Four Sires Top $11-Million New Year's Day Stud Fee Announced Noble Moon Looks to Shine in Jerome
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THURSDAY, JANUARY 2, 2014 732-747-8060 $ TDN Home Page Click Here NEW YEAR’S DAY STUD FEE ANNOUNCED GI Breeders= Cup Juvenile winner New Year=s Day (Street Cry {Ire}--Justwhistledixie, by Dixie Union) will begin his stud career this spring at Hill >n= Dale for $12,500, stands and nurses. ANew Year=s Day exhibited all of the qualities you would look for in a future leading FOUR SIRES TOP $11-MILLION sire, namely sire power, pedigree, performance and Highlighted by an almighty duel which saw Ramsey exceptional good looks which will assure he attracts the Farm=s Kitten=s Joy (El Prado {Ire}) nip WinStar=s right kind of mares to develop into the sire he seems Speightstown (Gone West) by no more than $15,000 destined to become,@ said Hill >n= Dale president John for the title of Leading North American Sire for 2013, Sikura. AAt this stud fee level, we expect him to be very according to calculations for TDN sire lists, these two popular.@ The first foal out of multiple graded stakes were still outdistanced by two European sires, winner Justwhistledixie, New Year=s Day defeated Coolmore=s Galileo (Sadler=s Wells) and Juddmonte=s Grade I winner Havana (Dunkirk) by 1 1/4 lengths in the Dansili (Danehill), on the final TDN 2013 General Sire Nov. 2 Juvenile. The bay colt was injured while List, combining European and North American sires preparing for his sophomore debut. (click here). Consensus World NOBLE MOON LOOKS TO SHINE IN JEROME Number One Galileo Treadway Racing=s Noble Moon (Malibu Moon) will once again topped the face seven rivals in Saturday=s GII Jerome S. at charts in 2013 with Aqueduct. The bay colt, a front-running debut winner 144 winners and the at Belmont, was bothered at the start, but still closed earners of to be third behind Cairo Prince (Pioneerof the Nile) in $14,354,382, the Nov. 3 GII Nashua S. An allergic reaction caused according to figures him to miss an expected start in the Nov. 30 generated by The GII Remsen S. AHe got hives the night before [the Jockey Club Remsen] and we had to treat him, so he had to be Information Systems Galileo scratched,@ explained trainer Leah Gyarmati. AHe=s been (TJCIS) for TDN. www.coolmore.com great ever since, hasn=t missed a work, and is doing Galileo led all North very well, so, hopefully, he=ll run well on Saturday. American and European sires (hereafter abbreviated Cont. p4 NA/EU) in four black-type categories, and tied with earnings runner-up Dansili in number of 2013 Group 1/Grade I winners, with six each. From 319 runners, Galileo sired 32 black-type winners (BTW) in 2013, and 65 black-type horses (BTH, won or placed in a black-type race); that=s 10% BTW/runners during the year, and over 20% BTH. He sired 20 group/graded stakes winners (GSW)--6.3% of his runners last year-- and a quite remarkable 46 graded/group stakes horses (GSH)--14.4% of runners. His career totals now read: 129 BTW; 226 BTH; 81 GSW; 154 GSH; and now 33 Group 1/Grade I winners (G1SW), in nine crops of racing age through 2013. He=s the greatest since his own sire, Sadler=s Wells. A fast-finishing and arguably unlucky third behind War Chant in the 2000 G1 Breeders= Cup Mile at Churchill Downs, Dansili nonetheless went to stud a Group 2 winner at Juddmonte=s Banstead Manor Stud in 2001 for a fee of ,8,000. He worked his way up until he started to attract the better mares, and >stood the raise=--which not that many do--and finished 2013 as the number two sire on the combined NA/EU list, with 124 winners and the earners of $12,887,396. Cont. p6 In This Issue 60 Broad St., Suite 100 Brownell Combs Passes Away Red Bank, NJ 07701 Leslie Brownell Combs II, son of Spendthrift founder, passes away Sunday in (732) 747-8060 Lexington. (732) 747-8955 (fax) www.thoroughbreddailynews.com Page 3 www.thetdn.com CO-PUBLISHERS Holy Bull Happenings Barry Weisbord, President [email protected] • @barryweisbord Trainer Shug McGaughey says Sue Finley, Vice President Dania Beach S. winner Mr Speaker [email protected] • @suefinley (Pulpit) will try the dirt next in the GII Holy Bull S., while trainer BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT Kiaran McLaughlin was less than Gary King, Director of Business Development pleased with Cairo Prince [email protected] (Pioneerof the Nile)’s New Year’s Eve work for the Jan. 25 race at EDITORIAL Mr Speaker [email protected] Gulfstream Park. A Coglianese Jessica Martini, Editor-in-Chief Alan Carasso, Managing Editor Cairo Prince Page 3-4 Steve Sherack, Racing Editor A Coglianese Brian DiDonato, Racing Analyst/Soc. Media Dir. Justina Severni, Associate Editor Christie DeBernardis, Assistant Editor Heather Likins, Assistant Editor Weekend Stakes Action Catlyn Spivey, Assistant Editor Fields were drawn Wednesday for Saturday’s five ADVERTISING graded stakes events across the country, including the [email protected] GII San Gabriel S. where Jeranimo (Congaree) faces Alycia Borer, Director of Advertising 10 rivals. Lia Kusch, Senior Advertising Designer Sarah K. Andrew, Senior Advertising Jeranimo Page 5 Coordinator/Director of Distribution Benoit Amanda Crelin, Advertising Designer Amanda Foster, Advertising Assistant CUSTOMER SERVICE [email protected] Bill Oppenheim Vicki Forbes, Director of Customer Service Oppenheim’s year-end examination of the sire’s lists continues with freshman sires, second crop sires and turf and all-weather sires all under the microscope. INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY Robert Williams, Director of IT [email protected] Page 7-10 Gregg Casillo, DB Administrator, Programming [email protected] WORLDWIDE INFORMATION Kelsey Riley, International Editor GP Derby Kicks off 2014 [email protected] General a Rod (Roman Ruler) gets his sophomore season off to a winning Sean Cronin, Newmarket Bureau, Cafe Racing start with a narrow victory in the $100,000 Gulfstream Park Derby. Tom Frary, Newmarket Bureau, Cafe Racing [email protected] Page 1 (atw) TDN P HEADLINE NEWS • 1/2/14 • PAGE 3 of 10 • thoroughbreddailynews.com OBITUARIES Former President of Spendthrift Farm Passes Away Leslie Brownell Combs II, 80, passed away Sunday in Lexington. The son of Spendthrift Farm founder Leslie Combs II, Combs was a lifelong figure in the Thoroughbred industry having served as the former president of Spendthrift Farm, former director and vice president of the Breeders= Cup and chairman of the Kentucky State Racing Commission. AWe were greatly saddened to learn of the passing of Brownell Combs, who served the Thoroughbred racing and breeding industry with great distinction for many years,@ said Breeders= Cup chairman Bill Farish. AAs a founding member of the Breeders= Cup, and in his energetic service as a Director on our Board, Brownell and Spendthrift Farm played a pivotal role in the commitment and development of establishing our World Championship event, which seemed like an impossible dream at the time of its creation more than 30 years ago. We extend our deepest sympathies to the Combs family.@ Combs was predeceased by his son Daniel Combs and is survived by sons Leslie Combs III and Brownell Combs and daughters Dorothy Combs and Jennifer Combs Wick. A graveside service will be held Jan. 6 at 11:30 a.m. at the Lexington Cemetery. Milward Funeral Home in Lexington is in charge of the arrangements. RACETRACK ROUND-UP Dania Beach Winner Points Towards Holy Bull Mr. Speaker (Pulpit), who captured the GIII Dania Beach S. over the Gulfstream Park turf Dec. 21 will be pointed toward the GII Holy Bull S. Jan. 25, according to trainer Shug McGaughey. All of the Phipps homebred=s previous starts have been over the sod. AHe came out of the race really well,@ McGaughey said. AI=m going to work him from the pole at Payson on the dirt. I=d like to take [jockey Jose] Lezcano up there and work him in behind a horse to see how Mr Speaker he handles the dirt in his A Coglianese face. If he handles it and breezes well, I=d like to take a shot at the Holy Bull. The timing is good, and we know he can run on the grass. He=s always trained fine on the dirt, so I would think that we=d be okay.@ TDN TODAY Headline News.. 10 pages TDN P HEADLINE NEWS • 1/2/14 • PAGE 4 of 10 • thoroughbreddailynews.com Cairo Prince Works for Holy Bull Cairo Prince (Pioneerof the Nile) worked four panels in FEATURE PRESENTATION • GII JEROME S. :51.90 at Palm Meadows Tuesday in preparation for a start in the GII Holy Bull S. Jan. 25. Trainer Kiaran McLaughlin wasn=t too pleased with the leisurely work, commenting, AI was a little disappointed, he went too slow. He breezes in company most of the time, but last week he went :47 2/5 and was out in a minute. Maybe it In preparation for his two-turn debut, Noble Moon was rider error or company worked one mile over the Belmont training track Dec. error, but we have plenty of 28 in 1:45.22. AYou have to run in these races if you=re time to catch up. We=ll put him thinking about having a nice 3-year-old, a Derby horse,@ with different company next Gyramati said. AThis race probably won=t come up as week and probably back it up tough as some of the races down the line, but it=s a to Sunday or Monday because good starting place, and you have to see how he he went so slow.@ matches up against everyone else.@ AHe=s fine and we have time Saturday, Aqueduct, post time: 3:48 p.m.