FRIDAY, AUGUST 27, 2021 SPECIAL BOND UNITING BAFFERT SEEKS $162K FROM NYRA; CLAIMS HE'S >PREVAILING PARTY' by T.D. Thornton TWO TRAVERS COLTS Even though trainer Bob Baffert has secured only a preliminary injunction in his ongoing lawsuit against the New York Racing Association (NYRA) that allows him to race at New York's three major tracks pending the final resolution of the case, his attorneys filed a motion in federal court Aug. 25 seeking $162,086 in legal fees and expenses from NYRA based on the claim that Baffert is due that money as the "prevailing party." The three attorneys Baffert engaged for work on this case have billed him at rates between $450 and $975 hourly, according to court filings in which the lawyers detailed their costs. NYRA on Wednesday countered with its own court filing, which came in the form of a "notice of motion to dismiss" the original complaint. Essentially, that response was NYRA's way of telling Baffert's legal team that the case is not yet over. Cont. p5 Dynamic One winning the Curlin S. | Sarah Andrew IN TDN EUROPE TODAY by Chris McGrath SIYOUNI: FROM SYNDICATION TO STARDOM How very apt, that a Saratoga card also featuring a race named French champion sire Siyouni (Fr) (Pivotal {GB}) was syndicated in her honor should culminate Saturday in a GI Runhappy at the beginning of his stallion career. Emma Berry explores the Travers S. bearing a twin imprint of the legacy of Personal career development of one of Europe's top sires. Click or tap Ensign. Both Dynamic One (Union Rags) and Miles D (Curlin), here to go straight to TDN Europe. one-two in the Curlin S. last month, trace their ancestries to the Hall of Fame mare: Dynamic One=s mother is out of Personal Ensign=s granddaughter Storm Flag Flying (Storm Cat); while Miles D=s dam is Storm Flag Flying=s unraced half-sister Sound the Trumpets (Bernardini). But if nobody could be surprised to see fresh tendrils of class on the family tree developed by Ogden Phipps from Dorine (Arg) (Aristophanes {GB})--the Argentine matriarch imported to Claiborne in 1970--then few will perhaps be aware that both these colts also find a more literal Abond@ in a second remarkable female. For the dams of both Dynamic One and Miles D are among just eight mares grazing the pasture of River Bend Farm, on the banks of the Ohio River near Goshen, north of Louisville. And while the farm=s owner Ina Bond is in a position at least to ensure quality, if not quantity, then it is pretty astonishing for so small a band of broodmares to account for two of the six rivals to Essential Quality (Tapit)--especially when you consider that Bond has already bred one Grade I winner at Saratoga this summer, in Coaching Club American Oaks winner Maracuja (Honor Code). 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Bond is very pleased with her weanling colt of Maracuja=s dam Patti=s Regal Song (Unbridled=s Song) for just by Ghostzapper and the mare is meanwhile in foal to Street $50,000 at the Keeneland Sense. Miles D, for his part, November Sale of 2019. But if similarly helped to recoup that has turned into a windfall Bond=s investment in his dam. for Checkmate Thoroughbreds, Sound the Trumpets had cost then at that same auction Bond $675,000 at the Keeneland herself achieved a similar coup November sale of 2017, with the in buying an 8-year-old mare bonus of a Curlin cover. The named Beat the Drums (Smart resulting foal was Miles D, who Strike) for $400,000. She must was sold through Denali to have been delighted that the White Birch Farm as a Phipps Stable had been willing September yearling for to cull a mare whose latest $470,000. The next foal out of yearling had raised as much as Sound the Trumpets, a Pioneerof $725,000 at the September sale. the Nile colt, did not achieve After all, while Beat the Drums quite the same traction, as a had shown little in two career Dynamic One breezing Saturday at Saratoga | Sarah Andrew $120,000 RNA, and has been starts, the Phipps Stable was retained to race. AHe=s called glad to retain a stake in the yearling with his purchasers Repole Trumpets Blare, he=s with Ian Wilkes and just getting ready to Stable & St. Elias Stable. And this colt, of course, has turned out run shortly,@ explained Bond, adding that Sound the Trumpets to be none other than Dynamic One. Beat the Drums, moreover, was given this cycle off after the late spring delivery of a fine has started to pay her way already. The Honor Code colt she was colt by Medaglia d=Oro. The mare, after all, is still only eight. TDN HEADLINE NEWS • PAGE 4 OF 12 • THETDN.COM FRIDAY • AUGUST 27, 2021 AShe also has a [Quality Road yearling] filly, that I think I=ll AI lived on the farm and it got me out a little bit, away from all keep,@ Bond said. AI think I=d like to keep any fillies from that these other things I was doing. But I also had children, and then family. It just keeps producing, including in the last couple of eight grandchildren, as well as all those other different things years, not just runners, but producers as well. And Sound the stopping me from getting out with the horses as much as I=d like. Trumpets is an extremely good-looking mare. We=re very careful But thankfully I did get some help. I have a nice crew who take always to seek good conformation, because if they have an care of the mares and foals; they never missed a day this injury, you=re lost. Frankly I=m more of a commercial breeder summer no matter how hot it=s been. And my farm manager than a racer, so I always try to Larry Weeden has helped get correct broodmares with a me for 30 years; he=s very really strong pedigree--not just good.@ >What have you done for me Nurturing pedigrees is lately,= the way a lot of people itself a task of conservation go for the hot new stallions. I and that is an area that has spend a lot of time and get a impassioned Bond=s son lot of help doing the matings.@ Austin Mussulman--notably There is hardly a stronger in the restoration of maternal line in the Stud Book, Ashbourne Farms in Oldham of course, than the sequence County, long part of the of three consecutive Breeders= family and now a wedding, Cup winners comprising meeting and entertainment Personal Ensign, My Flag (Easy venue, securing the habitat Goer) and Storm Flag Flying. alongside Harrods Creek. His But if anyone should believe in wife Janie, meanwhile, pedigree, it is Ina Bond. For Miles D (outside) breezing Saturday at Saratoga | Sarah Andrew comes from another storied her own Apage@ is one of the Kentucky farm in Buck Pond, most resonant in Kentucky. Her great-grandfather George through which Maracuja--bred in partnership by Bond, her son Garvin Brown founded Brown-Forman--think Woodford and daughter-in-law--was sold as a Saratoga yearling for Reserve, Jack Daniels--and her grandfather Owsley Brown and $200,000.