TUESDAY, JUNE 30, 2020 DIVERSITY IN RACING: DORA DELGADO VIBRANT OPENER TO As many people in the United States and around the world FASIG MIDLANTIC SALE question their personal views on diversity and racial inclusion, we decided to look inwardly on our industry, and we found it wanting. So we asked a tough question to several industry members: How do we make racing at its highest level more diverse? DORA DELGADO, Executive VP and Chief Racing Officer at Breeders= Cup The key to diversifying any business is to take a hard look at the data and a hard look at the social and economic roadblocks that stand in the way of making our industry, including its leadership, more diverse. In the case of gender diversity, I am constantly amazed by the powerful, smart, and passionate women in this industry. Cont. p9 Session-topping Hip 118 in the ring | Fasig-Tipton IN TDN EUROPE TODAY by Jessica Martini THE WEEKLY WRAP: LONG MAY THEY RUN TIMONIUM, MD - The Fasig-Tipton Midlantic 2-Year-Olds in After Irish Derby weekend at The Curragh and more Group 1 Training Sale opened Monday in Timonium with the specter of action in France, Emma Berry has the latest edition of The uncertainty in the industry caused by the pandemic and the Weekly Wrap. Click or tap here to go straight to TDN havoc it has wreaked on the global economy hanging over all Europe. participants, but the session was punctuated by vibrant bidding across the board and concluded with a sparkling 20% buy-back rate. A colt by Uncle Mo brought the day=s highest price when selling to Michael Lund Peterson for $1.1 million. AI don=t think anybody really knew what to expect, including us,@ Fasig-Tipton President Boyd Browning admitted at the close of business Monday. AI thought today was tremendous, exceptional and reassuring. If you didn=t observe the activity in the pavilion with the masks and the seats marked off and signs on the floors that say social distancing and so forth, it seemed very similar to what we experienced in 2019 here and in past years.@ At the end of the session, 152 juveniles had sold for $12,632,500. The average was $83,109 and the median was $40,000. Of the 274 horses catalogued Monday, 190 went through the sales ring and 38 were reported not sold. Last year=s opening session, held under markedly different circumstances, saw 156 horses sell for $11,402,500. The session average was $73,093 and the median was $43,000. The buy- back rate was 25.7%. 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WORLDWIDE INFORMATION International Editor Kelsey Riley @kelseynrileyTDN [email protected] European Editor Emma Berry [email protected] Associate International Editor Heather Anderson @HLAndersonTDN Newmarket Bureau, Cafe Racing Sean Cronin & Tom Frary [email protected] 60 Broad Street, Suite 100 Red Bank, NJ 07701 732-747-8060 | 732-747-8955 (fax) TDN HEADLINE NEWS • PAGE 3 OF 14 • THETDN.COM TUESDAY • JUNE 30, 2020 Fasig-Tipton Midlantic Opener cont. from p1 The Midlantic sale continues with a final session Tuesday with AI am astonished at a 20% RNA rate today and I am going to bidding beginning at 11 a.m. hope and pray it is in that range tomorrow, but there was certainly activity at most every level, including some at the Petersen Makes Big Splash Again lower end, and the middle was stronger than I would have Michael Lund Petersen, who went to a record-setting $1.8 anticipated coming into the sale,@ Browning said. AI=m not saying million to acquire future Grade I winner Gamine (Into Mischief) it=s easy or a walk in the park, there is still polarization that at last year=s Fasig-Tipton Midlantic sale, struck again Monday in exists in the market, but we had a market today. And I think you Timonium, bidding $1.1 million to acquire a colt by Uncle Mo could see it and feel it if you were in the pavilion or bidding (hip 118) from Al Pike=s consignment. Bloodstock agents Steve online. I am very encouraged by the resiliency of the Young and Marette Farrell, bidding on behalf of Speedway participants in the Thoroughbred industry in the sales side and Stable, were among the underbidders on the colt who shared the racing side. It never ceases to amaze me and today was the furlong bullet of :10 flat at last week=s under-tack preview. another example of that.@ The colt, like Gamine and Petersen=s former graded winner Monday marked Fasig-Tipton=s first foray into online bidding Mucho Gusto, will be trained by Bob Baffert. and Browning reported seven horses were purchased online and AOf course it=s very exciting to buy a horse for that amount of there was bidding on a further 30 to 40 horses throughout the money, but most importantly I am excited because Bob is day. excited,@ Petersen said. AHe was excited about buying Gamine, AIt was very seamless,@ Browning said of the online bidding he was excited about buying Mucho Gusto. I=m just happy I am process. AWe are working with professionals in that regard and part of an unbelievable team. I am fortunate that I am.@ they did a really good job. And our auctioneers have experience Petersen and bloodstock agent Donato Lanni did their bidding in other markets of selling stuff on line and I thought they out back of the pavilion. Lanni compared the juvenile to another handled it very well. We would have had between 40 and 50 colt currently trained by Baffert. horses that people bid on out of 190 through the ring. That=s AHe looks very similar to a horse we have now called Uncle pretty encouraging activity.@ Chuck,@ Lanni said. AHe=s kind of a similar-looking Uncle Mo.@ TDN HEADLINE NEWS • PAGE 4 OF 14 • THETDN.COM TUESDAY • JUNE 30, 2020 Owned by Karl Watson, Mike Pegram and Paul Weitman, Petersen credited the private sale of his multiple graded Uncle Chuck aired by seven lengths in his June 12 debut at Santa stakes winner Mucho Gusto (Mucho Macho Man), purchased for Anita. $625,000 at the 2018 Midlantic sale, with his bullish bidding at Hip 118 is out of Miss Ocean City (Indian Charlie) and is a half- recent juvenile sales. brother to graded stakes winner Azar (Scat Daddy). AI bought two down in Ocala only because I sold Mucho AHe=s a horse that Bob is going to take his time with,@ Lanni Gusto,@ he said. AA prince [Faisal bin Khaled Abdulaziz] came and said. he asked if he was for sale and I said no, but he kept coming Lanni admitted his biggest concern was his owner getting to back. And eventually Bob said sell him. I am lucky to have the the sale in time Monday. best horse trainer in the world and I am not making myself AWe=re happy for Michael. This is his saleBhe lives in believe just because I=ve been successful in something else I Baltimore,@ Lanni said. AIt was only a 10-minute drive for him, know what I am doing here. I am humble about being part of the but I saw there were a bunch of outs and I called him and told team and I follow what they say and it=s been going pretty good him to hurry up. He said, >Don=t worry about it.=@ so far. So that=s what I intend to do.@ Donato Lanni | Fasig-Tipton Michael Lund Petersen | Fasig-Tipton Of the colt=s seven-figure price tag, Lanni said. AHe=s a good Gamine, who romped by 18 3/4 lengths in the June 20 GI horse and everybody saw that and that=s what the good ones Acorn S., worked four furlongs at Santa Anita Monday morning. cost. Horses like that are so hard to find and they are very rare. AShe breezed today and Bob said she was happy and did really, You just have to stretch a bit more to get them.@ really well. That was the text message I got,@ Petersen said.