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A CLASSIC SCORE FOR SULAMANI HEADLINE ... p3 NEWS For information about TDN, DELIVERED EACH NIGHT call 732-747-8060. BY FAX AND INTERNET www.thoroughbreddailynews.com SUNDAY, SEPT. 28, 2003 A GOLD MINE A BRAVURA PERFORMANCE Looking every inch a Horse of the Year candidate, Falbrav (Ire) (Fairy King) ended the pre-race debate Mineshaft (A.P. Indy) made short work of his four rivals about his suitability for a mile by displaying devastating in the GI Jockey Club Gold Cup at Belmont Park yester- speed to beat Russian Rhythm (Kingmambo) by two day afternoon. The eye-catch- lengths in yesterday’s G1 NetJets Queen Elizabeth II S. ing bay tracked 22-1 shot at Ascot. Racing freely behind early pacesetter Blatant Quest (Seeking the Gold) (GB) (Machiavellian), the 6-4 favorite settled for Darryll through moderate fractions, Holland and settled the result in a matter of strides. He carried jockey Robby Albarado grabbed hold of the rabbit passing the quarter-mile to the lead as they raced into marker and quickened clear soon after, then easily held the stretch and, under only off Russian Rhythm as he powered to the line, just mild encouragement, drew off missing the track record. “He’s very special,” Holland to a 4 1/4-length score. “I just said. “I actually could have made the running, he’s that Mineshaft Horsephotos called on him--not much--at the quick. I got a nice lead off the pacemaker and it was three-eighths pole to the quarter pole and he responded just a matter of when to set him alight.” But, despite very well,” Albarado said. “I just waved the whip at him the impressive effort at the mile, Falbrav will be stretch- once or twice because I wanted to make sure nobody ing out for his next start. “I’d very much like to go for nailed him at the wire. He was just in second gear.” the GI Breeders’ Cup Turf [at Santa Anita Oct. 25],” Click for the brisnet.com chart or the free brisnet.com trainer Luca Cumani said. “We’re going from a mile to a catalogue-style pedigree. For the video race replay, mile and a half, which might make it a little bit difficult, but at Santa Anita, with the small, flat fast oval with a select: broadband or modem. Gold Cup cont. p2 downhill run, I think he’ll have a chance.” Click for the racingpost.co.uk chart or the free brisnet.com JOCKEY CLUB GOLD CUP S.-GI, $1,000,000, BEL, catalogue-style pedigree. QEII cont. p2 9-27, 3yo/up, 1 1/4m, 2:00 1/5, ft. 1--MINESHAFT, 126, c, 4, by A.P. Indy 1st Dam: Prospectors Delite (MGISW, DIMITROVA BOWLS ‘EM OVER $432,953), by Mr. Prospector Taking on her elders for the first time, three-year-old 2nd Dam: Up the Flagpole, by Hoist the Flag Dimitrova (Swain {Ire}) swept from the middle of the 3rd Dam: The Garden Club, by *Herbager pack to beat Walzerkoenigin (Kingmambo) by a length O/B-William S Farish, James A Elkins Jr & W Webber in the GI Flower Bowl Invitational Jr (KY); T-Neil J Howard; J-R J Albarado; $600,000. H. at Belmont Park yesterday. It Lifetime Record: GSP-Fr, 18-10-3-1, $2,283,395. was the fifth victory of the day *Full to Tomisue's Delight, MGISW, $1,207,536; for trainer Dermot Weld, who Rock Slide, MSW & GSP, $442,500; 1/2 to Delta also took four races in Ireland. Music (Dixieland Band), SW & GSP, $272,923; and “We had her ready for this race Monashee Mountain (Danzig), GSW-Ire, $110,635. and she proved to be the top filly 2--Quest, 126, c, 4, Seeking the Gold--Starlore, by that she is,” Weld said. “She is a Spectacular Bid. O/B-Arthur B Hancock III & Gerald F tough, genuine filly and we have Dimitrova Adam Coglianese Healy (KY); $200,000. a lot to look forward to.” The bay 3--Evening Attire, 126, h, 5, Black Tie Affair (Ire)-- will likely head to Santa Anita for her next start. “The Concolour, by Our Native. O-Mary & Joseph Grant & obvious direction is sending her to California for the Thomas J Kelly; B-Thomas J Kelly & Joseph M Grant Breeders’ Cup [Filly and Mare Turf],” Weld said. Click (KY); $110,000. for the brisnet.com chart or the free brisnet.com Margins: 4 1/4, 2 3/4, 6HF. Odds: 0.40, 22.10, 7.30. catalogue-style pedigree. For the video race replay, Also Ran: State Shinto, Moon Ballad (Ire). select: broadband or modem. Flower Bowl cont. p4 TDN P HEADLINE NEWS • 9/28/03 • PAGE 2 of 12 Gold Cup cont. Saturday, Ascot, Britain A Grade I Hat Trick... NETJETS QUEEN ELIZABETH II S.-G1, £325,000, A winner in six of his previous eight starts this sea- Ascot, 9-27, 3yo/up, 1mT, 1:38.99, gd/fm. son, Mineshaft posted a 3 3/4-length score in the GI 1--FALBRAV (IRE), 127, h, 5, by Fairy King Pimlico Special, but found Perfect Drift, with an eight- 1st Dam: Gift Of The Night, by Slewpy pound advantage, just a little too tough in the June 14 2nd Dam: Little Nana (Fr), by Lithiot GI Stephen Foster H. and finished second by a head. It 3rd Dam: Nenana Road (Fr), by Kirkland Lake (GB) didn’t take long for the four-year-old to return to his O-Scuderia Rencati SRL; B-Azienda Agricola winning ways, however. He bested Volponi by 2 1/4 Francesca; T-Luca Cumani; J-D Holland; £188,500. lengths in the July 5 GI Suburban H. and made it two Lifetime Record: Hwt. Older Horse-Ity at 9.5-11f & wins in a row at the highest level in the Sept. 6 GI 11-14f, MG1SW-Ity, G1SW-Fr & Jpn, G1SP-Ire, Woodward S. Looking to complete the hat trick yester- 24-12-5-4, £2,875,358. *1/2 to Fanofadiga (Ire) day, the royally bred colt tracked the pace from third (Alzao), Co-Hwt. Older Mare-Ity at 11-14f. while tugging at his rider through the opening half. He 2--Russian Rhythm, 120, f, 3, Kingmambo--Balistroika, drew alongside the leader at the top of the stretch and by Nijinsky. ($370,000 wnlg ‘00 KEENOV; proved much the best, once again, to the wire. “To me, 440,000gns yrl ‘01 TATHOU). O-Cheveley Park Stud; he’s been impressive in every race, even when he got B-Brushwood Stable; £71,500. beat,” trainer Neil Howard said. 3--Tillerman (GB), 127, h, 7, In The Wings (GB)-- Autumn Tint, by Roberto. O-Khalid Abdullah; B-Juddmonte Farms; £35,750. BC or No BC... Margins: 2, 1 1/4, 2HF. Odds: 6-4, 3-1, 22-1. It has not been decided if Mineshaft will try to put Also Ran: Blatant (GB), Soviet Song (Ire), Where Or the icing on a sweet 2003 campaign in the GI Breeders’ When (Ire), Norse Dancer (Ire), Dubai Destination. Cup Classic at Santa Anita Oct. 25. “[The Jockey Club Scratched: Dandoun (GB), Nayyir (GB), Ikhtiyar (Ire), Gold Cup] has been our target, and he has had a hard, Middlemarch (Ire), Statue Of Liberty, Tout Seul (Ire). hard campaign,” co-owner Will Farish said. “We’ll see Falbrav made his name over middle distances when about the Breeders’ Cup. I don’t think this horse has with Luciano d’Auria in Italy, rounding off a successful anything more to prove. We’ve laid our course and four-year-old campaign by winning the G1 Japan Cup. invited the other horses in the country to come. In the Transferred to Luca Cumani this year, he has added last few races, they’ve gone the other direction. We’ve wins in the May 18 G1 Prix d’Ispahan, July 5 G1 gone exactly where we’ve said we were going seven Eclipse S. and Aug. 19 G1 International S. He may have months ago.” But, he added, “I’m not ruling anything been unlucky to finish runner-up behind High Chaparral out. We have to sit down and check it out.” (Ire) in the G1 Irish Champion S. at Leopardstown last time Sept. 6, but he banished those memories on this Moon Ballad Disappoints... occasion. “The horse should have won in Ireland,” said Adding to his list of disappointing efforts since his conditioner Luca Cumani, enjoying his second renewal awesome win in the Mar. 29 G1 Dubai World Cup, after the exploits of Markofdistinction (GB) in 1990. “It Moon Ballad (Ire) (Singspiel {Ire}) pressed the pace was an afterthought to come here, but thank God for early, but faded to finish last for his fourth consecutive the lack of rain. The horse is just amazing and he’s off-the-board performance. “He just didn’t run his probably the best in the world on grass anywhere be- race,” Godolphin Racing Manager Simon Crisford said. tween a mile and a mile and a quarter.” Tillerman, filling “We’ll let the dust settle before we decide on the fu- third spot for the second consecutive year, may be ture.” Added jockey Jerry Bailey, “He was just flat.” aimed at the G1 Hong Kong Mile Dec. 14. FOUR GRADE 1 WINS THIS YEAR FOR MINESHAFT t f a h s e n MINESHAFT (A.P. Indy–Prospectors Delite) i M dominates the Grade 1 Jockey Club Gold Cup yesterday, winning by 4 1/4 lengths. This is his fourth Grade 1 win this year for lifetime earnings of $2,283,395.