TUESDAY, JULY 19, 2016 GAUDET=S STAR SHINES BRIGHT GUN RUNNER by Michael Adolphson IMPRESSES IN WORK In the often exacting atmosphere of a sport where it has become commonplace to hear grievances about a lack of new blood, while also fielding copious complaints that nepotism runs amok, a racing media rising star has been picking up momentum and concurrently crushing said general criticisms in a thriving career that is somehow both rich with familial racing tradition and lush with fresh perspective. Gabby Gaudet, a native of Maryland and graduate of Towson University, has been nothing short of illuminant in her multifaceted on-air analyses for Pimlico, Laurel Park, Arlington International Racecourse and Gulfstream Park over the last three years and will now continue her rapid rise by joining NYRA this summer for the launch of Saratoga Live on Fox Sports 2. Cont. p3 Gun Runner | Coady Photography IN TDN EUROPE TODAY by Jessica Martini DARTMOUTH ADDED TO KING GEORGE Gun Runner (Candy Ride {Arg}), working towards a rematch Sir Michael Stoute has supplemented The Queen’s with GI Kentucky Derby winner Nyquist (Uncle Mo) in the July 31 Dartmouth (GB) (Dubawi {Ire}) for the G1 King George at GI Betfair.com Haskell Invitational, turned heads at Saratoga Ascot. Click or tap here to go straight to TDN Europe. Monday morning with a five-furlong work in :59.92 for trainer Steve Asmussen. It was the fastest of 10 works at the distance over the Oklahoma training track. AWe=re pretty happy with the work; everybody said he worked really well,@ said David Fiske, racing manager for Winchell Thoroughbreds, which co-owns the colt with Three Chimneys Farm and Besilu Stables. Gun Runner opened his sophomore season with wins in the GII Risen Star S. and GII Louisiana Derby at Fair Grounds. He was a gritty third behind Nyquist after contesting the pace in the Derby and opened the second half of his season with a resounding 5 1/4-length tally in the June 18 GIII Matt Winn S. AHe has been getting bigger and stronger throughout the entire year,@ Fiske said. AHe=s feeling great and moving great and apparently worked great this morning. Fiske continued, AI was able to look at him a lot when he was at Churchill, since I=m in Lexington all the time, but he gets out of my sight from time to time when he is in New Orleans or up at Saratoga. So whenever I see him, I am always a little surprised by how well he looks and how much bigger and more mature he is.@ Cont. p3 Top 2-year-olds include undefeated G2-winning colt BOYNTON. Southern Halo - Woodman’s Girl, by Woodman BOOKED FULL in 2016 Kyle Wilson: (859) 699-8589 Caroline Walsh: (859) 537-2527 WinStarFarm.com | Office: (859) 873-1717 Sean Tugel: (859) 940-0456 I’M A CHATTERBOX CUPID DELAWARE H. 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I also had an champ, that=s what they always say in boxing.@ uncle who trained, two aunts who were jockeys and another uncle who was a farrier--so being in racing Gaudet=s Star Shines Bright (cont. from p1) started from birth, practically. I A daughter of retired multiple graded stakes-winning galloped horses for [trainers] Tim conditioner Ed Gaudet, Gabby heads back to The Spa less than Keefe and Hamilton Smith and four years after writing for the Saratoga Special, her first serious interned at Maryland Horse Radio, racing media gig. but I really started in media after my AI=m looking forward to returning to Saratoga because it=s my junior year of college when I went to favorite track,@ Gaudet said, beaming. AThe feeling you get when work with Sean Clancy at the you walk on the backstretch is almost magical and there=s Saratoga Special. From there, the nothing like it. On a professional level, I=m really excited to get Maryland Jockey Club offered me a experience working with a television network like Fox Sports 2, job doing on-air analysis during the Gabby Gaudet while also working with the best in the industry in terms of on- Pimlico meet and followed that with air hosts. I also hope that it exposes me to work for the top Arlington in 2014, the 2014 Breeders= Cup with HRRN (Horse events like the Breeders= Cup, the Triple Crown and with Racing Radio Network) and then worked for the Breeders= Cup networks like NBC. If the opportunity arises to dive into other itself in 2015 before joining Gulfstream Park for the sports, I=m definitely a big sports fan and am striving for that, as Championship Meet--all the while working for the Maryland well. Jockey Club in the fall and spring.@ Cont. p4 TDN HEADLINE NEWS • PAGE 4 OF 5 • THETDN.COM TUESDAY • JULY 19, 2016 Gaudet continued, ASo, needless to say it=s sort of all taken off While it can obviously be helpful in a legacy-heavy industry to and I feel very blessed.@ come from a racing family, especially in a state as entrenched in Studious in profession as she is infectious in personality, racing history as Maryland, Gaudet recognizes that the kindred Gaudet has impressed even the most rooted of racing fans with coin has two sides. her knowledge and performance the last few years. This past AWhen I first started out a lot of people would say I only got winter, in her first stretch at Gulfstream, she more than held her jobs because my parents were trainers,@ Gaudet said. AThat own with one of the game=s most negative connotation that I didn=t work respected racing analysts, NYRA=s hard to get where I am is never fun to Andy Serling. deal with. Yes, maybe it did create AWorking alongside Andy this opportunities, but--and I hate to be winter really was a huge part of corny--luck is where preparation meets why Saratoga is happening,@ she opportunity and you don=t get far without explained. AI had hoped doing the work. Coming from a racing Gulfstream would lead to other family can feel like an anchor with your opportunities and it did. I learned critics, but it also gives me a perspective a lot from working on air with him that not a lot of people have had and can and also got to meet some great Gaudet interviews jockey Javier Castellano be a springboard, too. I=ve experienced people in the process. I=m really the hard work in the mornings with thankful that the Maryland Jockey Club has been extremely grooming, galloping and training and know how to incorporate supportive of me going to Gulfstream and Saratoga. They not that into analysis in the afternoon. only want what=s best for their own tracks and obviously would AI=m a perfectionist at my craft and I can be very >Type A= when love to have me there all year, but they also want what=s best it comes to being prepared,@ she continued.