JOHN PHILLIPS After the Break, Dumping Jockey Drayden Van Dyke and Bumping Into Storm the Court (Court Vision), Causing Him to Lose His Rider As Well
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FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 2019 KEENELAND 'LIFE'S WORK' EIGHT RINGS LOOKS TO MAKE AMENDS IN AMERICAN PHAROAH by Christie DeBernardis ORAL HISTORY PROJECT, >TDN Rising Star= Eight Rings (Empire Maker) was heavily favored in the GI Del Mar Futurity Sept. 2, but ducked in shortly NO. 2: JOHN PHILLIPS after the break, dumping jockey Drayden Van Dyke and bumping into Storm the Court (Court Vision), causing him to lose his rider as well. Adding blinkers this time around, the Bob Baffert pupil looks to make amends Friday in the GI American Pharoah S. at Santa Anita, which grants the winner a spot in the gate for the GI Breeders= Cup Juvenile. Prior to that incident last time, the $520,000 KEESEP purchase romped by 6 1/4 lengths in his Aug. 4 unveiling at Del Mar. Storm the Court, a debut winner in SoCal Aug. 10, also returns in this spot. Del Mar Futurity winner Nucky (Ghostzapper) will see if he can take down Eight Rings this time as he looks to double up. Prior to his top-level score earlier this month, the dark bay earned his diploma by 10 1/2 lengths at fourth asking while in for a $100,000 tag at Del Mar Aug. 21. Cont. p4 IN TDN EUROPE TODAY John Phillips A CLASSIC COLLECTION ASSEMBLED FOR ORBY It’s less than a week until the Goffs Orby Yearling Sale in Ireland. Kelsey Riley has a preview of the “Classic” collection. Click or tap here to go straight to TDN Europe. by Chris McGrath TDN is proud to partner with the Keeneland Library and the Nunn Center for Oral History at the University of Kentucky Libraries in a very special new collaboration: the Keeneland >Life=s Work= Oral History Project, a series of filmed interviews by TDN columnist Chris McGrath with significant figures in the Thoroughbred industry. The second of these, with John Phillips of Darby Dan Farm, appears here. His grandfather's greatest achievements, on the Turf, were all about looking outward; about opening minds and dismantling boundaries. Listening to John Phillips, however, you realize that the impetus for the whole adventure--for the mutual enlightenment, either side of the ocean, achieved by sending Roberto and Ribot in opposite directions--could not have been more definitively American. Because as Phillips says himself, the story of John Galbreath might have been written by Horatio Alger. A kid raised in a large, poor family in the Ohio back country, whose dynamism and imagination generated a fortune from the steepling transformations of postwar real estate. 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And if you studied his family--his uncles, his father's father, and the likeY classic Americans going all over the country making fortunes, losing fortunes, [with] a very entrepreneurial, 'go for it' attitude. He was never afraid of failure. Some things did fail for him, but he never looked back." Sure enough, Galbreath was equally at home with all ranks of society, from farmers in their fields to the boardroom. And it was his faith in American values that prompted him to hire Branch Rickey--the man who brought Jackie Robinson to Major League Baseball--to run his Pittsburgh Pirates. "He felt that the United States needs to be a meritocracy in everything we do, including sports," Phillips explains. "So although Branch Rickey was past his prime, it did set the tone for the Pittsburgh Pirates. And they ended up recruiting a lot of minority players with tremendous talent." One of these, in the rookie draft of 1954, was an African American from Puerto Rico with very little English: Roberto Clemente. Through the turbulent years of the Civil Rights movement, Clemente's Hall of Fame career became a powerful symbol for Galbreath. "The relationship really took a decade to develop, because there was a huge cultural gap between a farmer in Ohio and somebody raised in Puerto Rico," Phillips recalls. "Nonetheless Roberto Clemente became a close friend. He was a very sensitive, very committed human being." Cont. p4 TDN HEADLINE NEWS • PAGE 4 OF 11 • THETDN.COM FRIDAY • SEPTEMBER 27, 2019 In 1970, Galbreath decided to name the most athletic of his Eight Rings Looks to Make Amends in yearlings, a Hail to Reason colt, for Clemente; and it was the equine Roberto that farm manager Olin Gentry picked out as American Pharoah (cont. from p1) most eligible to be sent, on a pioneering mission, to Vincent Futurity third-place finisher Defense Wins (Flatter), who is still O'Brien in Ireland. a maiden, seeks his diploma in Friday=s GI American Pharoah S. "And off he went, with a ridiculous notion that some American Also exiting the Futurity is fifth-place finisher Fore Left (Twirling could just pick out one horse, go off to Europe, and actually win Candy), who captured Belmont=s Tremont S. June 7. the English Derby," says Phillips. "But that was Grandfather." Steve Asmussen ships >TDN Rising Star= Shoplifted (Into Mischief) To read the rest of this story, watch the video, and hear the in from the East Coast for this one. An impressive winner at first podcast, click here for the TDN Look. asking at Saratoga July 27, the $800,000 FTFMAR buy split his stablemates when second in the Spa=s GI Hopeful S. Sept. 2. © Copyright Thoroughbred Daily News. Undefeated Collusion Illusion (Twirling Candy) makes his first This newspaper may not be reproduced in any form or by any top-level attempt here. Opening his account with a half-length means, electronic or mechanical, without prior written permission success over Defense Wins at Del Mar July 21, the bay followed of the copyright owner, MediaVista. Information as to the American suit with a win in the GII Best Pal S. there Aug. 10. races, race results and earnings was obtained from results charts Express Train (Union Rags) looks like he could be any kind as published by The Jockey Club Information Services and utilized here with their permission. he steps up from the maiden ranks here. Runner-up to Eight Rings in their mutual 5 1/2-panel debut Aug. 4, the $500,000 KEESEP purchase demolished the field by 14 1/4 lengths next out going a mile at Del Mar Aug. 28. American Theorem (American Pharoah) is another making a big class jump here after winning his career bow at Del Mar Aug. 31. Royal Saint Lucia Turf Club 12 Slots. 1 Winner. It could be you..... 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