Ky Racing Authority Approves Drug HEADLINE Regulations p.1 (atw) NEWS For information about TDN, DELIVERED EACH NIGHT BY FAX AND FREE BY E-MAIL TO SUBSCRIBERS OF call 732-747-8060. www.thoroughbreddailynews.com TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 2005 STRIVING TO BE BEST KEENELAND NOVEMBER Strive, a six-year-old son of Deputy Minister out of the Flying Paster mare Symbolically, brought in top bid BREEDING STOCK SALE of $180,000 at yesterday’s eighth - TOP FOUR BROODMARES - session of Keeneland’s November Hip Name Covering Stallion Price Breeding Stock Sale in Lexington, 2918 Excellentadventure Canadian Frontier $155,000 Kentucky. Consigned by Mill Ridge (9, Slew City Slew--Shape Shifter, by Fappiano) Sales, agent for Mr. and Mrs. Martin Consigned by Brereton C. Jones/Airdrie Stud, agent Wygod, the stallion prospect was (Dispersal for Breeding Partnership IX) purchased by Patricia A. Youngman. Purchased by Gainesway Graded stakes placed and an earner 2754 Speedy Sonata racing/bmare prospect $145,000 of $287,910, the bay is a half (4, Stravinsky--Sandshell, by Silver Hawk) Deputy Minister, sire brother to stakes winners Pirate’s Consigned by Castle Park Farm LLC (Noel Murphy), Agent XI of session topper Revenge, Echo of Yesterday, Carib- Purchased by Hinkle Farms Inc. Brookdalefarm.com bean Pirate and Sweet Life, who is 2618 Lianda Cape Canaveral $140,000 also the dam of juvenile filly champion Sweet (8, Danzig--Hometown Queen, by Pleasant Colony) Catomine. Hip 2918, Excellentadventure, secured the Consigned by Mill Ridge Sales, agent second highest price of the day when Gainesway pur- Purchased by Vernalia Farm chased the nine-year-old mare for $155,000. Consigned 2891 Dahlia Dearest Belong to Me $135,000 by Brereton Jones’ Airdrie Stud, dispersing for breeding (5, A.P. Indy--Miss Dahlia, by Strawberry Road {Aus}) partnership IX, the daughter of Slew City Slew out of Consigned by Havens Bloodstock Agency Inc., agent Shape Shifter (Fappiano) is a full Purchased by Hill ‘n’ Dale Bloodstock sister to GII Arlington Washington Futurity winner Evansville Slew. The dark bay is believed to be in KEENELAND NOVEMBER STATISTICS foal to Canadian Frontier. Heading MONDAY, NOV. 14, 2005 the weanling offerings on the day was Hip 2608, a colt by Buddha out of the unraced eight-year-old SESSION TOTALS 2005 2004 mare Lady Taurus (by Holy Bull). Buddha No. Offered 353 324 Purchased by Ben Glass, agent, hillndalefarms.com No. Sold 276 252 the Apr. 5 foal, who is from the RNAs 77 72 family of multiple graded stakes winner Richman, was % RNA 21.8% 22.2% consigned by Gainesway, Agent VI. Today’s session Gross $8,180,700 $7,441,400 Average $29,640 $29,529 begins at 10 a.m. Median $21,000 $22,000 CUMULATIVE 2005 2004 SESSION TOP 5 CONSIGNORS No. Offered 2510 2,537 Consignor # Head Total No. Sold 1,908 1,944 Gainesway 15 $897,000 RNAs 602 593 Mill Ridge Sales 19 $841,000 % RNA 24% 23.3% Claiborne Farm 23 $722,500 Gross $274,392,400 $264,659,300 Four Star Sales 24 $710,000 Average $143,812 $136,142 Taylor Made Sales Agency 29 $616,200 Median $60,000 $52,000 www.keeneland.com 16 1/2 lengths 12 3/4 lengths www.juddmonte.com TDN P HEADLINE NEWS • 11/15/05 • PAGE 2 of 4 Keeneland cont. PEDIGREE INSIGHTS TOP FOUR WEANLINGS BY ANDREW CAULFIELD Hip Sex Sire Dam Price Sunday, Kyoto, Japan 2608 c Buddha Lady Taurus $140,000 QUEEN ELIZABETH II COMMEMORATIVE CUP-G1 B-John Boyce (KY) (Listed), ¥190,000,000, Kyoto, 11-13, 3yo/up, f/m, Consigned by Gainesway, Agent VI 2200mT, 2:12.50, gd. Purchased by Ben Glass, agent 1--SWEEP TOSHO (JPN), 123, f, 4, by End Sweep 2637 f Victory Gallop Miss Hot Salsa $120,000 1st Dam: Tabatha Tosho (Jpn), by Dancing Brave B-Normandy Farm (KY) 2nd Dam: Samantha Tosho (Jpn), by Tosho Boy (Jpn) Consigned by Gainesway, Agent XVIII 3rd Dam: Marble Tosho (Jpn), by Dandy Lute (Fr) Purchased by Stan Stefanski O-Tosho Sangyo; B-Tosho Sangyo Corp; T-A 2718 c Yonaguska Fairytalecometrue $105,000 Tsurudome; J-K Ikezoe; ¥103,906,000. Lifetime B-John Haendiges (KY) Record: 16 starts, 7 wins, ¥572,020,000. Consigned by Havens Bloodstock Agency Inc., agent Purchased by Man O War Bloodstock Only last week I commented on the apparent reluc- 2885 f Out of Place Cover $105,000 tance of American trainers to allow their best fillies and B-Claiborne Farm (KY) mares to tackle the males. Judging by this season’s Consigned by Claiborne Farm, agent results in the Far East, their reluctance isn’t shared by Purchased by BGH Ranch their Japanese counterparts. From the limited number of mixed-sex Group 1 events staged by the JRA, we have seen Rhein Kraft and Daring Heart take first and KEENELAND OUTS - DAY 9 second in the NHK Mile Cup, Sweep Tosho win the 2987 2988 2990 2994 3002 3006 3020 Takarazuka Kinen over 1 3/8 miles (with the Japan Cup 3025 3028 3040 3042 3050 3051 3066 winner Zenno Rob Roy only third) and Heavenly Ro- 3073 3075 3080 3085 3101 3106 3108 mance post a narrow victory over Zenno Rob Roy in the highly prestigious Tenno Sho. 3109 3114 3119 3122 3139 3147 3151 Sweep Tosho had gone close to adding another major 3160 3163 3165 3166 3177 3181 3191 victory for the females back in June, when she ac- 3201 3203 3204 3205 3211 3213 3215 counted for the Hong Kong stars Silent Witness and 3220 3222 3232 3237 3238 3239 3241 Bullish Luck in finishing a neck second in the Yasuda 3243 3248 3249 3251 3257 3259 3265 Kinen over a mile. The four-year-old--who last year won 3275 3279 3280 3282 3286 3293 3296 the G1 Shuka Sho over 1¼ miles and was second in 3301 3308 3317 3321 3324 3325 3327 the Japanese Oaks over 1½ miles--underlined her class 3328 3332 3335 3342 3347 3362 and versatility two days ago with a last-strides victory in the G1 Queen Elizabeth II Commemorative Cup over 1 3/8 miles. “I knew we couldn’t lose to the females,” was the You can also pick up a copy of the TDN today at reaction of winning rider Kenichi Ikezoe. “I think the the Keeneland November Breeding Stock Sale. experience she gained racing against the male horses paid off today.” cont. p3 www.coolmore.com TDN P HEADLINE NEWS • 11/15/05 • PAGE 3 of 4 Pedigree Insights cont. End Sweep’s freshman triumph was quickly followed What is interesting about this list of male-conquering by news that the eight-year-old had been sold to Japanese fillies, from an American viewpoint, is that Arrowfield Stud in Australia. Apparently some Kentucky Sweep Tosho and Rhein Kraft are both daughters of studs tried to secure his northern hemisphere services, End Sweep. This son of Forty but Shadai Stallion Station in Japan proved to be End Niner defeated Dehere for the Sweep’s destination and he was nearing the end of his title of champion freshman sire third Japanese season when he suffered a fall which in 1998, with a crop sired at a led to incoordination. He was euthanized in July 2002, modest fee at Mockingbird Farm at the age of 11. in Florida. He was one of three His premature death looks especially regrettable in sons of Forty Niner to figure view of his achievements. In North America he main- Sweep Tosho HKJC.com prominently among 1998’s tained his dominance to such an freshman sires, as Tactical Ad- extent that he took the titles of vantage took third place and Twining sixth. leading second- and third-crop End Sweep’s achievements in 1998 included setting sire. His second crop was headed a record total of 33 individual winners from a crop of by the Grade I winners Trippi and 74 named foals. That total of 33 winners included the Swept Overboard, with Precise Japanese colt South Vigorous, who went on to win 16 End scoring at Grade III level, and of his 33 starts, including a string of group sprint suc- his third produced Dark Ending, a Grade I winner in Canada. End Sweep cesses at the ages of six and seven. Another of this www.shadaitc.com first crop’s durable performers was Nany’s Sweep, End Sweep also sired a couple winner of the GI Santa Monica H. as a five-year-old, of group winners in Australasia, and its other members included the graded-place get- but it was in Japan where he seemed to do best, with ters Sweeping Story, High Wire Act, Grand End Sweep Rhein Kraft and Sweep Tosho heading his team of and Silky Sweep. group winners. These fillies have collected five Group 1 victories between them, and Rhein Kraft’s win in this Raise a Native year’s Japanese 1000 Guineas was gained by a head Mr. Prospector Gold Digger from Cesario--a filly we know all about following her Forty Niner Tom Rolfe impressive American Oaks triumph. File Continue This adds up to an eye-catching record for a horse End Sweep Northern Dancer who won only six of his 18 starts and who gained his Dance Spell Obeah only Grade I victory in the Highlander S. in Canada. But Broom Dance Thinking Cap End Sweep’s racing record was backed up by some Witching Hour Enchanted Eve impressive bloodlines. His dam Broom Dance won the Northern Dancer Alabama S. and was one of four very good winners Lyphard Goofed produced by Witching Hour, herself a half sister to Tabatha Tosho Dancing Brave Drone Tempted, a champion handicap mare, and Instant Sin, (Jpn) Navajo Princess 6 starts, 1 win Olmec an influential broodmare.