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RIVER FLOWS TO WINGS OF EAGLES KIN SETS NEW RECORD AT HK INT=L SALE by Alan Carasso GOLD CUP GLORY A Holy Roman Emperor (Ire) gelded half-brother to 2017 G1 Investec Derby hero Wings of Eagles (Fr) ( {GB}) fetched a final bid of HK$11 million (,1,006,423/i1,141,773/ A$1,810,647/US$1,402,492) to establish a new record price at Friday=s Hong Kong International Sale conducted in the parade ring at Sha Tin Racecourse. The previous mark of HK$10.5 million was set just last year by a son of Hussonet. With two late scratches, a total of 26 Northern and Southern Hemisphere 3-year-olds went under the hammer and, as widely expected, it was lot 17 that stole the show. Bred in Great Britain by Mme Aliette Forien, the April foal is a son of 2005 G1 Poule d=Essai des Pouliches third-place finisher Ysoldina (Fr) (Kendor {Fr}), whose half-brother Belle et Celebre (Fr) (Peintre Celebre) was the winner of the G1 Prix Saint-Alary. Lot 17 was acquired by the Hong Kong Jockey Club=s Mark Richards and his team at the 2016 Arqana August Yearling Sale for i130,000 from the consignment of Haras de Montaigu, where Wings of Eagles is winner | Racing Post photo standing his first year at stud in 2018. Cont. p7

By Emma Berry CHELTENHAM, UK--Irish challengers may have dominated this year's but the trophies for all three championship races will stay at home after Brocade Racing's Native River (Ire) (Indian River {Fr}) denied a Nicky Henderson clean sweep when outclassing favourite Might Bite (Ire) (Scorpion {Ire}) to give trainer his first G1 Timico Cheltenham Gold Cup. Yet more overnight rain had turned the already testing conditions into a slog, and three non-runners reduced the field to 15, but from the early stages the race quickly became a duel as took to the front from the off on Native River and rode with no intention of ceding that position. He may be jockey, but Johnson had been all but invisible this week at Cheltenham. When it mattered most, Record-setting lot 17 | HKJC photo however, he grabbed his chance to shine, his 8-year-old mount proving the perfect ally for a test that demanded foot-perfect jumping and an unrelenting gallop throughout. Charged with delivering Henderson's dream of an unprecedented hat-trick in IN TDN AMERICA TODAY the week's trio of big races, Nico de Boinville shadowed Native REBEL A ‘SOLO’ ACT River throughout on the King George winner, with Might Bite Zayat Stables’ Solomini (Curlin) takes on GISW Sporting Chance just briefly gaining the upper hand at the penultimate fence. (Tiznow) in Saturday’s $900,000 GII Rebel S. at Oaklawn Park. Cont. p2 Click or tap here to go straight to TDN America. TDN EUROPE/INTERNATIONAL • PAGE 2 OF 8 • THETDN.COM SATURDAY • 17 MARCH, 2018

River Flows To Gold Cup Glory cont. from p1 He continued, "From four out he just kept picking up. I could see Might Bite next to me and going to two fences out he looked But the horse who had previously shown his mettle by winning to be travelling quite well, but I knew Native River is a stayer and the famously grueling Welsh I felt we had to try to give him as hadn't even much to do as possible. He begun to get to the bottom of I FIRST CAME HERE AS A 17-YEAR-OLD answered every call and at the his stamina reserves and as WITH HAIR DOWN TO MY SHOULDERS last he was very brave. Up the others found finishing kicks run-in he just kept going. I'm not swamped by the mud, Native AND WATCHED THE GOLD CUP FROM sure we will see such testing River dug deep to regain the THE MIDDLE OF THE COURSE. conditions again at Cheltenham, advantage over the one final but he's a warrior and it's a Colin Tizzard obstacle which stood in his path pleasure to ride him." for glory. Colin Tizzard has long since "To be honest, I was a turned his attention from dairy passenger," said Johnson, whose farming to training and the West modesty is as much his Countryman now has one of the trademark as is his unquestionable skill in the saddle. "He's a most powerful stables of jumpers in the UK. However, like so fantastic horse to ride. He loves jumping and almost waits for many of his colleagues throughout the first three days of the things in front and just does what he has to. I thought we had Festival he simply had no riposte to the relentless form of the gone quite steady but sometimes when you are on a good horse runners from the rival Irish yards of Willie Mullins and Gordon it doesn't feel that quick, and I thought I needed to move it on a Elliott. gear down the back straight and the more I asked from him, the better he jumped." Cont. p3 TDN EUROPE/INTERNATIONAL • PAGE 3 OF 8 • THETDN.COM SATURDAY • 17 MARCH, 2018

Cheltenham Gold Cup Day cont. His luck changed come Friday, with 19-year-old Harry Cobden starring at Cheltenham for the first time to win the Albert Bartlett Novices' Hurdle aboard 33/1 shot Kilbricken Storm (Ire) (Oscar {Ire}) to set up a quickfire Grade 1 double for Tizzard. Unsuccessfully fending off tears after the Gold Cup, the trainer said, "I first came here as a 17-year-old with hair down to my shoulders and watched the Gold Cup from the middle of the course. To have a runner in it would have been fantastic then but to win it is unbelievable. Richard Johnson was every bit as good as the horse." Vice President, International Operations Gary King Tizzard has had his chances in the race, with the massively Twitter: @garykingTDN popular dual Festival winner Cue Card (GB) (King's Theatre {Ire}) [email protected] having twice fallen, while Native River was third to + 1.732.320.0975 (GB) (Midnight Legend {GB}) last year and has run just once since then, when winning at Newbury on Feb. 10. He added, "It's International Editor unreal. It's the fourth day and the Irish have been winning Kelsey Riley everything--I was thinking our form is not as good as we Twitter: @kelseynrileyTDN imagined. Then Richard Johnson gives that brave horse that sort [email protected] of ride and everything changes. When Might Bite came European Editor alongside, I thought 'oh, no', but then Richard was brilliant. You Emma Berry wouldn't tell him what to do, because he knew what he was Twitter: @collingsberry going to do a week ago." [email protected]

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Cafe Racing Sean Cronin Native River and Richard Johnson | racingfotos.com Tom Frary [email protected] Richard Johnson last won the Gold Cup back in 2000 aboard (Ire) (Zaffaran). Now 26, the grand old chaser Irish Correspondent still lives with the jockey and his wife Fiona, whose father Noel Daithi Harvey Chance trained him, as well as the 1997 winner (Ire) (Torus {GB}). Regular Columnists "It's been a long 18 years," said Johnson with a grin. "For me Andrew Caulfield the Gold Cup is the most important race of the year. I know for John Berry some people the Grand National is the people's race, but this is Kevin Blake Tom Peacock the best of the best. It's everyone's dream to own a Gold Cup horse and to ride one is brilliant; to win it twice now is fantastic. Cont. p4 TDN EUROPE/INTERNATIONAL • PAGE 4 OF 8 • THETDN.COM SATURDAY • 17 MARCH, 2018

Cheltenham Gold Cup Day cont. The championship has always been my main target but when you can have one or two of these along the way, they are very special. "It is always down to the horse. If you are on the right horse and get into the right rhythm, it makes riding from the front almost easier as there is nothing to get in your way." Gordon Elliott's Outlander (Ire) was pulled up two fences from home in the Gold Cup but that did little to dent his supremacy at the 2018 Cheltenham Festival. The trainer saddled another two winners on the final day--Farclas (Fr) (Jukebox Jury {Ire}) in the G1 JCB and Blow By Blow (Ire) (Robin Des Champs {Fr}) in the Martin Pipe Conditionals' Hurdle--to lead the Festival for the second year running, his eight winners equalling the record held by Willie Mullins. Elliott's final-day double again came in the colours of Gigginstown House Stud, making Michael O'Leary the leading owner at the Festival with seven wins.

Gordon Elliott with his leading trainer trophy | Racing Post photo

The remainder of the card fell to British stables, with Paul Nicholls--for so many years the leading trainer at this event in the glory days of (Fr) and (Ire)--winning the St James's Place Foxhunter for the second year running with Pacha Du Polder (Fr) (Muthathir {GB}), ridden by Cheltenham debutante Harriet Tucker. Nicholls also claimed the final race of the meeting, the G3 Johnny Henderson Grand Annual with Le Prezien (Fr) (Blue Bresil {Fr}) to give JP McManus a second win of the week to add to his trophy. Nicholls's former assistant Dan Skelton has turned Shadwell's dual Flat winner Mohaayed (GB) (Intikhab) into a fine hurdler but the trainer admitted that he had wanted to withdraw the 6-year-old from the G3 Randox Health County Hurdle fearing that the ground had gone against him. As it transpired, owner June Watts's desire to run meant that Skelton, the son of Olympic champion showjumper Nick Skelton, notched his second win in the race, though his brother and retained jockey Harry missed out on glory having swapped on to the stable's first string, Spiritofthegames (Ire) (Darsi {Fr}). Cont. p5

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Cheltenham Gold Cup Day cont. Love Everlasting, who is connected to the - Harry's loss was his girlfriend's gain, however, as his defection winning leading sire (GB), was successful in the meant that Bridget Andrews rode her first Cheltenham winner, G3 Princess Royal S., the best of her four black-type successes. emulating her sister Gina, who won last year's Fulke Walwyn The producer of one in her mold in the Listed Cheshire Oaks Kim Muir Chase on Domesday Book. Andrews was one of four runner-up Acquainted (GB), also by Shamardal, she has a 2-year- female jockeys to win at the 2018 Festival along with Lizzie Kelly old colt by (GB) to come. Lifetime Record: 2-1-1-0, and the amateur riders Katie Walsh and Harriet Tucker. $6,780. Video, sponsored by Fasig-Tipton. O-Godolphin; B-Mr & Mrs G Middlebrook (GB); T-Charlie Appleby.

5th-LIN, ,5,800, Cond, 3-16, 3/4yo, f, 8f 1y (AWT), 1:36.78, st. FOUNTAIN OF TIME (IRE) (f, 3, Iffraaj {GB}--Key To Peace {Ire} {MSP-Fr}, by Kheleyf), sent off at 3-1, was tardy from the gates Friday=s Result: and keen under cover in mid-division early. Threading between 3rd-LIN, ,5,800, Cond, 3-16, 3yo, 12f (AWT), 2:31.18, st. rivals from the home turn, the homebred overcame NIGHT STORY (GB) (g, 3, Shamardal--Love Everlasting {GB} Effervescence (Ire) (Epaulette {Aus}) with just over a half furlong {GSW-Eng, $209,796}, by Pursuit of Love {GB}), a 500,000gns remaining and pulled away under hand riding to secure a cosy TATOCT yearling, was runner-up on debut to stable companion 1 3/4-length success. The useful dam, who also has a 2-year-old Nordic Lights (GB) (Intello {Ger}) over 10 furlongs here nine days filly by Slade Power (Ire) and a yearling filly by Dubawi (Ire), is a ago and raced in last of the quartet early with James Doyle in half to three other black-type performers headed by the dual G3 confident mood. Driven to get the better of Yabass (Ire) (Lope de Curragh Cup winner Mkuzi (GB) (Halling). Connected to the GIII Vega {Ire}) passing the furlong pole, the 10-11 favourite asserted Kent S. winner and GII San Luis Rey S. runner-up Syntax (Ire) to win by 1 1/2 lengths. (Haatef), she descends from Galla Placidia (Fr) (Crystal Palace

Native River/Richard Johnson triumph in a thrilling renewal of the G1 Timico Cheltenham Gold Cup. | racingfotos.com TDN EUROPE/INTERNATIONAL • PAGE 6 OF 8 • THETDN.COM SATURDAY • 17 MARCH, 2018

{Fr}), who captured four group races headed by the G2 Grand Prix d=Evry and G2 Prix de Pomone and was third in the G1 Prix Vermeille. Lifetime Record: 1-1-0-0, $5,229. Video, sponsored by Fasig-Tipton. O/B-Godolphin (IRE); T-Charlie Appleby. BALIOS Balios, a winner at two who scored in the G2 King Edward VII S. at three, has gotten each mare he has covered thus far in foal on one cover. The son of Shamardal=s first book includes Drifting (Ire) (Sadler=s Wells) from the immediate family of (Ire) and Park Express (Ire), and Height Of Summer (Ire), a half-sister to Group 1 winner I=m A Dreamer (Ire). Balios stands at Haras du Hoguenet in Normandy.

This half-brother to Enable was born on Mar. 1. Their dam, Concentric, returns to Enable=s sire Nathaniel this year. Juddmonte photo

ADDITIONAL MAIDEN WINNER: Carpet Time (Ire), g, 3, Intense Focus--Beal Ban (Ire), by Daggers Drawn. WOL, 3-16, 5f 21y (AWT), 1:02.46. B-Natasha Newsome (IRE). *i8,500 RNA Wlg >15 GOFNOV; i14,000 Ylg >16 GOFSPT.

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CONDITIONS RESULT: 5th-FTB, i28,000, 3-16, 4yo, 11fT, 2:33.60, vs. TRAWANGANE (FR) (f, 4, Dutch Art {GB}--On the Line {Fr}, by Green Tune) Lifetime Record: 13-4-2-1, i60,960. O-Ecurie Lacamia Competition; B-Haras d=Etreham, Mme R Ades & Mme P VESPER ELECTED DIREKTORIUM PRESIDENT Ades-Hazan (FR); T-Nicolas Clement. *i70,000 Ylg >15 ARAUG. Dr. Michael Vesper has been elected president of the Direktorium fur Vollblutzucht und Rennen e.V. Vesper is the ADDITIONAL MAIDEN WINNER: former chairman of the executive board of the German Olympic Billabong Cat (Fr), c, 3, Siyouni (Fr)--Lunacat (Fr) (SP-Fr), by One Sports Confederation. Vesper was elected at a general assembly Cool Cat. FTB, 3-16, 6fT, 1:11.50. B-B Van Dalfsen & M Perret in Germany this week, where it was also decided Germany (FR). would, as of Apr. 1, adopt category 1 country interference rules, putting it in line with a decision taken by the International FIND US ON FACEBOOK Federation of Horseracing Authorities last fall. www.facebook.com/thoroughbreddailynews TDN EUROPE/INTERNATIONAL • PAGE 7 OF 8 • THETDN.COM SATURDAY • 17 MARCH, 2018

AUSTRALIAN-BRED WINNERS

IN SINGAPORE: Eastiger (Aus), g, 3, Magic Albert (Aus)--Quite Astute (NZ) FLIPPANT A CHAIRMAN=S WILDCARD (G1SP-NZ), by Danske (NZ). Kranji, 3-16, Restricted Maiden Last-out Group 3 winner Flippant (Aus) (Hinchinbrook {Aus}) (A$83k), 1200mT, 1:10.45. B-Rheinwood Pastoral Co (NSW). has been added as a wildcard to the Inglis Chairman=s Sale - Elite *A$40,000 Ylg >16 INGSYD; A$55,000 2yo >16 INGRTR. VIDEO Breeding Prospects session on Apr. 12 at Riverside Stables. The Special King (Aus), c, 3, Magnus (Aus)--Penny Opera (NZ), by three-quarter sister to stakes winner I Am Excited (Aus) (Snitzel Danasinga (Aus). Kranji, 3-16, Hcp. (A$59k), 1100m (AWT), {Aus}), from the immediate family of Group 1-winning fillies 1:06.36. B-R B Satchell (SA). *A$39,000 Ylg >16 MMADE. VIDEO Atlantic Jewel (Aus) (Fastnet Rock {Aus}) and Commanding Jewel Melting Point (Aus), g, 4, Vital Equine (Ire)--Elegant Touch (Aus) (Commands {Aus}), won the G3 Tressady S. over 1400 (Aus), by Snitzel (Aus). Kranji, 3-16, Hcp. (A$79k), 1400mT, metres on Flemington on Mar. 3 for Peter and Paul Snowden. 1:22.30. B-Touchstone Farm (WA). *A$20,000 Ylg >15 MMPER. She was previously a listed winner on three occasions. VIDEO

Hong Kong International Sale cont. from p1 Holy Roman Emperor has been a prolific sire in Hong Kong, accounting for the likes of Designs on Rome (Ire), Beauty Only POWER TO STAND IN QUEENSLAND (Ire) and Rich Tapestry (Ire). John Moore will train for businessman Cheung Kwok Keung. Eight horses fetched better than HK$6 million, including a Poet=s Voice (GB) three-parts brother to the reliable Catkins (Aus) (Dubawi {Ire}), who was one of two horses to realise HK$7.2 million Friday evening. An A$280,000 graduate of the 2016 Magic Millions Gold Coast Yearling Sale, lot 6 was acquired by the Vision Syndicate, who campaigns its horses in Hong Kong with trainer Caspar Fownes. Kern Dim, who paid HK$6 million in 2016 for a Shamardal gelding that would become >TDN Rising Star= Pakistan Star (Ger), was at it again Friday evening, stretching to HK$7.2 million for a beautiful moving son of Arrowfield Stud=s Not a Single Doubt (Aus). The chestnut, cataloged as lot 14, was an A$210,000 acquisition by the HKJC at Magic Millions two years ago and is Irish 2000 Guineas winner Power | Coolmore out of a half-sister to GSW Moon Dragon (Aus) (Danehill). The Irish-based Power (GB) (Oasis Dream {GB}BFrappe {Ire}, by Total gross receipts for the sale were HK$135.3 million, good Inchinor {GB}), who had previously stood Southern Hemisphere- for an average of HK$5,203,846 and a median price of time at Cambridge Stud in New Zealand, will this year stand at HK$4,700,000, both HKIS records. Oaklands Stud in Queensland, according to breednet.com.au. The Hong Kong International Sale was held in a night-time slot The G1 Irish 2000 Guineas winner was New Zealand=s leading for the third consecutive year and was preceded by a cocktail first-season sire in 2016/17, and has sired 16 winners and one reception for guests. stakes winner in that country. In Europe, his progeny include the AWe are very pleased with tonight=s results, with a number of Group 3-winning Peace Envoy (Fr) and Pleaseletmewin (Ire). new marks. The purchase of lot 17 speaks for itself and is a credit to the astute work of the Club=s buying team,@ said Andrew Harding, executive director of racing for the HKJC. AThey uncovered this horse as a yearling, before Wings Of Eagles soared to Derby glory at Epsom, and its page justified the price. I congratulate Nick Columb and Mark Richards on their expert efforts.@

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TOUGH TO GO PAST TOP FOUR IN HONG SALES TOPPERS KONG DERBY by Alan Carasso With HK$18 million in the pot, Sunday=s BMW Hong Kong HONG KONG INTERNATIONAL SALE Derby is the richest and most coveted prize on the local FRIDAY’S TOP EIGHT LOTS calendar. And to be sure, some very good horses have won the Lot Sire Dam Price (HK$) 2000-metre centrepiece, including Vengeance of Rain (NZ), Viva 17 Holy Roman Emperor (Ire) Ysoldina (Fr) 11,000,000 Pataca (GB), Ambitious Dragon (NZ), Akeed Mofeed (GB), (i130,000 Ylg ‘16 ARQAUG) Designs on Rome (Ire) and Werther (NZ), each of whom B-Mme Aliette Forien (GB) subsequently went on to international Group 1 glory at home Purchased by Cheung Kwok Keung and abroad. And the sky was the limit for 2017 hero Rapper 6 Poet’s Voice (GB) Salix Caprea (Aus) 7,200,000 Dragon (Aus) (Street Boss), who was tragically lost two starts (A$280,000 Ylg ‘16 MMGCYS) later. Another thing those gallopers had in was a skinny B-O J & Mrs L M Carter (NSW) price on the tote come Derby day, and Sunday=s test figures very Purchased by Vision Syndicate much in the same mold. 14 Not a Single Doubt (Aus) Heaven Beneath (Aus) 7,200,000 Singapore Sling (SAf) (Philanthropist) has done little wrong in (A$210,000 Ylg ‘16 MMGCYS) his four starts in Hong Kong, with two victories, including a B-Segenhoe Pty Ltd (NSW) comfortable defeat of Exultant (Ire) (Teofilo {Ire}) in the Hong Purchased by Kerm Din Kong Classic Cup (1800m) last time. A perfect draw in three 18 Snitzel (Aus) Good Weekend (Aus) 7,000,000 combined with a less-ideal barrier for Hong Kong Classic Mile (A$475,000 Ylg ‘16 MMGCYS) hero Nothingilikemore (Aus) (Husson {Arg}) could land the Tony B-Arrowfield Pastoral Pty Ltd (NSW) Millard charge narrow favouritism come 4:35 Sunday afternoon. Purchased by Jackie Wong See Sum Exultant and Singapore Sling will not be compromised by the 12 Savabeel (Aus) Ocean of Tears (NZ) 6,000,000 Derby trip, but the same cannot be said definitively for (A$420,000 Ylg ‘16 INGEAS) B-D W Wallace (NZ) Nothingilikemore, who won six of his first seven at distances up Purchased by Peter Lau Pak Fai to the metric mile, but was only fourth in the Classic Cup. He 15 Dutch Art (GB) Girl Power (Ire) 6,000,000 does own an excuse when he was slow into stride and got home (i450,000 Ylg ‘16 ARQAUG) well from the back, but can he display the same turn of foot as B-Mrs S Power (Ire) the other market rivals when push comes to shove in the final Purchased by Edmond Yue Kwok Yin 200m? You won=t get paid too much to find out. 16 Not a Single Doubt (Aus) Aringarosa (Aus) 6,000,000 Ping Hai Star (NZ) (Nom du Jeu {NZ}) was probably not meant (A$200,000 Ylg ‘16 MMGCYS) to be a Derby starter as late as December, when he was rated B-MacQuarie Stud (NSW) just 77. Since then, he has won three straight, each jaw- Purchased by Tang Kui Ming dropping in its own way. Joao Moreira has opted for stablemate 22 Exceed and Excel (Aus) Panama (NZ) 6,000,000 Nothingilikemore, an understandable decision for sure, but John (NZ$300,000 Ylg ‘16 NZBPRE) Size has reached out to none other than to pilot this B-R W E Moore (NZ) up-and-comer, who will take plenty of support from the betting Purchased by Tung Moon Fai public. For the winner to come from somewhere outside of this top four is difficult to conceive, but, alas, they don=t run races on paper. To follow is a >cheat sheet= of sorts for the Derby, an easy read and less an exercise in handicapping as it is an introduction to the cast.

HONG KONG INTERNATIONAL SALE (MARCH) HONG KONG GROUP 1 RACES B 2017/2018 SESSION TOTALS 2018 2017 Date Race Distance $ Number Sold 26 29 Apr. 29 Audemars Piguet QE II Cup 2000mT $ High Price (HK$) 11,000,000 10,500,000 Champions Mile 1600mT $ Gross (HK$) 135,300,000 130,900,000 $ Average (HK$) (% change) 5,203,846 (+15.3%) 4,513,793 Chairman=s Sprint Prize 1200mT $ Median (HK$) (% change) 4,700,000 (+11.9%) 4,200,000 May 27 Champions and Chater Cup 2400mT #1 NOTHINGILIKEMORE (AUS) (PP #13) #2 SINGAPORE SLING (SAF) (PP #3) (Husson {Arg}--Katisam {Aus}, (Philanthropist--Sing Dixie Sing {SAf}, by Lonhro {Aus}) by Western Winter) (A$40,000 Ylg >15 INGSYD) (R225,000 Ylg >15 CTSPRE) O-Happy Corner Syndicate; B-S Smith O-Nikki Ng Mien Hua; B-Drakenstein Stud (NSW); T-John Size; J-Joao Moreira. (Nom: Mrs G A Rupert); T-Tony Millard; Current Rating: 112 J-Chad Schofield. Current Rating: 106

Nothingilikemore has certainly earned his field-best rating and Meteoric has been the rise of Singapore Sling, a Grade 2 if the Derby were contested at 1600 metres or nine furlongs, winner over 1600m in South Africa who has done little wrong this might be a fait accomplis. In order to smooth out issues at in four local appearances. Victorious in his first visit to Happy the gate that have caused him trouble in his two losses, he was Valley--never an easy task around the tight contours--he sat given a hit-out earlier this week and trialled very well on the perfect trips in the Classic Mile (2nd) and in the Classic Cup. dirt. But there is little margin for error and 2000m is a query. Should enjoy another soft trip and figures right there.

#3 PING HAI STAR (NZ) (PP #9) #4 EXULTANT (IRE) (PP #12) (Nom du Jeu {NZ}--Vicky {Aus}, (Teofilo {Ire}--Contrary {Ire}, by Encosta de Lago {Aus}) by Mark of Esteem {Ire}) (NZ$40,000 RNA Ylg >15 NZBSEL) O-Eddie Wong Ming Chak; B-Ballygallon O-Zeng Shengli; B-G B & Mrs L A Morton; Stud; T-Tony Cruz; J-Zac Purton. T-John Size; J-Ryan Moore. Current Rating: 102 Current Rating: 103

An argument can be made that this late bloomer is, pound-for- Formerly trained by Mick Halford as Irishcorrespondent and pound, possessed of the most raw talent of any of the Derby third to Churchill (Ire) in the G1 Irish 2000 Guineas, Exultant entrants. It is a worthwhile exercise to review his last three acquitted himself well in Class 1 in his first two local tries--no wins (all at 1400m), two of which were nothing short of small feat--ahead of his smart success in Class 2 in December. miraculous. However, he will have to be REALLY good to step He has run like a horse looking for 2000m and further in the up to the 2000m. But he just may be that kind. Classic Mile and Classic Cup and his time looks to be now.

#5 THE GOLDEN AGE (FR) (PP #11) #6 RUTHVEN (PP #8) (My Risk {Fr}--Sikkim {Fr}, by Linamix {Fr}) (c, Domesday {Aus}--Ruddigore {Aus}, O-Mr & Mrs Xiao Tan Ping; B-Bruno by Octagonal {NZ}) Plainfosse; T-Tony Cruz; J-Matt Chadwick. O-Albert Hung Chao Hong; B-P Roach (Vic); Current Rating: 100 T-John Moore; J-Damien Oliver. Current Rating: 97

A listed winner at two in France when raced as Kontrastat, The Trained by Ciaron Maher in Australia, Ruthven won the Golden Age has taken a bit of an unconventional route to the G1 Queensland Derby (2200m), an increasingly important Derby, having finished second to open company at handicap pointer used en route to Hong Kong Derby victory by Werther level in the G3 January Cup H. at Happy Valley in January. He in 2016. He finally earned his first local win last time with a bit was a pacesetting third in the Classic Cup, but unless he gets a of weight on his back, but he had to grind it out late. Looks very cheap time of it here up front, he seems a cut below. more of a staying type. #7 RIVET (IRE) (PP #6) #8 ROCKETEER (AUS) (PP #7) (c, Fastnet Rock {Aus}--Starship {Ire}, (Smart Missile {Aus}--Some Girls Do {NZ}, by {Ire}) by More Than Ready) O-Peter Law Kin Sang; B-Des Scott; (A$110,000 Wlg >14 MMNWNL; A$150,000 T-John Moore; J- Clipperton. Ylg >15 INGMEL); O-Kevin Hung Dingteng; Current Rating: 96 B-Rothwell Park (NSW); T-John Moore; J-Tommy Berry. Current Rating: 91

Trained to victory in the 2016 G1 Racing Post Trophy by Willie Winner of just two of his 20 career trips to the post, Rocketeer Haggas, Rivet was always a good bet to come to Hong Kong to was took a maiden and was Group 3 placed in Australia and is follow in the hoofprints of his year-older full-brother Booming just one from 12 under the care of this prolific Derby-winning Delight (Ire) (eighth in last year=s Derby). He has yet to break conditioner. He was a tough-trip second in C2 going this through, but has thrown out some small hints that he=s figuring distance last time, but was well behind Exultant in December it out. A sneaky place chance if at his very best. and looks overmatched.

#9 DOCTOR GEOFF (IRE) (PP #14) #10 RATTAN (NZ) (PP #4) (Fast Company {Ire}--More Respect {Ire}, (Savabeel {Aus}--Grand Princess {Aus}, by Spectrum {Ire}) (i17,500 Wlg >04 by Last Tycoon {Ire}) GOFNOV; i18,000 RNA Ylg >15 GOFSPT; (NZ$150,000 Ylg >15 NZBPRE) ,58,000 RNA 2yo >16 GOFAPR); O-Huang O-Wong Ting Bor; B-M H S & S H R Davison Kai Wen; B-DDE Syndicate; T-Tony Cruz; & Mrs M P Schick; T-Richard Gibson; J-Neil J-Brett Prebble. Current Rating: 88 Callan. Current Rating: 88

Doctor Geoff defied odds of 8-1 to win the Tetrarch S. for Won his first three starts of the season in Class 3 for Akeed trainer Ger Lyons and has run some sneaky good races in Hong Mofeed (GB) trainer Richard Gibson and ran with credit to be Kong. Carrying the Peniaphobia (Ire) silks, he was behind the second in a pair of subsequent tries in Class 2. He turned in a talented Pingwu Spark (NZ) (Mastercraftsman {Ire}) a couple mostly even effort and was in tight approaching the final 200m times and hit the line strongly to be a better-than-it looked before finishing eighth, beaten four. The trip could well suit sixth in the Classic Cup. Top-five chance despite a bad draw. him, but he=s likely to find a few of these too strong.

#11 LOCKHEED (GB) (PP #10) #12 SAVVY SIX (GER) (PP #2) (c, Exceed and Excel {Aus}--Clinical {GB}, (Pour Moi {Ire}--Rosenreihe {Ire}, by {GB}) by Catcher in the Rye {Ire}) (450,000gns Ylg >15 TATOCT; (i52,000 RNA Ylg >16 BBASEP) ,900,000 HRA >17 GOFLON) O-Julian Hui Chun Hang & Michele O-Henry Cheng Kar Shun; B-Cheveley Park Monique Reis; B-Gestut Wittkindshof; Stud Ltd; T-Danny Shum; J-Nash Rawiller. T-Tony Cruz; J-Alberto Sanna. Current Rating: 87 Current Rating: 86

Third to Churchill in the G1 National S. as a juvenile, Lockheed By the sire of last year=s G1 Investec Derby hero Wings of was runner-up in the G2 German 2000 Guineas, then fetched a Eagles (Fr), Savvy Six was third in last year=s G1 Deutsches giant sum at the Goffs London Sale a few weeks later. He has Derby for Peter Schiergen. The BBAG sales grad finished fifth to placed once from five local appearances, was well down the Ruthven last time, but this is a task too tall at this stage and it field in the Classic Mile and may be a pace factor at best. looks as if he might prefer a bit more ground.

#13 GOOD OMEN (GB) (PP #1) #14 PATRIOT HERO (IRE) (PP #5) (Holy Roman Emperor {Ire}--Magic Nymph (Pivotal {GB}-- Hero {Ire}, {Ire}, by Galileo {Ire}) by Daggers Drawn) (40,000gns RNA Ylg >15 TATOCT) O-Mr & Mrs Michael Cheng Win On & O-Guo Qin Jun; B-Hascombe and Valiant Janice Cheng Po Hei; B-Allevamento La Studs; T-Dennis Yip; J-Douglas Whyte. Nuova Sbarra; T-David Ferraris; J-Gerald Current Rating: 82 Mosse. Current Rating: 82

A five-time winner from 11 starts in lower grades while under Group 3-placed and fifth in the G2 Derby Italiano for trainer the care of David Simcock in England, Good Omen was a Endo Botti, Patriot Hero was having just his second Hong Kong decent third under 130 pounds at the top of Class 3 at Happy run when finishing 6 3/4 lengths adrift of Nothingilikemore in Valley in February and one spot ahead of Savvy Six last time. the Classic Mile. Third to Ruthven last time, he would do well Passing for now, maybe a horse for later. to finish midfield here. GROUP ENTRIES

Saturday, Rosehill, Australia, post time: 4:10 p.m. COOLMORE CLASSIC-G1, A$600,000 ($472,620/£338,604/€382,104) 3yo/up, 1500mT SC PP HORSE SIRE JOCKEY TRAINER WT 1 4 Dixie Blossoms (Aus) Street Sense Brown Quinton 127 2 7 Silent Sedition (Aus) War Chant Williams Noblet 127 3 14 Daysee Doom (Aus) Domesday (Aus) Adkins Quinton 125 4 9 Heavens Above (Aus) Street Cry (Ire) Angland Martin 124 5 10 Prompt Response (Aus) Beneteau (Aus) Shinn Waterhouse & Bott 124 6 17 Zanbagh (Aus) Bernardini Reith Thompson 123 7 3 Egg Tart (Aus) Sebring (Aus) McEvoy Waller 122 8 15 Alizee (Aus) Sepoy (Aus) Schofield Cummings 119 9 5 Aide Memoire (NZ) Remind Collett Lees 119 10 11 Danish Twist (Aus) Dane Shadow (Aus) Clark Lees 117 11 12 Eckstein (Aus) I Am Invincible (Aus) Avdulla Goldman 117 12 16 Flippant (Aus) Hinchinbrook (Aus) No rider Snowdens 117 13 1 Raiment (Aus) Street Cry (Ire) Walker Cummings 116 14 2 Francaletta (Aus) (Ire) Baster Baker/Forsman 114 15 8 Bring Me Roses (Aus) High Chaparral (Ire) Yendall McEvoy 112 16 19 Slightly Sweet (Aus) Charge Forward (Aus) Taylor Coyle 112 17 13 Just Dreaming (Aus) Snitzel (Aus) King Lees 112 18 6 Oregon’s Day (Aus) Domesday (Aus) Newitt Price 112 19 18 Shumookh (Aus) Dream Ahead SCR SCR SCR

Saturday, Trentham, New Zealand, post time: 4:58 p.m. AL BASTI EQUIWORLD DUBAI NEW ZEALAND OAKS-G1, NZ$400,000 ($293,080/£209,992/€236,892) 3yo, f, 2400mT SC PP HORSE SIRE JOCKEY TRAINER WT 1 11 Hasahalo (NZ) Savabeel (Aus) Spratt McKee 124 2 13 Savvy Coup (Aus) Savabeel (Aus) Johnson M & M Pitman 124 3 16 Contessa Vanessa (NZ) Bullbars (Aus) Parkes Team Rogerson 124 4 2 Belle du Nord (NZ) Reliable Man (GB) Colgan E & D Browne 124 5 1 Gold Spice (NZ) Rock ‘n’ Pop (Aus) Bayliss Richardson & Parker 124 6 5 Milseain (NZ) Tavistock (NZ) Waddell Baker & Forsman 124 7 14 Mark Two (NZ) Pins (Aus) Johnson Marsh 124 8 9 Marcellina (NZ) Savabeel (Aus) Cameron Baker & Forsman 124 9 17 Caricature (NZ) Power (GB) Innes Pike 124 10 4 Treasure (NZ) Mastercraftsman (Ire) McNab Pike 124 11 15 Blanco Belle (NZ) Cape Blanco (Ire) Collett Rainford 124 12 10 Swing Note (Aus) Encosta de Lago (Aus) Bosson Autridge & Richards 124 13 18 Cead Mile Failte (NZ) Tavistock (NZ) Myers Benner & Wynyard 124 14 6 Hot Fuss (NZ) Pins (Aus) Bradley K & P Hughes 124 15 8 Lincoln Melody (NZ) Savabeel (Aus) Du Plessis Latta 124 16 7 Terra Sancta (NZ) Pierro (Aus) Collett Pike 124 17 3 Le Sablier (NZ) Tavistock (NZ) Andrew Fursdon 124 18 12 Misstumut (NZ) Azamour (Ire) Hannam Ropiha 124 Saturday, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, post time: 5:30 p.m. (9:30 a.m. EDT/1:30 p.m. GMT) ABU DHABI CHAMPIONSHIP-G3, AED380,000 (£74,027/€83,485/US$103,472), NH 4yo/up & SH 3yo/up, 2200mT SC PP HORSE SIRE TRAINER JOCKEY WT 1 2 Basateen (Ire) Teofilo (Ire) Watson Crowley 126 2 4 Brass Ring (GB) Rail Link (GB) Mohammed Avranche 126 3 1 Carbon Dating (Ire) The Carbon Unit Seemar O’Shea 126 4 11 Earnshaw Medaglia d’Oro bin Ghadayer Ziani 126 5 6 Empoli (Ger) Halling Watson Dobbs 126 6 7 Jaaref (Ire) Sea the Stars (Ire) Al Rayhi O’Neill 126 7 9 Light the Lights (SAf) Western Winter de Kock de Vries 126 8 12 Proposed (GB) Invincible Spirit (Ire) Ramadhan Doyle 126 9 5 Sharpalo (Fr) Shamardal bin Harmash Bentley 126 10 13 Treasury Notes (Ire) Lope de Vega (Ire) bin Harmash Jara 126 11 14 Zamaam (GB) Muhatahir (GB) Charpy Fresu 126 12 10 Janszoon (GB) Dubawi (Ire) Al Rayhi Mullen 125 13 8 Jupiter Light (GB) Lonhro (Aus) bin Ghadayer Hitchcott 125 14 3 Syphax K Arch bin Ghadayer Cosgrave 125

Sunday, Sha Tin, Hong Kong, post time: 4:35 p.m (4:35 a.m. EDT/8:35 a.m. GMT/7:35 p.m AEST) BMW HONG KONG DERBY-LR, HK$18,000,000 (£1,645,569/€1,863,601/A$2,941,747/US$2,295,386), NH/SH4yo, 2000mT SC PP HORSE SIRE TRAINER JOCKEY WT 1 13 Nothingilikemore (Aus) Husson (Arg) Size Moreira 126 2 3 Singapore Sling (SAf) Philanthropist Millard Schofield 126 3 9 Ping Hai Star (NZ) Nom de Jeu (NZ) Size Moore 126 4 12 Exultant (Ire) Teofilo (Ire) A Cruz Purton 126 (ex Irishcorrespondent {Ire}) 5 11 The Golden Age (Fr) My Risk (Fr) A Cruz Chadwick 126 (ex Kontrastat {Fr}) 6 8 Ruthven (Aus) Domesday (Aus) Moore Oliver 126 7 6 Rivet (Ire) Fastnet Rock (Aus) Moore Clipperton 126 8 7 Rocketeer (Aus) Smart Missile (Aus) Moore Berry 126 9 14 Doctor Geoff (Ire) Fast Company (Ire) A Cruz Prebble 126 10 4 Rattan (NZ) Savabeel (Aus) Gibson Callan 126 11 10 Lockheed (GB) Exceed and Excel (Aus) Shum Rawiller 126 12 2 Savvy Six (Ger) Pour Moi (Ire) A Cruz Sanna 126 (ex Rosenpurpur {Ger}) 13 1 Good Omen (GB) Holy Roman Emperor (Ire) Yip Whyte 126 14 5 Patriot Hero (Ire) Pivotal (GB) Ferraris Mosse 126 Emergencies Cheerful Giggles (Aus) Rebel Raider (Aus) Freedman No Rider 126 (ex Rockstar Rebel {Aus}) Circuit Glory (NZ) Tavistock (NZ) Moore No Rider 126 (ex Tavidream {NZ})

Breeders: 1-S Smith (NSW); 2-Drakenstein Stud (Nom: Mrs G A Rupert); 3-G B & Mrs L A Morton; 4-Ballygallon Stud Limited; 5-Bruno Plainfosse; 6-P Roach (Vic); 7-Des Scott; 8-Rothwell Park (NSW); 9-DDE Syndicate; 10-M H S & S H R Davison & Mrs M P Schick; 11-Cheveley Park Stud Ltd; 12-Gestut Wittkindshof; 13-Hascombe and Valiant Studs; 14-Allevamento La Nuova Sbarra; E1-B R Broomhead (NSW); E2-R S Tomlinson

SATURDAY, MARCH 17, 2018

LET=S NOT LOSE THAT >ELUSIVE= VERSATILITY REBEL A >SOLO= ACT? by Chris McGrath In terms of his own output, the legacy of Elusive Quality (Gone West) is in pretty safe hands: most notably, those of Quality Road. The question is whether the rest of us can be trusted with it? For the loss of the Jonabell stallion, earlier this week, extinguishes one of few flickering flames that unite old school breeding with a spirit of adventure and experimentation. Elusive Quality was one of those stallions who dismantled the barriers erected by those who stick nervously to what they know. And in the end, if anything, his versatility probably held him back. I first came across him when a colt from his debut crop won a maiden at Lingfield in 2002 for my friend Gerard Butler, nowadays assistant to J.J. Pletcher in Ocala. Cont. p3

Solomini | Benoit IN TDN EUROPE TODAY by Joe Bianca When the racing world last saw Zayat Stables= Solomini RIVER FLOWS TO GOLD CUP GLORY Native River made all the running to take Friday’s G1 (Curlin), he was the subject of a good deal of controversy. Cheltenham Gold Cup for trainer Colin Tizzard and jockey Crossing the wire first in the GI Los Alamitos Futurity Dec. 9, the Richard Johnson. $270,000 Keeneland September graduate was disqualified to Click or tap here to go straight to TDN Europe. third after a lengthy inquiry, prompting backlash led by the colt=s owners themselves. One week after his stablemate and the chief beneficiary of his Los Al demotion, McKinzie (Street Sense), was taken down in the GII San Felipe S., Solomini will look to avenge that disqualification in the GII Rebel S. Saturday at Oaklawn. A debut winner Sept. 2 at Del Mar, the chestnut was a well-beaten second to San Felipe winner Bolt d=Oro (Medaglia d=Oro) in the GI FrontRunner S. Sept. 30 before filling the same slot in the GI Sentient Jet Breeders= Cup Juvenile. He returns off a four-plus month break with several bullet workouts for Bob Baffert, capping off preparations with a five-furlong move in :59 flat (1/61) Mar. 10 at Santa Anita. Solomini would represent a remarkable seventh Rebel win in nine years for Baffert should he prevail. Robert Baker and William Mack=s >TDN Rising Star= Sporting Chance (Tiznow) will look to build off of an encouraging sophomore debut in the GIII Southwest S. here Feb. 19. Chasing a fast pace over a sloppy racetrack, the $575,000 KEESEP buy was steadied in the stretch and held on for third in his first start since capturing the GI Hopeful S. Sept. 4 at Saratoga. Cont. p3 PRESIDENT & CO-PUBLISHER Barry Weisbord @barryweisbord [email protected]

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Todd Pletcher made the rare interruption to Baffert=s Rebel dominance last March when he took the trophy with two-for-two >Rising Star= Malagacy (Shackleford). He will attempt to replicate that feat Saturday with Robert and Lawana Low=s two-for-two >Rising Star= Magnum Moon (Malibu Moon). Picked up for $380,000 at KEESEP, the bay earned a 95 Beyer for his debut win Jan. 13 at Gulfstream and easily annexed a two-turn allowance Feb. 15 at Tampa. Breeze Easy and John C. Oxley=s Curlin=s Honor (Curlin) will try to stay undefeated in his stakes debut. Bought for a sale-topping $1.5 million at last year=s Fasig-Tipton Midlantic May sale, the chestnut owns two neck victories from his two starts, scoring last out Feb. 25 in the Fair Grounds slop despite a difficult trip.

Let's Not Lose That >Elusive' Versatility Cont. From p1

Elusive Quality | Darley

Elusive City went on to win the G2 Richmond S. at Goodwood and the G1 Prix Morny in Deauville, before finishing third to Oasis Dream in the G1 Middle Park S. Up and running with a precocious turf sprinter, from his next crop Smarty Jones emerged out of Pennsylvania to win the GI Kentucky Derby and then, by 11 1/2 lengths, the GI Preakness, before being reeled in late in the GI Belmont. Then came Raven's Pass, a top-class miler in Europe who exploited a synthetics window to win the GI Breeders' Cup Classic in 2008. That, of course, proved something of a crossroads for the sport. At the time, we Europeans condescended to congratulate the Americans for their enlightened self-sacrifice. In the years since, some of us have repented of our own insularity: $3,924,648 First Crop 2YOs at OBS March $525,000

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Inquiries to Grant Williamson or Rebecca Grabert By Unbridled’s Song out of Broodmare of the Year Take Charge Lady 859.873.7053 / www.threechimneys.com @ three_chimneys TDN HEADLINE NEWS • PAGE 4 OF 12 • THETDN.COM SATURDAY • MARCH 17, 2018 recognising not only that dirt racing has too precious a heritage Because it's the stuff in the foreground, paradoxically, that is to be renounced on such contentious grounds, but also that the most out of focus. Even full siblings can be wildly divided by Americans have shown far more enterprise in the meantime. genetic variation. When a pedigree is held together by one For while they have found due reward, at Royal Ascot, hardly Classic seam after another, however, it barely matters which any European horses (with a few honourable exceptions, chiefly become unstitched. from ) have since risked dirt at the Breeders' Cup. To that extent, Elusive Quality proved to have been well With this retrenchment, Elusive Quality was left to extend his named. adaptability to Australia where his stars included Sepoy (Aus). On the one hand, true, the quality was there for all to see: his On dirt, meanwhile, Quality Road emerged as a speed-carrying genes were hallmarked top to bottom with sires of the old monster, winning the GI Donn H. by 13 lengthsCbeating the school. Just as a snapshot, those duplicated across his fourth track record he had himself set in the GI Florida DerbyCbefore and fifth generations are Nasrullah, three times; and Native adding the GI Met Mile and the Dancer and Princequillo, twice. GI Woodward. Oh yes, and the latter makes So Elusive Quality showed that SomethingroyalCone of the transcending the environmental all-time distaff influencesCa divisions of the international shared cornerstone between sport was perfectly within the Elusive Quality's sire and dam: compass of certain sires, if only her son Secretariat is damsire of horsemen had the wit to try. Not Gone West; her grandson Sir all sires, clearly. As it is, however, Ivor, damsire of Touch Of people continue to hide behind Greatness (Hero's Honor). perceived but largely untested On the other hand, who can incompatibilities; and Elusive say what elusive distillation of Quality rather came to be viewed all these copper-bottomed as neither fish nor fowl. influences promoted Elusive Yet how valuable are the other QualityCauthor of precisely two bridge-builders? The likes of Grade III wins, both on turf as a Medaglia d'Oro (El Prado {Ire}), 5-year-oldCfrom a $10,000 Elusive Quality | Darley or War Front (Danzig), or Scat start-up to a sire of authentic Daddy (Johannesburg)? And why, if their blood is so precious, do global reach? so many breeders persist in believing that turf is turf, dirt is dirt, One way or another, anyhow, Native Dancer can be found and never the twain shall meet? holding up both sides of Elusive Quality's pedigree: his grandson Time after time, after all, the breed has been invigorated by Mr Prospector as sire of Gone West, and his daughter Natalma transatlantic cross-pollination. It famously took a Kentucky in producing , whose son Hero's Honor sired Derby winner in Northern Dancer, for instance, to stoke up a Touch Of Greatness. stagnant European gene pool; but he in turn had benefited from The latter united two clans so saturated in Grade 1 E.P. Taylor's transfusions from Classic bloodlines in Europe. performersCsignificantly, on both dirt and turfCthat you can Straight after Raven's Pass had won the Classic, Elusive Quality found himself shuttling to Brazil. Unsurprisingly, he proved a big success there. But by the time he was retired last year, his Kentucky feeCraised to $100,000 after his flying startChad dwindled to $30,000. His last three books comprised 66, 55 and 32 mares; nor were his yearlings treated like collector's items last fall, mustering a median of just $25,000. Breeding, of course, is full of enigma and variation. Many people scoff at the infinitesimal genetic strands surviving from prized names lurking deeper down a horse's family tree. Nonetheless some of us find a comfort in a mesh of undiluted class of the kind that underpinned Elusive Quality. TDN HEADLINE NEWS • PAGE 5 OF 12 • THETDN.COM SATURDAY • MARCH 17, 2018 perfectly understand the ambition in her naming, albeit she was Frankel, Sea The Stars and Tamayuz. Yes, that Raven's PassCthe ultimately unraced. Her grand-dam, from the Frizette family, one who has taken six fee cuts in a row. No wonder quality is so was a Broodmare of the Year; and so was the dam of Hero's elusive, when we don't seem to know where to seek it. Honor, in turn tracing to La Troienne. All told, then, Elusive Quality brought together a ton of class on both surfaces. Even so, for some people, it all simply boiled down to Gone WestCperceived, while contrasting branches A >UNIQUE= OPPORTUNITY IN SANTA were evolving through the likes of Fappiano and Smart Strike, as a conduit of pure Mr Prospector speed. That's all very well when MARGARITA you consider a son like Speightstown, but Gone West was also sire of turf champions Zafonic, Da Hoss andCover a country estate of lawnCJohar. Elusive Quality, as a runner, certainly bore the speed brand. The King's Bishop was only a Grade II when Honour And Glory (Relaunch) clawed him back at the wire, but he was still raw and a horse called Distorted Humor (Forty Niner) was back in third. (No wonder the race got an upgrade soon after.) At four, Elusive Quality broke the seven-furlong track record at Gulfstream on his reappearance, but he tended to fold when unable to dominate and ultimately it was the switch of surface, the next season, that provided a platform for his marquee achievement: a world record for a mile on turf of 1.31.63. Though a strapping individual himself, Elusive Quality didn't always throw lookers at stud. And as a sire of sires he doubtless Mopotism | Benoit lost appeal as Smarty Jones collapsed from $100,000 rookie to $7,500. Elusive City quickly became a Classic sire himself, by Joe Bianca however, and now Quality RoadCa more elegant model than his The Santa Anita racing office was likely anticipating a short fatherCis unmistakably breaking into the elite. field, maybe five or six horses, for Saturday=s GI Santa Margarita First to draw attention to Quality Road, of course, was a Royal S. No one could have been to run against champion and Ascot and Breeders' Cup winner on turf in Hootenanny. He was >TDN Rising Star= Unique Bella (Tapit) fresh off of easily the out of a mare by Hennessy, the sire of a crossover champion in fastest race of her career thus far. But when the she came down JohannesburgChimself responsible for a transatlantic with a cough last week, her connections decided not to chance phenomenon in Scat Daddy. Give Quality Road a Deputy anything and to instead point for the GI Apple Blossom H. Apr. Minister mare, on the other hand, and he'll get you Abel 13. Left in her wake is a competitive field of 10 fillies and mares, Tasman. all of whom will be trying to take advantage of the division We have seen how Elusive Quality's ancestry mixes flavors; leader=s absence and earn their first Grade I triumph in the and likewise his own contribution to the breed. But so many nine-furlong test. modern horsemen share a chronic failure of imagination; or at Owning much more top-level experience than her foes, the least a failure of nerve. Everyone deplores commercial myopias slight morning-line favorite is Mopotism (Uncle Mo). The bay so long as they don't have to put their money on the line. At filly was third, beaten only 2 1/2 lengths by Unique Bella in the market, however, they prove incorrigible. GI La Brea S. here Dec. 26 and broke through with her first But if people won't risk mixing dirt and turf lines, they'll end up graded score in the GII La Canada S. Jan. 13 before finding the painting themselves into a corner. Will even the mighty Galileo, Don Alberto gray too tough in the GII Santa Maria S. Feb. 10. who has only translated their sire's influence on turf, ever match Fault (Blame), a former $50,000 claim, will try dirt for the first the reachCin terms of geography and racing disciplineCof El time in a dozen starts while coming off of a career high on the Prado? grass. Bought into by Little Red Feather Racing after running Speaking of Galileo, do remember that among European sires fourth in the Pago Hop S. Dec. 30 at Fair Grounds, the $120,000 in 2017 the only other sires to exceed the black type Keeneland September grad was transferred from Michelle Lovell winners-to-starters ratio of Raven's Pass in 2017 were Dubawi, to the Phil D= barn and responded with a 12-1 upset of the GII Buena Vista S. on the local lawn Feb. 17. TDN HEADLINE NEWS • PAGE 6 OF 12 • THETDN.COM SATURDAY • MARCH 17, 2018

Mended (Broken Vow), who reeled off 10 straight victories runner quoted at 5-1. He broke through fourth out in a sloppy, after being claimed for $12,500 last January, had her win streak rained-off route at Fair Grounds Dec. 17, and was a convincing snapped in heartbreaking fashion when just getting nipped a optional claiming winner on the grass there Jan. 6. The Mark head by Mopotism in the La Canada. The 5-year-old, usually a Casse trainee is another who has a right to take to Polytrack. slow worker in the morning, tuned up for this with a bullet five Many of his sire=s progeny have done well over synthetic furlongs in 1:00 flat (1/44) at her Golden Gate Fields base Mar. surfaces, and he brought $375,000 at OBS April after an 11. unblinkered move in :10 flat. Archaggelos (Temple City), a half-brother to dual classic winner Big Brown (Boundary), annexed Woodbine=s GIII Grey S. on the Tapeta in October but hasn=t been seen since finishing WIDE-OPEN RACE IN JEFF RUBY STEAKS fifth in that venue=s Display S. Dec. 2. Lightly raced Magicalmeister (Bodemeister) upset the local John Battaglia Memorial S. Feb. 23 at 39-1, and the second and third-place finishers from that same heat also return here.

CONSOLIDA SEEKS FIRST GRADED SCORE IN BOURBONETTE Consolida (GB) ( {GB}) is already a perfect two-for- two on synthetic and looks to add to her resume in Saturday=s GIII Bourbonette Oaks. Off the board when unveiled on the Newmarket turf in September, the dark bay earned her diploma when switched to the synthetic at Newcastle Oct. 10, after which she was privately purchased by Eclipse Hazit | Sarah K Andrew Partners and Green Lantern Stables and transferred to Paddy Gallagher. She came flying late to win her American debut in the It has gone by a number of names over the years, but California Oaks over the Golden Gate synthetic last time Feb. 10. Turfway=s GI Kentucky Derby prep, now called the GIII Jeff Ruby Trainer Mike Maker has three chances to win this test, Steaks S., drew a well-matched bunch for its 2018 renewal including morning-line favorite Go Noni Go (Get Stormy). After Saturday. >TDN Rising Star= Hazit (War Front), co-favored at 5-1 two failed starts on dirt, the $100,000 FTKHRA buy was switched on the morning line, is one of two chances for Todd Pletcher to to turf last summer and tries synthetic for the first time here. take his fourth running of this event. A gate-to-wire debut winner at Saratoga in August over eventual champion Good Magic (Curlin), the $430,000 OBSMAR grad was fifth in the GI Champagne S. and a distant eighth in the GI Breeders= Cup Juvenile. He returned at Tampa Feb. 18 to be second going seven panels on the dirt, but will now get back on synthetic for the first time since breezing in a steady :10 1/5 for the sale in Ocala. Pletcher also saddles Pony Up (Aikenite), who just missed by a neck in the grassy Kitten=s Joy S. behind subsequent GIII Sam F. Davis S. winner and GII Tampa Bay Derby runner-up Flameaway (Scat Daddy) two back at Gulfstream Jan. 6. He was a far-back fifth behind stablemate Audible (Into Mischief) in the GII Holy Bull S. Feb. 3. Pony Up=s sire did some of his best work on the old Poly at Keeneland. Mark Casse trainee Ride a Comet (Candy Ride {Arg}), a half- Consolida | Vassar Photography brother to GI Belmont S. winner Tapwrit (Tapit), is the other NEW YORK RACING ASSOCIATION 2018-19 STARTER LOYALTY PROGRAM

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2018-19 Loyalty Program will start Monday, April 2, 2018 and run through Monday, April 1, 2019

NYRA Silver - Starts 5 & 6 (at NYRA Tracks) NYRA Gold – Starts 7, 8 & 9 (at NYRA Tracks) NYRA Platinum – Starts 10 &11 (at NYRA Tracks) NYRA Diamond – Starts 12 and higher (at NYRA Tracks)

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• Starts transfer with horses that are claimed or have a change of ownership.

•Award money will not be paid on breeders’ purse supplements, etc.

FOR MORE INFORMATION PLEASE CONTACT: Andrew M Byrnes NYRA, Stakes Coordinator | [email protected] | (718) 659-4217 The New York Racing Association, Inc. Aqueduct - South Ozone Park, NY • Belmont Park - Elmont, NY • Saratoga Race Course - Saratoga Springs, NY Christopher Kay, CEO and President - Martin Panza, SVP of Racing Operations TDN HEADLINE NEWS • PAGE 7 OF 12 • THETDN.COM SATURDAY • MARCH 17, 2018

Romping by six lengths in a turf sprint at Gulfstream Dec. 24, she GIII Jeff Ruby S. - I really like Hazit=s tactical speed, and think it was last seen finishing fifth in the GIII Sweetest Chant S. Feb. 3. will play even better going 1 1/8 miles on synthetic with Stablemate Queen=s Fate (Artie Schiller) finished ninth last time Drayden Van Dyke in for the mount. Selection: #7 Hazit (5-1). in the Sweetest Chant, but missed by just a nose when second in the Ontario Lassie S. over the Woodbine synthetic Dec. 3. SHERACK: Last Week - Both Vino Rosso and Free Drop Billy Rounding out the Maker trio is FL-bred Juvenile Fillies Turf S. were huge disappointments, then the stewards landed the final winner Homemade Salsa (Two Step Salsa), who checked in third blow of the day, taking down McKinzie in one of the worst calls behind the reopposing In the Mood (Eskendereya) in the I've seen in quite some time. Thankfully, it didn=t cost me much. Cincinnati Trophy S. going 6 1/2 furlongs over this course Feb. 9. Time to make my move now. SHERACK BANKROLL: $1170.

GII Rebel S. - Solomini and the unbeaten Magnum Moon both look like very serious players and deserve to vie for favoritism. That being said, I=m going to take a swing on Title Ready, who looked like a different horse in his sophomore debut last month while trying two turns for the first time versus allowance company at Oaklawn for the loaded Asmussen barn. He has speed and the rail, and also picks up Jose Ortiz. Son of More Than Ready is live at a price. Selection: #1 Title Ready (8-1).

GIII Jeff Ruby S. - I always prefer horses with nice grass form in these >synthetic= Triple Crown preps. Pony Up certainly fits that criteria with a huge, come-from-behind second-place finish behind subsequent GIII Sam F. Davis upsetter and GII Tampa Bay Ed DeRosa of TwinSpires.com takes on TDN's Steve Sherack and Derby runner-up Flameaway in the Kitten=s Joy S. at Gulfstream Brian DiDonato as they handicap each prep race leading up to in early January. Speed Franco also exited that race to win and the GI Kentucky Derby. The three will make $100 Win/Place bets finish a close second in a pair of Grade III attempts since. Ignore --highest bankroll after the Lexington S. wins. Pony Up=s well-beaten fifth in Audible=s breakthrough GII Holy Bull--this switch to the all-weather and stretch out in distance to DEROSA: Last Week - We picked up $1,410 last week thanks to 1 1/8 miles (he=s out of an A.P. Indy mare) is going to suit him Old Time Revival=s breakthrough effort in the Gotham. For a very well. Selection: #4 Pony Up (6-1). moment turning for home I thought I was going to clinch this bad boy, but Enticed was clearly best. I don=t want anyone else DIDONATO: Last Week - Two of my plays did nothing, but I out of that race going forward. A smaller pittance came from guess I got lucky to have Bolt d=Oro put up. That was a tough call McKinzie=s Asecond-place@ finish. The DQ talk has been beat to either way. Ed=s cutting this thing close all of a sudden so I death, so I=ll just be thankful for the $120 to add to my Ascore.@ better come up with something good this week. The Tampa horses continued to underwhelm me on the trail. DIDONATO BANKROLL: $2590. DEROSA BANKROLL: $2180. GII Rebel S. - This might be a start or two too soon for him, but GII Rebel S. - The Rebel is far more likely to be applicable to the I=m pretty interested in Higher Power going forward. He=s a big, Triple Crown, but the now-called Jeff Ruby Steaks has a full field powerful horse who did well to overcome some early trouble and has provided big payouts the past two years. All that said, and blow by highly regarded >TDN Rising Star= and next-out I=m going with chalk in both. I think Solomini solidifies the winner New York Central going a flat mile last time. The more conventional wisdom that West is best currently. He=s posted a real estate the better for this well-bred half-brother to another couple triple-digit Brisnet Speed Ratings as a 2-year-old, which >Rising Star= in Alternation. He needs to get faster, but he has easily puts him on top of this group. every right to. Selection: #5 Higher Power (20-1). Selection: #3 Solomini (3-2). Cont. p8 TDN HEADLINE NEWS • PAGE 8 OF 12 • THETDN.COM SATURDAY • MARCH 17, 2018

TDN Q&A WITH MARTIN PANZA by Bill Finley

GIII Jeff Ruby S. - Archaggelos hasn=t been seen since finishing a disappointing fourth (he was already empty when he checked) in the Display S. up at Woodbine in December, but if anyone=s going to have him ready to go for this it=s Michael Dickinson. His GIII Grey S. win was very convincing, and he really doesn=t have to get much faster, but he should given expected progression. Selection: #3 Archaggelos (6-1). Martin Panza | Horsephotos Friday, NYRA announced a starter loyalty program which will pay bonus money to horses that have made at least five starts during the year at a NYRA track. Under the new program, horses BAFFERT MAKES PLANS FOR STAR can earn Silver- through Diamond-level purse bonuses between SOPHOMORES 5% and 15% on money earned in a qualifying race, based on Hall of Fame trainer Bob Baffert has announced where his pair their number of starts at NYRA tracks through Apr. 1, 2019. of >TDN Rising Star= 3-year-olds McKinzie (Street Sense) and NYRA also announced an "Under 20s Claiming Challenge" for Justify (Scat Daddy) will make their next starts. GISW McKinzie, modest-sized stables to compete for cash prizes during the disqualified from first and placed second in a controversial upcoming 2018 Belmont spring/summer meet. The Under 20s renewal of the GII San Felipe S. last weekend, will stay in Arcadia Claiming Challenge is open to all trainers stabled at NYRA for the GI Santa Anita Derby Apr. 7. Justify, unbeaten in a pair of facilities with 20 or fewer horses in their care nationwide at the attempts, will head to Oaklawn for the following weekend=s GI start of the contest on opening day, Friday, Apr. 27. Contestants Arkansas Derby. "It could change, but that's the plan right now," will earn points based on their horses' performances in all Baffert told the LA Times. winners' claiming races at Belmont through the close of the spring/summer meet Sunday, July 15. The TDN reached out to NYRA Senior Vice President of Racing Operations Martin Panza to find out more about the bonus STRIKE POWER WORKS FOR FLORIDA DERBY program and the problems facing racing at all racetracks in their Courtlandt Farms= >TDN Rising Star= Strike Power attempts to increase field size. (Speightstown), runner-up in the GII Xpressbet Fountain of Youth S. Mar. 3, breezed an easy half-mile in :49.21 seconds TDN: Is this program designed to get horses to run more often, Friday morning at Gulfstream Park while tuning up for the $1- period, to get them to race more often at NYRA tracks, or a million GI Xpressbet.com Florida Derby. Strike Power won his little of both? first two starts sprinting, including the GIII Swale S. Feb. 3. AHe finished up really nice,@ trainer Mark Hennig said. AHe galloped MP: It's a little bit of both, but mainly driven by the idea of being out really nice also. He=s really sharp. One thing about him is loyal to people who are running in New York. We could have that he hasn=t backed out of the feed tub at all after that tough raised purses by, say $1,000 a race. This is little bit more specific race. He ate every oat that night [after the Fountain of Youth] in that it rewards people who are running their horses in New and was ready to go right back at it when he went back to the York. We know that 20% of the trainers are wining 85% of the track. We=re optimistic that he=ll move forward from the race.@ purse money. This allows any New York trainer or any owner to get a purse increase, and the way they do that is by running TDN HEADLINE NEWS • PAGE 9 OF 12 • THETDN.COM SATURDAY • MARCH 17, 2018 their horses multiple times at NYRA racetracks. It doesn't matter races. How do you go about changing that mindset? if you are Chad Brown or Todd Pletcher or Eddie Barker or Joe Parker. You've all got an equal opportunity here and you control MP: That's the $1-million question. Horses can run more often. your own fate. If the horse runs multiple times during the year Linda Rice ran Voodoo Song (English Channel) (Click here for at NYRA tracks, you are eligible for purses increases. I've got to TDN feature on Voodoo Song following his third Saratoga win) give credit to Steven Duncker. He is on our board and he four times at Saratoga and won some significant races, including brought this up in one of our racing committee meetings. We the GIII Saranac S. They can run more often. In the old days went back and ran some numbers and it made sense that we try horses ran and they didn't work. Now everyone needs three or this program and see if it drives business more than, again, by four works in between races and everyone worries about the raising every purse by $1,000. sheets and if their horse might bounce. When I was working at Hollywood Park, some guys worked their horses so fast that TDN: One way to reduce field size is by racing less often. Why they were bouncing in their works. They might be running nines don't tracks cut their racing dates? Besides reducing the on the sheets, but they're working elevens. It made no sense. amount of races, what else can be done to raise field size? At the same time you have to leave it up to the trainer to know their horse, which ones can get away with it and which MP: Running less often probably would help. Obviously, there ones can't. We certainly don't want horse running that has have already been a lot of racing dates cut, that is when you physical problems and might break down in the race. But, at the compare what we run now versus what we used to run. The foal same time do they need five works in between races, when they crop has dropped below 20,000, which is very concerning. We could run every three weeks instead of every six weeks instead? need to work as an industry. We've gotten some tax laws passed Right now, horses are averaging 6.2 starts per year. If we can and there are some really positive reasons from a tax standpoint work as industry to get to that number up to 6.6 or 6.7 you for people to own horses. We need to get that message out would see drastic changes so far as business improving at all there. We need to get it out there not only to our existing racetracks. audience, but to potential people who are thinking about getting The loyalty program is one way to do that. It's an incentive for into the business. If you can buy horses at 60 cents on the dollar people to maybe make that one extra start and at the same time and participate in the game at 60 cents on the dollar, we need to reward people to run in New York. If a trainer is thinking of to let people know they can do that. Why give the money to the shipping to Delaware or Parx or Laurel to make a start they can federal government when you can participate in this game at a still do that, but they will have lost a start in New York. If they discounted rate? That said, we also need to have some meetings had made that start instead in New York it would have gotten among horsemen. I don't think any trainer is not running a horse them to the next level in our bonus program and would increase that is ready to run, and there are times when we can't get a their earnings capabilities because they were loyal to New York. race to go. But if horses, on average, just made one more start during the year, this industry would be significantly healthier TDN: The magic bullet, so to speak, for many tracks, has been than what it is today. If you are an owner looking to get into the an increase in turf racing, which generally yields bigger fields. game and your horse only runs six times a year, it's pretty hard Is that a theory that NYRA also believes in? for that owner to even come close to breaking even. We need to get back to the old days when horses made significantly more MP: We have two turf courses at all three of our tracks, so we starts during the year. We need to work with the horsemen and probably run more turf racing than anyone else during our turf the owners and try to get them to understand, you're not going season. It's not that we want to do that, it's that we struggle to to win every time you run but you can pick up checks and earn fill dirt races. I think turf racing is probably kinder to the horses money and pay bills. When you do that it helps the tracks and I have read articles where trainers like Graham Motion and generate more handle, which, in turn, increases purses in the Wesley Ward have been quoted saying that. We handle more . We have to get that cycle turned in a different money on the turf races and we have larger field sizes. direction. It's not that we're trying to kill dirt racing or don't want dirt racing. We certainly do and it's a major part of our racing TDN: Much of this is about mindset. There was one mindset in program. But you go for races that will fill and go for field size the fifties, where a trainer had no problem running a horse and turf races are what trainers are entering in. If we wrote a once a week. There's a new mindset now where most trainers New York-bred $40,000 maiden claimer at one mile on the dirt believe it's best to give a horse six or seven weeks off between we'd probably get two entries. If you put the same race on the Share this job

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Contact the TDN Ad Staff: [email protected] for details or to post a job TDN HEADLINE NEWS • PAGE 10 OF 12 • THETDN.COM SATURDAY • MARCH 17, 2018 turf there would be 18 entered. ENVIRONMENTAL CONTAMINATION, More turf racing is the trend, whether that's a good thing or not. A lot of our classic races are still on the dirt and we want to TRANSFER HEADLINES NHBPA PANEL make sure dirt races go as well. Racing offices are at the mercy By Jennie Rees of where horsemen enter. We can offer races, but if they don't go, they don't go. It's pretty hard to twist arms, especially these days with the limited amount of horses available on your backstretch. They're going to run wherever they think they have the best chance of winning.

TDN: There was a time when even the biggest trainers in the business had one barn at one racetrack and a max of 30 horses or so. Now, we have the super trainers with 200 horses. Has this trend contributed to the problems we have been discussing?

MP: Certainly the super trainer situation has not been a positive for racing. It's become more prevalent and more of a problem as the foal crop has dropped. I started in the late eighties out in New York Racing Association safety steward Hugh Gallagher, talking California when the foal crop was 46,000, 48,000. Trainers were with Washington HBPA executive director MaryAnn O'Connell healthy. The middle trainers had a lot of horses because there after the panel | Jennie Rees photo were just a lot of horses around. The foal crop now is around 19,000-20,000 horses, so there aren't a lot of horses to go NEW ORLEANS C Ted Shults, a nationally recognized expert in around. With these bigger trainers having 100-200 horses, it forensic toxicology and law, says racing chemists and regulators doesn't leave a lot of horses for the rest of the group. face Aself-inflicted injury@ if their testing policies fail to recognize It's like when you have that gorgeous boat that you water ski the existence of environmental contamination and inadvertent with out on the lake and the lake is full of water. Everything is transfer of recreational and prescription medications to horses. fine. But when the lake is only half full and there are rocks all AWe would never do this on the human side,@ said Shults, who over the place you better be careful where you are going. Right works in both the equine and human testing worlds. now, we're at that half-full point and that's exposing a lot of Such environmental transfer to horses was the topic of the dangers. Kent Stirling Memorial Scientific Panel at the National The super trainer situation: with so many horses in the hands Horsemen=s Benevolent and Protective Association Convention of so few people, becomes a bigger problem as the foal crop that concluded Friday at the Astor Crowne Plaza. The audience continues to drop. You have to question what owners are heard how increasingly sensitive testing has led to horses testing thinking when they automatically go to these trainers. When positive for drugs or therapeutic medications that were not you're the tenth >one other than' in that barn you're not running administered to them by their trainer or veterinarian. Among more than three or four times a year. You look at the larger them: cocaine, morphine, methamphetamine, trainers and that's the case with most of those horses. That's dextromethorphan and the non-steroidal anti-inflammatory stupidity on the part of an owner. There are plenty of guys that Naproxen. can train and you can pick a smaller trainer, and when I say The Horsemen=s Benevolent and Protective Association has smaller that doesn't mean he can't train. It means he doesn't lobbied hard for screening and threshold levels that would not have the same numbers. You give that horse to him and that call a positive finding for such substances when detected at horse might run eight or nine times a year instead of four. And trace levels that have no impact on horses= performance. that's proper management of your asset. A lot of it is self- Shults said he worked for one of the first certified labs that did inflicted wounds. There are plenty of good horsemen out there. testing for the U.S. military. AOne of the first things I learned was, >Look, we have a choice here: Do we want a litigation program? Or do we want a testing program?=@ he said. AMy view has always been, >Get the litigatable issues out of here. Figure " " " out a way of fixing them. Don=t make believe they don=t exist. Don=t try to cover them up.= Because the word will get out, and TDN HEADLINE NEWS • PAGE 11 OF 12 • THETDN.COM SATURDAY • MARCH 17, 2018 next thing you know we=re up to our elbows in cases.@ so we can separate contaminants from real attempts to cheat.@ Dr. Thomas Tobin, the veterinarian and pharmacologist at the Hugh Gallagher, the New York Racing Association=s safety University of Kentucky who is a longtime consultant to the steward, offered the perspective of racing officials. National HBPA on medication and drug testing, showed findings He said mitigating factors must be considered in such cases. from a 2016 study where swabs of the walls in 18 ship-in stalls But he also said that trainers must do more to keep their barn at Hollywood Casino at Charles Town Races detected 30 environmentally contaminant-free, including stressing to different medications and drugs on the walls. The 50 total employees that Astalls are not bathrooms.@ He also cautioned instances of contamination broke down to 20 findings of equine about keeping coffee, tea, energy drinks and chocolate away medications, 16 of recreational drugs and 14 of human from horses. Likewise, regulators must do a better job sanitizing prescription medications, he said. those areas where horses have blood and urine samples taken, Shults said that with today=s testing technology Athe race for he said, also advocating drug testing employees who handle sensitivity is overY. We=re on the verge of going toward horses at some stage of a race. (detection levels) of parts per trillion. Dr. Scott Stanley, who heads California=s testing lab, said labs AMy concern is now--and what we recognize on the human and commissions must be open to doing detective work to side--OK, we=re down in the picogram level, but what are we ferret out what might cause a positive finding, not just assuming measuring? What are we looking at?@ said Shults, who began his the trainer is to blame. He agreed more can be done to reduce toxicology training under Tobin. AY Now we=re dealing with the transfer of substances to horses. One suggestion: having environmental contamination, and it=s not just on the surface. horse identifiers and the starting-gate crew wear latex gloves, We have it in the air. People smoke marijuana, they smoke and more pre-employment drug screening be implemented. crack, methamphetamine. And then we have water, and we MaryAnn O=Connell, executive director of the Washington have food. HBPA, said some officials view contamination Aas the new AY I first heard about this maybe 15 years ago when people loophole for trainers@ and are unwilling to consider the science. were finding benzoylecgonine (a metabolite of cocaine) in the AIt should not be taken as a loophole,@ Gallagher said, saying Po River that runs through Rome. I said, >You=ve got to be he would refer the matter for Racing Officials Accreditation kidding me.= Well they found it on the West Coast in the Snake Program=s stewards advisory committee. AY We have to work River...I think there=s a growing awareness of environmental together and find solutions together. Racing regulators and contamination out there, because it=s well established that most horsemen have to work for a common goal. And it has to be of the paper (currency) in circulation has benzoylecgonine. But done the right way and done fairly and justly.@ there=s more and more paper that has--guess what?-- methamphetamine. Now I don=t think the horses are eating the dollar bills out of the grooms= pocket. But it=s become part of the environment, of the universe we live in. You have a drug user, maybe it=s a legal drug, maybe illegal. If they=re going to take UPCOMING MAJOR whiz in the stall on the hay, guess who is going to eat the hay?Y NORTH AMERICAN STAKES One of my favorite little ones, esoteric kind of thing, this is a guy that=s got a (positive) test for minoxidil--Rogaine. It was the Date Race Track guy=s hair spray.@ 3/17 GI Santa Margarita S. SA Dr. Levent Dirikolu, who oversees Louisiana horse racing's GII Inside Information S. GP testing at the LSU lab, said a cocaine positive should not be GII Azeri S. OP GII Rebel S. OP called if only the metabolite benzoylecgonine is detected. That is GIII Bourbonette Oaks TP a clear sign of environmental contamination that doesn't impact GIII Jeff Ruby Steaks S. TP the horse, he said. 3/18 GII Santa Ana S. SA Dr. Clara Fenger, a Kentucky veterinarian and researcher, 3/24 GII Louisiana Derby FG brought up Illinois harness racing cases where horses were GII Fair Grounds Oaks FG GII New Orleans H. FG testing positive for the pain medication Tramadol--all having GII Muniz Memorial H. FG raced out of the same paddock stall. GII San Luis Rey S. SA AThe paddock judge was urinating in the stall, and the paddock GII Santa Monica S. SA judge was on Tramadol,@ she said. AY. We need to start GIII Hutcheson S. GP considering an environmental contamination violation category, 3/25 GIII Sunland Derby SUN TDN HEADLINE NEWS • PAGE 12 OF 12 • THETDN.COM SATURDAY • MARCH 17, 2018

GRAYSON-JOCKEY CLUB APPROVES MORE THAN $1 MILLION FOR EQUINE RESEARCH The board of directors of Grayson-Jockey Club Research Foundation has expenditure of more than $1 million to fund veterinary research to benefit all horses for the fourth consecutive year. The 2018 allotment of $1,239,083 will fund 11 new projects at nine universities, seven continuing projects, and two career development awards. AOur ability to report such a positive pattern results from the continuing generosity of individuals, associations, and businesses that realize that improvements to horse health and soundness depend on expert equine veterinary research,@ said Edward L. Bowen, president of the foundation. AWe salute the wisdom, generosity, and dedication of all those donors.@ The 2018 slate of research brings Grayson-Jockey Club Research Foundation=s totals since 1983 to more than $26 million to underwrite 358 projects at 43 universities.

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Saturday, Santa Anita Park, post time: 7:00 p.m. EDT SANTA MARGARITA S.-GI, $400,000, 4yo/up, f/m, 1 1/8m PP HORSE SIRE OWNER TRAINER JOCKEY ML 1 La Force (Ger) Power (GB) Roberta & Ward Williford & Charles Winner Gallagher Smith 6-1 2 Turkish Tabby K Eskendereya KMN Racing LLC Hollendorfer Maragh 15-1 3 Mended K Broken Vow & Maritza Onorato Martin Gonzalez 6-1 4 Dalsaros K Unbridled's Song Keith Brackpool Gaines Baze 12-1 5 Mistressofthenight K Midnight Lute Beerman Family Trust, Greg Hall & Sayjay Racing Baltas Desormeaux 8-1 6 Majestic Heat Unusual Heat M. Auerbach LLC, Bardy Farm and McCauley, Ron Mandella Nakatani 6-1 7 Bishop's Pond K Curlin Michael Dubb, Bethlehem Stables & Servis Espinoza 6-1 The Elkstone Group 8 Eccentric Spinster K Distorted Humor Dan Hoefflin, Jerry Hollendorfer & George Todaro Hollendorfer Rosario 15-1 9 Mopotism K Uncle Mo Reddam Racing LLC O'Neill Gutierrez 7-2 10 Fault K Blame Agave Racing Stable and Little Red Feather Racing D'Amato Franco 4-1 Breeders: 1-Gestut Karlshof, 2-Stonestreet Thoroughbred Holdings LLC, 3-Sheltowee Farm, Mariah ThoroughbredsLLC & Pin Oak Stud LLC, 4-SF Bloodstock, 5-George Krikorian, 6-Madeline Auerbach & Barry Abrams, 7-Mr. & Mrs. Richard S. Kaster, 8-Stonestreet Thoroughbred Holdings LLC, 9-Frank T Batten, 10-Claiborne Farm

Saturday, Oaklawn Park, post time: 7:09 p.m. EDT REBEL S.-GII, $900,000, 3yo, 1 1/16m PP HORSE SIRE OWNER TRAINER JOCKEY ML 1 Title Ready More Than Ready Charles E. Fipke Asmussen Ortiz 8-1 2 Curlin's Honor Curlin Oxley, John C. and Breeze Easy, LLC Casse Geroux 12-1 3 Solomini K Curlin Zayat Stables, LLC, Mrs. , Baffert Prat 3-2 Michael B. Tabor and Derrick Smith 4 Magnum Moon K Malibu Moon Lawana L. and Robert E. Low Pletcher Saez 7-2 5 Higher Power Medaglia d'Oro Pin Oak Stable Von Hemel Eramia 20-1 6 Pryor K Paynter Alex and JoAnn Lieblong Moquett Albarado 30-1 7 Sporting Chance K Tiznow Robert C. Baker & William L. Mack Lukas Velazquez 5-1 8 High North K Midnight Lute Shortleaf Stable, Inc. Cox Stevens 12-1 9 Zing Zang K Tapit Jackpot Ranch Asmussen Lanerie 20-1 10 Combatant K Scat Daddy Winchell Thoroughbreds & Willis Horton Racing Asmussen Santana, Jr. 8-1 11 Bode's Maker K Bodemeister Keene Thoroughbreds LLC Milligan Loveberry 50-1 Breeders: 1-Charles Fipke, 2-Miller Racing LLC, 3-Glenna R. Salyer DVM, 4-Ramona S. Bass, LLC., 5-Pin Oak Stud, LLC, 6-WinStar Farm, LLC, 7-Hunter Valley, 8-Mercedes Stables LLC, 9-Gainesway Thoroughbreds Ltd., 10-Paget Bloodstock, 11-Stride Rite Racing Stable, Inc. Saturday, Oaklawn Park, post time: 6:32 p.m. EDT AZERI S.-GII, $350,000, 4yo/up, f/m, 1 1/16m PP HORSE SIRE OWNER TRAINER JOCKEY ML 1 Actress Tapit Gary and Mary West Servis Ortiz 3-1 2 Farrell Malibu Moon Coffeepot Stables Catalano Hill 8-1 3 Terra Promessa Curlin Stonestreet Stables LLC Asmussen Santana, Jr. 8-1 4 Tiger Moth Street Sense John D. Gunther Cox Geroux 5-1 5 Sandy's Surprise K Drosselmeyer STD Racing Stable, John Fuller & Neil Haymes O'Neill Prat 12-1 6 Streamline Straight Line Nancy A. Vanier and Cartwright Thoroughbreds V LLC Williamson Stevens 6-1 7 Martini Glass Kitalpha Campanella, Vince and Nation's Racing Stable LLC Nations Lopez 4-1 8 Blue Prize (Arg) Pure Prize Merriebelle Stable LLC Correas, IV Graham 7-2

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Saturday, Gulfstream Park, post time: 5:04 p.m. EDT INSIDE INFORMATION S.-GII, $200,000, 4yo/up, f/m, 7f PP HORSE SIRE OWNER TRAINER JOCKEY ML 1 Ivy Bell K Archarcharch Mathis Stable LLC and Madaket Stables LLC Pletcher Castellano 5-2 2 Just Be Kind K Sky Mesa Reade Baker Baker Jaramillo 10-1 3 Moonlit Promise Malibu Moon Hill 'n' Dale Equine Holdings & Windsor Boys Racing Carroll Boulanger 9-2 4 Jordan's Henny Henny Hughes Woolsey, E. Ervine and Kinder, Ralph Tomlinson Albarado 6-1 5 Blue Collar K Majestic Warrior Damara Farm Kenneally Leparoux 10-1 6 Rich Mommy K Algorithms Winds of Change Racing Stable Corp Barboza, Jr. Ortiz, Jr. 4-1 7 Mines and Magic Mineshaft G. Watts Humphrey, Jr. Oliver Lezcano 3-1 Breeders: 1-T/C Stable, LLC, 2-John C. Oxley, 3-Hill 'n' Dale Equine Holdings, Inc, 4-Erv Woolsey & Ralph Kinder, 5-William B. Harrigan & Mike Pietrangelo, 6-Lantern Hill Farm LLC, 7-G. Watts Humphrey Jr., Susie Keller,Vicki Oliver & G. Watts Humphrey III

Saturday, Turfway Park, post time: 6:00 p.m. EDT JEFF RUBY STEAKS S.-GIII, $200,000, 3yo, 1 1/8m (AWT) PP HORSE SIRE OWNER TRAINER JOCKEY ML 1 Sky Promise Sky Mesa Stephen R. Baker McPeek Gilligan 12-1 2 Cash Call Kitten Kitten's Joy Kenneth L. and Sarah K. Ramsey Maker Gaffalione 12-1 3 Archaggelos K Temple City Monticule LLC Dickinson Hernandez 6-1 4 Pony Up Aikenite Calumet Farm Pletcher Jimenez 6-1 5 Magicalmeister K Bodemeister Christopher J. Meyer, Stanley Ichiro Uragami & Chapman McKee 12-1 James Chapman 6 Mugaritz Dialed In Alejandro Mercado Wong Juarez 6-1 7 Hazit K War Front Eclipse Thoroughbred Partners, Magnier, Tabor & Smith Pletcher Van Dyke 5-1 8 Blended Citizen K Proud Citizen Greg Hall and Sayjay Racing, LLC O'Neill Frey 6-1 9 Dreamer's Point K Shackleford Six Column Stables, LLC, Randall Bloch & John Seiler Wilkes Landeros 15-1 10 Zanesville K Tiznow Rosemont Farm LLC Amoss Franklin 12-1 11 Ride a Comet K Candy Ride (Arg) John C. Oxley and My Meadowview Farm LLC Casse Saez 5-1 12 Arawak Uncle Mo R3 Racing LLC, Steven Keh and C T R Stables LLC Ward Garcia 15-1

Breeders: 1-Normandy Farm LLC, 2-Kenneth L. Ramsey & Sarah K. Ramsey, 3-Monticule, 4-Calumet Farm, 5-Fred W. Hertrich III, 6-Sean Speck & Barbara Speck, 7-Raydelz Stable, 8-Ray Hanson, 9-Lantern Hill Farm/Bloch Racing/SeilerRacing/Traits LLC, 10-Rosemont Farm LLC, 11-My Meadowview LLC, 12-Parrish Hill Farm & Ashford Stud Saturday, Turfway Park, post time: 5:14 p.m. EDT DRF BETS BOURBONETTE OAKS-GIII, $100,000, 3yo, f, 1m (AWT) PP HORSE SIRE OWNER TRAINER JOCKEY ML 1 Classy Music K Maclean's Music Fern Circle Stables McPeek Garcia 12-1 2 Consolida (GB) Sir Percy (GB) Eclipse Thoroughbred Partners & Gallagher Van Dyke 5-1 Green Lantern Stables 3 Queen's Fate K Artie Schiller Maxis Stable & Michael J. Maker Maker Hernandez 8-1 4 Child's Play Freedom Child Ronald Clark Brooks Gilligan 30-1 5 In the Mood Eskendereya Stephen S. & Brenda Sandy Sandy McKee 8-1 6 Hey Negrita Langfuhr Allied Racing Stable, LLC Godsey, Jr. Murrill 15-1 7 Mauk's Tuff K Overanalyze Mauk One Racing Stable Mauk Pusac 20-1 8 Mo Flash K Uncle Mo Quintessential Racing Casse Saez 10-1 9 Homemade Salsa Two Step Salsa Get Away Farm Maker Landeros 8-1 10 Bet She Wins K First Samurai Lothenbach Stables, Inc. Block Jimenez 3-1 11 Go Noni Go K Get Stormy Three Diamonds Farm Maker Gaffalione 5-2

Breeders: 1-Hill 'n' Dale Equine Holdings, Inc., 2-J. A. Khan, 3-Josham Farms Limited & Yvonne SchwabeThoroughbreds, 4-Ken Lowe, 5-Kenneth L. Ramsey & Sarah K. Ramsey, 6-T Enterprises, LLC, 7- McLean, Marc McLean & Pope McLeanJr., 8-Susan Chu, 9-Manuel Andrade, 10-Gunpowder Farms, LLC, 11-David E. Hager, II

Sunday, Santa Anita Park, post time: 6:00 p.m. EDT SANTA ANA S.-GII, $200,000, 4yo/up, f/m, 1 1/8mT PP HORSE SIRE OWNER TRAINER JOCKEY ML 1 Madam Dancealot (Ire) Sir Prancealot (Ire) Slam Dunk Racing Baltas Nakatani 5-2 2 Fault K Blame Agave Racing Stable and Little Red Feather Racing D'Amato Franco 3-1 3 Laseen (Ire) Dylan Thomas (Ire) D P Racing Cassidy Desormeaux 8-1 4 Majestic Angel K Majestic Warrior Jerry Jamgotchian Reed Gutierrez 20-1 5 Evo Campo (Ire) Approve (Ire) Day, David, Day, Michael and DiPietro, Mary Gallagher Bejarano 4-1 6 Lucy De Decarchy GGG Stables Baltas Van Dyke 8-1 7 How Unusual Unusual Heat Pender Racing LLC, Fetkin, Bob, Sill, Hunter and Pender Rosario 6-1 St. Hilaire, Christopher 8 Midnight Crossing (Ire) K Dark Angel (Ire) Abbondanza Racing, LLC and Medallion Racing Baltas Blanc 9-2 9 Sassy Little Lila K Artie Schiller Drown, Jeff and Ryan, Michael J. Mandella Prat 7-2

Breeders: 1-Tally-Ho Stud, 2-Claiborne Farm, 3-Stilvi Compania Financiera SA, 4-Hargus & Sandra Sexton and Silver FernFarm, 5-Richard O'Hara, 6-GGG Stables and Magali Farms, LLC, 7-Madeline Auerbach & Barry Abrams, 8-Tom & Geraldine Molan, 9-Dr. John A. Chandler 5th-FG, $40K, Alw/OC, 3yo, f, a5 1/2fT, 4:05 p.m. SMART RESPONSE (Smart Strike), a $275,000 Fasig-Tipton Saratoga yearling and $525,000 Fasig-Tipton Midlantic juvenile, will attempt to justify the >TDN Rising Star= distinction she was granted first out when scoring by four over course and distance Feb. 9. The Joe Sharp trainee is out of SW Salty Response (Cozzene), who is a half to MGSW Salty Strike (Smart Strike). 2nd-AQU, $67K, Alw/OC, 3yo, 1m, 1:50 p.m. Klein homebred Golden Days (Country Day) was a 4 1/2-length GO GET THE MUNNY (Munnings) looks to double up after an first-up winner herself over the same course and distance. impressive 7 1/4-length debut romp going a furlong shorter here TJCIS PPs --@BDiDonatoTDN Feb. 1 (video replay). Campaigned solely by Robert Masiello last time, the $95,000 OBSMAR graduate appears to have been bought into by frequent Masiello partner West Point Thoroughbreds since that unveiling. Gelded last summer, he was a $95,000 OBS March acquisition after a :10 1/5 breeze. Paul Pompa, Jr.=s Gleason (Algorithms) also seeks his second trip to the winner=s circle from as many starts. Back down to even money at Tampa Jan. 20, the Todd Pletcher pupil aired by 5 1/2 lengths (video replay). A $220,000 KEESEP yearling, he is out of MGSW Trip (Lord at War {Arg}), making him a half to the Saturday, Oaklawn Park, post time: 5:55 p.m. ET dam of dual Grade I winner and top GI Kentucky Derby ESSEX H., $300,000,4yo/up, 1 1/16m contender Bolt d=Oro (Medaglia d=Oro). TJCIS PPs PP HORSE SIRE JOCKEY TRAINER ML 1 Blueridge Traveler To Honor and Serve Hill McPeek 20-1 2 Hedge Fund Super Saver J Ortiz Pletcher 4-1 8th-GP, $55K, Msw, 3yo, 6 1/2f, 3:31 p.m. 3 Petrov Flatter Eramia Moquett 8-1 It seems like there=s a stacked maiden special weight at 4 Untrapped Trappe Shot Santana Jr. Asmussen 5-1 Gulfstream every Saturday, and this one is no exception. 5 Dazzling Gem Misremembered Stevens Cox 3-1 SCRAPPER (Orb), a $100,000 Fasig-Tipton Saratoga yearling 6 Rocking the Boat Arch De La Curz Gorder 20-1 turned $600,000 OBSMAR juvenile, settled for second behind 7 Leofric Candy Ride (Arg) Saez Cox 4-1 subsequent two-time stakes winner Diamond Oops (Lookin At 8 Dalmore Colonel John Lopez Hess Jr. 12-1 Lucky) on debut here way back in June. His >TDN Rising Star= 9 Thirstforlife Stay Thirsty Lanerie Hawley 12-1 half-sister Jennifer Lynnette (Elusive Quality) annexed 10 Far Right Notional Vazquez Catalano 30-1 Woodbine=s GIII Royal North S. since the last time he was seen, 11 Multiplier The Factor Velazquez Miller 12-1 and his second dam was MGISW Strategic Maneuver (Cryptoclearance). Central Command (Into Mischief) hails from Saturday, Santa Anita Park, post time: 6:46 p.m. ET , $200,000, 3yo, 1mT the important Courtly Dee family that continues to churn out PASADENA S. PP HORSE SIRE JOCKEY TRAINER ML graded stakes winners and big sales prices. He=s a $575,000 1 Afleet Ascent Northern Afleet Bejarano Hollendorfer 6-1 KEESEP yearling himself, and is out of an unraced half-sister to 2 Platinum Equity Stay Thirsty Franco Baltas 20-1 GISW Acoma (Empire Maker) and half to GISW and late sire Arch 3 River Boyne (Ire) Dandy Man (Ire) Rosario Mullins 3-1 (Kris S.). First Commander (Medaglia d=Oro) is the first foal out 4 Pubilius Syrus Candy Ride (Arg) Nakatani Cerin 5-2 of scrappy Grade I winner and $2,000 KEESEP yearling Emma=s 5 Heck Yeah Acclamation Smith Baffert 5-1 Encore (Congrats). He was a $475,000 KEENOV weanling, and 6 Buckstopper Kit Kitten’s Joy Maragh Mullins 20-1 his 2-year-old full-sister Bow cost $350,000 at Fasig-Tipton 7 Ax Man Misremembered Roman Baffert 4-1 October. A weanling half-brother by Giant=s Causeway went for 8 La La Land (Ire) Dark Angel (Ire) Talamo D’Amato 8-1 $300,000 a month later at Keeneland November. TJCIS PPs 9 Inscom Distorted Humor Baze Callaghan 7-2 TDN REGIONAL REPORT • PAGE 2 OF 8 • THETDN.COM TUESDAY • MARCH 6, 2018

Saturday, Laurel Park, post time: 4:40 p.m. ET BEYOND THE WIRE S., $100,000, 3yo, f, 1m PP HORSE SIRE JOCKEY TRAINER ML 1 Stakes On a Plane Run Away and Hide Torres Talley 20-1 2 Frigid Sister Sky Mesa Hernandez Stites 20-1 3 Limited View Freedom Child Prado Salzman Jr. 5-2 4 Vente to Go El Padrino Acosta Nambo 12-1 IN ORDER OF PURSE: 5 Mo Shopping Uncle Mo Lynch Pletcher 2-1 8th-OP, $81,000, Alw (C)/Opt. Clm ($75,000), 3-16, 4yo/up, f/m, 6 Smokipaddylassie Paddy O’Prado Bisono Coletti Jr. 5-2 6f, 1:09.33, ft. 7 Deep Red Algorithms Hamilton Dilodvico 12-1 MYTHICAL TALE (f, 4, Tiznow--Amusing Plan, by Pleasantly 8 Fools Gold Medaglia d’Oro Vargas Jr. Brown 8-1 Perfect) tallied two wins from seven starts for William Connelly and was transferred to Pat Dupay=s barn, winning her only start Saturday, Laurel Park, post time: 5:40 p.m. ET for him at Churchill Downs Nov. 18. Moved to Brad Cox, she PRIVATE TERMS S., $100,000, 3yo, 1 1/16m made her first appearance for this outfit last time here Feb. 16, PP HORSE SIRE JOCKEY TRAINER ML finishing third in optional claiming company. Dispatched at 7-2, 1 Dynamic Asset Astrology Garcia Gaudet 30-1 the dark bay pressed from a head second through a :21.69 2 Bal Harbour First Samurai Vargas Jr. Pletcher 7-2 opening quarter. Mythical Tale took command midway around 3 California Night Midnight Lute Karamanos Maker 8-1 the far turn and gradually pulled away from Marquee Miss 4 Still Having Fun Old Fashioned Lynch Keefe 9-5 5 Roaming Union Union Rags Prado Breen 12-1 (Cowboy Cal) in the stretch to score by 1 1/2 lengths. The 6 V.I.P. Code City Zip Quinones Schoenthal 15-1 winner=s half-brother is Street Moxie (Street Sense), SP, 7 Diamond King Quality Road Pennington Servis 7-2 $150,706. Amusing Plan, who is a half to 2005 champion 2-year- 8 Whirlin Curlin Curlin Toledo Capuano 15-1 old filly Folklore (Tiznow), produced a 3-year-old full-brother to 9 Forest Fire Friesan Fire Bisono Servis 8-1 the winner named Tiz Plan and a juvenile colt by Strong Mandate. Sales history: $100,000 Ylg '15 FTKOCT. Lifetime Saturday, Turfway Park, post time: 4:04 p.m. ET Record: 10-4-3-1, $190,810. Click for the Equibase.com chart RUSHAWAY S., $75,000, 3yo, 1 1/16m (AW) or VIDEO, sponsored by Fasig-Tipton. PP HORSE SIRE JOCKEY TRAINER ML O-Bloom Racing Stable LLC (Jeffrey Bloom); B-Three Chimneys 1 Oskar Blues Speightstown Gilligan McPeek 5-1 Farm LLC (KY); T-Brad H. Cox. 2 Violent Storm Violence Juarez Walsh 8-1 3 Elgar Stroll Sarvis Beck 30-1 7th-SA, $60,395, Alw (NW1$X)/Opt. Clm ($75,000), 3-16, 3yo, f, 4 Giant Humor To Honor and Serve Franklin Huffman 30-1 1mT, 1:36.78, gd. 5 Year of the Kitten Kitten’s Joy Gaffalione Maker 5-1 WEST PALM BEACH (IRE) (f, 3, Scat Daddy--Shelley Beach {Ire}, 6 Road to Damascus Pioneerof the Nile Van Dyke Pletcher 6-1 by Danehill Dancer {Ire}) made her first start on American soil a 7 Alternative Route Tiznow Murrill Stall Jr. 6-1 8 Huckleberry Hill What Now Bracho Davis 30-1 winning one, justifying 7-5 favoritism with a one-length victory 9 Honorable Treasure To Honor and Serve Garcia McPeek 4-1 in her first start on Lasix. Away a step slow, the dark bay 10 Truth Be Tolled Awesome Again Prentice Jr. Greenhill 10-1 caboosed the field through an opening quarter in :22.83 and 11 Believe in Royalty Tapit G Saez Jones 10-1 began to progress a bit as the half when up in :46.58. Three- 12 Front Door Pont of Entry Cannon Lopresti 12-1 wide turning for home, the sophomore took control in the lane Also Eligible: and extended clear to score over a late-running Streak of Luck 13 Ceduna Denman (Aus) Adam Upton 10-1 (Old Fashioned), who drew in off the also-eligible list. Graduating at third asking over the Lingfield synthetic Nov. 2, West Palm Beach followed suit with a win at Wolverhampton in her first try routing on synthetic Nov. 29, after which she was transferred from John Gosden to the California-based Simon Callaghan. The winner has a juvenile half-brother and yearling half-sister by No Nay Never. Sales history: 260,000gns Ylg '16 TATOCT. Lifetime Record: 5-3-0-1, $42,645. Click for the American Lincoln (Street Sense) graduated by an Equibase.com chart or VIDEO, sponsored by Fasig-Tipton. astounding 18 3/4 lengths at Aqueduct Friday. O-Michael B. Tabor; B-Lynch-Bages & Longfield Stud (IRE); T-Simon Callaghan. TDN REGIONAL REPORT • PAGE 3 OF 8 • THETDN.COM TUESDAY • MARCH 6, 2018

5th-SA, $56,000, Alw (NW1$X)/Opt. Clm ($40,000), 3-16, 7th-LRL, $44,940, Alw, 3-16, (NW1X), 4yo/up, 6f, 1:09.86, ft. 4yo/up, f/m, 1 1/16m, 1:44.90, ft. WONDERFUL LIGHT (c, 4, Tiz Wonderful--By the Light {MSW & LIFE'S BLESSINGS (f, 4, Tapit--Indian Blessing {Ch. 2yo Filly, GISP, $885,632}, by Malibu Moon), third in his first two Ch. Female Sprinter & MGISW, $2,995,420}, by Indian Charlie) attempts sprinting at Belmont last spring, returned from a six- earned her >TDN Rising Star= tag when graduating on debut by month layoff to earn his diploma at Aqueduct Dec. 21 and was 4 1/2 lengths at Del Mar in August 2016. She entered off a sixth- second to blue-blooded next-out winner Westwood (Bernardini- place effort against similar company here Feb. 24. Trying two -Ashado) in a Jan. 20 allowance in Ozone Park. Well-supported turns for the first time, the even-money favorite tracked just to at 1-5 in this first start outside of New York, the dark bay kept a the outside of the early pacesetter Not Now Carolyn (Tapit) close eye on the dueling leaders while engaged in a three-way while three wide around the clubhouse turn. The homebred battle for second. Ranging up four wide as they hit the half in ranged alongside that rival around the far turn before inching :45.76, the homebred spurted clear of the field in the lane, but clear inside the final furlong to a 2 1/4-length victory. Not Now was quickly engaged by Polar Jet (Maclean=s Music) to his inside. Carolyn was another five lengths clear of the rest of the field for That rival ran with him for the length of the stretch, but second. Life=s Blessings is a half to fellow >TDN Rising Star= And Wonderful Light was always going the better of the two and GISP Ten Blessings (Smart Strike). Their dam is two-time edged clear late for a three-quarter-length succcess. The winner champion Indian Blessing, who also carried the Earnhardt colors. is a half-brother to By the Moon (Indian Charlie), MGISW, She is represented by a 3-year-old colt by Misremembered and $1,552,940, who won last term=s GI Ballerina S. at Saratoga. a juvenile filly by Pioneerof the Nile. She visited Triple Crown Purchased by Samantha Siegel=s Jay Em Ess Stable for $190,000 Champion American Pharoah last season. Lifetime Record: at the 2006 EASSEP yearling sale, their dam By the Light won 7-2-2-1, $103,781. Click for the Equibase.com chart or VIDEO, nine stakes and finished second in Saratoga=s GI Prioress S. The sponsored by Fasig-Tipton. now-13-year-old mare=s most recent produce is a yearling colt O-Patti & Hal J. Earnhardt III; B-Hal J. Earnhardt (KY); T-Bob by Uncle Mo and she was given the year off after having that Baffert. foal. Lifetime Record: 5-2-1-2, $88,340. Click for the Equibase.com chart or VIDEO, sponsored by Fasig-Tipton. 10th-GP, $51,000, Alw (C)/Opt. Clm ($75,000), 3-16, 4yo/up, O-Jay Em Ess Stable; B-Samantha Siegel (KY); T-Michelle Nevin. 1mT, 1:34.89, fm. FROSTMOURNE (c, 4, Speightstown--Leaning Tower, by 6th-TP, $20,338, Alw, 3-15, (NW3L), 3yo/up, f/m, 6 1/2f (AWT), Theatrical {Ire}), winner of the 2016 Awad S. as a juvenile, 1:18.63, ft. captured the GII Penn Mile last June and romped by six lengths LADY STARDUST (f, 4, Union Rags--Hallelujah Trail {MSP, next out in Delaware=s GIII Kent S. in July. Fourth behind >TDN $187,430}, by Gilded Time) graduated by five lengths on debut Rising Star= Yoshida (Jpn) (Heart=s Cry {Jpn}) when last seen in at Aqueduct in April 2016 and wasn=t seen again for 21 months. Belmont=s GIII Hill Prince S. Oct. 7, he was bet down to 6-5 She made her return from that layoff here Feb. 1, sprinting favoritism for this 2017 debut. Bumped by his inside neighbor home a two-length winner. Adding blinkers this time, the 2-5 Profiteer (War Front) leaving the stalls, the dark bay quickly favorite battled on the front end with I=mluckysgirl (Lookin At recovered to stalk from a ground-saving third through an Lucky) through a comfortable first quarter in :24.16. She opening half-mile in :48.96. Eagerly tugging at Irad Ortiz, Jr. the continued to knock heads with that rival past the furlong marker whole way, Frostmourne was tipped to pacesetting Conquest before kicking clear inside the sixteenth pole to remain Enforcer (Into Mischief)=s outside turning for home and unbeaten by 2 3/4 lengths. I=mluckysgirl was another 4 3/4 exploded when let loose in the lane, charging home to a one- lengths clear in second. The winner=s dam is responsible for a length score. Conquest Enforcer, winner of the GII Mathis yearling full-sister to Lady Stardust and was bred to California Brothers Mile, held second over Stuart Janney homebred Chrome last year. Sales history: $105,000 RNA Ylg '15 KEESEP. Profiteer. The winner is a half-brother to Karelian (Bertrando), Lifetime Record: 3-3-0-0, $73,340. Click for the Equibase.com GISW, $788,675; and Colgan=s Chip (Cee Tizzy), GSP, $233,377. chart or VIDEO, sponsored by Fasig-Tipton. The winner=s dam is a half to Canadian champion Basqueian O-Brian Kahn & Madaket Stables LLC; B-Brian Kahn (KY); (Bounding Basque) and Frostmourne is her most recent T-Wesley A. Ward. produce. Sales history: $375,000 RNA Ylg '15 KEESEP. Lifetime Record: MGSW, 8-5-1-0, $593,400. Click for the Equibase.com chart or VIDEO, sponsored by Fasig-Tipton. O/B-Green Lantern Stables, LLC (KY); T-Christophe Clement. TDN REGIONAL REPORT • PAGE 4 OF 8 • THETDN.COM TUESDAY • MARCH 6, 2018

5th-LRL, $42,800, Msw, 3-16, 3yo, f, 1m, 1:40.57, ft. MADISON AVENUE (f, 3, Quality Road--Philly's Philly, by A.P. Indy) checked in fifth in her six-panel unveiling here Feb. 9 and was given a 2-1 chance to improve with added distance here. The bay bumped into her inside neighbor when bearing left exiting the gate, but was quickly straightened out by Feargal IN ORDER OF PURSE: Lynch and sprinted up to contest the pace through a moderate 1st-AQU, $58,800, Msw, 3-16, 3yo, 1 1/8m, 1:56.79, ft. opening quarter. Three wide entering the lane, she was guided AMERICAN LINCOLN (c, 3, Street Sense--Secret File {GSP, back to the rail by Lynch and powered clear to a decisive five- $125,663}, by Smart Strike) failed to hit the board in his first length victory over slight favorite Malibu Surprise (Malibu three starts on turf, but showed improvement when switched to Moon). The winner is a half to Everybodyluvsrudy (Union Rags), the dirt, finishing third in both his main track debut here Dec. 17 SP, $161,730. Her dam Philly=s Philly, whose most recent and a nine-panel event Feb. 15. Sent off at 3-1 this time, the bay produce is a 2-year-old filly by Afleet Alex, is a half-sister to kept close tabs on the leaders in third, running off the rail MGSWs Woke Up Dreamin (Holy Bull) and Denomination (Smart through an opening half-mile in :49.84. Sweeping up two wide Strike); and GSW Lemon Drop Dream (Lemon Drop Kid). This is under a motionless Junior Alvarado to take control entering the also the family of champion grass mare Flawlessly (Affirmed). far turn, American Lincoln was in a race of his own in the Sales history: $37,000 Ylg '16 KEESEP. Lifetime Record: 2-1-0-0, stretch, cruising home to an 18 3/4-length victory. Favored Tilt $24,000. Click for the Equibase.com chart or VIDEO, sponsored (Twirling Candy) was best of the rest in second. American by Fasig-Tipton. Lincoln was the first of three winners for Linda Rice from three O-Dark Hollow Farm; B-Stirling Farms, LP (KY); T-Phil Schoenthal. starters at Aqueduct Friday, pushing her to the top of the trainers standings. Secret File produced a Bernardini filly in 2016 and an Uncle Mo colt in 2017. Sales history: $70,000 RNA Ylg '16 KEESEP. Lifetime Record: 6-1-0-2, $52,332. Click for the Equibase.com chart or VIDEO, sponsored by Fasig-Tipton. 5th-FG, $41,000, Msw, 3-16, 3yo/up, 6f, 1:10.36, ft. O-Lincoln Stables; B-Oakbrook Farm (KY); T-Linda Rice. Trained at Crupi’s New Castle Farm BOURBON COUNTRY (c, 4, Harlan's Holiday--Uninhibited Song {MSW, $160,046}, by Unbridled's Song) finished fourth on VALKYRE STUD Foaled, Raised & Sold by debut behind stablemate and subsequent GIII Sanford S. winner Bitumen (Mineshaft) in his career bow at Churchill in June of 6th-GP, $47,000, (S), Msw, 3-16, 3yo/up, f/m, 1mT, 1:37.61, fm. 2016 and was subsequently shelved for 11 months. Sixth in his PURE ONE (f, 3, Macho Uno--Pure Disco {MSW, $496,840}, by return to action in Louisville last May, he was benched again and Disco Rico) came running a little too late to be fifth in her state- resurfaced Feb. 19, missing by just a neck over this track and bred debut over this course and distance Dec. 31 and was trip. Riding the rail in a close-up third through a sharp first hammered down to 3-2 favoritism to improve while receiving quarter in :22.22, the 3-2 chalk took control in mid-stretch and Lasix for the first time here. Tracking from fourth, the gray ran in rolled clear to a 3 1/4-length graduation. The winner is a half- the two-path through an opening quarter in :23.46 and closed brother to Thundering Sky (Sky Mesa), MSW & MGSP, $409,135. the gap a bit while sliding in towards the fence through a half in Sales history: $80,000 Ylg '15 KEESEP; $145,000 2yo '16 :47.90. Tipped back out to launch a bid entering the far turn, the FTFMAR. Lifetime Record: 4-1-1-0, $35,423. Click for the homebred pounced in early stretch, swiftly seizing command Equibase.com chart. and charging clear to a two-length score. Sunfest (Union Rags) O-Bourbon Lane Stable and Seidman Stables LLC; B-Almar Farm, completed the exacta. The winner is a half to Pure Sensation LLC (KY); T-Eddie Kenneally. (Zensational), MGSW & GISP, $1,286,040. Her dam Pure Disco won six stakes and placed in nine others for owner/breeder Purchased as a 2 Y/O by McMahon and Hill Bloodstock Hidden Brook South Graduate Patricia Generazio. Millionaire Pure Sensation, who was most recently fifth in the Nov. 4 GI Breeders= Cup Turf Sprint and is SELECT SALES Graduate...Exceeding Expectations still in training at age seven, is her first foal and her recent produce includes a juvenile filly by Street Sense and a yearling filly by Bodemeister. Lifetime Record: 2-1-0-0, $28,720. Click for the Equibase.com chart or VIDEO, sponsored by Fasig-Tipton. O/B-Patricia Generazio (FL); T-Christophe Clement. TDN REGIONAL REPORT • PAGE 5 OF 8 • THETDN.COM TUESDAY • MARCH 6, 2018

8th-FG, $38,000, Msw, 3-16, 3yo, 5 1/2fT, 1:05.49, fm. Denman (Aus) (Lonhro {Aus}), Darley, $15,000 ELUSIVE MISCHIEF (c, 3, Into Mischief--Claire's Song, by 47 foals of racing age/6 winners/0 black-type winners Unbridled's Song) completed the exacta going this distance over 12-TP, Msw 6f, BLACK AGNES, 12-1 the Saratoga lawn Aug. 23 and was backed down to 3-5 $17,000 RNA KEE SEP yrl favoritism in this return from that seven-month layoff. Running 7-TP, $75K Rushaway S., 1 1/16m, CEDUNA, 10-1 off the rail in third through a first quarter in :22.69, the dark bay ranged up two wide turning for home and swiftly seized control El Padrino (Pulpit), Northview PA, Dead in the lane. Kicking it into overdrive, Elusive Mischief powered 112 foals of racing age/13 winners/0 black-type winners clear to a 6 1/2-length triumph over Jimmy Joe (Broken Vow). A 8-LRL, $100K Beyond The Wire S., 1m, VENTE TO GO, 12-1 $65,000 KEEJAN short yearling, he went through the ring at OBS the following August, selling to Randy Bradshaw for $90,000, Fast Bullet (Speightstown), WinStar Farm, $7,500 and gave Bradshaw a big return on his investment when selling 33 foals of racing age/9 winners/0 black-type winners to John Oxley for $350,000 at OBS April after breezing in :10 flat. 2-TP, Msw 6f, DA BULLET, 8-1 Elusive Mischief is the first foal to race from Claire=s Song, who produced by fillies by Uncle Mo in 2016 and 2017. She was bred Fort Larned (E Dubai), Adena Springs, $15,000 to Exaggerator last season. The winner hails from the family of 97 foals of racing age/4 winners/1 black-type winner MGSW >TDN Rising Star= Wonder Gadot (Medaglia d=Oro); and 5-LRL, Msw 6f, MARY COSTA, 5-1 SW & GSP Solemn Tribute (Medaglia d=Oro). Lifetime Record: $19,000 KEE SEP yrl; $25,000 OBS APR 2yo 2-1-1-0, $39,400. Click for the Equibase.com chart. 2-SUN, Msw 6f, TRADECRAFT, 5-2 O-John C. Oxley; B-Jim FitzGerald & Katie FitzGerald (VA); T-Mark E. Casse. Freedom Child (Malibu Moon), Country Life Farm, $3,500 Broken and Trained by Randy Bradshaw 58 foals of racing age/8 winners/1 black-type winner 9-TP, $100K GIII DRF Bets Bourbonette Oaks, 1m, CHILD'S PLAY, 30-1

8-LRL, $100K Beyond The Wire S., 1m, LIMITED VIEW, 5-2 $5,200 EAS OCT yrl

Graydar (Unbridled's Song), Taylor Made Stallions, $15,000 193 foals of racing age/28 winners/1 black-type winner 2-SUN, Msw 6f, LITIGATOR, 3-1 $32,000 RNA KEE NOV wnl; $65,000 FTK JUL yrl; $42,000 FTK HRA 2yo First-/second-crop starters to watch: Saturday, Mar. 17

Farm and fee represent current information Alternation (Distorted Humor), Pin Oak Stud, $7,500 I Want Revenge (Stephen Got Even), Millennium Farms, $10,000 143 foals of racing age/17 winners/0 black-type winners 61 foals of racing age/5 winners/0 black-type winners 3-TP, Msw 1m, GET TOUGH, 5-1 2-SUN, Msw 6f, REVENGE AGAIN, 7-2 $19,000 RNA KEE SEP yrl $5,500 RNA KEE SEP yrl 12-TP, Msw 6f, TEMPESTUOUS AMY, 6-1 Animal Kingdom (Leroidesanimaux {Brz}), Jonabell Farm, $2,700 KEE NOV wnl; $4,800 RNA KEE SEP yrl $35,000 215 foals of racing age/14 winners/3 black-type winners Jimmy Creed (Distorted Humor), Spendthrift Farm, $12,500 1-SA, Msw 1mT, JUNGLE WARFARE, 5-2 183 foals of racing age/27 winners/4 black-type winners $150,000 KEE NOV wnl; $190,000 RNA FTS AUG yrl; $175,000 6-AQU, Msw 6f, IRISH CREED, 5-2 FTK OCT yrl; $300,000 FTF MAR 2yo 12-TP, Msw 6f, LADY CREED, 20-1 $1,000 RNA KEE SEP yrl Declaration of War (War Front), Ashford Stud, $40,000 4-OP, Msw 1 1/8m, THE MONEY DANCE, 10-1 255 foals of racing age/16 winners/3 black-type winners $23,000 RNA KEE NOV wnl 3-FG, Msw 5 1/2fT, OFF THE LIST (IRE), 8-1 8-MVR, Alw 5 1/2f, THOUGHTLESS DOLL, 3-1 $800,000 KEE NOV wnl $30,000 RNA KEE SEP yrl; $45,000 OBS OPN 2yo TDN REGIONAL REPORT • PAGE 6 OF 8 • THETDN.COM TUESDAY • MARCH 6, 2018

Justin Phillip (First Samurai), Castleton Lyons, $12,500 Point of Entry (Dynaformer), Adena Springs, $25,000 124 foals of racing age/18 winners/1 black-type winner 147 foals of racing age/17 winners/2 black-type winners 12-TP, Msw 6f, LOU'S CHARDONNAY, 15-1 7-TP, $75K Rushaway S., 1 1/16m, FRONT DOOR, 12-1 $40,000 KEE SEP yrl; $49,000 RNA EAS MAY 2yo 9-TAM, Msw 5 1/2f, MOLLY'S GAME, 7-2 Posse Hawk (Posse) 12-TP, Msw 6f, YANKEE ROSE, 15-1 2 foals of racing age/0 winners/0 black-type winners $14,000 RNA KEE SEP yrl 6-HOU, Msw 5fT, OUTLAW POSSE, 20-1

Memories Last (Thats Our Buck), TX Prospective (Malibu Moon), Ocala Stud Farm, $5,000 4 foals of racing age/0 winners/0 black-type winners 97 foals of racing age/15 winners/1 black-type winner 6-HOU, Msw 5fT, JAMARS WHITEGOLD, 30-1 1-CT, Msw 4 1/2f, SILKY MITTS, 9-2 $1,000 TTA MIX yrl $30,000 OBS APR 2yo

Morning Line (Tiznow), Lane's End Farm, $10,000 Take Charge Indy (A.P. Indy), Kor, $20,000 134 foals of racing age/19 winners/2 black-type winners 202 foals of racing age/37 winners/3 black-type winners 5-TP, Msw 1m, FLAWSOME, 15-1 4-OP, Msw 1 1/8m, FULL SCHEDULE, 12-1 $45,000 RNA KEE SEP yrl Orb (Malibu Moon), Claiborne Farm, $25,000 7-OP, Aoc 6f, TAKE CHARGE DUDE, 20-1 195 foals of racing age/14 winners/1 black-type winner $65,000 OBS AUG yrl; $57,000 RNA OBS MAR 2yo 8-GP, Msw 6 1/2f, SCRAPPER, 5-2 $100,000 FTS AUG yrl; $600,000 OBS MAR 2yo Violence (Medaglia d'Oro), Hill 'n' Dale Farms, $15,000 248 foals of racing age/40 winners/5 black-type winners Overanalyze (Dixie Union), WinStar Farm, $10,000 7-OP, Aoc 6f, ETERNAL FORCE, 10-1 193 foals of racing age/33 winners/5 black-type winners $120,000 RNA KEE SEP yrl 9-TP, $100K GIII DRF Bets Bourbonette Oaks, 1m, MAUK'S TUFF, 7-TP, $75K Rushaway S., 1 1/16m, VIOLENT STORM, 6-1 20-1 $85,000 KEE NOV wnl; $75,000 KEE SEP yrl $30,000 KEE NOV wnl; $67,000 RNA FTK JUL yrl; $115,000 RNA OBS APR 2yo Wolfcamp (El Prado {Ire}), Swifty Farms, $3,000 5-LRL, Msw 6f, MORE BETTER, 5-2 12 foals of racing age/0 winners/0 black-type winners $20,000 KEE SEP yrl 6-HOU, Msw 5fT, CHASING JETT, 12-1

Oxbow (Awesome Again), Calumet Farm, $20,000 167 foals of racing age/12 winners/0 black-type winners 4-OP, Msw 1 1/8m, BOW READY, 12-1 $57,000 RNA KEE SEP yrl 6-FG, Msw 1m, SWEET OATS, 7-2

Passion for Gold (Medaglia d'Oro), Haras Penalolen, $5,000 ALLOWANCE RESULTS: 20 foals of racing age/4 winners/0 black-type winners 7th-OP, $79,000, (S), 3-16, (NW1X), 3yo/up, 6f, 1:11.14, ft. 12-TP, Msw 6f, SHE MIGHT TELL, 5-1 HOONANI ROAD (g, 3, Jonesboro--Nana, by Father Steve) $20,000 OBS OCT wnl Lifetime Record: 2-2-0-0, $61,200. O-Jerry Caroom; B-Bobby Lee Hall (AR); T-Wayne M. Catalano. Paynter (Awesome Again), WinStar Farm, $25,000 218 foals of racing age/23 winners/1 black-type winner 7th-AQU, $72,000, (C)/Opt. Clm ($80,000), 3-16, 4yo/up, 6 1/2f, 2-AQU, Aoc 1m, GLENNWOOD, 8-1 1:19.82, ft. 7-OP, Aoc 6f, IKE, 4-1 LOKI'S VENGEANCE (h, 7, Frost Giant--Subtle Sweetness, by 10-OP, $900K GII Rebel S., 1 1/16m, PRYOR, 30-1 During) Lifetime Record: MSW, 29-9-5-2, $574,068. O-Blue $60,000 KEE SEP yrl; $200,000 OBS MAR 2yo Bison Stable; B-Andrew I. Cohen (NY); T-Linda Rice. $35,000 Ylg '12 SARAUG. TDN REGIONAL REPORT • PAGE 7 OF 8 • THETDN.COM TUESDAY • MARCH 6, 2018

4th-AQU, $67,620, (NW2$X)/Opt. Clm ($62,500), 3-16, 4yo/up, 3rd-CT, $29,000, (S), 3-15, 3yo/up, 1 1/16m, 1:49.72, ft. 6f, 1:12.56, ft. RUN REAL QUIET (g, 7, Real Quiet--Run Me Down, by Opening KING KRANZ (h, 5, Munnings--Queen Congie, by Henny Verse) Lifetime Record: 29-7-3-5, $147,924. O/B-Gary L. Hughes) Lifetime Record: MSW & MGSP, 16-3-3-4, $356,490. Williams (WV); T-Gary L. Williams, Jr.. O-Zayat Stables, LLC; B-Bob & Alice Austin (KY); T-Rudy R. Rodriguez. *$25,000 Wlg '13 KEENOV; $37,000 RNA Ylg '14 7th-CT, $24,500, 3-15, (NW1X), 3yo/up, f/m, 4 1/2f, :53.25, ft. FTKJUL; $95,000 2yo '15 OBSMAR. STELLA NOVA (f, 4, Astrology--Forever a Friend, by Dehere) PINHOOKED BY AND RAISED AT MACHMER HALL Lifetime Record: 13-7-1-0, $76,868. O-Sola Dei Gloria Stable & SELECT SALES Graduate...Exceeding Expectations Larry E. Rabold,; B-Brandywine Farm (Jim & Pam Robinson) (KY); T-Hugh I. McMahon. *$17,000 Ylg '15 FTKOCT; $10,000 2yo '16 EQB 2YO auction purchase • www.EQB.com EASMAY. Consigned by Bobby Dodd, Agent 1st-CT, $24,000, (S), 3-15, (NW3L), 3yo/up, 1 1/16m, 1:50.98, ft. 8th-AQU, $57,000, (S), (NW1$X)/Opt. Clm ($25,000), 3-16, VIA LEONE (g, 4, Gattopardo--Via Aurelia, by Marquetry) 4yo/up, 1 1/8m, 1:55.85, ft. Lifetime Record: 11-3-2-1, $59,030. O/B-Germania Farm (WV); BLUGRASCAT'S SMILE (g, 5, Bluegrass Cat--Serenity's Smile T-Jeff C. Runco. {MSP, $178,634}, by Dixie Brass) Lifetime Record: 28-7-7-4, $189,686. O/B-Francis Paolangeli (NY); T-Charlton Baker. *1/2 to 4th-CT, $24,000, (S), 3-15, (NW2L), 3yo/up, 4 1/2f, :53.46, ft. Johannesburg Smile (Johannesburg), MSW & GSP, $555,417; ROLLING BROOK (g, 4, Fiber Sonde--Candlebrook, by Saint Wildcat=s Smile (Forest Wildcat), MSW & MGSP, $420,321; Ballado) Lifetime Record: 14-2-6-1, $60,805. O/B/T-John D. Atlantic=s Smile (Stormy Atlantic), SW & MSP, $301,076; McKee (WV). Tiznow=s Smile (Tiznow), MSP, $184,190. 5th-CT, $24,000, (S), 3-15, (NW2L), 3yo/up, f/m, 4 1/2f, :54.34, 11th-GP, $49,000, (NW1X)/Opt. Clm ($25,000), 3-16, 4yo/up, ft. 7 1/2fT, 1:29.44, fm. SILVER SLIPPERS (f, 3, Outflanker--Silver Buckle {SP}, by Silver RUNAWAY POSSE (g, 7, Posse--Runaway Zia, by Runaway Ghost) Lifetime Record: 3-2-0-1, $30,290. O-Grams Racing Groom) Lifetime Record: SP, 31-5-7-8, $345,509. O-Steve M. Stable LLC; B-Timothy C. & Judith Grams (WV); T-Timothy C. Dyke; B-Edition Farm (NY); T-Ron G. Potts. *$32,000 Wlg '11 Grams. KEENOV; $25,000 Ylg '12 FTKOCT; $40,000 2yo '13 OBSAPR. PINHOOKED BY & RAISED AT MACHMER HALL 6th-CT, $24,000, (S), 3-15, (NW3L), 3yo, 6 1/2f, 1:21.88, ft. SELECT SALES Graduate...Exceeding Expectations ATREYU (c, 3, Limehouse--My Darling Lily, by Street Sense) Lifetime Record: 3-2-1-0, $33,860. O-O'Sullivan Farms LLC & 6th-LRL, $48,762, (NW1X)/Opt. Clm ($40,000-$50,000), 3-16, Raymond J. Funkhouser III; B-O'Sullivan Farms LLC (WV); T-Jeff 3yo, 5 1/2f, 1:04.44, ft. C. Runco. ALIGN THE NUMBERS (g, 3, Orientate--Smoke N Numbers, by Smoke Glacken) Lifetime Record: 5-2-2-1, $78,312. O/B-Holly 5th-MVR, $23,500, 3-16, (NW2L), 3yo, 1m, 1:45.22, ft. House Farm (MD); T-Donna B. Lockard. BEAU DAN (g, 3, Successful Appeal--Sotogenic, by Soto) Lifetime Record: 3-2-0-0, $26,125. O-Dan Bell; B-Larry Goodwin 5th-GG, $35,163, (NW1$X)/Opt. Clm ($40,000), 3-16, 3yo, 6f & Earl Evan (KY); T-Aaron M. West. (AWT), 1:10.36, ft. REWIRED (c, 3, Acclamation--Knows No Bounds, by Boundary) ADDITIONAL MAIDEN WINNERS: Lifetime Record: 4-3-1-0, $45,100. O-Rodney E. Orr; B-Old Trustini, f, 3, Bernardini--Trusty Temper (SW, $188,374), by English Rancho & Sal & Patsy Berumen (CA); T-Steven Specht. Successful Appeal. SA, 3-16, (C), 6 1/2f (off turf), 1:18.92. *$5,700 Ylg '16 BARJAN; $5,500 RNA Ylg '16 WASSEP. B-Larry D. Williams (KY). *$190,000 RNA Ylg '16 KEESEP. Spunky Town, f, 3, Jersey Town--Spunky Star, by Five Star Day. 8th-PEN, $31,600, (S), 3-15, (NW1X), 4yo/up, 1m 70y, 1:45.90, ft. OP, 3-16, (S), (C), 6f, 1:11.70. B-James H. Glover (AR). BUILT THAT WAY (g, 4, Weigelia--Dowhatyourbigsisdo, by Whyamisolucky, g, 3, Lookin At Lucky--Reeyre (SW), by Regal Crypto Star) Lifetime Record: 12-4-2-2, $53,513. O-Ronald Remark. AQU, 3-16, (C), 1m, 1:43.00. B-Loren Nichols (FL). Snider; B-Wynoaks Farm & St.Omar's Farm (PA); T-F. Ferreira. *$7,500 Ylg '16 OBSAUG. TDN REGIONAL REPORT • PAGE 8 OF 8 • THETDN.COM TUESDAY • MARCH 6, 2018

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Princessof the Nyl, f, 3, Pioneerof the Nile--Arabisini, by Bernardini. OP, 3-16, 1m, 1:40.14. B-Guy & Diane Snowden (KY). *$37,000 RNA Ylg '16 KEESEP; $35,000 2yo '17 WAPGTR.

Luna Mesa, f, 3, Sky Mesa--Seaside Treasure, by Medaglia d'Oro. MVR, 3-16, 6f, 1:16.56. B-P. Nancy Bell Headley, & NATO (KY). *$37,000 RNA Ylg '16 KEEJAN; $25,000 Ylg '16 KEESEP.

Evil Monkey, g, 4, Don Six--Beach Badge, by Medallist. PEN, 3-15, 6f, 1:12.75. B-Greenfields Farm & David Edelstein (NJ). Hickory Island, g, 4, Majesticperfection--Western Sarah (GB), by Gone West. MVR, 3-16, 6f, 1:15.34. B-Glen Oak Farm & Debbie Easter (KY). *$42,000 Wlg '14 KEENOV; $135,000 Ylg '15 FTKJUL. DID YOU KNOW? Consigned by GAINESWAY Undefeated GIII Swale S. hero Strike Power (Speightstown) Little Havana, f, 4, Tapizar--Rumba Punch, by Green Dancer. TP, was tabbed as a “TDN Rising Star” 3-15, 6f (AWT), 1:14.06. B-Redmon Farm (KY). *1/2 to Lyin= Heart (Lion Heart), SW & GSP, $117,202; & Ponder Lea (More Visit the TDN Rising Stars section on our website! Than Ready), GSP, $144,508.

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