FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 2019 TAKING STOCK: NEW ERA PLANNING TO BUILD NEW TRACK, CHURCHILL DOWNS WILL APPLY FOR TURFWAY DATES FOR PHIPPS STABLE by Bill Finley At Friday’s meeting of the Kentucky Horse Racing Commission, Churchill Downs will apply for the 2020 dates that had traditionally gone to Turfway Park. The story, which was broken by the Daily Racing Form’s Matt Hegarty, was later confirmed by Churchill Downs through a press release. Churchill’s plan is to build a new racetrack in Northern Kentucky that would likely replace Turfway. Churchill would race in the winter while the new facility is being built. The DRF said the new track could be ready to host some dates by 2021. Cont. p5 IN TDN EUROPE TODAY NO NAY NEVER FILLY BENEFITS FROM U.S. SOJOURN Dinny Phipps with 2005 GI Breeders’ Cup Distaff The Fozzy Stack-trained Yesterdaynomore (Ire) shipped winner Pleasant Home | Horsephotos from Ireland to break her maiden in Del Mar’s Juvenile Fillies Turf S. Click or tap here to go straight to TDN Europe. by Sid Fernando The iconic Phipps Stable is doing the unprecedented. For the first time, it is selling its entire crop of yearling colts. This is set to go down next week at the Keeneland September sale through Claiborne, as agent. No need to sound the alarm, however--Daisy Phipps Pulito, who co-owns the elite Claiborne-based operation with her mother, brother, and two sisters, said the stable is not going anywhere. Known for racing homebred colts and fillies by top-notch sires and out of mares from some of the most storied families in the Stud Book--most of them developed and nurtured over decades by various generations of Phippses--the family is breaking new ground so that it can grow the operation in other directions. “We just want to spread some risk,” she said. And she assuaged the fears of some inquiring minds on Twitter last week when she unequivocally tweeted: “We are not leaving. Phipps Stable is 100% committed to breed and race.” Pulito said the plan is to race the fillies and to keep improving the broodmare band with an occasional purchase or two, as the stable did a few years ago when it bought two well-bred yearling daughters of Tapit and Malibu Moon at Keeneland to introduce new blood into the broodmare band. 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You get a really nice colt like spreads our risk out a little bit, and it allows us, if we want to go Performer (Speightstown), for example. Really nice horse, he's to [Keeneland] November and buy a broodmare, we’ll have run three times, won twice and won the other day [at Saratoga, some money to do that with, or if we want to wait until next on Aug. 24]. If there was anybody else but us, their phones September and buy some fillies and put those in our broodmare would be ringing off the hook. ‘Can we buy a part of this horse, band when they’re done racing, it allows us to do that,” she said. can we get a piece of this horse?’ But nobody is calling us for a “We don’t have a blank checkbook anymore, so we do run this horse like that because no one knows that we’re interested in as a business, but we’re going to stay in it. We love it, and it’s doing that,” Pulito said. part of what we deal with in our everyday lives. I don’t ever see There’s a lot of fan interest in the Phipps Stable, however, that coming to an end.” because it’s the last of the great American homebreeding The Phippses have eight colts in the sale, three of them in dynasties. Pulito and her siblings Ogden ll, Samantha, and Lilly-- Book 1. “But we're not giving these colts away by any means,” the children of the late Ogden Mills “Dinny” Phipps and Ande Pulito warned. “There will be reserves set on them. We'll see Phipps--are the fifth generation of a racing family that came to what they go for. If it’s someone prominence with businessman we like [who buys one], and they and financier Ogden Mills, who want a partner, maybe we’ll stay raced horses in Europe with Lord in for a leg. And that’ll be great. Derby and won the vaunted There’s not a huge downside, Grand Prix de Paris in 1928 with right? And, you know, we’ll have Cri de Guerre when it was the partners to have some fun with. greatest race in France. The Prix I’m very excited about selling de l’Arc de Triomphe was just in these colts.” a fledgling state in 1928, but Having partners is another new Mills also won it that year with concept for the Phippses, Kantar. who’ve always gone it alone One of Mills’s daughters was save for the occasional cousin or Gladys Phipps, who established friend in a horse or two, but Wheatley Stable in 1926 with partnerships have become a her brother and raced, among sustainable model that’s many, many others, the commonplace nowadays at all outstanding racehorse and sire levels in the business, Daisy Phipps Pulito | Coady Photography Bold Ruler in the stable’s purple particularly at the top with expensive colts, and Pulito and her and gold silks. Her twin sister Beatrice, later Lady Granard, family are amenable to the idea of participating. “You have to inherited their father’s European stable and raced many fine change to stay current. Don’t you think that's the way the whole runners abroad in her name, including Bold Ruler’s champion thing is going? We're the only ones that don't [participate]. It’s Irish-bred son Bold Lad, not to be confused with Wheatley’s 2019, so maybe it's time for us to spread a little risk,” Pulito said. champion Bold Lad, also by Bold Ruler. Cont. p4 TDN HEADLINE NEWS • PAGE 4 OF 15 • THETDN.COM FRIDAY • SEPTEMBER 6, 2019 Gladys Phipps’s son Ogden Phipps was the father of Dinny stable’s Grade III winner Fire Away (War Front), Grade I winner Phipps and grandfather of Daisy Phipps Pulito and her siblings. and Lane's End first-crop sire Mr Speaker (Pulpit), and Charles Ogden Phipps introduced the Fipke’s homebred Grade I winner black silks and cherry cap of his Seeking the Soul (Perfect Soul grandfather Ogden Mills to the {Ire}). American turf in the 1930s Dinny Phipps also used the same (Mills’s partner Lord Derby’s silks as his father, but with cherry all-black silks with a white button cuffs, and his long list of notables and cap had no doubt been his included champions Inside inspiration) and raced too many Information (Private Account) and good horses to list, but among Smuggler (Unbridled) as well as them were Buckpasser (Tom G1 1000 Guineas winner Quick As Fool), Easy Goer (Alydar), and Lightning (Buckpasser)--all from Personal Ensign (Private Account).