THURSDAY, JUNE 24, 2021 ZEDAN DROPPED FROM GOLDEN PAL ACQUIRED BY COOLMORE, TO TARGET NUNTHORPE by Alan Carasso HORSEPLAYERS' LAWSUIT Golden Pal (Uncle Mo), front-running winner of the 2020 GII Breeders' Cup Juvenile Turf Sprint for his breeder Randall Lowe, has been purchased by Mrs. John Magnier, Michael Tabor, Derrick Smith and Westerberg with an eye towards a start in the G1 Coolmore Wootton Bassett Nunthorpe S. at York Aug. 20, a Coolmore official confirmed Wednesday. The first foal out of Lowe's outstanding 11-time stakes winner Lady Shipman (Midshipman), Golden Pal was bought back on a bid of $325,000 at the 2019 Keeneland September sale and was runner-up on debut over the Gulfstream main track last April before missing by a neck to The Lir Jet (Ire) (Prince of Lir {Ire}) in the G2 Norfolk S. at Royal Ascot in June. The Florida-bred bested his stablemate Fauci (Malibu Moon) to graduate in the Skidmore S. at Saratoga in August and validated 4-5 favoritism in the Juvenile Turf Sprint, scoring by 3/4 of a length at Keeneland last Amr Zedan | Coady Photography November. Cont. p3 by T.D. Thornton IN TDN EUROPE TODAY Zedan Racing Stables, Inc., the owner of GI Kentucky Derby CLASSIC DREAMS LIVE ON AT NEWSELLS PARK winner Medina Spirit (Protonico), has been voluntary dismissed Emma Berry sits down with Graham Smith-Bernal, the new from a class-action federal lawsuit initiated by a group of owner of Newsells Park Stud who counts winning the Derby horseplayers who want to collect damages from a purported among his ambitions. years-long pattern of racketeering activity related to the alleged Click or tap here to go straight to TDN Europe. "doping" of Thoroughbreds by trainer Bob Baffert. Zedan Racing's founder is Amr Zedan. The dismissal "without prejudice" was filed by the plaintiffs June 23. Baffert, plus his incorporated racing stable, now remain as the only defendants in the suit, which was filed May 13 in United States District Court (Central District of California). Baffert has not yet responded in court to the complaint. The suit, led by Michael Beychok, the winner of the 2012 National Horseplayers Championship, was filed four days after Baffert's disclosure that Medina Spirit had tested positive for betamethasone after winning the Derby. Baffert's revelation was later confirmed by split-sample testing at two different labs approved by the Kentucky Horse Racing Commission, but no ruling has yet been issued over those findings. The betamethasone finding in the Derby was the fifth positive test in a Baffert trainee for a regulated but prohibited race-day drug within the past year (two others were for lidocaine, one was for dextrorphan, and another also for betamethasone). It was the third during that time frame to occur in a Grade I stakes. 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Back in 2013, after a cluster of seven sudden horse deaths in Baffert's Hollywood Park barn, the California Horse Racing Board (CHRB) issued a report that stated that although "the blanket prescribing of thyroxine to all horses in Baffert's barn does appear unusual" the fatalities remained "unexplained [and] there is no evidence whatsoever CHRB rules or regulations have been violated or any illicit activity played a part." Golden Pal Acquired by Coolmore (cont. from p1) The decision to sell Golden Pal was not taken lightly, Lowe said. AIt was very hard,@ he admitted. AI've been in this business now for 36 years. To go from the very bottom to come all the way to the top and then finally win the Breeders' Cup, it made it very hard. But I wasn't going to be the one to try to repeat with another horse and spend millions upon millions of dollars without finding a top horse again. He's going to run three or four times this year and then head to the breeding shed. This sale comes at the right time and at the right price.@ All is not lost, however, as Lowe retains ownership of Lady Shipman, narrowly runner-up in the 2015 GI Breeders' Cup Turf Sprint, and her colt foal by Omaha Beach named Lieutenant General. Lowe also owns a pair of breeding rights in Golden Pal upon his retirement. Cont. p4 Golden Pal | Breeders' Cup/Eclipse Sportswire TDN HEADLINE NEWS • PAGE 4 OF 9 • THETDN.COM THURSDAY • JUNE 24, 2021 ABefore she ran in the Breeders' Cup, I had an offer on the ECLIPSE THOROUGHBRED PARTNERS' table for $3.5 million,@ Lowe said of Lady Shipman. APeople thought I had lost my mind for not selling her before the ARON WELLMAN JOINS WRITERS' ROOM Breeders' Cup, but I told everyone, 'I've gotten this far with her and I honestly believe enough in her that I think we have a legitimate chance to win the Breeders' Cup.' And she got beat a bob. People have been trying to purchase her from me and I said, 'If we can't win the Breeders' Cup with her, we'll win it with one of her kids,' and we were right.@ Lowe reports that Lady Shipman is currently back in foal to Uncle Mo Golden Pal is currently in training with Wesley Ward at Churchill Downs, where he breezed five furlongs in an easy 1:02.20 over a firm turf course June 20. Ward is pointing the bay towards a seasonal reappearance in the $120,000 Quick Call S. on opening day of the Saratoga meeting July 15 as a stepping- stone to the G1 Coolmore Wootton Bassett Nunthorpe S. at York Aug. 20. Golden Pal was an intended runner for last year's Nunthorpe, but the threat of wet weather scuppered those Fresh off a Group 2 win last week at Royal Ascot, Eclipse plans and he was rerouted for the Skidmore. Thoroughbred Partners= founder Aron Wellman joined the TDN The Ward-trained and Coolmore-owned filly Acapulco (Scat Writers= Room presented by Keeneland Wednesday morning to Daddy) won the 2015 G2 Queen Mary S. at the Royal meeting talk about his ownership strategies, how he talks to new and made the running in the Nunthorpe before finishing second partners about concerns in the industry and much more. as the 8-5 favorite. Asked about Eclipse's ever-evolving purchasing power, Wellman, who called in via Zoom as the Green Group Guest of the Week said, AWe made a point when we launched Eclipse about 10 years ago to really try to prove ourselves at being good at just about everything in terms of trying to buy horses. We believe that a good horse can come from anywhere at any time. I really cut my teeth early on in the game by starting to claim horses, because that was the immediate-action way to go. Then it evolved into trying to buy horses privately, going overseas and getting them to the States. We've been very fortunate to get support from our partners at the yearling sales as well as the 2- year-old sales and have been very lucky to buy Grade I winners and Classic winners out of them. It's tough to be really, really elite at all of those avenues by which you can acquire horses. But we've certainly done our best to provide our partners with a variety of opportunities year in and year out and the track record, fortunately, has spoken for itself that our partners continue to believe in the process.@ Cont. p5 Want to list your job? 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