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MONDAY, 18 MARCH 2019 KEMENTARI BOUND FOR KELVINSIDE EGAN FORGES Group 1 victor Kementari (Aus) (Lonhro {Aus}--Yavanna {Aus}, AMERICAN ALLIANCE by Redoute=s Choice {Aus}) will stand at Darley Australia=s Kelvinside Stud in New South Wales for the 2019 Southern Hemisphere breeding season, Darley announced early Monday morning. The Darley homebred and 2018 G1 Randwick Guineas hero (video) will command a fee of A$33,000 (including GST). Originally sent to Godolphin interim trainer Darren Beadman, Kementari broke his maiden at second asking for Beadman at Randwick before James Cummings assumed the role of head trainer for the Godolphin Australia string. From 19 starts to date, the near-black colt has won four times, taking the G2 Hobartville S. and G3 Eskimo Prince S. besides his Randwick Guineas score as a sophomore. He has also been placed at the highest level another five times and was runner-up to Manuel (Aus) (Commands {Aus}) two back in Caulfield=s G1 C. F. Orr S. in early February, good for earnings north of $1.4 million. Cont. p7 IN TDN AMERICA TODAY A colt by American Pharoah out of Wile Cat with John Egan in the NEW SANTA ANITA RULES A LITMUS TEST irons | Emma Berry The new rules phasing out Lasix at Santa Anita Park and Golden Gate by The Stronach Group will be a litmus test for the entire by Emma Berry American industry. Bill Finley has the latest Week in Review. Click A feature of the European breeze-up sales over the last or tap here to go straight to TDN America. decade has been the rise in the number of juveniles by American stallions. Success begets success, as the saying goes, and as sires such as War Front and Speightstown have demonstrated their versatility for producing runners who are effective on both turf and dirt, so the clamour for American stock has grown. Both the above-named proven stallions feature in the draft of six horses to be offered by Newmarket-based Alliance Bloodstock at the Tattersalls Craven Sale this April. But it's likely that the 2-year-old who will garner the most attention among the sextet is the colt catalogued as lot 29, a masculine chestnut son of American Pharoah and the unraced Storm Cat mare Wile Cat. The half-brother to the G3 Sirenia S. winner and G2 Queen Mary S. runner-up Shumoos (Distorted Humor) is the sole colt from the first crop of the Triple Crown winner in the Craven catalogue and, since being bought from Keeneland's September Sale for $375,000, has been preparing for his next sale appearance not much more than a stone's throw from where he will be asked to post his first professional blast down a racecourse. Cont. p2 TDN EUROPE • PAGE 2 OF 9 • THETDN.COM MONDAY • 18 MARCH 2019 Egan Forges American Alliance Cont. from p1 plenty to smile about this bright but bitterly cold March The man charged with putting him through his daily paces is morning. The American Pharoah colt is pleasing him in both jockey John Egan, who selected the colt in Kentucky with performance and attitude, and the youngster's ability to stroll partner Eimear Donnelly and Timeform expert Dominic Finn on around a bustling part of Newmarket's training grounds, taking behalf of Christopher Brennan. in his surroundings with the Now 50, Egan still rides like a measured calm of a much more man half his age, and in fact he seasoned horse, will doubtless often finds himself competing stand him in good stead come against his son, the champion sales time. Appearing at apprentice of 2017, David Egan, Tattersalls may be easier for him who recently rode his first winner and his draft mates than others, in America. With Egan junior however, as it is but a short walk having just returned from the from where they are stabled to U.S. to resume his association the breeze strip alongside the with trainer Roger Varian, he has Rowley Mile straight. also been helping his father "American Pharoah was an prepare eight breezers--another unbelievable racehorse to do American Pharoah colt will head what he did. I've spoken to a few for the Guineas sale--along with American trainers since I bought fellow jockey Josephine Gordon. him and it seems the one thing John Egan=s Uncle Mo and Oasis Dream fillies for Craven John Egan thoroughly enjoys that the American Pharoahs have Emma Berry his visits to Lexington in is very good minds. He clearly has September and last year also brought home a son of War Front it, he's a dude. He went on his own from the first day riding, and whose pedigree is instantly recognisable in Europe. The tall, dark he's never ever left an oat, not one day that he's been here." brown colt (lot 139) is out of the former champion 2-year-old He continues, "I haven't started galloping yet. These horses are filly and dual Oaks runner-up Quarter Moon (Ire) (Sadler's very comfortable because I get them ready as if I'm going to be Wells). Not only is the colt bred on the same cross as Kentucky training them to race. I'm not thinking about doing a time up Derby hopeful War Of Will--a graduate of Arqana's breeze-up there, which I think is ridiculous to be honest. The ones that are sale last year--but he is from a family which produces classy turf revved up to do the times, it takes six months to unwind them. I runners with metronomic frequency. His half-sister, the G1 like them to just come up there and do a nice breeze in a Pretty Polly S. winner Diamondsandrubies (Ire) (Fastnet Rock reasonably nice time. It's not really about those two furlongs, it's {Aus}) and Eminent (Ire) (Frankel about how they gallop out, how {GB}), out of another half-sister they move." You'll Be Mine (Kingmambo), are As well as his many years just two recent examples. race-riding, Egan knows a thing "I've been lucky over the years or two about getting it right for a in America," Egan says from his crucial breeze. sunfilled tack room between "I first rode in the breeze-ups at riding the American Pharoah and Ascot in 1983," recalls the War Front colts. Irishman. "I went over with my "Luckily there's a big, big pool father and Bobby O'Ryan and we to fish out of over there. brought a lorry-load from Mick Obviously you need luck at the O'Toole's. So I've been doing the end of the day, but if you study breeze-ups from a young age and as hard as you can, put the I like to see a horse do a nice groundwork in, it increases the progressive breeze, like you hope Eimear Donnelly and John Egan chances of having a bit of luck, he'll be in a race, steadily working doesn't it?" his way into it." A man rarely without an impish grin on his face, the jockey has Cont. p3 TDN EUROPE • PAGE 3 OF 9 • THETDN.COM MONDAY • 18 MARCH 2019 Egan Forges American Alliance Cont. Also plucked from Keeneland September was an Uncle Mo filly (lot 57) whose dam Cherokee (Storm Cat) won the G3 Go And Go S. for Aidan O'Brien at two, while the Speightstown filly in the draft was foaled in Ireland and bought at Tattersalls last October for 100,000gns. The first foal of the stakes-placed Kodiva (Ire) (Kodiac {GB}) (lot 105) is a grand-daughter of Sheikh Vice President, International Operations Gary King Mohammed's top-class 2-year-old Negligent (Ire) (Ahonoora Twitter: @garykingTDN {GB}), from the family of 1000 Guineas winner Sky Lantern (Ire) [email protected] (Red Clubs {Ire}). + 1.732.320.0975 The Craven draft is completed by two homebreds from Khalid Rahim's Friarstown Stud in Kildare, where Egan was previously International Editor based. Both fillies, the first is by Oasis Dream (GB) out of the GI Kelsey Riley EP Taylor S. winner Lahaleeb (Ire) (Redback {Ire}) (lot 112), while Twitter: @kelseynrileyTDN three lots later (lot 115) will come a first-crop daughter of [email protected] Darley's Golden Horn (GB). She is another with a pedigree to European Editor recommend her to buyers from both sides of the Atlantic as she Emma Berry is out of the treble winner and Grade II-placed Los Ojitos (Mr. Twitter: @collingsberry Greeley). [email protected] As the days pass until the wraps come off the first consignment in the name of Alliance Bloodstock, Egan credits Associate International Editor Donnelly, who spent time working for trainer Martin Brassil in Heather Anderson Ireland and still rides out in Newmarket, with running the show Twitter: @HLAndersonTDN behind the scenes. Marketing Manager Alayna Cullen IT SEEMS THE ONE THING THE Twitter: @AlaynaCullen [email protected] AMERICAN PHAROAHS HAVE IS VERY GOOD MINDS. Contributing Editor Alan Carasso John Egan Twitter: @EquinealTDN Cafe Racing Sean Cronin Tom Frary He says, "Eimear does everything really. There's a lot of [email protected] paperwork nowadays, especially with importing horses. She's the one who deals with shipping agents, feed merchants, Irish Correspondent Daithi Harvey vaccinations, vets, catalogue updates, you name it." He adds, "Dominic Finn helps us a lot as well. He works for Regular Columnists Timeform and helps us especially when buying our form horses. Chris McGrath | Andrew Caulfield He'll spot good sectionals and whether a horse is progressing John Berry | Kevin Blake rather than going downhill.