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MILLENNIUM TO MILLENNIUM HEADLINE p2 NEWS For information about TDN, DELIVERED EACH NIGHT call 732-747-8060. BY FAX AND INTERNET www.thoroughbreddailynews.com THURSDAY, SEPT. 19, 2002 SKY JACK UNDERGOES SURGERY KEENELAND SEPTEMBER--WEDNESDAY Sky Jack (Jaklin Klugman), winner earlier this year of TOP SEVEN LOTS the GI Hollywood Gold Cup, will be sidelined for six Hip# Sex Sire Dam Price ($) months after undergoing surgery to remove bone chips 3334 colt Menifee Moon Gem 120,000 from his right knee. The six-year-old, undefeated in five Consigned by Highclere Sales, agent XVIII career starts and a three-time graded winner at Holly- Purchased by M & M Racing wood, also underwent arthro- 2987 colt Souvenir Copy Pristine Princess 110,000 scopic surgery on the same Consigned by Denali Stud (Craig Bandoroff), Agent XXII knee in January 2001, causing Purchased by Centreville Stable him to miss that entire season. 3012 colt Cat’s Career Road Trip 100,000 “He’s a tough old horse who’s Consigned by Brereton C Jones/Airdrie Stud, agent already made one comeback Purchased by James and Ywachetta Dwyer from surgery and I’m confident 3052 colt French Deputy Spritely Strain 80,000 Consigned by Susan M Forrester, agent Sky Jack winning the he’ll be able to do so again,” Purchased by Bowling and Dodd Mervyn LeRoy Benoit Photo Dr. Wayne McIlwraith, who performed the procedure, told 3224 filly Boston Harbor Fancy Ribbons 77,000 Thoroughbred Times. Also the winner of the GII Mervyn Consigned by Eaton Sales, agent LeRoy H. this campaign, Sky Jack was last seen when Purchased by Havens Bloodstock Agency a distant 11th behind Came Home in the GI Pacific 3307 filly Conquistador Cielo Louisiana Purchase 77,000 Classic at Del Mar Aug. 25. Consigned by Bluewater Sales LLC, agent VII Purchased by Peter Van Andel BOOKEND TOPPERS AT KEENELAND 3316 colt Stormin Fever Make Your Call 77,000 Horses which sold at either end of yesterday’s ninth Consigned by Brereton C Jones/Airdrie Stud, agent session of the Keeneland September Yearling Sale led Purchased by Thomas & Thomas Racing the proceedings with a colt from the first crop of GI Haskell Invitational winner Menifee (Harlan) taking KEENELAND SEPTEMBER STATISTICS down top honors at $120,000. Followed through the WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 18, 2002 ring by just five horses, the bay, consigned to the sale by Highclere Sales, agent, was purchased by SESSION TOTALS 2002 2001 M & M Racing. The May 17 foal is out of the unraced No. Offered 390 369 mare Moon Gem (Kris S.) and hails from the female No. Sold 286 259 family of three-time Grade I winner Tallahto. Craig RNAs 47 69 Bandoroff’s Denali Stud, acting as agent, consigned the % RNA (% change) 12.1% (-34.9%) 18.6% afternoon’s second highest-priced offering. Cataloged Gross $6,304,600 $5,164,800 at hip number 2987, the bay colt by Souvenir Copy-- Average (% change) $22,044 (+10.5%) $19,941 Pristine Princess (Alydar) was hammered down to Median (% change) $15,000 (+7.1%) $14,000 Centreville Stable for $110,000. The New York-bred is CUMULATIVE 2002 2001 kin to GSW and track record setter Very Special Lite, No. Offered 3339 3283 the dam of Strategic Partner, winner of the GIII Crown No. Sold 2287 2136 Royal American Turf in 2001. Wednesday’s session RNAs 690 803 was a solid one statistically, with increases in the aver- % RNA (% change) 20.7% (-15.5%) 24.5% age and median and a sharp decline in RNAs from a Gross $202,984,100 $246,282,500 year ago. With three days remaining in the sale, cumu- Average (% change) $88,756 (-23%) $115,301 lative gross receipts and average are down markedly Median (% change) $42,000 (-6.7%) $45,000 while the median is just slightly off from last year. www.keeneland.com From Commercial Success to Prosperity on the Racetrack $4 million yearling Showlady tranlates sales-topping good looks into a showstopping win in the $200,000 G3 Boiling Springs H. John G. Sikura, President PHONE: (859) 255-8290 THEATRICAL FAX: (859) 281-6148 TDN P HEADLINE NEWS • 9/19/02 • PAGE 2 of 2 LIT DE JUSTICE TO CALIFORNIA Champion P R E S U L T S P sprinter Lit de Justice (El Gran Senor--Kanmary {Fr}, by Kenmare) will stand the 2003 breeding season at Wednesday, Funabashi, Japan Magali Farms near Santa Ynez, California, after being NIHON TV HAI-G2-NAR, ¥40,000,000 to winner, purchased from Frank Stronach’s Adena Springs Ken- Funabashi, 9-18, 3yo/up, 1800m, 1:49.6, sy. tucky near Midway. He will stand for a fee of $7,500 1--MAKIBA SNIPER (JPN), 126, h, 7, Peking Ryuen live foal. “He’s going to be one of the best horses to 1st Dam: Scalding, by Raise a Native come to California in many years,” Tom Hudson, man- 2nd Dam: Antigua Anthem, by Nashua ager of Magali Farms, told Thoroughbred Times. “We 3rd Dam: English Harbor, by War Admiral started looking for a stallion and we were very fortu- O-Tomoya Nitta; B-Chiba Niita Farm; T-Mitsuhiro nate to have gotten [Lit de Justice]. It can be tough to Okabayashi; J-Seiji Sakai. Lifetime Record: 50-19-8-6, pull a stallion of his quality out of Kentucky.” From ¥468,125,000. *1/2 to Makiba Silent (Jpn) (Bellypha three crops of racing age, the 12-year-old stallion is the {Ire}), MSP-Jpn, $191,387. sire of 66 overall winners, three of those stakes win- 2--Raise Suzuran, 123, h, 8, Woodman--Sintanous, by ners, including Mike Lee S. winner No Parole, English Danzig. ($280,000 2yo ‘96 BESMAR). O-Shuhei Listed stakes winner Sir Edwin Landseer and Lit A Fire. Suzuki; B-Howard Keck. The former was most recently third in the GII Jerome H. 3--King Lyphard (Jpn), 123, h, 5, Crystal Glitters-- Sept. 14. The winner of the GI Breeders’ Cup Sprint en Dance on the Coast, by Coastal. O-Hisanoshin route to his Eclipse Award in 1996, Lit de Justice won Takizawa; B-Takizawa Farm. 10 of his 36 career efforts for earnings of $1,397,874. Margins: 1, 1HF, 5. Odds: 8.90, 6.70, 12.20. AFFIRMED SUCCESS GETTING A BREAK Treble Grade I winner Affirmed Success (Affirmed), who has N E W S T O D A Y P P bankrolled over $2 million during his five years at the racetrack, has been turned out at owner Albert Fried’s MILLENNIUM WIND TO MILLENNIUM FARMS farm in Westchester County, New York, his career in Millennium Wind (Cryptoclearance--Bali Babe, by limbo. The eight-year-old gelding, winner this year of Drone), a leading three-year-old of 2001, has been sold the GI Carter H. at Aqueduct, exited his second-place and will enter stud next year at Millennium Farms in effort to Left Bank in the GII Tom Fool H. July 4 “tired Kentucky. A stud fee has not yet been set. Purchased and worn out” according to trainer Richard Schosberg. by David and Jill Heerensperger for $1.2 million at the “He wasn’t acting like himself,” the conditioner said. 1999 Keeneland September sale, the dark bay colt “We sent him to Cornell University for a full exam and broke his maiden at first asking before finishing second he cleared it fine. He’s going to get a little more R & R. to Point Given in the GI Hollywood Futurity. The winner If we bring him back and he doesn’t have that fire, then of the GII Santa Catalina S. to begin his sophomore we’ll call it a career. I couldn’t be happier with him season, the half brother to 1999 Kentucky Derby win- going out a Grade I winner if this is his last year in ner Charismatic and Tossofthecoin was second in the training.” GII Louisiana Derby prior to a front-running success in the GI Toyota Blue Grass S. at Keeneland. A 9-1 CURRENCY CONVERSIONS chance in the Kentucky Derby, he could do no better Unit/US$ Unit/GB£ than 11th place behind Monarchos. Plagued by a British pound 1.53461 1.00 tendom problem, which ultimately led to his retirement, Euro 0.979597 0.638337 Millennium Wind made just one start after the Derby Japanese yen 0.008234 0.005314 resulting in a seventh-place finish in the Skywalker H. U.S. dollar 1.00 0.651632 at Santa Anita last Nov. 2. He enters stud with a life- time record of 7-3-2-0 and earnings of $769,920. TDN TODAY All horses in TDN Headline News and TDN American edition are bred in North America, unless otherwise indicated Headline News .................... 2 pages CHARISMATIC’S SEPTEMBER YEARLINGS $450,000, $260,000, $190,000, $180,000 BOX 626, VERSAILLES, KY 40383 His select yearlings this year (through Book 1, Keeneland September) (859) 873-7300 FAX (859) 873-3746 averaged $148,286. E-MAIL: [email protected] 2003 STUD FEE: $20,000 Live Foal WEB SITE: lanesend.com THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 2002 AMERICAN 7 Pages EDITION Yesterday’s Results: I N E W Y O R K I 8th-BEL, $48,000, Alw, NW1X, 2yo, f, 1mT, 1:38, yl. HEART OFA CHAMPION (f, 2, Skip Away--Take Her to Repent Works Towards JC Gold Cup: Heart {GSW, $486,769}, by Blind Spot), a $35,000 Select Stable’s Repent (Louis Quatorze), a multiple KEESEP yearling and $150,000 OBSFEB two-year-old graded-stakes winner at two and three, worked five purchase, graduated in her second start, winning by furlongs in 1:00 3/5 over the Belmont main track 5 1/4 lengths.