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GOFFS NOVEMBER Report HEADLINE p. 3 NEWS For information about TDN, DELIVERED EACH NIGHT BY FAX AND FREE BY E-MAIL TO SUBSCRIBERS OF call 732-747-8060. www.thoroughbreddailynews.com WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 2006 CARTIER AWARDS ANNOUNCED TONIGHT LAST SHALL BE FIRST AT KEENELAND The 2006 Cartier Racing Awards will be announced The last horse through the ring at Keeneland Novem- tonight at a dinner at the Four Seasons Hotel in ber yesterday, Spring at Last (Silver Deputy) wound up Mayfair, London. The night=s marquee award, Horse of topping the session at $675,000. J. Paul Reddam the Year, is a cross-genera- signed the ticket for the three-year-old, who is a half- tional match-up between top brother to Sharp Lisa, a Grade I winner in Reddam=s distaffers Alexandrova (Ire) colors. Spring at Last, bred by WinStar Farm, carried (Sadler=s Wells), Ouija Board those silks to an impressive 7 1/2-length allowance (GB) (Cape Cross {Ire}) and victory Saturday at Aqueduct (video) before selling Pride (Fr) (Peintre Celebre), yesterday as hip 3378. He had been trained by Todd leading three-year-old colt Pletcher. Sharp Lisa was consigned by Reddam to the George Washington (Ire) Fasig-Tipton Sale Nov. 5 and topped the auction at (Danehill) and outstanding $3.4 million. AWinStar has developed a unique market- two-year-old Teofilo (Ire) (Ga- ing concept whereby they offer quality horses in train- lileo {Ire}). The awards, pre- ing at the Keeneland sale rather than sell them pri- Ouija Board -- ‘04 Cartier Horse of sented in eight equine cate- vately,@ said Keeneland Director of Sales Geoffrey Rus- the Year and a finalist again this gories, are determined by sell. AThis is the second November Sale in which year Horsephotos points earned in Pattern they=ve sold racing prospects, and it=s proved to be a races combined with the very successful marketing exercise. This concept was opinions of a panel of racing journalists plus votes from developed in conjunction with [WinStar Racing Man- readers of the Racing Post and The Daily Telegraph. ager] Elliott Walden, who suggested that the horses be The panel of racing journalists consisted of Graham cataloged on a dark day so trainers could see them.@ Dench of the Racing Post, Marcus Armytage (Daily Tuesday=s second-highest price was $225,000 for Telegraph), Julian Muscat (Times), Colin Mackenzie Aljawza (Riverman), a 15-year-old mare from the con- (Daily Mail) and Brough Scott (Racing Post and Sunday signment of Shadwell Farm and purchased by BBA Telegraph). In addition to the eight horse awards, the Ireland. The dam of Group 2 winner Al Jadeed and SW Cartier/Daily Telegraph Award of Merit will be pre- Areek, she sold in foal to Sahm. Keeneland cont. p2 sented to the person who, in the opinion of the special 18-strong Cartier Jury, has done the most for European HOLLYWOOD STORY RETIRED racing and or breeding. Previous winners include Henry Multiple Grade I-winning millionaire Hollywood Story Cecil, David and Patricia Thompson, Lord Oaksey, (Wild Rush--Wife for Life, by Dynaformer) has been Prince Khalid Abdullah, John Magnier and His Highness retired from racing and sent to Hill >n= the Aga Khan. The Cartier Racing Awards were estab- Dale Farm. The five-year-old has been lished in 1991 to recognize excellence in the racehorse. booked to Storm Cat for 2007. Ac- Full list of nominees, p2 quired by George Krikorian for $130,000 as a yearling at FTKJUL, the SILENT NAME STAYING IN TRAINING dark bay broke her maiden in the GI Silent Name (Jpn) (Sunday Silence), originally slated Hollywood Starlet S. for trainer John to enter stud at Adena Springs in 2007, will remain in Shirreffs. She added a victory in the GII training, according to Daily Racing Form. The four-year- Bayakoa H. at three, the GIII Hawthorne old is owned by the partnership of the Wertheimer H. as a four-year-old and the GI Vanity family and Frank Stronach. AHe=s very sound,@ trainer Invitational H. this season. Hollywood Hollywood Story Gary Mandella told DRF. Winner of the GII Arcadia H., Story heads to the breeding shed with a Benoit Photo the dark bay ran sixth in the GI Breeders= Cup Mile. He record of 27-4-6-6 and earnings of may contest next Friday=s GI Citation H. at Hollywood. $1,171,105. www.taylormadestallions.com TDN P HEADLINE NEWS • 11/15/06 • PAGE 2 of 5 KeeNov cont. 2006 CARTIER AWARD NOMINEES The highest-priced weanling yesterday was 3154, a Horse of the Year colt by Forest Camp who sold for $210,000 to Blood- Alexandrova (Ire) (Sadler=s Wells) ! stock Management II. Consigned by Taylor Made Sales George Washington (Ire) (Danehill) ! Ouija Board (GB) Agency on behalf of Aaron and Marie Jones, the chest- (Cape Cross {Ire}) ! Pride (Fr) (Peintre Celebre) ! nut was produced by In the Future (Storm Bird), a half Teofilo (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}) to GISW Victory Speech. Keeneland November, which surpassed the 2005 gross during Monday=s session, Top Older Horse continued yesterday with an additional 248 head selling Hurricane Run (Ire) (Montjeu {Ire}) ! Ouija Board ! for $7,615,000. That brought the auction=s gross to Pride ! Reverence (GB) (Mark of Esteem) ! $298,422,400 with five more days of selling remaining. Shirocco (Ger) (Monsun {Ger}) Complete results are available on www.keeneland.com. Top Stayer Kastoria (Ire) (Selkirk) ! Montare (Ire) (Montjeu {Ire}) KEENELAND NOVEMBER ! Sergeant Cecil (GB) (King=s Signet) ! Shamdala TUESDAY - TOP 3 BROODMARES (Ire) (Grand Lodge) ! Yeats (Ire) (Sadler=s Wells) Hip Name Covering Sire Price ($) Top Sprinter 3011 Aljazwa Sahm 225,000 (15, Riverman--Gallanta {Fr}, by Nureyev) Amadeus Wolf (GB) (Mozart {Ire}) ! Consigned by Shadwell Farm LLC Desert Lord (GB) (Green Desert) ! Purchased by BBA Ireland Ltd Iffraaj (GB) (Zafonic) ! Les Arcs (Arch) ! Reverence 3264 Promoted Deputy Consolidator 110,000 Three-Year-Old Colt (4, Deputy Minister--Shouldnt Say Never) Dylan Thomas (Ire) (Danehill) ! George Washington ! Consigned by Bluewater Sales LLC, agent Rail Link (GB) (Dansili {GB}) ! Red Rocks (Ire) (Galileo Purchased by Taylor Made 3085 Daylatedollarshort b mare prospect 100,000 {Ire}) ! Sir Percy (GB) (Mark of Esteem {Ire}) = (3, Lemon Drop Kid--Rahy Rose, by Rahy) Three-Year-Old Filly Consigned by Mt Brilliant Farm LLC Alexandrova ! Confidential Lady (GB) (Singspiel {Ire}) Purchased by Kenneth L & Sarah K Ramsey ! Mandesha (Fr) (Desert Style {Ire}) ! Nannina (GB) (Medicean {GB}) ! Speciosa (Ire) (Danehill Dancer {Ire}) KEENELAND NOVEMBER STATISTICS Two-Year-Old Colt Tuesday, Nov. 14, 2006 Authorized (Ire) (Montjeu {Ire}) ! Dutch Art (GB) SESSION TOTALS Session Cumulative (Medicean {GB}) ! Holy Roman Emperor (Ire) (Danehill) No. Offered 326 2,819 ! Strategic Prince (GB) (Dansili {GB}), Teofilo No. Sold 248 2,169 Two-Year-Old Filly RNAs 78 650 Finsceal Beo (Ire) (Mr. Greeley) ! Indian Ink (Ire) % RNA 23.9% 23% Gross $7,615,000 $298,422,400 (Indian Ridge {GB}) ! Miss Beatrix (Ire) (Danehill Average $30,706 $137,585 Dancer {Ire}) ! Sander Camillo (Dixie Union) ! Median $22,000 $65,000 Simply Perfect (GB) (Danehill) www.keeneland.com Dynaformer THIRD Leading North American Sire of Sale Weanlings Smarty Jones FOURTH Leading North American Sire of Sale Weanlings www.threechimneys.com (859) 873-7053 TDN P HEADLINE NEWS • 11/15/06 • PAGE 3 of 5 Sales News cont. WEEKEND PEDIGREE ELUSIVE CITY FILLY TOPS SECOND GOFFS PERSPECTIVES SESSION Goffs= marathon November auction rolled on yesterday in Kildare, when a filly from the first crop of by Alan Porter the 2002 G1 Prix Morny winner Elusive City 2006 FRESHMAN SIRES proved the centrepiece of With a post-Breeders= Cup lull in major stakes activity, the second session of the this looked like a good opportunity to take a look at the foal sale. Ross Doyle se- leading freshman sires. As is appropriate for a APedigree cured Miltown Park Perspective@ column, we=re going to consider them from Stud=s hip 273, who is a pedigree pattern angle, to look for trends which might out of a sister to two be emerging for these horses in particular and for the stakes performers, for population as a whole. 55,000. Earlier, Michael Topping the freshman charts is Street Cry Elusive City, sire of i Tuesday’s Goffs topper Morrin=s Pier House Stud, (Machiavellian--Helen Street, by Troy). Street Cry re- www.humaparkstud.com which had been responsi- tired as that potentially very useful asset, a stallion free ble for purchasing one of of his sire=s best cross, the Northern Dancer line. In this the top-priced fillies of the first session, paid i48,000 case, Street Cry is by Machiavellian, a son of Mr. Pros- for Sweeney Myles= hip 257, a daughter of Invincible pector whose granddam is a half-sister to Northern Spirit (Ire) from the family of the 1989 G1 Poule d=Essai Dancer and who has a second cross of Northern des Pouliches winner Pearl Bracelet. Eleanor Kent=s Dancer=s own granddam Almahmoud through Halo. Not Ballyhampshire Stud consigned the top-priced colt of surprisingly, Machiavellian worked very well with North- the day when hip 226, a Choisir (Aus) half-brother to ern Dancer, and Street Cry, who is free of Northern this year=s GIII Will Rogers S. winner Stratham (Ire), Dancer, has already sired GI Breeders= Cup Juvenile was knocked down to Bluebell Farm for i40,000. winner Street Sense (dam by Dixieland Band) and Eng- Selling continues today at 11 a.m. Full results can be lish Group 3 winner Big Timer (dam by The Minstrel) viewed on www.goffs.com. out of mares by sons of Northern Dancer.