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FRIDAY, MARCH 20, 2015 732-747-8060 $ TDN Home Page Click Here DUO WORK FOR SANTA ANITA DERBY MERRIEBELLE RETURNS TO EASTER SALE Bolo (Temple City), third in the GII San Felipe S., and by Kelsey Riley ATDN Rising Star@ Ocho Ocho Ocho (Street Sense), who In just under three years of operation, John Moores suffered his first loss when eighth in that Mar. 7 race, and Charles Noell=s Merriebelle Stables has already both tuned up for the Apr. 4 GI Santa Anita Derby in racked up a lengthy list of accomplishments in the Arcadia recently. racing and sales spheres on both sides of the Atlantic. Bolo, who was making his first dirt appearance in the Merriebelle sold San Felipe, worked four furlongs in :47.80. the triple AWe were very pleased,@ Carla Gaines, who trains Group 1 winner Bolo for Golden Pegasus Racing, Inc. and Earle Mack, Immortal Verse said of her charge=s effort in the (Ire) (Pivotal San Felipe. AIt was sort of an {GB})--acquired unknown [racing on dirt for the as part of a first time], and he had missed package from some training and didn=t go into Kilfrush Stud six the race exactly as we would months earlier-- Immortal Verse and members of her team after have liked.@ Gaines added with a for a record selling for 4.7 million guineas chuckle, ABut he ran really well in 4.7 million Tattersalls spite of me.@ guineas at D P Racing=s Ocho Ocho Ocho Tattersalls December in 2013, and last summer worked five furlongs Wednesday pinhooked a Tapit filly for $1 million at Fasig-Tipton=s in 1:00.80. Saratoga sale. Merriebelle also owns a piece of last AHe worked really good,@ year=s Cartier champion 2-year-old filly and G1 Cheveley reported trainer Jim Cassidy. Ocho Ocho Ocho Park S. winner Tiggy Wiggy (Ire) (Kodiac {GB}), who is The colt suffered cuts to his Coady Photography gearing up for a 2015 campaign that could include the leg in the San Felipe, but is G1 1000 Guineas. completely mended. The American business partners, who are involved in AHis cuts are healed; he=s better than he was last software companies and have also purchased week,@ Cassidy added. AHe was kind of quiet last Chanteclair Farm and the former Stonewall Farm in week.@ Kentucky, aren=t finished conquering the Thoroughbred world just yet. Cont. p8 WHY TWO READY FOR SUNLAND FOES by J. M. Severni Trainer Mike Machowsky=s will look for his second win in the GIII Sunland Park Derby Sunday when he sends forward Why Two (Bob and John). Machowsky won the 2009 edition of the race, when it was still a listed stakes, with Kelly Leak (Runaway Groom). The lightly raced Why Two graduated in his second start at Santa Anita going seven furlongs Jan. 25 and went pillar-to-post in the 1 1/16-mile Turf Paradise Derby as the heavy favorite last time out Feb. 21. The $120,000 OBS April purchase is campaigned by Ernest Marchosky, Why Two breezing at Santa Anita Kagele Brothers Inc, Ken facebook.com/MikeMachowskyRacingStable Shaw and Lo Hi Stable. Why Two breezed three- furlong bullet in :34.60 Wednesday in preparation for the Sunday=s race. 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Cursory Glance Racing Post Newmarket Bureau, Cafe Racing: Page 6 Sean Cronin & Tom Frary [email protected] From Japan to the World 60 Broad Street, Suite 100 Red Bank, NJ 07701 While all eyes will be on the G1 Golden Slipper Saturday, the G1 George Ryder S., 732-747-8060 | 732-747-8955 (fax) which immediately follows the world’s richest juvenile race, will feature an intriguing cast www.thoroughbreddailynews.com of contenders. Leading the list is a pair of Japanese invaders in World Ace (Jpn) (Deep www.thetdn.com Impact {Jpn}) and Real Impact (Jpn) (Deep Impact {Jpn}). Page 11 TDN P HEADLINE NEWS • 3/20/15 • PAGE 3 of 13 • thoroughbreddailynews.com Why Two Ready for Sunland Foes (cont. from p1) AHe worked really, really well,@ Machowsky commented. AHe went a little quicker than I anticipated, but it was well in hand.@ Why Two will have to take on prohibitive favorite Firing Line (Line of David), who enters off runner-up efforts in both the GI Los Alamitos Futurity and the GIII Robert B. Lewis S. Machowsky isn=t worried about the step up in competition though. ANot the way he=s trained, not at all,@ the conditioner said of his class concerns.@He=s trained really good and I=ve love [the four post where] he drew. The favorite has drawn down inside, so he=s going to have some speed there and my horse is a little better with a target. He=s run three times and when he ran at Turf Paradise, he broke well and he was drawn outside, so the rider just went on with him. He=s better with a target, though, and there=s a decent amount of speed in the race.@ The Bob Baffert-trained Lord Nelson (Pulpit), who took the GII San Vicente S. in February and is coming off a fourth-place effort in the Mar. 7 GII San Felipe S., will WAR STORY FIRES BULLET miss Sunday=s race. AHe just ran and I entered him to Loooch Racing Stable=s War Story (Northern Afleet) see if he would bounce back, but he=s...not quite as tuned up for the Mar. 28 GII Louisiana Derby with a sharp as I=d want him to be,@ Baffert explained. bullet five-furlong work at Fair Grounds in :58.80. AHe came out of the work fine,@ trainer Tom Amoss reported. AThat=ll be our TAKE CHARGE BRANDI BACK WITH LUKAS last breeze before we run. Eclipse champion juvenile filly Take Charge Brandi We worked him about the (Giant=s Causeway) has returned same amount of days out to the Oaklawn barn of trainer D. from the [Feb. 21 GII] Wayne Lukas after undergoing Risen Star and he ran well. surgery at the Rood and Riddle We got on the track Equine Hospital in Lexington last [Wednesday morning] week. The Willis Horton runner when it was at its best; it War Story (outside) finishing was forced to miss last week=s was very quick and he was second in Risen Star GII Rebel S. after suffering a chip one of the first on it, plus Hodges Photography in her knee. She is expected to he had a workmate. Joe get 60 days of rehabilitation Talamo will be in to ride for the race.@ War Story was a before returning to rallying second behind International Star (Fusaichi training. AWe=ll walk her Pegasus) in both the Jan. 17 GIII LeComte S. and the twice a day in that second Take Charge Brandi Risen Star. 30-day session, and she Coady Photography won=t lose much conditioning,@ Lukas said. AShe=ll be ready for the Can’t wait to get your TDN opening of Saratoga, for sure.@ for STANDOUT race results? Click Here to sign up for TDN Alerts TDN P HEADLINE NEWS • 3/20/15 • PAGE 4 of 13 • thoroughbreddailynews.com FAR RIGHT ON TRACK FOR ARKANSAS DERBY RCI CALLS FOR COBALT BAN Far Right (Notional) continued preparations for the The Association of Racing Commissioners Apr. 11 GI Arkansas Derby with a five-furlong work at International is expected to present a uniform approach Oaklawn Thursday in 1:00.80. He worked in company on cobalt when they meet in Tampa, Florida next and galloped out six furlongs in 1:14.80.