MONDAY, MAY 14, 2018 GOOD MAGIC CONFIRMED FOR PREAKNESS YES, THEY SHOULD RAISE Stonestreet Stables and e Five Racing=s champion Good Magic THE SCALE OF WEIGHTS (Curlin), runner-up in the GI Kentucky Derby May 5, has been confirmed for a start in the GI Preakness S. next Saturday, trainer Chad Brown said Sunday. AThe horse has just been training very well since the Derby,@ Brown said. AHe bounced out of the race in great condition and I think he deserves a chance in the race. He=s doing great.@ While Brown--like most trainers--does not typically run horses back on two weeks= rest, he said the race is tough to pass on given the colt=s current fitness. AI think it=s a great opportunity for the horse,@ Brown said. "I really don't have anything else planned for him before, say, either the GI Haskell Invitational or the GII Jim Dandy S. anyway.@ Cont. p6 IN TDN EUROPE TODAY Racing at Belmont Park | Sarah K. Andrew OLMEDO SWOOPS IN THE POULAINS The Week in Review, by Bill Finley Jean Claude Rouget continued his fine record in French Classics when Olmedo (Fr) (Declaration Of War) won the colts’ As a means of getting NYRA management to focus on several Guineas at ParisLongchamp. Click or tap here to go straight to beefs they have, including the scale of weights, Belmont jockeys TDN Europe. demanded a meeting with NYRA executives Martin Panza and Chris Kay before they were willing to go out and ride in the first race Saturday. The result was a 37-minute delay before the first race was run. The last race, the GI Man o= War S., did not go off until 7:22. This might not have been the best way to handle things. Bettors and horsemen were put through an agonizingly long delay before the races started and NYRA might have been more open-minded and sympathetic if the jockeys had tried to have their problems addressed through more diplomatic methods. Then again, maybe the jockeys felt this was the only way they would be heard. AThe guys were all here, we needed to have a conversation with them, we called them before the races and the conversation went much longer than we anticipated,@ Jockey=s Guild Chairman and NYRA regular John Velazquez told the Daily Racing Form. AThere are lot of issues involved. We don=t have a contract. Obviously, with not having the contract and those issues not being resolved, they need to be addressed. It was never a thought of not riding. We=re here to ride, we want to make sure things get done.@ Cont. p3 PUBLISHER & CEO Sue Morris Finley @suefinley [email protected] V.P., INTERNATIONAL OPERATIONS Gary King @garykingTDN [email protected] EDITORIAL [email protected] Editor-in-Chief Jessica Martini @JessMartiniTDN Managing Editor Alan Carasso @EquinealTDN Monday, May 14, 2018 Senior Editor Steve Sherack @SteveSherackTDN Racing Editor Brian DiDonato @BDiDonatoTDN News and Features Editor Ben Massam @BMassamTDN Associate Editors Christie DeBernardis @CDeBernardisTDN Joe Bianca @JBiancaTDN ADVERTISING [email protected] Director of Advertising Alycia Borer Advertising Manager Lia Best Advertising Designer Amanda Crelin Advertising Assistants Alexa Reisfield Rachel McCaffrey Photo Editor/Dir. of Distribution Sarah K. Andrew @SarahKAndrew [email protected] First Classic Winner for ‘War’. Declaration of War follows in the hoofsteps of his late Social Media Strategist barnmate Giant’s Causeway (Storm Cat) (2005 G1 French 2000 Guineas, Shamardal), Justina Severni by siring a French 2000 Guineas hero in his sole European-sired crop before being Director of Customer Service transferred to Ashford Stud in Kentucky, where he currently commands $25,000. The Vicki Forbes son of War Front's Olmedo (Fr) saluted in the G1 The Emirates Poule d’Essai des [email protected] Poulains at ParisLongchamp on Sunday. | Scoop Dyga Marketing Manager Alayna Cullen @AlaynaCullen Director of Information Technology Ray Villa BLENDED CITIZEN TO REMAIN IN N.Y. FOR BELMONT 7 [email protected] Greg Hall and SAYJAY Racing’s Blended Citizen (Proud Citizen), Bookkeeper winner of Saturday’s GIII Peter Pan S. at Belmont, will remain Terry May stabled at Big Sandy as he prepares for a start in the GI Belmont [email protected] S. June 9, trainer Doug O’ Neill said Sunday. WORLDWIDE INFORMATION International Editor Kelsey Riley @kelseynrileyTDN O’KRATOS MAKES THE GRADE IN MARINE 9 [email protected] O’Kratos made the grade with a stalk-and-pounce score in the European Editor Sunday feature at Woodbine, running his record to three-for-four Emma Berry [email protected] over the Toronto oval’s main track.. Associate International Editor 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 9 • THETDN.COM MONDAY • MAY 14, 2018 The Week in Review (cont. from p1) That number, 118 pounds, sounds more than reasonable and adding a few pounds to what horses are asked to carry can=t Nothing is more important than the safety of jockeys and possibly be that big of a deal. This should be done now. NYRA management certainly seems to agree. They=re not the bad guys here and based on the DRF report it appears that the Taylor Made, Harness Racing Powerhouse? meeting was a productive one that will move things forward. On Oct. 7, Duncan, Mark, Ben and the entire Taylor clan is Likely, things will happen, but not overnight. likely to spend the day at the racetrack in Lexington. Just not at But there=s one thing the that racetrack. That=s the day of powers that be can=t do fast the Allerage Pace at the Red enough, and that=s raise the Mile, just a few miles down the scale of weights. The NYRA road from Keeneland and, as jockeys want the minimum scale long as their new acquisition of weights to be raised to 118 stays healthy, the Taylor Made pounds. I can=t see why anyone team will likely be there for a would have a problem with that. race that will go a long way Racing=s scale of weights is toward deciding what their something out of a long gone return on investment will be era when human beings were with a horse named Lazarus. simply smaller than they are Taylor Made, which actually now. To ask grown, adult men-- or women--to weigh 109, 110 started in the harness racing game, decided recently to jump pounds in order to pursue their Lazarus | Harness Racing Victoria profession is no longer realistic. back into that sport with both Nor is it good for the jockeys, many of whom resort to unhealthy feet when buying into Lazarus, a superstar in New Zealand. The practices, like bulemia, in order to stay so light. idea is to show him off this summer and fall in the States and TDN HEADLINE NEWS • PAGE 4 OF 9 • THETDN.COM MONDAY • MAY 14, 2018 then set him up as a shuttle stallion, going back and forth between the U.S., Australia and New Zealand. Lazarus is a pacer by the American-based sire Bettor=s Delight. A New Zealand newspaper estimated that the purchase price was $2.8 million. Here=s him winning the 2017 Victoria Cup. The reason the Red Mile races are so important is that Lexington harness track is considered the fastest in the sport and that=s where horses go to set world records. In the 2016 Allerage, Always B Miki paced the fastest mile in history, 1:46. The new Lazarus team has said it is out to beat that mark, which would do wonders for his stud value. Keeneland will also be racing Oct. 7. Yet, last week=s news was met with a heathy dose of skepticism by the harness racing media. The headline in a Harness Racing Update story read AHold off on the >Lazarus is the second coming= expectations in the U.S.@ The sub-head read: ARecent Down Under stars have not delivered on unrealistic projections.@ Others have weighed in with the same doubts. Some of the early ADown Under@ Standardbreds sent to the U.S. turned out to be sensational, most notably Cardigan Bay, who was the two-time aged pacer of the year in the U.S. in the sixties. But lately, several have not panned out. Most notable on that list is Auckland Reactor. He arrived here with a reputation not unlike the one Lazarus has and he raced in the U.S. three times in 2010, never hit the board and earned $2,560. Taylor Made took a gamble and Taylor Made doesn=t often lose. This one will be fun to watch. Chad Brown on Two Weeks= Rest...Really? Chad Brown did the most un-Chad Brown thing when deciding Sunday that he would bring Good Magic (Curlin) back for the GI Preakness S. Brown epitomizes the typical modern trainer who rarely brings a horse back on short rest and prefers five or six weeks between races. But the few times Brown has run a horse right back he has done perfectly fine. According to Brisnet.com stats, since 2012, Brown has run 132 horses on three weeks= rest or less. (Brisnet does not list how many horses he has raced on two weeks= rest or less). He has won with 34 of those horse, or 25.7%. To give you an idea of how much he values giving a horse time between races, Brown has made 2,074 starts since 2012 where the horse has had between 31 to 90 days off.