WEDNESDAY, MAY 16, 2018 PEDIGREE INSIGHTS: TDN Q&A: PIMLICO TRACK ANNOUNCER DAVE RODMAN TALKS PREAKNESS STAKES OLMEDO BALTIMORE, Md - TDN Senior Editor Steve Sherack caught up with track announcer Dave Rodman as he gets ready to call his 28th straight GI Preakness S. at Pimlico Saturday. The native of New Orleans has been the voice of Maryland racing since 1991. Undefeated GI Kentucky Derby winner and >TDN Rising Star= Justify (Scat Daddy) is slated to arrive at Pimlico Wednesday afternoon. Q: What did you think of Justify=s Derby win and what=s the excitement level like with him heading to Baltimore shortly? DR: He ran his race and answered all the questions that the doubters had. He looks like he=s going to be odds-on in the Preakness and it=s very exciting to have a horse of his quality coming into the second jewel of the Triple Crown undefeated. Olmedo | Scoop Dyga I=m anxious to see him in the flesh given the good-looking video I=ve seen of him training since the Derby. Cont. p5 (click here) by Andrew Caulfield History has an intriguing habit of repeating itself, with the latest instance concerning the former Aidan O'Brien champions IN TDN EUROPE TODAY Giant's Causeway and Declaration of War. LYONS, QATAR RACING PART WAYS Giant's Causeway retired to Coolmore after ending his career Trainer Ger Lyons and Qatar Racing, which recently partnered with a highly admirable neck second to Tiznow in the GI to win the G3 Athasi S. with Lightening Quick, have ended their Breeders' Cup Classic on dirt. He was transferred to Ashford association. Click or tap here to go straight to TDN Europe. Stud after only one season in Ireland, but his Irish crop contained the Classic winners Footstepsinthesand and Shamardal. The curtain also came down on Declaration of War's career after he had been narrowly beaten by Mucho Macho Man and Will Take Charge in the Breeders' Cup Classic. He too was to spend one season at Coolmore before being transferred to Ashford, and he too has now sired a Classic-winning son in his Irish crop, with Olmedo following in Shamardal's footsteps in winning the G1 Poule d'Essai des Poulains. Declaration of War's racing career hadn't been quite as stellar as Giant's Causeway's but both won the G1 Juddmonte International and both earned champion status. Both also proved themselves equally effective over a mile and a mile and a quarter, with Declaration of War gaining his first Group 1 success when he took the G1 Queen Anne S. at Royal Ascot. With Declaration of War winning two Group 1s, as opposed to Giant's Causeway's six, he stood his Irish season at i40,000, compared to Giant's Causeway's IR100,000gns. 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Two-year-old champion Good Magic (Curlin), runner- up in the May 5 GI Alayna Cullen @AlaynaCullen Kentucky Derby, prepares for Saturday’s GI Preakness S. at Pimlico on Tuesday morning. Director of Information Technology Preakness coverage continues on page 5 | Steve Sherack Ray Villa [email protected] INTO MISCHIEF FILLY FASTEST AT FTMMAY PREVIEW 8 Bookkeeper A filly by Into Mischief breezed a quarter-mile in :21 3/5 while seven Terry May juveniles were clocked one furlong in :10 1/5 during the first of three [email protected] under-tack previews for the Fasig-Tipton Midlantic Sale Tuesday. WORLDWIDE INFORMATION International Editor Kelsey Riley @kelseynrileyTDN [email protected] TODAY’S GRADED STAKES European Editor EST Race Click for TV Emma Berry 10:30a Duke of York Clipper Logistics S.-G2, YOR -------------- ----- [email protected] Associate International Editor 11:05a Tattersalls Musidora S.-G3, YOR -------------- ----- Heather Anderson @HLAndersonTDN Newmarket Bureau, Cafe Racing Sean Cronin & Tom Frary [email protected] 60 Broad Street, Suite 100 Red Bank, NJ 07701 732-747-8060 | 732-747-8955 (fax) www.TheTDN.com TDN HEADLINE NEWS • PAGE 3 OF 13 • THETDN.COM WEDNESDAY • MAY 16, 2018 all-weather tracks when he landed the Diamond S. over 1 5/16 miles. At this stage Timeform rated him 116p, but his exploits as a A direct comparison of the achievements of their respective 4-year-old bumped that up to 128. In other words, Declaration first crops is therefore somewhat unfair. of War improved from two to three and again from three to Also, it wouldn't be realistic to expect four, in much the same way that his sire War Front had done Declaration of War's first juveniles to be as during his three years on the track. Cont. p4 precocious as Giant's Causeway's. While both horses were unbeaten at two, Giant's Causeway was a Group 1 winner ranked the second-best juvenile in Europe, whereas Declaration of War had his line cast in much quieter waters by his then trainer Jean-Claude Rouget. The son of War Front didn't make his debut until Nov. 10, when he decisively won a newcomers' race over 1 1/16 miles on Pornichet's all-weather track. Then in mid-December, he trounced the opposition in a Class D contest over 7 1/2 furlongs of Deauville's all-weather track. It was these full-of-potential displays by Joseph Allen's homebred colt that brought him to the attention of the Coolmore partners, who bought into him and had him transferred to Ireland. Unfortunately, he didn't race again until September and he tackled nothing more demanding than a pair of Group 3s on his return, confirming his aptitude for Declaration of War | Coolmore TDN HEADLINE NEWS • PAGE 4 OF 13 • THETDN.COM WEDNESDAY • MAY 16, 2018 Caulfield cont. This dirt/turf debate is probably irrelevant to Olmedo, who This partly explains why the parallels between Giant's seems to be ideally suited to a sound surface which allows him Causeway and Declaration of War began to diverge at the end of to quicken impressively. He was well-bought for i100,000 as a their first year with runners. By the end of 2004, Giant's yearling. His family once did sterling work for the late Daniel Causeway had three group-winning 2-year-olds to his credit, Wildenstein, who bought his fifth dam, the German 1000 including Europe's unbeaten champion 2-year-old Shamardal Guineas and Oaks winner Schonbrunn. Southern Seas, a and his fellow future Classic winner Footstepsinthesand. In the daughter of Schonbrunn, did particularly well, winning four process, he landed the title of champion first-crop sire, an times at up to two miles before developing into a highly achievement which sent his fee soaring from $75,000 in his effective broodmare. She numbered the G2 Prix Jean de fourth season to $200,000 in his fifth. Chaudenay winner Seurat and the late-developing Steinlen Declaration of War's start was quieter, although Olmedo among her four stakes winners. helped turn the spotlight on him by Steinlen didn't win in France until achieving >TDN Rising Star= status on he was four and he then proved a his impressive debut. Olmedo also revelation when transferred to D. failed by only a short head to land the Wayne Lukas in the U.S. Steinlen's G3 Prix des Chenes and finally came 16 wins from 35 American starts out best of the colts in Happily's included the GI Arlington Million G1 Prix Jean-Luc Lagardere. and the GI Breeders' Cup Mile as There were also good efforts in a 6-year-old. He was seven when Europe from his daughters Actress (a he gained the last of his four Group 1-placed Group 3 winner) and Grade I victories, in the Eirene, while his American runners Hollywood Turf H. included the Grade III-placed Irish Olmedo's third dam Supergirl Territory. The Pulpit S. success by was an unraced half-sister to Speed Franco came in December, after Declaration of War's 2018 fee Steinlen. She produced another had been set at $25,000--a reduction high-class performer in the Giant=s Causeway | Coolmore of $10,000 from last year. G2 Prix Noailles winner Super With Olmedo and Speed Franco becoming group/graded Celebre, who in 2003 chased home Dalakhani in both the winners this year to increase Declaration of War's total to three, G1 Prix Lupin and the G1 Prix du Jockey-Club. there is good reason for thinking that Declaration of War's fee Olmedo's dam Super Pie is by the champion broodmare sire may be heading upwards before too long, though there has Pivotal but, like many daughters of this high-class sprinter, she inevitably been a bias towards turf performers from his Irish demonstrated more stamina than her sire, winning a crop. newcomers' race over 1 3/16 miles at Deauville. Olmedo's It will be fascinating to see whether this bias continues with his second dam, the Linamix mare Super Lina, was second in the first American crop, which averaged over $100,000 off a fee of G3 Prix Penelope and fourth in the G1 Prix Saint-Alary, so was $40,000.