SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 2012 732-747-8060 $ TDN Home Page Click Here FORT LARNED WINS CLASSIC SLUGFEST WISE DAN TOO CLASSY IN THE MILE For Janis Whitham, Fort Larned (E Dubai)=s thrilling Wise Dan (Wiseman=s Ferry) put the wraps on a victory over Mucho Macho Man (Macho Uno) in wildly-successful 5-year-old campaign, rattling home for Saturday=s GI Breeders= a 1 1/2-length victory over Animal Kingdom Cup Classic was all in the (Leroidesanimaux {Brz}) in the GI Breeders= Cup Mile family. The 4-year-old is a Saturday at Santa Anita. The victory, achieved in grandson of Bayakoa (Arg) course-record time, likely secured an Eclipse as (Consultant=s Bid), who champion turf male and, given the events of the day, carried the Whitham silks strengthened his case for Horse of the Year. Cont. p5 to scores in the GI Breeders= Cup Distaff in JUVENILE WINNER REACHES NEW HAI-GHTS 1989 and 1990. AWhen Starlight Racing=s Shanghai Bobby (Harlan=s Holiday) you have a horse that=s looked hopelessly beaten when he staggered into the getting better and better stretch of Saturday=s GI Breeders= Cup Juvenile, but every time you take him Fort Larned Michael Oppenheim was able to find another gear beneath Rosie Napravnik over there, it makes my entering the final furlong and held off a renewed bid job easier,@ said trainer Ian Wilkes, the former assistant from He=s Had Enough (Tapit) for a head success. to Carl Nafzger, who was saddling his first Breeders= Cont. p7 Cup winner. AEvery time this horse went in the gate, he brought his >A= game.@ Breeders= Cup Classic cont. p3 GROUPIE DOLL ROLLS IN F/M SPRINT Groupie Doll (Bowman=s Band) was hammered down Saturday, Santa Anita into 7-10 favoritism for Saturday=s GI Breeders= Cup BREEDERS' CUP CLASSIC-GI, $4,545,000, SAX, 11-3, Filly and Mare Sprint and had to overcome a difficult 3yo/up, 1 1/4m, 2:00, ft. trip, but did it with style, rallying to a 4 1/2-length 1--FORT LARNED, 126, c, 4, by E Dubai victory over Dust and Diamonds (Vindication) and 1st Dam: Arlucea, by Broad Brush securing her divisional championship in the process. 2nd Dam: Bayakoa (Arg), by Consultant's Bid Cont. p10 3rd Dam: Arlucea (Arg), by Good Manners O/B-Janis R Whitham (KY); T-Ian R Wilkes; J-Brian Joseph Hernandez Jr. $2,700,000. Lifetime Record: TDN TODAY 19-8-2-1, $3,681,236. *1/2 to Izarra (Distorted Headline News.................... 26 pages Humor), MGISP, $114,800; and Moonport (Cape Canaveral), SW, $155,236. Werk Nick Rating: A++. Click for the eNicks report & 5-cross pedigree. Half-sister sells with Denali at KeeNov - Hip 312 LAMBHOLM South GRADUATE KY-BRED QUALITY KTA / KTOB 2--Mucho Macho Man, 126, c, 4, Macho Uno--Ponche De Leona, by Ponche. O-Reeves Thoroughbred Racing; B-John D & Carole A Rio (FL); T-Kathy Ritvo. $900,000. 3--Flat Out, 126, h, 6, Flatter--Cresta Lil, by Cresta Rider. ($11,000 wlng '06 OBSOCT; $85,000 yrl '07 FTKJUL). O-Preston Stables LLC; B-Nikolaus Bock (FL); T-William I Mott. $495,000. Consigned by BLUEWATER SALES at FTKJUL ‘07 RAISED & PINHOOKED BY MACHMER HALL Margins: HF, 6HF, 3/4. Odds: 9.40, 6.30, 6.20. Also Ran: Ron the Greek, Richard's Kid, Nonios, Game on Dude, Pool Play, Handsome Mike, To Honor and Serve, Brilliant Speed, Alpha. Click for the brisnet.com chart, the brisnet.com PPs o r the free brisnet.com catalogue-style pedigree. Video, sponsored by Taylor Made Sales. 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From there it was back to the deeper waters of the GI Whitney H. and a rematch with Ron the Greek, Flat Out (Flatter) and company. Dismissed at 7-1 that afternoon, Fort Larned was always prominent, blew the doors off his rivals in the stretch and held off the GI Big >Cap and Foster Who’d Have Thunk It... winner by 1 1/4 lengths. Then came a crossroads. A three-time winner of less than $80,000 during his AFrom the Whitney, I had to make a decision how to 3-year-old season, no one would have expected Fort get him to the Breeders= Cup,@ Wilkes explained. AI had Larned to become a major player in the to make a decision whether to run him in the older male division when he ran fourth [GI] Woodward S. or wait eight weeks and freshen him, in an overnight handicap at Tampa Bay then go to the [GI] Jockey Club [Gold Cup Sept. 29] Downs Feb. 4. He atoned for that and bring him to the Breeders= Cup.@ defeat with a win in the Challenger S. In the end, it was plan >B,= but Fort Larned caught a in Oldsmar Mar. 3, then caught the wet Belmont main track that was holding speed and he attention of the racing public with a could do no better than third to Flat Out, beaten 5 1/2 12-1 upset in the GIII Skip Away S. at lengths. But, cut from the same patient cloth as his Gulfstream Park Mar. 31. He returned mentor Nafzger, Wilkes didn=t panic, knowing that his to his Churchill base and ran a cracker colt would have gotten plenty out of the effort on Long when runner-up to Successful Dan Island without squeezing the lemon dry. It was a plan Horsephotos (Successful Appeal) while some six that would ultimately lead to Classic perfection. lengths clear of Mucho Macho Man in the GII Alysheba S. May 4, but the wheels came off in All horses in the TDN are bred in North America, the June 16 GI Stephen Foster H. and he finished unless otherwise indicated eighth to Ron the Greek and Wise Dan. P TDN HEADLINE NEWS • 11/4/12 • PAGE 4 of 26 • thoroughbreddailynews.com Them’s the Breaks... AWe had to be there near the front and he was ready Trainer Bob Baffert stressed to NBC=s Kenny Rice today,@ Wilkes commented. AHe had galloped great over how important the break was to the chances of favored the track. I knew we were good when he broke sharp. Game On Dude (Awesome Again), looking to give the That=s where Brian conditioner his first Classic success. The last-out [Hernandez] won the winner of the GI Awesome Again S., a gut-wrenching race. We broke sharp runner-up in the 2011 Classic, was a touch slow to and Game On Dude start and was taken hold of by Rafael Bejarano. Fort broke bad. I trust Brian Larned, on the other hand, departed without incident because the horse and was able to assume command readily, as Mucho trusts Brian.@ Macho Man and To Honor and Serve (Bernardini) Kathy Ritvo, trainer pressed from the outside. Game On Dude was much of the runner-up, was further back than is his custom and out on the track, gracious in defeat. one which played kindly to speed types and those that AWhat can you do? Brian Hernandez (right) accepts raced nearer the inside. He ran a winning congratulations from Mike Smith Positions were largely unchanged as they passed the race,@ she said. AThe Horsephotos six-furlong pole in :46.50, but sensing that the race other horse [Fort might be getting away from him, Bejarano asked Game Larned] was a great horse today.