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'Mamma' Looks Tough in Black-Eyed Susan Pimlico Special Returns with a Bang Set Ablaze FRIDAY, MAY 18, 2012 732-747-8060 • TDN Home Page Click Here ‘MAMMA’ LOOKS TOUGH IN BLACK-EYED SUSAN SET ABLAZE Peachtree Stable's Mamma Kimbo (Discreet Cat) will One of only two in the line-up for yesterday’s look to remain unbeaten and kick off a potential Bob G2 Dante S. without a prior run this term, Highclere Baffert double this weekend at Pimlico in today's Thoroughbred Racing’s Bonfire (GB) (Manduro {Ger}) GII Black-Eyed Susan S. for emerged as the leading G1 Derby contender 3-year-old fillies. The bay connections always felt he would be received the J “TDN and is now poised to take on his Rising Star” J distinction one-time paddock mate Camelot (GB) and a 101 Beyer Speed (Montjeu {Ire}) on the first Saturday in Figure for a 5 1/4-length June. Reared alongside Ballydoyle’s debut romp sprinting at G1 2000 Guineas winner and also the Santa Anita Feb. 18, and same Pocahontas syndicate’s Oaks handled the stretch-out with contender Vow (GB) (Motivator {GB}) at Mamma Kimbo Coady Photography ease to take the GII Fantasy Highclere Stud, Bonfire has become one of the most talked-about horses this S. at Oaklawn Apr. 11 by Racing Post 1 1/4 lengths. Her connections opted to bypass the spring after going from a Salisbury GI Kentucky Oaks two weeks ago, but Mamma Kimbo maiden win in September to a luckless third in the fired a pair of bullet drills over the Churchill Downs strip G1 Criterium International at Saint-Cloud a month later. May 6 and May 12 to allay concerns about her Held up by an imperfect blood picture in April, he was condition. taken out of Friday’s G3 Dee S. at Chester due to soft While the expected favorite will take some beating, ground and was forced to take on a field containing A G S Thoroughbreds's Welcome Guest (Unbridled's mostly race-hardened competitors at York Thursday. Song) could prove a formidable challenger. A Traveling smoothly in second early by Jimmy Fortune 5 1/2-length graduate going 7 1/2 panels second out at as the 11-4 favorite Ernest Hemingway (Ire) (Galileo Gulfstream Mar. 7, the grey comes off a second to {Ire}) set strong fractions under Joseph O’Brien, the Oaks runner-up Broadway's Alibi (Vindication) in bay took over from that rival with 2 1/2 furlongs Aqueduct's Apr. 7 GIII Comely S. at a flat mile. An remaining, when he was joined by Ektihaam (Ire) extra furlong could prove prove right up the alley of the (Invincible Spirit {Ire}). He may have been briefly close relative to Grade I winner Political Force headed by that rival, but the 3-1 second choice (Unbridled's Song), and trainer Chad Brown is bullish on asserted under mainly hand riding in the final yards to his prospect's future. "I thought her race in the Comely score by 3/4 of a length, with four lengths back to the was good," the conditioner offered. "She’s still lightly 2000 Guineas sixth Fencing (Street Cry {Ire}). Cont. p5 raced, but she’s developing nicely. The timing of this race was right, and it’s the Black-Eyed Susan. It’s a very nice, prestigious race, so we’re excited about bringing her over there and running in it." Cont. p7 PIMLICO SPECIAL RETURNS WITH A BANG It's been four years since the last renewal of the Pimlico Special S., and while the historic race is now a Grade III rather than a Grade I for now, you wouldn't know it if you looked at Friday's field of nine. Pin Oak Stable's J “TDN Rising Star” J Alternation (Distorted Humor) comes in with a trio of stakes tallies in Hot Springs, most recently when he went box to wire with little pressure in the Apr. 14 GII Oaklawn H. Noting that the addition of blinkers last fall has given Alternation an added bit of versatility, trainer Donnie Von Hemel told Daily Racing Form that post eight will allow rider Luis Quinonez to see how things develop early before determining whether or not to go to the front. "I think we drew a great post, have a nice run to the turn to look things over and assess it," Von Hemel told DRF. "He’s a top horse, and I think you’ll see that www.claibornefarm.com bear out over the course of the year." Cont. p8 In This Issue LIVE FROM PIMLICO 60 Broad St., Suite 100 Red Bank, NJ 07701 TDN’s Steve Sherack reports live from Pimlico, and (732) 747-8060 recounting the highlights of Thursday’s traditional Alibi (732) 747-8955 (fax) Breakfast... Plus expected GI Preakness S. favorite www.thoroughbreddailynews.com Bodemeister (Empire Maker) gets his first tour of the www.thetdn.com track after arriving from Kentucky. Bodemeister Barry Weisbord, co-publisher Coverage begins page 3 Horsephotos [email protected] Sue Finley, co-publisher [email protected] Editorial Izzi Top Follows in Dam’s Footsteps [email protected] Jessica Martini, Editor-in-Chief Just like her dam Zee Zee Top (GB) (Zafonic) did in Alan Carasso, Managing Editor 2003, Izzi Top (Pivotal {GB}) stamped her class in Marie Kizenko, Senior Editor yesterday’s G2 Middleton S. at York, suggesting a Christina Bossinakis, Senior Editor Group 1 tally could be in the cards this season. Lucas Marquardt, Features Editor Steve Sherack, Racing Editor Brian DiDonato, Racing Analyst/Soc. Media Dir. Racing Post Coverage begins page 4 Justina Severni, Assistant Editor Advertising [email protected] Alycia Borer, Director of Advertising More Coverage Lia Kusch, Senior Advertising Designer Sarah K. Andrew, Adv Assistant/Distribution Godolphin Goes for Another Yorkshire Cup page 8 Amanda Crelin, Advertising Assistant Six Opponents Sign on to Test Frankel in Lockinge page 9 Customer Service HPBA Weighs in on NY Lasix Debate page 9 [email protected] Trickmeister Bests Stay Thirsty at Big Sandy page 2-ATW Vicki Forbes, Director of Customer Service Information Technology Robert Williams, Director of IT [email protected] Gregg Casillo, DB Administrator, Programming [email protected] Marketing EST Race Click for TV Gary King, Marketing Manager 9:30a Yorkshire Cup-G2, YOR (brisnet.com PPs) ------ [email protected] 4:46p Black-Eyed Susan S.-GII, PIM (brisnet.com PPs) HRTV 5:51p Pimlico Special S.-GIII, PIM (brisnet.com PPs) HRTV TDN Newmarket Bureau: Cafe Racing [email protected] Sean Cronin Tom Frary TDN P HEADLINE NEWS • 5/18/12 • PAGE 3 of 10 • thoroughbreddailynews.com FEATURE PRESENTATION • GI PREAKNESS S. Bode Takes to the Track... GI Preakness S. morning line favorite Bodemeister (Empire Maker) got his first tour of Pimlico Thursday morning after arriving from Churchill Downs Wednesday. Zayat Stable and Michel and Tiffany Moreno’s speedy GI Kentucky Derby runner-up galloped 1 1/2 miles under exercise rider George Alvarez after the renovation break. “His first day here went well. It looks like he took to Bodemeister the track nicely,” said Jim McCue/Maryland Jockey Club trainer Bob Baffert. “He was pretty cool out there. I am not seeing anything to make me think anything different about him. He bounced right out of the Derby. His weight has held. He can handle it.” On the Preakness Scene TRIPLE CROWN ON TV: ...with Steve Sherack Friday, May 18 Preakness Classics - 3-4p.m., NBC Sports Network What’s Your Alibi? Black Eyed Susan S. (Live from Pimlico) - 4-5p.m., NBC The connections of Saturday’s GI Preakness S. Sports Network entrants packed the house at yesterday’s traditional Saturday, May 19 Alibi Breakfast at Preakness Stakes Saturday (Live from Pimlico) - 2:30- Pimlico, given the 4:30p.m., NBC Sports Network opportunity to talk up Preakness Stakes (Live from Pimlico) - 4:30-6:30p.m., NBC their charge, or in Preakness Post-Race Show (Live from Pimlico) - 6:30-7p.m. some cases, receive a (all in Eastern Time) few laughs from the crowd. The home team will Preakness Weekend Forecast be represented by a pair of longshots in Sagamore Farm’s Tiger Walk (Tale of the Cat) and Friday: Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 70s and lows Kidwells Petite Stable’s Pretension (Bluegrass Cat). The in the upper 50s. historic Sagamore Farm, located in Glyndon, Maryland, was purchased by Under Armour founder and Maryland native Kevin Plank in 2007. Cont. p4 Saturday: Partly cloudy. Highs in the low 80s and lows TDN TODAY in the mid-60s. Headline News................... 10 pages TDN P HEADLINE NEWS • 5/18/12 • PAGE 4 of 10 • thoroughbreddailynews.com Alibi Breakfast cont. Has the recent health scare changed things at all? “It was Kevin’s vision to save a Maryland landmark, “Well, usually I have about six pieces of fried chicken one of the most storied farms in the history of here,” said Baffert, having some fun at his own Thoroughbred racing,” Sagamore Farm General expense after suffering a heart attack in Dubai in Manager Tom Mullikin commented. “It’s a big deal to March. have a horse in the stall [for the Preakness], and come How did Baffert hold up after seeing those wicked Saturday, I think it’s really going to hit us--it means a early splits set by Bodemeister in the Derby? lot.” “I got my Nitroglycerin ready,” he joked. Tiger Walk, a two-time winner just across town at The I’ll Have Another (Flower Alley) team was out in Laurel Park, enters off a decent fourth in the GI Wood full force at Pimlico yesterday, led by owners J.
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