Lear’s Princess Out of F-T November Sale p.2 HEADLINE For information about TDN, call 732-747-8060. NEWS www.thoroughbreddailynews.com TUESDAY, OCTOBER 30, 2007 OCTAVE ADDED TO F-T MIXED SALE ENGLISH CHANNEL TO HURRICANE HALL Dual Grade I winner Octave (Unbridled=s Song--Belle English Channel (Smart Strike--Belva, by Theatrical Nuit, by Dr. Carter) has been added to the Nov. 4 Fasig- {Ire}), winner of Saturday=s GI Breeders= Cup Turf, will Tipton Kentucky Select Mixed Sale in Lexington. The join the stallion roster at Hurricane Hall in Lexington for three-year-old filly, third in the 2008. AEnglish Channel is retiring GI Breeders= Cup Distaff at perfectly sound,@ said Hurricane Hall Monmouth last Saturday, is president Ben Walden Jr. AWhat a being offered by Taylor Made privilege it is to offer breeders abso- Sales Agency as a racing/ lute soundness and a horse as physi- broodmare. Owned and raced cally correct as English Channel is. He is a world-class athlete. The Turf by Jack and Laurie Wolf=s @ was English Channel s sixth Grade I Starlight Stable and Don = victory. Racing for Jim and Terry Lucarelli, the grey won two Scatuorchio, the five-year-old chest- legs of this year=s Triple Tiara: Sarah Andrew Octave Sarah Andrew nut also won the 2006 and 2007 the GI Mother Goose S. and GI renewals of the GI United Nations H. and GI Joe Hirsch Coaching Club American Oaks. In the money in all 13 Turf Classic Invitational S. and the 2006 GI Woodford career starts, the Kentucky-bred won or placed in eight Reserve Turf Classic S. He was second in the 2005 Joe Grade I events and has amassed $1,660,934 to date. Hirsch and GI Secretariat, as well as the 2007 GI AShe has been the model of consistency and class since Sword Dancer Invitational and GI Manhattan H. He was we first started her in 2006, always totally competitive third in last year=s Breeders= Cup Turf. AEnglish Channel at the highest level of racing,@ said trainer Todd is the best grass horse that I have ever trained and one Pletcher. Concerning the sale of the his star, Wolf said, of the best horses I have ever trained--period,@ com- ADon and I feel this is excellent timing to realize the full mented trainer Todd Pletcher. On the board in 18 of 23 asset value of Octave. She has been nothing short of starts, English Channel won 13 times and earned sensational for two full seasons.@ Octave will be cata- $5,319,028. A stud fee has not yet been announced. logued as hip 112A among 180 head offered Nov. 4 at the Newtown Paddocks. NEW TRAINER FOR LADY OF VENICE Lady of Venice (Fr) (Loup Solitaire--Lacewings, by SHUJOON LEADS THE WAY AT TATTERSALLS Forty Niner), previously trained by suspended trainer Two-time French Listed winner Shujoon (GB) Patrick Biancone, was transferred to Kiaran (Sakhee) topped yesterday=s pipe-opener to the McLaughlin=s barn Oct. 24, while Belgravia (Mr. Tattersalls Autumn Horses In Training Sale in Greeley) and Pauillac (Mr. Greeley) will now be condi- tioned by Todd Pletcher. Campaigned by Martin Newmarket when selling for 240,000gns to agent Dick Schwartz, Lady of Venice--winner of the GII Cash Call O=Gorman. The three-year-old, offered for Rabbah Mile Inv. S. and GIII Ouija Board Distaff in 2007--is Bloodstock from Andre Fabre=s stable, is set to race in slated to make her next appearance in the GI Matriarch Saudi Arabia after O=Gorman fought off the attentions S. at Hollywood Park Nov. 25. GIII Hollywood Prevue S. of Robbie Hennessy, whose father owns the Champion winner Belgravia--campaigned by Michael Tabor, Susan Hurdle winner Sublimity. AHe=s for a regular client in Magnier, Derrick Smith and Ahmed Zayat--and Tabor Saudi Arabia and was ideal for the racing there as he and Smith=s Pauillac, who scored at Saratoga in July, stays well, which no doubt appealed to the jumping will head to the Pletcher barn. A $2-million F-T Calder buyers. His form was very good and he vetted well,@ purchase, Belgravia, who is currently in California, will said O=Gorman. Cont. p3 be transferred to Pletcher=s Hollywood Park barn. www.juddmonte.com P TDN HEADLINE NEWS • 10/30/07 • PAGE 2 of 7 LEAR’S PRINCESS OUT OF F-T NOVEMBER SCORPION OUT OF MELBOURNE CUP? West Point Thoroughbreds President Terry Finley Scorpion (Ire) (Montjeu {Ire}), rated a 12-1 chance for announced Monday that Grade I winner Lear=s Princess the G1 Melbourne Cup Nov. 6, is in serious doubt for (Lear Fan) will not sell at Fasig- the Flemington race after pulling Tipton=s Kentucky Select Fall up lame yesterday. "Scorpion did Mixed Sale in Lexington his first bit of fast work [yester- Nov. 4. Instead, the three-year- day] and the lads were pretty old will be pointed toward a happy, but this afternoon he ap- 2008 racing campaign. AWe are pears to be lame, and we have going to keep her and freshen spoken to [trainer] Aidan her up for a four-year-old cam- [O'Brien],@ Coolmore's Tom paign, Finley told Blood-Horse. @ HKJC Photo Magnier confirmed. AScorpion is AI like that idea. The partners being X-rayed this evening and Adam Coglianse didn=t want to sell. She didn=t we will know more in the morning. Aidan is coming show up in the Breeders= Cup, down [en route from Los Angeles to Australia] [Tues- partly because of the [sloppy] track and the competition day] and we'll take it from there. We just have to hope also played a big part. She has had a lot thrown at her now." As the highweight at 58.5 kilos, Scorpion would the last six months. With the prospect of going into her carry the number 1 saddlecloth in the Melbourne Cup. four-year-old year, you=ve got to be excited.@ The filly, The five-year-old, winner of the G1 Coronation Cup at who won the Sept. 15 GI Gazelle S. over GI Belmont S. Epsom June 1, was a last start second to Yeats (Ire) in heroine Rags to Riches, will winter with trainer Kiaran the G1 Irish St Leger at The Curragh Sept. 15. Overall, McLaughlin at Palm Meadows Thoroughbred Training Scorpion was six wins and four seconds from 15 career Center in Florida. Another West Point campaigner-- starts for earnings of $1,744,153. Dream Rush (Wild Rush)--owned by a partnership in- cluding Lewis Lakin and John Sikura, will be sent through the ring at Fasig-Tipton Nov. 4. Trained by Rick MACHO UNO TO ADENA SPRINGS KENTUCKY Violette Jr., the winner of the GI Test S. and GI Prior- Frank Stronach=s Macho Uno (Holy Bull--Primal Force, ess S. finished fifth in her latest start in the Breeders= Blushing Groom {Fr}) will relocate from Adena Springs Cup Filly & Mare Sprint at Monmouth Park Oct. 26. South in Ocala, Florida, to the farm=s Kentucky satellite West Point=s Irish Smoke (Smoke Glacken), who fin- location. The nine-year-old stallion, who stood for ished 12th in the GI BC Juvenile Fillies, was slated to $12,500 in 2007, will be available at a fee of $20,000, sell at Fasig-Tipton, but a final decision on whether the live foal, for the 2008 breeding season. AMacho Uno filly will go through the ring has yet to be finalized. AWe exemplifies the best of our racing and breeding pro- have to evaluate selling her and get some feedback grams, and he deserves the opportunity to take up from the partners,@ Finley told Blood Horse. AWe will residence in Kentucky alongside his half-brother, Awe- keep all our options open. She=s a Grade I winner, and some Again,@ said Stronach. AHe won the premier two- they are not easy to come by.@ Awesome Gem (Awe- year-old race in the world [2000 GI Breeders= Cup Juve- some Again), third in GI BC Classic, will remain in train- nile], was a graded stakes winner and Breeders= Cup ing with California-based trainer Craig Dollase for a five- contender every year he raced. His first crop firmly year-old campaign. establishes him as a stallion with a future.@ With 12 juvenile winners to date, including Grade I winner All horses in the TDN are bred in North America, Wicked Style, Macho Uno=s first crop has amassed unless otherwise indicated $946,444. P TDN HEADLINE NEWS • 10/30/07 • PAGE 3 of 7 TOP 5 AT TATTERSALLS TATTERSALLS AUTUMN SALE Hip Name Price (Gns) 341 Shujoon (GB) 240,000 (c, 3, Sakhee--Marie de Blois {Ire}, by Barathea {Ire}) The Time is Now... (30,000gns wnlg ‘04 TATDEC; 75,000gns yrl ‘05 TATOCT) Group 3-placed juvenile Dubai Time (GB) (Dubai Desti- Consigned by Ecurie A Fabre nation) will be sent to trainer David Hall=s stable in Purchased by Richard O=Gorman Bloodstock Ltd Hong Kong after being knocked down to Alastair Don- 27 Dubai Time (GB) 220,000 ald yesterday for 220,000gns. Donald, of the Kern (c, 2, Dubai Destination--Time Saved {GB}, by Green Desert) Lillingston Association, outbid agent Willie Leung for (37,000gns yrl ‘06 TATOCT; 65,000gns 2yo ‘07 DONAPR) the colt. AHe will quarantine in December before head- Consigned by Hambleton Lodge Stables ing out to Hong Kong in January,@ said Donald. AHe has Purchased by Kern/lillingston Association the pedigree to be a better three-year-old and improve 176 Mr Keppel (Ire) 155,000 with a bit more distance.@ Several purchases are bound (c, 2, Royal Applause {Gb}--Oh Hebe {Ire}, by Night Shift) for the U.S., including three-time winning juvenile Mr (58,000gns wnlg ‘05 TATDEC; 85,000gns yrl ‘06 TATOCT) Keppel (Ire) (Royal Applause {GB}), a half-brother to GII Consigned by Kingsdown Stables Oak Tree Derby winner Devious Boy (GB) (Dr Devious Purchased by Jamie McCalmont {Ire}).