Son of Ethereal Tops Premier Sale in HEADLINE Karaka p.3 NEWS For information about TDN, DELIVERED EACH NIGHT BY FAX AND FREE BY E-MAIL TO SUBSCRIBERS OF call 732-747-8060. www.thoroughbreddailynews.com TUESDAY, JANUARY 30, 2007 EUTHANIZED CONDOLENCES FROM THE RACING WORLD Barbaro (--La Ville Rouge, by Carson City), Expressions of sympathy poured in from around the who had battled since May to survive the devastating racing world on the news of Barbaro=s passing. "On injury suffered in the GI Preakness S., was euthanized behalf of the racing industry, we send yesterday morning at the Uni- our condolences to Roy and versity of Pennsylvania=s New Gretchen Jackson, Michael Matz, Bolton Center. The decision , and to everyone in- was made after the bay colt, volved with Barbaro,@ said NTRA who underwent yet another CEO Alex Waldrop. AWe are deeply surgery Saturday, began de- grateful to Dr. Dean Richardson veloping in his front and the team at the University of feet. "We just reached a point Pennsylvania's School of Veteri- where it was going to be dif- nary Medicine for all they did to try ficult for him to go on with- to save him. I would also like to Barbaro out pain," owner Roy Jack- express condolences--and thanks-- to the millions of fans whose 2003-2007 son told Associated Press. "It Barbaro & Dr. Richardson hearts were touched by Barbaro was the right decision, it was during his brilliant racing career and throughout his the right thing to do. We said all along if there was a gallant struggle to recover. His memory will live forever. situation where it would become more difficult for him, America's compassion and love for Barbaro speak to then it would be time." The latest setback, an abscess the incredible bond that people share with Thorough- on his right hind foot, forced the New Bolton surgical breds and our sport. There have been significant ad- team to try a radical procedure that involved inserting vances in recent years in our ability to ensure the health two steel pins in the right hind cannon bone to support and safety of our equine athletes. The industry remains an external skeletal fixation device designed to take the focused on this issue, and we will continue to work pressure off the affected foot. But Barbaro was unable with owners, horsemen, tracks, veterinarians and re- to lie down after the procedure, and the added pressure searchers, as well as the foundations that support on his front feet caused the onset of founder. AHe had a them." Added Mike Gathagan, vice president of com- difficult night, mainly because he did not lie down,@ Dr. munications for the Maryland Club, ABarbaro will Dean Richardson explained. AThis is a horse that for never be forgotten, having touched many lives with his months has been an exceptionally calm, quiet, relaxed stirring victory in the , and his coura- horse--he would sleep, you could go in there and work geous battle to overcome such a severe injury.@ on him lying down. Last night was the first night ever that he was clearly distressed by his condition. We intensified all of his pain medications pretty dramatically VIDEO OF BARBARO=S WINS last night trying to get him to lie down, we put him in Date Race Margin Odds Track and out of the sling, and we did not succeed.@ He 10/4/05 Maiden Special Weight 8 1/2 7.50 DEL added, AIt=s like a deck of cards--sometimes when things are that tenuous, if one thing starts to go, 11/19/05 Laurel Futurity 8 2.80 LRL you=ve got a lot of parts that start to go on you as well 1/1/06 GIII Tropical Park Derby 3 3/4 *.40 CRC and that=s essentially what happened. I want to empha- 2/4/06 GIII Holy Bull S. 3/4 *1.60 GP size that we stated, and we meant what we said, that 4/1/06 GI HF *1.60 GP if we couldn=t control his discomfort, we wouldn=t go 5/6/06 GI Kentucky Derby 6 1/2 6.10 CD on. That=s why the decision was made.@

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Barbaro cont. From Joy to Sorrow... Flying Under the Radar... The Jacksons= joy was regrettably short-lived. Two Barbaro started his career under the radar. Sent off at weeks later, Barbaro was injured just yards after the 7-1 in a mid-week maiden race on the Delaware Park start of the GI Preakness S. He suffered a condylar turf, the Jackson homebred powered to an 8 1/2-length fracture in his right hind cannon bone, a fractured victory. He was the 5-2 second choice in the Laurel sesamoid and a dislocated fetlock, and a shattered long Futurity, but once again pastern bone. Dr. Dean Richardson performed more proved much the best, cruis- than five hours of surgery, repairing the leg with a steel ing to an eight-length score. plate and 27 screws. The initial prognosis was guarded, AWe thought he was a good but optimistic, and Barbaro seemed to be on his way to horse from day one,@ said recovery before developing laminitis in his left hind foot trainer Michael Matz after in early July. It was a serious setback, but one which that performance. AHe=s liv- the team at New Bolton handled, and things went as ing up to that expectation. I well as could be expected for the next six months. AI think we have to try him on thought many times that he was going to make it-- Horsephotos the dirt at some time. This absolutely,@ Richardson said. AAt the same time, I was horse makes me shiver smart enough to know, intellectually, that all these when I see him work on the dirt.@ Barbaro made it three challenges were there throughout and remained. But it in a row as the 3-5 chalk in the GIII Tropical Park would be hard to get up and go to work every day if I Derby, then was given his chance on the main track. didn=t think it was going to work.@ The colt was doing Although he didn=t dominate quite as he had on the well enough at the end of the year that there was talk grass, the colt fought his way to a 3/4-length score of releasing him from the hospital, but complications over a sloppy Gulfstream strip in the GIII Holy Bull S. arose in the left hind foot in early January. It at first appeared that the situation was once again under con- All Heart... trol, but Barbaro=s condition deteriorated over the last Barbaro proved he had the heart to match his frame few days, and the decision was finally made to in his final start before the Kentucky Derby, fighting off euthanize him. the ultra-game Sharp Humor for a half-length victory in the GI Florida Derby. Many Hope for the Future? felt that the big bay would Despite the outcome of Barbaro=s situation, Richard- be unable to overcome the son expressed hope that what was learned from his five-week layoff, and he was case would benefit horses in the future. AIf a horse with let go at 6-1 on the first Sat- the same injury came in tomorrow, I honestly believe I urday in May, but he si- would have a better chance of saving his life,@ he re- lenced the critics with what marked. AI think I would probably not make the same was easily his most impres- mistakes. I=m sure I made mistakes--everybody makes sive performance. On the Reed Palmer Photo mistakes, or things that you could have done just podium after the 6 1/2- slightly better. That=s how you have to live if you do length tour de force, owner Roy Jackson said, I don t A = what I do--you have to believe you are going to get know how to explain it. This is a dream come true for better at what you do. I=ve felt that way my whole us. I=m sort of speechless right now. I just feel blessed career. You expect to do better the next time out.@ to be standing here today.@

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NEW ZEALAND PREMIER YEARLING SALE NEW ZEALAND TOP 7 LOTS - MONDAY BLOODSTOCK PREMIER YEARLING SALE Lot Sire Dam Price (NZ$) 137 Stravinsky Ethereal (NZ) 1,300,000 STRAVINSKY COLT TOPS KARAKA DAY 1 The Consigned by Pencarrow Stud Purchased by D C Ellis New Zealand Bloodstock=s two-day Premier Yearling 159 Foxtrot (NZ) 700,000 Sale at Karaka kicked off Monday in record-breaking Redoute's Choice (Aus) Consigned by Little Avondale Stud style, with a colt by Stravinsky out of the champion Purchased by Robert Roulston Bloodstock racemare Ethereal (NZ) 198 Redoute's Choice (Aus) How About That (Aus) 680,000 topping the session at Consigned by Ascot Farm NZ$1.3 million. Leading Purchased by D C Ellis New Zealand buyer and Te 178 Zabeel (NZ) Grace and Power (Ire) 600,000 Akau Racing team principal Consigned by Pencarrow Stud David Ellis landed the strik- Purchased by New Zealand Bloodstock ing colt, who will be sent 119 Zabeel (NZ) Diamond Lover (Aus) 425,000 to trainer Mark Walker. Consigned by Cambridge Stud Pencarrow Stud consigned Purchased by Freedman Bros. Stravinsky - Ethereal the topper, the lone horse 138 General Nediym (Aus) Etoile Centieme (NZ) 380,000 NZ$1.3 million topper on the day to break the Consigned by Waikato Stud seven-figure barrier. Ellis Purchased by Dormello Stud said he has been a fan of the colt since he was a foal. 195 Jungle Pocket (Jpn) Hello Dolly (NZ) 360,000 "I have visited this colt many times and he has been a Consigned by Rich Hill beautiful colt since day one,@ he commented. AMark and Purchased by K Yoshida I have had insider knowledge since his half-sister, Uberalles (NZ) [by Giant=s Causeway], is in our stable Record Pace at Karaka... and is a sensational filly and certain to win a Group 1 After the first day of selling, the sale was on a record race. So we are thrilled to have secured her pace with the median of NZ$120,000 up 50 percent half-brother, one of the top colts of the sale." Cata- from last year=s sale-ending median of NZ$80,000, and logued as hip 137, the colt was produced by Ethereal, a 33 percent up on the previous record of NZ$90,000 in daughter of American juvenile champion Rhythm who 2005. At the same point in the sale last year (after 230 was a four-time Group 1 winner. Among Ethereal=s lots), the median was NZ$90,000. New Zealand Blood- wins were the G1 Melbourne Cup and G1 Caulfield stock Marketing Manager Petrea Vela commented on Cup. She was named champion stayer in Australia and the strength of the opening session. "The day has New Zealand in 2002. Ellis was the leading buyer for exceeded our pre-sale expectations and we are de- the day with 10 lots purchased for NZ$3,082,500. lighted that we have been able to achieve such suc- cessful figures this early in the sale,@ said Vela. ADe- mand got stronger and stronger over the course of the New Zealand Premier Yearling Sale day, with the average and median climbing steadily to Monday, January 29, 2007 post the strongest opening session results ever re- corded at Karaka. The buying bench is as large as we CUMULATIVE 2007 have seen at Karaka for some time, particularly from No. Offered 223 Australia, with a strong presence from Hong Kong, in No. Sold 182 addition to active buyers from England, Ireland, Singa- RNAs 41 pore and Japan. Overall it has been a great start to the % RNAs 18.4% 2007 Premier Sale and bodes well for the week ahead." Gross (NZ$) $26,735,500 The Premier Sale begins the 81st National Yearling Average (NZ$) $146,898 Sales Series at Karaka. It will be immediately followed Median (NZ$) $120,000 by the Select Yearling Sale and the Festival Sale before www.nzb.co.nz resuming with next month=s Carnival Sale. Closing Wednesday, February 21 $750,000 Toyota Blue Grass Stakes-G1 $500,000 Ashland Stakes-G1 3YOs at 1 1/8 miles run Sat., April 14 3YO fillies at 1 1/16 miles run Sat., April 7 (800) 456-3412 Nomination Fee: $300 Nomination Fee: $250 www.keeneland.com TDN P HEADLINE NEWS • 1/30/07 • PAGE 4 of 6

P EDIGREE INSIGHTS As a racehorse, Slew City Slew committed a few sins which American commercial breeders generally find BY ANDREW CAULFIELD hard to forgive. For a start, he failed to earn a si