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ACT ONE TO STAND HEADLINE IN ENGLAND...p2 NEWS For information, DELIVERED EACH NIGHT call 732-747-8060. BY FAX AND INTERNET www.thoroughbreddailynews.com TUESDAY, JULY 9, 2002 SUNDAY SILENCE DOMINATES JRHA OPENER High on Fusaichi Pegasus.... Japan’s leading sire Sunday Silence enjoyed a banner “Fusaichi Pegasus is the most exciting stallion pros- day at yesterday’s opening session of the Japan Racing pect in 20 years,” McCormack said after the purchase. Horse Association Select Sale at Northern Horse Park in “I would love to get a nice son of Fusaichi Pegasus and Hokkaido. A weanling son of the Kentucky Derby win- this is the one. He looks like his father.” McCormack ner fetched a sale-topping final bid of ¥205,000,000 added the colt would likely be sent to a trainer in the ($1,708,333) from Genichiro Tahara. Consigned by U.S. The sale’s final session begins Tuesday at 11 a.m. Teruya Yoshida’s Shadai Farm, the brown colt is the third foal JRHA SELECT SALE out of G3 Lancashire Oaks win- TOP FIVE COLTS ner Fanjica (Ire) (Law Society). Hip# Sire Dam Price (¥) Fanjica’s second foal, also by 130 Sunday Silence Fanjica (Ire) 205,000,000 Sunday Silence, was bought for Consigned by Shadai Farm ¥150,000,000 at this sale last Purchased by Genichiro Tahara year. Tahara was primed to 015 Sunday Silence Catalyst (Ire) 135,000,000 spend big at the Select Sale af- Consigned by Northern Farm Sale topper Hip 130 ter his company Flag Manufac- Purchased by Riichi Kondo JRHA Photo ture sold millions of national 033 Sunday Silence Ballet Queen (Ire) 110,000,000 flags to fans at the recently con- Consigned by Northern Farm cluded World Cup. The sale-topping colt will be sent to Purchased by Kiyoshi Nishikawa trainer Kazuhiro Seishi at Miho Training Center near 118 Fusaichi Pegasus Queen Maud (Ire) 85,000,000 Tokyo. “I am very excited to have such a nice racing Consigned by Shadai Farm prospect and I feel very honored to have Mr. Tahara Purchased by Hiroyoshi Usuda send me such a valuable colt,” said Seishi, who also 064 Fusaichi Pegasus Jeweled Crown 81,000,000 trains Japanese Oaks winner Smile Tomorrow. John Consigned by Paca Paca Farm Ferguson was the underbidder on the colt. Ferguson Purchased by John McCormack Bloodstock was also the underbidder on the day’s second-highest lot. Hip number 15, another son of Sunday Silence, TOP FIVE FILLIES brought a final bid of ¥135,000,000 ($1,125,000) from Hip# Sire Dam Price (¥) Riichi Kondo. Consigned by Northern Farm, the colt is 072 Sunday Silence Princess Reema 62,000,000 out of Catalyst (Ire) (Sadler’s Wells), a full sister to Consigned by Paca Paca Farm champion Second Empire (Ire). Two weanlings were Purchased by Shadai Farm offered yesterday from the first crop of Kentucky Derby 129 French Deputy Kurokami (Jpn) 56,000,000 winner Fusaichi Pegasus. Lot 118, a bay colt out of Consigned by Symboli Stud G1SW Queen Maud (Ire) (Akarad {Fr}), was purchased Purchased by Makoto Kaneko for ¥85,000,000 ($708,333) by Hiroyoshi Usuda from 039 Sunday Silence Oenothera (Ire) 50,000,000 the consignment of Shadai Farm. Trainer Hideyuki Mori, Consigned by Yukiko Hosokawa who signed the ticket for the weanling on behalf of Purchased by John Ferguson Bloodstock Usuda, commented, “There are two foals by Fusaichi 121 Sunday Silence Risque Attache 49,000,000 Pegasus and I like this one better. And my client loves Consigned by Hidaka Taiyo Bokujo the dam.” Also by FuPeg, lot 64, a dark bay colt out of Purchased by Soda Noen Co., Ltd. Six Crowns (Seattle Slew), was purchased for 063 Sunday Silence Buzen Candle (Jpn) 47,000,000 ¥81,000,000 ($675,000). John McCormack made the Consigned by Northern Farm winning bid on behalf of an American partnership. Purchased by Akira Makabe OUR PICKS COME OUT RUNNING RUNNING TIDE (3yo, $248,670) S 5-5-0-0, 6/8 1st Leonard Richards S.-G3, $22,000 yearling purchase. IT’SALLINTHECHASE (3yo, $192,160) S SW at 2, GSP at 2 & 3, $21,000 weanling purchase. DOUBLE ZERO SEVEN (3yo, $132,300) S SW twice at 2, $25,000 yearling purchase. LET US FIND A WINNER FOR YOU Bloodstock Services • Contact David Ingordo 859 299.0473 • fax 859 299.1259 • mobile 859 621.8809 TDN P HEADLINE NEWS • 7/9/02 • PAGE 2 of 5 P N E W S T O D A Y P P P R E V I E W P STREET CRY BREEZES Tuesday, Newmarket, Britain, post time: 4:00 p.m. Dubai World Cup victor Street Cry (Ire) (Machiavel- PRINCESS OF WALES’S UAE EQUESTRIAN AND RAC- lian) reeled off five panels in a modest 1:03 2/5 at ING FEDERATION S.-G2, £80,000, 3yo/up, 1 ½mT Belmont Park Sunday in preparation for his next start in SC PP HORSE SIRE TRAINER WT the GI Whitney H. at Saratoga Aug. 3. The four-year- 1 7 Kutub (Ire) In The Wings (GB) Bin Suroor 133 old, a 6 1/2-length winner in the recent Stephen Foster 2 4 Yavana’s Pace (Ire) Accordion (Ire) Johnston 131 H. at Churchill Downs June 15, has five wins and five 3 2 Island House (Ire) Grand Lodge Wragg 128 runner-up finishes from 11 starts with just over $5 4 6 Millenary (GB) Rainbow Quest J Dunlop 128 million in earnings. 5 1 Mubtaker Silver Hawk Tregoning 128 6 3 Xtra (GB) Sadler’s Wells Cumani 128 ACT ONE TO STAND IN ENGLAND 7 5 Simeon (GB) Lammtarra Johnston 115 Simeon enjoys a huge pull at the weights with his At the request of his late owner Gerald Leigh, Act elders here and is a class act on the basis of his third One (GB) (In The Wings {GB}--Summer Sonnet {GB}, by placing behind Sulamani (Ire) and Act One (GB) last Baillamont), will be syndicated and commence stud time in the G1 Prix du Jockey Club (French Derby) at duty in England. Following his syndication by London Chantilly June 2. Previously he had taken the G3 Clas- Thoroughbred Services the winner of Saint Cloud’s G1 sic Trial at Sandown Apr. 26 with a power-packed Criterium International at two and the G1 Prix Lupin at performance from the front and can enjoy a lead off Longchamp May 12 will stand at Shadwell’s Nunnery stable companion Yavana’s Pace this time. Mark Stud, who recently purchased into the colt, at a fee of Johnston was the last trainer to saddle a three-year-old £10,000, Oct. 1st terms. Leigh, whose Eydon Hall winner in this event with 1998 victor Fruits of Love, Farm retains an interest in the sophomore, clearly out- and in Simeon he has a genuine top-class performer in lined in the syndication agreement that the colt will that mold. At the other end of the scale, Godolphin’s cover a maximum of 100 mares per season and will not Kutub has to defy a Group 1 penalty and that proved shuttle to the Southern Hemisphere for double duty. beyond him in the G2 Jockey Club S. at Newmarket The roan kicked off his career with five wins from five May 3 when he was fifth behind stablemate Marienbard starts, but had that streak snapped in his most recent (Ire) and Millenary. Although there appears no obvious start, the G1 Prix de Jockey Club at Chantilly June 2, reason why he should reverse that form, having disap- when he was beaten only 1 1/2 lengths by Sulamani. pointed when last of six in the G1 Coronation Cup at With earnings of $507,391, Act One was forced to Epsom June 7, he is worth another chance on ground retire because of a hairline fracture to a hind canon which will suit him. Island House showed an impressive bone prior to a much anticipated meeting with High turn of acceleration to win the Listed Leicester Mercury Chaparral in the G1 Irish Derby June 30. S. June 16, but has to better his best to reverse the form of last year’s Listed Godolphin S. over this course in October, when he trailed in fourth behind Mubtaker. ACT ONE, by In The Wings (Previews cont. p5) Owned and Bred by: Gerald Leigh. Lifetime Record: 6-5-1-0. Won the G3 Prix Thomas JRHA SELECT SALE Bryon, G1 Criterium International, G2 Prix Greffulhe, Monday, July 8, 2002 G1 Prix Lupin; placed in the G1 Prix Du Jockey Club. 1st Dam: Summer Sonnet (GB) (SP-Fr), by Baillamont SESSION: 2001 2002 2nd Dam: Noesis (Ire), by Persepolis (Fr) No. Sold 92 98 3rd Dam: Proskona, by Mr. Prospector Gross (¥) 2,798,000 2,930,000,000 Average (¥) 30,413,000 29,900,000 Half to Summer Symphony (Ire) (Caerleon), G1SP-GB and Summer Solstice (Ire) (Caeleon), SW-Fr. http://www.jrha.or.jp Winner of the Hopeful (G1) & Sapling (G2) at Two. Champion Sprinter at Three. Leading 1st & 2nd Crop Sire. Graham J. Beck, President Inquiries: Michael Hernon SMOKE GLACKEN 859-293-2676 Fax 859-299-9371 www.gainesway.com Watch for his yearlings at auction this Summer. TDN P HEADLINE NEWS • 7/9/02 • PAGE 3 of 5 P EDIGREE INSIGHTS Pivotal makes the most of limited Opportunities Among Pivotal’s current representatives are Kyllachy, BY ANDREW CAULFIELD who put up one of the year’s best sprinting perfor- mances in the G2 Temple S.; Golden Apples, winner of Saturday, Hollywood Park the GII Santa Ana H.; and Megahertz, the remarkable AMERICAN OAKS, $500,000, HOL, 7-6, 3yo, f, import who kept her unbeaten record intact, thanks to 1 1/4mT, 2:00 2/5, fm.