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THURSDAY, DECEMBER 27, 2012 732-747-8060 $ TDN Home Page Click Here HAVRE DE GRACE TO TAPIT; PLUM PRETTY FEATURE PRESENTATION • GI LA BREA S. TO DISTORTED HUMOR The 2011 Horse of the Year Havre de Grace (Saint Liam--Easter Bunnette, by Carson City), purchased by Mandy Pope=s Whisper Hill Farm for $10-million at the Fasig- Tipton November sale, will be bred to Tapit in 2013, while 2011 GI Kentucky Oaks winner Plum Pretty (Medaglia d=Oro-- Liszy, by A.P. Indy), purchased HEAD WEST by Pope for $4.2 million at Gary and Mary West=s Book Review (Giant=s Keeneland November, will visit Havre de Grace Causeway), previously campaigned with Chad Brown Distorted Humor next spring. Horsephotos on the East Coast, made a favorable first impression for Both mares are currently boarded the Bob Baffert barn, rallying from the back into hot at Wayne and Cathy Sweezey=s Timber Town Stable in early fractions to post a narrow tally over Reneesgotzip Lexington and Wayne Sweezey confirmed breeding (City Zip) and champion My Miss Aurelia (Smart Strike) plans for the paddockmates yesterday. in a thrilling renewal of Santa Anita=s GI La Brea S. Cont. p6 Wednesday. AThe Wests wanted to see the horse run here and this race really looked like the logical spot for CREED IS GOOD her,@ Baffert commented. AShe got here, she looked Spendthrift Farm=s Jimmy Creed (Distorted Humor), great, she trained really well, so we took a stab at it produced by GI La Brea S. heroine Hookedonthefeelin and it worked out.@ Cont. p3 (Citidancer) and a half-brother to La Brea victress Pussycat Doll (Real Quiet), made a new opening-day Wednesday, Santa Anita memory for the family after sitting a perfect trip in the LA BREA S.-GI, $300,500, SAX, 12-26, 3yo, f, 7f, GI Malibu S. at Santa Anita yesterday. AGarrett [Gomez] 1:22 2/5, wf. gave him a great ride, kept him out of the dirt as best 1--@sBOOK REVIEW, 118, f, 3, by Giant=s Causeway he could,@ trainer Richard Mandella said. AHe=s a good 1st Dam: Clever Babe, by Distorted Humor horse. He just had a bad day [when ninth] in the [GI] 2nd Dam: Added Time, by Gilded Time Breeders= Cup [Sprint], that=s all.@ Cont. p4 3rd Dam: Added Elegance, by Stutz Blackhawk O-Gary & Mary West; B-Gary & Mary West Stables Inc (KY); T-Bob Baffert; J-Rafael Bejarano. $180,000. Lifetime: 10-5-2-1, $594,955. Werk Nick Rating: B. Click for the eNicks report & 5-cross pedigree. 2--Reneesgotzip, 118, f, 3, City Zip--No Dress Code, by Distorted Humor. ($3,500 yrl '10 FTKOCT; $45,000 2yo >11 OBSAPR). O-Lanni Family Trust; B-John Liviakis (KY); T-Peter Miller. $60,000. Bred, Foaled & Raised at Waterford-Millford Farm BOUGHT & SOLD BY RICKY LEPPALA 3--My Miss Aurelia, 123, f, 3, Smart Strike--My Miss Storm Cat, by Sea of Secrets. ($550,000 yrl '10 KEESEP). O-Stonestreet Stables & George Bolton; B-Stonestreet Thoroughbred Holdings LLC (KY); T-Steven M Asmussen. $36,000. Margins: NK, NK, 3/4. Odds: 4.80, 7.00, 0.40. Also Ran: Candrea, Nechez Dawn, Creditcardroulette, Mamma Kimbo. Click for the brisnet.com chart, the brisnet.com PPs or the free brisnet.com catalogue-style pedigree. 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Book Review, a runaway maiden winner over Book Review raced at the tail of the leading group subsequent Grade I heroine Dance Card (Tapit) at with just one rival behind her in the early stages, and Belmont in May, looked primed for the big leagues after connections would have delivering a visually been licking their chops impressive allowance win when Reneesgotzip, at Saratoga July 20, but Nechez Dawn (Indian failed to repeat that Charlie) and odds-on My perfomance when Miss Aurelia set an seventh in the prestigious opening half-mile in a GI Test S. Aug. 25. She blistering :44.17 got back on track with a seconds. Book Review win in the $400,000 began to find her best Charles Town Oaks going stride midway on the Mary West seven furlongs Sept. 22, Benoit Photo turn and wanted to lug in then stretched to 1 1/16 past midstretch, but was miles with a dominating re-balanced by Rafael Bejarano and was up in the nick tally in Belmont=s Imperial of time for a narrow victory from a game Reneesgotzip. Gesture S. Oct. 24. Book AIf you look at her form, she either shows up or she Review was shipped to Book Review doesn=t, and today was a day to show up,@ Baffert California following a Benoit Photo continued. AI=m happy. She ran great. It=s great to be disappointing fifth in the here opening day. I love opening day and to win a GI Gazelle S. at Aqueduct Nov. 24. Grade I, that=s like a Christmas gift to myself.@ Book Review=s unraced dam Clever Babe (Distorted Bejarano added, AI saw there was a lot of speed in Humor), a $100,000 KEESEP yearling purchase in 2005 the race, and that was very good for me. I let her do by the West=s racing manager Ben Glass, is a half-sister whatever she felt comfortable with.I knew she was to GISW Irish Smoke (Smoke Glacken). She has also going to come running at the end, so I just waited for produced a yearling full-sister to Book Review, and is the right time, and it worked.@ the dam of a weanling half-brother by Pulpit. TDN P HEADLINE NEWS • 12/27/12 • PAGE 4 of 15 • thoroughbreddailynews.com Wednesday, Santa Anita MALIBU S.-GI, $301,000, SAX, 12-26, 3yo, 7f, 1:20 1/5, ft. 1--#@sJIMMY CREED, 118, c, 3, by Distorted Humor 1st Dam: Hookedonthefeelin (GISW, $488,554), by Citidancer 2nd Dam: Prospective Joy, by Allen's Prospect 3rd Dam: Jovial Joy, by Rollicking ($900,000 yrl '10 KEESEP). O-Spendthrift Farm LLC; B-Stonestreet Thoroughbred Holdings LLC (KY); T-Richard E Mandella; J-Garrett K Gomez. $180,000. Lifetime Record: 7-3-2-1, $313,000. *1/2 to Pussycat Doll (Real Quiet), MGISW $797,183; and full to Funny Feeling (Distorted Humor), SW, $143,386. Werk Nick Rating: A. Click for the eNicks report & 5-cross pedigree. Consigned by GAINESWAY 2--Private Zone, 120, g, 3, Macho Uno--Auburn Beauty, by Siphon (Brz). ($15,000 yrl '10 KEESEP). O-Good Friends Stable; B-Adena Springs (ON); T-Doug F O'Neill.