SUNDAY, JUNE 26, 2011 For information about TDN, call 732-747-8060. OH MOMMA! FEATURE PRESENTATION • G1 IRISH DERBY Edward. P. Evans homebred Buster=s Ready (More Than Ready), a smart second in the GII Black-Eyed Susan S. at Pimlico May 20, announced her presence with authority in the sophomore filly division with a decisive 4 1/4- length triumph over favored Joyful Victory (Tapit) in Belmont=s GI Mother Goose S. The win marked prominent sire SECOND CHANCES More Than Ready (Southern Adam Coglianese photo Things did not happen for Carlton House (Street Cry Halo)'s first Grade I victory in the {Ire}) at Epsom, but another day brings another Northern Hemisphere. AShe=s been steadily improving all opportunity, and he bids to provide a Royal Classic winter and spring, and she=s a filly we always felt victory in today=s G1 Dubai Duty Free Irish Derby at The wanted more distance,@ trainer Todd Pletcher offered. Curragh. Beset with a late training setback, The AHer last race was sort of a breakthrough race for her, Queen=s Darley-bred colt did not aid his cause with a and she=s kind of finding her rhythm now. She=s putting tardy start in the June 4 ABlue Riband.@ Despite having it all together and [it=s helped] being able to steadily get to race wide around Tattenham Corner and make up some route races. We=ll see how she comes out of it; I considerable ground, he still managed a game third with think the next logical step is the [GI TVG] Coaching just three racing plates intact at the finish. Sir Michael Club [American Oaks at Saratoga July 23].@ Cont. p6 Stoute has kept his usual counsel since that day, but the G2 Dante S. winner must have been giving all the SCRAPING THE PAINT right signals under wraps in Newmarket. His owner=s Mr. and Mrs. Jerry Moss=s Zazu (Tapit) gamely went racing advisor John Warren revealed that the bay has through a narrow opening along the rail at the top of had a trouble-free run-up. AIt=s all very exciting, and the stretch, and rolled past Plum Pretty (Medaglia we=re thrilled that the horse has come out of Epsom d=Oro) to deliver a 1 1/2-length victory in the extremely well,@ Warren told PA Sport. AIt should be a GII Hollywood Oaks. Cont. p8 fascinating race, with much of the field from Epsom, apart from the winner, converging on Ireland. It will be interesting to see what these 3-year-olds will do with themselves, and it will interesting to see who has come out of Epsom best. Most of them were unexposed horses going into the Derby, and the margins have been close enough. What we are excited about is that we hope all those little issues that he had going into the Derby are now behind him. I don=t think there are any concerns about the trip, the ground or the course. We are just hopeful that he's progressed enough to find himself in front when it counts. I think it=s the first Royal runner in the Irish Derby, and it would be a great achievement for the Queen in her career as a racehorse owner to have a Derby winner--that is what we are rooting for.@ Coolmore foiled the Royal runner three weeks ago and have strong claims of repeating the dose, with a quartet in the race the operation has won 10 times since 1997, including the last six. Aidan O=Brien is looking for a sixth consecutive success with three of the four stable representatives from Epsom, alongside Classic winner Roderic O=Connor (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}). Cont. p2 TDN P HEADLINE NEWS • 6/26/11 • PAGE 2 of 19 • thoroughbreddailynews.com Irish Derby cont. While G1 Irish 2000 Guineas winner Roderic O=Connor has stamina to prove following a latest eighth in the G1 Prix du Jockey Club at Chantilly June 5, his trio of stablemates are certain to relish this test of staying power. Six of Ballydoyle=s eight Irish Derby heroes came here on the back of a run at Epsom, and all are worthy of maximum respect from the stable responsible for filling the trifecta on three separate occasions since 2002, as well as providing the one-two in 2009. Memphis Tennessee (Ire) (Hurricane Run {Ire}) bids to emulate his sire=s success six years ago, and is still an unexposed type who is open to improvement on his fourth in the June 4 Classic. He made most of the running on that occasion, and with a lead on softer ground could shake up his better-fancied stable companions Treasure Beach (GB) (Galileo {Ire}) and Seville (Ger) (Galileo {Ire}). Both are looking to repeat the feat of their sires, who turned this into a procession 10 years ago and has already produced two winners from Coolmore. Treasure Beach entered the Derby an outsider, but he was only a head behind Pour Moi (Ire) (Montjeu {Ire) at the line, and his prior G3 Chester Vase win has been given weight by the success of that May 5 trial=s runner-up Nathaniel (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}) in last week=s G2 King Edward VII S. Seville, who was runner-up to Carlton House in the May 12 G2 Dante S. at York, did not show up in the ABlue Riband@ and trailed in 10th, but has the same profile as the yard=s 2008 winner Frozen Fire (Ger) (Montjeu {Ire}). Sire of maiden winners at GP, AP & CD including Half Pleasant, 4 1/4 length winner at CD on 6/24 for owner Carl Gessler, Jr and Magdalena Racing, trainer Ken McPeek and breeder Marvin Little, Jr. GI Mother Goose S. (BEL) Buster=s Ready (More Than Ready) steps up to the big leagues. GII King Edward S. (WOX) Court of the Realm (Powerscourt {GB}) wins his fifth straight. GII New York S. (BEL) Giants Play (Giant=s Causeway) lives up to her big-time pedigree. GII Hollywood Oaks (HOL) Zazu (Tapit) rides the rails to an impressive victory. GIII Debutante S. (CD) Flashy Lassie (Flashy Bull) becomes the first stakes winner for her freshman sire. GIII Boiling Springs S. (MTH) Summer Soiree (War Front) wins by daylight. P TDN HEADLINE NEWS • 6/26/11 • PAGE 3 of 19 • thoroughbreddailynews.com Public Syndicate Groups - Stakes Stats for 2011 GSWins GSWnrs Stk Wins Stk Wnrs IRISH DERBY BREEDERS TEAM VALOR INTERNATIONAL 5 4 8 7 STARLIGHT 3 1 4 2 ASHLEY HOUSE STUD - Treasure Beach PEACHTREE 2 1 3 2 (GB) Owners Brian and Jane Hammond BLINKERS ON 2 1 2 1 purchased the current Ashley House Stud DOGWOOD 2 1 2 1 property in the East Devon village of Dalwood, WEST POINT 1 1 2 2 England, when it was still a dairy farm in 1986, and made the THOROUGHBRED LEGENDS 1 1 1 1 necessary renovations. Ashley House also races under a CLASS RACING - - 7 4 partnership in the name of Ashley House Racing. The dam of CENTENNIAL - - 2 2 Treasure Beach, Honorine (Ire) (Mark of Esteem {Ire}), is FANTASY LANE - - 2 1 still owned by the Hammonds, and will be bred back to New PINNACLE RACING - - 2 1 Approach (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}). BONGO - - - - ELITE RACING - - - - FUNKY MONKEY STABLE - - - - JOHN CONNAUGHTON - Dunboyne I E A H - - - - Express (Ire) Connaughton is a retired PARTING GLASS - - - - businessman and a keen rider and huntsman. PEWTER - - - - Originally from Dublin, he made his money SACKATOGA STABLE - - - - in developing and building during the boom. SOVEREIGN - - - - Involved in racing in the past, he took a Teresa & John STARVIEW - - - - hiatus, and returned to the sport in earnest Connaughton TEAM STALLION - - - - 10 years ago. Connaughton’s bloodstock TEAM VICTORY - - - - interests are based at Barrettstown Stud in Mullingar, Co. THREE CHIMNEYS - - - - Westmeath. Dunboyne Express's dam Love Excelling (Fr) VICTORY THOROUGHBREDS - - - - (Polish Precedent) is part of Connaughton’s current 10-strong WOODFORD RACING - - - - broodmare roster. The half-sister to Love Divine (GB) (Diesis Source: TVI statistician Kathleen Jones, from reports from Bloodstock Journal and TDN {GB}), dam of Sixties Icon (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}), was Stats are current through June 25, 2011 at 8:00 pm ET. *Paid Advertisement purchased for 220,000gns at the 2003 Tattersalls December Sale. Connaughton is selling a Raven’s Pass half-brother to Dunboyne Express at this fall’s Tattersalls October Yearling GILLES & ALIETTE FORIEN - Native Sale. He also bred the 2008 G3 Athasi S. winner Prima Luce Khan (Fr) Gilles Forien, chairman of Le-Pin- (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}). Dunboyne Express is named after a train au-Haras Racecourse, sold the French station that was built beside a plot of land he owns. bloodstock agency FIPS in 2009. His wife, Gilles (left) & Aliette, is the great-granddaughter of Gabriel DARLEY - Carlton House Darley is division Aliette (right) Guerlain, who founded Haras de Montaigu in of the Thoroughbred racing operation of Forien 1903. The stud farm, 360 acres in the Le Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Merlerault region in France, has been run by who became the Ruler of Dubai in 2006. He is four generations of the Guerlain family, with Aliette taking also prime minister and vice president of the over in 1984 and turning the operation, now called Haras de UAE. Sheikh Mohammed rode as a child, and la Reboursiere & Montaigu, into a commercial enterprise visited his first racecourse while studying in focused on sales yearlings. She also stands a roster of five Sheikh Mohammed England in 1967. Ten years later, he celebrated stallions.