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Safari Queen Heads Bewitch S. HEADLINE p.3 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, APRIL 25, 2007 STREET SENSE PUTS IN STRONG WORK With 11 days remaining before the GI Kentucky Derby, Jim Tafel=s Street Sense (Street Cry {Ire}) regis- Triple tered what by all accounts was a brilliant five-furlong breeze yesterday under the Twin Spires of Churchill Downs. The colt, with trainer Carl Nafzger looking on Threats and regular jockey Calvin Borel in the irons, stopped the clock Slew’s Tizzy Possible for Derby... in a bullet :59 flat, the co-fast- Trainer Greg Fox indicated yesterday that a start in est of 36 works at the dis- the May 5 GI Kentucky Derby might be in the cards for tance. Clockers caught the last Saturday=s GII Lexington S. winner Slew=s Tizzy move in :12 2/5 for the first (Tiznow). AI=ve never had a horse eighth, :24 2/5 for the quar- come out of a race so well,@ said ter, :36 2/5 for three-eighths, Fox. ARight now, we=re just sitting Street Sense and jockey Borel :47 4/5 for the half-mile and on the fence and we=ll make a deci- Horsephotos out six furlongs in 1:11 2/5. sion probably by this weekend.@ The internal splits were :12 The three-year-old enjoyed a quiet 2/5, :12 flat, :12 flat, :11 2/5 and :11 1/5 for the five day Tuesday, walking the shedrow panels. The work, which occurred before the renovation Slew’s Tizzy Pat Lang at Fox Stables, located near the break, came over a track labeled fast. Track notes Thoroughbred Center in Lexington. stated the colt Adid not draw a deep breath coming off ARight now, we=re 50-50 and we=re just talking about it the track,@ prompting a broad grin from trainer Carl a lot,@ Fox added. AI=m just enjoying the fact that the Nafzger. AI told Calvin what we want here,@ Nafzger horse is doing as well as he is.@ Also possible for the related. AHe=s fit; we don=t worry about fitness. All we Derby is Circle Z Stables= Xchanger (Exchange Rate), are trying to do here is make him happy. That=s the way winner of last Saturday=s Federico Tesio S. at Pimlico. I always work. I don=t want to stress him; don=t ask him AHe is not out of the question, but I don=t like to come for something he doesn=t have. Let him do what he back in two weeks,@ said Mark Shuman. AI want to do enjoys doing, but don=t ask him to do a lot, and that=s what=s best for the horse.@ Shuman said he would meet what he did. He likes to run. He did everything right. with the colt=s owners over the next few days and He=s done everything right the whole time.@ While likely have a decision by Friday. Street Sense was the consummate pro during his work, the homebred was a bit green at times in his runner-up High Again Works at Churchill... effort in the Apr. 14 GI Blue Grass S. at Keeneland, High Again (High Yield) worked five furlongs in where he ducked in several times in the stretch. 1:01.40 at Churchill Downs Tuesday. Partnered by Nafzger was asked yesterday whether he was worried Larry Melancon, the filly recorded the 12th fastest work about his colt=s behavior on Derby Day. AI=m more wor- of 36 at the distance yesterday. AShe went super,@ ried about 19 other horses,@ the trainer replied. AI=m not Kenny McCarthy, assistant to Bill Mott. AWe gave her a really worried about what he is going to do. You don=t target and she breezed right by her.@ change anything. When you get to a Grade I race with horses of that quality, it is a jockeys race. You have done your part. I don=t change the dimension of my Triple Threats horse. My horse=s dimension is where we have found Horse (Sire) Track Distance Time he is most effective and we leave him in that dimension Street Sense (Street Cry {Ire}) CD 5f :59.00 and let him do it from there.@ www.taylormadestallions.com TDN P HEADLINE NEWS • 4/25/07 • PAGE 2 of 8 P C L A S S I C C O R N E R P CAMILLO DOUBTS Sir Robert Ogden's Sander Camillo (Dixie Union) might not make the line-up for the G1 1000 Guineas at Newmarket, connections an- nounced yesterday. Having tied up when second in last Wednesday's G3 Nell Gwyn S. at that venue, the Jeremy Noseda-trained filly is undergoing tests ahead of the May 6 Classic. "We are running routine tests on her at the moment and we will just take it one day at a time, but it's going to be difficult for her," Ogden's Racing Manager Barry Simpson told PA Sport yester- day. AWe are still hopeful we are going to get there, but it's too early to make a decision. It will be well into next week before we do and we need to get some positive feedback.@ Last year's impressive G2 Cherry Hinton S. winner, Sander Camillo had started as the 4-7 favorite for the seven-furlong trial, but failed by a neck to catch Scarlet Runner (Ire). AJeremy's done nothing with her since the Nell Gwyn,@ Simpson added. AAll she's done is walk out each day, so we are some way off. It's going to be a week today or tomorrow before we get to the stage of saying whether or not we are going to run and even then we wouldn't be 100 per- cent certain. We know what the problem is, but it's not the ideal preparation. It's far from ideal. If she doesn't run, she doesn't run. There's no point running her if vinery.com she's not right. We don't want excuses.@ YAQEEN GIVEN GREEN LIGHT Sheikh Hamdan P N E W S T O D A Y P bin Rashid Al Maktoum's Yaqeen (GB) (Green Desert) will start in the May 6 G1 1000 Guineas, trainer Mi- DUBAI STARS SET FOR HONG KONG Japan=s chael Jarvis revealed yesterday. Her win in a seven- Admire Moon (Jpn) (End Sweep) and Hong Kong star furlong Newmarket maiden Apr. 19 earned her a tilt at Vengeance of Rain (NZ) (Zabeel {NZ}), impressive win- the Newmarket feature. AYaqeen is an intended runner ners at Nad al Sheba of the G1 Dubai Duty Free and G1 in the 1000 Guineas," Jarvis commented. AShe has Dubai Sheema Classic, respectively, come out of last week's race well and seems fine. It will face off in Sunday=s G1 Aude- was only a maiden, but I thought she has done it well, mars Piguet QE II Cup at Sha Tin. Admire Moon shipped to Hong Kong and she was doing it at the right end of the race. Given immediately after his Mar. 31 score. an extra furlong, she would have been an even more AHe has travelled well from Dubai,@ clear-cut winner. A mile will be to her liking.@ trainer Hiroyoshi Matsuda said about the four-year-old. AHe has been very ART STILL ON COURSE Susan Roy and Cheveley Admire Moon HKJC settled since he arrived.@ Vengeance Park Stud's Dutch Art (GB) (Medicean {GB}) will take of Rain, winner of the QEII Cup in his place in the line-up for the G1 2000 Guineas at 2005, worked a half-mile yesterday, covering his final Newmarket, trainer Peter Chapple-Hyam confirmed 400 meters in :22.9. Jockey Anthony Delpech was yesterday. Despite losing his unbeaten tag when sec- cautious about his mount=s chances. AHe worked well, ond in Saturday's G3 Greenham S. at Newbury, last but I don=t think he=s in quite the same form he was in year's G1 Prix Morny and G1 Middle Park S. hero re- before the race in Dubai,@ Delpech said. AHe was at his mains on course for the May 5 Classic. AHe has come best ever then, and that=s why we were so confident. out of the Greenham fine," the trainer commented. "As It=s hard for any horse to maintain that level of form for long periods of time, so while he is still doing every- I suggested beforehand, he'd need that race. I was thing right he doesn=t seem to have to be as brilliant as happy with his exercise this morning, and I'm looking he can be. He seems to be more at the kind of level forward to running him in the 2000 Guineas.@ when he won the Gold Cup early in March.@ TDN P HEADLINE NEWS • 4/25/07 • PAGE 3 of 8 Classic Corner cont. from p2 Today’s Graded Stakes Champions Gallery Out... brought to you by Champions Gallery (GB) (Dansili {GB}) has been with- drawn from the QEII Cup after trainer Andreas Schutz told Hong Kong Jockey Club officials that the four-year- old was not in peak condition. The brown colt, third in the G1-HK Hong Kong Derby Mar. 18, missed an in- tended barrier trial last weekend. His withdrawal leaves a field of 11 for the HK$14-million marquee event.