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The TDN is delivered each morning by 5 a.m. Eastern. For subscription information, please call (732) 747-8060. • THOROUGHBRED Wednesday, DAILY NEWS- September 22, 1999 A INTERNATIONAL ii GOING BOLDLY: PIONEERING COLT OCEAN OF WISDOM WINS PRIX LA ROCHETTE TOPS KEENELAND DAY NINE The only maiden in the field. Ocean Of Wisdom (Mr. A colt from the first crop of Pioneering, a half brother Prospector) belied his inexperience to win yesterday's to leading sire Storm Cat, brought a final bid of G3 Prix La Rochette at Chantilly in highly impressive $160,000 to top yesterday's session of the Keeneland fashion. A beautifully bred individual. Ocean Of Wisdom September Yearling Sale in Lexington, Kentucky. The was third in his only previous start, a conditions event chestnut yearling, sold as hip number 3202 and con at Deauville Aug. 14. He was sent straight to the lead by jockey Cash Asmussen and set a sensible gallop signed by Iron County Farms, Inc., is out of the Nijinsky three lengths ahead of Just A Poser (GB) (Darshaan II mare Nature's Magic. He was purchased by Eric {GB}) as Boutron (Fr) (Exit to Nowhere) was settled last Reed, agent for Charles Kurtsinger. Also venturing into of the three runners. As the field reached the final the six-figure frontier was Dale Romans, agent, who quarter. Ocean Of Wisdom was traveling best of all on purchased hip 3249, a colt by Silver Ghost-Rain Cur the rain-softened ground. He only needed to push out in rent (Little Current), for $150,000. The yearling was the last half furlong for a very easy win. Boutron over consigned by Buck Pond, agent. The third highest price hauled Just A Poser in the final furlong but was never a of the session was the $110,000 paid by Journeyman threat to the winner. Alan Cooper, racing manager for Bloodstock, agent, for hip number 3370. The colt, by the Niarchos family, said, "Ocean Of Wisdom was a Pembroke-Wonder Luck (Wonder Lark), was consigned baby when he first ran at Deauville. He is maturing and by James Keogh, agent for Catherine DeCourcy. proved his ability today. The (G1) Grand Criterium (at Through nine sessions, Keeneland's average sale's price Longchamp Oct. 10) is the obvious race to go for, if he is up 41.6 percent from 1998. The median price is up is to run again this season." 33.3 percent. For the session, the average was up 49.9 percent and the median was up 40 percent. The 11-day Tuesday, Chantilly, France: sale continues today at 10 a.m. PRIX LA R0CHETTE-G3, FF340,000, Chantilly, 9-21, 2yo, c/g, ImT, 1:48.50, vsf. 1 -^@OCEAI\l OF WISDOM, 123, c, 2, by Mr. Prospector KEENELAND SEPTEMBER STATISTICS 1st 0am: Coup Do Folio (GSW &(ilSP-Fr, SP-US), by Halo ' TUESDAY. SEPTEMBER 21. 1999 2nd Dam: Raise The Standard, by Hoist The Flag KtibNiLAIMJ, 3rd Dam: Natalma, by Native Dancer 0-Niarchos Family; B-Flaxman Holdings Ltd (Ky); SESSION TOTALS 1999 1998 T-Pascal Bary; J-Cash Asmussen; FF220,000. Life No. Sold 304 288 time Record: 2 starts, 1 win, 1 place, FF247,000. Gross $6,332,800 $4,001,200 *Full to Machiavellian, Ch. 2yo-Fr, MGISW-Fr, G1SP- Average $20,832 $13,893 GB, $337,504; Coup de Genie, Hwt. 2yo Filly-Fr, Median $14,000 $10,000 MGISW-Fr, G1SP-GB, $410,098; Vz to Exit To No where (Irish River {Fr}), GISW-Fr, $409,435; Hydro CUMULATIVE TOTALS 1999 1998 Calido (Nureyev), (3SW & GISP-Fr, $187,607. No. Sold 2505 2,611 2-Boutron (Fr), 123, c, 2, Exit To Nowhere-Vindelonde Gross $227,335,200 $167,364,100 (Fr), by No Lute (Fr). 0-Mrs L Bates; B-Louis Oliver Average $90,753 $64,100 Hardy, Charles Houyvet; FF80,000. Median $40,000 $30,000 3~Just A Poser (GB), 123, c, 2, Darshaan (GB)-Sahara Star (GB), by Green Desert. 0-Sheikh Maktoum bin Rashid al Maktoum; B-Gainsborough Stud Manage TDN TODAY ment Ltd; FF40,000. International 3 pages Margins: 2HF, 6. Odds: 2.50, 0.40. If you plan on being at the Breeders' Cup, plan on being at Taylor Made in Lexington the day after... TAYLOR Don't miss Grade I winners CATINCA (GI), MADE SKY BEAUTY (GI) and ROYAL INDY (GI) Phone: 606.885.3345 J®O0$|O^5 selling with Taylor Made the day after the Breeders' Cup. Fax: 606.887.1754 TDN tV INTERNATIONAL * 9/22/99 * PAGE 2 ft PREVIEW ft WEEICEND PEDIGREE PERSPECTIVES Today, Maisons-Laffitte, France, post time: 4:10 p.m. by Alan Porter LA COUPE DE MAISONS-LAFFITTE-G3, FF364,000, 3yo/up, 1 1/4mT FUTURITY S.-GI, $150,000, BEL, 9-19, 2yo, 1m, 1:36, SC (PP) HORSE SIRE TRAINER WT ft. 1 (3) Barbola Diesis (GB) de Roualle 127 1--BEV0, 122, c, 2, by Prospectors Gamble 2 (1) Alliteration (GB) Polish Precedent Fabre 123 1st Dam: Wheatly Way (SW), by Wheatly Hall 3 (2) Perfect Vintage (GB) Shirley Heights (GB) C Barbe 123 2nd Dam: Family Way, by Cyane 4 (8) Skiinos (GB) Machiavellian Gallorini 123 3rd Dam: Family Line, by Double Jay 5 (7) Vissinia (GB) Belmez Sepulchre 120 ($31,000 wing '97 KEENOV; $75,000 yrl '98 6 (5) La Juriste (Fr) Homme De Loi (Ire) Prod'homme 120 KEESEP). 0-Callahan Peter; B-Woodbridge Farm, Inc 7 (6) ChelseaManor(GB) Grand Lodge Bary 118 (KY); T-William Badgett Jr; J-J Bravo; $90,000. 8 (4) Agol Lack Gulch Fabre 118 Lifetime Record: 5-4-0-1, $238,228. It's funny how often a major winner's pedigree is defined by the handiwork of one of the great breeders * AUSTRALIA ★ of the past. Such a horse is Bevo, upset winner of this weekend's Gl Futurity S. He owns a pedigree which is Dye Considers Singapore Trip: characterized by linebreeding to strains developed at High-profile Sydney jockey Shane Dye is considering Colonel E. R. Bradley's Idle Hour Farm. Bevo is a son of an offer by Singapore-based trainer Laurie Laxon to ride Prospectors Gamble, who along with Florida standout abroad. Dye's appeal against a two-month suspension Robyn Dancer is marking Crafty Prospector as a useful he incurred for a controversial ride on Tie The Knot in sire of sires. Prospector's Gamble is linebred to the very the Warwick 8. on Aug. 21 will be heard Monday. He fast Spy Song, who was not a Bradley-bred, but was won aboard Tie The Knot in the G2 Hill S. at Rosehill by Bradley's Balladier and from a mating approved by Saturday. Racing at Singapore's S$700 million new Bradley's manager (and renowned pedigree authority) track at Kranji 15km outside the city begins Saturday Olin Gentry. In addition, Prospector's Gamble has a with the S$350,000 Singapore Cup. second dam by Better Self, a horse who owned an entirely Idle Hour pedigree as he was by Bimelech (a Mahceka Suspended: son of *La Troienne) out of the excellent Idle Hour Chan Mahceka, the "herbalist" at the center of Aus runner and matron Bee Mac, a daughter of War Admi tralia's trenbolone steroid scandal, was disqualified for ral. Incidentally Bimelech, the champion two-year-old of a total of four years by NSW Thoroughbred Racing his generation carried off the Futurity 60 years prior to Board stewards. Mahceka has not attended any inqui Bevo's victory. ries and was not in attendance when his sentence was It is Better Self, by a son of La Troienne out of a announced. He was charged with conduct prejudicial to mare by War Admiral, who brings us to the first impor racing after telling trainer Anthony Cummings that he tant connection in Bevo's pedigree. Bevo's dam could supply trenbolone, which he said did not contain Wheatly Way is by Wheatly Hall, a grandson of banned substances. Buckpasser. Buckpasser's dam Busanda is by War Admiral out of the Idle Hour mare Businesslike, a Sydney Meeting Kicks Off Thursday: daughter of La Troienne. The ties between Better Self Sydney's first night race meeting kicks off this and Busanda are further strengthened by the fact that Thursday with all 12,000 tickets offered sold by last Better Self's granddam Baba Kenny and Busanda's week. The Sydney Turf Club has spent more than maternal grandsire Blue Larkspur are both by Black Aus$6.5 million on track renovations to prepare for Servant (by Black Toney) out of North Star III mares. the night races. Fields are limited to 12 horses and The result is that Better Self and Busanda have virtually the feature is the Aus$ 100,000 Starlight H. Trainers identical genetic backgrounds (whenever Better Self is and jockeys are divided on whether night racing is a found fairly close up in a pedigree, it is always worth positive move but evening fixtures have been a roar trying to bring in a War Admiral/La Troienne cross to ing success at Melbourne's Moonee Valley. combine with him). , ARROWFIELD ARROWFIELD John Messara Breeding solutions for the 21st Century Phone +61 2 9223 8277 Fax +61 2 9223 5795 E-MAIL: [email protected] TDN tV INTERNATIONAL * 9/22/99 * PAGE 3 Earlier, we also mentioned Prospector's Gamble's The weekend was a great one for Storm Cat who linebreeding to the swift Spy Song, a son of Balladier. was represented by Gl Matron 8.