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WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 2011 732-747-8060 $ TDN Home Page Click Here MORE STARS AT TATTERSALLS? ‘AURELIA’ FRESHENING AT GULF COAST While last year=s December Foal Sale at Tattersalls Unbeaten My Miss Aurelia (Smart Strike), a lock for produced a top price of only 320,000gns--the lowest Eclipse Award honors, will be freshened up at Gulf sum for a top lot at the event since 2000--there will be Coast Farm near Ocala, Florida. After running her some glum faces in Newmarket if that figure is not perfect record to four in the GI Breeders= Cup Juvenile Fillies for owners Stonestreet Stables and George surpassed this week. The 1,003-lot foal catalogue, up Bolton, the bay Adeveloped a bit of a shin,@ according to from 941 youngsters in 2010, gets underway this trainer Steve Asmussen. AShe is a special filly," said morning at 10 a.m., and there are nine offerings co-owner Barbara Banke. "Not since Curlin or Rachel remaining in the sales from the first crop of champion Alexandra Sea the Stars (Ire) (Cape Cross {Ire}), as well as five have we lots by his half-brother and champion sire Galileo (Ire) been this (Sadler=s Wells). excited The six-time Group 1 winner had foals sell for about an i850,000 and i800,000 twice at Goffs last week, equine athlete. I and among his representatives at Newmarket is lot expect 984, a half-brother to G1 winners Youmzain (Ire) great Horsephotos (Sinndar {Ire}) and things Creachadoir (Ire) from My Miss Aurelia. [She] will have some (King=s Best) bred well-deserved rest and relaxation in sunny Florida, at by Frank Dunne the same farm where she was trained as a baby, while and offered in the we work to map out a winning strategy for our Castlebridge champion." Bolton added, ATo be able to partner with Consignment. Sea Barbara Banke in her campaign after losing Jess earlier this year has meant the world to me and my family.@ In the Stars= jockey, addition to her Breeders= Cup victory, My Miss Aurelia Michael Kinane, is captured the GI Frizette S. and GII Adirondack S. She joint-breeder via his has earned $1.38 million to date. The Castlebridge Consignment’s Andrew County Mead and Marion Goodbody castlebridge.eu Kildare-based Eadling Farm of lot 1004, a colt out of Ice Mint (Awesome Again), a half-sister to G1 Poule d=Essai des Poulains winner Falco (Pivotal {GB}) offered from Jackie Norris=s Jockey Hall Stud. Meanwhile, lot 939 is a Sea the Stars colt who was bought in utero with his dam Ripples Maid (GB) (Dansili {GB}) for 240,000gns at last year=s December Sale by the Al-Thani family=s Qatar Bloodstock investment company. He appears from David Redvers= Tweenhills Stud. Also in the Castlebridge Consignment is lot 945, a Sea the Stars 3/4-sister to both G1 Irish 1000 Guineas heroine Nightime (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}) and a Galileo (Ire) yearling filly who sold for 700,000gns to the Niarchos family at Tattersalls last month. The March foal was bred by Gita Weld. Cont. p2 TATTERSALLS FOALS–WEDNESDAY’S OUTS 254, 258, 261, 268, 289, 290, 323, 332, 334, 343, 345, 352, 362, 363, 377, 384, 400, 404, 407, 416, 418, 445, 487, 503, 504, 509, 510 P TDN HEADLINE NEWS • 11/23/11 • PAGE 2 of 9 • thoroughbreddailynews.com Most pinhookers have enjoyed a good year and there DECEMBER SALES were some familiar faces, especially from Ireland, looking for foals to resell at Tattersalls= Park Paddocks yesterday as well as those looking for longer-term racing and even breeding prospects. Pinhookers can be Galileo (Ire)=s team includes lot 983, a full sister to expected to be fickle towards what is regarded as 2009 G1 Epsom Derby runner-up At First Sight (Ire) fashionable stallions, but they should have plenty to (Galileo {Ire}) and lot 1010, a half-sister to this year=s choose from, including 24 lots by Rathbarry Stud sire G1 Golden Jubilee S. winner Society Rock (Ire) (Rock of Acclamation (GB), whose yearlings dominated book 2 Gibraltar {Ire}) bred by San Gabriel Investments and of the October Sale. another consigned from Jockey Hall Stud. Company officials are expecting to see a carryover of Among those with expensive >in utero= price tags is the momentum from two months ago. lot 971, a Montjeu (Ire) colt who was sold inside his AOur October Yearling Sale gave everyone cause for a dam Thinking Positive (GB) (Rainbow Quest) for degree of optimism and I=m sure the trade we saw in 235,000gns at last year=s Tattersalls December Sale. books 1, 2 and 3 will have an impact on the market this The colt, bred by the Breeding Capital partnerships, is coming week,@ noted Tattersalls Marketing Director offered from Peter Stanley=s locally-based New England Jimmy George. AIt=s a quality catalogue and all the top Stud. Lot 918 is one of no fewer than 34 for European-based stallions are well represented in there.@ representatives for Exceed and Excel (Aus) (Danehill) on The sale is graded, with the foals improving from offer. The filly, bred by BBA 2010 and offered from today into tomorrow. Friday=s session looks to have the Kirsten Rausing=s St Simon Stud was bought >in utero= best lots on paper, though trade is likely to slightly step inside her dam First Turn (GB) (Pivotal {GB}) for back down a level again on Saturday. The sale runs 200,000gns at Tattersalls 12 months ago. today through Saturday, beginning at 10 a.m. each morning. For catalogues, visit www.tattersalls.com. All horses in the TDN are bred in North America, unless otherwise indicated Hip Happenings, p3 P TDN HEADLINE NEWS • 11/23/11 • PAGE 3 of 9 • thoroughbreddailynews.com TATTERSALLS FOALSBWEDNESDAY 355, f, Yeats (Ire)--Midnight Mist (Ire), by Green Desert Consigned by Stanley House Stud From the first crop of Coolmore’s staying giant, this April foal is a half-sister to the three-time winner Midnight Music (Ire) (Dubawi {Ire}) whose dam is a half to the stakes-winning mares Misty Heights (GB) (Fasliyev) and Madeira Mist (Ire) (Grand Lodge), producer of Joshua Tree (Ire) (Montjeu {Ire}). 424, f, Naaqoos (GB)--Beauty and Style (Aus), by King of Kings (Ire) Consigned by The Castlebridge Consignment Naaqoos has his first foals selling this winter and this is a half-sister to Bella Anna (Ire) (Anabaa), who sold for 120,000 at Arqana’s August Yearling Sale in 2010. Her second dam has thrown three Pattern-race winners including the Australian sire King Ivor (Aus) (Fairy King) and top American runner Snake Eyes (Dixieland Band), while the page also features the Stateside luminaries Composer, Sesaro and Don Hernando. 458, c, Iffraaj (GB)--Woodbury (GB), by Woodborough Consigned by Withyslade This March-foaled bay is out of a half to the outstanding veteran sprinter Borderlescott (GB) (Compton Place {GB}), who famously recorded back-to-back wins in the G1 Nunthorpe S. staged at the different venues of Newmarket and York and whose record in the leading sprints of recent years stands up to the closest scrutiny. UPCOMING MAJOR NORTH AMERICAN STAKES Date Race Track Nov. 24 GII Falls City H. CD GIII Fall Highweight H. AQU GIII My Charmer H. CD GIII Hollywood Prevue S. HOL Nov. 25 GI Clark H. CD GI Matriarch S. HOL GII Go for Wand H. AQU GIII Miesque S. HOL GIII All American S. GG You can also pick up a copy of the TDN today at the Tattersalls December Sale. P TDN HEADLINE NEWS • 11/23/11 • PAGE 4 of 9 • thoroughbreddailynews.com PREVIEWS Friday, Churchill Downs, post time: 5:42 p.m. EDT CLARK H.-GI, $500,000, 3yo/up, 1 1/8m SC PP HORSE SIRE JOCKEY TRAINER WT 1 Ruler On Ice K Roman Ruler Gomez Breen 118 2 Alma d'Oro K Medaglia d'Oro Castanon Pletcher 115 3 Demarcation K Gulch Lanerie McGee 114 4 Stately Victor K Ghostzapper Lebron Maker 115 5 Mission Impazible K Unbridled's Song Castellano Pletcher 116 6 Flat Out Flatter Solis Dickey 123 7 Pleasant Prince Indy King Garcia Ward 114 8 Headache Tapit Prado Maker 115 9 Mister Marti Gras Belong to Me Maragh Block 117 10 Will's Wildcat K Eurosilver Borel Baker 112 11 Wise Dan Wiseman's Ferry Velazquez Lopresti 120 12 Prayer for Relief K Jump Start Bejarano Baffert 117 13 General Quarters K Sky Mesa Court McCarthy 116 Look for the K throughout the TDN graded stakes entries, denoting Keeneland sales graduates. Sunday, Tokyo, Japan JAPAN CUP-G1, ¥521,000,000, 3yo/up, 2400mT Two days after a testing work over a Tokyo turf course with plenty of ease in it, Mission Approved (With Approval), the one-time claimer who upset 859-873-7270 • www.airdriestud.com champion Gio Ponti (Tale of the Cat) in this year=s GI Manhattan H., jogged a The trio of European-based fillies who will start in couple of laps on the dirt Sunday=s feature made the two-hour journey from the course under the watchful Shiroi quarantine facilities to Tokyo Racecourse, arriving eye of trainer Naipaul just before 1 p.m. Since its inception in 1981, no horse Chatterpaul. "After a day of has been able to complete the G1 Prix de l=Arc de rest, he was very fresh this Triomphe/Japan Cup double, but Danedream (Ger) morning--maybe too fresh, (Lomitas {GB}) will try to do just that this weekend. so we let him jog two laps The filly had an uneventful passage to Tokyo and has instead of one,@ Chatterpaul looked well while exercising at Shiroi.