SATURDAY, 26 MARCH 2016

GRENDISAR TOO GOOD IN EASTER CLASSIC CLASSIC FORM RUNS A true stalwart of the all-weather scene by now, Grendisar (Ire) DEEP IN WORLD CUP (Invincible Spirit {Ire}) followed up his win in the G3 Winter Derby Feb. 27 in Friday’s Coral Easter Classic on Good Friday to confirm that he is a force to be reckoned with now that his arch-nemesis Tryster (Ire) (Shamardal) is playing away in Dubai. Always well positioned by Adam Kirby in mid-division, the bay allowed Metropol (Ire) (Holy Roman Emperor {Ire}) first run in the straight, but cut down that French raider inside the last half-furlong for another major payday. “He’s a proper racehorse and has never been in better form, so is a credit to his trainer,” his jockey said, while Marco Botti revealed that a summer break is probably on the cards now. “We were confident with his form, as he looked great but you never know and luckily it panned out well with a nice genuine pace all the way,” his trainer said. “He deserved to win a big race like this and seems to enjoy it around Lingfield on this surface, so we’ve found the key to him.” Cont. p2

California Chrome and Alan Sherman at Meydan Friday | DRC/Mathea Kelley

No matter what way you look at it, the American contingent MO TOM AIMS TO REBOUND IN LA DERBY forms an imposing presence in the $10-million G1 Dubai World GIII LeComte S. winner Mo Tom (Uncle Mo) anchors the Cup, the world’s richest horse race that will celebrate its 21st GII TwinSpires.com Louisiana Derby at Fair Grounds Saturday. renewal under the lights at Meydan Racecourse Saturday. Click or tap here to go straight to TDN America. The 2014 GI Kentucky Derby and GI Preakness S. winner and American Horse of the Year California Chrome (Lucky Pulpit) suffered an agonizing defeat on this night 12 months ago when run down late by longshot Prince Bishop (Ire) (Dubawi {Ire}) in the World Cup, but the strapping chestnut will be chasing more than just redemption here. Should he win the $6-million lion’s share of the purse, California Chrome would surpass the 2008 World Cup winner Curlin (Smart Strike) as the richest-ever North American- based Thoroughbred. By all reports from connections, California Chrome is training as good, if not better than ever, and he rewarded the decision to prepare him in Dubai with a facile two-length win in a 2000-metre Meydan handicap Feb. 25. Alan Sherman, son of and assistant to trainer Art Sherman, has been stationed in Dubai with the 5-year-old since late January, and he explained this week, “We just felt he would have longer to acclimatise and it would be to his benefit. He won his comeback at home [the GII San Pasqual S. Jan. 10] and again on his return here.” Cont. in Worldwide News p6 TDN EUROPE/INTERNATIONAL • PAGE 2 of 15 • THETDN.COM SATURDAY, 26 MARCH 2016

COBALT THRESHOLD ADOPTED BY IFHA Botti added Grendisar could travel if the right opportunity arose. “If there’s a valuable race The International Federation of Horseracing Authorities has on the all-weather in adopted a raceday threshold for cobalt of 0.01 micrograms per America, we’d take our litre of urine, which the British Horseracing Authority will put into effect Apr. 2. chance but there aren’t Cobalt is an essential trace element naturally present in the many opportunities so I horse; however, when administered at levels beyond natural think we’ll have a break parameters, it has the potential to affect performance and the and bring him back next health of the horse. Cobalt positives have made plenty of headlines year--we don’t want to in Australia over the past year, with a handful of trainers charged break his routine.” with administering the substance to affect performance facing Grendisar | Racing Post The Coral Easter Classic bans of three years or more. On Thursday, champion trainer Peter was the feature race on Moody began a six-month suspension for presenting a horse to Lingfield’s £1.1-million All-Weather Championships Finals Day. A race with cobalt in its system above the permitted threshold. record crowd of 10,106 turned up for the third renewal of British “It is important that British racing remains at the forefront of all racing’s winter showpiece. Andrew Perkins, executive director of matters relating to integrity and welfare,” said Jenny Hall, chief Lingfield Park, said, "We are delighted to have a course record veterinary officer for the BHA. “While we would previously have attendance today. All-Weather Championships Finals Day always had facility under our rules to bring charges against anyone found has fantastic racing. It is wonderful to see so many racegoers to be misusing the substance, the implementation of this threshold attracted to Lingfield Park and enjoying themselves on this lovely provides a formal framework for such charges, should they be day." Click for the Racing Post result. Video, sponsored by detected via testing.” Fasig-Tipton. The BHA also announced Friday that as of Apr. 2, all horses competing in British flat races on the turf must enter the parade LADBROKES ALL-WEATHER MILE CHAMPIONSHIPS CONDITIONS ring fully shod, unless permission is otherwise granted by the BHA S., £150,000, LIN, 3-25, 4yo/up, 8f (AWT), 1:35.20, ft. before the race’s 48 hour declaration stage. 1--CAPTAIN JOY (IRE), 131, g, 7, Dark Angel (Ire)--Ardea Brave (Ire), by Chester House. (14,500gns Ylg ‘10 TATOCT). O-Herb M Stanley; B-Scuderia San Pancrazio SAS (IRE); T-Tracey Collins; J-Pat Smullen. £93,375. Lifetime Record: MSP-Ire, 34-9-7-3, $321,506. 2--Sovereign Debt (Ire), 131, g, 7, Dark Angel (Ire)--Kelsey Rose (GB), by Most Welcome (GB). (105,000gns Ylg ‘10 TATOCT; Coral Easter Classic report Cont. from p1 145,000gns 5yo ‘14 TATFEB). O-Lady O’Reilly. £27,960. Friday’s Results: 3--Mindurownbusiness (Ire), 131, h, 5, Cape Cross (Ire)--Whos CORAL EASTER CLASSIC ALL-WEATHER MIDDLE DISTANCE Mindin Who (Ire), by Danehill Dancer (Ire). (20,000gns Ylg ‘12 CHAMPIONSHIPS CONDITIONS S., £200,000, LIN, 3-25, 4yo/up, TAOCT; 52,000gns 2yo ‘13 TA13; 52,000gns 2yo ‘13 TATBRE; 10f (AWT), 2:02.94, st. 77,000gns 3yo ‘14 TATHIT; 85,000gns 2yo ‘14 TA14). O-A D 1--GRENDISAR (IRE), 131, h, 6, Invincible Spirit (Ire)-- Spence. £13,980. Remarkable Story (GB), by Mark of Esteem (Ire). (€15,000 Margins: HF, 1, 2 3/4. Odds: 11.00, 2.75, 2.00. Wlg ‘10 GOFNOV; 30,000gns Ylg ‘11 TAOC; £75,000 2yo ‘12 Third in this 12 months ago, the late-maturing Polytrack specialist TATMAY). O-Mr Mohamed Albousi Alghufli; B-Old Carhue & Captain Joy had been through colic surgery in the interim, but had Grange Bloodstock (IRE); T-Marco Botti; J-Adam Kirby. already shown that he was not far off his best with a return win £124,500. Lifetime Record: GSW-Eng, 35-10-13-2, $604,075. over this trip at Dundalk Feb. 12. Cont. p3 2--Fire Fighting (Ire), 131, g, 5, Soldier of Fortune (Ire)--Savoie (Fr), by Anabaa. (€70,000 Ylg ‘12 ARAUG; £130,000 RNA 3yo ‘14 DONSEP; 85,000gns RNA 4yo ‘15 TA15). O-Mr A. D. Spence. £37,280. 3--Metropol (Ire), 131, h, 5, Holy Roman Emperor (Ire)-- Monetary (Ger), by Winged Love (Ire). (€32,000 Ylg ‘12 ARAUG; €42,000 2yo ‘13 ARJUL). O-Mr Y Lauraire & Mme D Doussot. £18,640. Margins: 1, SHD, 2 1/4. Odds: 0.67, 7.00, 16.00. TDN EUROPE/INTERNATIONAL • PAGE 3 of 15 • THETDN.COM SATURDAY, 26 MARCH 2016

Ladbrokes All-Weather Championships Conditions S. Cont. 2--Race Day (Ire), 131, c, 3, Dubawi (Ire)--Nadia (GB), by Always close to the pace, the grey was sent to the front with Nashwan. O-Godolphin. £27,960. 1 1/2 furlongs remaining and 3--Haalick (Ire), 131, c, 3, Roderic O’Connor (Ire)--Lucky Pipit p r o v e d g a m e a n d (GB), by Key of Luck. (€50,000 Wlg ‘13 GOFNOV; 170,000gns courageous as Sovereign Ylg ‘14 TAOCT). O-Sheikh Ahmed bin Rashid Al Maktoum. Debt attempted to grind him £13,980. down late on. “He’s been a Margins: 1, NK, 3HF. Odds: 10.00, 4.50, 1.50. phenomenal horse,” trainer With the first two being the place to be in throughout, the Tracey Collins said. “He’s market-leader Haalick getting going too late from too far back and been a lovely horse to train, the second favourite Cape Speed (Fr) (Cape Cross {Ire}) finishing but he ran into trouble last tailed off and almost pulled up, this may not have produced the Captain Joy | Racing Post September and he had colic ideal result, but Sea of Flames showed tenacity to reap dividends. surgery. He loves racing and loves to work and I knew coming here Game when successful in a course-and-distance maiden Jan. 23 he was spot-on.” Click for the Racing Post result. Video, and impressive when sponsored by Fasig-Tipton. following up in a seven- furlong handicap Feb. 5, UNIBET 3 YEAR OLD SPRINT ALL-WEATHER CHAMPIONSHIPS the chestnut encountered CONDITIONS S., £150,000, LIN, 3-25, 3yo, 5f 6y (AWT), :58.19, st. trouble in running when 1--WOLOWITZ (IRE), 131, g, 3, Intense Focus--Tranquil Sky eighth behind Haalick in (GB), by Intikhab. (€20,000 Ylg ‘14 GOFSPT). O-Mrs Christine the Listed Spring Cup over Barron; B-Jerry O’Sullivan (IRE); T-David Barron; J-Graham the latter trip a month Gibbons. £93,375. Lifetime Record: 6-4-0-1, $162,659. later. With that in mind, 2--Sign of the Kodiac (Ire), 131, c, 3, Kodiac (GB)--Summer Sea Of Flames | Racing Post the always tactically-astute Magic (Ire), by Desert Sun (GB). (£50,000 Ylg ‘14 DNPRM). Silvestre de Sousa had him forwardly placed here and he was O-The Cool Silk Partnership. £27,960. handed the perfect lead by the free-running Race Day. Tackling 3--Kadrizzi (Fr), 131, g, 3, Hurricane Cat--Kadiania (Fr), by Indian that rival and getting the better of the brief argument inside the Rocket (GB). (€16,000 Ylg ‘14 OSASEP; £25,000 2yo ‘15 last half-furlong, the homebred--whose dam is a half-sister to the BBAPR). O-A Chapman & Wentdale Limited (FR). £13,980. MGSW Cocktail Queen (Ire) (Motivator {GB}) and who also has a 2- Margins: NK, NK, NK. Odds: 4.00, 25.00, 4.50. year-old filly by Excelebration (Ire)-- stayed on strongly as Haalick With the hot favourite Gracious John (Ire) (Baltic King {GB}) ate into the front pair’s advantage late on. Peter Maughan, blowing the start and getting caught up in traffic, the way was travelling head lad to trainer David Elsworth, said, “He should open for the punters’ second choice, Wolowitz, to be rewarded for translate this form to turf and the jockey said he could stay a bit his far more straightforward trip. Last seen bringing up a three- further, too, maybe a mile and a quarter. He’s a nice horse to look timer at the chief expense of Kadrizzi in a fast-track qualifier for forward to this year.” Click for the Racing Post result. Video, this over the same trip at Wolverhampton Mar. 4, the bay was sponsored by Fasig-Tipton. always close to the pace and battled to gain the lead in the last 50 yards. “He’s pretty smart--they didn’t go very quick and he was Friday’s Results: keener than normal for the first half of the race,” jockey Graham 32RED ALL-WEATHER FILLIES’ & MARES’ CHAMPIONSHIPS Gibbons commented. “He’s going the right way and hasn’t finished CONDITIONS S., £150,000, LIN, 3-25, 4yo/up, f/m, 7f 1y (AWT), yet. He was immature early on, but we always knew he had ability 1:23.53, ft. and there’s a big pot in him this summer on turf.” Click for the 1--VOLUNTEER POINT (IRE), 126, f, 4, Footstepsinthesand (GB)-- Racing Post result. Video, sponsored by Fasig-Tipton. Piffling (GB), by Pivotal (GB). (14,000gns RNA Wlg ‘12 TATFOA; 32,000gns Ylg ‘13 TAOCT). O-Box 41; B-George 32RED ALL-WEATHER 3 YEAR OLD MILE CHAMPIONSHIPS Strawbridge & London Thoroughbred Services Ltd (IRE); T-Mick CONDITIONS S., £150,000, LIN, 3-25, 3yo, 8f (AWT), 1:35.54, st. Channon; J-Graham Gibbons. £93,375. Lifetime Record: 1--SEA OF FLAMES (GB), 131, g, 3, Aqlaam (GB)--Hidden Fire 21-7-4-1, $261,865. (GB), by Alhaarth (Ire). O-Mr J. C. Smith; B-Littleton Stud (GB); 2--Bint Dandy (Ire), 126, m, 5, Dandy Man (Ire)--Ceol Loch Aoidh T-David Elsworth; J-Silvestre de Sousa. £93,375. Lifetime (Ire), by Medecis (GB). (€22,000 2yo ‘13 GBMBR; £9,000 3yo Record: 5-3-0-0, $146,888. ‘14 ASAUG). O-M M Foulger. £27,960. Cont. p4 TDN EUROPE/INTERNATIONAL • PAGE 4 of 15 • THETDN.COM SATURDAY, 26 MARCH 2016

32Red All-Weather F’s&M’s Championships Conditions S. Cont. Alben Star gained a narrow verdict in the inaugural renewal of this event in 2014, but was winless in 16 subsequent starts-- 3--Alfajer (GB), 126, f, 4, Mount Nelson (GB)--Sakhee’s Song including a runner-up finish in this last year--and lined up coming (Ire), by Sakhee. (£85,000 Ylg ‘13 DNPRM). O-Saleh Al Homaizi back from off-the-board efforts here in the Feb. 6 Listed Cleves S. & Imad Al Sagar. £13,980. and Feb. 27 Listed Hever Sprint S. last time. Finding a rail position Margins: 2 1/4, HF, 1. Odds: 4.00, 20.00, 7.00. in mid-division for the most part, the veteran bay angled off the Volunteer Point closed last term with a fourth in Deauville’s fence in early stretch and swooped late after weaving a smooth Dec. 27 Listed Prix Satamixa and opened this campaign with passage to win going away. The winner, who is kin to a 2-year-old conditions wins at Chelmsford Jan. 16 and going one mile here last filly by Fast Company (Ire), is out of an unraced half-sister to the time Mar. 1. Steadied in third after breaking on the front end, she G1 St James’s Palace S. victor Bijou d’Inde (GB) (Cadeaux Genereux was rousted along on the home turn and kept on gamely under a {GB}). “Alben Star really likes it here and, on the big day when they drive along the fence to score decisively. “She’s good from the go a strong pace, it seems to suit him down to the ground,” said gate, travels nicely rider David Nolan. “I had a plan beforehand and it panned out just and makes it easy as I thought it might. You need the splits turning in, but he got into for you,” explained a lovely rhythm and I knew he would find as long as he got a bit of r i d e r G r a h a m room. You need a bit of luck and fortunately we got it.” Winning Gibbons. “Coming part-owner Ken Shannon added, “He’s been trained for this day down the hill I and the team at home have done a great job to get him fit to be thought I had them able to be here. This is his target from one year to the next, and covered and it was will be his target again next year if we can keep him in one piece. good I got through.” He may be eight, but because of his injuries he hasn’t got that Winning trainer many miles on the clock. He can still go up them gallops, and he’s Volunteer Point | Racing Post Mi ck Channon come here fresh. He was injured last year and he had box rest and was brought along steady and the trainer [Richard Fahey] and the added of the bay, boys have done a great job.” Click for the Racing Post result. who hails from the family of G1 Prix Royal Oak-winning European Video, sponsored by Fasig-Tipton. highweight Braashee (GB) (Sadler’s Wells), “She’s a good filly who has improved all winter and I was thinking she was going to need 32RED ALL-WEATHER MARATHON CHAMPIONSHIPS CONDITIONS a holiday at some point, but we’ve just kept her ticking over. She’s S., £150,000, LIN, 3-25, 4yo/up, 15f 169y (AWT), 3:18.65, ft. knocked on the door for black-type and that [win] would make her 1--MOONRISE LANDING (IRE), 126, m, 5, Dalakhani (Ire)--Celtic a bit more valuable. There’s a race here in a month’s time Slipper (Ire) (GSW-Ity & MGSP-Eng, $135,020), by Anabaa. [G3 Chartwell Fillies’ S.] and we’ll look at something like that over (€70,000 RNA Ylg ‘12 ARAUG). O-P D Savill; B-Oak Hill Stud seven furlongs or a mile. I think seven is her trip so we’ll just see (IRE); T-Ralph Beckett; J-Jim Crowley. £93,375. Lifetime what’s about. She’s kept her winter coat and while she’s got a coat Record: 12-5-1-1, $197,082. like that we’ll carry on.” Click for the Racing Post result. Video, 2--Anglophile (GB), 131, g, 5, Dubawi (Ire)--Anna Palariva (Ire), sponsored by Fasig-Tipton. by Caerleon. O-Godolphin. £27,960. 3--Ballynanty (Ire), 126, c, 4, Yeats (Ire)--Reina Blanca (GB), by UNIBET ALL-WEATHER SPRINT CHAMPIONSHIPS CONDITIONS S., Darshaan (GB). (€62,000 Ylg ‘13 GOFSPT). O-Richard £150,000, LIN, 3-25, 4yo/up, 6f 1y (AWT), 1:09.77, ft. Wilmot-Smith. £13,980. 1--ALBEN STAR (IRE), 131, g, 8, Clodovil (Ire)--Secret Circle (GB), Margins: HF, HF, 3HF. Odds: 1.20, 5.00, 8.00. by Magic Ring (Ire). (18,000gns Ylg ‘09 TATOCT; 30,000gns 2yo Moonrise Landing, who rose through the handicap ranks to ‘10 TATGNS). O-J K Shannon & M A Scaife; B-Rathasker Stud garner contests at Newmarket Oct. 30 and at Kempton Nov. 18, (IRE); T-Richard Fahey; J-David Nolan. £93,375. Lifetime went postward for this stamina test coming off a conditions win Record: MSP-Eng, 40-8-6-4, $492,971. going in excess of two miles at Wolverhampton when last seen 2--Lancelot du Lac (Ity), 131, g, 6, Shamardal--Dodie Mae, by Dec. 12. Settled off the pace from the outset, she made stealthy Capote. (45,000gns 2yo ‘12 TATBRE). O-Michael & Heather headway inside the last half-mile and quickened smartly under a Yarrow. £27,960. power drive once finding open runway in the straight to gain the 3--Goken (Fr), 131, c, 4, Kendargent (Fr)--Gooseley Chope (Fr), upper hand in the dying strides. The homebred grey, who is out of by Indian Rocket (GB). O-Guy Pariente. £13,980. the G3 Premio Dormello victress Celtic Slipper (Ire) (Anabaa), is a Margins: 2 1/4, 3/4, SHD. Odds: 7.00, 4.00, 2.50. half-sister to a yearling filly by Big Bad Bob (Ire). Cont. p5 TDN EUROPE/INTERNATIONAL • PAGE 5 of 15 • THETDN.COM SATURDAY, 26 MARCH 2016

32Red All-Weather Marathon Championships Conditions S. Cont. The classy Rockfel-winning dam, who descends from the MG1W “She has a turn of foot and is terrific mare,” beamed owner Peter highweight Golden Opinion, has a 2-year-old colt by Poet’s Voice Savill. “She has improved a lot and let’s hope she can convert that (GB) named Poet’s Society (GB) and a yearling colt by Dubawi (Ire). to the turf now because she is an exciting prospect. She was Lifetime Record: 6-3-0-0, $50,786. Video, sponsored by injured in the [Listed] Oaks Trial here a couple of years ago and Fasig-Tipton. was off for a year afterwards. It took time to get her confidence O-Godolphin; B-Darley (GB); T-Mark S. Johnston. back, but she has got it back since we changed riding tactics-- dropping her out, letting her relax and come through horses. She 4th-WOL, £15,000, Cond, 3-25, 2yo, 5f 20y (AWT), 1:00.78, st. has got a turn of foot +SUTTER COUNTY (GB) (c, 2, Invincible Spirit {Ire}--Rio Osa {Aus} {MSW-Aus, $193,461}, by Canny Lad {Aus}), sent off the 3-1 for a two-mile horse. second favourite, broke alertly from his wide stall and crossed over Our biggest worry was to track the early pace in second. Allowed to stride to the front that she had been off with a quarter-mile remaining, the homebred drew clear to win, for three months and eased down, by nine lengths from Stringybark Creek (GB) they can run a bit (Bushranger {Ire}). The talented dam is not only a full-sister to fresh after that. Preserve (Aus), the G1 VRC Sires’ Produce S. heroine who later [ Tr ai ner ] Ralph produced the dual group winner Safeguard (Aus) (Exceed and Excel [Beckett] was happy {Aus}) and group-placed Shaumari (Aus) (Medaglia d’Oro), but also enough that he had Presentation for Moonrise a half to Darley’s G1 Golden Rose-winning sire Denman (Aus) got her relaxed, but if Landing | Racing Post (Lonhro {Aus}). Lifetime Record: 1-1-0-0, $13,735. Video, she ran again I think sponsored by Fasig-Tipton. she would be even more settled. We have got a plan for her in O-Sheikh Hamdan Bin Mohammed Al Maktoum; B-Darley (GB); mind, but we will keep that to ourselves for now.” Click for the T-Mark S. Johnston. Racing Post result. Video, sponsored by Fasig-Tipton. 2nd-WOL, £50,000, Hcp, 3-25, 3yo, 8f 141y (AWT), 1:46.68, st. TURN TIDE (GB) (c, 3, Medicean {GB}--Quadri {GB}, by Polish 3rd-WOL, £50,000, Hcp, 3-25, 4yo/up, 13f 194y (AWT), 2:57.95, ft. Precedent), last seen winning Newcastle’s “Blaydon Race” nursery GANG WARFARE (GB) (g, 5, Medicean {GB}--Light Impact {Ire} over a mile in August, was keen early tracking the leading duo. {SW-Fr, $156,393}, by Fantastic Light) Lifetime Record: 14-5-2-1, Driven to gain the edge over Montsarrat (Ire) (Poet’s Voice {GB}) $77,642. O-The Hassiakos & Manasseh Partnership; B-West Stow Stud Ltd (GB); T-Simon Crisford. *40,000gns Ylg ‘12 TAOCT; passing the furlong pole, the 9-2 favourite kept on to prevail by a 22,000gns 2yo ‘14 TA14. half-length. The dam, who is from the immediate family of last year’s G1 Irish Oaks runner-up Jack Naylor (GB) (Champs Elysees {GB}), has also produced the MSP Eva Kant (GB) (Medicean {GB}) ADDITIONAL MAIDEN WINNERS: and has a 2-year-old colt by Bated Breath (GB) and a yearling colt Ian Fleming (GB), g, 3, Makfi (GB)--High Cross (Ire), by Cape by Harbour Watch (Ire). Sales history: £600 RNA Ylg ‘14 AS14; £600 Cross (Ire). WOL, 3-25, 7f 32y (AWT), 1:27.72. B-J Green & RNA Ylg ‘14 BRINOV. Lifetime Record: 5-3-1-0, $65,983. Video, Sons, W Fox & R Frisby (GB). *50,000gns Ylg ‘14 TAOCT. sponsored by Fasig-Tipton. O-Mr J. C. Fretwell; B-Lady Legard (GB); T-David Brown.

5th-WOL, £20,000, Cond, 3-25, 3yo/up, 5f 20y (AWT), 1:00.06, st. RAH RAH (GB) (f, 3, Lonhro {Aus}--Rahiyah {GSW-Eng & G1SP-Fr, ADDITIONAL MAIDEN WINNERS: $116,304}, by Rahy), who was returning off a substantial absence +Sirma Traou Land (Fr), f, 2, Soul City (Ire)--Peldrine (Fr), by having finished fourth in Ascot’s G3 Princess Margaret S. over six Pelder (Ire). LTS, 3-25, 5fT, :57.36. B-Jean-Claude Ollivier (FR). furlongs on her last outing in July, was squeezed out the back by Allegra Desio (Fr), f, 3, Country Reel--Alba Desio (Fr), by the first turn by the older brigade and languished adrift for more Smadoun (Fr). SSB, 3-25, 10fT, 2:21.56. B-Jerome Miceli, than the first half of the race. Cajoled into contention by Franny Alexandre Miceli & Claude Menini (FR). *€5,000 Ylg ‘14 Norton as the pace collapsed up ahead, the 9-4 second favourite ARNOV. swept to the front with 150 yards remaining and stayed on to win Restiana (Fr), f, 3, Kendargent (Fr)--Restia (Fr), by Montjeu (Ire). convincingly by 2 1/4 lengths from Red Baron (Ire) (Moss Vale {Ire}). LTS, 3-25, 9fT, 1:54.14. B-Guy Pariente Holding (FR). *Full to Restiadargent (Fr), MGSW-Fr & G1SP-Eng, $359,786. TDN EUROPE/INTERNATIONAL • PAGE 6 of 15 • THETDN.COM SATURDAY, 26 MARCH 2016

“He was a very good 3-year-old who kept running into American Pharoah, which was tough," trainer Kiaran McLaughlin said. "I'm very happy he stayed in training. The year has started out great. We thought he needed the race, but instead he broke the track record. He was more fit than we thought. He's trained outstanding since." Frosted was ridden in Round 2 by Godolphin retained rider Dubai World Cup Preview Cont. from p1 William Buick, who will also be aboard Saturday when they exit Alan Sherman continued, “The idea was to have the Dubai World from gate nine. Buick rode Prince Bishop to victory last year, and Cup as his third run of 2016 as we really think, after a break, the he will be once again looking to run down California Chrome in the third run back is the time a horse will peak. Hopefully, that will be stretch. “He’s a very nice ride to have in the race,” Buick said of the case on Saturday.” Frosted. “It’s an open race, I think. California Chrome and Frosted Sherman added, “He missed a lot of last year, but he returned to are the two standouts, but you have to respect all of the other training a far bigger, stronger, runners.” horse. We could not be more “I couldn’t have been more pleased [with the prep race],” Buick happy with him.” added. “He had an easy race, a good trip, and came out of the race California Chrome drew gate very well. After all that he still broke the track record, which was 11 of 12 at Wednesday’s draw quite impressive. He’ll have to up his game [Saturday], but he can and Art Sherman, having do it.” arrived in Dubai Monday night, McLaughlin noted that all four of his World Cup night entrants was philosophical about the would train Saturday morning. position after choosing second Art Sherman at Meydan "The three here at [Godolphin training centre] Marmoom will go DRC/Mathea Kelley from last. “A wide draw should a slow 2000 metres," McLaughlin said. "With night racing, we want not matter if you have the to keep them in their routine. Frosted will van over to the Meydan right horse and we think we do,” he said. “He has plenty of tactical receiving barn at 5:30 p.m. We're ready to get this going. It's been speed, so stall 11 should not be an inconvenience.” a long wait to the big night and we are very happy with how all of Sherman noted that California Chrome would go to the track for our horses are coming into their races." some light exercise Saturday morning. Godolphin will be looking for its seventh win in the world’s “[Saturday] we will jog him at the little training track right near our barn,” he said. “We go about 15 minutes just warm him up. He richest race, having last tasted victory with African Story (GB) likes to train every day, it keeps him relaxed.” (Pivotal {GB}) over the old Tapeta track in 2014. While the Shermans are chasing their first World Cup win with Trainer Dale Romans took the 2005 renewal of the World Cup the favourite, they will have to contend with a pair of compatriots with Roses In May (Devil His Due), and he saddles Donegal Racing’s who have not only won the world’s richest race, but who bring Keen Ice Saturday. The bay wrote his name in the history books Grade I-winning 3-year-olds last year as the only horse to defeat American Pharoah during the from last year. Triple Crown winner’s Classic campaign, but he will have to bounce Kiaran McLaughlin, formerly back from a flat seventh-place finish behind Special Fighter (Ire) based in the UAE and the winner (Teofilo {Ire}) in the G1 Al Maktoum Challenge R3 on Super of the 2007 World Cup with Saturday Mar. 5, when he was beaten 12 lengths. Keen Ice was Sheikh Hamdan’s Invasor (Arg) that day coming off a sixth-place effort behind Mshawish (Candy Stripes), has not started (Medaglia d’Oro) in the Feb. 6 GI Donn H., and therefore has a horse on the World Cup card something to prove, but the 4-year-old reportedly pleased since 2009, the final renewal at connections in his final pre-race work last Saturday and has been Nad Al Sheba, and he brings a Keen Ice | Sherackatthetrack a picture of health on-track in the mornings this week and, at the small-but-select team to behest of jockey Ryan Moore, adds blinkers for the World Cup. Saturday’s card, headed by last year’s GI Twinspires.com Wood Reflecting on the significance of the event, Romans said, "Ten Memorial S. winner Frosted (Tapit), who was second to American million brings out the best of everything, and it should. It's been Pharoah (Pioneerof the Nile) in the GI Belmont S. and third behind the richest race in the world since its inception, but now it's Keen Ice (Curlin) and the Triple Crown winner in the GI Travers S. become the most prestigious older-horse race in the world. You Like California Chrome, Frosted has made his preparations at can't buy prestige, but if you look at the history of the horses who Meydan; he won the G2 Al Maktoum Challenge R2 by five lengths have won it, it's consistently been the best in the division Feb. 4, breaking the 9 1/2-furlong track record in the process. worldwide.” Cont. p7 TDN EUROPE/INTERNATIONAL • PAGE 7 of 15 • THETDN.COM SATURDAY, 26 MARCH 2016

Dubai World Cup Preview Cont. Things haven’t exactly gone to plan for the 4-year-old this Romans noted that some things, including the venue, had season, however; he was a dull fifth on return behind changed since his victory 11 years ago. Confrontation (War Pass) in the G3 Firebreak S. Feb. 4, and failed “This is a little different to Roses In May, but it's still a horse race. to make up ground when fourth, beaten 7 1/2 lengths, behind the Winning it was a life-changing moment for me. I was very proud to opportunistic Special Fighter in Round 3 Mar. 5. “First time, in the win it and for anyone who is fortunate to do so, it will change their Firebreak S., we kept telling everybody he was 80% fit and tackling life a lot more than just money would." a 1600-metre trip too sharp for him,” trainer Mike de Kock Al Shaqab Racing is a rapidly growing force in racing worldwide, explained. “Super Saturday was, on the face of it, disappointing, and Sheikh Joaan’s stable relies on Mshawish to take the World but the more you look at the race, all the dirt races on that day Cup trophy back across the Persian Gulf to Qatar. While he even, there seemed a definite bias towards those on the pace. I represents Qatari ownership, Mshawish is in fact trained in the can say he is spot on for Saturday and we expect him to run a big U.S. by perennial leading trainer Todd Pletcher, and the bay has race.” consistently displayed top form on both dirt and turf over the past Gun Pit (Aus) (Dubawi {Ire}) carries the hopes of Hong Kong, year. He won the GI Gulfstream Park Turf H. before finishing a having put in a big effort on local debut to be second in Round 3, highly respectable and Group 2 winner Vadamos (Fr) (Monsun {Ger}) brings further third in last year’s G1 international appeal, flying the flag of France off a second-place Dubai Turf on this finish to champion Solow in a Chantilly conditions race Mar. 3. card. After 19 straight starts on the grass he tried dirt for the first time in last year’s GI Saturday, Meydan, UAE, post time: 9:00 p.m. EST (1:00 p.m. EST) Cigar Mile, finishing a DUBAI WORLD CUP SPONSORED BY EMIRATES AIRLINE-G1, close-up fourth, and $10,000,000 (£7,051,689/€8,941,345), 3yo/up, 2000m PP HORSE SIRE JOCKEY TRAINER has this year won the K GIII Hal’s Hope S. and 1 Keen Ice Curlin Moore Romans Mshawish | DRC/Andrew Watkins K the Donn. Pletcher 2 Mshawish Medaglia d’Oro Dettori Pletcher gave Mshawish’s trackwork this week two thumbs up, saying, “It 3 Gun Pit (Aus) Dubawi (Ire) Moreira Fownes 4 Mubtaahij (Ire) Dubawi (Ire) Soumillon de Kock seems like he is in good form. He moves over this track effortlessly. 5 Special Fighter (Ire) Teofilo (Ire) Jara Al Muhairi He just sort of floats over it, and hopefully that continues.” 6 Candy Boy Candy Ride (Arg) Dobbs Watson The American contingent is completed by Hoppertunity (Any 7 Vadamos (Fr) Monsun (Ger) Cheminaud Fabre Given Saturday), who looks to provide trainer Bob Baffert with a 8 Hokko Tarumae (Jpn) King Kamehameha (Jpn) Miyuki Nishiura third World Cup trophy to add to his wins in 1998 with Silver 9 Frosted Tapit Buick McLaughlin Charm and 2001 with Captain Steve. 10 Hoppertunity K Any Given Saturday Prat Baffert It was Jimmy Barnes who became a household name last year 11 California Chrome Lucky Pulpit Espinoza Sherman 12 Teletext Empire Maker de Sousa Al Harabi while traveling the U.S. with American Pharoah, and this time All carry 125 pounds. Barnes’s wife, Dana Barnes, takes the reins, having spent the week in Dubai with Hoppertunity. Barnes also oversaw the preparations of the Baffert-trained Secret Circle (Eddington) prior to his G1 POSTPONED PRIMED FOR SHEEMA TEST Dubai Golden Shaheen win last year, and she said, “It’s going to be European shippers have a formidable record in the G1 Dubai really hard to top last year but that would definitely be up there.” Sheema Classic, having taken five of the six runnings of the “He’s doing perfectly,” Barnes said of Hoppertunity, who was $6-million race since it was moved to Meydan in 2010, and Sheikh third behind California Chrome in the San Pasqual before winning Mohammed Obaid’s Postponed (Ire) (Dubawi {Ire}) is hard to look the 1 1/8-mile GII San Antonio S. Feb. 6. “Everything has gone past off his dominating win in the track-and-trip G2 Dubai City of smoothly. He’s as happy as can be.” Gold S. Super Saturday Mar. 5. That race marked the 5-year-old’s Mubtaahij (Ire) (Dubawi {Ire}) was one of the more visually first start for trainer Roger Varian after he had won last year’s impressive winners on last year’s World Cup card when he won the G1 King George VI and Queen Elizabeth S. and G2 Prix Foy for G2 UAE Derby by eight lengths, and he was given a prolonged trainer Luca Cumani, and Varian said Thursday, “He looks to be one break after traveling to America to run eighth in the Kentucky of the leading mile-and-a-half horses in the world. He is an exciting Derby and fourth in the GI Belmont S. horse to have in the yard and it is a privilege for me to have a King George winner in my care.” Cont. p8 TDN EUROPE/INTERNATIONAL • PAGE 8 of 15 • THETDN.COM SATURDAY, 26 MARCH 2016

Duramente kicked off a three-race win streak in the G1 Satsuki Sho (Japanese 2000 Guineas, 2000 metres) last April and stretched successfully out to this trip to garner the G1 Tokyo Yushun (Japanese Derby) six weeks later. The bay shrugged off a nine- month layoff to win the G2 Nakayama Kinen Feb. 28, and trainer Hori Noriyuki said Duramente has settled in well following his first overseas flight. “His condition is improving as he had a preparation race last month and he will be at his best for the race,” Noriyuki said. “Duramente showed more maturity and worked more relaxed [Thursday]. It is his first trip overseas, and with the different temperature and surroundings, he showed some increased nervousness. However, he has settled into the new surroundings faster than we expected.” Postponed Tuesday | DRC/Andrew Watkins Postponed Primed for Sheema Test Cont. “I am very pleased we didn’t run him last autumn and we gave Saturday, Meydan, UAE, post time: 8:20 p.m. EST (12:20 p.m. EST) him the time to settle in and bed in to his new home,” the DUBAI SHEEMA CLASSIC PRESENTED BY LONGINES-G1, $6,000,000 Newmarket-based conditioner added. “Since the turn of the year (£4,229,597/€5,364,807), 3yo/up, 2410mT we always planned to give him two runs--in the City Of Gold and PP HORSE SIRE JOCKEY TRAINER WT in this. He has had a dream preparation and his work has been 1 Last Impact (Jpn) Deep Impact (Jpn) Moreira Sumii 125 2 Sheikhzayedroad (GB) Dubawi (Ire) Harley Simcock 125 excellent. Mentally he is tough and uncomplicated.” 3 The Blue Eye (GB) Dubawi (Ire) Bentley Al Ghazali 124 Sheikhzayedroad (GB) (Dubawi {Ire}) was another winner for 4 Duramente (Jpn) King Kamehameha (Jpn) Demuro Hori 124 Britain on the Super Saturday card, surging from midpack to record 5 One And Only (Jpn) Heart’s Cry (Jpn) Take Hashiguchi 125 a visually impressive 3 3/4-length win in the 2810 metre G3 Nad Al 6 Gailo Chop (Fr) Deportivo (GB) Jarnet de Watrigant 125 Sheba Trophy. The 7-year-old gelding was recording his first win 7 Postponed (Ire) Dubawi (Ire) Atzeni Varian 125 since notching his most important victory to date in the 2014 GI 8 Highland Reel (Ire) Galileo (Ire) Moore O’Brien 124 Northern Dancer Turf S. at Woodbine, and the bay reverts to that 9 Dariyan (Fr) Shamardal Soumillon de Ryer-Dpre 124 distance here. Aidan O’Brien and the Coolmore partners were successful in this TURF THE ULTIMATE TEST FOR TRYSTER with the ill-fated St Nicholas Abbey (Ire) (Montjeu {Ire}) in 2013, What a difference a year can make. This time in 2015, Tryster and they bring the last-out G1 Longines Hong Kong Vase winner (Ire) (Shamardal) was a synthetic specialist who had just taken out Highland Reel (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}). The bay has already proven to his first stakes race, Lingfield’s G3 Winter Derby. Fast forward 12 be able to take his ability around the globe, having won group months and the 5-year-old gelding, now a Group 1 winner, is the races in three different countries, and he has been on his toes in favourite for Saturday’s $6 million G1 Dubai Turf. the mornings at Meydan this week. Tryster developed a reputation as an all-weather specialist after “If he wasn’t like that I would be worried--that is how he is,” said winning five on the fly over synthetics in Britain last winter, but the O’Brien’s traveling head lad Pat Keating. “He is doing well and in bay quickly proved his ability to transfer his talents to the big good form. He traveled well and we couldn’t be happier.” leagues on the turf, streaking from last to first to win the G3 Dubai The Aga Khan’s Dariyan (Fr) (Shamardal) has had the misfortune Millennium S. by 2 3/4 of chasing home Postponed and Highland Reel in the Hong Kong lengths Feb. 18 and Vase (when third) and City of Gold (second), and the 4-year-old will following up in similar style be looking to recapture the winning form that saw him take last in the G1 Jebel Hatta S. summer’s G2 Prix Eugene Adam for trainer Alain de Royer-Dupre. over this track and trip The lone renewal of the Sheema Classic in the last six years to Super Saturday Mar. 5 over have not gone the way of Europe was won by Japan’s Gentildonna Farrier (Tapit) and the (Jpn) (Deep Impact {Jpn}), and given the form of Duramente (Jpn) South African Group 1 (King Kamehameha {Jpn}), it would not come as a surprise to see winner Ertijaal (Aus) (Hard Tryster | DRC/Andrew Watkins the 4-year-old carry the same Sunday Racing colours to victory. Spun). Cont. p9 TDN EUROPE/INTERNATIONAL • PAGE 9 of 15 • THETDN.COM SATURDAY, 26 MARCH 2016

Turf the Ultimate Test for Tryster Cont. “He is a huge talent,” Varian said. “He is lightly raced and I am Jockey William Buick has been bullish in his praise of Tryster sure that the best is yet to come. Since Christmas we have wound throughout the season, and he said this week, “He’s very exciting. his preparation up for this weekend and he is a very exciting horse He’s been very impressive in his last two races out here. He goes for the year ahead. His work has been excellent and I think and into the race in top form. He’s going to have to up his game hope he will make a better 3-year-old than 4-year-old.” because it’s a better race, but we think he can do it.” Forries Waltz (SAf) (Greys Inn) made a big early season Trainer Charlie Appleby added, “You have to have confidence to impression when winning a pair of handicaps–the latter being over ride him and that’s what William and the horse have in one this trip Jan. 28 over the first-up Ertijaal–but defies a layoff, having another. William rides him at home plenty and he knows him not been seen since then. Last year’s G1 Satsuki Sho (Japanese inside and out; he knows his idiosyncracies. I don’t think he could 2000 Guineas) and G1 Kikuka Sho (Japanese St. Leger) runner-up have a better platform to go into the race than his two starts out Real Steel (Jpn) (Deep Impact {Jpn}) carries the hopes of Japan, here.” and while he has not won in more than a year he finished just 3/4 Appleby pointed out that the spacing between Tryster’s races has of a length shy of G1 Dubai Sheema Classic contender Duramente been the same as last winter when he won a Kempton handicap, (Jpn) (King Kamehameha {Jpn}) in the G2 Nakayama Kinen Feb. 28. the Winter Derby and the Easter Classic. Flamboyant (Fr) (Peer Gynt {Jpn}) represents California trainer “Timing-wise it’s exactly the same as the way it was last year,” Patrick Gallagher and comes off wins in the GII San Gabriel S. Jan. Appleby said. “He went to Kempton, 10 days later he then went 2 and the GII San Marcos S. Feb. 6. and won the Winter Derby. Two and a half weeks later he pitched up and won the Easter Classic, so on timing it’s exactly the same. I’m hoping history will repeat itself on last winter.” Godolphin’s chances are bolstered further by the presence of its Saturday, Meydan, UAE, post time: 7:45 p.m. EST (11:45 a.m. EST) dual Group 2-winning filly Very Special (Ire) (Lope De Vega {Ire}) DUBAI TURF SPONSORED BY DP WORLD-G1, $6,000,000 from the Saeed bin Suroor stable. Like Tryster, the 4-year-old has (£4,229,597/€5,364,807), 3yo/up, 1800mT PP HORSE SIRE JOCKEY TRAINER recorded back-to-back stakes wins at Meydan, but unlike her silk 1 Forries Waltz (SAf) Greys Inn Soumillon de Kock mate, she has done her winning from the front end. The chestnut 2 Tryster (Ire) Shamardal Buick Appleby made the most of a slow pace in the one-mile G2 Cape Verdi S. 3 Forjatt (Ire) Iffraaj (GB) Hayes Selvaratnam Feb. 4, lulling her rivals to sleep before drawing off to win by three 4 Ghaamer Hard Spun O’Shea Al Raihe lengths. She proved that performance was no fluke, however, 5 Farrier K Tapit Mullen Seemar when stepping up a furlong to win the G2 Balanchine S. over the 6 Flamboyant (Fr) Peer Gynt (Jpn) Blanc Gallagher comebacking Grade I winner Euro Charline (GB) (Myboycharlie 7 The Corsican (Ire) Galileo (Ire) Spencer Simcock {Ire}) Mar. 3. 8 Intilaaq Dynaformer Hanagan Varian 9 Harry’s Son (Aus) Haradasun (Aus) Delpech Lafferty The Maktoum family is further represented by the lightly raced 10 Euro Charline (GB) Myboycharlie (Ire) Dettori Botti but heavily talented Intilaaq (Dynaformer), who carries the colours 11 Very Special (Ire) Lope De Vega (Ire) Doyle bin Suroor of Sheikh Mohammed’s elder brother Sheikh Hamdan. Intilaaq 12 Ertijaal (Aus) Hard Spun O’Neill de Kock earned ‘TDN Rising Star’ 13 Basateen (Ire) Teofilo (Ire) Dobbs Watson status courtesy of an eight- 14 Real Steel (Jpn) Deep Impact (Jpn) Moore Yahagi length maiden win last April, 15 Gabrial (Ire) Dark Angel (Ire) de Sousa Fahey All carry 125 pounds bar Euro Charline and Very Special, 121 pounds. but couldn’t cut it in the G1 Qipco 2000 Guineas, finishing 15th, and was X Y JET SET FOR GRANDEST TEST subsequently given a break. by Alan Carasso The bay returned to win the In the 15 previous renewals of the G1 Dubai Golden Shaheen Listed Steventon S. over 1 Intilaaq and jockey Paul Hanagan over conventional dirt tracks, U.S.-based sprinters have dominated 1/4 miles and the G3 Rose of DRC/Neville Hopwood winning 10 of those, including the victory of Secret Circle Lancaster S. over 1 5/16 (Eddington) last March. Rockingham Ranch and Gelfenstein Farm’s miles last summer, and trainer Roger Varian has been outspoken X Y Jet (Kantharos) will look to add to that total as the betting about his opinion of the 4-year-old this week. favorite in an interesting field of 10. Cont. p10 TDN EUROPE/INTERNATIONAL • PAGE 10 of 15 • THETDN.COM SATURDAY, 26 MARCH 2016

X Y Jet Set for Grandest Test Cont. Over a distance and a surface that are clearly not his best, the 8- A maiden winner in six outings for trainer Antonio Sano, the year-old traveled up sweetly into the final furlong and led between Florida-bred has blossomed really and truly for Jorge Navarro. calls only to be tagged on the wire. Joao Moreira should be able to Narrowly defeated in the 2015 GII Swale S., the gray gelding has settle Super Jockey behind the pace and will hope to reel them in proved too fleet for his rivals in putting together a five-race late. winning streak going back to last August. Those include a 9 1/4- “I rode him leading up to last year’s race when he was beaten a length tour-de-force in the GIII Mr. Prospector S. Dec. 19, a 4 1/4- head by a Breeders’ Cup winner [Secret Circle] in second and I’d length pummeling of Wildcat Red (D’wildcat) in the restricted say he is at least as well this time around,” commented Bev Sunshine Florida Millions Sprint Jan. 16 and a 1 1/4-length tally in Millard, wife of trainer Tony Millard. “He has also been running in the GIII Gulfstream Park Sprint S. better races at home on Feb. 27, which he mustered the turf and his rating is following a slow dispatch and at its highest.” got home 1 1/4 lengths to the A five-time winner in 14 good. The 6 1/2-furlong distance starts for trainer Barclay of the latter event is arguably Tagg, Confrontation (War slightly beyond his best, but he’s Pass) was runner-up no back at his favored trip for the fewer than three times in Shaheen and Navarro is relishing Grade III company, Confrontation winning the Firebreak S. the moment. including a 3 3/4-length Feb. 4 DRC/Andrew Watkins "This is a chance of a lifetime," defeat at the hands of Navarro reported. "I wish all of now-retired ‘TDN Rising Star’ Tonalist (Tapit) in last year’s GIII my good horse friends back Westchester S. at Belmont Park. The dark bay filled the same spot home have the opportunity to behind fellow Rising Star Liam’s Map (Unbridled’s Song) in a June X Y Jet come here. This is a beautiful, 19 Belmont allowance, was scooped up by these connections and DRC/Neville Hopwood first-class facility and the people outfinished One Man Band (Ire) (Pivotal {GB}) to win the G3 have been very welcoming and Firebreak S. Feb. 4. Instead of taking the next logical step into the great to work with. This is horse racing at its best. When it came to G2 Godolphin Mile, Confrontation cuts back to this sprint distance, running in Dubai I said to myself, 'why not?' All the top sprinters in at which he has posted three wins from four starts. America are on vacation, so why not take a chance?’" Though it’s hard to envision a scenario--barring an incident at the gates--that does not have X Y Jet at the head of affairs soon after the start, there does appear to be other speed signed on that could Saturday, Meydan, UAE, post time: 6:45 p.m. EST (10:45 a.m. EST) force the favorite to work hard on the lead. Muarrab (GB) (Oasis DUBAI GOLDEN SHAHEEN SPONSORED BY GULF NEWS-G1, Dream {GB}} chased Hong Kong’s Rich Tapestry (Ire) (Holy Roman $2,000,000 (£1,409,866/€1,789,949), 3yo/up, 1200m Emperor {Ire}) around the track in the G3 Al Shindagha Sprint Feb. PP HORSE SIRE JOCKEY TRAINER 11, but it proved an effort in futility, as the GI Santa Anita Sprint 1 Rich Tapestry (Ire) Holy Rman Emperor (Ire) Mosse Chang Championship winner led throughout to score by 1 1/2 lengths. 2 Master Kochanwong (Aus) Commands (Aus) Whyte Hall The Shadwell runner was drawn on the fence for the G3 Mahab Al 3 X Y Jet Kantharos Jaramillo Navarro 4 Kifaah (GB) Dubawi (Ire) O’Neill Al Raihe Shimaal Mar. 5 and took the race to Rich Tapestry on that 5 Domineer (GB) Shamardal Dettori Fownes occasion, riding the prevailing track bias to best Kifaah (GB) 6 Super Jockey (NZ) Sandtrap Moreira Millard (Dubawi {Ire}) by 5 1/2 lengths, with Rich Tapestry a spent third. 7 Muarrab (GB) Oasis Dream (GB) Hanagan Al Muhairi Muarrab is likely to sit up outside of X Y Jet, while it would seem to 8 Confrontation K War Pass Buick McLaughlin be in Rich Tapestry’s best interest to let some of the speed go and 9 Morawij (GB) Exceed and Excel (Aus) Hayes Selvaratnam try to make a run similar to the one he made at Santa Anita in 10 Reynaldothewizard K Speightstown Mullen Seemar 2014. All carry 125 pounds. Of a remarkable four Hong Kong-based horses set to take in the Shaheen, Super Jockey (NZ) (Sandtrap) looms the most dangerous. A surprising second to Secret Circle and ahead of Rich Tapestry last year, the Kiwi-bred emerges from the same Class 1 handicap as Not Listenin’tome Mar. 6 (see Al Quoz Sprint preview below). TDN EUROPE/INTERNATIONAL • PAGE 11 of 15 • THETDN.COM SATURDAY, 26 MARCH 2016

PAYS TO PAY ATTENTION IN AL QUOZ Drawn just to the outside of that duo is Ertijaal (Ire) (Oasis Dream {GB}), who is the likely market leader on the back of a pair by Alan Carasso of spectacular efforts over In the relatively brief history of the G1 Al Quoz Sprint, Hong the course and distance at Kong-based runners have done their fair share of damage. The this year’s Dubai World blue-collar Joy and Fun (NZ) (Cullen {Aus}) took down top honours Cup Carnival. Sheikh when the event was contested over 1200 metres in 2010 and ran Hamdan’s homebred rides in the top three on two occasions after it was shortened to five the crest of a four-race furlongs in 2011. Amber Sky (Aus) (Exceed and Excel {Aus}) tore winning skein overall and down the straight to take the Al Quoz trophy in 2014, while returned from a 10-month Peniaphobia (Ire) (Dandy absence to simply Man {Ire}) was gallant in dismantle a field by four finishing runner-up to Sole With the Burj Khalifa in the background, lengths on opening night of Power (GB) (Kyllachy {GB}) Ertijaal gallops Thursday the Carnival Jan. 7, carrying 12 months ago, with DRC/Andrew Watkins 131 pounds to victory. He Amber Sky a good fourth. proved that effort was no fluke by defeating Fityaan (GB) (Haafhd Though a jurisdiction {GB}) by two easy lengths in a Feb. 4 handicap. The latter returned relatively small in numbers, to surprise his 10 rivals in the G3 Meydan Sprint on Super Hong Kong fields two of Saturday, holding off the pace-pressing Jungle Cat (Ire) (Iffraaj Not Listenin’tome | DRC/Mathea Kelley Saturday’s leading chances. {GB}) and defending champion Sole Power, who slalomed his way Trainer John Moore, who registered his lone DWC night success down the straight to just miss over his preferred distance. courtesy of Sterling City (Aus) (Nadeem {Aus}) in the 2014 G1 Australian speedball Buffering (Aus) (Mossman {Aus}) proved a Golden Shaheen, will tighten the girth around Not Listenin’tome length too classy for his rivals in the G1 Winterbottom S. in (Aus) (Dylan Thomas {Ire}), who enters the Al Quoz in cracking Western Australia in November, then proved just as tough to form. A Group 2 winner and multiple Group 1-placed in Australia, handle on the East Coast when zipping home the 1 1/2-length the A$270,000 Inglis Easter Yearling purchase has amassed an winner of the Magic Millions Plate over 1300 metres Jan. 9. imposing record over the 1000 metres. Not Listenin’tome took out ‘TDN Rising Star’ Lady Shipman (Midshipman) will try to flaunt the National Day Cup H. in October, and a third-place effort behind her speed from the widest post, i.e. nearest the stands’ side rail. Peniaphobia in the six-furlong G1 Longines Hong Kong Sprint Dec. She will have to deal with a ton of other pace to her inside and one 13 saw him assigned top weight of 133 pounds in the Bauhinia would not be wrong to be critical of the overall strength of Sprint Trophy over the straight course just 19 days later. He American turf sprinters not named Undrafted (Purim) on the defeated the very useful Strathmore (Aus) (Fastnet Rock {Aus}) by international stage. a length while spotting that one 18 pounds, and while a subpar seventh behind Aerovelocity (NZ) (Pins {Aus}) in the Centenary Sprint Cup at three-quarters of a mile Jan. 31, gave Golden Shaheen hopeful Super Jockey (NZ) (Sandtrap) 13 pounds and beat Saturday, Meydan, UAE, post time: 6:10 p.m. EST (10:10 a.m. EST) that one a nose in a Class 1 handicap Mar. 6. Ryan Moore handles AL QUOZ SPRINT SPONSORED BY MEYDAN HOTELS & the riding duties, and his trainer is “very confident” about the task HOSPITALITY-G1, $1,000,000 (£707,827/€894,975), 3yo/up, 1000mT ahead. PP HORSE SIRE JOCKEY TRAINER “His riding boy said to me he is 200%, which is what you want to 1 Naadirr (Ire) Oasis Dream (GB) Soumillon Botti hear, and from that point of view he is a live chance,” Moore 2 Jungle Cat (Ire) Iffraaj (GB) Buick Appleby offered. “He looked a picture of health [Thursday] morning, he is 3 Bel Canto (Jpn) Sakura Bakushin O (Jpn) Take Tsunoda eating up and he hasn’t dropped a lot of bodyweight getting here.” 4 Not Listenin’tome (Aus) Dylan Thomas (Ire) Moore Moore 5 Peniaphobia (Ire) Dandy Man (Ire) Moreira Cruz Peniaphobia has won half of his 14 tries at Saturday’s distance, 6 Ertijaal (Ire) Oasis Dream (GB) Hanagan Al Raihe but his last victory over five was better than a year ago. Seventh to 7 Sole Power (GB) Kyllachy (GB) Hayes Lynam Not Listenin’tome in the National Day Cup, he managed to 8 Goldream (GB) Oasis Dream (GB) Harley Cowell overcome the disadvantageous widest barrier to wire the 2015 9 Buffering (Aus) Mossman (Aus) Browne Heathcote Hong Kong Sprint and was free of excuses when third in the 10 Muthmir (Ire) Invincible Spirit (Ire) O’Neill Haggas Centenary Sprint Cup. A recent barrier trial up the Sha Tin straight 11 Fityaan (GB) Haafhd (GB) de Sousa Al Muhairi was smooth as silk, he has Joao Moreira calling the shots and a 12 Sir Maximilian (Ire) Royal Applause (GB) Dobbs Williams 13 Lady Shipman Midshipman Ortiz Jr McLaughlin Hong Kong quinella is not out of the question. All carry 125 pounds bar Bel Canto and Lady Shipman, 121 pounds. TDN EUROPE/INTERNATIONAL • PAGE 12 of 15 • THETDN.COM SATURDAY, 26 MARCH 2016

‘POLAR’ A HOT CHANCE IN DERBY Japan throws three GI Kentucky Derby aspirants in here: the American-bred and Triple Crown-nominated Lani (Tapit) and the Unbeaten ‘TDN Rising Star’ Polar River (Congrats) is doubtless Hideyuki Mori-trained pair of Yu Change (Jpn) (Swift Current {Jpn}) one of the hottest favourites on the world’s richest card of racing, and On The Rocks (Jpn) (Samurai Heart {Jpn}). Lani won two of his and the 3-year-old filly will be looking to extend her unbeaten four juvenile outings but was a wide-trip fifth on seasonal debut in record to five while facing males for the first time in the G2 UAE Tokyo’s one-mile Hyacinth S. Feb. 21. Yu Change and On The Rocks Derby. The bay won her maiden, the Guineas trial and the Listed both seek their first wins since last fall, but Mori–who 26 years ago UAE 1000 Guineas became the first and only Japanese trainer to start a horse in the itself by a combined Kentucky Derby, finishing 14th with Ski Captain (Jpn)–said that if margin of 31 1/4 either of his horses win, they will run for the roses on the first lengths, but she gave Saturday in May. her legion of fans a “If we win, we are going to Kentucky,” he said Thursday. scare in the G3 UAE Yu Change and On The Rocks would need to be supplemented for Oaks Mar. 3, finishing $200,000, a fraction of the $1.2-million winner’s share for the UAE just 3/4 of a length Derby. ahead of a fast- finishing Vale Dori Polar River | DRC/Andrew Watkins (Arg) (Asiatic Boy {Arg}) in a field of Saturday, Meydan, UAE, post time: 5:35 p.m. EST (9:35 a.m. EST) three. Trainer Doug Watson shed some light on that performance UAE DERBY SPONSORED BY THE SAEED & MOHAMMED AL this week, saying, “it’s hard to go off the Oaks win with three NABOODAH GROUP-G2, $2,000,000 (£1,409,866/€1,789,949), 3yo, 1900m runners and not much pace--it basically turned into a three- or PP HORSE SIRE JOCKEY TRAINER WT four- furlong sprint. But she’s had a really good three weeks since 1 Frank Conversation Quality Road Gutierrez O’Neill 121 that and we expect her to run well. Obviously you have Mike’s 2 Polar River K Congrats Dobbs Watson 117 horse [Vale Dori] who ran well last time and the American horse, 3 Lani Tapit Take Matsunaga 121 Frank Conversation (Quality Road), is a big, good-looking horse. If 4 Yu Change (Jpn) Swift Current (Jpn) Moreira Mori 121 she runs her race she should be there.” 5 Vale Dori (Arg) Asiatic Boy (Arg) Soumillon de Kock 127 6 On The Rocks (Jpn) Samurai Heart (Jpn) Demuro Mori 121 “She’s been exciting to have in the yard, a fun horse to train who 7 Lazzam (GB) Archipenko Dettori Botti 121 does everything right,” Watson added. “Her races have been visually impressive.” Paul Reddam’s Frank GODOLPHIN MILE A ONE MAN SHOW? Conversation comes into Trainer Doug Watson has enjoyed a landmark season, thanks in large part to the unbeaten G3 UAE Oaks winner Polar River this off a pair of Golden (Congrats), but the U.S. expatriate could be in line to get the most Gates stakes wins–the 1 important night of the UAE season off to a strong start with three 1/16-mile California Derby entrants in the G2 Godolphin Mile, including last-start winners One Jan. 16 and the 1 1/8-mile Man Band (Ire) (Pivotal {GB}) and Cool Cowboy (Kodiak Kowboy). El Camino Real Derby Feb. One Man Band would be riding a five-race win streak were it not 13–and Leandro Mora, for his second-place finish to Godolphin’s G1 Dubai Golden assistant to trainer Doug Frank Conversation (r) Shaheen entrant Confrontation (War Pass) in the G3 Firebreak S. O’Neill, said he has been Vassar Photography Feb. 4. He has had a busy campaign, winning two handicaps over pleased with the colt’s a mile and one over 1900 metres before dropping down to 1400 condition since arriving in Dubai. metres when last seen visiting the winner’s circle Feb. 25. “He eats and sleeps well and he cleans up whatever we feed Cool Cowboy, meanwhile, has been similarly consistent, hitting him,” Mora said. “He’s a happy horse. I’m very pleased.” the board in each of his four starts since the turn of the calendar. Mora said tactics from the inside post will be left up to jockey He finished second to former Golden Shaheen winner Mario Gutierrez. Reynaldothewizard (Speightstown) in the Listed Dubawi S. Jan. 14 “He got number one--I didn’t expect it,” Mora said. “Knowing and took a seven-furlong handicap a week later. He finished now that the one is very close to the first turn, I’m kind of happy second to Maftool (Hard Spun) in a handicap over this track and for that. We just need to figure out how Mario will handle it, but trip Feb. 18, and was a dominant 3 3/4-length winner of this race’s it’s really up to him.” local prep, the G3 Burj Nahaar S., on Super Saturday Mar. 5. Cont. p13 TDN EUROPE/INTERNATIONAL • PAGE 13 of 15 • THETDN.COM SATURDAY, 26 MARCH 2016

Godolphin Mile a One Man Show? Cont. VAZIRABAD AIMS TO EXTEND STREAK Watson’s stable jockey Pat Dobbs has elected to ride Cool His Highness the Aga Khan’s 2015 G1 Prix Royal-Oak hero Cowboy, and the trainer said, Vazirabad (Fr) (Manduro {Ger}) looms the class of the field in “I think they’re very close to Saturday’s 3200-metre G2 Dubai Gold Cup. The lightly raced each other talent-wise. Cool French highweight is in the midst of a five-race winning streak and Cowboy has a little more aims to add win number six in the $1-million contest, his first versatility. He can go attempt at the distance and first start since last October’s Prix forward, or if he gets left a Royal-Oak, where he had little bit he can definitely Godolphin’s Manatee (GB) come from behind too.” (Monsun {Ger}) back in fifth. A Cool Cowboy | DRC/Andrew Watkins “One Man Band, who is an progressive winner of the 3000- excellent horse, is kind of metre G3 Prix de Lutece at one-dimensional as far as speed goes,” Watson added. “He needs Longchamp last September and to be up on the lead or very close to the lead.” the G2 Qatar Prix Chaudenay The Watson pair’s task will not be made easy by the presence of over that course-and- distance Oct. 3 for trainer Alain de Royer- Godolphin’s talented but quirky Marking (Bernardini). That ‘TDN Vazirabad | Scoop Dyga Rising Star,’ a notorious bad behaver in the gate, unshipped jockey Dupre, Vazirabad will carry only 120 pounds in the 11-strong field, with the multiple stakes-placed James Doyle at the start of his intended local debut, the G3 Al filly Paradise (Ger) (Samum {Ger}) slipping in at an impost of 116 Shindagha Sprint, Feb. 11, for breeder Gestut Karlshof. but made up for that glitch “Vazirabad is very calm and relaxed,” commented de Royer- when winning a six-furlong Dupre Friday morning. “We had a bit of trouble with him during handicap two weeks later. the trip over. He got anxious for a couple of hours and hence lost The chestnut took nearly the quite some weight. However, he has put that weight back on length of that contest to find again. He is eating well and now there is no reason why he his feet, however, and the shouldn’t run well. However, my impression is good.” decision was made to bring A winner of the G2 Grand Prix de Chantilly going 1 1/2 miles May him back up to the trip over 31, Manatee ran fourth to dual G1 Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe Marking | Coglianese Photography which he won an Aqueduct heroine Treve (Fr) (Motivator {GB}) in the G1 Grand Prix de Saint- allowance in November. Cloud June 28. Unplaced returning off a more than three-month Sloane Avenue (Candy Ride {Arg}) had to settle for an layoff in last year’s Arc Oct. 4 directly prior to the Prix Royal Oak, excruciating second in last year’s Godolphin Mile, and he looks to Manatee resurfaced two starts later with a runner-up finish in a 1 go one better having made just one start since, a second in a 3/16-mile allowance over the Chantilly all-weather Mar. 3. He is Kempton conditions race Feb. 24. joined in the starting gate by fellow Godolphin entry Haafaguinea (GB) (Haafhd {GB}), who made a successful 2016 bow in a Meydan handicap Jan. 21 before running second to Godolphin representative and G1 Jebel Hatta hero Tryster (Ire) (Shamardal) Saturday, Meydan, UAE, post time: 4:20 p.m. EST (8:20 a.m. EST) in the G3 Dubai Millennium S. Feb. 18, and third in the G2 Dubai GODOLPHIN MILE SPONSORED BY MEYDAN SOBHA-G2, $1,000,000 City Of Gold to Postponed (Ire) (Dubawi {Ire}) Mar. 5. (£707,827/€894,975), 3yo/up, 1600mT South African Mike de Kock sends out two hopefuls in the form PP HORSE SIRE JOCKEY TRAINER of the durable Star Empire (SAf) (Second Empire {Ire}) and South 1 One Man Band (Ire) Pivotal (GB) Hitchcott Watson African multiple graded winner and Grade 1-placed Tellina (SAf) 2 Marking Bernardini Doyle McLaughlin (Silvano {Ger}). The former finished third in the 2014 version of the 3 Le Bernardin Bernardini SCR SCR Dubai Gold Cup to the reopposing Paul Rooney-owned Certerach 4 Faulkner (GB) Pivotal (GB) O’Neill Watson (Ire) (Halling), and went one better in last year’s edition behind the 5 Maftool K Hard Spun Hanagan Al Muhairi star-crossed G1 Irish St Leger winner Brown Panther (GB) (Shirocco 6 Gold City (Ire) Pivotal (GB) Mullen Seemar {Ger}). In his latest run, Star Empire completed the trifecta in the 7 God’s Speed (Ire) Oratorio (Ire) Jurado Al Shuwaib K Mar. 3 G3 Nad Al Sheba Trophy behind Sheikhzayedroad (GB) 8 Cool Cowboy Kodiak Kowboy Dobbs Watson (Dubawi {Ire}) and Certerach, with Feb. 18 G3 Dubai Millennium S. 9 Sloane Avenue K Candy Ride (Arg) Dettori Noseda third Meadow Creek (GB) (Dansili {GB}) a dead-heat fourth, and 10 Prayer For Relief K Jump Start Smith de Kock G1 Vodacom Durban July third-place finisher Tellina sixth. Cont. p14 All carry 125 pounds. TDN EUROPE/INTERNATIONAL • PAGE 14 of 15 • THETDN.COM SATURDAY, 26 MARCH 2016

Vazirabad Aims to Extend Streak Cont. Fellow World Cup major player Mshawish (Medaglia d’Oro) Big Orange (GB) (Duke of Marmalade {Ire}) has been targeting arched his neck and turned in another spirited gallop under the this fixture since a fifth-place run in the G1 Emirates Melbourne watchful eye of leading trainer Todd Pletcher. Cup Nov. 3. A winner of the G2 Princess Of Wales Arqana Racing Hoppertunity (Any Given Saturday), sporting a trademark Bob Club S. at Newmarket in July, the Michael Bell trainee doubled up Baffert blue shadow roll while guided by regular pilot Dana Barnes, going 3200 metres in the G2 Qatar Goodwood Cup later that seemed to appreciate the slightly cooler temperatures after month, two starts before his Melbourne Cup effort. getting noticeably warm the previous morning. Baffert, of course, “He was very ill with travel sickness on his return from Australia, has enjoyed more than his share of success in Dubai, including albeit for a mercifully short time, but he is back in fighting form World Cup wins with Silver Charm in 1998 and Captain Steve in now and in with a realistic chance,” said Bell. 2001 as well as a G1 Golden Shaheen victory courtesy of Secret Circle last year. The robust Keen Ice (Curlin) kept exercise rider Tammy Fox’s hands full throughout his tour of the dirt oval while the legendary Saturday, Meydan, UAE, post time: 4:55 p.m. EST (8:55 a.m. EST) conditioner Andre Fabre--standing on the track--gave some last DUBAI GOLD CUP SPONSORED BY AL TAYER MOTORS-G2, $1,000,000 minute instruction to his riders aboard Vadamos (Fr) (Monsun (£707,827/€894,975), 3yo/up, 3200mT {Ger}) (World Cup) and Manatee (GB) (Monsun {Ger}) (G2 Dubai PP HORSE SIRE JOCKEY TRAINER WT Gold Cup), respectively. 1 Vazirabad (Fr) Manduro (Ger) Soumillon de Ryer-Dpre 120 Japan’s G1 Dubai Sheema Classic representative One and Only 2 Paradise (Ger) Samum (Ger) Demuro Hickst 116 3 Suegioo (Fr) Manduro (Ger) Hanagan Fahey 125 (Jpn) (Heart’s Cry {Jpn}) immediately caught the eye with his pair 4 Neo Black Dia (Jpn) Zenno Rob Roy (Jpn) Akiyama Shikato 125 of yellow front wraps while rounding the turn. 5 Star Empire (SAf) Second Empire (Ire) Smith de Kock 125 With the action beginning to wind down as last month’s GII San 6 Certerach (Ire) Halling O’Shea Halford 125 Mar c os S . wi n n e r 7 Big Orange (GB) Duke of Marmalade (Ire) Spencer Bell 125 Flamboyant (Fr) (Peer Gynt 8 Manatee (GB) Monsun (Ger) Barzalona Fabre 125 {Jpn}) (G1 Dubai Turf) 9 Meadow Creek (GB) Dansili (GB) Dobbs Watson 125 10 Tellina (SAf) Silvano (Ger) Moore de Kock 125 leisurely headed off the 11 Haafaguinea (GB) Haafhd (GB) Doyle bin Suroor 125 track, trainers Michael Chang and Antoine de TRACKSIDE AT MEYDAN FRIDAY Watrigant spoke to the remaining press corps on by Steve Sherack hand. The Hong Kong With the rising sun providing a spectacular backdrop, there was conditioner will be plenty to take in at Meydan early Friday morning the day before represented by the popular Antoine de Watrigant Sherackatthetrack the world’s richest horse race. two-time Golden Shaheen-placed and American Grade I winner The diverse crowd continued to trickle in to the allotted viewing Rich Tapestry (Ire) (Holy Roman Emperor {Ire}). De Watrigant area on the clubhouse turn during the 6:50 a.m. track renovation trains Australian Group 1 winner and four-time French group break, including Duncan Taylor and Perry Martin from the winner Gailo Chop (Fr) (Deportivo {GB}), who will line up in the California Chrome (Lucky Pulpit) camp, Magic Millions Managing Dubai Sheema Classic. Director Vin Cox, Hong Kiaran McLaughlin’s powerhouse quartet of Frosted (Tapit) Kong Jockey Club’s Pat (World Cup); Lady Shipman (Midshipman) (G1 Al Quoz Sprint); Cummings, et al. Confrontation (War Pass) (Golden Shaheen); and Marking Quite fittingly, the 2014 (Bernardini) (G2 Godolphin Mile), meanwhile, completed their American Horse of the Year preparations for the big day at Godolphin’s nearby Marmoom kicked things off as the first Stables. --@SteveSherackTDN one to enter the freshly manicured surface. The strapping chestnut, second in last year’s G1 Dubai California Chrome at Meydan Friday PEDIGREE INSIGHTS... Sherackatthetrack Get pedigree expert Andrew Caulfield’s World Cup, briefly enjoyed take on racing’s newsmakers! the track to himself while jogging the outer rail going the wrong You can find all of Caulfield’s way. columns in the TDN Archive. TDN EUROPE/INTERNATIONAL • PAGE 15 of 15 • THETDN.COM SATURDAY, 26 MARCH 2016

MOON TO RISE TO THE OCCASION Let’s Go Donki (Jpn) (King Kamehameha {Jpn}) won last year’s G1 Oka Sho (Japanese 1000 Guineas) but failed to hit the board the Sunday’s G1 Takamatsunomiya Kinen is Japan’s first Group 1 on remainder of the season when mostly tried over longer distances. turf this season, and the third leg of the Global Sprint Challenge, She finished sixth, albeit beaten just 1 1/2 lengths, behind Mikki and it has drawn a full and competitive lineup of sprinters. The Isle in the Hankyu Hai, and trainer Tomoyuki Umeda said, “with the race was tainted somewhat by the withdrawal of defending winner race she ran last time out, she looks like she’ll be able to handle Aerovelocity (NZ) (Pins {Aus}) due to a bout of colic earlier this 1200 meters.” week, and Hakusan Moon (Jpn) (Admire Moon {Jpn}), second to that Hong Kong-based star 12 months ago, will look to step up and go one better. The 7-year-old has not won a race since 2013, but was second to A Shin Bullseye (Belgravia) in the G3 Yukan Fuji Sho Sunday, Chukyo, Japan, post time: 3:40 p.m. (2:40 a.m. EST) Ocean S. Mar. 5. His task is made more difficult by the fact that he THE TAKAMATSUNOMIYA KINEN-G1, ¥192,260,000 will exit from the extreme outside gate 18. (£1,202,325/€1,522,127), 4yo/up, 1200mT The 5-year-old Mikki Isle (Jpn) (Deep Impact {Jpn}) has been a PP HORSE SIRE JOCKEY TRAINER WT stalwart of the Japanese sprinting/miling division over the last two 1 Bravissimo (Jpn) Fastnet Rock (Aus) Yokoyama Sugai 125 seasons, his biggest win coming in the 2014 G1 NHK Mile Cup. He 2 Ukiyono Kaze (Jpn) On Fire (Jpn) Shii Kikuzawa 121 finished third in his last year and has the benefit of a first-up win 3 Sakura Gospel (Jpn) Sakura President (Jpn) Katsuura Ozeki 125 in the G3 Hankyu Hai over a furlong longer than this Feb. 28. 4 Big Arthur (Jpn) Sakura Bakushin O (Jpn) Fukunaga Fujioka 125 The 4-year-old filly Albiano 5 Snow Dragon (Jpn) Admire Cozzene (Jpn) Ono Takagi 125 6 Mikki Isle (Jpn) Deep Impact (Jpn) Matsuyama Otonashi 125 (Harlan’s Holiday) displayed 7 Satono Lupin (Jpn) Deep Impact (Jpn) Wada Murayama 125 top-class form last season, 8 Albiano K Harlan’s Holiday Lemaire Kimura 121 finishing second in the NHK 9 Teehaf (Jpn) Storming Home (GB) Ikezoe Nishiura 125 Mile Cup before winning the 10 Active Minoru (Jpn) Statue of Liberty Fujioka Kitade 125 G2 Mainichi Broadcast Swan 11 Let’s Go Donki (Jpn) King Kamehameha (Jpn) Iwata Umeda 121 S. over seven furlongs later 12 Uliuli (Jpn) Deep Impact (Jpn) Tosaki Fujiwara 121 in the season. She was a 13 A Shin Bullseye Belgravia Ishibashi Nonaka 125 14 Earth Sonic (Jpn) Kurofune Vargiu Nakatake 125 respectable fifth in the G1 Hakusan Moon | JRA 15 Laurel Veloce (Jpn) Sakura Bakushin O (Jpn) Nakai Iida 125 Mile Championship to round out her 3-year-old campaign and 16 Sugino Endeavour (Jpn) Sakura Bakushin O (Jpn) Sameshima Asami 125 filled the same position behind A Shin Bullseye in the Ocean S. 17 Hiruno Devaro (Jpn) Manhattan Cafe (Jpn) Dazai Kon 125 after missing the break. 18 Hakusan Moon (Jpn) Admire Moon (Jpn) Sakai Nishizono 125

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JONES SEEKS FOURTH FG OAKS WIN MO TOM HOPES TO By Christie DeBernardis Trainer Larry Jones has already won the GII TwinSpires.com REBOUND IN LA DERBY Fair Grounds Oaks three times--twice with future GI Kentucky Oaks winners in Proud Spell (2008) and Believe You Can (2012) and once with an Eclipse finalist in I’m a Chatterbox (Munnings) (2015)--and he looks to take home his fourth renewal Saturday with Midnight On Oconee (Midnight Lute). While I’m a Chatterbox was the queen of the Fair Grounds last year, winning the Silverbulletday S. and Larry Jones & I’m a GII Rachel Alexandra S. prior to a Chatterbox | Coady score in this test, Midnight On Oconee seems to take after fellow Jones trainee Lovely Maria (Majesticperfection), who emerged from her stablemate’s shadow to capture the Kentucky Oaks last May. Cont. p5 Mo Tom | Hodges Photography

By Christie DeBernardis G M B Racing’s GIII LeComte S. hero Mo Tom (Uncle Mo) looks CLASSIC FORM RUNS DEEP IN WORLD CUP to return to winning ways in Saturday’s GII TwinSpires.com Former American Classic competitors boast a formidable Louisiana Derby after a troubled-trip third last time in the presence in Saturday’s $10 million G1 Dubai World Cup. GII Risen Star S. Feb. 20. After defeating fellow G M B Click or tap here to go straight to TDN Europe. colorbearer Tom’s Ready (More Than Ready) in last term’s Street Sense S., the Tom Amoss pupil was third in the GII Kentucky Jockey Club S. Nov. 28, which has proven to be a key race on the Road to the GI Kentucky Derby, and kicked off his sophomore campaign with a decisive win over Tom’s Ready and Uncle Walter (Uncle Mo) in the Jan. 16 LeComte. Last early in the Risen Star, the dark bay was making a strong move up the rail in early stretch when he was forced to check sharply, resulting in cuts to his foreleg, and gamely re-rallied on the outside to be third behind Gun Runner (Candy Ride {Arg}) and Forevamo (Uncle Mo). A win Saturday would be the first in this event for Amoss, who was born and raised in Louisiana. “I certainly have a concern as to how fast they will run early in this race,” Amoss commented during an NTRA teleconference Tuesday. “This is a very determined horse. He’s not just a horse who is going to pick up the pieces at the end of the race. This is a horse that has a devastating quarter-mile kick. Unfortunately, it wasn’t on full display [in the Risen Star], but I am certainly hoping we will get to show it on Saturday and the rest of the world can see what I already know.” Cont. p3 J A Star in the Making NCR

On December 6, 2014, Ramsey-raised homebred Smokem Kitten broke his maiden laughing, 5 1/2 lengths ahead of the field at the wire, earningTDN Rising Star status.

After a 13 month layoff, this past weekend, Smokem Kitten drew off by 5 1/2 lengths once again, this time establishing a New Course Record at Gulfstream. Smokem Kitten ... another cause for paws.

2016 Stud Fee: $100,000 S&N

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FEATURE PRESENTATION • GII LOUISIANA DERBY

Mo Tom Hopes to Rebound in LA Derby cont. from p1 Winchell Thoroughbreds and Three Chimneys Farm’s Gun Runner opened his account with a pair of wins, first at Churchill Sept. 11 and then at Keeneland Oct. 17. Finishing behind Mo Tom when fourth in the Kentucky Jockey Club, the Steve Asmussen trainee was making his seasonal debut when winning the Risen Star and has been working well since, including a best-of-34 five-panel breeze in 1:00 3/5 here Mar. 14. Risen Star runner-up Forevamo also represents the home team of Louisiana native Evelyn Gun Runner | Hodges Photography Benoit’s Brittlyn Stable and trainer Al Stall, Jr., who has also never won his birth place’s most prestigious race. Victor of Delta Downs’ Jean Lafitte S. prior to a sixth in the GIII Delta Downs Jackpot S. last fall, the bay finished second behind Risen Star pacesetter Candy My Boy (Candy Ride {Arg}) in an optional claimer here Jan. 18 and came running late to miss by just a half-length in the Risen Star. “If the race stretches in that first part, I would like to be near the first flight,” Stall remarked to the Fair Grounds press team. “It’s hard to give instructions in a race like this. I would never tell [jockey Colby Hernandez] to take back if he didn’t need to.” New York-based conditioner Dominick Schettino shakes things up by shipping GI Champagne S. winner Greenpointcrusader (Bernardini) in for this test instead of waiting for his home state’s next prep, the GI Wood Memorial S. Apr. 9. Owned by St. Elias Stable, MeB Racing Stables and Brooklyn Boyz Stables, the dark bay was an impressive 4 1/2-length victor of a sloppy Greenpointcrusader renewal of Belmont’s Champagne David Alcosser Oct. 3 and came running late to be a disappointing seventh as the favorite in the GI Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Oct. 31. Bumped at the start of Gulfstream’s GII Holy Bull S. last time Jan. 30, he finished a respectable second behind undefeated early Derby favorite Mohaymen (Tapit) when ridden atypically close to the pace. Cont. p4 HEADLINE NEWS • PAGE 4 OF 10 • THETDN.COM SATURDAY • MARCH 26, 2016

Mo Tom Hopes to Rebound in LA Derby cont. “This has been the schedule for him going into the Derby,” Schettino told the Fair Grounds press team. “As long as he runs his race and runs the way he ran in the Champagne, we should be okay. [His style] is one of the reasons we picked this spot. He has a nice finish and it’s a long stretch. There are some nice 3-year-olds like Gun Runner and Mo Tom and a few allowance horses who could pop up, too, so it’s a tough race.” No horse from the Todd Pletcher barn can ever be completely dismissed and the seven-time Eclipse winner steps up optional claimer winner Battery (Bernardini) in this spot. A second-out graduate at Gulfstream Park West Nov. 21, the Harrell Ventures runner finished second behind a “TDN Rising Star” performance from Cherry Wine (Paddy O’Prado) in a Hallandale optional claimer Jan. 9. The bay was a decisive two-length winner of a 1 1/8-mile test there last time Feb. 10. A pair of longshots worth a look are undefeated Dazzling Gem (Misremembered) and Conquest Windycity (Tiznow). Owned by Steve Landers Racing and trained by Brad Cox, Dazzling Gem captured his Oaklawn unveiling with ease Jan. 18, defeating impressive next-out winner American Pioneer (Awesome Again), and followed suit with an allowance win there Feb. 13. Mark Casse thought Conquest Windycity was a Derby horse back in December and gives that runner a chance to prove it here. Fourth in the GIII Iroquois S. as a maiden, the Conquest Stables colorbearer earned his diploma next out in the slop at Keeneland Oct. 2 and made his 2016 debut a winning one in a one-mile test in Hot Springs Feb. 19.

Saturday, Fair Grounds, post time: 6:12 p.m. EDT TWINSPIRES.COM LOUISIANA DERBY-GII, $1,000,000, 3yo, 1 1/8m PP HORSE SIRE JOCKEY TRAINER ML 1 Gun Runner Candy Ride (Arg) Geroux Asmussen 3-1 2 Greenpointcrusader K Bernardini Velazquez Schettino 7-2 3 Battery K Bernardini Castellano Pletcher 10-1 4 Conquest Windycity Tiznow Rocco, Jr. Casse 15-1 5 Candy My Boy K Candy Ride (Arg) Torres Brueggemann 15-1 6 Mo Tom K Uncle Mo Lanerie Amoss 5-2 7 Tom's Ready K More Than Ready Hernandez, Jr. Stewart 15-1 8 Uncle Walter K Uncle Mo Albarado Maker 20-1 9 Dazzling Gem K Misremembered Bridgmohan Cox 12-1 10 Zapperini Ghostzapper Leparoux Foley 20-1 11 Forevamo Uncle Mo Hernandez Stall, Jr. 10-1 Owners: 1-Winchell Thoroughbreds LLC & Three Chimneys Farm, 2-St. Elias Stable, MeB Racing Stables LLC & Brooklyn Boyz Stables, 3-Harrell Ventures LLC, 4-Conquest Stables LLC, 5-Frank Mancari, 6-G M B Racing, 7-G M B Racing, 8-Kenneth L. & Sarah K. Ramsey, 9-Steve Landers Racing, LLC, 10-Lloyd Madison Farms IV LLC, 11-Brittlyn Stable, Inc. Breeders: 1-Besilu Stables, LLC, 2-Oakbrook Farm, 3-Anderson Farms (Ontario) Inc., 4-WinStar Farm, LLC, 5-Craig B. Singer, 6-Hargus & Sandra Sexton & Silver FernFarm, 7-Blackstone Farm LLC, 8-Lantern Hill Farm, 9-Lisa Reynolds & Jennifer Feiner, 10-Lloyd Madison IV LLC, 11-Ocala Stud TDN=s Steve Sherack and Brian DiDonato will make $50 Win/Place bets on each Kentucky Derby prep and Triple Crown race. The handicapper with the highest bankroll after the Belmont Stakes wins. Scratches will result in the post time favorite.

Sunland Park Festival of Racing S. - Not that I was super Sunland Park Festival of Racing S. - Well, so much for trying to confident in my 23-1 shot Walk Out, but, wow, he never ran a get cute with Bruntino, as Baffert and Pletcher dominated both step... Let=s hope that=s the last horse that I pick for quite some this race and the one for fillies. Total: $1052.50. time that gets a ASteady Retreat@ chart comment. Ouch. Total: G2 UAE Derby - Note that place betting for this race is more like $337.50. show wagering in America... To be honest, I=ve got no clue about this race. I=ve done alright here in years when there was more G2 UAE Derby - After the late withdrawal of the speedy Market European participation, but I=ve never had any success Rally, I=ve continued to go back and forth on taking either of the deciphering Japanese form, so those runners are kind of out for two fillies--Polar River (Congrats) or Vale Dori (Arg) (Asiatic Boy me. I=m also against Polar River (Congrats), I suppose, even {Arg}). I ended up with the latter, who should move forward though it would be cool to see our first-ever >TDN Rising Star= nicely off that last run off the layoff and she=ll also be a much from Dubai continue her unbeaten streak. I don=t want Frank better price. De Kock=s record in this race is awfully hard to Conversation (Quality Road) either with this race being on dirt. ignore, too. Not sure where the speed is going to come from So, I guess I=m left with Vale Dori (Arg) (Asiatic Boy {Arg}). Was now, but there=s every chance that Vale Dori didn=t prefer she gaining on Polar River in the G3 UAE Oaks or was that rival having to do the heavy lifting in the Oaks last time. being throttled down? Your guess is as good as mine. But she Selection: #5 Vale Dori (9-2). has a right to improve second off the long lay-off, figures to appreciate the distance as a daughter of the 2007 UAE Derby GII Louisiana Derby - With confirmed front-runner Candy My winner, and has the maturity advantage of being a Southern Boy (Candy Ride {Arg}) signed on, this race should set up much Hemisphere 3-year-old. Selection: #5 Vale Dori (9-2). more to the liking of GI Champagne S. winner GII Louisiana Derby - My first inclination was just to take Mo Greenpointcrusader (Bernardini). Seventh as the 7-2 favorite in Tom (Uncle Mo) here, as he would=ve won the GII Risen Star S. = the GI Breeders Cup Juvenile with his share of excuses, the dark last time with any kind of luck. But he=s just too obvious, and the bay had to settle for second behind the unbeaten Mohaymen dynamics of this race figure to be significantly different than (Tapit) after being forced to vie for early command in a paceless they were in that one. I completely dismissed Candy My Boy renewal of the GII Lambholm South Holy Bull S. Jan. 30. As tough (Candy Ride {Arg}) in the Risen Star because there were two as Mo Tom (Uncle Mo) looks off his well-documented stretch other horses (It=s All Relevant and Bistraya) who had the exact woes in the GII Risen Star S., he=s still going to have to run down same profile as him and figured to ensure a hot pace. The pace a very classy horse in the stretch in another big field when it all was in fact extremely quick, and those two runners finished comes down it. Will be boxing Greenpointcrusader with eighth and ninth, respectively. Candy My Boy, however, who longshots Candy My Boy--he should get away with an easier actually set the opening splits of :22.95 and :46.38, finished pace this time around--and impressive Oaklawn allowance fourth beaten only 2 1/4 lengths. He figures to take significantly winner Conquest Windycity (Tiznow). Selection: #2 less pressure up front this time, and should love nine furlongs if Greenpointcrusader (7-2). able to get away with softer splits--his dam was a multiple stakes winner at the trip. I really like this horse at a big price. . . Selection: #5 Candy My Boy (15-1). HEADLINE NEWS • PAGE 5 OF 10 • THETDN.COM SATURDAY • MARCH 26, 2016

Jones Seeks Fourth FG Oaks cont. from p1 Fellow California-based runner Street Fancy (Street Sense) Just like Lovely Maria, Midnight on Oconee finished fourth in also looks to avoid the sensational Songbird and gain some Oaks Remington’s Trapeze S. last December and was second to late- points here. Trained by Phil running 74-1 shot Venus Valentine (Congrats) in the Rachel D’Amato, the Agave Racing Alexandra Feb. 20, with a runner-up effort behind the Stable colorbearer came reopposing Stageplay (Curlin) in between in the Silverbulletday running late to spring a 6-1 Jan. 16. The Cottonwood Stables runner chased a hot pace early upset in the GI Starlet S. at in the Rachel Alexandra and appeared home free in the lane, Los Alamitos Dec. 12 and was only to be beat out in the final sixteenth by the rail-skimming a non-factor sixth last time in longshot. the Las Virgenes. Steve Asmussen, who also boasts three prior wins in this event Street Fancy | Benoit Photo Rounding out the field are including the 2014 renewal won by champion Untapable (Tapit), an intriguing pair of longshots saddles a pair of strong in Stoneway Farm’s Dream Dance (Afleet Alex) and Charles contenders here in Stageplay and Adore (Big Brown). Owned by Fipke homebred Northwest Tale (Tale of Ekati). Second in the Mike Rutherford, the former Rags to Riches last term, the Neil Howard-trained Dream Dance captured the Rags to Riches S. last has not been seen since finishing third in the Golden Rod and term and was second to “TDN could prove to be any kind coming off that extended layoff. Rising Star” Carina Mia (Malibu Northwest Tale, a maternal granddaughter of GI Kentucky Derby Stageplay | Hodges Photography Moon) in the GII Golden Rod S. winner Winning Colors, was fifth in the Silverbulletday, but may Nov. 28. Kicking off this season be better suited to sprinting as she showed her appreciation for with a win in the Silverbulletday, the gray finished off the board the cutback to six furlongs last time with an impressive two- for the first time in her career when fifth as the favorite in the length victory in a local optional claimer Feb. 8. Rachel Alexandra. “I’m going to try and draw a line through the Rachel Alexandra,” Asmussen said. “I waited until I trained her back to Saturday, Fair Grounds, post time: 5:27 p.m. EDT see if we would run her [in the FG Oaks]. We worked her a TWINSPIRES.COM FAIR GROUNDS OAKS-GII, $400,000, 3yo, f, 1 1/16m couple of times and I think that maybe that was just a bad day PP HORSE SIRE JOCKEY TRAINER ML for her. I feel like we’re back on track with her and [jockey] 1 Northwest Tale Tale of Ekati Castellano Stewart 20-1 Florent [Geroux] is confident in her.” 2 Midnight On Oconee Midnight Lute Graham Jones 9-2 K Winchell Thoroughbreds’ Adore takes a step up into stakes 3 Venus Valentine Congrats Lanerie Amoss 6-1 company off two decisive victories at Oaklawn. Fourth behind 4 Stageplay Curlin Geroux Asmussen 5-2 5 Adore K Big Brown Leparoux Asmussen 5-1 the highly regarded Smart Shopping (Smart Strike) on debut 6 Street Fancy K Street Sense Lezcano D'Amato 10-1 sprinting in the Churchill slop last November, the chestnut 7 Dream Dance Afleet Alex Hernandez, Jr. Howard 8-1 earned her diploma next out going a mile in Hot Springs Jan. 16 8 Land Over Sea K Bellamy Road Velazquez O'Neill 3-1 and followed up with a four-length optional claimer victory Owners: 1-Charles E. Fipke, 2-Cottonwood Stables, LLC (Tommy Ligon & Pete going this 1 1/16-mile distance there Feb. 21. Nance), 3-Rosemont Farm, LLC (James Eigel), 4-Mike G. Rutherford, 5-Winchell “Timing of the Fair Grounds Oaks works very well for her,” Thoroughbreds, LLC (Joan & Ron Winchell), 6-Agave Racing Stable (Mark Asmussen explained. “I like the spacing. She’s a filly who has Martinez), 7-Stoneway Farm, LLC (James L. Stone), 8-Reddam Racing, LLC (Paul progressed significantly in her three-race career and obviously Reddam). Breeders: 1-Charles Fipke, 2-Cottonwood Stables, LLC, 3-Rosemont it’s a tough spot for her, but I think she will run well.” Farm LLC, 4-Mike G. Rutherford, 5-Charles P. Merrick III, 6-Hunter Valley Farm, Reddam Racing’s Land Over Sea (Bellamy Road) may finally get 7-George Waggoner Stables Inc., 8-Jack Swain III her turn in the spotlight as she attempts to step out of the shadow of undefeated champion Songbird (Medaglia d’Oro) Don't miss the latest episode of here. Finishing behind that rival in every race since breaking her Thoroughbred Week, where maiden last summer, the Doug O’Neill pupil hit the board in John Henderson recaps the both the GI Del Mar Debutante S. and GI Chandelier S. last major North American stakes September before checking in seventh to the “TDN Rising Star” from the past week, including in the GI Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies Oct. 31. The chestnut was the GII Rebel S., the GII Azeri S., the only one coming after the Eclipse winner when second in the GI Santa Margarita S. and more. both the GII Las Virgenes S. Feb. 6 and the GIII Santa Ysabel S. Click here. Mar. 5. The Best Racehorse in the World is Siring the World’s Best Racehorses

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EAGLE LOOKS TO SOAR IN NEW ORLEANS setting the pace in the Louisiana and wired the field next out in the Mineshaft. He will have some competition on the front end By Christie DeBernardis this time in the form of Fox Hill Farms’ 2014 GII Amsterdam S. W. S. Farish homebred Eagle (Candy Ride {Arg}) has been winner Coup de Grace (Tapit), most recently fourth behind knocking on the door of a graded stakes win for quite some time Mobile Bay and Jessica’s Star (Magna Graduate) in Houston’s now and was given the morning-line nod to get the job done Maxxam Gold Cup Feb. 27. Also exiting that test is Daniel Saturday in the GII New Orleans H. at the Fair Grounds. Closing Dougherty’s MGISP Ride On Curlin (Curlin), who finished a head- out his 2015 campaign scratching 10th after completing the trifecta in both the with a trio of victories, Tenacious and Louisiana. including this venue’s Tenacious S. Dec. 19, the Neil Howard pupil Saturday, Fair Grounds, post time: 4:23 p.m. EDT finished second to NEW ORLEANS H.-GII, $400,000, 4yo/up, 1 1/8m International Star PP HORSE SIRE JOCKEY TRAINER ML (Fusaichi Pegasus) as 1 International Star Fusaichi Pegasus Velazquez Maker 3-1 the favorite in the 2 Stormdriver Discreet Cat Saenz Devereux 20-1 Eagle | Coady Photography Louisiana S. here Jan. 3 Jessica's Star K Magna Graduate Murrill Stidham 12-1 16. The chestnut came 4 Majestic Harbor K Rockport Harbor Lanerie McGee 4-1 K up just a head short of Majestic Harbor (Rockport Harbor) last 5 Coup de Grace Tapit Geroux Jones 15-1 6 Ride On Curlin K Curlin Graham Gowan 20-1 time in this venue’s GIII Mineshaft H. Feb. 20 and gains the 7 S'maverlous Tiz Wonderful Lezcano Maker 20-1 services of three-time Eclipe winner Javier Castellano for this 8 Mobile Bay Lone Star Special Prado Arceneaux 8-1 first try at 9 Freestyler Street Cry (Ire) Hernandez, Jr. Sharp 6-1 1 1/8 miles while breaking from post 10. 10 Eagle Candy Ride (Arg) Castellano Howard 2-1 “All indications say that you never know until they do it, but I Owners: 1-Kenneth L. & Sarah K. Ramsey, 2-Fruition Racing, LLC (Randy think he will like running a mile and an eighth,” Howard told the James), 3-Mark D. Breen, 4-Gallant Stable, LLC (Ron Beegle, et al), 5-Fox Hill Fair Grounds notes team. “I’m thinking with his pedigree and Farms, Inc. (Richard Porter, II), 6-Daniel J. Dougherty, 7-Gata Racing Stable, LLC (John Huber), 8-Tigertail Ranch (Irwin Olian), 9-Brad Grady & Carl R. Moore running style, I wouldn’t see it as a problem. We won’t do Management, LLC (Carl R. Moore), 10-W. S. Farish. Breeders: 1-Katharine M. anything than we have been doing with him. He always runs Voss & Robert T. Manfuso, 2-Tigertail Ranch, 3-Elisabeth H. Alexander, hard at the end and is versatile with his style. You can place him 4-Liberation Farm & Brandywine Farm, 5-AGS Thoroughbreds Ltd., 6-G. Watts where you want him. We’ll wait and see and I’ll let Javier make Humphrey Jr. & Louise Ireland Humphrey Revocable Trust - 2008, 7-Spendthrift those decisions.” Farm, LLC, 8-Tigertail Ranch, 9-WinStar Farm, LLC, 10-W. S. Farish Ken and Sarah Ramsey’s International Star was truly the star of New Orleans last term, winning the GIII LeComte S., GII Risen Star S. and GII Louisiana Derby, after which he was benched with a hairline fracture to his left knee. A disappointing fourth to Mobile Bay (Lone Star Special) as the chalk in his return in the Zia Park Derby Nov. 25, the Mike Maker trainee captured the Louisiana S. before finishing fourth in the Mineshaft last time. “I felt like there wasn’t a lot of pace in there last time,” Maker said to the Fair Grounds press office. “I thought it was extremely slow for how the track that was playing that day. It didn’t work out, but he’s been training great and we’re back and ready to go again. I think he’s very effective from a mile and a sixteenth to a mile and an eighth and the post shouldn’t be too much of a bother, as long as he can make his run.” Gallant Stable’s Majestic Harbor, winner of the 2014 GI Gold Cup at Santa Anita while under the care of Sean McCarthy, looks to make it two in a row for trainer Paul McGee. Runner-up in the GII Marathon S. at Keeneland Oct. 30 and third in the GII Hawthorne Gold Cup Nov. 28, the bay faded to fifth after HEADLINE NEWS • PAGE 7 OF 10 • THETDN.COM SATURDAY • MARCH 26, 2016

TEN TRY TO DETHRONE FG TURF KING Saturday, Fair Grounds, post time: 4:52 p.m. EDT MUNIZ MEMORIAL H.-GII, $300,000, 4yo/up, 1 1/8mT By Christie DeBernardis PP HORSE SIRE JOCKEY TRAINER ML Ten turf runners will attempt to take down a true horse for the 1 Take the Stand (Arg) Not For Sale (Arg) Prado Mott 6-1 course in Chocolate Ride (Candy Ride {Arg}), who has won his 2 Roman Approval K Roman Ruler Castellano Maker 4-1 last six starts over the Stall-Wilson turf course, in Saturday’s 3 Can'thelpbelieving (Ire) Duke of Marmlde (Ire) Scr Scr Scr GII Mervin Muniz Memorial H. Starting off his domination of the 4 Chocolate Ride K Candy Ride (Arg) Geroux Cox 5-2 K New Orleans turf races when jockey Florent Geroux took over 5 Closing Bell Tapit Lezcano Mott 8-1 6 Change of Command Gators N Bears Murrill Maker 30-1 the controls in an allowance last February, the Wentworth 7 Amigo Hard Spun Bridgmohan Werner 15-1 Brochu runner followed suit with a victory in the GIII Fair 8 Blarp War Front Albarado Sharp 15-1 Grounds H. just two weeks 9 Potomac River English Channel Jacinto Gomez 30-1 later and last year’s Mervin 10 World Approval Northern Afleet Leparoux Casse 9-2 Muniz five weeks after that. 11 String King Crowned King Graham Smith 15-1 The Brad Cox charge suffered Owners: 1-Earle I. Mack LLC, Wachtel Stable and Brous Stable LLC, 2-Three Diamonds Farm (Kirk Wycoff), 3-Albert Frassetto, 4-Wentworth Brochu, LLC (J. his only loss in the past year Wentworth & S. Brochu), 5-WinStar Farm, LLC (Kenny Troutt), 6-Michael J. when shipped to Churchill to Maker, 7-Arindel Farm (Alan Cohen), 8-Robert L. Persons & Earl Conrad test deeper waters in the Sanderson, Jr., 9-Maribel Ruelas, 10-Live Oak Plantation (Charlotte C. Weber), GI Woodford Reserve Turf 11-Charles C. Smith. Breeders: 1-Santa Maria de Araras, 2-Glencrest Farm LLC & Classic May 2, where he Fox-Straus, 3-G. Kelly, Milltownmore & Pinnacle B/S, 4-Brian Kahn, 5-W. S. failed to make the lead and Farish & Lazy F Ranch, 6-Wayne Morris & Juanita Morris, 7-Arindel Farm LLC, finished eighth with Joe 8-James S. Karp, 9-Mereworth Farm, 10-Live Oak Stud, 11-Charlie Smith Talamo aboard. Subsequently Chocolate Ride | Hodges benched, he returned to Photography TUTTIPAESI BLOWS IN FOR SANTA ANA winning ways back over his by Alan Carasso home turf with Geroux back in the irons Nov. 27. Chocolate Ride Valor Ladies LLC’s Tuttipaesi (Ire) (Clodovil {Ire}) was cross- kicked off 2016 with a victory in this venue’s GIII Colonel Bradley entered for Saturday’s New Orleans Ladies’ S. on the Louisiana H. Jan. 16 and successfully defended his title in the Fair Grounds Derby undercard, but boarded a westbound plane earlier in the H. last time Feb. 20. week and will go Three Diamonds Farm’s Roman Approval (Roman Ruler) postward as arguably the finished second to the morning-line favorite in both the Colonel horse to beat in the Bradley and Fair Grounds H. Trained by Mike Maker, the dark GII Santa Ana S. at Santa bay closed out 2015 with an allowance win over the Laurel sod Anita. Nov. 1 and a runner-up effort in the Claiming Crown Emerald S. A listed winner on the at Gulfstream Dec. 5. He has been knocking at the door of a turf and second to graded success, finishing just three-quarters of a length behind Emollient (Empire Maker) Tuttipaesi | Kenny Martin Chocolate Ride in his last two starts, and Javier Castellano in the GI Ashland S. at age retains the mount Saturday. three in 2013, the bay mare has been sparingly raced, posting a Mark Casse has a good chance to upset the favorite with well- 3 1/4-length victory in the restricted Suffolk Distaff Turf S. last related Live Oak Plantation October before following up with a 1 1/4-length success in homebred World Approval Gulfstream’s South Beach S. Dec. 12, a race for which she (Northern Afleet). Winner of the earned a career-best 96 Beyer. She was forced to take the GIII American Derby and GIII overland route when last seen in the GIII Marshua’s River S. Saranac S. last term, the gray Jan. 9 and could not overcome the ground loss, checking in third was fourth in the GIII Hill Prince behind the hard-knocking Sandiva (Ire) (Footstepsinthesand S. at Belmont Oct. 3 and {GB}). Chris DeCarlo retains the ride.

World Approval | Leslie Martin returned from a five-month Her Emmynency (Successful Appeal) is no stranger to layoff to capture a nine-panel Southern California, having finished a disappointing sixth in the optional claimer on the turf at Gulfstream Mar. 5, earning a GII San Clemente H. at Del Mar before just missing at odds of career-best Beyer Speed Figure of 99. 14-1 in that track’s GI Del Mar Oaks the following month. Cont. p8 HEADLINE NEWS • PAGE 8 OF 10 • THETDN.COM SATURDAY • MARCH 26, 2016

Tuttipaesi Blows in for Santa Ana cont. Winner of the GI Del Mar Futurity, GI FrontRunner S. and Despite that top effort, she was dismissed at 19-1 in GI Breeders’ Cup Juvenile last term, Nyquist kicked off his Keeneland’s GI Queen Elizabeth II Challenge Cup Oct. 10 and just sophomore campaign with an impressive victory in the seven- managed to last over Miss Temple City (Temple City) after panel GII San Vicente S. at Santa Anita Feb. 15. The bay will face drifting in on that one in the final furlong. Since transferred from off with unbeaten early GI Kentucky Derby favorite Mohaymen Mike Stidham to Kristin Mulhall, Her Emmynency has one run (Tapit) in Florida. this term, a fourth in the one-mile GII Buena Vista S. Feb. 20, an effort upon which she can certainly build. A case can be made that ‘TDN Rising Star’ Nashoba’s Gold AMERICAN PIONEER TO ARKANSAS DERBY (Smart Strike) could make some noise in this smallish field. American Pioneer (Awesome Again), a late nominee to the Winner of the GIII Providencia S. and GII Honeymoon S. at three, Triple Crown series on the back of one of the more impressive the Warren Williamson homebred has struggled since, with five maiden victories at Oaklawn Park this winter, will jump into straight losses while finishing no better than fifth in any of those stakes company for a date against the likes of Cupid (Tapit) and events. She most recently returned from a November layoff to Whitmore (Pleasantly Perfect) in the GI Arkansas Derby Apr. 16. fill the fifth spot in the Buena Vista, but was running on late and The bay, purchased by Gary and Mary West through their gets back out to the nine-furlong distance of her two graded- agent Ben Glass for stakes wins here. $230,000 at the 2014 Keeneland September Yearling Sale, debuted Saturday, Santa Anita Park, post time: 5:30 p.m. EDT over a mile in Hot Springs SANTA ANA S.-GII, $200,000, 4yo/up, f/m, 1 1/8mT PP HORSE SIRE JOCKEY TRAINER ML Jan. 18 and was stalled in 1 Her Emmynency K Successful Appeal Talamo Mulhall 2-1 traffic three furlongs from 2 Nancy From Nairobi (GB) Sixties Icon (GB) Lezcano Sadler 5-2 the wire before finishing 3 Nashoba's Gold Smart Strike Bejarano Gaines 10-1 well to complete the 4 Fresh Feline K Kitten's Joy Solis Shirreffs 8-1 exacta (video). The winner 5 Glory K Tapit Smith Hollendorfer 7-2 American Pioneer | Coady photography on that occasion, Dazzling 6 Tuttipaesi (Ire) Clodovil (Ire) DeCarlo Mott 3-1 Gem (Misremembered), Owners: 1-Ike & Dawn Thrash, 2-Hronis Racing, LLC, 3-Warren B. would annex his next appearance to remain perfect and is set to Williamson, 4-Lazy F Ranch, 5-Fox Hill Farms, Inc., 6-Valor Ladies LLC. tackle the GII TwinSpires.com Louisiana Derby Saturday. 1-S. D. Brilie, L.P., 2-Norman Court Stud, 3-Williamson Racing, Breeders: American Pioneer was sent off the 8-5 favorite to go one better LLC., 4-Mr. & Mrs. Robert Horton & Charles Middleton III, 5-Patchen Wilkes at Oaklawn Mar. 19 and traveled strongly throughout. When Farm, LLC, 6-Mrs Eithne Hamilton. room came at the inside turning for home, he pounced to open a winning margin and was in hand the final 40 yards to score by NYQUIST PUTS IN ‘STRONG’ FL DERBY DRILL 3 3/4 lengths (video). The final time of 1:44.46 was just 0.62 Undefeated champion Nyquist (Uncle Mo) put in his final work slower than that recorded by Cupid in the GII Rebel S. one race for the Apr. 2 GI Xpressbet.com Florida Derby Friday morning at earlier. Santa Anita, covering five furlongs in 1:03 flat (56/72). Working “We’ve always liked the horse,” Wayne Catalano, who saddled in company with Pay the Crypto Star to win the 1997 Arkansas Derby, told the Oaklawn Fine (Square Eddie), the press office. “If you saw the maiden race, he probably should Reddam Racing runner have won that race. A pretty good horse beat him.” clocked his last half-mile in The Wests were famously represented by Rockamundo, who :49.60 under exercise rider upset the 1993 Arkansas Derby at 108-1. The couple paid the Jonny Garcia. $6,000 to make American Pioneer eligible to the Triple Crown “It was a good drill,” series at the supplementary entry stage. trainer Doug O’Neill said. Bred in Kentucky by James Peyton’s Forging Oaks Farm, Nyquist | Benoit Photo “Nyquist finished up really American Pioneer is a son of the winning Malibu Moon mare strong and I’m very optimistic about next week. He’ll walk Makoma, whose dam Rhapsodic (Dixieland Band) was a two- tomorrow, track Sunday, and fly out on Monday. That’s the plan. time graded stakes winner at two in 1993. I’ll be leaving the same day.”

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SAN PEDRO TOP TWO EYE SA DERBY Iron Rob (Twirling Candy) and Denman’s Call (Northern Afleet), the top two finishers in the six-furlong San Pedro S. Mar. 20, are being pointed at the 1 1/8-mile GI Santa Anita Derby Apr. 9. Kretz Racing’s Iron Rob broke his maiden at seventh asking at Los Alamitos last December and faded to last behind GIII Robert B. Lewis S. third I Will Score (Roman Ruler) next out in an TDN America: Arcadia optional claimer Jan. 3. Besting just three other rivals when winning the Baffle S. there Feb. 21, he sprung a 9-1 upset over 2-5 chalk Denman’s Call in the San Pedro last time. Bluebloods Dominate Derby “We’ll try to stretch him out,” trainer George Papaprodromou Trail - Bill Finley said. “It’s worth taking a shot.” Gilman Racing, Westside Rentals.com and W.C. Racing’s Remembering Jeff Lukas - Denman’s Call followed a debut win at Santa Anita Jan. 9 with a Mike Kane third behind undefeated champion stablemate Nyquist (Uncle Mo) in the GII San Vicente S. Feb. 15 prior to his runner-up effort Best of Both Worlds for Jeff and Wayne Lukas at Belmont last time. With that rival headed to the GI Florida Derby in hopes | Horsephotos of securing the $1-million Fasig-Tipton bonus in a showdown Kiaran McLaughlin - Steve with Mohaymen (Tapit), Denman’s Call will face the likes of Mor Sherack Spirit (Eskendereya), Exaggerator (Curlin) and Danzing Candy (Twirling Candy). Martin Valenzuela Set for Barretts March Debut - Jessica Martini

CASSATT TO SELL AT F-T NOV Midwest Thoroughbreds Moving Forward - Michael Adolphson Fox Hill Farm’s Cassatt (Tapit--Justenufftime, by Giant’s Causeway) has been retired from racing and was bred to Curlin. The “TDN Rising Star” will be sold at the Fasig-Tipton November TDN Derby Top 12 Mar. 24 Edition - Bill Finley sale, according to the farm’s Facebook page. “Cassatt was bred to Curlin on March 22,” the Fox Hill Farm Facebook page stated. “We will TDN Europe/International: know if she is pregnant next month. The plan is for her to be sold in First-Season Sire Series Part I: Sadler's Wells Line - November at the Fasig-Tipton sale. "With almost 30 stallions likely to have first-crop She will be consigned by Hill ‘n’ runners in Europe this season, the TDN has compiled a Dale Farm.” four-part feature to assess the merits of each."- Emma Trained by Larry Jones, the gray’s Berry career highlights include wins in the 2014 GIII Monmouth Oaks, Zia Park Cassatt | Equi-Photo Oaks and Tiffany Lass S. Winner of The ‘Old Block’ To Ensure the Houston Ladies Classic S. and O’Brien Legacy Prospers - She’s All in H. last term, she retires with a record of 14-7-1-2 and John Berry earnings of $714,733. Rick Porter’s operation purchased Cassatt for $300,000 at the 2012 Keeneland September sale from the consignment of Mt. Five Frankels Set for Inglis Simon Mockridge opens the door Brilliant Farm. Also bred by Greg Goodman, the 5-year-old is out Easter Sale - Kelsey Riley for Frankel | Racing Post of a half-sister to champion Dreaming of Anna (Rahy), the dam of GI King’s Bishop S. runner-up Fast Anna (Medaglia d’Oro); and MGSWs Lewis Michael (Rahy) and Justenuffhumor (Distorted Humor). Cassatt also traces her lineage back to champion turf horse and top sire Kitten’s Joy (El Prado {Ire}); and MGISW Precious Kitten (Catienus), dam of GSW & GISP Divining Rod (Tapit).

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TAP YOUR HEELS DIES DURING FOALING Tap You Heels (Unbridled--Ruby Slippers, by Nijinsky II), dam of leading sire Tapit, died Thursday morning from complications during foaling at Dromoland Farm in Lexington, Kentucky, where she has resided for the past 15 years. The 20-year-old mare’s Super Saver colt survived, according to a Facebook post by owner Barouche Stud (click here for TDN feature). “We are sad to announce that Tap Your Heels, dam of WHISPER TO ME, 12, Thunder Gulch--Word to the Wise, by Diesis (GB) two-time champion sire Tapit, Foal born Mar. 2, a colt by War Front. died from complications Will be bred back to Bernardini. Owned/Boarded by Pin Oak Stud. during foaling early Tap Your Heels | Barouche Stud Accomplishments: SW, $221,426; Dam of Overheard (Macho [Thursday] morning,” the Uno), MGSW, $548,656. farm’s Facebook page stated. “We would like to thank Gerry Dilger and all his staff at Dromoland Farm, who have looked RED'S ROUND TABLE, 8, Cuvee--Carol D, by High Yield after her like royalty over the past 15 years. She will be sadly Foal born Mar. 4, a colt by Tapizar. missed by her owner Mrs. Barbara Facchino and all at Barouche Will be bred back to Bodemeister. Stud and Dromoland Farms. She leaves us with a colt foal by Owned by and boarded at Dark Hollow Farm. Super Saver.” Accomplishments: MSW, $268,780. Bred by Heronwood Farm, Tap Your Heels--a half-sister to champion sprinter Rubiano (Fappiano)--was sold to Oldenburg SAINT MISBEHAVIN’, 11, Sweetsouthernsaint--Ms. Waki Talkin, Farm for $750,000 carrying her first foal by Pulpit at the 2000 by Miswaki Keeneland November sale; the resulting foal was Tapit. Foal born Mar. 4, a colt by Flat Out. Purchased for $625,000 by David Fiske on behalf of Winchell Will be bred back to Giant Surprise. Owned by Windhorse Thoroughbreds, LLC. Thoroughbreds at the 2002 Keeneland September sale, Tapit Boarded at Cotton Hill Farm. went on to win the 2004 GI Wood Memorial S. and is now the Accomplishments: Dam of Mischief Maker (Cape Town), SW, nation’s leading sire. He stands at Gainesway Farm for a fee of $267,617. $300,000. Tap Your Heels returned to the Keeneland November sales ring in 2002, where she brought $900,000 from agent Fred Seitz while in foal to Forestry. She would go through the sales ring one more time in 2010 at the Fasig-Tipton November sale, where she RNA’d for $1.8 million in foal to Elusive Quality. Of Tap Your Heels’s 12 foals, nine went through the sales ring and all fetched six-figure pricetags. Her 2012 foal Aldrin (Malibu Moon) achieved a final bid of $1-million mark to top the 2014 Keeneland April Sale of 2-Year-Olds in Training. Owned by a partnership of Gainesway, Mt. Brilliant Stables and Robert LaPenta at the Keeneland April 2-year-old sale in 2014. The ridgling recently broke his maiden for trainer Chad Brown Mar. 4 at Tampa Bay. The gray mare’s most recent offspring to go through the sales ring is the now 3-year-old filly Rubies are Red (Medaglia d’Oro), who sold to SF Bloodstock for $400,000 at the 2014 Keeneland September sale. Tap Your Heels produced an Elusive Quality filly in 2014 and was barren in 2015.

REGIONAL REPORT Saturday $ March 26, 2016

Race 10 - OC ($35K)/SAL, 1mT - This race almost made me cry. #1 McFly looked decent last time breaking his maiden for $35K on the front end. He might just steal it again here. #2 Geo Niko was also relatively visually impressive breaking his maiden last out #6 Parmel Landing never got a clear run in a similar spot last time. #8 Favorite Heir broke through by a large margin and was scooped up by a barn that does well with new acquisitions. With about a billion dollars (more like $4.5 million) carried Uses: #1 McFly, #2 Geo Niko, #6 Parmel Landing, #8 Favorite over into Saturday=s mandatory payout Rainbow Pick 6 pool at Heir. | Others to consider: #4 Copingaway. Gulfstream, I took a look at what appears to be an extremely tough sequence of races. There was some very wet weather Friday, but I assumed all races Saturday would be kept on the Race 11 - Sanibel Island H. - Finally a straightforward race-- turf. Here goes nothing. . . hopefully. #6 Lira figures to be tough off her win in the Ginger Brew S. and runner-up finish to Breeders= Cup winner Catch a Race 7 - Msw, 3yo, 7 1/2fT - This race obviously goes through Glimpse last time in the GIII Herecomesthebride S. #4 #8 Sir Dudley Digges, who has hit the board in four of his last Harmonize can also definitely win if she=s ready off the bench. five efforts, including a neck second last time. He=s got speed, She was one of the best 2-year-old turf fillies in the country last and solid speed figures, but must find the killer instinct that so year and had a less-than-ideal trip in the BC. Uses: #4 far he has lacked. #10 Mighty Mo might be the most intriguing Harmonize, #6 Lira. | Others to consider: #9 Shake Down Baby. alternative, as he finished fifth in a strong Saratoga MSW in his lone previous outing last August. He appears to be working quickly off the trainer change to Mott. Well-bred #4 Fast Latina Race 12 - $25K MCL, 3yo, 1mT - #4 Indian Bull looks sneaky in a makes sense if he gets more into the race early. Uses: #4 Fast race begging for a fresh face. His lone prior outing was a dirt Latina, #8 Sir Dudley Diggs, #10 Mighty Mo. | Others to sprint maiden special weight for Indiana-breds in September, consider: #1 Ekati Wildcat, #3 Love and Care, #5 Royal Sniper. where he finished fourth. He=s got an upbeat worktab since then, however, and a grassy pedigree on the bottom. #5 Race 8 - $16K Clm, 4yo/up, 5fT - Oh great. . . a full field of turf Running Hoplite is a Christophe Clement-trained firster. . . that=s sprint claimers. Likely favorite #2 Great Attack has all the back good enough for me. #11 Appa ran in spots when debuting at a class and figures to sit the trip. #1 Deer Dog actually ran a very slightly higher level last time. He might show more speed under good race in his lone turf try two back, and had an excuse last Paco. Uses: #4 Indian Bull, #5 Running Hoplite, #11 Appa. | time setting a fast pace. Uses: #1 Deer Dog, #2 Great Attack. | Others to consider: #2 Little Chuck. Others to consider: #3 Noble Prince, #6 Red Fever, #7 Little Baker. Budget Ticket: GP R7 - $0.20 Rainbow PK6 - 4,8,10 w/ 1,2 w/ Race 9 - $12.5k MCL, 3yo/up, 7f - This is certainly not the 1,2,11,12 w/ 1,2,6,8 w/ 4,6 w/ 4,5,11 = $115.20 easiest group to trust. #1 Prime Time Tommy has the Abig@ last- out fig, a tiny bit of speed and the rail. #2 Upperton ran Spread Ticket: GP R7 - $0.20 Rainbow PK6 - 1,3,4,5,8,10 w/ creditably at the $25K level last time behind a slow pace and 1,2,3,6,7 w/ 1,2,6,11,12 w/ 1,2,6,8 w/ 4,6,9 w/ 2,4,5,11 = shouldn=t mind an extra furlong to work with. #11 Mr Coupons $1440 was second as the favorite at this level last time. #12 B. F. Forever is my crazy longshot to toss in. The 17-time maiden has --@BDiDonatoTDN a race at this level that makes him very competitive, and he cuts back a furlong after setting a very fast pace last out. Uses: #1 Prime Time Tommy, #2 Upperton, #11 Mr Coupons, #12 B. F. Forever. | Others to consider: #6 World Leader. Regional Report • PAGE 2 of 8 • thetdn.com Saturday • March 26, 2016

score. Unfazed easily held second. The winner is a half to Dreamy Kid (Lemon Drop Kid), GSW, $174,452, Kid Dreams (Lemon Drop Kid), GSW, $258,684, and Elysium Fields (El Prado {Ire}), GSP, $154,920. Her dam most recently produced a filly by Friday=s Results: Kitten=s Joy. Lifetime Record: 2-1-1-0, $16,000. Click for the 9th-GP, $41,200, Alw (C)/Opt. Clm ($62,500), 3-25, 4yo/up, f/m, Equibase.com chart or VIDEO, sponsored by Fasig-Tipton. 7f, 1:22.85, sy. O/B-Robert S. Evans (KY); T-Christophe Clement. QUEZON (f, 4, Tiz Wonderful--Kalookan Dancer {MSW, $404,031}, by Olympio) proved worth the wait, coming through Saturday, Gulfstream Park, post time: 2:35 p.m. EDT at 1-2 odds after an extended weather delay that saw this affair CUTLER BAY H., $75,000, 3yo, 1mT go off more than an hour after its scheduled post time. The PP HORSE SIRE JOCKEY TRAINER ML overwhelming chalk veered out sharply at the start, but 1 Duffle Bag Northern Afleet Gaffalione Kobiskie 10-1 recovered quickly to get down to the rail and chase the pace. 2 Highland Sky Sky Mesa Saez Tagg 7-2 She slipped through on the inside to put a nose in front leaving 3 Applicator Henrythenavigator Corrales Yanakov 12-1 the turn for home, and splashed away from Fond of Sarah (With 4 Giant Run Giant’s Causeway Bravo Albertrani 5-2 5 Abbot Langfuhr Lopez Clement 5-1 Distinction) to win by 4 1/4 lengths. A clear-cut debut winner in 6 Ousby Shakespeare Juarez Vitali 3-1 a muddy, rained-off state-bred maiden special weight at 7 Highly Prized (GB) Manduro (Ger) Alvarado Saville 10-1 Belmont in September 2014, Quezon added the lucrative and 8 Cave Johnson Broken Vow Zayas Toner 12-1 restricted Maid of the Mist S. over a mile at that venue the following month. A distant fourth in the nine-panel GII Saturday, Gulfstream Park, post time: 5:35 p.m. EDT Demoiselle S. at Aqueduct that November, she made just one SANIBEL ISLAND H., $75,000, 3yo, f, 1mT start at three, annexing Belmont=s seven-furlong Bouwerie S. PP HORSE SIRE JOCKEY TRAINER ML over a pair of next-out stakes winners in May. Sales history: 1 First Girl First Dude Caraballo Attard 20-1 $90,000 Ylg '13 SARAUG. Lifetime Record: MSW, 5-4-0-0, 2 Melody Croon War Chant Castillo Mejia 20-1 $312,200. Click for the Equibase.com chart or VIDEO, 3 Rontos Lily Big Drama Meneses Sanchez 30-1 sponsored by Fasig-Tipton. 4 Harmonize Scat Daddy Alvarado Mott 5-2 O-Marc Keller; B-Apache Farm LLC (NY); T-Robert Ribaudo. 5 Sky My Sky Bernardini Lopez Casse 8-1 6 Lira Giant’s Causeway Saez Pletcher 2-1 nbs graduate 7 Hold On Momma Hold Me Back Trujillo Abbott 30-1 NY-BRED. WHY BREED ANYWHERE ELSE? nybreds.com 8 Pancake Corinthian Gaffalione Werner 8-1 9 Shake Down Baby Wando Bravo Clement 10-1 6th-TAM, $20,000, Msw, 3-25, 3yo, f, 1m 40y (off turf), 1:43.31, 10 Silky Girl Scat Daddy Castro Mott 15-1 sy. 11 Pulled the Goalie Parading Zayas Vella 12-1 DREAM PROSPECT (f, 3, Mineshaft--Dreams, by Silver Hawk) 12 Queen of Silence Twirling Candy Olivero Garcia 30-1 got her career off to an auspicious start when finishing a clear- cut second at 7-1 behind fellow Christophe Clement firster Amnicalola (Arch) Feb. 27 over the Tampa turf. With storms TODAY’S INSIGHTS washing this race off the grass, the homebred filly nevertheless went off as the 9-10 public choice and made good for her 3rd-FG, $44K, Msw, 3yo, 1m 70yds, 2:27 p.m. ET backers. Breaking alertly from her outside stall, she stalked the Brad Grady=s C CITY MOON (Malibu Moon) makes his career pace from the second flight while kept well off the rail on the bow for Joe Sharp Saturday. Out of the GI Queen Elizabeth II clubhouse turn. After alternating second and third position with Challenge Cup S. scorer Collect the Cash (Dynaformer), the bay 9-5 second choice Hymnotic (War Front) down the backstretch, is a half-brother to GI Toyota Blue Grass S. winner Stately Victor she was pumped on to go after front-runner Unfazed (Elusive (Ghostzapper). Scarf It Down (Twirling Candy) returns is this Quality) heading into the far turn and ran through a big opening first stretch out after stalking the pace to finish fourth here Feb. left by the drifting leader nearing the top of the stretch. Still 20. The Neil Pessin charge and Lothenbach Stables colorbearer is with ground to make up on that rival past the eighth pole, she a half-brother to GISW Idiot Proof (Benchmark), who also continued to grind away from the inside and forged to the front finished runner-up in the G1 Dubai Golden Shaheen. TJCIS PPs at the sixteenth marker, pulling clear from there to a two-length Regional Report • PAGE 3 of 8 • thetdn.com Saturday • March 26, 2016

7th-GP, $50K, Msw, 3yo, 7 1/2fT, 3:35 p.m. ET Live Oak homebred ROYAL SNIPER (Smart Strike) will try the Gulfstream lawn in his first trip to the post for Mark Casse. His dam, Pool Land (Silver Deputy), a winner of the GI Ruffian H. at Belmont Park, was snapped up by Live Oak Plantation for Friday=s Results: $900,000 while carrying Royal Sniper at the 2013 Fasig-Tipton 8th-AQU, $57,000, (S), Alw (NW1$X)/Opt. Clm ($75,000), 3-25, Kentucky Winter Mixed Sale. This is also the family of MGISW 3yo, 6f, 1:11.83, ft. Very Subtle (Hoist the Silver). TJCIS PPs CHAMPIONOFTHENILE (c, 3, Pioneerof the Nile--Lantern Glow, by Mineshaft) burst onto the scene with a six-length maiden score last Sep. 4 at Saratoga, but followed that up with a 2nd-SA, $56K, Msw, 3yo, 6f, 4:00 p.m. ET disappointing third at 5-4 in the Bertram F. Bongard S. at Hall of Famer Bob Baffert saddles WESTFEST (Unbridled=s Belmont Sep. 27 and a loss at 3-10 in the New York Breeders Song) for Gary and Mary West in this debut. The grey, a Futurity S. at Finger Lakes Oct. 17. Unseen since, the $840,000 $190,000 KEESEP yearling purchase, is a son of GI Vinery EASMAY buy made his return to the races in this Friday feature. Madison S. heroine Dr. Zic (Milwaukee Brew) and most recently Off at 4-5 from the inside draw despite looking very washy, the breezed a sharp five panels from the gate in :59 4/5 (4/46) at dark bay colt broke quickly and made the lead a few strides from Santa Anita Mar. 19. TJCIS PPs the gate. Pressed lightly by second choice Lucky Lurie (Girolamo) through a :22.78 quarter, he turned the corner and dispatched 9th-TAM, $23K, Msw, 3yo, 1mT, 4:24 p.m. ET that foe past a half in :45.95 and opened up into midstretch, Breeders= Cup Filly and Mare Sprint winner and MGISW triumphing in the end by three lengths under hand urging. Ventura (Chester House) earned upwards of $2.5 million for her Outsider Saratoga Grio (Girolamo) came late to get the place at breeder Juddmonte Farms and her second foal, COSTA MESA 34-1, ahead of Gehrig (Ghostzapper) and Lucky Lurie. The (Medaglia d=Oro), will also bear the light pink and green silks in winner is a half to Leave the Light On (Horse Greeley), winner of his unveiling Saturday. The Bill Mott trainee=s MSP second dam $292,620, including the 2014 GII Remsen S. Sales History: is a half to GSWs Vortex (GB) (Danehill), Danefair (GB) (Danehill), $135,000 Wlg '13 KEENOV; $150,000 Ylg '14 KEESEP. Lifetime and Prove (GB) (Danehill), as well as French SW and G1SP Record: MSP, 5-2-1-1, $134,758. Click for the Equibase.com Erudite (GB) (Generous {Ire}). Speedway Stable=s Determined chart or VIDEO, sponsored by Fasig-Tipton. (Malibu Moon) could also factor in his maiden voyage. A half- O-Lady Sheila Stable, Iris Smith Stable & Linda Rice; B-Al Gold brother to SW and GSP Holiday Runner (Meadowlake), herself Racing LLC (NY); T-Linda Rice. already the dam of >TDN Rising Star= and G1 Dubai Golden Raised & Sold by Mulholland Springs Hidden Brook Raised & Sold Shaheen hero Reynaldothewizard (Speightstown) and MGISW Seventh Street (Street Cry {Ire}), the Christophe Clement charge Purchased & Consigned by de Meric Sales has been a regular on the Payson Park worktab. The latter has produced >TDN Rising Star= Marking (Bernardini), runner-up in Saturday, Aqueduct, post time: 2:20 p.m. EDT the GI Malibu S. and entered in Saturday=s G2 Godolphin Mile at CICADA S., $125,000, 3yo, f, 6f PP HORSE SIRE JOCKEY TRAINER ML Meydan. TJCIS PPs --Heather Anderson 1 Takrees Daaher Carmouche McLaughlin 6-1 2 Anydayismyday Afleet Alex Silvera Pringle 20-1 3 Lost Raven Uncle Mo Franco Pletcher 10-1 4 Constellation Bellamy Road Ortiz Asmussen 1-9 Saratoga Season Tickets on Sale: Full-season ticket plans and season admission passes for the 2016 meet at Saratoga Race Course will be on sale beginning Monday, Mar. 28 at 10 a.m. EDT. Full-season plans, which include reserved seats for the full 40-day season, will be available for purchase online through NYRA Account Manager. Fasig-Tipton graduate & MSW Quezon (Tiz Wonderful) Full-season plans include 40 days of admission based on the cost proves worth the wait at Gulfstream. of a season pass. The costs for 2016 season passes will be the same as last year with a Grandstand season pass at $35 and a Regional Report • PAGE 4 of 8 • thetdn.com Saturday • March 26, 2016

Clubhouse season pass being $55. Season passes do not include homebred broke sharply from her outside post and quickly reserved seating and are valid for one admission. hooked up with 3-1 second choice Thissongisaboutyou (Street The 2016 season will feature an expanded Saratoga Season Magician) on the front end. The two of them went head-and- Perks program with exclusive offers for season pass and season head on the lead through splits of :23.06 and :46.67 and ticket plan holders, including the guarantee of a Saratoga remained inseparable at the top of the stretch. Cajoled on by premium giveaway on the day of the giveaway and special Trevor McCarthy nearing the three-sixteenths pole, J La Tache discounts. began to inch clear from her pace foe and pulled away in the "Our enhanced Saratoga Season Perks program is designed to final furlong to secure her elusive diploma by four lengths. reward our most loyal fans who wish to enjoy 40 days of Thissongisaboutyou was well clear for the place award. The Thoroughbred racing and entertainment at a savings of more winner’s dam, who was purchased by Len Riggio for $520,000 at than 80%,” said New York Racing Association Senior Vice the 2010 Fasig-Tipton November Sale, tallied 11 victories from President and Chief Experience Officer Lynn LaRocca. “While 23 starts, including the GIII Miss Preakness S. She produced a pricing remains the same as last year, the value of a season pass filly by Candy Ride (Arg) in 2014 and a colt by Stormy Atlantic in has dramatically increased with the addition of discounts to a 2015. Lifetime Record: 8-1-1-5, $66,580. Click for the wide variety of popular retail shops, restaurants, entertainment Equibase.com chart or VIDEO, sponsored by Fasig-Tipton. venues and sports and winter resort destinations. We are proud O/B-My Meadowview LLC (KY); T-H. Graham Motion. to introduce an array of new incentives, discounts and special Trained at Crupi’s New Castle Farm offers that will further augment the value of a season pass while enhancing the relationship between NYRA and the local Mountaineer Steward Steven Kourpas Passes Away: business, arts and entertainment community." Steven Kourpas, a West Virginia Racing Commission steward at Saratoga season pass and season plan holders will receive a Mountaineer, passed away Wednesday at Allegheny General 10% savings with an activated season pass beginning June 1, Hospital in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, due to complications from 2016 through March 1, 2017 to a growing list of more than 20 open heart surgery. The 59-year-old started his career in horse Saratoga Downtown Business Association retail, restaurant and racing as part of the starting gate crew at Waterford Park professional services members. The list of incentives, deals and Racetrack and worked his way up to becoming a steward. discounts is available here. Kourpas was also worked for the Newell Volunteer Fire Department and later the Chester department. He is survived by his mother, wife Mindy and five children. Visitation will be held Mar. 28 from 12:00 to 8:00p.m. at Arner Funeral Chapel in Chester, West Virginia, with services to follow Tuesday at 1:00p.m.

Friday’s Results: 3rd-LRL, $42,520, Msw, 3-25, 3yo, f, 6f, 1:12.59, ft. J LA TACHE (f, 3, Harlan's Holiday--Palanka City {GSW, $388,220}, by Carson City) was a seven-time maiden coming into this affair thanks in large part to bad luck, as her past performance lines are littered with graded stakes winners and Friday’s Results: ascendant talents in the 3-year-old filly division. A debut second 8th-OP, $78,000, Alw (NW2L)/Opt. Clm ($50,000), 3-25, 3yo, 6f, behind ‘TDN Rising Star’ and future MSW Constellation (Bellamy 1:10.17, ft. Road) at Saratoga Aug. 9, she finished third next out behind MAJOR LEAGUE (c, 3, Malibu Moon--Alpha Kitten {GSW, Nickname (Scat Daddy), who returned to score in the GI Frizette $227,010}, by Tale of the Cat) was a very impressive winner of S. After that, she was third again, this time at Keeneland behind his debut Jan. 30 when bet strongly down to 11-5 and blowing stakes winner Stageplay (Curlin) and graded stakes winner and away a field of maidens with a big, wide move on the far turn. ‘TDN Rising Star’ Carina Mia (Malibu Moon). Fifth to that rival in He subsequently disappointed at 2-1 on the stretchout to a mile, her next start Oct. 29 at Keeneland, she rounded out the triple finishing sixth, beaten 17 lengths Feb. 19. Turning back to a on three straight occasions, including behind Lightstream sprint for this quality allowance heat, the roan colt broke at 3-1 (Harlan’s Holiday), she of the 103 Beyer Speed Figure on her in the middle of the bunch and settled in fifth along the rail early Mar. 6 debut. Sent off at 1-2 facing much softer, the bay on before falling to second-last after a quarter in :22.38. Driven Regional Report • PAGE 5 of 8 • thetdn.com Saturday • March 26, 2016 along by Channing Hill to pick it up at the three-eighths pole, he 6th-FG, $41,000, Msw, 3-25, 3yo/up, f/m, 1 1/16mT, 1:47.03, produced a strong turn of foot along the wide-open rail to gd. progress into a menacing third at the top of the lane. Continuing MAJESTIC ANGEL (f, 3, Majestic Warrior--R Charlie's Angel, by on, he burst through on the inside of 9-10 favorite Counterforce Indian Charlie) finished a strong, closing fifth after a poor start (Smart Strike) just as that one had put away 6-1 pacesetter First in her Dec. 20 debut, then regressed a bit to be third as the 2-1 Thought (Montbrook). The two promising colts proceeded to put favorite with a much better trip over this course and distance on a scintillating battle in the last eighth--brushing once in deep Feb. 6. Adding blinkers next out, she rallied to be fourth behind stretch--before Major League scored the head decision. It was a gate-to-wire winner as the 5-2 choice Feb. 25. Breaking from 9 1/4 lengths back to First Thought in third. Sales History: the middle of this seven-horse pack, the $65,000 OBSOPN $385,000 RNA Ylg '14 KEESEP. Lifetime Record: 3-2-0-0, purchase hopped just a bit at the start and dropped to the tail of $88,067. Click for the Equibase.com chart or VIDEO, sponsored the field. Starting an advance heading into the far turn, she by Fasig-Tipton. rallied past several rivals in the three path before being fanned O-Gary & Mary West; B-Spendthrift Farm LLC (KY); T-Wayne M. five wide turning for home while still fifth. With the rider falling Catalano. SELECT SALES Graduate...Exceeding Expectations off 5-2 second choice Not Mizzen a Beat (Mizzen Mast) to her inside, she emerged as the lone threat to tiring leader Goose Lemon Drop (Elusive Quality) at the furlong pole and closed 9th-OP, $78,000, Alw, 3-25, (NW1X), 3yo/up, f/m, 6f, 1:10.66, ft. DURANGO (f, 3, First Samurai--Superduper Miss {MSW & steadily to pick that one up and draw away to a 4 1/2-length MGSP, $608,964}, by Robyn Dancer), a $20,000 KEESEP yearling tally as the 9-10 chalk. The pacesetter held for second at 7-1. turned $475,000 Fasig-Tipton Midlantic juvenile, earned her Jockey Miguel Mena suffered a fractured wrist in the spill. diploma second up under the Twin Spires Nov. 1, and added an Sales History: $14,000 RNA Ylg '14 KEESEP. Lifetime Record: optional claiming tally 27 days later. She was second in the 4-1-0-1, $32,000. Click for the Equibase.com chart or VIDEO, track-and-trip Dixie Belle S. behind Marquee Miss (Cowboy Cal) sponsored by Fasig-Tipton. Jan. 15, and fourth behind that rival in the Martha Washington O-Head of Plains Partners LLC and Bradley Thoroughbreds; S. Feb. 6. Removing blinkers for the first time since her last B-Hargus Sexton, Sandra Sexton & Silver Fern Farm (KY); T-Brad victory, the 29-10 shot worked her way into the pocket early. H. Cox. Longshot pacesetter Lady Paislee (Warrior=s Reward) dug deep, but Durango came off the inside in late stretch to get up by a Consigned by de Meric Sales head in the last jump. The winner=s dam produced a Sky Mesa filly in 2014 and a Sky Mesa colt last year. Trainer Randy Morse Saturday, Oaklawn Park, post time: 6:09 p.m. EDT was very active buying on behalf of owner Tom Durant at last GAZEBO S., $100,000, 3yo, 6f week=s OBS March sale, securing four juveniles for a combined PP HORSE SIRE JOCKEY TRAINER ML $1.715 million for the Texas-based auto dealer. Lifetime Record: 1 Cataroux Tale of the Cat Canchari Morse 12-1 SP, 6-3-2-0, $146,640. Click for the Equibase.com chart or 2 Silver Doddge Silver City Quinonez Pish 8-1 VIDEO, sponsored by Fasig-Tipton. 3 Taylors Angiel Private Vow Wethey, Jr Broberg 8-1 O-Tom R. Durant; B-Debby Oxley (KY); T-Randy L. Morse. 4 Mud Light Jazil Borel Howard 12-1 5 Cash Bonus Corinthian Santana, Jr Calhoun 4-1 6 Force It More Than Ready Hill Winebaugh 7-2 5th-FG, $44,000, Msw, 3-25, 3yo, f, 1m 70y, 1:45.27, ft. 7 Entertainer Malibu Moon Nakatani Moquett 7-2 YANKEE LASS (f, 3, Yankee Gentleman--Blueyed Lass {SW, 8 Will Munnings Munnings Court Fires 3-1 $183,760}, by Sky Classic), a well-beaten second behind Cced (Curlin) over track and trip Feb. 11, was backed down 3-5 to don cap and gown this time. Well held towards the back of the pack early, the chestnut still had plenty of work to do around the home bend as longshot Zingy (Tiznow) showed the way. Revving up with a wide bid approaching the straight, the chalk kept on Damaris Phillips to Attend TRF Derby Party: coming and reeled in the resilient front-runner in the waning Thornapple River Group is hosting a Derby Celebration with a stages to score by a comfy one-length margin. Lifetime Record: special appearance by Kentucky native and Food Network star 2-1-1-0, $34,400. Click for the Equibase.com chart or VIDEO, Damaris Phillips May 4 at the 21c Hotel Museum in Louisville, sponsored by Fasig-Tipton. Kentucky. Proceeds will benefit the Thoroughbred Retirement O/B-Galen Ho'o (FL); T-Gregory D. Foley. Hidden Brook Raised Foundation Farm at the Blackburn Correctional Center in 2016 Fee: $5,000 payable out of proceeds or by 12/31/18

The Hottest Pedigree in the Stud Book

Undefeated Mohaymen, a $2,200,000 Yearling Co-Sales Topper, is a half-brother to Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Winner and Two-Year-Old Highweight New Year’s Day.

Like New Year’s Day, Mohaymen has established himself as one of the Favorites for the Kentucky Derby.

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LGB, LLC 2016 / Photo: Adam Coglianese 2016 Fee: $5,000 Stands and Nurses / $7,500 payable out of proceeds defeated a top international field in the $2,000,000 Dubai Golden Shaheen (G1)

Eclipse Finalist who won or finished second in 10 Graded or Group Stakes races. Won from 5 1/2 furlongs to 1 1/16 miles. “He’s a top class horse. All his American form proves that and he’s done the same here.”

- Jockey Victor Espinoza

640 N. Yarnallton Pike, Lexington, KY 40511 (859) 255-8290 • fax (859) 281-6148 www.hillndalefarms.com Karl Watson, Mike Pegram and Paul Weitman’s Secret Circle shown winning the Dubai Golden Shaheen (G1)

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Lexington, Kentucky. The night will feature whiskey and food of six prizes will be given away to the top three contestants in pairings, entertainment and a silent auction. each category. AAll the elements for this Derby Party have a special southern Fans in attendance at Santa Anita Park on April 2 will receive a yet modern flair.@ said Event Chair, Heidi Hilton of Thornapple contest card as they enter the gates with drawings held in the River Group. AWe can=t wait to be with Damaris, who will share winner's circle throughout the day to win an all-inclusive trip to her local and delicious whiskey and food pairings and we have Abu Dhabi. The Santa Anita Park Infield will include Family Fun planned really fun contests that will raise funds for this Day activities for the kids including pony rides, face painting, important cause. This will be an event to remember.@ bounce-houses plus, free temporary tattoos as well as free The event will also include numerous raffle prizes with a popcorn and cotton candy. There will also be a special falconry chance to win a tour of Ashford stud and a visit with Horse of exhibition with other cultural displays. There will also be a check the Year American Pharoah (Pioneerof the Nile). Several prizes presentation from Santa Anita Park and the Sheikh Mansoor will also be presented for the best dressed couple and the best Festival for $100,000 benefitting the Permanently Disabled Derby hat. Jockeys Fund. Tickets are $75 per person and sponsorship opportunities are available. For more information, click here. TOC Announces Annual Owner Awards: The Thoroughbred Owners of California (TOC) has announced the winners of its 2015 statistical awards for leading California owners. Reddam Racing LLC was leading owner in purse money won in California as well as leading owner by number of wins. Watson, Pegram and Weitman led all owners by number of Friday=s Results: California stakes wins; and Kings River Ranch was leading owner 4th-SA, $56,345, Msw, 3-25, 3yo, 1 1/16m, 1:43.28, ft. by number of California starts. David and Mark Greco, Patrick DALMORE (c, 3, Colonel John--Silver Breeze, by Silver Deputy), Grohl and Brent Malmstrom were selected as Rookies of the one slot ahead of the closely watched Ziconic (Tapit--Zenyatta) Year. going seven panels here Feb. 20, was 6-1 to that runner=s Reddam Racing runners earned a total of $2,922,316 in 11-10 odds trying a dirt route for the first time here. Stalking California last year, with 49 wins from 251 starts. Top earners splits of :23.85, :48.41 and 1:12.82, he overtook pacesetter were undefeated champion Nyquist (Uncle Mo), SW Mrazek Magical Mystery (Unbridled=s Song) to win by 2 1/2 lengths. (Square Eddie) and MSW Found Money (Square Eddie). Ziconic, meanwhile, broke very poorly, rushed up a bit to take The partnership of Karl Watson, Michael Pegram and Paul somewhat closer order down the backside, but faded to fifth in Weitman won a total of 10 California stakes races last year. the lane. Sales history: $47,000 Ylg '14 KEESEP. Lifetime Record: Their leading earners were MGSWs Hoppertunity (Any Given 7-1-3-0, $74,502. Click for the Equibase.com chart or VIDEO, Saturday), Pretty N Cool (Scat Daddy) and Gimme Da Lute sponsored by Fasig-Tipton. (Midnight Lute). O-Big Chief Racing, LLC, Rocker O Ranch, LLC & J. Keith Kings River Ranch runners made 296 starts in California last Desormeaux; B-Sally J. Andersen (FL); T-J. Keith Desormeaux. year for earnings of $892,153. Their top runners included Bench Ruling (Successful Appeal) and Del Mar Ann (Langfuhr). David Santa Anita to Hold Arabian Racing Festival Apr. 2: and Mark Greco made nine starts resulting in one win and Santa Anita Park and HH Sheikh Mansoor Festival will hold the $29,671 in earnings with Miz Strawberry Dee (Atticus). Patrick "HH Sheikha Fatima Bint Mubarak Darley Awards Stakes" at Grohl focuses on racehorse aftercare as owner of a horse farm Santa Anita Saturday, Apr. 2. This Grade I event will feature a and rehabilitation facility. His horse Distinctive Run (With $100,000 purse for Arabian horses competing at one-mile on Distinction) made three starts in 2015 for a total of $2,305 in the main track. The Arabian race at Santa Anita Park is part of a earnings. Brent Malmstrom had two wins from 12 starts last global series of over 100 events in 81 countries. year with Forthenineteen (Lucky J.H.) and Egyptian Empire The day will feature a Best Fashion and Best Hat contest. (Pioneerof the Nile. He named and donated a majority of the Prizes will include the winner's choice of a ROLEX watch earnings of Forethenineteen to a memorial fund for the 19 courtesy of Sheikh Mansoor Festival, a trip to Rome for the firefighters who died battling a wild fire in Yarnell, Arizona. winner and a guest to the World Arabian Horse Racing Festival All winners will be recognized at TOC=s Annual Meetings at Del in Italy from May 24-30, 2016, or a CHOPARD necklace. A total Mar Racetrack Aug. 6 and at Golden Gate Fields Oct. 22. Regional Report • PAGE 7 of 8 • thetdn.com Saturday • March 26, 2016

GIO PONTI (Tale of the Cat), Castleton Lyons, $20K, 197/15/0 INDUSTRY INFO 7-GP, Msw 7 1/2fT, Sir Dudley Digges, $130K OBS OPN 2yo, 9-5 10-OP, Msw 6f, +Pontastic, 12-1 Dr. Tony Ryan Book Award Finalists Announced: 5-GG, Aoc 1 1/16m, Giopress, $19K RNA BAR MAY 2yo, 10-1 HAYNESFIELD (Speightstown), Airdrie Stud, $10K, 138/22/1 Three finalists for the 10th annual Dr. Tony Ryan Book Award 5-HAW, Msw 5 1/2f, Hay Dakota, $47K KEE NOV wnl, 12-1 are Bob Fortus and Gary West=s Ride to Win-An Inside Look at 6-GP, Msw 6f, Tessier, 15-1 = = the Jockey s Craft, Natalie Keller Reinert s Turning For Home and INTERACTIF (Broken Vow), Red River Farms, Pvt., 54/3/0 John Carter=s Warriors on Horseback-The Inside Story of the 14-FG, Msw 6f, So Nilsson, $2K ESL YRL yrl, 30-1 Professional Jockey, the Ryan family's Castleton Lyons MISREMEMBERED (Candy Ride {Arg}), Hill 'N' Dale Farms, $7.5K, 58/8/1 announced Friday. 10-FG, $1000K GII Twinspires.com Louisiana Derby, 1 1/8m, Dazzling Ride to Win addresses issues like weight management, fitness Gem, $95K KEE SEP yrl, 12-1 and keeping trainers happy with more than 50 jockeys MUCH THE BEST (Forestry), M/M Stables, 7/1/0 interviewed. Turning For Home focuses on re-training the 7-MVR, $75K Southern Park S., 6f, Honey Twists, 30-1 retired racehorse and is part of Reinert=s AAlex and Alexander@ REGAL RANSOM (Distorted Humor), Darley, Dead, 140/9/0 series. Warriors on Horseback celebrates the work of jockeys 7-MVR, $75K Southern Park S., 6f, Sheza Fine Justice, $5K PED IND yrl, 20-1 past and present, including Frankie Dettori, Bob Champion and 7-MVR, $75K Southern Park S., 6f, Fast Justice, $55K RNA OBS APR 2yo, 10-1 Hayley Turner. SIDNEY=S CANDY (Candy Ride {Arg}), WinStar Farm, $15K, 165/15/1 The award offers a $10,000 prize to the winner and $1,000 to 7-OP, Msw 1m, After Hours, $147K RNA EAS MAY 2yo, 4-1 each runner-up along with Tipperary Crystal trophies. The SIERRA SUNSET (Bertrando), Paradise Road Ranch, $2.5K, 55/6/0 5-GG, Aoc 1 1/16m, Touched by Autism, $3K NCA AUG yrl, 2-1 winner of the 2015 Dr. Tony Ryan Book Award will be revealed TIZ THE ONE (Tiznow), Red River Farms, , 63/13/0 at an invitation-only reception Apr. 13, held above the stallion 14-FG, Msw 6f, +T' Cadeau, 15-1 barn at Castleton Lyons. TRAPPE SHOT (Tapit), Claiborne Farm, $10K, 182/22/0 3-TAM, Msw 1m, Beaver Trapper, $75K RNA OBS MAR 2yo, 4-1 TWIRLING CANDY (Candy Ride {Arg}), Lane's End Farm, $15K, 146/34/3 11-GP, $75K Sanibel Island H., 1mT, Queen of Silence, $11K KEE SEP yrl, 30-1 ROOKIES 11-SA, Msw 1 1/8mT, Last Resort, 7-2 3-FG, Msw 1m, Scarf It Down, $50K KEE SEP yrl, 5-2 UNCLE MO (Indian Charlie), Ashford Stud, $35K, 261/41/11 First/second-crop starters to watch: Saturday, March 26 10-FG, $1M GII Twinspires.com Louisiana Derby, 1 1/8m, Uncle Sire (Sire’s Sire), current farm, 2012 Fee, #foals of racing age/Winners/ Walter, $85K KEE SEP yrl, 20-1 BlackTypeWnrs * Race #-track, race type, distance, runner, odds (if available) 10-FG, $1M GII Twinspires.com Louisiana Derby, 1 1/8m, Forevamo, ARCHARCHARCH (Arch), Spendthrift Farm, $10K, 251/30/2 $320K OBS APR 2yo, 10-1 3-TAM, Msw 1m, Archanova, $40K FTK JUL yrl, 9-2 10-FG, $1M GII Twinspires.com Louisiana Derby, 1 1/8m, Mo Tom, BANK HEIST (Maria's Mon), Kaz Hill Farm, $2.5K, 18/1/1 $150K KEE SEP yrl, 5-2 6-AQU, Msw 6f, +Won Dozen Banks, 15-1 7-GP, Msw 7 1/2fT, Mighty Mo, $160K OBS MAR 2yo, 6-1 6-AQU, Msw 6f, +Grande Heist, 15-1 10-OP, Msw 6f, +Front Pocket Money, $70K RNA KEE SEP yrl, 5-1 BIG DRAMA (Montbrook), Bridlewood Farm, $10K, 109/16/1 3-AQU, $125K Cicada S., 6f, Lost Raven, 10-1 11-GP, $75K Sanibel Island H., 1mT, Rontos Lily, $25K KEE SEP yrl, 30-1 CAPE BLANCO (IRE) (Galileo {Ire}), JBBA Shizunai Stallion Station, $17.5K, 259/18/1 B R E E D E R S’ E D I T I O N 9-TAM, Msw 1mT, Osceola Pond, 2-1 AMERICA COURT VISION (Gulch), Spendthrift Farm, $10K, 128/12/0 11-SA, Msw 1 1/8mT, Miss Injustice, $18K RNA BAR MAY 2yo, 9-2 ALLOWANCE RESULTS: FIRST DUDE (Stephen Got Even), Double Diamond Farm, $7.5K, 2nd-SA, $67,158, (C)/Opt. Clm ($75,000), 3-25, 4yo/up, 6f, 195/23/1 1:09.66, ft. 11-GP, $75K Sanibel Island H., 1mT, First Girl, $52K OBS MAR 2yo, 20-1 KAFISTER (g, 6, Kafwain--Register, by Mari's Book) Lifetime FRIESAN FIRE (A.P. Indy), Country Life Farm, $4K, 102/18/1 Record: 26-11-3-4, $324,450. O-Alan Aidekman & Gaylord 3-PEN, Msw 6f, Fire Sparx, $31K EAS SEP yrl, 4-1 Ailshie; B-Hurstland Farm, Inc. (KY); T-David Bernstein. *$9,000 2-OP, Aoc 1 1/16m, Tisdale, $110K EAS MAY 2yo, 3-1 = GIANT OAK (Giant's Causeway), Millennium Farms, $7.5K, 69/4/1 Ylg '11 KEESEP. **1/2 to Please Sign In (Doc s Leader), SW & 7-MVR, $75K Southern Park S., 6f, Tune Up, 9-2 MGSP, $324,446. 12-FG, $75K Crescent City Oaks, 1m, Sunny Oak, $42K TEX APR 2yo, 8-1 Wanted: History Makers.

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5th-SA, $61,468, (NW1$X)/Opt. Clm ($40,000), 3-25, 4yo/up, Y YA GOTTABEDATWAY (g, 4, Fusaichi Pegasus--Indy Cate, by 1 1/4mT, 1:59.90, fm. Cat Thief) Lifetime Record: 11-2-3-1, $36,371. O-In His Favor ROYAL ALBERT HALL (GB) (g, 4, Royal Applause {GB}--Victoria Stable; B-Carent Stables, LLC (IL); T-Leonard M. Slager. Sponge {Ire}, by Marju {Ire}) Lifetime Record: MGSP, 17-2-6-4, $194,983. O-Steven Keh, Scott Knight, Mike Ryan & Westside 3rd-CT, $24,500, 3-24, (NW3LX), 3yo/up, 6 1/2f, 1:19.10, ft. Rentals.com; B-Old Mill Stud & S. Williams & J. Parry (GB); PRINCE OF WINDSOR (g, 5, Windsor Castle--So Francie, by T-Doug F. O'Neill. *33,000gns Ylg '13 TAOCT; ,25,000 2yo '14 Running Stag) Lifetime Record: SW, 22-8-6-2, $216,525. DONBRE. O-Carisa A. Figgins; B-Ollie L. Figgins III & Carisa Figgins (WV); Private purchase by elliott bloodstock services T-Ollie L. Figgins, III.

3rd-SA, $58,345, (S), 3-25, (NW1$X), 3yo/up, 1 1/16m, 1:43.86, 4th-CT, $24,000, (S), 3-24, (NW2L), 3yo/up, f/m, 7f, 1:27.03, ft. ft. TRIBAL HEAT (f, 3, Bring the Heat--Indiancreek Maggie, by REAL BIG DEAL (g, 4, Stormin Fever--Centerofattention, by Roanoke) Lifetime Record: 8-2-1-1, $45,607. O/B-E. C. Lowry Beau Genius) Lifetime Record: 10-2-2-1, $114,370. O/B-Dennis (WV); T-Ollie L. Figgins, III. Grenier & Norine Grenier (CA); T-J. Eric Kruljac. 7th-CT, $24,000, 3-24, (NW2LX), 3yo/up, f/m, 6 1/2f, 1:20.19, ft. 6th-AQU, $57,000, (S), (NW1$X)/Opt. Clm ($75,000), 3-25, 3yo, PEPPER BAY (m, 5, Bop--Officer Pepper, by Officer) Lifetime 1m 70y, 1:46.85, ft. Record: MSP, 24-4-10-5, $137,505. O-Daybreak Stables, Inc.; OWNER GENTLEMAN (c, 3, Pleasantly Perfect--Rosie's B-Daybreak Stables, Inc. (WV); T-Ollie L. Figgins, III. Promises, by Gold Token) Lifetime Record: 5-2-1-0, $80,635. O/B-Susan Wenner (NY); T-David G. Donk. ADDITIONAL MAIDEN WINNERS: +Truly Always, f, 3, Attila's Storm--Verily, by Mr. Greeley. SUN, 7th-FG, $46,000, (S), (NW2X)/Opt. Clm ($20,000), 3-25, 4yo/up, 3-25, (S), 6f, 1:12.50. B-R. D. Hubbard (NM). f/m, 6f, 1:10.55, ft. Double Dare, c, 3, Harlan's Holiday--Interest Only, by Crafty RAMONA'S WILDCAT (m, 5, Wildcat Heir--Pretty Indian, by Prospector. OP, 3-25, (C), 6f, 1:11.62. B-Reklein Stables (KY). Indian Charlie) Lifetime Record: SW, 18-3-5-0, $163,860. O-Keh, Rock n' Gold, f, 3, Medallist--Rocky's Angel, by Rock Slide. CT, Steven, Strait Pine Farm, LLC and W. C. Racing; B-Georgia Farms 3-24, (S), 4 1/2f, :53.13. B-Judith A.& Timothy C. Grams (WV). Inc (LA); T-Thomas M. Amoss. *$18,000 Ylg '12 OBSWIN; Et Toi (Ire), c, 3, Pour Moi (Ire)--O' Bella Ballerina, by Fusaichi $125,000 2yo '13 OBSAPR. **Full to Chief Lion, SP, $209,521. Pegasus. SA, 3-24, (C), 1mT, 1:37.43. B-Mount Brilliant Broodmares ll LLC (IRE). *100,000gns Ylg '14 TATOCT. 8th-LRL, $44,646, 3-25, (NW1X), 4yo/up, f/m, 5 1/2f, 1:05.74, ft. Chica Mala, f, 3, Siente El Trueno--Endless Horizon, by Western MOLDAVITE (m, 5, Cosmonaut--Meadow Belle, by Cat. CT, 3-24, (S), 4 1/2f, :53.64. B-Vicki Stehr (WV). Meadowlake) Lifetime Record: 12-3-1-3, $79,655. O-Blue Streak Smart Russian, g, 3, Smarty Jones--Russian Classic, by Regal Stable; B-William Niarakis Jr. & Stephen Sinatra (NY); T-Linda L. Classic. AQU, 3-25, (S), (C), 1m 70y, 1:50.80. B-William Albert. Hettinger (NY). +Dis Smart Cat, f, 3, Square Eddie--Categorize, by Menifee. SA, 3rd-PEN, $29,500, 3-24, (NW1X), 4yo/up, f/m, 6f, 1:09.73, ft. 3-24, (S), (C), 6f, 1:10.03. B-Kevin Devinzenci (CA). DAN'S GIRL (f, 4, Munnings--Tashiling, by Langfuhr) Lifetime Yes Its Souperman, g, 3, Yes It's True--Code Name Cassie, by Record: 14-4-2-2, $77,137. O-Scott H. Fairlie; B-Gail Wood & W. Partner's Hero. PEN, 3-25, 6f, 1:13.37. B-Joe Besecker (PA). Diamant (ON); T-Harold Wyner. *C$20,000 Ylg '13 CANSEP. *$105,000 Ylg '14 OBSAUG. Foaled, Raised & Sold by Blake-Albina 5th-GG, $29,007, (NW1$X)/Opt. Clm ($40,000), 3-25, 3yo, f, 1m Fiveotwo, c, 4, Kitalpha--Alida, by Theatrical (Ire). GP, 3-25, 8, (AWT), 1:39.43, ft. 1m (off turf), 1:38.75. B-Aschinger Bloodstock, LLC (KY). DREAMARCHER (f, 3, Archarcharch--Dream Luck, by Chester *$20,000 RNA Wlg '12 KEENOV. House) Lifetime Record: 8-2-0-3, $60,400. O-Jerry Hollendorfer, +Contribution, g, 4, Lemon Drop Kid--Southern Fireball (SW, Steve Melen, Red Cap Thoroughbreds LLC and Steve Taub; $171,789/0, by Southern Image. CT, 3-24, 7f, 1:28.61. B-SF B-BWB Bloodstock, LLC & K. Taylor (KY); T-Jerry Hollendorfer. Bloodstock LLC (KY). *$75,000 Wlg '12 KEENOV; $3,000 Ylg '13 *$22,000 Ylg '14 KEEJAN; $35,000 Ylg '14 KEESEP; $150,000 2yo KEESEP. '15 OBSAPR. Memento d'Oro, f, 4, Medaglia d=Oro--Intangaroo (MGISW, Consigned by Hill ‘n’ Dale Sales Agency $623,231), by Orientate. LRL, 3-25, 6f, 1:13.08. B-Adena Springs (KY). Edger Jones, g, 4, Smarty Jones--Edger, by Swear by Dixie. PEN, 7th-HAW, $27,720, 3-25, (NW1$X), 3yo/up, 1 1/16m, 1:45.91, 3-24, (S), 1m 70y, 1:45.20. B-Tom McMenamin (PA). ft.