Glen Hill Taking a Global Approach
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THURSDAY, 15 SEPTEMBER, 2016 BIG ORANGE MELBOURNE CUP-BOUND GLEN HILL TAKING A Bill Gredley=s Big Orange (GB) (Duke of Marmalade {Ire}) is set for a return trip to Australia for the Nov. 1 G1 Emirates GLOBAL APPROACH Melbourne Cup, the race in which he finished fifth last year, trainer Michael Bell told the Daily Mail. The 5-year-old gelding has been on the board in all four starts this year. After finishing second to Vazirabad (Fr) (Manduro {Ger}) in the G2 Dubai Gold Cup in March, Big Orange was third behind fellow Cup-bound expatriate Exosphere (GB) (Beat Hollow {GB}) in the G2 Jockey Club S. Apr. 30. He has since won the G2 Princess of Wales=s S. and G2 Qatar Goodwood Cup. Big Orange was assigned a weight of 56kg for the Melbourne Cup. "The performances Big Orange has produced on the track and his physical development from four to five years old suggests he has improved by more than a pound,@ Bell told the Daily Mail. "I have spoken to Mr. Gredley and he is keen to go." IN TDN AMERICA TODAY HALF-BROTHER TO BEHOLDER TOPS KEENELAND Glen Hill Farm=s Craig Bernick and his wife, Lindsey | Horsephotos A yearling colt (hip 454) by Scat Daddy, a half-brother to three- time Eclipse Award winner Beholder (Henny Hughes), brought a by Kelsey Riley sale-topping $3 million on the bid of M. V. Magnier during the Glen Hill Farm may be best known for campaigning Grade I third session of the Keeneland September Yearling Sale winners like Marketing Mix (Medaglia d=Oro) and Chiropractor Wednesday. Click or tap here to go straight to TDN America. (Kitten=s Joy) in the U.S., but the Florida-based operation=s principal Craig Bernick has his sights firmly set on Europe. Bernick, speaking at Keeneland this week during the September Yearling Sale, said he plans to concentrate his racing stable in the U.S. for the foreseeable future, but he admitted acquiring European and other international bloodlines has become an important aspect of his business plan. He has done so by buying a handful of racehorses, foals and yearlings privately and bringing them back to the U.S., as well as sending mares to Ireland to be covered by the likes of Galileo (Ire) and his Classic-winning son Gleneagles (Ire). I think pedigrees are global and buyers are global now,@ Bernick said. AHaving been to Australia and to Europe, I think the only market that doesn=t think internationally is probably the U.S. So many of the pedigrees work here, and sometimes being able to breed to horses like Galileo and Gleneagles, horses that have worked here--Gleneagles, at least, with his female family through Giant=s Causeway--I think really adds an appeal to this market that maybe some other people don=t necessarily have.@ Cont. p2 TDN EUROPE/INTERNATIONAL • PAGE 2 OF 11 • THETDN.COM THURSDAY • 15 SEPTEMBER, 2016 Bernick noted that Glen Hill has three Galileo yearlings that it will race next year. One of those, a colt who is the first foal out of the Grade I-placed Emerald Gold (War Front), was a $725,000 buyback at Fasig-Tipton=s Saratoga Sale. The others are a filly out of Eversmile (Theatrical), and thus a half-sister to Grade I winners Chiropractor (Kitten=s Joy) and Coil (Point Given); and Glen Hill Taking Global Approach Cont. from p1 a colt out of Grade II producer Rich In Spirit (Repriced). Glen Hill was founded in 1966 by Bernick=s grandfather, beauty ATo us it=s a global business,@ Bernick said. AIt=s expensive to product businessman Leonard Lavin, and has thrived on a send the horses back and forth, but if they=re a higher level business plan that includes breeding to race as well as selling horse, as a percentage of what their value is, it=s not that and buying commercially, with a focus on expensive to send them to Europe and cover building a world-class broodmare band. Glen them if you=re talking about a north of Hill reached the pinnacle of the sport in 1994 $500,000 mare.@ when its homebred One Dreamer (Relaunch) Glen Hill has a pair of private purchases that won the GI Breeders= Cup Distaff, and its look to be exciting future additions to its modern-day flagbearer is the turf filly breeding ranks. Earring (Dansili {GB}) broke Marketing Mix, a yearling purchase who won her maiden for trainer Aidan O=Brien and team the GI Rodeo Drive S. and GI Gamely S. and Coolmore at Gowran Park in May and finished was second in the GI Breeders= Cup Filly & second in the G2 Kilboy Estate S. in July and Mare Turf. Marketing Mix, now a member of Glen Hill private purchase Take A made her stateside debut for trainer Tom the Glen Hill broodmare band, has a yearling Deep Breath | Racing Post Proctor on Wednesday, finishing second in an filly by Tapit that was bought by Shadwell for allowance race at Belmont Park. Earring will $1.1-million at Keeneland November last year and is in foal to soon be joined in the Proctor stable by Take A Deep Breath (GB) War Front after slipping a foal by that sire last year. (Bated Breath {GB}). Cont. p3 TDN EUROPE/INTERNATIONAL • PAGE 3 OF 11 • THETDN.COM THURSDAY • 15 SEPTEMBER, 2016 Glen Hill Taking Global Approach Cont. Group 1 winners Peeping Fawn and Thewayyouare. Better Not The 2-year-old broke her maiden at second asking at Naas July Cry produced a Galileo filly this spring and is returning to the 3 and was second in the G2 Silver Flash S. three weeks later. U.S. in foal to Gleneagles. Behind her in third that day was Intricately (Ire) (Fastnet Rock AWe=re bringing her home this week and we=ll breed her either {Aus}), who significantly boosted the race=s form with a win in to Curlin, War Front or Tapit,@ Bernick noted. AShe=s by Street the G1 Moyglare Stud S. last weekend. Cry out of an international family so she could go either AI think we have to go over there and get as good of stock as continent.@ we can, but Glen Hill Farm is more comfortable racing in this The aforementioned War Front is a horse Bernick has been market than we are over there so far,@ Bernick explained. AA lot outspoken in his admiration of, and considering Glen Hill=s of our best horses run against European-breds almost every race record with the sire, that isn=t a surprise. In addition to the because a lot of them are turf horses, so we Grade I-placed Emerald Gold, Glen Hill has truly understand how good their horses campaigned stakes winners Pontchatrain are.@ and Theatre Star by War Front. Glen Hill While Bernick is not offering any yearlings also enjoyed profitable pinhooks with at Keeneland, he will be active as a seller subsequent stakes winners War Dancer (a during Book 1 of the Tattersalls October $25,000 weanling turned $220,000 yearling sale with lot 493, a colt by Galileo yearling) and Giovanni Boldini (a $190,000 out of Better Not Cry (Street Cry {Ire}) weanling pinhooked for $600,000). consigned by Highclere Stud. Better Not Cry AAlmost every War Front we=ve raced has was bought by Glen Hill in conjunction with been a really good horse,@ Bernick said. Hill >N= Dale Farm for $800,000 from the Glen Hill has enjoyed success with AThe five War Fronts I=ve personally had Fasig-Tipton November sale in 2013. She is progeny of War Front | Claiborne Farm experience with all worked out. I=m sure an unplaced daughter of Better Than Honour, whose dynasty that=ll change now that I=m getting more, but that was my initial includes the GI Belmont S. winners Rags To Riches (A.P. Indy) experience with the horse. Obviously he=s done great and Jazil (Seeking The Gold). It is also the immediate family of internationally with Coolmore.@ Cont. p4 TDN EUROPE/INTERNATIONAL • PAGE 4 OF 11 • THETDN.COM THURSDAY • 15 SEPTEMBER, 2016 Glen Hill Taking Global Approach Cont. HARZAND HEADED TO THE ARC Bernick said he thinks the selective nature of War Front=s Dual Derby winner Harzand (Ire) (Sea The Stars {Ire}), who books will allow him to excel as a sire for years to come. could manage only eighth after being struck into during the AHe=s not a stallion that=s been bred to 250 mares a year,@ he running of the G1 QIPCO Irish Champion S. last weekend, has noted. AOnce they have four or five crops with that many on the been given the go-ahead by trainer Dermot Weld to contest the ground, a lot of times they drop off, but he=s been at Claiborne Oct. 2 G1 Qatar Prix Farm so he=s been bred to around 100 mares every year. Their de l=Arc de best horses, if you look at horses like Danzig and Mr. Prospector, Triomphe. Weld they continued to sire great horses their whole life, and I think a had reported the lot of it is because they only covered as much as 100 mares each Aga Khan year. Some of these stallions that have 2500 foals, their homebred to be percentages as they get older really drop off, even if the quality lame after the Irish of the mares goes up.@ Champion, but told Europe isn=t the only foreign frontier Glen Hill is testing out.