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SINGAPORE HOSTS BIG DAY P15-16 SUNDAY, MAY 19, 2013 732-747-8060 $ TDN Home Page Click Here OXBOW GIVES LUKAS A SIXTH PREAKNESS FARHH OUT A Triple Crown will have to wait yet another year Having had a chip removed from his fetlock after after Calumet Farm=s Oxbow (Awesome Again) gave finishing runner-up in the G1 Prix du Moulin de Hall of Fame trainer D. Wayne Lukas--age 77--a sixth Longchamp in September, Godolphin=s Farhh (GB) win and fellow Hall of Famer Gary Stevens--age 50 and (Pivotal {GB}) returned to a Frankel-free world to blitz a handful of months his rivals at Newbury removed from a seven- yesterday and earn a year retirement--a third belated first Group 1 victory in Saturday=s success in the GI Preakness S. at Old G1 Lockinge S. Sent off Hilltop in Baltimore. the 10-3 second choice Itsmyluckyday (Lawyer as all the money was Ron) looked a danger in for Ballydoyle=s deep stretch before Declaration of War (War settling for second, while Front), the bay was rank Oxbow Horsephotos Mylute (Midnight Lute) early behind the came from the back of pacesetters but, when Farhh & Silvestre de Sousa stride the pack to be third. GI Kentucky Derby hero Orb let loose by Silvestre de away from their Lockinge rivals (Malibu Moon) was sent off at prohibitive odds of 3-5 Sousa passing the Racing Post to take this middle jewel, but raced in a bit of traffic quarter pole, sprinted and closer to the pace than is his custom on the clear for a four-length success from the 80-1 outsider backstretch and only a belated rally carried him into Sovereign Debt (Ire) (Dark Angel {Ire}). AHe won really fourth. Preakness S. cont. p3 well, which surprised me, as Saeed has had to tiptoe very quietly with him,@ Racing Manager Simon Crisford Saturday, Pimlico Racecourse commented. This is fantastic, particularly after the PREAKNESS S.-GI, $1,000,000, PIM, 5-18, 3yo, A problems we ve had in the past few weeks and a major 1 3/16m, 1:57 2/5, ft. = boost to the stable. Cont. p9 1BsOXBOW, 126, c, 3, by Awesome Again @ 1st Dam: Tizamazing, by Cee's Tizzy 2nd Dam: Cee's Song, by Seattle Song TDN TODAY 3rd Dam: Lonely Dancer, by Nice Dancer Headline News.. 16 pages ($250,000 yrl '11 KEESEP). O-Calumet Farm; B-Colts Neck Stables LLC (KY); T-D Wayne Lukas; J-Gary Stevens. $600,000. Lifetime Record: 11-3-1-1, $983,500. *Full to Awesome Patriot, SW & GSP, $114,600. Werk Nick Rating: A+++ *Triple Plus*. Click for the eNicks report & 5-cross pedigree. Foaled, Raised & Sold by BURLESON FARMS for Colts Neck Stables 2--Itsmyluckyday, 126, c, 3, Lawyer Ron--Viva La Slew, by Doneraile Court. ($47,000 yrl '11 KEESEP; $110,000 2yo >12 OBSMAR). O-Trilogy Stable & Laurie Plesa; B-Liberation Farm & Brandywine Farm (KY); T-Edward Plesa Jr. $200,000. Co-Bred, raised and sold by Jim & Pam Robinson Broken & Sold by Eisaman Equine 3--Mylute, 126, c, 3, Midnight Lute--Stage Stop, by Valid Expectations. ($150,000 yrl '11 FTKJUL). O-GoldMark Farm LLC & Whisper Hill Farm; B-Mike Rutherford (KY); T-Thomas Amoss. $110,000. Margins: 1 3/4, HF, 6 3/4. Odds: 15.40, 8.50, 10.90. Also Ran: Orb, Goldencents, Departing, Will Take Charge, Govenor Charlie, Titletown Five. CHAMPION Two-Year-Old Sire MAJOR Two-Year-Old Sale Sire 2013 2YO Sales Horses $310,000 $300,000 $290,000 $230,000 $100,000 HENNY HUGHES Hennessy – Meadow Flyer, by Meadowlake | $7,500 Live Foal 859-299-0473 | [email protected] | walmac.com In This Issue 60 Broad St., Suite 100 Red Bank, NJ 07701 (732) 747-8060 (732) 747-8955 (fax) www.thoroughbreddailynews.com www.thetdn.com Barry Weisbord, co-publisher [email protected] • @barryweisbord Joel Rosario aboard Optimizer (left) and Gary Sue Finley, co-publisher Stevens on Skyring enjoy the gallop out [email protected] • @suefinley Horsephotos Editorial Graded Stakes [email protected] Jessica Martini, Editor-in-Chief Coverage Alan Carasso, Managing Editor The GI Preakness S. wasn’t the only upset that Hall of Fame trainer D. Wayne Christina Bossinakis, Senior Editor Lukas and Calumet Farm teamed up to pull at Pimlico yesterday. Longshot Steve Sherack, Racing Editor Skyring (English Channel) wired the GII Dixie S. while Optimizer (English Brian DiDonato, Racing Analyst/Soc. Media Dir. Justina Severni, Assistant Editor Channel), who was also sent out by those connections, finished third. Kelsey Riley, Assistant Editor Coverage begins page 5 Christie DeBernardis, Assistant Editor Advertising Singapore International Racing Festival [email protected] A star-studded field will line up today for Kranji’s G1 Singapore Airlines Alycia Borer, Director of Advertising International Cup, including last year’s G1 Hong Kong Vase winner Red Lia Kusch, Senior Advertising Designer Cadeaux (GB) (Cadeaux Genereux {GB}) and Godolphin’S Hunter’s Light Sarah K. Andrew, Adv Assistant/Distribution (Ire) (Dubawi {Ire}). Coverage begins page 13 Amanda Crelin, Advertising Assistant Amanda Foster, Advertising Assistant Customer Service [email protected] Vicki Forbes, Director of Customer Service Information Technology Robert Williams, Director of IT EST Race Click for TV [email protected] 7:50a KrisFlyer Sprint-G1, KRA Gregg Casillo, DB Administrator, Programming 8:40a SAI Cup-G1, KRA [email protected] 10:00a Premio Carlo D’Alessio-G3, CPN 10:50a Oleander-Rennen-G3, HOP Business Development Gary King, Director of Business Development 11:15a Derby Italiano-G2, CAP [email protected] 12:25p Premio Tudini-G3, CAP 4:25p Selene S.-GIII, WO (brisnet.com PPs) TVG TDN Newmarket Bureau: Cafe Racing [email protected] Sean Cronin Tom Frary TDN P HEADLINE NEWS • 5/19/13 • PAGE 3 of 16 • thoroughbreddailynews.com FEATURE PRESENTATION • GI PREAKNESS S. Slow, But Steady Progress at Two... A $250,000 graduate of the 2011 Keeneland September yearling sale, Oxbow did not get off to the most auspicious of debuts when he was pulled up out of an Aug. 3 Saratoga maiden and subsequently vanned off. It was back to work about 10 weeks later at Keeneland, where he was fourth to this year=s GIII Coolmore Lexington S. hero Winning Cause (Giant=s Causeway) Oct. 18 before finishing a distant third to the once-promising Gulfport (Unbridled=s Song) at Walking the Dog... Churchill less than two weeks hence. The bay finally In the capable hands of Stevens, whose two previous put it all together in career start number four, Preakness wins came for Bob Baffert (Silver Charm, overcoming a high draw to wire a field by 4 3/4 lengths 1997, Point Given, 2001), Oxbow was given rein and over seven-eighths of a mile Nov. 25. Connections edged past Goldencents (Into Mischief) to lead with a could easily have called time on the season, but, as circuit to travel, while Itsmyluckyday and Titletown Five with many of the Lukas runners, Oxbow apparently (Tiznow) were the next-closest pursuers. Orb and thrived on his racing and he made the trip to California GIII Illinois Derby hero Departing (War Front) raced as a for the GI CashCall Futurity Dec. 15. Dealt a death team further back, while Govenor Charlie (Midnight draw in 11 and forced to deal with a ship and a new Lute), Will Take Charge and Mylute comprised the latter surface, all was not lost in a fourth-place effort to third of the field into Violence (Medaglia d=Oro). the clubhouse turn. Oxbow traveled No Rest for the Weary... sweetly turning up the Though he made those four starts in the span of 58 backstretch and there days at the end of 2012, Oxbow was kept in steady were no real deltas training and announced his arrival as a sophomore to until Joel Rosario fear with an 11 1/2-length romp in the GIII Lecomte S. guided Orb off the at the Fair Grounds Jan. 19. He lost little when fourth inside and into the two after a tough trip in the GII Risen Star S. Feb. 23, the path to launch a Oxbow plays ‘catch me if you can’ first of three straight middle move between Horsephotos races in which he left Titletown Five and from the 10 hole. The Itsmyluckyday that carried him to within two lengths of bay made his next two the pacesetter nearing the half-mile pole. But Titletown starts at his Oaklawn Five countered up the fence and Departing ranged up to base, dropping a head his outside, and all at once, Orb was relegated to sixth decision to stablemate and was sending out distress signals as he was niggled Will Take Charge along by Rosario. Back at the head of affairs, Stevens (Unbridled=s Song) in the was a mere passenger as Oxbow took them around the final turn after breezing the opening six furlongs in Oxbow winning the Lecomte GII Rebel S. Mar. 16 Lou Hodges photography before Lukas reached out 1:13.26, and, surprisingly, his host of pursuers did not to Stevens to ride the include the Derby winner. Itsmyluckyday, three or four colt in the GI Arkansas Derby Apr. 13. Though he=d wide the whole journey, took aim from the outside and clearly proved most proficient on or near the pace, Departing appeared dangerous for a stride or two in Oxbow was ridden from off of the speed and found upper stretch, but Oxbow had managed to conserve himself last after a half-mile, but improved his position enough energy for that crucial final furlong and stayed late to be fifth in a deceptively good effort.