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COURT VISION takes Iroquois p. 4 HEADLINE For information about TDN, call 732-747-8060. NEWS www.thoroughbreddailynews.com MONDAY, OCTOBER 29, 2007 CURLIN EXITS CLASSIC WIN IN FINE SHAPE ALLEGRETTO ALLEGRO GI Breeders= Cup Classic winner Curlin (Smart Strike) Cheveley Park Stud=s Allegretto (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}) exited Saturday=s victory in good shape and a decision capped an annus mirabilis for the Newmarket-based on the likely Horse of the Year=s future is likely to be operation and her sire when flying late to capture made in the following days. AIt=s just a France=s end-of-season marathon, the G1 Prix Royal- whole new set of questions,@ said the Oak, in race-record time at Longchamp yesterday. Re- three-year-old=s trainer Steve quiring the full length of the Bois de Boulgne track=s Asmussen. AOur focus has been the straight, she was unrelenting in the drive to collar Breeders= Cup Classic ever since the Macleya (Ger) (Winged Love {Ire}) nearing the line to Belmont. I think the horse came claim a deserved first top-level success by a short neck through with flying colors and put in at odds of 26-5. AShe=s a really gutsy filly and keeps on his best performance yet. He was the pulling out more,@ said winning rider Ryan Moore. AShe best horse [Saturday] that he=s been, has already won three Group 2 races, so she really but everything has to be evaluated deserved that.@ Cont. p3 from that. It s the first time that we = ETCHED IN NASHUA weren=t thinking about tomorrow with Darley homebred Etched (Forestry), a son of GI Breed- him. I think everybody needs to step ers= Cup Distaff winner Unbridled Elaine (Unbridled=s back, enjoy what he s done, and then = Song), rolled to a visually impres- Curlin Horsephotos evaluate it off of that. Classic runner- @ sive 6 1/2-length victory in yester- up Hard Spun (Danzig) and GI Ken- day=s GIII Nashua S. at Aqueduct. tucky Derby winner Street Sense (Street Cry {Ire}), The 1-2 crowd=s choice never fourth in the Classic, will be shipped to Darley to begin gave his backers an anxious mo- their stud careers next year. AHard Spun will leave for ment, going to the early lead and Darley either Tuesday afternoon or Wednesday morn- sailing clear turning for home en ing,@ trainer Larry Jones confirmed. Reflecting on his A Coglianese route to the victory. AI had so charge=s final start, Jones said, AIt was a good run. We much horse the whole race,@ said gave it our best and Curlin was just better. Those three winning jockey Alan Garcia. AHe=s a big horse with a horses [Hard Spun, Curlin and Street Sense] have been real big stride. He liked the mile and I think he wants phenomneal all year. We beat Street Sense as many more distance.@ Cont. p6 times as he beat us, and Curlin, out of five times, he got us three and we got him the other two. This may be one of the best crops ever. Hard Spun has been going for 12 months solid, and he never disappointed us.@ Street Sense was scheduled to ship to Darley last night, according to trainer Carl Nafzger. AStreet Sense didn=t finish off his race for whatever reason,@ Nafzger said of his charge=s Classic effort. AIf he had finished off his race, he=d have been third, but he just didn=t finish it off. Curlin and Hard Spun ran top races. I wish [Street Sense] had been third because that would mean we=d have had the 1-2-3 in the Derby, 1-2-3 in the Preakness and 1-2-3 in the Breeders= Cup Classic.@ GI Breeders= Cup Filly and Mare Turf winner Lahudood (Singspiel {Ire}) has also run her last race. ALahudood will go to Shadwell and be bred next year,@ confirmed trainer Kiaran McLaughlin. Also retired after his Breeders= Cup victory is Saturday=s GI Turf winner English Channel (Smart Strike). AI made a deal with this horse that this would be his last race,@ said owner James Scatuorchio. AWe have a deal worked out with a farm in Kentucky, but I promised I wouldn=t say anything.@ Cont. p2 www.overbrookfarm.com TDN P HEADLINE NEWS • 10/29/07 • PAGE 2 of 10 Breeders’ Cup Runners Look Ahead (cont. from p1) R E S U L T S Trainer Nick Zito reported that GI Juvenile winner P P War Pass (Cherokee Run) will return to Churchill Downs Sunday, Rome, Italy before heading to Florida to prepare for next year=s PREMIO LYDIA TESIO SHADWELL-G1, i194,400, Triple Crown races. Zito was impressed with his colt=s Rome, 10-28, 3yo/up, f/m, 1 1/4mT, 2:02.60, gd/sf. effort, which included an opening six furlongs in 1--s@TURFROSE (GER), 122, f, 3, by Big Shuffle 1:09 3/5. AHe put an exclamation point on that,@ Zito 1st Dam: Turfquelle (Ire), by Shaadi said. AIf you don=t like that, you don=t like racing. I don=t 2nd Dam: Thekla (Ger), by Prince Ippi (Ger) care what you say, 1:09 is 1:09. I don=t care how fast 3rd Dam: Tania (Ger), by Orsini (Ger) the track is or how wet the track is, you still have to (i15,000 yrl >05 BBASEP). O/T-Pierluigi Giannotti; run all the way.@ Friday=s Dirt Mile winner Corinthian B-Gestut Auenquelle; J-Mario Sanna; i108,000. (Pulpit) now retires to Gainesway Farm, while Filly and Lifetime Record: SP-Fr, 11-5-2-2, i224,505. Mare Sprint winner Maryfield (Elusive Quality) is sched- 2--Fair Breeze (Ger), 126, f, 4, Silvano (Ger)--Fairwind uled to sell at next Sunday=s Fasig-Tipton Kentucky (Ger), by Andrang (Ger). O-Stall Margarethe; Selected Fall Mixed Sale in Lexington. Among Satur- B-Margrit Wetzel; T-Mario Hofer; i47,520. day=s other runners who ended their racing careers in 3--Musical Way (Fr), 126, m, 5, Gold Away (Ire)--Mulika Saturday=s Breeders= Cup are: My Typhoon (Ire) (Giant=s (Fr), by Procida. (i16,500 2yo >04 GOFFRA). Causeway) (13th in the Mile), who retires to Live Oak O-Stephanos Constantinidis; B-Haras du Taillis; Plantation; Remarkable News (Ven) (Chayim) (seventh T-Philippe van de Poele; i25,920. in the Mile), stud plans to be announced; and Timarwa Margins: SNK, 3/4, 2. Odds: 13.80, 37.50, 1.60. (Ire) (Daylami {Ire}) (6th in the F/M Turf), who will be Also Ran: Alamanni, Mystic Lips (Ger), Les Fazzani (Ire), Short Skirt (GB), shipped to Kentucky to be bred in the spring. Honey Mara Spectrum (Ire), Mimetico (Ire), Whazzis (GB), Fashion Statement (GB), Ryder (Lasting Approval), second in the Filly and Mare Miss Annaleo (Ire). Turf, is likely to be retired. Unraced as a juvenile, Turfrose stepped up from early season conditions wins at this track and Milan to hit GOMEZ WINS SHOEMAKER AWARD the board in the G3 Premio Regina Elena (Italian 1000 Garrett Gomez was named the 2007 recipient of the Guineas) back here May 13 before doing so again in the Bill Shoemaker Award, presented annually to the out- G3 Premio Mario Incisa on her return to Milan=s San standing jockey in the Breeders= Cup as voted by the Siro next time May 27. She ran fourth in the G2 Oaks international media covering the event. The 35-year-old d=Italia back at Milan June 17, dropped to seventh in rider, who captured two races Saturday, has now won the G3 Prix de Psyche at Deauville July 31 before re- the award twice after winning two races in the 2005 turning to the Normandy track to finish second in the Breeders= Cup. He rode Indian Blessing to victory in the Aug. 16 Listed Prix de Lieurey and claimed a first GI Juvenile Fillies and Midnight Lute in the GI Sprint. stakes badge in the Listed Premio Archidamia over course and distance last time Sept. 30. Positioned behind the front rank in fifth from the bell here, MOVING ??? Turfrose began a forward move under encouragement For just a day or forever... once into the stretch. She took control approaching the Call us with your new fax number. final quarter mile and came under maximum drive there- after as Fair Breeze closed late, but held enough in (732) 747-8060 reserve to just hold on for a lifetime best. Click for the Racing Post chart or the free brisnet.com catalogue-style pedigree. An AWESOME Weekend! Three stakes winners, two new millionaires highlighted Breeders’ Cup weekend for AWESOME AGAIN: GINGER PUNCH-G1, AWESOME GEM-G2, TESSA BLUE-G3, AWESOME ACTION. AWESOME AGAIN Deputy Minister – Primal Force, by Blushing Groom GINGER PUNCH-G1 EquiSport Photo TDN P HEADLINE NEWS • 10/29/07 • PAGE 3 of 10 PRIX ROYAL-OAK-G1, i250,000, Longchamp, 10-28, Sunday, Tokyo, Japan 3yo/up, 1 15/16mT, 3:15.50 (NSR), gd. TENNO SHO (AUTUMN)-G1, -256,240,000, Tokyo, 1--sALLEGRETTO (IRE), 127, f, 4, by Galileo (Ire) 10-28, 3yo/up, 2000mT, 1:58.40, gd. 1st Dam: Alleluia (GB) (Hwt 3yo Filly-Eng at 14+f, 1--MEISHO SAMSON (JPN), 128, c, 4, by Opera House (GB) GSW-Eng), by Caerleon 1st Dam: My Vivien (Jpn), by Dancing Brave 2nd Dam: Alruccaba (Ire), by Crystal Palace (Fr) 2nd Dam: Will Princess (Jpn), by Sun Prince (Ire) 3rd Dam: Allara (GB), by Zeddaan (GB) 3rd Dam: Yell (Jpn), by Fortino (Fr) (415,000gns yrl >04 TATOCT).