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MONDAY, JANUARY 20, 2014 732-747-8060 $ TDN Home Page Click Here SPELL BOUNDS TO LA CANADA WIN ‘MUCHO’ EXITS MILLIONS ROMP WELL Spellbound (Bernardini) came from the clouds to take GI Breeders= Cup Classic hero Mucho Macho Man the lead in the shadow of the wire in Sunday=s GII La (Macho Uno) exited his dominant Canada S. at Santa Anita. The bay filly, dismissed at victory in Gulfstream=s Florida 16-1, was unhurried out of the gate and soon trailed Sunshine Millions Classic Saturday the field as favored Broken Sword (Broken Vow) rushed in fine form, according to trainer up to set the pace. The favorite pulled her way through Kathy Ritvo. AHe looks like he=s fractions of :22.86 and :45.47. Ondine (Medaglia good,@ Ritvo commented. AHe ran d=Oro) moved to challenge Broken Sword leaving the really well. I think he was more laid backstretch, while Spellbound was some 14 lengths back and confident [Saturday]. back of the leaders. Broken Sword and Ondine turned Before they put him in the gate, he for home in tandem after three-quarters in 1:09.66, but took a couple prances up to the the favorite was wilting. Ondine took over at midstretch gate and then just walked in.@ As and was grimly holding off Let Faith Arise (Kafwain), for his next start, Ritvo is still but Spellbound was finding her best gear in the center undecided, stating, AWe have so of the track and surged to the lead in the final stride. many choices, we=ll just see what Mucho Macho Man Let Faith Arise got a neck in front of the game Ondine works for him. The horse has done Gulfstream Park photo in a blanket finish, with Fiftyshadesofhay (Pulpit) a half- well like that, when we wait and let him tell us what he length back in fourth. AShe=s always been a talented needs to do.@ Cont. p4 filly, but was a little backwards early, in her first races, rough in the gate, just not doing things right,@ explained HOLY BULL HOPEFULS ON TRACK winning trainer Richard Mandella. AJust little by little, GIII Dania Beach S. winner Mr Speaker (Pulpit) she=s come around. She trained really well for this race, breezed a half-mile in :49 2/5 yesterday morning at the allowance race didn=t go, so we went here.@ Cont. p3 Payson Park in preparation fro a start in Saturday=s GII Holy Bull S. at Gulfstream Park. The Derby prep will LA CANADA S.-GII, $200,500, SAX, 1-19, 4yo, f, be the Phipps homebred=s first start over the dirt. 1 1/16m, 1:43, ft. APulpit never ran on the turf. [Dam] Salute never ran on 1--#@SPELLBOUND, 118, f, 4, by Bernardini the turf,@ trainer Shug McGaughey explained. AHe=s 1st Dam: Layreebelle, by Tale of the Cat trained good on the dirt.@ In preparation for the start, 2nd Dam: Voodoo Lily, by Baldski Mr Speaker worked behind horses last week in an 3rd Dam: Cap the Moment, by For the Moment attempt to adjust the colt to kickback. Cont. p4 ($190,000 wlng '10 KEENOV; $260,000 yrl '11 KEESEP). O-Ramona Bass, Claiborne Farm & Adele Dilschneider; B-Machmer Hall & Darley Stud (KY); T-Richard E Mandella; J-Victor Espinoza. $120,000. Lifetime Record: 8-3-0-0, $208,750. *NO LASIX. Werk Nick Rating: A+++. *Triple Plus*. Click for the eNicks report & 5-cross pedigree. BORN AND RAISED AT MACHMER HALL SELECT SALES Graduate...Exceeding Expectations Thrived at Woodstock Farm 2--Let Faith Arise, 118, f, 4, Kafwain--Babe Hall, by El Corredor. O/B-Tommy Town Thoroughbreds LLC (KY); T-Jerry Hollendorfer. $40,000. 3--Ondine, 118, f, 4, Medaglia d=Oro--Arrow in Flight, by Forest Wildcat. ($80,000 RNA yrl '11 KEESEP). O-Peachtree Stable; B-Gilbert G Campbell (FL); T-Bob Baffert. $24,000. Margins: NK, NK, HF. Odds: 16.50, 14.20, 7.30. Also Ran: Fiftyshadesofhay, Broken Sword, Rathbaun, Oscar Party. Click for the brisnet.com chart, the brisnet.com PPs or the free brisnet.com catalogue-style pedigree. VIDEO. In This Issue Gentildonna Aims for Sheema Redux 60 Broad St., Suite 100 Red Bank, NJ 07701 Japanese Horse of the Year is being targeted at a (732) 747-8060 return to Dubai for the G1 Sheema Classic. 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Robert Williams, Director of IT [email protected] Hong Kong Results Pages 6-7 Gregg Casillo, DB Administrator, Programming [email protected] WORLDWIDE INFORMATION Kelsey Riley, International Editor [email protected] Inti Claws Out Victory Sean Cronin, Newmarket Bureau, Cafe Racing Storming Inti (Stormy Atlantic) outbattled We Tom Frary, Newmarket Bureau, Cafe Racing Miss Artie (Artie Schiller) in a dramatic stretch duel to [email protected] take Sunday’s Kitten’s Joy S. at Gulfstream Park. Page 2 (atw) Storming Inti (inside) A Coglianese TDN P HEADLINE NEWS • 1/20/14 • PAGE 3 of 8 • thoroughbreddailynews.com Spellbound Wins La Canada (cont. from p1) AI knew they were going fast on the front end, but I NEWS TODAY just wanted to focus on my own filly,@ said winning rider Victor Espinoza. AI wanted her to be happy and I GENTILDONNA TO SHEEMA CLASSIC AGAIN wanted to enjoy the ride. I knew they were going fast, Former Japanese Horse of the Year and two-time so I didn=t want to get too far back [either], but G1 Japan Cup heroine Gentildonna (Jpn) (Deep Impact sometimes that=s just the way she runs. I don=t want to {Jpn}) has recently increased her training towards the force her to do anything she doesn=t want to do. She G1 Dubai Sheema Classic at Meydan Mar. 29, was doing it comfortably, so I didn=t do much. Turning according to Racing Post. Trainer Sei Ishizaka told the for home I knew we had a lot of publication the 5-year-old would likely take in the ground to make up and the wire G2 Kyoto Kinen Feb. 16 en route to the Sheema was getting closer and closer. But Classic, in which she finished second last year to St. then she started running at her high Nicholas Abbey (Ire) (Montjeu {Ire}) in her first and only speed.@ trip out of her native country. Gentildonna has also Spellbound, who improved her been entered for the G1 Dubai Duty Free at 1 1/8 miles record over the Santa Anita main on the same card. track to three for four, broke her "She is fresh and has trained satisfactorily,@ Ishizaka maiden and added an allowance told Racing Post. "I thought her condition was better in tally over this oval a year ago, but the Japan Cup than went to the sidelines after a fourth- the [G1] Tenno Sho in place effort behind Beholder (Henny October, so I've Hughes) in the Apr. 6 GI Santa decided to run her in a Anita Oaks. She never threatened Spellbound prep before the big when sixth behind Broken Sword Benoit event in Dubai." and Fiftyshadesofhay over the synthetic in her return at Gentildonna was Hollywood in the Dec. 7 GII Bayakoa S. last time out. ridden to victory in her AI=d say that [she likes this dirt course],@ confirmed second Japan Cup last Richard Mandella. AShe came here and won a couple year by Ryan Moore, and then I gave her a break and took her to Hollywood. Gentildonna but it is likely that Japan Racing Association She didn=t run good on the synthetic over there, and I leading Japanese think she=s just a real dirt horse.@ jockey Yuichi Fukunaga will be in the saddle in Dubai, Espinoza agreed. AI think dirt is better for her,@ he as Moore=s retainer, Sir Michael Stoute, has entered said. AShe=s so big, so I think she=s much better on the Hillstar (GB) (Danehill Dancer {Ire}) in the Sheema dirt rather than the synthetic.@ Classic. Carrie and Craig Brogden and Sandy Willwerth=s Japan=s two G1 Dubai World Cup hopefuls, Machmer Hall purchased Spellbound=s second dam, Belshazzar (Jpn) (King Kamehameha {Jpn}) and Hokko graded stakes winner Voodoo Lily (Baldski), with her Tarumae (Jpn) (King Kamehameha {Jpn}), are also likely dam Layreebelle (Tale of the Cat) in utero, for $95,000 to have prep races back home before their Dubai date, out of the 2006 Keeneland January sale as a 19-year- with G1 Japan Cup Dirt winner Belshazzar pointing to old.