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FRIDAY, AUGUST 28, 2015 732-747-8060 $ TDN Home Page Click Here PHAROAH AT HOME AT THE SPA PALACE MALICE RETIRED by Mike Kane Palace Malice (Curlin--Palace Rumor, by Royal Triple Crown winner American Pharoah (Pioneerof the Anthem), who carried the silks of Cot Campbell and Nile) was all business Thursday--galloping and schooling partners= Dogwood Stable to victories in the 2013 in the paddock--during his first full day at Saratoga GI Belmont S. and to a spectacular success in the Race Course. GI Metropolitan H. last season, has officially been American Pharoah traveled from Del Mar in Southern retired from racing and will enter stud in 2016 at Three California to Saratoga Springs Wednesday to run in the Chimneys Farm, GI Travers S. Saturday and, typical for him, showed no which acquired a signs of fatigue. Assistant trainer Jimmy Barnes 50% interest in the decided that the Zayat Stables star did not need time to horse in September recover from the 2014. A stud fee will cross-country journey be announced at a and sent him out for a later date. gallop on the main track Bred in Kentucky at 6:30 a.m. At 11 by William S. Farish, a.m., the bay was given Palace Malice made a look around the $25,000 at the 2011 paddock. Keeneland Palace Malice | Adam Coglianese American Pharoah is September sale, but scheduled to gallop at blossomed over the course of the next seven months 8:45 a.m. Friday and a and was purchased by Dogwood for $200,000 out of large crowd is expected American Pharoah schools in the Keeneland April sale the following spring. A maiden to attend. Saratoga paddock. | Mike Kane winner at second asking, defeating subsequent The 146th Travers, Breeders= Cup Juvenile Sprint winner Hightail whose purse will be boosted to $1.6 million if American (Mineshaft), Palace Malice was a close third in the Pharoah starts, has a post time of 5:46 p.m. and will be GII Risen Star S. and earned a spot in the shown live on NBC during a program from 4 to 6 p.m. GI Kentucky Derby with a near-miss runner-up effort in Ten horses entered Saratoga=s oldest and best-known the GI Toyota Blue Grass S. stakes race, but trainer Rick Violette has said he may scratch Upstart (Flatter). Violette said Thursday Cont. p4 morning that he had yet to make a decision on whether Upstart will run. American Pharoah made his way around Saratoga Race Course under regular rider Jorge Alvarez and Barnes said the colt looked great. AThe horse, boy, he was happy on the track this morning. We really liked what we saw today,@ Barnes said. AWe galloped probably a mile and a sixteenth. Very high energy. Just what you want to see shipping into a race.@ Barnes said that a gallop made sense and fit into the schedule. American Pharoah worked Sunday, walked Monday, jogged Tuesday, then shipped and walked briefly on Wednesday. AFrom what I saw yesterday afternoon, it looked like we needed to gallop,@ Barnes said. AHe was too happy, too fresh. That=s why we made the decision to go ahead and gallop. Just enough to settle him down.@ In Barnes= view, horses need more than one visit to get acclimated to a new track. AActually, I like two days of galloping, let him get over the track,@ he said. AHe tends to maybe look around the first day. The second day, he should be right on schedule, full of business.@ Cont. p3 IN THIS ISSUE Upstart on Travers Fence Upstart (Flatter) continues to please connections ahead of Saturday’s GI Travers S., but trainer Rick Violette is still unsure if the colt will take his place in the Midsummer Derby. “My President & Co-Publisher: Barry Weisbord horse continues to do great," Violette said. "He's not telling me [email protected] not to run. I really keep waiting for some pivotal moment that @barryweisbord will push me either way, and it hasn't happened yet. Right now, I'm preparing him like we're going to run." Sr. V.P. & Co-Publisher: Sue Finley Upstart | A Coglianese [email protected] @suefinley Page 3 V.P., International Operations: Gary King [email protected] @garykingTDN Travers a Moment to Savor EDITORIAL [email protected] “I've been an active participant in the sport for the past 50 Editor-in-Chief: Jessica Martini years, wearing many hats as an owner and a breeder, a regulator Managing Editor: Alan Carasso and an administrator, as well as a bettor and a fan, and I must Senior Editor: Steve Sherack say that in that time, which included the immortal Secretariat, Racing Editor: Brian DiDonato Associate Editor: Justina Severni an epic rivalry between Alydar and Affirmed and 31 Breeders' Associate Editor: Christie DeBernardis Cup Classics, no single race has captured my imagination more Assistant Editor: Heather Anderson than the 2015 edition of the GI Travers S. this coming Assistant Editor: Ben Massam Saturday,” Earle Mack writes in his TDN Op/Ed. 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International Editor: Kelsey Riley John Messara | B Healy [email protected] Page 9 Newmarket Bureau, Cafe Racing: Sean Cronin & Tom Frary Asia Challenge Cup [email protected] 60 Broad Street, Suite 100 This Sunday, the Korean Racing Authority will host the Red Bank, NJ 07701 1200-meter Asia Challenge Cup, the highlight of the KRA's 732-747-8060 | 732-747-8955 (fax) International Racing Festival weekend at Seoul Race Park and www.thoroughbreddailynews.com the TDN’s intrepid Lucas Marquardt reports from Seoul. www.thetdn.com The first turn at Seoul Race Park Page 11 Headline News • PAGE 3 of 12 • thetdn.com Friday • August 28, 2015 AIt=s going to be great,@ he said. AWhen we were in FEATURE PRESENTATION • GI TRAVERS S. New Jersey, the fans really came out. I think there was like 5,000 people that came out to see him. It=s pretty exciting. When he=ll come through the stretch, I=m sure they will applaud like they did there. I hope everyone gets a chance to see him that wasn=t able to get into the races.@ UPSTART ON FENCE FOR TRAVERS Pharoah at Home at the Spa (cont. from p1) Ralph Evans and WinStar Farm=s Upstart (Flatter) Barnes smiled at the suggestion that American continues to please trainer Rick Violette, but the colt is Pharoah could be the first horse to sweep the Triple still not certain to participate in Saturday=s GI Travers S. Crown then add the Haskell Invitational and the AMy horse continues to Travers. do great,@ Violette said. AThat would mean so much to us, to the fans, AHe=s not telling me not everybody,@ he said. AThey really want to see to run. I really keep something like this happen. We=re really excited about waiting for some pivotal it. I think he=s got a good chance to do it.@ moment that will push Fine weather is forecast for upstate New York for the me either way, and it next few days and the free Friday morning training hasn=t happened yet. event is likely to be very popular, espeically because all Right now, I=m preparing 50,000 tickets have been sold for the Travers. Some him like we=re going to Upstart | A Coglianese 5,000 turned out to watch Triple Crown winner run.@ Secretariat work before the 1973 Whitney--which he Upstart returned from the sidelines to run third behind lost to Onion. Barnes saw a similar-sized crowd at American Pharoah (Pioneerof the Nile) in the Aug. 2 GI Monmouth Park watch the colt gallop before his Aug. 2 Haskell Invitational last time out. He drew the rail in the win in the Haskell Invitational. 10-horse Travers. Cont. p4 Headline News • PAGE 4 of 12 • thetdn.com Friday • August 28, 2015 AIf we had drawn the 10 hole, that would have been Palace Malice Retired (cont. from p1) a significant negative,@ Violette said of the draw. AI Unplaced after surprisingly setting fast fractions in don=t think any of us can overcome a less-than-perfect the Run for the Roses, Palace Malice overcame a high trip. The only horse that can is American Pharoah. He draw and a wide trip to defeat GI Preakness S. hero can have less than a perfect tour around there and Oxbow (Awesome Again) in the Belmont and handed probably still beat us, and the rest of us need to have future champion Will Take Charge (Unbridled=s Song) a everything go our way.