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NAYEF filly tops Tatts Wednesday p. 10-11 HEADLINE For information about TDN, call 732-747-8060. NEWS www.thoroughbreddailynews.com THURSDAY, OCTOBER 18, 2007 QUALITY, NOT QUANTITY FOR BC CLASSIC A total of 141 horses were pre-entered yesterday for BREEDERS’ CUP the 11 races of the $23-million Breeders= Cup World BULLETIN Championships next weekend at Monmouth Park. Of those, nine were entered for the $5-million GI Breeders= Cup Classic, including the five best three-year-olds in CLASSIC - POWERED BY DODGE, $5,000,000, training--in alphabetical 3yo/up, 1 1/4m order--Any Given Satur- Horse Sire Trainer day (Distorted Humor), Any Given Saturday Distorted Humor Pletcher Curlin (Smart Strike), Awesome Gem Awesome Again C Dollase Hard Spun (Danzig), Curlin Smart Strike Asmussen Street Sense (Street Cry Diamond Stripes Notebook Dutrow Jr {Ire}) and Tiago (Pleas- ant Tap). Headlining the George Washington (Ire) Danehill O=Brien four older horses in the Hard Spun Danzig Jones field are Lawyer Ron Lawyer Ron Langfuhr Pletcher (Langfuhr), hero of the Street Sense Street Cry (Ire) Nafzger Monmouth Walking Ring GI Whitney H. and GI Tiago Pleasant Tap Shirreffs Sarah K Andrew photo Woodward S.; and Diamond Stripes has first preference in the Dirt Mile George Washington (Ire) George Washington has second preference in the Mile (Danehill), a top European miler who was sixth in last Last year=s G1 2000 Guineas hero George Washing- year=s Classic. The last time there were fewer than 10 ton was retired after finishing sixth to Invasor (Arg) in runners in the Classic was 1997. AThis is possibly the the GI Breeders= Cup Classic at Churchill. However, the deepest Breeders= Cup Classic field ever,@ said Greg handsome bay was returned to training after proving Avioli, president and chief executive officer of Breeders= sub-fertile at stud, and is set to fly to the States for Cup Limited. AIf not the deepest, it=s definitely one of another go. He has been pre-entered in the Mile as well, the deepest. We have the first three finishers of the but is almost certain to go in the Classic. Trainer Aidan Kentucky Derby, we have Grade I winners Tiago and O=Brien thinks he can improve on his 2006 showing. Any Given Saturday, and we have George Washington AHe's a very fresh horse this year,@ the Ballydoyle condi- coming to run again from Europe.@ Avioli added, AWe tioner told Sporting Life. Last year, come Breeders' are pleased that 20 horses pre-entered from Europe, A including Arc de Triomphe winner Dylan Thomas, who Cup time, he'd had a tough season and was probably a is the number one rated horse in the world right now. In little bit washy-looking. He ran a good race in it last addition to Dylan Thomas (Ire), we also are going to year when everyone was saying you need a mile-and-a- have former champions Red Rocks (Ire) and Better Talk half horse on that track to win over a mile and a quarter Now back in the Turf--so the Turf is setting up as one on the dirt, but this year at Monmouth everyone is of the most exciting Turf races we=ve had in years. saying maybe a mile-and-a-furlong horse could win.@ Another former champion who is back is Street Sense, Fourth by a neck in his return, the one-mile G1 Queen who is trying to do the unprecedented triple of the Anne S. at Royal Ascot June 19, AGorgeous George@ Juvenile, the Derby and the Breeders= Cup Classic. We finished third to Notnowcato (GB) and Authorized (Ire) think we have all the elements here for possibly the in the 10-furlong G1 Coral-Eclipse S. July 7. He heads biggest Breeders= Cup ever.@ Six of the races were overseas off a third in the one-mile G1 Prix du Moulin oversubscribed; all 11 races will be drawn Wednesday, Sept. 9. The four-year-old is one of five Ballydoyle Oct. 24. BC fields p2-5 runners entered for the Breeders= Cup (see p2) www.hillndalefarms.com P TDN HEADLINE NEWS • 10/18/07 • PAGE 2 of 11 O’BRIEN LOADED FOR CUP Aidan O=Brien, trainer of 2001 GI Breeders= Cup Juve- nile winner Johannesburg and 2002 and 2003 GI Breeders= Cup Turf hero High Chaparral (Ire), heads to Monmouth Park with a strong hand for this year=s World Championships. O=Brien has pre-entered Achill Island (Ire) (Sadler=s Wells) (Juvenile Turf); All My Lov- ing (Ire) (Sadler=s Wells) (Filly & Mare Turf); Excellent Art (GB) (Pivotal {GB}) (Mile); Dylan Thomas (Ire) (Danehill) (Turf) and George Washington (Ire) (Danehill) (Classic). Dylan Thomas, last seen annexing the G1 Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe Oct. 7, finished a well-beaten fourth--and last--behind Bernardini when shipped to the U.S. for last term=s GI Jockey Club Gold Cup. Dylan Thomas has been brilliant in eight starts this term, winning five and placing second in three. AHe has a lot of class, speed and stamina all mixed together,@ O=Brien said. AHe seems to be in good form [since the Arc] and we=re very happy with him at the moment. Dylan Thomas is probably as good of a horse as we=ve ever had. He has all the attributes of a great horse.@ Achill Island broke his maiden in his third try at Tipperary Aug. 30, then placed a good second in the G2 Juddmonte Royal Lodge S. last out Sept. 29. All My Loving most recently finished ninth in the G2 Prix de Royallieu at Longchamp Oct. 6. According to O=Brien, she will start in Sunday=s Listed Barathea Finale S. at The Curragh and will head to the Breeders= Cup if she runs well enough. Excellent Art has his sights set on the Mile following second-place finishes in the G1 Sus- sex S. Aug. 1 and the G1 Queen Elizabeth II S. NETJETS MILE, $2,000,000, 3yo/up, 1mT Sept. 29. Horse Sire Trainer After Market Storm Cat Shirreffs JOHN DEERE TURF, $3,000,000, 3yo/up, 1 1/2mT Cosmonaut Lemon Drop Kid Biancone Horse Sire Trainer Excellent Art (GB) Pivotal (GB) O=Brien Better Talk Now Talkin Man Motion George Washington (Ire) Danehill O=Brien Champs Elysees (GB) Danehill O=Brien Icy Atlantic Stormy Atlantic Pletcher Dylan Thomas (Ire) Danehill O=Brien Jeremy Danehill Dancer (Ire) Stoute English Channel Smart Strike Pletcher Kip Deville Kipling Dutrow Jr Fri Guy Theatrical (Ire) Romans My Typhoon (Ire) Giant=s Causeway Mott Grand Couturier (GB) Grand Lodge Ribaudo Nobiz Like Shobiz Albert the Great Tagg Honey Ryder Lasting Approval Pletcher Precious Kitten Catienus Frankel Icy Atlantic Stormy Atlantic Pletcher Purim Dynaformer Proctor Red Rocks (Ire) Galileo (Ire) Meehan Remarkable News (Ven) Chayim Penna Jr Shamdinan (Fr) Dr Fong Penna Jr Silent Name (Jpn) Sunday Silence Frankel Trippi s Storm Trippi Hough Sunriver Saint Ballado Pletcher = Not Selected, In Order of Preference: Transduction Gold Formal Gold Glenney Host (Chi) Hussonet Pletcher Honey Ryder has first preference in the F/M Turf Lewis Michael Rahy Catalano Icy Atlantic has second preference in the Mile Rebellion (GB) Mozart (Ire) Motion You can also pick up a copy of the Rabatash Johannesburg Tagg TDN today on the Keeneland George Washington has first preference in the Classic Icy Atlantic has first preference in the Turf backstretch courtesy of My Typhoon has second preference in the Distaff Precious Kitten has second preference in the F/M Turf Lewis Michael has first preference in the Dirt Mile P TDN HEADLINE NEWS • 10/18/07 • PAGE 3 of 11 BESSEMER TRUST JUVENILE, $2,000,000, 2yo, GREY GOOSE JUVENILE FILLIES, $2,000,000, 1 1/16m 2yo, f, 1 1/16m Horse Sire Trainer Horse Sire Trainer Beresford Touch Gold Hendricks A to the Croft Menifee McPeek Dixie Chatter Dixie Union R Mandella Backseat Ryhthm El Corredor Reynolds Kodiak Kowboy Posse Asmussen Clearly Foxy Volponi Casse Majestic Warrior A.P. Indy Mott Cry and Catch Me Street Cry (Ire) Baffert Grace Anatomy Aldebaran O'Neill Old Man Buck Hold That Tiger McPeek Indian Blessing Indian Charlie Baffert Pyro Pulpit Asmussen Irish Smoke Smoke Glacken Biancone Salute the Sarge Forest Wildcat Guillot Izarra Distorted Humor McAnally Shore Do Include Peery Phantom Income Montbrook Violette Jr Slew's Tiznow Tiznow Biancone Proud Spell Proud Citizen L Jones Tale of Ekati Tale of the Cat Tagg Set Play Van Nistelrooy Miller Texas Fever Victory Gallop Stidham Smarty Deb Smart Strike Harwood Tasha's Miracle Harlan=s Holiday Sadler War Pass Cherokee Run Zito Zee Zee Exchange Rate Mott Wicked Style Macho Uno Arnold Not Selected, In Order of Preference: Z Humor Distorted Humor Mott Joffe=s Run Giant=s Causeway Meehan Not Selected, In Order of Preference: Annie Skates Mr. Greeley J Chapple-Hyam Globalization Touch Gold Violette Jr TVG SPRINT, $2,000,000, 3yo/up, 6f Overextended Monarchos O=Neill Horse Sire Trainer Old Man Buck has first preference in the Juvenile Turf Attila=s Storm Forest Wildcat Schosberg Shore Do has second preference in the Juvenile Turf Benny the Bull Lucky Lionel Dutrow Jr Texas Fever has first preference in the Juvenile Turf Bordonaro Memo (Chi) Spawr Overextended has second preference in the Juvenile Turf Commentator Distorted Humor Zito Greg's Gold Lake George Hofmans “The Works” Idiot Proof Benchmark Sise Belmont Park In Summation Put It Back Clement Horse (Sire), BC Race distance, time, rank Kelly=s Landing Patton Kenneally Nobiz Like Shobiz (Albert the Great), M 4f (T), :49.82, 1/1 La Traviata Johannesburg Biancone Mach Ride Pentelicus Standridge Hollywood Park Midnight Lute Real Quiet Baffert Silent Name (Jpn) (Sunday Silence), M 6f, 1:14.00, 4/7 Park Avenue Ball Citidancer Ryerson Smokey Stover Put It Back Gilchrist Santa Anita Talent Search Catienus Shuman Balance (Thunder Gulch), D 5f, :59.40, 2/54 Not Selected: Dixie Chatter (Dixie Union), J 5f, $:59.20, 1/54 Forefathers Gone West Mott Commentator has second preference in the Dirt Mile Saratoga (training--Oct.