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THE TDN DERBY TOP 20 HEAVENLY PRIZE THE LONE 2018 CONTEMPORARY HOF ELECTEE 1994 champion sophomore filly Heavenly Prize (Seeking the Gold--Oh What a Dance, by Nijinksy II) has been elected to the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame, it was announced Monday. The lone contemporary selection from the 10 finalists chosen by the Hall of Fame's Nominating Committee, Heavenly Prize received majority approval from the 166-person voting panel to earn her spot in the Hall of Fame. A bay filly bred in Kentucky by owner Ogden Phipps, Heavenly Prize was a Grade I winner at ages two, three and four. The Shug McGaughey trainee captured the Frizette S. at age two and reeled off three consecutive top-level successes as a sophomore in the Alabama S., Gazelle S. and Beldame S. As a 4-year-old, she annexed the Apple Blossom H., Hempstead H., Go for Wand S. and John A. Morris H. She ran second in the Breeders' Cup Distaff in both 1994 and 1995. (Cont. p3) Magnum Moon I Coady by T.D. Thornton IN TDN EUROPE TODAY The prep season is over, but that THE WEEKLY WRAP doesn=t mean the intrigue has ended Emma Berry has the latest edition of The Weekly Wrap, looking at as the racing world locks its focus on the main event, the May 5 results from the past week ranging from France to Australia and GI . Please note that the rankings below are everywhere in between. independent from the ARoad to the Derby@ points leaderboard Click or tap here to go straight to TDN Europe. that Churchill Downs will use to determine starting berths; that list can be accessed here.

1) MAGNUM MOON (c, Malibu MoonBDazzling Song, by =s Song) >TDN Rising Star= O-Robert E. & Lawana L. Low. B-Ramona S. Bass, LLC (KY). T-Todd Pletcher. Sales history: $380,000 yrl KEESEP >16. Lifetime Record: GISW, 4-4-0-0, $1,177,800. Apr. 10 TDN Top 20 Rank: 1 Last Start: 1st, GI , OP, Apr.14. Achievements: 1st, GII Rebel S., OP, Mar. 17. Equineline PPs. Caulfield on Magnum Moon. KY Derby Points: 150

>TDN Rising Star= Magnum Moon has earned kingpin status based on his entire undefeated, four-race body of work--even if his four-length win in Saturday=s GI Arkansas Derby did leave a couple of loose ends that will linger as open questions into the Kentucky Derby. (Click to continue to p6)

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Heavenly Prize the Lone >18 Contemporary As a broodmare, Heavenly Prize produced seven winners from eight starters, including the multiple Grade I-winning turf HOF Electee (cont. from p1) standout Good Reward and Grade II winner and successful sire Heavenly Prize raced once as a 5-year-old, finishing third in the Pure Prize--both of whom are sired by . Heavenly Prize Donn H., which was won by Hall of Famer Cigar. The mare was also produced stakes winner Cosmic (El Prado {Ire}), retired with a career record of 9-6-3 from 18 starts and earnings stakes-placed Distinctively (Awesome Again), and Just Reward of $1,825,940. In total, eight of Heavenly Prize's nine career (Deputy Minister), whose daughter Persistently (Smoke Glacken) victories were in Grade I events. Heavenly Prize was ridden by upset Horse of the Year Rachel Alexandra in the GI Personal Hall of Fame jockey Mike Smith for her first eight starts and by Ensign H. Heavenly Prize died in 2013 at the age of 22 at Hall of Fame jockey Pat Day for her final nine races. Claiborne Farm in Paris. Heavenly Prize will be inducted into the Hall of Fame Friday, Aug. 3 at 10:30 a.m. at the Fasig-Tipton sales pavilion in Saratoga Springs. The Hall of Fame induction ceremony is open to the public and free to attend. New inductees in categories selected by separate processes will also be announced soon. The Historic Review Committee choices for the Hall of Fame will be revealed on May 9 and the Pillars of the Turf Committee's Hall of Fame selections will be announced on May 23.

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DUO SHARE FURLONG BULLET AT OBS UNDER-TACK OPENER by Jessica Martini The six-session under-tack preview of next week=s Ocala Breeders= Sales Company=s April Sale of 2-Year-Olds kicked off Monday with a pair juveniles sharing the fastest furlong time of :10 flat on a windy and unseasonably chilly day in Central Florida. Less the 20 minutes into the preview, hip 144, a colt from the first crop of Strong Mandate, set the fastest furlong time of :10 flat. Consigned by Randy Miles, the dark bay is out of Callous Effect (Majestic Warrior), a half-sister to multiple stakes winner Miss Frost (Curlin). AWe were expecting that kind of work because he has been the ultimate professional all year,@ Miles said. AWe were expecting it, but with the weather conditions we were really concerned. So we were relieved when he did it. The wind was blowing like 20 mph in their faces today. It was really difficult conditions. The wind is very bothersome to these young horses, so to see him stand up and not let the wind bother him was very satisfying.@

Of the Strong Mandate colt, Miles admitted, AWe paid a little bit more than we wanted to for him. We were hoping to get him cheaper, but we liked the horse as a yearling and we paid a little bit out of our price range, but he=s paid us back.@ Previously based in Virginia, Miles has been in Ocala for much of the last decade. He trained privately for Live Oak Stud for four years before returning to the sales scene four years ago and his primary focus is now squarely in the pinhooking arena. In addition to his 2017 April success with the colt, Miles and Hip 144 | Tibor Szlavik Royal Flush also pinhooked a Midnight Lute colt, purchased for $28,000 at Keeneland September, for $310,000 at the 2016 On behalf of the longstanding Royal Flush Racing partnership, April sale. Miles signed the ticket at $60,000 to acquire the colt from the Miles credits Casinella with keeping the team on budget at the Brandywine Farm consignment at last year=s Fasig-Tipton yearling sales. October Sale. AShe doesn=t let us get into trouble,@ he said. AEven when we Royal Flush enjoyed pinhooking success with another first-crop want one, she=ll say, >No, you can=t have that one.=@ juvenile at last year=s OBS April sale, having purchased a colt by Miles sent out six juveniles to work Monday and found Orb for $30,000 at the Keeneland September Yearling Sale and conditions consistent throughout the day. reoffering him in Ocala where he sold for $685,000. Miles said AWe took one of the last horses up today and it was still windy he and his team, which includes his veterinarian wife Lisa and still just a tad bit bothersome to some of the horses,@ Miles Casinella, look for value with younger sires at the yearling sales. said. AThe horses probably, in our eyes, worked a tick off of what AThe real good stallions are so hard to buy and we try to we thought they would and we=re pretty good at gauging what budget ourselves on what we spend on these yearlings,@ Miles we think they are going to work. I thought it was consistent all said. AWe work really hard at trying to get value so that most throughout the day. The track didn=t have anything to do with it everybody who shops at a 2-year-old sale can afford our horses.@ today. I think it was all the wind.@ (Cont. p5) TDN HEADLINE NEWS • PAGE 5 OF 14 • THETDN.COM TUESDAY • APRIL 17, 2018

Equaling the :10 flat time some 2 1/2 hours later was hip 127, a daughter of Quality Road. Consigned by King=s Equine, the bay filly is out of Bridles Prayer (Unbridled=s Song), a daughter of Grade I winner River=s Prayer. She RNA=d for $80,000 at last year=s Keeneland September sale. Eddie Woods sent out four of the five fastest quarter-mile workers, including hip 30, a filly by The Factor who earned the bullet time of :21 1/5. The gray juvenile, a $35,000 Keeneland September purchase, is a daughter of graded stakes winner Another Romance (Saint Anddan). The under-tack show continues through Saturday with sessions beginning daily at 8 a.m. The OBS April sale will be held Apr. 24 through 27.

OBS APRIL SPRING SALE OF 2-YEAR-OLDS UNDER-TACK SHOW - MONDAY Fastest Furlong Works Time Hip Sex Sire Dam :10 flat 127 filly Quality Road Bridles Prayer Consigned by King=s Equine, Agent IX :10 flat 144 colt Strong Mandate Callous Effect Consigned by Randy Miles, Agent IX

Fastest Quarter-Mile Works :21 1/5 030 filly The Factor Another Romance Consigned by Eddie Woods, Agent XXXII :21 2/5 043 filly Quality Road Argue Consigned by Eddie Woods, Agent XXXII :21 2/5 092 filly Fed Biz Be Smart Consigned by Eddie Woods, Agent LX :21 2/5 098 colt The Factor Beyond the Reach Consigned by Eddie Woods, Agent LXIII :21 2/5 115 filly Orb Blush Again Consigned by Hoby & Layna Kight

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The TDN Derby Top 20 (cont. from p1) concern moving forward (especially because Magnum Moon previously drifted out at the sixteenth pole when winning the Magnum Moon broke running, responded to a smooch to seize GII Rebel S.) But I=m willing to treat such imperfections as works the lead, and asserted himself assuredly at the head of affairs, a in progress that can be smoothed over. His raw versatility in new tactic for him. Even though he got away with splits that winning with multiple styles at increasing distances over very were on the slow side (a legit criticism), this $380,000 KEESEP different kinds of tracks while thriving under pressure is what colt withstood pressure right up until the quarter gives him the tactical edge 2 1/2 weeks out from the Derby. pole, and when a firing line of four turned for home, Magnum Moon was the only one who was still hand-ridden. He peeled 2) (c, Scat DaddyBStage Magic, by Ghostzapper) away from the pack convincingly when roused more >TDN Rising Star= O-China Horse Club, Head of Plains Partners aggressively, but then ducked out so far at the eighth pole that LLC, Starlight Racing & WinStar Farm. B- John D. Gunther (KY). he ran right out of the head-on shot (jockey Luis Saez later T-Bob Baffert. Sales history: $500,000 yrl KEESEP >16. Lifetime blamed gate marks on the track). Although it cost him nothing Record: GISW, 3-3-0-0, $666,000. but style points on Saturday, such behavior does plant seeds of TDN HEADLINE NEWS • PAGE 7 OF 14 • THETDN.COM TUESDAY • APRIL 17, 2018

Apr. 10 TDN Top 20 Rank: 2 3) BOLT D=ORO (c, Medaglia d=Oro--Globe Trot, by A.P. Indy) Last Start: 1st, GI Santa Anita Derby, SA, Apr. 7 O-Ruis Racing. B-WinStar Farm (KY). T-Mick Ruis. Sales History: Equineline PPs. $630,000 yrl FTSAUG >16. Lifetime Record: MGISW, 6-4-1-1, KY Derby Points: 100 $1,016,000. Apr. 10 TDN Top 20 Rank: 3 The three-for-three Justify has no comparison in this year=s Last Start: 2nd, GI Santa Anita Derby, SA, Apr. 7 crop when it comes to flash and panache. With style, power, and Accomplishments Include: 1st, GI Del Mar Futurity, DMR, Sept. some off-the-charts speed figures, this $500,000 KEESEP Scat 4; 1st GI FrontRunner S., SA, Sept. 30. 3rd GI Sentient Jet Daddy colt has gone from unraced maiden to Grade I winner in a Breeders= Cup Juvenile, SA, Nov. 4; 1st GII San Felipe S., SA, Mar. span of 48 days, and every human counterpart associated with 10. Equineline PPs. Caulfield on Bolt d=Oro. KY Derby Points: 104 this >TDN Rising Star= is in awe about how much untapped potential he really might possess. I can see why he=ll be the Sold by Denali favorite on the first Saturday in May. But endorsing him at an You don=t often see the mount on such a highly ranked Derby underlaid a price at this nascent stage of his career is likely to be contender open up so late in the prep season, but that was the hazardous to one=s bankroll. Justify was in complete control over case last week when Javier Castellano (who had been aboard for outclassed foes at the maiden and allowance levels, and after each of this colt=s last two races), informed owner/trainer Mick attaining an unpressured lead through the initial half mile of the Ruis he would be accepting a commitment aboard GI Florida GI Santa Anita Derby, he only had to spurt away from a Derby winner Audible (Into Mischief) for the Kentucky Derby, not-fully-cranked Bolt d=Oro (Medaglia d=Oro) to wrap up the citing a loyalty to Audible=s connections. The mount didn=t stay race under his own terms. That=s a scenario that=s unlikely to open long, as three-time Derby-winning jockey Victor Espinoza develop when he ships away from his home track for the first (who had worked ABolt@ earlier this season) was given the call time in the Kentucky Derby, where the early pace will be hotter, aboard this $630,000 FTSAUG Medaglia d'Oro colt. Bolt now the chaos into the clubhouse turn will be utterly unpredictable, looms as a top-tier threat based on a hard-fought win via DQ in and a solid cast of challengers are likely to be zeroing in on the the GII San Felipe S. (the strongest prep race of the year) and a leaders in rapid-fire succession as the pack corners for home. non-taxing second in the Santa Anita Derby. AWhat I like about Then again, if Justify is able to overcome all those compounded him, he=s really kind and calm. Nothing bothers him,@ Espinoza adversities, he will truly rate as the once-in-a-generation told the TDN. AHe saves his energy a lotY. Bolt d=Oro reminds super-horse that some supporters are projecting he can be. me of California Chrome (Lucky Pulpit), in that he=s run quite a few times before the Kentucky Derby. It=s easy for me to ride that kind of horse that has that experience.@

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4) MENDELSSOHN (c, Scat Daddy--Leslie=s Lady, by Tricky 5) GOOD MAGIC (c, Curlin--Glinda the Good, by Hard Spun) Creek) O-e Five & Stonestreet Stables. B-Stonestreet O-Michael B. Tabor, Mrs. John Magnier & Derrick Smith. Thoroughbred Holdings (KY). T-C Brown. Sales History: $1,000,000 B-Clarkland Farm (KY). T-Aiden O=Brien. Sales history: yrl KEESEP >16. Lifetime Record: Ch. 2yo, GISW, 5-2-2-1, $3,000,000 yrl KEESEP >16. Lifetime Record: GISW, 7-4-1-0, $1,855,000. $1,961,137. Apr. 10 TDN Top 20 Rank: 5 Apr. 10 TDN Top 20: 4 Last Start: 1st, GII Blue Grass S., KEE, Apr. 7 Last Start: 1st, G2 UAE Derby, MEY, Mar.31 Accomplishments Include: 1st GI Sentient Jet Breeders= Cup Accomplishments: 1st, GI Breeders= Cup Juvenile Turf, DMR, Juvenile, SA, Nov. 4.; 2nd GI Champagne S., BEL, Oct. 7. Nov.3; 2nd, G1 Darley Dewhurst S., NEW, Oct. 14 Equineline PPs. Equineline PPs. KY Derby Points: 134 KY Derby Points: 100 Bred, Raised & Sold by Clarkland Farm Consigned by Hill ‘n’ Dale Sales Agency Trainer Chad Brown=s plan all along for 2018 was to have Good Mendelssohn is hardly your typical European invader for the Magic peak in his third start off a seasonal layoff. This Kentucky Derby. This Scat Daddy colt has already twice made million-dollar KEESEP Curlin champ is one of potentially eight headlines in the United States, once when hammering for Derby horses who might attempt to make the race this year off $3 million at KEESEP, and a year later when gamely winning the only two preps, so a little historical perspective is in order to GI Breeders= Cup Juvenile Turf. Plus, American racing enthusiasts illustrate how training methodologies are changing: Between are already well acquainted with the dirt prowess of his older 1984 and 2006, horses with only two sophomore preps were a sister, the four-time champion Beholder (Henny Hughes). If an collective 0-for-38 in the Derby. Since then, horses with only a 18 1/2-length blowout win can serve as a reminder of one=s pair of 3YO preps have won the Derby an attention-getting eight relevance, that was certainly the case for Mendelssohn in the times (2007-12 and 2015-16). Good Magic=s GII Toyota Blue G2 UAE Derby. Sure, the Meydan track was conducive to early Grass S. win pretty much followed the script of what you=d like speed that day and the field for that 1 3/16-mile race did not to see in a Derby candidate leading up to that third start off the exactly come up as a robust bunch. But this is a colt who is quick break--the score was convincing enough to establish that he=s a from the gate, does not absolutely need to be prowling on the viable Derby threat without having drained the colt to overstate front end, and is likely to emerge as a relentless Derby stalker. that point. Good Magic is expected to work once at Keeneland, He figures to be able to apply pressure at multiple points in a where he is currently stabled, prior to shipping to Churchill 10-furlong race while still being in the hunt late when it counts. Downs to get one breeze over the track there before his Derby start.

6) AUDIBLE (c, Into MischiefBBlue Devil Bel, by Gilded Time) O-WinStar, China Horse Club, Head of Plains Partners, Starlight Racing. B-Oak Bluff Stables LLC (NY). T-Todd Pletcher. Sales history: $175,000 FTNSAR yrl >16; $500,000 FTFMAR 2yo >17. Lifetime Record: MGSW, 5-4-0-1, $882,920. Apr. 10 TDN Top 20 Rank: 6 Last Start: 1st, GI Florida Derby, GP, Mar. 31 Accomplishments: 1st, GII Holy Bull S., GP, Feb. 3. Equineline PPs. KY Derby Points: 110 Trained at Crupi’s New Castle Farm

The Audible we=ve seen so far is an opportunist. In winning the GII Holy Bull S. and the Florida Derby, he attained comfortable Mendelssohn I Horsephotos positions and pounced when the pace and other in-race circumstances unfolded in his favor. No question, it takes athletic ability to do that. TDN HEADLINE NEWS • PAGE 9 OF 14 • THETDN.COM TUESDAY • APRIL 17, 2018

But what we don=t know heading into Louisville is whether this away from the worst midpack traffic. Noble Indy has already $500,000 FTFMAR son of Into Mischief can live up to his name shown he can take a little roughhousing at the start and he by calling a tactical audible if that chaotic run through the first re-rallied when the lead was clawed away from him in the turn in the Derby doesn=t leave him in a prime position. Audible stretch fight of the Louisiana Derby. I continue to believe that is considered a win threat based on speed figures, a nice overall he=ll be the least talked-about of the four Todd Pletcher-trained progression arc, and the fact that he hails from a horses aiming for the Kentucky Derby. And while that factor will high-percentage outfit with Derby-winning experience. The big probably be worth a rise of a few points in the mutuels, Noble unknown is how he=ll handle mid-race adversity or a solid late Indy is at least on par development-wise with several of those stretch attack from multiple contenders, because we haven=t yet stablemates, so I=m banking that he=ll be a juicy overlay in the seen him face those types of challenges at the graded stakes betting. level. AHe=s coming back in five weeks off a 1 1/8-mile race so I think we=re just trying to have him peak on the day and keep 8) MY BOY JACK (c, Creative Cause--Gold N Shaft, by him fit without overdoing it,@ said trainer Todd Pletcher after Mineshaft) Friday=s :48.74 half-mile work (1/26) at Palm Beach Downs. O-Don=t Tell My Wife Stables & Monomoy Stables LLC. B-Brereton C. Jones (KY). T-Keith Desormeaux. Sales History: $14,000 RNA wlg KEENOV =15; $20,000 yrl KEESEP =16. Lifetime Record: MGSW, 10-3-3-2, $645,145. Apr. 10 TDN Top 20 Rank: 14 Last Start: 1st, GIII Lexington S., KEE, Apr. 14. Accomplishments Include: 1st, GIII Southwest S., OP, Feb. 19; 1st, Zuma Beach S., SA, Oct. 9 Equineline PPs. KY Derby Points: 52

There were reasons to bet against My Boy Jack in Saturday=s Audible I Kenny Martin GIII Stonestreet Lexington S. He was a closer shortening up to 7) NOBLE INDY (c, Take Charge Indy--Noble Maz, by Storm 1 1/16 miles on a track that sometimes helps speed horses, and Boot) he had drawn the outermost post in what was clearly a O-WinStar Farm LLC & Repole Stable. B-WinStar Farm LLC. T- last-ditch attempt to earn Derby qualifying points. Yet he Todd Pletcher. Sales history: $45,000 RNA yrl KEESEP >16. delivered big-time as the 3-2 favorite, and now looms as a Lifetime Record: GSW, 4-3-0-1, $691,600. sneaky-sharp Derby horse who can be relied upon to deliver a Apr. 10 TDN Top 20 Rank: 7 sustained punch from about 4 1/2 furlongs out regardless of Last Start: 1st, Louisiana Derby, FG, Mar. 24. where he is placed in a large field. This $20,000 KEESEP Creative Equineline PPs. Caulfield on Noble Indy. Cause colt owns a stamina-strong pedigree, has now run nine KY Derby Points: 110 consecutive route races, and his connections have consistently mentioned how relaxed and confident he=s grown since his Sold by Denali breakout win in the muddy GIII Southwest S. three starts back. Noble Indy won the GII Louisiana Derby with the addition of AHe was very, very comfortable in his stride and that was pretty blinkers, but his running style wasn=t overly modified by the much a repeat of his last start,@ jockey Kent Desormeaux said equipment change because he=s a pace-presser who=s been on after the Lexington, adding that the 10 furlongs will suit him the lead at the second call in three of his four lifetime starts. Aprobably even better. We always tend to get a true, honest What will be the tactics in Louisville? Committing to an all-out pace in the Kentucky Derby, and I think he=ll enjoy that.@ assault on the lead might not exactly be this $45,000 KEESEP Take Charge Indy colt=s sweet spot, but having enough early gas to mix it up in the first flight at least theoretically keeps him TDN HEADLINE NEWS • PAGE 10 OF 14 • THETDN.COM TUESDAY • APRIL 17, 2018

9) VINO ROSSO (c, CurlinBMythical Bride, by Street Cry {Ire}) His negatives: Winless above Grade III, untested beyond 1 O-Repole Stable & St. Elias Stable. B- John D. Gunther (KY). 1/16 miles, and doesn=t rack up commandeering speed figures. T-Todd Pletcher. Sales history: $410,000 yrl KEESEP >16. Lifetime Throw all of those handicapping components into a mental Record: GSW, 5-3-0-1, $620,500. blender, and I think the resulting assessment will be that this Apr. 10 TDN Top 20 Rank: 8 $400,000 FTSAUG Scat Daddy colt will be an overlooked Last Start: 1st, GII Wood Memorial S., AQU, Apr. 7. component on Derby day--certainly not one of the top win Equineline PPs. threats, but the type of horse who could logically hit the board KY Derby Points: 107 or even orchestrate a 30-1 upset if circumstances align in his favor. Company lines are also key (beaten only three lengths by Trained at Crupi’s New Castle Farm Mendelssohn; has twice outfinished Vino Rosso), and note that If his aggressively won Wood Memorial S. is any indication, Flameaway has twice run well in large (14-horse) fields. Vino Rosso=s on-track performance could finally be catching up to his lofty expectations. Then again, he has three other Tampa 11) FREE DROP BILLY (c, Union Rags--Trensa, by Giant=s Bay Downs races showing in his past performances that come Causeway) across as utterly underwhelming--an allowance win against a O-Albaugh Family Stables LLC. B-Helen K. Groves Revokable short field at 1-20 odds, plus two stakes routes in which he Trust (KY). T-Dale Romans. Sales history: $200,000 KEESEP yrl never seemed to be mentally or physically in the race. So =16. Lifetime Record: GISW, 8-2-3-2, $625,220. determining which Vino Rosso will show up on Derby day is a Apr. 3 TDN Top 12 Rank: N/A tough guess based on a read of his past performances alone. A Last Start: 3rd, GII Blue Grass S., KEE, Apr. 7 more helpful clue emerged last week when jockey John Accomplishments Include: 1st, GI Breeders= Futurity, KEE, Oct.7; Velazquez committed to ride this $410,000 KEESEP Curlin colt in 2nd, GI Hopeful S. Sept. 4. the Derby, which is notable because he had also ridden last-out Equineline PPs. graded stakes winners Audible and Noble Indy for top client KY Derby Points: 44 Todd Pletcher, and he presumably had his choice among all Barry Berkelhammer 352•804•3000 three. Based on the Wood win, Vino Rosso now looks more in Free Drop Billy=s past performances don=t tell the whole story his element rating from farther back instead of forcing the issue about where this $200,000 KEESEP Union Rags has been or-- closer to the action, so the more speed in the Derby the better more importantly--where he=s going. Seven months apart, he=s for this colt. now twice been involved in graded stakes where Sporting Chance (Tiznow) ducked out in deep stretch, with the most 10) FLAMEAWAY (c, Scat Daddy--Vulcan Rose, by Fusaichi recent incident stopping Free Drop Billy cold when he was Pegasus) surging up on the outside in the Blue Grass S. His ninth-place O-John Oxley; B-Phoenix Rising Farms (ON). T-Mark Casse. Sales non-effort in the Breeders= Cup (beaten 29 lengths) still has history: $150,000 yrl KEEJAN >16; $400,000 yrl SARAUG >16. everyone baffled. And even Free Drop Billy=s lone stakes win, Lifetime Record: MGSW, 9-5-2-0, $704,834. the GI Breeders= Futurity at Keeneland last autumn, is difficult to Apr. 10 TDN Top 20 Rank: 9 get a good read on because one of the favorites suffered a Last Start: 2nd, GII Blue Grass S., KEE, Apr. 7 catastrophic injury in that race. Yet redemption and a Accomplishments: 1st, GIII Bourbon S., KEE, Oct. 8; 1st, GIII Sam true-to-ability race could be closer than most people think for F. Davis S., TAM, Feb. 10. this still-developing May 3 foal. I envision Free Drop Billy tucking Equineline PPs. in towards the back in the Derby, tipping out for a prolonged KY Derby Points: 70 bid, and then seeing how far and long his closing kick will take him into what projects to be a zesty early pace.

12) HOFBURG (c, TapitBSoothing Touch, by Touch Gold) Registered Ontario-Bred O/B-Juddmonte Farms Inc. (KY). T-Bill Mott. Lifetime Record: GISP, 3-1-1-0, $227,950. Flameaway=s positives: Relishes being involved in pace Apr. 10 TDN Top 20 Rank: 15 pressure, doesn=t back down when engaged (even when Last Start: 2nd, GI Florida Derby, GP, Mar. 31. overmatched), runs well on any footing, and has won at four Equineline PPs. varying distances. KY Derby Points: 40 TDN HEADLINE NEWS • PAGE 11 OF 14 • THETDN.COM TUESDAY • APRIL 17, 2018

Hofburg glides toward the Kentucky Derby as a very If a long, sustained run is the game plan for this Medaglia tantalizing, under-the-radar wild card. He=s only raced three d=Oro homebred, it=s a plus to know that he=s already uncorked times and hasn=t won beyond the maiden ranks. Yet his a nice, length-of-stretch rally over the Churchill Downs strip in Juddmonte Farms/Bill Mott connections aren=t shying away from the Nov. 25 GII Kentucky Jockey Club S. That race ended up plunging him into the deep end of the pool. This alone could be being a highly productive key race, turning out three subsequent a tipoff that they think they have a Classics-worthy colt, because stakes winners. But will big-framed Enticed benefit from his this isn=t an owner/trainer combo that is annually intent on heat-of-battle bumping with Vino Rosso in the stretch run of the having a horse in the Derby just for the sake of being Wood? The unknown answer to that question will go a long way represented. You can make the cogent argument that the Tapit to figuring out how he=ll fare in Louisville, where he=s likely to homebred was involved late in the Florida Derby only because a have to either do some degree of inside fighting or give up fortuitous pace meltdown up front paved his way. But what was ground with a wide bid to attain a contending spot. unmistakable was this colt=s body language--he kept attacking and never looked discouraged when chasing home a far more 14) QUIP (c, Distorted Humor--Princess Ash, by Indian Charlie) experienced favorite when second to Audible. According to Daily O-Winstar Farm LLC, China Horse Club International & SF Racing Racing Form, Irad Ortiz Jr. will replace his brother, Jose Ortiz, in LLC. B-WinStar Farm LLC (KY). T-Rodolphe Brisset. Lifetime the Derby aboard Hofburg, because Jose has committed to Record: GSW & GISP, 5-3-1-0, $482,800. Eclipse Award champ Good Magic. Apr. 10 TDN Top 20 Rank: 10 Last Start: 2nd, GI Arkansas Derby, OP, Apr. 14 Achievements: 1st, GII Lambholm South Tampa Bay Derby, TAM, Mar. 10. Equineline PPs. KY Derby Points: 90

>TDN Rising Star= Quip won the Arace within the race@ in Saturday=s Arkansas Derby. The GII Tampa Bay Derby winner was a prominent pace presence as expected, and hounded eventual open-length winner Magnum Moon right up to the quarter pole when that rival convincingly torqued into another gear to win going away. Jockey Florent Geroux then kept Quip going well enough to win a four-horse photo for second. Although this son of Distorted Humor qualifies on points, Quip=s connections have not committed fully to a Derby berth.

Hofburg I Coglianese 15) SOLOMINI (c, CurlinBSurf Song, by Storm Cat) O-Zayat Stables LLC. B-Glenna R. Salyer (KY). T-Bob Baffert. Sales 13) ENTICED (c, Medaglia d=Oro--It=s Tricky, by Mineshaft) history: $270,000 KEESEP >16 yrl. Lifetime Record: MGISP, 6-1- O/B-Godolphin (KY). T-Kiaran McLaughlin. Lifetime Record: 3-2, $752,000 MGSW & GISP, 6-3-1-1, $595,680. Apr. 10 TDN Top 20 Rank: 11 Apr. 10 TDN Top 20 Rank: 12 Last Start: 3rd, GI Arkansas Derby, OP, Apr. 14 Last Start: 2nd, GII Wood Memorial S., AQU, Arp. 7 Accomplishments Include: 3rd GI Los Alamitos Futurity, LRC, Accomplishments Include: 1st, GII Kentucky Jockey Club S., CD, Dec.9; 2nd GI Frontrunner S., SA, Sept. 30; 2nd GI Breeders= Cup Nov. 25; 3rd, GI Champagne S., BEL, Oct. 7; 1st GIII Gotham S., Juvenile, DMR, Nov. 4 AQU, Mar. 10 Equineline PPs.KY Derby Points: 103 Equineline PPs. In the Wood Memorial, Enticed led the main body of the field KY Derby Points: 54 behind a breakaway pacemaker, and trainer Kiaran McLaughlin Consigned by Hill ‘n’ Dale Sales Agency said post-race that Awe were a little closer than I thought we=d EQB yearling purchase • www.EQB.com be.@ It=s unlikely that Enticed will be positioned similarly in the Training Graduate Derby though, because there figure to be enough pace-pressers and midpack stalkers to willingly take up that role. TDN HEADLINE NEWS • PAGE 12 OF 14 • THETDN.COM TUESDAY • APRIL 17, 2018

Solomini qualifies on Derby points and his connections said it=s Even if you don=t view Promises Fulfilled as a solid win threat, on to Louisville after his third-place effort in the Arkansas Derby. his presence on the front end will contribute to the fates of He took the overland route on Saturday and gave up a fair other forwardly placed contenders, namely prospective favorite amount of real estate on the backstretch and the far turn, but Justify. Romans said on Saturday that jockey Robby Albarado is no one in the four-horse firing line at the quarter pole was going likely to pilot either Promises Fulfilled or Free Drop Billy in the to match strides with Magnum Moon through the lane. This Derby, but that a second rider for whichever mount goes open $270,000 KEESEP Curlin colt is officially winless since breaking has yet to be confirmed. his maiden on debut Sep. 2, although he did cross the wire first when DQ=d out of the GI Los Alamitos Futurity Dec. 9. Having said that, Solomini has never finished out of the top three in his five-race career, always coming close with capable, grind-it-out efforts but never summoning up that one, big, visually impressive flourish of a finish to leap the chasm to elite status. Maybe 10 furlongs and a zealous pace to help tilt the shape of the race in his favor will do the trick.

Promises Fulfilled I Coglianese

17) BRAVAZO (c, Awesome Again--Tiz o= Gold, by Cee=s Tizzy) O/B-Calumet Farm. T-D. Wayne Lukas. Lifetime Record: GSW & GISP, 8-3-1-1, $436,528. Apr. 10 TDN Top 20 Rank: 18 Last Start: 8th, GII Louisiana Derby, FG, Mar. 24. Accomplishments: 1st, GII Risen Star S., FG, Feb. 17; 2nd, Solomini I Benoit GI Breeders= Futurity, KEE, Oct. 7. 16) PROMISES FULFILLED (c, Shackleford--Marquee Delivery, by Equineline PPs. Marquetry) KY Derby Points: 54 O-Robert J. Baron. B-David Jacobs (KY). T-Dale Romans. Sales Bravazo=s last seven races have all been at a mile or longer, so history: $37,000 yrl KEESEP =16. Lifetime Record: GSW, 5-3-0-1, stamina is unlikely to be a Derby issue for this Awesome Again $337,280. homebred. Consistency appears to be his weakness though, Apr. 10 TDN Top 20 Rank: 17 because he=s either not too far off the action at the finish wire Last Start: 9th, GI Florida Derby, GP, Mar. 31 (five times in his career) or he gets dusted by double-digit Accomplishments: 1st, GII Fountain of Youth S., GP, Mar. 3. lengths (the three other starts). His last race was a clunker (a Equineline PPs. 21-length, lugging-out eighth as the second fave in the Louisiana Kentucky Derby Points: 52 Derby), so Bravazo will be looking for a turnaround based on SELECT SALES Graduate...Exceeding Expectations morning works leading up to his long-shot bid in Louisville. Promises Fulfilled currently rates as the best bet to cross the Churchill Downs finish wire in front--the first time past the 18) FIRENZE FIRE (c, Poseidon=s Warrior--My Every Wish, by stands. After getting roasted in the Florida Derby speed duel, Langfuhr) trainer Dale Romans is in regroup mode with this $37,000 O/B-Mr. Amore Stables (FL). T-Jason Servis. Lifetime Record: KEESEP son of Shackleford, who does own a win and a very good GISW, 9-4-1-0, $669,100. stakes third over the Churchill track that is Romans= home court. Apr. 10 TDN Top 20 Rank: N/A Last Start: 4th, GII Wood Memorial S., AQU, Apr. 7 TDN HEADLINE NEWS • PAGE 13 OF 14 • THETDN.COM TUESDAY • APRIL 17, 2018

Accomplishments: 1st, GI Champagne S., BEL, Oct. 7; 1st, 20) GRONKOWSKI (Lonhro {Aus}BFour Sugars, by Lookin At GIII Sanford S., SAR, July 22. Lucky) Equineline PPs KY Derby Points: 39 O-Phoenix Thoroughbred Limited. B-Epic Thoroughbreds LLC. T- Jeremy Noseda. Sales history: $75,000 wnl KEENOV >15; $67,415 The Poseidon=s Warrior homebred demonstrated an yrl TATOCT >16; $404,492 2yo TATBRE >17. Lifetime Record: 6-4- admirable, grind-it-out, style at age two and early in 2018 that 1-0, $135,644. allowed him to overachieve in spots where the competition was Apr. 3 TDN Top 12 Rank: N/A been tough and/or he was up against the grain of the way the Last Start: 1st, 32red Burradon S, NEW, Mar. 30. pace unfolded. But his pedigree is slanted heavily toward Equineline PPs. sprinting on both sides, he=s yet to win a two-turn race, and he=s KY Derby Points: Qualified via European Road to the KY Derby now lost three in a row after taking what turned out to be the Trackside Farm foaled, raised and sold easiest (New York) prep path to the Derby. After barely making the qualifying cut on a points basis, it looks like Firenze Fire is on Gronkowski has never run on dirt nor beyond a mile, and he his way to Louisville. qualified for a berth in Louisville by winning the Europe Road to the Kentucky Derby invite. His most recent score was in the straight-course Burradon S. at Newcastle, a race in which he settled towards the back of the pack and rallied late for a 1 1/4-length, driven-out victory. He will remain overseas for another week and a half prior to shipping stateside Apr. 28.

>GRONK= ON TRACK FOR KY DERBY Listed Burradon S. hero Gronkowski (Lonhro {Aus}) has punched his ticket for the May 5 GI Kentucky Derby at Churchill Downs, and will travel Stateside Apr. 28, trainer Jeremy Noseda revealed. The Phoenix Thoroughbred runner has won his last four starts, and earned 50 points on the AEuropean Road to the Kentucky Derby@. Successful in the Mar. 7 ARoad to the Kentucky Derby@ Conditions S., good for 20 Derby points, his margin of victory was 1 1/4 lengths in the Mar. 30 Burradon, worth Firenze Fire I Robert Mauhar another 30 points to the winner. AI am delighted with him,@ Noseda told Tattersalls. AHe=s a 19) LONE SAILOR (c, Majestic WarriorBAmbitious, by Mr. Greeley) lovely straightforward horse to deal with and everything is very O-GMB Racing. B-Alexander-Groves-Matz, LLC (KY). T-Thomas much on schedule with our preparation. He leaves for America Amoss. Sales history: $120,000 yrl KEESEP >16. Lifetime Record: in two weeks, on Apr. 28, and by the time he leaves quarantine GISP, 8-1-3-1, $334,237. and starts training, it will be Tuesday morning. That=s the plan Apr. 10 TDN Top 20 Rank: N/A and I think it is the perfect timing for his arrival. It=s just getting Last Start: 2nd, GII Louisiana Derby, FG, Mar. 24 him happy, fit and healthy, and then we have to find out if he Accomplishments: 3rd, GI Breeders Futurity S., KEE, Oct. 7 goes on dirt or not. I=m pretty confident he=ll handle it well. They Equineline PPs. KY Derby Points: 42 either do or they don=t, no matter how much you train them.@ Lone Sailor won his second career start at Saratoga last September, ripping away to an 11-length romp in the mud over seven furlongs. Since then this $120,000 KEESEP Majestic Warrior colt has competed in six straight route races and hasn=t © Copyright Thoroughbred Daily News. This newspaper may not be reproduced in any form or by any won again. He wrested control of the lead inside the final means, electronic or mechanical, without prior written permission furlong of the Louisiana Derby but couldn=t seal the deal, ending of the copyright owner, MediaVista. Information as to the up second while beaten only a neck at 9-1 odds. If you plan on American races, race results and earnings was obtained from banking on that effort as the start of a potential upswing, you results charts published by The Jockey Club Information Services may be rewarded with odds well north of 60-1 in Louisville. and utilized here with their permission. TDN HEADLINE NEWS • PAGE 14 OF 14 • THETDN.COM TUESDAY • APRIL 17, 2018

Indiana Horse Racing Commission & Indiana Thoroughbred Breed Development Program 2017 Champions Horse of the Year: Bucchero (Kantharos) Indiana-bred 2-Year-Old Colt/Gelding: Jersey Justice Indiana-bred 2-Year-Old Filly: Piedi Bianchi Midlantic 2-Year-Olds in Training Catalogue Online Indiana-sired 2-Year-Old Colt/Gelding: Mo Money The catalogue for the upcoming Fasig-Tipton Midlantic 2-Year- Indiana-sired 2-Year-Old Filly: Paisley Olds In Training Sale is now available online at Indiana-bred 3-Year-Old Colt/Gelding: Retrospection www.fasigtipton.com. The catalogue features 600 entries for the Indiana-bred 3-Year-Old Filly: Marina’s Legacy two-day auction scheduled to be held in Timonium May 21-22. West Indiana-Sired 3-Year-Old Filly: Defining Hope Indiana-bred Older Mare: Sweet N Wicker AThis year=s catalogue features quality from top to bottom,@ Indiana-sired Older Horse: Supreme Justice said Midlantic Sales Director Paget Bennett. AThe current top 20 Indiana-sired Older Mare: Joyous Lady ranked sires in North America are all represented, as well as Broodmare of the Year: Adore You horses eligible for a number of state-bred programs. Buyers at Hall of Distinction: Jonathon Schuster all ranges will find attractive offerings to suit their budgets.@ Breeder of the Year: Michael & Penny Lauer The sale=s under-tack show will be held in three sessions, May Stallion Owner of the Year: Swifty Farms 15-17. IN OTHER NEWS... Donegal Racing Donates Keen Ice Seasons to A Daily Roundup of Racing Articles in Non-Industry Media

Grayson-Jockey Club Research Foundation Ada Limon=s Day at the Races The poet Ada Limon grew up Donegal Racing will donate the proceeds from two of its 2018 going to the racetrack with her stepfather, who loved to play the seasons to Keen Ice (Curlin) to Grayson-Jockey Club Research ponies. As an adult, she left the home she had made in New York Foundation. Winner of the 2015 GI Travers S. over Triple Crown to move to Lexington with the man who is now her husband. She champion American Pharoah (Pioneerof the Nile), Keen Ice fell in love with horses all over again--especially the fillies--and stands at Calumet Farm for $20,000 and is booked full. they found their way into her collection of poems ABright Dead AKeen Ice brought Donegal Racing to the pinnacle of horse Things.@ This spring, she visited Keeneland Racecourse and read racing, and we wanted to give back to the animals that have her poem AHow to Triumph Like a Girl.@ given our partners so much excitement in the sport,@ said Jerry The New Yorker Radio Hour Crawford, president of Donegal. AWe are thrilled to offer two seasons to outside breeders in support of Grayson and the critical projects it funds to help horses of all breeds.@ FOALING NEWS sponsored by Jamie Haydon, vice president of Grayson-Jockey Club Research Foundation, added, AWe are grateful for Donegal=s generosity in donating the proceeds of two seasons of a top stallion prospect like Keen Ice to Grayson. We appreciate their commitment to improving the health and welfare of all equines.@ Breeders interested in purchasing Donegal=s seasons to Keen Ice can contact Conor Foley of Oracle Bloodstock at (859) 285- 8203. Since 1983, Grayson-Jockey Club Research Foundation has provided more than $26 million to fund 358 projects at 43 GLORIOUS VIEW, 9, Pleasant Tap--Cayuga=s Waters, by Langfuhr universities in North America and overseas. Additional Foal born Mar. 28, a colt by Frosted. information about the foundation is available at Will be bred back to Malibu Moon. grayson-jockeyclub.org. Owned by Brant Laue. Boarded at Hurstland Farm, KY. Accomplishments: GSW, $307,190. Friday, Keeneland, post time: 5:30 p.m. EDT HILLIARD LYONS DOUBLEDOGDARE S.-GIII, $100,000, 4yo/up, f/m, 1 1/16m PP HORSE SIRE OWNER TRAINER JOCKEY WT 1 Song of Spring Spring At Last Stoneway Farm Howard Rosario 118 2 Mines and Magic Mineshaft G. Watts Humphrey, Jr. Oliver Albarado 118 3 Girl Talk K Medaglia d'Oro Rock Ridge Racing LLC Stewart Bridgmohan 118 4 Promise of Spring Drosselmeyer Best Of Times Racing, LLC Margolis Saez 118 5 Ministry Ordained Starfish Stable LLC Gonzalez Pompell 118 6 Apologynotaccepted Fusaichi Pegasus Mrs. Paul Shanahan Walsh Leparoux 118 7 Jenda's Agenda Proud Citizen Jones, Cindy, Jones, J. Larry and Fox Hill Farms, Inc. Jones Geroux 118 8 Julerette Successful Appeal Katherine G. Ball Colebrook Lanerie 118 9 Valadorna Curlin Stonestreet Stables LLC Casse Hernandez, Jr. 118 10 Not Now Carolyn Tapit Big Chief Racing, Don't Tell My Wife Stables, Desormeaux Stevens 118 Rocker O Ranch, LLC,Desormeaux 11 Well Humored K Distorted Humor WinStar Stablemates Racing LLC Delacour Ortiz 118 12 Tapa Tapa Tapa Tapit Beau Ravine LLC Hamm Graham 118 13 Someday Soon Proud Citizen Estate of Tommy G. Ligon Van Meter Santana, Jr. 118

Breeders: 1-Susan Casner, 2-G. Watts Humphrey Jr., Susie Keller,Vicki Oliver & G. Watts Humphrey III, 3-G. Watts Humphrey Jr. & Louise IrelandHumphrey Revocable Trust - 2008, 4-Bottom Line Stables Inc., RowlandHancock & Dick Walker, 5-Arthur Hall & C. F. Newman, 6-Happy Alter, 7-Larry Jones & Cindy Jones, 8-Mike Ball & Katherine Ball, 9-Stonestreet Thoroughbred Holdings LLC, 10-Southern Equine Stables, LLC, 11-WinStar Farm, LLC, 12-Patricia Pavlish, 13-Tommy G. Ligon Second-crop starters to watch: Tuesday, April 17 Anthony's Cross (Indian Charlie), Pleasant Acres Stallions, $2,500 30 foals of racing age/3 winners/0 black-type winners 6-IND, Alw 6f, CROSSED, 12-1

IN JAPAN: Flat Out (Flatter), Spendthrift Farm, $10,000 Capolavoro, c, 3, Munnings--My Anguilla, by Cherokee Run. 230 foals of racing age/31 winners/1 black-type winner Fukushima, 4-15, Alw, 5f. Lifetime Record: 9-1-1-1, $82,243 6-WRD, Msw 5 1/2f, GOLDEN GUN, 12-1 O-Hidaka Breeders Union; B-Debra Ann Shehadi; T-Shoichiro $9,000 OKC YRL yrl Wada. *$40,000 Ylg >16 KEEJAN. **AHe is long-striding and takes time to shift into top bear, but closes well,@ said winning Freedom Child (Malibu Moon), Country Life Farm, $3,500 jockey Haruhiko Kawasu. 58 foals of racing age/9 winners/1 black-type winner 3-PRX, Msw 7f, SCARFREE, 15-1 IN IRELAND: Khalaab, c, 3, Blame. See AIrish Report@. Justin Phillip (First Samurai), Castleton Lyons, $12,500 124 foals of racing age/21 winners/1 black-type winner 4-IND, Msw 5 1/2f, YANKEE ROSE, 30-1 $14,000 RNA KEE SEP yrl WINNERS BY AMERICAN SIRES Kettle Corn (Candy Ride {Arg}), Fair Winds Farm, $3,000 35 foals of racing age/4 winners/0 black-type winners Danon Good (Jpn), h, 6, Elusive Quality--My Goodness, by 4-MVR, Alw 1m, FUNNEL CAKE, 2-1 Storm Cat. Nakayama, 4-15, Keiyo S., 6f. Lifetime Record: $18,000 KEE JAN yrl; $35,000 KEE SEP yrl 25-6-3-0, $979,533. O-Danox Inc.; B-Mishima Bokujo; T-Akira Murayama. *1/2 to Danon Legend (Macho Uno), GSW-Jpn, Liaison (Indian Charlie), Spendthrift Farm, $10,000 $3,324,208. 166 foals of racing age/19 winners/2 black-type winners 4-IND, Msw 5 1/2f, DONTLAUGHIMPAIDFOR, 15-1 $1,200 KEE SEP yrl

Paynter (Awesome Again), WinStar Farm, $25,000 218 foals of racing age/29 winners/1 black-type winner 2-MVR, Msw 1m, DON'T TELL LYDIA, 5-2 $5,000 RNA KEE SEP yrl; $8,000 E '17 KEE JAN

Prospective (Malibu Moon), Ocala Stud Farm, $5,000 97 foals of racing age/18 winners/1 black-type winner First-crop starters to watch: Tuesday, April 17 2-MVR, Msw 1m, PROTOSTAR, 4-1 Farm and fee represent current information $6,500 RNA OBS WIN yrl Laugh Track (Distorted Humor), Double Ll Farm, $0 34 foals of racing age/0 winners/0 black-type winners Winslow Homer (Unbridled's Song), Journeyman Stud, $5,000 1-SUN, Msw 4 1/2f, BASHFUL BOB, 20-1 57 foals of racing age/5 winners/0 black-type winners 1-SUN, Msw 4 1/2f, COMEDY KING, 15-1 4-IND, Msw 5 1/2f, JUJU'S SPECIALGIRL, 10-1 $3,500 RUI AUG yrl $11,000 RNA OBS WIN yrl TDN REGIONAL REPORT • PAGE 2 OF 2 • THETDN.COM TUESDAY • APRIL 17, 2018

ALLOWANCE RESULTS: 8th-GG, $34,866, 4-15, (NW1$X), 3yo/up, f/m, 6f (AWT), 1:10.70, ft. LAYNEE (f, 4, Popular--Rowdy Angel, by Roar) Lifetime Record: 9-3-2-1, $103,645. O-Michael Jawl; B-Greg James (CA); T-Andy Mathis.

5th-TRY, $25,000, 4-14, (C), 3yo/up, 1 1/2mT, 2:35.40, hd. OVERWHELMING (g, 8, Hard Spun--Oh What a Windfall {GISW, $363,623}, by Seeking the Gold) Lifetime Record: 30-7-4-2, $279,330. O-Woodslane Farm; B-Phipps Stable (KY); T-Jack O. Fisher. *1/2 to Conservative (Unbridled=s Song), GSP, $230,264.

4th-MVR, $23,500, 4-16, (NW1X), 3yo/up, 1m, 1:41.43, sy. FEE WAIVER (g, 4, Northern Afleet--Overboard, by Stormy Atlantic) Lifetime Record: 22-6-1-4, $61,152. O-Rocco Catanzariti; B-Alex & Kendra Penn (KY); T-Julie A. Pappada. *$140,000 Ylg '15 KEESEP.

ADDITIONAL MAIDEN WINNERS: Hot American, g, 3, Americain--Hotazel, by Unbridled's Song. SA, 4-15, (C), 1 1/8mT, 1:47.43. B-J D Stuart (KY). *1ST-TIME STARTER. My Queen Bee, f, 4, After Market--I Want Candy, by Candy Ride (Arg). WRD, 4-16, (S), 5 1/2f, 1:04.97. B-Bad Boy Racing, LLC (OK). AFTER MARKET, My Queen Bee, f, 4, o/o I Want Candy, by Candy Ride (Arg). MSW, 4-16, Will Rogers AMERICAIN, Hot American, g, 3, o/o Hotazel, by Unbridled's Song. MCL, 4-15, Santa Anita Congratulations to last week=s JockeyTalk360.com Jockey of HARD SPUN, Overwhelming, g, 8, o/o Oh What a Windfall, by the Week Ricardo Santana Jr., who won the GI Apple Blossom Seeking the Gold. ALW, 4-14, Tryon H. aboard Unbridled Mo (Uncle Mo) and the GIII Count Fleet NORTHERN AFLEET, Fee Waiver, g, 4, o/o Overboard, by Stormy Sprint H. aboard Whitmore (Pleasantly Perfect). Atlantic. ALW, 4-16, Mahoning Valley Race Course POPULAR, Laynee, f, 4, o/o Rowdy Angel, by Roar. ALW, 4-15, Golden Gate © Copyright Thoroughbred Daily News. This newspaper may not be reproduced in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, without prior written permission of the copyright owner, MediaVista. Information as to the HAVE A NEW FOAL? American races, race results and earnings was obtained from Click here to submit your Foaling News for results charts published by The Jockey Club Information Services Stakes Winning and/or Stakes Producing Mares and utilized here with their permission. for publication in the TDN. TUESDAY, 17 APRIL, 2018

Godolphin Loves Spring In ParisY THE WEEKLY WRAP Andre Fabre landed his eighth win in Sunday's G3 Prix de la Grotte, his most significant previous victrix being Golden Lilac (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}), who went on to win both the G1 Poule d'Essai des Pouliches and G1 Prix de Diane. The most recent winner, Musis Amica (Ire), is a granddaughter of the GI Kentucky Oaks heroine White Star Line (), who was bought by Sheikh Mohammed for $3 million from the Newstead Farm dispersal at Fasig-Tipton Kentucky in 1985. Fabre also trained White Star Line's best daughter, the G2 Prix de Pomone winner Whitehaven (GB) (Top Ville {GB}), but it was his colleague Henri-Alex Pantall who oversaw the career of Musis Amica's dam, White Star (Ire) ( {GB}), a dual winner who was placed in the G2 Prix de Malleret. A half-sister to another French Group 2 winner in Harland (GB) (Halling), Musis Amica is an important filly for Godolphin, Cracksman | Racingfotos.com not just in the continuation of a family which has served the operation well but as the first group winner for Dawn Approach By Emma Berry (Ire), who has his first 3-year-old runners this year. Cont. p2 Despite the supposed start of the British turf season some three weeks ago, there's been little action of any note since the Lincoln meeting, partly through strange race planning and partly owing to bad weather. Thankfully, Ireland and France have kept us entertained with a decent smattering of Classic trials. How informative these mostly heavy-ground contests will have been remains to be seen, especially now so few British and Irish horses actually take in a trial en route to the Guineas. From a near famine, there's now a feast of action to look forward to in Britain this week at Newmarket and Newbury, with two of the most exciting appearances at Newmarket not even happening in an official race. Cracksman (GB) (Frankel {GB}) will be at the Rowley Mile today (Tuesday) to undertake a public gallop before racing at 12:40 p.m., ahead of his planned seasonal debut in the G1 Prix Ganay on Apr. 29. Golden Horn (GB) (Cape Cross {GB}) brought the curtain down on the old Wootton | Scoop Dyga Longchamp when winning the G1 Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe for owner-breeder Anthony Oppenheimer and John Gosden in 2015 and the same connections look to have every chance of taking IN TDN AMERICA TODAY home the first Group 1 contest to be run at ParisLongchamp. TDN DERBY TOP 20 FOR APR. 17 Ten minutes after the 4-year-old appears at Newmarket, T. D. Thornton has the latest edition of the TDN Derby top 20, Sheikh Hamdan's Elarqam (GB) will take his turn over the same with ‘TDN Rising Star’ and Saturday’s GI Arkansas Derby hero stretch of turf on which both his father Frankel (GB) and mother Magnum Moon (Malibu Moon) ranked number one. Click or tap Attraction (GB) won their respective Guineas and where he will here to go straight to TDN America. bid to do the same on May 5.

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The Weekly Wrap Cont. from p1 With entries in the Poule d'Essai des Pouliches, Prix de Diane and Prix Saint-Alary and with only two winning starts under her belt, she has the chance to progress into a very exciting performer for her young sire. Pantall may not have ended up training White Star's daughter but he has charge of the exciting Godolphin colt Wootton (Fr) (Wootton Bassett {GB}), who was unleashed for his first start of the year in the G3 Prix de Fontainebleau--won last year by subsequent dual Classic winner Brametot (Ire) (Rajsaman {Fr}). A private purchase after winning on debut for owner-breeder Haras de Quietville at Deauville last August, Wootton subsequently landed the listed Prix Isonomy and will now aim to emulate his sire's star performer Almanzor (Fr) in claiming some Classic laurels. The British-based wing of Godolphin cranks into action this week with G3 Solario S. winner Masar (Ire), by Dawn Approach's sire New Approach (Ire), heading to the G3 Craven S. after arriving in Newmarket from Dubai on Saturday afternoon, while last December when his yearling half-sister by Kheleyf was Soliloquy (GB) (Dubawi {Ire}), out of the dual Australian listed offered for sale. Named Kherizzia (Fr), she was put through her winner Dysphonia (Aus) (Lonhro {Aus}), heads to the G3 Nell paces on the Rowley Mile on Monday morning and will be sold Gwyn S. as lot 145 at Tattersalls' Craven Sale tomorrow (Wednesday). On a good day at Longchamp, there was also reflected glory Sands Of Mali is trained by Richard Fahey for Peter Swann's for Darley/Godolphin in the third Group 3 contest of the Cool Silk Partnership, which has also had notable success with meeting, the Prix Noailles, which went to Pharrell (Fr), a son of another Bansha House Stables breezer, the G2 Norfolk S. winner Manduro (Ger) whose year started well with a third G2 Dubai Prince Of Lir (Ire) (Kodiac {GB}), who now stands at Ballyhane Gold Cup victory for his enigmatic son Vazirabad (Fr). Stud. Cont. p3 Only four horses at Arqana's August Sale of 2016 sold for less than Pharrell, a i15,000 purchase by his trainer Jean-Claude Rouget, who said he bought him simply because the Haras de Montaigu consignee reminded him of another chestnut colt by Manduro, the G1 Prix Jean-Luc Lagardere winner Ultra (Ire), who has recently joined his sire at Haras du Logis.

Sands Shifting In Right DirectionY Another inexpensive yearling purchase, Sands Of Mali (Fr) (Panis), enjoyed a fruitful outing in France on Friday when winning the G3 Prix Sigy at Chantilly on Friday. Con Marnane, who bought the colt for i20,000 at the Osarus September Sale of 2016 and resold him at Tattersalls Ireland's Ascot Breeze-up for ,75,000, was understandably emboldened by Sands Of Mali's G2 Gimcrack S. victory to reinvest in the family at Arqana Sands of Mali | Scoop Dyga TDN EUROPE/INTERNATIONAL • PAGE 3 OF 14 • THETDN.COM TUESDAY • 17 APRIL, 2018

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Bred by Simon Urizzi, Sands Of Mali's sire Panis is one of four stallions at Alain Chopard's Haras des Faunes, which also stood his late damsire Indian Rocket (GB) and is now also home to the former Darley stallion Kheleyf. The little utilised Panis has enjoyed a decent run of late as he is also the sire of Magic Bibou (Fr), who finished second to France's top-rated 3-year-old colt Dice Roll (Fr) (Showcasing {GB}) in the G3 Prix Djebel, as well as the Chopard-bred Princesschope (Fr), who was third in the G3 Vice President, International Operations Prix Vanteaux. All three are members of his 2015 crop which Gary King numbered just 28 foals. Twitter: @garykingTDN [email protected] + 1.732.320.0975 A Toast to The BarmanY A few days after Sir Patrick and Lady Justine Hogan sold their International Editor final yearling under their Cambridge Stud banner at the Inglis Kelsey Riley Easter Sale last week, another reminder of their significant Twitter: @kelseynrileyTDN influence on the Australasian breeding industry was provided on [email protected] Saturday with the G1 Sydney Cup victory of the Who Shot Thebarman (NZ) by a nose from Zacada (NZ). European Editor Emma Berry There was doubtless a certain degree of agony in seeing Twitter: @collingsberry Zacada so narrowly beaten, as the Hogans are co-owners and [email protected] breeders of the 5-year-old, and they also bred his sire Zabeel (NZ), a cornerstone of Cambridge Stud's success for so many Associate International Editor years. However, some consolation will have come from the fact Heather Anderson that the admirable winner--the second 9-year-old in as many Twitter: @HLAndersonTDN weeks to have won a group race after Air Pilot (GB)--is a son of another Hogan-bred, Yamanin Vital (NZ), a five-time winner in Marketing Manager Japan who was repatriated in 1997 to stand at New Zealand's Alayna Cullen Twitter: @AlaynaCullen White Robe Lodge. [email protected] Like Zabeel, Yamanin Vital is a son of the mighty Sir Tristram (Ire), but he was afforded far fewer opportunities during his 13 Contributing Editor years at stud than his more famous paternal half-brother. Alan Carasso Cont. p4 Twitter: @EquinealTDN

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The Weekly Wrap Cont. through a demanding under-tack show yesterday morning: His largest crop of 53 foals was down to 39 in the year that across the Dip and up the hill, through soft ground and a Who Shot Thebarman was born, two years before Yamanin crosswind. Vital's death, but he is also responsible for G1 Wellington Cup Several had cost more, as yearling pinhooks, than was realised winner Cluden Creek (NZ) and G1 New Zealand Derby winner by the top lots in the first two auctions of the European Cut The Cake (NZ), while Herculian Prince (NZ) is his other breeze-up calendar at Ascot and Doncaster. After their dress top-level winner in Australia. rehearsal on Sunday, John Cullinan of Horse Park Stud was Who Shot Thebarman's success on Saturday was unsurprisingly shaking his head. Cont. p5 overshadowed by the clamour surrounding his stablemate Winx (Aus), but he has been a stalwart of Chris Waller's string, lining up in three consecutive G1 Melbourne Cups and posting his best finish when third to Protectionist (Ger) in 2014, as well as winning the G1 Auckland Cup for his previous trainer Mark Oulaghan.

JUVENILES SPARKLE ON EVE OF CRAVEN By Chris McGrath NEWMARKET, UK--It was enough just to watch the horses pulling up, silhouetted against the East Anglian sky. For even that snapshot of shape and movement permitted no doubt that the breeze-up circuit reaches a new level in the Tattersalls Craven Sale; never mind the way these youngsters stretched A 2-year-old breezes for the Craven sale | Alayna Cullen TDN EUROPE/INTERNATIONAL • PAGE 5 OF 14 • THETDN.COM TUESDAY • 17 APRIL, 2018

Jewels Sparkle on Eve of Craven Cont. with their drawers down! A lot of the rules when you're buying "We're going to have to be on our >A' game here," he said. yearlings go out the window. If they come up quick, and they're "That's the nicest bunch of horses I've seen at a breeze-up sale. sound, that's three-quarters of the story. The pedigree only Every horse a proper job: big, scopey, strapping horses winging decides what you'll pay for it.@ past, one after the other." "But a young horse that will come up here and gallop into a Since 2015, graduates of this sale have included 42 individual headwind at :11 seconds a furlong? If you asked every trainer in group or listed winners. Over the next two evenings, however, this town to send up their smartest 2-year-old, without a lead, consignors will be hoping to stem a worrying tide in there'd be loose horses all over Newmarket. It takes a brave year-on-year indices at the sales so far staged by Tattersalls 2-year-old to come up there on its own, not hang, not look Ireland and Goffs UK. Only every other lot was sold at Ascot; and around, do his job." if that improved to three in four at Doncaster, the median still Paradoxically, Cullinan believes that elite auctions can took a hit. sometimes be a victim of their own success. "People with No wonder some consignors are feeling a little queasy as they limited budgets tend to shop at the smaller sales," he said. "And bring their most precarious punts to market. At least the root I always feel they're missing a trick. We ourselves will go to Book problem of overproduction should prove less corrosive here. 1 and try to buy a yearling that falls between the cracks. People Cullinan, who has done such good work heading up the coming here to buy the elite horses will expect to pay proper Breeze-Up Consignors' Association, does not want it undone by money, but some get left behind and represent very good expanding catalogues as "a value.@ dumping ground" for unsold "Last year we sold only 15 out yearlings. Investors, after all, of 25 through the ring. We'll have never had such confidence take our beating on a bad horse. in the quality and competitive What's hard to take is a beating longevity of breeze-up on a good one. We're not graduates. "Bad horses only protecting them. But if there's devalue our product," Cullinan nobody there to buy them, what stressed. "The sales companies do you do?" have to limit the numbers The answer, if he and Marley coming in, and consignors have really like the horse, is to keep it to be more discerning." in training themselves. That Even this catalogue has been brings its own risks, but their squeezed up from 152 to 172, perseverance could yet be before withdrawals, and Future Proof | Racing Post rewarded with Future Proof (Ire) accommodates no fewer than 20 (Dream Ahead), who was unsold rookie sires. Nonetheless, it remains the premier showcase for at Arqana last year but won on debut for Ger Lyons at the format. It was here two years ago, for instance, that Cullinan Leopardstown on Sunday. and regular collaborator Roger Marley sold a colt to Peter and Over the years Cullinan has found this medium a reliable Ross Doyle for 170,000gns. Mehmas (Ire) (Acclamation {GB}) signpost to the prospects of a young stallion. Kodiacs, for won two Group 2s and was retired to stud within six months of instance, soon proved to be unusually fast learners. With the his sale. He had been pinhooked out of Book 2 for 62,000gns. sire now in his pomp, Cullinan and Marley are glad to have three "Effectively we take 20% of the yearling crop out of the in their draft. system, sort the wheat and chaff, and put them back into a "The colt out of Dolly Colman (Ire) (Diamond Green {Fr}) [lot sale," he said. "As a result there's going to be high wastage. The 110] is a five-furlong 2-year-old who can run as soon as he gets a ones that don't face it, or aren't sound enough, fall by the name," he said. "He's a lovely correct horse, a typical Kodiac, wayside; but the ones that are up to the job, we're adding value very fast. The one out of Folegandros Island (Ire) (Red Rocks to. Pound for pound, I think that makes this a very good value {Ire}) [lot 122] is a different type, he might get seven. He has a way of buying a racehorse. brilliant mind and fantastic stride. And the filly out of Graphic "Some of the horses here are obviously going to make big six Guest (GB) (Dutch Art {GB}) [132] is very quick. Her dam got figures; many aren't even going to make their purchase price. injured in the stalls at the Queen Mary. She's bred to be fast and What they cost [as yearlings] is irrelevant. They're here now does what it says on the tin, a ready-made 2-year-old." Cont. p6 Tattersalls Craven Breeze Up Sale Photos by Alayna Cullen

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Jewels Sparkle on Eve of Craven Cont. CORRECTION: Monday=s TDN omitted sales results for Sea Prose Cullinan also likes a scopey Coach House (Ire) (Oasis Dream (Fr) (Lope de Vega {Ire}) (second in the G3 Prix de la Grotte, {GB}) half-sister to Tasleet (GB) (Showcasing {GB}) [80]. "She'll i115,000 yrl >16 ARAAUG) and Alhadab (Fr) ( {GB}) be for July onwards but she has loads of talent and the heart of (second in the G3 Prix Noailles, i180,000 yrl >16 ARAAUG). a lion," he said. We regret the error. The same will doubtless be required of consignors and buyers alike, in setting their reserves and limits respectively. As ever, that is going to raise a conundrum or two. Cullinan's draft FIRST-SEASON SIRES appeared to be in conspicuous demand during the post-breeze inspections; nearly all, it appears, had indeed been on their "A" WITH RUNNERS game. One or two other respected consignors, in contrast, had been disappointed by horses they rate very highly. The times, moreover, were evidently pointing towards one or Tuesday, Apr. 17, 2018: two lots with relatively unglamorous pages. If nothing else, then, we will find out afresh quite how credible are all those protests FRANCE: about the stopwatch only being one factor among many; Sommerabend (GB) (Shamardal), Haras de Saint Arnoult whether buyers are still capable of taking a leap of faith with the 42 foals of racing age/0 winners/0 black-type winners instincts of a trusted consignor. 3-MAIS-LAFFITTE, 1000m, TI CRUISE (FR) i10,000 Arqana December Breeding Stock Sale 2016 - English Version THERE IS A MORE DISCERNING MARKET OUT THERE NOW, I BELIEVE. UNITED KINGDOM: Gregorian (Ire) (Clodovil {Ire}), National Stud PEOPLE TAKE THE OVERALL 85 foals of racing age/0 winners/0 black-type winners PACKAGE INTO ACCOUNT. 15:00-NEWMARKET, 5f, ALOYSIUS LILIUS (IRE) i46,000 Goffs Sportsman's Yearling Sale 2017 John Cullinan Olympic Glory (Ire) (Choisir {Aus}), Haras de Bouquetot 119 foals of racing age/0 winners/0 black-type winners 15:00-NEWMARKET, 5f, YNYS MON (IRE) i26,000 Goffs November Foals Sale 2016; 85,000gns Tattersalls "The clock is a big part of this game, there's no point denying October Yearling Sale 2017 - Book 1 it," Cullinan said. "However it's only one part of the jigsaw, and I think it's probably doing a disservice to the buyers to pigeonhole them all that way. Yes, the fast horses are going to make the money. But there's a lot more trade done below that, so you'll have guys like Alan King and Anthony Bromley coming here looking for a nice dual-purpose horse. First and second in the 2016 St Leger were breeze-up horses. There is a more discerning market out there now, I believe. People take the overall package into account.@ "Say a horse didn't handle the ground, or there's greenness, or jockey stage fright. These things can happen. Your opinion of the horse, before you come to the sale, is usually right--but they can't always deliver on the day. The thing is that when we sell yearlings, all we can say is that we like the horse on the lunge, his attitude, and so on. But we know so much more about these horses. So vendor input is very important, and your track record Olympic Glory seeks his first winner at Newmarket on Tuesday. of calling it right. That's the added value we're giving." Bronwen Healy TDN EUROPE/INTERNATIONAL • PAGE 7 OF 14 • THETDN.COM TUESDAY • 17 APRIL, 2018

2nd-LEO, i13,000, Cond, 4-16, 3yo, 9fT, 2:13.23, hy. KHALAAB (c, 3, Blame--Burooz {Ire}, by King=s Best), who started as the 9-2 joint-second favourite, was keen early behind Monday=s Results: the front trio. Sent up to tackle the long-time leader Sir Erec (Ire) HERITAGE S.-Listed, i45,000, LEO, 4-16, 4yo/up, 8fT, 1:55.99, hy. (Camelot {GB}) with a furlong remaining, the homebred dug in 1--ON THE GO AGAIN (IRE), 131, g, 5, Arakan--Lady Bolino (Ire), to register a short-head success. The dam, who was bred to by King=s Theatre (Ire). Animal Kingdom for 2018, is a half to two black-type winners 1ST BLACK-TYPE WIN. O/B-Larry Mulvany (IRE); T-Michael including the G2 Ribblesdale S. runner-up Nafisah (Ire) (Lahib), Mulvany; J-Gary Carroll. i26,550. Lifetime Record: 20-8-2-1, who herself produced the GSWs Hawaakom (Jazil) and Snaafy $223,992. (Kingmambo). She descends from the formidable Al Bahathri 2--Onenightidreamed (Ire), 131, g, 7, Footstepsinthesand ( {Fr}), the G1 Irish 1000 Guineas heroine who = (GB)--Pivotalia (Ire), by Pivotal (GB). (i14,000 Wlg >11 was later responsible for Shadwell s G1 2000 Guineas and G1 Champion S.-winning sire Haafhd (GB) (Alhaarth {Ire}). Lifetime GOFNOV; 24,000gns Ylg >12 TAOCT). O-New Pension Fund Record: 1-1-0-0, $9,877. Video, sponsored by Fasig-Tipton. Syndicate. i8,550. O-Sheikh Hamdan bin Rashid Al Maktoum; B-Shadwell Farm, LLC 3--Brendan Brackan (Ire), 134, g, 9, Big Bad Bob (Ire)--Abeyr (KY); T-Dermot Weld. (GB), by Unfuwain. (i4,000 RNA Ylg >10 TATFLT; 145,000gns HRA >14 TAJUL). O-David Spratt & Sean Jones. i4,050. Margins: 3 1/4, HF, 1 3/4. Odds: 4.00, 3.00, 3.30. Also Ran: Tandem (GB), Pincheck (Ire), Texas Rock (Ire), Spanish ADDITIONAL MAIDEN WINNER: Tenor (Ire). Raintree (Ire), f, 3, Casamento (Ire)--Snowy Peak (GB), by Fresh from a spell over hurdles this winter, On the Go Again Pivotal (GB). LEO, 4-16, 7fT, 1:47.55. B-Denis Noonan (IRE). had captured the Irish Lincolnshire H. over this trip at Naas Mar. *i15,000 Ylg >16 GOFSPT. 25 prior to finishing a respectable fourth under topweight in a similar contest at Cork six days later. Settled towards the rear early, he was initially stopped in his run behind rivals in the IRISH GSSSA FINALISTS ANNOUNCED straight but once in space on the outer picked up to swamp A total of 24 finalists for eight of the 10 categories for the Irish Onenightidreamed and register a first black-type success with Godolphin Stud and Stable Staff Awards were selected from real authority. The dam, who is a daughter of the Listed Victor almost 350 nominations, Horse Racing Ireland announced on McCalmont Memorial S. winner Bolino Star (Ire) (Stalker {GB}), Monday. Each winner will receive a trophy and €5,000, except also has a yearling colt by Notnowcato (GB). Click for the Racing for the Newcomer Award, who instead will be gifted a trip to = Post result. Video, sponsored by Fasig-Tipton. Dubai and €2,500, while the winner s yard, stud or company will each receive a cash prize. The Racecourse Award will be chosen by the Irish Stablestaff Association based on a quality 1st-LEO, i16,000, Mdn, 4-16, 3yo, 10fT, 2:26.01, hy. programme survey of all stable staff across all Irish racecourses. JAEGA (IRE) (f, 3, Fastnet Rock {Aus}--Farranjordan {GB}, by The 24 finalists for the eight awards are: Racing & Breeding Galileo {Ire}), sent off the 3-1 favourite, travelled sweetly in Support Services (Martin Leahy, Sharon O=Regan, Martin >Snowy= second throughout the early stages. Taking command passing Pearce); Administration Award (Gillian Carey, Denis Hickey, Vicki the two-furlong pole, the homebred drew away to record an McWey); Newcomer Award (Georgie Benson, Joanne Eaton, authoritative 6 1/2-length length defeat of Samasthiti (Ire) Charlie Sweeney); Horse Care Award (Emma Connolly, Mary (Camelot {GB}), who edged out Ballydoyle=s Magic Wand (Ire) Nugent, Sinead O=Sullivan); In The Saddle Award (Audrey O=Neill, (Galileo {Ire}), the half-sister to the G1 Irish Oaks heroine James Rath, Josep Sans Sanchez); Travelling Head Person Award Chicquita (Ire) (Montjeu {Ire}), by a nose. Farranjordan, who has (Tina Evans, Jason Forsyth, Camilla Sharples); Leads by Example a 2-year-old colt by Lope de Vega (Ire) named Aced It (Ire) and a Award (Tom Daly, Valerie Keatley, Stephen Thorne); and yearling full-brother to the winner, is an unraced half-sister to Dedication to Racing & Breeding Award (Pat Farrell, Eamonn the SW and GSP Coquet (GB) (Sir Percy {GB}) who hails from the Leigh, Tommy Ryan). family of One So Wonderful (GB) () The winner of the Irish Racing Excellence Award--who will and (GB) (). Lifetime Record: 1-1-0-0, receive a trophy and €5,000, plus €5,000 for their yard, stud or $12,152. Video, sponsored by Fasig-Tipton. employer-- will be presented to one of the winners of the above O-Newtown Anner Stud Farm Ltd; B-Newtown Anner Stud (IRE); categories barring Racing & Breeding Support Services and the T-Dermot Weld. Newcomer Award. Cont. p8 TDN EUROPE/INTERNATIONAL • PAGE 8 OF 14 • THETDN.COM TUESDAY • 17 APRIL, 2018

Irish GSSSA Cont. Monday=s Results: AThe contribution from stud and stable staff to the success of 2nd-WSR, ,5,800, Cond, 4-16, 2yo, 5f 21yT, 1:05.33, hy. the Thoroughbred industry in Ireland plays a vital role in BLOWN BY WIND (GB) (c, 2, Invincible Spirit {Ire}--Discourse fonfirming Ireland=s global reputation,@ said Godolphin=s {GSW-Eng}, by Street Cry {Ire}) broke well from the inside gate Charities Strategic Advisor Diana Cooper. AAll 24 finalists are and raced prominently in a share of second from the outset of fitting examples of Irish racing excellence and Godolphin is this first go. Rowed along passing the quarter-mile marker, the delighted to sponsor these awards and recognise and reward 2-1 favourite quickened to challenge approaching the final their inspirational work ethic and dedication.@ furlong and powered clear in the closing stages to prevail by 3 1/2 lengths from Awake In Asia (GB) (Dragon Pulse {Ire}). AHe=s a big, strong, powerful colt for his age and I was very pleased with him,@ said rider James Doyle. AHe got a bit fractious in the gate before settling down and everything else he did was great. He jumped nicely, he knew his job and that will put him together Tuesday, Newmarket, post time: 4.45 p.m. nicely.@ The bay becomes the third scorer from as many foals to BET365 FEILDEN S.-Listed, ,40,000, 3yo, 9fT race for G3 Sweet Solera S. heroine Discourse (Street Cry {Ire}) SC PP HORSE SIRE JOCKEY TRAINER WT and he is a half-brother to Listed Montrose Fillies= S. victress 1 8 Stage Magic (Ire) Dark Angel (Ire) Buick Appleby 131 Hadith (Ire) (New Approach {Ire}), Listed Grosser Preis der 2 5 Kew Gardens (Ire) Galileo (Ire) Moore A O'Brien 129 Metallbau Burckhardt winner Discursus (GB) (Dubawi {Ire}) and 3 7 Arbalet (Ire) Dark Angel (Ire) Crowley Palmer 126 a yearling filly by Dubawi (Ire). Discourse is herself a half to GI 4 2 Dark Acclaim (Ire) Dark Angel (Ire) Atzeni Botti 129 Toyota Blue Grass S.-winning sire Bandini (Fusaichi Pegasus) out 5 3 Fortune's Pearl (Ire) Harbour Watch (Ire) Murphy Balding 126 of a half-sister to sires Stormy Atlantic (Storm Cat) and Mr. 6 4 Mildenberger (GB) Teofilo (Ire) Doyle Johnston 126 Katowice (Katowice). Lifetime Record: 1-1-0-0, $5,342. Video, 7 6 Msayyan (Ire) Camelot (GB) Dettori Gosden 126 8 1 New Show (Ire) New Approach (Ire) Eaves K Ryan 126 sponsored by Fasig-Tipton. 1ST-TIME STARTER. O-Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed Al Maktoum; B-Godolphin (GB); T-Mark Johnston.

3rd-WSR, ,5,800, Cond, 4-16, 3yo, 10fT, 2:18.42, hy. SEVENNA STAR (IRE) (c, 3, Redoute=s Choice {Aus}--Sevenna {Fr} {GSW-Eng}, by Galileo {Ire}), who hit the board in one-mile starts at Sandown on Sept. 20 and Nottingham last time on Oct. 11, was well away to lead from the outset and held sway throughout this sophomore bow. Nudged along with a quarter- mile remaining, the 8-11 chalk was safely clear at the furlong marker and easily extended his advantage in the latter stages to best King=s Proctor (Ire) (Cape Cross {Ire}) by a facile 14 lengths. AHe put in two solid performances last year, but he=s a lot stronger now,@ said winning rider Robert Havlin of the May 17 G2 Dante S. and June 2 G1 entry. AHis strength helped him get through the [heavy] ground today and he is Kew Gardens | Racing Post something to look forward to.@ The homebred bay is the fourth Kew Gardens returns to the scene of his success in the Listed scorer produced by G3 Lillie Langtry S. victress Sevenna (Fr) Zetland S. over 10 furlongs in October, having finished second in (Galileo {Ire}) and is a half-brother to G3 Prix de Royaumont the G3 Golden Fleece S. at Leopardstown and fourth in the G2 winner Savanne (Ire) (Rock of Gibraltar {Ire}), Listed Prix de Belle Beresford S. at Naas the previous month. Saddled with a three- Nuit victress Sassella (Ire) (Lope de Vega {Ire}) and Listed Grand pound penalty, he is closely matched on form lines with Prix Jockey Club winner Samurai (Ire) (Shamardal). Sevenna, Mildenberger who was third in the G2 Royal Lodge S. here in who has also produced a yearling filly by Lope de Vega (Ire), is a September. John Gosden, whose Roaring Lion (Kitten=s Joy) half-sister to MGSW G2 Schwarzgold-Rennen heroine Scatina captured the Royal Lodge, puts forward the Nottingham maiden (Ire) (Samum {Ger}). Lifetime Record: 3-1-1-1, $8,173. Video, winner Msayyan who is an intriguing Derby prospect at this sponsored by Fasig-Tipton. stage. O-Gestut Ammerland; B-Ammerland Verwaltung GmbH & Co KG (IRE); T-John Gosden. TDN EUROPE/INTERNATIONAL • PAGE 9 OF 14 • THETDN.COM TUESDAY • 17 APRIL, 2018

AL BASTI TO SPONSOR GREENHAM ADDITIONAL MAIDEN WINNERS: Al Basti Equiworld will sponsor the Apr. 21 G3 Greenham S. as Solitary Man (Fr), c, 3, Elusive City--Snow Valley (Fr), by Choisir part of its support of Greatwood, the Marlborough-based (Aus). MLN, 4-16, 8fT, 1:46.90. B-Erich Schmid (FR). *i20,000 charity that uses former racehorses to educate disadvantaged Ylg >16 AROCT. children and young adults with Special Educational Needs. The Royal Agent (Fr), c, 3, Kendargent (Fr)--Reverie Solitaire (Ire) opportunity arose after Greatwood=s charity day in early March (SW & MGSP-Fr, $125,894), by Nashwan. CHA, 4-15, 8fT, fell victim to the weather, and activities were transferred to 1:48.03. B-Haras d=Etreham (FR). *i175,000 Ylg >16 ARAUG. Newbury=s season-opening fixture. **1/2 to Royal Solitaire (Ire) (Shamardal), Hwt. Older Mare- Ger at 9 1/2-11f, GSW & G1SP-Ger, $143,924. Nouainville (Fr), f, 3, Rajsaman (Fr)--Jetfire (GB) (SW-Fr, $276,463), by American Post (GB). AUC, 4-15, 10fT, 2:06. B-Franklin Finance SA (FR). Monday=s Results: 3rd-CHY, i26,000, Cond, 4-16, 2yo, 5fT, 1:02.38, hy. IMOTEP (FR) (f, 2, Captain Marvelous {Ire}--Melivea {Fr}, by Green Tune), who unseated her rider in atrocious conditions OBSERVATIONS on the European racing scene when contesting a 4 1/2-furlong claimer at Saint-Cloud in her only prior start on Mar. 17, broke well and stalked the pace in second through halfway in this return. In command when rider 1.50 Newmarket, Mdn, ,10,000, 3yo, c/g, 7fT Coralie Pacault dropped her whip entering the final eighth, the AURUM (IRE) (Exceed and Excel {Aus}) is a half-brother to the 33-2 outsider nevertheless kept on strongly under mild coaxing G1 Middle Park S.-winning sire Amadeus Wolf (GB) (Mozart in the closing stages to easily account for Monette (Fr) (Cockney {Ire}) who represents the Charlie Appleby stable responsible for Rebel {Ire}) by four lengths. She is the only foal out of a winning the full-brother Rouleau (GB) who captured the G3 Sirenia S. half to Listed Prix Occitanie victress Alava (Ire) (Anabaa), who in three years ago. Among those with experience he encounters is turn is the dam of Listed Fleur de Lys third Home Cummins (Ire) Hissa Hamdan Al Maktoum=s Elhafei (Speightstown), a John (Rip Van Winkle {Ire}) and G3 Strensall S. and G3 Thoroughbred Gosden-trained 525,000gns TATOCT graduate from the Kirsten S. placegetter Forest Ranger (Ire) (Lawman {Fr}). Her three-time Rausing family of (GB) et al. stakes-placed second dam Cerita (Ire) (Wolfhound) is also the dam of Listed Prix Georges Trabaud runner-up Almageur (GB) 2.50 Maisons-Laffitte, Mdn, i25,000, 3yo, c/g, 7fT (Spectrum {Ire}), from a family featuring GI Personal Ensign H. VANBRUGH (First Defence) debuts for Khalid Abdullah and heroine Passing Shot (A.P. Indy). Lifetime Record: 2-1-0-0, Andre Fabre and is a half-brother to the stable=s former G1 Prix i13,000. Video, sponsored by Fasig-Tipton. Jean Romanet winner Announce (GB) (Selkirk). Also a half to the O/B/T-Mathieu Boutin (FR). G1 Poule d=Essai des Pouliches third Mexican Gold (Medaglia d=Oro), the homebred faces eight here. CONDITIONS RESULTS: 2nd-CHY, i28,000, Cond, 4-16, 4yo, 8fT, 1:41.01, vsf. NORMANDY SPIRIT (IRE) (c, 4, Myboycharlie {Ire}--L=Enjoleuse {Ire}, by Montjeu {Ire}) Lifetime Record: 8-2-2-0, i45,895. O-Ecurie Normandy Spirit & Ecurie des Monceaux; B-Ecurie des EUROPEAN-BRED WINNERS Monceaux (IRE); T-Freddy Head. *i220,000 Ylg >15 ARAUG. **1/2 to Charm Spirit (Ire) (Invincible Spirit {Ire}), MG1SW-Fr & G1SW-Eng, $1,875,092. IN UNITED STATES: Out of the Flames (GB), f, 3, Showcasing (GB)--Primo Lady (GB) 5th-CHY, i28,000, Cond, 4-16, 4yo, 9 1/2f (AWT), 1:57.78, st. (SW), by Lucky Story. Aqueduct, 4-15, Mizdirection S. ($100k), NONZA (FR) (f, 4, Zanzibari--Terra Alta {Fr}, by Kaldounevees 6fT, 1:08.50. B-Mr Gary Hodson & Mr Peter Moule (GB). {Fr}) Lifetime Record: 5-3-1-1, i45,020. O/B-Mme Antonia *30,000gns RNA Wlg >15 TATFOA; 37,000gns Ylg >16 TAOCT; Devin (FR); T-Henri-Francois Devin. £190,000 2yo >17 GOFBRE. **GSP-Eng. TDN EUROPE/INTERNATIONAL • PAGE 10 OF 14 • THETDN.COM TUESDAY • 17 APRIL, 2018

Euro-Bred Winners Cont.

Uni (GB), f, 4, More Than Ready--Unaided (GB), by Dansili (GB). Aqueduct, 4-14, Plenty of Grace S. ($98k), 1mT, 1:33.42. B-Haras d=Etreham (GB). *GSW & GISP. **€40,000 Ylg >15 ARAUG. PEDIGREE INSIGHTS: EPOCA D=ORO By Andrew Caulfield Japan's lengthy quest to win the Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe for = Sistercharlie (Ire), f, 4, Myboycharlie (Ire)--Starlet s Sister (Ire), the first time has been punctuated by a variety of near misses, by Galileo (Ire). Keeneland, 4-14, GI Coolmore Jenny Wiley S. controversies and hard-luck stories. (Jpn)'s bold ($350k), 1 1/16mT, 1:41.41. B-Ecurie Des Monceaux (Ire). front-running effort looked as if it was going to bear fruit when > *€12,000 Ylg 15 ARQ15. he was three lengths clear with only 300 metres left to race in 1999, but Montjeu (Ire) emerged from the pack to snatch Red Dane (Ity), f, 4, Red Rocks (Ire)--Lady Rangali (Ire) (SP, victory by half a length. $328,545), by Danehill Dancer (Ire). Keeneland, 4-15, Alw. NW1X ($65,920), 1m(off turf), 1:38.07. B-Centro Equino Arcadia Srl (Ity). Sun Lover (GB), g, 5, Oasis Dream (GB)--Come Touch the Sun (Ire), by Fusaichi Pegasus. Keeneland, 4-14, Alw. NW1X ($65,864), 1mT, 1:37.20. B-Lofts Hall Stud, B. Sangster & St Albans (GB).

IN JAPAN: Matenro Ghost (Ire), h, 5, Galileo (Ire)--Latin Love (Ire) (SW & GSP-Ire, GSP-US, $211,528) by Danehill Dancer (Ire). Hanshin, 4-14, Alw, 9fT. Lifetime Record: 10-3-3-1, $472,804. O-Chiyono Terada; B-Nobutaka Tada; T-Mitsumasa Nakauchida. *$340,000 Wlg >13 KEENOV; $350,000 Ylg >14 KEESEP. Tanino Frankel, c, 3, Frankel (GB)-- (Jpn) (Ch. 2yo Filly, Older Horse & Horse of the Year-Jpn, MG1SW-Jpn, at the 2006 Arc | Scoop Dyga $13,147,826), by Tanino Gimlet (Jpn). Hanshin, 4-15, Alw, 10fT. Lifetime Record: 7-2-1-2, $242,523. O-Yuzo Tanimizu; Seven years later the legion of fans who travelled to B-Yuzo Tanimizu; T-Katsuhiko Sumii Longchamp to support Deep Impact (Jpn) put so much money on the Japanese superstar that his odds tumbled to 2-1-on on the pari-mutuel. He too was run out of it in the closing stages after WINNERS BY EUROPEAN SIRES leading entering the final 400 metres and was beaten three-quarters of a length. It was just as well that Deep Impact did not win, though, as he was later disqualified from third place IN JAPAN: after a banned substance was found in his post-race sample. Tower of London (Jpn), c, 3, Raven=s Pass--Snow Pine (GB), by (Jpn)'s second to Derby winner Workforce Dalakhani (Ire). Hanshin, 4-14, Alw, 8fT. Lifetime Record: (GB) in the 2010 Arc was another near miss but it wasn't nearly 6-4-1-1, $1,165,701. O-Godolphin; B-Darley Japan Farm; as controversial as the defeat of Orfevre (Jpn) ( {Jpn}) T-Kazuo Fujisawa. two years later. Orfevre started favourite, having warmed up with a victory in the G2 Prix Foy, and the 4-year-old seemed destined to become Japan's first Arc winner as he swept majestically up the outside of the field. Cont. p11 TDN EUROPE/INTERNATIONAL • PAGE 11 OF 14 • THETDN.COM TUESDAY • 17 APRIL, 2018

His career figures stood at 12 wins, six seconds and a third from 21 starts. One of his two unplaced efforts was a lack-lustre display in the G1 (Spring) over two miles, but this Epoca d=Oro Cont. defeat can't be blamed on the distance, as Orfevre had won the Unfortunately, the 2011 Japanese Triple Crown Kikuka Sho, the Japanese St Leger, over a distance only a furlong winner's forward momentum was compromised shorter. The other unplaced effort came on his first attempt at when he started to idle and hang right. Although graded level as a 2-year-old, but he could be forgiven that reacted quickly in his efforts setback as he was a May 14 foal with a middle-distance to straighten Orfevre, the powerful son of Stay pedigree. Gold hung right across the entire field. He finally hit the rails just Orfevre has the distinction of being one of only seven before the winning post and seized victory by a neck. Japanese Triple Crown winners and the only one since Deep No one doubted that Orfevre was the best horse in the race, Impact in 2005. This inevitably raises the question of whether especially as he had been drawn 18 of 18. Orfevre was likely to emulate Deep Impact's extraordinary success when he joined Deep Impact as part of the Shadai team. There were several reasons for optimism. Whereas Deep Impact is a son of , Orfevre is a grandson, sired by Sunday Silence's son Stay Gold. This very durable performer was at his most successful as a 7-year-old, when he narrowly defeated Fantastic Light in the G2 Sheema Classic and Ekraar in the G1 Hong Kong Vase. Retired to the Big Red Farm, Stay Gold played a major role in Japan's quest for that elusive Arc victory, as he was responsible for Nakayama Festa in addition to Orfevre. He also went quite close to siring a second Japanese Triple Crown winner, with the enigmatic (Jpn) taking the first and final legs in 2012, but he was beaten a length and a half in the Derby. Gold Ship Orfevre (left) is beaten by Solemia in the 2012 Arc went on to further Group 1 successes at the ages of four, five after ducking badly | Scoop Dyga and six, winning at up to two miles. Gold Ship also emulated Could anything have made the difference between defeat and Orfevre's win in the G1 , as had Orfevre's older victory for Orfevre? One commentator couldn't understand why brother Dream Journey (Jpn). Dream Journey had also taken Orfevre had not raced in a hood. After all, trainer Yasutoshi Ikee Japan's top juvenile prize, the G1 Asahi Hai Futurity, as well as had considered it necessary for Orfevre to wear a hood the Japanese 2,000 Guineas. throughout the preliminaries, until just before he entered the Cont. p12 stalls. We can only speculate about whether a hood would have made it easier for Soumillon to keep Orfevre on a straight line. I EPOCA D=ORO (JPN), c, 3 was also left wondering whether Kenichi Ikezoe's greater Lifetime Record: 5-3-1-1, $1,622,751. knowledge of the colt, gained from riding Orfevre to so many Sunday Silence Wishing Well victories, would have proved more valuable than Soumillon's Stay Gold (Jpn) Golden Sash Dictus (Fr) greater knowledge of the Longchamp track. (Jpn) Dyna Sash (Jpn) Orfevre (Jpn) Of course, Orfevre returned to Longchamp for another Mejiro Mejiro Titan (Jpn) attempt in 2013 and again started favourite following an Oriental Art McQueen (Jpn) Mejiro Aurola (Jpn) (Jpn) impressive display in the Prix Foy. And he again finished second Electro Art (Jpn) Grandma Stevens but this time no excuses were needed--he simply came up Raise a Native Mr. Prospector against a better horse on the day in (Fr) at her brilliant Gold Digger Daiwa Forty Niner best. Tom Rolfe Passion (Jpn) File It was a measure of Orfevre's talent that he returned to Japan MSW-Jpn, 17-4- Continue 0-1, $869,344 Sun Rouge (Jpn) Shady Heights (GB) to win the G1 Arima Kinen for a second time, this time by eight 6Fls, 3Wnrs, (GB) 1G1SW 13Fls, 6Wnrs, Vaguely (GB) lengths, and only the mares Treve and Black Caviar (Aus) were 1SW Tikanova Northern Dancer rated above him on the 2013 World's Best Racehorse Rankings. 5Fls, 3Wnrs, 1GSW Cairn Rouge (Ire) TDN EUROPE/INTERNATIONAL • PAGE 12 OF 14 • THETDN.COM TUESDAY • 17 APRIL, 2018

Pedigree Insights Cont. A first crop containing the 2000 Guineas winner and the 1000 Remarkably, Orfevre, Dream Journey and Gold Ship all share Guineas runner-up has to be considered a golden start for a the same broodmare sire, Mejiro McQueen (Jpn), as does Stay stallion whose name translates as goldsmith. The golden theme Gold's Japanese Group 2 winner Fateful War (Jpn). Mejiro continues in the bottom half of Epoca d'Oro's name as his McQueen may be an unfamiliar name outside Japan but he was broodmare sire is Mr. Prospector's son Forty Niner, named after a top stayer, winning the Japanese St Leger and two editions of the people who joined the California gold rush in 1849. the Tenno Sho (Spring) over two miles. With and Orfevre both enjoying first-crop classic In other words, Orfevre has plenty of stamina in his success, as did Rulership in 2017, it is also beginning to look as background. Indeed he is the type of stallion that many though Japanese breeding also has a golden future, even though European breeders would dismiss out of hand, but the same Deep Impact is now 16 years old. could have been said of Deep Impact, who won at up to two Epoca d'Oro is now a winner of three of his five starts. miles. Now top European breeders and buyers are highly eager Although his dam Daiwa Passion (Jpn) was a speedy mare who to breed to Deep Impact or buy his stock. gained her stakes wins over six and seven furlongs, the Orfevre Deep Impact became Japan's leading first-crop sire of 2010. colt has good prospects of staying the mile and a half of the G1 Although Orfevre failed to match him when his first 2-year-olds Tokyo Yushun, the Japanese Derby. Forty Niner stayed well raced last year, there was no disgrace in finishing third behind enough to win the GI Travers S. over a mile and a quarter and two very fast horses, Lord Kanaloa (Jpn) and the ex-American Epoca d'Oro's second dam was sired by Shady Heights, a Shirley Henny Hughes [with his first crop since being expatriated to Heights colt who won York's G1 International S. over an Japan], who are better qualified than Orfevre to sire precocious extended mile and a quarter. Third dam Tikanova was sired by 2-year-olds. He still showed plenty of promise; his daughter Northern Dancer from Cairn Rouge, winner of the G1 Irish 1000 Rock The Town (Jpn), helped by having a dam by Storm Cat, a Guineas and G1 Champion S. multiple champion sire of juveniles, won the G3 Sapporo Nisai S. If Orfevre can build on this very bright start, it's a certainty that in September and then his excellent daughter (Jpn) his 2019 fee will be much more than this year's -5,000,000 won the G3 Artemis S. in October and the G1 Hanshin Juvenile (i37,690/^32533), which is an eighth of the price charged for Fillies in December. Lucky Lilac's dam Lilacs And Lace had won Deep Impact. the GI Ashland S. over 1 1/16 miles in the U.S.

STREET CRY MARE TOPS DAY 2 AT INGLIS The action continued at the Inglis Australian Broodmare and Weanling Sale on Monday where attention turned to breeding stock, and it was a mare by Street Cry (Ire) that topped proceedings when selling to George Altomonte of Corumbene Stud for A$300,000. Ghenwaa (Aus) was offered as lot 227 and was one of 176 lots to change hands during the session from 222 offered (79%). Aggregate at the close of business amounted to A$6,088,000, which is down 11% on last year=s session despite more horses being offered and sold. Consequently, both the average and median also suffered, coming in at A$34,591 Epoca d=Oro | Horsephotos (-19%) and A$20,000 (-13%), respectively. Cumulatively, after two days of selling the gross sits at Lucky Lilac extended her unbeaten sequence to four prior to A$9,684,300 for an average of A$31,039 and a clearance rate of contesting the G1 Oka Sho, Japan's equivalent to the 1000 85%. Guineas. She started odds-on but suffered her first defeat, at The sale topper was offered by Yarraman Park Stud in foal to the hands of Lord Kanaloa's daughter Almond Eye (Jpn). Orfevre Sebring (Aus), and appropriately the successful purchaser gained ample compensation two days ago when his progressive Altomonte also bred the G1 Golden Slipper-winning sire. son Epoca d'Oro (Jpn) won the 2000 Guineas equivalent--the Ghenwaa is carrying her first pregnancy and as a dual-winning 10-furlong G1 --by two lengths from the Rulership half-sister to stakes winner Haybah (Aus) (More Than Ready), (Jpn) colt Sans Rival (Jpn). her credentials were sound. Cont. p13 TDN EUROPE/INTERNATIONAL • PAGE 13 OF 14 • THETDN.COM TUESDAY • 17 APRIL, 2018

Street Cry Mare Tops Inglis Day 2 Cont. Two-hundred forty one mares are catalogued for the final day AShe=s a lovely mare,@ Altomonte said. AShe=s a Street Cry, of the Australian Broodmare and Weanling Sale on Tuesday, been well-mated, I think she=s a good buy. She checks out pretty which commences at 10 a.m. local time. well and we=re thrilled to be adding her to our broodmare band. China Horse Club was also adding to its elite broodmare band and among its purchases were lot 328, Namurian Sunset (Ire) (Thousand Words {GB}), who cost A$160,000 with a Dundeel (NZ) colt at foot and barren after being covered by All Too Hard, and also lot 368, Perfect Persuasion (Aus) (Encosta De Lago

{Aus}) in foal to No Nay Never, who was the day=s second highest lot at A$250,000. Born in 2004, Perfect Persuasion is a full-sister to the champion filly and MG1SW Alinghi (Aus), and has already produced two stakes performers herself in Papillon Inglis Australian Broodmare and Weanling Sale (Aus) (Rock Of Gibraltar {Ire}) and Lady Sharapova (Aus) (Fastnet Rock {Aus}). SESSION TOTALS 2018 2017 $ Catalogued 244 202 Michael Wallace of China Horse Club already has a plan $ Number Offered 222 182 mapped out for the Coolmore-consigned mare and said, AShe is $ Number Sold 176 160 for Russian Revolution and has the proven Encosta De $ Not Sold 46 22 Lago/Snitzel cross that works really well,@ he said. $ Clearance Rate 79% 88% APhysically, she matches up really well and has equally put $ No. A$500K+ 0 1 down great types and she is a sister to a champion filly and she $ High Price A$300,000 A$500,000 $ Gross A$6,088,000 A$6,860,500 should suit [Russian Revolution] and we are excited to get a $ Average (% change) A$34,591 (-19%) A$42,878 mare like her for such a high quality sire prospect.@ $ Median (% change) A$20,000 (-13%) A$23,000

SESSION TOPPERS

Inglis Australian Broodmare and Weanling Sale Day Two Top Lots

Lot Name Status Price (A$) 227 Ghenwaa (Aus) i/f Sebring (Aus) 300,000 (m, 5, Street Cry {Ire}--Suktah {Aus}, by Exceed And Excel {Aus}) Consigned by Yarraman Park Stud Purchased by Corumbene Stud

Trainer John O=Shea and Michael Wallace 368 Perfect Persuasion (Aus) i/f No Nay Never 250,000 at the Easter sale | SDP Media (m, 14, Encosta De Lago {Aus}--Oceanfact {Aus}, Leading buyer of the day was Matthew Sandblom=s Kingstar by Monde Bleue {GB}) Farm, which purchased 10 lots including lot 356, Pampurr (Aus) (A$2,600,000 yrl >06 INGAPR) (Tale Of The Cat), for A$90,000 from Coolmore Stud. The farm=s Consigned by Coolmore Stud Sandblom explained he was buying to support Kingstar=s own Purchased by China Horse Club stallions, which include Lord Of The Sky (Aus) and Bull Point (Aus), as well as Newgate=s Russian Revolution, which he has a 239 Heart Of Thrills (Aus) i/f Extreme Choice (Aus) 200,000 share in. AWe=ve got a couple of stallions to launch this year, (m, 5, Show A Heart {Aus}--Lady Thrills {Aus}, by Danewin {Aus}) Sandblom said. AWe need to support our own stallions so we=re (A$15,000 b=mare >17 INGJUN; A$36,000 RNA b=mare here shopping around. I think the value was pretty good. We >17 MGLJUN) dipped in and quite a few fell our way.@ Consigned by Newgate Farm Purchased by S Morley TDN EUROPE/INTERNATIONAL • PAGE 14 OF 14 • THETDN.COM TUESDAY • 17 APRIL, 2018

Inglis Toppers Cont. Added Thompson, AZoustar has started in spectacular fashion, in fact he is ahead of where Northern Meteor was at the same 315 Miss Beals (NZ) i/f Star Turn (Aus) 180,000 stage with his first crop. He looks every inch the heir to his late (m, 6, Savabeel {Aus}--Dancing Mistress {Aus}, by Masterclass) champion sire. Attitude, constitution, class and scope are terms (NZ$170,000 yrl >17 NWZJAN) that have been regularly used in reference to his progeny and Consigned by Vinery Stud the exciting thing is, like their sire, they=ll improve further at Purchased by Sheamus Mills Bloodstock three.@

328 Namurian Sunset (Ire) Barren 160,000 (m, 7, Thousand Words {GB}--Sombreffe {Aus}, by Polish Precedent) (60,000 gns HRA >14 TAJJUL) Widden Stud 2018 Roster & Fees Consigned by Tyreel Stud Stallion Fee (A$) Purchased by China Horse Club Sebring (Aus) (More Than Ready) $66,000 Zoustar (Aus) (Northern Meteor {Aus}) +$60,500 WIDDEN ANNOUNCES 2018 ROSTER Star Witness (Aus) (Starcraft {NZ}) $33,000 Nicconi (Aus) (Bianconi) +$24,750 G1 Golden Slipper hero and veteran sire Sebring (Aus) (More Your Song (Aus) (Fastnet Rock {Aus}) $22,000 Than Ready) tops the Widden Stud roster for 2018 and will Shamus Award (Aus) (Snitzel {Aus}) $11,000 command A$66,000 on the back of a pair of Group 1 winners in Stratum Star (Aus) (Stratum {Aus}) $11,000 Egg Tart (Aus) and Lucky Bubbles (Aus). He is joined by Zoustar Outreach (Aus) (Exceed And Excel {Aus}) $7,700 (Aus) (Northern Meteor {Aus}), who sits on top of the first- (all fees are inclusive of GST) season sire table by earnings, mainly thanks to MGSW and + indicates fee rise. Golden Slipper third Sunlight (Aus) and sees his fee jump up to A$60,500 from A$44,000. MGISW Nicconi (Aus) (Bianconi) also had his fee hiked to A$24,750, with four stakes winners this season, including Group 3 scorer State Solicitor (Aus). AUSTRALIAN-BRED WINNERS

IN JAPAN: Fiano Romano (Aus), c, 4, Fastnet Rock (Aus)--Heart Ashley (MGSW-US, $395,896), by Lion Heart. Nakayama, 4-15, Shunkyo S., 8fT. Lifetime Record: 7-4-0-0, $490,260. O-Kazumi Yoshida; B-Kia Ora Stud; T-Tomokazu Takano. *Full to Ameristralia (Aus) GSP-Aus, $103,115. **A$250,000 Ylg >16 INGAPR.

AUSTRALIAN GROUP 1 RACES B 2017/2018 Date Race Track

Apr. 21 All Aged S. Randwick Sebring | Widden Stud Champagne S. Randwick Queen of the Turf S. Randwick May 5 Schweppes Oaks Morphettville ASebring has had a phenomenal last 12 months,@ Antony UBET Classic Morphettville Thompson reflected. AHaving sired some 42 Stakes Performers, May 12 Doomben 10,000 S. Doomben 17 Stakes Winners including two Group I winners in this period SA Derby Morphettville there was an expectation to increase fee given the ongoing May 19 Doomben Cup Doomben success of his progeny. He=s enjoyed a yearling average at both The Goodwood Morphettville major sales of over $240,000 with a top lot of $1.4 million so we May 26 Kingsford-Smith Cup Eagle Farm feel his fee maintained at $66,000 represents terrific value.@ SIRE LISTS Sponsored by

Leading Sires of 3YOs by Graded Stakes Winners for stallions standing in Europe through Sunday, Apr. 15 Earnings represent worldwide figures, stud fees listed are 2018 fees.

Rank Stallion BTW BTH GSW GSH G1SW G1SH Starters Wnrs Highest Earner Earnings 1 Siyouni (Fr) 2 7 1 5 -- -- 35 7 $90,189 $409,472 (2007) by Pivotal (GB) Stands: Haras de Bonneval Fr Fee: i75,000 Barkaa (Fr) 2 Thewayyouare 1 1 1 1 -- -- 22 5 $218,560 $295,023 (2005) by Kingmambo Stands: Haras de Corlay EUR (Dead) Thewayiam (Fr) 3 Frankel (GB) 2 2 1 2 -- -- 18 5 $64,200 $290,143 (2008) by Galileo (Ire) Stands: Banstead Manor Stud Eng Fee: ,175,000 Gidu (Ire) 4 Panis 1 4 1 4 -- -- 12 7 $66,483 $278,305 (1998) by Miswaki Stands: Haras des Faunes Fr Fee: i2,000 Princesschope (Fr) 5 Showcasing (GB) 2 2 1 1 -- -- 21 9 $114,520 $277,083 (2007) by Oasis Dream (GB) Stands: Whitsbury Manor Stud Eng Fee: ,35,000 Out of The Flames (GB) 6 Dabirsim (Fr) 1 2 1 1 -- -- 40 7 $48,968 $234,397 (2009) by Hat Trick (Jpn) Stands: Haras de Grandcamp Fr Fee: i30,000 Coeur de Beaute (Fr) 7 Dawn Approach (Ire) 1 1 1 1 -- -- 26 8 $50,445 $225,409 (2010) by New Approach (Ire) Stands: Kildangan Stud Ire Fee: i20,000 Fast Approach (Jpn) 8 Pedro the Great 1 1 1 1 -- -- 18 7 $90,000 $224,136 (2010) by Henrythenavigator Stands: Haras de la Haie Neuve Fr Fee: i6,000 Fatale Bere (Fr) 9 Iffraaj (GB) 1 2 1 1 -- -- 34 5 $48,968 $170,564 (2001) by Zafonic Stands: Dalham Hall Stud Eng Fee: ,40,000 Chilean (GB) 10 Manduro (Ger) 1 1 1 1 -- -- 24 5 $49,324 $161,050 (2002) by Monsun (Ger) Stands: Haras du Logis Fr Fee: i7,000 Pharrell (Fr) 11 Wootton Bassett (GB) 1 1 1 1 -- -- 17 5 $49,324 $128,102 (2008) by Iffraaj (GB) Stands: Haras d'Etreham Fr Fee: i20,000 Wootton (Fr) 12 Zoffany (Ire) 1 1 1 1 -- -- 30 4 $47,289 $121,852 (2008) by Dansili (GB) Stands: Coolmore Stud Ire Fee: i25,000 Who's Steph (Ire) 13 Workforce (GB) ------49 6 $74,630 $453,097 (2007) by King's Best Stands: Knockhouse Stud Ire Fee: i4,500 Masahaya Nice (Jpn) 14 Shamardal 1 1 -- 1 -- -- 27 7 $235,000 $401,276 (2002) by Giant's Causeway Stands: Kildangan Stud Ire Fee: Private Winter Lightning (Ire) 15 Camelot (GB) 2 3 -- 1 -- -- 38 13 $84,680 $360,971 (2009) by Montjeu (Ire) Stands: Coolmore Stud Ire Fee: i30,000 Mualah (Ire) FOR ALL TDN SIRE LISTSBINCLUDING INDIVIDUAL CROP-YEAR REPORTS--VISIT WWW.THETDN.COM/TDN-SIRE-STATS/ Contact us for competitive Foreign Exchange rates TATTERSALLS CRAVEN PINHOOK GUIDE BREEZE UP SALE - DAY 1 Lot Sex Pedigree Price Sale Buyer 1 c Moohaajim x Nectar Grey 35,000 SGASEP Con Marnane 2 c Moohaajim x Nellie Forbush 29,000 TATIRESEP Vendor 3 c Kodiac x New Atalanta 70,000 TATDECY Yeomanstown Stud 4 f Holy Roman Emperor x Nur Jahan 17,000 TATOCT2 Vendor 6 f Exceed And Excel x Pale Mimosa 100,000 TATOCT1 Mick Flanagan, Agent 7 c Heeraat x Piranha 100,000 GUKPRE A Duarte

8 c Street Sense x Please Sign In 200,000 KEESEP Margaret O’Toole Bloodstock Weatherbys FX: +44 (0) 1933 304849 [email protected] www.weatherbys.bank 9 c Kyllachy x Port Charlotte 52,000 TATOCT2 Con Marnane 13 c Zebedee x Pursestrings 33,000 TATIRESEP Cooper/O’Flynn 14 c Lope de Vega x Pussycat Lips 130,000 GOFSPO Church Farm 15 f Charm Spirit x Puzzled 32,000 TATIRESEP McCarthy/Orpen 16 f Toronado x Queenofthenorth 25,000 GOFORB Sherbourne Lodge 17 f Gregorian x River Song 11,000 GUKPRE M Aguiar 18 c Olympic Glory x Rolled Gold 28,000 ARQOCT Five Star BS 19 c Lope de Vega x Royal Fortune 60,000 ARQOCT M O’Toole 20 c Mukhadram Royal Whisper 40,000 TATDECY Willie Browne 21 f Alhebayeb x Rumuz 16,000 GOFSPO Rockview Stables 23 f Scat Daddy x Secret Charm 150,000 KEESEP Hunter Valley Farm 25 c Exceed And Excel x Sequined 100,000 GOFORB BBA (Ireland) 26 c Oasis Dream x Shaleela 45,000 GOFORB Kilronan (P.S.) 27 c Dark Angel x She’s A Worldie 55,000 GUKPRE Town Moor Racing 28 c Blame x She’s Smashing 27,000 KEESEP Global Equine Group 29 f Moohaajim x Shehira 7,000 TATIRESEP2 P Moyles 30 f Kodiac x Shifting 40,000 TATOCT3 Con Marnane 31 f Bellamy Road x Shooting Party 60,000 KEESEP Ahmad Aldowaisan 32 c Animal Kingdom x Sirmione 200,000 KEESEP Tally Ho Stud 34 f Teofilo x Sismix 57,000 ARQAUG J Brummitt 35 c Dutch Art x Sleek 55,000 TATOCT2 Margaret O’Toole (Ire) 36 c Exceed And Excel x So Secret 90,000 TATIRESEP Con Marnane 37 c Kingman x Soul of Houdini 90,000 TATOCT2 BBA Ireland 38 f Dark Angel x Speedy Sonata 160,000 ARQAUG Vendor 39 c Kodiac x Spinaminnie 150,000 GOFNOV Ennistown Stud 40 c Kitten’s Joy x Spirit Line 115,000 KEESEP Cavalier Bloodstock 41 f Kodiac x Sugarhoneybaby 85,000 TATOCT2 A C Elliott, Agent 42 f Declaration of War x Sunshine For Life 22,000 GOFORB J O’Reilly 43 f Bated Breath x Superfonic 27,000 TATIRESEP Larry Stratton 44 c Stormy Atlantic x Swanky Bubbles 72,000 KEESEP Grove Stud 45 f More Than Ready x Sweet Nothings 35,000 KEESEP Kildare Stud

Weatherbys FX: +44 (0) 1933 304849 [email protected] www.weatherbys.bank [email protected] 304849 1933 FX: +44 (0) Weatherbys 46 c Garswood x Sweet Wind Music 25,000 TATDECF Five Star Bloodstock

WeatherbysWeatherbys FX: FX +44+44 (0)(0) 19331933 304849304849 [email protected]@weatherby.co.uk www.weatherbys.bank www.weatherbys.bank Contact us for competitive Foreign Exchange rates TATTERSALLS CRAVEN PINHOOK GUIDE BREEZE UP SALE - DAY 1 Lot Sex Pedigree Price Sale Buyer 47 c Slade Power x Sylvan Mist 47,000 TATIRESEP Con Marnane 49 f Kodiac x Teodelight 45,000 TATOCT2 Grangebarry 50 c Slade Power x Thawrah 90,000 TATOCT1 Armando Duarte 51 f Acclamation x Thousandfold 55,000 GUKPRE M McDowall 52 c Gregorian x Tia Mia 16,000 GUKSIL Vereright 53 f Dark Angel Tiger Mist 72,000 GUKPRE Brown Island

54 f Scat Daddy x Tipping Point 130,000 KEESEP Yeomanstown Stud Weatherbys FX: +44 (0) 1933 304849 [email protected] www.weatherbys.bank 55 c Exchange Rate x Tiz My Time 125,000 KEESEP Margaret O’Toole Bloodstock 56 c Camelot x Trapeze 90,000 TATOCT1 John & Jake Warren 57 c Kodiac x Truly Magnificent 82,000 GOFORB Rita Masters 58 c Farhh x Turmalin 28,000 TATDECY BS Connection 59 f Flatter x Unbridled Empire 200,000 KEESEP Oliver St. Lawrence 60 f Charm Spirit x Urgele 27,000 GOFSPO Gerry Hogan BS 62 c Siyouni x Vermentina 57,000 ARQOCT T O’Mara 64 c Alhebayeb x Volcanic Lady 17,000 TATIRESEP Robson Aguiar (P.S.) 65 c Bernardini x Vole Vole Monamour 50,000 KEESEP Margaret O’Toole Bloodstock 66 c Scat Daddy x Wake Up Kiss 145,000 KEESEP Amy Marnane 67 f Exchange Rate x Wendy Wow 30,000 GOFORB Katie McGivern (PS) 69 c Dabirsim x Zenaat 100,000 BBAGS S A Roberts 70 c New Approach x Ahla Wasahl 100,000 TATOCT1 Vendor 71 c Scat Daddy x Alegendinmyownmind 270,000 KEESEP Robert Moss & John Egan 72 c Dabirsim x Allure 90,000 ARQAUG Vendor 73 f Kodiac x Araajmh 31,000 TATIRESEP Con Marnane 74 c Anodin x Aunt Julia 10,000 TATIRENOV Rochestown Lodge (P.S.) 75 c The Factor x B R’s Girl 45,000 KEESEP Global Equine Group 76 f Iffraaj x Balamana 20,000 TATOCT2 Vendor 77 c Olympic Glory x Basira 72,000 ARQAUG Church Farm 78 c Morpheus x Becuille 46,000 GOFNOV Tally Ho Stud 79 c Iffraaj x Bezique 100,000 TATOCT1 Vendor 80 f Coach House x Bird Key 68,000 GOFORB Church Farm 81 f Verrazano x Blue Sky High 55,000 KEENOV Canaan Creek Stables 82 c Showcasing x Breathe 35,000 GOFSPO J C BS 84 c Bated Breath x Burning Dawn 21,000 TATOCT2 Thomond O’Mara 85 c Acclamation x Campfire Glow 62,000 TATIRESEP Kilronan Stud

*information sourced from Weatherbys **Price is in currency of sale sold at Weatherbys FX: +44 (0) 1933 304849 [email protected] www.weatherbys.bank [email protected] 304849 1933 FX: +44 (0) Weatherbys

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