SATURDAY, JULY 15, 2017 SONGBIRD FINDS SOFT KLIMT RETURNS VS. WEST COAST IN LOS AL DERBY by Joe Bianca SPOT IN DEL >CAP Kaleem Shah=s >TDN Rising Star= and Grade I winner Klimt (Quality Road) will make his belated 3-year-old debut and first start for trainer Art Sherman in Saturday=s GIII Los Alamitos Derby, where he=ll meet former stablemate West Coast (Flatter) and six other foes. A second-out victor to earn his >Rising Star= nod last July at Santa Anita, the $435,000 OBS March buy repeated in the GII Best Pal S. and made it three in a row with a breakout score in the GI Del Mar Futurity. Finishing second at 3-10 in the GI FrontRunner S., the bay wrapped up his juvenile campaign with a dull eighth in the GI Sentient Jet Breeders= Cup Juvenile and hasn=t been seen since. Switching barns after Shah=s much-publicized split with Bob Baffert, Klimt shows a series of stamina-building six and eight-furlong workouts over the Los Alamitos strip for this return. Cont. p3 Songbird | Coglianese Photo IN TDN EUROPE TODAY by Brian DiDonato ROLY POLY DOMINATES FALMOUTH Two-time champion filly Songbird (Medaglia d=Oro) will The Aidan O’Brien-trained Roly Poly (War Front) readily saw of compete in what looks like the closest thing to a walkover you=ll the opposition to win the G1 Falmouth S. at Newmarket. Click ever see in a Grade I race when she lines up in Saturday=s or tap here to go straight to TDN Europe. Delaware H. Almost 13-for-13 if not for a nose defeat to future Hall of Famer Beholder (Henny Hughes) in last November=s GI Breeders= Cup Distaff, the >TDN DELAWARE H.-GI, 3yo/up, f/m, 1 1/4m Rising Star= PP. Horse Sire returned to the 1. Miss Mo Kelly Congrats races at Belmont 2. Martini Glass Kitalpha June 10 to 3. Weep No More K Mineshaft comfortably annex 4. Line of Best Fit Trajectory the GI Ogden 5. Songbird Medaglia d'Oro Phipps S. While 6. Hone In K Smart Strike her five foes consist of mostly (see Graded Stakes Entries) optional claiming types, Songbird will take on another Grade I winner, albeit one who she=s already trounced twice. Weep No More (Mineshaft) upended last April=s GI Ashland S. at Keeneland as a 30-1 outsider over the likes of subsequent GI Kentucky Oaks heroine Cathryn Sophia (Street Boss) and GISW Carina Mia (Malibu Moon), but she=s failed to hit the board in her next five tries. Cont. p3 PRESIDENT & CO-PUBLISHER Barry Weisbord @barryweisbord [email protected] SR. 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She was last seen checking in sixth in the GII Fleur de Lis H. at Churchill June 17, but will be equipped with blinkers for the first time here. Third choice on the morning line at 8-1 is Martini Glass (Kitalpha). She completed a three-race win streak with a 7 3/4-length score in a Tampa turf starter allowance Apr. 26, and just missed in the local Obeah S. June 10. Los Al Derby cont. from p1 Klimt | Benoit Photo The >now horse= is Gary and Mary West=s West Coast. The $425,000 Keeneland September pickup has yet to be out of the exacta in five career outings, and stamped himself as a serious player in the 3-year-old division with a dominant LOS ALAMITOS DERBY-GIII, 3yo, 1 1/8m PP Horse Sire victory in the Easy 1. Kimbear K Temple City Goer S. last out June 2. Cistron K The Factor 10 at Belmont. The 3. Colonist K Pioneerof the Nile Baffert trainee 4. B Squared Square Eddie earned a 99 Beyer 5. West Coast K Flatter for that effort, the 6. Klimt Quality Road fastest number 7. Milton Freewater Creative Cause anyone in this field 8. Term of Art K Tiznow has run. (see Graded Stakes Entries) Kimbear (Temple City) has found a home on dirt after running on turf in four out of his first five career starts. Cont. p4 TDN HEADLINE NEWS • PAGE 4 OF 9 • THETDN.COM SATURDAY • JULY 15, 2017 Los Al Derby cont. The Eric Kruljac trainee was a good second to American Anthem (Bodemeister) in the GIII Laz Barrera S. May 13 at Santa Anita and filled the same slot behind promising American Pastime (Tapizar) in an allowance/optional claimer there June 11. He sports a pair of :58 2/5 bullet five-furlong works leading up to this return to graded stakes company. Forward-moving Colonist (Pioneerof the Nile) is a potential upsetter for Stonestreet Stables and Jerry Hollendorfer. The $300,000 KEENOV purchase scored in a pair of two-turn tests in Arcadia this April before running fifth against older horses last out May 21. IRAP TACKLES TEN IN INDIANA DERBY Irap | Coady Photography by Joe Bianca Reddam Racing=s Irap (Tiznow) shocked the world when capturing the GII Toyota Blue Grass S. at 31-1 Apr. 8, and it appeared that performance may have been a fluke when he backed up to finish 18th in the GI Kentucky Derby next out. The $300,000 OBS March buy legitimized his Keeneland heroics with a game victory in the GIII Ohio Derby last out, however, and he=ll look to capture another midwest derby as the favorite in the GIII Indiana Derby Saturday night. The bay colt, who had most of his early success racing close to the pace, showed a new dimension at Thistledown by rallying from sixth to run down Girvin (Tale of Ekati) in the closing strides. Trainer Doug O=Neill elected not to send his charge back to California after the race, as Irap recorded a five-furlong breeze in :59 4/5 (2/8) July 7 at Prairie Meadows in the interim. Cont. p5 T D N I SR I NT GS A R ON T H E HE E L O S F UB Y ES L L HO L D’S TS A K E SVI C T O R Y I N T H E EK N T U C KU YJ V E N I LTS E A K E SOC M E S T D N I SR I NT GS A R AB R R YEL E W H O OR M P E DB Y 6 1 / 2 A S T H E HC A L KF O R AS G A M O R EAF R M A T AL U R E L w w w .hillndalefarm s.com LG B,LLC H2017 O T O:I M JM/CC UP E TDN HEADLINE NEWS • PAGE 5 OF 9 • THETDN.COM SATURDAY • JULY 15, 2017 Indiana Derby cont. Completing the trifecta that day was Majestic Quality (Quality Calumet Farm=s homebred Wild Shot (Trappe Shot) will once Road), who ran second in the again try his hand at GII Rachel Alexandra two turns after S. as a maiden over INDIANA OAKS-GIII, 3yo, f, 1 1/16m cutting back to INDIANA DERBY-GIII, 3yo, 1 1/16m the winter. The Keith PP Horse Sire success this spring. PP Horse Sire Desormeaux pupil is 1. Overture Congrats Seventh after setting 1. Society Beau Curlin the second choice on 2. Dutch Parrot Eskendereya the tempo in Irap=s 2. Irap K Tiznow the Indiana Grand 3. I'mluckysgirl K Lookin At Lucky Blue Grass, the bay 3.