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FRIDAY, JANUARY 22, 2016 ARCH DIES AT 21 MOHAYMEN BREEZES BULLET FOR HOLY BULL Leading sophomore Mohaymen (Tapit) worked a bullet five furlongs in :59.40 at Palm Meadows Thursday in his final drill before next Saturday=s GII Holy Bull S. at Gulfstream. AHe worked great and he continues to do well,@ trainer Kiaran McLaughlin said. AThat was a really nice work. We=re a little more than a week away, and we=re all excited.@ The grey has recorded four works since shipping down from New York to South Florida last month. AI wanted him to go [a half-mile] in :48 and he went in :47. It was a little quicker, but he is just doing so well. He did it all on his own and he doesn=t blow at all coming back. He cools out so quick. We=re all set. All systems are go.@ Cont. p3 Arch (1995-2016) | Claiborne Farm Claiborne stallion Arch (Kris S.--Aurora, by Danzig) died Jan. 20 STAYING RACES SET FOR EXAMINATION of an apparent heart attack, farm representative Bernie Sams The European Pattern Committee, in releasing its changes for announced Thursday. 2016 Thursday, revealed that it will examine the continent=s AWe are saddened by the loss of Arch,@ said Sams. AHe was a program for stayers. classy stallion who had the ability to sire top-class horses that Click or tap here to go straight to TDN Europe. performed well both on the track and in the auction ring.@ The 21-year-old, who stood his entire career at Claiborne starting in 1999, was responsible for no fewer than 34 graded stakes winners, eleven Grade I winners and four champions. His progeny earnings exceed $53 million. Arch=s leading earner was Blame, who was 2010's champion older male after annexing a trio of Grade I races, including the Breeders= Cup Classic over Horse of the Year Zenyatta (Street Cry {Ire}). He entered stud at Claiborne in 2010. Arch=s other Grade I winners include Archarcharch, Pine Island, Hymn Book, Love Theway Youare, and Grand Arch, who annexed the 2015 GI Shadwell Turf Mile S. Internationally, Arch was represented by English highweight sprinter and dual Group 1 winner Les Arcs; Canadian Horse of the Year Arravale; and three-time South African sprint champion Overachieving. Arch also sired the dam of GI Kentucky Derby and GI Preakness S. hero I=ll Have Another (Flower Alley); and the dam of champion juvenile and 2015's record-setting freshman sire Uncle Mo (Indian Charlie). Cont. p3 Zoe Cadman catches up with trainer Art Sherman to see how PRESIDENT & CO-PUBLISHER Barry Weisbord @barryweisbord Horse of the Year California [email protected] Chrome is doing as he prepares SR. 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He was also a half-sister to Grade I winner Acoma (Empire Maker). Arch stood for a fee of $40,000 at the time of his death. Mohaymen cont. A debut winner sprinting at Belmont Sept. 19, Shadwell Stable=s $2.2-million KEESEP yearling purchase annexed the GII Nashua S. and GII Remsen S. at Aqueduct Nov. 4 and Nov. 28, respectively. AHe=s just always done so well except Nashua day when he was a little naughty in the gate and in the paddock,@ McLaughlin noted. AHe=s been to the gate a few times here and he=s been perfect. We=re not Sunday, Aqueduct, post time: 3:50 p.m. EST going to take TOBOGGAN S.-GIII, $150,000, 4yo/up, 6f PP HORSE SIRE JOCKEY TRAINER WT him [to 1 Captain Serious Successful Appeal Alvarado Hushion 118 Gulfstream] 2 Fabulous Kid Congrats Arroyo Jacobson 116 to school. I 3 Mewannarose Bwana Charlie Gryder Englehart 114 think he=s 4 Dads Caps Discreet Cat J Ortiz Rodriguez 123 K going to be 5 Alex the Terror Mineshaft I Ortiz Toscano, Jr. 114 6 Sir Rockport Rockport Harbor Cancel Ice 114 good.@ 7 Sam Sparkle Too Much Bling Franco Cannizzo 114 McLaughlin 8 Green Gratto Here's Zealous Carmouche Grant 123 took the Mohaymen | NYRA/Coglianese 9 Heaven's Runway Run Away and Hide Velasquez Jacobson 118 Holy Bull in Owners: 1-Barry K. Schwartz, 2-David Jacobson, 3-William B. Fuccillo, 2014 with Cairo Prince (Pioneerof the Nile), and finished second 4-Scuderi, Vincent, S., 5-Bran Jam Stable and Clark, David W., 6-Amenta Racing Stables, LLC, 7-Two Tone Farms, 8-Grant, Gaston and Grant, last year with subsequent GI Wood Memorial S. winner Frosted Anthony, 9-Jacobson, David. Breeders: 1-Stonewall Farm, 2-Dr. K. K. (Tapit). Jayaraman MD & Dr. Vilasini Devi Jayaraman MD, 3-Heiligbrodt Racing AI would probably like to see him laying third or fourth and Stable, 4-Vince Scuderi, 5-Fares Farm LLC, 6-Legacy Farm & R. Larry hopefully not draw inside, maybe draw from four to eight and Johnson, 7-Thoroughbred Management, LLC, 8-Kaz Hill Farm, 9-Dr. K. K. have a chance to be in the clear a little bit; although, he handles Jayaraman & Dr. V. DeviJayaraman everything great,@ the conditioner added. AI couldn=t be more pleased. He=s doing great. It=s great fun. This is what it=s all IT’S A BOY! OR A GIRL! about. He makes our job easy and fun.@ Click here to submit your Foaling News for Stakes Winning and/or Stakes Producing Mares for publication in the TDN. Sarah K. Andrew photo HEADLINE NEWS $ PAGE 4 OF 8 $ THETDN.COM FRIDAY $ JAN. 22, 2016 DISSECTING MY ECLIPSE BALLOT Most would deem my approach to the older female division as by Alan Carasso highly questionable. Beholder was the clear winner, the Pacific For no particular reason, I choose not to make public my Classic assured that. I thought Sheer Drama had a season Eclipse ballot until after the awards have been handed out, but I worthy of a spot on the ballot with her two Grade Is. On the figured I would put myself out there and open myself up to third line, I opted for Wedding Toast, based on her body of work comments from the public and simultaneously critique my and consistently fast races. I felt like Ted Allen and Alex performance. I=ll begin by saying that I voted with the winner in nine of the Guarnaschelli where it 11 flat categories. With all due respect to my colleagues whose came to this category-- last name is Clancy, for something had to get the last several years, I-- >chopped.= as do many of my fellow Stopchargingmaria, who voters--abstain from the four voters thought did steeplechase category. I don=t follow it closely the best work in 2015, enough where I feel I was the one for me. Go can cast an educated ahead, fire away. Tepin | Horsephotos opinion and feel I would Tepin got my vote for be doing a disservice by distaff turf horse, earned the third spot on my Horse of the Year Zayat family | Horsephotos voting off the past performances handed to ballot and would have gotten my support for most improved me with my awards packet. My strike rate in the human horse of the year. Not that she had a great deal to prove, but categories was slightly less impressive.