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SUNDAY, APRIL 9, 2017 IRAP GRADUATES IN STYLE GORMLEY CAPS MOSS 1-3 Not since Strike the Gold now better than a quarter-century IN SA DERBY ago has a horse paired up victories in the GII Toyota Blue Grass S. with another in the GI Kentucky Derby. Reddam Racing LLC=s Irap (Tiznow) will not be fancied to break the streak, but the well-traveled colt earned his ticket to Louisville in Saturday=s renewal, outlasting Practical Joke (Into Mischief) to become the first horse in history to break his maiden in the race. >TDN Rising Star= McCraken (Ghostzapper) was sent off the 8-5 favorite in the Blue Grass to run his winning streak to a perfect five-for- five, but raced keenly behind modest fractions and could not summon the necessary late response in third. McCraken will try to follow in the hoofprints of horses like Thunder Gulch and Street Sense, who faltered to varying degrees at Keeneland before rediscovering their better form beneath the Twin Spires. Cont. p5 IN TDN EUROPE TODAY WINX WINS 17TH STRAIGHT Australian Horse of the Year Winx (Aus) (Street Cry {Ire}) Gormley (outside) | Benoit Photo scored her 17th straight victory in the G1 Longines Queen Elizabeth S. during the second weekend of The Jerry and Ann Moss=s Gormley (Malibu Moon) showed a new Championships at Royal Randwick. Click or tap here to go dimension Saturday and wore down extremely game pacesetter straight to TDN Europe. and >TDN Rising Star= Battle of Midway (Smart Strike) by a half-length to reassert himself as one to watch for at Churchill Downs next month. Fellow Moss colorbearer and John Shirreffs trainee Royal Mo (Uncle Mo) checked in a solid third after chasing the pace out wide (+68 ft. according to Trakus), while co-favorites Reach the World (Tapit) and Iliad (Ghostzapper) settled for fourth and fifth, respectively. Cont. p3 READY FOR >WAR= IN THE WOOD >TDN Rising Star= Irish War Cry (Curlin) bounced back in a big way in Saturday=s GII Wood Memorial S. at the Big A to punch his ticket to the GI Kentucky Derby in style. It was 3 1/2 lengths back to fellow >Rising Star= and 2-1 favorite Battalion Runner (Unbridled=s Song) in second. AIt's extremely gratifying to get this horse back on track,@ winning trainer Graham Motion commented. AThat was huge. I don't remember having a situation like this, when I felt so much was on the line. I thought he won pretty comfortably and it doesn't seem like distance [1 1/4 miles] of the [GI Kentucky] Derby will be an issue.@ Cont. p7 PRESIDENT & CO-PUBLISHER Barry Weisbord @barryweisbord [email protected] SR. 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($300,000 Ylg '15 KEESEP). O-Mr. & Mrs. Jerome S. 1:51.16, ft. Moss; B-Brandywine Farm (Jim & Pam Robinson) (KY); T-John A. Shirreffs. $120,000. 1--GORMLEY, 124, c, 3, by Malibu Moon BRED & RAISED by Brandywine Farm (Jim & Pam Robinson) 1st Dam: Race to Urga (SW, $182,816), by Bernstein Training Graduate 2nd Dam: Miss Mambo, by Kingmambo Margins: HF, HF, HF. Odds: 6.20, 7.20, 11.70. 3rd Dam: Troika, by Strawberry Road (Aus) Also Ran: Reach the World, Iliad, Kimbear, Term of Art, Irish ($150,000 RNA Ylg '15 KEESEP). O-Mr. & Mrs. Jerome S. Moss; Freedom, Milton Freewater, Midnight Pleasure, So Conflated, B-Castleton Lyons & Kilboy Estate (KY); T-John A. Shirreffs; American Anthem, Comma Sister. Click for the Equibase.com J-Victor Espinoza. $600,000. Lifetime Record: 6-4-0-0, chart, the TJCIS.com PPs or the free Equineline.com catalogue- $920,000. style pedigree. VIDEO, sponsored by Fasig-Tipton. Congratulations to all the connections from Paramount Sales A clear-cut debut winner for his famously patient barn at Del Training Graduate Mar late in the summer meet last year, Gormley took a giant step forward from a speed figure perspective when inheriting an easy lead and never looking back in the local GI FrontRunner S. 2--Battle of Midway, 124, c, 3, Smart Strike--Rigoletta, by in October. He simply never looked comfortable after failing to Concerto. >TDN Rising Star= ($410,000 Ylg '15 FTSAUG). O-Fox find a good foothold when seventh in the GI Breeders= Cup Hill Farms, Inc.; B-Thor-Bred Stables, LLC (KY); T-Jerry Juvenile the following month, but bounced back with aplomb Hollendorfer. $200,000. Werk Nick Rating: A+++. *Triple when gamely fending off well-regarded American Anthem Plus*. Click for the eNicks report & 5-cross pedigree. (Bodemeister) in the GIII Sham S. over a sloppy mile Jan. 7. Gormley pressed the brilliantly talented >Rising Star= Mastery (Candy Ride {Arg}) in the GII San Felipe S. last out Mar. 11, but Consigned by GAINESWAY was the first to blink and backed up to fourth behind that romping runner, who suffered a condylar fracture on the gallop- out. Cont. p4 TDN HEADLINE NEWS • PAGE 4 OF 20 • THETDN.COM SUNDAY • APRIL 9, 2017 Santa Anita Derby cont. and very excitable. I just need to turn that energy of his into Gormley took up a perfect drafting spot early along the rail as positive use. It=s a lot of growing pains with a talented horse. I Battle of Midway, American Anthem and Royal Mo lined up think using the tongue tie certainly helped us today. We=ll see across the track and ran off how this shakes out. We=ll see through hot splits of :22.66, how he comes out of this race :46.55 and 1:10.92. Guided off in the morning and if all is well, the rail to avoid the fading we=ll point to the Kentucky American Anthem turning for Derby.@ home, the bay took a stride or Royal Mo, drawn widest two to get his feet under him in Saturday, annexed the GIII upper stretch, but eventually Robert B. Lewis S. Feb. 4 before leveled off late to kick past the fading to ninth in Oaklawn=s GII valiant Battle of Midway and Rebel S. Mar. 18. This Royal Mo in the final sixteenth. owner/trainer combination AI think the key was [Victor] upset the 2007 Santa Anita Espinoza rating Gormley and Derby with Tiago (Pleasant then making his big move,@ Tap). Shirreffs said. AThis is very AIt=s been such a great time exciting. It=s thrilling to have a Gormley | Benoit Photo bringing both of these horses Kentucky Derby horse and it=s up and both came through for the same owners as [2005 Derby winner] Giacomo. Royal Mo beautifully today,@ said Jerry Moss. Cont. p5 ran really big. If he had a better post position, you wonder how he would have done. I really wasn=t paying attention to the fractions. I just saw my horse and he got behind horses including Royal Mo. Gormley is an evolving horse. He=s very precocious TDN HEADLINE NEWS • PAGE 5 OF 20 • THETDN.COM SUNDAY • APRIL 9, 2017 Santa Anita Derby cont. Saturday, Keeneland Both Gormley and Royal Mo had been ridden by Espinoza in TOYOTA BLUE GRASS S.-GII, $1,000,000, KEE, 4-8, 3yo, 1 1/8m, each of their prior outings. 1:50.39, ft. AToday the big difference was that he was ready,@ said the 1--#@IRAP, 123, c, 3, by Tiznow 2002, 2014 and 2015 Kentucky Derby-winning pilot.