Enticed: a Special Addition to the Darley Stallion Roster
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SATURDAY, DECEMBER 14, 2019 NEW PET SCAN UNVEILED AT SANTA ANITA ENTICED: A SPECIAL by Dan Ross "I think when we're done here, Santa Anita's going to have the ADDITION TO THE DARLEY most advanced and comprehensive availability of tools in the imaging realm of anywhere in the world." STALLION ROSTER These approbatory words, spoken by Craig Fravel, the freshly minted Chief Executive Officer, Racing Operations, at The Stronach Group (TSG), kicked off Friday's press conference heralding the recent arrival at Santa Anita of the Longmile Positron Emission Tomography (MILE-PET) Scan machine--a newly developed piece of equipment with two important burdens to shoulder. The first? Improve the early detection and diagnosis of potentially catastrophic injuries in racehorses. The other? Help rehabilitate the public image of a racetrack that has endured an Annus horribilis by any stretch of the imagination. Indeed, it was back in May, during the height of the welfare crisis, TSG announced that it had invested $500,000 to purchase by Katie Ritz the machine. Cont. p4 Medaglia d'Oro is the definitive flag-bearer at Darley's Jonabell Farm as their top-priced headliner since 2014. The Darley elite IN TDN EUROPE TODAY sire has 25 Grade I/Group 1 winners to his credit. This year, Darley welcomes a special new addition to the stallion barn. MARE OF THE MOMENT: REACTION Dual graded stakes winner Enticed is the first son of Medaglia Emma Berry profiles Reaction, the TDN Mare of the Moment, and dam of several successful hurdlers in Europe, including Envoi d'Oro bred and raced by Godolphin to stand at Darley. Allen (Fr). Click or tap here to go straight to TDN Europe. Darley Sales Manager Darren Fox explained why Enticed is unique for the Godolphin organization. "Enticed is our first homebred son of Medaglia d'Oro to make it to our stallion barn. He was a top-class dirt horse at two and three, and being out of our Godolphin-raced millionaire It's Tricky just makes him that little bit extra special for us." It's Tricky (Mineshaft) was part of the final crop of Stonerside-bred foals and was raced by Godolphin. At three, she won the GI Acorn S. and the GI Coaching Club American Oaks. She also placed second to Eclipse Champion Royal Delta (Empire Maker) in the GI Breeders' Cup Ladies' Classic. At four, It=s Tricky took the GI Ogden Phipps H. and retired with earnings of over $1.6 million. "Kiaran McLaughlin called her one of the most talented fillies he's ever trained,@ said Fox, Aand that's saying something. This filly was immensely talented and is one that was very near and dear to our hearts." Enticed was foaled in 2015 from Medaglia d'Oro's 10th crop. Fox said that Enticed has the same commercial look as his sire. 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Lauderdale S.-G2, GP TJCIS PPs TVG European Editor 4:30p Harlan’s Holiday S.-G3, GP TJCIS PPs TVG 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 13 • THETDN.COM SATURDAY • DECEMBER 14, 2019 Enticed cont. from p1 "He's quite a striking physical as a big, framey, commercial type in the same mold as his father. He's 16.3, with an amazing shoulder and hip, and a good length of body. We feel that this physical represents excellent value for breeders at $10,000." As a juvenile, Enticed broke his maiden on debut at Saratoga before placing third in the GI Champagne S. to Firenze Fire (Poseidon's Warrior) with Eclipse Champion Good Magic (Curlin) in second. He then went on to win the GII Kentucky Jockey Club S. Fox said this race in particular showed the great heart of the colt. "He was bumped into the first turn, had to go eight wide turning for home, and then got into an epic battle with Tiz Mischief (Into Mischief) coming into the stretch and prevailed by a head. It was just a thrilling performance." The colt showed the same fight as a 3-year-old as he claimed the GIII Gotham S. at a mile. After going five wide on the backside, he opened up in the stretch to win by almost three lengths, defeating Grade I winners Firenze Fire and Free Drop Billy (Union Rags). Enticed | Sarah Andrew "The Gotham was one of his most visually impressive performances, and a big resume booster with the level of tough competition in the race," said Fox. Enticed went on to finish second in the GII Wood Memorial S. to this year's GI Breeders' Cup Classic winner Vino Rosso (Curlin). Although Enticed has only been available for breeder inspection for a little over a month, Fox said his book is well on its way to being completely filled. "He's such a commercial-type horse that if he replicates himself, breeders will be duly rewarded at the sales. I think that's the first thing that strikes breeders when they see him. They think, 'If I get one to look like this, I'll be in good shape.'" Cont. p4 TDN HEADLINE NEWS • PAGE 4 OF 13 • THETDN.COM SATURDAY • DECEMBER 14, 2019 Enticed cont. from p1 Fox said he finds Enticed to be set apart from the rest of the incoming class of freshman sires in that he is out of such a successful race mare. "Very few stallions are out of such a phenomenal race mare such as It's Tricky, and that gives him an extra edge that many stallion prospects don't have." Enticed is the only stallion beginning stud duties in Kentucky next year out of a mare with over $1 million in earnings. Along with WinStar's Yoshida (Jpn) (Heart's Cry {Jpn}), Enticed is one of just two incoming sires in Kentucky with a Grade I-winning dam. "What's really special about Enticed is the fact that he's so well-rounded and gets high marks in many different categories. He's by Medaglia d'Oro, which is obviously quite appealing, but he's also out of an incredible race mare," Fox said. "He was a precocious graded stakes winner at two, and then followed up with another graded stakes win at three. When you package all that up and present it to breeders for $10,000, it's easy to see why he's so popular with breeders. We're very excited about the future for Enticed here at Darley." PET Scan cont. from p1 "It's exciting," said Fravel, Friday. "Mostly, we're excited for the benefits to the horses who perform here at Santa Anita, Del Mar and throughout California, in terms of what we think this will do for the long-term health and welfare of the animal." The press conference began outside the Southern California Equine Foundation (SCEF)-operated Nuclear Medicine Facility nestled in the barn area at Santa Anita. Besides Fravel, speakers included veterinarian Joe Dowd, president of the SCEF, which had invested another $250,000 of its own money in the technology. "It's a much higher resolution than we get with our regular nuclear scintigraphy imaging," said Dowd, comparing the new PET technology to the widely used bone scan--a comparison he suggested was akin to trying to read with and without spectacles. "The original imaging is two dimensional. What the new PET scan allows is three-dimensional imaging. And we can actually visualize it on a computer screen." Mathieu Spriet, associate professor of Surgical and Radiological Sciences at the University of California Davis's School of Veterinary Medicine, where the PET scan machine was developed, took up where Dowd left off. "This is not something that happened overnight," said Spriet, the brainchild behind the new technology. "We did the first PET scan on a horse at UC Davis over four years ago.