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THURSDAY, MAY 31, 2018

JUSTIFY TO WEAR AMERICAN-BRED TAKES ON THE CHINA HORSE CLUB SILKS By Lucas Marquardt On Saturday, Roaring Lion (Kitten=s Joy) will attempt to become IN BELMONT the first American-bred Epsom Derby winner in 15 years. Lucas Marquardt sat down with Taylor Made=s Vice President of Sales and Operations, Mark Taylor, who raised and sold Roaring Lion, about what he was like as a young horse and if the American- breds-abroad trend figures to continue and grow stronger.

LM: What do you remember about Roaring Lion as a young horse?

MT: Roaring Lion was born here on Taylor Made and grew up here the whole time, and we ended up consigning him for Jan Naify of RanJan Racing at the September sale, and he was picked out by David Redvers for Qatari Racing. But, my recollection of Roaring Lion was that he was always a beautiful mover. Cont. p4

Justify in the red-and-yellow silks of the China Horse Club IN TDN EUROPE TODAY Mar. 11 at Santa Anita. He=ll wear their silks in the Belmont AN AUSTRALIAN REVOLUTION Benoit photo Russian Revolution (Aus) (Snitzel {Aus}) could have Wednesday’s top two lots at the Magic Millions National by Sue Finley Broodmare Sale both in his inaugural book this year. Click or tap >TDN Rising Star= Justify (), who wore the silks of here to go straight to TDN Europe. their major shareholder WinStar Farm in the and Preakness, will wear the red-and-yellow silks of the China Horse Club in the , according to Eden Harrington, the Vice President of the China Horse Club. AThe China Horse Club and WinStar Farm share the use of colors on the horses we race in partnership,@ said Harrington. AEvery fourth start, a horse will race in China Horse Club silks. The sharing of silks ensures both the WinStar brand and China Horse Club brand are promoted. As an ownership group, we are very tight-knit. The credit for the quality of our relationship rests with Mr. Kenny Troutt and Mr. Teo Ah Khing. Regardless of the colors that are worn on our horses, we all cheer passionately; we all cheer as one. As a club, we are very fortunate that the rotation will see Justify race in China Horse Club silks in the Belmont Stakes. It will be the second time Justify has raced in them having worn them at his second career start. Win, lose or draw he will do us all proud in them.@

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Photo Editor/Dir. of Distribution Sarah K. Andrew @SarahKAndrew [email protected] Out like a lion. On Saturday, Roaring Lion (Kitten’s Joy), pictured winning the G2 Social Media Strategist Betfred S. earlier this month, will attempt to become the first American-bred Justina Severni Epsom Derby winner in 15 years. Lucas Marquardt’s interview with Taylor Made’s Vice Director of Customer Service President of Sales and Operations, Mark Taylor, continues on page 4. | racingfotos.com Vicki Forbes [email protected]

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Justify cont. from p1 Justify debuted in WinStar silks on Feb. 18 at Santa Anita, but followed that up with a second-time out win March 11 in the China Horse Club=s silks (video). Per the rotation, starts three (), four (Kentucky Derby) and five (Preakness) were in WinStar=s silks, making the Belmont Stakes the CHC=s turn. AIn our short history as a club we have been very fortunate to have our silks carried in some very big races and at some very big race days,@ said Harrington. ABut the importance of having our red-and-yellow silks worn by Mike Smith as he rides Justify in the Belmont Stakes for a tilt at the Triple Crown will undoubtedly be the most important. Its significance cannot be quantified. Not only will all of America be watching, the world will be watching. And for all the Chinese fans who are new to , seeing the colors of Chinese owners on Justify on the biggest of stages this year carries immense resonance. America has been and remains the standard of excellence in so many industries including many sports, so for Chinese to be seen by their countrymen and women as having reached the pinnacle of this sport in America by having their colors represented on such a big occasion will bring a great deal of pride. It could be the catalyst for an influx of new participants in the sport internationally. It will almost certainly have a positive impact across myriad areas of China=s fast emerging domestic thoroughbred industry.@ Elliott Walden, CEO and president of WinStar, added, AThe partnership has been great and we=re excited for Mr. Teo and the China Horse Club to have the opportunity to have Justify wear their silks in the Belmont. While we would love to have him in our silks, I=m excited about the fact that he=s wearing the China Horse Club=s, too, and that they can share in the fun of the Triple Crown.@

Justify training at Churchill | Horsephotos TDN HEADLINE NEWS • PAGE 4 OF 8 • THETDN.COM FRIDAY • MAY 31, 2018

Cont. from p1 MT: That was kind of his claim to fame. He was a well-balanced horse, well-made, had a lot of quality. And he's another horse that we've had here just for great breeders that we've been blessed to represent. That's the main thing that keeps Taylor Made going, is just we represent a lot of really great breeders, and I think Jan Naify is one of those. And right from this family, a lot of good horses. So it was a pleasure to have him here and it's really fun looking back and just remembering these horses. They were right here in your care and then they're going on to compete on the world stage. So it's pretty neat.

Click the photo above to listen to Lucas Marquardt=s interview with Mark Taylor

LM: Can you describe him physically?

MT: I would describe Roaring Lion as kind of a typical Kitten's Joy. He didn't have overly bulky muscle to him, but he was very well put together. He had good length of neck, good shoulder. I actually looked up all of our notes on him, and they were very consistent throughout his whole life. My brother, Frank, dealt with him a lot more when he was a young baby, and then I kind of picked up once he was a yearling looking at him more often. But he had a beautiful frame to him. Not overly bulky. He was pretty correct. He wanted toe in just a touch. All of our notes said, "Just toes in a touch on one front," but it was inconsequential. But just beautiful flowing walk, a lot of class. On our scale, like a B+ is a very nice horse. Like, you've gotta be...to get an A, it's a rare thing. So he was a B+ almost the whole way through. He didn't really go through a lot of dips or low points or whatever, just always very straightforward. I was actually disappointed that he didn't bring more money. And I credit David Redvers for finding value at $160,000. Cont. p5

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The Big Interview cont.

But it goes to show you; he was by Kitten's Joy. Some American trainers kind of stereotype them as turf. And then, he was out a mare, and I think on the surface, maybe a lot of Europeans thought, "Oh, that's got a little too much dirt to it." Actually, if you dig deeper--and maybe that's what David saw--there is a lot of grass quality. But I think he was kind of one of those tweener horses that if you would've had that exact same physical and he would've been by an American dirt horse, he might have brought twice as much money. That's just kind of my gut feeling. I was a little bit surprised by his precocity. He never struck me as a horse, growing up, that I thought was gonna be a real early developer. He didn't look like he was going to be immature or anything like that, but I thought he might need a little more Breeders’ Cup Distaff: time. Just Kitten's Joy, the bottom side just kind of screams it's June 16, Fleur de Lis H. - G2 gonna be better [as a] 3-year-old. So I was very impressed that CD, 3yo & up, 1 1/8 m, Closes June 2 he was a Group 2 winner at two. I mean, he came out of the box. Won first time out (video), he looked really good. Breeders’ Cup Classic: June 16, Stephen Foster H. - G1 CD, 3yo & up, 1 1/8 m, Closes June 2

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You've seen a lot more American owners wanting to go over and run at Ascot, to try to take on the Europeans on their home turf. I think the pendulum's always swinging with the international thoroughbred, and that's one of the most fascinating things about it. When I was young, my father was working for John Gaines at Gainesway, and that was their bread Roaring Lion | Racing Post and butter. They had horses like Lyphard, Riverman, Blushing Groom, Vaguely , Green Dancer. And they were great LM: Why do you think there seems to be this current trend European horses, great turf sires, that were also very towards more international participation on the part of commercially popular in America. And that was just the norm. In American-bred and -sold horses. fact, that was the main thing that was happening is the Europeans would come here to buy the yearlings, buy these MT: I think we're in a really great time right now in international world-class turf stallions. But you saw horses like Blushing racing. With just the way transporting horses has become more Groom, his first crop in America, he has a winner. efficient and easier, and horses can run in different places, I And he came up with all kinds of good dirt horses and had been think it's opening up people's eyes to racing around the world a huge dirt influence. and people wanting to participate more. And I think that's really true with American owners right now. Cont. p6 TDN HEADLINE NEWS • PAGE 6 OF 8 • THETDN.COM FRIDAY • MAY 31, 2018

The Big Interview cont. But if you notice, I think when we started to really get And so that's what I think we need more of, is that interchange bludgeoned by the foreign media, in a certain way that's what of bloodlines. You look at Scat Daddy now. He was a son of triggered our owners to want to go over there and compete and that didn't work out here in America, and he say, well, maybe we need to find out. And when they did that, raced in America, but then he starts standing here and he ends they've had a ton of success. up becoming this awesome international stallion. War Front's So I think that if you're competing here in America, and Lasix the same way. So I think now you're starting to see more for instance, is legal, then you're going to run on Lasix because American owners going to Europe, even going to , you want it to be a level playing field. But if you take our horses buying horses, participating in the sales, participating in the out of that scenario and go run in Europe, as long as we have a racing. I think it's really a healthy thing. But it's all predicated on level playing field there, then I think we can compete. And we're getting stallions that can compete in those places. For a lot of trying to work our way through the medication issue, and I think reasons, economic and otherwise, we really didn't get a lot of eventually we're going to get there. But I think that at the end of good turf prospects over here for several decades. Now we're the day, everybody knows that of all the places you can raise starting to get some of those, and Scat Daddy's the number one, and produce a Thoroughbred racehorse, central Kentucky is but you look at Kitten's Joy, and Roaring Lion's a prime example. right at the very top. That's not to disparage any place else in Kitten's Joy is an incredible turf stallion. He's a great stallion in the world, there are lots of good places. But if you look at just general. the success we've had here recently, we've got about 100-acre But now we're starting to get some horses over here. It was a patch of land that Ashado was raised on, Speightstown was tragedy we lost Scat Daddy, but we're gonna develop more of raised on, Acapulco was raised on, Roaring Lion was raised on. those. There's gonna be more of those horses coming down the The list just goes on and on. And it's a lot of good horsemen pike, and I think it's really a great thing for everybody involved, around this area, really good land, and great bloodstock. So Europeans, Americans, and all over the world just sharing the that's been going on for a long, long time, and it's going to bloodlines and competing. Sometimes they get stereotyped, continue. We've got t continue to get better, make our product "Oh, that's just dirt." Well, go try him on grass and see what more appealing to the international market all the time. But happens. we've got a very strong heritage here, and it's just something we're trying to build upon. LM: It feels like just a few years ago, people were saying the American product was broken. Do you have the sense that=s changing? © Copyright Thoroughbred Daily News. MT: Well, the international opinion of the American thoroughbred I think has always been very strong, and I think This newspaper may not be reproduced in any form or by any that we're known as the number one-source of quality speed means, electronic or mechanical, without prior written permission of the copyright owner, MediaVista. Information as to the around the world. But I think we have taken a black eye because American races, race results and earnings was obtained from of the medication policies, and you know, I think some of that is results charts published by The Information Services justified, some of it isn't. And that is such a complicated issue, and utilized here with their permission. that it's hard to dissect it completely. TDN HEADLINE NEWS • PAGE 7 OF 8 • THETDN.COM FRIDAY • MAY 31, 2018

BILL GRAVES PASSES AWAY

Bill Graves (right) with his son, Brian Graves | Joe DiOrio

Highly respected Thoroughbred horseman William E. ABill@ Graves, a senior vice-president with Fasig-Tipton for 26 years, passed away after a short illness Wednesday at the University of Kentucky hospital in Lexington. Graves was accompanied by family, including his son Brian--director of public sales at Gainesway Farm--during his final days. A native of Lynchburg, Virginia, where he developed a Funeral arrangements in Lexington, KY., will be announced in formidable reputation as a competitor on the national show the coming days. horse circuit, Bill transitioned into a career in the Thoroughbred industry that ultimately saw him become one of the best yearling showmen at Saratoga and in Kentucky. After stints at several leading Thoroughbred farms in Kentucky, Bill opened Graves Stable, which primarily trained and sold 2-year-olds. Graves and his late wife Michele were perennially among the leading consignors at Fasig-Tipton's premier juvenile sale at Calder Race Course in Florida. In 1992, Graves was recruited by Fasig-Tipton to review and manage its selected yearling sale process and, up to the last 10 days of his life, was working with consignors, pulling together THOROUGHBRED IDEA FOUNDATION ADDS catalogues for The July Sale and The Saratoga Sale. DONOVAN AND REYNOLDS TO BOARD As a rider, Graves was inducted into the Virginia Show Horse Catherine Donovan and Tom Reynolds have joined Hall of Fame in 2007. In addition to his own success as a graded the Thoroughbred Idea Foundation (TIF) Board of Directors, it stakes-winning breeder, he also served as an advisor to Angus was announced Wednesday. The pair will assist the organization Glen Farm of Art and Gordon Stollery, orchestrating the sale of a in its strategic planning, governance, and marketing initiatives. $3,000,000 son of Mr Prospector at the 1999 Saratoga Sale. Donovan is a retired NY attorney who has been involved in Through a lifetime of achievements, Graves was Thoroughbred breeding and racing for over 20 years. She has unquestionably proudest of the accomplishments of his son worked with SF Bloodstock, as well as Newgate Farm and Brian as a horseman, and, with his wife Lesley, as the parents of Amarina Farm in Australia. Bill's three treasured grandchildren, Will, Catherine and Carson. He is also survived by his brother, Reed Graves, and his sister, Elizabeth (Ditty) Stone, both of Lynchburg, Virginia. Cont. p8 TDN HEADLINE NEWS • PAGE 8 OF 8 • THETDN.COM FRIDAY • MAY 31, 2018

Donovan, Reynolds Added to TIF Board cont. (CDI), Horse Country, Keeneland, National Reynolds has over 30 years of consumer products sales and Association (NTRA), Fasig-Tipton, America=s Best Racing (ABR), marketing experience for companies such as PepsiCo and TVG, Daily Racing Form (DRF), and Equestricon=s official charity Quaker Oats. All the while, Reynolds has been an avid follower partner Thoroughbred Aftercare Alliance (TAA). of horse racing as a handicapper, and he most recently has AWe continue to be humbled and extremely encouraged by become a horse owner through his involvement with Eclipse the enthusiasm for Equestricon and our core mission of putting Thoroughbred Partners. on a fun event that increases access to the sport,@ said The full TIF Board of Directors is: Craig Bernick, Catherine Equestricon co-founder Justin Nicholson. AWe=re working on a Donovan, Lesley Howard, Corey Johnsen, Paul Matties, Justin number of other big partnership announcements and with the Nicholson, Tom Reynolds, and Jack Wolf. convention being paired with Breeders= Cup this year, attendees and participants can expect to see just about every major racing organization and in the building.@ To view the initial list of sponsors, which features more than ADARK HORSES@ TO DEBUT ON NBC 40 major racing organizations, racetracks, media outlets, ADark Horses,@ a documentary featuring the rivalry between ownership groups, farms, sales agencies, wagering platforms, (Alydar) and (Halo) during the 1989 bourbon brands and stakeholder advocacy groups, can be found Triple Crown and beyond, will debut this Saturday, June 2, at 5 here. p.m. Eastern time on NBC. During the 60-minute documentary, narrated by Kentucky native Ashley Judd, ADark Horses@ chronicles the rivalry between the impeccably bred Easy Goer and Sunday Silence, the horse SUFFOLK TO OFFER $5K JOCKEY CHALLENGE Anobody wanted@ and was led out unsold at Keeneland July on a Suffolk Downs will offer a $5,000 jockey challenge for its live bid of just $17,000. The documentary includes interviews with racing programs June 9-10, July 7-8 and Aug. 4-5, 2018. Sunday Silence owner Arthur Hancock; , at the time a Jockeys will be awarded points based on their finish in each host with ABC; announcer Tom Durkin; Sunday Silence=s jockey race, with six points for first place down to two points for fifth. Pat Valenzuela; Pat Day, rider of Easy Goer; Chris McCarron, For any finish sixth or worse, one point will be earned. At the who rode Sunday Silence to a heart-stopping victory in the GI end of each weekend, the leading jockey will receive a cash Breeders= Cup Classic; and Shug McGaughey, trainer of Easy bonus of $2,500, the second-place rider will earn $1,500 and the Goer. third is to receive $1,000. Encore presentations of ADark Horses@ will air on NBC Sports Network Wednesday, June 6, at 8 p.m. ET; and Saturday, June 9, at 8 a.m. ET. Click here for a preview of ADark Horses.@

EQUESTRICON ANNOUNCES FIRST WAVE OF SPONSORS With exactly five months until the doors open for Equestricon 2018 at the Kentucky International Convention Center (KICC), event organizers have released an initial wave of sponsor and partner commitments for the convention. Equestricon's Kentucky debut, which kicks off Breeders= Cup World Championships week in Louisville, will feature appearances by many prominent racing personalities, panels, interactive Andrea Mandella, daughter of Hall of Fame trainer Richard Mandella, exhibits, educational workshops and an industry-wide trade has been named Development and Donor Relations Director for New show. Vocations Racehorse Adoption Program and will be based in the In addition to the TDN, the list of partners for the convention, organization=s Lexington, KY, office. "I am proud to join the New Vocations organization, and to have the opportunity to help build and which will be held at KICC Monday, Oct. 29 and Tuesday, Oct. contribute to a program that is doing invaluable work with aftercare,@ 30, includes the Breeders= Cup, Incorporated says Mandella. | New Vocations photo Saturday, Santa Anita, post time: 7:30 p.m. EDT BEHOLDER MILE S.-GI, $400,000, 3yo/up, f/m, 1m PP HORSE SIRE OWNER TRAINER JOCKEY WT 1 Munny Spunt K Munnings ERJ Racing, LLC, Fuller, John, Robershaw, Richie, O'Neill Frey 121 O'Neill, Doug and Rothblum,S 2 Mopotism K Uncle Mo Reddam Racing LLC O'Neill Franco 121 3 La Force (Ger) Power (GB) Williford, Roberta, Williford, Ward and Gallagher Van Dyke 121 Winner, Charles N. 4 Paradise Woods Sarkowsky, Steven, Wygod, Martin J. and P Wygod Mandella Prat 123 5 Vale Dori (Arg) Asiatic Boy (Arg) Sheikh Mohammed bin Khalifa al Maktoum Baffert Bejarano 121 6 Unique Bella K Tapit Don Alberto Stable Hollendorfer Smith 121

Breeders: 1-Harriet Finkelstein & Hartley de RenzoThoroughbreds, 2-Frank T Batten, 3-Gestut Karlshof, 4-Herman Sarkowsky, 5-Abolengo, 6-Brushwood Stable

Saturday, Penn National, post time: 7:45 p.m. EDT PENN MILE S.-GII, $500,000, 3yo, 1mT PP HORSE SIRE OWNER TRAINER JOCKEY WT 1 Coltandmississippi K Pioneerof the Nile Teresa Viola Racing Stables and St. Elias Stable Pletcher Rosario 116 2 Encumbered Violence Reddam Racing LLC Callaghan Gutierrez 122 3 Maraud K Blame Treadway Racing Stable Pletcher Velazquez 122 4 Therapist Freud Oak Bluff Stables Clement Ortiz, Jr. 122 5 Way Early Tizway Hill, Jim and Susan Weaver Carmouche 116 6 Hawkish Artie Schiller LaPenta, Robert V., AJ Suited Racing Stable, LLC Toner Franco 118 and Madaket Stables LLC 7 Smart Remark K First Defence Humphrey, Jr., G. Watts, O'Brien, Brendan and Oliver Lezcano 116 Klatsky, Brian 8 He's Bankable Arch Live Oak Plantation Casse Gaffalione 122

Breeders: 1-Alexander-Groves , 2-Rose Hill Farm & Ralph Stroope, 3-John R. Penn & Frank Penn, 4-Oak Bluff Stable, LLC & C. Clement, 5-Mares Rule III, 6-AJ Suited, LLC, 7-G. Watts Humphrey Jr. & St. GeorgeFarm, LLC, 8-Live Oak Stud

Saturday, Woodbine, post time: 4:57 p.m. EDT CONNAUGHT CUP S.-GII, C$175,000, 4yo/up, 7fT PP HORSE SIRE OWNER TRAINER JOCKEY WT 1 Caribou Club City Zip Glen Hill Farm Proctor Boulanger 118 2 Conquest Panthera K Kitten's Joy Gary Barber Casse Husbands 122 3 Tower of Texas K Street Sense Van Meter II, Thomas F. and Dilworth, Scott Attfield Da Silva 122 4 Bondurant War Front Whitham Thoroughbreds LLC Wilkes Mosqueira 116 5 Kitten Kitten's Joy Ramsey, Kenneth L. and Sarah K. Maker Hernandez 116 6 Yorkton Speightstown Chiefswood Stable Simon Bahen 118 7 Forge (GB) Dubawi (Ire) Juddmonte Farms, Inc. Mott Contreras 116 8 Dimension (GB) Medicean (GB) Riverside Bloodstock, LLC Murphy Moran 116

Breeders: 1-Glen Hill Farm, 2-Kenneth L Ramsey & Sarah K. Ramsey, 3-Anderson Farms (Ontario) Inc. & RodFerguson, 4-Janis R. Whitham, 5-Kenneth L. Ramsey & Sarah K. Ramsey, 6-Chiefswood Stables Limited, 7-Juddmonte Farms Ltd, 8-Cheveley Park Stud Ltd Saturday, Belmont, post time: 5:50 p.m. EDT PENNINE RIDGE S.-GIII, $200,000, 3yo, 1 1/8mT PP HORSE SIRE OWNER TRAINER JOCKEY WT 1 Up the Ante K Smart Strike Castleton Lyons Clement Cohen 117 2 Hawkish Artie Schiller LaPenta, R, AJ Suited Racing Stable & Madaket Stables Toner Franco 117 3 K More Than Ready LaPenta, Robert V, Madaket Stables & Siena Farm Thomas Castellano 123 4 Analyze It K Point of Entry William H. Lawrence Brown Ortiz 121 5 Irish Territory (Ire) Declaration of War Zayat Stables, LLC Mott Alvarado 115 6 Untamed Domain K West Point Thoroughbreds Motion Bravo 121 7 Archaggelos K Temple City Monticule LLC Dickinson Maragh 121 8 Channel Cat English Channel Calumet Farm Pletcher Saez 117

Breeders: 1-Castleton Lyons & Kilboy Estate, 2-AJ Suited, LLC, 3-Fred W. Hertrich III & John D. Fielding, 4-P. Headley Bell, Nancy Bell & NATO, 5-Springbank Way Stud, 6-Clearsky Farms, 7-Monticule, 8-Calumet Farm

Saturday, Churchill, post time: 10:42 p.m. EDT S.-GIII, $100,000, 3yo/up, 6f PP HORSE SIRE OWNER TRAINER JOCKEY WT 1 Smart Spree Smart Strike Trinity Racing Stables, Inc. and Racer's Edge Inc. McKnight Santana, Jr. 120 2 Shadow Tracer Even the Score Elkhorn Oaks, Inc. Jackson Albarado 120 3 Wilbo K Candy Ride (Arg) Chris Wilkins Hartman Cabrera 122 4 Heartwood Tapit Chapman, James K. and Tsujimoto, Stuart Chapman Borel 120 5 Mr. Crow K Tapizar KRA Stud Farm Colebrook Lanerie 120 6 Awesome Saturday K Any Given Saturday Chuck Hovitz Calhoun Hernandez, Jr. 120 7 Chief Cicatriz Munnings Roy Gene Evans Davis Graham 120

Breeders: 1-George Strawbridge Jr., 2-Elkhorn Oaks Inc., 3-Woodford Thoroughbreds, 4-Blue Heaven Farm, LLC, 5-Avalon Farms, Inc. & Scott Swaim, 6-Craig L Minten, 7-Roy Gene Evans SIRE LISTS Sponsored by

2018 Leading Turf Sires by Earnings for stallions standing in North America through Tuesday, May 29 Earnings represent North American and European figures, stud fees listed are 2018 fees. Rank Stallion BTW BTH GSW GSH G1SW G1SH Starters Wnrs Highest Earner Earnings 1 Kitten's Joy 5 13 4 8 1 2 171 40 $257,320 $2,322,452 (2001) by El Prado (Ire) Stands: Hill 'n' Dale Farm KY Fee: $60,000 Sadler's Joy 2 Scat Daddy 6 16 3 6 -- -- 131 35 $195,800 $1,864,273 (2004) by Johannesburg Stands: Ashford Stud USA (Dead/Ret/Exp) Toinette 3 English Channel 3 7 1 5 1 2 98 27 $442,420 $1,770,596 (2002) by Smart Strike Stands: Calumet Farm KY Fee: $25,000 Heart to Heart 4 War Front 5 12 2 11 1 3 86 16 $256,830 $1,625,083 (2002) by Danzig Stands: Claiborne Farm KY Fee: $250,000 Lancaster Bomber 5 More Than Ready 5 8 2 3 -- 1 87 23 $158,000 $1,149,364 (1997) by Southern Halo Stands: WinStar Farm KY Fee: $60,000 Rushing Fall 6 Blame 4 7 2 4 -- -- 61 16 $260,920 $1,109,359 (2006) by Arch Stands: Claiborne Farm KY Fee: $12,500 Maraud 7 Tapit 2 4 1 3 -- 1 82 14 $318,000 $1,097,238 (2001) by Stands: Gainesway Farm KY Fee: $300,000 Synchrony 8 Artie Schiller 2 4 1 2 1 1 57 19 $268,000 $1,054,226 (2001) by El Prado (Ire) Stands: WinStar Farm KY Fee: $10,000 Bowies Hero 9 Giant's Causeway 1 4 1 2 -- -- 88 22 $109,100 $914,633 (1997) by Stands: Ashford Stud KY Fee: $75,000 Andina Del Sur 10 1 6 1 3 -- 1 85 18 $96,000 $904,339 (1996) by Kingmambo Stands: Lane's End Farm KY Fee: $25,000 Beach Patrol 11 Arch 2 7 1 5 -- -- 54 11 $121,042 $875,530 (1995) by Kris S. Stands: Claiborne Farm USA (Dead/Ret/Exp) Nyaleti (IRE) 12 Medaglia d'Oro 3 9 -- 3 -- 1 70 15 $166,389 $862,585 (1999) by El Prado (Ire) Stands: Jonabell Farm KY Fee: $250,000 Wren's Day 13 2 3 2 3 -- -- 51 9 $238,740 $795,851 (2000) by Stands: Adena Springs KY Fee: $85,000 Holy Helena 14 Declaration of War 2 4 2 3 1 1 60 12 $429,150 $779,291 (2009) by War Front Stands: Ashford Stud KY Fee: $25,000 Olmedo (FR) 15 Quality Road -- 4 -- 3 -- -- 50 19 $70,180 $744,849 (2006) by Elusive Quality Stands: Lane's End Farm KY Fee: $70,000 Vortex Road

FOR ALL TDN SIRE LISTSBINCLUDING INDIVIDUAL CROP-YEAR REPORTS--VISIT WWW.THETDN.COM/TDN-SIRE-STATS/ IN ORDER OF PURSE: 8th-Indiana Grand, $32,500, Alw (NW1X)/Opt. Clm ($30,000), IN HONG KONG: 5-30, 3yo, f, 1m 70y (off turf), 1:45.00, my. Cloud Nine, g, 6, Tapit--Dress Rehearsal (Ire) (GSW-US, SW-Ire, MOLECULES (f, 3, Einstein {Brz}--Squawk, by Mountain Cat) $211,235), by (Ire). Sha Tin, 5-30, Hcp. ($112k), 1800m captured her career bow sprinting here Apr. 17 and missed by (AWT), 1:48.47. B-Dress Rehearsal Syndicate (KY). *SP-Eng. just a nose in a six-panel allowance over this strip last time May **$175,000 Wlg >12 KEENOV; $200,000 Ylg >13 FTSAUG. 4. Hustling out to a clear lead from the get go, the 7-2 shot ticked off comfortable early splits of :24.21 and :47.41. Still clear ***Formerly Christophermarlowe. VIDEO turning for home, she was never seriously threatened, despite jumping the starting gate tracks, and hit the line 2 3/4 lengths IN FRANCE: ahead of La Femme Royale (Tale of Ekati). Sales history: $1,500 Merisi, c, 3, Elusive Quality. See AFrance@. Ylg '16 KEEJAN. Lifetime Record: 3-2-1-0, $44,600. Click for the Equibase.com chart. O-Morgan Thilo; B-Theodore Kuster (KY); T-Jay J. Holden. Sold by Shawhan Place

SECOND-CROP STARTERS TO WATCH: THURSDAY, MAY 31 IN ORDER OF PURSE: Alternation (Distorted Humor), Pin Oak Stud, $7,500 7th-Delaware, $34,375, Msw, 5-30, 3yo/up, f/m, 7 1/2fT, 143 foals of racing age/24 winners/0 black-type winners 1:32.59, fm. 9-Prairie Meadows, Msw 6f, SHIMMERING DREAM, 6-1 FRIPPERY (f, 3, City Zip--Flagrant, by Rahy) prepped for this $17,000 IOW OCT yrl unveiling with a half-mile bullet in :48 flat over the Fair Hill synthetic May 25 and was bet down to 7-2 from an 8-1 morning- Awesome Patriot (Awesome Again), Mapleton Thoroughbred line quote. Pressing Silla Manila (Majesticperfection) from Farm, $3,500 second through leisurely early fractions, the chestnut drew even 103 foals of racing age/11 winners/0 black-type winners with the pacesetter on the backstretch and the pair battled 9-Prairie Meadows, Msw 6f, CINNFULLY LOUD, 15-1 down the lane. Frippery found another gear in the final sixteenth and skipped clear to best Silla Manila by a length. The winner is a half-sister to GI Breeders= Cup Dirt Mile winner Bind (Pulpit), Red River Farms, $1,500 Furthest Land (Smart Strike), GISW, $917,707; and the dam of 54 foals of racing age/10 winners/1 black-type winner versatile GSW Ready for Rye (City Zip). Their dam Flagrant is also 1-Evangeline, Msw 4 1/2f, SCAT AT MS. PAT'S, 4-1 responsible for the unraced juvenile filly Style and Grace $5,000 ESL YRL yrl (); and a yearling filly named Luck Money (). She was bred back to Point of Entry. Frippery also hails Liaison (Indian Charlie), Farm, $10,000 from the family of MGSW and GISP Dynever (Dynaformer) and 166 foals of racing age/28 winners/2 black-type winners GISW Reluctant Guest (Hostage). Lifetime Record: 1-1-0-0, 9-Prairie Meadows, Msw 6f, GLITZY LADY, 12-1 $20,400. Click for the Equibase.com chart or VIDEO, sponsored by Fasig-Tipton. Cont. p2 O/B-Catherine Wills (KY); T-Arnaud Delacour. TDN REGIONAL REPORT • PAGE 2 OF 3 • THETDN.COM THURSDAY • MAY 31, 2018

Morning Line (Tiznow), Lane's End Farm, $10,000 134 foals of racing age/22 winners/2 black-type winners 3-Churchill, Aoc 1mT, SEVEN TRUMPETS, 5-1 $45,000 KEE SEP yrl; $205,000 OBS APR 2yo

New Year's Day (Street Cry {Ire}), Hill 'n' Dale Farms, $12,500 112 foals of racing age/20 winners/0 black-type winners ALLOWANCE RESULTS: 3-Churchill, Aoc 1mT, BLUE RIDGE SCOUT, 15-1 1st-Indiana Grand, $45,000, (S), 5-30, 3yo/up, f/m, 6f, 1:11.09, $40,000 KEE SEP yrl gd. 8-Belmont, Alw 6 1/2f, NEW YEAR'S WISH, 6-1 SWEET N WICKED (m, 7, Borrego--Wicked Hot, by Thunder $42,000 OBS OCT wnl Gulch) Lifetime Record: MSP, 28-7-4-4, $250,062. O-Felipe Salas; B-Ron Brown (IN); T-Wayne G. Minnock. Overanalyze (Dixie Union), WinStar Farm, $10,000 193 foals of racing age/42 winners/5 black-type winners 5th-Indiana Grand, $32,500, (NW1X)/Opt. Clm ($25,000), 5-30, 9-Prairie Meadows, Msw 6f, ACEITUNA, 12-1 3yo/up, f/m, 1m, 1:39.06, my. PEARL'S OPINION (f, 3, Stay Thirsty--Private Opinion, by Power Broker (Pulpit), SAU, $10,000 ) Lifetime Record: 6-2-1-1, $51,500. O/B-Ghost 136 foals of racing age/21 winners/0 black-type winners Hollow Farm LLC (KY); T-Thomas M. Amoss. 6-Churchill, Alw 5 1/2fT, DROP KICK, 8-1 $85,000 KEE SEP yrl 3rd-Thistledown, $25,500, 5-30, (NW3L), 3yo/up, f/m, 1m, 1:41.20, ft. Prospective (Malibu Moon), Ocala Stud Farm, $5,000 VAPNYARKA (f, 4, Imperialism--Ellenville, by Carson City) 97 foals of racing age/21 winners/2 black-type winners Lifetime Record: 3-3-0-0, $26,400. O-Danielle Agnello; 6-Belmont, Aoc 7fT, BROADWAY RUN, 4-1 B-Deborah Shaffer (FL); T-Robert Fiesman. *$11,000 Ylg '15 $120,000 OBS APR 2yo OBSAUG.

Violence (Medaglia d'Oro), Hill 'n' Dale Farms, $15,000 ADDITIONAL MAIDEN WINNERS: 248 foals of racing age/48 winners/6 black-type winners Corfu Lady, f, 3, Corfu--St Ballado's Lady, by Pleasantly Perfect. 2-Finger Lakes, Msw 6f, CHETAN, 5-2 Presque Isle, 5-29, 6f (AWT), 1:10.19. B-Saul Rosas (FL). $20,000 SAR AUG yrl Iza Innocent, g, 4, Notional--Innocence Lost, by Quiet American. Louisiana, 5-30, 7 1/2fT, 1:33.24. B-Jarett & Randall Wolfe (AR). *1/2 to Innocent Appeal (Appealing Skier), SW; and a full to Wargamer, SW. Sidney's Warrior, g, 4, Sidney's Candy--Mattiebluebreezing, by Dixieland Band. Indiana Grand, 5-30, 5 1/2f, 1:05.84. B-Dell Frippery (City Zip) dons cap and gown Ridge Farm, LLC (KY). *$2,000 Ylg '15 KEESEP. on debut at Delaware Park.

LEADING CONSIGNOR At the 2017 Fasig-Tipton HORA Sale

by AVERAGE $​245,455 vs. sale avg. of $96,226 # $​2,799,000 GROSS CLEARANCE 11/12 Sold

SOLD 5 of the TOP 6 Hips

Horse Consignor Price # # 1. Distinta Taylor Made Sales Agency $600,000 2. Adorable Miss $585,000 3. Happy Mesa $525,000 4. Lady Alexandra $375,000 5. Insta Erma $290,000 6. Bronson $275,000

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BORREGO, Sweet N Wicked, m, 7, o/o Wicked Hot, by Thunder NOTIONAL, Iza Innocent, g, 4, o/o Innocence Lost, by Quiet Gulch. ALW, 5-30, Indiana Grand American. MSW, 5-30, Louisiana CITY ZIP, Frippery, f, 3, o/o Flagrant, by Rahy. MSW, 5-30, SIDNEY'S CANDY, Sidney's Warrior, g, 4, o/o Delaware Mattiebluebreezing, by Dixieland Band. MSW, 5-30, Indiana CORFU, Corfu Lady, f, 3, o/o St Ballado's Lady, by Pleasantly Grand Perfect. MSW, 5-29, Presque Isle STAY THIRSTY, Pearl's Opinion, f, 3, o/o Private Opinion, by EINSTEIN (BRZ), Molecules, f, 3, o/o Squawk, by Mountain Cat. Deputy Minister. AOC, 5-30, Indiana Grand AOC, 5-30, Indiana Grand 'S SONG, Carissimo, c, 4, o/o Graeme Six, by Graeme IMPERIALISM, Vapnyarka, f, 4, o/o Ellenville, by Carson City. Hall. MSW, 5-30, Presque Isle ALW, 5-30, Thistledown

The late City Zip was represented by debut winner Frippery on Delaware Park=s opening day | Tony Leonard

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BREEDER DREW GOING AGAINST THE HERD AN AUSTRALIAN By Chris McGrath REVOLUTION There is not much you can tell Dr. Bridget Drew about herd mentality. It was for her work with cattle, after all, that she earned an OBE. As director of a veterinary research centre in Hampshire, she supervised 700 cows with the highest milk yield in the land. But it may yet turn out that she has never witnessed more bovine behaviour than on the October evening in 2016 when Lot 1795 entered the ring in Book 3 at Tattersalls. For the mob of professional prospectors-the agents, the trainers, the pinhookers-had long dispersed, seemingly unanimous in the assumption that the high points of the sale were behind them. Martin Percival of Boyce Bloodstock had brought the filly to Drew's attention: a daughter of Nathaniel, whose first runners had made no more precocious an impression that season than might be sensibly expected. Cont. p6 The A$1.7-million Diademe | Magic Millions IN TDN AMERICA TODAY AMERICAN-BRED ‘LION’ TAKES ON THE EPSOM DERBY Group 1-winning sprinter Russian Revolution (Aus) (Snitzel Roaring Lion (Kitten’s Joy) will attempt to become the first {Aus}) will be among the most exciting stallions to retire in U.S.-bred Epsom Derby winner in 15 years. Lucas Marquardt Australia this year, and Wednesday=s two seven-figure lots at spoke with Taylor Made’s Mark Taylor, who raised and sold the the second session of the Magic Millions National Broodmare colt. Click or tap here to go straight to TDN America. Sale could both be part of his inaugural book. "We have a strong interest in Russian Revolution so he would be seriously considered for her going forward, and you've got the stallions like Snitzel and I Am Invincible who would be in the mix for her," said China Horse Club=s Michael Wallace after signing for the session-topping Diademe (NZ) (Savabeel {Aus}) (lot 1007) in foal to Vancouver (Aus) for A$1.7 million. Sir Owen Glenn=s Go Bloodstock signed for the other breakout mare of the day, Heatherly (Aus) (Lonhro {Aus}) (lot 1098), in foal to Written Tycoon (Aus) for A$1.6 million, and Go Bloodstock Manager Geoff Roan confirmed, AShe will go to Russian Revolution--it will be a perfect mating." Due to changes in the sale format, full comparative statistics will be published upon conclusion of the sale on Friday. After two days= trade, the cumulative total stands at A$66,156,000 for 422 fillies and mares sold. Moving from fillies and mares off the track on opening day to broodmares on Wednesday, the clearance rate and average held largely steady at 84% and A$156,768. The median improved to A$65,000. Cont. p2 TDN EUROPE/INTERNATIONAL • PAGE 2 OF 12 • THETDN.COM THURSDAY • 31 MAY, 2018

An Australian Revolution Cont. from p1 "Obviously she is a Group 1-winning mare by Savabeel," said "It was a sensational day's trade," Magic Millions Managing China Horse Club=s Michael Wallace of the mare who is also a Director Barry Bowditch said. "It was probably one of the full-sister to G1 Two Thousand Guineas winner Embellish (NZ). strongest days of selling we've had here." "She's put down two wonderful foals with her first two foals and "Vendors are delighted with the way the sale went and buyers she's a Grade A specimen physically. She's got everything going as a whole have been very confident in the market, they've bid for her. It's been well-documented the ownership that was strong and we're pleased with where we're at. I was a little involved with her, so it was good to get that tidied up and move cautious today how the mares in foal would go, having a big along with a nice mare." catalogue of them. But it's a very solid sale. To be clearing some Barrie and Midge Griffiths picked up the Lonhro filly they 84% and for the average to be holding up somewhere near what would name Heatherly for A$90,000 at Inglis=s Easter Yearling it was [Tuesday] is sensational." Click here for a video review of Sale in 2014, and that was made to look like a very shrewd the session. purchase on Wednesday when the 5-year-old, carrying her first foal to Victoria=s best sire Written Tycoon (Aus), made A$1.6 million from Go Bloodstock and Paul Moroney Bloodstock. Heatherly had, of course, done her part in the interim four years by winning three black-type contests in addition to placings in both the G1 Moir S. and G1 Oakleigh Plate, and Go Bloodstock=s Geoff Roan said his team had had their eyes on the mare, who is out of a half-sister to G1 Stradbroke H. winner Linton (Aus) (Galileo {Ire}), for a while. "We've had a go at a couple of others and missed," Roan said. "It's a really strong sale.@ AWe picked her out really early as one we would target. We didn't expect her to go to that level but she was one we thought we'd really like to have for Sir Owen Glenn. We have followed her for a while and always liked her. We thought she had such good strength and physicality. Sir Owen loves that high quality Mick Flanagan and Michael Wallace | Magic Millions and he just said to me, >don't get beat!="

Guy Goes For Gold... Diademe Back In The Limelight... Being a multiple stakes-winning Dubawi (Ire) mare in foal to Diademe had already enjoyed the spotlight on the Gold Coast Snitzel (Aus) certainly isn=t going to hurt in a sales ring, but Paul to a degree last week when her second foal, a colt by Fastnet Guy of Heritage Bloodstock said after signing the ticket for Rock (Aus), made A$650,000 from Boomer Bloodstock to be the Arabian Gold (Aus) (lot 867) at A$900,000 that it was the 7-year- second-highest priced lot at the Magic Millions National old=s toughness that was her greatest trait. Indeed, Arabian Gold Weanling Sale. He follows a full-brother who sold for NZ$1 won four stakes races, three of those group races, across a busy million at Karaka two years ago, and both the foal and mare 3-year-old campaign in which she was also second in the were offered by Coolmore to dissolve the partnership of G1 Queensland Oaks. She would go on to win again at Group 3 Coolmore and China Horse Club, who had bought Diademe from level at four. Arabian Gold was sold carrying her second foal; she Attunga Stud for A$740,000 at this sale three years ago less than produced a filly by Snitzel=s sire Redoute=s Choice (Aus) two two months after she had won the G1 Breeders S. years ago and slipped last year. Cont. p3 TDN EUROPE/INTERNATIONAL • PAGE 3 OF 12 • THETDN.COM THURSDAY • 31 MAY, 2018

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International Editor Magic Millions Day 2 Cont. Kelsey Riley "She's a good style of mare," Guy said. "She's a typical Dubawi- Twitter: @kelseynrileyTDN -he's just been such a wonderful sire worldwide and she was [email protected] such an exceptional racemare. She was tough and genuine with great ability and that's what we were ultimately looking for.@ European Editor Arabian Gold had been bought by Josh Hutchins for A$800,000 Emma Berry at this sale in 2015 in the midst of her racing career, and she was Twitter: @collingsberry sold on Wednesday by the Hutchins family=s Element Hill Farm, a [email protected] boutique Queensland nursery. Associate International Editor Heather Anderson Proven Sires Prominent... Twitter: @HLAndersonTDN With the exception of Diademe, Wednesday=s top sellers were each in foal to a different Australian champion sire: Written Marketing Manager Tycoon was champion first-season sire and champion 2-year-old Alayna Cullen Twitter: @AlaynaCullen sire; Snitzel is the reigning record-breaking champion general [email protected] sire and two others that have held that title were also prominent on Wednesday: Fastnet Rock (Aus) and Exceed and Contributing Editor Excel (Aus). Mark Pilkington and Tom Magnier signed in Alan Carasso conjunction for the 12-year-old mare Fiorentina (Aus) (Dubai Twitter: @EquinealTDN Destination) (lot 1066)--a half-sister to G1 Dubai World Cup winner Monterosso (Ire) (Dubawi {Ire})--in foal to Coolmore=s Cafe Racing Fastnet Rock for A$850,000 the day after her Group 1-winning Sean Cronin Tom Frary daughter Silent Sedition (Aus) (War ) had sold to Katsumi [email protected] Yoshida for A$1.5-million. Peter Ford swooped at A$750,000 for the unraced 4-year-old Irish Correspondent Frankel (GB) filly Dream In Colour (GB) in foal to Exceed and Daithi Harvey Excel. That one proved a monumental pinhook, having been purchased off the track from the Godolphin consignment at Regular Columnists Tattersalls February last year by Howson and Houldsworth Andrew Caulfield Bloodstock for 75,000gns. Dream In Colour comes from a very John Berry Kevin Blake prolific Australian line, her third dam True Blonde (Aus) being a Tom Peacock half-sister to excellent sire Snippets (Aus) and the dam of Not A Single Doubt (Aus), and True Blonde is also the second dam of the G1 Golden Slipper winner Forensics (Aus). Cont. p4 TDN EUROPE/INTERNATIONAL • PAGE 4 OF 12 • THETDN.COM THURSDAY • 31 MAY, 2018

Magic Millions Day 2 Cont. winner , and Yu Long also swooped at It therefore shouldn=t have come as a surprise to see Dream In A$750,000 to secure one of them, the Flying Spur (Aus) mare Colour immediately expatriated, and her cause was helped Better Alternative (Aus) (lot 911). Yu Long is already plenty further by the win of Derryn (Aus) (Hinchinbrook {Aus}), who familiar with her offspring, being a shareholder in her champion appears under her second dam, in last April=s G2 Arrowfield son Preferment (NZ) (Zabeel {NZ}), winner of the Group 1 Sprint at The Championships. Victoria Derby, The BMW, Australian Cup and Turnbull S. Better Former champion first-season sire I Am Invincible (Aus), who is Alternative has also left the G3 South Australian Fillies Classic currently chasing just Snitzel in the general sires= premiership, winner Rezoned (NZ) (Zabeel {NZ}). Cont. p5 was the covering sire of Newgate=s Gold and Diamonds (NZ) (Fastnet Rock {Aus}) (lot 1078), who was scooped up by Yu Long Investments for A$800,000. Yu Long, which is currently growing its profile globally, had two winners on the Irish 2000 Guineas card at The Curragh last Saturday and had also made its presence felt at Inglis=s Chairman=s sale, signing for three broodmares over the half-million mark. Yu Long has about 70 mares in Australia and 20 in New Zealand, and that is where Gold and Diamonds=s pedigree most resonates. She traces back to the legendary producer Eight Carat, whose line also includes the champion racehorse and sire Octagonal (NZ) and Darley=s late prolific sire Commands (Aus).

Australian Pharoahs... The Magic Millions National Broodmare Sale features the first Team Yu Long at Magic Millions, including Yuesheng Zhang Southern Hemisphere mares in foal to American Triple Crown and Fairgray (back) | Magic Millions TDN EUROPE/INTERNATIONAL • PAGE 5 OF 12 • THETDN.COM THURSDAY • 31 MAY, 2018

Magic Millions Day 2 Cont. There were three total mares offered in foal to American SESSION TOPPERS Pharoah on the day; while one was a A$75,000 buyback, the MAGIC MILLIONS NATIONAL BROODMARE SALE others were sold for A$200,000 and A$140,000, respectively. American Pharoah stands in Australia for A$66,000. WEDNESDAY’S TOP 10 LOTS Arrowfield Reveals Mating Plans... Arrowfield, in conjunction with different partners, was busy on LOT NAME STATUS PRICE (£) day one of the Magic Millions National Broodmare Sale, signing 1007 Diademe i/f Vancouver 1,700,000 for three mares of A$1 million, and the Stud has (m, 9, SavabeelBBling, by O=Reilly) revealed the mating plans for those mares. (NZ$50,000 yrl >10 NWZFEB; A$740,000 b=mare >15 MGLMAY) Arrowfield=s Jon Freyer, in partnership with Dean Hawthorne, Consignor: Coolmore Australia agent for Jonathan Munz of Pinecliff Racing, signed for Group 2 Purchaser: China Horse Club winner Omei Sword (Aus) ( {Ire}) for A$1.7 million and Group 1 winner Abbey Marie (Aus) (Redoute=s 1098 Heatherly i/f Written Tycoon 1,600,000 Choice {Aus}) for A$1.4 million. Both mares will be sent to Japan (m, 5, LonhroBDancing Heather, by Danzero) for a date with that country=s champion sire Deep Impact (Jpn). (A$90,000 yrl >14 INGAPR) Arrowfield has been instrumental in the cross pollination of Consignor: Yarran Thoroughbreds Japanese and Australian blood, having long sent it owns mares to Purchaser: Go Bloodstock Australia/Paul Moroney B=stock be covered by Shadai stallions, as well as more recently shuttling some of that operation=s young sires to the Hunter Valley. 867 Arabian Gold i/f Snitzel 900,000 Arrowfield, in its joint venture with Northern Farm=s Katsumi (m, 7, DubawiBCoablo, by Vettori) Yoshida, bought Silent Sedition for A$1.5 million on Tuesday, (A$800,000 b=mare >15 MGLJUN) and she will visit Snitzel this year, the same sire that provided Consignor: Element Hill Arrowfield and Northern Farm, as breeder, with this year=s G1 Purchaser: Heritage Bloodstock Golden Slipper winner Estijaab (Aus), out of Response (Aus) (Charge Forward {Aus}), who was also a Magic Millions National 1066 Fiorentina i/f Fastnet Rock 850,000 sale purchase. (m, 12, Dubai DestinationBPorto Roca, by Barathea) (A$100,000 yrl >07 INGAPR; A$50,000 b=mare >14 MGLJUN) Consignor: Segenhoe Stud Purchaser: Mark Pilkington Management/Tom Magnier

1078 Gold and Diamonds i/f I Am Invincible 800,000 (m, 4, Fastnet RockBDiamond Smile, by Zabeel) Consignor: Newgate Farm Purchaser: Yu Long Investments

Magic Millions National Broodmare Sale 1025 Dream In Colour i/f Exceed and Excel 750,000 (f, 4, FrankelBColour, by More Than Ready) CUMULATIVE 2018 (75,000gns HRA >17 TATFEB) $ Catalogued 583 $ Number Offered 502 Consignor: Bell View Park Stud $ Number Sold 422 Purchaser: Peter Ford Thoroughbreds $ Not Sold 80 $ Clearance Rate 84% 911 Better Alternative i/f American Pharoah 750,000 $ No. $500K+ 34 (m, 14, Flying SpurBAncient Lights, by Canny Lad) $ High Price A$2,600,000 $ Gross A$66,156,000 (A$100,000 yrl >05 INGMAR) $ Average (% change) A$156,768 Consignor: Coolmore Australia $ Median (% change) A$65,000 Purchaser: Yu Long Investments *Due to changes in the sale format, full comparative statistics will be published upon conclusion of the sale on Friday. TDN EUROPE/INTERNATIONAL • PAGE 6 OF 12 • THETDN.COM THURSDAY • 31 MAY, 2018

Session Toppers Cont. woodland and pasture of Hampshire exhale mistily into a steady rain. "And I use the same criteria for the stallion. Because it's 938 Capella i/f Snitzel 680,000 amazing how many of them are one-offs; how many whose (m, 5, Rip Van WinkleBLimerick, by Grosvenor) dams' progeny have an average rating-including the stallion-that Consignor: Willow Park Stud doesn't make 90 plus. That is just a simple rule of thumb, really. Purchaser: China Horse Club And I tend not to pay more than about ,25,000." She stretched a point for this filly, and bought her with a single 1001 Deipara i/f Exceed and Excel 600,000 bid for 30,000gns. After winning both her starts, a maiden at (m, 4, LonhroBDivine Madonna, by Hurricane Sky) Nottingham last August and the Lingfield Oaks Trial on her Consignor: Godolphin reappearance, Perfect Clarity (GB) (Nathaniel {Ire}) already Purchaser: Musk Creek Farm looks remarkably well bought. And, on Friday, she will start as one of the leading fancies for the Investec Oaks itself. 919 Bollinger Rose i/f All Too Hard 575,000 "We just couldn't believe it," Drew says, recalling the sale. (m, 4, More Than ReadyBBollinger, by Dehere) "There was quite a bit of black type on the page-and nobody (A$325,000 RNA yrl >15 INGAPR) went to look at her. They must have thought there was Consignor: Vinery Stud something wrong with her. Nathaniel wasn't flavour of the Purchaser: Paul Willetts Bloodstock month then, anyway. But nobody stays, they all go home." So far as Drew's checklist was concerned, Perfect Clarity Breeder Drew Going Against The Herd Cont. from p1 qualified on all counts. The dam, Clarietta (GB) (Shamardal), was Albeit, a filly named Enable (GB) (Nathaniel {Ire}) would give a dual winner at two who proceeded to be placed twice in listed some indication of their scope to progress with maturity when company; and both the next two dams had run in the Oaks after making her debut at Newcastle the following month. winning the Lupe S. at Goodwood. Clarietta's mother Claxon This filly was scheduled to sell just three lots from the end of finished fifth in 1999 and ended up winning the G2 Premio Lydia the second day, and might very well slip through the net. Drew Tesio; going one better than her own mother Bulaxie, who had loved her, and rang one of her principal trainers, Clive Cox. started favourite when only seventh to Balanchine at Epsom in "Are you still here?" she asked. 1994 and went down by just three-quarters of a length in the "No, I'm halfway out of Newmarket. Why?" Italian race. "There's a filly here I'd like This, then, will resonate you to look at." with many as a very good "Well I'll come back then." Hesmonds family. Claxon, And Cox loved her too. moreover, had meanwhile Most importantly, the page deepened the Oaks seam by matched the singular and producing Cassydora (GB) exacting standards Drew has (Darshaan {GB}), developed to sieve value disappointing in the 2005 from that tier of the market Oaks after a runaway win in neglected by-well, by the the same Lingfield trial won herd. by Perfect Clarity, but These focus on the subsequently second in the racetrack record of the G1 Nassau S. (She has since family, though one of her produced two group other criteria is that if the winners.) dam has been sold, she must And the family continues to have made six figures. thrive. Bulaxie's half-sister Bridget Drew with Perfect Tribute | Photo courtesy Bridget Drew "On the basis that Dust Dancer (GB) (Suave somebody knew what I couldn't, and that she must be quite a Dancer), for instance, produced the dam not only of Zoffany nice lady to pay that," Drew says, sitting in the office of her stud (Ire) (Dansili {GB}) but also of Rostropovich (Ire) (Frankel {GB})-- a few miles south of Newbury. Catalogues line the shelves; who goes for the G1 Investec Derby on Saturday after his framed pedigrees hang on the walls; through the windows, the impressive win at Chester. Cont. p7 TDN EUROPE/INTERNATIONAL • PAGE 7 OF 12 • THETDN.COM THURSDAY • 31 MAY, 2018

Breeder Drew Going Against The Herd Cont. Unsurprisingly, since she started breeding Thoroughbreds in But it is not as though Perfect Clarity represents any kind of 2007, that has sometimes led her to unfashionable sires. And, if aberration, in terms of the efficacy of Drew's methods. The adequate numbers clearly can't be available for new or previous year, for instance, she had found Perfect Angel (Ire) unproven sires, then quality control on their own families has (Dark Angel {Ire}) in Book 2, knocked down to her other main enabled Drew to get aboard on the ground floor with the likes of trainer, Andrew Balding, for 17,000gns; the MGSP filly, Invincible Spirit and Dubawi. From an Invincible Spirit mare she runner-up to Harry Angel (Ire) (Dark Angel {Ire}) in the G2 Mill had bought for 15,000gns, indeed, Dubawi promptly came up Reef S., was bought in for 290,000gns when one of the shares with Perfect Tribute (GB), who set two track records within a needed valuation in the same ring last December. In all, 76% of fortnight in 2011 when winning a listed race over six furlongs at the horses she has sent into Ascot and then the G3 Chartwell training have won. S. over seven furlongs at Yet as recently as 2002 she did Lingfield. Perfect Tribute's not know the first thing about half-sister by Poet's Voice (GB), bloodstock. Her husband John, himself picked out as a rookie, himself a veterinarian in then realised 700,000gns in Winchester, had been diagnosed Book 1. with a progressive brain disease. A second lesson learned with It finally claimed him in 2017, cattle is more specific-and but the happy inspiration of absolutely seizes you by the buying him a racehorse that lapels as something Christmas animated his final thinking about. years beyond all expectation. "I found from a large study I "I gave up the day job, we sold undertook with 2,000 dairy the practice, and bought a Mark heifers that if they went through Johnston cast-off for four Perfect Clarity as a yearling | Mildmay Racing a period of very rapid growth, grand," Drew recalls. "She won a couple of races for James future milk production was jeopardised," Drew explains. "My Toller and my husband really did enjoy it, became quite advice to my farming clients was to sell the biggest heifers, as passionate actually. And after a while friends started saying they they will make you the most money at the sales-everyone wants wouldn't mind a share in a horse. So we bought another big heifers-and will yield less milk. I do not know if the same couple-and now we've a total of 50 to 60." applies to horses but have been told that 'there are sales horses If Drew had set out with no ambition to build a business on and racehorses, and the two are not always compatible'. I am such a scale, few novices can have entered the game with such convinced that some yearlings are overfed during [sales] prep, informed instincts. So how did which could well be jeopardising cattle help her see things, as an future athletic performance. [So] outsider, that might elude those I ONLY GET PLEASURE FROM IT I am never afraid to buy a small schooled in the conventions of yearling, providing my criteria bloodstock? BECAUSE I’VE DONE IT MYSELF. I are met and she is athletic." One lesson she had learned DIDN’T WANT TO RELY ON OTHERS. Going against the herd, then, was that bulls must earn their Drew has now had over 100 Bridget Drew stripes by results sampled on a winners and realised nearly ,1 reliable scale. Young bulls have million in prizemoney. And she to cover enough cows to get 200 has meanwhile developed a progeny to a first lactation; in mechanism to make each new the meantime, they are laid off cycle sustainable-dividing her for three years. Only those with stock performing to a high operation into Mildmay Farm and Stud, and Mildmay enough standard will then be brought back to breeding. So Drew Bloodstock. The latter serves primarily as a vehicle to part-lease will never be misled by flash-in-the- dividends for a sire; and yearlings for their racing careers. will always seek runs on the board, or solid breeding, from both sides of a family tree. Cont. p8 TDN EUROPE/INTERNATIONAL • PAGE 8 OF 12 • THETDN.COM THURSDAY • 31 MAY, 2018

Breeder Drew Going Against The Herd Cont. Perfect Clarity herself was a case in point. She is owned by Drew, her son Nick and her daughter Pippa. David Keast, who boards four horses at Mildmay, leased a half-share; and otherwise there was just one lucky investor who punted ,3,750 per season to lease an eighth of the filly for two years. (For the initial period of which, incidentally, Perfect Clarity was readied MAGICAL OUT OF OAKS, RAIN HITS EPSOM for Cox by Patrick Chamings.) While the leaseholders have no equity in the filly, they stand to bank their share of a Classic purse, along with any other prizemoney the filly earns this year. Drew is reconciled to the likelihood that retaining Perfect Clarity for the broodmare band will prove an unaffordable luxury. It has, after all, become a major enterprise: up to 15 in training every year, plus 10 or 12 broodmares, and sundry foals and yearlings. It wasn't planned that way, and Drew has needed moments of luck like everyone else. Perfect Tribute, for instance, was a foal-share until Drew bought out Darley for just ,3,000 after she had been kicked in a Newmarket paddock. After setting her two track records, she was ultimately sold for

340,000gns. And Drew has no doubt that Perfect Clarity would Magic Wand is one of five Ballydoyle runners never have fallen within reach had she been presented in Book slated to take part in the Oaks | Racingfotos.com 2, as her pedigree might have warranted. But much of the impetus, equally, Drew has generated Friday=s G1 Investec Oaks has changed shape with the news herself-with her curiosity, her educated instinct, her ability to that Magical (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}) will sidestep the race due to give fresh answers to fresh questions. Tuesday=s setback and the ground is now riding officially Asoft@ "Well I do everything in a business-like way, or like to think I after a torrent struck Epsom on Tuesday night. That shift in do," she shrugs. "Even at my age, I tend to take the attitude you conditions also led to the withdrawal of Sunderland Holdings= either go forwards or backwards; you don't stand still. We've Listed Haras de Bouquetot Fillies= Trial S. winner Sea of Class just put in an aqua-treadmill, for instance, to help the horses fill (Ire) ( {Ire}), leaving nine to go post for the fillies= their top line.@ Classic. Magical was found to have filling on the inside of a joint, "I only get pleasure from it all-enormous pleasure-because I've which means that Ryan Moore will now partner the Listed done it myself. I didn't want to rely on others. When I didn't Cheshire Oaks winner Magic Wand (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}), one of know anything at all about it, I came up with those criteria. five trained at Ballydoyle. Horses related to other good ones, rather than one-offs. I don't Clerk of the course Andrew Cooper said on Wednesday know how I came to it, but it seemed to work quite well. So morning, AI don=t think anywhere was predicted 20mm in our we've stuck with it.@ neck of the woods yesterday. Probably our latest forecast had "Last year was a really, really bad year. I lost my husband, two been suggesting five or six. It=s the volumes you might get that is dogs and four horses. But this year, so far, has been much the uncertainty. If it can be from five to 25 millimetres you can=t better-and hopefully it will stay that way on Friday." judge it. Rain started 10:30 in the morning yesterday when we (Return to story p1) had about four or five millimetres. After a lull, it did pep up and kicked in about 5 p.m. By the end of the night we had 21 millimetres in the day as a whole. The bulk of that was in the late afternoon.@ Cooper said he is expecting the Derby festival to be staged on Follow the TDN staff on Twitter Thoroughbred Daily News ground with at least some ease and added, AIt=s been dry since midnight. It=s been overcast this morning and should stay dry. It might brighten up later on. There=s definitely a risk of showers @garykingTDN @kelseynrileyTDN @collingsberry tomorrow and some could be heavy. After that it looks dry for @DaithiHarvey @EquinealTDN @HLAndersonTDN Friday and Saturday.@ Cont. p9 TDN EUROPE/INTERNATIONAL • PAGE 9 OF 12 • THETDN.COM THURSDAY • 31 MAY, 2018

Magical Out of Oaks, Rain Hits Epsom Cont. the calendar. After that, the [G1] Sussex S. [on Aug. 1] is the race He said, ATemperatures will be in the low to mid-20s so we will consider heading for." hopefully a couple of quite pleasant days. It=s definitely soft Romanised is one of 46 horses nominated for Goodwood=s ground. Any appreciable rain tomorrow and we=d be staying Sussex S., part of the five-day Qatar Goodwood Festival. soft. If we get the lower end of it, we will very slowly be drying Warrior (Jpn) (Deep Impact {Jpn}), who won the G1 English 2000 out back towards good-to-soft. While there is rain in the Guineas at Newmarket in the beginning of May and Olmedo (Fr) forecast, so the likelihood is we will go into Friday on soft (Declaration of War), who won the French equivalent, are also ground. The best you=d be looking at would be good-to-soft at nominated to the £1-million one-mile event. the end of the week.@ Said Condon, "The Qatar Sussex S. is a race we have on our It is the same situation across the sea at Chantilly, where minds at the minute. He would have to improve again but, with Sunday=s G1 QIPCO Prix du Jockey Club will have an extra player natural progression, you would think he can. It is not a purely after Godolphin=s Key Victory (Ire) (Teofilo {Ire}) was speculative entry and is a race that carries great prestige. He is a supplemented on Wednesday. The going was measured at 3.7, horse that needs a good, strong gallop and that is something we or soft, on Wednesday morning after 28 millimetres of rain in 48 might get at Goodwood. His Irish 2000 Guineas win was brilliant. hours. He is a horse that isn't short of talent and he just needed it to come together in his races.@

ROMANISED POINTING TO ASCOT FIRST-SEASON SIRES WITH RUNNERS

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Battle of Marengo (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}), Ballyhane Stud 67 foals of racing age/2 winners/0 black-type winners 16:40-LINGFIELD PARK, 6f, IZVESTIA (GB) i7,500 Goffs November Foals Sale 2016; i18,000 Goffs Sportsman's Yearling Sale 2017 Heeraat (Ire) (Dark Angel {Ire}), Mickley Stud

Romanised | Racing Post 72 foals of racing age/1 winner/0 black-type winners 18:10-CHELMSFORD CITY, 6f, FREED FROM DESIRE (GB) G1 Irish 2000 Guineas hero Romanised (Ire) (Holy Roman 2,858gns Tattersalls Ireland Ascot Sept. Yearling Sale 2017; Emperor {Ire}) is headed toward Royal Ascot, where, all being ,10,000 Goffs UK 2yo Breeze-Up Sale 2018 well, he will contest the G1 St. James=s Palace S. on June 19. The Kuroshio (Aus) (Exceed And Excel {Aus}), Overbury Stud Robert Ng colourbearer signed off with a runner-up 21 foals of racing age/2 winners/0 black-type winners performance in the G3 Solario S. at Sandown in September 14:00-HAMILTON PARK, 5f, BIG ACE (GB) before running sixth in his sophomore bow, the Listed Tetrarch ,15,000 Goffs UK Silver Yearling Sale 2017 S. on May 7 prior to his May 26 Classic score. "Romanised is in great form following his victory in the Irish Moohaajim (Ire) (Cape Cross {Ire}), Rathbarry Stud 2000 Guineas and has come out of the race really well,@ said Co. 32 foals of racing age/0 winners/0 black-type winners Kildare-based trainer Ken Condon. "I need to talk to the owners, 18:10-CHELMSFORD CITY, 6f, PROBABILITY (GB) but Romanised delighted us at the weekend and we are thinking i1,000 Goffs November Foals Sale 2016; i5,500 Goffs Open about running him next in the St James's Palace S. at Royal Yearlings HIT Sale 2017; ,10,000 Goffs UK Doncaster 2yo Ascot. It would be a nice race to target and it fits in really well in Breeze-Up Sale 2018 TDN EUROPE/INTERNATIONAL • PAGE 10 OF 12 • THETDN.COM THURSDAY • 31 MAY, 2018

First-Season Sires With Runners Cont. Morpheus (GB) (Oasis Dream {GB}), Tally-Ho Stud 107 foals of racing age/1 winner/0 black-type winners FRANCE 2-FAIRYHOUSE, 6f, JOZA (IRE) i22,000 Goffs Orby Yearling Sale 2017 Anodin (Ire) (Anabaa), Haras du Quesnay 2-FAIRYHOUSE, 6f, POSH HOLLY (IRE) 100 foals of racing age/1 winner/0 black-type winners i19,000 RNA Tattersalls Ireland Flat Breeding Stock Sale 2016; 4-LYON PARILLY, 1200m, BRAMYHTO (FR) i15,000 Goffs Sportsman's Yearling Sale 2017; 22,858gns RNA i4,000 RNA Arqana Deauville October Yearlings 2017 Tattersalls Ireland Ascot 2yo Breeze Up Sale 2018 Garswood (GB) (Dutch Art {GB}), Cheveley Park Stud 74 foals of racing age/0 winners/0 black-type winners 4-LYON PARILLY, 1200m, CALA TARIDA (GB) Rosendhal (Ire) (Indian Ridge {Ire}), 4 foals of racing age/0 winners/0 black-type winners Wednesday=s Results: 4-LYON PARILLY, 1200m, RONAZZA ONE (FR) 1st-Ripon, ,6,000, Cond, 5-30, 2yo, 5fT, 1:00.10, g/f. Slade Power (Ire) (Dutch Art {GB}), Kildangan Stud LIFE OF RILEY (GB) (c, 2, Showcasing {GB}--Swan Wings {GB}, by 99 foals of racing age/1 winner/0 black-type winners Bahamian Bounty {GB}), who was fifth on debut at Hamilton 12 4-LYON PARILLY, 1200m, OH MY OH MY (IRE) days previously, stalked the leading duo throughout the early i47,000 Tattersalls Ireland September Yearlings 2017; stages. Earning the lead with approaching the furlong marker, 38,000gns RNA Tattersalls Craven Breeze-Up Sale 2018 the 6-1 shot stayed on to score by 1 1/2 lengths from Rockin Roy (Ire) (Fast Company {Ire}). The dam is a half to the useful listed- placed sprinter Texas Gold (GB) (Cadeaux Genereux {GB}) and the G3 Nell Gwyn S. and G3 Princess Margaret S. winner Scarlet Runner (GB) (Night Shift). Sales history: 60,000gns Ylg >17 TAOCT. Lifetime Record: 2-1-0-0, $5,143. Video, sponsored by Fasig-Tipton. O-Ontoawinner, Strecker & Burke; B-Coln Valley Stud (GB); T-Karl Richard Burke.

1st-Nottingham, ,6,000, Mdn, 5-30, 2yo, f, 5f 8yT, 1:02.69, sf. GOSPEL (GB) (f, 2, Holy Roman Emperor {Ire}--Heavenly Sound {GB}, by Street Cry {Ire}) broke in rear and chased the leaders in 10th initially. Rowed along inside the two pole, the 11-4 second Anodin aims for winner number two on Thursday | Haras du Quesnay choice entered the final furlong in fifth and was ridden out to deny Vena d=Amore (Ire) (Exceed and Excel {Aus}) by a neck on the line. Half to a yearling filly by Bated Breath (GB), she is the IRELAND first scorer produced by a winning daughter of the dual stakes- Alhebayeb (Ire) (Dark Angel {Ire}), Tara Stud placed Helena Molony (Ire) (Sadler=s Wells), herself a full-sister 128 foals of racing age/0 winners/0 black-type winners to MG1SW sire and dual US champion grass horse High 2-FAIRYHOUSE, 6f, SALTILLO (IRE) Chaparral (Ire) and G2 Dante S. victor and GI S. i21,000 Tattersalls Ireland September Yearlings 2017 runner-up Black Bear Island (Ire). Sales history: 26,000gns Wlg Gale Force Ten (GB) (Oasis Dream {GB}), Irish National Stud >16 TATFOA; 27,000gns Ylg >17 TAOCT; 75,000gns 2yo >18 98 foals of racing age/0 winners/0 black-type winners TATBRE. Lifetime Record: 1-1-0-0, ,3,881. Video, sponsored by 2-FAIRYHOUSE, 6f, MISTER KIPLING (IRE) Fasig-Tipton. i4,200 Goffs November Foals Sale 2016; i12,500 Goffs 1ST-TIME STARTER. O-Mrs M V Magnier Mrs J Magnier Mrs P February Mixed Sale 2017; i12,500 Goffs Sportsman's Yearling Shanahan; B-Newsells Park Stud (GB); T-Mick Channon. Sale 2017 TDN EUROPE/INTERNATIONAL • PAGE 11 OF 12 • THETDN.COM THURSDAY • 31 MAY, 2018

British Report Cont. launched his bid at the eighth pole and was ridden out to assert ADDITIONAL MAIDEN WINNERS: by 3/4 of a length from Lipstick (GB) (Kendargent {Fr}). He is the Elerfaan (Ire), g, 4, Shamardal--Gorband, by Woodman. first winner produced by a half-sister to GI Hollywood Derby Beverley, 5-30, 7f 96yT, 1:33.45. B-T Molan (IRE). *100,000gns victor Seek Again (Speightstown) and G3 Jebel Ali Mile winner Ylg >15 TATYEA; ,5,000 3yo >17 GOYHIT. **1/2 to Europa Point Treble Jig (Gone West), themselves out of GI Yellow Ribbon S. (Ire) (Rock of Gibraltar {Ire}), MG1SW-SAf, $295,454; and heroine Light Jig (GB) (Danehill). The bay is kin to a yearling filly Harbour Watch (Ire), GSW-Eng. by City Zip and his dam was bred to last year. Sales history: $45,000 Ylg >16 KEEJAN; $80,000 RNA Ylg >16 KEESEP; $60,000 Ylg >16 FTKOCT; i120,000 2yo >17 GBMBR. Lifetime Record: 2-1-1-0, i17,500. Video, sponsored by Fasig- Tipton. Wednesday=s Results: O-MMM Stable FR, Alessandro & Giuseppe Botti; B-Oliver S Tait 3rd-Gowran, i19,500, Mdn, 5-30, 3yo, 9f 100yT, 2:02.33, g/f. & Mme Oliver S Tait (KY); T-Alessandro & Giuseppe Botti. MAZZURI (IRE) (f, 3, Raven=s Pass--Essexford {Ire} {SP-Ire}, by Raised & Sold by Brookdale for Olly Tait Spinning World), narrowly denied when second on her racecourse bow over 10 furlongs at Cork May 18, held a slender lead from the outset. Challenged by Elysian Plains (Ire) (Elusive Pimpernel) inside the final two furlongs, the 11-10 market leader whose useful dam is a relative of the GI Beverly D. S. and 2nd-Fontainebleau, i25,000, Mdn, 5-30, 3yo, f, 8fT, 1:43.70, g/s. G1 Irish Champion S. heroine Timarida (Ire) (Kalaglow {GB}) was FRANKEL LIGHT (IRE) (f, 3, Frankel {GB}--Mambo Light headed for a period close home but rallied to prevail by a short {MGSP-Ger}, by Kingmambo), a May 8 debut runner-up over head. Sales history: 20,000gns RNA Wlg >15 TATFOA. Lifetime this trip at Saint-Cloud last time, broke well and set a modest Record: 2-1-1-0, $18,579. Video, sponsored by Fasig-Tipton. tempo from flagfall in this return. Holding sway throughout, the O-Britesavers Limited; B-Mr T. Jones (IRE); T-Willie McCreery. 7-10 chalk came under pressure when threatened by Version Toujours (Fr) (Le Havre {Ire}) with 300 metres remaining and 4th-Gowran, i15,000, Cond, 5-30, 3yo/up, f, 9f 100yT, 2:02.23, g/f. was ridden out late to comfortably account for that rival by two ESPERE (IRE) (f, 3, Elusive Pimpernel--Convent Girl {Ire} {SP- lengths. She becomes the fourth scorer produced by MGSP dual Eng}, by Bishop of Cashel {GB}), who scored on debut at German stakes winner Mambo Light (Kingmambo), herself a Killarney May 15, sat third initially. Tackling New To Town (Ire) daughter of G1 Prix Marcel Boussac second Piquetnol (Private ( {Ire}) with 1 1/2 furlongs remaining, the 11-10 Account), and she is a half-sister to Listed Grand Prix du Nord favourite stayed on to record an authoritative 4 3/4-length and Listed Prix Jacques Laffitte third Le Juge (Ire) (Dansili {GB}), success. The winner is a half-sister to the listed scorer Bible the 2-year-old colt Fearless Warrior (Fr) (Sea the Stars {Ire}) and Black (Ire) (Big Bad Bob {Ire}) out of a granddaughter of the GSW a yearling filly by Siyouni (fr). Sales history: 360,000gns RNA Ylg Aim For the Top (Irish River {Fr}). Convent Girl also has a 2-year- >16 TATOCT. Lifetime Record: 2-1-1-0, i17,500. Video, old filly by Palavicini and a yearling colt by Tamayuz (GB). sponsored by Fasig-Tipton. Lifetime Record: 2-2-0-0, $25,366. Video, sponsored by O/B-Rashit Shaykhutdinov (IRE); T-Francis-Henri Graffard. Fasig-Tipton. O-Anamoine Limited; B-Windflower Overseas Holdings Inc (IRE); 5th-Fontainebleau, i25,000, Mdn, 5-30, unraced 3yo, f, 11fT, T-Ger Lyons. 2:18.10, g/s. BOISSEY (FR) (c, 3, Iffraaj {GB}--Banyu Dewi {Ger} {SW & GSP-Ger, MGSP-US, $127,631}, by Poliglote {GB}) was away in third and improved one spot after the initial shuffling. Gaining a narrow advantage approaching the final quarter mile, the 83-10 Wednesday=s Results: chance stayed on strongly under continued coaxing thereafter 3rd-Fontainebleau, i25,000, Mdn, 5-30, 3yo, c/g, 8fT, 1:40.60, g/s. to prevail by 1 1/4 lengths from Agosto (Ire) (Nathaniel {Ire}). He MERISI (c, 3, Elusive Quality--Make Light, by ), is the latest foal and sixth winner for MGSP Listed Kronimus- who was debut second going 7 1/2 panels at Deauville last time Rennen victress Banyu Dewi (Ger) (Poliglote {GB}), herself a half- Mar. 1, was positioned in rear from the outset of this turf bow. sister to three black-type performers headed by MGSW sire Making stealthy headway in the straight, the 41-5 chance Banyumanik (Ire) (Perugino). Cont. p12 TDN EUROPE/INTERNATIONAL • PAGE 12 OF 12 • THETDN.COM THURSDAY • 31 MAY, 2018

5th-Fontainebleau Cont. The chestnut is a half-brother to MGSW G1 Gold Cup and G1 Prix du Cadran third Brigantin (Cozzene), G3 Prix de Guiche runner-up Nobel Winner (Fr) (Grand Slam) and Listed Prix de Bagatelle and Listed Prix Charles Laffitte runner-up Nuit Wednesday=s Result: d=Amour (Fr) (Azanour {Ire}). Sales history: i130,000 Ylg >16 SAKITAMA HAI-Listed (Jpn-G2, NAR), ¥55,700,000 ARAUG. Lifetime Record: 1-1-0-0, i12,500. Video, sponsored (US$511,042/£384,589/€438,812), Urawa, 5-30, 4yo/up, by Fasig-Tipton. 1400m, 1:26.20, gd. 1ST-TIME STARTER. O-Gerard Augustin-Normand; B-SNIG 1--SUCCESS ENERGY (JPN), 123, c, 4, Kinshasa no Kiseki (Aus) Elevage (FR); T-Pia Brandt. 1st Dam: Success Ai Ni (Jpn), by Jungle Pocket (Jpn) 2nd Dam: Our Miss Legs, by Deputy Minister 4th-Fontainebleau, i25,000, Mdn, 5-30, unraced 3yo, f, 11fT, 3rd Dam: Colonial Waters, by 2:20.30, g/s. 1ST BLACK-TYPE WIN. O-Tetsu Takashima; B-Taniguchi Farm SUNNY DREAM (GB) (f, 3, Oasis Dream {GB}--February Sun {GB} (Jpn); T-Yoshihito Kitade; J-Kohei Matsuyama; ¥31,000,000. {GSW-Ger}, by Monsun {Ger}) was well away to lead after the Lifetime Record: 11-6-1-0. early strides of this unveiling. Headed on the home turn, the 2--Kitasan Mikazuki (Jpn), 126, h, 8, by King Halo (Jpn)--Kitasan 15-2 chance came under pressure to re-engage at the quarter- Jewelry (Jpn), by Sakura Bakushin-O (Jpn). O-Ono Shoji Inc.; mile marker and was ridden out in the closing stages to score by B- Hironaka (Jpn); -10,850,000. a length from Shomaria (Fr) (Exceed and Excel {Aus}). Half to the 3--Ensemble Life (Jpn), 123, h, 5, Adjudicating--Gaily Angel, by 2-year-old filly Sunny Frankel (GB) (Frankel {GB}), the homebred Dancing Brave. O-Satoshi Maeda ; B-U.M.A.Inc. ; -6,200,000. bay is the first winner produced by G3 Badener Stuten-Preis Margins: NO, 4, NK; Odds: 1.80, 7.50, 113.50. VIDEO. heroine February Sun (GB) (Monsun {GB}), herself a kin to GSW G1 Prix du Jockey Club runner-up Best Name (GB) (King=s Best) and Listed Finale S. victor Heirloom (GB) (Dansili {GB}). Her AUSTRALIAN-BRED WINNERS second dam is GI Garden City Breeders= Cup H. runner-up Flawly > (GB) (Old Vic {GB}). Sales history: 150,000gns RNA Ylg 16 IN HONG KONG: TAOCT. Lifetime Record: 1-1-0-0, i12,500. Video, sponsored by Infinity Endeavour (Aus), g, 4, Fastnet Rock (Aus)--Black Mamba Fasig-Tipton. (NZ) (GISW-US, $980,763), by Black Minnaloushe. Sha Tin, 1ST-TIME STARTER. O/B-Rashit Shaykhutdinov (GB); 5-30, Hcp. (A$221k), 1200m (AWT), 1:08.80. B-Evergreen Rich T-Jean-Claude Rouget. Pty Ltd (NSW). VIDEO Speedy King (Aus), g, 4, Toorak Toff (Aus)--County Tale (Aus), by Tale of the Cat. Sha Tin, 5-30, Hcp. (A$221k), 1200m (AWT), 1:08.90. B-Saconi Thoroughbreds (Vic). *A$7,000 Wlg >14 INGGSW; A$17,000 Ylg >15 MMADE. VIDEO

ADDITIONAL MAIDEN WINNER: I Am What I Am (Ger), f, 3, Adlerflug (Ger)--Intigra (Ger) (SW-Ity IN OTHER NEWS... & SP-Ger), by Tiger Hill (Ire). Baden-Baden, 5-30, 8fT, 1:43.00. A Daily Roundup of Racing Articles in Non-Industry Media B-Gestut Haus Ittlingen (GER). *i28,000 RNA Ylg >16 BBASEP. Sistema founder spends his fortune on those who can=t help themselves Retired businessman Brendan Lindsay has millions to donate, but he won=t fund any business that isn=t based in EUROPEAN-BRED WINNERS New Zealand. Madison Reidy, www.stuff.co.nz

AUSTRALIAN GROUP 1 RACES B 2017/2018 IN HONG KONG: Date Race Track Glorious Artist (Ire), g, 4, Zoffany (Ire)--Queenie Keen (Ire), by June 2 Queensland Oaks Eagle Farm Refuse To Bend (Ire). Sha Tin, 5-30, Hcp. (,126k/i143k), June 9 Stradbroke H. Eagle Farm 1650m (AWT), 1:38.20. B-N Hartery. *i35,000 Wlg >14 J J Atkins S. Eagle Farm GOFNOV; 60,000gns Ylg >15 TATOCT. VIDEO June 23 Tattersall=s Tiara S. Eagle Farm GROUP ENTRIES

Thursday, Baden-Baden, Germany, post time: 4.35 p.m. 40TH BADENER MEILE (POWERED BY GELDERMANN PRIVATSEKTKELLEREI)-G2, €70,000, 3yo/up, 8fT SC PP HORSE SIRE JOCKEY TRAINER WT 1 12 Wonnemond (Ger) Areion (Ger) Ganbat Smrczek 131 2 3 Be My Sheriff (Ger) Lawman (Fr) Starke Rulec 128 3 10 Degas (Ger) Exceed and Excel (Aus) de Vries Klug 128 4 4 Fulminato (Ger) Excelebration (Ire) Pietsch Suborics 128 5 6 Grants Pass (Ire) Cape Blanco (Ire) Bojko Rulec 128 6 9 Mc Queen (Fr) Silver Frost (Ire) Hellyn Almenrader 128 7 2 Palace Prince (Ger) Areion (Ger) Minarik Carvalho 128 8 7 Savile Row (Fr) Ransom O'War Clijmans Mader 128 9 8 Stormy Antarctic (GB) Stormy Atlantic Cosgrave Walker 128 10 5 Va Bank (Ire) Archipenko (Ire) Murzabayev Wohler 128 11 11 Folie de Louise (Fr) Tin Horse (Ire) Forest Bocskai 125 12 1 Peace in Motion Hat Trick (Jpn) Lerner Hickst 125

Friday, Epsom, Britain, post time: 4.30 p.m. INVESTEC OAKS-G1, £500,000, 3yo, f, 12f 6yT SC PP HORSE SIRE JOCKEY TRAINER WT 1 6 Bye Bye Baby (Ire) Galileo (Ire) Lordan A O'Brien 126 2 2 Ejtyah (GB) Frankel (GB) Spencer Simcock 126 3 5 Flattering (Ire) Galileo (Ire) Beggy A O'Brien 126 4 3 Forever Together (Ire) Galileo (Ire) D O’Brien A O'Brien 126 5 7 Give And Take (GB) Cityscape (GB) Doyle Haggas 126 6 4 I Can Fly (GB) Fastnet Rock (Aus) Heffernan A O'Brien 126 7 9 Magic Wand (Ire) Galileo (Ire) Moore A O'Brien 126 8 8 Perfect Clarity (GB) Nathaniel (Ire) Kirby Cox 126 9 1 Wild Illusion (GB) Dubawi (Ire) Buick Appleby 126

Friday, Epsom, Britain, post time: 3.10 p.m. INVESTEC CORONATION CUP-G1, £420,000, 4yo/up, 12f 6yT SC PP HORSE SIRE JOCKEY TRAINER WT 1 6 Cracksman (GB) Frankel (GB) Dettori Gosden 126 2 3 Hawkbill K Kitten's Joy Buick Appleby 126 3 2 Idaho (Ire) Galileo (Ire) Moore A O'Brien 126 4 4 Salouen (Ire) Canford Cliffs (Ire) de Sousa Kirk 126 5 1 Windstoss (Ger) Shirocco (Ger) de Vries Klug 126 6 5 Yucatan (Ire) Galileo (Ire) D O’Brien A O'Brien 126

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