Feature Presentation • Gii Tampa Bay Derby
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THURSDAY, MARCH 10, 2011 For information about TDN, call 732-747-8060. OBS MARCH BREEZE SHOW POSTPONED FEATURE PRESENTATION • GII TAMPA BAY DERBY The first breeze show for the upcoming OBS March Selected Two-Year-Olds in Training Sale has been postponed until Friday due to forecasted rain and high winds Thursday. Hips 1-244 will breeze Friday, Mar. 11 and Hips 245-490 will work Saturday, Mar. 12. Both breeze shows begin at 8:00 a.m. The March Sale is slated for Tuesday and Wednesday, March 15 & 16 with BRETHREN OUTSIDE IN UPGRADED DERBY each session beginning at 11 a.m. With Eclipse Award winner Uncle Mo (Indian Charlie) AWith ideal weather forecast for ticketed for Saturday=s Timely Writer overnight stakes Friday and Saturday, we had time over Gulfstream=s one-turn mile, WinStar Farm=s built in for the change,@ OBS General Brethren (Distorted Humor) is the star attraction in Manager Tom Ventura offered. ABuyers will be able to Saturday=s Tampa Bay Derby, upgraded to Grade II for view the horses under similar conditions each day.@ the first time in its history. As he did in BLIND LUCK PASSES ON SANTA MARGARITA his GIII Sam F. Davis Champion three-year-old filly Blind Luck (Pollard=s S. success, the half- Vision) was not among the entries for Saturday=s brother to reigning featured event and will instead make her next GI Kentucky Derby appearance in the $150,000 GIII Azeri S. at Oaklawn hero Super Saver Park Mar. 19. AWe want to point for the [GI] Apple (Maria=s Mon) will Blossom [Apr. 15],@ trainer Jerry Hollendorfer told Daily leave from the Racing Form. AThey=ve added $50,000 to the purse for outside post in what the Azeri. Our filly runs okay at Santa Anita, but she Brethren EquiSport is expected to be a doesn=t seem to particularly like it at this meeting.@ field of nine at post Santa Margarita field. p4 time. Super Saver made his three-year-old debut in last year=s Tampa Bay Derby, finishing a half-length back in third as the 3-2 favorite. AI=m glad we won=t be faced with making a decision that would ultimately have fallen on WinStar if both horses went to Tampa,@ Pletcher told Daily Racing Form. AI needed to get Uncle Mo started this weekend for everything to fall in place. I have to do what=s best for both individual horses, and in this case everything has worked out best for both of them.@ Saturday, Tampa Bay Downs, post time: 5:20 p.m. EDT TAMPA BAY DERBY-GII, $350,000, 3yo, 1 1/16m PP HORSE SIRE JOCKEY TRAINER WT 1 Striding Ahead Empire Maker Solis Mott 116 2 Economic Summit K Malibu Moon Solis Violette Jr. 116 3 Beamer Vindication Goncalves Nafzger 116 4 Uncle Mo K Indian Charlie Velazquez Pletcher 122 5 Too Experience Drewman Centeno Passley 120 6 Crimson Knight Leroidsanimux (Brz) Allen Jr. Bennett 116 7 Free Entry K Tale of the Cat Garcia Brown 116 8 Moonhanger K Malibu Moon Marquez Jr. Alexander 116 9 Watch Me Go West Acre Garcia O'Connell 116 10 Brethren Distorted Humor Dominguez Pletcher 120 Page 1 of 13 TDN P HEADLINE NEWS • 3/10/11 • thoroughbreddailynews.com Today’s Graded Stakes brought to you by EST Race Click for TV 11:30a DRC Gold Cup-G3, MEY (brisnet.com PPs) HR/TVG 12:45p Zabeel Mile-G2, MEY (brisnet.com PPs) HR/TVG Click here to download all brisnet.com PPs for today’s graded races. 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P P R E V I E W S P Thursday, Meydan, UAE, post time: 12:45 p.m. ET ZABEEL MILE-G2, $250,000, 4yo/up, 1600mT PP HORSE SIRE JOCKEY TRAINER 1 Invisible Man (GB) Elusive Quality Dettori bin Suroor 2 Cat Junior K Storm Cat Ffrench Petersen 3 Across the Rhine Cuvee Supple Collins 4 Kavango (Ire) Cape Cross (Ire) Cosgrave bin Shafya 5 Ferneley (Ire) Ishiguru Buick B Cecil 6 Caymans (Aus) Secret Savings Durcan bin Suroor 7 Silverside K Pleasantly Perfect Soumillon Delcher 8 Fareer (GB) Bahamian Bounty (GB) R Hills E Dunlop 9 Navajo Chief (GB) King’s Best Fallon Jarvis 10 Fanunalter (GB) Falbrav (Ire) Moore Botti 11 Rileyskeepingfaith (GB) Hunting Lion (Ire) Ajtebi Al Zarooni 12 Hearts of Fire (GB) Firebreak (GB) De Vries Al Malki Reserves 13 Field Event (SAf) Western Winter No rider Al Harabi 14 Thai Haku (Ire) Oasis Dream (GB) No rider Delzangles 15 Indomito (Ger) Areion (Ger) No rider Vovcenko 16 Atlantis Star (GB) Cape Cross (Ire) No rider Al Zarooni All carry 126 pounds, except Thai Haku, 121. Hearts of Fire, winner of Italy=s G1 Gran Criterium in 2009, was winless in five 2010 starts, but was third in the G1 St James=s Palace S. Fourth, beaten two lengths, over this course and trip in the Feb. 17 G2 Al Fahidi Fort, the four-year-old bay makes a quick return after a close-up fifth in the Mar. 3 G2Jebel Hatta. Navajo Chief tries group company for the first time after a course-and-trip handicap victory Feb. 24. Finishing just a nose back in second that day was Kavango, who turns back to a mile after a ninth-place finish in the Jebel Hatta. Cat Junior is looking to rebound from a pair of dull efforts over the local Tapeta surface, most recently running 13th in the Mar. 3 G3 Burj Nahaar. Look for the K throughout the TDN graded stakes entries, denoting Keeneland sales graduates. Page 2 of 13 TDN P HEADLINE NEWS • 3/10/11 • thoroughbreddailynews.com Black-Type Previews cont. Thursday, Meydan, UAE, post time: 11:30 a.m. ET DRC GOLD CUP-G3, $200,000, 4yo/up, 3200mT PP HORSE SIRE JOCKEY TRAINER 1 Royaaty (Ire) Singspiel (Ire) Cosgrave bin Shafya 2 Bergo (Ger) Silvano (Ger) Soumillon G Moore 3 Age of Reason (UAE) Halling D O'Donohoe bin Suroor 4 Muller (Arg) El Compinche (Arg) Fayd'herbe Al Harabi 5 Mikhail Glinka (Ire) Galileo (Ire) R Moore Brown 6 Claremont (Ire) Sadler’s Wells Buick Al Zarooni 7 Sabotage (UAE) Halling Durcan bin Suroor 8 La De Two (Ire) Galileo (Ire) O'Shea bin Suroor 9 Drunken Sailor (Ire) Tendulkar Fallon Cumani 10 Whispering Gallery (GB) Daylami (Ire) Dettori bin Suroor 11 Opinion Poll (Ire) Halling Ajtebi Al Zarooni All carry 126 pounds, except Mikhail Glinka, 120; and Opinion Poll, 129. Saturday, Flemington, Australia LEXUS NEWMARKET H.-G1, A$1,000,000, 3yo/up, 1200mT SC PP HORSE SIRE JOCKEY TRAINER WT 1 8 Black Caviar (Aus) Bel Esprit (Aus) Nolen Moody 128 2 3 Hay List (Aus) Statue of Liberty Schofield McNair 125 3 12 Eagle Falls (Aus) Hussonet Oliver Hayes 121 4 11 Grand Duels (Aus) Marechal (Aus) Nikolic Cozamanis 119 5 2 Star Witness (Aus) Starcraft (NZ) Melham O’Brien 117 6 7 Beaded (Aus) Lonhro (Aus) Newitt Snowden 116 7 9 Chasm (Aus) Umatilla (NZ) Benbow Conners 115 8 6 King Pulse (Aus) Canny Lad (Aus) Brown Moroney 115 9 10 Response (Aus) Chrg Frwrd (Aus) Williams Elrtn/Zhra 115 Inquiries to Kyle Wilson 10 4 Snapparazi (Aus) Arazi Yendall Marshman 115 [email protected] 11 1 Crystal Lily (Aus) Stratum (Aus) Baster Elrtn/Zhra 111 12 5 Hinchinbrook (Aus) Fastnet Rock (Aus) Maskiell Moody 111 Black Caviar will be backed at long odds-on to Saturday, Warwick Farm, Australia TURNPOINT ROYAL RANDWICK GUINEAS-G1, become the first in Australian history to win its first 10 A$500,000, 3yo, 1600mT trips to the post at city tracks. The world s top-rated = SC PP HORSE SIRE JOCKEY TRAINER turf sprinter, the four-year-old will carry top weight of 1 5 Ilovethiscity (Aus) Magic Albert (Aus) Avdulla Begg 128 pounds and is currently a $1.25 favorite (1-4) with 2 11 Pressday (Aus) Domesday (Aus) Cassidy Waller TAB Sportbet. Hay List was runner-up to Black Caviar 3 8 Retrieve (Aus) Rahy Parr Snowden when they last met in the G1 Coolmore Lightning S. 4 3 Skilled (Aus) Commands (Aus) McEvoy Snowden 5 2 Masquerader (Aus) Lucky Owners (NZ) Bowman Payne Feb. 26 and meets the super mare on eight pounds= 6 6 Praecido (NZ) One Cool Cat Reith Payne better terms Saturday. 7 4 Top Drop (Aus) Snitzel (Aus) Berry Ryan 8 9 Goldstone (Aus) Shamardal Pengelly B Cummings Saturday, Flemington, Australia 9 1 Absolutelyawesome (NZ) Zenno Rob Roy (Jpn) Boss Moroney 10 10 Shootoff (NZ) Duelled (Aus) Byrne Rogerson DARLEY AUSTRALIAN CUP-G1, A$1,000,000, 3yo/up, 11 7 Light Brigade (Aus) Redte’s Chce (Aus) N Rawiller Waterhouse 2000mT All carry 125 pounds. SC PP HORSE SIRE JOCKEY TRAINER 1 12 Shocking (Aus) Street Cry (Ire) Brown Kavanagh Saturday, Auckland, New Zealand 2 15 Scenic Shot (Aus) Scenic (Ire) Scriven Morton 3 9 Heart of Dreams (Aus) Show a Heart (Aus) Oliver Price AUCKLAND DIAMOND S.-G1, NZ$200,000, 2yo, 6fT 4 3 C’est La Guerre (NZ) Shinko King (Ire) Hall Hickmott SC PP HORSE SIRE JOCKEY TRAINER 5 13 Precedence (NZ) Zabeel (NZ) Arnold B Cummings 1 3 Antonio Lombardo (NZ) Pins (Aus) Spratt McKay 6 1 Ginga Dude (NZ) Istidaad Walker Boyd 2 7 Fort Lincoln (Aus) Chrg Frwrd (Aus) No Rider Latta 7 10 Mourayan (Ire) Alhaarth (Ire) Nikolic Hickmott 3 4 Savabill (NZ) Savabeel (Aus) Tinsley Sargent 8 14 Alcopop (Aus) Jeune (GB) Melham Stephens 4 10 Shuka (NZ) Bachelor Duke Colgan P/D Williams 5 12 Bespoke (NZ) Pins (Aus) Innes Bridgman 9 4 Moudre (Aus) Blevic (Aus) Williams Maher 6 6 Chateauneuf Dupape (NZ) Darci Brahma (NZ) McDonald Sargent 10 8 Linton (Aus) Galileo (Ire) Rodd Hickmott 7 8 Distill (NZ) Volksraad (GB) Hannam Bergerson 11 6 Cedarberg (Aus) Helenus (Aus) Schofield Carey 8 9 Duckworth Lewis (NZ) Postponed Nolan Molloy 12 2 Lord Pyrus (NZ) Pyrus Callow Mawer 9 11 Soul Commander (NZ) Commands (Aus) Ormsby Bridgman 13 5 Mr Charlie (NZ) Golan (Ire) Nolen Moody 10 2 Release Me (NZ) No Excse Ndd (GB) No Rider McKee 14 7 Laristan (Fr) Sinndar (Ire) B Rawiller Hayes 11 5 Anabandana (Aus) Anabaa Bosson Sellwood 15 11 Playing God (Aus) Blackfriars (Aus) Newitt Parnham 12 1 Miss Upstart (Aus) Snippetson (Aus) Du Plessis Richardson All carry 130 pounds, bar Laristan, 129; and Playing God, 120.