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Japanese Group Results HEADLINE p. 8-9 NEWS For information about TDN, DELIVERED EACH NIGHT BY FAX AND FREE BY E-MAIL TO SUBSCRIBERS OF call 732-747-8060. www.thoroughbreddailynews.com TUESDAY, MARCH 15, 2005 GETTING IT TOGETHER FOR BARRETTS Change of Luck... In the past, consignors and buyers had little time to Murray Smith had planned to sell a small consign- catch their breath between the Fasig-Tipton Calder Sale ment at Barretts last year, but had to withdraw at the and the Barretts March Sale of Selected Two-Year-Olds last minute. “I was at Fasig, and the exercise rider who in Training. The two were traditionally held just seven was scheduled to come out to Barretts got in trouble days apart, but the California calendar was changed and couldn’t make the trip,” she explained. “Then the this year, giving horsemen an extra week to get it to- groom who was supposed to go got hurt, so I ended up gether before heading west. With a full fortnight to with no help to come out. It was just three days before prepare, the players are now gathered for today’s we were supposed to ship March Sale at Fairplex Park in Pomona, and Barretts and I couldn’t swing it on President and General Manager Gerald McMahon is such short notice.” But Smith optimistic that the new schedule will be a hit. “I think is enjoying a change of for- the change in the calendar has really helped,” McMahon tune this year. Not only did said. “The fact that our sale is now two weeks after her five horses make the trip Fasig-Tipton, instead of just a week, gives everybody from Florida in good order, the chance to recharge. It’s cer- but they all performed well tainly easier on the national con- signors, who can concentrate on Smith and Hip 143 J Firios during the Mar. 6 preview. Fasig-Tipton, then collect them- Headlining the group was hip selves before our sale. They 143, a colt by Songandaprayer that smoked a quarter in don’t have to do it back-to- :20.60. “A couple of days [before the first under-tack show], I told a good friend that this was the fastest Barretts Pavilion Horsephotos back.” Consignor Murray Smith couldn’t agree more. “I love [the horse I’d ever had,” offered Smith. “She said, ‘That’s a change],” Smith said. “It is so much easier on us. We big statement, because you have fast horses.’ Before get to finish up at Fasig-Tipton, where so many people the preview, I was scared to death that I’d jinxed my- have some of their best horses, and then come out self, but afterwards she came up to me and said, here. I think it might have been hurting Barretts when ‘You’re right.’ He is the fastest horse I’ve ever had. the sales were so close together, because you can’t be He’s a man.” Smith is happy with the rest of the quin- in two places at once. But this is just great.” tet as well. “[Hip 143] is special, but I wouldn’t turn my On the Money... nose up at any of the others,” she said. “I have a pretty Adding a week between Fasig-Tipton and Barretts good group and I am tickled with the way everything won’t hurt the consignors’ pocketbooks, either. “Be- has worked out. The stars have really lined up--you fore, you had to have three teams--one home at the couldn’t ask for things to go better.” She added, farm, one for Calder and one to send to Barretts at the “When you ship from Ocala to California, you’d better same time,” Smith said. “It was crazy. Now Barretts bring a pretty good group, because it’s a long way to just conflicts with OBS March, but that’s in our own go to RNA. It’s a long trip home.” backyard, so the home team can work that sale.” De- Barretts March Preview cont. p2 laying the date also helped to avoid the heavy rains that have plagued Southern California this winter, but BARRETTS MARCH SALE OUTS McMahon is concerned that the extra time between the two sales could disrupt the travel plans of foreign in- 1 2 3 6 23 30 33 40 41 42 52 70 vestors. “I don’t know how it might impact the Japa- 73 76 79 83 84 87 90 98 99 101 103 106 110 nese buyers,” he said. “Historically, they go to the first 116 124 125 127 130 133 144 151 153 154 155 sale, then travel west on the same trip. That might 157 158 159 160 167 175 176 178 188 192 193 change with the extra week between the sales, but it’s 196 199 hard to judge.” www.barretts.com click here [email protected] www.juddmonte.com TDN P HEADLINE NEWS • 3/15/05 • PAGE 2 of 11 (Barretts Preview cont.) A Breath of Fresh Air... It’s a Wonder... One quarter of the 12-horse consignment that Becky Another highlight of the Murray Smith consignment is Thomas’ Sequel Bloodstock brings to Barretts this year hip 11, a filly by Wild Wonder out of Grannies Feather are by freshman sires. Headlining the trio is hip 8, a colt (At Full Feather). The gray is a full sis- by Horse of the Year Tiznow (Cee’s Tizzy) that was ter to Fusaichi Rock Star, who brought clocked in :10 during the first under-tack show. But the $825,000 at the 2004 Fasig-Tipton move was not typical of what Thomas has seen in the Calder sale and this year proved him- first crop by Tiznow. “The Tiznows don’t look like they self worthy of the price tag with a win have that early speed--they aren’t 5 1/2-furlong in the GII San Vicente S. But there is horses,” she said. “This colt is speedier than you’d another reason that this one is special expect, but he is still more of a to Smith. “I bought the dam at the distance type. He was not pre- Texas yearling sale in 1995 for cocious, not right away. He’s $11,500--she was the most expensive very, very laid back. I had to At Full Feather ever,” she recalled. train him to do what I wanted, “She was big and gorgeous, but with which was go fast.” But M Smith J Firios no pedigree. I sold her as a two-year- Thomas believes the sons and old for $25,000. She got hurt and daughters of the two-time ended up as a dressage horse. I think the story is that Breeders’ Cup Classic hero will Hip 8 J Firios the lady who owned her got pregnant, but didn’t want be worth the wait. “Obviously, to sell her because the horse was her pet. She con- I loved Tiznow as a racehorse and I have bred mares to tacted a friend, Joe Sankobich in Ocala, and he told her him,” she said. “It’s great that you can get to a horse he’d just gotten a free breeding season to Wild Wonder of that caliber for $30,000.” The Florida-based con- and to send the mare on over. A couple of years later, I signor is also pleased with what she has seen in the was at Joe’s looking at some horses and he showed me progeny of the top sprinter Five Star Day (Carson City), this filly, and I couldn’t believe it. I had to buy her. It’s sire of hip 181. “I love the Carson City-line stallions,” a neat story--everything comes full circle.” Thomas said. “They are just hard-knocking, hard-hitting horses. And, because of [hip 181], I booked two sea- 2005 Barretts Freshman Sires sons to Five Star Day this year, and I bought a mare in Stallion Sire Hip (s) foal to him. I really liked her from the git-go.” The Albert the Great Go for Gin 121 chestnut also dashed off a furlong in :10 flat at the first Aptitude A.P. Indy 21 Black Minnaloushe Storm Cat 7 preview. “She is very fast,” Thomas said. The trio of Brahms Danzig 77 first-crop lots is rounded out by the final two-year-old in Ecton Park Forty Niner 38 the catalogue, hip 202, a daughter of GII Del Mar Futu- El Corredor Mr. Greeley 152 rity winner Forest Camp (Deputy Minister). A May foal, Five Star Day Carson City 56 147 181 she went an eighth in :10.50 at the first under-tack Flame Thrower Saint Ballado 132 show and bettered that time by a tick Sunday. There is Forest Camp Deputy Minister 78 157 202 Minardi Boundary 88 another freshman that has caught Thomas’s eye, al- Point Given Thunder Gulch 46 58 163 168 though she doesn’t have a representative of his at Prime Timber Sultry Song 48 Barretts. “The two-year-olds by Songandaprayer have Songandaprayer Unbridled’s Song 97 143 162 189 worked well and sold well,” she said. “They definitely Tiznow Cee’s Tizzy 8 67 look early. He is worth watching.” TDN P HEADLINE NEWS • 3/15/05 • PAGE 3 of 11 (Barretts preview cont.) A Team Effort... Getting the Jump on the Competition... Capestro sells many of the horses in association with Paula Capestro started her horse trading days with Kathleen Schonefeld.

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