the race the first part of it, took him a while to get his feet underneath him, but he made up a lot of ground and ran really hard. I=m hoping he=ll be a little closer this time, a little sharper.@ Cont. p3 60 Broad St., Suite 100 Red Bank, NJ 07701 In This Issue (732) 747-8060 (732) 747-8955 (fax) www.thoroughbreddailynews.com Tapestry added to Moyglare Line-Up www.thetdn.com J “TDN Rising Star” J supplemented to Sunday’s G1 Moyglare Stud S. at The Curragh. 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But he began to find his best anything away from the other horses and Cross Traffic stride on the turn and closed the margin to three-parts ran a great race--if you look at the rest of the field and of a length on the wire. So, what will need to happen in how much ground Successful Dan was making up...he the Woodward to turn the tables? really started rolling around the turn. He=ll run all day is AThere needs to be a lot more pace in front--I was what I=m trying to say. I don=t think the distance is ever really expecting that [in the Whitney],@ LoPresti offered. going to be the problem for that horse. The big thing ACross Traffic got an easy first quarter and I was really for him is the pace scenario where nobody is going to proud of our horse. He really closed a lot of ground and steal the race. If he=s got a fair shot to be four or five ran really good. Cross Traffic is a really good horse, lengths off a really good pace, I think he=s going to he=s really improving, but I=m hoping that they go faster show you he can go that far.@ up front than they did.@ While the Dans have helped LoPresti is willing to allow Wise Dan to continue to tremendously to make do his talking on the turf--at least for the rest of this LoPresti=s a household name, it was Turallure who provided the season--(AI don=t see too many horses beating him right now the way he is, he said), and adds that his half- trainer with some of his most @ thrilling moments, with a score brother is a dirt horse through and through. in the 2011 GI Woodbine Mile Successful Dan is different, he s a strong horse, he s A = = before missing by a nose in the Turallure a big horse and he s so much better on the dirt than = GI Breeders= Cup Mile six Horsephotos Wise Dan,@ the conditioner offered. ASuccessful Dan is weeks later. The homebred has a true dirt warrior. He reminds me of the great old failed to win in seven subsequent starts, with just a geldings of the years gone by, the Foregos and those pair of minor placings, but LoPresti thinks he has the kind of horses, because of the way he=s built and the 6-year-old sitting on go in Saturday=s Bernard Baruch. way he runs and trains on the dirt. He=s had a lot of AHe hasn=t run any bad races, but he hasn=t been hard luck with his suspensory injuries, but, knock on brilliant the way he was,@ LoPresti admits.