FEATURE PRESENTATION • GI BELMONT S. Zayat Stables= Nehro (Mineshaft) Also Worked a Half
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Visit the Andrew Caulfield Looks TDN Website: at the Weekend’s European www.thoroughbreddailynews.com Classic Winners...p2 TUESDAY, JUNE 7, 2011 For information about TDN, call 732-747-8060. An Easy Half for Nehro... FEATURE PRESENTATION • GI BELMONT S. Zayat Stables= Nehro (Mineshaft) also worked a half on the Belmont main track Monday morning, but in less eye-catching fashion than the Derby winner. With exercise rider Cesar Garcia in the irons and on his own, the dark bay went the opening quarter in :26.24, then hit the gas to finish up in :50.88. He galloped out five-eighths in 1:04.17. The move mirrored his final ANIMAL KINGDOM SHARP IN BELMONT PREP Derby prep, a half in GI Kentucky Derby hero Animal Kingdom :51 1/5 in the slop at (Leroidesanimaux {Brz}) had his final prep for Churchill five days before Saturday=s GI Belmont S. yesterday morning, going an his second-place effort in effortless half in a bullet :47.76 as he tried out the main the ARun for the Roses.@ strip at Big Sandy for Toby Sheets, assistant to the first time. trainer Steve Asmussen, Breezing in company watched the work from under jockey John atop a grey pony at the Horsephotos Velazquez, the finish line. He gave it two chestnut cruised thumbs up. AI though he worked great--it was just through an opening exactly what the boss wanted,@ Sheets said. AWe were quarter in :24.18 and very pleased with him. He came back good, so onward was under no and upward.@ While Animal Kingdom went on to finish pressure as he second in the May 21 GI Preakness S., Nehro skipped Animal Kingdom (outside) Horsephotos started to edge ahead the second leg of the Triple Crown. He had a more of his overmatched workmate nearing the wire. He serious workout at Churchill Downs May 30, going six drew well clear while galloping out in solid splits of furlongs in a bullet 1:12 1/5. Belmont Notes cont. p2 1:00.06 and 1:14.38. Team Valor International CEO Barry Irwin, on hand as his syndicate=s colt hit the track just after the renovation break under nearly cloudless skies, was pleased with what he witnessed. AI liked it,@ Irwin said. AIt looked like he handled [the track] really nicely. He looked like a grass horse--he was like an inch off the ground. He was moving great; it looked like he went in :50. I think he=s got a lot of energy, still. I think that=s the key with him. He didn=t look like a tired horse or anything.@ Trainer Graham Motion added, A[Velazquez] didn=t ask him at all. He did it all on his own. That=s why I only wanted to go a half with him, because I figured he=d gallop out pretty strong. He just hasn=t changed. He=s remarkable. He=s taking everything in his stride and he hasn=t gotten worked up about it. You saw how he was today. He couldn=t have been more laid back. That=s what=s impressed me.@ Velazquez had his hands full during the move. AHe was half-way running off with me,@ he admitted. AI took him as slowly as I could. He got very competitive with the other horse. After he passed him, he kept galloping very strong. He knew he had the jockey on top of him because he just played with me. He had me at >hello.=@ TDN P HEADLINE NEWS • 6/7/11 • PAGE 2 of 5 • thoroughbreddailynews.com Belmont Notes cont. Prime Cut Added to Belmont Line-Up... PEDIGREE INSIGHTS Donald A. Adam=s Prime Cut (Bernstein) punched his BY ANDREW CAULFIELD ticket to the ATest of the Champion@ with a solid five- furlong breeze at Churchill Downs Monday. Exercise INVESTEC DERBY-G1, ,1,250,000, Epsom, 6-4, 3yo, rider Dane Noel guided the bay through opening c/f, 12f 10ydsT, 2:34.54, gd. fractions of :25 and :37 before hitting the line in 1:01 1--sPOUR MOI (IRE), 126, c, 3, by Montjeu (Ire) flat. The pair galloped out an extra furlong in :14.20. 1st Dam: Gwynn (Ire), by Darshaan (GB) On the board in six of his seven career starts, Prime Cut 2nd Dam: Victoress, by Conquistador Cielo made his stakes bow in the Apr. 23 GIII Coolmore 3rd Dam: Royal Statute, by Northern Dancer Lexington S. on the Keeneland Poly, finishing second, O-Susan Magnier, Michael Tabor & Derrick Smith; and most recently ran third in the GII Peter Pan S. at B-Lynch-Bages Ltd; T-Andre Fabre; J-Mickael Belmont May 14. AWe made the decision the other day Barzalona; ,709,625. Lifetime Record: GSW-Fr, that we=d go ahead and run, pending everything going 5-3-0-1, ,798,893. *3/4 to Gagnoa (Ire) (Sadler=s good through this week,@ trainer Neil Howard said. Wells), MGSW & MG1SP-Fr, G1SP-Ire, $566,294. AHe=s doing good. We don=t feel like we=ve pushed or Werk Nick Rating: A+++ *Triple Plus* Click for the reached too much with him, and he=s got a nice prep eNicks report & 5-cross pedigree. over Belmont, so we kind of left it that we=d go ahead if everything went well this morning, and it did.@ The Click for the Racing Post chart, the brisnet.com PPs o r 3-year-old is scheduled to fly to New York today, along the free brisnet.com catalogue-style pedigree. Video, with Belmont hopeful Santiva (Giant=s Causeway). courtesy Racing UK. Edgar Prado will ride Prime Cut in the Belmont. For investors in high-class bloodstock, there was something very reassuring about the results of all three European Classics contested over the weekend. They all fell to animals that were fulfilling the Classic potential of both sides of pedigrees, as all three are by stallions with previous Classic winners to their credit, and all three come from families that had produced winners of the Epsom Derby or Oaks. The Oaks went to Dancing Rain, who became the first mile-and-a-half Classic winner for Danehill Dancer, Dancing Rain Edward following his Group 1 Classic Whitaker/Racing Post successes over a mile with Speciosa, Again and Mastercraftsman. Dancing Rain also became the third female Classic winner out of a daughter of Indian Ridge, this particular daughter of Indian Ridge being Rain Flower, a three-parts sister to the 1992 Epsom Derby Animal Kingdom Horsephotos winner Dr Devious. Cont. p3 TDN P HEADLINE NEWS • 6/7/11 • PAGE 3 of 5 • thoroughbreddailynews.com Pedigree Insights cont. Next in the sequence came Pour Moi, whose startling last-to-first effort provided Montjeu with his third winner of the Epsom Derby in the space of seven years. Those seven years have also seen three other Montjeu colts win the Irish Derby and another two win the Grand Prix de Paris (many people=s idea of France=s true Pour Moi Edward Whitaker/Racing Post equivalent to the Derby). Consequently, Montjeu has unrivaled claims to being Europe=s most prolific source of mile-and-a-half Classic colts. Pour Moi=s third dam is Northern Dancer=s famous daughter Royal Statute, who also ranks as the second dam of Snow Bride, the filly awarded the 1989 Oaks prior to becoming the dam of the 1995 Derby winner Lammtarra. Finally, the Prix du Jockey-Club fell to the unbeaten Reliable Man, whose sire Dalakhani won the same race in the days before its distance was shortened. Some would argue that victory should have gone to another son of Dalakhani, the slow-starting Baraan, but that doesn=t change the fact that Dalakhani now has three Classic winners from his first four crops, the others being Conduit (St Leger) and Moonstone (Irish Oaks). Dalakhani=s crops haven=t been as large as those of some of his rivals--his three Classic winners come from a total of 288 foals in his first four crops. Reliable Man=s Classic connection on his dam=s side comes from his second dam Fair Salinia, winner of the Oaks in 1978 before adding the Irish equivalent with the help of the stewards. The other common denominator between Pour Moi and Reliable Man is the presence in their pedigrees of Sadler=s Wells and his old rival Darshaan. Whereas Pour Moi is by a son of Sadler=s Wells and has a dam by Darshaan, Reliable Man is by a son of Darshaan and has a dam by Sadler=s Wells. POUR MOI (IRE), c, 2008 Nearctic Northern Dancer Natalma Sadler’s Wells Bold Reason Fairy Bridge Special Montjeu (Ire) High Top (GB) Top Ville (Ire) Floripedes (Fr) Sega Ville (Fr) Toute Cy (Fr) Tennyson (Fr) Adele Toumignon (Ire) Mill Reef Shirley Heights (GB) Hardiemma (GB) Darshaan (GB) Abdos (Fr) Delsy (Fr) Gwynn (Ire) Kelty (Fr) Unraced Mr. Prospector 6 Fls, 2 GSW Conquistador Cielo Victoress K D Princess 4-1-0-0, $4,728 10 Fls, 2 Wnrs Royal Statute Northern Dancer 11Fls, 1 Ch., 3 GSW Queen’s Statute (GB) TDN P HEADLINE NEWS • 6/7/11 • PAGE 4 of 5 • thoroughbreddailynews.com Pedigree Insights cont. Perhaps we shouldn=t be too surprised at this, as Sadler=s Wells and Darshaan have become almost inextricably linked in the middle-distance sector of European Classic breeding. Sadler=s Wells appeared in the pedigrees of eight of the 13 runners in the Derby, while Darshaan appeared in the pedigrees of seven.