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U.S. Senate Votes to End Horse Slaughter HEADLINE ...p. 2 NEWS For information about TDN, DELIVERED EACH NIGHT BY FAX AND FREE BY E-MAIL TO SUBSCRIBERS OF call 732-747-8060. www.thoroughbreddailynews.com THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 2005 KEENELAND GONE ‘WILD’ KEENELAND WEDNESDAY -- TOP YEARLINGS A colt by Wild Wonder earned top honors at Hip Sex Sire Dam Price Keeneland yesterday when John Brocklebank went to 3076 colt Wild Wonder Susie Do $270,000 $270,000 for the gray, who ($10,000 wnlg ‘04 KEENOV) was originally a $10,000 B-John Kerns (Ky) purchase by agent Chad Consigned by Taylor Made Sales Agency, Agent CLI Johnson at last year’s Purchased by John Brocklebank Keeneland November sale. 3066 colt Red Bullet Sookloozy $190,000 Hailing from the Taylor Made B-David B. Newcomb (Ca) Sales Agency consignment, Consigned by Darby Dan Farm, Agent for David B. Newcomb hip 3076 is out of the win- Purchased by Dapple Bloodstock ning Talinum mare Susie Do, 3238 colt Officer Electrostat $170,000 a half sister to stakes winner ($50,000 in utero ‘03 KEENOV) Milligan. Wild Wonder, who B-Dan Considine & Pine Lake Bloodstock (Ky) Wild Wonder Consigned by Gainesway, Agent VII Suzie Picou-Oldham stood the 2005 breeding season at Spendthrift Farm Purchased by Patricia B. Blass for $5,000, has been represented by two graded win- 3083 filly Forest Camp Tanja $145,000 B-Antrim Oaks (Fl) ners this year: siblings Fusaichi Rock Star and Wild Fit, Consigned by Eaton Sales, agent who captured the GII San Vicente S. and GI Del Mar Purchased by Richard Matlow, agent Debutante S., respectively. The sale, which set a new 3105 colt Include Value Added $135,000 world standard Monday when gross sales receipts B-Brereton C. Jones (Ky) passed the $324,904,300 mark, continued to roll on Consigned by Brereton C. Jones/Airdrie Stud, agent impressively yesterday, with average up more than 25 Purchased by Excel Bloodstock, LLC percent from last year, from $28,779 to $36,078. 3030 colt Honour and Glory Runaway Venus $130,000 Median also enjoyed a solid boost, from $23,000 to ($25,000 wnlg ‘04 KEENOV) $27,000--an increase of 17.4 percent--while gross B-Franks Farms (Ky) soared from $8,230,700 to $10,642,900. Keeneland Consigned by Dromoland Farm, Agent XXII September’s ninth session saw 16 yearlings sell for Purchased by Valley City Stables $100,000 or more, compared with nine in 2004. The 3299 colt Swain (Ire) Jane’s the Name $130,000 sale continues today at 10:00 a.m. B-Gainesway Thoroughbreds (Ky) Consigned by Gainesway, Agent X KEENELAND SEPTEMBER STATISTICS Purchased by Bruce Headley WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 21, 2005 KEENELAND SEPTEMBER STATISTICS WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 21, 2005 SESSION TOTALS 2005 2004 No. Offered 359 353 CUMULATIVE 2005 2004 No. Sold 295 286 No. Offered 3025 2,976 RNAs 64 67 No. Sold 2,353 2,274 % RNA 17.8% 19% RNAs 672 703 Gross $10,642,900 $8,230,700 % RNA 22.2% 23.6% Average (% change) $36,078 (+25.4%) $28,779 Gross $363,219,400 $305,647,100 Median (% change) $27,000 (+17.4%) $23,000 Average (% change) $154,364 (+14.8%) $134,409 www.keeneland.com Median (% change) $75,000 (+15.4%) $65,000 www.hillndalefarms.com TDN P HEADLINE NEWS • 9/22/05 • PAGE 2 of 2 “With the killer-buyers out of business, the various P N E W S T O D A Y P horse industries will be forced to take action to fund humane retirement for their horses,” Pikulski continued. U.S. SENATE VOTE ENDS HORSE SLAUGHTER “We know that the Thoroughbred industry feels the Following the example of their colleagues in the U.S. moral obligation to do so, as they supported an end to House of Representatives, the U.S. Senate voted 68 to slaughter, and we are confident we will be able to work 29 in favor of an amendment to bar federal funds from together to produce a means for the institutional fund- being used to facilitate the slaughter of horses on Tues- ing of Thoroughbred retirement so that all racehorses day, according to a release from the Society for Animal may lead dignified lives when their on-track careers Protective Legislation. Because the Food and Drug come to a close. It is clearly critical, however, that Administration requires that all meat to be consumed by those discussions begin now.” Supporters hope the vote in both the Senate and the House demonstrates humans be inspected by FDA inspectors, thus using the public and congressional support for a permanent federal funds, the measure effectively stops the slaugh- ban which could be achieved through the passage of ter of horses for human consumption, at least for the the American Horse Slaughter Prevention Act. "The following year. The amendment was introduced by Sen. time has come to put an end to the practice of slaugh- John Ensign (R-Nev.) and Sen. Robert C. Byrd tering horses in America," Sen. Ensign said. "Horses (D-W.Va.). The House approved a companion measure have an important role in the history of our country, on June 8, which also stops American horses from particularly in the West, and they deserve protection. being exported for slaughter abroad. The measure will As a senator and a veterinarian I am committed to now be presented before a conference committee, and doing what I can for these magnificent animals." The supporters anticipate that Congress will approve the American Horse Slaughter Prevention Act is sponsored initiative. Because the amendment is attached to an in the House by Reps. John Sweeney (R-N.Y.), John annual spending bill, it will only halt horse slaughter for Spratt (D-S.C.) and Ed Whitfield (R-Ky.) and is expected the next fiscal year, which begins Oct. 1. “To say we to be introduced shortly in the Senate by Sens. Ensign are thrilled is putting it mildly,” said Diana Pikulski, the and Mary Landrieu (D-La.). The Act would prohibit the Executive Director of the Thoroughbred Retirement transport, purchase, selling or donation of both wild Foundation, the oldest and largest equine rescue organi- and domestic horses to be slaughtered for human con- zation in the world, which currently provides lifetime sumption here and abroad. homes to over 1,100 retired Thoroughbreds. Thoroughbred Daily News is: Barry Weisbord President/Co-Publisher Join Keeneland, TOBA and the Sue Finley Vice President/Co-Publisher Andy Belfiore Editor-in-Chief Thoroughbred Charities of Alycia Borer Director of Advertising Jessica Martini Associate Editor America in helping the victims Alan Carasso Assistant Editor of Hurricane Katrina. Marie Kizenko Assistant Editor Christina Bossinakis Editorial Assistant To donate to the Hurricane Katrina Lucas Marquardt Writer/Reporter Disaster Relief Fund, go to... Steve Sherack Writer/Reporter Vicki Forbes Director of Customer Services www.keeneland.com/katrina.pdf Lia Kusch Advertising Assistant UNBEATEN 2-YEAR-OLD FOR GULCH Mr. Prospector S Jameela SORCERER’S STONE remains undefeated in 3 starts and sets a stakes record with his 8 1/2 length victory in the Graded Arlington-Washington Breeders’ Cup Futurity. Click here to see the chart Phone (859) 873-7300 • Fax (859) 873-3746 • E-mail: [email protected] • www.lanesend.com THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 2005 MIDWAY ROAD RETIRED TO LANE’S END Mul- FORMER NYRA CLERK OF THE SCALES tiple graded stakes winner Midway Road (Jade Hunter-- INDICTED Former New York Racing Association Fleet Road, by Magesterial) has been retired from racing racing officials Mario Sclafani and Braulio Baeza were and will begin his stud career next season at Lane’s End indicted yesterday for allegedly misreporting the Farm near Versailles, Kentucky. weights carried by jockeys in 67 races, including the GI He will stand for $5,000 live foal. Cigar Mile won by Lion Tamer, at Aqueduct, Belmont A Lane’s End homebred, the five- and Saratoga in 2004. Sclafani was the clerk of scales year-old won last year’s GIII and Baeza was his assistant. The indictments, which Fayette S. and set a Keeneland were announced yesterday by the office of New York track record for nine furlongs in State Attorney General Eliot Spitzer, were unsealed in 1:46 3/5 while winning the GIII Saratoga County Court. On Jan. 12, Sclafani and Baeza Ben Ali H. He was second in the were suspended indefinitely and have not worked at the 2003 GI Preakness S. and in the NYRA tracks since. Yesterday, they were fired. In the Midway Road B Straus 2004 GI Pimlico Special H. “He’s statement released by Spitzer's office, it was alleged a horse we intended to stand all that the jockeys were carrying anywhere from 7 to 15 along,” said Will Farish. “We’re very excited to have pounds more than the weights reported to the public. him return.” On the board in 11 of 17 races, Midway "These two officials basically had one job to do and Road retires with seven victories and earnings of that was to ensure that the weight of the jockeys was $695,060. The bay, produced by the stakes-winning recorded accurately and then disclosed to bettors," Fleet Road is a half brother to three stakes winners: the Spitzer said in a statement. "Instead, they misled the good sprinter Tanja (Allen’s Prospect), the Grade I- public and compromised the integrity of races run by placed Tuzia (Blushing John), and Shanghied (A.P. the NYRA." The scheme allegedly involved five jockeys Indy). “He’s a grand-looking colt,” Farish added. “He’s --Robby Albarado, Heberto Castillo Jr., Jose Santos, got good conformation, and he’s very correct in front.” Ariel Smith and Cornelio Velasquez.