MONDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 2012 732-747-8060 $ TDN Home Page Click Here BETTER LUCKY BEST IN MATRIARCH A SUNDAY UPSET, A SUNDAY SWEEP IN CUP Longshot Better Lucky (Ghostzapper) took advantage Sunday Racing=s 2011 Japanese Triple Crown of a miscue by favored Dayatthespa (City Zip) and winner Orfevre (Jpn) (Stay Gold {Jpn}) suffered a charged home to a one-length victory at 35-1 in heartbreaking loss in the G1 Prix de l=Arc de Triomphe Sunday=s GI Matriarch S. at Betfair Hollywood Park. The at the hands of a determined filly early last month. Godolphin colorbearer Yesterday, he again fell prey to another gutsy lass in angled to the inside soon the form of Japan=s 2012 Filly Triple Crown heroine after the break and was Gentildonna (Jpn) (Deep tucked in at the rail racing in Impact {Jpn})--also owned mid-pack around the first by Sunday Racing--in one turn as Summer Soiree (War of their home country=s Front) set the pace with premier events, the G1 Dayatthespa in close Japan Cup at Tokyo. attendance. Entering the AAlthough the Japan Cup backstretch, Dayatthespa Better Lucky was a big challenge for a jumped a shadow and nearly Benoit 3-year-old filly, I was Gentildonna edges Orfevre unseated jockey Javier confident that she was up JRHA photo Castellano, leaving Summer Soiree alone on the lead to the competition and she after a quarter in :23.35. Summer Soiree was five proved that today,@ said winning trainer Sei Ishizaka. lengths in front after a half in :46.09 and still AShe had maintained her form and I knew, being a maintained a clear lead after three-quarters in 1:09.76. fighter in a duel, that she would pull through and claim But Better Lucky loomed a menacing presence once her victory.@ The win, the first by a sophomore filly in tipped to the outside for the stretch run, and the bay the Cup, came after a lengthy stewards inquiry, as filly stormed to the lead in the final furlong to win going Gentildonna had muscled her way out in the stretch away by one length. After her adventurous trip, and bumped with Orfevre before finishing a nose in Dayatthespa was fifth. front on the line. Sunday Racing also campaigns the AThis is certainly a great way to cap off the year,@ third-placed finisher Rulership (Jpn) (King Kamehameha said Godolphin=s Jimmy Bell. Of Better Lucky, who was {Jpn}), while the operation=s fourth Cup horse, winning her second graded event, Bell added, AShe=s Fenomeno (Jpn) (Stay Gold {Jpn}), ran fifth. Led by very game, tries and is dead honest. She=s really Sunday Racing=s unprecedented Cup trifecta, the home blossomed, which gives us something to look forward team dominated. Cont. p3 to.@ Cont. p4 COMMAND PERFORMANCE IN HOL DERBY Lewis Lakin=s Unbridled Command (Master Command) brought the curtain down on a busy weekend of holiday racing across the country with a powerful 1 1/2-length victory in the GI Hollywood Derby. The gray colt, sent off at 7-1, found running room along the rail and was unrushed while racing near the back of the pack into the first turn. He improved his position down the backstretch and pulled Unbridled Command his way to challenge pacesetter My Benoit Best Brother (Stormy Atlantic) for the lead into the stretch before exploding clear off the turn, opening up four lengths before holding sway over the late-closing Grandeur (Ire) (Verglas {Ire}) in second and Lucky Chappy (Ire) (High Chaparral {Ire}) in third. AHe just matures from race to race to race,@ winning trainer Tom Bush said of Unbridled Command. AI couldn=t dream of a horse developing any nicer than this horse. He=s really gotten special.@ Cont. p5 In This Issue Can’t Keep Up 60 Broad St., Suite 100 Red Bank, NJ 07701 Keep Up (Unbridled’s Song) springs the 30-1 (732) 747-8060 upset in the GIII River City H. on the closing (732) 747-8955 (fax) day card at Churchill Downs. www.thoroughbreddailynews.com www.thetdn.com Page 6 Editorial Keep Up Barry Weisbord, co-publisher Coady Photography [email protected] • @barryweisbord Sue Finley, co-publisher [email protected] • @suefinley Battle of the Bears [email protected] Jessica Martini, Editor-in-Chief Bear Tough Tiger (Roar of the Tiger) outbattles Alan Carasso, Managing Editor stablemate Bear No Joke (It’s No Joke) to take Marie Kizenko, Senior Editor Sunday’s GIII Kennedy Road S. at Woodbine. Christina Bossinakis, Senior Editor Lucas Marquardt, Features Editor Steve Sherack, Racing Editor Brian DiDonato, Racing Analyst/Soc. Media Dir. 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Beat Black 1--GENTILDONNA (JPN), 117, f, 3, by Deep Impact (Jpn) began to extend his advantage on the backstretch, and 1st Dam: Donna Blini (GB) (G1SW-Eng, led by as much as 10 lengths heading into the far turn. $312,231), by Bertolini He still had a four-length cushion with 400 meters 2nd Dam: Cal Norma=s Lady (Ire), by Lyphard’s Special remaining, but the field, fanned out six abreast, was 3rd Dam: June Darling (Ire), by Junius closing in fast. Gentiledonna and Orfevre, swarming O-Sunday Racing; B-Northern Farm; T-Sei Ishizaka; past on either side of a tiring rival, soon reeled in Beat J-Yasunari Iwata ; -253,570,000. Lifetime Record: Black, with the former pushing out Orfevre a bit to 9-7-1-0, -689,538,000. *Full to Donau Blue (Jpn) avoid running up on heels of the sputtering pacesetter. (Deep Impact {Jpn}), G1SW-Jpn, $2,507,164. Click From there, she gamely asserted to get her nose down for the eNicks report & 5-cross pedigree. Werk Nick as they flashed under the wire. Rating: B+. Stewards let the result stand, but announced that 2--Orfevre (Jpn), 126, c, 4, Stay Gold (Jpn)--Oriental winning jockey Yasunari Iwata, collecting his third Cup Art (Jpn), by Mejiro McQueen (Jpn). O-Sunday victory, would serve a two-day suspension for his ride Racing; B-Shiraoi Farm; -101,020,000. on Gentildonna. Iwata, hardly in a down mood 3--Rulership (Jpn), 126, h, 5, King Kamehameha (Jpn)-- afterward, accepted some blame and talked about how Air Groove (Jpn), by Tony Bin (Ire). O-Sunday Racing; the race unfolded. B-Northern Farm; -63,510,000. AI had studied the track condition and thought that Margins: NO, 2HF, HD. Odds: 5.60, 1.00, 4.40. the inside would be a good choice,@ he explained. Also Ran: Dark Shadow (Jpn), Fenomeno (Jpn), Tosen AAlthough the draw was way out, I was able to position Jordan (Jpn), Beat Black (Jpn), Red Cadeaux (GB), nicely, and we had a perfect trip up to the [stretch]--I Eishin Flash (Jpn), Jaguar Mail (Jpn), Jakkalberry (Ire), am afraid the blame is on me for causing some trouble Mount Athos (Ire), Solemia (Ire), Oken Bruce Lee (Jpn), to [Orfevre]. But the filly is nonetheless a great filly for Meisho Kampaku (Jpn), Rose Kingdom (Jpn), Sri Putra out-dueling a monster like Orfevre. I was conscious of (GB). Click for the JRHA chart & video, the TVG.com facing a very tough field compared to her past races, PPs or the free brisnet.com catalogue-style pedigree. but decided to just concentrate on bringing out her best A year after winning Japan=s Triple Crown with performance, which she did. I would certainly love to Orfevre, Sunday Racing was poised to sweep the filly accompany her in her overseas endeavor for the coming version of the series after Gentildonna won the 1600- 4-year-old season, and I am confident that she has the meter G1 Oka Sho (Japan 1000 Guineas) at Hanshin in potential to win against the best. But she is a very April and the 2400-meter G1 Yushun Himba (Japanese delicate filly, and her chance to mature both physically Oaks) at Tokyo in May. The Northern Racing-bred filly and mentally comes first. I am just looking forward to was rested over the summer, and after prepping with a feel her progress and grow up in her future races.@ victory in the 1800-meter G2 Kansai Tele Corp Sho Trainer Sei Ishizaka confirmed there is a lot of racing Rose S.