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FRIDAY, JULY 13, 2018 TAKING STOCK: MILL RIDGE MONMOUTH GENERATES $2.2M IN SPORTS BETTING REVENUE IN FIRST 17 DAYS BACK IN THE SIRE GAME By T.D. Thornton Monmouth Park realized $2,279,166 in sports betting revenue (total handle minus the paid-out winnings) during its first 17 days of operation since New Jersey legalized sports betting June 14. Total handle at New Jersey=s three sports bet-taking properties for the partial month of June was $16,409,616 according to the first sports-wagering revenue report released July 12 by the state=s Division of Gaming Enforcement. Borgata Hotel Casino and Ocean Resort Casino were the two other properties that reported sports betting revenue. The sports book at the Meadowlands racetrack is scheduled to open this Saturday. Cont. p6 Oscar Performance | Horsephotos by Sid Fernando IN TDN EUROPE TODAY Headley Bell, managing partner of Mill Ridge Farm in STRONG DEMAND FOR HIT PROSPECTS Lexington, favors long-sleeved button-down shirts and khakis, is The second session of the Tattersalls July Sale in Newmarket exceedingly polite and gentlemanly, and has the unaffected air was jointly topped by Degas (Ger) (Exceed And Excel {Aus}) and of a country squire about him. He has the pedigree to back up Olympic Odyssey (GB) (Camelot {GB}) who each brought this image, as the grandson of Hal Price Headley, one of the 100,000gns. Click or tap here to go straight to TDN Europe. founders of Keeneland, an exemplary horseman, and the master of the legendary Beaumont Farm; and as the son of Alice Chandler, now 92, who established Mill Ridge in 1962 on Beaumont land on the death of her father, stood world-class sires Diesis and Gone West, and bred Epsom Derby winner Sir Ivor 53 years ago. If you put the microscope to him, Bell is a fifth-generation horseman and his son Price Bell, Jr., who is a part of the Mill Ridge equation as well as a partner in Bell's noted bloodstock consultancy Nicoma, is sixth generation. Mill Ridge sits on 650 acres--Alice Chandler inherited 286 acres to start the farm--and is home to about 200 head nowadays, including 85 mares, mostly boarders for a group of high-end clients. At the moment it stands one semi-private horse, Keep Up (Unbridled's Song), and before him stood Johar (Gone West), Commendable (Gone West), and Anees (Unbridled) after the commercially robust era of Diesis and Gone West. The farm has the capability to stand six stallions as a boutique operation. Bell has been managing Mill Ridge since 2008 and in recent years he's "been navigating the waters, really waiting for the right opportunity" for the next commercial stallion prospect for the farm. Cont. p3 PUBLISHER & CEO Sue Morris Finley @suefinley [email protected] V.P., INTERNATIONAL OPERATIONS Gary King @garykingTDN [email protected] EDITORIAL [email protected] Editor-in-Chief Jessica Martini @JessMartiniTDN Managing Editor Alan Carasso @EquinealTDN Friday, July 13, 2018 Senior Editor Steve Sherack @SteveSherackTDN Racing Editor Brian DiDonato @BDiDonatoTDN News and Features Editor Ben Massam @BMassamTDN Associate Editors Christie DeBernardis @CDeBernardisTDN Joe Bianca @JBiancaTDN ADVERTISING [email protected] Director of Advertising Alycia Borer Advertising Manager Lia Best Advertising Designer Amanda Crelin Advertising Assistants Alexa Reisfield Rachel McCaffrey Amie Morosco Photo Editor/Dir. of Distribution Sarah K. Andrew @SarahKAndrew [email protected] Social Media Strategist Justina Severni Celebrating her sons’ victories. Gestut Rottgen's Wellenspiel (Ger) (Sternkoenig {Ire}) is the dam of consecutive German Derby winners. Her sons Windstoss (Ger) (Shirocco Director of Customer Service {Ger}) and Weltstar (Ger) (Soldier Hollow {GB}) scored in that Classic in 2017 and 2018, Vicki Forbes [email protected] respectively. | Jocelyn de Moubray Marketing Manager Alayna Cullen @AlaynaCullen BARRETTS JULY SALE CUT FROM CALENDAR 8 Director of Information Technology The Barretts July Sale of race-ready horses at Del Mar has been Ray Villa canceled and will be combined with the October sale at Fairplex. [email protected] Bookkeeper Terry May WARD EYES EVEREST FOR BOUND FOR NOWHERE 8 [email protected] Wesley Ward is considering Australlia’s The Everest, the world’s richest turf sprint for GSW & G1SP Bound for Nowhere (The Factor). WORLDWIDE INFORMATION International Editor Kelsey Riley @kelseynrileyTDN TODAY’S GRADED STAKES [email protected] EST Race Click for TV European Editor Emma Berry 9:25a Duchess Of Cambridge S.-G2, NMK -------------- TVG [email protected] 10:15a Summer S.-G3, YOR -------------- TvG Associate International Editor 10:35a Tattersalls Falmouth S.-G1, NMK -------------- TVG Heather Anderson @HLAndersonTDN 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 9 • THETDN.COM FRIDAY • JULY 13, 2018 Turf at a mile, a race in which he set fractions of 1:09.44 and 1:21.07 on his way to 1:33.28, in 2016. Bell noted that the 16-hand colt is athletic, attractive, physically correct, and races Lasix-free, aside from being handier and faster than most of the Last week, a few days before Kitten's Joys. announcing it to the press, Bell Back in March in Ocala--yes, at called to say that Mill Ridge had its Craig Bernick's annual crawfish boil horse. He is John and Jerry at Glen Hill Farm--Bell had Amerman's 4-year-old homebred mentioned that he was interested Oscar Performance (Kitten's Joy-- in Oscar Performance, but it wasn't Devine Actress, by Theatrical {Ire}), until about a week before the a multiple Grade I winner at two Poker, Bell said, that he and his son and three and the sensational had approached the colt's winner of the Glll Poker S. on the owner/breeders about tying up the turf at Belmont in his seasonal colt for Mill Ridge. debut in mid-June. True to his name, the athletic bay had indeed Headley Bell at Mill Ridge | Eclipse Sportswire Syndication put up an Oscar-worthy It helped that the Amermans are performance by shattering a 20-year track record with a final clients of the farm and that Bell is their pedigree advisor and time of 1:31.23 for the mile. had played a hand in Oscar Performance's mating. Also, the Altogether, Oscar Performance is a winner of seven of 12 Amermans board their mares at the farm--Oscar Performance starts and $1,967,632 to date, and his notable wins include the was foaled at Mill Ridge--and enjoy an excellent relationship GI Belmont Derby and the GI Secretariat S. at Arlington, both at with Alice Chandler and her son and grandson. a mile and a quarter last year, and the GI Breeders' Cup Juvenile Cont. p4 TDN HEADLINE NEWS • PAGE 4 OF 9 • THETDN.COM FRIDAY • JULY 13, 2018 Taking Stock cont. "We've got the best clients. We work with the best, as far as "We are mutual fans of each other, that's number one," Bell I'm concerned. We love our people. Ultimately, the goal is to said. "And when this horse had demonstrated his talents early make the stallion, and we--and the Amermans--will be working on, it became a no-brainer. He won the Breeders' Cup Juvenile towards that goal. He's a horse we believe in," Bell said. Turf so well and then went on and was the best at three on turf To that end, Bell said the horse would be syndicated into 40 for his age, and his numbers were shares, with the Amermans so strong. I know the only thing you retaining 10 shares. At the might have contemplated was the moment, 15 shares are being turf angle--but we considered that offered for $75,000 each with a an opportunity. It was fabulous projected stud fee of $15,000 because the Amermans had come based on what Oscar Performance in about a week before the Poker, has accomplished to date. After and that's when we kind of planted Oscar Performance is retired later the seed, because it had been this year, Bell said the other 15 seven months since he'd run shares will be offered at market before. Strategically, we felt it if he value, which could be as high as won the Poker, it was time to be Headley & Price Bell | Eclipse Sportswire $125,000, he speculated, if the colt thinking about setting up the were to win the Gl Breeders' Cup Mile and stand for $25,000. structure [of the syndicate]. Little did we know he was going to The initial offering is a chance to get into the horse at a break the track record. The Amermans are great and the horse is potentially discounted rate, and the traditional 40-share great, in our opinion, so it's a great marriage. Mill Ridge will be syndicate structure that was also used for Diesis and Gone West the syndicate manager." is transparent and a straightforward mechanism designed to Mill Ridge itself owns only five mares, but Bell noted that his attract owner/breeder participation--an important foundation access to a "wide swath of relationships" was an attraction to for making a stallion. Cont. p5 the Amermans. Australian bred. Australian raised. Australian raced. Winner of a record Group One races and 18 earnings of $18,998,439 THE LAND OF OPPORTUNITY Aushorse.com.au TDN HEADLINE NEWS • PAGE 5 OF 9 • THETDN.COM FRIDAY • JULY 13, 2018 Taking Stock cont. Because horses like Analyze It, Oscar Performance, and Oscar Bell said the horse would be managed judiciously at stud with Nominated have flourished in recent all-turf domestic careers-- a cap of 140 mares, and each shareholder will receive a bonus and because a stallion like Kitten's Joy was able to lead the season the first four years and thereafter will participate in the general sire list in the U.S.