SUNDAY, AUGUST 23, 2020 MAXIMUM EFFORT HALLADAY COAST-TO-COAST IN FOURSTARDAVE by Alan Carasso When last seen, Harrell Ventures LLC=s Halladay (War Front) was wrangled back off the pace and ultimately ran fourth in the GII Bernard Baruch H. July 26, allowing Somelikeithotbrown (Big Brown) to post a relatively hassle-free, front-running victory. With that failed experiment in the rear view, it was back to pedal-to-the-metal tactics in Saturday=s GI Fourstardave H. and the gray colt repelled a late bid from defending champion Got Stormy (Get Stormy) to land the spoils. Casa Creed (Jimmy Creed) rallied to complete the trifecta. The victory earns Halladay a fees-paid berth into the GI Breeders= Cup Mile at Keeneland Nov. 7. Not the quickest away from the machine, Halladay was asked to pick up the bit and secured the front passing under the wire for the first time, as Got Stormy, Without Parole (GB) (Frankel Maximum Security all alone at the finish | Horsephotos {GB}) and Emmaus (Ire) (Invincible Spirit {Ire}) did the early chasing. Cont. p4 by Alan Carasso Whether you love him or have mixed feelings about him, there is one thing about Maximum Security (New Year=s Day) that is IN TDN EUROPE TODAY very hard to dispute: he is an outstanding racehorse. BOLGER HOMEBRED DELIVERS IN FUTURITY Prohibitively favored at 40 cents on the dollar to take Jim Bolger homebred Mac Swiney (Ire) (New Approach {Ire}) Saturday=s GI TVG Pacific Classic in his second start since being caused an upset in the G2 Futurity S. at The Curragh. Click or tap transferred to the barn of Bob Baffert, the bay absorbed race- here to go straight to TDN Europe. long pressure but, realistically speaking, never looked like losing in securing an all-expenses-paid berth in the GI Breeders= Cup Classic in early November. When the dust had settled, the 4- year-old had a margin of three lengths on a very game and persistent Sharp Samurai (First Samurai), while Midcourt (Midnight Lute)--who almost stole the show in the GII San Diego H. last time out-came home a well-beaten third. "We mapped it out that he's the quickest horse, he's ready and now you can ride him with a lot more confidence. Once he took the lead I figured he'd be fine,@ said trainer Bob Baffert, winning the marquee race of the Del Mar meet for the sixth time, equaling the record of the great Bobby Frankel. A>Max' was relaxing really nice. He was a totally different horse today. [Maximum Security] just does things effortlessly. He wasn't even blowing when he came back. I'm just so happy for this horse. It's not his fault what he went through. Today he showed that he is a great horse." Cont. p3 PUBLISHER & CEO Sue Morris Finley @suefinley [email protected] SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT Gary King @garykingTDN [email protected] EDITORIAL [email protected] Editor-in-Chief Jessica Martini @JessMartiniTDN Managing Editor Sunday, August 23, 2020 Alan Carasso @EquinealTDN Senior Editor Steve Sherack @SteveSherackTDN Racing Editor Brian DiDonato @BDiDonatoTDN Deputy Editor Christie DeBernardis @CDeBernardisTDN Associate Editors Christina Bossinakis @CBossTDN Joe Bianca @JBiancaTDN News and Features Editor In Memoriam: Ben Massam (1988-2019) ADVERTISING [email protected] Director of Advertising Alycia Borer Advertising Manager Lia Best Advertising Designer Amanda Crelin Advertising Assistant/Dir. Of Distribution Rachel McCaffrey Advertising Assistants Amie Newcomb Kristen Lomasson Tiz delayed. 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Midcourt was restrained Saez, had contracted the off the pace this time around, with coronavirus and was restricted longshots Mirinaque (Arg) (Hurricane from traveling from New York. Cat) and Dark Vader (Take of Ekati) Enter Abel Cedillo, a rising star the back markers. on the Southern California circuit, Maximum Security galloped them but who had never known a along at an even tempo--the half-mile spotlight as white hot as the one was posted in :47.98--and was asked he was about to experience. Very for a bit more speed passing the four- little went according to script in furlong pole after six panels in a very the San Diego. Clearly the one to comfortable 1:12.37. Sharp Samurai beat, his fellow riders race-rode kept up the pressure around the turn Maximum Security and he was and at one point perhaps looked to Abel Cedillo shows his affection | Benoit unable to make the running. be traveling slightly better than the Under a drive for the better part of the last four furlongs, he chalk, but Maximum Security turned away his very pesky foe somehow managed to peg back Midcourt on the wire to score entering the final eighth of a mile and pulled clear, covering his by a nose. Connections promised a fitter racehorse this time final quarter-mile in a solid :24.74. around and he delivered--to the max. Cont. p4 TDN HEADLINE NEWS • PAGE 4 OF 14 • THETDN.COM SUNDAY • AUGUST 23, 2020 "The race went pretty much how I thought,@ said Cedillo. Margins: 3, 2 3/4, NO. Odds: 0.40, 10.10, 7.40. A[Trainer] Bob [Baffert] told me to keep him off the rail, because Also Ran: Higher Power, Mirinaque (Arg), Dark Vader. the speed was inside. If someone wanted to run up inside of us, I Click for the Equibase.com chart, the TJCIS.com PPs or the free would have let them. He just galloped around the track. I was a Equineline.com catalogue-style pedigree. VIDEO, sponsored by little surprised that the outside horse [Sharp Samurai] was with Fasig-Tipton. us early and he stuck around. He ran big, but whenever he would get close, my horse would pull away on his own. He still had a little left at the end. I have to say this is probably the best horse I've ever ridden." MAXIMUM SECURITY Pedigree Notes: WIN AND YOU’RE IN ™ connection earnings include: Maximum Security=s dam was acquired by Gary and Mary $ Automatic berth into #BC20 Classic West for $80,000 in foal to Pioneerof the Nile at Keeneland $ $150,000 in pre-entry & entry fees November in 2014 and was sold to Korean interests for $11,000 $ Travel award up to $10,000 for domestic carrying a full-sibling to the then unraced 2-year-old Maximum starters and $40,000 for international Security, who would make a victorious debut in a maiden starters +$10k nom. award to Gary & Mary West $16,000 claimer about six weeks later. Lil Indy and her weanling Korean-bred full-sister to Maximum Security were acquired and Click HERE for the full 2020 #WINANDYOUREIN rules and race schedule. returned to the U.S. and prepared for last year=s Keeneland November sale. Lil Indy fetched $1.85 million in foal to Quality Road, while the weanling was bought back on a bid of $190,000. Lil Indy, a half-sister to MGISW Flat Out (Flatter), produced a colt Fourstardave H. cont. from p1 by Quality Road Apr. 23 and was bred back to Curlin. The opening quarter-mile was up in a manageable :23.85 with Luis Saez, fresh off a five-timer earlier in the week, sitting hard against Halladay. In the meantime, Got Stormy had fallen into the box seat stalking Halladay through the half-mile that was up Saturday, Del Mar in :47.19.