FRIDAY, MARCH 8, 2019 BAFFERT TO SHIP 3YO STARS TO LOS AL NO NAY NEVER: by Bill Finley Unable to work his horses at Santa Anita, where the track has A TRANSATLANTIC been closed indefinitely due to safety concerns, Bob Baffert will ship several prominent horses to Los Alamitos Friday morning. SUCCESS STORY Among them will be GI Kentucky Derby hopefuls Game Winner (Candy Ride {Arg}), Improbable (City Zip) and Mucho Gusto (Mucho Macho Man). He said he plans to work all three Sunday and those works will give him a better idea of what direction he should take with each as he makes out their pre-Derby schedules. Game Winner and Improbable were both scheduled to run this Saturday in the GII San Felipe S. at Santa Anita, but the Saturday card has been canceled and Santa Anita management has given no indication when it expects the track to re-open. For Baffert and others with top 3-year-olds stabled at Santa Anita, that has made the decision-making process extra difficult. Should the track re-open and hold the San Felipe on March 16 that would remain a viable option. But at this point no one knows if that is going to happen. Cont. p4 Click the photo above for an interview with David O’Loughlin and footage of No Nay Never this week at Coolmore Ireland. IN TDN EUROPE TODAY by Sue Finley ASCOT POSSIBLE FOR NEWSPAPEROFRECORD By the time he made his second start at two, No Nay Never Chad Brown fills us in on how Newspaperofrecord has (Scat Daddy) had already established himself as a transatlantic wintered, and what might be in store for her in 2019. Click or success, breaking his maiden at Keeneland on the dirt, and tap here to go straight to TDN Europe. winning the G2 Norfolk S. at Royal Ascot in his next outing. By the time he won the G1 Prix Morny at Deauville two months later, his quality and versatility was well-established. No Nay Never has gotten off to a similarly strong start in the breeding shed as well, finishing the year as Europe’s top first-crop sire with a Group 1 winner in Ten Sovereigns (Ire). We caught up with Coolmore Ireland’s Director of Sales David O’Loughlin to talk about the Kentucky -bred’s universal appeal. TDN: How did Coolmore first get involved with No Nay Never? DO: No Nay Never was pinhooked by Paul Shanahan and Timmy Hyde as a foal and they brought him to Keeneland September, and Wesley Ward bought him for Ice Wine Stable. They retained a piece of him from the sale, so there was always a Coolmore connection to the horse. Wesley let the guys know very early on as a 2-year-old that this horse was special, that he was showing an awful lot. He won at Keeneland in April and he came on to Ascot then for the Norfolk S., which he won in blistering style over five furlongs. He destroyed the field. 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European Editor Emma Berry [email protected] Associate International Editor Heather Anderson @HLAndersonTDN 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 10 • THETDN.COM FRIDAY • MARCH 8, 2019 No Nay Never cont. from p1 He went on then to Deauville for the Prix Morny, which is the premier French juvenile race over six furlongs. The great debate that morning was the ground because there was a lot of rain over in Deauville that weekend, and Wesley was very worried about running him. After much reflection and a little push from Paul Shanahan, he ran the horse and again he destroyed the field. He was very impressive and Wesley gave him a break after that, and he didn't run again as a 2-year-old. TDN: How important is that crossover appeal to a stallion today? DO: Look, he's typical of what's happening in the world now. No Nay Never | Coolmore Photo He's an international horse: he ran on dirt, he ran on Polytrack and he ran on grass. He ran on two continents, and that's the way our world is going now. There's more and more TDN: As you said, his first crop was so successful; he led the list international racing, and he's thriving on it. His first crop has just in almost every category in North America and Europe. What turned three, but he's had runners and stakes horses on all the do you expect from his 3-year-olds? surfaces already. They've done well in Europe on turf and poly and they've done well in America. I'd envision that's the way it's DO: He trained on himself; he ran [second] in the [GII] Swale S. going to be. He's an international horse. [Scat Daddy’s death] at Gulfstream. As a 3-year-old, he had a little knock coming out was such a loss to us and most Europeans have only woken up of that, but he came back in the autumn and he won at to Scat Daddy in the last few years, but it’s amazing how fast Keeneland very impressively [in the GIII Woodford S.]. He went they are, and how suited to turf racing they are, as well as dirt. on to the [GI] Breeders’ Cup Turf Sprint, and he was just run out He got Justify, obviously, but he gives all the options. of it [when second]. He was a little bit unlucky; a horse came on the other side of the track he wasn't aware of, and he would've TDN: Why was the decision taken to stand him here in Ireland thought he won the race. So he did train on, and he's a big rather than in America? scopey horse, and he gets big scopey horses. No Nay Never is very typical of Scat Daddy and his progeny are very much in that DO: His best form was in Europe at the Prix Morny and at Ascot, mold, and with the variety of mares you got over here [in and we didn't have a son of Scat Daddy so I suppose that's why Europe]--he would've got a lot of Danehill-line mares, a lot of we came this way, but it's a small world now. We can move Sadler's Wells-line mares, so we would expect that to be a factor horses between the continents. I remember when Scat Daddy in them training on, too. We're sitting here now in the first week died there was discussion of whether we should move No Nay in March but he's had a very, very impressive winner in Dubai Never to America then, but we kept him here thankfully, and he already, couldn't have won any better, so all the signs are he's couldn't have done much better with his first crop: six stakes on for a great year. Cont. p4 winners, 14 black-type horses. He's sired the best 2-year-old colt in Europe, the fastest anyway, in Ten Sovereigns. He's undefeated and he's either going to go to the Guineas or go to the Commonwealth Cup at Ascot, go the sprinting route. Aidan HAVE A NEW FOAL? Click here to submit your Foaling News for will decide that in the next few weeks. It was incredible that he Stakes Winning and/or Stakes Producing Mares won a maiden, a Group 3, and a Group 1 in just over a month. for publication in the TDN. It's a very hard thing to do; it'll take a special horse to do that. TDN HEADLINE NEWS • PAGE 4 OF 10 • THETDN.COM FRIDAY • MARCH 8, 2019 TDN: What is he like physically, and what sort of mare does he Baffert cont.