World Tour for KITTEN’S JOY HEADLINE p. 2 NEWS For information about TDN, DELIVERED EACH NIGHT BY FAX AND FREE BY E-MAIL TO SUBSCRIBERS OF call 732-747-8060. www.thoroughbreddailynews.com FRIDAY, AUGUST 12, 2005 TALK OF CHI-TOWN LAYING OVER THE FIELD Multiple Grade I winner Better Talk Now (Talkin Man) Layman (Sunday Silence) had missed the major gigs has been entered for a title defense in Saturday’s GI so far this term, but his return in yesterday’s G3 Salis- Sword Dancer Invitational H. at Saratoga, but will run bury S. at Newbury was as promising as it gets. Guided instead in the GI Arlington Million the same afternoon. by an inspired Kerrin McEvoy, the chestnut killed off Trainer Graham Motion had been solid rivals with his acceleration to set a new track leaning toward the Sword Dancer, record. Handled by Andre Fabre last year, he had but has had a change of mind after looked a star in the ascendant when dominating the G3 mulling such factors as pace scenar- Prix de Cabourg at Deauville in early August, and was ios and course conditions. “The not disgraced when runner-up to Divine Proportions in weather was a huge factor,” Motion the G1 Prix Morny over soft ground later that month. said. “It’s what started the wheels He faced contrasting conditions the last time he was turning.” Most of Better Talk Now’s seen when a short-neck third to Oratorio (Ire) in the G1 best efforts have come over courses Prix Jean-Luc Lagardere at Longchamp on Arc day. with some give to them, which is not Reportedly idle at home, he woke up in the paddock the case at the current Saratoga here and settled kindly off the early fractions carved out meet. Rain is expected in the Chi- by New Seeker. The handsome colt strode to the front passing the quarter pole and kicked clear for an authori- Better Talk Now cago area Friday and Saturday, while Horsephotos Motion termed the Saratoga turf tative score. Trainer Saeed bin Suroor is now advocat- course as “rock hard.” Motion ac- ing a continuation of the patient approach with Lay- knowledged that the trip to Arlington would mean a man. “Maybe we will take him to Goodwood at the end rematch with Kitten’s Joy and Powerscourt (Ire), who of the month for the G2 Celebration Mile [Aug. 28], but respectively ran second and third to his charge in the GI we will go step by step with him,” he said. Breeders’ Cup Turf. “We realize we’re running in the Click for the Racing Post chart. tougher race now,” Motion continued. “But we’d rather Thursday, Salisbury, Britain go out there and run our race--win, lose or draw--than TOTESPORT SOVEREIGN S.-G3, £60,000, Salisbury, get compromised.” John Velazquez will ride Better Talk 8-11, 3yo/up, c/g/h, 1mT, 1:38.29 (NTR), gd/fm. Now in the Million, replacing Ramon Dominguez. 1--LAYMAN, 119, c, 3, by Sunday Silence Dominguez has ridden Better Talk Now in each of his 1st Dam: Laiyl (Ire), by Nureyev last seven starts, but his agent told Motion that he 2nd Dam: Alydaress, by Alydar didn't feel he could get out of his other riding commit- 3rd Dam: Balidaress (Ire), by Balidar (Ire) ments on Saturday's Saratoga card. O-Godolphin; B-Darley Stud Management Co Ltd; T-Saeed bin Suroor; J-Kerrin McEvoy; £34,800. Saturday, Saratoga Lifetime Record: GSW & MG1SP-Fr, 5-3-1-1, £135,261. SWORD DANCER INVITATIONAL H.-GI, $500,000, 2--Jack Sullivan, 129, g, 4, Belong to Me--Provisions, 3yo/up, 1 1/2mT by Devil's Bag. ($55,000 yrl ‘02 KEESEP; $145,000 PP HORSE SIRE JOCKEY WT 2yo ‘03 FTFFEB; 115,000gns 2yo ‘03 TATAUT). 1 Meteor Storm (GB) Bigstone (Ire) Castellano 120 O-The International Carnival Partnership; B-Hermitage 2 Vangelis Highest Honor (Fr) Dominguez 118 Farm LLC; T-Gerard Butler; £13,200. 3 Rochester Green Dancer Migliore 116 3--New Seeker (GB), 126, g, 5, Green Desert--Ahbab 4 Relaxed Gesture (Ire) Indian Ridge (Ire) Santos 116 (Ire), by Ajdal. (£23,040 yrl ‘01 TATIRE). O-Elite 5 Silverfoot With Approval Albarado 116 Racing Club; B-Shadwell Estate Company Limited; 6 Request for Parole Judge T C Coa 120 T-Clive Cox; £6,600. 7 King’s Drama (Ire) King’s Theatre (Ire) Chavez 116 Margins: 2, 1HF, 1 3/4. Odds: 9-2, 10-1, 7-2. 8 Better Talk Now Talkin Man Sutherland 123 Also ran: Helm Bank (GB), Kandidate (GB), Rathor (Ire), Home Affairs (GB), 9 Dreadnaught Lac Ouimet Samyn 120 Boule d’Or (Ire), Mac Love (GB), Mine (Ire). (859) 233-4252 FAX (859) 987-0008 www.claibornefarm.com TDN P HEADLINE NEWS • 8/12/05 • PAGE 2 of 2 P P R E V I E W P P N E W S T O D A Y P Saturday, Arlington KITTEN’S PATH Kitten's Joy (El Prado {Ire}), the SECRETARIAT S.-GI, $400,000, 3yo, 1 1/4mT morning-line favorite in Saturday's GI Arlington Million, Susan Magnier’s Grand Central (Ire) (Sadler’s Wells) is likely to take a pass on the Nov. 1 G1 Melbourne has been sold to the Hong Kong Breeders’ Club, it was Cup, owner Ken Ramsey said. announced yesterday. Coolmore issued a statement Instead, Ramsey will point Kit- which read that the sophomore “will continue to be ten's Joy for the GI Breeders' trained at Ballydoyle by Aidan O'Brien for the rest of Cup Turf after his scheduled the year before he embarks on a racing career in Hong start in the G1 Prix de l’Arc de Kong.” Grand Central was third in the May 8 G2 Triomphe in Paris. Ramsey's Leopardstown Derby Trial before finishing unplaced in plans also include a start in the the G1 Epsom Derby June 4 and the Listed Celebration in the Nov. 27 G1 Japan Cup. "I S. at The Curragh June 26. He returned to the winner’s was very impressed with the circle after a conditions event at Leopardstown last people from Australia," Ramsey time July 13. “Saturday’s field at Arlington Park is very said. "They flew their represen- competitive and it will give Grand Central good interna- tative up here to watch him run tional experience before he ships to Hong Kong for in the Firecracker. I had him as more Group races later on in his career,” the Hong my guest in the Turf Club and let Kong Breeders’ Club’s Racing Manager John McGrath him lead the horse in with me said. Grand Central will be leased back to race in the when I won. I had a very good Kitten’s Joy Horsephotos Magnier colors Saturday at Arlington. experience with them and I would really love to go to the Melbourne Cup. Having Saturday, Saratoga said that, I don't think this is the year I should go. It's ALFRED G. VANDERBILT H.-GII, $200,000, 3yo/up, 6f about a 20-horse field, it's a long race and the field is PP HORSE SIRE JOCKEY WT usually made up of older geldings. I don't think it would 1 Peeping Tom Eagle Eyed Arroyo Jr 115 help our horse that much from a stud standpoint to win 2 Botanical Seeking the Gold Dominguez 117 it. And it could hurt us in our big goal for the end of the 3 Voodoo Petionville Castellano 112 season, to win the Japan Cup." Ramsey said that fol- 4 Pomeroy Boundary Coa 117 lowing the Arc, Kitten's Joy will likely be shipped to 5 Smokume Smoke Glacken Sutherland 118 New York and will stable at either Belmont or Saratoga 6 I’m the Tiger Siphon (Brz) Albarado 114 while preparing for the Breeders' Cup Turf. The Japan 7 Kelly’s Landing Patton Smith 117 Cup will likely be his last career start. "He'll probably be retired after that," Ramsey said. "If he manages to run Saturday, Del Mar the table and go undefeated this year, they couldn't LA JOLLA H.-GII, $150,000, 3yo, 1 1/16mT deny him Horse of the Year. If we pull off what we PP HORSE SIRE JOCKEY WT have planned for this horse, I think he has to be Horse 1 In Excelsis Fusaichi Pegasus Flores 119 of the Year, no matter what else happens. If we get 2 Juliesugardaddy Unusual Heat Bisono 119 Horse of the Year, win the Arc, win in Japan, I think 3 El Roblar War Chant Espinoza 120 that would be a high note to go out on." 4 Willow O Wisp Misnomer Gomez 121 5 Stedfast McStaunch (Ire) Desert Style (Ire) Court 114 © Copyright Thoroughbred Daily News. 6 Boggy Creek Menifee Douglas 116 This newspaper may not be reproduced in any form or by 7 Steal Your Thunder Thunder Gulch Baze 115 any means, electronic or mechanical, without prior written permission of the copyright owner, MediaVista. Informa- You can also pick up a copy of the TDN today tion as to the American races, race results and earnings at the Fasig-Tipton Saratoga Preferred was obtained from results charts published in Daily Racing Yearlings Sale. Form and utilized here with with the permission of the copyright owner, Daily Racing Form. www.fasigtipton.com FRIDAY, AUGUST 12, 2005 SAARLAND TO DARBY DAN Jess Jackson has announced that a part interest in Saarland (Unbridled) H S A R A T O G A H has been sold to a syndicate and that the stallion will relocate to Darby Dan Farm for 2006.