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BILL OPPENHEIM p. 3-4 HEADLINE NEWS For information about TDN, DELIVERED EACH NIGHT call 732-747-8060. BY FAX AND INTERNET www.thoroughbreddailynews.com WEDNESDAY, MAR. 10, 2004 GUINEAS ENTRIES A STAR-STUDDED AFFAIR T R I P L E T H R E A T S Last season’s star performers are among the 84 P P nominees for this year’s G1 UltimateBet.com 2000 Guineas at Newmarket May 1. Ante-post favourite and Mandella’s Juvenile Champs Work dual Group 1 winner One Cool Cat (Storm Cat) is one of Last year’s champion two-year-old filly Halfbridled 10 entries for Aidan O’Brien. The Ballydoyle conditioner (Unbridled), unraced since her impressive win in the has also entered the unbeaten Yeats (Ire) (Sadler’s Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies, breezed a half mile in :49 Wells), current ante-post favourite for the G1 Vodafone 2/5 at Santa Anita yesterday. The filly is expected to Derby. Dermot Weld, trainer of 2003 winner Refuse To make her sophomore debut in Bend (Ire), has made five entries, most notably current Saturday’s GI Santa Anita second favourite Grey Swallow (Ire) (Daylami {Ire}). The Oaks. “She’s doing well,” total Irish entry numbers 16. The four French entries trainer Richard Mandella said include G1 Racing Post Trophy winner American Post during a national (GB) (Bering {GB}), G1 Criterium International winner teleconference yesterday. Bago (Fr) (Nashwan), G1 Prix Morny winner Whipper “She’s a filly that didn’t need (Miesque’s Son) and Andre Fabre’s well-regarded Dia- much practice last year, and I mond Green (Fr) (Green Desert). Saeed bin Suroor is don’t expect she’ll need a lot responsible for 17 entries, most notably G2 Royal Halfbridled Benoit this year.” The Hall of Fame Lodge winner Snow Ridge (Ire) (Indian Ridge {Ire}). trainer confirmed that jockey Pascal Bary’s G1 Prix Marcel Boussac winner Denebola Gary Stevens will replace the injured Julie Krone aboard (Storm Cat) will bid to gain the trainer some measure of Halfbridled Saturday. recompense for last year’s defeat of Six Perfections (Fr) Mandella’s other champion and Breeders’ Cup Juve- in this season’s renewal of the G1 UltimateBet.com nile hero, Action This Day (Kris S.) runs in Sunday’s GII 1000 Guineas at Newmarket May 2. Sir Michael San Felipe S. The colt is coming off a late-running Stoute’s Cheveley Park Stud-owned G1 Meon Valley fourth-place effort in the Feb. 8 Sham S. “I might have Stud Fillies’ Mile winner Red Bloom (GB) (Selkirk) is also been overconfident with him going into the first race, among the 74 entries for Britain’s second Classic. As but I wouldn’t trade anything I did with him,” Mandella with the colts’ Classic, Saeed Bin Suroor holds the said. “I think he’ll improve a lot and run well this week- most entries at 14, including unbeaten G1 Cheveley end.” Action This Day worked four furlongs in :47 3/5 Park S. winner Carry On Katie (Fasliyev). No Irish-based over Santa Anita’s main track yesterday. trainer has taken the prize across the Irish Sea since Tommy Stack’s Las Meninas (Ire) won 10 years ago, Read the Footnotes Ready for Florida Derby but a team of 15 entries may reverse the recent trend. GII Fountain of Youth S. winner Read The Footnotes O’Brien is responsible for seven possibles, including G1 (Smoke Glacken) has been training well for Saturday’s Moyglare Stud S. winner Necklace (GB) (Darshaan GI Florida Derby, according to trainer Rick Violette. “He {GB}). Yorkshire-based Mark Johnston will pin his really did bounce back quite well,” Violette said yester- hopes on unbeaten speedster Attraction (GB) (Efisio day. “He’s eaten everything in sight since [the Fountain {GB}), whose juvenile campaign was curtailed by injury. of Youth] and he’s trained very well. I really did kind of baby him for three weeks. Mentally you knew he CORRECTION: Part of the name of the stallion station needed it, but he never showed that in the way he where Tabasco Cat had been standing was inadver- acted in the morning. We hope he doesn’t have to run tently ommitted from the report in yesterday’s TDN. another lifetime best and really get to the bottom of The name of the farm should have read JBBA Shizunai him. I don’t know how many efforts like that you can Stallion Station in Hokkaido, Japan. We regret the error. ask of a horse throughout the year.” Before Starview Stable made Natalma Stakes winner PINK CHAMPAGNE-G3 a star, she was a Taylor Made graduate. TAYLOR MADE Before she was a Taylor Made graduate, (859) 885-3345 she was Farfellow Farms’ pride and joy. www.taylormadefarm.com TDN P HEADLINE NEWS • 3/10/04 • PAGE 2 of 6 (Triple Threats cont.) Swingforthefences to Tampa Bay Derby P R E S U L T S P Swingforthefences (Boston Harbor), an impressive Sunday, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil allowance winner on the Fountain of Youth undercard, GRANDE PREMIO DIANA-G1, $34,000, Hipodromo da races next in Sunday’s GIII Tampa Bay Derby. “It’s a Gavea, 3-7, 3yo, f, 2000mT, 2:02, sf. step up in company,” Violette said. “We’ll find out 1--sLOTS OF HOPE (BRZ), 123, f, 3, by Candy Stripes some things about him. He’s a sleeper, but he needs to 1st Dam: Emanuelle Wind, by Miswaki step up Sunday.” On the colt’s allowance win, Violette 2nd Dam: Rattling Wind, by Youth added, “The way he did it that day was uncommon at 3rd Dam: Rocked Ribbed, by *Ribot Gulfstream where speed is very dangerous. He went O/B-Stud TNT (BRZ); T-Venancio Nahid; J-J Ricardo. from getting nothing to five in front. It was impressive. Lifetime Record: 5-3-0-0. *1/2 to Metal Precioso (Brz) He certainly got a lot out of it. There were a lot of (Carteziano {Brz}), GSW & G1SP-Brz; and Nice Peggy positives.” (Brz) (Bowling {Brz}), MG1SP-Brz. Trainer Todd Pletcher updated the status of his soph- 2--Loucamania (Brz), 123, f, 3, Candy Stripes--Tres omores on yesterday’s teleconference. GII Hutcheson Coracoes, by Manila. O-Stud NTN; B-Carlos Alberto S. winner Limehouse (Grand Slam) is headed to the Machline (BRZ). Tampa Bay Derby and recent allowance winner Value 3--La Risota (Brz), 123, f, 3, Candy Stripes-- Plus (Unbridled’s Song) will go next in the Florida Unorwegiana (Brz), by Norwegian. O-Stud NTN; B-Stud TNT (BRZ). Derby. Pletcher said of Value Plus, “He’s a big horse Margins: 3/4, 3/4. Winner’s Odds: 2.80. with a great way of moving. I don’t think he’s a horse Lots of Hope led home a sweep for the Blushing that has to have the lead. It depends with what Bob Groom (Fr) stallion Candy Stripes in this Brazilian Oaks, Durso decides to do with Frisky Spider (Frisk Me Now). defeating Loucamania by 3/4 of a length. The chestnut If he’s not in there, we’ll be on the lead. If he is, we’ll concluded her two-year-old campaign with a 4 3/4- be laying second to him.” As for Limehouse, “The tim- length victory in the Listed Octavio Dupont S. Nov. 1. ing was good. Roughly four weeks after the Hutcheson. She made her seasonal bow in the G1 GP Henrique The 1 1/16 miles was attractive to stretch him out for Possolo Feb. 8, finishing fifth to High Court (Brz) in that the first time since the [Oct. 4 GII Lane’s End] Breeders 1600-meter test. Futurity.” Chapel Royal (Montbrook), last seen running third in the GI Breeders’ Cup Juvenile, makes his sea- Saturday, Palermo, Argentina sonal debut in Saturday’s GIII Swale S. “He had a solid GRAN PREMIO SATURNINO J. UNZUE-G1, P25,000, two-year-old campaign and after the Breeders’ Cup we Palermo, 3-6, 2yo, f, 1200m, 1:10.58, ft. decided to give him a vacation,” Pletcher said. “He’s 1--#@sROSA MISS (ARG), 121, f, 2, by Luhuk been steadily in training. We’ve targeted the Swale for 1st Dam: Bebony (Arg), by Southern Halo about four months now.” 2nd Dam: Bippus, by Green Dancer 3rd Dam: Charger’s Star, by Pia Star © Copyright Thoroughbred Daily News. O-Stud Mariva; B-Haras Don Arangel (BRZ); This newspaper may not be reproduced in any form or by T-J C Zubiri; J-J Albano. any means, electronic or mechanical, without prior written 2--Tiara Meeting (Arg), 121, f, 2, Final Meeting (Arg)-- permission of the copyright owner, MediaVista. Information Cheering (Aus), by Ahmad (Arg). O-J A Colucho; as to the American races, race results and earnings was B-Haras Las Telas (ARG). obtained from results charts published in Daily Racing Form 3--Valery Lady (Arg), 121, f, 2, Roy--Valery Toss (Arg), and utilized here with with the permission of the copyright by Egg Toss. O-J C Maldotti; B-Haras Vacacion (ARG). owner, Daily Racing Form. Margins: HD, NK, HD. Odds: 8.95, 7.00, 1.80. 2001 Horse of the Year, a six-time Grade I winner, his first crop of weanlings averaged $122,667 and his In Foal Mares averaged $352,211 at the Keeneland November Sales. The only horse to win FOUR consecutive $1 million races. www.threechimneys.com POINT GIVEN (859) 873-7053 2004 Book Full TDN P HEADLINE NEWS • 3/10/04 • PAGE 3 of 6 As these gains are hardly isolated incidents, but FROM THE DESK OF..