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MILLION-DOLLAR BABY AT KARAKA HEADLINE ...p2 NEWS For information about TDN, DELIVERED EACH NIGHT call 732-747-8060. BY FAX AND INTERNET www.thoroughbreddailynews.com TUESDAY, JAN. 27, 2004 HORSE OF THE YEAR GOES TO MINESHAFT THREE TOP EXPERIMENTAL HANDICAP Like father, like son. Back in 1992, A.P. Indy came Eclipse Award and GI Breeders’ Cup Juvenile cham- home first in all but two starts and parlayed his near- pion Action This Day (Kris S.), GI Futurity winner Cuvee perfect record into a Horse of the Year title. Last year, (Carson City) and Ruler’s Court (Doneraile Court), who it was Mineshaft (A.P. Indy) who won the GII Norfolk S. by a resounding 14 lengths, captured all but two of his races, a each earned highweight of 126 pounds on the 2003 record that earned him honors as Experimental Free Handicap. It is the first time since Horse of the Year and champion 1946 that a trio of two-year-olds has topped the older horse for 2003. He becomes weights. The Experimental, which was established by the second champion for his sire, The Jockey Club in 1933, weights the juveniles for a who was also responsible for the hypothetical race of a mile and a sixteenth on the dirt. Eclipse Award-winning juvenile filly To be eligible, a two-year-old must have finished in the top four in a graded stakes or an unrestricted stakes Mineshaft A Coglianese of 2001, Tempera. At the Eclipse Awards Dinner at the Westin Diplo- carrying a purse of at least $75,000 in the U.S. This mat Resort and Spa in Hollywood, Florida, last night, year’s weighting committee was comprised of racing co-owner and co-breeder Ambassador Will Farish said secretaries Frank Gabriel Jr. of Arlington Park, Mike that winning the Horse of the Year title was his most Lakow of the New York Racing Association and thrilling accomplishment in what has been a stellar Thomas Robbins of Del Mar. A total of 88 colts and career in racing. “This ranks absolutely at the top,” geldings and 78 fillies were rated for 2003. Leading the Farish said. “To have a horse like this, where we’ve fillies’ division was champion Halfbridled (Unbridled), bred four generations on the sire and the dam’s side, who capped her perfect campaign with a victory in the and to have him turn out to be Horse of the Year is the GI Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies. She was weighted at most exciting thing that has happened.” He added, 124 pounds, one more than the standard. For all of the “The horse just kept getting better. I wish we could weights, go to www.thejockeyclub.com. Top Sires, p2 have run him another year.” How They Voted, p2 COMPLETE COVERAGE OF THE ECLIPSE AWARD 2003 EXPERIMENTAL FREE HANDICAP WINNERS FOLLOWS “HEADLINE NEWS” Freshman Sires 2003 Eclipse Award Winners Stallion Sire Runners Award Winner Forestry Storm Cat 7 Horse of the Year Mineshaft (A.P.Indy) Silver Charm Silver Buck 3 Older Male Mineshaft Victory Gallop Cryptoclearance 3 Older Filly/Mare Azeri (Jade Hunter) Doneraile Court Seattle Slew 2 3yo Colt/Gelding Funny Cide (Distorted Humor) Stormin Fever Storm Cat 2 3yo Filly Bird Town (Cape Town) Stravinsky Nureyev 2 2yo Colt/Gelding Action This Day (Kris S.) Exploit Storm Cat 1 2yo Filly Halfbridled (Unbridled) Free House Smokester 1 Male Turf High Chaparral (Ire) (Sadler’s Wells) Horse Chestnut (SAf) Fort Wood 1 Female Turf Islington (Ire) (Sadler’s Wells) Lil’s Lad Pine Bluff 1 Sprinter Aldebaran (Mr. Prospector) Malibu Moon A.P. Indy 1 Steeplechaser McDynamo (Dynaformer) Military Danzig 1 Breeder Juddmonte Farms Old Trieste A.P. Indy 1 Owner Juddmonte Farms Perfect Mandate Gone West 1 Trainer Bobby Frankel Sea of Secrets Storm Cat 1 Jockey Jerry Bailey Time Bandit Time for a Change 1 Apprentice Jockey Eddie Castro Wagon Limit Conquistador Cielo 1 Seasons to COZZENE P DIESIS P DIXIELAND BAND P MT. LIVERMORE P NOT FOR LOVE, etc... Just a few of the select offerings available until 4 p.m. Wednesday. Click here for the complete listings (859) 422-4222 of seasons, broodmares, racehorses, etc. www.equinecommerce.com TDN P HEADLINE NEWS • 1/27/04 • PAGE 2 of 4 Eclipse News cont. SIX-FIGURE COLT TOPS NZB OPENER A three- How They Voted... quarter brother to multiple European champion Rock of The race for the top three-year-old filly was won by a Gibraltar (Ire) attracted a final bid of NZ$1 million to top nose, with Bird Town (Cape Town) getting 96 first- yesterday’s opening session of New Zealand Blood- place votes, just two more than Six Perfections (Fr) stock Ltd.’s Premier Yearling Sales in Karaka. The son (Celtic Swing {GB}). Owner Marylou Whitney said the of Danehill, out of Push a Venture (GB) (Shirley Heights award meant even more because the bay was a {GB}), was bought by Adrian Nicoll of the British Blood- homebred. “To watch them foal, watch them as wean- stock Agency. He was consigned by Curraghmore Stud. lings, watch them as yearlings, and then to have them After a day of brisk sales, the average of NZ$108,049 come up and win great races is a great thrill,” she said. was up 6.5 percent on last year. “Today was certainly Voting in the other divisions was not nearly as close. one of the strongest opening sessions to our Premier Halfbridled (Unbridled), one of two champs trained by Sale we have ever seen,” said NZB general manager of Richard Mandella, took 247 of the 248 first-place votes bloodstock and marketing Julia Naismith. “Right from for two-year-old filly, leading Bobby Frankel to quip, the outset, the buyers were ready for action. The bids “They should take the vote away from whoever it was flew thick and fast, creating great momentum that that didn’t vote for her.” Ashado (Saint Ballado) earned carried right throughout the session. It was very pleas- the other vote. Mandella was also responsible for juve- ing for us to see so many of the world’s leading blood- nile champion Action This Day (Kris S.), who bested stock buyers here at Karaka, with the strongest repre- Cuvee (Carson City) 114-42. Kentucky Derby hero sentation from Europe, in particular, that we have expe- Funny Cide (Distorted Humor) came out ahead of rienced.” The Premier Sale runs through Wednesday. It Belmont hero Empire Maker (Unbridled), 150-92. is followed by the Select Sale on Thursday and Friday. Mineshaft (A.P. Indy) earned 221 top votes for cham- pion older horse, with Congaree (Arazi) second at 11; MONDAY’S TOP FIVE LOTS Lot Sex Sire Dam Price (NZ$) and 209 for Horse of the Year. Congaree was the 159 colt Danehill Push a Venture (GB) $1,000,000 runner-up in that category as well at 11 votes. Azeri Consigned by Curraghmore Stud (Jade Hunter) beat out Sightseek (Seeking the Gold) for Purchased by British Bloodstock Agency the older female Eclipse, 123 to 107. It was High Chap- 138 colt Fusaichi Pegasus Palia (Aus) $480,000 arral (Ire) (Sadler’s Wells) at 138 and Storming Home Consigned by Cambridge Stud (GB) (Machiavellian) at 73 for turf male; and Islington Purchased by W Leung (Ire) (Sadler’s Wells), 90, and Heat Haze (GB) (Green 090 filly Montjeu (Ire) Mazarine (Ire) $460,000 Desert), 74, for turf female. Aldebaran (Mr. Prospector) Consigned by Ascot Farm took the sprint title with 137 number one votes, with Purchased by Cambridge Stud GI Breeders’ Cup Sprint winner Cajun Beat (Grand Slam) 047 filly Thunder Gulch La Brillante (NZ) $420,000 finishing second with 74. Consigned by Windsor Park Stud Ltd Purchased by Kieran Moore Bloodstock SIRES - 2003 EXPERIMENTAL FREE HCP 017 filly Zabeel (NZ) Jacqwin (Aus) $410,000 Stallion Sire Exp. Runners Consigned by Waikato Stud Ltd Grand Slam Gone West 8 Purchased by British Bloodstock Agency Forestry* Storm Cat 7 El Prado (Ire) Sadler’s Wells 5 New Zealand Premier Yearling Sale Tale of the Cat Storm Cat 5 Monday, January 26, 2004 A.P. Indy Seattle Slew 4 Unbridled’s Song Unbridled 4 SESSION: 2004 2003 Polish Numbers Danzig 3 No. Sold 164 62 Saint Ballado Halo 3 % RNA 20% 16% Silver Charm* Silver Buck 3 Gross (NZ$) $17,720,000 *$15,625,000 Average (NZ$) $108,049 (+6.5%) *$101,461 Victory Gallop* Cryptoclearance 3 Median (NZ$) $67,500 *$67,500 Wild Rush Wild Again 3 *Statistics through 215 lots catalogued. *Freshman Sire www.nzb.co.nz TDN P HEADLINE NEWS • 1/27/04 • PAGE 3 of 4 PEDIGREE INSIGHTS Grand Slam's popularity hardly suffered from what I considered a rather slow start. Having covered 215 BY ANDREW CAULFIELD mares at a fee of $25,000 in 2002, he drew a book of 197 at $30,000 last year. No doubt he was helped by LECOMTE S.-GIII, $100,000, FGX, 1-24, 3yo, 1m, the sustained popularity of his yearlings in the fall of 1:38 2/5, ft. 2002, when they sold for up to $900,000. 1--@#FIRE SLAM, 119, c, 3, by Grand Slam The 2003 covering season was over, though, before 1st Dam: Miss Firefly, by Salt Lake Grand Slam's first-crop three-year-olds finally hit a rich 2nd Dam: Glomo, by Copelan vein of form. First we saw Strong Hope begin to justify 3rd Dam: Realcraft Pleasure, by What a Pleasure his $1.7-million price tag with his win in the GII Dwyer ($230,000 yrl '02 FTKJUL).