SATURDAY, MAY 19, 2012 732-747-8060 $ TDN Home Page Click Here ANOTHER CRACK AT A CLASSIC LITTLE SLIP IN BLACK-EYED SUSAN J. Paul Reddam=s GI Kentucky Derby hero I=ll Have Eclipse Thoroughbred Partners and Gary Barber=s In Another (Flower Alley) goes for the second jewel of the Lingerie (Empire Maker) grabbed a quarter when the Triple Crown in today=s gates flew open in the GI Preakness S., but it GII Black-Eyed Susan S. at remains to be seen Pimlico, but overcame that and whether he=ll be favored in a wide journey to prove best the 9 1/2-furlong event. on the day. She led home The chestnut was tabbed stablemate Disposablepleasure at 5-2 on the Preakness (Giacomo) for a Todd Pletcher morning line in deference exacta. Even-money Mamma to speed merchant Kimbo (Discreet Cat) set a fair Bodemeister (Empire pace before weakening in the Maker) set as the 8-5 stretch to finish fourth. AThat I’ll Have Another & Bodemeister chalk. In the past 50 years, was a big effort to run 1-2 like Reed Palmer the Derby runner-up has that,@ Pletcher commented. Jim McCue/MJC turned the tables in the AI=m pleasantly happy. I think Preakness just twice, with Summer Squall she made a big step forward to be one of the leaders of accomplishing the feat in 1990 and Prairie Bayou doing her division today.@ Cont. p6 the same in 1993. AOn paper, it looks like he=s going to be the speed,@ said Bodemeister=s trainer Bob Baffert. ALTERNATE REALITY AHe has to break well. He has a high cruising speed Pin Oak homebred Alternation (Distorted Humor) and, hopefully, he doesn=t go as fast as he did in the remained perfect in 2012 while handing another narrow Derby.@ Cont. p3 defeat to Nehro (Mineshaft) in the revived GIII Pimlico Special Friday FRANK THE TANK afternoon. The J “TDN At the start of last month, there were some doubts Rising Star” J took that Frankel (GB) (Galileo {Ire}) would be seen again the lead in midstretch, and few expected him to be and won the bob over in the line-up for today=s G1 the fast-finishing Lockinge S. at Newbury. Nehro. AWow! That got AConsidering Frankel had a a little bit tight there at 10-day setback, I am the end,@ said winning Jim McCue/MJC pleased with the progress he trainer Donnie K. Von has made in preparation for Hemel. AI didn=t know if we got it or not, but fortunately the Lockinge,@ trainer Sir we got the bob. It looked like that six pounds [he was Henry Cecil said. AHe=s got a giving Nehro] was getting to him there at the end. The Edward Whitaker/Racing Post lot of energy and it may take other horse ran a nice race. 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Everett H.-GII, HOL (brisnet.com PPs) T V G [email protected] TDN Newmarket Bureau: Cafe Racing [email protected] Sean Cronin Tom Frary P TDN HEADLINE NEWS • 5/19/12 • PAGE 3 of 15 • thoroughbreddailynews.com FEATURE PRESENTATION • GI PREAKNESS S. On the Preakness Scene ...with Steve Sherack FOR CLARKE, IT’S ALL IN THE FAMILY By Steve Sherack If Soldat (War Front) had already provided Harvey Clarke with a Aonce-in-a-lifetime thrill@ by carrying his green and white silks to an unplaced effort in the 2011 Run for the Roses, how do you think the 71-year-old felt after watching a horse that he bred in I=ll Have Another (Flower Alley) win the 138th renewal? AIt was amazing,@ said Clarke, president of the Manhattan-based A.J. Clarke Real Estate Corp. AWho would ever think it? It=s just surreal. I didn=t win a stakes race until 1988 and didn=t win a graded stakes until 2009. To be involved in two Derbies two years in a row--for a little guy from the Bronx who got into the horse business 30 years ago to have Harvey Clarke a little bit of fun--it=s just something ajclarkenyc.com you never could=ve imagined happening.@ Clarke acquired the Derby winner=s dam Arch=s Gal Edith (Arch), named with the popular 1970s sitcom All in the Family in mind, for $80,000 at the 2004 OBS March 2-Year-Old Sale. The dark bay didn=t make it to the races until September of her 3-year-old season, but proved well worth the wait, delivering a 27-1 debut victory going six furlongs at Belmont Park. AShe hurt herself as a 2-year-old kicking a wall,@ Clarke revealed. AI brought her back as a 3-year-old, but she came up with a chip in her ankle after the debut. She never returned the right way after we popped it out. Given the fact that myself and [trainer] Kiaran McLaughlin had liked her a lot, I figured what the heck, and took a shot and bred her. The rest is history as they say.@ I=ll Have Another is the third foal from the 10-year-old mare. Clarke credits Brookdale Farm=s Freddy Seitz for suggesting the mating to Flower Alley. Cont. p4 859-873-7270 • www.airdriestud.com P TDN HEADLINE NEWS • 5/19/12 • PAGE 4 of 15 • thoroughbreddailynews.com AHe was a big, good-looking correct horse,@ Clarke said of the Three Chimneys stallion. AThe stud fee was in the range that I was looking to spend; he was at $25,000 at the time. It seemed like a good cross. It didn=t make sense to send a mare like that to his father [Distorted Humor]. He was the son of a wonderful horse who could get two turns and won the Travers; it seemed like a good match to me.@ Clarke currently has about a I’ll Have Another dozen horses in training with Sherackatthetrack McLaughlin, including partnerships, and also owns nine broodmares. AEvery one of them is a filly that I had raced,@ Clarke said of his broodmare band. AIf I liked them, I figured what else am I going to do with them when their career was over.@ The licensed insurance and real estate broker was willing to part ways with I=ll Have Another for only $11,000 at the 2010 Keeneland September Yearling Sale. Dennis O=Neill went to $35,000 on behalf of J. Paul Reddam at the following year=s OBS April Sale. AHe brought what he was worth because nobody else raised their hand after they got to $11,000,@ said a very realistic Clarke, who apparently isn=t suffering any seller=s remorse. ACommercially, I=m not really a breeder. Some of them I keep and some I sell. In 2010, I needed some money to pay for a bunch of bills. I think we sold everything that we bred that year.@ Arch=s Gal Edith=s eldest produce, the 5-year-old Those Wer The Days (Thunder Gulch), is currently riding a five-race winning streak for Clarke, most recently annexing a $50,000 optional claimer at Aqueduct Apr.