FRIDAY, AUGUST 16, 2019 NO ILLUSION ABOUT MAXIMUM SECURITY TO SKIP TRAVERS, POINT TO PENNSYLVANIA DERBY BREAKOUT SUMMER Dual Grade I winner and leading 3-year-old Maximum Security (New Year’s Day) will skip the GI Runhappy Travers S. Aug. 24 at FOR TWIRLING CANDY Saratoga and point to the GI Pennsylvania Derby Sept. 21 at Parx, trainer Jason Servis said Thursday. Servis said the decision was made because the colt “still is not 100%.” “I don’t like where he’s at. He’s not eating the way I want him to eat and he’s not carrying the weight I’d like to see him carry,” Servis said. “I just want to make sure he’s 100% for his next race and he’s not there right now. The best thing is to wait until he is 100% and point to the Pennsylvania Derby.” Owned by breeders Gary and Mary West, Maximum Security debuted for a $16,000 tag and scored by daylight to start a four-race winning streak that culminated in a conquest of the GI Xpressbet Florida Derby. Cont. p7 Twirling Candy | Lane’s End IN TDN EUROPE TODAY by Chris McGrath SHALAA STANDS UP TO NEXT TEST It's just as well the animals assembling for the GI TVG Pacific Champion 2-year-old Shalaa will have his much-anticipated Classic can't read. Worthy creatures all, but you have to doubt first yearlings for sale at Arqana this weekend. any of them will fancy trying to crack the 1:59.11 set in the 2003 Click or tap here to go straight to TDN Europe. running--as described in Julie Krone's memoir of the meet that year, copies of which she will be signing trackside Saturday. And nor will those entertaining a stud career feel any more comfortable about matching the achievements of the two protagonists since. We all know that most young stallions won't ever again command a fee as high as their opening one. But Candy Ride (Arg) and Medaglia d'Oro have multiplied theirs by a factor of seven and eight respectively. Lest we forget, the same man deserves credit for putting them both on the road. How it must grieve John Sikura that each, for various reasons, was soon transferred from Hill 'n' Dale. Happily, we can rely on Sikura to keep introducing feasible successors to a roster that always reflects his own verve. But how curious it seems, looking back, that Medaglia d'Oro was able to start out at $35,000 when the horse who ran away from him at Del Mar, almost laughing out loud as he cocked his head towards the grandstand, had to earn his stripes at $10,000. To admirers of Candy Ride, the fact that he still musters less than half his vanquished rival's fee--their services nowadays for hire, at Lane's End and Darley’s Jonabell respectively, for $80,000 and $200,000--remains no less incongruous. 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[email protected] WORLDWIDE INFORMATION TODAY’S GRADED STAKES International Editor EST Race Click for TV Kelsey Riley @kelseynrileyTDN [email protected] 1:15p Comer Group International Irish St Leger Trial S.-G3, CUR -------------- TVG European Editor 1:45p Royal Whip S.-G3, CUR -------------- TVG Emma Berry [email protected] 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 12 • THETDN.COM FRIDAY • AUGUST 16, 2019 Twirling Candy’s Breakout Summer cont. from p1 The original disparity doubtlessly reflected the fact that Candy Ride not only failed to race again, after just six career starts divided between his native Argentina and California, but also teased things out for a full year before being retired. In the meantime, Medaglia d'Oro was able to give Pleasantly Perfect (Pleasant Colony) rather more of a race in both the GI Breeders' Cup Classic and G1 Dubai World Cup, while also adding the GI Donn H. Yes, Candy Ride's pedigree had Argentinian elements too exotic for the taste of many commercial breeders. But then Medaglia d'Oro, though big and beautiful, was by a turf stallion and his first three dams were by Bailjumper, Silent Screen and Restless Wind. Both rivals landed running, anyhow, with four Grade I winners apiece in their first crops. And neither has ever looked back. Twirling Candy | Lane’s End Now that they are in their 20th year, however, the question is whether their estate papers are in order, in terms of an heir. Medaglia d'Oro obviously has something of a reputation as a sire of exceptional females, but Sikura himself is standing one of his most plausible sons in Violence. Others contesting the eventual succession include Astern, Bolt d'Oro, Mshawish, Talismanic and Vancouver (Aus). And Candy Ride? Well, though castration ruled out his early flagbearer Shared Belief even before tragedy, he too has a number of young sons now making their way at stud, notably a Horse of the Year in Gun Runner and the exciting Mastery. And two of them, Unified and Twirling Candy, are standing alongside him at Lane's End. While Unified must also compete with the farm's many other young stallions, this summer there has been no getting away from the sense that all sons of Candy Ride will have to go hard to catch Twirling Candy. Cont. p4 TDN HEADLINE NEWS • PAGE 4 OF 12 • THETDN.COM FRIDAY • AUGUST 16, 2019 In fact, shares in a stallion who was standing at $10,000 not so long ago are now understood to be trading at around $300,000. And Twirling Candy has been on a particularly spectacular roll since the start of August, in the process edging past Uncle Mo in the fifth-crop sires' table for 2019 by both prize money and black-type winners. First, his daughter Concrete Rose followed up her GI Belmont Oaks success with a win in the second leg of NYRA's inaugural Turf Tiara, the Saratoga Oaks Invitational. That was her sixth win in seven starts and she appears to be the leading turf sophomore of her sex. Then, last Saturday, Collusion Illusion emerged among the top juveniles on the West Coast by winning the GII Best Pal S. at Del Mar. The next day, moreover, Law Abidin Citizen won the GIII Longacres Mile at Emerald Downs-completing an outstanding weekend for Mark Glatt, who trains both horses. Collusion Illusion | Benoit And Twirling Candy promptly kept up his momentum at Fasig-Tipton's New York Sale, where a $320,000 filly made the fourth highest price of the auction. In all, his eight yearlings into the ring yielded six sales at an average $160,000, eight times their 2017 cover fee of $20,000. The chance to get him at $10,000 had come in 2014, after an opening book of 118 had made the familiar drop, to 72. Breeders took that carrot, in that tricky third season, with a solid 85 mares. But the first clue to what has happened since was a bumper 154 the following year, after a very strong sales debut (notably with his first 2-year-olds). Twenty-five juvenile winners (from 45 starters) in his freshman crop quickly enabled Lane's End to restore his fee to $15,000 for 2016, when he entertained 159 partners; and then to add consecutive $5,000 increments as Twirling Candy (who maintained books of 152 and 141 in 2017 and 2018 respectively) continued to reward breeders both in the ring and on the track. Cont. p5 Want to list your job? 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