Meet the Asmussens

Home , Almond Eye, Ask (horse), Ballymacoll Stud, Cash Asmussen, Dalakhani, Freddy Head

A special look at the top stories from thoroughbredracing.com. Dec 2020 –Feb 2021

Meet the Asmussens

Also inside: A whole new world of race ratings / Ryan Moore: A great win on my first ‘proper’ international horse / Goldikova: a special tribute to an all-time great / ‘Luck’ star John Ortiz remembers Julio Canani / What They’re Thinking: Sir Mark Prescott

/ThoroughbredRacingCommentary @TRCommentary

Cover: Destined for stardom: Little did anyone know at the time, but Asmussen & Sons: young Cash (left) and Steve Asmussen had such big futures. The family firm that At the Breeders’ Cup: Steve Asmussen (right) with father Keith and sons gave us Steve, Cash Eric and Keith Jr and so much more

Patrick Lawrence Gilligan | December 21, 2020

He was a superstar there for two decades, every bit as successful in France at that time as his compatriot Steve Cauthen was in Britain. Five times Cash was France’s champion jockey. He was an Arc winner, he won four French Derbys and every French Classic at least once, and more than 70 G1s worldwide. If there had been a TRC Global Rankings back then, he would have been a regular in the higher reaches of the world top ten.

After I arrived in the States in 2014, Cash Asmussen had disappeared from the public eye. I knew he had retired from race-riding in 2001 and had immediately departed France and returned to the States, so I wondered what he had been up to since then, and how now it was his younger brother, Steve, who was the family flag bearer.

I met up with Steve Asmussen at Fasig Tipton in Lexington recently to ask about their careers and to piece together the family dynamic. And that, naturally, led back to their dad …

Keith Asmussen Sr was 86 degrees, and it was about It was around then that another “I was born into the horse business,” minus 2 degrees when I got back to branch of the family business says Keith Asmussen Sr. “My dad, and South Dakota, so I asked my wife ‘are began. “My dad was wearing my my grandad were in the business. My you ready to move one more time?’” mom out dragging her around the dad trained five or six at a time, rode That was in 1967. Marilyn, his wife country,” says Keith Asmussen. a little bit, raised horses. We were of 59 years, whom he has known “So I set up a tack store [Asmussen living in South Dakota, but my father since he was about five - two kids Horse & Rider Equipment], which ran them all over, from New England who both loved horses - said yes. she ran for about 30 years. It’s still to Tijuana. “She’s about got me trained. She’s going.” “I was riding match races by the been working on it,” he says. “That’s But back to his sons. “I’m real age of 12. I rode Thoroughbreds first how I ended up in Laredo [in Texas], proud of those two boys, how they but got a bit heavy, so I rode Quarter for the weather.” took off,” he says. “They grew up Horse races for about 38 years.” “I always knew how to work,” he on the farm. Steve had a groom’s Asmussen Sr was leading rider in says. “I broke horses, rode races, license when he was 12. There is Albuquerque in New Mexico, South hauled trailers, shod horses.” a picture of him on the front of a Texas and other places, and he made I ask him what he did in his spare magazine after we won a big race in a pretty good living. “I had a bad time. He laughs, and without missing New Mexico. Cash galloped his first knee most of the time. I got cow- a beat says, “I rode more horses.” Thoroughbred when he was nine. kicked by a horse when I was about “In 1979, we set up El Primero “They were both good workers, ten, and I have had to put up with training center [in Laredo] with Cash. although Steve liked to sneak off to that damn thing most of my life. We have 400 stalls here now and 95 the track kitchen sometimes. We "I was breaking a lot of babies, percent of the horses we start here have six grandchildren, and they all but that’s a tough job seven or eight will end up going to Steve. We have like to help on the farm too when months of the year in South Dakota. a bunch of Tapits [Tapit was broken they are home from university.” “I was riding first call for Wayne in by Keith for the Winchell family, a I say how positive Steve and Lukas back then. I was riding for him family that has sent him horses for Cash seemed when I spoke to before he was D. Wayne Lukas,” he the past 41 years], Into Mischiefs, them. I asked if that came from his says with a chuckle.” Uncle Mos, all of them. Cash is on parents. “Well, we’re part of the Lukas sent him to South Texas to one side of the track and I train on same family you know,” he says ride a futurity race one February. “It the other.” with a laugh. I walked into that one.

Right: Full of promise: Young Cash getting a few tips from his mother

Cash Asmussen was one of the three greatest wins “I was dropped into France on my “We were fortunate to follow in the of his life. head, but landed on my feet. And I footsteps of our parents, great mentors, The second was winning a Grade 3 came well armed - with Boutin and who gave us an opportunity to practice at Aqueduct on Valid Expectations in Niarchos behind me. what was to be our profession, working November 1996 for his brother. “It was still tough, though. I wasn’t side by side away from the racetrack,” Cash went on to ride over 900 winners that well received at first, so believe he says. “We couldn’t have made up in just over three years riding Stateside, me it was no hardship to not be able for that time later on. We were learning picking up an Eclipse Award for leading to understand or read French! It was from when we could walk. I believe we apprentice in 1979. good for my weight, though, struggling owe a lot of our success to that. We are “I moved to New York toward the to order food. But I think I gained their still learning every day and our greatest end of 1978. McCarron was in the room, respect in the end, and I say that with teacher is the horse. Cordero, Velasquez, Pincay, Vasquez. It pride. I learnt to speak fluent French “The luxury of a jockey, to be was a great education, and you needed also in the end - because I was getting associated with horses, with great to bring you’re A game. If you didn’t, hungry.” horses, is to manage the energy of your don’t bother showing up. Those guys He recalls one time he was in a car partners, and the best way to do that is could do things on a horse that most with Boutin. “I was returning home by communicating with them, and the people couldn’t do on foot.” after racing with Francois. He was better your horsemanship, the better It was the great Argentinian trainer driving and smoking his Davidoff No.2. you communicate. Angel Penna who recommended Cash We were having a bit of a disagreement “I feel in any equine sport, when the Asmussen to legendary French trainer about one of the rides I gave his horse, horse and rider become one, it is poetry Francois Boutin, who was looking for and I was trying to explain it when in motion. a rider for his owner Greek shipping he took his cigar out of his mouth, “I was prepared by my father and billionaire Stavros Niarchos. Boutin turned to me and said, ‘Cash, I think I mother, but I couldn’t have fathomed acceded. preferred it when you couldn’t speak what was ahead of me.” Asmussen says, “Penna told me in no French’. Cash Asmussen, born Brian Keith uncertain terms that, if I wanted to see “But the backing and support of Asmussen (he changed his name to Cash a beautiful part of the world from the Francois Boutin and Mr Niarchos gave in 1977), won on his first ride, in 1978, for backs of beautiful horses, I needed to me confidence. I hope I left something his mother, at Sunland Park racetrack in think seriously about this opportunity. for racing. I will never have given it as New Mexico, and even now he says that And how right he was. much as it gave me.”

It looked such a glamorous life, glamorous times, back then, Cash cutting a dash. Did it feel like that? “It would be disrespectful to not say we led a glamorous life. Icons are hard or impossible to replace. Who replaces Francois Boutin? Who replaces Yves St Martin? Who replaces Henry Cecil? Who replaces Lester Piggott? Those were glamorous times and they made the game glamorous and, in turn, the game made them glamorous. Those superstars are hard, if not impossible, to replace.” By the end of his time in Europe, Cash was well loved in France. He had won five riders’ titles, the only non-French jockey ever to have won one back then. “Allez Cash!” was the call at the Paris tracks for 20 years. And of the places? “If Deauville was racing eight months a year, I might still be riding!” But Cash Asmussen rode all over the world. G1 victories champions’ race. Melbourne was as well.” he says. He also has his three in seven countries on three beautiful and great people.” daughters’ assistance when they are continents - Japan, Hong Kong, So many horses, but he says home from university. Ireland, England, France, Canada Suave Dancer has to come top of his “We’ve got horses here, a full and the USA. list of greats. brother to a Derby winner, Uncle Mos, “It was an education and a “My dad bought him at Tapits, Gun Runners - and they are a luxury you couldn’t pay for, to Keeneland and he was broken great-looking bunch too. I couldn’t wait ride some of the greatest horses at Laredo. I got to know him that to get on them. If some people didn’t on some of the most beautiful winter, then he was sent to John like Steve Asmussen last year, they’re racetracks in the world. Great Hammond in France for his owner, going to hate him next year! horses take humans where we Monsieur Chalhoub, where I was “I think what keeps me fresh is can’t go alone.” reunited with him.” that, if a horse is capable of doing I mention that the Middle East is Cash’s parents were there, in something and he’s not doing it for me, missing from his resume. He says Paris, at Longchamp racecourse, because I’m not explaining it properly, ‘yes’, laughing, “but my brother when Cash Asmussen and Suave then I’ve got to look at the man in the saw there was a bit of prize money Dancer won the 1991 Prix de l’Arc de mirror. to be picked up there so he went Triomphe. “I’m a good guy. I just want to over and won the Dubai World Cup Those were heady days, and, kick ass, show what I can do, and with Curlin!” at El Primero training center, he is complement the horse!” His brother had his back. planning more with the help of his Maybe he has to get over for partner, Erica. Steve Asmussen the Melbourne Cup next? “I’ve “She rides them, buys the Steve Asmussen has just trained his been over for what I call the old shampoo, does just about 9,000th winner. His son, Keith, was race timers’ race there. They call it the everything, and puts up with me riding for him during the summer.

TRC Dec 20–Feb 21 / Asmussen & Sons / A whole new world of race ratings / Ryan Moore / Goldikova: a special tribute /‘Luck’ star John Ortiz remembers Julio Canani / Sir Mark Prescott / P6 Genuine horseman: Steve Asmussen with one of his stable’s many top performers, Breeders’ Cup Classic and Pegasus hero Gun Runner. Photo: Michele MacDonald

there’s something in the water down there in Laredo! “One of the great pleasures of my life is people who know my parents, and my parents’ example, how they go about doing their best every day, not some days - every day. It’s not a situation of measuring where you are at, you just work on getting better. In fact, it is alarming sometimes when you look back and realize how ignorant you were previously. “All the family is heavily involved in our business. I love their input. My boys are much smarter than me. Growing up in a racing family, nothing you are doing is alone. My wife, Julie, the boys, Keith, Darren, and Eric, my parents, my brother, his family all involved. There might be just one name wrote down, but it is everyone and I love that. Horseracing is the vocabulary of the Asmussen family.” Finally I ask him, when he set out, did he ever think he would scale these heights? Soon to be the winning- “It was beyond describable to go defeated him. Perhaps that track most racehorse trainer ever in North through the process with him. He kitchen had been his undoing. America. “Frankly,” he says, “I can’t ended up winning a $100k stakes on Talking about his riding career, believe it took me so long to get here!” a horse part-owned by my parents though, Steve says, “The thing about So, when the Asmussens sit down at and a long-time client, and to see him Cash is he never understood why the dinner table to celebrate the holiday, succeed and feel good about himself everyone couldn’t do what he could.” we know the talk shall be of horses. was such a reward from a sport that “Now to stand here at 55, I am just There will be Cash with his Cashisms, has given us so much. at the center of a perfect storm. I love the boys Keith, Darren and Eric chipping “My father is just an animal lover the input from all my family, their help, in, Cash’s girls, Catherine, Carolyn and of the umpteenth degree. To come everyone is involved. And the long- Christine, too. Grandad will be cracking from a true Ma-and-Pa operation to time assistants I have are well known. jokes, the wives, mothers, partners, all a where we are now, what it means to “The success we have achieved part of it. And Steve Asmussen sat right me, what we have achieved, is hard to thanks to the horses, the feelings in the middle of his perfect storm. describe. they have given us, makes us want But make no mistake, although “It was like watching my son ride more. I am still more surprised at our Cash and Steve Asmussen are the and wanting him so hard to succeed. I defeats than our successes. There spectacular fireworks, Keith Asmussen had wanted to be a jockey, but I grew are still huge things left to do. In fact, Sr has been the constant flame, the to six feet, and my son is similarly the urgency feels more now than ever father, the husband, the horseman. vertically challenged at five ten.” before.” The man who broke in Tapit and Steve, who has been a TRC world I mention how unlikely it was for Suave Dancer, and thousands more, top-ten trainer for much of the year, two brothers to achieve two Eclipse the man who rode races for 38 years, did follow in his elder brother’s awards in different spheres in the even with that damn knee! He loves footsteps and became a jockey for a sport. “We keep very good company his family and his horses. And I loved while, but he was too tall and weight if nothing else,” he smiles. “Maybe talking with them.

James Willoughby | February 18, 2021

When we launched, it was with Racing Seven years of running TRC Global Post Ratings (RPR) providing our necessary guide to the relative strength Rankings has taught us a thing or of races, but we wanted a computer to replace the humans. And now it has. two about world racing as played TRC Computer Race Ratings is now fully functional. We have rated our entire out on the track. Halfway through database since 2011 – the latest iteration literally at the speed of light – and this that period, it became obvious we week the numbers replace RPR, causing should not be relying on anyone else’s some changes in the rankings. We have applied our new ratings retrospectively, performance ratings to power the in effect running the history of the rankings again. Hopefully, it is not classifications. too disruptive, but a small amount of continuity has to be sacrificed for the POINTS CALCULATED USING greater goal of automation. You can read extensive details about TRC RACE the engine that powers TRC Computer Race Ratings in this article. As a taster RATINGS for that, here are the Top 50 horses

TRC Dec 20–Feb 21 / Asmussen & Sons / A whole new world of race ratings / Ryan Moore / Goldikova: a special tribute /‘Luck’ star John Ortiz remembers Julio Canani / Sir Mark Prescott / P8 who lead our ratings, organised by to tune them better to be suitably how things turn out in future, and the what we call the Career rating, which reactive to recent events. We were a volatility of that assessment as it is is a portfolio assessment of each little conservative to begin with, but made continuously. horse’s performance ratings, designed now you should see the Points total for We admit to thinking that not doing to evaluate a horse’s quality and each competitor jump around a little this from the start was a mistake. Even consistency. more from week to week. Handling the though it is a central tenet of TRC Next to the horse’s Career ratings are way competitors ebb and flow in the Global Rankings to take sample size its best three performance figures, as sport’s hierarchy of success (for that into account by means of using priors, assessed by our computer on exactly is what we are measuring here – not competitors with only a few runs the same scale as the World’s Best talent) is like steering a car in a skid. are just too volatile to be governed Racehorse Ratings (WBRR). You have to find just the right level of mathematically. Better for the system There is one major difference, though. reactivity behind the wheel: too much to reserve judgement because it We rate fillies and mares as if they did is a greater crime than too little. makes the rankings as a whole better. not carry an allowance, so that the We now exclude competitors from Now, here comes the bit we found pure quality of a horse can be rated the rankings if they fail to meet two the most interesting: through using a and ranked. We do it this way because new criteria: they must have been new set of performance ratings with it is more predictive – it produces the in competition within the last 200 a higher regard for certain countries, ranking of horses which is closest to days and they must meet a minimum we found that there tended to be how they actually perform next time. number of races to be rated. systematic changes to the rankings. If a system rates a two-length winning On the first criterion, we already The best way to put this is that female as if it could not have won by used 200-day inactivity rule with lower-rated competitors in the past three lengths, it makes a systematic respect to the Horse category. tended to move up and European prediction error in future races. In other Now, however, it is extended to all horses down a little. As you can see words, the exchange of distance beaten, categories because we find it leads to from the table above, in which 11 of weight carried and ratings points is non- greater predictive success; remember, our top 20 horses spent the majority linear. every change we make to our numbers of their career in Great Britain, Ireland The rankings themselves, in which we has this in mind. or France, this hardly constitutes use the performance rating of a horse to On the second criterion, the a sea change yet, but, through our weigh relative achievement, remain in following is the minimum number numbers, we have learned that we the same categories: Horses, Jockeys, of career performances we need were underrating countries like Chile, Owners, Trainers and three for sires: to consider a competitor for a for example: Sires (overall), Sires Dirt (dirt races only) ranking: Horses 1, Jockeys and We have made several other and Sires Turf (turf races only). But there Trainers 25, Sires 75 and Owners 100. technical changes to the rankings, but are improvements in the way they work. These numbers are based on two we will let these speak for themselves First, with seven more years of data considerations: the true differences via the new classifications as you see since we started, we have been able between competitors when you know them on the site.

Bold. Full-bodied. CLASSIC FIRST FOALS BY

"One of the best foals we've had in a long time" -Ned Toffey

Colt o/o Coup de Coeur at 9 days old

| $25,000 S&N TRC Dec 20–Feb 21 / Asmussen & Sons / A whole new world of race ratings / Ryan Moore / Goldikova: a special tribute /‘Luck’ star John Ortiz remembers Julio Canani / Sir Mark Prescott / P10 Travelling back in time... Ryan Moore: A great win on my first ‘proper’ international horse – and thanks to him I enjoyed LA properly too

JA McGrath | December 24, 2020

Conduit and Ryan Ryan Moore underlined his status as one of the world’s Moore are led to the winner’s circle after the elite jockeys (he is currently world #6 in the TRC Global 2009 Breeders’ Cup Turf at Santa Anita. Photo: Rankings) with a hugely successful visit to Hong Kong’s Breeders’ Cup/Phil McCarten International Races at Sha Tin earlier this month, when he won two of the four G1s.

TRC Dec 20–Feb 21 / Asmussen & Sons / A whole new world of race ratings / Ryan Moore / Goldikova: a special tribute /‘Luck’ star John Ortiz remembers Julio Canani / Sir Mark Prescott / P11 His wins in the Vase and the Sprint and Moore says: “I rode Conduit to momentarily]. The winning distance placings in the Mile and Cup, earned total win two Breeders’ Cup Turfs (2008-9) was half a length but he only just prize money of £2,827,851 for connections. but I got more satisfaction out of the won. His ride to win the Sprint from the widest second of them on this very honest “After the race, it was enjoyable. The new gate 14 on Japanese raider Danon horse. I found I got more satisfaction out Smash was acclaimed for its precision “When I rode him at Santa Anita in of everything. We stayed on a day manoeuvring and flair in a big field of 2008, it was my first Breeders’ Cup. [in Los Angeles], which is something runners. I wasn’t quite sure what to expect. I don’t really do these days. It gave Moore’s international experience We won, which was great, and it me the chance to enjoy it a little bit extends to a variety of countries, where he concluded a wonderful season for more. has won an impressive collection of major Conduit. He had progressed from “Conduit was what I would NORMAL races, including all the English Classics, winning a heritage handicap at describe as the first ‘proper’ horse the Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe, the Japan Epsom in early June to winning a I rode internationally. I loved riding Cup, the Melbourne Cup, the Cox Plate, Classic, the St Leger, at Doncaster him.” seven Hong Kong International Races and in September, followed by the After the race. Moore says: nine Breeders’ Cup races. Breeders’ Cup in October. “Conduit attracted the attention of Buy online at Irish Sales & receive a As well as being Coolmore’s #1 retained “I was particularly pleased to win Japanese breeders, and he went rider, he is also first jockey to Sir Michael at Santa Anita for Sir Michael Stoute to Tokyo for one final run, in the Stoute at Newmarket, with whom he has and owners Ballymacoll Stud, who Japan Cup. It came 22 days after financial contribution of between €100 & combined for wins in the Epsom Derby, have been great supporters of mine. Santa Anita, and with the travel — the Arc, and a memorable triumph in Then, in 2009, we were back in the California to Japan, via Newmarket, €1,000 based on export destination the 2013 Ascot Gold Cup aboard Queen same place, attempting to win the UK — it was taxing. It was a brave Elizabeth II’s admirable stayer Estimate. same race again. This time, it was run to finish fourth to Vodka, but he Moore, 37, has also long harboured in early November … and I found it was not at his best. ambitions of winning the Kentucky Derby different, in a very pleasant way. “He went off to stud in Japan and and Breeders’ Cup Classic, which with his “I was there a week early, so it eventually came back to Europe, current retainer, is very feasible. gave me the chance to take it all in. standing in Northern Ireland. I was Your next winner is just a click away He is the eighth subject in this TRC I had plenty of time to think about saddened to hear that he had died series, in which we ask racing figures the race and the occasion. These earlier this year, aged 15. He was around the world to imagine they have days, with our regular international truly tough, honest and brave.” been given a trip back in time to watch schedule, you are rushing most of Conduit won an Eclipse Award for just one race. They can go anywhere, and the time. You are in and out of a his Breeders’ Cup Turf triumph. He as far back as they want. They can pick a place very quickly. was by Arc winner Dalakhani out of a race they were involved in, although they “The 2009 Turf was unusual in Sadler’s Wells mare. can only watch this time. that there was a tearaway leader, He retired from racing at the end Presious Passion, ridden by Elvis of 2009 and stood six seasons at Strap in for the journey .... Trujillo. He set a fierce pace, leading Big Red Farm, Japan, before being by ten lengths in the first half of the repatriated to Tullyraine House Stud Target date: November 7, 2009 race, and he was still six lengths in in 2016. Target destination: Santa Anita, front at the half-mile. This year, he was found to be California “We had been last early but suffering from a serious brain Target race: Breeders’ Cup Turf improved to fifth before halfway. injury in May and died the following Why this race: “I would like to revisit the I had the leader in my sights month. At the time of his death, last win of the first international star I ever but Conduit got unbalanced Conduit was the only Thoroughbred rode - Conduit, a brave and tough horse, at the furlong and a half [form stallion standing in Northern who was always a pleasure to ride.” book comment: lost hind legs Ireland.

“I was particularly pleased to win at Santa Anita for Sir Michael Stoute and owners Ballymacoll Stud, who have been Ts&Cs apply great supporters of mine.” Contact ITM for details Email [email protected] Website www.itm.ie TRC Dec 20–Feb 21 / Asmussen & Sons / A whole new world of race ratings / Ryan Moore / Goldikova: a special tribute /‘Luck’ star John Ortiz remembers Julio Canani / Sir Mark Prescott / P12 The new NORMAL

Buy online at Irish Sales & receive a financial contribution of between €100 & €1,000 based on export destination

Your next winner is just a click away

Ts&Cs apply Contact ITM for details Email [email protected] Website www.itm.ie TRC Dec 20–Feb 21 / Asmussen & Sons / A whole new world of race ratings / Ryan Moore / Goldikova: a special tribute /‘Luck’ star John Ortiz remembers Julio Canani / Sir Mark Prescott / P13 Goldikova: a special tribute to an all-time great John Gilmore | January 12, 2021

The death last week of the great mare Goldikova was sad news for racefans on both sides of the Atlantic. The Wertheimer brothers’ homebred had an unprecedented career record, winning a European record 14 G1s between 2008 and 2011, including four consecutive Prix Rothschild, three consecutive Breeders’ Cup Miles (the only horse to win the same race three times at the great meeting), as well as a career-defining win in the Prix Jacques Le Marois and a victory in the Queen Anne at Royal Ascot. It’s no surprise the mare entered the American Hall of Fame in 2017.

Here Chantilly photo-journalist John Gilmore, who reported and photographed her throughout her career, pays tribute to a remarkable horse who was just as popular in the U.S. as she was in her home country of France.

‘You are our queen’! Goldikova fans make their allegiance known in the crowd at Deauville in 2011. Photo: John Gilmore

TRC Dec 20–Feb 21 / Asmussen & Sons / A whole new world of race ratings / Ryan Moore / Goldikova: a special tribute /‘Luck’ star John Ortiz remembers Julio Canani / Sir Mark Prescott / P14 I first noticed Goldikova not through le Marois, also at Deauville, and later a relationship and feeling with her as her own exploits but as a bit player second BC Mile, again at Santa Anita. Frankie had when riding Enable. in the story of another filly, the great But the crème de la crème was the “It was a big shock when I first Zarkava. Jacques le Marois. The daughter of heard the news Goldikova had died. Twice Goldikova finished placed Anabaa produced an extraordinary Emotionally it felt as if my heart behind the Aga Khan’s champion in performance. I am so fortunate to have stopped for a moment. She was really French Classics in 2008. witnessed it. too young to die at 16.” In the Poule d’Essai des Pouliches Olivier Peslier and the then 4-year- At under 16 hands and around over a mile at Longchamp in May that old simply slaughtered a top-class 480kg, Goldikova was not a big horse, year, she was second, beaten two field, coming on the bridle in the last but she was as tough as they come. lengths, and, over 2½ furlongs further two furlongs to make it a procession, Her great asset was her will to win in the Prix de Diane at Chantilly the earning her a mark of 130, which and consistency at the highest level. following month, she was third, 4½ made her the second highest-rated She was out of the frame only once lengths adrift of Zarkava. horse in the world that year (behind in 27 races. She won 17 times, 14 of But it was back at a mile that her Sea The Stars). Indeed her rating was them G1s . true quality developed. She rattled 2lbs higher than the best achieved by Head pointed out one significant off four victories before the year Zarkava (her 2008 Arc victory). reason for this. “She never suffered was out, three of them G1s (the Prix “It was an incredible performance, any injuries or needed to see the vet, Rothschild and the Prix du Moulin in like a dream, sprinting away from the despite always working with great France, and the Breeders’ Cup Mile field to an easy six-length victory and enthusiasm on the gallops and on the at Santa Anita). The win in California one I can never forget,” Peslier said. “As track throughout her racing career,” made Freddy Head the first person to we made our way back to the winner’s he said. win the Breeders’ Cup Mile as both a enclosure, it was the first time I had She had a marvellous ability jockey (Miesque in 1987 and 1988) and ever seen the crowd at a French track to retain her form at top level a trainer. give a horse such a standing ovation, throughout the year in Europe Goldikova landed another four sensing they had seen something yet still produce a top-class, fresh G1s in 2009 - the Falmouth Stakes special - just like they do in England at performance across the Atlantic with at Newmarket and a second Prix big meetings.” all the travelling involved to win the Rothschild at Deauville preceding a He added, “I rode Goldikova in all BC Mile in November three years devastating victory in the Prix Jacques her 27 races and had the same sort of running.

Whoosh! The victory that had all racing buzzing - Goldikova winning the 2009 Prix Jacques le Marois at Deauville by six lengths. Photo: John Gilmore

TRC P15 By doing so, her sporting owner- “Goldikova was very special and Attagirl! Olivier Peslier is celebrating already as breeders, the Wertheimer brothers, would try to bite me or kick out in Goldikova lands her third BC Mile ahead of runner- up Gio Ponti (green, mostly hidden) and third- showed they were not afraid to her box when I approached,” said placed The Usual QT at Churchill Downs in 2010. take on the best overseas to prove Freddy Head. “This wasn’t the case Photo: Breeders' Cup/Thom Shelby they had a real champion, not just at the races for Peslier when he racing against home-based horses, mounted her.” which her numerous fans across “She always appeared calm and the globe greatly appreciated. at ease,” said Peslier, “but not so In any other sport, international at the start. She was not easy for competition is vital to prove you stall entry at the beginning, but the farewell appearance at a track where are the best, but it is not always stable worked on her and things got she had won five G1s, including the considered necessary in the better with age.” Prix Rothschild four times. racehorse breeding industry, where I remember vividly Goldikova’s She was to run once more in runners are frequently packed off penultimate appearance in Europe France, in the 7-furlong Prix de la to stud at the end of their 3-year- - as a 6-year-old at Deauville for Foret at the Arc meeting in October. old careers, as was the case with the Prix Jacques Le Marois in 2011. She was beaten a head by Dream the unbeaten Zarkava (seven races, The crowd was full of anticipation, Ahead. seven wins). swollen by the Goldikova fan club, The following month, she Goldikova was known as and even the racecourse joined attempted to win a fourth Breeders’ something of a character - she in by giving out ‘Allez Goldikova’ Cup Mile, but it was not to be. She would attempt to bite people posters. Alas, it was not to be and was a gallant third to Court Vision, entering her box. Head’s son the 3-year-old youngster Immortal losing nothing in defeat. Christopher, who was assistant to Verse spoilt the script. As usual, The great mare then took up stud his father at the time, once told me Goldikova gave her all, but it wasn’t duties at the Wertheimers’ Haras de that only Goldikova’s work rider enough this time. Saint Leonard in Normandy. and groom Thierry Blaise, farrier The result made little difference Trainer Head (above right) Nicolas Ricaud and head groom to the spectators as Goldikova and considered it difficult to compare Bruno Huet were allowed into her Peslier still received a rapturous Goldikova with Miesque. “Both box without any problem - but not reception, the crowd realising it were great fillies. Miesque was more his father. would probably be Goldikova’s difficult to ride, being more brutal,

TRC Dec 20–Feb 21 / Asmussen & Sons / A whole new world of race ratings / Ryan Moore / Goldikova: a special tribute /‘Luck’ star John Ortiz remembers Julio Canani / Sir Mark Prescott / P16 Don’t get too close! Freddy Head’s son But that’s not the end of it. Christopher (black shirt) is anxious not to Goldikova’s memory on the track get too close to Goldikova in this shot of the mare with stable staff in August 2011. lives on, through a 3-year-old as yet Photo: John Gilmore unraced Dubawi filly, Goldistyle, and CHAUTAUQUA a 2-year-old Galileo colt, Lehman, How life has slowed right both in training with Carlos Laffon down for arguably the world’s Parias. All her fans will be hoping for fastest racehorse something special from either. having to be held up for an explosive International recognition finish. They had a totally different

GALLOPMAGAZINE INT. style of racing. Miesque could never • 2009 and 2010: Eclipse Award for #34.Q1.2021 £5.99 win races from the front whereas Outstanding Female Turf Horse Goldikova had a far more relaxed and Cartier Award for Champion style of racing and could win from Older European Horse Next issue 1st April 2021: CHAUTAUQUA the front or come with a late run. Plus: The two richest races on “I count myself lucky to have had • 2010: Cartier European Horse of earth; The World’s No.1 Jockey; the opportunity to train a crack filly the Year Who stole the Cheltenham like Goldikova and also two other limelight?; The rider they’re all top-class horses around 1,600 • 2017: Entered American Hall of talking about down under; What metres in Solow and Moonlight Fame goes on in the breeding shed?; Agua Caliente; The healing Cloud.” power of a horse; Mike Smith: a Goldikova wasn’t in foal when she • Lifetime earnings: €4,837,120 quickfire Q&A; and much more died and produced seven foals during her time at stud, with two winners She was chosen as one of the ten FOUR ISSUES A YEAR FOR from four starters. The best has been outstanding Eclipse Award winners of £20 / €25 / 30USD Terrakova (by Galileo) also trained by each of the last two decades in a poll Head, who won the G3 Prix Cleopatre of media and racing industry people, Subscribe at in 2017 and followed up with a third to earning a particular tribute from thoroughbredracing.com/gallop Senga in the Prix de Diane. TRC’s Charles Hayward.

Jay Hovdey | February 15, 2021

In an acting career that goes back to the early 1990s, John Mutual respect: John Ortiz (right) with Julio Canani. “He would play Ortiz has played fathers and sons, a pastor and an astronaut, the clown, but that’s not who he drug addicts, cops, and drug-addicted cops. He has been was,” says Ortiz. Photo: Benoit directed by Steven Spielberg, Brian De Palma, Ridley Scott, and Ron Howard. Sometimes if you blinked you missed him, but more often he held you fast to the screen.

TRC Dec 20–Feb 21 / Asmussen & Sons / A whole new world of race ratings / Ryan Moore / Goldikova: a special tribute /‘Luck’ star John Ortiz remembers Julio Canani / Sir Mark Prescott / P18 If you liked Silver Linings Playbook or hidden corners of the backstretch. Ortiz cleaned stalls, scrubbed tack, set American Gangster or that perfect gem For Ortiz, Canani’s death, at age 82, feed tubs, swept tack room floors, raked the called The Drop, chances are you’re a fan brought back vivid memories of time shed row, and listened, listened, listened. of John Ortiz. spent with his real-life counterpart in the The ability of trained actors to absorb and And yet, for all the breadth of projects trenches at Santa Anita, where Luck was learn quickly is remarkable, and Ortiz was Ortiz has tackled, he will confess that few filmed, and what he went through to bring calling on all his training to get under the have stuck to him longer than the HBO an honest portrayal to the screen. skin of the Thoroughbred horse trainer. racetrack series Luck. (Full disclosure: This The actor began his education at Especially this trainer. reporter was a staff writer on the show.) Gulfstream Park in the company of John For that single season of nine episodes Perrotta, the former racetrack executive A wink and a nod airing between January and March and racing stable manager who was Milch hung the character of Escalante on of 2012, Ortiz was Turo Escalante, the engaged as a writer and consultant in the many of Canani’s biographical pegs. The flamboyant horse trainer who went toe- early stages of the production. native of Peru scuffled on the fringes of the to-toe with a rival trainer played by Nick “David told me to get John’s feet wet Southern California sport for years before Nolte and the mob fixer played by Dustin on the backstretch,” Perrotta said. “So we being entrusted with better and better Hoffman. When the series was cancelled, spent some time with Allen Jerkens, which horses. This reporter first encountered the Ortiz quickly shed the trappings of the is really throwing a guy into the deep end. trainer on the morning after he won the alpha-horseman to shape-shift into roles At the time I had a few horses with Joe Oceanside Stakes on opening day of the for the biopic Caesar Chavez and the Fox Orseno. I told him to give John a horse to 1975 Del Mar meet with a 7-year-old gelding series Rake. But the residue of his total walk, some horse a kid could handle, just named Willmar, a modestly accomplished immersion in horseracing lingered, and to give him the feel.” refugee from Florida. to this day there is not a big event that “He don’ sweat,” Canani said, the goes by without Ortiz either tuning in or Completely hooked meaning of which was not immediately showing up to renew his love affair with It did not take long for Ortiz to be both clear. Canani also was selling carrots to the game. thoroughly disoriented and completely fellow trainers from the back of his car at the Over the past year, Ortiz found hooked. time. himself in the same boat with millions “The more people I met, the more “A non-sweater,” he explained, sort of. of Americans whose personal and trainers I observed, I realized I was in “Had to get out of Florida and come here professional lives were drastically a world apart from anything I’d ever where it’s cool.” impacted by the Covid-19 pandemic. His experienced,” Ortiz said. “No two trainers Willmar was Canani’s first stakes winner starring role in the mysterious HBO drama did everything the same. The people in a career that eventually rang up victories Messiah ran for ten episodes in early on the backstretch were friendly and in a Santa Anita Handicap, three Breeders’ 2020, but the series was cancelled just as supportive of each other and at the same Cup events, and a championship for the the pandemic began to spread. Film and time not a part of the real world. 2-year-old filly Sweet Catomine, along with television productions ground to a halt, “After a while, it started to feel like the nearly every grass race worth winning on leaving actors like Ortiz with nothing but theatre world, kind of a self-contained the West Coast. time on their hands. existence where everybody has to rely Canani did it with a wink and a nod as if A racing fan can only spend so many on everybody else. But I knew I needed there was some deep secret to his success, quality hours with the family before they to know a whole lot more before I could when everyone knew – or at least should run screaming to the nearest racetrack, even begin to be convincing as a hands-on have known – that he was merely getting the but neither Santa Anita nor Del Mar were horse trainer.” best from the good horses he was given the allowing people in the stands, and not The second act of his preparation chance to train. even Turo Escalante, with his made-for-TV came in Los Angeles, where Ortiz moved Ortiz was faced with fathoming Canani’s trainer’s license, could have penetrated his family from New York for the Luck cover story as the colorful Peruvian with a the health restrictions imposed on production and connected with Canani, thousand racetrack tales whose relationship Southern California tracks. who had trained 2001 Breeders’ Cup Mile with the English language was fraught, often Ortiz found his name summoned winner Silic For Milch. to entertaining effect. recently in obituaries and tributes marking “I came out a month before filming the February 5 death from Covid-19 started,” Ortiz said. “I knew I needed that Successful as well as vulnerable of trainer Julio Canani, who was the time. The first day I was introduced to Julio “He would play the clown, but that’s not inspiration for the Escalante character he kind of gave me the eye and then pretty who he was,” Ortiz said. “He came from very as created by David Milch for Luck and much ignored me. When I showed up the poor roots. He was told ‘no’ most of his early brought to the screen by Michael Mann. next morning at 5:30 he was surprised, life. And yet he had this incredible drive to Ortiz had been part of the Mann troupe but I kept coming out, watching how he be successful in something he found he was in films such as Miami Vice and Public handled his help and ran the barn. Pretty good at. I knew I was not going to be doing Enemies, but before he accepted the soon he says to me, ‘If you gonna be here an imitation of Julio. But I wanted to be true part in Luck he had never set foot on a every day, maybe you need a job.’ So he to that inner drive that made him successful racetrack, let alone wandered into the put me to work.” as well as vulnerable.”

Eventually, the trainer warmed to Ortiz Luck was cancelled by HBO after stable earned barely half a million and christened him with a nickname, shooting the first episode of the second dollars. The following year his license the rough equivalent of a backstretch season. The official reason was the was suspended by the California Horse knighthood in Canani country. accidental death of a third company Racing Board after he was found guilty “Yes, yes,” Ortiz recalled with a smile. horse over the nearly two years of of defrauding an owner in the purchase “He called me ‘The Kid’, as in, ‘Can you production. Other versions exist, but and resale of horses. believe this f---ing kid gonna play me on don’t really matter, and for Ortiz, the Canani never regained his license TV?’ So that was me, The F---ing Kid. flame of racing continued to burn. He to train, although he eventually was “And he would get into it,” Ortiz said. became a celebrity ambassador for allowed access to the racetrack. He also “I still spent a lot of time at his barn after the Breeders’ Cup and has attended began showing symptoms of dementia. we starting shooting the episodes – periodic reunions of the Luck cast, “It was a couple of years ago when watching, learning, asking him questions. hosted by Perrotta. I saw him for the last time,” Ortiz said. We’d talk maybe 60-40, English to In the meantime, as restrictions “I was at Santa Anita, at Clocker’s Spanish, him with his Peruvian Spanish on production eased, Ortiz returned Corner, just visiting. I looked over when and me with my Brooklyn Puerto Rican. to work late last summer with an someone said, ‘There’s Julio,’ and he “After the show started to air, he’d say independent movie called TheFallout was sitting by himself. I gave him a hug, to people with me standing there, ‘I’m that is scheduled to premier next month but he had that look in his eye that told the real Turo!’ At one point he started at the South by Southwest film festival me he really wasn’t present. I reminded recommending that Turo should wear in Austin, Texas. He’s also preparing him who I was and he smiled, but I some of his clothes – the wild shirts, to shoot a studio movie, and he holds know he just couldn’t bring back the the hats, the shoes, the pants that were out a fond wish to be in a crowd at Del memory. bright green and, I don’t know, flamingo? Mar later this year for the Breeders’ Cup “I prefer to think of our last real I had to draw the line. As I saw the championship events. goodbye happening not long after Luck character, Turo definitely had a different “I miss racing so much,” he said. “I ended,” Ortiz said. “We’d done a photo fashion sense than Julio.” think the last time I was able to go was shoot to promote the show, and Julio By the time Luck was rolling, Ortiz the Breeders’ Cup at Santa Anita.” insisted that I wear one of his furry was growing more confident in his ability For the loyal cohort of Luck fans, Russian hats for the pictures. So I did, to embrace Escalante as his own man their final image of Turo Escalante was and as a gift of appreciation I had one while maintaining the Canani influence. in Episode 9 at the hospital bedside of of them blown up so he could hang it Escalante’s purposeful strut was not the veterinarian played by Jill Hennessy, on his office wall alongside all the other Canani’s more distracted, splay-footed of Law & Order fame. He has just won photos that told so many great stories. amble. Escalante’s temper was quick, the biggest race of the season at Santa “He never showed a lot of real while Canani would do a righteous slow Anita and has brought her flowers from emotion with me,” Ortiz said. “He was burn. They both, however, could feign the winner’s circle. She has just suffered pretty guarded that way. But the picture angelic innocence at the cashing of a a miscarriage of their child and must tell really affected him. I thought it would gamble, or try in vain to hide the sly him the awful news. His final line of the be enough to just sign my name, but he anticipation of a race in the bag. show is a forlorn, “Madre Dio.” He climbs said, ‘No, you got to write something.’ Ortiz was asked if he thought, by the in beside her, and the camera lingers on So I thought for a few minutes and then end of his intense Luck experience, that Turo’s face as they embrace. wrote, ‘Sin ti, no hay Turo,’” Ortiz said. he could pass the test for a trainer’s “’Without you, there’s no Turo.’ license. Last real goodbye “He read it, and he was very quiet, “I think so,” he replied. “But I say that For Julio Canani, the ending had far then he walked out of his office and with the deepest respect for what trainers more tragedy than poignant romance. headed down the road,” Ortiz said. “I do. Their dedication to their horses By the time Ortiz and Escalante came followed after a few minutes and found and the people who work for them is into his life, the trainer’s career already him putting the photo in his car. ‘You’re remarkable. I was constantly reminded of was on a downward trend. Stakes- not hanging that in the office,’ I said. people in show business who, if they don’t quality horses had become rare. In ‘No,’ he said. ‘This one – this one goes have each other, they’ve got nobody.” 2014, his last full year of training, the home with me.’”

2021 Fee £150,000 1st Oct, Special Live Foal

King of the milers

The highest-rated son of sire of sires Invincible Spirit, Kingman sired two of the best milers in Europe in 2020 - Persian King (triple Gr.1 winner) & Palace Pier (dual Gr.1 winner)

Also the sire of Gr.1 Hollywood Derby winner Domestic Spending

Contact Shane Horan, Claire Curry or Henry Bletsoe +44 (0)1638 731115 nominations@juddmonte.co.uk www.juddmonte.com

Patrick Lawrence Gilligan | February 10, 2021

I was neighbors with Sir Mark Prescott for the best part of 16 years. On the first morning I encountered him, I said, “Good morning, Sir Mark.” He replied “Good morning Mr Gilligan.” Sixteen years later, on my last morning in Newmarket, I said, “Good morning, Sir Mark.” And he said, “Good morning, Mr Gilligan.

Sir Mark Prescott: “Bureaucrats have a place [in racing administration] but should not dominate.” I sent my son to Heath House, for his covering 2,500 miles by horse box. From there it is easy to see why apprenticeship. If you cannot afford to He is the longest-serving trainer in Federico Tesio regarded the Derby send your child to public school, you Britain now, teetotal, and much too at Epsom as the supreme test of a should consider Heath House. sprightly for his assistant’s liking. This Thoroughbred in the world. Jack didn’t thank me. He would son of a barrister has spent his life The winning horse, only a 3-year- return home each morning a stumbling turning the training of a racehorse into old in June, had to survive fast ground exhausted wreck. But, after a year, a piece of performance art. (over a mile and a half) and, in Tesio’s the kid returned a young man. He was He has played the part of time, a crowd of a million. The horse’s taught punctuality, self discipline, Newmarket trainer for five decades temperament had to withstand a personal grooming, manners, respect now, and, with the sad passing of parade, a canter down, a canter back for authority, loyalty, decency, the equally iconic Sir Henry Cecil, and a long walk across the downs to inspiration. And the highest standards of Prescott stands head and shoulders the start. He had to gallop uphill and horsemanship anywhere. above all others now as an emblem downhill and, in the latter stages, cope Jack looks back with fondness on of Newmarket, the sport of kings, and with a pronounced camber. those times, making friends, laughing actually England too, now I think about He had to turn right-handed and with his fellow workers, sitting the tough it. left-handed. He had to have the pace ones. It toughened him up and gave If you have never met him, it is to secure an early position, but a him a seat on a horse a prince would be your loss, but you are not alone. He disposition that allowed him to settle proud of. He still hasn’t thanked me. has turned away some of the biggest in mid race, plus the acceleration and Everything is as it should be with Sir names in the sport who came and stamina to climb the final hill. Mark. Within the ivy covered walls of sought his services - not for personal On a raceday, or on a quiet day for his Heath House stables, superficially reasons, it is just that he has 50 stables, that matter, racing history suffuses the at least, time stands still. Evening and he trains 50 horses, year-in, year- whole place and any ardent lover of the stables inspections are conducted out. Not one less, not one more. turf could seek no finer view. with a formality found nowhere else anymore. The legendary but tragic Who do you think is the most What is your fondest memory in jockey Fred Archer was apprenticed to important person in world racing? trainer Matt Dawson here and, despite racing history? Riding my first winner, at my first the addition of equine treadmills, pools, Admiral Henry John Rous (1791-1877), ever attempt, aged 16 at Wincanton horse walkers and other state of the art the great British racing administrator Racecourse on September 17, 1964, in a training aids, the place still seemingly who invented and perfected the 2-mile steeplechase. One never forgets breaths Victorian fog from its chimneys. weight-for-age scale, which is virtually one’s first kiss. However many more may Sir Mark says he does have a mobile unchanged to this day, and on which follow, there is only one first kiss! phone - but no-one has the number. all races and handicaps throughout the He inherited his Baronetcy in 1965, world are framed. What do you see as the biggest and by 1970, following an 18-month stay (One of Prescott’s favorite stories challenge racing faces today? in hospital after a fall in a steeplechase has Admiral Rous one day climbing the Welfare. In an increasingly urban world, broke his back, he became Newmarket’s Newmarket grandstand steps when more and more people believe that newest, and youngest (by 19 years) a lady exclaims, “Why Admiral Rous, animals think like humans, while fewer racehorse trainer. you seem very cheery today, may I and fewer people learn enough about For many years never seen without ask why?” “Well Madame,” he replies. animals to know how they think! a cigar in his hand, Sir Mark Prescott “I have just gone through the next Thus our administrators have a hard has lived his life on his terms. The race and have discovered that I have job on their hands. Modern people old Harrovian has lived a Sherlock handicapped each horse so well, that know about pets, watch enough wildlife Holmesian lifestyle, a confirmed not one of them can possibly win.”) programs to comprehend the wild, but bachelor in spite of his enjoyment of have no experience or understanding of female companionship, with a love of What is your favourite race and the working animal anymore, and that is the arts and horse racing history and the venue? our greatest challenge. entry book. My favourite race is the Melbourne Cup. He has landed legendary gambles The atmosphere in the city for the ten If you could change one thing in and improbable winning sequences that days leading up to it is unique. racing, what would it be? have left the handicappers scratching The venue is Epsom Racecourse. I would try to ensure that those in their heads. In 1980, he trained 2-year- Anyone who hasn’t visited the home control of the sport continue to old Spindrifter to 13 victories in a of the Derby should climb to the top contain an element of sportsmen season, the first time it had been done of the grandstand. The view across and sportswomen and those with a in 100 years. In 2004, he wrung seven the hills of Surrey, from that vantage love and deep knowledge of animals. victories from three-year-old Masafi - in point high on the top of the downs, is Bureaucrats have a place, but should 12 days, at six different racecourses, spectacular. not dominate.

The Thoroughbred Racing Industry’s ranking system

Available at thoroughbredracing.com

Thoroughbred racing has its rankings of the world’s leading horses and the world’s best races, but the sport is devoid of meaningful classifications of the humans involved, the jockeys, the trainers, the owners.

After two years in development, Thoroughbred Racing Commentary (TRC) filled that void with the creation of TRC Global Rankings. Updated weekly, this is the only system in the world that assesses the accomplishments of every jockey, trainer, owner and sire.

Advertise in TRC Monthly Roundup A look at the top stories from thoroughbredracing.com

Full page, half page and quarter page formats available. Contact: [email protected] Sign up for our free newsletter

Make sure you never miss the inside track on the international thoroughbred racing industry direct to your inbox three times a week.

And also receive TRC GLOBAL RANKINGS weekly updates

Join the conversation on social media... /ThoroughbredRacingCommentary @TRCommentary TRC Dec 20–Feb 21 / Asmussen & Sons / A whole new world of race ratings / Ryan Moore / Goldikova: a special tribute /‘Luck’ star John Ortiz remembers Julio Canani / Sir Mark Prescott / P25 28 February 2021 Trainers

Rank Name Country Points

1 Chad C Brown USA 2968 Horses 2 John Gosden GBR 2706

Rank Name Country Points 3 Chris Waller AUS 2509 1 JPN Almond Eye JPN 2148 4 Charlie Appleby GBR 2501 2 HKO Golden Sixty AUS 2137 5 Aidan O'Brien IRE 2469 3 IRE Tarnawa IRE 2092 6 Bob Baffert USA 2355 4 JPN Contrail JPN 2089 7 Brad H Cox USA 2346 5 FRA Ghaiyyath IRE 2023 8 James Cummings AUS 1886 6 GBR Enable GBR 2016 9 Jamie Richards NZL 1855 7 JPN Gran Alegria JPN 2011 10 Grant & Alana Williams AUS 1751 8 Chrono Genesis JPN JPN 1991

9 Authentic USA USA 1988 Owners

10 IRE Magical IRE 1965 Rank Name Country Points 11 GBR Battaash IRE 1896 1 Godolphin AUS 3357 12 GBR Love IRE 1892 2 Coolmore Partners IRE 2628 13 USA Maximum Security USA 1892 3 Sheikh Hamdan Al Maktoum GBR 2404 14 USA Tiz The Law USA 1870 4 Silk Racing Co Ltd JPN 1946 15 FRA Persian King IRE 1864 5 Peters Investments Et Al AUS 1872

Juddmonte Farms / Prince Khalid 6 USA 1690 Abdulla Jockeys 7 Gary Barber Et Al USA 1661

Rank Name Country Points 8 Danox Co Ltd JPN 1632

1 Frankie Dettori GBR 1896 9 Klaravich Stables Et Al USA 1631

2 Christophe Lemaire JPN 1895 10 Madaket Stables Et Al USA 1631

3 Irad Ortiz Jr USA 1783 Sires 4 William Buick GBR 1768

5 Joel Rosario USA 1707 Rank Name Country Points

6 Pierre-Charles Boudot FRA 1698 1 Galileo IRE IRE 2424

7 Florent Geroux USA 1674 2 Dubawi IRE GBR 2288

8 Flavien Prat USA 1627 3 Deep Impact JPN JPN 2264

9 James McDonald AUS 1607 4 Lord Kanaloa JPN JPN 1688

10 Luis Saez USA 1547 5 Shamardal USA FRA 1676

11 Ryan Moore GBR 1527 6 Sea The Stars IRE GBR 1641

12 Opie Bosson AUS 1527 7 Into Mischief USA USA 1620

13 Yuga Kawada JPN 1517 7 Teofilo IRE AUS 1620

14 Hugh Bowman AUS 1484 9 Street Cry IRE AUS 1605

15 Damian Lane AUS 1465 10 Frankel GBR GBR 1516

TRC Dec 20–Feb 21 / Asmussen & Sons / A whole new world of race ratings / Ryan Moore / Goldikova: a special tribute /‘Luck’ star John Ortiz remembers Julio Canani / Sir Mark Prescott / P26