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SATURDAY, JUNE 15, 2013 732-747-8060 $ TDN Home Page Click Here >RON= LOOKS TO REPEAT IN FOSTER WELCOME BACK BIG GUY! Tonight=s GI Stephen Foster H.--which is scheduled Zayat Stables= Paynter (Awesome Again), sidelined for 9:39 p.m. under the Churchill Downs lights and with a series of well-documented life-threatening offers a GI Breeders= Cup Classic ailments--including laminitis--since his authoritative AWin & You=re In@ berth--only drew victory in last summer=s GI Haskell Invitational S. at six runners, but it attracted the Monmouth Park, completed his fairytale comeback in right six. Among the star-studded style with a powerful 4 1/2-length victory in a third- field is Wachtel, Brous and level allowance at Betfair Hollywood Park Friday. AIt=s Hammer=s Ron the Greek (Full majestic, it=s miraculous,@ an emotional Ahmed Zayat Mandate), who came with a said in the winner=s circle on TVG. AI am proud that he=s relentless rally up the fence to just doing what he loves to do, which is run. And you saw edge eventual Horse of the Year the way he ran, being pressured the whole way, but Ron the Greek Wise Dan (Wiseman=s Ferry) here still having plenty left in an incredible time [1:21.86]. I A Coglianese a year ago. Subsequently second couldn=t have been any prouder. This is a celebration of to Fort Larned (E Dubai) in the GI life!@ Full Result, p1 ATW Whitney Invitational H. in August, the bay could do no better than sixth behind stablemate Flat Out (Flatter) in ATOP THE HIGHEST MOUNTAIN Belmont=s GI Jockey Club Gold Cup in September. He When Craig Bandoroff set out to develop one of was fourth in Fort Larned=s GI Breeders= Cup Classic Kentucky=s leading farms and consignment companies victory Nov. 3 to conclude his 5-year-old season. Ron in 1990, he wanted to work at the highest end of the the Greek kicked off 2013 with an 11 1/4-length tour market, and desired to trade the best quality de force in Gulfstream=s Sunshine Millions Classic bloodstock. That=s why he named his farm Denali Stud Jan. 19, but was a disappointing fourth to Game On --a term meaning Athe great one,@ coined by Alaskan Dude (Awesome Again) when trying to defend his GI Eskimos to describe Mt. McKinley, the highest Santa Anita H. title Mar. 2. The Bill Mott trainee exits a mountain in North America. On Mar. 30, 2013-- close third behind Game On Dude and next-out GII 23 years later--Bandoroff experienced his highest high Californian S. scorer Clubhouse Ride (Candy Ride {Arg}) in the racing game when Animal Kingdom in the Apr. 20 GIII Charles Town Classic. Cont. p3-4 (Leroidesanimaux {Brz})--whom he foaled, raised and sold and now owns a piece of through Team Valor DEEP FIELD FOR DIANE International--won the G1 Dubai World Cup. Tomorrow=s G1 Prix de Diane Longines at Chantilly is Writers Up cont. p6 an all-French affair, with none of the chief domestic middle-distance fillies missing from a talented cast. Despite featuring only 11, the race=s draw is still an important factor and has gone against Sheikh Mohammed bin Khalifa Al Thani=s Flotilla (Fr) (Mizzen Mast), as the G1 Poule d=Essai des Pouliches winner will start from an outside post in nine. Favored by a low berth in that May 12 Longchamp Classic, the GI Breeders= Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf scorer fares worse than Guineas runner-up Esoterique (Ire) (Danehill Dancer {Ire}), who is one of a trio from the Andre Fabre stable and would be a first for her owner-breeder Baron Edouard de Rothschild if she can turn her draw in four to her advantage on softer ground than she encountered last time. Previously, she beat the Wertheimers= Silasol (Ire) (Monsun {Ger}) and Safsaf Canarias= Pearlside (Fr) (Alhaarth {Ire}) in the G3 Prix Vanteaux over an extended nine-furlong trip at Longchamp Apr. 28 and remains unexposed. Fabre=s other pair, Baltic Baroness (Ger) (Shamardal) and Tasaday (Nayef), have been drawn on the inside and outside, respectively, with the latter bidding to close a considerable gap to Flotilla and Esoterique after trailing that pair by four lengths and a neck in the Pouliches. 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(732) 747-8955 (fax) www.thoroughbreddailynews.com www.thetdn.com Coverage begins following Headline News Barry Weisbord, co-publisher Royal Delta Seeks Repeat [email protected] • @barryweisbord Sue Finley, co-publisher (Empire Maker) headlines a field of five while defending her Royal Delta [email protected] • @suefinley title in today’s GII Fleur de Lis H. at Churchill Downs. "Royal Delta's timing is the same as it was last year and I think we've got a similar amount of work in her," said Hall of Fame trainer Bill Mott. Editorial [email protected] Jessica Martini, Editor-in-Chief Coverage begins page 9 Alan Carasso, Managing Editor Christina Bossinakis, Senior Editor Steve Sherack, Racing Editor Brian DiDonato, Racing Analyst/Soc. Media Dir. 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Cont. from p1 While Fort Larned was eighth in last year=s Foster, Mott acknowledged that two subsequent defeats at the hand of that runner make him the one Ron the Greek must beat. AI guess after we beat him in the Foster, I thought we were at least as good as he was,@ said Hall of Fame trainer Bill Mott. ABut he wound up beating us in both the Whitney and the Breeders= Cup. So our hats are off to him and we=ve got to try to turn Fort Larned the tables. Adam Coglianese @ Ron the Greek and the other Foster competitors may not be meeting the same Fort Larned that was so tough last year, however. The Janis Whitham homebred=s 5-year-old season has gotten off to an extremely rocky start. He dropped pilot Brian Hernandez, Jr. and ran off at the start of the Apr. 13 GII Gulfstream Park H., and was a no-excuse fifth in the GII Oaklawn H. Apr. 13. Fort Larned=s local worktab since his last appearance hints that the bay could be back to his best. Trainer Ian Wilkes was up front about what he expects from his stable star. AFort Larned has to step up to the plate and become the big dog again,@ Wilkes offered. AThat=s what he=s got to do.@ All European post times in the TDN are local time Saturday, Churchill Downs, post time: 9:39 p.m. EDT STEPHEN FOSTER H. PRESENTED BY ABU DHABI-GI, $500,000, 3yo/up, 1 1/8m PP HORSE OWNER BREEDER TRAINER/JOCKEY ML 1 Golden Ticket K Magic City Thoroughbred Partners WinStar Farm LLC-KY McPeek 12-1 (c, 4, Speightstown--Business Plan, by Deputy Minister) Rosario 2 Fort Larned Janis Whitham Janis Whitham-KY Wilkes 3-1 (h, 5, E Dubai--Arlucea, by Broad Brush) Hernandez 3 Ron the Greek Brous Stable, Wachtel & Jack Hammer Jack Hammer-FL Mott 3-1 (h, 6, Full Mandate--Flambe, by Fortunate Prospect) Lezcano 4 Take Charge Indy K WinStar Farm & Church & Maribeth Sanford Eaton Sales-KY Byrne 5-2 (c, 4, A.P. Indy--Take Charge Lady, by Dehere) Napravnik 5 Pool Play K William Farish Jr. Windfields Farm-Ont Casse 15-1 (h, 8, Silver Deputy--Zuri Ridge, by Cox’s Ridge) Mena 6 Successful Dan Morton Fink Morton Fink-KY Lopresti 2-1 (g, 7, Successful Appeal--Lisa Danielle, by Wolf Power {SAf}) Leparoux TDN P HEADLINE NEWS • 6/15/13 • PAGE 4 of 12 • thoroughbreddailynews.com Byrne continued, AI always knew he could be that Stephen Foster Handicap kind of a horse.