WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 27, 2014 732-747-8060 $ TDN Home Page Click Here WISE DAN READY FOR RETURN Two-time reigning Horse of the Year Wise Dan (Wiseman=s Ferry) is scheduled for a return to the track in Saratoga=s GII Bernard Baruch H. Saturday. The Morton Fink homebred made just two starts this year, with victories in the COME SEPTEMBER GI Maker=s 46 Mile S. After a 30% recovery in the market began at Apr. 11 and GI Woodford Keeneland September last year, the Thoroughbred Reserve Turf Classic S. auction marketplace is up 16% in gross from the May 3, before suffering corresponding point in 2013, though the average is up from a bout of colic in May and undergoing just 2.5% as 13% more horses have sold. So far so surgery. Trainer Charlie good. Now comes September--well, after Doncaster, LoPresti said the surgery OBS, Washington, Baden-Baden, and Ontario--but Wise Dan everybody is warming up for the main event. Keeneland EquiSport for the nephrosplenic entrapment and the September goes back to 13 days this year (adding one subsequent recovery time has not strongly effected the day), with a total of 4,181 yearlings catalogued, a 7% chestnut. A[The recovery] didn=t take very much time,@ increase over last year. The first four days (>Week 1=) LoPresti explained during the NTRA teleconference averaged $280,925 last year on receipts of yesterday. AHe probably lost 3 1/2 weeks of training $153-million (546 sold of 875 catalogued, 62.4%), time and then he started tack walking in four weeks while the rest of the sale (eight days) saw receipts jump and then we jogged him for a week and then we went from just under $87-million in 2012 to $127-million last right back to the track. The surgeon looked at him all year, as a remarkable 72.5% of those catalogued were the time and we started galloping him.@ Cont. p3 listed as sold. This year the number catalogued in Book 1 is actually down by 13% (762 this year, down STARSPANGLEDBANNER COLT HAS THE from 875), while the number catalogued in Books 2-6 is ‘WOW' FACTOR AT DBS up 13%, which is 386 horses. by Emma Berry Last year the 875 yearlings catalogued in Book 1 Rarity, value and the not so insignificant matter of a were by 76 different sires. This year there are 74 sires first-crop Group 1 winner just 48 hours earlier represented in the first week (click here to view full combined to promote one of only list), so an average of a little over 10 per stallion. two colts by Starspangledbanner Cont. p13 (Aus) in the catalogue to top billing on the opening day of the DBS Premier Sales. David Redvers saw off stiff competition from Mark Richards of the Hong Kong Jockey Club to secure the colt (lot 193) for Qatar Racing at ,230,000--a huge leap from his foal price of 13,000gns at Tattersalls' December Sale. On Sunday, Sheikh Fahad Al Thani's cousin Sheikh Joaan of Al Shaqab Racing enjoyed witnessing Lot 193 his own Starspangledbanner colt DBS The Wow Signal (Ire) become his sire's first top-flight winner when landing the G1 Prix Morny in Deauville, having also won the G2 Coventry S. back in June. The John Quinn-trained colt, one of two Group winners at Royal Ascot for the stallion including the G2 Queen Mary S. winner Anthem Alexander (Ire), is the primary reason for the sub-fertile Starspangledbanner's return from Rosemont Stud in Australia to Coolmore's Irish base for the 2015 season. Cont. p4 NEW FOR 2015 Record-breaking MGSW millionaire n The only colt in his crop to win multiple stakes at 2, 3 and 4 n Track record-setter at Gulfstream, smashing the 11/16 -mile record on dirt by 3/5 of a second, running 1:41.81 in the Holy Bull S. (G3) n Three stakes wins so far in 2014, as well as finishing a game second in the Whitney H. 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AThis is a handicap, and he is breezes. I started to look at the timing and everything going to carry more weight, and that=s one thing I=m and where I was with him. It was almost like trying to concerned about,@ LoPresi offered. AI know we did it put 10 pounds of potatoes in an eight-pound bag. I was last year, but this is a different scenario. Any kind of trying to make a race that he won last year and I colic surgery is colic surgery, so you have to be realized it wasn=t going to happen because he was a concerned about that. He is ready to run, he=s very little short of where he needed to be. The works were good right now and his last three works have indicated slow in the beginning, and I know everyone was that.@ concerned, but it was by design. I didn=t want him to As for a shot at a possible third Horse of the Year come out here and just destroy the racetrack every day. award, LoPresti stated, AIf we=re lucky enough to go I wanted to bring him along slowly, so I did that and through to the Breeders= Cup, I may think about the about a week after the Fourstardave, I had the chance [GI] Clark H. at the end of the year on dirt [at Churchill to work him in company and tighten the screws a little Downs]. In a perfect world, if he stay undefeated and bit, which gave me a little more time.@ we run him in the Clark H. and he gets a Grade I on the LoPresti acknowledged that the connections are still dirt as well, that may give us a better chance at Horse unsure of the future races. AWe=re going to enter and of the Year. But like I said, right now, it=s one race at a the plan is to run, weather permitting,@ LoPresti said of time.@ the Bernard Baruch. AWe=re going to look at the field and see how it shapes up and go from there. We=re leaning towards running him in here and then we=d go Have a fond memory or story about retiring home and run him in the [GI] Shadwell Turf Mile NYRA announcer Tom Durkin? Share it with us [Oct. 4] and miss the [GI Ricoh] Woodbine Mile S. at [email protected]. Some replies will be [Sept. 14]. If he has an easy race here, there is a chance he could come back in two weeks.@ published in the TDN. TDN P HEADLINE NEWS • 8/27/14 • PAGE 4 of 14 • thoroughbreddailynews.com SALES NEWS DBS cont. from p1 "They're not making many of these as we know, and this was the stand-out horse in the sale," said Redvers.