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MONDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 2016 PEGASUS COULD BE IN CARDS FOR CONNECT TERM OF ART TAKES Paul Pompa, Jr.=s GI Cigar Mile H. hero Connect (Curlin) was RAINED-OFF DEMILLE doing well the day after his Saturday score, reported conditioner Chad Brown. The sophomore, who also annexed the GII Pennsylvania Derby Sept. 24, will spend a few days at Brown=s Belmont Park base before heading south to Florida for the winter. The Pompa & Connect NYRA/Coglianese $12-million GI Pegasus World Cup is on the horizon at Gulfstream Jan. 28, and Connect will be considered for the inaugural running of that unique event. Cont. p5 Term of Art (outside, #7) | Benoit Photo IN TDN EUROPE TODAY Calumet Farm colorbearer Term of Art (Tiznow), one of two runners in Sunday=s Cecil B. DeMille S. to have never tried turf, TATTS MARE SALE UNDERWAY MONDAY took advantage of rare wet weather at Del Mar to annex the The Tattersalls December Sale enters its third and final rained-off affair for a first stakes success. phase on Monday with the start of the four-day mare sale. Click or tap here to go straight to TDN Europe. Given a 7-1 chance off a well-beaten ninth at 90-1 in the GI Breeders= Cup Juvenile at Santa Anita Nov. 5, the bay drafted from the two path in second-last early as favored Sword Fighter (Wildcat Heir) showed the way. Term of Art caught the eye as he mounted a wide bid turning for home, but the Peter Miller- trained duo of Sword Fighter and Vending Machine (Hard Spun)- -the other entrant to have never tried the grass--still had run up front. Term of Art continued on under energetic reminders from pilot Joe Talamo, and found his best stride in the late stages to kick away by 1 1/4 lengths in 1:41.69. Vending Machine and Sword Fighter rounded out the exacta and trifecta, respectively. AHe=s growing up,@ said new father Talamo. AThe more this horse runs, the better he=s going to get. He=ll just improve as he goes along, as he matures. I was very impressed with him today. I think he=ll run on, too. He=ll run a mile and a quarter. He wasn=t blowing hard at all at the end of this today. The track is playing OK. It=s mostly fair. Maybe a little deep; I don=t think they=re going to be setting any track records today.@ Cont. p3 nytbreeders.org | 518.587.0777 For more information visit our website or call 518.388.0174 PRESIDENT & CO-PUBLISHER Barry Weisbord @barryweisbord [email protected] SR. 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Kelsey Riley @kelseynrileyTDN [email protected] European Editor Emma Berry [email protected] Newmarket Bureau, Cafe Racing Sean Cronin & Tom Frary [email protected] 60 Broad Street, Suite 100 Red Bank, NJ 07701 732-747-8060 | 732-747-8955 (fax) www.TheTDN.com TDN HEADLINE NEWS • PAGE 3 OF 8 • THETDN.COM MONDAY • NOVEMBER 28, 2016 Sunday, Del Mar AThe Breeders= Cup Juvenile was a lot of horses and it got a CECIL B. DEMILLE S.*, $100,690, DMR, 11-27, 2yo, 1m (off turf), little tight coming out of the gate,@ said Leandro Mora, assistant 1:41.69, gd. to trainer Doug O=Neill. AHe=s not a horse who can take dirt in his 1--#TERM OF ART, 118, c, 2, by Tiznow face. He=s got to be a little clear. But 1st Dam: Miles of Style, by Storm Cat he came out of it sound and we 2nd Dam: Tomisue's Delight, by A.P. Indy decided to try him in this race on the 3rd Dam: Prospectors Delite, by Mr. Prospector grass. When the race was called off ($220,000 Ylg '15 KEESEP). O-Calumet Farm; B-Whisper Hill the grass, Doug called me and said Farm, LLC (KY); T-Doug F. O'Neill; J-Joseph Talamo. $60,000. >What do you think?= I said I like it Lifetime Record: 5-2-1-1, $111,105. Werk Nick Rating: A. because it=s off the grass. It worked Click for the eNicks report & 5-cross pedigree. out well and he wasn=t even tired Consigned by Timber Town Stable LLC when he came back. We still have a 2--Vending Machine, 118, c, 2, Hard Spun--Maggies Storm, by lot more we can do with this horse.@ Stormy Atlantic. ($100,000 Wlg '14 KEENOV; $70,000 RNA Ylg '15 KEESEP; $110,000 RNA 2yo '16 BARMAR). O-Sinnott Family Pedigree Notes: Benoit Photo Trust; B-Jellystone Holdings LLC (KY); T-Peter Miller. $20,000. Unraced Miles of Style, a full-sister DROMOLAND FARM SALES GRADUATE to GISW Mr. Sidney, sold for $575,000 at the 2011 Keeneland Sold by Hunter Valley Farm November sale in foal to Quality Road. She produced a Kitten=s Joy colt in 2015, and was bred back to Empire Maker this past spring after being barren the previous year. Term of Art=s 3--Sword Fighter, 118, g, 2, Wildcat Heir--Archeress, by Archers second dam is MGSIW Tomisue=s Delight, a full-sister to Horse of Bay. ($75,000 2yo '16 OBSAPR). O-Altamira Racing Stable, the Year Mineshaft out of MGISW Prospectors Delite. Darryl Hall, Marc Lantzman & Mike Pancer; B-Brent & Crystal Fernung (NY); T-Peter Miller. $12,000. NY-BRED. WHY BREED ANYWHERE ELSE? nybreds.com Margins: 1 1/4, 3/4, HF. Odds: 6.90, 12.40, 1.70. Also Ran: Curly's Waterfront, Hootie, Popular Kid, Ky. Colonel. Scratched: Offshore, Conscripted. *Automatically downgraded when taken off the turf. Click for the Equibase.com chart, the TJCIS.com PPs or the free Equineline.com catalogue-style pedigree. VIDEO, sponsored by Fasig-Tipton. Third behind subsequent GI Del Mar Futurity third Midnight Pleasure (Midnight Lute) sprinting here July 24, Term of Art went one better as the favorite over track and trip Aug. 25. He Horsemen look forward after defeat of casino referendum graduated by a nose going the same distance at Santa Anita Despite the overwhelming defeat of a referendum that would Oct. 8, but never made an impact in the Breeders= Cup there have allowed casinos outside of Atlantic City, New Jersey=s after getting roughed up early. horsemen are not giving up. www.nj.com TDN HEADLINE NEWS • PAGE 4 OF 8 • THETDN.COM MONDAY • NOVEMBER 28, 2016 Saturday, Del Mar Away alertly from his outside post, Midnight Storm tugged his NATIVE DIVER S.-GIII, $100,690, DMR, 11-27, 3yo/up, 1 1/8m, way right to the front and clicked off splits of :23.89, :48.36 and 1:51.59, gd. 1:13.53 while well within himself. Still traveling strongly as his 1--MIDNIGHT STORM, 125, h, 5, by Pioneerof the Nile rivals were implored for more 1st Dam: My Tina, by Bertrando to keep up turning for home, 2nd Dam: Ask Directions, by Darby Creek Road the dark bay hit the lane 3rd Dam: Khal On Me, by Vertex straight and strong and ($38,000 RNA Ylg '12 KEESEP). O-A Venneri Racing, Inc. & Little cantered home in convincing Red Feather Racing; B-Alex Venneri & Marjorie Post Dye (KY); fashion. T-Philip D'Amato; J-Mike E. Smith. $60,000. Lifetime Record: A = GISW, 20-9-3-1, $1,341,110. Werk Nick Rating: A+++. [Trainer] Phil [D Amato] *Triple Plus*. Click for the eNicks report & 5-cross pedigree. didn=t tell me anything. He just said if he likes [the track], you=ll have some fun,@ offered winning rider Mike 2--Point Piper, 123, h, 6, Giant=s Causeway--Imagine (Ire), by Smith. AHe looked to be the Sadler's Wells. ($80,000 3yo '13 FTKHRA). O-Gatto Racing, LLC, J. Hollendorfer, P. & T. Russo & M. Schlaich; B-Barronstown only speed and I caught a Co-owner/breeder Alex Venneri flyer coming away from (left) & D=Amato | Benoit Photo Stud (KY); T-Jerry Hollendorfer. $20,000.