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Visit the KEENELAND WRAPS TDN Website: WITH GII FAYETTE www.thoroughbreddailynews.com p6 SATURDAY, OCTOBER 30, 2010 For information about TDN, call 732-747-8060. Cash Refund Sizzles in Sprint Prep... BREEDERS’ CUP Richard, Bertram and Elaine Klein=s J “TDN Rising Star” J Cash Refund (Petionville) put in his final work for next Saturday=s GI Sentient Jet Breeders= Cup Sprint BULLETIN Friday morning at Churchill Downs, covering five fur- longs in 1:00.20 over a fast surface. With jockey Brian Awesome Gem Re-Routed to Marathon... Hernandez Jr. in the irons, the West Point Thoroughbreds= Awesome Gem (Awe- four-year-old went in splits of some Again) was cross-entered in two Breeders= Cup :11.40 for the opening panel, races, listing the Dirt Mile as preferred over the Mara- :22:60 for the quarter and thon. But, given the vet- four furlongs in :46.60. Work- eran=s penchant for finding ing in company of stablemate trouble in running in many Homerun Berti (Forestry), of his races, connections Cash Refund was down inside have called an audible and and a length in front after will send the 2007 GI Clas- breaking off at the half-mile sic third-place finisher in the pole. The gelding completed 14-furlong Marathon. The his move at the seven-eighths late-running seven-year-old, pole. AHe worked well and I who will make his fourth was glad he had that other consecutive start on Cham- horse with him,@ trainer Steve Awesome Gem Benoit Cash Refund Reed Palmer pionship weekend, has three Margolis said. AHe=s kind of wins over the last two years, including an 8-1 upset of funny in that when he works Rail Trip (Jump Start) in the GI Hollywood Gold Cup by himself, he will go in 1:03. I only wanted Homerun July 10. Awesome Gem was sixth to Goldikova (Ire) in Berti to work a half, and Brian said Cash Refund lost a the 2008 Mile and an even seventh to Zenyatta (Street little focus at the wire and then picked it up again.@ Cry {Ire}) in last year=s Classic at Santa Anita. Winner of a pair of black-type events at the Fair Grounds over the winter, Cash Refund exits a distant Rogue Romance Headed to Juvenile... third in the June 25 Iowa Sprint H. BC Bulletin cont. p2 Despite making each of his three trips to the post over the turf course, Rogue Romance (Smarty Jones), last-out winner of the grassy GIII Bourbon S. at Keeneland Oct. 10, is being pointed to a start in next Saturday=s GI Breeders= Cup Juvenile on the main track. Julien Leparoux will ride the chestnut colt for owner Catesby W. Clay. AThe team at [Clay=s] Runnymede feels that the Juvenile is the right race for Rogue Romance, and we are delighted that Julien has accepted the ride,@ Clay commented. ARogue Romance=s breed- Rogue Romance ing and his training during Keeneland/Coady Photography the summer over the main track at Saratoga indicate he will perform well on the dirt,@ added Martin O=Dowd, general manager of the farm. AHe=s bred top and bottom for it, and everything about his conformation suggests the dirt. His talent is what has propelled him to his success on the turf.@ www.coolmore.com TDN P HEADLINE NEWS • 10/30/10 • PAGE 2 of 9 • thoroughbreddailynews.com Breeders= Cup Bulletin cont. Murjan Clears Quarantine, Arrives at Churchill... Silverton Hill Farm=s Murjan (Officer) has arrived in Louisville a little more than a week after leaving Peru, where he won his three career starts by a combined 27 3/4 lengths. AYou never know where a good horse will come from,@ said Darrin Miller, trainer for Tommy and Bonnie Hamilton=s operation. AAn agent in Lexington passed him on to the Hamiltons. We flew to Peru and watched him and liked him. He was very im- pressive.@ After working in Lima Oct. 21, Murjan de- parted for Miami and spent a week in quarantine there. He flew Thursday night from South Florida to Indianap- olis and boarded a van, arriving at 3:30 a.m. at Chur- chill Downs Friday morning. AHe has been in quarantine seven days, so we are going to play his schedule by ear,@ Miller said of Murjan, who will be ridden in the Breeders= Cup by Rafael Bejarano. AI just got a peek at him when he got in this morning and then now, but so far everything looks good.@ “The Works” AQUEDUCT Believe in A.P. (A.P. Indy), 6f, 1:16.03, 1/3, JF Deciphering Dreams (Freud), 6fT, 1:18.94, 1/1, JT BELMONT Soldat (War Front), 4f (tr), :49.41, 20/38, JT CHURCHILL DOWNS Cash Refund (Petionville), 5f, 1:00.20, 2/24, S Major Gain (More Than Ready), 6fT, 1:17.20, 1/1, JT Soundwave (Friends Lake), 5f, 1:03.00, 13/24, JF Tidal Pool (Yankee Gentleman), 4f, •:46.40, 1/42 DELAWARE PARK Eldaafer (A.P. Indy), 4f, :49.40, 7/31, DMa KEENELAND Harmonious (Dynaformer), 5f, 1:05.80, 29/29 OAK TREE AT HOLLYWOOD Awesome Gem (Awesome Gem), 6f, 1:13.60, 9/13, DMa Eclair de Lune (Ger) (Marchand de Sable), 1mT, 1:39.20, 1/1, FMT Supreme Summit (More Than Ready), 6f, 1:11.20, 2/13, S SARATOGA Cool Coal Man (Mineshaft), 4f, :47.78, 2/10, DMi Fly Down (Mineshaft), 5f, 1:00.85, 1/2 Morning Line (Tiznow), 4f, •:46.60, 1/10, C Tizway (Tiznow), 5f, 1:00.91, 2/2, DMi All horses in the TDN are bred in North America, unless otherwise indicated 859-873-7270 www.airdriestud.com TDN P HEADLINE NEWS • 10/30/10 • PAGE 3 of 9 • thoroughbreddailynews.com Breeders= Cup Bulletin cont. Slight Shifts in BC Race Order BC Launches Zenyatta Fan Video Contest... The race order of next week=s Breeders= Cup Champi- Fans can submit their own Zenyatta tribute videos onships at Churchill Downs changed when the pre- through the Breeders= Cup Facebook page and become entries were revealed. AThe anticipated field for the eligible for a trip to the 2011 Eclipse Awards. Videos Breeders' Cup F/M Turf came up very strong with eight can be uploaded through the Acontests@ tab on the Grade/Group 1 winners from the UK, France, Japan, Breeders= Cup Facebook page and videos must include Canada and the U.S.,@ Ken Kirchner of FalKirk Interna- footage of Zenyatta. Entries must be submitted by tional, which directs the wagering product for Breeders' Nov. 17 and a winner will be announced Dec. 2. Cup Ltd, said yesterday. AIt deserves top billing with the Ladies' Classic.@ Kirchner added, AThe Dirt Mile is also a Head to Join Moss on Preview Webcast... very deep, high-quality field with eight graded stakes Freddie Head, a two-time Breeders= Cup Mile-winning winners. This change also makes a good grouping of jockey who will look to saddle Goldikova (Ire) (Anabaa) the two sprints and the two juvenile races in the early to a third straight score in this year=s Mile, will join $1-million guaranteed Pick 4, and a grouping of the ESPN=s Randy Moss by telephone on a special NTRA Classic, Turf, and two mile races in the $1.5-million Live! Webcast beginning at 12 noon (ET) Saturday. guaranteed late Pick 4." AOur goal all year with these Webcasts has been to deliver high-quality horse racing content via a new BREEDERS’ CUP POST TIMES - FRIDAY media platform,@ said Keith Chamblin, Senior Vice Presi- Marathon 4:10 p.m. (ESPN2) dent of the NTRA. AFans around the world have em- braced the concept, tuning in to watch important Triple Juvenile Fillies Turf 4:50 p.m. (ESPN2) Crown and Breeders= Cup prep races, and now we=re F/M Sprint 5:30 p.m. (ESPN2) taking it a step further with exclusive analysis from one Juvenile Fillies 6:10 p.m. (ESPN2) of horse racing=s most respected voices, and an inter- F/M Turf 6:50 p.m. (ESPN2) view with a central Breeders= Cup figure located a conti- Ladies’ Classic 7:30 p.m. (ESPN2) nent away.@ P TDN HEADLINE NEWS • 10/30/10 • PAGE 4 of 9 • thoroughbreddailynews.com 6 6 French Navy (GB) Shamardal FEATURE PRESENTATION • G1 CRITERIUM INT’L. O-Godolphin SNC; B-Darley; T-Andre Fabre; J-Maxime Guyon; Lifetime Record: 3 starts, 3 wins, i69,000. Last Start-1st Sept. 18 G3 Prix des Chenes 7 4 Pisco Sour Lemon Drop Kid (100,000gns yrl >09 TATOCT) O-Michael Kerr-Dineen; B-Hascombe Stud; T-Hughie Morrison; J-Jimmy Fortune; Lifetime Record: 4 starts, 2 wins, 1 place, i139,299. Last Start-2nd Oct. 2 ,500,000 Tattersalls Millions 2YO Trophy Sunday, Saint-Cloud, France 8 10 Roderic O=Connor (Ire) Galileo (Ire) CRITERIUM INTERNATIONAL-G1, i250,000, 2yo, c/f, O-Susan Magnier, Michael Tabor, Derrick Smith, 1mT Sangster Family; B-Swettenham Stud; T-Aidan O'Brien; SC PP HORSE SIRE J-Johnny Murtagh; Lifetime Record: 3 starts, 1 win, 1 1 Rerouted Stormy Atlantic 2 places, i93,335. O-Khalid Abdullah; B-Juddmonte Farms Inc; T-Barry Last Start-2nd Oct. 16 G1 Dewhurst S. Hills; J-Michael Hills; Lifetime Record: 5 starts, 2 win, 9 3 Private Jet (Fr) Aussie Rules 3 places, i40,840. O/B-Guy Pariente; T-Henri-Alex Pantall; J-Stephane Last Start-1st Sept. 30 G3 Somerville Tattersall S. Pasquier; Lifetime Record: 7 starts, 3 wins, 4 places, 2 8 Ziyarid (Fr) Desert Style (Ire) i79,500.