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TUESDAY, DECEMBER 22, 2009 www.darbydan.com For information about TDN, call 732-747-8060. GOLDEN SHAHEEN ON TURF? SCENIC BLAST TO UNITED STATES Officials at Meydan Racecourse might transfer the Scenic Blast (Aus) (Scenic {Ire}), Australia=s Horse of G1 Dubai Golden Shaheen, part of the Dubai World Cup the Year for the 2008-09 racing season, will be expatri- card, to the new racing venue=s turf course, Racing ated to the United States and will be trained by John Post reports. Inaugurated in 1996, the 1200-meter Shirreffs, the Herald Sun reports. AHe won=t race here dash had been contested solely over a straight-ahead again,@ part-owner Elio dirt course at Galante told the publica- now-closed Nad tion. AHe=ll carry the flag Al Sheba. Horses for Australia in America competing over and be a great advertise- that distance on ment for our racing.@ Meydan=s Tapeta Galante said plans would all-weather track be confirmed by Christ- will be required to mas Day. A two-time Group 1 winner in his go around a turn. Horsephotos Should officials native country and hero Meydan Racecourse meydan.ae decide to move of the G1 King=s Stand S. the Golden at this year=s Royal Ascot meeting, the five-year-old Shaheen to the turf course, the race could keep its was banned from racing in Australia after he bled when last of 14 in the G1 Cathay Pacific Hong Kong Sprint at straight-ahead format. AEverything remains under dis- Sha Tin Dec. 13. The gelding will be allowed to race in cussion,@ Frank Gabriel, CEO of the Dubai Racing Club, the United States while being treated with Lasix. Scenic told the trade daily. ARegarding the Golden Shaheen, we Blast has won eight of 21 career starts while trained by have to change the surface as we no longer have a dirt Dan Morton. track, but to move it to turf is a big decision. However, that option does keep the race on a straight track.@ Horses from the United States have won 10 of 14 runnings of the Golden Shaheen, including the last six renewals. AObviously, we are considering input from the industry before we make a final decision,@ Gabriel added. AThe [Dubai] World Cup itself will be contested on a new surface, and we hope it will attract a world- wide entry. The last two Breeders= Cup Classics have been on a synthetic surface and attracted extra Euro- If your newly retired or open mare is a Graded Stakes pean interest. That could be a coincidence, but is most probably surface related. We hope the Tapeta will ap- Winner, we’d love to know who she’s been booked to! peal to everyone.@ The 2009 Dubai Golden Shaheen Please e-mail us at: [email protected] carried a purse of $2 million in 2009. or fax (732) 747-8955 with the following information for publication in the Thoroughbred Daily News: • Mare’s name, age and sire TDN TODAY • Mare’s owner; farm where mare is boarded Headline News..................... 5 pages • Which stallion the mare will be bred to in 2010 www.juddmonte.com P TDN HEADLINE NEWS • 12/22/09 • PAGE 2 of 5 • thoroughbreddailynews.com Racing Round-Up I Want Revenge Back in Training... SMART BID LIKELY FOR MALIBU Trainer Graham Daily Racing Form reports I Want Revenge (Stephen Motion has told Daily Racing Form Smart Bid (Smart Got Even), winner of this year=s GI Wood Memorial Strike) is likely to start in Saturday=s GI Malibu S. Win- following a tardy start and a rough trip, is back in light ner of the seven-furlong Damascus S. over the Malibu=s training after suffering an course and distance Nov. 7, the Augustin Stable repre- ankle injury that forced the sentative was also nominated for Saturday=s GIII Sir GI Kentucky Derby morning- Beaufort S. AI=m a little on the fence still,@ Motion told line favorite to be scratched DRF. AThere is a good shot we=ll run in the Malibu.@ on race day. AWe=re taking After breaking his maiden in his third career start at things really slowly,@ co- Philadelphia Park last December, the dark bay was owner David Lanzman told shipped to Santa Anita, where took an optional claimer DRF. AEvery day he goes to on turf in January. The homebred was sixth in Santa Alysse Jacobs the track I get an e-mail. He=s Anita=s GIII Sham S. over Pro-Ride in February and just jogging.@ Second by a second in the GIII Transylvania S. on Polytrack at nose in last year=s GI CashCall Futurity over Hollywood Keeneland in April in his last two starts before the Park=s Cushion Track, the Jeff Mullins trainee blos- Damascus S. somed when trying conventional dirt for the first time in Thoroughbred Daily News is: the GIII Gotham S., humbling his opponents by 8 1/2 lengths. That effort caught the attention of IEAH Sta- Barry Weisbord President/Co-Publisher bles, Puglisi Racing and Charles Winner, who subse- Sue Finley Vice President/Co-Publisher quently bought a 50-percent stake in the colt. Andy Belfiore Editor-in-Chief Alycia Borer Director of Advertising Jessica Martini Senior Editor Alan Carasso Associate Editor Marie Kizenko Associate Editor Christina Bossinakis Associate Editor Lucas Marquardt Writer/Reporter Steve Sherack Writer/Reporter Jon Forbes Writer/Reporter Vicki Forbes Director of Customer Services Racing=s tarnished image Lia Kusch Advertising Assistant Claire Novak, ESPN.com Sarah K. Andrew Advertising Assistant Robert Williams Director of IT/Webmaster Budget mess threatens Belmont: Third jewel of Triple Gregg Casillo Database Analyst/Programming Crown hangs in balance Specialist Barbara Ross, New York Daily News Bradley Weisbord Analyst P TDN HEADLINE NEWS • 12/22/09 • PAGE 3 of 5 • thoroughbreddailynews.com PEDIGREE INSIGHTS BY ANDREW CAULFIELD Saturday, Hollywood Park CASHCALL FUTURITY-GI, $750,000, HOL, 12-19, 2yo, 1 1/16m (AWT), 1:43 1/5, ft. 1--LOOKIN AT LUCKY, 121, c, 2, by Smart Strike 1st Dam: Private Feeling, by Belong to Me 2nd Dam: Regal Feeling, by Clever Trick 3rd Dam: Sharp Belle, by Native Charger ($35,000 RNA yrl '08 KEESEP; $475,000 2yo >09 KEEAPR). O-Karl Watson, Michael E Pegram & Paul Weitman; B-Gulf Coast Farms LLC (KY); T-Bob Baffert; J-G K Gomez; $400,000. Lifetime Record: 6-5-1-0, $1,243,000. *1/2 to Kensei (Mr. Greeley), MGSW, $553,628. Werk Nick Rating: A+++ >Triple Plus=. Click for the eNicks report & 5-cross pedigree. Click for the brisnet.com chart, the brisnet.com PPs o r the free brisnet.com catalogue-style pedigree. Video, sponsored by Taylor Made. One of the unwritten laws of American racing has been that he who wins the GI Breeders= Cup Juvenile shall also receive the Eclipse Award for two-year-old male. There have, of course, been a few exceptions to this rule during the first 25 years of the Breeders= Cup, but only one of the last 13 winners of the two-year-old male Eclipse failed to win the Juvenile. That was in 2004, when the Juvenile was taken by Wilko, an un- considered British raider who had won only two of his 10 previous starts. The Eclipse voters preferred Declan=s Moon, who ended his undefeated juvenile campaign with a victory over Giacomo and Wilko in the GI Hollywood Futurity. There=s every chance that we are due a repeat this year, after the Juvenile was won by another unconsid- ered English-trained raider in Vale of York (Invincible Spirit {Ire}). This colt had triumphed in only two of his five previous starts. The partisan Eclipse voters are surely going to prefer the home-trained Lookin at Lucky, who improved his record to five wins from six starts when he landed the CashCall Futurity three days ago, in the process recording his fourth graded success and his third at Grade I level. There=s one difference, though. Whereas Declan=s Moon sidestepped the Breeders= Cup Juvenile, Lookin at Lucky filled the runner-up spot at Santa Anita. How- ever, his narrow defeat at the hands of the foreign raider had a lot to do with his post position of 13, which forced him to take a wide route throughout the 1 1/16 miles. Whatever the result of the Eclipse voting, the Live Oak Stud team has every right to be thrilled that they secured Lookin at Lucky=s dam Private Feeling for $2,000,000 from the Taylor Made Sales consignment at Fasig-Tipton=s November Sale. Caulfield cont. p4 TDN P HEADLINE NEWS • 12/22/09 • PAGE 4 of 5 • thoroughbreddailynews.com Caulfield cont. The price paid for the 10-year-old daughter of Belong to Me marked a considerable increase on the $130,000 the mare had fetched at Keeneland=s 2004 November Sale (a year after she had changed hands for as little as $17,000). The escalation in her value wasn=t based solely on Lookin at Lucky=s exploits, as Private Feeling had also highlighted her potential through her second foal, Kensei. This son of Mr. Greeley had scored a pair of notable Grade II victories in the Jim Dandy and the Dwyer, and Private Feeling is again in foal to Mr. Greeley. One remarkable aspect of Lookin at Lucky=s proud record as a two-year-old is that it was achieved in defiance of a May 27 birthday. It goes without saying that a very late foaling date is by no means an insupera- ble handicap, but it is fair to assume that it might take a late foal some time to catch up with the older mem- bers of the generation, which, in Lookin at Lucky=s case, could be nearly five months older.