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WEDNESDAY, JULY 16, 2014 732-747-8060 $ TDN Home Page Click Here MUCHO MACHO MAN RETIRED TO ADENA AZERI REIGNS AGAIN IN JAPAN Last term=s GI Breeders= Cup Classic hero Mucho Story and photos by Michele MacDonald Macho Man (Macho Uno--Ponche de Leona, by Ponche) With the sizzle in the ring matching the torrid sun has been retired from racing and will stand the 2015 outside, the Japan Racing Horse Association Select breeding season at Adena Springs Farm in Paris, KY. Sale of yearlings and foals blazed to record levels in His stud fee will be announced at a later date. gross, number of horses sold and clearance rate after Bred in Florida by John the final hammer fell on yesterday=s foal session. and Carole Rio, Mucho For the second consecutive year, a colt foal by Macho Man was Japan's leading sire Deep Impact (Jpn) out of 2002 campaigned for the American Horse of the Year Azeri (Jade Hunter) (hip majority of his career by 403) ruled the foal session, eliciting a bid of -250 Dean and Patti Reeves million ($2,450,981) from Riichi Kondo. and trained by Kathy "I understand the Ritvo. The 6-year-old American people are retired with a record of missing Azeri," Kondo 25-9-5-6 and earnings of said. "But I want to tell $5,625,410. Winner of the Americans that the 2011 GII Risen Star Azeri is doing very well, Mucho Macho Man S., the Kathy Ritvo pupil and this son of hers is Horsephotos was third in that year=s so valuable. Now I GI Kentucky Derby. In would like to prepare 2012, the strapping bay captured the Florida Sunshine him in the very best Millions Classic, the GII Gulfstream Park H. and way [for a racing career] Belmont=s GII Suburban H. before finishing a valiant and give him the best second to Fort Larned (E Dubai) in the Breeders= Cup trainer." Hip 403: Deep Impact--Azeri colt Classic at Santa Anita. Mucho Macho Man captured the Azeri was purchased GI Awesome Again S. in Arcadia last September before by Katsumi Yoshida of Northern Farm for $2,250,000 scoring a thrilling nose victory over eventual 3-year-old at Keeneland November in 2009 in foal to Distorted champion Will Take Charge (Unbridled=s Song) in the Humor. That resulting foal, a filly name Amelie (Jpn), Breeders= Cup Classic. He kicked off this term with a has won three times and is the chestnut mare=s only 14-length score in the Sunshine Millions Classic starter in Japan to date. Last year=s Deep Impact--Azeri Jan. 18, and had last been seen colt made -240,000,000 ($2,359,709). Cont. p3 finishing fourth in a strong renewal of the GI Santa Anita H. Mar. 8. AMucho Macho Man was so tough and genuine,@ said Ritvo, who became the first female trainer to win the Breeders= Cup Classic last year. AHe gave his all every time. After five seasons of training and racing, he shows signs of some minor wear and tear. He is still sound and happy, but we have decided that it is in his best interests to retire him. Mucho Macho Man He has nothing more to prove to Horsephotos any of us.@ Dean Reeves added, AMucho Macho Man gave Patti and our team enormous pleasure. He has generated so many fans, both in the state of Georgia and nationwide. 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The operation already stands four other Breeders= Cup Classic winners: Alphabet Soup, Awesome Again, Fort Larned Cont. from p1 and Ghostzapper. Adena Springs was responsible for Three other sons of Deep Impact sparked bidding that the breeding of Mucho Macho Man=s dam Ponche de reached over -100 million during the foal session, Leona and sold her with Mucho Macho Man in utero in joining five from the yearling session and fueling the 2007. Ponche de Leona most recently sold to market. Brushwood Stable for $775,000 in foal to Distorted Overall, a record 404 horses were sold over both Humor at this year=s Keeneland January sale. JRHA sale days, generating a record total in sales of AThe Breeders= Cup Classic is a true Championship -12,5757,050,000 ($123,284,803), up a remarkable race, and a forecaster of the industry's future top 6.9% from last year's turnover, which also was a sires,@ Stronach commented. AMucho Macho Man landmark. Deep Impact's offspring contributed campaigned against the best every year ages two -3,017,500,000 to the gross, or 24% of the overall through six, and consistently excelled around two turns sales, while the number of his offspring sold equaled on the dirt. He will be an important addition to our only 7.9% of those offered. roster.@ Click here to share this story The foal session was, as predicted, extremely strong, with 189 sold from 220 offered for a gross of " " " -6,547,050,000 ($64,186,764), up a massive 16.8% from the 2013 total. The average price climbed 3% to -34.64 million ($339,607), the median was up 4% to -24,000,000 ($235,971) and the clearance rate was a stout 85.9%. After reviewing the results, including the numbers showing Qatari Sheikh Fahad Al Thani ranked as the top buyer after spending -870 million ($8,529,411), JRHA Vice Chairman Teruya Yoshida declared that a new era has begun in Japan. Cont. p4 TDN P HEADLINE NEWS • 7/16/14 • PAGE 4 of 16 • thoroughbreddailynews.com JRHA Sale cont. "We feel that this is the beginning of a trend in which Japanese horses will be more popular around the world. This sale is very much established now," said Yoshida, whose Shadai Farm sold -3.09 billion (about $29.5 million) worth of yearlings and foals at the sale, ranking second only to the perennial leader, Katsumi Yoshida's Northern Farm, whose sales totaled -3,045,500,000 ($29,857,843), and whose affiliated entities added even more yen to that number. "We are very happy with the results--we couldn't have expected such big figures," Yoshida added. More foreign-based buyers will follow Sheikh Fahad to Japan to buy horses at next year's sale, and Japan's Sunday Silence-based bloodlines will spread across the globe, he predicted.