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SATURDAY, JUNE 2, 2018

LOOKIN' AT A DESERVED UNIQUE BELLA & PARADISE WOODS MEET AGAIN IN BEHOLDER MILE By Christie DeBernardis CHANGE OF LUCK Unique Bella (Tapit) bested MGISW Paradise Woods (Union Rags) by three-quarters of a length the first time they faced each other in the Dec. 26 GI La Brea S. at Santa Anita and the >TDN Rising Stars= meet again in Arcadia Saturday in the GI Beholder Mile. Unique Bella dominated the 3-year-old filly division in California last winter, romping in the GII Santa Ynez S., GII Las Virgenes S. and GIII Santa Ysabel S., after which she sidelined for seven months. Returning a winner in the GIII L.A. Woman S. in October, she finished a disappointing seventh as the favorite in the GI Breeders= Cup F/M Sprint, but rebounded with a win in the La Brea to earn the as the top female sprinter of 2017. Cont. p6

Lookin At Lucky | Coolmore photo IN TDN EUROPE TODAY by Chris McGrath FOREVER PUTS IT TOGETHER IN THE OAKS He bestrode a century--the American century, as it is often Forever Together breaks her maiden in the G1 Investec Oaks, making it the second British Classic win this year for called, and his was certainly a classic American story. Fred W. trainer Aidan O’Brien and son Donnacha. Hooper, Georgia farm boy, was born in 1897; and died, Click or tap here to go straight to TDN Europe. construction tycoon and member of the Club, at age 102 in 2000. In his youth, he tried his hand as a barber, prizefighter, schoolteacher, riveter and carpenter. He was getting somewhere as a potato farmer, until a blight wiped him out. Then he put together a labor crew, on borrowed money, to lay some road bases. In the process, he laid the foundation to a fortune made in highways, dams, bridges and airports. One of Hooper's earliest experiments, aged just 14, had been to bring mustangs from Montana to Georgia. He lassoed them in the wild, they kicked him with their forelegs--but he broke them one by one. That touch with a horse revived when, with his growing wealth, he started raising cattle on a 5,000-acre tract of Alabama. He had a half-bred so agile, in turning the cows, that they started running him in matches over half a mile. Touring the south-eastern fair circuit, he won 49 times in 55 starts. In 1943, Hooper decided to go into . He went to , and bought a Sir Gallahad colt for $10,200. Not a lot of flesh to him, as Hooper recalled, but a good walk and a smart eye. Named Hoop, Jr., he won the GI Derby by six lengths. Cont. p3 PUBLISHER & CEO Sue Morris Finley @suefinley [email protected]

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Fred Hooper at Saratoga | Horsephotos In fairness, Hooper had gone into the game like he meant it, spending good money for 20 yearlings in his first three years. But to win the with your very first has inevitably been celebrated as the ultimate example of beginner's luck. As such, you could hardly seek a better counterfoil for () than Hooper--whose legacy, on the turf, was refreshed by the slow-burning Ashford sire's breakout afternoon last weekend. In March, Accelerate (Lookin At Lucky) had finally ended his sire's maddening wait for a first U.S. Grade I winner when winning the Big 'Cap by 5 1/2 lengths. On Saturday, Accelerate confirmed his graduation into the elite by winning the GI Gold Cup at Santa Anita, again by daylight. And his sire not only completed the exacta with Dr. Dorr, but also produced Money Multiplier, who won the GII Monmouth S. the same afternoon. Accelerate, at age five, belongs to Lookin At Lucky's second crop; Money Multiplier, age six, to his first. The latter had previously contributed to their sire's serial near-misses at the highest level--crowned, last year, when Lookin At Lee finished second in the Kentucky Derby itself--as runner-up in four Grade I races. As a May 10 by a sire born May 27, it is hardly surprising that Accelerate should give increasing credence to the theory that Lookin At Lucky--much like his sire, Smart Strike (Mr Prospector); and indeed his sire's outstanding son, --might reward more patience and perseverance than invited by his record, whether as a champion juvenile himself or as a prolific 2-year-old sire. Actually, setting aside his celebrated instant dividends with Hoop, Jr., it feels apt that Hooper should loom benignly over both sides of Accelerate's pedigree. For both in his own, self-made career, and in the sheer span of his years, Hooper testified to the virtues of the long haul. Cont. p4 TDN HEADLINE NEWS • PAGE 4 OF 10 • THETDN.COM SATURDAY • JUNE 2, 2018

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As it happens, after developing her family, Hooper allowed the mare who holds together Accelerate's family tree to slip through his grasp. Smartaire (Quibu {Arg}) was claimed as a 3-year-old, for just $5,000; and was sold seven years later at a Keeneland breeding stock sale in 1972 to Jim Ryan's Ryehill Farm for $36,000. The Ryans had seen that she was bred just like the mother of Hooper's Hall of Fame distaffer Susan's Girl (Quadrangle), winner of three championships over five seasons, whose first two dams were by Hooper's stallions Quibu and Olympia. (The latter had become a cornerstone of Hooper's stud, and the toast of all Thoroughbred breeders, after beating a brilliant Quarter Horse named Stella Moore in a two-furlong match race in 1949.) Smartaire--by Quibu out of an Olympia mare--became Broodmare of the Year in 1979 after consecutive Smart Angle (Quadrangle) and Smarten (Cyane) were champion juvenile filly and runner-up in the GI Travers S. (also a triple Grade II winner, 15 times on the board at three), respectively. Smarten, a perennial leading sire in Maryland, proceeded to make an enduring mark on the breed through the champion Canadian runner and producer Classy 'n Smart, dam of Lookin At Lucky's sire Smart Strike. In 1981, the Ryans sent their outstanding mare to Alydar, and she delivered a daughter named Smart Darlin. She would be sold to Japan at the Ryehill dispersal in 1988, but not before producing Darlin Lindy (Cox's Ridge). This filly won six times before becoming dam of Wagon Limit (Conquistador Cielo), who shocked Gentlemen and Skip Away in the GI --and grand-dam of Accelerate's mother Issues (). Issues is proving a useful producer, her two GSP foals by Scat Daddy, including GI Breeders' Cup Juvenile Turf third Daddy D T. Cont. p5 CLOSING TODAY

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Lookin= at a Deserved Change of Luck cont. was when unable to his name on two of the biggest days of his career: caught wide when beaten a head in the GI Breeders' Cup Juvenile, and swallowed up by the rail draw in the Kentucky Derby. Nonetheless, he made a monster move from 18th to sixth before flattening out on the First Saturday in May. He put things right in the GI Preakness S. and then dispatched (Maria's Mon) in definitive fashion in the GI Haskell S., breaking the Derby winner in a stretch duel before going clear. His fourth to Blame (Arch) in the GI Breeders' Cup Classic suggested he might just have been stretched by a 10th furlong anyway, but even a supporting role in the epic race that cost Zenyatta (Street Cry {Ire}) her unbeaten record was scarcely a disgrace. Lookin At Lucky took a solid family tree to stud, his dam Private Feeling (Belong To Me) combined four different strands Bob Baffert leading Lookin at Lucky | Sarah K. Andrew of . She had already produced Kensei (Mr Greeley) Hardly surprising, of course, that a son of like to win the GII Jim Dandy S. and GII Dywer S., while her Awesome Again should also turn out to be a strong broodmare half-sister was the Grade III-winning grand-dam of champion sire. But Lookin At Lucky, picked by Accelerate's breeder Mike filly Wait A While (Maria's Mon). Further back, it is the family of Abraham, has given her a better runner even than his late Calumet giant Bull Lea. Ashford studmate. And Lookin At Lucky made a sensational start, leading Much like Scat Daddy, Lookin At Lucky has given notice of his freshman by both total wins and his 29 individual winners--from true potential as a stallion when shuttling to Chile. He has had just 42 starters. By both indices, remarkably, he also topped the four Group 1 winners there, and was that country=s champion general sires' list of 2-year-old winners. sire last year. But the fact is, that in his homeland, Lookin At By that stage his fee had already dropped to $15,000, Lucky has had to work hard to hold his ground. His fee has however, and the elevation to $25,000 proved only a temporary halved from an opening $35,000 to $17,500, while his spike. Clearly commercial breeders were initially entitled to cold average in 2017 was $60,000--between the "super sires" and feet about his conformation. And evidently he matches Smart those unproven rookies so beloved by the market. Strike in not having precociously brawny yearlings. But, his stock Lookin At Lucky did face one significant challenge when retired does tend to have size and, despite his prolific freshman to stud--even as the first colt since to back up campaign, we are now discovering that they also match the Eclipse Awards at two and three. For in contrast with the Smart Strike--Curlin profile in getting better and better with respectable lady, he would always get himself deeper maturity. Cont. p6 in trouble the lower down the leg he wore a skirt. They didn't like his pasterns as a yearling, they thought he toed out, and there were one or two "radiographical issues." It is hardly uncommon to find an ankle issue here, a stifle issue there, in a developing youngster. But this one, set adrift as Hip 1738, failed to reach his reserve at the Keeneland September Sale at $35,000. The following April, back in the same ring, a bullet breeze persuaded Bob Baffert and Mike Pegram that his strength, size, length and balance required them to indulge any perceived flaws. Baffert, of course, had overcome veterinary warning lights about a $17,000 yearling in for the same owner. Sure enough, Lookin At Lucky proved as sound, game and consistent as he was classy on the track, earning $3.3 million in winning nine of his 13 starts, including five Grade Is. And that Lookin at Lucky winning the Preakness | Sarah K. Andrew TDN HEADLINE NEWS • PAGE 6 OF 10 • THETDN.COM SATURDAY • JUNE 2, 2018

Lookin= at a Deserved Change of Luck cont. Unique Bella & Paradise Woods Meet Again in Beholder Mile For anyone immune to the anguished short sight of the cont. from p1 commercial market--anyone, that is, simply looking to breed a good racehorse--Lookin At Lucky plainly represents excellent value. And he surely warrants support from European horsemen, too. Whatever the merit of those early quibbles with his pasterns, they would be readily dismissed on turf; and remember that he compiled his stellar juvenile record on synthetic tracks. Remember also the versatility of Smart Strike, capable of giving us an as well as a Fabulous Strike. But the bottom line is that there is now a reliable sample of achievers out there to refute any of that original wariness. The owners of only 76 mares who kept the faith in Kentucky last year, down from 126 the previous year. Yet Lookin At Lucky's ratio of black-type performers to starters still had him in the top 10 in each of the past two years. And in 2017, only Curlin racked up more triple-digit Beyers on dirt. Unique Bella (L) bests Paradise Woods in the La Brea | Horsephotos Arguably this horse was beaten only once on pure merit, in a Kicking off this term with a nine-length demolition of the career that volunteered in neon precisely the speed and GII Santa Maria S. Feb. 10, Unique Bella was caught late and temperament everyone wants to replicate--and which, in forced to settle for second last time after she bobbled at the themselves, tend to make the third dimension, soundness, so break in Oaklawn=s GI Apple Blossom H. Apr. 13. much easier to manage. AShe=s ready,@ said Hall of Famer Hollendorfer=s assistant Lookin At Lee, for instance, was the only member of his crop to Dan Ward. AShe got a good post [six], has a good record on this line up for all three legs of the Triple Crown last year. It is not track [six wins and a second in seven starts] and a good, Lookin At Lucky's fault, of course, that he was denied the chance versatile running style. She=s won a Grade I coming from fifth [in to show whether--like Curlin, and like his own stock--he would the La Brea] and she=s won wire-to-wire, so we look for a big continue to thrive with maturity. But, he is continuing to graft race. It=s good competition, but we=re confident.@ away, consistently producing results in a fairly adverse Paradise Woods picked up where Unique Bella left off last environment. term with an 11 3/4-length tour de force in the GI Santa Anita And in that respect, too, he might borrow an axiom of the man Oaks that made her the favorite for the GI Kentucky Oaks. She whose imprint sustains both sides of his breakthrough set the early pace on the First Friday in May, but faded fast to performer's family tree. For when they asked Fred Hooper his finish 11th to future champion Abel Tasman (Quality Road) secret, at 100, he replied, "Hard work. And always look ahead." beneath the Twin Spires. Given a brief break, she was sixth when making her return in the Aug. 27 GIII Torrey Pines S., but returned to winning ways with a 5 1/4-length triumph in the GI Zenyatta S. Sept. 30 and was third behind champion Forever (Unbridled=s Song) and Abel Tasman in the GI Breeders= Cup Distaff Nov. 3. The followed her runner-up effort in the La Brea with a fourth in the GII Santa Monica S. Mar. 24. Hall of Famer Bob Baffert sends out last year=s Beholder Mile runner-up Vale Dori (Arg) (Asiatic Boy {Arg}), a Grade I winner in her own right, who missed by a neck behind Eclipse winner Stellar Wind (Curlin) last term. Coming up a neck short of Stellar Wind again in the GI Clement L. Hirsch S. at Del Mar July 30, the bay was last seen finishing a lackluster fifth in the GIII Adoration S. here May 6.

Lookin at Lucky winning the Haskell | Sarah K. Andrew TDN HEADLINE NEWS • PAGE 7 OF 10 • THETDN.COM SATURDAY • JUNE 2, 2018

NEW YORKERS LOOM LARGE IN PENN MILE ANALYZE IT LOOKS TO REMAIN PERFECT IN By Christie DeBernardis PENNINE RIDGE By Christie DeBernardis The New York-based Maraud (Blame) and native New Yorker Therapist (Freud) appear to be the ones to beat in Saturday=s GII Penn Mile, a race that has been won by the likes of Canadian Horse of the Year and MGISW filly Catch a Glimpse (City Zip); GI Breeders= Cup Turf Sprint hero Bobby=s Kitten (Kitten=s Joy); and GI Belmont Derby victor Force the Pass (Speightstown). Kicking off this term with an optional claiming victory on the lawn at Gulfstream Jan. 13, Maraud followed suit with a win in the GIII Palm Beach S. Mar. 3, but could only manage sixth behind >TDN Rising Star= Analyze It (Point of Entry) in Keeneland=s GIII Transylvania S. Apr. 6. The bay returned to winning ways beneath the Twin Spires on the First Saturday in May, capturing the GII American Turf S. during heavy rain. Therapist opened his account with a trio of wins, including the Laurel Futurity S. and the Awad S. last fall. Third in the Palm Analyze It | Coady Beach, the chestnut enters off a win in Gulfstream=s Cutlet Bay S. Mar. 31. >TDN Rising Star= Analyze It (Point of Entry) looks to take his >TDN Rising Star= Hawkish (Artie Schiller) followed his perfect record to four-for-four as the heavy favorite in impressive debut win in Hallandale Jan. 6 with a fourth in the Saturday=s GIII Pennine Ridge S. at Belmont, the local prep for Palm Beach, but scored a decisive 4 3/4-length victory in an the GI Belmont Derby July 7. Graduating by 6 1/4 lengths in his Aqueduct optional claimer last time Apr. 15. The bay cross- career bow in Elmont Oct. 28, the bay followed suit with a entered in Belmont=s GIII Pennine Ridge S. Saturday, but is front-running score in the GIII Cecil B. Demille S. at Del Mar expected to run in this spot. Nov. 26 and kicked off this term with another daylight victory in Another runner of interest at a price is Live Oak Plantation=s the GIII Transylvania S. at Keeneland Apr. 6. The Chad Brown He=s Bankable (Arch). The Mark Casse pupil enters off back-to- trainee will try to run away with it early as the lone speed of the back wins in the state-bred Sophomore Turf S. at Tampa Mar. 25 race. Catholic Boy (More Than Ready) returns to the turf after and the English Channel S. at Gulfstream May 5. competing on the GI Kentucky Derby trail for the first half of his sophomore season. Winner of the grassy GIII With Anticipation S. at Saratoga in August and fourth in the GI Breeders= Cup Juvenile Turf Nov. 3, the bay romped in his main track debut in the GII Remsen S. at Aqueduct in December. Runner-up in the GIII Sam F. Davis S. Feb. 10, he could only manage fourth behind subsequent GI Kentucky Derby-third Audible (Into Mischief) in the GI Florida Derby Mar. 31. Winner of last term=s GII Summer S. and runner-up to Mendelssohn (Scat Daddy) in the GI Breeders= Cup Juvenile Turf Nov. 2, Untamed Domain () seeks his first success of 2018 in this spot. Third as the favorite in the GIII Dania Beach S. at Gulfstream Feb. 3, the >TDN Rising Star= was sixth when trying dirt in the GII Tampa Bay Derby Mar. 10 and came running late for second behind GII Penn Mile favorite Maraud (Blame) in the GII American Turf S. at Churchill on the First Saturday in May.

Maraud | Coady

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defeatism. So many mares are nowadays sent to what are perceived as "commercial" sires--i.e. fast, precocious runners who are affordably unproven-that competition at the Classic level is diluted. Send all those mares to 's allegedly TRANSCONTINENTAL uncommercial son (Ire), and how many other Enables might he have? The sire of (GB) (Cape Cross {Ire}), IMPLICATIONS equally, ended up at i20,000. Instead everyone throws Derby day. Okay, day, to you guys. hundreds of mares at rookie sprint sires on the assumption that But to an Englishman it remains the venerable they are getting aboard on the ground floor with the next Dark template for all the many and marvellous variations round the Angel (Ire) (Acclamation {GB}). That's the best case scenario and, world. Most years, you would be too preoccupied with the of course, extremely unlikely. And, with all due respect, even Belmont--but there is a week between the two this time, and then you are not going to get yourself a Derby horse. hopefully you can catch the race. So what happens next? The answer could be right there in Not just to revisit the crazy demands it makes of the runners. today's field, albeit it may not turn out to be very legible in the Epsom is notoriously the very last thing from a level playing unusually soft conditions. For the two dominant colts, going into the race, are both by sires based outside Europe. field, though paradoxically it is precisely its idiosyncrasies that Saxon Warrior (Jpn) (Deep Impact {Jpn}) is the result of identify the diverse assets in a stallion prospect you would want Coolmore's own difficulties with the saturation of their stock by to replicate in the breed. But also because this year's race their champion sire. Not everyone, of course, could afford should invite any international horseman of imagination and Japan's phenomenal champion as an outcross option. Some of enterprise to take a step back, and recognise that the most Old us suspect that he will ultimately prove only the headline World race of all once again stands in need of help from the Japanese source of class and stamina for European breeders New. And that spells opportunity, whether you are in Kentucky who discover they have sold off their genetic family silver. For or Kildare. the time being, however, only he could really justify such the logistical and financial challenges involved. From what remains a fairly small sample in Europe, he also has the chance in the Prix du Jockey-Club tomorrow [see Sid Fernando=s column in Friday=s TDN], with Study Of Man (Ire) (Deep Impact {Jpn}); and it may yet prove that the sidelined September (Ire) (Deep Impact {Jpn}) would have been able to win the Investec Oaks yesterday, too. And then there is Roaring Lion (Kitten's Joy), bought at Keeneland for $160,000 (video with his consignor, Mark Taylor). His sire hardly qualifies as the most outrageous gamble for a horse to export to European grass. Again from limited opportunities, he has already shown that his hegemony on American turf is a legitimate indicator of his as an elite international sire. Cont. p9 Epsom Derby favorite Saxon Warrior | Racing Post Fact is, European bloodstock has painted itself into a corner. On the one hand, commercial breeders have washed their hands of the Derby, and other races that require Classic quality, claiming that they can't afford to compete with the big owner-breeders who duly dominate today's field. They will point to the fact that only three of the runners ever went to auction, and that one of these appears to have been expensively retained by his breeders anyway. While Galileo "only" accounts for three this year, he is the grandsire of another three, and damsire to another two. Eight out of 12, then; and of the remainder one is by his half-brother. On the other hand, there is a self-fulfilling element to this TDN HEADLINE NEWS • PAGE 9 OF 10 • THETDN.COM SATURDAY • JUNE 2, 2018

Transcontinental Implications cont. (Scat Daddy), for his part, would have been perfectly eligible as a Classic prospect in Europe. Grandsons of and Johannesburg respectively, and you're going to tell me they were each born for one surface and one surface only? Be that as it may, the bottom line is that the insularity, myopia and avarice of European breeders is giving the American Thoroughbred a fresh chance to run up the blindside. The crowning idiocy is that you still hear European horsemen dismissing American blood not just with lazy generalisations about medication, but also as being bred in a single dimension of speed. If they bothered to study the keynote Kentucky rosters-and this applies both to the established sires, and to the young guns-they would be forced to recognise that the median fantasy, for breeders using them, is to breed a Triple Crown horse. Just scroll through the Kentucky lists and ask yourself how many of Deep Impact | Kelsey Riley them would be more likely to get you a Classic type than the Deep Impact, likewise, has largely made his reputation through fast-buck speed icons of the European marketplace. stock racing on turf. But he is a son of Sunday Silence, out of a Today's race need not be the moment that forces more daughter of Alzao ()-himself, with and Europeans to think about these things properly. Conditions, as Sir Ivor as his grandsires, condensing the regeneration in already noted, may lead to an old school slog and another crown European pedigrees credited to dirt-running Kentucky stallions for Galileo or his ilk. That would not alter the overall trend. in the 1970s and 1980s. Edifying efforts are being made in Britain to improve the Certainly it would be highly fitting if a Keeneland yearling could commercial feasibility of horses bred to stay. But progress, in win the Derby on the 50th anniversary of Sir Ivor's that regard, will take a few years at least. And for now, if the ground-breaking success [see Tuesday=s piece in the TDN]. For Derby remains the pinnacle for a European 3-year-old, then we could be embarking on a new turn of the wheel in more anyone breeding or buying in Kentucky should be aware that ways than one. Just as Vincent O'Brien lit a new path for the there is room at the top. European breed with Sir Ivor, the first Epsom Derby winner bought at auction in America, so his son-in-law (and partner in the Northern Dancer revolution) John Magnier has already made the reputation of War Front () and the late Scat Daddy (Johannesburg) as cosmopolitan, crossover sires. He is fortunate, naturally, that he can afford to fly Group 1 mares to Deep Impact. But what both Saxon Warrior and Roaring Lion demonstrate is that commercial neglect of eligible Classic stallions in Europe is leaving the field open to prospectors who are either based or prepared to shop elsewhere. Okay, so it's a two-way street. Recent graded stakes success by European migrants to California (Euro-breds Reign Over SoCal Turf) attests to the gaps in given racing environments. But nobody needs reminding of the sensational impact of American stock at Royal Ascot in recent years. While those of us who cherish the St Leger as the most historic of all races would be delighted to see Saxon Warrior proceed to a Triple Crown, it would be disappointing if that made him less likely to wind up in the GI Breeders' Cup Classic. But who knows? Perhaps we might yet see two Triple Crown winners, from either side of the ocean, square up in that race. Justify Roaring Lion | Racing Post TDN HEADLINE NEWS • PAGE 10 OF 10 • THETDN.COM SATURDAY • JUNE 2, 2018

FRIDAY=S BELMONT UPDATES ! Undefeated dual Classic winner Justify (Scat Daddy) schooled in the starting gate and galloped 1 1/8 miles Friday morning at . He will gallop Saturday and Sunday and breeze Monday. Click here for video. AHe=s just breathing fire out there,@ trainer Bob Baffert=s assistant Jimmy Barnes said. AYou can tell he=s feeling full of LAW & EHALT WIN JOE HIRSCH MEMORIAL CONTEST himself. He=s happy with what he=s doing and that=s most Tom Law of ST Publishing and Bob Ehalt of Thoroughbred important. He is getting fitter and fitter each day. He has a solid Racing Commentary earned top honors at NYRA=s Joe Hirsch foundation under him now and I think he=s ready to take the big Memorial Writing Contest, which recognizes the best print and step forward.@ internet coverage of the 2017 GI Belmont S. Law won for his follow-up piece entitled "Perfect Script," ! Todd Pletcher breezed both of his Belmont contenders, >TDN which examined Tapwrit (Tapit)'s journey from a promising Rising Star= Noble Indy (Take Charge Indy) and Vino Rosso $1.2 million yearling purchase to a Grade I winner. (Curlin) in the rain over the Belmont training track Friday Ehalt won for his examination of the international morning. GII Louisiana Derby winner Noble Indy worked in circumstances surrounding the 149th Belmont S., brought by company with Hyndford (Street Cry {Ire}), covering five furlongs Japanese stakes winner Epicharis, who, despite scratching, made in 1:01.22 (1/11) with Javier Castellano aboard (video). With the Belmont the first U.S. Triple Crown race available for John Velazquez in the irons, Vino Rosso went five furlongs in simulcasting wagering in Japan. 1:01.55 (3/11) in company with popular GI Stephen Foster H. The awards will be presented at Citi Field Tuesday prior to the contender Patch (Union Rags). Belmont post position draw. AI thought they both worked very well,@ said Pletcher, who won last year=s Belmont with Tapwrit (Tapit). AWe got the type of [Belmont] work we were hoping for, kind of a long steady five-eighths with a big gallop-out. I got them both in around 1:42 BELMONT HANDICAPPING EVENT TO BENEFIT TCA for the mile which was what I was looking for. Both of them & PDJF showed they were in good form.@ The Charitable Impact Group is hosting a Belmont S. Pletcher also breezed some of his other Belmont week handicapping event to benefit Thoroughbred Charities of runners: GII Brooklyn Invitational S. runners Hard Study (Big American and the Permanently Disable Jockeys Fund June 6 at Brown) and Outplay () (:48.69); GI Ogden Phipps S.- the Cherry Valley Country Club in Garden City, N.Y. bound Ivy Bell (Archarcharch) (:49.11) and Unbridled Mo (Uncle Hosted by NBC=s Kenny Rice, the handicapping panel will Mo) (:49.09); GII Jaipur S. hopeful Blind Ambition (Tapit) include Mike Watchmaker, Randy Moss and Jerry Bailey. Also (:48.89); GI Manhattan S. contender Hi Happy (Arg) (Pure Prize) scheduled to attend are D. Wayne Lukas, Todd Pletcher, John (:48.89); and Tremont S. runner Outshine (Malibu Moon) Velazquez, Mike Smith, Javier Castellano, Ramon Dominguez, et. (:49.87). al. Tickets can be purchased here.

! Heavy rain Friday morning caused trainer Chad Brown to call an audible and move Gronkowski (Lonhro {Aus})=s breeze to Saturday. He will likely work on the main track after the break. AI was going to work and I waited until after the break, I wasn't comfortable going today,@ Brown said. AIt's just bad luck. I was moving it up a day anyway because there might be some rain. I prefer to work Saturday anyway, but I was prepared to work today.@

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Contact the TDN Ad Staff: [email protected] > 40.3K >24.6K >20.4K for details or to post a job , Supreme produced a Hard Spun colt last term before being bred back to Carpe Diem. Lifetime Record: 4-4-0-0, $127,800. Click for the Equibase.com chart or VIDEO, sponsored by Fasig-Tipton. O-Southwind Stables, Inc.; B-Stonestreet Thoroughbred Holdings LLC (KY); T-Jonathan Thomas. Saturday, Penn National, post time: 6:40 p.m. EDT PENN OAKS, $200,000, 3yo, f, 1mT PP HORSE SIRE JOCKEY TRAINER ML 1a Classy Dancer Speightstown Carmouche Servis 2-1 8th-Santa Anita, $62,380, Alw (NW1$X)/Opt. Clm ($75,000), 6-1, 2 Got Stormy Get Stormy Gaffalione Casse 6-1 3yo, f, 1mT, 1:34.99, fm. 3a Thewayiam (Fr) Thewayyouare Ortiz Jr. Motion 2-1 CASINO RED (IRE) (f, 3, Tamayuz {GB}--Casina Valadier {Ire}, by 4 Stormologist Gemologist Franco Stites 15-1 Fath) broke through in her first Stateside start over this course 5 Raucous Speightstown Lezcano Clement 5-1 and distance last October, but was looking for her first trip to 6 Treasuring (GB) Havana Gold (Ire) Velazquez Callaghan 5-2 the winner=s circle since then. She was most recently second at 7 Goodthingstaketime (Ire) Canford Cliffs (Ire) Rosario Abreu 3-1 this level Apr. 21, and was installed the 5-2 chalk. Away well from her rail draw, the dark bay was shuffled back a bit passing the stands for the first time and was a bit tough to settle until finding her rhythm in midpack down the backside. Taken off the fence for clearer running into the second bend, she was trapped behind a wall of horses in upper stretch until the seas parted and she kicked on well to best Luminoso (Quality Road) by a half-length. The winner=s 2-year-old half-brother Pride of Pimlico IN ORDER OF PURSE: (Ire) (Casamento {Ire}) was a debut winner at Naas in late 5th-Belmont, $85,000, Alw (C)/Opt. Clm ($80,000), 6-1, 3yo/up, March. Lifetime Record: 8-2-1-2, $86,878. Click for the f/m, 6fT, 1:08.70, gd. Equibase.com chart or VIDEO, sponsored by Fasig-Tipton. TILLIE'S LILY (f, 4, Distorted Humor--Supreme {SW & GSP, O-David Day & Derrick Fisher; B-Ringfort Stud (IRE); T-Patrick $162,89}, by ) was a perfect and promising three- Gallagher. for-three last season, and picked up right where she left off here in her first start as a 4-year-old. The $200,000 KEESEP yearling 8th-Churchill, $61,460, Alw (NW2X)/Opt. Clm ($62,500), 5-31, romped by 8 1/2 lengths in a rained-off Gulfstream special 3yo/up, f/m, 1m (off turf), 1:36.07, sy. weight in July, and defeated a pair of next-out winners when SENSITIVE (f, 4, Divine Park--Kittery Point, by Include) was a making it onto the sod there Sept. 1. Stretched out a bit going close third in the Pago Hop S. at Fair Grounds Dec. 30, but was down the hill at Santa Anita Oct. 29, the result for Tillie=s Lily was fifth as chalk in a local optional claimer May 3. Forced to try a the same--she dominated from the start to earn a career-top surface other than sod for the first time in this rained-off affair, of 89. Even-money for this having prepped the bay rallied out wide in last-to-first fashion to defeat Grade I mostly at Bridlewood Farm before a leg stretcher on the winner Sailor=s Valentine (Mizzen Mast) by 2 1/2 lengths. The Belmont training track May 27, Tillie=s Lily took up her expected winner, a $475,000 KEESEP yearling, is a half to Sam=s Sister spot at the head of affairs as she motored along through splits of (Brother Derek), GISW, $472,710; an unraced 2-year-old colt :22.11 and :45.12. Only seeming for a few strides like she could named Mutadarrib (Cairo Prince) picked up by Shadwell for be beaten, the bay hit another gear inside the eighth pole and $900,000 last September; a yearling colt by Liam=s Map and a strode under the wire two lengths clear of Miss Gossip (Ire) (Big foal colt by Candy Ride (Arg). Lifetime Record: SP, 10-3-2-1, Bad Bob {Ire}). The winner=s dam, a talented turf sprinter in her $139,936. Click for the Equibase.com chart or VIDEO, = own right who sold for $800,000 in foal to Giant s Causeway at sponsored by Fasig-Tipton. KEEJAN >13, has an unraced 2-year-old filly named Ghost Inthe O-LNJ Foxwoods; B-Brereton C. Jones (KY); T-Brad H. Cox. Mirror () who was a $70,000 KEESEP yearling and recently breezed at Prairie Meadows. Hailing from the family of TDN REGIONAL REPORT • PAGE 2 OF 9 • THETDN.COM SATURDAY • JUNE 2, 2018

2nd-Santa Anita, $61,345, Alw (NW1$X)/Opt. Clm ($75,000), 6-1, 3yo, 1mT, 1:34.75, fm. DESERT STONE (IRE) (c, 3, Fastnet Rock {Aus}--Starstone {GB}, by Diktat {GB}), a closing fourth going 6 1/2 furlongs over the Santa Anita lawn Apr. 7, overcame a sluggish start to triumph next out while trying nine furlongs at the Arcadia oval May 11. Given a 6-1 chance this time, the Irish-bred colt settled in a stalking fourth as Kylemore (Tiz Wonderful) doled out opening fractions of :23.67, :47.13 and 1:10.91. Up on the heels of the leading group, including the retreating pacesetter, the 280,000gns TATOCT yearling swung out three wide turning for home, drove in between rivals in the stretch and inched ahead of favored La La Land (Ire) (Dark Angel {Ire}) to score by a half length. Magic Musketier (Musketier {Ger}) was a close-up third. Desert Stone is a full to GSP Euginio (Ire). Lifetime Record: 7-2-1-0, $90,559. Click for the Equibase.com chart or VIDEO, sponsored by Fasig-Tipton. American Anthem | Coady Photo O-Zayat Stables, LLC; B-Arkle Bloodstock (IRE); T-Richard Baltas. 5th-Churchill, $58,900, Alw (NW2X)/Opt. Clm ($100,000), 6-1, 3yo, f, 7f, 1:22.00, ft. 8th-Churchill, $60,230, Alw (NW3$X)/Opt. Clm ($80,000), 6-1, CLASSY ACT (f, 3, Into Mischief--Acting Class, by Distorted 3yo/up, 7f, 1:21.19, ft. Humor), sent off the 3-5 choice in this four-horse affair, took a AMERICAN ANTHEM (c, 4, Bodemeister--Indy's Windy, by A.P. narrow early advantage, led at every call and was 3 3/4 lengths Indy), installed the 4-5 choice in this 2018 unveiling, took clear of Kelly=s Humor (Midnight Lute) at the wire. Classy Act control early, led through splits of :22.55 and :44.91 and drew won in her fourth career start, also her turf debut, going a mile clear late to score by 1 3/4 lengths over Storm Advisory at the Fair Grounds Dec. 21. Back in the winner=s circle following (Weiglia). C Z Rocket (City Zip) rounded out the trifecta. an allowance score there Jan. 19, she was runner-up in the Feb. American Anthem, winner of the GIII Laz Barrera S. and GII 17 GII S. before finishing a good fourth in the Woody Stephens S. last season, concluded 2017 with a pair of GII Fair Grounds Oaks Mar. 24. Never in the mix in her latest thirds in Grade I company--the H. Allen Jerkens at Saratoga and start, she came home 10th in the GI Kentucky Oaks. Acting Class, the Santa Anita Sprint Championship in October. In 2016, Indy=s a half-sister to Grade I winner Tempera (A.P. Indy), is also Windy foaled a filly by Pioneerof the Nile before aborting last responsible for Giant Act, a 2-year-old gelding by Eskendereya. season. After failing to produce a live foal this term, she was She was bred to Mr. Big this season. Sales history: $92,000 yrl bred to Bodemeister. Sales history: $180,000 Ylg '15 KEESEP; >16 KEESEP. Lifetime Record: GSP, 9-3-3-0, $175,293. Click for $435,000 2yo '16 OBSMAR. Lifetime Record: MGSW & MGISP, the Equibase.com chart or VIDEO, sponsored by Fasig-Tipton. 9-4-1-2, $523,945. Click for the Equibase.com chart or VIDEO, O-Carl R. Moore Management LLC; B-George Krikorian (KY); T-W. sponsored by Fasig-Tipton. Bret Calhoun. O-WinStar Farm LLC, China Horse Club International Ltd. and SF Consigned by Hill ‘n’ Dale Sales Agency Racing LLC; B-WinStar Farm LLC (KY); T-Bob Baffert. 6th-Churchill, $58,722, Alw, 6-1, (NW1X), 3yo/up, f/m, 5 1/2f HOPPEL SALES GRAD • (352) 895-7013 (off turf), 1:04.81, ft. SELECT SALES Graduate...Exceeding Expectations DIVINE QUEEN (f, 3, Divine Park--Town Queen {SW, $241,954}, by Williamstown) ran on for fourth after a very rough start first out in a Tampa maiden claimer Feb. 11, but returned in a maiden special weight there Mar. 10 to break through at 61-1. She was most recently sixth at Keeneland Apr. 21, and was off at 6-1 this time around. Taking a narrow lead early with odds-on choice Beautiful Street (Street Cry {Ire}) in closest pursuit, the Speedy Tillie’s Lily (Distorted Humor) picks up where homebred made contact with the chalk during a hard-fought she left off to remain unbeaten at Belmont. stretch battle before inching clear late by a half length. Cont. p3 TDN REGIONAL REPORT • PAGE 3 OF 9 • THETDN.COM SATURDAY • JUNE 2, 2018

6th-CD cont. of works in Kentucky, the dark bay was backed at 3-1 and was Beautiful Street held on for second in what amounted to a scrubbed from the gate by Jose Ortiz to seize the early lead. merry-go-round race. The winner is a half to Queen=s Award Doling out splits of :22.57 and :45.81, he splashed home a (Medaglia d=Oro), SW & GSP, $244,420, as well as the dam of convincing 3 1/2 lengths to the good of Le General (Lemon Drop these connections= MGSW The Player (Street Hero), who was Kid). The winner was a $58,000 OBSMAR acquisition after a :10 badly injured in the GII New Orleans H. in March. She has a 2/5 breeze. He=s a half to the precocious pair of Filibustin (Bustin yearling half-brother named Decision Maker (Court Vision) and Stones), MSW, $210,930; and Indy=s Lady (Take Charge Indy), foal half-brother named Dominar (Dominus). Lifetime Record: MSW, $114,518 and his dam produced another Bustin Stones 4-2-0-0, $53,990. Click for the Equibase.com chart or VIDEO, filly this term. Lifetime Record: 1-1-0-0, $37,200. Click for the sponsored by Fasig-Tipton. Equibase.com chart or VIDEO, sponsored by Fasig-Tipton. O/B-Carl Hurst & Bradley (KY); T-William B. Bradley. O-Norm W. Casse & Sequel Racing; B-Sequel Stallions New York LLC (NY); T-Norm W. Casse. 6th-Woodbine, C$79,919, Alw, 6-1, 3yo, 7fT, 1:21.13, gd. RIDE A COMET (c, 3, Candy Ride {Arg}--Appealing Zophie {GISW, $497,898}, by Successful Appeal) needed four tries before breaking through with a win in the slop at the Fair Grounds Dec. 17 before making it two straight in his turf bow at 6th-Santa Anita, $60,035, Msw, 6-1, 3yo/up, f/m, 7f, 1:23.79, ft. the New Orleans oval Jan. 6. Cont. p3 HOT AUTUMN (f, 3, Tiz Wonderful--Shesoprovocative, by ) was sixth on debut here in a restricted heat Mar. 4, 6th-WO cont. but improved to be third taking blinkers off Apr. 7. She went one Given some time off following that effort, he returned with a better behind >TDN Rising Star=-garnering romper Amada lackluster eighth in the nine-furlong GIII Jeff Ruby Steaks S. over Rafaela (Distorted Humor) May 5, and was 3-1 facing this lightly Turfway=s synthetic Mar. 17. Sent off at 3-1 while returning to raced but solid-looking bunch. Quickest away from her wide the grass here, Ride a Comet broke well and was eased to the draw, the dark bay forced the issue in the clear before opening rear of the condensed field. Ready to launch his attack from the up at the head of the lane and cruising away to a 3 1/4-length outside heading into the home turn, he swung out five wide into graduation. Royal Descendent (Awesome Again), the lone firster the lane, ground his was to the front midstretch and drew off to in the field, came on for second. The winner has an unraced 2- score by two lengths over Stormfuhr (Langfuhr). A $45,000 year-old half-sister named Shesomajestic (Majesticperfection). KEESEP yearling RNA, who flourished into a $375,000 OBSAPR Her dam produced a colt and filly respectively by Hakassan (Chi) juvenile, is a half to GI Belmont S. winner Tapwrit (Tapit), in 2017 and 2018. Sales history: $11,000 Ylg '16 BARJAN; $1,228,902. Grade I-stakes winning Appealing Zophie is also $12,000 3yo '18 BARJAN. Lifetime Record: 4-1-1-1, $53,025. Click responsible for a 2-year-old colt by Speightstown and a weanling for the Equibase.com chart or VIDEO, sponsored by Fasig- filly by Frosted. Lifetime Record: 7-3-0-0, $86,184. Click for the Tipton. Equibase.com chart or VIDEO, sponsored by Fasig-Tipton. O-Clarke M. Cooper Family Trust & Ian S. Kruljac; B-H & E Ranch O-John C. Oxley & My Meadowview Farm LLC; B-My (CA); T-Ian Kruljac. Meadowview LLC (KY); T-Mark E. Casse. 1st-Churchill, $50,180, Msw, 6-1, 2yo, f, 5f, :59.12, ft. BEACH GETAWAY (f, 2, Run Away and Hide--Seaside Magic, by Hard Spun) failed to land a blow in a Keeneland maiden special weight Apr. 26, but improved to be second in for a $40,000 tag here May 10. Let go at 7-1 stepping back up in class, the chestnut broke second quickest from her rail draw, but was shuffled back to fourth around the bend. Glued to the fence IN ORDER OF PURSE: hitting the lane, she finally got a clear path in the final sixteenth 2nd-Belmont, $62,000, (S), Msw, 6-1, 2yo, 5f, :58.45, sy. and kicked through resolutely to just defeat Princess Rafaela TALES OF CHAUCER (c, 2, Forty Tales--Sweet Aloha, by Western (Sky Mesa) by a head. Beach Getaway has full brothers foaled in Cat), trainer Norm Casse=s first New York starter and first 2017 and 2018. Lifetime Record: 3-1-1-0, $35,972. Click for the juvenile runner since going out on his own after working as an Equibase.com chart or VIDEO, sponsored by Fasig-Tipton. assistant for his father Mark, got off to an auspicious start to his O-Marc Detampel; B-Ron Kirk, John Bates & Michael Riordan own career Friday afternoon in Elmont. Showing a steady string (KY); T-Ben Colebrook. TDN REGIONAL REPORT • PAGE 4 OF 9 • THETDN.COM SATURDAY • JUNE 2, 2018

FIRST WINNER FOR FRESHMAN SIRE rivals down the backside and advanced ominously leaving the 3rd-Churchill, $49,584, Msw, 6-1, 2yo, 5f, :59.37, ft. bend while spinning very wide. Green but clearly well on her B. B. DUDE (c, 2, Shakin It Up--Purrfect Song, by Unbridled's way to victory when she figured out her lead changes in upper Song), the less fancied of a pair of Steve Asmussen-trained stretch, the bay kicked away with promising strides to win firsters at 5-2, held off stablemate Carter Cat (Tale of the Cat) wrapped up by 3 3/4 lengths in a performance reminiscent of late to become the first winner for his freshman sire (by her MGSW stablemate Catholic Boy (More Than Ready)=s own Midnight Lute). Perched three deep off of a :22.45 opening debut down here last July. Entirely has a yearling full-brother quarter, the dark bay ranged up to take over at the top of the foaled in Saudi Arabia--that colt was being carried by Reef Bay stretch and kept finding to don cap and gown by 3/4 of a length. when she sold for $10,000 at the 2016 Keeneland November B. B. Dude was a $40,000 KEENOV weanling purchased by owner sale. Lifetime Record: 1-1-0-0, $24,000. Click for the Jerry Durant for $105,000 at last year=s Fasig-Tipton July sale. He Equibase.com chart or VIDEO, sponsored by Fasig-Tipton. was bought back for just $15,000 at the Texas Thoroughbred O-Augustin Stable; B-George Strawbridge (KY); T-Jonathan Association=s 2-year-old sale in April. Dam Purrfect Song is a half Thomas. to GSW/MGISP Santa Catarina (Unbridled). She produced another Shakin It Up colt in 2017 before being bred back to . Shakin It Up, whose signature win came in the 2013 GI Malibu S., stands at Spendthrift Farm. Lifetime Record: 1-1-0-0, $30,600. Click for the Equibase.com chart or VIDEO, sponsored by Fasig-Tipton. O-Jerry Durant; B-Sally Thomas & New Dawn Stable LLC (KY); T-Steven M. Asmussen.

5th-CD, $57K, Msw, 3yo/up, f/m, 1 1/16mT, post time: 7:57 p.m. ET Willis Horton=s AWE EMMA (War Front), a 3-year-old daughter of GISW Awesome Maria (Maria=s Mon), gets her career started in this seven-horse affair. The $2-million KEENOV weanling hails from a deep E. Paul Robsham family, including GISWs Pretty Discreet, Discreet Cat, Discreetly Mine, etc. Awesome Maria brought $4 million from M.V. Magnier at the 2013 KEENOV Sale. Awe Emma is trained by Hall of Famer Steve Asmussen. TJCIS PPs

B. B. Dude | Coady Photo

9th-Gulfstream, $48,100, Msw, 6-1, 2yo, 5fT, :57.77, fm. FIRST-CROP STARTERS TO WATCH: SATURDAY, JUNE 2 ENTIRELY (f, 2, Point of Entry--Reef Bay, by Danzig) showed an Big Screen (Speightstown), Spring Farm upbeat tab at Bridlewood Farm for this first go, and took the 16 foals of racing age/0 winners/0 black-type winners most early tote support before settling as the co-5-2 chalk. Slow 5-Woodbine, Msw 4 1/2f, SAV, 10-1 from the gate, the Strawbridge homebred started picking off CAN$28,000 CAN SEP yrl TDN REGIONAL REPORT • PAGE 5 OF 9 • THETDN.COM SATURDAY • JUNE 2, 2018

Central Banker (Speightstown), McMahon of Saratoga Denman (Aus) (Lonhro {Aus}), Darley Kelvinside Stud, $15,000 Thoroughbreds, $7,500 47 foals of racing age/12 winners/0 black-type winners 74 foals of racing age/0 winners/0 black-type winners 11-Churchill, $75K Mighty Beau Overnight S., 5fT, ANGASTON, 20-1 5-Woodbine, Msw 4 1/2f, SUBSIDIARY, 8-1 $30,000 FTK JUL yrl $70,000 FTK JUL yrl; $95,000 RNA OBS MAR 2yo El Padrino (Pulpit), Northview PA, $5,000 He's Had Enough (Tapit), Woodford Thoroughbreds, $5,000 113 foals of racing age/15 winners/0 black-type winners 77 foals of racing age/0 winners/0 black-type winners 6-Parx Racing, Msw 5 1/2f, ELDORA, 6-1 4-Gulfstream, Msw 4 1/2f, ARBA, 5-1 4-Gulfstream, Msw 4 1/2f, GARBAR BOY, 7-2 Fast Bullet (Speightstown), WinStar Farm, $7,500 $40,000 OBS OCT yrl 33 foals of racing age/9 winners/0 black-type winners 3-Penn National, $100K New Start S., 6f, INDIAN BEAUTY, 4-1 Honorable Dillon (Tapit), Rockridge Stud, $5,000 80 foals of racing age/0 winners/0 black-type winners Freedom Child (Malibu Moon), Country Life Farm, $3,500 1-Monmouth, Msw 4 1/2f, LUCKY DILLY, 9-2 58 foals of racing age/12 winners/1 black-type winner 3-Penn National, $100K New Start S., 6f, SHES JULIA CHILD, 4-1 Real Solution (Kitten's Joy), Blue Star Racing, $12,500 40 foals of racing age/0 winners/0 black-type winners Graydar (Unbridled's Song), Taylor Made Stallions, $15,000 5-Woodbine, Msw 4 1/2f, REAL TREASURE, 12-1 193 foals of racing age/39 winners/1 black-type winner $9,500 KEE SEP yrl; $29,000 RNA OBS APR 2yo 7-Churchill, Msw 7f, MIZ SHELTON, 6-1

SECOND-CROP STARTERS TO WATCH: SATURDAY, JUNE 2 Havana Gold (Ire) (Teofilo {Ire}), Tweenhills Farm & Stud, $8,500 Animal Kingdom (Leroidesanimaux {Brz}), Jonabell Farm, 168 foals of racing age/27 winners/4 black-type winners $35,000 7-Penn National, $200K Penn Oaks, 1mT, TREASURING (GB), 5-2 216 foals of racing age/21 winners/4 black-type winners 32,000gns TAT FOA wnl 7-Santa Anita, $200K S., 1 1/8mT, CONTINENTAL DIVIDE, 10-1 Liaison (Indian Charlie), Spendthrift Farm, $10,000 $45,000 BAR OCT yrl; $245,000 BAR MAY 2yo 166 foals of racing age/28 winners/2 black-type winners 7-Belmont, Msw 1 1/16mT, DYNAMITE KITTEN, 12-1 3-Penn National, $100K New Start S., 6f, BRONX BEAUTY, 5-2 $100,000 SAR AUG yrl 9-Belmont, $200K GIII Pennine Ridge S., 1 1/8m, UNTAMED Morning Line (), Lane's End Farm, $10,000 DOMAIN, 5-1 134 foals of racing age/22 winners/2 black-type winners $90,000 KEE SEP yrl 4-Gulfstream, Msw 4 1/2f, TIMMY M., 8-1

Awesome Patriot (Awesome Again), Mapleton Thoroughbred Point of Entry (Dynaformer), Adena Springs, $25,000 Farm, $3,500 147 foals of racing age/25 winners/2 black-type winners 103 foals of racing age/11 winners/0 black-type winners 9-Belmont, $200K GIII Pennine Ridge S., 1 1/8m, ANALYZE IT, 4-5 12-Gulfstream, Msw 6f, COUNTRY STRONG, 8-1 $130,000 KEE SEP yrl; $190,000 OBS MAR 2yo $9,500 RNA OBS OCT wnl; $1,000 RNA OBS AUG yrl Prospective (Malibu Moon), Ocala Stud Farm, $5,000 Brethren (Distorted Humor), Arindel Farm, Private 97 foals of racing age/21 winners/2 black-type winners 100 foals of racing age/11 winners/0 black-type winners 12-Gulfstream, Msw 6f, COUNTRY QUEEN, 6-1 4-Gulfstream, Msw 4 1/2f, RED FOG, 4-1 Shanghai Bobby (Harlan's ), Ashford Stud, $20,000 Declaration of War (War Front), Ashford Stud, $40,000 238 foals of racing age/33 winners/3 black-type winners 255 foals of racing age/30 winners/4 black-type winners 8-Santa Anita, Msw 6f, CHASIN LUCAS, 8-1 9-Belmont, $200K GIII Pennine Ridge S., 1 1/8m, IRISH $45,000 BAR SEL yrl TERRITORY (IRE), 15-1 10-Monmouth, $60K Tale of the Cat S., 1 1/16mT, VITAL, 6-1 i475,000 GOF yrl $160,000 OBS AUG yrl; $30,000 I '17 KEE NOV TDN REGIONAL REPORT • PAGE 6 OF 9 • THETDN.COM SATURDAY • JUNE 2, 2018

Take Charge Indy (A.P. Indy), Kor, $20,000 Mepache, the dam of the talented Valid Expectations (Valid 203 foals of racing age/41 winners/5 black-type winners Appeal). A half-brother to SP Light the Night (Street Cry {Ire}), 1-Monmouth, Msw 4 1/2f, TAKE CHARGE AGAIN, 7-2 Peace Prayer was the most expensive of nine of his sire=s offspring to sell as foals at KEENOV in 2016, hammering for Truest Legend (Songandaprayer), Rancho Temescal, unknown $200K. B-Jack Sims (KY) 4 foals of racing age/0 winners/0 black-type winners 8-Santa Anita, Msw 6f, LEGENDARY PARFAIT, 20-1 5th-Tokyo, -13,400,000 ($122k), Newcomers, 2yo, 1600mT $1,200 RNA NCA AUG yrl VOICE OF JOY (f, 2, Magician {Ire}--Sisheba, by Silent Name {Jpn}), a $9,500 KEENOV weanling and $35K FTK turf yearling, is Violence (Medaglia d'Oro), Hill 'n' Dale Farms, $15,000 bred on the reverse cross responsible for Saturday=s G1 Investec 248 foals of racing age/49 winners/6 black-type winners Derby favorite Saxon Warrior (Jpn) (Deep Impact {Jpn}) and is 9-Penn National, $500K GII Penn Mile S., 1mT, ENCUMBERED, out of a half-sister to French SP Polysheba (Fr) (Poliglote {GB}). 6-1 His third dam is Gana Facil (Le Fabuleux), herself the dam of $33,000 FTK JUL yrl; $225,000 OBS APR 2yo 1990 GI Kentucky Derby and GI Breeders= Cup Classic hero 3-Penn National, $100K New Start S., 6f, VIOLENT TIMES, 8-1 Unbridled, who also won the GI S. on turf. B-Bryan $10,000 FTK FEB yrl; $41,000 FTK JUL yrl Connors (KY) --Alan Carasso

IN SOUTH KOREA: ALLOWANCE RESULTS: Call Up the Guard, c, 3, Run Away and Hide--Military Mama, by 3rd-Santa Anita, $82,179, (NW3$X)/Opt. Clm ($75,000), 6-1, Include. Busan, 6-1, Hcp. ($37k), 1200m. B-John Truscott 3yo/up, 6f, 1:09.89, ft. Racing (IL). *Full to Go Lady Jay, SW, $166,509. **$20,000 RNA TOUCHING RAINBOWS (g, 5, Aragorn {Ire}--Violin Case, by Wlg >15 KEENOV; $10,000 Ylg >16 FTKOCT; $85,000 2yo >17 Gold Case) Lifetime Record: 12-6-1-0, $230,560. O-KM Racing OBSAPR. Enterprise, Inc.; B-Esembee Inc. (CA); T-Philip D'Amato. 8th-Belmont, $77,000, 6-1, (NW1$X), 3yo/up, f/m, 6fT, 1:10.39, Silaui Jeonseol, g, 4, Bellamy Road--Candle Maker, by Tapit. gd. Busan, 6-1, Hcp. ($84k), 1800m. B-Kinsman Farm (FL). CHINA RIDER (f, 4, Majestic Warrior--Smart Angel, by Smart *$50,000 2yo >16 OBSMAR. Strike) Lifetime Record: 18-2-4-3, $192,374. O-Ivery Sisters Racing & DJC Racing Stables; B-William D. Graham (ON); T-David A. Cannizzo. *$30,000 Ylg '15 KEESEP.

5th-Santa Anita, $63,690 (NW2$X)/Opt. Clm ($62,500), 6-1, 3yo/up, f/m, 1 1/8mT, 1:46.67, fm. VASILIKA (f, 4, Skipshot--La Belle Marquet, by Marquetry) Lifetime Record: 22-8-4-3, $256,155. O-All Schlaich Stables LLC, Hollendorfer LLC, Gatto Racing, LLC and Todaro, G.; B-Mikhail Sunday, June 3, 2018 Yanakov (KY); T-Jerry Hollendorfer. 5th-Hanshin, -13,400,000 ($122k), Newcomers, 2yo, 1400mT PEACE PRAYER (c, 2, Declaration of War--Namaste=s Wish, by 9th-Churchill, $59,750, (NW2X)/Opt. Clm ($62,500), 6-1, 3yo/up, Pulpit) is the latest to make the races for his talented dam, a 1 1/16m (off turf), 1:43.69, ft. full-sister to GISW Purge, who was a stakes winner and Grade III- FIFTH TITLE (h, 5, Quality Road--Kanani, by E Dubai) Lifetime placed on the grass. Third dam Bid Gal ( Bidder) produced Record: 13-3-5-0, $183,049. O-Turf Stable Racing; B-Final Furlong MGSW Valid Wager (Valid Appeal) and was a half-sister to Farm (KY); T-Ian R. Wilkes. *$90,000 Ylg '14 KEEJAN; $90,000 Ylg '14 KEESEP. ​B. B. DUDE became his sire’s first winner with a determined MdSpWt win at Churchill on Friday in his career debut.

Owner: Jerry Durant Breeder: Sally Thomas and New Dawn Stable, LLC Trainer: Steve Asmussen

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6th-Churchill, $58,905, 5-31, (NW1X), 3yo/up, 5 1/2f (off turf), 3rd- Grand, $34,500, (S), 6-1, (NW2L), 3yo/up, 1:04.27, sy. 1 1/16mT, 1:43.81, fm. BURGAMEISTER (g, 4, Bodemeister--Dixie Crisp {SP}, by WILDCARD PRADO (c, 4, Fort Prado--Top Card, by ) Dixieland Band) Lifetime Record: 16-3-4-1, $123,526. Lifetime Record: 2-2-0-0, $40,500. O-House Thoroughbreds & O-Black Hawk Stable (James Rogers); B-J.D. Stuart, P.C. Bance, A Leonard Racing Stable; B-House's Thoroughbreds (IN); T-George R Enterprises, Hollendorfer & Todaro (KY); T-Chris A. Hartman. Leonard, III. *$190,000 RNA 2yo '16 OBSMAR; $135,000 2yo '16 OBSOPN. **1/2 to Reconstruction (Broken Vow), SW, $117,374; Southern 7th-Golden Gate Fields, $34,380, (NW1$X)/Opt. Clm ($40,000), Freedom (Pure Prize), SW & GSP, $284,284. 6-1, 3yo, f, 1mT, 1:37.01, fm. LAVADIA (f, 3, Comic Strip--Oh the Joy, by Tribal Rule) Lifetime 6th-Indiana Grand, $45,000, (S), 6-1, 3yo/up, 6f, 1:09.95, ft. Record: SP, 6-3-1-1, $63,760. WALDEN FOREST (g, 7, Forest Danger--Claire's Jade, by Jade O-Dr. William T. & Jill Gray; B-William T. Gray (CA); T-Quinn Hunter) Lifetime Record: 12-6-1-2, $151,771. O-Larry Waltz & Howey. Rick Neises; B-Thoroughbred Racing Nation (IN); T-Brian Waltz. 8th-Prairie Meadows, $33,336, 5-31, (C), 3yo/up, 1m 70y, 7th-Indiana Grand, $41,600, (NW1X)/Opt. Clm ($25,000), 6-1, 1:41.07, ft. 3yo/up, 5fT, :57.70, fm. STRONG YEN (g, 4, First Samurai--Hidden Value {SP, $126,574}, SATURDAY TRYST (g, 5, Any Given Saturday--Easter Tryst, by by Value Plus) Lifetime Record: 16-3-1-1, $101,650. Demidoff) Lifetime Record: 16-5-2-2, $125,545. O-Kimberly A. O/B-Westrock Stables, LLC (KY); T-Ron Moquett. Kritzer; B-Kritzer Farms (IN); T-Kim Hammond. 6th-Penn National, $28,900, (NW2X)/Opt. Clm ($25,000), 5-31, 1st-Gulfstream, $41,050, (S), (NW1X)/Opt. Clm ($16,000), 6-1, 3yo/up, 6f, 1:10.62, ft. 3yo/up, 1mT, 1:36.60, fm. VERY VERY STELLA (g, 6, High Cotton--Call Me Dancer, by Gate ELK CAMP (c, 3, City Zip--Pretty Jenny {MSW, $534,262}, by Dancer) Lifetime Record: 35-8-4-7, $256,985. O-David Jacobson; Pioneering) Lifetime Record: 8-3-0-1, $76,020. O-Harrell B-Ocala Stud (FL); T-David Jacobson. *1/2 to Dance Caller Ventures, LLC; B-Carson Springs Farm (FL); T-Todd A. Pletcher. (Concorde=s Tune), SW, $365,689. *$100,000 Ylg '16 OBSAUG; $240,000 2yo '17 EASMAY. 7th-Presque Isle, $28,275, (NW2X)/Opt. Clm ($40,000), 5-31, 9th-Laurel, $39,900, 6-1, (NW1X), 3yo/up, 1m (off turf), 1:37.11, 3yo/up, 1 1/16m (AWT), 1:44.36, ft. ft. COLTRANE (g, 4, Spring At Last--Biorra {SP}, by Smoke Glacken) SPECIAL INTENTION (c, 4, Medaglia d'Oro--Summer Soiree Lifetime Record: 15-5-0-1, $73,545. O-Duncan Lloyd & Blazing {GISW, $506,180}, by War Front) Lifetime Record: 9-2-1-0, Meadows Farm LLC; B-Duncan H. Lloyd (KY); T-Timothy E. $60,580. O-Smart Angle LLP; B-Three Chimneys Farm LLC (KY); Hamm. T-Mark J. Reid. *$500,000 Ylg '15 KEESEP.

6th-Finger Lakes, $26,000, (S), 6-1, 3yo/up, 1m, 1:39.53, sy. Purchased by Walnut Green CAUSE I'M ALEX (g, 7, --Giant Leap, by Giant's Causeway) Lifetime Record: 40-11-6-9, $222,968. 4th-Woodbine, C$48,680, Ocl (C)/Opt. Clm ($30,868), 6-1, O-Jeffrey S. Englehart & Frank Fiumera; B-Belwood Stables, LLC 3yo/up, 6fT, 1:08.31, gd. (NY); T-Jeffrey S. Englehart. *1/2 to Macha (Majestic Warrior), SILENT FLASH (g, 4, Silent Name {Jpn}--Flashy Consort, by Bold GSP, $156,014; Maldita Primavera (Sky Mesa), GSW-Per. n' Flashy) Lifetime Record: 16-3-1-4, $129,463. O/B-C. Scott Abbott Racing Stable (ON); T-Michael J. Doyle. 4th-Hollywood Casino At Charles Town Races, $24,500, 5-31, (NW3X), 3yo/up, f/m, 4 1/2f, :52.16, sy. 4th-Indiana Grand, $37,500, (S), 6-1, (NW3L), 3yo/up, f/m, 1m MINING FOR CANDY (f, 4, Mineshaft--Candy d'Oro, by 70y, 1:44.80, ft. Johannesburg) Lifetime Record: 10-3-0-2, $51,425. HOOSIER MAIDEN (m, 5, Charging Indian--Dr. Ray, by Storm Boot) Lifetime Record: 17-3-0-4, $62,511. O-John P. Casey & Larry F. Curtis; B-Magalen O. Bryant (KY); O/T-Terry Phillips; B-Jesse Michael Hopper (IN). T-Larry F. Curtis. TDN REGIONAL REPORT • PAGE 8 OF 9 • THETDN.COM SATURDAY • JUNE 2, 2018

ADDITIONAL MAIDEN WINNERS: Saratoga Colonel, g, 4, Colonel John--Splendid Honor, by Zofia, f, 2, American Lion--Fiji Honeymoon, by Trippi. Prairie Double Honor. Belmont, 6-1, (S), (C), 1mT, 1:38.49. B-Twin Meadows, 6-1, (S), 5f, :58.88. B-Christine Hicklin (IA). Creeks Farm & Machmer Hall (NY). *$45,000 Wlg '14 KEENOV; *1ST-TIME STARTER. **Won by 7 1/2 lengths $80,000 Ylg '15 SARAUG. Scat At Ms. Pat's, f, 2, Bind--Fast Annie, by Cherokee Run. Evangeline, 5-31, (S), 4 1/2f, :53.31. B-J. Adcock (LA). *$5,000 Ylg '17 ESLYRL. **1ST-TIME STARTER. Dixie Dazzle, f, 4, Peak Dancer--Wish Alert (SP, $120,409), by Cat Addiction, c, 2, Tale of the Cat--True Addiction (GSP, Gold Alert. Hollywood Casino At Charles Town Races, 5-31, (S), $115,510), by Yes It's True. Churchill, 5-31, (C), 5f, 1:00.08. 4 1/2f, :53.59. B-Darlene Bowlin (VA). *1ST-TIME STARTER. B-K & G Stables (KY). *$55,000 RNA Ylg '17 KEESEP. Goldberry, f, 4, War --Gush, by Empire Maker. Indiana **1ST-TIME STARTER. ***1/2 to Snapper Sinclair (City Zip), Grand, 6-1, 5fT, :57.28. B-Flaxman Holdings Limited (KY). SW & MGSP, $372,360. *$5,500 Ylg '15 KEESEP. Dijkstra's Devil, g, 3, Algorithms--No Little Angel, by Lord Carson. Belterra, 6-1, (S), 6 1/2f, 1:17.83. B-Spooky Hollow Racing, Inc. (OH). Shimmering Dream, f, 3, Alternation--Shimmering Tale (SP), by Wild Again. Prairie Meadows, 5-31, (S), 6f, 1:11.57. B-Clifton Farm, LLC (IA). *$17,000 Ylg '16 IOWOCT. Rex's Legacy, g, 3, Biondetti-- Club Belle, by Songandaprayer. Penn National, 5-31, 6f, 1:12.34. B-Richard L. AFLEET ALEX, Cause I'm Alex, g, 7, o/o Giant Leap, by Giant's Beattie (FL). *$14,000 RNA Wlg '15 OBSOCT. **1ST-TIME Causeway. ALW, 6-1, Finger Lakes STARTER. ALGORITHMS, Dijkstra's Devil, g, 3, o/o No Little Angel, by Lord Carson. MSW, 6-1, Belterra Sunny Spot, c, 3, Desert Party--Shady Spot, by Honor Glide. ALTERNATION, Shimmering Dream, f, 3, o/o Shimmering Tale, Golden Gate Fields, 6-1, 1mT, 1:38.66. B-Bonnie Heath Farm, by Wild Again. MSW, 5-31, Prairie Meadows LLC (FL). *$7,500 RNA Ylg '16 OBSAUG; $14,000 2yo '17 AMERICAN LION, Zofia, f, 2, o/o Fiji Honeymoon, by Trippi. OBSOPN. MSW, 6-1, Prairie Meadows Two Swords, g, 3, First Samurai--Smiling Eyes, by Saint Ballado. ANY GIVEN SATURDAY, Saturday Tryst, g, 5, o/o Easter Tryst, by Presque Isle, 5-31, 6f (AWT), 1:10.61. B-Zeke Kobak, Bramer Demidoff. AOC, 6-1, Indiana Grand Thoroughbreds & Benwillaw Thoroughbreds (KY). *$100,000 ARAGORN (IRE), Touching Rainbows, g, 5, o/o Violin Case, by Ylg '16 FTSAUG. **1/2 to Harlan=s Ruby (Harlan=s Holiday), SW Gold Case. AOC, 6-1, Santa Anita & GISP, $172,245. ARCHARCHARCH, Skippin' Church, f, 4, o/o Saint Misbehavin', SELECT SALES Graduate...Exceeding Expectations by Sweetsouthernsaint. MSW, 6-1, Finger Lakes Pass the Butter, c, 3, Oxbow--Sunday Money, by Gone West. BIND, Scat At Ms. Pat's, f, 2, o/o Fast Annie, by Cherokee Run. Gulfstream, 6-1, (C), 1mT, 1:36.78. B-Ramspring Farm (KY). MSW, 5-31, Evangeline *$140,000 Ylg '16 KEESEP. BIONDETTI, Rex's Legacy, g, 3, o/o Music Club Belle, by Pointedlee, f, 3, Point of Entry--Lee Gage, by Fit to Fight. Songandaprayer. MSW, 5-31, Penn National Gulfstream, 6-1, (C), 1mT, 1:38.10. B-Paul Lichtefeld & Jack BODEMEISTER, American Anthem, c, 4, o/o Indy's Windy, by Stewart (KY). *1/2 to Engaginglee (), GSW & A.P. Indy. AOC, 6-1, Churchill GISP, $340,620. BODEMEISTER, Burgameister, g, 4, o/o Dixie Crisp, by Dixieland to Learn, f, 3, Take Charge Indy--Southbound, by Southern Band. ALW, 5-31, Churchill Image. Woodbine, 6-1, 6 1/2f (AWT), 1:16.69. B-Merriebelle CANDY RIDE (ARG), Ride a Comet, c, 3, o/o Appealing Zophie, by Stable, LLC (KY). *$30,000 Ylg '16 KEESEP. **2 to Successful Appeal. ALW, 6-1, Woodbine Sweetsoutherndame (Colonel John), MSP, $150,031. CHARGING INDIAN, Hoosier Maiden, m, 5, o/o Dr. Ray, by Storm Skippin' Church, f, 4, Archarcharch--Saint Misbehavin', by Boot. ALW, 6-1, Indiana Grand Sweetsouthernsaint. Finger Lakes, 6-1, (S), 1m 70y, 1:48.60. CITY ZIP, Elk Camp, c, 3, o/o Pretty Jenny, by Pioneering. AOC, B-Windhorse Thoroughbreds, LLC (NY). *$15,000 Ylg '15 6-1, Gulfstream SARAUG. **1/2 to Mischief Maker (Cape Town), SW, COLONEL JOHN, Saratoga Colonel, g, 4, o/o Splendid Honor, by $267,617. Double Honor. MCL, 6-1, Belmont Cont. p9

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TDN Winners by Sire cont. MEDAGLIA D'ORO, Special Intention, c, 4, o/o Summer Soiree, COMIC STRIP, Lavadia, f, 3, o/o Oh the Joy, by Tribal Rule. AOC, by War Front. ALW, 6-1, Laurel 6-1, Golden Gate MINESHAFT, Mining for Candy, f, 4, o/o Candy d'Oro, by DESERT PARTY, Sunny Spot, c, 3, o/o Shady Spot, by Honor Johannesburg. ALW, 5-31, Charles Town Glide. MSW, 6-1, Golden Gate OXBOW, Pass the Butter, c, 3, o/o Sunday Money, by Gone DISTORTED HUMOR, Tillie's Lily, f, 4, o/o Supreme, by Empire West. MCL, 6-1, Gulfstream Maker. AOC, 6-1, Belmont PEAK DANCER, Dixie Dazzle, f, 4, o/o Wish Alert, by Gold Alert. DIVINE PARK, Divine Queen, f, 3, o/o Town Queen, by MSW, 5-31, Charles Town Williamstown. ALW, 6-1, Churchill POINT OF ENTRY, Entirely, f, 2, o/o Reef Bay, by Danzig. MSW, DIVINE PARK, Sensitive, f, 4, o/o Kittery Point, by Include. AOC, 6-1, Gulfstream 5-31, Churchill POINT OF ENTRY, Pointedlee, f, 3, o/o Lee Gage, by Fit to Fight. FASTNET ROCK (AUS), Desert Stone (Ire), c, 3, o/o Starstone MCL, 6-1, Gulfstream (GB), by Diktat (GB). AOC, 6-1, Santa Anita QUALITY ROAD, Fifth Title, h, 5, o/o Kanani, by E Dubai. AOC, FIRST SAMURAI, Strong Yen, g, 4, o/o Hidden Value, by Value 6-1, Churchill Plus. ALW, 5-31, Prairie Meadows RUN AWAY AND HIDE, Beach Getaway, f, 2, o/o Seaside Magic, FIRST SAMURAI, Two Swords, g, 3, o/o Smiling Eyes, by Saint by Hard Spun. MSW, 6-1, Churchill Ballado. MSW, 5-31, Presque Isle SHAKIN IT UP, B. B. Dude, c, 2, o/o Purrfect Song, by Unbridled's FOREST DANGER, Walden Forest, g, 7, o/o Claire's Jade, by Jade Song. MSW, 6-1, Churchill Hunter. ALW, 6-1, Indiana Grand SILENT NAME (JPN), Silent Flash, g, 4, o/o Flashy Consort, by FORT PRADO, Wildcard Prado, c, 4, o/o Top Card, by Go for Gin. Bold n' Flashy. OCL, 6-1, Woodbine ALW, 6-1, Indiana Grand SKIPSHOT, Vasilika, f, 4, o/o La Belle Marquet, by Marquetry. FORTY TALES, Tales of Chaucer, c, 2, o/o Sweet Aloha, by AOC, 6-1, Santa Anita Western Cat. MSW, 6-1, Belmont SPRING AT LAST, Coltrane, g, 4, o/o Biorra, by Smoke Glacken. HIGH COTTON, Very Very Stella, g, 6, o/o Call Me Dancer, by AOC, 5-31, Presque Isle . AOC, 5-31, Penn National TAKE CHARGE INDY, Love to Learn, f, 3, o/o Southbound, by INTO MISCHIEF, Classy Act, f, 3, o/o Acting Class, by Distorted Southern Image. MSW, 6-1, Woodbine Humor. AOC, 6-1, Churchill TALE OF THE CAT, Cat Addiction, c, 2, o/o True Addiction, by Yes MAJESTIC WARRIOR, China Rider, f, 4, o/o Smart Angel, by It's True. MCL, 5-31, Churchill Smart Strike. ALW, 6-1, Belmont TAMAYUZ (GB), Casino Red (Ire), f, 3, o/o Casina Valadier (Ire), by Fath. AOC, 6-1, Santa Anita TIZ WONDERFUL, Hot Autumn, f, 3, o/o Shesoprovocative, by Orientate. MSW, 6-1, Santa Anita WAR CHANT, Goldberry, f, 4, o/o Gush, by Empire Maker. MSW, 6-1, Indiana Grand

Divine Queen (inside) provided her sire Divine Park with his second Churchill Downs win in as many days Friday. | Coady

Saturday, Santa Anita, post time: 7:30 p.m. EDT BEHOLDER MILE S.-GI, $400,000, 3yo/up, f/m, 1m PP HORSE SIRE OWNER TRAINER JOCKEY ML 1 Munny Spunt K Munnings ERJ Racing, LLC, Fuller, John, Robershaw, Richie, O'Neill Frey 30-1 O'Neill, Doug and Rothblum,S 2 Mopotism K Uncle Mo Reddam Racing LLC O'Neill Franco 15-1 3 La Force (Ger) Power (GB) Williford, Roberta, Williford, Ward and Gallagher Van Dyke 20-1 Winner, Charles N. 4 Paradise Woods Union Rags Sarkowsky, Steven, Wygod, Martin J. and P Wygod Mandella Prat 2-1 5 Vale Dori (Arg) Asiatic Boy (Arg) Sheikh Mohammed bin Khalifa al Maktoum Baffert Bejarano 4-1 6 Unique Bella K Tapit Don Alberto Stable Hollendorfer Smith 3-5

Breeders: 1-Harriet Finkelstein & Hartley de RenzoThoroughbreds, 2-Frank T Batten, 3-Gestut Karlshof, 4-Herman Sarkowsky, 5-Abolengo, 6-Brushwood Stable

Saturday, Penn National, post time: 7:45 p.m. EDT PENN MILE S.-GII, $500,000, 3yo, 1mT PP HORSE SIRE OWNER TRAINER JOCKEY ML 1 Coltandmississippi K Pioneerof the Nile Teresa Viola Racing Stables and St. Elias Stable Pletcher Rosario 8-1 2 Encumbered Violence Reddam Racing LLC Callaghan Gutierrez 6-1 3 Maraud K Blame Treadway Racing Stable Pletcher Velazquez 5-2 4 Therapist Freud Oak Bluff Stables Clement Ortiz, Jr. 3-1 5 Way Early Tizway Hill, Jim and Susan Weaver Carmouche 10-1 6 Hawkish Artie Schiller LaPenta, Robert V., AJ Suited Racing Stable, LLC Toner Franco 5-1 and Madaket Stables LLC 7 Smart Remark K First Defence Humphrey, Jr., G. Watts, O'Brien, Brendan and Oliver Lezcano 12-1 Klatsky, Brian 8 He's Bankable Arch Live Oak Plantation Casse Gaffalione 6-1

Breeders: 1-Alexander-Groves Thoroughbreds, 2-Rose Hill Farm & Ralph Stroope, 3-John R. Penn & Frank Penn, 4-Oak Bluff Stable, LLC & C. Clement, 5-Mares Rule III, 6-AJ Suited, LLC, 7-G. Watts Humphrey Jr. & St. GeorgeFarm, LLC, 8-Live Oak Stud

Saturday, Woodbine, post time: 4:57 p.m. EDT CONNAUGHT CUP S.-GII, C$175,000, 4yo/up, 7fT PP HORSE SIRE OWNER TRAINER JOCKEY ML 1 Caribou Club City Zip Glen Hill Farm Proctor Boulanger 8-1 2 Conquest Panthera K Kitten's Joy Gary Barber Casse Husbands 3-1 3 Tower of Texas K Van Meter II, Thomas F. and Dilworth, Scott Attfield Da Silva 7-2 4 Bondurant War Front Whitham Thoroughbreds LLC Wilkes Mosqueira 12-1 5 Camelot Kitten Kitten's Joy Ramsey, Kenneth L. and Sarah K. Maker Hernandez 6-1 6 Yorkton Speightstown Chiefswood Stable Simon Bahen 15-1 7 Forge (GB) Dubawi (Ire) Juddmonte Farms, Inc. Mott Contreras 2-1 8 Dimension (GB) Medicean (GB) Riverside Bloodstock, LLC Murphy Moran 20-1

Breeders: 1-Glen Hill Farm, 2-Kenneth L Ramsey & Sarah K. Ramsey, 3-Anderson Farms (Ontario) Inc. & RodFerguson, 4-Janis R. Whitham, 5-Kenneth L. Ramsey & Sarah K. Ramsey, 6-Chiefswood Stables Limited, 7-Juddmonte Farms Ltd, 8-Cheveley Park Stud Ltd Saturday, Belmont, post time: 5:50 p.m. EDT PENNINE RIDGE S.-GIII, $200,000, 3yo, 1 1/8mT PP HORSE SIRE OWNER TRAINER JOCKEY ML 1 Up the Ante K Smart Strike Castleton Lyons Clement Cohen 10-1 2 Hawkish Artie Schiller LaPenta, R, AJ Suited Racing Stable & Madaket Stables Toner Franco 7-2 3 Catholic Boy K More Than Ready LaPenta, Robert V, Madaket Stables & Siena Farm Thomas Castellano 4-1 4 Analyze It K Point of Entry William H. Lawrence Brown Ortiz 4-5 5 Irish Territory (Ire) Declaration of War Zayat Stables, LLC Mott Alvarado 15-1 6 Untamed Domain K Animal Kingdom West Point Thoroughbreds Motion Bravo 5-1 7 Archaggelos K Temple City Monticule LLC Dickinson Maragh 20-1 8 Channel Cat English Channel Pletcher Saez 20-1

Breeders: 1-Castleton Lyons & Kilboy Estate, 2-AJ Suited, LLC, 3-Fred W. Hertrich III & John D. Fielding, 4-P. Headley Bell, Nancy Bell & NATO, 5-Springbank Way Stud, 6-Clearsky Farms, 7-Monticule, 8-Calumet Farm

Saturday, Churchill, post time: 10:42 p.m. EDT ARISTIDES S.-GIII, $100,000, 3yo/up, 6f PP HORSE SIRE OWNER TRAINER JOCKEY ML 1 Smart Spree Smart Strike Trinity Racing Stables, Inc. and Racer's Edge Inc. McKnight Santana, Jr. 5-1 2 Shadow Tracer Even the Score Elkhorn Oaks, Inc. Jackson Albarado 20-1 3 Wilbo K Candy Ride (Arg) Chris Wilkins Hartman Cabrera 9-5 4 Heartwood Tapit Chapman, James K. and Tsujimoto, Stuart Chapman Borel 15-1 5 Mr. K Tapizar KRA Stud Farm Colebrook Lanerie 5-2 6 Awesome Saturday K Any Given Saturday Chuck Hovitz Calhoun Hernandez, Jr. 7-2 7 Chief Cicatriz Munnings Roy Gene Evans Davis Graham 6-1

Breeders: 1-George Strawbridge Jr., 2-Elkhorn Oaks Inc., 3-Woodford Thoroughbreds, 4-Blue Heaven Farm, LLC, 5-Avalon Farms, Inc. & Scott Swaim, 6-Craig L Minten, 7-Roy Gene Evans SATURDAY, 2 JUNE, 2018

HISTORY AT HIS MERCY FOREVER PUTS IT If Aidan O=Brien wins Saturday=s G1 Investec Derby at Epsom, TOGETHER IN THE OAKS he will equal the record of seven wins in the blue riband while still very much in his prime, and will just edge out the great Fred Darling in one respect. That Beckhampton legend spread his septet over 19 years from 1922 to 1941, but the current helmsman of Ballydoyle can do it in 17 having begun in 2001 with what has become in many ways the cornerstone horse of his career in Galileo (Ire). Everyone is looking to >TDN Rising Star= Saxon Warrior (Jpn) (Deep Impact {Jpn}) to provide Derby number 13 in total for the world=s most famous training centre, with the late great Dr Vincent O=Brien carving out the initial six between 1962 and 1982. One of those to have immortalised himself and his trainer was Britain=s last Triple Crown hero II, and now there is another with the Alook of eagles@ whose momentum is set on that particular path. Cont. p4

Forever Together and Donnacha O=Brien | racingfotos.com IN TDN AMERICA TODAY Still a maiden entering Friday=s G1 Investec Oaks at Epsom and never nearer than 3 1/2 lengths away from the winner in three LUCKY AND GOOD starts, Forever Together (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}) left that tag at the Chris McGrath looks at the recent purple patch of success for Coolmore America’s Lookin At Lucky. Click or tap here to go start as she powered to a 4 1/2-length success from Wild straight to TDN America. Illusion (GB) (Dubawi {Ire}) under the 2000 Guineas-winning jockey Donnacha O=Brien. Settled in a share of fourth early along with that 5-2 favourite, the 7-1 shot--who had been second in the May 9 Listed Cheshire Oaks--was brought stand=s side and had the Godolphin rival=s measure approaching the two-furlong pole. Staying on stoutly to the line, the bay provided her trainer with a seventh renewal in the process as stablemate Bye Bye Baby (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}) trailed by another 3 1/2 lengths in third. AShe was very impressive and I got a beautiful trip through the race,@ her rider commented. AI got onto the rail and she was very genuine and galloped out to the line very well. She=s a proper staying filly and I should have been a lot closer at Chester. When the rain came I was a bit worried, but she handled it well. I didn=t expect her to do that, but it all played out perfectly and the stand=s rail seems the place to be. Dad=s an absolute genius and is able to do things with these horses I don=t understand. He tweaks little things and brings out massive improvement in them.@ Cont. p2 TDN EUROPE/INTERNATIONAL • PAGE 2 OF 18 • THETDN.COM SATURDAY • 2 JUNE 2018

Forever Puts It Together In The Oaks cont. from p1 finished strung out on the testing ground with four of the five Forever Together, who was becoming the first maiden to win O=Brien fillies in the first five places. Aidan O=Brien, who had this since (GB) in 1983, was fitting a now-familiar missed Donnacha=s triumph on Saxon Warrior (Jpn) (Deep pattern for her stable as she learnt on each outing at two Impact {Jpn}) in the Guineas, was on hand this time but was without the need to produce big figures before she was ready. typically keen to attribute the credit elsewhere. AIt is incredible-- Enjoying the ideal introduction under a hands-and-heels finish I=m so delighted and thankful for everyone,@ he said. AShe=s a when fourth to Who=s Steph (Ire) (Zoffany {Ire}) over a mile at staying filly that gets the trip very well. I=m over the moon and Naas in the first week of October, the bay was more aggressively so happy for everyone.@ ridden later that month when third to >TDN Rising Star= Contingent (GB) (Frankel {GB}) at that trip at Leopardstown. Beaten a combination of almost 14 lengths in those two juvenile DAD’S AN ABSOLUTE GENIUS AND IS starts, she re-emerged a different proposition but encountered trouble in running when 3 1/2 lengths second to =s ABLE TO DO THINGS WITH THESE choice Magic Wand (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}) at Chester=s May meeting, HORSES I DON’T UNDERSTAND. which has become a tried-and-tested trialling ground for Donnacha O’Brien Ballydoyle=s Epsom candidates. Keeping >TDN Rising Star= Wild Illusion company as Bye Bye Baby set a demanding tempo in the conditions with Magic Wand just ahead, Forever Together was allowed the stand=s rail as Ryan Moore glanced behind on the labouring Magic Wand after Tattenham Corner, and that proved crucial as Wild Illusion was The winner is almost guaranteed to head to The Curragh for sent on into a brief lead. Once the eventual winner was past last the Irish equivalent now, according to her trainer. AI think it will year=s G1 heroine with over two furlongs be the [July 21] next, we=ll see what the lads want to still to race, there was no fight left in her main rival and they do, but that=s what you=d be thinking. TDN EUROPE/INTERNATIONAL • PAGE 3 OF 18 • THETDN.COM SATURDAY • 2 JUNE 2018

Before and After: Forever Together pictured on the left as a i900,000 Goffs Orby purchase, and on the right winning Friday=s G1 Investec Oaks Photos courtesy Goffs and Racing Post

She=d love The Curragh, you=d . I was very happy with all This is the family of the GI Yellow Ribbon S. scorer Spanish Fern the fillies, really. Donnacha rides her in her work and rode her at (El Gran Senor), G1 Gran Criterium winner Hearts of Fire (GB) Chester and she was the filly he wanted to ride, Ryan couldn=t (Firebreak {GB}), the GI Santa Anita H.-winning sire Heatseeker get off his filly as he was delighted with her at Chester. It=s (Ire) (Giant=s Causeway) and MGSW sire Democratic Deficit (Ire) incredible what Donnacha is doing and we=re grateful to a lot of (Soviet Star). Under Al Bahathri is a lengthy list of high-class people who work hard every day, we really appreciate it. runners including the G1 2000 Guineas and G1 Champion S.- Donnacha has always been a very good rider, he=s very cool, he winning sire Haafhd (GB) (Alhaarth {Ire}), the MGSW sire Munir rides a lot of work at home, but he=s only 19. He=s a tall fella, (GB) (Indian Ridge {Ire}), Hong Kong Horse of the year Military we=re very grateful to him, he=s very confident, he=s been Attack (Ire) (Oratorio {Ire}), last year=s G1 Gold Cup hero Big watching racing since he opened his eyes so tactically he=s very Orange (GB) ( {Ire}), the G1 Hong Kong Vase aware. He can make his own decisions and stand by them.@ hero Red Cadeaux (GB) (Cadeaux Genereux {GB}) and even last Wild Illusion was unable to overcome the much-discussed one year=s G3 Molecomb S.-winning sprinting juvenile Havana Grey draw that Saxon Warrior also has in the Derby, but William Buick (GB) (Havana Gold {Ire}). was not blaming that for the favourite=s defeat. AYou do just Green Room was bought by Vimal and Gillian Khosla for have to use a bit going uphill from there, but it was only a $240,000 at the 2006 Keeneland January Sale and her last two nine-runner race and I certainly wouldn=t call it a coffin draw,@ daughters to go up for auction were this filly and the useful he said. AIt=s really the ground that is the issue, as it has now Signe (Ire) (Sea the Stars {Ire}). They fetched i2-million in total changed a few things. I=m rely proud of her, as she=s grown up a at the Goffs Orby Sale and she has a yearling full-sister to lot and stayed on well. It=s very testing out there for those fillies Forever Together and Together Forever to come. Click for the and I had a fair fight with Donnacha in a straightforward race, so free Equineline.com catalogue-style pedigree. fair play to the winner. My filly stays a mile and a half and has a bit of zip and class, so there is a lot to look forward to.@ Trainer Charlie Appleby added, AWilliam said she was not comfortable Friday, Epsom, Britain coming down the hill. She came there to win her race, but the INVESTEC OAKS-G1, ,500,000, Epsom, 6-1, 3yo, f, 12f 6yT, winner has outstayed us and was the better horse on the day.@ 2:40.39, sf. 1--FOREVER TOGETHER (IRE), 126, f, 3, by Galileo (Ire) Pedigree Notes... 1st Dam: Green Room, by Theatrical (Ire) Forever Together wins no prizes in the naming department, 2nd Dam: Chain Fern, by (Fr) being a full-sister to the operation=s G1 Fillies= Mile heroine 3rd Dam: Chain Store, by Nodouble Together Forever (Ire), who was only seventh in this three years 1ST BLACK-TYPE WIN; 1ST GROUP WIN; 1ST GROUP 1 WIN. ago. Also a half to the speedier G1 Prix Jean Prat-winning sire (i900,000 Ylg >16 GOFORB). O-Michael Tabor, Derrick Smith & Lord Shanakill (Speightstown), she is a granddaughter of an Susan Magnier; B-Vimal & Gillian Khosla (IRE); T-Aidan O=Brien; unraced sister to Shadwell=s magnificent G1 Irish 1000 Guineas- J-Donnacha O=Brien. ,283,550. Lifetime Record: 4-1-1-1, winning matriarch Al Bahathri (Blushing Groom {Fr}). $401,495. *Full to Together Forever (Ire), G1SW-Eng & SW-Ire, TDN EUROPE/INTERNATIONAL • PAGE 4 OF 18 • THETDN.COM SATURDAY • 2 JUNE 2018

$318,729; and 1/2 to Lord Shanakill (Speightstown), G1SW-Fr, MGSW & MG1SP-Eng, $908,475. Werk Nick Rating: B. Click for the eNicks report & 5-cross pedigree. Dam Sold by Grovendale Congratulations to the Connections! 2--Wild Illusion (GB), 126, f, 3, by Dubawi (Ire) 1st Dam: Rumh (Ger), by Monsun (Ger) 2nd Dam: Royal Dubai (Ger), by Dashing Blade (GB) 3rd Dam: Reem Dubai (Ire), by >TDN Rising Star= O/B-Godolphin (GB); T-Charlie Vice President, International Operations Appleby. ,107,500. Gary King 3--Bye Bye Baby (Ire), 126, f, 3, by Galileo (Ire) Twitter: @garykingTDN 1st Dam: Remember When (Ire), by Dancer (Ire) [email protected] 2nd Dam: Lagrion, by Diesis (GB) + 1.732.320.0975 3rd Dam: Wrap It Up (Ire), by Mount Hagen (Fr) O-Michael Tabor, Derrick Smith International Editor & Susan Magnier; B-Remember When Syndicate (IRE); T-Aidan Kelsey Riley O=Brien. ,53,800. Twitter: @kelseynrileyTDN Margins: 4HF, 3HF, 3. Odds: 7.00, 2.50, 8.00. [email protected] Also Ran: Magic Wand (Ire), Flattering (Ire), Give And Take (GB), European Editor Perfect Clarity (GB), I Can Fly (GB), Ejtyah (GB). Click for the Emma Berry Racing Post result. Video, sponsored by Fasig-Tipton. Twitter: @collingsberry [email protected] History At His Mercy cont. from p1

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Cafe Racing Sean Cronin Tom Frary Saxon Warrior winning the 2000 Guineas | Racing Post [email protected] Like that deity who stands timeless in statue form now at the Irish Correspondent gates at Rosegreen, he is by a sire of which Europe has had very Daithi Harvey little exposure, and faces the same doubts about his stamina. He Regular Columnists also has to run exposed for the first few hundred yards from his Andrew Caulfield lowest draw, manage the terrain and at some point try his John Berry impressive stride on unique camber on sinking ground which will Kevin Blake submerge some of his natural and disturb his rhythm. Tom Peacock Cont. p5 ACE HIGH Victoria Derby Gr.1

AUSTRALIAN-BREDS LEVENDI Australia Derby Gr.1 CONQUER THE CLASSICS LEICESTER South Australia Derby Gr.1 In 2017/18, -breds have been victorious in every Group 1 Derby and Oaks contested in Australia to date.

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Investec Derby Preview cont. O=Brien has worked his and influence at Ballydoyle over the last four weeks, aided by the reins-work of some of the finest riders in racing and the painstaking attention and diligence of his stable staff. AComplacency is the one thing that will come and get you one day, so we do our best every second of every day,@ he recently said. AIt=s all about now and tomorrow.@ The now is up to Ryan Moore, surely one of the greatest riding minds of recent times with an unerringly accurate sense of pace and steel will and nerve, so Saxon Warrior is in safe hands. O=Brien gave an insight into the way the likely odds-on favourite will be ridden in the big race now that the draw has effectively forced him to run direct to the left-hand rail after the first right- hander. AI haven=t spoken to Ryan about the draw, but I=d imagine he would have been taking his time on him anyway,@ he revealed. AHe didn=t have any problem with the dip at Newmarket and he wears his head low, so we=ll see what happens at Epsom. There are so many variables in races that you cannot control, such as horses around you and position. Obviously, if we are lucky enough to get him to Epsom in good shape, hopefully the rest will fall into place.@ Saxon Warrior has the 1992 Derby hero Dr Devious (Ire) in his pedigree, but Godolphin=s G1 2000 Guineas third Masar (Ire) (New Approach {Ire}) has the aforementioned Galileo and Sea the Stars (Ire) in his. His third dam Melikah (Ire) () also came here for the Oaks with one race behind her in the AI think he has the right mind to go to Epsom,@ he said. AAs we millennium year and finished like a train under Chris McCarron all know, it=s a big stage there and it can be a challenge to a lot to be third, while his sire prevailed in 2008. This is simply the of horses. But what I=ve seen in Masar of late is a colt who is best Epsom pedigree in the line-up by far and the descendant of much more grown up. On pedigree, he should stay, and he is Urban Sea is better than anything Godolphin have brought here now mentally where you would like a horse who is stepping up since the non-staying Dubawi (Ire) in 2005. The colt he beat in trip to be.@ comfortably in Sandown=s G3 S. in September, Harry Dunlop was just a toddler when his father John=s first Romanised (Ire) (Holy Roman Emperor {Ire}), gave him extra Derby winner Heights (GB) prevailed in 1978 and his time kudos on Saturday and he is two-from-two in encounters with to be part of the build-up has come around now with Neil the second favourite Roaring Lion (Kitten=s Joy). Connections are Jones=s homebred Knight To Behold (Ire) (Sea the Stars {Ire}). notably upbeat, with Charlie Appleby delighted with the way His comprehensive defeat of (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}) in Masar has come out of the Guineas. the May 12 Listed Lingfield Derby Trial was a throwback to the impressive winners of that once-important prep such as , (GB) and (Ire) and there is much to I THINK HE HAS THE RIGHT MIND TO GO work on from the homebred whose relations are long-term projects. TO EPSOM. WHAT I’VE SEEN IN MASAR AI know Aidan O=Brien always holds all the aces and I know OF LATE IS A COLT WHO IS things will be different with pacemakers and things, but the main thing is to try and enjoy it,@ he said. AIt is fantastic to have a MUCH MORE GROWN UP. horse considered to have a chance in the race. I=ve worked for Charlie Appleby dad, and he has had two winners, and Henry Cecil, who I also worked with, had an incredible strike-rate in it, but to be doing it yourself is very special and obviously having a horse good enough to do it.@ Cont. p6 TDN EUROPE/INTERNATIONAL • PAGE 6 OF 18 • THETDN.COM SATURDAY • 2 JUNE 2018

Investec Derby cont. HAZAPOUR (IRE) (Shamardal) is out of Hazafara (Ire) ( Over at ParisLongchamp, the Wertheimers= G3 Prix du {Ire}), a listed-winning half-sister to 2016 Derby winner Harzand Calvados winner and G1 Prix Marcel Boussac runner-up (Ire) (Sea The Stars {Ire}). Their dam had been culled for Polydream (Ire) (Oasis Dream {GB}) bids to get back on track 480,000gns when Harzand was a yearling; Hazarafa's 4-year-old after an unplaced effort in the G1 Poule d=Essai des Pouliches in daughter Harrana (Ire) (New Approach {Ire}) likewise stands to the seven-furlong G3 Prix du Palais-Royal, where she meets the boost her value after being sold to Tally Ho Stud for i150,000 at smart Godolphin duo Inns of Court (Ire) (Invincible Spirit {Ire}) Goffs in February. B-HH The Aga Khan's Studs SC and Jimmy Two Times (Fr) (Kendargent {Fr}). (Return to story p1) KEW GARDENS (IRE) (Galileo {Ire}) is the seventh foal out of the G1 Moyglare Stud S. winner Chelsea Rose (Ire) (Desert King {Ire}), who was sold to BBA Ireland by Mrs A.J. Donnelly/Airlie Stud for i450,000 at the Goffs November Sale in 2012. At that time her son Thawaany (Ire) (Tamazyuz {GB}) had just started his career; he subsequently became a Group 3 winner and finished second in the G1 Prix Maurice de Gheest. B-Barronstown S.

The power of the major owner-breeders on the European Turf is vividly measured by this year's Investec Derby field, featuring only three that have been through an auction ring--one of which has ended up running in the silks of his breeder anyway. Here is our runner-by-runner guide to their origins:

DEE EX BEE (GB) (Farhh {GB}) is home-bred out of Dubai Sunrise (Seeking The Gold), an unraced sister to champion Dubai Millennium. The family contains smart sprinters like Danzig's sons Elnadim, Hamas (Ire) and Bianconi but this colt belongs to the first crop of a sire with a stout female line. B-Godolphin

DELANO ROOSEVELT (IRE) (Galileo {Ire}) is out of the David Roaring Lion is a Keeneland September graduate | Racing Post Wachman-trained Again (Ire) (Danehill Dancer {Ire}), a dual Group 1 winner at the Curragh (Moyglare Stud S./Irish 1000 KNIGHT TO BEHOLD (IRE) (Sea The Stars {Ire}) was home-bred Guineas). Her dam was a half-sister to , sire of a by Neil Jones out of an unraced sister to his Derby third Let The record-equalling four Derby winners and grandsire of another Lion Roar (GB) (Sadler's Wells) and half-sister to his St Leger last year. B-Orpendale and Chelston winner (GB) (), from an elite TDN EUROPE/INTERNATIONAL • PAGE 7 OF 18 • THETDN.COM SATURDAY • 2 JUNE 2018

Ballymacoll family. Her previous foals include two group {Ire}), whose dam Sumora (Ire) (Danehill) was a sprinter herself winners, one over two miles in Japan and the other of the Blue but is closely related to Oaks winner (Ire) (Danehill Wind S. B-Abergwaun Farms Dancer {Ire}). B-Orpendale, Chelston & Wynatt

MASAR (GB) (New Approach {Ire}) is by an Epsom Derby winner SEVENNA STAR (IRE) (Redoute's Choice {Aus}) gives the out of UAE Derby winner Khawlah (Ire) (Cape Cross {Ire}). He is champion sire another footprint in the race, being out of his inbred 3x4 twice over: not just to Urban Sea, who is his fourth daughter Sevenna (Fr) (Galileo {Ire}), a Group 3 winner over dam as well as the mother of New Approach's sire Galileo, but 1m6f. That fits the profile of a sturdy German family, with a also to Ahonoora (GB) (Lorenzaccio {GB}), who sired the dams of second dam who won the German Oaks, and this imposing colt both New Approach and Cape Cross. B-Godolphin will doubtless be able to extend the Danehill zip of his sire over this extra distance. B-Ammerland Verwaltung Gmbh & Co Kg ROARING LION (Kitten's Joy) has a rare distinction, in this field, in having changed hands at public auction. He was bought from THE PENTAGON (IRE) (Galileo {Ire}) was bred, like Kew Gardens, the Taylor Made Sales Agency by David Redvers for $160,000 at by Barronstown Stud. His dam Vadawina (Ire) (Unfuwain) was the Keeneland September Yearling Sale of 2016, as the first foal sold by the Aga Khan Studs at Arqana in December 2013, of Vionnet (Street Sense) who was Grade I-placed over 10 knocked down to Horse France for i600,000. She was highly furlongs on turf. Two of her half-siblings won Grade II races, also accomplished in a brief racetrack career, winning the G1 Prix on grass, at a mile and nine furlongs; but their dam won her two Saint-Alary, and has produced a number of stakes Grade III prizes at just 6.5 furlongs. B-Ranjan Racing Inc winners/performers. B-Barronstown Stud

SAXON WARRIOR (JPN) (Deep Impact {Jpn}) is the sensational YOUNG RASCAL (FR) (Intello {Ger}) joins Kitten's Joy as the only outcome of an outcross experiment for Coolmore's Galileo other runner to change hands at public auction. Moreover he mares with the perennial champion sire of Japan. He is the emerges from the same sale as last year's winner Of second foal of G1 Moyglare Stud S winner Maybe (Ire) (Galileo Eagles (Fr) (Pour Moi {Ire}). Cont. p8 TDN EUROPE/INTERNATIONAL • PAGE 8 OF 18 • THETDN.COM SATURDAY • 2 JUNE 2018

Presented by Mezeray at the Arqana August Yearling Sale of 2016, he was purchased for i215,000 by Stroud Coleman Bloodstock. B-Ecurie Peregrine SAS

ZABRISKIE (IRE) (Frankel {GB}) gives a different flavour to Ballydoyle's entry, not being a Coolmore production. He was bred by the Niarchos family's Flaxman operation from the unraced dam of two Group 1 winners in Bago (Fr) (Nashwan) and Maxios (GB) (Monsun {Ger}), herself a daughter of the brilliant Coup De Genie (Mr Prospector). Zabriskie did go through the ring as a yearling at the Goffs Orby Sale in 2016, when presented by Camas Park Stud and knocked down to BBA Ireland for i750,000, but races in the silks of his breeders. B-Flaxman Stables Ireland Ltd

CARMICHAEL=S INTELLOGENT APPROACH By Emma Berry If Fiona Carmichael had her own stallion operation, she'd have quite a roster by now. The Jersey-based owner has only been involved in racing since 2011 but she has already raced, through various partnerships, the group winners Toronado (Ire), Havana Gold (Ire) and Ivawood (Ire), all of whom are now in the nascent stages of their stud careers. Tomorrow, Carmichael is represented by another colt who will All three of those Richard Hannon-trained colts ran in Classics. certainly be in demand for a stallion career if all goes to plan in Toronado and Havana Gold had already been sold on to their the G1 for Intellogent (Fr). The first-crop son respective Qatari owners by that stage and went on to win of Intello (Ger) is trained by Fabrice Chappet, who handles the Group 1 contests later in the season, but Ivawood fared best of owner's French-based horses, while Hugo Palmer, William the trio in that early test of 3-year-old prowess when finishing Haggas and Jane Chapple-Hyam are employed in Britain, Jessica third in both the English and Irish 2,000 Guineas. Harrington in Ireland and Brett Crawford in South Africa. Such extensive international racing interests have come about from a chance conversation on a riding holiday, as Carmichael explains. "I was in Spain with some girlfriends and one of their husbands had a racehorse so I came home and said to my late husband, 'Do you fancy a racehorse?', and he said, 'No'. So that was it really." During a meeting with her financial adviser Douglas Pryde-the co-owner of 2013 winner (Ire)-after the death of her husband, the subject of racing was raised again when Pryde asked permission to use her husband's nickname Mark Carmers for a colt he owned by Mark Of Esteem (Ire). "My daughter and I went over to Deauville to watch him race but in the end he didn't run and I ended up being invited to the sales by the husband of my friend from the riding holiday," says Fiona Carmichael has enjoyed early success as an owner | Emma Berry Carmichael. "I went along for the morning and by lunchtime I'd asked if I could take a leg in the horse they were buying." Cont. p9 TDN EUROPE/INTERNATIONAL • PAGE 9 OF 18 • THETDN.COM SATURDAY • 2 JUNE 2018

Fiona Carmichael cont. She continues, "Intellogent had such presence when we saw That morning was also the first time she met her bloodstock him at the sales. To be going to the Prix du Jockey Club with him agent and racing manager Amanda Skiffington, who has been is what dreams are made of. We've had a few attempts at the instrumental in the success Carmichael has enjoyed. The initial 2,000 Guineas before but never a chance at something like this. partnership between Carmichael, Roger Simmons and Chris That's why I go on my own now, after what happened with Humber didn't celebrate instant triumph, but it wasn't long in Toronado. I wanted to keep him and I couldn't but it's a learning coming, and when it did, it was notable. Shaken but undeterred curve so I race on my own now. My dream is to win one of these by her first horse fracturing a pastern on course at Windsor after big races, that's why I do it." she and her daughter had taken a helicopter from the Glastonbury festival to watch him run, Carmichael had clearly been sufficiently bitten by the bug to pursue her burgeoning interest in the turf.

INTELLOGENT HAD SUCH A PRESENCE WHEN WE SAW HIM AT THE SALES. TO BE GOING TO THE PRIX DU JOCKEY CLUB WITH HIM IS WHAT DREAMS ARE MADE OF Fiona Carmichael

Intellogent | Scoop Dyga Intellogent passed the strict test imposed by Skiffington with flying colours. The agent, who buys six horses each year for "Amanda thought we wouldn't get back into it again as it was a Carmichael, says, "He was a stand-out individual. I never worry bit of a shock," she says. "But we did regroup and we got about first-crop sires because sometimes people have a limit on Rockinante (Fr), who won a listed race in Deauville and then we first-crop sires. I know I can't buy a really beautiful Galileo so I took him to Italy for the Guineas which was quite exciting. Then just buy the best individual that I can.@ the next year we had Havana Gold and Toronado and I've never "Fiona is fantastic to work with as she just loves her racing and looked back." is so enthusiastic. After I've seen everything in a sale, she likes With competition now fierce for stallion prospects from the me to compile a short-list of 10-never more-and we go off and early stages of their racing careers, both Havana Gold and see them together. She likes to be involved but equally she's Toronado were the subject of lucrative offers after becoming group-winning juveniles for Carmichael and Humber, and they wonderful because if I go off a horse late on, which I can do, completed their racing days for other people. It's not a situation she's fine and we'll walk away. She absolutely fell in love with Carmichael is keen to replicate, despite having had plenty of Ivawood as a yearling and last year for the first time I bought her interest in her G3 Prix de Guiche winner Intellogent, bought by a foal, an Ivawood colt who was the image of his father." Skiffington for i320,000 at the Arqana August Yearling Sale. The most significant single outlay on a youngster was the i1.1 She says, "My love is the racing first but I do follow their stallion million paid for Signe (Ire), a Sea The Stars (Ire) half-sister to careers. I bought an Ivawood foal and I've been trying to get a Group 1 winners Lord Shanakill (Speightstown), Together Havana Gold and a Toronado but we haven't quite found the Forever (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}) and Friday=s Oaks winner Forever right one yet. Amanda has strict rules when it comes to buying Together (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}), at the Goffs Orby Sale of 2014. The and I guess that's why she's so successful. It can be frustrating filly made a belated debut at four but won her first three starts when you set your heart on a horse and she turns around and and is now one of two broodmares owned by Carmichael, who says, 'That's it Fiona, we're walking away'. We all have dreams to boards Signe where she was born, at Ballylinch Stud. win the Derby or the 2,000 Guineas and that's really one of the "It hadn't been my intention to go down that route but it's questions I ask when we're buying a horse-what race is he going very interesting and I'm learning about it," says Carmichael of to win?" her fledgling breeding operation. "I have two broodmares now. I TDN EUROPE/INTERNATIONAL • PAGE 10 OF 18 • THETDN.COM SATURDAY • 2 JUNE 2018 used to have a yacht and my accountant kept saying I had to sell LEAVES IT LATE it because I was never using it as I didn't know whether I was Things may be getting so easy for Cracksman (GB) (Frankel going to be at the races or not. So when I sold it I happened to {GB}) that he is taking it upon himself to make it more exciting be at the sales and I asked Amanda to buy me the best pedigree and he overcame some self-made adversity on Friday to gain a I could afford, so we bought Signe." last-gasp success in Friday=s G1 Investec at Now five, Signe is carrying her first foal by Siyouni (Fr), but Epsom. Never in his smooth rhythm, Anthony Oppenheimer=s G1 Carmichael will have plenty to engage her interest until the Champion S. and G1 winner was several lengths off mare's offspring start racing, not least a Classic date on Sunday. the pace set by Salouen (Ire) (Canford Cliffs {Ire}) and being "I'm suddenly having to get my act together. It's very exciting. niggled at by Frankie Dettori despite his odds of 2-7. Taking all of When you get in at the beginning you've no idea what racing is the straight to get to that enterprisingly ridden surprise package, all about really, so to have Toronado and Havana Gold, bang, the homebred managed it once he was switched to the stand=s bang, like that was incredible. I thought it was quite normal," rail in the final yards. At the line, there was a head between she says with a laugh. "I've only had horses with Fabrice this them as they pulled clear of Windstoss (Ger) (Shirocco {Ger}) in year but I've been over to see him a few times and it's a third. beautiful set-up. He's doing a great job." AHe was a bit sleepy today and I couldn=t really lay up,@ Dettori In fact, Chappet has done such a great job in recent seasons said of the winner, who displayed the sluggish trait of his sire=s that Intellogent will be one of three runners he has to saddle for later races. AHe doesn=t really enjoy running downhill and I = the Prix du Jockey Club. And if that particular colt's owners= run wanted to close the gap but couldn t. We had to work for this one, but he=s a better horse than he showed today and his class of luck since starting in racing is anything to go by, Carmichael showed through. Any other horse would have downed tools.@ shouldn't have to wait too long to cheer home a Classic winner John Gosden added, AIt=s hard to pick them up when they are in her own colours. Perhaps only until Sunday. that far ahead on this ground and he was not in love with the track. He showed his class to get there in the end and we=ll look at Royal Ascot now [for the G1 Prince of =s S.].@ Cont. p11

Cracksman (GB) (Frankel {GB}) serves up a thrilling finish to the G1 Coronation Cup | Racing Post TDN EUROPE/INTERNATIONAL • PAGE 11 OF 18 • THETDN.COM SATURDAY • 2 JUNE 2018

Coronation Cup cont. Margins: HD, 3 3/4, 4HF. Odds: 0.29, 33.00, 20.00. Salouen=s trainer Sylvester Kirk had mixed emotions after his Also Ran: Idaho (Ire), Hawkbill, Yucatan (Ire). Click for the Racing 33-1 chance, who almost fell when contesting last year=s Post result. Video, sponsored by Fasig-Tipton. G1 Derby, nearly pulled off the upset of the season and said, AIf you=d have given me that result before the race I=d have grabbed it with open arms. He was the outsider so we decided to let him bowl along in front if there was no pace. I don=t normally count my chickens before they hatch, but I thought he=d done enough to get home so I was disappointed in the end. That said, I=m extremely proud of him. He hasn=t won any group races so he has no penalties. We=ll find a little race for him somewhere and SOLID JUVENILE TRADE AT BBAG will target the [Oct. 7 G1 Prixx de l=] Arc [de Triomphe at A trying breeze-up season for European consignors reached a ParisLongchamp].@ satisfactory plateau in the BBAG Sale at Iffezheim on Friday, with indices recovering from a tough session last year. Pedigree Notes... The sale of 52 lots from 77 offered almost exactly replicated Cracksman is one of two black-type winners and the leading the clearance rate in 2017, at 67.53%, but both average and performer produced by Listed Prix Solitude victress Rhadegunda median inched forwards to i10,052 (up 4.6%) and i10,014 (up (GB) (Pivotal {GB}). He is a half-brother to G3 Solario S. victor 1.5%) respectively. With only 43 lots sold last year, however, Fantastic Moon (GB) (Dalakhani {Ire}) and Godolphin=s once- much the biggest gain was in turnover of i522,700, up raced 3-year-old colt Military Band (GB) (New Approach {Ire}), 26.5%-albeit still not quite back to the levels of the three who ran sixth in Newmarket=s famed Wood Ditton Maiden S. in preceding years. April. Rhadegunda is herself a half-sister to the dual stakes- At i55,000, the top price of the day was paid by Blandford placed Halla San (GB) (Halling) out of the Oppenheimer family=s Bloodstock for a Maxios (GB) colt. Consigned by Philip Prevost homebred G1 1000 Guineas and G1 Sussex S. heroine On The Baratte as Lot 22, he is out of the listed winner Sarabia (Ger) House (GB) (Be My Guest), from a family which features MG1SW (One Cool Cat)--previously responsible for a scorer at the same champions (Ire) (), Octagonal (NZ) (Zabeel {NZ}), level in Simba (GB) (Teofilo {Ire})--and had changed hands in the Mouawad (NZ) (Zabeel {NZ}) and Tristalove (NZ) (Sir Tristram same ring last September for i28,000. {Ire}). It is also the family of sires Danewin (Aus) (Danehill) and The top filly was Lot 84, by Camelot (GB) out of an unraced Commands (Aus) (Danehill). Click for the free Equineline.com daughter of Pivotal and G1 Golden Jubilee S. runner-up catalogue-style pedigree. Danehurst (GB) (Danehill). Presented by Huggan Bloodstock, she raised i49,000 from Adelresort. Andreas Lowe meanwhile gave i43,000 for Lot 39, a colt by Friday, Epsom, Britain Adlerflug (Ger) out of Burning Heart (Ger) (Lomitas {GB}). And if INVESTEC CORONATION CUP-G1, ,420,000, Epsom, 6-1, the majority of the other lots sold made just four figures, then 4yo/up, 12f 6yT, 2:38.49, sf. their purchasers will all know that subsequent Arc winner 1--CRACKSMAN (GB), 126, c, 4, by Frankel (GB) (Ger) (Lomitas {GB}) changed hands here for just 1st Dam: Rhadegunda (GB) (SP-Fr), by Pivotal (GB) i9,000 in 2010. 2nd Dam: St Radegund (GB), by Green Desert 3rd Dam: (GB), by Be My Guest O-A E Oppenheimer; B-Hascombe & Valiant Studs (GB); T-John H. M. Gosden; J-Lanfranco Dettori. ,238,182. Lifetime Record: 9-7-1-1, $2,516,631. *1/2 to Fantastic Moon (GB) (Dalakhani © Copyright Thoroughbred Daily News. {Ire}), GSW-Eng. Werk Nick Rating: A+++ *Triple Plus*. Click for the eNicks report & 5-cross pedigree. This newspaper may not be reproduced in any form or by any 2--Salouen (Ire), 126, c, 4, Canford Cliffs (Ire)--Gali Gal (Ire), by means, electronic or mechanical, without prior written Galileo (Ire). (i85,000 Ylg >15 GOFSPT). O-H Balasuriya; permission of the copyright owner, MediaVista. Information B-Silvercon Edgerodge Ltd (IRE); T-Sylvester Kirk. ,90,300. as to the American races, race results and earnings was 3--Windstoss (Ger), 126, c, 4, Shirocco (Ger)--Wellenspiel (Ger), obtained from results charts published by The Jockey Club by Sternkoenig (Ire). (i16,000 RNA Ylg >15 BBGOCT). Information Services and utilized here with their permission. O/B-Gestut Rottgen (GER); T-Markus Klug. ,45,192. TDN EUROPE/INTERNATIONAL • PAGE 12 OF 18 • THETDN.COM SATURDAY • 2 JUNE 2018

European News cont. SUMMER SALE CATALOGUE RELEASED FIRST-SEASON SIRES Arqana has released the catalogue for its two-day Summer WITH RUNNERS Sale slated for July 3-4. The sale consists of both flat and National Hunt prospects and the opening session=s flat offerings Saturday, June 2: consist of 71 catalogued unraced 2-year-olds who will canter up the Deauville all-weather the previous afternoon. Among these UNITED KINGDOM that could be likely types on pedigree include lot 4, offered by Bungle Inthejungle (GB) (Exceed And Excel {Aus}), Rathasker The Channel Consignment and a son of Mastercraftsman (Ire) Stud out of triple group winner Nasty Storm (Gulch), who is already 95 foals of racing age/8 winners/0 black-type winners the dam of Group 3 winner Actress (Ire) (Declaration Of War); 19:10-LINGFIELD PARK, 5f, COUNTRY ROSE (IRE) while Thomond O=Mara=s Knockanglass Stables offer lot 30, a i7,500 Goffs Open Yearlings HIT Sale 2017 son of Acclamation (GB) and G2 Debutante S. winner Campfire Glow (Ire) (Invincible Spirit {Ire}). Coach House (IRE) (Oasis Dream {GB}), Bucklands Farm & Stud Day two of the sale features a selection of breeding stock as (GB) well as horses-in-training and some of the choice pedigrees 76 foals of racing age/0 winners/0 black-type winners available in the breeding stock section include lot 229 Soltada 19:10-LINGFIELD PARK, 5f, THEGREYVTRAIN (GB) (Ire) (Dawn Approach {Ire}), a half-sister to G1 Nunthorpe S. 5,000gns RNA December Foal Sale 2016; 3,334gns winner Margot Did (Ire) (Exceed And Excel {Aus}) and offered Tattersalls Ireland Ascot Sept. Yearling Sale 2017 from Haras d=Etreham in foal to Wootton Bassett (GB). Lot 245, Gregorian (IRE) (Clodovil {Ire}), National Stud Rydale Mist (GB) (Equiano {GB}) from Haras de Castillon also has 85 foals of racing age/3 winners/0 black-type winners plenty going for her. The 6-year-old is a half-sister to Group 2 14:15-MUSSELBURGH, 5f, ALOYSIUS LILIUS (IRE) winner Finjaan (GB) (Royal Applause {GB}) and is offered in foal i46,000 Goffs Sportsman's Yearling Sale 2017 to Shalaa (Ire). The largest section in the catalogue is the HIT part with 183 catalogued and these include drafts from many of Kuroshio (AUS) (Exceed And Excel {Aus}), Darley Northwood the leading trainers in France such as Alain de Royer Dupre, Park Andre Fabre, Carlos Laffon-Parias, Fabrice Chappet, 21 foals of racing age/3 winners/0 black-type winners Francis-Henri Graffard, Freddy Head, Henri-Alex Pantall, 19:10-LINGFIELD PARK, 5f, CARLA KOALA (GB) Henri-Francois Devin, Jean-Claude Rouget, Mikel Delzangles, and 762gns Tattersalls Ireland Ascot Sept. Yearling Sale 2017 Nicolas Clement. Moohaajim (IRE) (Cape Cross {Ire}), Rathbarry Stud 32 foals of racing age/0 winners/0 black-type winners 14:30-DONCASTER, 6.5f, ALATIA (IRE) i10,000 Goffs February Mixed Sale 2017; i10,000 Goffs UK Silver Yearling Sale 2017. Sea The Moon (GER) (Sea The Stars {Ire}), Lanwades Stud OBSERVATIONS 115 foals of racing age/0 winners/0 black-type winners on the European racing scene 13:55-DONCASTER, 6.5f, MUST SEE THE DOC (GB) Slade Power (IRE) (Dutch Art {GB}), Kildangan Stud 1.55 Doncaster, Cond, ,7,400, 2yo, 6f 111yT 99 foals of racing age/2 winners/0 black-type winners ALFURAT RIVER (GB) (Dubawi {Ire}) is the latest progeny of the 19:10-LINGFIELD PARK, 5f, POWERAGE (IRE) G1 Cheveley Park S. runner-up Suez (GB) (Green Desert) to hit 18,000gns Tattersalls October Yearling Sale 2017 - Book 3 the track for Godolphin=s Saeed bin Suroor stable. A half-brother War Command (War Front), Coolmore Stud to the operation=s G1 Fillies= Mile heroine Lyric of Light (GB) 112 foals of racing age/2 winners/0 black-type winners (Street Cry {Ire}), he meets Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed Al 14:30-DONCASTER, 6.5f, ARTISTIC RIFLES (IRE) Maktoum=s Newmarket winner New Winds (GB) (New i60,000 Goffs Orby Yearling Sale 2017 Approach {Ire}), a Mark Johnston-trained daughter of the G1 Prix d Diane winner West Wind (GB) (Machiavellian). TDN EUROPE/INTERNATIONAL • PAGE 13 OF 18 • THETDN.COM SATURDAY • 2 JUNE 2018

First-Season Sires With Runners cont. Lake Volta, who was providing further evidence of a possible IRELAND huge stand=s-rail bias at this meeting, was enjoying the benefit No Nay Never (Scat Daddy), Coolmore Stud of a front-running ride from Silvestre de Sousa, who has so 89 foals of racing age/5 winners/1 black-type winner nearly cracked Cracksman (GB) (Frankel {GB}) on the outsider 1-NAVAN, 5f, EAGLE SONG (IRE) Salouen (Ire) (Canford Cliffs {Ire}) earlier on the card. AAnything i240,000 Goffs Orby Yearling Sale 2017 that wanted a crack at him, including [stablemate] Rufus King, @ Toronado (IRE) (High Chaparral {Ire}), Haras de Bouquetot had to go over on to the perhaps slightly stickier ground, trainer A 121 foals of racing age/1 winner/0 black-type winners Mark Johnston commented. Silvestre does have an incredible 1-NAVAN, 5f, YOLO AGAIN (IRE) affinity with Epsom. When trying to select our jockey for the i15,000 RNA Goffs November Foals Sale 2016; i25,000 Goffs Derby [on Dee Ex Bee] I went through the stats and his = Sportsman's Yearling Sale 2017 strike-rate here is phenomenal. He works very hard and we ve seen a couple of examples today of him in his absolute element, head down. There=s nobody stronger. I think we=ve got the right man for the Derby tomorrow. The [June 20 G3] Jersey Stakes at Royal Ascot might be a possibility for Lake Volta, but we=ll have to go home and think about it.@ The dam, who is out of a useful Friday=s Results: half-sister to the Listed Land O=Burns S. winner Free Roses (Ire) INVESTEC SURREY S.-Listed, ,50,000, Epsom, 6-1, 3yo, 7f 3yT, (Fasliyev), also has a 2-year-old colt by Teofilo (Ire) and a 1:24.34, sf. yearling colt by New Approach (Ire). 1--LAKE VOLTA (IRE), 126, g, 3, by Raven=s Pass 1st Dam: Ghanaian (Fr) (SP-Eng), by Shamardal 1st-Epsom, ,60,000, Cond, 6-1, 2yo, 6f 3yT, 1:11.95, sf. 2nd Dam: Ghanaj (GB), by COSMIC LAW (IRE) (c, 2, No Nay Never--Dhamma, by Broad 3rd Dam: Bintalshaati (GB), by Kris (GB) Brush), who became the fifth winner for his freshman sire (by 1ST BLACK-TYPE WIN. O-Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed Al Scat Daddy) when graduating over five panels at Carlisle last Maktoum; B-Godolphin (IRE); T-Mark Johnston; J-Silvestre de time May 21, was positioned in a prominent second after a slick Sousa. ,28,355. Lifetime Record: GSP-Eng & SP-Ire, 13-3-2-4, getaway in this former listed event. Shaken up soon after $125,392. passing the three-eighths pole, the 10-1 chance edged ahead 2--Aurum (Ire), 126, c, 3, Exceed and Excel (Aus)--Rachelle (Ire), with 1 1/2 furlongs remaining and was ridden clear in the latter by Mark of Esteem (Ire). O-Godolphin. ,10,750. stages to score by six lengths from Usain Boat (Ire) (Casamento 3--Rufus King (GB), 126, g, 3, Iffraaj (GB)--Mosqueras Romance {Ire}). (GB), by Rock of Gibraltar (Ire). (,42,000 Ylg >16 GOUKPR). O-Garrett J Freyne Racing. ,5,380. Margins: 4HF, 2 3/4, NO. Odds: 3.00, 2.50, 9.00. Also Ran: Kings Shield, Tadbir (Ire), Arrogant (Ire). Click for the Racing Post result. Video, sponsored by Fasig-Tipton. Posting a personal best at the time when third in the G3 Sirenia S. over six furlongs on Kempton=s Polytrack in September, Lake Volta bettered that when in the same position behind Riyazan (Ire) (Iffraaj {GB}) and Battle of Jericho (War Front) in the Listed Star Appeal S. over an extra furlong at Dundalk the next month. Untried on ground as soft as this, the bay who had also been a half-length second to Corinthia Knight (Ire) (Society Rock {Ire}) in Lingfield=s 3 Year Old All-Weather Championships Conditions S. back at six Mar. 30 was stepping up after two tries at five furlongs in a conditions race and a handicap at Hamilton and Windsor, the latter of which only came on Monday. Quickly to the fore as Mark Johnston=s runners tend to be, he led the way over to the well-used stand=s- Cosmic Law | Racing Post side rail and kept up the gallop to inflict a heavy defeat on Aurum. TDN EUROPE/INTERNATIONAL • PAGE 14 OF 18 • THETDN.COM SATURDAY • 2 JUNE 2018

1st-Epsom, cont. Pressed strongly from three furlongs out, the 11-10 favourite AI was expecting him to run well and it=s nice to see him win,@ showed tenacity to ward off the challenges and win by a length said trainer Richard Fahey. AHe=s a grand horse and a horse we from Contrive (Ire) (Mastercraftsman {Ire}). The dam Rose of like. He=s quite a laid-back character and is getting better with Summer, who has a 2-year-old filly by Dubawi (Ire) and a racing, but I didn=t see him winning by six lengths. He went to yearling colt by Muhaarar (GB), is an unraced half-sister to the GI Carlisle and only got going 50 yards from the line and took off. Hollywood Futurity and GII Lane=s End Breeders= Futurity winner Some horses need racing and some need looking after, but he=s Siphonic (Siphon {Brz}). Her best performers so far are the GI one who definitely improved from racing. The [June 19 G2] Hollywood Starlet S. heroine Laragh (Tapit), GISW-US, $581,877, [S. at Royal Ascot] is definitely in my mind and I will and GII Lauderdale S., GIII S. and GIII Cliff Hanger S. speak to [owner] John Dance. He=s a good-minded horse and if winner and GI Frank E. Kilroe Mile S. runner-up Summer Front any horse could do it, it=d be him.@ He is one of five winners for (War Front), MGSW & GISP-US, $1,077,140. Sales history: Dhamma (Broad Brush), herself kin to MGSW Dietrich (Storm $900,000 Ylg >16 KEESEP. Lifetime Record: 3-2-0-0, $12,623. Cat) and MGSP dual stakes winner Mambo Light (Kingmambo), Video, sponsored by Fasig-Tipton. and he is a half-brother to G3 Grosser Preis der Wirtschaft third O-Sheikh Hamdan bin Rashid Al Maktoum; B-Mr Mike Ryan El Tren (Ire) (Danehill Dancer {Ire}) and a yearling colt by Power (IRE); T-Owen Burrows. (GB). Dietrich produced three black-type performers headed by INDIAN CREEK SALES GRADUATE GSW Irish highweight Beauty Bright (Ire) (Danehill) and dual stakes-winning G1 Racing Post Trophy runner-up Aloft (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}) while Mambo Light is the dam of Listed Grand Prix 2nd-Goodwood, ,7,000, Cond, 6-1, 2yo, 6fT, 1:14.33, sf. du Nord and Listed Prix Jacques Laffitte third Le Juge (Ire) MAIN EDITION (IRE) (f, 2, Zoffany {Ire}--Maine Lobster, by ( {GB}). Sales history: ,90,000 Ylg >17 GOUKPR. Lifetime Woodman), who was off the mark in style on debut at Windsor Record: 3-2-0-0, $58,368. Video, sponsored by Fasig-Tipton. May 21, broke abit behind the speed and tracked the leading O-John Dance; B-Epona Bloodstock Ltd (IRE); T-Richard Fahey. duo initially. Sent up to take command approaching the two- furlong pole, the 5-4 favourite galloped on strongly to score by 4th-Epsom, ,60,000, Hcp, 6-1, 4yo/up, 10f 17yT, 2:10.27, sf. 3 1/4 lengths from Pogo (Ire) (Zebedee {GB}). The winner is the AJMAN KING (IRE) (c, 4, Lope de Vega {Ire}--Third Dimension last foal out of the dam, who also produced the G2 Sandown {Fr}, by Suave Dancer), a last-out handicap winner going 10 Mile winner and G1 Sussex S. and G1 Prix Jacques le Marois- panels at Doncaster Oct. 27, was under cover in mid division for placed sire Major Cadeaux (GB) (Cadeaux Genereux {GB}), most of this seasonal return. Confronted by a wall of rivals in the MGSW & G1SP-Eng, G1SP-Fr, GSP-Ire, $541,713, and Beachfire straight, the 5-4 pick found a clear route with a quarter mile (GB) (Indian Haven {GB}), SW-Eng, $146,581. Maine Lobster is remaining and was urged clear once taking over approaching the out of the GI Selima S. winner (), whose furlong marker to score by 2 3/4 lengths from Brorocco (GB) stakes-placed half-sister Capades Dancer (Gate Dancer) was (Shirocco {GB}). He is one of eight scorers from as many runners responsible for the MGSW and GISP sire Vangelis (Highest Honor for Third Dimension (Fr) (Suave Dancer) and is a half-brother to {Fr}). Sales history: 62,000gns Ylg >17 TATOCT. Lifetime Record: G2 Beresford S. runner-up Orgilgo Bay (Ire) (Lawman {Fr}), Listed 2-2-0-0, $15,080. Video, sponsored by Fasig-Tipton. Premio Pisa third My Pension (Fr) (Kendor {Fr}) and a yearling O-Saif Ali; B-Minch Bloodstock (IRE); T-Mark Johnston. colt by Born To Sea (Ire). Sales history: i100,000 Wlg >14 GOFNOV; i130,000 Ylg >15 GOFORB. Lifetime Record: 7-4-2-0, 3rd-Goodwood, ,7,000, Mdn, 6-1, 2yo, f, 6fT, 1:16.19, sf. $111,424. Video, sponsored by Fasig-Tipton. IMPULSION (IRE) (f, 2, {GB}--Danidh Dubai O-Sheikh Mohammed Obaid Al Maktoum; B-Swordlestown Little {Ire} {GSP-Eng}, by Noverre), a 9-2 chance, lost valuable ground (IRE); T-Roger Varian. veering right out of the stalls but was easily able to tag on to the rear of the field racing well off the pace. Comfortably entering 6th-Goodwood, ,8,000, Cond, 6-1, 3yo/up, f, 8fT, 1:45.21, sf. contention before halfway, the bay was in command passing the GANAYEM (IRE) (f, 3, Frankel {GB}--Rose of Summer, by El quarter pole and when shaken up drew away to register an Prado {Ire}), a $900,000 Keeneland September yearling, beat impressive five-length success from Popping Corks (Ire) the subsequent winners Worth Waiting (GB) (Bated Breath {GB}) (Camacho {GB}). The dam, who was third in the G3 Albany S., is and Magnolia Springs (Ire) (Shamardal) in a decent novice already responsible for the listed-winning sprinter Gamgoom contest over an extended mile at Nottingham May 11 and (GB) (Exceed and Excel {Aus}), SW-Ity & SP-Eng, $154,965, and immediately set out her stall in front under a seven-pound Nabhan (GB) (Youmzain {Ire}), SP-Ger. Cont. p15 penalty. TDN EUROPE/INTERNATIONAL • PAGE 15 OF 18 • THETDN.COM SATURDAY • 2 JUNE 2018

3rd-Goodwood, cont. CONDITIONS RESULT: A half-sister to the G1 Kings Stand S. and G2 Temple S. hero 4th-Catterick Bridge, ,7,900, Cond, 6-1, 4yo/up, 12f 13yT, Profitable (Ire) (Invincible Spirit {Ire}), the G3 Summer S. winner 2:35.41, gd. Ridge Ranger (Ire) (Bushranger {Ire}) and the G3 Princess ELGIN (GB) (g, 6, Duke of Marmalade {Ire}--China Tea, by High Margaret S. runner-up G3 Full Mandate (Ire) (Acclamation {GB}), Chaparral {Ire}) Lifetime Record: 17-8-3-1, $243,933. O/B-Elite she also has a yearling filly by Starspangledbanner (Aus) to Racing Club (GB); T-Alan King. follow. Sales history: i40,000 Ylg >17 GOFOR. Lifetime Record: 1-1-0-0, $6,020. Video, sponsored by Fasig-Tipton. 6th-Bath, ,5,800, 6-1, 3yo/up, f, 5f 160yT, 1:11.25, gd. O-Miss Yvonne Jacques; B-Danidh Partnership (IRE); T-R Varian. CHARMING GUEST (IRE) (f, 3, Kodiac {GB}--Na Zdorovie {GB}, by Cockney Rebel {Ire}) Lifetime Record: 5-2-0-1, $11,391. 2nd-Bath, ,5,800, Cond, 6-1, 2yo, 5f 10yT, 1:02.76, gd. O-John Guest Racing; B-Jim McCormack (IRE); T-Mick Channon. SUNSPRITE (IRE) (c, 2, Kodiac {GB}--Dutch Rose {Ire} {SP-Eng, *i137,000 Wlg >15 GOFNOV; 120,000gns Ylg >16 TATOCT. $149,497}, by Dutch Art {GB}), fifth on debut at Salisbury May 17, broke well to race up with the early pace. Joining battle with HANDICAP RESULTS: High Horse (Ire) (Dark Angel {Ire}), who had finished ahead of 2nd-Epsom, ,50,000, Hcp, 6-1, 4yo/up, 8f 113yT, 1:47.24, sf. him last time, the 3-1 second favourite gained the edge inside MEDBURN DREAM (GB) (g, 5, Showcasing {GB}--Tiegs {Ire}, by the final 100 yards and asserted for a 1 1/4-length success. The Desert Prince {Ire}) Lifetime Record: 28-7-1-1, $104,498. winner is the first foal out of the useful dam, who also has a O/B-Eddie Evans (GB); T-Peter Hedger. yearling filly by Tamayuz (GB). Sales history: ,40,000 Ylg >17 GOUKPR; ,125,000 2yo >18 GOFBRE. Lifetime Record: 2-1-0-0, ADDITIONAL MAIDEN WINNERS: $4,988. Video, sponsored by Fasig-Tipton. Li Kui (GB), c, 2, Poet=s Voice (GB)--Lily Again (GB) (SW-Eng & O-Jaber Abdullah; B-Diomed Bloodstock Ltd (IRE); T-Richard SP-US), by American Post (GB). Catterick Bridge, 6-1, 5fT, Hughes. 1:00.41. B-Ms J Allison (GB).

2nd-Doncaster, ,5,800, Cond, 6-1, 3yo, 8fT, 1:36.37, g/f. NATIONAL ARMY (GB) (c, 3, Dubawi {Ire}--Silk Blossom {Ire} {GSW-Eng, $750,047}, by Barathea {Ire}), the 7-2 second favourite, was slowly away and languished towards the rear Saturday, ParisLongchamp, post time: 2.35 p.m. throughout the early stages. Still with four lengths to make up a PRIX VOLTERRA-Listed, i55,000, 3yo, f, 8fT furlong from home, the homebred finished off strongly once SC PP HORSE SIRE JOCKEY TRAINER angled around rivals to collar Sharamm (Ire) (Shamardal) in the 1 3 Princesschope (Fr) Panis Crastus Boutin shade of the post and record a neck verdict. Silk Blossom was a 2 4 Style Presa (Fr) Style Vendome (Fr) C Demuro Rod Collet smart performer for Barry Hills, winning the G2 Lowther S. as 3 6 Lucie Manette (GB) Shamardal Barzalona Fabre 4 5 Adorable (Ire) Kodiac (GB) Soumillon Channon well being promoted to first from second in the inaugural Goffs 5 1 Floravise (Fr) Evasive (GB) Hamelin Caroux Fillies Five Hundred. A full-sister to the G3 Prix and 6 7 Xagere (Fr) Kendargent (Fr) Boudot Chappet G3 Prix de la Porte Maillot winner and G1 Prix Rothschild third 7 2 Lunch Lady (GB) Shamardal Guyon Head Mashoora (Ire), she had not enjoyed much luck during her All carry 125 pounds. second career so far with this useful-looking performer only her second winner. Lifetime Record: 1-1-0-0, $4,988. Video, Friday=s Results: sponsored by Fasig-Tipton. PRIX -Listed, i60,000, Maisons-Laffitte, 6-1, 2yo, 5fT, O/B-Godolphin (GB); T-Saeed bin Suroor. :58.87, gd. 1--SEXY METRO (FR), 128, c, 2, by Diamond Green (Fr) HANDICAP RESULT: 1st Dam: Mindset (Ire), by Vettori (Ire) 7th-Epsom, ,50,000, 6-1, 3yo/up, 7f 3yT, 1:25.09, sf. 2nd Dam: Eden (Ire), by Polish Precedent SHARED EQUITY (GB) (g, 7, Elnadim--Pelican Key {Ire}, by 3rd Dam: Isle of Flame (GB), by Shirley Heights (GB) Mujadil) Lifetime Record: 27-5-4-6, $203,266. O-Caron & Paul 1ST BLACK-TYPE WIN. O-Ecurie Jules Ouaki, Didier Guillemin & Chapman; B-Trickledown Stud Limited (GB); T-Jedd O=Keeffe. Mathieu Daguzan-Garros; B-Mathieu Daguzan-Garros (FR); *29,000gns Wlg >11 TATFOA; ,26,000 Ylg >12 DNPRM; ,16,000 T-Didier Guillemin; J-Cristian Demuro. i30,000. Lifetime RNA 2yo >13 DONBRE; 48,000gns RNA HRA >14 TAJUL; 88,000gns Record: 2-2-0-0, i43,500. RNA 2yo >14 TA14. TDN EUROPE/INTERNATIONAL • PAGE 16 OF 18 • THETDN.COM SATURDAY • 2 JUNE 2018

Prix La Fleche cont.

2--Show Must Go On (Fr), 128, c, 2, Reply (Ire)--Luna Negra (Ger), by Big Shuffle. (i12,000 Ylg >17 OSLATE). O-Mme Saturday, Baden-Baden, post time: 3.15 p.m. Theresa Marnane. i12,000. KRONIMUS DIANA-TRIAL-Listed, i25,000, 3yo, f, 9fT 3--Sens du Rythme (Fr), 128, c, 2, Pedro the Great--Sensuelle SC PP HORSE SIRE JOCKEY TRAINER WT (GB), by Tiger Hill (Ire). (i19,000 Ylg >17 OSLATE). O-Antoine 1 9 Akua'rella (Ger) Shamardal Pecheur Moser 128 Bardini. i9,000. 2 2 Dina (Ger) Nathaniel (Ire) de Vries Klug 128 Margins: 1 1/4, SHD, 5. Odds: 1.00, 3.80, 3.90. 3 6 Emerita (Ger) Areion (Ger) Casamento Groschel 128 Also Ran: Dollis Hill (GB), I=m The Man (Ire), Izzer (Ire), War 4 8 Realeza (Ger) Maxios (GB) Bojko Wohler 128 Chope (Fr). Scratched: Pocket Dynamo, She=s A Babe (Ire). Click 5 1 Wierland (Ger) Cape Cross (Ire) Starke Schiergen 126 6 4 Area (Ger) Maxios (GB) Delozier Hirschberger 121 for the Racing Post result. Video, sponsored by Fasig-Tipton. 7 5 Brisida (GB) So You Think (NZ) Helfenbein Mintchev 121 Sexy Metro was an impressive five-length winner when 8 10 Enissa (Ger) Soldier Hollow (GB) Seidl Klug 121 graduating over this trip in his Apr. 3 debut at Chantilly and 9 3 Mascha (Fr) Le Havre (Ire) Pietsch Suborics 121 climbed another rung on the ladder with a comfortable score in 10 7 Salve Stella (Ire) Shamardal Minarik Carvalho 121 this black-type bow. Out swiftly to shadow the pace in second from flagfall, he gained a narrow advantage soon after halfway and was pushed out in the closing stages to register a personal best with plenty in hand. AHe=s a really nice horse with a lot of speed and I gave him time after he won so nicely on debut,@ said trainer Didier Guillemin. AI=ll do that again now and pass on the [June 30 G3] Prix du Bois. He=ll go straight to the [July 22 G2 Prix] MAJOR PURSE BOOST FOR CUPS Robert Papin [back at this track].@ International participation in this year=s G1 Lexus Melbourne Sexy Metro is the latest foal and one of four winners produced Cup is sure to be even stronger with the news that a record by Mindset (Ire) (Vettori {Ire}), herself out of a winning A$7.3-million in prize-money will be up for grabs at Flemington half-sister to Listed Prix winner Thattinger (GB) (Salse), in November. This boost represents a rise of just under A$1- G3 Chester Vase third Chink of Light (GB) (Dr Fong) and Listed million and will see the winner take home A$4-million while Willie Park S. victress Kindling (GB) (Dr Fong), who in turn is the those who finish between 6th and 12th will win A$150,000 each. dam of last term=s MGSP G3 Horris Hill S. scorer and four-time European runners occupied eight of the top 10 placings last Group 2 placegetter Nebo (Ire) (Kodiac {GB}). year, headed by the Joseph O=Brien trained Rekindling (GB) (High Chaparral {Ire}), and 2018 represents the 25th anniversary CONDITIONS RESULTS: of the first overseas winner of the race, the Dermot Weld- 4th-Maisons-Laffitte, i35,000, Cond, 6-1, 3yo, 6fT, 1:10.86, sf. trained Vintage Crop (GB) (Rousillon), who landed the race TECKWIN (FR) (c, 3, French Fifteen {Fr}--Ammia {Ire}, by under Mick Kinane in 1993. Commenting on the prizemoney Medicean {GB}) Lifetime Record: SP-Fr, 8-2-2-2, i64,930. boost, VRC chairman Amanda Elliott said, AThe Lexus Melbourne O/B-Jean-Vincent Toux & Mme Florence Lecot (FR); T-Jean- Cup is the race that stops a nation. It is the world=s richest Vincent Toux. staying handicap and is backed by 158 years of history and tradition. 2018 is a milestone year for the VRC. Anticipation 3rd-Toulouse, i30,000, Cond, 6-1, 3yo, 7fT, 1:28.40, vsf. builds for the opening of our new world-class Club Stand and we MARIANAFOOT (FR) (c, 3, Footstepsinthesand {GB}-- will celebrate the 25th anniversary of the first internationally Marianabaa {Fr}, by Anabaa) Lifetime Record: 4-3-0-0, i37,200. trained winner of the Cup in Ireland=s Vintage Crop. This year=s O/B-Jean-Claude Seroul (FR); T-Patrick Khozian. Lexus Melbourne Cup will have more eyes on it than ever before with the recent launch of the global digital platform, World 6th-Maisons-Laffitte, i28,000, Cond, 6-1, 4yo/up, 10 1/2fT, , as we continue to expand our reach 2:09.49, sf. internationally. We simply can=t wait.@ ALIGNEMENT (GB) (g, 5, Pivotal {GB}--Soldata, by Maria=s Mon) Significant increases in prize-money were also announced on Lifetime Record: SW-Fr, 18-6-3-2, i00,000. O/B-Wertheimer & Friday for a range of races across Victoria including the G1 Frere (GB); T-Carlos Laffon-Parias. Ladbrokes Cox Plate and the G1 Stella Artois Caulfield Cup, which have both received a 40% hike up to A$5-million. TDN EUROPE/INTERNATIONAL • PAGE 17 OF 18 • THETDN.COM SATURDAY • 2 JUNE 2018

Worldwide News cont. Australia=s oldest classic, the G1 AAMI Victoria Derby is also a beneficiary and will be worth an extra A$500,000 this year when run for A$2-million. Racing Victoria=s chief executive officer Giles Thompson commented, AThe prize money increases announced today serve to reward our owners, trainers and jockeys while ensuring that Victoria remains a destination for the world=s best Magic Millions National Broodmare Sale as we celebrate 25 years of international competition. Our vision Book 2 is >Racing for All= and there is something for all owners, trainers SESSION TOTALS 2018 2017 and jockeys within these prize money increases which stretch $ Catalogued 138 130 from the Melbourne Cup to the Burrumbeet Cup.@ $ Number Offered 121 99 $ Number Sold 104 82 $ Not Sold 17 17 $ Clearance Rate 86% 82.8% $ High Price A$45,000 A$70,000 $ Gross A$767,000 A$599,250 $ Average (% change) A$7,375 (+0.9%) A$7,308 $ Median (% change) A$5,500 (+37.5%) A$4,000

MILERS TO DO BATTLE IN YASUDA KINEN Sunday=s G1 Yasuda Kinen at Tokyo offers the opportunity for colts, geldings and fillies from 3-years-old and up to do battle for Group 1 honours over a mile, and while there are no 3-year-olds in the lineup in this year=s edition, three of the 16-strong field represent the fairer sex, including the 4-year-old filly Lys Gracieux (Jpn) (Heart=s Cry {Jpn}). There would be few more deserving winners than the Yoshito Yahagi-trained filly after four Rekindling winning last year=s Melbourne Cup | Bronwen Healy runner-up efforts at the top level already, including last time out when beaten a nose into second by Jour Polaire (Jpn) (Deep Impact {Jpn}) in the G1 Vcitoria Mile at Tokyo three weeks ago. MAGICS BROODMARE SALE CLOSES She had Aerolithe (Jpn) (Kurofune {Jpn}) behind her in fourth on The Magic Millions National Broodmare Sale came to a quiet that occasion and while that race was confined to fillies and close on Friday with a single-session Book 2 that added mares, her trainer is more concerned over turning her out A$767,000 to the four-day sale=s gross. A total of 104 fillies and relatively quickly again as opposed to taking on the males. AI mares were sold at a clearance rate of 86% that was up on last don=t think it makes much difference to her if she=s racing year, while the average stayed steady at A$7,375, and the against males or females,@ Yahagi said. AThe Victoria Mile was median jumped 37.5% to A$5,500. our big goal for the spring and so she was really ready for it. It Top lot for the session was the 6-year-old High Chaparral (Ire) was a tough race and, to be honest I was worried that I wouldn=t mare Montrer Dame (Aus) (lot 1500), who was bought by be able to maintain her condition but she came out of the race Edinburgh Park for A$45,000. Offered off the track by Bruce Hill better than I=d thought she would,@ he added. Racing, Montrer Dame descends from the excellent producer Real Steel (Jpn) (Deep Impact {Jpn}), a stable- of Lys Procrastinate (Aus) (Jade Hunter). Her dam, Michaux (Aus) Gracieux, is an established international top-level competitor (Redoute=s Choice {Aus}), is a half-sister to stakes winners Zodiac but he has yet to win a Group 1 in his native Japan and Sunday (Aus) (Zoffany {Ire}) and Almighty Girl (Aus) (Beneteau again gives him an opportunity to add to his CV that is {Aus}). highlighted by a victory in the G1 Dubai Turf at Meydan in 2016. Magic Millions=s National Sale Series picks up again on Tuesday He returned to Dubai this year to finish third in the same race in with the three-day National Yearling Sale. March and connections will be hoping for a better than his 11th-place finish in the Yasuda Kinen two years ago. TDN EUROPE/INTERNATIONAL • PAGE 18 OF 18 • THETDN.COM SATURDAY • 2 JUNE 2018

Yasuda Kinen cont. AHe=s ready. He=s gotten the same rotation as he had the year before last but things have gone more smoothly this time. He=s also more in tune with the jockey now,@ said the trainer=s assistant Takahide Ando.

Real Steel | JRA Suave Richard (Jpn) (Heart=s Cry {Jpn}) will probably go off favourite on Sunday and his last-out beating of Persian Knight (Jpn) (Harbinger {GB}) in the G1 Osaka Hai in April is undoubtedly top-class form, but that event was over 10 furlongs and his ability to successfully drop back two furlongs in this company is open to debate. Persian Knight has a Group 1 victory over the trip already to his name when successful in the G1 at Kyoto last year and his rider Yuga Kawada is hoping the drop back to that distance will be more in his favour than the favourite=s. AHe is the Mile Championship winner, he put in a great performance over the mile and I think Tokyo is perfect for him. He=s a clever horse and he listens well to the rider=s signals, so I think he=ll be able to adjust to the sudden change in distance this start,@ he said.

JAPANESE GROUP 1 RACES B 2018 Date Race Track Sept. 30 Sprinters= S. Nakayama Oct. 14 Kyoto Oct. 21 Kikuka Sho (St Leger) Kyoto Oct. 28 Tenno Sho (Autumn) Tokyo Nov. 11 Queen Elizabeth II Cup Kyoto Nov. 18 Mile Championship S. Kyoto Nov. 25 Japan Cup Tokyo Dec. 2 Champions Cup Chukyo Dec. 9 Hanshin Juvenile Fillies Hanshin Dec. 16 Asahi Hai Futurity S. Hanshin GROUP ENTRIES

Saturday, Epsom, Britain, post time: 4.30 p.m. INVESTEC DERBY-G1, £1,500,000, 3yo, c/f, 12f 6yT SC PP HORSE SIRE JOCKEY TRAINER WT 1 6 Dee Ex Bee (GB) Farhh (GB) de Sousa Johnston 126 2 4 Delano Roosevelt (Ire) Galileo (Ire) Heffernan A O'Brien 126 3 3 Hazapour (Ire) Shamardal Dettori Weld 126 4 12 Kew Gardens (Ire) Galileo (Ire) D O'Brien A O'Brien 126 5 2 Knight To Behold (Ire) Sea the Stars (Ire) Kingscote H Dunlop 126 6 10 Masar (Ire) New Approach (Ire) Buick Appleby 126 7 5 Roaring Lion K Kitten's Joy Murphy Gosden 126 8 1 Saxon Warrior (Jpn) Deep Impact (Jpn) Moore A O'Brien 126 9 7 Sevenna Star (Ire) Redoute's Choice (Aus) Havlin Gosden 126 10 11 The Pentagon (Ire) Galileo (Ire) Lordan A O'Brien 126 11 9 Young Rascal (Fr) Intello (Ger) Doyle Haggas 126 12 8 Zabriskie (Ire) Frankel (GB) Beggy A O'Brien 126

Saturday, Epsom, Britain, post time: 2.35 p.m. PRINCESS ELIZABETH S. (SPONSORED BY INVESTEC)-G3, £90,000, 3yo/up, f/m, 8f 113yT SC PP HORSE SIRE JOCKEY TRAINER WT 1 6 Diaphora (Ger) Pivotal (GB) Buick Klug 132 2 4 Lincoln Rocks (GB) Rock of Gibraltar (Ire) Tudhope O'Meara 132 3 1 Shenanigans (Ire) Arcano (Ire) Moore Varian 132 4 5 Soul Silver (Ire) Dragon Pulse (Ire) Murphy Simcock 132 5 2 Stage Name (GB) Famous Name (GB) de Sousa Palmer 132 6 8 Wilamina (Ire) Zoffany (Ire) Dettori Meade 132 7 7 Anna Nerium (GB) Dubawi (Ire) Marquand Hannon 123 8 3 Dance Diva (GB) Mayson (GB) Fanning Fahey 120

Saturday, Epsom, Britain, post time: 3.10 p.m. INVESTEC DIOMED S.-G3, £90,000, 3yo/up, 8f 113yT SC PP HORSE SIRE JOCKEY TRAINER WT 1 5 Arod (Ire) Teofilo (Ire) Murphy Simcock 132 2 2 Breton Rock (Ire) Bahamian Bounty (GB) Moore Simcock 132 3 1 Century Dream (Ire) Cape Cross (Ire) Buick Crisford 132 4 4 Crazy Horse (GB) Sleeping Indian (GB) Whelan Baker 132 5 7 Gabrial (Ire) Dark Angel (Ire) Dettori Fahey 132 6 8 Love Dreams (Ire) Dream Ahead de Sousa Johnston 132 7 6 Sovereign Debt (Ire) Dark Angel (Ire) Sullivan Carr 132 8 3 True Valour (Ire) Kodiac (GB) Kirby Murtagh 132 Saturday, ParisLongchamp, France, post time: 3.45 p.m. PRIX DU PALAIS-ROYAL-G3, €80,000, 3yo/up, 7fT SC PP HORSE SIRE JOCKEY TRAINER WT 1 4 Karar (GB) Invincible Spirit (Ire) Benoist Graffard 132 2 9 Rayon Vert (Fr) Harbour Watch (Ire) Boudot Pantall 130 3 8 Inns of Court (Ire) Invincible Spirit (Ire) Barzalona Fabre 130 4 7 Jimmy Two Times (Fr) Kendargent (Fr) Cheminaud Fabre 130 5 6 Troizilet (Fr) Wootton Bassett (GB) Bachelot Luka 130 6 1 Zalamea (Ire) Lope de Vega (Ire) Hardouin Fey 130 7 10 Stunning Spirit (GB) Invincible Spirit (Ire) Lemaitre Head 130 8 3 Lida Ire (Fr) Lope de Vega (Ire) C Demuro Brandt 127 9 2 Aladdine (GB) Naaqoos (GB) Peslier Head 127 10 5 Polydream (Ire) Oasis Dream (GB) Guyon Head 119

Saturday, Baden-Baden, Germany, post time: 5.00 p.m. PREIS DER ANNETTE HELLWIG STIFTUNG - SILBERNE PEITSCHE-G3, €70,000, 3yo/up, 6fT SC PP HORSE SIRE JOCKEY TRAINER WT 1 5 Bellcanto (Ger) Areion (Ger) Pietsch Hirschberger 132 2 11 Daring Match (Ger) Call Me Big (Ger) Delozier Hirschberger 132 3 7 Making Trouble (Ger) Paco Boy (Ire) Pecheur Moser 132 4 6 Mata Utu (Ire) Slickly (Fr) de Vries Rulec 132 5 9 Millowitsch (Ger) Sehrezad (Ire) Helfenbein Klug 132 6 4 Schang (Ger) Contat (Ger) Cadeddu Vovcenko 132 7 1 Shining Emerald (GB) Clodovil (Ire) Bojko Wohler 132 8 3 Sugar Daddy (Ger) Areion (Ger) Casamento Hammer-Hansen 132 9 12 Artistica (Ger) Areion (Ger) Panov Moser 129 10 8 Scapina (Ger) Tai Chi (Ger) Murzabayev Grewe 129 11 2 Sunny Belle (Ire) Exceed and Excel (Aus) Starke Schiergen 129 12 10 Westfalica (Ger) Areion (Ger) Minarik Carvalho 129

Sunday, Chantilly, France, post time: 4.15 p.m. QIPCO PRIX DU JOCKEY CLUB-G1, €1,500,000, 3yo, c/f, 10 1/2f 6yT SC PP HORSE SIRE JOCKEY TRAINER WT 1 1 Olmedo (Fr) Declaration of War C Demuro Rouget 128 2 8 Al Adaid (Fr) Zoffany (Ire) Benoist Fabre 128 3 18 Dice Roll (Fr) Showcasing (GB) Soumillon Chappet 128 4 13 Hey Gaman (GB) New Approach (Ire) Doyle Tate 128 5 16 Intellogent (Ire) Intello (Ger) Boudot Chappet 128 6 17 Patascoy (Fr) Wootton Bassett (GB) Barzalona Thomas-Demeaulte 128 7 15 Pharrell (Fr) Manduro (Ger) Eyquem Rouget 128 8 10 Naturally High (Fr) Camelot (GB) Bachelot Bary 128 9 5 Not Mine (Ger) Dabirsim (Fr) Peslier Ferland 128 10 6 Study of Man (Ire) Deep Impact (Jpn) Pasquier Bary 128 11 9 Louis d'Or (Ire) Intello (Ger) Hamelin Castanheira 128 12 11 Stable Genius (Fr) Siyouni (Fr) Piccone Chappet 128 13 7 Key Victory (Ire) Teofilo (Ire) Buick Appleby 128 14 12 Flag of Honour (Ire) Galileo (Ire) Lordan A O'Brien 128 15 14 Hunting Horn (Ire) Camelot (GB) Heffernan A O'Brien 128 16 2 Kenya (Ire) Galileo (Ire) Beggy A O'Brien 128 17 4 Beat Generation (GB) (GB) Lefebvre O'Halloran 128 18 3 Rostropovich (Ire) Frankel (GB) Moore A O'Brien 128 Sunday, Tokyo, Japan, post time: 3.40 p.m. (2:40 a.m. EDT/7:40 a.m. GMT) YASUDA KINEN-G1, ¥214,980,000 (US$1,968,406/£1,477,207/€1,681,498), 3yo/up, open, 8fT PP HORSE SIRE JOCKEY TRAINER WT 1 Suave Richard (Jpn) Heart’s Cry (Jpn) Demuro Shono 128 2 Satono Ares (Jpn) Deep Impact (Jpn) Ebina Fujisawa 128 3 Dashing Blaze K Kitten’s Joy Kitamura Yoshimura 128 4 Aerolithe (Jpn) Kurofune Tosaki Kikuzawa 128 5 Persian Knight (Jpn) Harbinger (GB) Kawada Ikee 128 6 Reine Minoru (Jpn) Daiwa Major (Jpn) Wada Honda 123 7 Western Express (Aus) Encosta de Lago (Aus) Clipperton Size 128 8 Campbell Junior (Aus) Encosta de Lago (Aus) Ishibashi Hori 128 9 Red Falx (Jpn) Swept Overboard Tanabe Ozeki 128 10 Mozu Ascot K Frankel (GB) Lemaire Yahagi 128 11 Real Steel (Jpn) Deep Impact (Jpn) Iwata Yahagi 128 12 He’s In Love (Jpn) Harbinger (GB) Fujioka Fujioka 128 13 Black Moon (Jpn) Admire Moon (Jpn) Akiyama Nishiura 128 14 Lys Gracieux (Jpn) Heart’s Cry (Jpn) Take Yahagi 123 15 Sungrazer (Jpn) Deep Impact (Jpn) Asami Fukunaga 128 16 Win Gagnant (Jpn) Stay Gold (Jpn) Tsumura Nishzono 128

Sunday, Sha Tin, Hong Kong, post time: 4:10 p.m. (4:10 a.m. EDT/9:10 a.m. GMT) LION ROCK TROPHY H.-G3, HK$3,000,000 (£286,578/€327,905/A$505,569/US$382,356), 3yo/up, 1600mT SC PP HORSE SIRE JOCKEY TRAINER WT 1 3 Werther (NZ) Tavistock (NZ) Whyte Moore 133 2 8 Beauty Only (Ire) Holy Roman Emperor (Ire) Callan A Cruz 130 3 7 Dinozzo (Ire) Lilbourne Lad (Ire) Prebble Size 121 4 10 Romantic Touch (Aus) Northern Meteor (Aus) Sanna A Cruz 116 5 2 Joyful Trinity (Ire) Zanzibari Teetan Fownes 115 6 4 Prawn Baba (Aus) Duke of Marmalade (Ire) Wong Size 113 7 1 Packing Dragon (NZ) Mastercraftsman (Ire) Chadwick Yiu 113 8 6 The Golden Age (Fr) My Risk (Fr) Moreira A Cruz 113 9 5 Classic Emperor K Medaglia d’Oro Yeung So 113 10 9 Sichuan Dar (Aus) Not a Single Doubt (Aus) Leung Millard 113