MONDAY, 12 NOVEMBER 2018 worthwhile to put the time, effort and expense into selecting GRASS IS GREENER and shipping a handful of yearlings from Newmarket to the U.S. when they were having plenty of success otherwise should be FOR KLARAVICH considered significant. Brown said minutes after Newspaperofrecord=s Breeders= Cup win, AWe decided to go over [to Tattersalls] and try a new market because we=re always looking to change our model a little bit, and studying the races over hereByes, I=ve had success in this race before with the American-bred horses, but I also have a division of my stable where I get a lot of imported horses that we try to buy or owners just send to me from Europe.@ AJust thinking forwardly, I said to Seth, >would you be open to buying some yearlings [in Europe]?= If we want to have some of these European-bred horses that I feel on the average just have better blood for running on turf coursesBlike this today and at a high level all over the worldBthen we=re going to have to go in and buy some unraced ones. He said, >sure, we=ll go over there and try it.=@ Cont. p2 Newspaperofrecord in full flight in the Breeders= Cup | Horsephotos By Kelsey Riley IN TDN AMERICA TODAY When >TDN Rising Star= Newspaperofrecord (Ire) (Lope de A TALE OF TWO DANZIGS Vega {Ire}) stormed to her third successive dominant win in the Bob Fierro examines the phenotypes of two Danzig-line sires: Nov. 2 GI Breeders= Cup Juvenile Fillies= Turf, she ensured that Bellamy Road and War Front. Click or tap here to go straight to her connections= experiment to import yearlings purchased at TDN America. Tattersalls to race in the U.S. would go down as a resounding success. That part of the story has been well-documented. It is also worth reflecting on what this experiment means as a microcosm for the undeniable growth of grass racing in America. Owner Seth Klarman and trainer Chad Brown didn=t need to go to Europe to find good racehorses. Klarman, under his Klaravich Stables moniker, has raced Grade I winners like Cloud Computing (Maclean=s Music) and Practical Joke (Into Mischief), both trained by Brown. Brown is, of course, one of the preeminent trainers in the U.S. and the dominant top-level turf trainer. Brown=s best horses have included both American-breds and European imports sent to him with form. But these are both men who see opportunity and grab it; they didn=t reach the top of their respective professions by resting in their comfort zones. There is nothing new about importing European horses to America (and vice versa) and winning races. But during a time when high quality turf racing in the U.S. is growing sharply, the fact that a pair of dyed-in-the-wool Americans considered it TDN EUROPE • PAGE 2 OF 8 • THETDN.COM MONDAY • 12 NOVEMBER 2018 Grass is Greener for Klaravich Cont. and ones that can use themselves very well and are agile and Another of the vital cogs in the experiment was bloodstock not cumbersome. In this country we have good to firm turf most agent Mike Ryan, who helped Klaravich Stables pick out six of the year so we=re looking for horses that can handle fast yearlings at Tattersalls last year and 10 this year. The Irish-born ground.@ Ryan has been living in America for the better part of 40 years. During a time when speed is king in Europe, Ryan noted that AIt began through Chad,@ Ryan said. AChad and I have been the Klaravich team is looking specifically for two-turn horses to friends for seven or eight years now and we began to work take advantage of good purses in that realm on the grass in the together five or six years ago. I had some horses with him and I U.S. They have also done all their shopping at Tattersalls in the sent him some owners like Bill Warren and Bob Edwards. Our middle market; Newspaperofrecord=s group averaged relationship has grown over the 219,167gns, while this year=s years and we have a great haul averaged 213,500gns. mutual respect. I think he=s an AWe=re not particularly looking THE GRASS PROGRAM IS FANTASTIC IN incredible trainer, and he sought at sprinters; we=re looking at out my help to help him pick THE STATES AND IT’S GETTING BETTER horses that can go anywhere yearlings at the sales and it=s AND BETTER. ALMOST HALF OUR from a mile to a mile and a worked very well.@ quarter because there is huge ASeth [Klarman] likes to have a BREEDERS’ CUP RACES purse money in the longer races balanced stable,@ Ryan ARE GRASS RACES. here,@ Ryan explained. AIt=s very continued. AHe loves racing, difficult to compete on the very Mike Ryan period, and he particularly loves high end against the Middle East Saratoga; he races primarily in money, the Maktoum family and New York. Having Chad as his Coolmore. Although we did buy trainer, Chad is equally adept at a Dubawi in 2017, the Dubawis dirt and grass horses and the and the Galileos we kind of leave grass program is fantastic in the States and it=s getting better alone and look underneath that. We=re looking for the next best and better. Almost half of our Breeders= Cup races are grass quality, sires like Lope de Vega, Sea the Stars and Kingman.@ races. It was a natural progression for Seth and when Chad AThey have the best turf horses in the world in England and brought up the idea of going to Ireland, and the Newmarket sales Newmarket, Seth was fully on are a melting pot of the best of board with it and very supportive England, Ireland and France, so of the concept.@ you have great quality of stallions Ryan has laid his eyes on and the broodmares are very enough good horses to know one strong. It=s a terrific catalogue when he sees oneBhe even and we work it very hard; we worked at Windfields Farm in look at 350, 400 horses and try to Canada during the Northern be smart about knowing where Dancer glory daysBand he said we can buy and where we can=t when selecting European buy.@ yearlings to race in the U.S. he While Newspaperofrecord is looks for a leaner horse with the the lone horse of the Klaravich potential for a strong finishing Tattersalls experiment to yet kick. start, Ryan said others have given Mike Ryan | Fasig-Tipton photo APersonally I don=t like horses them reason to believe there will that are too heavy,@ he said. AI think the best grass horses are a be more headlines made in 2019 and beyond. bit on the leaner side. They have to have a good turn of foot. AThere were others that were ready to run and they came up Turf racing is a bit different to dirt; dirt is fast from the gate to with little issues that have cost us time, but there will be a the wire but with turf racing a lot of horses cruise around there strong group of 3-year-olds next year and a strong oncoming then kick on from the quarter pole to the wire and finish the last group of 2-year-olds,@ he said. quarter in :22 and change. I like leaner horses, not heavy horses TDN EUROPE • PAGE 3 OF 8 • THETDN.COM MONDAY • 12 NOVEMBER 2018 Cartier Award Nominees Cartier Horse Of The Year Alpha Centauri (Ire) (Mastercraftsman {Ire}) Cracksman (GB) (Frankel {GB}) Enable (GB) (Nathaniel {Ire}) Roaring Lion (Kitten=s Joy) Stradivarius (Ire) (Sea The Stars {Ire}) Cartier Older Horse Vice President, International Operations Cracksman (GB) (Frankel {GB}) Gary King Enable (GB) (Nathaniel {Ire}) Twitter: @garykingTDN Lightning Spear (GB) (Pivotal {{GB}) [email protected] Poet's Word (Ire) (Poet=s Voice {GB}) + 1.732.320.0975 Cartier 3-Year-Old Colt International Editor Kelsey Riley Masar (Ire) (New Approach {Ire}) Twitter: @kelseynrileyTDN Roaring Lion (Kitten=s Joy) [email protected] Sands Of Mali (Fr) (Panis) Saxon Warrior (Jpn) (Deep Impact {Jpn}) European Editor Emma Berry Cartier 3-Year-Old Filly Twitter: @collingsberry Alpha Centauri (Ire) (Mastercraftsman {Ire}) [email protected] Laurens (Fr) (Siyouni {Fr}) Associate International Editor Sea Of Class (Ire) (Sea The Stars {Ire}) Heather Anderson Wild Illusion (GB) (Dubawi {Ire}) Twitter: @HLAndersonTDN Cartier Sprinter Marketing Manager Battaash (Ire) (Dark Angel {Ire}) Alayna Cullen Mabs Cross (GB) (Dutch Art {GB}) Twitter: @AlaynaCullen Merchant Navy (Aus) (Fastnet Rock {Aus}) [email protected] Sands Of Mali (Fr) (Panis) Contributing Editor Alan Carasso Cartier Stayer Twitter: @EquinealTDN Holdthasigreen (Fr) (Hold That Tiger) Kew Gardens (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}) Cafe Racing Stradivarius (Ire) (Sea The Stars {Ire}) Sean Cronin Vazirabad (Fr) (Manduro {Ger}) Tom Frary [email protected] Cartier 2-Year-Old Colt Advertise (GB) (Showcasing {GB}) Irish Correspondent Daithi Harvey Quorto (Ire) (Dubawi {Ire}) Ten Sovereigns (Ire) (No Nay Never) Regular Columnists Too Darn Hot (GB) (Dubawi {Ire}) Andrew Caulfield John Berry Cartier 2-Year-Old Filly Kevin Blake Fairyland (Ire) (Kodiac {GB}) Tom Peacock Hermosa (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}) Pretty Pollyanna (GB) (Oasis Dream {GB}) Skitter Scatter (Scat Daddy) TDN EUROPE • PAGE 4 OF 8 • THETDN.COM MONDAY • 12 NOVEMBER 2018 FIRST-SEASON SIRES WITH RUNNERS FAME & GLORY GELDING TOPS NOVEMBER Monday, Nov. 12, 2018: NH SALE FRANCE A gelded yearling by Fame and Glory (GB) (lot 152) took top honours during the first session of the Tattersalls Ireland Alhebayeb (Ire) (Dark Angel {Ire}), Tara Stud November National Hunt Sale on Sunday.