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Visit the Breeders’ Cup Adds TDN Website: Juvenile Sprint www.thoroughbreddailynews.com P9 WEDNESDAY, JUNE 15, 2011 For information about TDN, call 732-747-8060. ‘CLIFFS’ ON TOP NO NEED TO ‘THINK’ Yesterday=s G1 Queen Anne S. was billed as a two- By now, the whole world knows all about So You horse race and that=s how it turned out, with the Heffer Think (NZ) (High Chaparral {Ire}), and the Australian Syndicate, Michael champion dominates the second day of Royal Ascot as Tabor and Derrick he takes in the G1 Prince of Wales=s S. Formerly a Smith=s Canford Cliffs Group 2, this race has quickly been (Ire) (Tagula {Ire}) re-invented as one of the prevailing ahead of international stage=s premier events, Goldikova (Ire) and the new Ballydoyle incumbent (Anabaa) in a thrilling would sit easy alongside the names renewal. Having lost of Dubai Millennium (GB), Nayef, favoritism to the Rakti (GB), Azamour (Ire), Ouija racingpost.com/photos Wertheimers= champion Board (GB), Duke of Marmalade (Ire) in the final seconds and Manduro (Ger) on the honor roll. prior to this match, the 11-8 shot was always traveling Like the fellow Aidan O=Brien trainee strongly in her slipstream as the pair followed the Duke of Marmalade, So You Think Aidan O’Brien strong early tempo. Ousting last year=s heroine and the collected the G1 Tattersalls Gold Horsephotos 5-4 market leader with 100 yards remaining, the bay Cup in facile fashion en route. While asserted to win by a length under Richard Hughes. AI he faces stiffer competition than in that May 22 have told everyone he=s the best horse I=ve ever ridden Curragh contest, his trainer=s confidence shines and I=m sure he can beat whatever is put in front of through. AHe has had two easy runs and we had just him,@ Hughes enthused. Cont. p2-3 been playing with him at home for them,@ O=Brien said. AThis is another jump up, with more serious contenders BOW TO HIM to run against, so his work has stepped up a little more Peerless in the 2000 Guineas, Frankel (GB) (Galileo seriously since, and it will be interesting to see how he {Ire}) offered slightly more hope to his rivals in goes. He=s a big cruiser, so it=s hard to say what his yesterday=s G1 St James=s Palace S., but was still in exact trip is, but you wouldn=t be afraid to run him over command where it mattered to complete the notable a mile on what we=ve seen at home.@ Cont. p12-13 double under Tom Queally. At 3-10, Khalid Abdullah=s unbeaten colt was sent off the shortest-priced favorite since Tudor Minstrel (GB) in 1947 and, after being settled in initially, was asked to lengthen passing halfway. Taking over racingpost.com/photos from his pacemaker Rerouted (Stormy Atlantic) on the turn, he was once again left to chart his own passage up the straight as Zoffany (Ire) (Dansili {GB}) closed the margin down to 3/4 of a length. Frankel=s win was a first in this race for his owner- breeder and a fourth for his trainer Sir Henry Cecil, who now has 73 Royal Ascot triumphs to his name. Tom A said he was very idle in the end, which is good as we can ride a race on him now,@ the recently knighted patron of Warren Place said. ANow he=s getting wiser, he thought he=d done enough like he did in the Guineas. Tom said he wasn=t at all tired.@ Cont. p3-4 P TDN HEADLINE NEWS • 6/15/11 • PAGE 2 of 18 • thoroughbreddailynews.com He missed this track=s G1 Queen Elizabeth II S. after FEATURE PRESENTATION • G1 QUEEN ANNE S. scoping badly in September, and an interest was sold to Michael Tabor and Derrick Smith. He justified that decision when returning to best Worthadd (Ire) (Dubawi {Ire}) in the G1 Lockinge S. at Newbury last time May 14. Moving with his customary gusto in rear early as Goldikova followed the pace cut out by her pacemaker Flash Dance (Ire) (Zamindar) and the aggressively ridden Cape Blanco (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}), he was hot on her heels as she moved to take over inside the final quarter. With Olivier Peslier--who rode two Tuesday, Royal Ascot, Britain pounds overweight--hard at work to shake off his QUEEN ANNE S.-G1, ,250,000, Ascot, 6-14, 4yo/up, attentions passing the furlong pole, the writing was on 1mT, 1:38.38, gd. the wall for the supermare, and Canford Cliffs was 1--CANFORD CLIFFS (IRE), 126, c, 4, by Tagula (Ire) firmly on top at the line as Goldikova kept putting up 1st Dam: Mrs Marsh (GB), by Marju (Ire) her typical game effort. AOlivier rode a terrific cat-and- 2nd Dam: Drei, by Lyphard mouse race, as I wasn=t going to kick until he did, and 3rd Dam: Triple Tipple, by Raise a Cup the quickest part of the race was the final two (i46,000 wnlg >07 GOFNOV; ,50,000 yrl >08 furlongs,@ Richard Hughes commented. AIdeally, I DONAUG). O-The Heffer Syndicate, Michael Tabor & wanted to be right behind her and, luckily, I ended up in Derrick Smith; B-S & S Hubbard Rodwell; T-Richard her slipstream. I have been confident about this horse Hannon; J-Richard Hughes; ,141,925. Lifetime since the first day I sat on him. He is amazing.@ Richard Record: Hwt 3yo -Ire & Eng, at 7-9.5f, G1SW-Ire, Hannon added, AGoldikova is obviously a brilliant mare, G1SP-Fr, 10-7-1-2, ,887,223. Werk Nick Rating: A++. but he=s a very good horse, so we had to take her on. It Click for the eNicks report & 5-cross pedigree. was the perfect race with two good pacemakers, and 2--Goldikova (Ire), 125, m, 6, Anabaa--Born Gold, by he has a real cruising speed and can quicken. He=s a Blushing Groom (Fr). O/B-Wertheimer & Frere; very special horse to us--these ones don=t come along T-Freddy Head; ,53,800. every day.@ That trainer=s son and assistant Richard 3--Cityscape (GB), 126, h, 5, Selkirk--Tantina, by Hannon Jr. added, AHe is probably the horse of a Distant View. O-Khalid Abdullah; B-Juddmonte Farms lifetime, and while Goldikova is becoming a legend Ltd; T-Roger Charlton; ,26,925. already, maybe he is going the same way. He seems Margins: 3/4, 1 3/4, 2 1/4. Odds: 11-8, 5-4, 14-1. near unbeatable at a mile. My view is if it isn=t broken, Also Ran: Rio de La Plata, Ransom Note (GB), Cape don=t fix it, but we=ll discuss plans with the owners. Blanco (Ire), Flash Dance (Ire). The G1 Sussex S. [at Goodwood July 27] is there and Click for the Racing Post chart, the brisnet.com PPs o r later on there is the Breeders= Cup, Japan and Hong the free brisnet.com catalogue-style pedigree. Video, Kong, so we=ll pick our way.@ Goldikova=s trainer Freddy courtesy attheraces.com. Head was magnanimous in defeat after witnessing the Canford Cliffs registered a six-length success in the crowd=s applause on her return to the runner=s-up spot. G2 Coventry S. over six furlongs here in 2009 and had AI am very happy with her, as she has run a great race, stamina to prove as he entered the fray for the but there is nothing I can say other than she was following year=s Classics. In the event, the son of the beaten by a better horse on the day,@ Head said. AHe speedy Tagula saw out the mile of the G1 2000 had a lovely run and followed us through and, as I=ve Guineas adequately when third at Newmarket before said before, this mile is tough, and is maybe a bit too taking the Irish equivalent in impressive style at The far for her. These people know their horses and are Curragh three weeks later. His success in the G1 St very fond of champions, so it was a thrill to see their James=s Palace S. at the last Royal meeting was reaction to her afterwards. I think she=s run a top race followed by a mid-summer break, and he returned to and is as good as ever, so we will follow the same put Rip Van Winkle (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}) in his place in path, and head to Deauville in August, and then try and Glorious Goodwood=s feature G1 Sussex S. in August. win a fourth Breeders= Cup Mile.@ Cont. p3 TDN P HEADLINE NEWS • 6/15/11 • PAGE 3 of 18 • thoroughbreddailynews.com Queen Anne S. cont. Can Do... Bred in Ireland, Canford Cliffs is a great-grandson of the U.S.-based stallion Stop the Music, and hails from an American female family as well. His third dam Triple Tipple (Raise a Cup) began her racing career in Europe before returning home to secure the GII Wilshire H. and GIII Palomar H., and also was runner-up Sabin in the GI Gamely H. for trainer Richard Cross. Canford Cliffs, in whom an interest was sold last season to Michael click for video Tabor and Derrick Smith, has a 2-year-old half-brother by Holy Roman Emperor (Ire) named Mayo Lad (Ire). That bay colt, sold for 100,000gns to Peter Doyle Bloodstock as a yearling at Tattersalls October, has joined his accomplished brother with trainer Richard Hannon.