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DRF QUESTIONS RON’S RECORD HEADLINE ...p. 7 NEWS For information about TDN, DELIVERED EACH NIGHT BY FAX AND FREE BY E-MAIL TO SUBSCRIBERS OF call 732-747-8060. www.thoroughbreddailynews.com MONDAY, JULY 30, 2007 THIS STREET LEADS TO THE TRAVERS DARLING DARJINA He wasn’t dazzling, but he didn’t need to be. Making Following in the hoofprints of stable companion his first start since running second to Curlin in the GI Mandesha (Fr), Princess Zahra Aga Khan’s homebred Preakness S., Jim Tafel’s Street Sense (Street Cry {Ire}) Darjina (Fr) (Zamindar) bounced back from a Royal posted a professional Ascot defeat to claim a thrilling renewal of the G1 Prix 1 1/2-length win over d’Astarte at Deauville yesterday. The G1 Poule d’Essai a game C P West Pouliches (French 1000 Guineas) heroine wowed the (Came Home) in yester- crowd with her unrelenting will in the dying strides to day’s GII Jim Dandy S. outbattle fellow sophomores Missvinski (Stravinsky) at Saratoga. In tight and Simply Perfect (GB) (Danehill) for a half-length success and a second top-level score. Cont. p3 rounding the far turn, Street Sense was an- gled out by jockey Cal- IN SUMMATION TAKES TO THE POLY Waterford Stable’s In Summation (Put It Back) had vin Borel in upper shown himself to be a capable turf sprinter over the last stretch and outslugged year, but yesterday found a new surface to excel over, Borel and Street Sense C P West to the wire. Horsephotos rallying to win the GI Bing Crosby H. on Del Mar’s “It’s great to have him Polytrack. Cont. p4 back,” said Borel afterwards. “He needed this race. It’s really going to move him forward. He leveled off beauti- NINE LINE UP FOR THE AMSTERDAM fully.” The GI Kentucky Derby winner’s victory was the An evenly matched group of nine three-year-old colts perfect prep for his next target, the GI Travers S. at lines up for today’s feature at Saratoga, the 6 1/2-fur- Saratoga Aug. 25. “One down, three to go,” said long GII Amsterdam S. Making his stakes debut is the trainer Carl Nafzger, who has mapped out a course for former claimer Americanus (Yonaguska), who was Street Sense that includes the Travers, the GI Jockey haltered for $50,000 by Winning Move Stable and Gary Club Gold Cup Invitational at Belmont Sept. 30, and his Contessa out of a winning effort at Belmont in mid- ultimate target, the GI Breeders’ Cup Classic at May. Since then, he earned a 101 BRIS figure when Monmouth Park Oct. 27. Cont. p2 runner-up facing allowance foes June 9, then romped Click for the brisnet.com chart or the free brisnet.com against similar competition June 23. Cont. p8 catalogue-style pedigree. Video, sponsored by Taylor Made. Sunday, Saratoga JIM DANDY S.-GII, $500,000, SAR, 7-29, 3yo, 1 1/8m, 1:48 4/5, ft. 1--STREET SENSE, 123, c, 3, by Street Cry (Ire) 1st Dam: Bedazzle, by Dixieland Band 2nd Dam: Majestic Legend, by His Majesty 3rd Dam: Long Legend, by Reviewer O/B-James B Tafel (KY); T-Carl A Nafzger; J-Calvin H Borel; $300,000. Lifetime Record: Ch. 2yo Colt, MGISW, 10-5-3-2, $3,458,200. 2--C P West, 115, c, 3, Came Home--Queen's Legend, by Dynaformer. ($425,000 yrl '05 KEESEP). O-Robert V LaPenta; B-Caldara Farm (KY); T-Nicholas P Zito; $100,000. 3--Sightseeing, 121, c, 3, Pulpit--Resort, by Pleasant Colony. O-Phipps Stable; B-Ogden Mills Phipps (KY); T-Claude R McGaughey III; $50,000. Margins: 1HF, 3/4, 1HF. Odds: 0.35, 10.50, 8.40. Also Ran: Cowtown Cat, Flashstorm, Tiz Wonderful. www.overbrookfarm.com TDN P HEADLINE NEWS • 7/30/07 • PAGE 2 of 8 Jim Dandy Coverage cont. See You on the Flip Side... The Making of a Marquee Name... Kicking off the second half of his season here, Street Despite his good third-place finish to Great Hunter in Sense settled in a good position several lengths off the Keeneland’s GI Breeders’ Futurity, Street Sense was pace of longshot Flashstorm (Storm Cat) and C P West. flying beneath the radar when he entered the gate as a Borel had to play the waiting game while boxed in on 15-1 shot in the GI Breeders’ Cup Juvenile. But after the rail, but got his chance when daylight appeared in securing end-of-year honors with a dazzling 10-length upper stretch. Responding to Borel’s encouragement, romp in the Juvenile, Street Sense would become a Street Sense rallied wide and reeled in C P West before marquee name. He confirmed his two-year-old form edging clear in the final sixteenth as Borel blew kisses with strong efforts in the Mar. 17 GIII Tampa Bay to the crowd. “They got him in a trap and kept him Derby, which he won by a nostril over Any Given Satur- there, but he got out and he responded,” said trainer day, and a nose runner-up performance in the Apr. 14 Carl Nafzger. “I was concerned; you’re always con- GI Blue Grass S. at Keeneland. Favored in the May 5 GI cerned until you get out. You don’t know how much Kentucky Derby, Street Sense put in a sensational that can take out of your horse. Once he got out, he effort, rallying from the back of the pack under a rail- came on with his run. It was a good, solid prep to get skimming Borel ride to defeat Hard Spun by 2 1/4 him ready for the Travers.” Trainer Nick Zito was lengths. It looked as if he had the May 19 GI Preakness pleased with C P West’s effort. “I'm excited. He ran S. in the bag, too, as he forged to the front in the second to a champion. We never stopped trying.” The stretch, but an ultra-game Curlin came on again in the previously undefeated Tiz Wonderful (Tiznow), dying strides to dash any Triple Crown dreams for Stonestreet’s dual graded winner who was returning Team Street Sense. from injury, pressed the pace while wide before tiring badly down the lane and finishing last of six. IF IT’S NOVEMBER . IT’S TAYLOR MADE November sales deadline Wednesday, August 1 (859) 885-3345 • www.taylormadesales.com GI Bing Crosby H. In Summation (Put it Back) gets up. GII Jim Dandy S. Street Sense (Street Cry {Ire}) overhauls C P West (Came Home) in a professional victory. GIII Chinese Cultural Centre Seagram’s Cup S. Gouldings Green (Charismatic) successfully defends his title. Horsephotos The Only Sire with 3 Breeders’ Cup Winners in His First 3 Crops At Saratoga August 6 & 7 • Hips 11, 25, 46, 132 Pictured: Hip 25, colt o/o Impolite, by Two Punch Consignor: Gainesway, agent for Stonestreet AWESOME AGAIN Deputy Minister S Primal Force, by Blushing Groom Mike Recio • [email protected] • (800) 975-5641 cell (859) 221-1809 Jack Brothers • (877) 945-2020 • www.adenastallions.com TDN P HEADLINE NEWS • 7/30/07 • PAGE 3 of 8 Sunday, Deauville, France “She was a little fresh early on, but she settled very PRIX D’ASTARTE-G1, i300,000, Deauville, 7-29, well and quickened nicely to again show what a fighter 3yo/up, f/m, 1mT, 1:37.10, gd. she is,” explained winning trainer Alain de Royer-Dupre. 1--DARJINA (FR), 127, f, 3, by Zamindar “I think she stays really well as her dam was a nice 12- 1st Dam: Darinska (Ire) (GSP-Fr), by Zilzal furlong filly. She is in the G1 Prix Jacques le Marois [at 2nd Dam: Daralbayda (Ire), by Doyoun (Ire) Deauville Aug. 12], but I’m not sure about that race. 3rd Dam: Daralinsha, by Empery We will definitely consider the G1 Prix de l’Opera [at O/B-Princess Zahra Aga Khan; T-Alain de Longchamp Oct. 7] for her later on.” The winning rider Royer-Dupre; J-Thierry Thulliez; i142,850. Lifetime added, “It was nice to be called in to ride such a nice Record: G1SP-Eng, 5 starts, 4 wins, 1 place, filly. She was a little fresh early, but was fine once i468,007. under cover. Maybe she was in front a little too soon, 2--Missvinski, 127, f, 3, Stravinsky--Miss U Fran, by but I knew she would fight.” Brocco. ($8,000 wnlg ‘04 KEENOV; 36,000gns yrl ‘05 TATOCT). O-A J Smith; B-Ray Stark Irrevocable Rouget hints at Stateside for Missvinski... Trust;T-Jean-Claude Rouget; i57,150. Runner-up Missvinski, who also chased Darjina’s tail 3--Simply Perfect (GB), 127, f, 3, Danehill--Hotelgenie in the G3 Prix de la Grotte and G1 Coronation S., might Dot Com (GB), by Selkirk. (220,000gns yrl ‘05 be headed for a campaign in the United States, accord- TATOCT). O-Derrick Smith, Michael Tabor & Susan ing to trainer Jean-Claude Rouget. “I’m really pleased Magnier; B-Trehedyn Stud & Quarry Bloodstock; because that is her best race ever,” Rouget com- T-Jeremy Noseda; i28,575. mented. “We’ll have to see for the future as she won’t Margins: HF, HF, 1HF. Odds: 2.30, 16.00, 4.00. stay further than a mile. We’ll also have to decide Also Ran: Barshiba (Ire),Trip to the Moon (GB), Bal de la whether to stay in France or go to America.” Click for Rose (Ire), Mi Emma (Ger), Impressionnante (GB), the brisnet.com catalogue-style pedigree.