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Visit the TAPIT’S CONCORD POINT TDN Website: TAKES GII WV DERBY www.thoroughbreddailynews.com P4 SUNDAY, AUGUST 8, 2010 For information about TDN, call 732-747-8060. CHAMPAGNE D’ORO ACES TEST HARBINGER INJURED Trainer Eric Guillot told TDN Thursday that Cham- Highclere Thoroughbred Racing=s Harbinger (GB) pagne d=Oro (Medaglia d=Oro) was training Alike a boogie (Dansili {GB}) suffered a condylar fracture of his bear lost in the forest.@ Apparently that=s a good thing. near-fore cannon bone on Let go at 5-1 in yesterday=s GI Newmarket's gallops yes- Test S. at Saratoga, the bay terday morning. The 11- inhaled the leader at the top of length G1 King George VI the lane and galloped away to & Queen Elizabeth S. win- take her second Grade I event ner was working seven fur- by 4 1/2 lengths. AIn her last longs on the Limekilns gal- race, I got her into a little trou- lop with Ask (GB) (Sadler's Horsephotos ble before the quarter-pole, and Wells) in preparation for she wound up second,@ jockey York's G1 Juddmonte Inter- www.racingdiary.co.uk Miguel Mena confessed. AI am very happy the connec- national Aug. 17. The director of Highclere Thorough- tions gave me the chance to ride her back. Today, I had bred Racing, John Warren, who purchased Harbinger as a great trip. She broke sharply, was right there on the a yearling, yesterday told Racing Post, AThe burning lead, switched leads around the turn and came through question is whether he will race again. It=s a longshot, in the end. Today, there were no problems, and she got but he is just about to go into surgery, and I=ll have the money.@ Click for the brisnet.com chart, the brisnet.com PPs o r more ideas in the next hour or so. It will require two the free brisnet.com catalogue-style pedigree. Video, sponsored by screws. It=s not life-threatening and he=s comfortable.@ Taylor Made. Cont. p2 In a later statement on the syndicate=s website, High- clere=s Managing Director Harry Herbert said, AThis is a THE BLAME GAME bitter blow for all 12 of Harbinger=s owners, and indeed He needed every inch of the stretch to get there, but all who are closely concerned with the horse, as well as Blame (Arch) collared 1-2 chalk his many fans for whom he has become an icon follow- Quality Road (Elusive Quality) in ing his amazing King George victory. A decision as to the very last jump to take the Harbinger=s future will be taken imminently.@ The Sir GI Whitney H. at the Spa by a Michael Stoute-trained four-year-old is currently the head. AWe were super confident,@ world=s highest-rated horse. jockey Garrett Gomez remarked. AIt=s just one of those things--you don=t want to say too much, so you can let the horse do the talk- Blame (left) Horsephotos ing. He=s been trained magnifi- cently for this race, and every other race I=ve ridden him in. He=s a magnificent older horse, and I can=t wait until we go farther.@ The colt will be pointed for the GI Breed- ers= Cup Classic at 1 1/4 miles. Cont. p3 ZENYATTA DOES IT AGAIN The margin of victory was only a neck, but champion Zenyatta (Street Cry {Ire}) ran her record to a perfect 18-for-18 in the GI Clement L. Hirsch S. at Del Mar. The massive mare strolled along near the back of the pack despite the glacial early fractions, with a half in :50 3/5 and six panels in 1:15. Jockey Mike Smith made his move earlier than expected, and found himself fanned out wide at the top of the stretch, but, with ears flicking back and forth, Zenyatta motored past Rinterval (Ire) (Desert Prince {Ire}), then toyed with that overmatched rival in the final yards. "She was literally playing," Smith said. Cont. p3 P TDN HEADLINE NEWS • 8/8/10 • PAGE 2 of 10 • thoroughbreddailynews.com FEATURE PRESENTATION • GI Test S. Saturday, Saratoga Race Course TEST S.-GI, $250,000, SAR, 8-7, 3yo, f, 7f, 1:22 3/5, ft. 1--CHAMPAGNE D'ORO, 122, f, 3, by Medaglia d=Oro 1st Dam: Champagne Glow (SW & GISP, $128,250), by Saratoga Six 2nd Dam: Champagne Ginny, by L'Enjoleur 3rd Dam: Seminole Girl, by Chieftain ($210,000 yrl '08 KEESEP). O-Southern Equine Sta- ble & Mike Smith; B-Liberation Farm (KY); T-E Guillot; J-M Mena; $150,000. Lifetime Record: 12-3-3-1, $493,465. Werk Nick Rating: A+++ *Triple Plus*. Click for the eNicks report & 5-cross pedigree. 2--Bonnie Blue Flag, 116, f, 3, Mineshaft--Tap Your Feet, by Dixieland Band. ($300,000 yrl '08 FTSAUG). O-Peachtree Stable; B-W S Farish & George Bolton (KY); T-Bob Baffert; $50,000. 3--Belle of the Hall, 116, f, 3, Graeme Hall--Vines of Justice, by Judge T C. ($62,000 wlng '07 OBSOCT; $155,000 yrl '08 KEESEP; $340,000 2yo >09 Champagne d=Oro picked up checks in a pair of OBSFEB). O-West Point Thoroughbreds; B-L Edward stakes at Hollywood before she=d broken her maiden, Do Little Farm LLC (FL); T-T Albertrani; $25,000. then hit the line 2 1/4 lengths to the good in a special Baccari Bloodstock Sales Graduate weight test at Del Mar last August. She had that win Margins: 4HF, HF, HF. Odds: 5.20, 4.60, 6.30. taken away from her, however, after testing positive Also Ran: Lovely Lil, Ash Zee, Christine Daae, for steroids. Connections decided to go for the gold in Buckleupbuttercup, Pica Slew, Tidal Pool. her next start, sending her up against subsequent Scratched: Franny Freud. champion Lookin At Lucky (Smart Strike) in the GI Del Mar Futurity, but that plan did not pan out, and the filly finished eighth. The bay then trailed the field in the Nov. 6 GI Breeders= Cup Juvenile Fillies, and was done for the year. Her sophomore campaign has been a bit more consistent. A nose winner in a maiden test at Fair Grounds Feb. 20, she came back to be second by just a #2 Leading Second-Crop Sire half length in the Mar. 26 GII Fair Grounds Oaks. A World Record Holder by 2YO Winners in 2009 troubled 11th in the Apr. 30 GI Kentucky Oaks, Cham- Look For Wildcat Heir Yearlings at: pagne d=Oro rebounded with a gate-to-wire win in the OBS August Select: #53, #106, #113, #133, #197, #200 June 5 GI Acorn S. going a mile. She backed up to six furlongs for the GI Prioress S. July 4 and came from and also at OBS Open Yearlings Sale just off the pace to be second to Franny Freud (Freud). The two were to reoppose here, but Franny Freud was injured earlier in the week and had to be retired, and GI Test S. (SAR) Champagne d=Oro (Medaglia d=Oro) Champagne d=Oro reaped the rewards. Showing good inhales the speed to win as much the best. speed, she pressed Pica Slew (Pico Central {Brz}) GI Whitney H. (SAR) Blame (Arch) catches Quality Road through a salty half in :44.50, put that rival away when (Elusive Quality) in the very last jump. they hit the lane and opened up under a drive. Looking GII West Virginia Derby (MNR) Concord Point (Tapit) ahead, trainer Eric Guillot said, AWith the way she won, takes >em gate to wire for a popular score. she could come back [in the GI Ballerina S. Aug. 28].@ P TDN HEADLINE NEWS • 8/8/10 • PAGE 3 of 10 • thoroughbreddailynews.com Saturday, Saratoga Saturday, Del Mar WHITNEY H.-GI, $750,000, SAR, 8-7, 3yo/up, 1 1/8m, CLEMENT L. HIRSCH S.-GI, $300,000, DMR, 8-7, 1:48 4/5, ft. 3yo/up, f/m, 1 1/16m (AWT), 1:45, ft. 1--BLAME, 121, c, 4, by Arch 1--ZENYATTA, 123, m, 6, by Street Cry (Ire) 1st Dam: Liable (MSP, $235,021), by Seeking the Gold 1st Dam: Vertigineux, by Kris S. 2nd Dam: Bound, by Nijinsky II 2nd Dam: For the Flag, by *Forli 3rd Dam: Special, by *Forli 3rd Dam: In the Offing, by Hoist the Flag O/B-Claiborne Farm & Adele B Dilschneider (KY); ($60,000 yrl '05 KEESEP). O-Mr & Mrs Jerome S T-Albert M Stall, Jr; J-Garrett K Gomez; $450,000. Moss,; B-Maverick Production, Limited (KY); T-John Lifetime Record: 11-8-1-2, $1,518,214. *1/2 to Tend A Shirreffs; J-Mike E Smith; $180,000. Lifetime (Dynaformer), SW, $175,094. Click for the Record: 18-18-0-0, $6,254,580. *1/2 to Where's eNicks report & 5-cross pedigree. Werk Nick Bailey (Aljabr), SW, $116,313; and Balance (Thunder Rating: A+++ *Triple Plus*. Gulch), MGISW, $1,048,491. Werk Nick Rating: D+. 2--Quality Road, 126, c, 4, Elusive Quality--Kobla, by Click for the eNicks report & 5-cross pedigree. Strawberry Road (Aus). ($110,000 RNA yrl '07 ZENYATTA- Another IBS Yearling Auction Purchase KEESEP). O/B-Edward P Evans (VA); T-Todd A Pletcher; $150,000. 2--Rinterval (Ire), 119, m, 5, Desert Prince (Ire)-- 3--Musket Man, 117, c, 4, Yonaguska--Fortuesque, by Interpose (GB), by Indian Ridge (Ire). (i36,000 yrl '06 Fortunate Prospect. ($15,000 yrl '07 KEESEP; GOFORB; 23,000gns HRA >08 TATJUL; $62,000 $35,000 RNA 2yo >08 FTMMAY).