SUNDAY, JANUARY 27, 2019 T O D A Y I N T H E T D N BILL FINLEY’S PEGASUS RECAP ‘MORTAR’ CONSTRUCTS WINNING PEGASUS TURF MOVE NO HIDING THIS JUDDMONTE HOMEBRED ‘TDN RISING STAR’ ‘DREAM’ RESULT IN HURRICANE BERTIE I N T D N E U R O P E RINGFORT TO FOCUS ON QUALITY YOUNG GUNS WITH VALENTIN ADAM RAINBOW BRIDGES THE GAP TO WIN THE MET Click or tap here to go straight to TDN Europe/International PUBLISHER & CEO Sue Morris Finley @suefinley [email protected] V.P., INTERNATIONAL OPERATIONS Gary King @garykingTDN [email protected] EDITORIAL [email protected] Editor-in-Chief Jessica Martini @JessMartiniTDN Managing Editor Alan Carasso @EquinealTDN Sunday, January 27, 2019 Senior Editor Steve Sherack @SteveSherackTDN Racing Editor Brian DiDonato @BDiDonatoTDN News and Features Editor Ben Massam @BMassamTDN Associate Editors Christie DeBernardis @CDeBernardisTDN Joe Bianca @JBiancaTDN ADVERTISING [email protected] Director of Advertising Alycia Borer Advertising Manager Lia Best Advertising Designer Amanda Crelin Advertising Assistants Alexa Reisfield Amie Morosco Advertising Assistant/Dir. Of Distribution Rachel McCaffrey Photographer/Photo Editor Undeterred by rainy weather, fans enjoy Saturday’s Pegasus World Cup Day races at Sarah K. Andrew @SarahKAndrew Gulfstream Park. Coverage continues on page 3. | Horsephotos [email protected] Social Media Strategist Justina Severni BILL FINLEY’S TAKE ON THE PEGASUS 6 Director of Customer Service After Accelerate polished off the field in the GI Breeders' Cup Vicki Forbes Classic, the debate began. Who was 2018's best horse, and what [email protected] criteria should be used to come to that conclusion? Was it speed, Marketing Manager ability, accomplishment, number of Grade I wins, the length or Alayna Cullen @AlaynaCullen brevity of their campaigns? Bill Finley reacts to City of Light’s jaw- dropping performance in the Pegasus. 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But I was just plotting the race in my own mind, and I had not anticipated this very wet weather and we didn't know whether or not City of Light could run in this mud.@ He continued, AIt was just so thrilling to watch Javier [Castellano] ride a masterful race. We talked about it before he got on the horse, and he knew exactly what he wanted to do, and he executed the plan beautifully. I'm just filled with emotion City of Light | Adam Coglianese for my trainer, Michael McCarthy, and for Javier. They got us here and I love them both.@ By Christie DeBernardis An emotional McCarthy, who got a reassuring hug from his 8- HALLANDALE BEACH, FL.--It was dark, dreary and getting wetter year-old daughter Stella as he began to tear up, said, AI was by the minute as the rain that plagued Hallandale Beach on and quietly confident all week the horse would run well. We had off all day picked up as the field for the $9-million GI Pegasus followed the same routine we did at Churchill Downs when he World Cup approached the gate. However, the dreary conditions won the Breeders' Cup Dirt Mile. Drawing down in the three did not stop City of Light (Quality Road) from shining brightly in hole, drawing down in the side hole, goes inside, his his career finale Saturday as he charged home a dominant speed--Javier was able to get up to speed and was able to get winner of America=s richest race. The GI Breeders= Cup Dirt Mile him outside going to the mile pole and turn up the back side; winner will now join the stallion roster at Lane=s End Farm to whether he ran first or last, we had no excuses from there. He stand alongside his red hot sire Quality Road. was in perfect position.@ Dispatched as the second-choice at 9-5 behind newly crowned He continued, AI can't thank Javier enough for having the champion Accelerate (Lookin at Lucky), City of Light broke confidence to take [off] Audible to ride this horse. It says a lot sharply from post three and was sent right for the front by Javier Castellano, but was beat to the punch by GI Cigar Mile hero Patternrecognition (Adios Charlie), who was gunned hard from the outside stall by Jose Ortiz. Pressing from a close second outside of Bravazo (Awesome Again) through an opening quarter in :23.23, the bay overtook the pacesetter just after the half went up in :46.84. Patternrecognition plummeted to the back of the field, but Bravazo hung tough on the fence and GI Breeders= Cup Classic victor Accelerate ranged up on the outside as they approached the turn and the stage appeared set for the battle many expected. That match-up never came to fruition, however, as City of Light proved to be in a league of his own in the stretch, cruising clear with ease to win as he pleased by 5 3/4 lengths. Grade I winner Seeking the Soul (Perfect Soul {Ire}) rallied strongly for second and Accelerate held third. The hard- knocking Bravazo was fourth and GI Florida Derby hero Audible (Into Mischief) checked in fifth. William and Suzanne Warren keep a small stable, but are no strangers to racetrack success. The Tulsa, Oklahoma-based couple=s colors have been carried by the likes of Horse of the Stallion 2019 Fee G1Wnrs Earnings 1 Candy Ride (Arg) $80,000 1 $2,465,726 2 Cross Traffic $25,000 1 $2,115,603 3 Quality Road $150,000 1 $1,706,245 4 Paynter $12,500 1 $1,441,603 5 Tapit $225,000 1 $1,294,676 6 Distorted Humor $50,000 1 $1,253,834 Source: TDN Sire Lists, 1/25. *Million dollar earners. Awesome Again - Tizso, by Cee’s Tizzy CALL TODAY (859) 873-1717 | WinStarFarm.com for SPECIAL INCENTIVES TDN HEADLINE NEWS • PAGE 4 OF 14 • THETDN.COM SUNDAY • JANUARY 27, 2019 about the kind of person he is, and I can't thank him enough. I'd might have cost us a little bit. It would have been great to have also like to thank the family sitting to the right of me. They have been first, but our horse ran great. I=m very proud of him.@ done a lot for me personally. They have done a lot for my family. As for the beaten favorite Accelerate, trainer John Sadler said, To come here for a day like today, I thought the Breeders' Cup AWe thought he ran a really good race. It was tough conditions was, as I said, almost like out of out there today. You saw body. Today was, I don't know--I'm most of the winners on the very grateful.@ dirt all day were in front, so AI think the horse, he did he=s not really a speed horse everything today,@ said Castellano. AI per say. The winner ran a think I enjoyed the ride. I'll be beautiful race, you have to honest with you. I think anybody give him credit. He was the could have ridden the horse. I give better horse today. But our all the credit to Mike McCarthy to horse certainly didn=t try to put everything together for disgrace himself. We=re this race, and especially the headed out to dinner with opportunity, Mr. Warren and Mrs. our heads high.@ Warren, they picked me to be the Sadler heads back to jockey and to perform in the California without his Breeders' Cup and now in the champion, who will head to They=re off in the Pegasus | Adam Mooshian Pegasus World Cup. I'm very Lane=s End along with City of fortunate to be in this spot and I'm very grateful.@ Light. When asked what Accelerate has meant to the barn, the Trainer Dallas Stewart was proud of Seeking the Soul=s runner- conditioner said, AHe=s been a tremendous horse. He=s a up effort, saying, AHe ran great. He=s a nice horse, it was a great champion, an Eclipse Award winner. We=re just thrilled with the horse that beat us. He said he got stopped on the turn; that whole package.