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SCRAPPY T OUT OF BELMONT HEADLINE ...p11 NEWS For information about TDN, DELIVERED EACH NIGHT BY FAX AND FREE BY E-MAIL TO SUBSCRIBERS OF call 732-747-8060. www.thoroughbreddailynews.com SUNDAY, JUNE 5, 2005 MOTIVE AND OPPORTUNITY ON GOLDEN POND He had most of the 100,000-strong crowd, all 230 of The field included Grade I winner Splendid Blended his owners and trainer Michael Bell behind him, but (Unbridled’s Song) and GI Kentucky Oaks runner-up In Royal Ascot Racing Club’s Motivator (GB) (Montjeu the Gold (Golden Missile), but the {Ire}) needed little assistance to Belmont faithful made Round turn the 226th G1 Vodafone Pond (Awesome Again) the slight Derby into a procession at Ep- choice for yesterday’s GI Acorn som yesterday. The 3-1 favorite S., and she didn’t let ‘em down. coped flawlessly with the Epsom The bay filly settled in third as circus, moving with grace in a Splendid Blended was pressured perfect stalking third throughout through a half in :44.75 and six the early stages. After a text furlongs in 1:09.62. She was book descent to Tattenham Cor- fourth as the frontrunners surren- ner, he eased alongside Hattan dered to In the Gold in the lane, Motivator P Cole/Getty Images (Ire) (Halling) with 2½ furlongs but hit her best stride in the final remaining before sprinting to an furlong, driving to a 1 1/2-length Round Pond Adam Coglianese imperious five-length victory from Walk in the Park (Ire) score. Smuggler (Unbridled) (Montjeu {Ire}), whose rattle from rear provided his sire outgamed In the Gold for second. “Turning for home, it with the exacta. “This is what all the dreams are looked like [jockey Stewart Elliott] was sitting still on about,” commented John Warren, who purchased her, but I couldn’t really tell because there were horses Motivator for 75,000 guineas for the syndicate at the in front of her,” winning trainer John Servis said. Tattersalls October Yearling Sales. Epsom Derby cont. p2 “When he eased her out, I knew he had horse.” Acorn cont. p5 Click for the brisnet.com chart or the Saturday, Epsom, Britain free brisnet.com catalogue-style pedigree. VODAFONE DERBY-G1, £1,250,000, Epsom, 6-4, 3yo, c/f, 12f 10ydsT, 2:35.69, gd. 1--MOTIVATOR (GB), 126, c, 3, by Montjeu (Ire) EXCLUSIVE CLUB 1st Dam: Out West (SW-Eng), by Gone West Unbeaten Hurricane Run (Ire) (Montjeu {Ire}) takes on 2nd Dam: Chellingoua, by Sharpen Up (GB) G1 Poule d’Essai des Poulains hero Shamardal (Giant’s 3rd Dam: Uncommitted, by Buckpasser Causeway) in the G1 Prix du (75,000gns yrl ‘03 TATOCT). O-The Royal Ascot Jockey-Club at Chantilly this Racing Club; B-Deerfield Farm; T-Michael Bell; afternoon. The French Classic J-Johnny Murtagh; £725,000. Lifetime Record: has been shortened from a mile 4-4-0-0, £933,903. and a half to a mile and five- 2--Walk In The Park (Ire), 126, c, 3, Montjeu (Ire)-- sixteenths for this year’s run- Classic Park (GB), by Robellino. (i130,000 yrl ‘03 ning, a move that could favor GOFORB; 270,000gns 2yo ‘04 TATAPR). O-Michael Chantilly Scoop Dyga Shamardal. Said trainer Saeed Tabor; B-Lodge Park Stud; T-J Hammond; £275,000. bin Suroor, “I think it is good 3--Dubawi (Ire), 126, c, 3, Dubai Millennium (GB)-- that the French Derby has been reduced in distance--it Zomaradah (GB), by Deploy (GB). O-Godolphin; will suit horses who stay a mile and have a chance of B-Darley; T-Saeed bin Suroor; £137,500. staying a mile and a quarter, but who would find it hard Margins: 5, 3, 1. Odds: 3-1, 11-1, 5-1. to last a mile and a half.” French Derby cont. p3-4 Also Ran: Fracas (Ire), Gypsy King (Ire), Hattan (Ire), Unfurled (Ire), The Geezer (GB), Grand Central (Ire), TDN TODAY Oratorio (Ire), Kings Quay (GB), Almighty, Kong (Ire). Headline News ................... 11 pages Scratched: First Row. TDN P HEADLINE NEWS • 6/5/05 • PAGE 2 of 11 Epsom Derby cont. No Walk in the Park... A Study in Perfection... Jockey Alan Munro, revisiting the slopes he con- Motivator had not faced a challenge in his three previ- quered on Generous (Ire) in 1991, was playing second ous starts, which included the G1 Racing Post Trophy fiddle on the fast-finishing Walk in the Park this time. at Doncaster last October and the G2 Dante S. at York “He’s a fired-up horse and is aggressive, but doesn’t on his return May 12, but still get overly warm and I don’t think it negates his perfor- faced doubts about tempera- mance,” he remarked. “I had a rough trip early and was ment, stamina and ability to forced to sit in rear, but was able to cut the corner and handle the unique track at get a really good kick up the inside in the straight. He’s Epsom. But the bay colt got great acceleration and, in any other Derby, I’d have proved more than up to the won, but that thing just got loose and I knew I could task, galloping to an easy win never catch him.” As for G1 Irish 2000 Guineas hero Motivator and Johnny Murtagh as the crowd cheered him Dubawi, he failed to stay the trip and had to settle for S Barbour/Getty Images home. “You go out and look third. “A mile to a mile and a quarter, that’s the best for a horse of this calibre and distance for him,” trainer Saeed bin Suroor said. The we’ve done it,” John Warren remarked. “He was al- colt will be pointed for the G1 St James’s Palace S. ways cruising and at no moment was there any anxi- going a mile at Royal Ascot at York June 14. ety. He’s overcome all the fears we had about his tem- perament and was amazing in the build-up.” For the Club members--packed like sardines into the famed First Time Lucky... The great Sadler’s Wells had to wait until his 13th circle--and for trainer Michael Bell and groom James crop before he got his first G1 Derby winner. His son Cronin, this was a first, but jockey Johnny Murtagh had been there twice before on Sinndar (Ire) and High Chap- Montjeu (Ire) did not have to be so patient. No less than arral (Ire). Murtagh described Motivator as “very high three of the 14 starters in this year’s English Derby class” afterwards. “It was easier than the others,” he were from the first crop by the Coolmore stallion. Moti- explained. “We didn’t go that fast early and he was vator and Walk in the Park did daddy proud, finishing always traveling brilliantly. When I let him go and gave first and second. Montjeu, from the 11th crop by him a smack at the two marker, he just took off and it Sadler’s Wells, could have given his sire that first Ep- all went quiet. He quickened up very well and put the som Classic, but skipped the 1999 edition of the race race beyond doubt very quickly. I had a peek over a half as connections opted to go for the French and Irish furlong down and I couldn’t believe how far I was in Derby double. The bay got the job done, and capped his front. I didn’t really do much on him in the Dante and championship campaign with a victory in the G1 Prix de he didn’t have a hard race, but has improved a hundred l’Arc de Triomphe. It was Galileo (Ire) who put the percent today. The way he behaved after the race, I name of Sadler’s Wells in Epsom’s history books, taking think he’ll improve again and there’s more to come.” the Derby in 2001 and doubling up in the G1 Irish Bell revealed that he will attempt the English-Irish Derby Derby at The Curragh. Just one year later, Sadler’s double at The Curragh June 26. “He’s always looked Wells son High Chapparal (Ire) captured the two Clas- like a champion at home and he’s proved himself a sics. Motivator will be the heavy favorite to carry on champion today,” he said. “He won like we hoped he the family tradition, and the Classic aspirations of would and the next stage is Ireland, then we’ll review Montjeu’s first crop don’t stop there. The nine-year-old it.” Click for the racingpost.co.uk chart or the free has three representatives in today’s G1 Prix du Jockey- brisnet.com catalogue-style pedigree. Club, including 7-4 chalk Hurricane Run (Ire). www.arrowfield.com.au TDN P HEADLINE NEWS • 6/5/05 • PAGE 3 of 11 P R I X D U J O C K E Y-C L U B Bon Chance... P P Ecurie Bader’s Vatori (Fr) (Vettori {Ire}) finished third in the G3 Prix des Chenes at Longchamp in September Hurricane Force... before winning the G3 Prix Thomas Bryon at Saint- Andre Fabre has one G1 Prix du Jockey-Club (French Cloud the following month. He had excuses when Derby) to his name, thanks to Peintre Celebre, but there fourth in the Listed Prix Omnium on his return at that will be raised eyebrows if Gestut Ammerland’s Hurri- venue Mar. 28 and put that effort behind him when cane Run (Ire) (Montjeu {Ire}) does not add to the port- taking the G2 Prix Greffulhe back there last time May folio in today’s renewal at 16.