DEELITEFUL IRVING OUT OF TURF HEADLINE p. 2 NEWS For information about TDN, DELIVERED EACH NIGHT call 732-747-8060. BY FAX AND INTERNET www.thoroughbreddailynews.com WEDNESDAY, OCT. 22, 2003 VIA MILANO TAKES RESERVOIRS BREEDERS’ CUP Via Milano (Fr) (Singspiel {Ire}) was twice runner-up in Deauville stakes company, but broke through with a BULLETIN 2 1/2-length victory in the G3 Prix des Reservoirs yes- terday. The filly was beaten just over a length by even- TO THE TURF tual G1 Prix Marcel Boussac winner Denebola in the G3 Trainer Luca Cumani yesterday ended the lengthy Prix de Cabourg over six furlongs Aug. 2 and, upped to debate as to the Breeders’ Cup target of Falbrav (Ire) seven furlongs for the G3 Prix du Calvados Aug. 23, () by announcing that connections have opted she finished the 1½-length runner-up to Green Swallow for the Turf. Despite being pre-entered in the Classic, (Fr). Held up in mid-division by Dominique Boeuf off the the Teruya Yoshida and Luciano Salice-owned five-year- fast early tempo, she quickened impressively to hit the old will not tackle the dirt for the first time. “He will go front approaching the eighth pole. Despite drifting left in the Turf,” Cumani told PA Sport yesterday. “The under pressure in the closing stages, she was comfort- owners decided that it was the most sensible course of ably beyond the reach of the late-closing Colony Band action as we would have been guessing a bit on the (Dixieland Band). “I have been in racing for 36 years dirt.” Jockey Darryll Holland, who has partnered Falbrav and this is my first group success,” commented owner to success in the G1 Eclipse S. at Sandown July 5, G1 Antoine Capozzi. “I bought her privately at the sales International S. at York Aug. 19 and G1 Queen Eliza- here last year for i40,000, so that was obviously a beth II S. at Ascot Sept. 27, added that he was good investment.” An emotional trainer Julie Laurent- “thrilled” that it had been decided to aim for the Turf. Joye Rossi added, “This is fabulous as it’s only my “It will be rock hard, which he’ll love,” he said. “I rode second year as a trainer. She has been running against at Santa Anita for three seasons as an apprentice so I the best of her sex and gone close so she deserves this. know the track well and I’m not at all worried about the She handled the trip and the bend very well as she is distance of a mile and half. It is a totally different expe- very intelligent. She will be put away until next year with rience to riding in a mile-and-a-half race in Europe. Basi- the G1 Poule d’Essai des Pouliches [French 1000 Guin- cally, I’m on the best horse in the race and I’m not sure eas at Longchamp] in mind.” Click for the Racing Post chart. Sulamani or High Chaparral want hard ground. My chap will love it, and he's a jet-setter who knows how to PRIX DES RESERVOIRS-G3, i66,000, Deauville, look after himself.” France, 10-21, 2yo, f, 1mT, 1:41.40, gd. 1--@VIA MILANO (FR), 121, f, 2, by Singspiel (Ire) Distaffers Work 1st Dam: Salvinaxia (Fr), by Linamix (Fr) Distaff hopefuls Got Koko (Signal Tap) and Elloluv 2nd Dam: Salve (Ire), by Sallust (Ire) (Gilded Time) worked yesterday at Santa Anita. The 3rd Dam: Renee Martin (Ity), by (GB) four-year-old Got Koko went O-Antoine Capozzi; B-Eric Puerari & Horsinvest Cor- five furlongs in 1:03 under poration; T-Julie Laurent-Joye Rossi; J-Dominique regular rider Alex Solis. “It Boeuf; i33,000. Lifetime Record: 6 starts, 3 wins, was just a little tune-up, nice 3 places, i80,900. and easy,” trainer Bruce 2--Colony Band, 121, f, 2, Dixieland Band-- Headley commented. Elloluv Hostessante, by Pleasant Colony. O/B-Wertheimer et went three furlongs in :36 Frere; i13,200. 3/5. “That is the way you 3--Agata (Fr), 121, f, 2, Poliglote (GB)--Ambri Piotta want to see them do it,” said (Fr), by Caerwent (Ire). O/B-P Hilger; i9,900. Got Koko besting Elloluv in the trainer Craig Dollase. Corey Margins: 2HF, SHD, HF. Odds: 4.90, 3.30, 4.70. Lady’s Secret H. Horsephotos Nakatani was aboard for the Also ran: Tulipe Royale (Fr), Banksia (GB), Doctrine work. BC News cont. p2 (GB), Amorama (Fr), Coimbra. Important Update for Keeneland November HIP 2413 S ZIGEMBER, by DANZIG Her 2001 colt, THE CLIFF’S EDGE, ran second in the G3 Kentucky Cup Juvenile. TAYLOR MADE Isn’t it time you came to Taylor Made? www.taylormadefarm.com TDN P HEADLINE NEWS • 10/22/03 • PAGE 2 of 6

(Breeders’ Cup Bulletin cont.) WEEKEND PEDIGREE Deeliteful Irving Out of Turf Deeliteful Irving (Afternoon Deelites), coming off a PERSPECTIVES runner-up finish in the GI Turf Invitational H. at Belmont by Alan Porter Park, will not start in the Turf, trainer Michael Dickinson reported yesterday. “He did not come out of his last HAWTHORNE DERBY-GIII, $250,000, HAW, 10-18, breeze the way I wanted,” Dickinson said. The five- 3yo, 1 1/8mT, 1:48 2/5, fm. year-old worked six furlongs at Tapeta Farm Friday in 1--@#FALSE PROMISES, 115, c, 3, by Jules 1:15. 1st Dam: Stormy Divorce, by Storm Bird 2nd Dam: Exciting Devorcee, by Candy Spots Prado on Hold That Tiger 3rd Dam: French Gal, by Our Colonel Edgar Prado was named yesterday to ride Hold That ($37,000 2yo ‘02 OBSAPR). O-D Maracich; B-Arthur Tiger (Storm Cat) in the Classic. Prado was aboard for I Appleton (FL); T-Anthony Granitz; J-C H Marquez the colt’s last start, a runner-up finish in the GI Wood- Jr; $150,000. Lifetime Record: 14-4-3-1, $226,340. ward. One of the oldest adage’s in the book is that a stal- lion’s progeny start to perform from the point when he Shoemaker Award to Outstanding BC Jockey either is exported or dies. So after Jules, who had been In honor of legendary jockey Bill Shoemaker, the exported to stand permanently in Brazil in 2002, died in Breeders’ Cup will present the Shoemaker Award to the that country this spring, it looked like a double guaran- jockey with the most outstanding performance on the tee of success for his progeny. That’s proved to be the championship day. The winner, to be selected by the case, and a look at the 2003 third-crop sire table shows media, will be announced and presented with a trophy Jules in third place (behind Langfuhr and Alphabet at the media brunch at the racecourse on Sunday. “It is Soup) with 2003 earnings fast approaching only fitting that we honor Bill Shoemaker in this way,” $4,000,000. said Breeders’ Cup President D G Van Clief, Jr. “He is The Jules story is one which demonstrates the volatil- arguably the greatest name in the history of our sport.” ity of the stallion market. The deal to send him perma- Shoemaker passed away on Oct. 12. He became the nently from his Florida home to South America was oldest jockey to win a Breeders’ Cup race when, at age done shortly before his son Peace Rules began to 54, he guided Ferdinand to a thrilling victory in the emerge as one of the better two-year-olds of 2002, and 1986 Classic. there is little doubt that had the runners from his sec- ond crop emerged in his first, Jules would have been traveling, not south to Brazil, but north to Kentucky. “The Works” In part, Jules was somewhat a victim of the high Hollywood Park expectations held for him. A spectacular 14-length Irish Warrior (Irish River {Fr}, Mile) 3f :35.03 winner of a Belmont Park maiden on his two-year-old Monmouth Park debut, he took the one-mile GIII Nashua S. on his third Valid Video (Valid Wager, Sprint) 4f :49 4/5 outing. After a failed attempt to make a classic runner Santa Anita out of him, Jules dropped back to six furlongs to win a Elloluv (Gilded Time, Distaff) 3f :36 3/5 Monmouth Park allowance event and then added the Got Koko (Signal Tap, Distaff) 5f 1:03 8 1/2-furlong Long Branch S. He made just one more Yankee Gentleman (Storm Cat, Sprint) 3f :36 1/5 start before an injury ended his career after a third in the six-furlong Housebuster S. Cont. p. 3 The Idea is Excellence.

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(Pedigree Perspectives cont. from p. 2) close relative, Machiavellian, and do well with mares Retired to Bridlewood Farm in Ocala, Florida, Jules carrying . This has proved to be the took to stud not only the reputation of probably having case. Of the 16 stakes winners Jules has sired in North unrealized potential as a racehorse, but also a very and South America, Northern Dancer is found in the fancy pedigree. By Forty Niner, whose Florida-based son dams of 15. There appears to be a predilection for the End Sweep had just made a sensational start to his stud II strain, as Nijinsky II appears in the dams of career, Jules was out of the Devil’s Bag mare Bonita five of Jules’ stakes winners. Francita. This four-time winner was a 3/4-sister to Coup False Promises doesn’t have Nijinsky II in his pedi- de Folie, dam of champion French two-year-old and gree, but he is out of a mare by Storm Bird, like Nijinsky outstanding sire, Machiavellian (by Mr. Prospector, the II, a Windfields Farm product bred on the Northern grandsire of Jules). Jules’ granddam, Raise the Stan- Dancer/Bull Page cross. Sold for $37,000 at the OBS dard, was a half sister to none other than Northern April Two-Year-Olds in Training Sale (just a month after Dancer, and was bred on very similar lines to the dam Peace Rules had changed hands at the same venue for of another stallion sensation, Danehill. $35,000), he is the third foal of his dam, Stormy Di- With this embarrassment of riches in his background, vorce, having been preceded by the winning Skip Trial nothing less than instant success would satisify, and filly Restraining Order. At $150,000 the most expensive Jules’ first-season record of eight winners of 11 races, Storm Bird yearling of her crop, Stormy Divorce won including stakes winners at Ladbroke Downs and Rock- just once. However, her pedigree gave her significant ingham Park, didn’t exactly stamp him as End Sweep residual value, as she was already half sister to three revisited. Halfway through his second season things did stakes winners. The most notable of these was Rocky not look a lot better, and with his runners from his Marriage, a son of Riva Ridge who won two of three shuttle seasons making a bright start in Brazil, the deci- juvenile starts in England, but then returned to the U.S. sion to accept an offer from that country was an under- to campaign through the age of seven. Rocky Marriage standable one. ended up with five stakes victories to his name, the Of course, the stallion business is a very unpredict- most notable of which came in the GII H. able one and a few months later, Jules looked a very Rocky Marriage had a durable and talented brother in different commodity. His first crop never did really the shape of The Red Rolls, who started 50 times over excel, producing only three minor stakes winners. The six seasons, retiring as a multiple stakes winner of results of his second season, however, tell another $373,766. The pair also had a hard-working half sister story, and he now has five stakes winners from his in the Royal and Regal filly, Lemhi Love. She squeezed second U.S. crop. That crop is headed by Peace Rules, 56 starts into four seasons, and won five stakes events hero of the GI Haskell Invitational H., GI Blue Grass S. and placed in eight others. She’s now dam of Grade I- and GII Louisiana Derby; False Promises, who became a placed Love At Noon, and grandam of the minor stakes stakes winner for the first time with a win in Saturday’s winner Tahoe Affair. GIII Hawthorne Derby; and the four-time stakes winner False Promises’s second dam, Exciting Divorcee, a The Name’s Bond. We can also note that his third crop daughter of the GI Preakness S. winner Candy Spots, includes French Village, who won two of the three won four small races, but she is a sister to a far better Florida Stallion Series events for fillies, and that in Brazil, known runner and producer in Belle Marie. Born one he has six graded stakes winners in his first two crops. year after Exciting Divorcee, Belle Marie won four Since Jules was a Mr. Prospector-line horse free of stakes events, including the GII Santa Susanna S., and Northern Dancer, descending from a half sister to North- produced a champion in the shape of Lemhi Gold, a ern Dancer, and having another strain of Northern Vaguely Noble son whose triumphs included the GI Dancer’s granddam Almahmoud in his pedigree through Jockey Club Gold Cup, GI Marlboro Cup and GI San Halo, it seemed a good bet that he would follow his Juan Capistrano H.

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and GI Futurity, were wide-margin wins with Beyers of FROM THE DESK OF... 103 and 101, respectively--good enough to win the Juvenile most years, when the winners of four of the Bill Oppenheim big preps did run. But Cuvee is not bred to win two-turn races. Carson City is a great little sire (and what tre- SELF-FULFILLING PROPHECY mendous value, still at $35,000), but he’s pretty much There isn’t anybody who follows the game who does- a true Raise a Native: two-year-olds and sprinters. The n’t know by now that, in the 19 Kentucky Derbies run dam went two for three at two and is a 3/4-sister to the since John Gaines dreamed up the Breeders’ Cup, no speedball Olympio. Under the second dam are also winner of the previous year’s Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Grade II two-year-old winner Call Now (Del Mar Debu- has won the following year’s . Now the tante); Grade II-winning miler Wild Wonder; and GII San winners of four of the most important Breeders’ Cup Vicente S. (seven furlong) winner Early Flyer, all bred by preps are passing the race: the Mahmoud Fustok pair of the late Verne Winchell, The Donut King. It doesn’t Silver Wagon (by freshman sire Wagon Limit, winner of actually shout ‘two turns,’ does it? You can also point the GI Hopeful, trained by Ralph Ziadie) and Eurosilver out F/M Turf contender Bien Nicole out of the second (Unbridled’s Song, winner of the GII Lane’s End Breed- dam, but, come on, she’s by Bien Bien. ers’ Futurity, trained by Nick Zito) will be among those Yet history is not as much against Cuvee as his pedi- on the sidelines. Zito’s GI Champagne winner Birdstone gree suggests. Favorite Trick, by Phone Trick, was so (Bird Town’s half brother by Grindstone, owned and much the best of his crop (except for Grand Slam, who bred by Marylou Whitney) is also sitting the race out, as was badly cut into in the race) that he won the Juvenile is Sheikh Mohammed’s Ruler’s Court, a blinkers-on by five lengths and became default Horse of the Year. 14-length winner of the GII Norfolk, at Santa Anita. He did win the GII Jim Dandy at nine furlongs at three, He’s by another first-year sire, Doug Arnold’s Buck but his contemporaries had caught up and passed him. Pond Farm’s Doneraile Court. Ruler’s Court’s defection Johannesburg had never run further than six furlongs is particularly surprising, considering he’s trained in Southern California, but Sheikh Mohammed and his when he won at Belmont Park (a one-turn 1 1/16 mile) advisers must have read the statistics. in 2001. He never won again, but he got 8 1/2 furlongs It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to work out that, if that day. The race this year may be tarnished by absen- the winners of most of the key preps don’t run, the tees, but Cuvee can do no more than beat what runs chances of this year’s Juvenile winner breaking the against him, and it just could happen that way on Satur- hoodoo at the 20th attempt are diminished. There’s day. His pedigree says he is beatable, but what can been a fair degree of moaning about these absentees, beat him? but, you know, Messrs. Fustok and Zito and Sheikh Mohammed have all been at this game a long time now. Last Tycoon: The Second Coming All it does mean is that none of those four is likely to be In 1986, French trainer Robert Collet engineered a champion two-year-old. That’s up to them. massive upset when three-year-old sprinter Last Tycoon In the meantime, it leaves Ron Winchell’s Cuvee, won the Breeders’ Cup Mile at Santa Anita at 36-1. The trained by the up-and-coming Steve Asmussen, the lesson wasn’t lost on the wily John Gosden, who’s even-money favorite to win Saturday’s seventh race at come back to Santa Anita with Oasis Dream, Europe’s Santa Anita (the sixth Breeders’ Cup race). If Cuvee, a top sprinter this year. His current Timeform rating is winner of four of his five starts by a combined 30 134, 10 pounds higher than Europe’s best miler in the lengths, gets the two turns, he’s 1-to-10. His last two Mile, the French-trained filly Six Perfections (124). runs, Jerry Bailey up, in the GII Saratoga Special (slop) Bill Oppenheim cont. p. 5 New 2YO Stakes Winners for Lane’s End Stallions A.P. INDY His 56th Stakes Winner: FRIENDS LAKE - $100,000 Sleepy Hollow S. at Belmont by 3 1/2 lengths, 1 mile in 1:36 1/5.

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(Bill Oppenheim cont. from p. 4) Musical Chimes (by In Excess, so she should just The Americans are in trouble in the Mile, is the way about handle California). Apparently she made a huge it looks from this corner. Either Oasis Dream runs as move to just miss to Tates Creek in the GI Yellow fast, or nearly as fast, at Santa Anita’s Mile as he Ribbon. sprints, in which case he wins. If he doesn’t, Six High Chaparral, Sulamani, and Storming Home are Perfections, one of about six really top-class all either are or were trained in Europe. It would be three-year-old fillies in Europe this year (Russian pretty surprising if one of these four doesn’t win, Rhythm, Yesterday, Dimitrova, Nebraska Tornado, regardless of Santa Anita’s biases. They’re the four and--remember this name--Musical Chimes), should best horses in the race, and they’re all top-class. win. But both could be compromised by today’s Cont. p. 6 draw. Gosden is quoted as saying between four and eight is ideal. 2003 BREEDERS’ CUP Yesterday, Dimitrova, and Musical Chimes, plus World Championships Vermeille winner (over Yesterday) Mezzo Soprano are Race Post Time (ET) all in town for the Filly & Mare Turf, for which four-year-olds Islington and Bright Sky are the high- Nextel Distaff 1:20 p.m. est-rated Europeans. The American contingent is Juvenile Fillies 1:55 p.m. pretty salty, too with the Juddmonte/ pair of NetJets Mile 2:35 p.m. Tates Creek and Heat Haze, Megahertz and Voodoo Sprint 3:10 p.m. Filly & Mare Turf 3:45 p.m. Dancer. This looks a very good race. I still think Yes- Bessemer Trust Juvenile 4:20 p.m. terday is the best filly in the race, but she’s contrived John Deere Turf 4:55 p.m. to get beaten in her last four starts. There’s a big Dodge Classic 5:35 p.m. word for this year’s French 1000 Guineas winner

LEADING NORTH AMERICAN FIRST-CROP SIRES (by cumulative earnings) Sire (YOB) Grandsire 3YO Rnrs Wnrs Wins Earnings GSW SW SP LOC Stravinsky (1996) Nureyev 118 49 22 30 781,724 1 2 5 KY Doneraile Court (1996) Seattle Slew 79 34 14 19 602,845 1 2 1 KY Victory Gallop (1995) Cryptoclearance 87 25 8 9 542,576 0 0 4 KY Stormin Fever (1994) Storm Cat 72 33 10 13 497,008 1 1 4 KY Forestry (1996) Storm Cat 74 16 7 11 464,929 0 2 3 KY Malibu Moon (1997) A.P. Indy 66 13 8 11 417,678 1 2 2 MD Family Calling (1994) Mr. Prospector 79 35 14 20 399,506 0 0 2 FL Silver Charm (1994) Silver Buck 77 23 10 10 382,149 0 0 3 KY Tactical Cat (1996)Storm Cat 68 17 9 11 370,518 0 1 2 KY Exploit (1996) Storm Cat 85 36 8 9 345,260 0 1 1 KY Archers Bay (1995) Silver Deputy 57 18 3 3 305,667 0 0 2 ON Porto Foricos (1995) Mr. Prospector 11 3 1 2 284,475 0 1 0 ON Time Bandit (1996)Time for a Change 18 6 3 6 276,328 0 2 0 LA Old Trieste (1995) A.P. Indy 47 17 6 6 276,144 0 0 2 KY Sea of Secrets (1995) Storm Cat 59 21 8 11 274,576 0 0 3 KY

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European Freshman Sires Danzero, particularly, have benefitted from big Europe’s two top freshman sires, Fasliyev and Cape sales-race winners. Gold Away, Imperial Ballet (origi- Cross, have both generated more progeny earnings than nally a Venezuelan stallion), Daylami, Second Empire, Stravinsky (who is also third in Europe), North Amer- and repatriated Soviet Star fill the next five spots, and ica’s top freshman sire. True, Fasliyev has had an amaz- they’re doing all right, too. ing 70 runners, but they do include 30 winners and seven stakes winners. Cape Cross has 23 winners from © Copyright Thoroughbred Daily News. 51 runners, four of them stakes winners and, like This newspaper may not be reproduced in any form or by Fasliyev, another four stakes-placed. The jury is still any means, electronic or mechanical, without prior out, obviously, as it always must be on freshman sires; written permission of the copyright owner, MediaVista. so many turn out to be flashes-in-the-pan. But this does Information as to the American races, race results and look a strong group, in Europe, anyway. Daggers Drawn earnings was obtained from results charts published in and Orpen have 21 and 22 winners, respectively, and Daily Racing Form and utilized here with with the each has the earners of over £300,000 so far. Dr permission of the copyright owner, Daily Racing Form. Fong’s second stakes winner on Monday takes him into sixth, ahead of Sunline’s sire Desert Sun, who has his first European crop, with Intikhab, French-based TDN TODAY Verglas, and the ‘reverse-hemisphere’ Danehill horse, Headline News ...... 6 pages Danzero rounding out the top 10. Desert Sun and LEADING 1st CROP SIRES IN 2003 IN ORDER OF PRIZE MONEY WON IN EUROPE Black Type Rnk Sire (YOB) Grandsire Rnrs Wnrs Wins Prize £ Wn Pl 1 FASLIYEV (1997) Nureyev 70 30 50 814,145 7 4 2 CAPE CROSS (1994) Green Desert 51 23 41 673,005 4 4 3 STRAVINSKY (1996) Nureyev 39 16 23 342,532 2 3 4 DAGGERS DRAWN (1995) Diesis 53 21 30 303,703 0 1 5 ORPEN (1996) Lure 64 22 29 302,837 1 3 6 DESERT SUN (1988) Green Desert 38 14 18 199,489 0 1 7 DR FONG (1995) Kris S. 46 11 13 196,568 1 3 8 INTIKHAB (1994) Red Ransom 27 16 22 175,956 0 1 9 VERGLAS (1994) Highest Honor 18 8 14 173,901 1 1 10 DANZERO (1991) Danehill 28 11 14 165,401 0 0 11 GOLD AWAY (1995) Goldneyev 20 7 12 160,931 1 0 12 *IMPERIAL BALLET (1989) Sadler's Wells 37 17 22 160,477 0 1 13 DAYLAMI (1994) 28 9 12 113,652 1 1 14 SECOND EMPIRE (1995) Fairy King 32 10 13 108,033 0 1 15 *SOVIET STAR (1984) Nureyev 29 7 8 107,134 0 2 16 CROCO ROUGE (1995) Rainbow Quest 30 10 11 101,235 0 0 17 SHINKO FOREST (1993) Green Desert 27 7 10 94,098 0 1 18 LORD OF MEN (1993) Groom Dancer 21 6 9 93,074 0 0 19 INDIAN ROCKET (1994) Indian Ridge 24 7 11 87,773 1 1 20 DOCKSIDER (1995) Diesis 36 8 11 74,819 0 0 21 PRINCELY HEIR (1995) Fairy King 8 2 5 63,645 1 0 22 STORMIN FEVER (1994) Storm Cat 1 1 3 61,957 1 0 23 REGAL ARCHIVE (1993) Fairy King 11 3 6 56,866 0 0 24 TIGER HILL (1995) Danehill 14 6 7 50,608 1 1 25 DUSHYANTOR (1993) Sadler's Wells 7 3 3 35,624 0 0 Includes stallions with first Northern Hemisphere crop *Stallions with first Irish crop Statistics by Hyperion Promotions Ltd. Results received to October 19th WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 22, 2003 5 Pages

FULL SISTER TO FLAME THROWER TOPS F-T A full sister to multiple graded stakes winner Flame Thrower (Saint Ballado), selling as hip 130, easily topped all returns at Monday’s session of the Fasig- CHAMPION FLY SO FREE DIES Pensioned from Tipton Kentucky Fall Yearlings sale. The dark bay was stud duty last November, Fly So Free (Time for a produced by the Metrogrand mare Metromane, who Change) died yesterday morning at Three Chimneys was acquired for $310,000 at Keeneland November Farm from congestive heart failure. “A year ago, Fly So while carrying the salestopper in utero. She was offered Free developed a heart condition that could have been by Paramount Sales and purchased by George Saufley. aggravated by continued breeding activity,” said Three The second highest price on Monday was also achieved Chimneys President Dan Rosenberg. “[Owner] Elizabeth by a filly as hip 367, a Deputy Minister filly, was ac- Valando didn’t think twice and retired him immediately. quired by Bar S Ranch for $220,000. Gainesway con- His well-being has always been paramount to her, and signed the bay, the second foal of Grade I-placed Styl- Fly So Free was quite comfortable until the end. Eliza- ish Talent (Forty Niner), as agent. Monday’s stats, p2 beth was able to come to Kentucky in time to see him Tuesday’s Session... last night and he died this morning about 6 a.m.” The Through hip 717, six yearlings brought six-figure 15-year-old stallion was buried next to Chief’s Crown prices, including hip 462, a filly by High Yield who went and his sire at the Midway, Kentucky farm. Bred in for $150,000 to Taylor Made, agent for B. Baskin. Kentucky by Bruce Hundley and Wayne Garrison, the Paramount Sales consigned the dark bay out of the chestnut was purchased for $80,000 at the 1989 Caveat mare Saratoga Warning. Keeneland July Sale and raced in the colors of Thomas J. Valando. “Fly So Free was like a fairy tale for Tommy FASIG-TIPTON KENTUCKY YEARLINGS and me,” said Valando’s widow, Elizabeth. “He was the MONDAY - TOP FIVE LOTS first horse that Tommy ever bought, and the horse Hip Sex Sire Dam Price brought so much enjoyment to our lives and introduced 130 f Saint Ballado Metromane $400,000 us to so many wonderful people. Truly, Fly So Free ($310,000 in utero ‘01 KEENOV) changed our lives, and for that I will always be grate- Consigned by Paramount Sales, Agent XXXIII ful.” Fly So Free capped his Eclipse Award-winning Purchased by George Saufley campaign of 1990 with triumphs in the GI Breeders’ 367 f Deputy Minister Stylish Talent $220,000 Juvenile and the GI Champagne S. At three, he added Consigned by Gainesway, agent victories in the GI Florida Derby and the GII Fountain of Purchased by Bar S Ranch Youth S. and was also second in the GI Blue Grass S. 105 f A.P. Indy Magicalmysterycat $195,000 and third in the GI Travers S. He continued racing at Consigned by Denali Stud (Craig Bandaroff), Agent V four and five, taking his earnings to $2,330,954 with a Purchased by Erdenheim Farm win in the GII Fall Highweight H. in 1993 before em- 243 f Tale of the Cat Proud Minstrel $190,000 barking on his stud career. From six crops to race, Fly Consigned by C Bruce Hundley, agent So Free sired G1 Dubai World Cup hero Captain Steve, Purchased by Robert E Courtney, Jr who earned over $6.8 million, Canadian champion Free 251 c Summer Squall Rainbow Promise $160,000 Vacation, and additional graded stakes winners Arabian Consigned by Paramount Sales, Agent XXIX Light and Take the Cake. Purchased by Briggs & Cromartie, agent

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S O. C A L I F O R N I A H H FRESHMAN FOCUS Grade III Winner Secret Liaison Retired: Desperado Stable’s Secret Liaison (Housebuster-- First-crop progeny to watch: Wednesday, October 22 Pennant Winner, by Crafty Prospector), heroine of Sire (Sire’s Sire), Farm, 2000 Fee, #2yos/Winners/SW the GIII Rancho Bernando H. at Del Mar in August, Race #-track, race type, distance, runner, odds (if available) has been retired to Three Chimneys Farm in Midway, BIANCONI (Danzig), Ashford, $5K, 72/7/0 Kentucky. Breeding plans for the five-year-old mare 4-HAW, Alw, 1m, Tensa Debut, $4K ARK OCT yrl, 8-1 have not been finalized. Secret Liaison is out of a half CHARISMATIC (Summer Squall), Japan, $, 79/7/0 sister to Pennant Fever, dam of MGISW Raging Fever 5-CT, Msw, 4 1/2f, +True Roledex, 10-1 and freshman sire Stormin Fever. She concludes her CRYPTO STAR (Cryptoclearance), Murmur, $4K, 42/1/0 career with seven wins in 14 starts, with earnings of 4-DEL, Msw, 5 1/2f, Missing Woman, $500 EAS DEC yrl, 10-1 $342,719. DIAMOND (Mr. Prospector), Northview, $5K, 58/2/0 4-DEL, Msw, 5 1/2f, Del Mar Diamond, 3-1 GOOD AND TOUGH (Carson City), Lakland, $6K, 44/8/0 H I N D U S T R Y I N F O H 6-KEE, Msw, 6f, +Snappin Good Girl, $37K OBS MAR 2yo, 12-1 MAZEL TRICK (Phone Trick), Airdrie, $13K, 87/3/0 NTRA Launches Nextel Wireless Site: 5-CT, Msw, 4 1/2f, Byestarterhijudge, $26K OBS APR 2yo, 8-1 The National Thoroughbred Racing Association and MY FAVORITE GRUB (Grub), Sweetbriar, $1000, 5/1/0 Nextel are launching a wireless site for Thoroughbred 8-DEL, Alw, 6f, Nanarae, 15-1 racing statistics, news and information. Featured infor- PRIVATE SUSPICION (Private Account), Melody, $1000, 2/0/0 mation on the site, which can be accessed through the 5-CT, Msw, 4 1/2f, +Suspicious Red, 10-1 sports category under “Web Sites,” includes news WILD EVENT (Wild Again), Bridlewood, $8K, 47/8/0 stories, entries, scratches, race results, wagering pool 9-HAW, Msw, 1 1/16mT, Primm, $14K OBS APR 2yo, 4-1 carryovers and weekly rankings for leading trainers, jockeys, owners and breeders and television schedules. “One of our most important goals in establishing a FASIG-TIPTON partnership with Nextel was to bring Thoroughbred racing news and information to racing fans and industry KENTUCKY FALL YEARLINGS members through wireless servies,” said Chip Campbell, MONDAY, OCT. 20, 2003 NTRA senior vice president of television and sponsor- ship. “Nextel responded quickly and the interface with SESSION TOTALS 2003 2002 our information providers has been seamless. The deci- No. Offered 347 347 sion to give our site ‘Top Deck,’ placement is further No. Sold 269 267 evidence of Nextel’s commitment to our sport.” RNAs 78 80 % RNA 22.5% 23.1% The brisnet.com ‘Race of the Day’ is the Gross $4,691,800 $3,530,400 8th Race ($60,000 ALWNC) at Keeneland. Average (% change) $17,442 (+32%) $13,222 For pps and a complete race analysis, click here. Median (% change) $9,000 (+45.2%) $6,200 www.fasigtipton.com Dam of Two Breeders’ Cup Starters at Keeneland November HIP 508 S Champion WINDSHARP First two foals are Grade I winners and 2003 Breeders’ Cup contenders JOHAR (Turf) and DESSERT (Filly & Mare Turf). www.millridge.com Carrying a FULL sibling to JOHAR. Tuesday, November 4, Barn 11 TDN P AROUND THE WORLD • 10/22/03 • PAGE 3 of 5

SOPHOMORE SPOTLIGHT

First-time starters/stakes runners: Wednesday, Oct. 22 DONCASTER YEARLING SALE BEGINS Sire (Sire’s Sire), Farm, 1999 Fee, #foals of racing age/Winners/SW Doncaster Bloodstock Sales Ltd has 365 lots cata- Race #-track, race type, distance, runner, odds (if available) logued for this year’s October Yearling Sale which commences its three-day run today. This year’s cata- FORMAL GOLD (Black Tie Affair {Ire}), Gainesway, $15K, 130/42/2 logue features a Mind Games (GB) half sister to recent 5-CT, Msw, 4 1/2f, +Just to Show You, $35K KEE SEP yrl, 10-1 G1 Dewhurst S. winner Milk it Mick (GB), who was GRAND SLAM (Gone West), Ashford, $30K, 244/81/8 purchased at this sale last year for 14,000gns. Set to 6-KEE, Msw, 6f, +Before Sunset, $47K KEE SEP yrl, 15-1 sell Friday, hip 814 was previously entered in St. Leger INDIAN CHARLIE (In Excess {Ire}), Airdrie, $10K, 149/46/2 Yearlings Sales, but was withdrawn due to a minor 6-KEE, Msw, 6f, +La Vedette, $200K KEE SEP yrl, 12-1 injury. Among sires represented at this year’s venue are WILL'S WAY (Easy Goer), Brookdale, $8K, 99/33/2 Alhaarth (Ire), Alzao, Celtic Swing (GB), Danehill 4-DEL, Msw, 5 1/2f, +Via Sacra, $20K OBS APR 2yo, 10-1 Dancer, Orpen, Vettori (Ire), Desert King (Ire), Diktat (GB), Tagula (Ire) and (GB). For the complete cata- A M E R I C A N - B R E D W I N N E R S logue and results, log onto www.dbsauctions.com. H H

IN BRITAIN: Mufreh, g, 5, Dayjur--Mathkurh, by Riverman. H F R A N C E H Southwell, 10-21, Hcp, 3yo/up, 6f(AWT). B-Shadwell Farm Inc. *Full to Asfurah, Hwt 2yo Filly-Ire, GSW & Wednesday, Deauville, post time: 2:30 p.m. G1SP-GB, $117,622; ½ to Istintaj (Nureyev), MGSW, PRIX HEROD-Listed, i41,000, 2yo, 7fT $356,135. SC PP HORSE SIRE TRAINER WT 1 5 Lovage (Fr) Pursuit of Love (GB) Chappet 123 IN FRANCE: 2 2 Chopoulou (Fr) Nombre Premier (GB) Bonin 123 Silver Traffic, c, 3, Carson City--Adored Slew (MGSP- 3 1 Fabulous Groom (Fr) Lord of Men (GB) de Royer-Dupre 123 Fr), by Seattle Slew. Deauville, 10-21, Hcp, 3yo, 4 3 Red Mo Red Ransom Head-Maarek 123 7½fT. B-Northwest Farm. *$200,000 yrl ‘01 5 4 Southern Queen (GB) Anabaa Head-Maarek 120 KEESEP. 6 8 Malaica (Fr) Roi Gironde (Ire) Pritchard-Gordon 120 7 7 Dinorah (Fr) Lahint Barbe 120 8 6 Joyce (Ger) Chato Steinmetz 120 BROOKDALE 2004 STUD FEES Yesterday’s Results: Crafty Prospector $20,000 3.45 Deauville, Cond, i18,000, 3yo, 7½f(AWT), Deputy Minister* $100,000 1:27.80, std. Forest Wildcat $40,000 STENDHAL (IRE) (c, 3, Polish Precedent--Kenmist {GB} Silver Deputy* $40,000 {SW-GB, GSP-Ity}, by Kenmare {Fr}), third behind the Will’s Way TBA promising Ancient World in a conditions event at Longchamp last time Sept. 7, was sent off the 17-10 With Approval $7,500 favorite switched to the all-weather. Settled in rear *Managed by Windfields. All fees payable Nov. 1 throughout the early stages by Ioritz Mendizabal, he www.brookdalefarm.com was switched wide for his run at the top of the straight. Quickening to cut down Massizal (Fr) (Zilzal) A # will distinguish first-time stakes-winners a + will first- with 125 yards remaining, he required only hand riding time starters, an (S) will be used for state-bred races, a (C) to assert and beat that rival by two lengths. Lifetime will be used for maiden-claiming races and an (R) will be Record: 4 starts, 2 wins, 2 places, i19,700. used for other restricted races. O-J L Tepper; B-Il Tiglio di Amelia Preve; T-Jean-Claude Purses for Canadian races are in Canadian dollars. Rouget.

2003 Yearlings averaged over $120,000 S FOREST WILDCAT BROOKDALE including individuals for $40,000 Live Foal (859) 873-6067 $675,000, $475,000, $340,000 & $220,000! www.brookdalefarm.com TDN P AROUND THE WORLD • 10/22/03 • PAGE 4 of 5

French Report cont. 2.50 Yarmouth, Cond, £5,755, 2yo, 7fT, 1:28.02, gd/fm. 2.15 Deauville, Mdn, i17,000, Unraced 2yo, c/g, 1mT, OUIJA BOARD (GB) (f, 2, Cape Cross {Ire}--Selection 1:44.70, gd. Board {GB}, by Welsh Pageant {Fr}), third behind the +FAST AND FURIOUS (FR) (c, 2, Singspiel {Ire}-- promising Secret Charm (Ire) on her debut in a Helvellyn, by Gone West), sent off at odds of 15-2, Newmarket maiden Oct. 3, was sent off the even- was held up towards the rear early by Ioritz Mendizabal. money favorite. Settled in rear by a confident Jamie Challenging wide in the straight, the i90,000 DEAAUG Spencer throughout the early stages, she showed in- yearling hit the front with 50 yards remaining before stant acceleration to swoop to the front with 300 yards asserting to beat Mistral d’Arnoult (Ire) (Monsun {Ger}) remaining. Quickening all the way to the line under by 3/4 of a length. Lifetime Record: 1 start, 1 win, hand riding, she was the facile four-length winner there i8,500. from Rydal (Gilded Time). The winner is the 23rd win- O-J L Tepper; B-Elevage Haras de Borgeauville; ner for her freshman sire (by Green Desert). Lifetime T-Jean-Claude Rouget. Record: 2-1-0-1, £4,839. O-Lord Derby; B-Stanley Estate & Stud Co; T-Ed Dunlop. 3.15 Deauville, Mdn, i17,000, Unraced 2yo, f, 1mT, 1:43.10, gd. +HALEEMA (IRE) (f, 2, College Chapel {GB}--Haladiya B R E E D E R S’ E D I T I O N {Ire}, by Darshaan {GB}), sent off the 5-3 favorite, was settled in mid-division off the respectable early tempo EUROPE by Christophe Soumillon. Switched wide for her run at the top of the straight, she hit the front with 1½ fur- CONDITIONS RESULTS longs remaining before comfortably holding the fast- ITALY, Varese, 6.10, 10-20, i15,300, 3yo, 1 5/16mT, finishing Wakired (Red Ransom) by two lengths. time: n/a, hy. Lifetime Record: 1 start, 1 win, i8,500. NICE LOOK (IRE) (c, 3, Deploy {GB}--Rivelazione {Ity} O-H H The Aga Khan; B-H H The Aga Khan’s Studs {SP-Ity}, by Night Shift) Lifetime Record: 7 starts, SC; T-Alain de Royer-Dupre. 5 wins, 1 place, i72,165. O-Scuderia Belforte; B-Azienda Agricola La Vigna SRL; T-Bruno Grizzetti. DEAUVILLE RESUMES FLAT YEARLING SESSION Complete results from Deauville’s second session of ADDITIONAL MAIDEN WINNERS: the October Yearling Sale, featuring National Hunt Red Skelton (Ire), c, 2, Croco Rouge (Ire)--Newala (GB), yearlings, can be found on www.deauville-sales.com. by Royal Academy. Southwell, Britain, 10-21, Mdn, The spotlight returns to flat yearlings today. 2yo, 7f(AWT). B-Jack Ashenheim and Heatherwold Stud. *10,000 yrl ‘02 TATOCT. **10th winner for freshman sire by (Rainbow Quest). H B R I T A I N H Lizhar (Ire), f, 2, Danetime (Ire)--Amelesa (Ire), by Perugino. Southwell, Britain, 10-21, Mdn, 2yo, 6f(AWT). Yesterday’s Results: B-Thomas F Brennan. *Ir£2,600 wnlg ‘01 GOFNOV. 4.20 Yarmouth, Cond, £7,165, 2yo, 6fT, 1:13.98, +Freddie Freccles (GB), c, 2, Komaite--Leprechaun gd/fm. Lady (GB), by Royal Blend (GB). Southwell, Britain, RUM SHOT (GB) (c, 2, Efisio {GB}--Glass {GB}, by 10-21, Mdn, 2yo, 7f(AWT). B-David Smeaton. Bering {GB}), sent off the 8-11 favorite on the basis of *9,500gns yrl ‘02 DONSEP. an impressive Windsor maiden score Oct. 6, broke well Alinda (Ire), f, 2, Revoque (Ire)--Gratclo (GB), by Belfort. and raced prominently until taking command passing (Fr). Southwell, Britain, 10-21, Mdn, 2yo, 6f(AWT). the halfway mark. Sprinting clear in a matter of strides, B-Yeomanstown Stud. *1/2 to Rich Ground (GB) the 22,000gns TATDEC weanling and 36,000gns ( Grounds {GB}), GSW-GB. **30,000gns yrl TATOCT yearling was hand ridden to comfortably beat ‘02 TATOCT. Swinbrook (Stravinsky) by 1 1/4 lengths. Lifetime In the Pink (Ire), f, 3, Indian Ridge (Ire)--Norfolk Laven- Record: 3-2-0-0, £7,651. der (SW & GSP, $108,032), by Ascot Knight. O-H R Mould; B-Mossborough Stud Company Ltd; Yarmouth, Britain, 10-21, Mdn, 3yo, 7fT. B-Mount T-Henry Candy. Coote Stud. *Ir£92,000 yrl ‘01 GOFORB. INDIAN DANEHILL

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7th-MED, $27,482, Opt. Clm. ($100,000), NW2X, B R E E D E R S’ E D I T I O N 3yo/up, f/m, 1 1/16mT, 1:43 1/5, gd. KATHERINE SEYMOUR (GB) (m, 5, Green Desert-- AMERICA Sudeley {GB}, by ) Lifetime Record: GSP- GB & Ire, 15-3-2-1, $77,593. O-Farfellow Farms Ltd. ALLOWANCE RESULTS: B-Hawkers Stud (GB). T-Bertrand de Brevedent. 7th-DEL, $34,000, NW1X, 3yo/up, f/m, 1 1/16mT, 1:46, fm. 9th-PHA, $22,000, NW3X, 3yo/up, 6f, 1:10 3/5, ft. PARADE OF MUSIC (g, 4, Prospector's Music--Justalil' HALEY'S CLASSIC (f, 4, Sky Classic--Proud Nova {SW, Lovin, by Casa Dante) Lifetime Record: GSP, 21-7-4-2, $267,767}, by Proud Birdie) Lifetime Record: 14-2-3-3, $147,720. O-Wire to Wire Stable Inc. B-Barr Inman $64,978. O/B-Marablue Farm (FL). T-Jonathan E (KY). T-Richard Vega. *$14,000 yrl '00 KEESEP; Sheppard. *1/2 to Kiwi Mint (Key to the Mint), MSW, $80,000 2yo ‘01 FTMMAY. $244,999; and Kiwi Sunshine (Java Gold), MSW. ADDITIONAL MAIDEN WINNERS: Kell, c, 2, Safely's Mark--Patty's Cinnamon, by Chas 9th-FEX, $34,000, Opt. Clm. ($40,000-$36,000), Conerly. MED, 10-21, (S), 5 1/2f, 1:04 3/5. B-Alan NW3LX, 3yo/up, f/m, 1 1/16m, 1:45 3/5, ft. Goldberg & Brookside Farm (NJ). *Fourth winner for OLYMPIC ADVICE (f, 3, Olympio--Fair Advice {MSP, freshman sire (by Danzig). **1/2 to President Butler $144,050}, by Cozzene) Lifetime Record: 17-6-4-1, (Defrere), SW, $113,935. $122,383. O-Carl Norris & Pam Riley. B-White Cross Rare Bush, c, 3, Dynaformer--Nutbush One (SP), by Farm (KY). T-Michaela Neubauer. Conquistador Cielo. MED, 10-21, 1 1/16mT, 1:44 2/5. B-William Kenan Rand Jr (Ky). *$100,000 yrl '01 KEESEP. 8th-FEX, $33,300, NW3L, 3yo/up, 5f, :58, ft. The King N Rob, c, 3, Gold Alert--Bronx Bomber, by FIVE TRAVOLTAS (c, 3, Minstrel Dancer--Dancing for The Pruner. FEX, 10-21, 5f, :58 1/5. B-Bruno Daisy, by Grub) Lifetime Record: 12-3-2-1, $93,272. Schickedanz (Fl). O/B-Bruno Schickedanz (ON). T- Desouza. Na Hila, c, 3, Green Dancer--Pele Dancer, by Raise a Native. PHA, 10-21, 6f, 1:12. B-Jon A Marshall (Ky). 8th-MED, $32,500, Opt. Clm. ($100,000), NW2X, (S), 3yo/up, 6f, 1:09 3/5, ft. Breeders’ Cup - Who Beat The Boys? SIRCATOUR (c, 3, Sir Cat--Our Pesaridan, by Affirmed) Filly/Mare BC Win Lifetime Record: 5-3-1-0, $81,925. O/B/T-Edwin T Royal Heroine (Ire) 1984 Mile Broome (NJ). *3/4 to Our Wildcat (Forest Wildcat), SW, (GB) 1985 Turf $256,043. **Won by seven lengths. Very Subtle 1987 Sprint Miesque 1987 Mile 9th-MNR, $28,200, 10-20, NW2X, 3yo/up, 6f, Miesque 1988 Mile 1:10 1/5, ft. Safely Kept 1990 Sprint TRUE GENIUS (c, 4, Beau Genius--Tied to Time, by Miss Alleged 1991 Turf Poleax) Lifetime Record: SP, 26-6-3-4, $158,328. Desert Stormer 1995 Sprint Ridgewood Pearl (GB) 1995 Mile O/T-Ronald L Shenofsky. B-Nicholas M Lotz (KY). Click the race to see NTRA video of the winning filly. *$31,000 yrl '00 KEESEP. Coming this fall...equine trading for the 21st century. Information available to everyone. Trading through 50 members worldwide.

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