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CHAMP ELYSEES SUCCUMBS FROM THE TDN WEEKEND: MONTAIGU, THE SWEET SMELL OF SUCCESS TO HEART ATTACK by Chris McGrath No less than the perfumes that funded its foundation, and just like every other stud farm, Haras de Montaigu is sustained by subtle but constant adjustment to a formula. Each year of production, a little bit more of this, a little bit less of that; seeing what works, what doesn't work, without compromising on the hallmarks of your brand. Because with Thoroughbreds and perfume alike, there is no such thing as the perfect balance. And while tastes will always be changing, you can't merely respond to some fleeting commercial vogue. Your metier demands time, and patience. Listening to Sybille Gibson, then, you recognise an equivalence with her ancestors not just in process but in mindset. "With mares you try one stallion, you try another, until you find the right blood cross," she says. "I can't say we just try a bit of everything. The way we handle the horses, for instance, does | Coolmore not change.@ Cont. p2 IN TDN AMERICA TODAY Canadian Horse of the Year Champs Elysees (GB) (-- {Ire}, by {Ire}) died recently of a heart attack at 2019 KENTUCKY SIRES, PART II: FIRST FOALS DUE Coolmore=s Castlehyde Stud in Ireland, the Racing Post reported Chris McGrath takes a look at Kentucky stallions expecting their on Wednesday. The homebred was 15. first foals. Click or tap here to go straight to TDN America. Trained initially by Andre Fabre in France, the eventual three- time Grade I winner won the G3 Prix d=Hedouville at Longchamp in 2007, and was runner-up that same year in the G1 Gran Premio del in Italy from 11 European appearances. Transferred to Bobby Frankel Stateside, the son of Juddmonte=s blue hen Hasili promptly won the GII San Marcos S. at Santa Anita in just his second American start in March of 2008. Third in the GI Santa Anita H. over the all-weather and only a nose back in second in the GII Jim Murray Memorial H. at the now-defunct Hollywood Park, Champs Elysees became his dam=s fifth and final Group 1 winner with a nose victory in the GI Northern Dancer Turf S. up at Woodbine in Canada. He added his second Grade I win in the GI Hollywood Turf Cup S. that December and was kept in training at six. The bridesmaid in the 2009 GI Santa Anita H., Champs Elysees=s season culminated in the GI Canadian International S. and he was named the Canadian Horse of the Year and Champion Grass Horse at year=s end. Cont. p2 TDN EUROPE • PAGE 2 OF 11 • THETDN.COM THURSDAY • 20 DECEMBER 2018

Champs Elysees Succumbs to Heart Attack Cont. from p1 (Click here for a TDN Feature by Kelsey Riley on the late Hasili {Ire} and her brood.) Retired in 2010 with six wins in 28 starts and earnings of $2,829,378, the son of Danehill joined his full-brothers on the Banstead Manor roster: MGSW & MG1SP full-brother (GB) and GI Man o= War S. and GI Manhattan H. victor Montaigu: the Sweet Smell of Success Cont. from p1 (Ire). The trio are also full-siblings to dual Group 1 winner (GB) and three-time Group 1 winner She adds, ANor does the place where we raise them, which is (GB), herself the dam of G1 Prix Jean Romanet victress the heart of everything. But with the crosses, you are always Romantica (GB) (Galileo {Ire}) and half-siblings to MGISW Heat trying something different." Haze (GB) (Green Desert). Elegant and thoughtful, she is sitting in the stall at Arqana that Champ Elysees=s progeny are headed by 2018 G1 English 1000 once housed Montaigu's most famous graduate. It is early one Guineas heroine (GB), G1 Gold Cup hero Trip to sales morning, there is hardly anyone around-some prospective Paris (Ire), and Down Under, Group 1 winner Harlem (GB). Out buyers have probably only just reeled out of Le Drakkar--and of 22 black-type winners to date, the stallion has been Gibson is in her element: the air is saturated with the scent of represented by an additional eight group winners. Suffused fresh straw, and the silence punctuated only by a drowsy (GB), a MGSW in America, was also second in Woodbine=s GI snicker, or a thud against wood echoing down the row. E.P. Taylor S., while MGSW Jack Naylor (GB) was runner-up in Cont. p3 the G1 Irish Oaks and G3 Prix Imprudence heroine Xcellence (Fr) was third in both the G1 Poule d=Essai des Pouliches and G1 Prix Follow the TDN staff on Twitter de Diane in 2014. Thoroughbred Daily News Purchased by Coolmore prior to the 2017 breeding season, the bay stood at Castle Hyde Stud from 2017-2018 and was slated to @garykingTDN @kelseynrileyTDN @collingsberry command a fee of €6,500 next season. @DaithiHarvey @EquinealTDN @HLAndersonTDN TDN EUROPE • PAGE 3 OF 11 • THETDN.COM THURSDAY • 20 DECEMBER 2018

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"And it's all a mystery," she says. "My parents bought Martaline to be a Flat stallion but he became the best National Hunt sire in France. You try things that don't work, but you keep going because you believe in what you do. And one day it works: this comes through, or this. Each time a nice filly is born we say: 'She will win the Diane!' But the things that work, it's a mystery." Not that anyone should be able to explain, in advance, why an experiment might work, when it can be hard enough to do so Vice President, International Operations even after it has proved effective. Gibson's great-grandfather, Gary King Jacques Guerlain, was ever taciturn when pressed to explain his Twitter: @garykingTDN genius for finding the right balance--the right "cross," as it [email protected] were-in a new fragrance. After all, it was a hereditary genius: + 1.732.320.0975 the family had established one of the world's most venerable International Editor perfume and cosmetics brands as early as 1828. And you can't Kelsey Riley really articulate instinct; it's something you are born with. Twitter: @kelseynrileyTDN [email protected]

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Marketing Manager Alayna Cullen Twitter: @AlaynaCullen [email protected] Sybille Gibson | Scoop Dyga Contributing Editor Alan Carasso It is the same with the other passion handed down from one Twitter: @EquinealTDN generation to the next. So that when Gibson's mother saw Pour Moi (Ire) (Montjeu {Ire}) win the 2011 Derby, she immediately Cafe Racing announced that this was an optimal mate for one of the Sean Cronin Montaigu mares, the Classic-placed Ysoldina (Fr) (Kendor {Fr}). Tom Frary By the time the result of that pairing was himself lining up for [email protected] the 2017 running, Pour Moi had been removed to a National Irish Correspondent Hunt stud. But then Wings of Eagles reprised his father's Daithi Harvey remarkable burst of acceleration in the Epsom straight, and now he is back where he was born with a first crop of foals due in the Regular Columnists spring--the first Derby winner in over half a century to retire Chris McGrath across the Channel. (After publication of this article, it was Andrew Caulfield announced that Wings Of Eagles would stand at The Beeches John Berry Stud in Ireland next term.) Kevin Blake Tom Peacock If this represents the crowning moment in the Montaigu story, so far, then his is not the only important homecoming. Cont. p4 TDN EUROPE • PAGE 4 OF 11 • THETDN.COM THURSDAY • 20 DECEMBER 2018

Montaigu: the Sweet Smell of Success Cont. despairing after the loss of his youngest son in the war, handed the stud over to another, Claude. And it was Claude, Gibson's For only a couple of years grandfather, who became the previously Gibson, having for first to devote himself to decades led a life away from the Thoroughbreds full-time. 360-acre homestead, had "He was a man of the land," returned to promote an Gibson explains. "And while the expanded commercial family would go to and fro--my operation--and, in the process, mother was brought up in Paris- to prepare herself for the day -this was his true base. He had when she takes the family's no interest in city living. His stewardship of Montaigu into a grandfather had won the Grand fifth generation. Steeplechase [de Paris, in 1912] The farm was founded in 1903 with Hopper, and Jacques by her great-great-grandfather bought five or six mares in Gabriel, son of the perfume Newmarket, but it was still just a house's founder. He had started Mares and foals graze at the stud | Haras de Montaigu hobby until Claude took over. his Turf career on land near Paris He had cousins who could keep but knew Normandy was the place to raise horses and the [perfume] business going. But since that time, everything eventually found a 200-hectare site for sale. On his death, 30 has been about the place he loved: it has been at the heart of years later, Montaigu passed into the hands of his son Jacques, the family, and for us now at the heart of our business." as celebrated a parfumeur as any in the pedigree; but Jacques, Cont. p5

Turnover was up 6% at the 2018 Arqana Breeding Stock Sale, while the average of €48,757 represented a rise of 7%. Check out the complete video recap of the Arqana sale and sales year by clicking the photo above. TDN EUROPE • PAGE 5 OF 11 • THETDN.COM THURSDAY • 20 DECEMBER 2018

Stallions, of course, give an extra commercial dimension to the operation, and Wings of Eagles has joined a roster of six trying to follow in the footsteps of Kendor, one of the most resonant names in modern French pedigrees. The grey, champion French juvenile of 1988 and winner of the G1 Poule d'Essai des Poulains the following spring, presided here for 17 years and sired three Group 1 winners-one of whom, Literato (Fr), arrived as his heir in 2009. Though Kendargent has kept the line fashionable, Gibson concedes that stallions like Literato are at the mercy of a market notoriously addicted to commercial reputation. Literato mustered a Group 1 winner from a debut crop of just 37, but is still having to graft away at i3,000. Aliette & Gilles Forien | Scoop Dyga "If you actually want a runner, then buy a Literato," Gibson says. "For his quality, his fee is nothing. The market works a la mode, and I think stallions are killed in the market far too Montaigu: the Sweet Smell of Success Cont. quickly. Literato has always been difficult, commercially, because of his size. Nobody understood that, in size, he always Gibson remembers the old man from her girlhood. "He was a produces foals that are literally like the dam. We invested in very discreet man," she says. "Very straightforward, very him, we used him with our own mares, but it was difficult to respected. Not very talkative, maybe even a little cold: he hid his convince people." emotions. Certainly compared to my grandmother, who was (For the full TDN Weekend feature on Haras de Montaigu, click from the south and more voluble. A good mixture." here.) Even the humans manage a good cross here, it would seem. One way or another, anyhow, the passion within passed down-- along with the farm--to Gibson's mother Aliette, a renowned horsewoman who found a husband of similar stamp in the bloodstock agent Gilles Forien. "My grandfather didn't have that many mares, but bred GIMME FIVE Rescousse to win the Prix de Diane and finish second in the Arc," with William Haggas Gibson recalls. "But by 1984 he felt the time had come to let his TDN: What was you favourite racing moment of the year? daughter transform the farm into something more commercial. She had become passionate about horses through show WH: Sea Of Class (Ire) (Sea The Stars {Ire}) winning the G1 jumping--and from this, I think, she developed what I think Darley Irish Oaks. She showed her class and acceleration and remains our marque de fabrique of Montaigu." was given a breathtakingly brave ride by James Doyle. It was an Gibson condenses that trademark in a single word: respect. important win for us (every Classic is) and a huge win for Mrs. "Respect for the horse," she says. "We have never pushed the Tsui and her family. yearlings too hard during their preparation, we don't over-lunge, we don't overdo anything. And, whatever happens, they get TDN: Name a horse that stood out for you in 2018? turned out in the paddock every morning. I know other people also take great care of their horses. All I know is that my mum's WH: Alpha Centauri (Ire) (Mastercraftsman {Ire})'s destruction in been doing it the same way for 30 years, and been in the top the G1 Coronation was a superb effort. Roaring Lion (Kitten=s five [vendors at Arqana every summer] for ages. Joy)'s G1 Juddmonte win was imperious, but Stradivarius (Ire) "I don't know if it's because of her show jumping background, (Sea The Stars {Ire}) won all the races he contested--the million- and the fact that she's a horsewoman. But we do try to hire pound bonus probably forced connections to campaign him people who love their horses. It's not just taking them on the aggressively, but he was well up to the task. lead. Day by day we adapt the work of each horse, according to how each one takes what we ask them to do. It's about that TDN: And an outstanding achievement by a breeder, owner or attention to detail." trainer? TDN EUROPE • PAGE 6 OF 11 • THETDN.COM THURSDAY • 20 DECEMBER 2018

There are four more Flat meetings before the close of the new year and Soumillon leads Boudot 182 wins to 173. AMy 2018 season is ending today,@ Boudot Tweeted. ABravo to @CSoumillon on his 10th Golden Whip. Thanks to all those who supported me.@ Soumillon first won the championship in 2003, and added titles in 2005-2006. After taking another four titles from 2011-2014, the Belgian tied with Boudot at 179 apiece in 2015. Dethroned outright by his rival in 2016, Soumillon rebounded with another title in 2017, riding 305 winners. ACongratulations to @PCBOUDOT for his wonderful season in France,@ Soumillon responded on Twitter. AFollowing his announcement, I will end my 2018 season in Marseille at Vivaux Racecourse...Now it=s time to rest and come back even

William Haggas | Emma Berry stronger.@

Gimme Five: William Haggas Cont. WH: The outstanding training performance was by Sir Michael [Stoute]--the G1 King George was a brilliant race contested by Coolmore National Hunt 2019 Roster & Fees two horses and jockeys who gave their all. As a spectacle it was Stallion Fee (€) Stud magnificent. Dylan Thomas (Ire) 4,000 Castlehyde Stud Flemensfirth 15,000 The Beeches Stud TDN: What's your big hope for 2019? Getaway (Ger) 7,500 Grange Stud Imperial Monarch (Ire) 2,500 The Beeches Stud WH: Frankellina (GB) (Frankel {GB}--Our Obsession {Ire}, by Kingston Hill (GB) 5,000 Castlehyde Stud Shamardal). Remarkably the Oppenheimer family have never Leading Light (Ire) 3,000 Grange Stud won the G1 Investec Oaks and whilst this filly has a long way to Mahler (GB) 5,500 The Beeches Stud go, who knows where she could end up. Also our luck to change Milan (GB) 8,000 Grange Stud for Appletree Stud. Ocovango (GB) 3,500 The Beeches Stud Order Of St George (Ire)* 6,500 Castlehyde Stud TDN: What's your new year's resolution? Pour Moi (Ire) 5,000 Grange Stud Sans Frontieres (Ire) 2,500 The Beeches Stud WH: Personally--to lose some weight and eat less sugar, and Soldier Of Fortune (Ire) 8,000 The Beeches Stud sugar-based products. Professionally, to support the racecourses Walk In The Park (Ire) Pvt. Grange Stud who continue to put their hand in their pocket and be less Westerner (GB) 6,000 Castlehyde Stud supportive of those who don't. Wings Of Eagles (Fr)* 6,500 The Beeches Stud Yeats (Ire) 5,000 Castlehyde Stud

*Indicates new stallion FIRST-SEASON SIRES WITH RUNNERS

SOUMILLON CLAIMS FRENCH JOCKEY TITLE Thursday, Dec. 20, 2018: Jockey will win his 10th French jockeys= FRANCE title and the Cravache d=Or (Golden Whip) after rival Pierre- Anodin (Ire) (Anabaa), Haras du Quesnay Charles Boudot announced he was taking a well-deserved 102 foals of racing age/20 winners/2 black-type winners holiday break via Twitter on Wednesday. 2-MAR.P VIVAUX, 1500m, MISS WHITE (Fr) TDN EUROPE • PAGE 7 OF 11 • THETDN.COM THURSDAY • 20 DECEMBER 2018

First-Season Sires With Runners Cont. Mukhadram (GB) (Shamardal), Nunnery Stud 2-MAR.P VIVAUX, 1500m, SANDY DREAM (Fr) 92 foals of racing age/11 winners/1 black-type winner i25,000 Osarus Sales La Teste Yearling Sale 2017 18:30-CHELMSFORD CITY, 7f, PARKNACILLA (Ire) 8,000gns RNA October Yearling Sale 2017 - Book 3 UNITED KINGDOM Slade Power (Ire) (Dutch Art {GB}), Kildangan Stud Australia (GB) (Galileo {Ire}), Coolmore Stud 99 foals of racing age/15 winners/0 black-type winners 126 foals of racing age/16 winners/1 black-type winner 13:50-SOUTHWELL, 6f, VALLEY BELLE (Ire) 19:00-CHELMSFORD CITY, 8f, AMOROUSLY (Ire) 8,000gns Tattersalls Autumn Horses-in-Training Sale 2018 i85,000 Goffs Orby Yearling Sale 2017 19:00-CHELMSFORD CITY, 8f, HOLY KINGDOM (Ire) 20,000gns Tattersalls October Yearling Sale 2017 - Book 2 OBSERVATIONS Bungle Inthejungle (GB) (Exceed And Excel {Aus}), Rathasker on the European racing scene Stud 95 foals of racing age/26 winners/2 black-type winners 13:50-SOUTHWELL, 6f, DOTHRAKI (Ire) 6.00 Chelmsford City, Cond, ,5,800, 2yo, 10f (AWT) i1,500 Tattersalls Ireland Flat Breeding Stock Sale 2016; Sheikh Hamdan bin Rashid Al Maktoum is represented by a i16,000 Tattersalls Ireland September Yearlings 2017; i25,000 pair of well-related debutants in this seven-runner affair. Goresbridge Flat Breeze-Up Sale 2018; ,800 Goffs UK Autumn TAJAWOZ (War Front), an Owen Burrows trainee, is a $750,000 HIT & Yearling Sale 2018 Keeneland September yearling and the first foal produced by Coach House (Ire) (Oasis Dream {GB}), Bucklands Farm & Stud GSW GI Santa Margarita S., GI Apple Blossom H. and GI Personal (GB) Ensign S. placegetter Stanwyck (Empire Maker), herself a half- 76 foals of racing age/10 winners/0 black-type winners sister to GI Kentucky Derby-winning sire Giacomo (Holy Bull) and 18:30-CHELMSFORD CITY, 7f, TWO FACED (GB) MGISW sire Tiago (Pleasant Tap). His rivals include Alfaatik (GB) (Sea the Stars {Ire}), one of two contenders from the John Gregorian (Ire) (Clodovil {Ire}), National Stud Gosden barn, who topped the sheets at last year=s Tattersalls 85 foals of racing age/11 winners/0 black-type winners October Book 2 sale when knocked down for 850,000gns and is 18:30-CHELMSFORD CITY, 7f, MISS COMMUNICATE (GB) kin to five black-type performers headed by G1 Gran Premio di Morpheus (GB) (Oasis Dream {GB}), Tally-Ho Stud Milano and G2 Derby Italiano hero Biz the Nurse (Ire) (Oratorio 108 foals of racing age/6 winners/0 black-type winners {Ire}) and G2 Gran Criterium victor and G2 Derby Italiano fourth 18:30-CHELMSFORD CITY, 7f, HEATHERDOWN (Ire) Biz Heart (Ire) (Roderic O=Connor {Ire}). 30,000gns Tattersalls October Yearling Sale 2017 - Book 2 7.00 Chelmsford City, Mdn, ,12,000, 2yo, 8f (AWT) Anthony Oppenheimer=s newcomer STAR CATCHER (GB) (Sea the Stars {Ire}), who skipped an engagement over this strip one week ago, is a homebred half-sister to GI Canadian International-winning sire Cannock Chase (Lemon Drop Kid) and G2 Prix Eugene Adam victor Pisco Sour (Lemon Drop Kid). Opposition to the John Gosden trainee features stablemate and fellow firster Baltic Song (Ire) (Sea the Stars {Ire}), who is a Gestut Ammerland homebred half-brother to six black-type performers headed by G1 Prix Vermeille victress Baltic Baroness (Ger) (Shamardal); and Mohammed Al Nabouda=s once-raced Into the Zone (GB) (New Approach {Ire}), who is a Simon Crisford-trained half-brother to GI Fillies= Mile and GI Yellow Ribbon S. victress Hibaayeb (GB) (Singspiel {Ire}), herself the dam of G1 Prix Marcel Boussac and GI Breeders= Cup Filly & Anodin has a brace of runners in France on Thursday. Mare Turf heroine Wuheida (GB) (Dubawi {Ire}). Haras du Quesnay TDN EUROPE • PAGE 8 OF 11 • THETDN.COM THURSDAY • 20 DECEMBER 2018

Entitle breaks her maiden by a length at Lingfield on Wednesday. The half-sister to dual Arc heroine Enable (GB) (Nathaniel {Ire}) was making her second start. | Racingfotos.com

and it helped her in the straight. I loved her attitude and she knuckled down when it mattered. She was a stronger filly today and will get better.@ Entitle becomes the fifth scorer from as many runners Wednesday=s Results: produced by stakes-winning G3 Prix de Flore runner-up 6th-Lingfield, ,5,800, Cond, 12-19, 2yo, 8f 1y (AWT), 1:39, Concentric (GB) (Sadler=s Wells) and is a half-sister to MG1SW st. dual G1 Prix de l=Arc de Triomphe heroine Enable (GB) ENTITLE (GB) (f, 2, Dansili {GB}--Concentric {GB} {SW & GSP-Fr, (Nathaniel {Ire}), G2 Prix de Pomone third Contribution (GB) $117,776}, by Sadler=s Wells), who was a June 23 debut sixth to (Champs Elysees {GB}), a yearling filly Frankel (GB) and a colt subsequent G2 Superlative S. third Neverland Rock (GB) (No Nay foal by Sea the Stars (Ire). The homebred bay shares her G3 Prix Never) tackling seven panels at Newmarket last time, recovered de Royaumont-winning second dam Apogee (GB) (Shirley from a stuttering start to stalk the pace in second after the initial Heights {GB}) with MGISW US champion Flintshire (GB) (Dansili exchanges of this synthetic bow. Sent to the front off the home {GB}). Lifetime Record: 2-1-0-0, $4,742. Video, sponsored by turn, the 6-1 chance was headed by Equal Sum (GB) (Paco Boy Fasig-Tipton. {Ire}) approaching the final eighth and rallied gamely under mild O-Khalid Abdullah; B-Juddmonte Farms Ltd (GB); T-John Gosden. rousting to deny that rival by a length. AShe ran in the summer, but was green and a little on the weak side,@ explained winning rider Robert Havlin. AShe was green again today and on the wrong leg all the way around. I couldn=t get her to switch leads, but the further she was going the better she was going. She needed company to keep her mind on things TDN EUROPE • PAGE 9 OF 11 • THETDN.COM THURSDAY • 20 DECEMBER 2018

3rd-Lingfield, ,5,800, Cond, 12-19, 2yo, f, 7f 1y (AWT), 1:25.07, 2019 BHA BUSINESS PLAN RELEASED st. The 2019 business plan and budget for the British Horseracing DIAMOND OASIS (GB) (f, 2, Iffraaj {GB}--Belonging {GB} {SP-Fr}, Authority was released on Wednesday. Approved by the BHA by Raven=s Pass), a July 13 debut sixth going an extended five Board agreed with by the BHA=s shareholders, the plan is an panels at York last time, was swiftly into stride and occupied a updated version of the three-year plan covering 2017-19, prominent berth in third through halfway here. Improving into originally published in December of 2016. The plan entails the second on the home turn, the crowd=s 7-4 choice was stoked up BHA=s focus points for the next year, as well as details of the to challenge at the eighth pole and ridden out to assert by a BHA=s financial situation. half-length from Wallaa (GB) (Dawn Approach {Ire}). Half-sister The BHA is still on track to meet is goal of breaking even in to a 2018 filly by Teofilo (Ire), she is the second foal and first cash terms over the three-year period mainly due to savings in winner out of Listed Prix Melisande runner-up Belonging (GB) activity costs delivered across the organisation. Fees will rise by (Raven=s Pass), herself kin to three black-type performers only 3% in 2019, which is the second consecutive year that headed by G1 second and GSW sire increases are below those included in the original budget. The Desideratum (GB) (Darshaan {GB}) and stakes-winning G2 Grand BHA has also been active in the areas of safeguarding, diversity, Prix de Deauville runner-up Poet Laureate (GB) (Highest Honor the buying and selling of bloodstock, and various areas relating {Fr}). Lifetime Record: 2-1-0-0, $4,742. Video, sponsored by to equine welfare and regulation, including the implementation Fasig-Tipton. of a new officiating model. O/B-Godolphin (GB); T-Saeed bin Suroor. Six areas the BHA will be focusing on in 2019 are: equine welfare, industry people, regulation and integrity, racing, 2nd-Lingfield, ,5,800, Cond, 12-19, 2yo, f, 7f 1y (AWT), 1:26.15, leadership and development. st. The business plan may be downloaded here. TURN >N TWIRL (f, 2, Twirling Candy--Kind Turn, by Street Cry {Ire}) broke sharply from the outside gate and claimed the rail and the lead after the early strides of this unveiling. Maintaining control throughout, the 5-2 favourite was nudged along off the home turn and driven out to withstand the late threat of Magic JLT OFFICIAL PARTNER OF THE JOCKEY CLUB Image (GB) (Dubawi {Ire}) by a half-length. She=s the third scorer JLT Specialty, the specialist insurance arm of Jardine Lloyd produced by the unraced Kind Turn (Street Cry {Ire}) and is half Thompson Group, is now an official partner of the Jockey Club to a yearling filly by The Factor and a colt foal by Shackleford. and the official insurance broker of its racecourse arm, Jockey Kind Turn, who was bred to Klimt this year, shares her GIII Club Racecourses (JCR) after a three-year deal was agreed upon. Railbird S.-winning second dam Reigning Countess (Far North) Previously JLT sponsored races at the Cheltenham Festival, the with MG1SW sire Mamool (Ire) (In the Wings {GB}) and MGISP Randox Health Grand National at Aintree and races at Ascot, sire Aly=s Alley (Alwuhush). Sales history: $1,200 Wlg >16 Newbury and York racecourses. As part of this new agreement, KEENOV; $120,000 Ylg >17 KEESEP; $190,000 2yo >18 OBSAPR. JLT will receive digital, branding and content rights at all 15 of Lifetime Record: 1-1-0-0, $4,742. Video, sponsored by the Jockey Club racecourses, access to race tickets and Fasig-Tipton. hospitality for key clients and staff across JLT=s regional offices in 1ST-TIME STARTER. O-Sheikh Juma Dalmook Al Maktoum; B-Olin the UK. Gentry, Omar Trevino & Fox Straus KY (KY); T-Simon Crisford. AJLT is delighted to become an official partner of the Jockey Club, building on our long association with the sport of ADDITIONAL MAIDEN WINNERS: horseracing,@ said JLT Group Senior Executive Jonathan Palmer- Dutch Pursuit (Ire), g, 2, Canford Cliffs (Ire)--Dansili Dutch (Ire), Brown. AWe understand the specialist insurance needs of the by Dutch Art (GB). Newcastle, 12-19, 6f (AWT), 1:15.96. sport better than anyone, and this new partnership allows us to B-Elwick Stud (IRE). extend our expertise even further.@

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MUSSELBURGH GRANTED LICENCE EXTENSION SMOOTH OWNERSHIP TRANSITION AT has been granted a new licence to ensure racing DOWN ROYAL can continue at the Scottish track in 2019. The British Down Royal Racecourse, which has operated for over 200 Horseracing Authority initially granted Musselburgh a temporary years, will be under new management next year after an licence, which expired in April following several meetings agreement was reached between owners Merrion Group and between Council and Lothians Racing Syndicate, Down Royal Corporation of Horse Breeders. The latter will hold who failed to reach agreement in finding a way forward. The racing once more at Down Royal on Boxing Day, Dec. 26, before BHA rejected the council's wish to begin running the course the Merrion Group takes over the management of the course. through a committee made up of four council members and two The agreement was facilitated by Ireland. racing experts, which meant the Edinburgh track was unable to AI am pleased that agreement has been reached which will stage meetings unless a solution was found. allow racing to continue in a seamless manner at Down Royal,@ However, the ruling body later extended the temporary said HRI Chief Executive Brian Kavanagh. AThis was not an easy licence until the autumn and has now confirmed a new licence situation, but both sides were willing to find a resolution in has been issued meaning racing can take place up to and order for a deal to be struck. That is now the situation and we including the track's final fixture of the Flat season on Oct. 15. look forward to working with the new management team at "The BHA board has granted Musselburgh racecourse a new Down Royal. I would like to pay warm tribute to the Down Royal licence for the period of Jan. 1 to Oct. 15, 2019, whilst the public Corporation of Horse Breeders for the way they have developed procurement process to appoint a new third party operator for the racecourse to the position in which it was voted Racecourse the racecourse is on-going,@ said the BHA in a statement. "The of the Year in 2017.@ BHA will remain in close contact with Musselburgh racecourse and East Lothian Council regarding the progress of the process."

NOVA LENDA WINS NARROWLY AT KAWASAKI CONDITIONS RESULTS: Sent off the fifth betting choice in a contentious renewal of the 5th-Dundalk, i15,000, Cond, 12-19, 2yo, 8f (AWT), 1:38.06, st. Zen-Nippon Nisai Yushun Wednesday evening at Kawasaki PLAYA DEL PUENTE (IRE) (c, 2, Elzaam {Aus}-- Racecourse, Nova Lenda (Jpn) (Daiwa Major {Jpn}) swatted Playamongthestars {Aus}, by Galileo {Ire}) Lifetime Record: away a final-furlong bid from favored fellow Carrot Farm 3-2-0-1, $23,778. O-Huang Kai Wen; B-Dermot Kelly (IRE); colorbearer Gal Vihara (Jpn) (Gold Allure {Jpn}) and just T-Michael Halford. *i27,000 Wlg >16 GOFNOV; i40,000 Ylg >17 managed to hold a late dive from second choice Derma Louvre TIRSEP. (Jpn) (Pyro) to take the second leg of the Japan Road to the Kentucky Derby. 4th-Dundalk, i12,000, Cond, 12-19, 3yo/up, 8f (AWT), 1:38.74, Drawn out in gate 12, Nova Lenda was given a positive ride by st. Yuichi Kitamura and stalked the pace of longshot Ignacio d=Oro GEORGIAN BAY (IRE) (g, 8, Oratorio {Ire}--Jazzie {Fr}, by Zilzal) (Jpn) (Vittorio d=Oro {Jpn}) as Gal Vihara sat three wide down Lifetime Record: 74-5-7-9, $178,237. O-Shamrock the backstretch. Nova Lenda took command entering the second Thoroughbreds; B-Old Carhue & Graeng Bloodstock (IRE); turn while under a good hold, raced on his incorrect lead in the T-Adrian McGuinness. *i25,000 Ylg >11 TISEP; ,35,000 RNA 2yo waning stages and was saved by the wire. Derma Louvre saved >12 DONBRE; ,10,000 8yo >18 GUKSPR. **1/2 to Bold Thady ground from midfield, spun out five wide for the drive and just Quill (Ire) (Tale of the Cat), SW-Ire, $310,366; and missed, while Gal Vihara could not sustain his run and settled for Willytheconqueror (Ire) (Kodiac {GB}), MSP-Eng & SP-Ire. third. Make Happy (Square Eddie), who earned 10 points for her victory in the Cattleya Sho Nov. 24, raced evenly throughout to ADDITIONAL MAIDEN WINNERS: be fourth. Marine One (GB), g, 4, Frankel (GB)--Marine Bleue (Ire) Nova Lenda picked up 20 points in the Japan Road to the (GSW-Ger, SW-Fr & GSP-Ity, $137,413), by Desert Prince (Ire). Kentucky Derby. The next race in the series is the Listed Dundalk, 12-19, 12f (AWT), 2:33.31. B-Qatar Bloodstock Ltd Hyacinth S. at Tokyo Feb. 17 followed by the Fukuyra S. at (GB). *20,000gns 4yo >18 TATJUL. **1/2 to Marina Piccola (Ire) Nakayama Mar. 31. Cont. p11 (Halling), SW-Fr; and Wednaan (GB) (Dubawi {Ire}), GSP-UAE. TDN EUROPE • PAGE 11 OF 11 • THETDN.COM THURSDAY • 20 DECEMBER 2018

Listed Zen-Nippon Nisai Yushun Cont. 2 Montsarrat (Ire) Poet’s Voice (GB) Ziani Jadhav 125 3 Etijaah Daaher O’Neill Watson 125 The Japanese horse that accumulates the most points will earn 4 New Trails Medaglia d’Oro Beasley bin Harmash 125 a berth in the Kentucky Derby. 5 Cosmo Charlie Stay Thirsty Dobbs Watson 125 6 Saltarin Dubai (Arg) E Dubai Mullen Seemar 125 Nova Lenda is the 30th black-type winner for his sire, who was 7 Syphax Arch Ffrench Jadhav 125 also responsible for last weekend=s G1 Asahi Hai Futurity S. hero 8 Musawaat (GB) Equiano (Fr) De Vries Nass 125 Admire Mars (Jpn). Produced by a half-sister to French Group 3 9 Furia Cruzada (Chi) Newfoundland Fresu Charpy 121 winner Coco Passion (Fr) (Groom Dancer) and the latter=s Japanese-bred stakes-winning full-sister Little Audrey (Jpn), Nova Lenda has a yearling half-brother by Orfevre (Jpn).

Wednesday=s Results: ZEN-NIPPON NISAI YUSHUN-Listed, -59,500,000, Kawasaki, 12-19, 2yo, 1600m, 1:42.8, hy. IN HONG KONG: 1--NOVA LENDA (JPN), 121, c, 2, by Daiwa Major (Jpn) Gunnison (Aus), g, 4, Not A Single Doubt (Aus)--Colorado Claire 1st Dam: Mon Petit Coeur (Jpn), by Kurofune (Aus) (GSW-Aus, A$294,550), by Hussonet. Sha Tin, 12-19, Hcp. 2nd Dam: Gaiete de Coeur (Ire), by Lomond (A$348k), 1200m (AWT), 1:07.70. B-Lincoln Farm (NSW). 3rd Dam: Gay Apparel, by Up Spirits *GSW-Aus. **A$850,000 Ylg >16 INGEAS; A$1,400,000 HRA >17 *1ST BLACK-TYPE WIN. O-U Carrot Farm; B-Northern Farm; INGCHM. VIDEO T-Takashi Saito; J-Yuichi Kitamura; -35,000,000. Lifetime Record: 4-3-0-0, -50,224,000. *Full to Blanche Coeur (Jpn), IN SOUTH AFRICA: MSP-Jpn, $584,936. Meraki (Aus), g, 4, Canford Cliffs (Ire)--Aerate=s Joy (Aus), by Bel 2--Derma Louvre (Jpn), 121, c, 2, Pyro--Caribbean Romance Esprit. Kenilworth, 12-19, Hcp., 1400mT, 1:27.61. O-Messrs M I (Jpn), by Commands (Aus). (-12,960,000 Ylg >17 JRHAJUL). Fullard, J H Drew, Bryn Ressell & N M Shirtliff; B-Pepac Aft Ept O-Hiroyuki Asanuma. (Vic); T-Candice Bass-Robinson. *A$60,000 Ylg >16 INGMAR. 3--Gal Vihara (Jpn), 121, c, 2, Gold Allure (Jpn)--Polonnaruwa (Jpn), by Rahy. O-U Carrot Farm. Margins: SHD, 1HF, 3. Odds: 5.30, 2.70, 2.10. VIDEO

Thursday, Meydan, post time: 7:40 p.m. DUBAI CREEK MILE SPONSORED BY AZIZI, AED265,000, NH & SH 3yo/up, 1600m PP HORSE SIRE JOCKEY TRAINER WT 1 Stunned (GB) Shamardal Dobbs Watson 125 2 Zainhom Street Cry (Ire) O’Neill Al Mheiri 125 3 Capezzano Bernardini Ffrench Jadhav 125 4 One Man Band (Ire) Pivotal (GB) Hitchcott Watson 125 5 Rodaini Exchange Rate Beasley bin Harmash 125 6 Thegreatcollection Saint Anddan De Vries Watson 125 7 Secret Ambition (GB) Exceed And Excel (Aus) Mullen Seemar 125 DID YOU KNOW? G2 Coventry S. winner Calyx (GB) (Kingman {GB}) Thursday, Meydan, post time: 8:50 p.m. was tabbed as a “TDN Rising Star” ENTISAR SPONSORED BY AZIZI, AED265,000, NH & SH 3yo/up, 2000m PP HORSE SIRE JOCKEY TRAINER WT Visit the TDN Rising Stars section on our website! 1 Second Summer Summer Bird Jara Al Rayhi 125 THURSDAY, 20 DECEMBER 2018

would be a much-anticipated stallion prospect and he stood for DARLEY DUO'S PROGENY A$27,500 in his first season. Cox said Exosphere's yearlings were very much in his mould and he is expecting a strong response TO DEBUT AT MM from buyers on the Gold Coast. "They are very imposing, plenty of front, plenty of structure. They are good sized looking horses and you would expect them to be fast horses," he said. "The one thing you like to see when you are looking at new stock is having a line on them. They are not all over the place. And that's the one thing that comes through, they are consistently a similar type." It=s a marquee vintage of stallions having their first crops at the sales this year, including the two dominant 2-year-olds of his year, Vancouver and Pride of Dubai. But Exosphere was clearly the best spring 3-year-old of that generation, with a hat-trick of wins in the G2 Run To The Rose, the G1 Golden Rose S. and the G2 Roman Consul S. Cox feels his progeny look like they would follow a similar pattern in terms of development. Exosphere | Darley "He himself wasn't the earliest 2-year old. Like him they are bigger horses, so they'll take that slight little bit longer to come by Bren O'Brien to hand," he said. The first crop of Darley stallions Exosphere and Kermadec (NZ) will hit their first yearling sale on the Gold Coast next month and Managing Director Vin Cox is expecting them to make a Exosphere's Best on the Page considerable impact. In terms of pedigree, some of the highlights by Exosphere Exosphere has 24 of his progeny catalogued at the Magic include lot 122 from Kenmore Lodge, who is a filly out of listed Millions Sale, while Kermadec has 12 in the first major test of winner She Goes To Rio (NZ) (Captain Rio {GB}). how the market will receive the two young stallions. Edinglassie Stud is offering lot 346, a half-brother to Group 2 For the second straight year, Godolphin will be active as a winning mare Mamwaazel (Exceed and Excel) from Amazoom buyer in the sales, and Cox, who is overseeing his first full sales (Last Tycoon {Ire}), a half-sister to another Group 2 winner in season since taking charge, has been busy assessing the Magic Always Devine. Cont. p2 Millions catalogue, embarking on a four-day tour of the Hunter Valley earlier this month. Included among the yearlings inspected were progeny of the first crops of two Darley sires. "It was a fantastic week for us and a great opportunity for us to get out and look at the progeny of the new season sires of which we=ve got particular interest in, Exosphere and Kermadec," Cox told TDN AusNZ. "The Exospheres are big, strong, impressive horses and the Kermadecs are very good moving and good-looking horses. We are quite excited and happy with what we=ve seen."

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Covering the Catalogue They are very impressive, they are With the dual responsibilities of finding a few to buy as well as keeping an eye on how the Darley stallions perform, Cox said he particularly good looking horses. I think will have the entire catalogue covered by the time the sale starts you'll find the market will warm to them on Jan. 9. very much. "It=s a big catalogue with lots of horses so you want to make sure you are right across the majority of the catalogue," he said. Vin Cox on Kermadec’s progeny "We've spent four days in the Hunter Valley. That broke the back of it. We will get up to the Gold Coast early and see the remainder of the horses we haven=t seen and then start applying the filter and having our second and third looks from there. "By the time the sale starts, we will have seen the ones that Darley Duo Cont. from p1 we are most interested in a few times and be ready for the first horse that comes into the ring," he said. Another half-sibling to a stakes-winner is lot 448, a filly being offered by Tyreel Stud out of Champalou (Encosta De Lago), who has already produced listed winner Champ Elect (Choisir). Click Here to read today=s edition of Champalou is out of G1 Queensland Oaks winner Vouvray (NZ) TDN AusNZ. Highlights Include: (Zabeel {NZ}). Zoustyle Off to the Spelling Paddock Kermadecs Set to Surprise Kermadec, who won a Doncaster H. and a George Main S. as It Takes a Team With Haylee Day racehorse, has half the representation of Exosphere at the Gold Coast, but based on Cox's assessment, will make his presence felt. Happy Clapper Targets the All-Star Mile "I think the market will get a very pleasant surprise. They are very impressive, they are particularly good looking horses. I think you'll find the market will warm to them very much," he Snitzel=s Autumn Flash Wins at Matamata said. The first Kermadec on offer is lot 13, a colt offered by Kulani 2018 Rapid Reflections With Andrew Williams Park out of New Zealand Group 2 winner Pimms Time (Pins). That is the family of G1 Caulfield Cup winner Railings as well as © Copyright Thoroughbred Daily News. Virage De Fortune and Stratum Star, which harks back to the This newspaper may not be reproduced in any form or by any champion mare Emancipation. means, electronic or mechanical, without prior written permission Lot 779 is another one worth highlighting on pedigree. He is a of the copyright owner, MediaVista. Information as to the colt from Majestic Faith (Denman), who is a daughter of Faith American races, race results and earnings was obtained from results charts published by The Jockey Club Information Services Hill (Danehill {USA}) and a three-quarter sister to Black Minx. and utilized here with their permission. THURSDAY, DECEMBER 20, 2018

2019 KENTUCKY SIRES VACCINATIONS: RECORD KEEPING AND INFORMATION SEEKING IS KEY by Jen Roytz PART II: FIRST FOALS DUE Whenever horses--or those stabled around them--are transported from one location to another, it presents an opportunity for the transport and proliferation of disease- causing agents. For Thoroughbreds, travel is often a regular occurrence, whether it be for competition, training, sale or breeding. Add to that the fact that many of the horses with whom they are transported, stabled or otherwise come in contact, have equally active travel schedules and it is easy to see how quickly a pathogen can potentially spread from a single horse to a group, barn or entire facility. The American Association of Equine Practitioners (AAEP) and American Veterinary Medical Association (AVMA) recommends five core vaccines, meaning those that every horse should receive, regardless of movement, usage (competition, Gun Runner | Breeders’ Cup/Eclipse Sportswire recreation, etc.) or exposure to other horses. Cont. p9 (Click here) by Chris McGrath The first thing to say is that covering sire averages, in an industry that can seldom resist manipulating "statistics" into IN TDN EUROPE TODAY "damned lies", are a transparently spurious guide to a stallion's CHAMPS ELYSEES PASSES AT 15 prospects of coming up with better stock than might be implied MGISW and Group 1 sire Champs Elysees (GB) (Danehill) died by his fee. At every stage, when trying to establish a reputation, of a heart attack at Coolmore’s Castlehyde Stud recently. young sires are partly at the mercy of the mares who contribute Click or tap here to go straight to TDN Europe. 50 percent of their foals' genes. But that applies most obviously of all when it is the mare herself who is being sold, with a cover thrown in as a bonus. Take the sale of Drumette (Henny Hughes) at Fasig-Tipton last November. She was carrying a foal by Mastery (Candy Ride {Arg}), who had started out as Claiborne that spring at a fee of $25,000--but who moved up the covering sire averages because Drumette's daughter Monomoy Girl (Tapizar) had the previous day won the GI Breeders' Cup Distaff, elevating her dam's value to $1,850,000. As it happens, Mastery looks highly eligible to outpunch his fee, and we'll come to that shortly. But the fact is that Drumette realized more than double the amount paid for any mare with a cover by Arrogate or Gun Runner. Yes, it reflects well on Mastery that he was favored with such a mare. But the quality or otherwise of those mares that happen to come onto the market is entirely random. Bottom line: forget covering sire averages. Cont. p3 PUBLISHER & CEO Sue Morris Finley @suefinley [email protected]

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McGrath: Kentucky Sires Part II cont. As such, the Kentucky sires under review today are no easier to assess than the rookies we reviewed in Part I of this series. Certainly a cut in fee as early as the second season, perhaps responding to a disappointing first book, is a drastic rarity. Farms are naturally very wary of betraying a young sire's vulnerability in this way, because they know they will probably frighten off far more people than they can tempt. No such problems for Juddmonte, enjoying a rejuvenation of their stallion roster either side of the ocean. Just as their team in Europe were so astute in managing the launch of Frankel (GB) (Galileo {Ire}), so Juddmonte have made a priority of quality over quantity for Arrogate (Unbridled's Song). In fact, one in four of his first book were Grade I winners or producers. He was temperately priced at $75,000, having forfeited that air of invincibility after the G1 Dubai World Cup. The dramatic style of that success seems to have exhausted even the reserves that made him America's richest Thoroughbred, but for many of us, the real pinnacle had been that duel with California Chrome in the GI Breeders' Cup Classic. Between that race and the one in Dubai, when chased home by Gun Runner, he pulled rank on consecutive Horses of the Year. Having been purchased at public auction, admittedly, Arrogate doesn't offer the usual Juddmonte access to a deep homebred family. In fact, his first two dams each mustered only a solitary Grade III placing, but you have to love the fact that the second of them is by the great broodmare sire Deputy Minister; while the third dam is six-time Grade I winner and 2-year-old champion in Meadow Star (Meadowlake). Gun Runner (Candy Ride {Arg}) closed the gap in their reputations to the point that he could start at Three Chimneys just a clip below at $70,000, his own talent having matured even as Arrogate went into decline. He, too, wound up with dominant wins in the Breeders' Cup Classic and GI Pegasus World Cup Invitational; and, like Accelerate this year, he offers the kind of exemplary genetic wares evident only in the older horse who has been allowed to flourish. As such, to say that his fee looks perfectly fair--not least as the son of a Grade II-winning half-sister to another Horse of the Year in Saint Liam (Saint Ballado)--only reiterates the bewildering value represented by Accelerate, in the next intake, at just $20,000. Cont. p4

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The aforementioned Mastery, who also sets out to enhance A third son of Candy Ride in the intake is Unified, now Candy Ride as a sire of sires, had a contrastingly brief career, but alongside his sire at Lane's End at a competitive $10,000. He too there is no denying the brilliance he exhibited in four unbeaten has a third dam of note, a Storm Bird half-sister to Dehere, and starts. A seven-length Grade I is evidently a looker. Though winner at two, albeit from a unraced at two, he proved a shortish field, he poignantly very natural runner, heating up galloped into GI Kentucky Derby the clock as a ‘TDN Rising Star,’ favoritism when winning the GII Grade III and Grade II winner in San Felipe S. by a similar margin his first three starts. At four, he only to be pulled up after the was foiled only by a neck in the finish line with a career-ending GI Carter H., and he's out of a injury. sister to a Grade II winner by What makes the Claiborne rising broodmare influence Dixie prospect of major interest at Union. $25,000 is a third dam who is Candy Ride also illuminates the full sister to Miswaki, not to family of Classic Empire mention a second dam by (Pioneerof The Nile), who another outstanding broodmare became the sixth of seven sire in Storm Cat. And Mastery's Mastery | Benoit photo 2-year-old champions to retire own mother is a half-sister to the Grade I-placed, Grade to Ashford, opening at $35,000. Classic Empire's fourth dam is II-winning juvenile Jump Start (A.P. Indy). All in all, there's a lot half-sister to the mare who produced Candy Ride's sire, Ride The of surplus glamour to this horse at the price. Rails; it's also the family of Harlan's Holiday and Boldnesian. TDN HEADLINE NEWS • PAGE 5 OF 13 • THETDN.COM THURSDAY • DECEMBER 20, 2018

Having followed through with a Grade I success at three before With his own sire soaring in fee, Practical Joke brings his Kentucky Derby fourth and narrow runner-up finish in the precocity, speed and looks to the middle market, so was always GI Preakness S., Classic Empire unfortunately proved unable to going to go down well. Into Mischief, of course, has achieved race again. But his dual some remarkable upgrades in Grade I-placed second dam is by his stock. There is no getting Miswaki, while his own mother away from the fact that you represents another potent have to go under the fourth dam broodmare line via Cat Thief. for the first graded stakes Quite a package, and one that performer on Practical Joke's understandably brought 185 page, but that needn't stop mares to his door this spring. But anyone believing he can emulate even that book paled next to his sire. Certainly you can that of studmate Practical Joke picture him bringing home some (Into Mischief), who had a nice pinhooks at the 2-year-old staggering 220 clients at sales. $30,000. Though a well-beaten Remarkably, even his book was third in Classic Empire's narrowly surpassed by one of Breeders' Cup Juvenile, he Practical Joke at Ashford Stud | Coolmore photo the other Ashford novices, Cupid already had two Grade I wins (Tapit) having entertained 223 under his belt by that stage and then consolidated with a hardy partners at $12,500--a tally surpassed among all American sires and honest sophomore campaign crowned, back over seven only by Into Mischief (Harlan's Holiday) himself. furlongs, in the GI H. Allen Jerkens S. Cont. p6 TDN HEADLINE NEWS • PAGE 6 OF 13 • THETDN.COM THURSDAY • DECEMBER 20, 2018

That only goes to show the commercial nous of the Coolmore Curlin seeks two fresh testimonials as a sire of sires from this team, as this is a very different proposition. Unraced at two, intake. Connect took a record of six-for-eight to Lane's End at Cupid is a half-brother to two other graded stakes winners; his $20,000, crowned in the GI Cigar Mile, and he's out of a Classic build and breeding raised $900,000 as a yearling and he half-sister to the grand-dam of Grade I winner Backseat Rhythm reserved his Grade I day in the (El Corredor) from a real sun for the Santa Anita Gold Cup outcross family. He took some at four. Still bigger things bold-sounding scalps, notably appeared to be expected than that of the maturing Gun he managed thereafter, but at a Runner--though even that credit helpful fee breeders are plainly can't quite match Keen Ice, who prepared to gamble that the started out off the same fee at best remains yet to come. Calumet having famously dug a Another monster book, hole for American Pharoah at squeezed between the Ashford the graveyard of champions. pair at 222, was put together by A truer measure of his merit Klimt (Quality Road) at Darby makes him scarcely less eligible Dan. This farm always pitches as a stallion: he showed up young sires at a fair level and every time, keeping the best of Lord Nelson | PM Advertising this one could not have been a company four seasons running. hard sell at $10,000, having lit up the Californian scene in a His second dam is a half-sister to a Grade I winner out of a fashion that allowed him to be marketed as the fastest Grade I half-sister to the mother of Verrazano, but the huge appeal of juvenile by his sire. Klimt only managed a couple of starts at his page--besides some intriguing turf angles--is a 3x3 three, but his third dam is a GSW sister to Breeders' Cup Classic appearance by the vital influence Deputy Minister. winner Concern, the pair out of another Grade I winner. Cont. p7 TDN HEADLINE NEWS • PAGE 7 OF 13 • THETDN.COM THURSDAY • DECEMBER 20, 2018

Curlin's damsire is also sire of Awesome Again, whose Gormley (Malibu Moon) offers access to a more familiar family daughter Medomak (half-sister to a Grade I runner-up) tree--and familiar because classy--for $10,000 at Spendthrift. A delivered Keen Ice as her first foal. At the very least, this is Grade I winner at two and three, his second dam was definitely a stallion for end-users to remain interested in Classic-placed in Europe and the next is champion turf mare through the next three or four years. Estrapade. He derailed in his Classic campaign but there is a lot There is also a 3x3 footprint on the page of Lord Nelson, Mr of turf blood in his family and he could prove a very versatile Prospector being both damsire of his sire Pulpit and grandsire of influence for the 180 mares he attracted in his debut season. his dam. This is resonant of Pulpit's premier son Tapit, who is inbred 3x4 to Mr P. In Lord Nelson, however, that patriarch's trademark speed came through with exceptional purity: he reeled off three consecutive Grade I wins in California over six and seven furlongs as a 4-year-old, notably breaking a longstanding stakes record at Del Mar with his 1:07.65 in the GI Bing Crosby S. Sadly, as is well known, he was then struck by laminitis and jilted 180 mares at Spendthrift. Restored by human skill and equine heart, Lord Nelson was able to cover 127 at $25,000 this year and--besides his commercial speed--they will tap into a very old Argentinian family. That almost invariably entails resilience, which we know he must have in abundance, and the class is close up too: Acorn S. winner Carina Mia (Malibu Moon), for instance, is one of two Grade I scorers out of a sister to his Grade I-winning second dam. This is a charismatic horse, all Midnight Storm | Benoit photo round, physique included. And we know there was more One of few in the intake to have been given a fee trim is demand than supply. Midnight Storm (Pioneerof The Nile), but there isn't the Lord Nelson is from Pulpit's penultimate crop; American slightest sense of panic about his drop to $10,000 from $12,500 Freedom, launched at $10,000 by Airdrie, is from his final one. at Taylor Made--a farm confident enough simply to make His dam, who connects us to another august name in Pleasant market-friendly cuts for three of its five stallions for 2019. Tap, has also produced a MGSW and Grade I runner-up Gottcha Midnight Storm had a perfectly respectable first book of 119 Gold (Coronado's Quest). His family is actually full of splendid and, besides extending a modish sire-line, offers exactly the kind old names, and he rubbed shoulders with some of the best of his of thing all breeders should love as an unusually durable and generation--albeit he would have needed a 13 1/2-length flexible campaigner. shoulder to do so with Arrogate when second in the GI Travers S. Perhaps nothing drew 152 ladies to his door, however, quite like his rangy good looks. Astern (Medaglia d'Oro) is already a proud father, having started his stud career in Australia--where he, like half-sister Alizee (Sepoy), won at Group 1 level--before reverse shuttling to Jonabell at $15,000. He majored in the speed so highly valued in his homeland, though whether that was by nature or nurture is hard to say: everything is possible with this sire-line. Another transfusion of Southern Hemisphere blood is available for the same fee at Calumet, courtesy of Bal a Bali (Brz) (Put It Back). This really is something way out of the ordinary. Horse of the Year in his Brazilian homeland, he revealed the same South American iron as Lord Nelson to bounce back from laminitis after his migration to the U.S., winning two Grade Is at a mile. Even his In Reality top line makes him a valuable outcross, never mind a left-field maternal family that quickly takes us a long way, in time as well as distance: his damsire, the Brazilian champion Clackson, is a grandson of sires foaled in 1944 and 1948. TDN HEADLINE NEWS • PAGE 8 OF 13 • THETDN.COM THURSDAY • DECEMBER 20, 2018

McGrath cont. precocity. Actually there are strong echoes of his daddy to this A Grade II winner four seasons running! And, for those who profile. It will be interesting to see where a farm with a lot of insist on some formal Grade I icing on the cake, he wired the turf mares can take him, but it's a fair price for sure. Shoemaker Mile field to hold off subsequent Breeders' Cup Mile At the same fee, the arrival at Adena Springs of Shaman Ghost winner Tourist (Tiznow) in 1:33 and change. He was, moreover, (Ghostzapper) is better news for Kentucky than California, equally adept on turf and dirt--respectively the springboard for where he covered 91 mares in his first season at $10,000. He Beyers of 110 and 107. All credit to the farm, which also stands offers hardiness as well as class, a Canadian champion at three Mshawish (Medaglia d'Oro), for putting a due premium on who proceeded to mix it up with the best south of the border: a versatility. Yes, there are some exotic names along Midnight dual Grade I winner who also finished second to Arrogate in the Storm's bottom line, but that wouldn't frighten those of us who Pegasus and third to Gun Runner in the GI Clark H. He's not value diversity in the gene pool. Something was working, unlike Midnight Storm, in matching class and constitution to an anyhow, to make him put together such a hard-knocking, invigoratingly outlandish bottom line. old-school CV--and to look the part, too. Those who believe elite families can proceed through horses Among the four-figure fees, Mohaymen (Tapit) managed to whose own performance leave them accessibly priced, stack 'em highest with 121 $7,500 covers at Shadwell. That's meanwhile, will want to take a look at Calumet's $5,000 pair, unsurprising granted the way he landed running off a Mr. Z (Malibu Moon) and War Correspondent (War Front), and $2.2 million yearling tag, three-for-three as a juvenile, including Gainesway's Bird Song (Unbridled's Song) at the same fee. the GII Nashua S. and GII Remsen S., and resuming the following Then there is Hootenanny (Quality Road), standing at the spring with dashing displays in the GII Holy Bull S. and same tag at Buck Pond Farm. He helped launch his sire with GII Fountain of Youth S. But he badly lost his way after finishing those Royal Ascot and Breeders' Cup wins at two and, had he fourth in the Kentucky Derby, and the wager you're taking is gone to stud in Europe then, he would have had a queue of that his refined looks and pedigree--out of a Grade I-placed commercial breeders snaking down the road. Sadly, that's a long Grade II winner who also produced Breeders' Cup Juvenile time ago now, but let's remember he's out of a half-sister to a winner New Year's Day (Street Cry {Ire})--will come through Grade I winner from a good family. ahead of any of those issues that evidently unraveled his TDN HEADLINE NEWS • PAGE 9 OF 13 • THETDN.COM THURSDAY • DECEMBER 20, 2018

McGrath cont. And, finally, I really can't believe that only 30 mares took a chance with Crestwood's Tu Brutus (Chi) (Scat Daddy), whose molten Beyers when imported to the U.S. suggested freakish talent. He is from the family of Forego's sire Forli, and you'd think that access to a $5,000 son of Scat Daddy in Kentucky would have prompted a little more curiosity.

Chris McGrath’s Value Podium: Gold: Lord Nelson $25,000, Spendthrift Silver: Mastery $25,000, Claiborne Bronze: Midnight Storm $10,000, Taylor Made

Cont. from p1 " " " These five recommended vaccines include rabies, West Nile virus, Eastern/Western equine encephalomyelitis and Tetanus. Outbreaks at several racetracks and training facilities in recent Most facilities have minimum vaccination requirements for years have prompted most tracks, training centers and sales companies to mandate all horses entering their grounds be horses entering their stable grounds outside of these core vaccinated for equine herpesvirus-1 (EHV-1), requiring that all vaccinations. It’s important for horsemen to not only work horses receive the vaccine a minimum of 14 days, but not more closely with their veterinarian to be sure their horse maintains than 120 days, prior to shipping into the stable grounds. protection against the diseases to which it may have potential It is imperative, however, that horsemen maintain detailed exposure, but also stay up-to-date regarding outbreaks and records of such vaccinations and work with their veterinarians heightened threats in their area, says Dr. Robert Stout, State to proactively re-vaccinate to ensure their horses aren’t left Veterinarian in Kentucky. exposed. “Your veterinarian can tell you when to vaccinate to ensure “In theory, a horse can ship in having received the vaccination maximum efficacy,” says Stout. “The season for West Nile Virus, 90 days prior meets the requirements for entry, but say 40 days for example, is summer and into fall, so the majority of horses later, they are still stabled on the grounds, but no longer meet are vaccinated at the end of March into April, so they have a the requirements, putting themselves and those around them at heightened immune response in the height of the season.” risk,” said Rusty Ford, Equine Operations Consultant for the Other diseases, such as equine influenza and strangles, can be Office of the State Veterinarian. “Last year we started really easily contracted and spread rapidly from horse to horse and emphasizing this to trainers, advising them that they need to throughout herds not vaccinated for the disease, resulting in not keep close track of their health records to be sure they’re only the need for veterinary intervention, but time away from staying up to date.” training and lingering side effects. Cont. p10 TDN HEADLINE NEWS • PAGE 10 OF 13 • THETDN.COM THURSDAY • DECEMBER 20, 2018

Equine Health cont. GOING PLACES: THE GRAND CANYON Horsemen can also stay abreast of outbreaks in their area through email alerts from the Equine Disease Communication Center (EDCC), a national initiative that identifies and reports on disease outbreaks throughout the U. S., similarly to how the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) track and alert people about transmittable diseases in human populations. Vaccinating horses against diseases is just one part of a comprehensive biosecurity plan, of which the EDCC can play an integral part, as it did it did this year for many horsemen. After an unusually wet start to 2018, Ford says his office saw an earlier identification of Potomac Horse Fever, a potentially fatal Getty Images disease that often causes laminitis. The disease is caused by the ingestion by horses of caddis flies and mayflies, who often by Amanda Duckworth, from the TDN Weekend gravitate away from their native ponds and streams at night and The American West--that fabled stretch of land still brings to toward light sources. As is the case with many other vaccines, mind a great deal of romanticism, even in these modern times. horses vaccinated for Potomac Horse Fever are not uniformly Often people will say you cannot understand it until you see it. guaranteed immunity from the disease, but rather their When two of my cohorts and I had the opportunity to find out symptoms are often less severe if they do contract the disease. for ourselves, we jumped at the chance. What ensued was five days of hilarity, isolation, beauty, and, “The alerts we send out to horsemen help them implement yes, conceding that you really just have to--and should--see it simple safeguards, like scheduling vaccinations based on for yourself. heightened risk and, in the case of Potomac, turning off the lights before dark to prevent attracting aquatic insects into the Setting Off barn,” says Ford. “Vaccinations are like a seatbelt in an Driving to the Grand Canyon National Park from either Santa automobile. It won’t keep you from having a wreck, but it can Anita or Del Mar is doable in a day. Both fall roughly on either lessen the severity.” side of eight hours and 500 miles depending on your chosen For a suggested vaccination schedule, which includes core and route and the weight of your foot. However, we decided early in risk-based vaccines, visit aaep.org. our planning to split up the drive.

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Grand Canyon cont. When we started searching for lodgings, we realized how barren a path lay ahead. Through the magic of determination and Google, we found the solution to our problem: glamping. Cynthia's China Ranch in the old mining town of Tecopa, California, is slightly out of the way directionally, but seemed full of promise. The website enamored us with this sales pitch: "Experience luxury camping in our authentic Indian-style tipis. You'll sleep soundly under a starry night sky and awaken to spectacular views of pristine ancient desert hills. Heated beds take the chill off the winter nights, and air conditioners cool the summer heat." Upon booking a tipi, we accepted just how remote it would be based on the very specific confirmation email informing us there would be no cellular coverage. In addition, Cynthia's is on an Getty Images uncharted GPS route. Upon finally arriving, our host showed us the three-person tipi Danielle Nichter, in her role as champion navigator, secured we had booked, equipped us with lanterns, and warned us maps and also made what turned out to be a key decision as we about the preponderance of coyotes before disappearing back got closer and closer to the desert--we should probably buy into the night. some wine ahead of arrival. What is important to note is that we Once settled into our rather delightful dwelling, we wandered went from reachable to untraceable whilst traveling down the out to look at the moon, and then we heard something move. charmingly named Death Valley Road. There were no other cars What it was we will never know, but after sprinting back to the on our two-lane path, and there wasn't radio reception either. relatively safe confines of our tipi, we opened the wine. We arrived at the check-in cabin--not the tipis--where we were greeted by a man in a headlamp. He proceeded to give us a On the Road Again warning about how steep the drive down was and how many The next morning, we got up for the sunrise and wandered to people thought they were on the wrong road. the main cottage to make hot tea and use the provided facilities, While all three of us are well-traveled, adventurous types, which were charmingly functional if not exactly high-end. nothing prepared us for the winding descent that awaited. At With the gift of the sun, we could take in our surroundings. The date trees, formerly menacing in the night as they swayed one point, we stopped the car, convinced we were driving off a with netting around their fruits, were comforting. We got back cliff based on the shadows of the unearthly rock formations on the road, ready to make our way to the Grand Canyon. We around us. We were not. only made it a few miles before stopping the car. Driving up and out of what we had driven into the night before was stunning. Leaving the car parked next to the "Pavement Ends" sign at the top of the pass, we all wandered among the hauntingly beautiful rocks and listened to the wind. Eventually leaving Death Valley behind us, we looped around Las Vegas and Hoover Dam. The Grand Canyon is accessible from multiple locations, but the most popular is the South Rim, which was our destination. Reservations are strongly recommended months, if not a year, in advance. Although we booked well ahead of our trip, we missed out on staying on park grounds. However, several miles out is where you will find all the other hotels and restaurants, and it is an easy commute. Even though we were there in the off season, the whole area was busy, leading us to wonder what the summers must be like. Our accommodations for this leg were far less adventurous than our tipi and came via a Holiday Inn Express. There is something Sunrise at the tipis to be said for heat and attached plumbing, though, and we were content travelers upon arrival. TDN HEADLINE NEWS • PAGE 12 OF 13 • THETDN.COM THURSDAY • DECEMBER 20, 2018

A Worthy Name Armed with the Grand Canyon version of the guidebook produced by Lonely Planet, we had mapped out our destinations, starting with the simplest--the sunrise. Entrance to the park is $35 for a vehicle, and the pass is good for one week. The friendly park ranger apologized for the weather--overcast and misty--but when we arrived, it didn't WINCZE-HUGHES NAMED NEW NTRA DIRECTOR OF really matter. COMMUNICATIONS Both fellow travelers and our handy guidebook warned us that Alicia Wincze-Hughes has been named the new Director of nothing could prepare us for what we were about to see. No Communications for the National Thoroughbred Racing pictures can do it justice, and your memory will struggle to try. Association (NTRA). She will officially begin her new position Jan. It's cliché, and it's entirely true. 2. Hughes has spent the last two years as a staff writer and Bundled up, we watched the sun make its appearance just editor at BloodHorse. She previously worked for 11 years at the after 7:00 a.m. It is important to get there ahead of the actual Lexington Herald-Leader. A winner of numerous national awards sunrise to appreciate the changes and shifts in light as it fills the for her work covering Thoroughbred racing, Hughes is also a former president of the National Turf Writers and Broadcasters canyon. There are plenty of places to take this in, but Mather Association. “It has been an honor over the years to work Point is a very short, easy jaunt from the visitor center and alongside some of the best writers and editors in this business doesn't disappoint. Click here to read the rest of this story in while telling racing’s wonderfully unique stories,” Hughes said. the December TDN Weekend. “I am beyond thrilled to begin the next chapter of my career with the dedicated people of the NTRA and help bring their important work to the forefront.” NTRA President and COE Alex Waldrop added, “Alicia is an extremely gifted writer and communicator and we are delighted to welcome her to the FIND US ON FACEBOOK team.” www.facebook.com/thoroughbreddailynews TDN HEADLINE NEWS • PAGE 13 OF 13 • THETDN.COM THURSDAY • DECEMBER 20, 2018

TCA TO HONOR ROTHS, TAKE2 VINERY SALES HIRES LAUREN MORGAN Thoroughbred Charities of America will present the Allaire du Vinery Sales has recently hired Lauren Morgan as Sales and Pont Leadership Award to the Roth family’s LNJ Foxwoods; and Bloodstock Consultant. The native of Michigan and graduate of the Ellen and Herb Moelis Industry Service Award to the Take2 Michigan State University has worked since 2016 in a bloodstock Second Career Thoroughbred Program during its 29th-annual services and client relations role at Darby Dan Farm. "I'm excited Stallion Season Auction & Celebration on Sunday, Jan. 6, 2019 at to start this new opportunity and I feel fortunate to be joining the Keeneland Entertainment Center in Lexington, Ky. Vinery Sales," Morgan said. "Vinery has proven time and again “Our board has selected two outstanding award recipients,” to be a top sales company, and I'm looking forward to applying said Erin Crady executive director of TCA. “LNJ Foxwoods has all of my experience and skills to my new position with a great made a significant impact in the lives of numerous horses and team. I am honored to have the chance to work with Vinery's their caretakers, not only through the establishment of the established clients and look forward to developing new Horses First Fund, but also through their support of TCA’s annual grantmaking as well as their many other philanthropic relationships for the company." Vinery Sales Co-Owner Derek endeavors. LNJ’s commitment to always put the horse first is the McKenzie added, "As we've continued to grow, it's become of backbone of their operation and aligns with the philosophy of utmost importance for us not only to find someone TCA co-founder and namesake of the Leadership Award, Allaire knowledgeable, but also another team member with great du Pont. The TAKE2 Second Career Thoroughbred Program has character and integrity. We are excited that Lauren fills that role worked tirelessly to incentivize sport horse owners to consider a and will be a great addition." Thoroughbred as their next mount. The program’s broad reach at hundreds of top-rated Hunter Jumper shows across the country has contributed to the overall increase in value of retiring racers while providing more options for second career OBS WINTER MIXED SALE CATALOG RELEASED pathways.” The catalog for the Ocala Breeders’ Sales Company’s Winter For more on the TCA Stallion Season Auction, visit Mixed Sale is now online at www.obssales.com. The two-day www.tca.org. auction will take place Jan. 29 and Jan. 30 with sessions starting at 11:00 a.m. An under-tack session for horses of racing age will be held Jan. 28 at 10:00 a.m. A total of 186 horses catalogued for the Preferred Session will sell first Jan. 29, followed CRAWFORD TABBED CANTERBURY’S DIRECTOR OF immediately by Horses of Racing Age. There are currently 100 RACING horses catalogued for the HRA session with supplemental Matt Crawford has been hired as Canterbury Park’s Director of nominations being accepted through Jan. 15. Racing and Racing Secretary. He will begin the job in April ahead of the 2019 race meet, which begins May 3. Crawford, 61, is currently Manager of Racing Operations and Racing Secretary for Penn Gaming at Zia Park in New Mexico and Racing Secretary at Sam Houston Race Park in Texas. A former trainer of both NYRA Now Simulcast Center Expanded Thoroughbreds and Quarter Horses, he has been racing The New York Racing Associations’s NYRA Now mobile-first secretary at Delta Downs and Hialieah Park, and assistant racing application has had an additional 34 racetracks added to its secretary at Fair Grounds, Lone Star Park and Louisiana Downs. simulcast center. Live racing is now available from 120 “Matt brings a wide range of racing knowledge to Canterbury racetracks, including Fair Grounds, Sunland Park, Tampa Bay Park, including a great deal of experience as a horseman,” Downs and Turfway Park as well as a number of harness racing Canterbury Park Senior Director of Racing Operations Andrew venues. The NYRA Now app is free to download for iOS, Offerman said. “He has proven success working in close Android, Apple TV, Roku, Amazon Fire and Chromecast. For a partnership with horsemen, writing races and filling fields. complete list of available racetracks, visit Canterbury’s racing program is on the rise and with Matt https://www.nyra.com/aqueduct/nyra-now. running the racing office, we will continue that trend.”

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2018 Leading Fourth-Crop Sires YTD for stallions standing in North America through Tuesday, Dec. 18 Earnings and Black-type represents worldwide figures & stud fees are for 2018 Rank Stallion BTW BTH GSW GSH G1SW G1SH Starters Wnrs Highest Earner Earnings 1 Uncle Mo 17 29 8 13 1 4 239 119 536,700 8,588,936 (2008) by Indian Charlie FYR: 2013 Stands: Ashford Stud KY Fee: $125,000 Unbridled Mo 2 Twirling Candy 6 16 2 6 1 2 157 87 334,700 4,909,089 (2007) by Candy Ride (Arg) FYR: 2013 Stands: Lane's End Farm KY Fee: $25,000 Finley'sluckycharm 3 First Dude 8 10 3 4 1 1 156 87 848,076 4,848,728 (2007) by Stephen Got Even FYR: 2013 Stands: Double Diamond Farm FL Fee: $10,000 Shamrock Rose 4 Trappe Shot 2 10 1 4 -- 1 208 107 403,240 4,713,536 (2007) by Tapit FYR: 2013 Stands: Claiborne Farm KY Fee: $7,500 Hotshot Anna 5 Gio Ponti 3 13 -- 3 -- 1 194 91 283,640 3,881,778 (2005) by Tale of the Cat FYR: 2013 Stands: Castleton Lyons KY Fee: $5,000 Miss Technicality 6 Adios Charlie 5 7 1 1 1 1 106 65 668,725 3,552,195 (2008) by Indian Charlie FYR: 2013 Stands: Ocala Stud FL Fee: $3,000 Patternrecognition 7 Friesan Fire 4 6 2 2 1 2 101 57 279,500 3,253,721 (2006) by A.P. Indy FYR: 2013 Stands: Country Life Farm MD Fee: $4,000 Call Paul 8 Lonhro (Aus) 5 11 2 8 -- 3 113 48 464,443 2,954,597 (1998) by Octagonal (Nz) FYR: 2013 Stands: Darley USA (Dead/Ret/Exp) Gronkowski 9 Court Vision 2 6 1 1 -- 1 131 66 395,080 2,781,918 (2005) by Gulch FYR: 2013 Stands: Acadiana Equine at Copper Crowne LA Fee: $3,500 Mr Havercamp 10 Wilburn 3 6 2 2 -- -- 149 77 187,750 2,596,485 (2008) by Bernardini FYR: 2013 Stands: River Oaks Farms Inc OK Fee: $3,500 Afleet Willy 11 Regal Ransom 2 6 1 1 -- -- 105 63 467,239 2,497,429 (2006) by Distorted Humor FYR: 2013 Stands: Darley USA (Dead/Ret/Exp) Strong Titan 12 Courageous Cat 4 5 ------105 50 178,583 2,318,449 (2006) by Storm Cat FYR: 2013 Stands: Questroyal North NY Fee: $6,000 Unbridledadventure 13 Gone Astray 5 6 ------111 55 245,602 1,967,301 (2006) by Dixie Union FYR: 2013 Stands: Northwest Stud FL Fee: $5,000 Noble Drama 14 Dublin -- 3 ------70 37 188,570 1,747,588 (2007) by Afleet Alex FYR: 2013 Stands: Mohns Hill Farm PA Fee: Private Dr Blarney 15 Custom for Carlos 2 10 ------91 41 257,690 1,747,490 (2006) by More Than Ready FYR: 2013 Stands: Clear Creek Stud LA Fee: $3,500 Monte Man

FOR ALL TDN SIRE LISTSBINCLUDING INDIVIDUAL CROP-YEAR REPORTS--VISIT WWW.THETDN.COM/TDN-SIRE-STATS/ IN ORDER OF PURSE: Turn >N Twirl, f, 2, Twirling Candy. See ABritain@. 4th-Gulfstream, $43,600, Alw (NW1X)/Opt. Clm ($75,000), 12-19, 2yo, 6f, 1:10.38, ft. COUNTRY SINGER (c, 2, Majesticperfection--Country Diva {MSW, $328,409}, by Songandaprayer), a debut fourth behind unbeaten next out Buffalo Man S. winner Zenden (Fed Biz) Sept. 29, ran off to an impressive 5 1/2-length maiden win at Gulfstream West last out Nov. 3. Off at odds of 7-1 here after earning the 5-2 nod on the morning line, he shot out to the front, led through fractions of :22.59 and :45.42, and powered under the line a 6 1/2-length winner. W W Springtime (Kantharos) was second. The winner=s dam had fillies by Fed Biz and Mizzen Mast the past two seasons and was bred back to " " " Overanalyze for 2019. Lifetime Record: 3-2-0-0, $50,750. Click for Equibase.com chart or VIDEO, sponsored by Fasig-Tipton. O/B-Marablue Farm LLC (KY); T-Ralph E. Nicks. A Graduate of AbraCadabra Farms

9th-Gulfstream, $40,700, Alw (NW1X)/Opt. Clm ($35,000), 12-19, 3yo/up, f/m, 1 1/16mT, 1:43.37, fm. FOOLS GOLD (f, 3, Medaglia d=Oro--Moment of Majesty {MSW FIRST-CROP STARTERS TO WATCH: THURSDAY, DEC. 20 & MGSP, $630,269}, by Saint Liam), a runaway maiden winner Cross Traffic (Unbridled's Song), Spendthrift Farm, $12,500 over the Aqueduct dirt at fourth asking last January, was fourth 91 foals of racing age/16 winners/5 black-type winners over soft going when last seen in a Belmont allowance Sept. 29. 4-Fair Grounds, Aoc 5 1/2fT, DREAMING DIAMONDS, 12-1 The 7-1 chance sat in close range while saving ground $1,000 FTK OCT yrl throughout here. She awaited racing room on the turn for home and shot through an opening along the rail in the stretch en Fed Biz (Giant's Causeway), WinStar Farm, $12,500 route to a two-length victory. She=s Right Again (Discreetly Mine) 103 foals of racing age/10 winners/1 black-type winner was second. Moment on Majesty, an $850,000 purchase by 8-Fair Grounds, Msw 7 1/2fT, CHANGE OF CONTROL, 12-1 Evelyn Benoit at the 2016 KEENOV Sale, had a colt by Curlin in $27,000 KEE NOV wnl; $95,000 OBS OCT yrl 2017 and a colt by Star Guitar in 2018. She was bred back to the 8-Fair Grounds, Msw 7 1/2fT, SEASIDE DANCER, 10-1 latter for 2019. Fools Gold=s third dam is champion Fiji (GB) $95,000 KEE SEP yrl (Rainbow Quest). Sales history: $180,000 Ylg '16 FTKOCT; $425,000 2yo '17 OBSMAR. Lifetime Record: 7-2-1-2, $92,420. Goldencents (Into Mischief), Spendthrift Farm, $15,000 Click Equibase.com chart or VIDEO, sponsored by Fasig-Tipton. 121 foals of racing age/27 winners/2 black-type winners O-Wise Racing; B-Regis Farms LP (KY); T-Chad C. Brown. 2-Delta Downs, Aoc 7 1/2f, MUSADA, 9-5 Consigned by Hill ‘n’ Dale Sales Agency $22,000 RNA ESL YRL yrl; $56,000 TTA APR 2yo nbs SUCCESS TDN REGIONAL REPORT • PAGE 2 OF 3 • THETDN.COM THURSDAY • DECEMBER 20, 2018

Guilt Trip (Pulpit), Red River Farms, $2,500 Will Take Charge (Unbridled's Song), Three Chimneys Farm, 32 foals of racing age/5 winners/1 black-type winner $30,000 2-Delta Downs, Aoc 7 1/2f, MR. FOUR SEVENS, 12-1 109 foals of racing age/14 winners/1 black-type winner $5,500 ESL MIX yrl 8-Fair Grounds, Msw 7 1/2fT, SACRED LADY, 9-2 3-Delta Downs, Msw 5f, SHAMEFUL GAL, 9-2 $170,000 KEE NOV wnl; $110,000 RNA FTS AUG yrl; $105,000 $12,000 RNA EQL 2YO 2yo OBS MAR 2yo 5-Aqueduct, Msw 1 1/8m, WILL DANCER, 12-1 Mark Valeski (Proud Citizen), Airdrie Stud, $2,500 $300,000 FTS AUG yrl 33 foals of racing age/9 winners/1 black-type winner 8-Fair Grounds, Msw 7 1/2fT, ALIZEE, 6-1 $1,000 RNA KEE NOV wnl

Sabercat (Bluegrass Cat), Averett Farm, $3,500 10 foals of racing age/0 winners/0 black-type winners 3-Delta Downs, Msw 5f, SHESTHECATSMEOW, 12-1 $17,000 RNA ESL MIX 2yo ALLOWANCE RESULTS: 3rd-Zia, $45,000, 12-19, 3yo/up, 1m, 1:36.61, ft. Seville (Ger) (Galileo {Ire}), Heritage Stallions, $6,000 SKY DEFENCE (g, 5, First Defence--Skyladysky {SP}, by Sky 60 foals of racing age/1 winner/0 black-type winners Classic) Lifetime Record: MSW, 30-11-5-4, $284,786. O-Richard 6-Penn National, Msw 6f, I LOVE YOU, 8-1 Lueck; B-Richard Wayne Lueck (KY); T-Susan F. Arnett. *1/2 to Clone (Fusaichi Pegasus), SW, $196,935. Sum of the Parts (Speightstown), Red River Farms, $2,000 13 foals of racing age/0 winners/0 black-type winners 4th-Mahoning Valley, $31,300, (S), 12-19, (NW1X), 3yo/up, 6f, 3-Delta Downs, Msw 5f, BEAUTIFUL BEV, 20-1 1:14.50, ft. $9,200 ESL MIX wnl; $10,000 TTA APR 2yo FASTEST MAX (g, 3, Albertus Maximus--Looney Lynda, by Trippi) Lifetime Record: 8-3-1-0, $54,142. O-Mark & David Verrazano (More Than Ready), Ashford Stud, $22,500 Doering & Jeff Gardella; B-Jennifer M. Thorpe (OH); T-M Doering. 135 foals of racing age/12 winners/2 black-type winners 8-Fair Grounds, Msw 7 1/2fT, DARLING VERA, 10-1 5th-Mahoning Valley, $31,300, (S), 12-19, (NW1X), 3yo/up, 6f, $180,000 KEE SEP yrl 1:16.19, ft. 8-Fair Grounds, Msw 7 1/2fT, FREEDOM PASSAGE, 8-1 CIELO LINDO (g, 3, Vaquero--Arts, by Royal Academy) Lifetime $85,000 RNA KEE SEP yrl Record: 8-2-2-0, $48,043. O-Michael J. Annechino; B-Roger S. 8-Fair Grounds, Msw 7 1/2fT, RAVENEL, 10-1 Braugh (OH); T-Jeffrey A. Radosevich. $75,000 KEE SEP yrl; $95,000 RNA OBS MAR 2yo 7th-Tampa Bay Downs, $21,000, (NW2X)/Opt. Clm ($32,000), 12-19, 3yo/up, f/m, 6f, 1:11.20, ft. " " " SILLY FACTOR (f, 4, The Factor--Find the Humor {GSP}, by Sharp Humor) Lifetime Record: 23-11-1-6, $137,468. O-Robson Thoroughbreds; B-JSM Equine, LLC & Greathouse Horse Property, LLC (KY); T-Gerald S. Bennett. *$26,000 Ylg '15 KEEJAN; $27,000 RNA Ylg '15 KEESEP.

Country Singer (Majesticperfection) makes it two straight in South Florida. TDN REGIONAL REPORT • PAGE 3 OF 3 • THETDN.COM THURSDAY • DECEMBER 20, 2018

ADDITIONAL MAIDEN WINNERS: Acaramelado, f, 2, Kettle Corn--Bella Rush, by Wild Rush. Mahoning Valley, 12-19, (S), 6f, 1:17.69. B-Daniel J. & Patricia J. Yates (OH). Pearls in Charge, f, 2, Take Charge Indy--Mrs. Debbie M (MSP), by War Chant. Mahoning Valley, 12-19, (S), 6f, 1:14.77. B-Susan King & WinStar Farm, LLC (OH).

Syrah, f, 3, Flat Out--Ms. Thanksgiving (SP), by Formal Dinner. Mahoning Valley, 12-19, 5 1/2f, 1:09.00. B-Muzeyyen Karabulut (KY). *$19,000 Ylg '16 KEESEP. Tiz Possible Dear, f, 3, Prospective--Tiz Four, by Tiznow. Gulfstream, 12-19, (C), 6f, 1:11.90. B-Addison Clare Silva (FL). *$1,000 RNA Ylg '16 OBSAUG; $10,000 2yo '17 EASMAY.

ALBERTUS MAXIMUS, Fastest Max, g, 3, o/o Looney Lynda, by Trippi. ALW, 12-19, Mahoning Valley FIRST DEFENCE, Sky Defence, g, 5, o/o Skyladysky, by Sky Classic. ALW, 12-19, Zia FLAT OUT, Syrah, f, 3, o/o Ms. Thanksgiving, by Formal Dinner. MSW, 12-19, Mahoning Valley KETTLE CORN, Acaramelado, f, 2, o/o Bella Rush, by Wild Rush. MSW, 12-19, Mahoning Valley MAJESTICPERFECTION, Country Singer, c, 2, o/o Country Diva, by Songandaprayer. AOC, 12-19, Gulfstream MEDAGLIA D'ORO, Fools Gold, f, 3, o/o Moment of Majesty, by Saint Liam. AOC, 12-19, Gulfstream PROSPECTIVE, Tiz Possible Dear, f, 3, o/o Tiz Four, by Tiznow. MCL, 12-19, Gulfstream TAKE CHARGE INDY, Pearls in Charge, f, 2, o/o Mrs. Debbie M, by War Chant. MSW, 12-19, Mahoning Valley THE FACTOR, Silly Factor, f, 4, o/o Find the Humor, by Sharp Humor. AOC, 12-19, Tampa Bay VAQUERO, Cielo Lindo, g, 3, o/o Arts, by Royal Academy. ALW, 12-19, Mahoning Valley [CLICK HERE] to download the DECEMBER edition

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