DAILY SUNDAY, JANUARY 31, 2016 WWW.BLOODHORSE.COM IN TODAY’S EDITION CATHRYN SOPHIA BOOSTS 2YO ELASTICITY 3 CAL-BRED SMOKEY IMAGE ON DERBY TRAIL 4 SUNNY RIDGE, SASSICAIA SCORE AT AQUEDUCT 4 CONSIGNORS HOPE NEW DATE PROVES PROFITABLE 5 ZABEEL KEEPING SIR IVOR LINE ALIVE 6 RESULTS 7 COGLIANESE PHOTOS ENTRIES 13 Mohaymen puts away his rivals easily in the grade II Holy Bull LEADING LISTS 15 ALVARADO'S QUICK THINKING AIDS MOHAYMEN By Claire Novak ockey Junior Alvarado has ridden Mohaymen to Jfour straight victories, and his confidence in the undefeated Tapit colt shows. A smart ride by Alvarado in the Jan. 30 Holy Illinois Thoroughbred Breeders Bull Stakes (gr. II) guided the Shadwell runner to a and Owners Foundation geared-down 3 1/2-length victory in a solid 1:42.07 Online Stallion Season Auction for 1 1/16 miles on a fast track. Kiaran McLaughlin-trained Mohaymen sat third as February 1-7 longshot Perfect Saint crept the first quarter in :24.64 with Greenpointcrusader to his outside. Sensing the Featuring 44 Stallions including: tempo, Alvarado sent his mount between horses to Two Step Salsa, Smarty Jones, Dialed In, take control as the half went in :49.06. American Lion, Midshipman, Sidney’s Candy "He didn't break as well as I wanted him to, but I and Overanalyze. knew it wasn't going to be a problem. Mentally, he's so mature," Alvarado said. The auction will take place at: "I just waited and waited to see what Johnny http://www.thoroughlybred.com/sites/itbof/ (Velazquez aboard Greenpointcrusader) was going to For additional information, click do. He left me a little room... he didn't come inside http://www.itbof.net and the horse in front was backing up, so I said, 'I've got the best horse. It's time to make my own move.' After that, it was pretty much over." 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CATHRYN SOPHIA BOOSTS 2YO ELASTICITY NYQUIST WORKS, BEHOLDER TAKES TO By Claire Novak TRACK With up to two inches of rain expected Jan. 31 in Southern California, athryn Sophia's 5 1/2-length victory in Gulf- trainer Doug O'Neill moved Nyquist's stream's $200,000 Forward Gal (gr. II) Jan. 30 regular Sunday work up a day to Jan. 30, C and the champion 2-year-old male of 2015 gave a nice boost to her second dam's 2-year-old impressed on the track once again. filly, Elasticity. Through Bobfeld Bloodstock, Machmer Hall SMART CALL TOPS MALE RIVALS IN J&B Farm bought Elasticity (Paddy O'Prado), a daughter MET Mare Smart Call downed the favorites of the grade II-winning Unbridled mare Belter- when she ran out an emphatic winner ra, for $10,000 from breeder Robert Manfuso's against males in the Jan. 30 J&B Met (SAF-I) Chanceland Farm at the 2015 Fasig-Tipton Midlan- at Kenilworth. tic fall yearling sale. PRICEDTOPERFECTION GAME IN Cathryn Sophia, a Street Boss filly now 3-for-3 SWEETEST CHANT Trainer Chad Brown with a combined win margin of 34 1/2 lengths, is struck for a fifth consecutive win in the out of Belterra's daughter Sheave (Mineshaft). $100,000 Sweetest Chant (gr. IIIT) when "It's such a beautiful female family," said Mach- Pricedtoperfection asserted herself late mer's Carrie Brogden. "This filly had an infection between rivals in the Jan. 30 race for 3-year- in her knee at the yearling sale, but she's really old fillies at Gulfstream Park good-looking. After we brought her back to Ken- tucky, she responded very well to antibiotics and DISCREETNESS, WHITMORE WORK FOR within 30 days her knee was back to normal. SOUTHWEST Smarty Jones Stakes winner "I bought her to be a long-term broodmare for Discreetness went five furlongs in 1:00 2/5 Jan. 30 at Oaklawn gearing up for the Feb. Machmer Hall, but now with the update she's slat- 15 Southwest Stakes (gr. III). Also working ed for the Maryland 2-year-old sale." BH toward the Southwest that morning was Whitmore. BLOOD-HORSE DAILY Download the FREE SUNDAY, JANUARY 31, 2016 PAGE 3 OF 15 smartphone app CAL-BRED SMOKEY IMAGE ON DERBY TRAIL By Jeremy Balan homebred California-bred chestnut wearing Ablinkers and with Victor Espinoza in the irons, broke away from the field to win the $250,000 Cali- fornia Cup Derby Jan. 30 at Santa Anita Park. Sound familiar? But Irvin Racing Stables' Smokey Image—who set the pace and cruised to an 8 1/2-length win in the 1 1/16-mile dirt test—has something over California Chrome, who emphatically announced his presence with a 5 1/2-length score in the 2014 edition. Smokey Image is undefeated. BENOIT PHOTOS Following his two-turn debut Saturday, the son Undefeated Smokey Image cruises to an 8 1/2 length victory of Southern Image is scheduled for the March 12 San Felipe (gr. 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"The Derby is the Derby," Servis said after Sunny COGLIANESE PHOTOS/JOE LABOZZETTA COGLIANESE PHOTOS/JOE Ridge wore down front-running Vorticity by three-quar- Sunny Ridge earned 10 Road to the Kentucky Derby points but it's not ters of a length. "But it is not engraved in stone." a certain target Later in the day sprinters took center stage in the $150,000 Toboggan Stakes (gr. III) where Sassicaia Contact us and jockey John Bisono courageously split horses (800) 582-5604 or (859) 278-2361 late to secure the neck victory in the six-furlong Comments, Story Ideas [email protected] test. Robert LaPenta's Sassicaia, a son of Bernardini, Advertising Questions topped the 2013 Fasig-Tipton Florida sale, fetching [email protected] $1.6 million. BH Customer Service © 2016 Blood-Horse LLC [email protected] BLOOD-HORSE DAILY Download the FREE SUNDAY, JANUARY 31, 2016 PAGE 4 OF 15 smartphone app Get prepared for upcoming sales. 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