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MONDAY, OCTOBER 10, 2016 KEEP QUIET SILENCES THEM IN BOURBON >CHATTERBOX= DOES ALL Keep Quiet (Fr) (Elusive City) punched his ticket to the GI THE TALKING IN SPINSTER Breeders' Cup Juvenile Turf at Santa Anita Nov. 4 with a score in Sunday's GIII Dixiana Bourbon S. at Keeneland. The Mark Casse trainee enjoyed a stalk-and-pounce trip and earned the first graded stakes success of his young career. The bay finished sixth and fifth in his first two starts sprinting at Belmont, but put it all together with a wire-to-wire score going 1 1/16 miles over the lawn at Saratoga Aug. 6. The French-bred recently attended a moderate pace from the outside and held on to finish second behind Made You Look (More Than Ready) in the GII With Anticipation S. at Saratoga Aug. 31. He drilled steadily at the Spa in the interim and shipped south for his first appearance in Kentucky. Cont. p4 IN TDN EUROPE TODAY WEEKLY WRAP WITH CHRIS MCGRATH FOR OCT. 10 I=m a Chatterbox | Coady photo Chris McGrath takes a look at the past week of European racing, highlighted by Churchill (Ire) (Galileo {Ire})’s win in the G1 Dubai Dewhurst S. Click or tap here to go straight to TDN I=m a Chatterbox (Munnings) delivered a sparkling Europe. performance in Sunday=s GI Juddmonte Spinster S. at Keeneland, notching the third Grade I victory of her career and earning a AWin and You=re In@ berth to the GI Breeders= Cup Distaff Nov. 4 at Santa Anita. Trained by Larry Jones for Fletcher and Carolyn Gray=s Grayson Farm, the homebred tracked pacesetter Paid Up Subscriber (Candy Ride {Arg}) in the early stages and easily dispatched that one in the lane en-route to an authoritative seven-length score. I=m a Chatterbox annexed the GI Cotillion S. and placed in three other Grade I events as a sophomore, and bounced back from a runner-up finish in her 4-year-old debut in Keeneland=s GIII Doubledogdare S. with a pair of scores at Delaware Park, including the July 16 GI Delaware H. going 10 furlongs. She recently set the pace and was outfinished when fourth in a deep renewal of the GI Personal Ensign S. at Saratoga Aug. 27. Tabbed as the heavy favorite in this compact field of five, I=m a Chatterbox broke alertly and managed to avoid trouble early as Miss Pink Diva (Dunkirk) suffered a fatal injury on the first turn. The chestnut rated kindly off Paid Up Subscriber as that one carved out fractions of :23.98 and :48.30 and turned up the heat under minimal encouragement on the home bend. Cont. p3 PRESIDENT & CO-PUBLISHER Barry Weisbord @barryweisbord [email protected] SR. 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Ray Villa [email protected] WORLDWIDE INFORMATION TODAY’S GRADED STAKES International Editor EDT Race Click for TV Kelsey Riley @kelseynrileyTDN [email protected] 5:19p Knickerbocker S.-GIII, BEL TJCIS PPs TVG European Editor Emma Berry [email protected] 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 MONDAY • OCTOBER 10, 2016 GI JUDDMONTE SPINSTER S. Cup Distaff field that is expected to include the likes of champions Songbird (Medaglia d=Oro), Stellar Wind (Curlin) and Beholder (Henny Hughes), Jones said that he is welcoming the challenge for his filly. I=m a Chatterbox Does All the Talking in AI think this may be the deepest Distaff that I have seen Spinster (cont. from p1) in a long time,@ the conditioner I=m a Chatterbox took control at the head of the lane and remarked. AThere are seven easily drew clear to a seven-length romp. Paid Up Subscriber really good horses. I=m putting held on for second in a strung-out field, five lengths ahead of her right there with them.@ Genre (Bernardini). AShe ran really big,@ said Jones. AWhen it came time to run, she Pedigree Notes: really exploded down I=m a Chatterbox has a juvenile the lane very nice. It half-brother named Zinger (The seems like her Factor) who RNA=d for $285,000 numbers are getting at last year=s Keeneland Larry Jones | Coady photo better after every race, September sale and is set to so I think she's at the make his career debut for these same connections in peak right now. We Keeneland=s fourth race Thursday. Chit Chatter is also hopefully have room responsible for a yearling filly by Flat Out and was most recently for improvement.@ bred back to American Pharoah. Jockey Florent I=m a Chatterbox | Coady photo Geroux completed a sweep of Keeneland=s two graded stakes Sunday, having captured the GIII Dixiana Sunday, Keeneland Bourbon S. one race prior to the Spinster. The native of France JUDDMONTE SPINSTER S.-GI, $500,000, KEE, 10-9, 3yo/up, f/m, said that I=m a Chatterbox=s tactical speed was the key to her 1 1/8m, 1:49.98, ft. success. 1--I'M A CHATTERBOX, 124, f, 4, by Munnings AShe broke very sharply today, which sometimes can be an 1st Dam: Chit Chatter (MSP, $120,945), by Lost Soldier issue with her,@ Geroux said. ASometimes she can break a little 2nd Dam: Bedroom Chatter, by Cure the Blues step slow or flat-footed. Today she broke very sharp, which 3rd Dam: Bedroom Window, by Linkage allowed us to take a great position, where I wanted to be. She ($30,000 RNA Ylg '13 KEESEP). O-Grayson Farm; B-Fletcher & was nice and relaxed. When I asked her to go down the lane, she Carolyn Gray (KY); T-J. Larry Jones; J-Florent Geroux. $325,000. gave me a very nice kick. I was like, >Wow. They=re going to have Lifetime Record: 16-8-3-2, $2,209,614. Werk Nick Rating: B. to go fast to catch me.=@ Click for eNicks report & 5-cross pedigree. = With her win, I m a Chatterbox also eclipsed the $2-million mark in earnings. As for a prospective tilt in a loaded Breeders= TDN HEADLINE NEWS • PAGE 4 OF 13 • THETDN.COM MONDAY • OCTOBER 10, 2016 2--Paid Up Subscriber, 124, f, 4, Candy Ride (Arg)--Shriek, by I’m a Chatterbox’s connections earn: Street Cry (Ire). ($135,000 Ylg '13 KEESEP). O-Klaravich Stables, Automatic berth into the Breeders’ Cup Distaff Inc. & William Lawrence; B-Bruce & Laurie Berenson (KY); & $60,000 in Pre-Entry & Entry Fees T-Albert M. Stall, Jr. $100,000. $10,000 or $40,000 travel award for ALL BCWC starters Hip #72 - Selling with Brookdale at FTNOV (based outside CA) + $10,000 nominator award to Fletcher and Carolyn Gray de Meric Stables Purchase & Graduate GIII DIXIANA BOURBON S. 3--Genre, 124, f, 4, Bernardini--French Park, by Ecton Park. ($200,000 Ylg '13 KEESEP). O-Cheyenne Stables LLC; B-William E. Graves & Gainesway Thoroughbreds Ltd. (KY); T-Todd A. Pletcher. $50,000. Keep Quiet Silences Them in Bourbon Consigned by GAINESWAY cont. from p1 Broken and Trained by Randy Bradshaw Away in good order in this 14-horse field, the colt secured an ideal spot tracking the pace in third as longshot Cold Snack Margins: 7, 5, 3 3/4. Odds: 0.40, 3.30, 3.90. Thirty (Backtalk) led through a half-mile in :47.78. He moved Also Ran: Engaginglee, Miss Pink Diva. three wide to poke his head in front soon after that juncture, cornered for home in front and found more late to cross the Click for the Equibase.com chart, the TJCIS.com PPs or the free wire just over a length in front. Heavily favored >TDN Rising Star= Equineline.com catalogue-style pedigree. VIDEO, sponsored by Ticonderoga (Tapit) rallied strongly on the far turn but raced Fasig-Tipton. greenly in the stretch and closed belatedly to complete the exacta.