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NEW YORK RACING BIDS DUE HEADLINE p. 2 NEWS For information about TDN, DELIVERED EACH NIGHT BY FAX AND FREE BY E-MAIL TO SUBSCRIBERS OF call 732-747-8060. www.thoroughbreddailynews.com WEDNESDAY, APRIL 4, 2007 LATE TRIPLE CROWN NOMS SET RECORD BOUTROUS TO ADD BLINKERS FOR SA DERBY Ten three-year-olds were late nominees for the 2007 Mike Shustek=s Boutrous (Tiznow), who is coming off Triple Crown, bringing the total to a record 460 nomi- a fourth-place effort to Great Hunter in the Mar. 3 GII nees. The previous total record was 454. The late nom- Robert B. Lewis S., will be equipped with blinkers for ination period, with a fee of $6,000, ended last Satur- the first time in Saturday=s GI Santa Anita Derby. AWe day. There were 450 nominees recently added blinkers and he's really trained well with made for $600 during the first them,@ conditioner Craig Dollase said yesterday during a nomination period, which ended national teleconference. A late closer who made up 12 Jan. 20. The Triple Crown begins lengths to break his maiden at Hollywood last Novem- with the 133rd GI Kentucky ber, Boutrous followed that up Derby May 5 at Churchill Downs, with a rallying win against Holly- continues with the 132nd GI wood allowance foes in mid-De- Etude J McCue Preakness S. May 19 at Pimlico cember. He couldn=t overcome a Race Course and concludes with troubled trip when second by the 139th GI Belmont S. at Belmont Park. The list is five lengths in the California headlined by Maryland-based Etude (Include), who has Derby at Golden Gate Jan. 28 swept through his three starts this year by an average and most recently failed to make of 5.8 lengths. Two of the other new nominees are ex- much of an impact in the Robert Europeans Love Dubai (E Dubai) and Medici Code (GB) Lewis after tracking sensible (Medicean {GB}), who are slated to make their U.S. fractions. AHe=s a horse that is at bows this weekend in the GII Illinois Derby and GI Santa the mercy of the pace some- Anita Derby, respectively. times,@ said Dollase. AOur objec- tive is to have him a little closer, Boutrous Boutrous-Ghali: LATE TRIPLE CROWN NOMINEES not the inspiration for and I'm confident he=ll run well. Horse Sire Trainer It looks like a pretty wide open Boutrous Catman Running Tactical Cat Reed race. I think he's going to like the O-Joe Harris nine furlongs.@ Dollase also revealed the horse=s name- Court the King Doneraile Court Sadler sake. Fans of Boutrous Boutrous-Ghali will be disap- O-Marta Racing Ventures pointed to learn that the colt is not named after the Cristobal Aptitude Rouget former United Nations Secretary General. Instead, O-Edmund Gann owner Mike Shustek named him after a friend, Ted Delightful Kiss Kissin Kris Anderson Boutrous. O-Hobeau Farms Etude Include Small O-Fitzhugh LLC DERBY TROPHY ARRIVES The solid gold trophy that will be presented to the Reptilian Smarts Include Ritvo winner of this year s Kentucky Derby arrived at Chur- O-Christopher J Hall = chill Downs yesterday. The trophy is created each year Love Dubai E Dubai Maker by New England Sterling and the company s president, O-Ron Peltz = Marc Forbes, personally delivered the 14-karat gold, Medici Code (GB) Medicean (GB) Vienna hand-made trophy to Churchill officials. O-Herrick Racing Quite Acceptable Acceptable Ritter O-Silver Wing Stables TDN TODAY Vow to Greatness Broken Vow Allen Headline News.................... 6 pages O-Paul Knuckley www.winstarfarm.com TDN P HEADLINE NEWS • 4/4/07 • PAGE 2 of 6 P N E W S T O D A Y P FOUR SUBMIT NEW YORK RACING BIDS The four companies which remain in contention for the franchise to run racing at Belmont Park, Aqueduct and Saratoga have all submitted bids to the state. Excelsior Racing, Empire Racing Associates and Capital Play handed in bids at Monday=s deadline, joining the current franchise holder New York Racing Association which submitted its proposal Friday. The Australian-based Capital Play outlined its plan in a statement released yesterday. The bid includes three different proposals Adepending on whether New York State prefers more payments annually, more money up front or more VLT- based revenues,@ Capital Play CEO Karl O=Farrell said in the statement. He added, ACapital Play remains fully committed to its original bid proposal, which guaran- tees an investment of $1.8 billion consisting of annual lease payments of $50 million adjusted for inflation [worth $1 billion], plus $500 million in track invest- ments, $200 million for VLT facilities and $110 million to pay off NYRA pension liabilities.@ The second option guarantees an investment of $1.5 billion, with a $250 million up-front lease payment, annual lease payments of $22 million for 20 years adjusted for inflation (worth $440 million), plus $500 million track investments, $200 million for VLT facilities and $110 million to pay off NYRA pension liabilities. This proposal assumes approval for VLTs at both Aqueduct and Belmont. The company=s third alternative guarantees an investment of NAISSANCE ROYALE RETIRED Multiple graded- $730 million if the VLTs are allowed only at Aqueduct. stakes winner Naissance Royale (Ire) (Giant=s This proposal includes a $100 million up-front lease Causeway--Net Worth, by Forty Niner) has been retired payment, annual lease payments of $10 million ad- from racing and will be bred to justed for inflation (worth $200 million), plus $220 Kingmambo, according to Daily million in track investments, $100 million for VLTs Racing Form. The five-year-old facilities and $110 million to pay off NYRA pension mare will reside at Oak Tree liabilities. A[While] Capital Play is very confident in its Stud. Bred in Ireland by Dr. Tony bid proposal, it is equally confident in its ability to bring Ryan, the chestnut sold as a the best marketing and racing model in the world to yearling for 310,000gns at New York State, restoring the Thoroughbred racing Tattersalls Houghton to Quesnay industry--including breeding and integrity--to the stature Bloodstock. She began her career it deserves,@ O=Farrell said. AWe know our experience in in France for Monceaux Stables Australia will translate well here in New York and we and Criquette Head-Maarek, Equi-Photo understand what it will take to reinvigorate this sport.@ breaking her maiden at two and finishing second in the All four organizations will present their bids publicly G3 Prix Vanteaux in May of her three-year-old season. before a state committee in Albany Apr. 10 and 11. Shipped to Christophe Clement that summer, Naissance Royale captured a thrilling renewal of the GII Lake OMISSION: Sunday=s TDN failed to note a sale for Placid S. at Saratoga in her U.S. opener, then ran a G2 UAE Derby runner-up Jack Junior close fourth in the GI Queen Elizabeth II Challenge Cup (Songandaprayer). In addition to being a $52,000 at Keeneland. She added Woodbine=s GII Nassau S. last KEENOV weanling in 2004, the three-year-old colt year and the GIII Suwanee River H. Feb. 3 before con- sold for $180,000 at the 2006 Fasig-Tipton Calder cluding her career with a good third versus males in the juvenile sale. Newmarket Merry Meehan purchased GII Mervin H. Muniz Jr. Memorial H. Mar. 10. Naissance Jack Junior, who now runs for Roldvale Ltd & Gold Royale, a half-sister to the multiple group-placed Spinnette Group International. (Ire) (Spinning World), heads to the breeding shed with a record of 17-5-5-2 and earnings of $637,968. TDN P HEADLINE NEWS • 4/4/07 • PAGE 3 of 6 FROM THE DESK OF... Bill Oppenheim ROCK AROUND THE CLOCK Up until last weekend, I used to say Ireland was the place that changed the most since I started going there (which in Ireland's case was over 30 years ago). But Europe's greatest success story of the last 15 years, with its attendant nightmare traffic problems, has now been supplanted as >most changed country' by the U.A.E. Dubai currently houses somewhere around one-third of the world's cranes-Band I don't mean the feathered variety. No, I mean the kind that sit on the top of the skeletons of 30-floor buildings. In one stretch near the Dubai World Trade Center and the new Burj Dubai Tower (115 floors and counting, on its way to 160 stories and recognition as the world's tallest build- ing), I counted 15 other buildings under construction, each of which had one or two cranes on top of it, awaiting further orders. Admittedly, there's rarely been a year when I haven't been in Ireland at least for Goffs, and it had been 14 years since I had been in Dubai, but even regular Dubai-goers assert the change is dramatic from one year to the next. It's way beyond dramatic--practically epic--in the Emirate ruled by (to quote his full title, used (859) 233-4252 every time he is mentioned in the local papers) His www.claibornefarm.com Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Dubai is almost in the business Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of manufacturing prosperity, and it is succeeding on a of Dubai-Bor, as we in the horse business know him, scale certainly I have never seen. Everyone benefits Sheikh Mohammed. When you see the huge changes from that.