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MONDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 2013 732-747-8060 $ TDN Home Page Click Here CLASS INFUSION AT FTKFEB MYSTERY GRABS BERTIE EN ROUTE TO KY Even in its first incarnation, the catalog for the 2013 Farnsworth Stable=s Golden Mystery (Awesome Fasig-Tipton Kentucky Winter Mixed Sale, to be held Again) had to make one last stop in Florida Sunday today at the sale=s company=s Newtown Paddocks in before heading north to Kentucky for Monday=s Fasig- Lexington, looked to be particularly strong compared to Tipton Winter Mixed Sale, dropping by the Gulfstream previous years. But after the announcement that Park winner=s circle to get prominent owner/breeder Eugene Melnyk would be her photo taken after selling the majority of his breeding stock at the auction, running away with the the normally workmanlike event took on a downright GIII Hurricane Bertie S. bourgeois feel. The Taylor Made-consigned Melnyk The victory was the horses, as well as 10 or so additional offerings from first graded triumph of other consignors, swelled the 7-year-old=s career, the catalog from 295 to but it almost didn=t 337. That nonetheless happen. represents a 20% reduction AWe weren=t sure we in the size of last year=s were going to run,@ Golden Mystery 425-strong book, which was admitted trainer Marty Susie Raisher led by the $200,000 Fancy Wolfson. AI sent her home Prancer (Bertrando), whom [to Farnsworth Farm] for four or five days. She was Paramount Sales sold to going to the sale. When I found out [GIII Sugar Swirl S. Bluegrass Hall. winner] Dust and Diamonds (Vindication) got hurt, I The Melnyk horses include told the owners I wanted to bring her back for this Canadian Horse of the Year race. That was the filly to beat.@ and GI Breeders= Cup F/M Lucas Marquardt photo Golden Mystery sells Monday as a racing or Turf runner-up Sealy Hill broodmare prospect and Wolfson thinks the mare still (Point Given) (hip 299); the New York Grade I winner has plenty of races left in the tank. Pool Land (Silver Deputy) (hip 327); and Sovereign AI think she=s a Breeders= Cup type,@ Wolfson said. Award finalist and Grade II winner Roxy Gap (Indian AShe=s gotten so good. The older she gets, the better Charlie) (hip 314). she=s gotten. She=s just happy.@ Fasig-Tipton President and CEO Boyd Browning, Jr. talked yesterday about the late addition of the Melnyk Cont. p4 mares. AWe got a phone call from Taylor Made saying that Mr. Melnyk was considering selling these mares, and asked if it was something we could accommodate in, literally, a 2 1/2- or three-week window,@ he said. AI asked if they could send over a list of the mares, just so we could see what we were dealing with. They said, >We don=t have to send you a list--here are some of the names.= And after about five minutes, I said, >Yeah, we can accommodate this!=@ The aforementioned Roxy Gap isn=t the only Sovereign finalist in the supplemental catalogue. Apart from the Melnyk horses, Three Chimneys and clients will send the 6-year-old Atlantic Hurricane (Halo=s Image)--already a Sovereign champion--through the ring, as well. Cataloged as hip 306 as a broodmare prospect, the chestnut is nominated in the champion female sprinter category after a 2012 season that saw her win a second renewal of the GIII Ontario Fashion S. and place in three other Grade III races. Atlantic Hurricane was tabbed champion female sprinter in 2011 after a six-for-eight campaign that included wins in the GIII Seaway S. and GIII Bessarabian S. 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Information Technology Verrazano Robert Williams, Director of IT Final Pool 1 Odds page 7 A Coglianese [email protected] Gregg Casillo, DB Administrator, Programming [email protected] Business Development Race Results Gary King, Director of Business Development Flashy Gray (Flashy Bull), making her first start [email protected] since selling for $775,000 at last year’s Keeneland November sale, proved she was worth the price with TDN Newmarket Bureau: Cafe Racing a 4 3/4-length victory which earned her [email protected] J “TDN Rising Star” J status. Sean Cronin Tom Frary Flashy Gray Page 1 (atw) TDN P HEADLINE NEWS • 2/11/13 • PAGE 3 of 7 • thoroughbreddailynews.com Class Infusion at FTKFEB (cont. from p1) An overcast Sunday afternoon in Lexington yesterday AIn addition to the Melnyk horses, there are some didn=t dissuade any buyers, and action looked strong really nice horses in the supplement,@ confirmed throughout the barns. AI think there=s been good overall Browning. AIt was kind of a no-brainer to add the traffic at virtually every level,@ said Browning. AThe supplement. It added interest to a sale that was already feedback we=ve gotten from consignors is that they=ve pretty strong to begin with.@ been busy, and every time I look up, I see a new face The main body of the sale includes a number of or two that I hadn=t seen. It=s been well-attended, and stakes-winning or stakes-producing females, including we=ve had a lot of interest. There=s been some bounce Golden Mystery (Awesome to this sale for two or three weeks now.@ Again) (hip 175), who made the Last year=s FTKFEB sale saw 270 horses sell for trip north last night after winning $4,601,800. That was good for an average of the GIII Hurricane Bertie S. at $17,044, up 10.5% from 2011. The median was Gulfstream. In her previous start, $6,000, up 5.1%. There were 76 horses that did not she won the Sunshine Millions meet their reserve, a rate of 22%. F/M Sprint. Action gets underway this morning at 10 a.m. For AWe=re just hoping for no the complete catalog and outs, or to watch the sale, traffic on I-75!@ laughed visit www.fasigtipton.com. -L Marquardt Browning about the late-arriving Golden Mystery. Hers was at least the second SALES NEWS notable update to come out of Golden Mystery Gulfstream Park in the last few ARQANA ANNOUNCES BREEZE UP JACKPOT Kenny Martin days. On Thursday, the 4-year- Arqana has announced plans for a i200,000 bonus old filly Pianist (More Than for 2-year-old graduates of its 2013 Breeze Up Sales. Ready), already a stakes winner in New York, looked The sales company, which is looking to encourage very good winning an optional claimer in Hallandale and French participation at the sales and encourage will likely be returning to stakes company soon. Which international participation in the domestic racing makes her dam Red Piano program, will give a bonus of i10,000 to the winner of (Red Ransom), selling in one of 10 maidens in the challenge. The races are level foal to Exchange Rate, an F or G, and will be run at Parisian and provincial interesting prospect as hip racecourses between August and October over 1,100 5. Hunter Valley Farm and 2,000 meters. Arqana will also give i100,000 to consigns. the first juvenile from the Breeze Ups to win one of the AThose are the kind of designated maidens and then go on to win at updates that really help, listed/group level. Arqana=s Breeze Up sales will be held and sometimes with a sale, May 11 and in the July (Summer Sale). you=d rather be lucky than Pianist good,@ said Browning. AIt A Coglianese PEDIGREE INSIGHTS... helps everybody, and Get pedigree expert creates excitement for buyers and sellers alike.@ Andrew Caulfield=s take You can also pick up a copy of the TDN today at the Fasig-Tipton Kentucky Winter on racing=s newsmakers! Mixed Sale. You can find all of Caulfield=s columns in the TDN Archive.