STEVE’S DOUBLE WINS PERRYVILLE p. 4 HEADLINE For information about TDN, call 732-747-8060. NEWS www.thoroughbreddailynews.com SUNDAY, OCTOBER 14, 2007 BREEDERS’ CUP BULLETIN ONLY ONE WORK FOR ‘WICKED’ Wicked Style (Macho Uno), unbeaten winner of last ‘WHIMSY’ UP TO THE CHALLENGE Saturday=s GI Lane=s End Breeders= Futurity, will have one workout prior to the Oct. 27 GI Breeders Cup Champion Dreaming of Anna (Rahy) tried to take = Juvenile. AHe will work a half them gate to wire, but couldn=t mile next Sunday,@ trainer Rusty withstand a strong late rally Arnold said. AI don=t need to do from Bit of Whimsy (Distorted much with him only 21 days be- Humor), who ran away with a tween races. He will ship to 2 1/4-length tally in yesterday=s Monmouth on the 24th.@ Wicked GI Queen Elizabeth II Challenge Style previously annexed Cup at Keeneland. Allowed to Arlington Park=s GIII Wicked Style settle as Dreaming of Anna set Arlington-Washington Futurity in Horsephotos Bit of Whimsy honest fractions of :24.08 and game fashion Sept. 1. AThe race Horsephotos :47.66, Bit of Whimsy rallied took a little bit out of him, but no more than his first along the inside in the lane, was two,@ Arnold said of the Breeders= Futurity. AIf it had swung off the rail by Javier Castellano in deep stretch taken more out of him, I could have given him another and finished full of run. cont. p2 day, but the weather really helped out. The cool air that came in Tuesday and Wednesday really picked him up.@ Saturday, Keeneland QUEEN ELIZABETH II CHALLENGE CUP S.-GI, NO BREEDERS’ CUP FOR VACARE $500,000, KEE, 10-13, 3yo, f, 1 1/8mT, 1:48 3/5, fm. Vacare (Lear Fan), winner of last Saturday=s GII First 1--sBIT OF WHIMSY, 121, f, 3, by Distorted Humor Lady S. at Keeneland, will bypass the GI Breeders= Cup 1st Dam: Kristi B, by El Prado (Ire) Filly & Mare Turf in favor of the 2nd Dam: Highland Mills, by Pia Star GI Matriarch S. at Hollywood 3rd Dam: Le Moulin, by *Hawaii Nov. 25. Trainer Christophe O-Joyce B Young & Gerald McManis; B-Bonner Young Clement said there were several & Joyce B Rowand (KY); T-Barclay Tagg; J-Javier reasons for skipping the Breed- Castellano; $310,000. Lifetime Record: 6-3-2-0, ers= Cup. AThe owners will be $449,600. quite happy to keep her in train- 2--Dreaming of Anna, 121, f, 3, Rahy--Justenuffheart, ing next year so we can always by Broad Brush. O/B-Frank C Calabrese (KY); make the Breeders' Cup next Vacare T-Wayne M Catalano; $100,000. year,@ he told Daily Racing Form. Horsephotos 3--Coquerelle (Ire), 121, f, 3, Zamindar--Cracovie (GB), ATwo, the Breeders' Cup this year is a mile and three-eighths by Caerleon. (i70,000 yrl '05 DEAAUG). at Monmouth, which [could] mean soft turf, and she's O-Monceaux Stable; B-Haras du Mezeray (IRE); never raced further than a mile and an eighth. Three, T-Jean-Claude Rouget; $50,000. the Matriarch is a flat mile and it will be run on firm turf Margins: 2 1/4, 1, HD. Odds: 6.90, 2.00, 3.60. and it's a very good race.@ Vacare was purchased by Also Ran: Costume (GB), Touch My Soul (Fr), Classic Jon and Sarah Kelly for $2.8 million at last year=s Neel, Sharp Susan, Good Mood (Ire), Street Sounds. FTKNOV sale. TDN P HEADLINE NEWS • 10/14/07 • PAGE 2 of 13 Killing ‘em With Consistency... Bit of Whimsy began her career with a second-place finish over the Gulfstream lawn Apr. 1, then went one better at the Big A Apr. 29. The chestnut deaded- heated for first with Rutherienne in the GIII Sands Point S. June 2 and followed with a troubled fourth behind Dreaming of Anna in the Virginia Oaks July 21. Freshened following that effort, she resurfaced with a smart second-place finish in the GI Gar- den City S. Sept. 8. AWe were Bit of Whimsy tempted to run her one more Pat Lang photo time before this, but we thought we=d better have a fresh horse rather than an experi- enced one,@ trainer Barclay Tagg said. AI had a good jockey on her. I thought if he could take her back a little bit, she=d make a big run, and it worked out just per- fectly.@ Champ Continues to Live the Dream on the Lawn... Dreaming of Anna had her three-race winning streak snapped, but last year=s GI Breeders= Cup Juvenile Fillies heroine gave it her all in defeat. AShe ran real well,@ jockey Garrett Gomez offered. AShe got pressured the whole Precocious Two-Year-Old way and never got a breather. who broke his maiden She=s a quality filly and I was first time out in July at glad for the opportunity to ride her. She kicked on a little bit [at Belmont after a half in the head of the stretch], but I :44 and change. could tell I needed just a little bit more to get her home. The gas Look for mares in foal to tank was kind of hitting on SHARP HUMOR at the upcoming empty. Outside the sixteenth www.winstarfarm.com Breeding Stock Sales pole, she kept digging and dig- ging and fighting them off. The QE II CHALLENGE CUP-GI (KEE) Bit of Whimsy one horse [Bit of Whimsy] got Dreaming of Anna (Distorted Humor) mows down champion Dreaming her, but she still dug in. She had Horsephotos of Anna (Rahy). to work hard to even hold sec- PERRYVILLE S.-GIII (KEE) Steve=s Double (Stephen ond. She ran a very good race.@ Following a sixth-place finish in the GI Kentucky Oaks, Dreaming of Anna Got Even) finds the wire in time. posted victories in the Double Delta S. at Arlington ATHENIA H.-GIII (BEL) Criminologist (Maria=s Mon) June 2, the Virginia Oaks at Colonial July 21 and the makes it three in a row. GIII Pucker Up S. at Arlington Sept. 8. CALDER DERBY-GIII (CRC) Soldier=s Dancer (Lost Click for the brisnet.com chart or the free brisnet.com Soldier) makes it look easy. catalogue-style pedigree. Video, sponsored by Taylor OAK TREE DERBY-GII (OSA) Daytona (Ire) (Indian Made. Ridge {Ire}) turns on the after-burners. TDN P HEADLINE NEWS • 10/14/07 • PAGE 3 of 13 Saturday, Oak Tree at Santa Anita Oak Tree Derby cont. OAK TREE DERBY-GII, $150,000, OSA, 10-13, 3yo, 1 1/8mT, 1:46 2/5, fm. Daytona began his career in Britain for trainer Mark 1--#@DAYTONA (IRE), 118, g, 3, by Indian Ridge (Ire) Johnston with a pair of second-place finishes before 1st Dam: Kyka, by Blushing John earning his diploma at Lingfield in March. He finished 2nd Dam: L'Attrayante (Fr), by Tyrant off-the-board in his first two chances at Hollywood 3rd Dam: Camerata (Fr), by *Klairon May 27 and July 1, but broke through with a 4 1/4- (i360,000 yrl '05 GOFORB; 56,000gns HRA >07 length victory in an $80,000 optional claimer over the DONLIN). O-Jeff Davenport, Tom Lenner, Jess Ravich Del Mar sod July 20. The chestnut crossed the line & Thomas W Murray; B-Irish National Stud (IRE); third in a $100,000 optional tagger Aug. 9, then re- T-Dan L Hendricks; J-Mike E Smith; $90,000. peated that performance over the Del Mar Polytrack in Lifetime Record: 10-3-2-2, $163,862. the El Cajon S. Aug. 31. Back on the grass here, he 2--Ten a Penny, 118, c, 3, Gulch--Dramatical, by showed speed from the git-go and left little doubt about Theatrical (Ire). ($70,000 wlng '04 KEENOV; the outcome in the stretch. ADan [Hendricks] said to 54,000gns yrl '05 TATOCT; 65,000gns 2yo >06 just keep him happy and if he s happy, he s got some TATAPR). O-A & R Stables LLC & Class Racing = = Stable; B-Chesapeake Farm, Mary R Odom & W S turn of foot,@ jockey Mike Smith said. ABelieve me, he=s Farish (KY); T-Craig Dollase; $30,000. got some turn of foot. When we opened up there at the 3--Stoneside (Ire), 118, c, 3, Marchand de Sable-- top of the stretch, I was expecting somebody to come Greenstone (Ire), by Green Desert. (i9,000 yrl '05 after us. We were five or six [lengths] in front and I DEADEC; i32,000 2yo >06 GOFAPR; i32,000 2yo looked over at the big screen and I said, >Man, this is >06 GOFFRA). O-Marsha Naify; B-Dr B Krief (IRE); sweet,= there was nobody coming.@ According to T-Julio C Canani; $18,000. Hendricks, the GI Hollywood Derby Nov. 25 will be Margins: 4 1/4, 1 3/4, 1 1/4. Odds: 10.30, 8.80, 2.70. next. Also Ran: Unusual Suspect, Karazi (Swi), Mostacolli Click for the brisnet.com chart or the free brisnet.com Mort, Angelonmyshoulder (GB), Senior, Augment, As- catalogue-style pedigree. Video, sponsored by Taylor perity. Made. Scratches: Star Inside (IRE). TDN P HEADLINE NEWS • 10/14/07 • PAGE 4 of 13 Saturday, Hawthorne Saturday, Keeneland HAWTHORNE DERBY-GIII, $250,000, HAW, 10-13, PERRYVILLE S.-GIII, $200,000, KEE, 10-13, 3yo, a7f 3yo, 1 1/8mT, 1:47 2/5, fm. (AWT), 1:25 1/5, ft. 1--#@BOLD HAWK, 116, g, 3, by Silver Hawk 1--#@STEVE'S DOUBLE, 117, g, 3, by Stephen Got Even 1st Dam: Tribulation (GISW, $379,300), 1st Dam: Think Double, by Al Nasr (Fr) by Danzig 2nd Dam: Double Think, by Double Jay 2nd Dam: Graceful Touch, by His Majesty 3rd Dam: Solid Thought, by Solidarity 3rd Dam: Pi Phi Gal, by Raise a Native ($25,000 yrl '05 KEESEP; $200,000 2yo >06 O-Patricia E, Ronald & Justin Nicholson; B-Phillips FTMMAY).