HEADLINE THREE CHIMNEYS NEWS The Idea is Excellence. For information about TDN, SKY MESA’s 16th 2YO Winner call 732-747-8060. www.thoroughbreddailynews.com WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 2008 Wins Career Debut by 10 (see p. 2 ATW) LEGENDS IN THE MAKING Shadwell Shopping Spree Continues... A new buying force emerged on the scene in earnest Sheikh Hamdan=s Shadwell Estate Company was yesterday. Legends Racing, the new racing partnership busy during Monday=s opening session of the Septem- launched by Olin Gentry and Thomas Gaines in June, ber sale, purchasing 12 lots, and the made themselves operation stayed busy on Tuesday. known during Shadwell Vice President and General Monday=s opening Manager Rick Nichols saw off the session of the team from WinStar Farm to bring Keeneland Sep- home the session-topping son of A.P. tember Sale. But Indy for $1.5 million. The bay colt, yesterday, the consigned as hip 318, is out of Taegu operation really (Halo) and is a half-brother to multiple kicked it into graded stakes winner Classic Ele- gear. During Tues- gance. AIt=s a nice upcoming pedigree, Rick Nichols day=s second ses- a very nice individual and he=s by Horsephotos sion, Legends ac- A.P.Indy,@ Nichols explained. AHe=s a quired five year- nice strong colt; very correct. He=s got good bone to Legends Racing’s Gentry & Gaines lings for him.@ The yearling will likely be heading to the barn of Horsephotos $4,650,000, in- trainer Kiaran McLaughin in New York. The seven-figure cluding four at $1 million or more. Legends= top-priced price tag wasn=t a complete surprise to Nichols. AI didn=t yearling was hip 331, a Storm Cat half-brother to Horse know what he would do,@ he commented. AHe could of the Year Point Given, which went for $1.2 million. have gone on if somebody hooked up, but we expected Taylor Made Sales Agency consigned the colt. about what we got.@ Shadwell was the second leading Also on the ledger was hip 317, an El Prado (Ire) colt buyer Monday, purchasing 12 yearlings for from Tom Evans=s Trackside Farm; and hip 323, a Mr. $6,220,000. Tuesday, Shadwell bought five yearlings Greeley colt offered by Gainesway, both of which went for $3.5 million and was the third leading buyer. During for $1 million, as well as an Unbridled=s Song colt from the first two sessions of last year=s sale, Shadwell Taylor Made which elicited a $1.15 million bid. purchased 11 head for $6.15 million. Cont. p2 Cont. p2 LOOKIN’ FOR A LEGEND Keeneland September Purchases by Legends Racing DAY 1 Hip Sex Sire Dam Price 62 c Storm Cat Spain $500,000 84 c Broken Vow Tango Passion $625,000 145 f Unbridled's Song Celtic Melody $325,000 159 f Unbridled's Song Critical Crew $325,000 189 f Giant's Causeway Girl Warrior $230,000 DAY 2 317 c El Prado (Ire) Swift and Classy $1,000,000 323 c Mr. Greeley Tempest Dancer $1,000,000 331 c Storm Cat Turko's Turn $1,200,000 355 c Unbridled’s Song Zing $1,150,000 412 f Fusaichi Pegasus Crystal Downs $300,000 CUMULATIVE TOTALS Horses Total Average 10 $6,655,000 $665,500 www.taylormadestallions.com P TDN HEADLINE NEWS • 9/10/08 • PAGE 2 of 18 Legends Gets Going... On June 9, Olin Gentry and Thomas Gaines, along with investment banker Tripp Hardy, announced the inception of the Thoroughbred Legends Racing Fund, a sort of uber-racing partnership that aimed to raise substanital funds from high-end investors to buy young horses. Hall of Fame trainers Nick Zito and D. Wayne Lukas, as well as three-time Kentucky Derby winner Bob Baffert, signed up to help select and to train the horses. While Legends Racing made its presence known at Saratoga, where its pur- chases included a $700,000 colt by Rock Hard Ten, it wasn=t until Keeneland that things re- ally got rolling. On Monday, Legends pur- chased five Hip 331 EquiSport head for just over $2 million. Yesterday, Legends showed it wasn=t afraid to clash with the industry titans by going after, vinery.com and securing, a quartet of seven-figure prospects. Leg- ends purchased five overall on Tuesday for $4.65 mil- lion, second only to John Ferguson=s purchases on the day of $6.83 million Over the first two days of the sale, Legends spent a total of $6,655,000--third to Ferguson KEENELAND SEPTEMBER STATISTICS ($15,655,000) and Shadwell ($9,720,000)--accounting for 5.9 percent of Keeneland=s Book 1 receipts. TUESDAY, SEPT. 9, 2008 AThey played a very important role today,@ said Keeneland Director of Sales Geoffrey Russell. ANot only SESSION TOTALS 2008 2007 were they successful bidders at the top end, but they Catalogued 251 257 also played the underbidder role several times, too.@ No. Offered 215 221 The emergence of Legends helps fill a void left by the No. Sold 146 166 RNAs 69 55 death of Bob Lewis, traditionally a big spender in the % RNA 32.1% 24.8% yearling markets, and the more recent scaled-back No. $1m+ 12 19 spending B. Wayne Hughes, Zayat Stables and others in High Price $1,500,000 $3,700,000 2008. Gross $57,310,000 $77,982,000 AAny time you get a new investor or owner into the Average (% change) $392,534 (-16.4%) $469,771 game that plays at the top level, it=s very important,@ Median (% change) $300,000 (-9.8%) $332,500 said Russell. -Lucas Marquardt CUMULATIVE 2008 2007 Catalogued 495 512 Shadwell Shopping Spree cont. No. Offered 432 446 Nichols said the flurry of activity did not reflect a No. Sold 300 337 change in direction for Shadwell. AIt=s no different from RNAs 132 109 any other year,@ he said. AWe had a very good day % RNA 30.6% 24.4% yesterday, got everything within budget. We set our No. $1m+ 17 30 prices--if they go higher we leave them. We come to High Price $3,100,000 $3,700,000 the sales to buy what we like. There is no change in Gross $113,357,000 $145,377,000 policy or anything like that; we just had a good day.@ Average (% change) $377,857 (-12.4%) $431,386 -JM Median (% change) $300,000 (n/c) $300,000 www.keeneland.com P TDN HEADLINE NEWS • 9/10/08 • PAGE 3 of 18 Brilliant Result on A.P. Indy Colt... AHe was always composed. The most excited I ever Greg Goodman, who owns and operates the saw him was his first day out here--it took him a while Lexington-based Mt. Brilliant Farm, has had bigger to get used to it. But after a little bit, he just put his sales, but you might not have guessed from Goodman=s head down and did everything he was supposed to.@ broad smile after watching hip 318, an A.P. Indy-- Mt. Brilliant=s farm manager, Jody Alexander, admit- Taegu colt bred by Mt. Brilliant, sell for $1.5 million. ted he wasn=t quite sure what to expect when they led Shadwell=s Rich Nichols signed the ticket. It was the the colt into the ring. top price for a yearling during AWe knew he was a good colt and a yesterday=s second session of real nice individual, but once we saw the September Sale. the prices, we thought, boy, the colts AWe=ve sold Pavarotti (A.P. aren=t selling so well,@ he said. AI knew Indy) to Coolmore for $2.8 mil- we had a lot of play on him, but I was- lion, we=ve sold a Seeking the n=t sure about the price.@ Gold filly for $1.9 million to Goodman, a resident of Houston, Sheikh Mohammed, but, in a Texas, started Mt. Brilliant 11 years market like this, this is an awe- ago, but has long had ties with the some sale,@ Goodman enthused sport--including some to his colt=s sire. from his barn shortly after the Goodman=s father was Harold Good- transaction. man, who purchased--along with Will The dam of the colt is the 12- Farish and W.S. Kilroy--a significant year-old Halo mare Taegu, who interest in A.P Indy shortly after the was carrying this fellow when colt=s win in the GI Belmont S. she was offered by Brereton AMy dad was also the leading owner Jones, agent, at the 2006 in Texas over the last three or four Keeneland November Sale. Taegu Hip 318 years of his life,@ said Goodman. AHe was was led out of the ring un- EquiSport stood the leading stallion in Texas, a sold at $975,000, but shortly horse named Manzotti, and he was a after, Mike Ryan, acting on behalf of Mt. Brilliant, of- leading breeder in Texas for a long time. And he raced fered $950,000 and completed the purchase privately. one of the best Texas-breds of all time, a filly named Based on Taegu=s first foal, Goodman was confident Two Altazano (Manzotti).@ he=d made a good buy. Goodman reports that while Taegu did not have a AThis colt was great from the time he was born; he foal in 2008, she is back in foal carrying a 3/4-brother was awesome,@ said Goodman. AHe was always strong- to this colt by Bernardini. -really strong--and he was a smart horse.@ -LM www.coolmore.com P TDN HEADLINE NEWS • 9/10/08 • PAGE 4 of 18 442 Storm Cat Gossamer 1,200,000 B-Airlie Stud & Stonerside Stable (Ky) Consigned by Three Chimneys Sales, agent Purchased by John Ferguson 340 Giant=s Causeway Vertigineux 1,150,000 B-Maverick Productions & Ashford Stud (Ky) Pat Costello • 859.296.6455 • www.paramountsales.net Consigned by Winter Quarter Farm Purchased by Live Oak Stud KEENELAND SEPTEMBER YEARLINGS 355 Unbridled=s Song Zing 1,150,000 TUESDAY’S TOP 10 COLTS B-Aaron & Marie Jones (Ky) Hip Sire Dam Price ($) Consigned by Taylor Made Sales Agency, agent 318 A.P.