A Morning with the Juddmonte Stallions
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WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 2017 FIRST-CROP SIRES SET TO DEBUT AT FASIG THE AGE ANGLE by Jessica Martini The juvenile sales season will open at Gulfstream Park Mar. 1 with Fasig-Tipton=s Selected 2-Year-Olds in Training Sale and the season=s inaugural catalogue features offerings by 17 first-crop sires, with a pair of GI Kentucky Derby winners and an Eclipse champion juvenile among 15 Grade I winners. Leading the way by number of entries and with plenty of pre- sale hype is Shanghai Bobby (Harlan=s Holiday). A $105,000 Keeneland September yearling in 2011, the dark bay won the 2012 GI Champagne S. and GI Breeders= Cup Juvenile before being named that season=s champion 2-year-old colt. The Coolmore stallion has eight juveniles entered in the Florida sale. AShanghai Bobby is the talk of the town around here,@ admitted consignor Eddie Woods. Cont. p6 2016 Golden State Juvenile Fillies S. winner How About Zero, whose sire Square Eddie sits atop the 2-year-old ABC Index. Benoit Photo IN TDN EUROPE TODAY A MORNING WITH THE JUDDMONTE STALLIONS by Bill Oppenheim APEX Ratings, as you know, do not consist of just one or even a Emma Berry spends a morning with the Juddmonte stallions, including Frankel (GB), as they prepare for the few indexes--there are 17 different APEX indexes, ranging from covering season, which officially begins on Wednesday. class (A Runners, B, C, ABC Runners) to region (NA, EU, JP) to Click or tap here to go straight to TDN Europe. age (2yo, 3yo, 4yo, 5yo+), all developed with the aim of assisting racehorse owners and breeders in their decision-making process. Today we complete our review of the various APEX angles by discussing the age indices. As developed by The Jockey Club Information Systems (TJCIS) to our specifications, the age indexes rate each sire for ABC Runners (top 8% earners in each of the last seven years) as 2-year-olds; 3-year-olds; 4-year-olds; and 5-year-olds and up. Knowledge of this data is useful in several ways. For example, if you are going to a 2-year-old sale with the thought of buying a horse who will run early, you might be looking for runners by Exchange Rate (2.04 2yo ABC Index) or Harlan=s Holiday (1.92). But it wouldn=t necessarily be the smartest move to be looking to claim horses by them as, say, late 3-year-olds: Exchange Rate=s age indexes read: 2.04 B 1.28 B 1.06 B 1.06; Harlan=s Holiday=s read 1.92 B 1.69 B 1.03 B 0.89. On the whole, they are best early and do not improve with age. On the other hand, you might be looking to claim 3-year-olds by Medaglia d=Oro (0.87 B 1.96 B 2.12 B 2.64) or Giant=s Causeway (1.32 B 1.66 B 1.67 B 2.23), whose runners generally do improve with age. Cont. p3 I really like the Flat Outs. Mine are very good “ minded, tremendous movers, and the main thing is they have the will to do it. I’ve had 50 calls from folks asking about Flat Out,“ and I tell them he’s a real bargain and has the look of a horse that will make it. –QUINCY ADAMS Q Bar J Thoroughbreds My colt selling at (Fasig-Tipton) “ Gulfstream is one beautiful “ horse, and he is really fast. I don’t just like him, I love him. Barbara Livingston photo –J.J. CRUPI Crupi’s New Castle Farm ONE OF THE FASTEST HORSES EVER FROM THE A.P. INDY SIRE LINE Fees: $7,000 S&N | $8,500 Breed Secure Flatter – Cresta Lil, by Cresta Rider LOOK FOR FIRST 2YOS AT F-T GULFSTREAM The Breeders’ Farm 859.294.0030 spendthriftfarm.com PRESIDENT & CO-PUBLISHER Barry Weisbord @barryweisbord [email protected] SR. V.P. & CO-PUBLISHER Sue Morris Finley @suefinley [email protected] V.P., INTERNATIONAL OPERATIONS Gary King @garykingTDN [email protected] Wednesday, February 15, 2017 EDITORIAL [email protected] Editor-in-Chief Jessica Martini @JessMartiniTDN Managing Editor Alan Carasso @EquinealTDN Senior Editor Steve Sherack @SteveSherackTDN Racing Editor Brian DiDonato @BDiDonatoTDN Associate Editors Christie DeBernardis @CDeBernardisTDN Ben Massam @BMassamTDN Assistant Editors Heather Anderson @HLAndersonTDN Joe Bianca @JBiancaTDN ADVERTISING [email protected] Director of Advertising Alycia Borer Advertising Manager Lia Best Advertising Designer Amanda Crelin Advertising Assistants Alexa Reisfield Michelle Benson It’s a girl! Champion La Verdad (Yes It's True) welcomed her first foal, a filly by Photo Editor/Dir. of Distribution Medaglia d'Oro, to the world Monday evening at Vivien Malloy's Edition Farm in Hyde Sarah K. Andrew @SarahKAndrew [email protected] Park, N.Y. The 7-year-old mare, owned by Sheila Rosenblum's Lady Sheila Stable, will be bred back to Tapit.. | Christie DeBernardis Social Media Strategist Justina Severni LUCKY PULPIT DEAD AT 16 Director of Customer Service RR1 Vicki Forbes Lucky Pulpit (Pulpit--Lucky Soph, by Cozzene), sire of the two-time [email protected] Horse of the Year and North America's richest racehorse California Chrome, suffered an apparent heart attack Monday afternoon while Director of Information Technology covering his first broodmare of the 2017 breeding season. Ray Villa [email protected] WORLDWIDE INFORMATION ROBSHAM STABLES & REPOLE TEAM UP RR2 International Editor Robsham Stables and Mike Repole have teamed up to sponsor the Kelsey Riley @kelseynrileyTDN New Vocations Racehorse Adoption Program’s second barn at their [email protected] new Kentucky facility. The barn, located on Mereworth Farm, will be European Editor named the Robsham- Repole Barn. Emma Berry [email protected] Newmarket Bureau, Cafe Racing Sean Cronin & Tom Frary [email protected] 60 Broad Street, Suite 100 Red Bank, NJ 07701 732-747-8060 | 732-747-8955 (fax) www.TheTDN.com TDN HEADLINE NEWS • PAGE 3 OF 9 • THETDN.COM WEDNESDAY • FEBRUARY 15, 2017 Still. War Front (3.47) ranks #3--the Grade II winner at four who turned out to basically be Danzig reincarnated. The former New York (now Saudi) sire Roaring Fever (3.17) ranks fourth, ahead As with any of the APEX Index figures, some of the top F2013 sire Uncle Mo (2.96), himself of course a obscure sires are going to poke their heads up champion 2-year-old. F2013 #2 Twirling Candy (2.79) is only among the leaders in each grouping by age index, two slots back in #7 and actually lays up quite close to Uncle Mo especially as we are measuring ABC Runners, so for 3-year-olds as well, as we=ll see. The remainder of the top 10 inevitably obscure sires with say lots of C Runners are going to look good. That=s ok; it=s very useful for breeders to know about these sires, particularly in their respective regions. So let=s look at the leaders in each age group, from the 616 North American and European sires with 80+ year-starters 2010-2016. 2-year-old ABC Index: Paul Reddam=s California wunderkind Square Eddie, who checks in with a 3.01 A Runner Index and ranks as the #3 sire by B Runner Index (3.83), hits the >3= mark again with a 3.87 2yo ABC Index, leading all 616 NA-EU sires with 80+ year-starters. He has been some kind of sire for Reddam=s operation. These index lists are always divided between the top sires we know and the obscure ones we=ve often barely heard of. Germany=s Soldier Hollow (GB) (3.82) surprisingly ranks second, since Germany is known more for Melbourne Cup winners than for 2-year-olds, but his rating no Finley=sluckycharm (Twirling Candy), SW and GISP doubt does benefit from limited 2-year-old racing in Germany. in 2016 at three | Coady Photo WEEKLY SALES TICKER by Bill Oppenheim “The Winter Mixed Sales constitute only a small part of the overall NA/EU sales calendar but of course they kick the year off. Though there have been high points and there is no doubt highly polarized demand for the good stuff, the market is still decidedly shaky. Fasig February catalogued over 100 more horses but sold just 10 more, signifying a massive 10% drop in the clearance rate from the catalogue. Goffs went to three days, catalogued 200 more, sold 100 more, but the average dropped by 12%. Arqana’s February sale yesterday finishes off the principal winter mixed sales (we’ll report and summarize this sector in WST next week).” FASIG-TIPTON KY MIXED FEBRUARY SALE YEAR CAT RING SOLD % W/D % S/R % S/C GROSS AVE 2017 640 471 351 26.4% 74.5% 54.8% $ 9,501,800 $ 27,071 2016 528 437 341 17.2% 78.0% 64.6% $ 8,260,600 $ 24,225 2015 616 493 406 20.0% 82.4% 65.9% $ 10,560,700 $ 26,012 2014 588 505 406 14.1% 80.4% 69.0% $ 13,527,500 $ 33,319 2013 337 277 245 17.8% 88.4% 72.7% $ 13,781,700 $ 56,252 2012 422 342 267 19.0% 78.1% 63.3% $ 4,562,600 $ 17,088 GOFFS FEBRUARY MIXED SALE YEAR CAT RING SOLD % W/D % S/R % S/C GROSS AVE 2017 750 619 397 17.5% 64.1% 52.9% €5,208,100 €13,119 2016 540 440 291 18.5% 66.1% 53.9% €4,361,750 €14,989 2015 479 409 330 14.6% 80.7% 68.9% €5,350,500 €16,214 2014 461 372 256 19.3% 68.8% 55.5% €4,218,100 €16,477 2013 512 435 296 15.0% 68.0% 57.8% €2,879,750 €9,729 2012 524 446 277 14.9% 62.1% 52.9% €3,706,500 €13,381 Data compiled by Brianne Stanley TDN HEADLINE NEWS • PAGE 4 OF 9 • THETDN.COM WEDNESDAY • FEBRUARY 15, 2017 are all regional sires: Canada=s Old Forester (2.84) is #6, and the (4.49), and this week he is the top sire by 4-year-old ABC Index top 10 is completed by: #8 Too Much Bling (2.70, Texas); #9 (2.65).