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Miss Finland Lands VRC Oaks HEADLINE p.6 NEWS For information about TDN, DELIVERED EACH NIGHT BY FAX AND FREE BY E-MAIL TO SUBSCRIBERS OF call 732-747-8060. www.thoroughbreddailynews.com FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 2006 ALL IN THE FAMILY GIACOMO RETIRES TO ADENA SPRINGS She didn=t quite realize the seven-figure price tags Kentucky Derby winner Giacomo (Holy Bull--Set achieved by her dam and weanling half brother during Them Free, by Stop the Music) has been retired and will Monday=s first day of bidding, but Pretty Proud (Mr. stand the 2007 breeding season at Adena Springs Farm Greeley) did herself and the in Midway, Kentucky for a fee of $12,500, live foal. In family proud, eliciting a final addition to his dramatic late- bid of $600,000, the top price closing victory in last year=s during the fourth session of the Derby and a third-place effort Keeneland November Breeding in the GI Preakness S., the Stock Sale in Lexington yester- gray four-year-old also won day. The three-year-old filly, a this year=s GII San Diego H. He full sister to GI Futurity S. win- was second in the 2004 GI ner Whywhywhy and a half to Hollywood Futurity and last Whywhywhy, full to Topper GSW Spellbinder (Tale of the Giacomo Benoit year=s GII San Felipe S. and Adam Coglianese Cat), was consigned by Hidden was third in this term=s GII Goodwood Breeders Cup H. and GII Strub S. In his final Brook Farm as agent for Mrs. = career start, Giacomo was fourth behind Invasor (Arg) Einar Paul Robsham. AMrs. Robsham has a lot of fillies in the GI Breeders= Cup Classic. Racing for Jerry and and decided to sell this one,@ explained farm manager Anne Moss and trained by John Shirreffs, Giacomo hit Sergio de Sousa. AShe=s not really into breeding. This is the board in 10 of 16 starts, with three wins and earn- a really nice filly. The family sold well earlier in the ings of $2,537,316. AGiacomo is a perfect fit for the week and she s a very good-looking mare. We love to = Adena Springs program,@ said farm owner Frank have those kind. We were a little surprised with the Stronach. AHe was a Grade I two-year-old, Kentucky price, but pleasantly so.@ Hidden Brook also raised Dis- Derby-winning three-year-old, and Grade II-winning creet Cat for Robsham, who purchased Pretty Proud for four-year-old. He showed a consistency at the highest $290,000 at the 2004 Keeneland September Sale. level that is rarely seen today, qualities that we highly Trained by Stanley Hough, Pretty Proud broke her value in a stallion. He also offers breeders significant maiden over the Gulfstream main track in February and outcross value, as well.@ Out of multiple stakes winner added an allowance victory over a sloppy Belmont main Set Them Free, Giacomo is a half brother to multiple track June 25. The successful bidders were Frankfort graded stakes placed Sea Jewel (Sea Hero). Park Farm, operated by Brendan Gallagher and John and Willie Brown. AWe=re planning on buying some nice KEENELAND NOVEMBER STATISTICS broodmares over the next year or so,@ said Gallagher, also the manager of Emerald Bloodstock in Ireland. He Thursday, Nov. 9, 2006 indicated that Pretty Proud, offered as a racing or SESSION TOTALS Session Cumulative broodmare prospect, would be retired to stud, but No. Offered 337 1145 breeding plans have not been made nor has a stallion No. Sold 257 873 been selected. Pretty Proud=s dam, Thorough Fair (Quiet RNAs 80 272 American), sold Monday for $1.55 million, while her % RNA 23.7% 23.8% weanling half-brother by Giant=s Causeway made $1.05 Gross $31,626,000 $225,978,000 million. Both were purchased by Lincoln Collins, acting Average $123,058 $258,852 for My Meadowview Farms= Leonard Riggio. Median $90,000 $155,000 Keeneland cont. p2 www.keeneland.com (859) 233-4252 www.claibornefarm.com TDN P HEADLINE NEWS • 11/10/06 • PAGE 2 of 11 KEENELAND NOVEMBER KEENOV THURSDAY=S TOP WEANLINGS THURSDAY=S TOP BROODMARES Hip Sex Sire Dam Price Hip Name Covering Sire Price 1233 colt Yes It=s True Meteor Cap $300,000 1284 Pretty Proud Racing/b’mare prospect $600,000 B-Gainesway Thoroughbreds (Ky) (3, Mr. Greeley-Thorough Fair, by Quiet American) Consigned by Gainesway, Agent I Consigned by Hidden Brook, Agent XIX Purchased by Stonestreet Stables, LLC Purchased by Frankfort Park Stud 1019 filly Dynaformer America America $285,000 1124 Exotic Elegance Tiznow $580,000 B-Highclere (Ky) (5, Storm Cat-Exotic Wood, by Rahy) Consigned by Highclere Sales, Agent I Consigned by Mill Ridge Sales, Agent Purchased by Arch Bloodstock Purchased by Black Jack Stables 1065 filly Medaglia d=Oro Breakwater $250,000 1302 Renowned Cat Dynaformer $500,000 B-Stonewall Farm Stallions (Ky) (3, Storm Cat-Claxton=s Slew, by Seattle Slew) Consigned by Denali Stud (Craig & Holly Bandoroff), Agent for Stonewall Farm Consigned by Gainesway, Agent for Eldon Farm Equine LLC Purchased by Liberty Mill Farms Purchased by Stonestreet Stables LLC 1154 colt Stravinsky Golly Gree $250,000 1055 Blue Warbler Mr. Greeley $500,000 B-Haras De Bernesq (Ky) (4, More Than ReadyBMeadow Flyer, by Meadowlake) Consigned by Denali Stud (Craig & Holly Bandoroff), Agent XVI Consigned by Gainesway, Agent II Purchased by International Equine Conseil Agency Purchased by Cloverleaf Farm II/Brent Fernung, Agent 1385 Vase Successful Appeal $430,000 An Exotic Lady... (6, Rahy-J.D. Flowers, by Dixieland Band) Dr. Phil McCarthy, bidding on behalf of Black Jack Consigned by Mill Ridge Sales, Agent Stables, was extended to $580,000 for the five-year- Purchased by Reynolds Bell Jr., Agent old mare Exotic Elegance. Hip 1124, a bay daughter of 1353 String of Pearls Stephen Got Even $425,000 Storm Cat out of the multiple Grade I-winning sprinter (4, Storm Cat-Pearl City, by Carson City) Exotic Wood (Rahy), was consigned for owners Pam Consigned by Eaton Sale, Agent for Overbrook Farm and Marty Wygod by Mill Ridge Sales as agent and was Purchased by J. C. Oxley offered in foal to dual GI Breeders= Cup Classic hero 1018 America America Rock Hard Ten $410,000 Tiznow. AShe=s a beautiful mare obviously out of a great (5, Mister Baileys {GB}-Gal of Mine, by Mining) champion mare and we expect that she=s going to do Consigned by Highclere Sales, Agent XXII very well for us,@ said McCarthy, partners in Black Jack Purchased by Stonestreet Thoroughbred Holdings LLC with Fred. W. Hertrich III. McCarthy said that the foal 1328 Sharaiji Blossom Cherokee Run $400,000 the mare is carrying was part of the attraction as it will (4, Saint Ballado-Lilac Garden, by Roberto) be bred on the increasingly popular cross responsible Consigned by Mill Ridge Sales, Agent for champion Folklore, out of a mare by Storm Cat Purchased by Narvick International herself; and recent GIII Iroquois S. winner Tiz Wonder- 1176 Icy Tea Racing/b’mare prospect $350,000 ful, produced by a daughter of Hennessy. McCarthy (3, Storm Cat-Miss Sobriety, by Temperence Hill) added that a decision on whether to keep or sell the Consigned by Mill Ridge Sales, Agent mare=s offspring will be fluid. AWe are market breeders, Purchased by John Weld, Agent so I don=t know what we=re going to do.@ McCarthy said 1352 Strategic Quest (GB) Johannesburg $350,000 that Exotic Elegance is likely to visit Unbridled=s Song in (4, Rainbow Quest-Danlu, by Danzig) 2007. That foal would be bred along the same lines as Consigned by Brookdale Sales, Agent for Cynthia Howard Grade I winners Buddha and Magnificent Song. Purchased by L=Ormarins Pty Ltd TDN P HEADLINE NEWS • 11/10/06 • PAGE 3 of 11 Cloverleaf Swoops for Henny Half... Streaking Meteor... Blue Warbler (More Than Ready), a half-sister to GI A colt by Yes It=s True brought the top price for a Vosburgh S. and GI King=s Bishop S. hero Henny weanling yesterday at Keeneland. The bay, out of the Hughes, brought a final bid of $500,000 yesterday at stakes-winning Meteor Cap (Capote), was purchased Keeneland. Bidding on behalf of John Sykes= Cloverleaf for Jess Jackson=s Stonestreet Stables, LLC, for Farms II in Reddick, Florida, the farm=s general manager $300,000. Hailing from the consignment of Gainesway, Brent Fernung outlasted Stonewall Farm=s Richard the Feb. 6 foal is from the fam- Haisfield to land the dark bay, carrying a foal by Mr. ily of Grade I winners A Phe- Greeley, from the consignment of Gainesway, agent. nomenon and Seattle Meteor. Sykes has undertaken the task of building a solid roster of stallions for the Central Florida market, recently AThis colt is a serious beast,@ adding the likes of GI Forego S. winners Pomeroy and said Gainesway=s Michael Mass Media; three-time Grade II winner High Limit; and Hernon. AHe had size, strength, GSW Congrats. But Fernung indicated a return to the balance. He had motion. He Bluegrass for the 2007 breeding season is more than was a very appealing sales likely for his purchase. AWe haven=t got a stallion picked horse--what the market is look- Yes It’s True out for her next year, but I=m sure she=ll come back up ing for. He s a very good pros- www.threechimneys.com = here to breed,@ he said. AWe=re trying to collect up some pect. We were delighted with nice mares, and obviously you can=t beat that pedigree.@ the price, which was considerably more than the re- Fernung was also attracted to the mare=s appearance.