Silver Charm Purchased by JRA 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 SATURDAY, OCTOBER 30, 2004 STARS SHINING AT LONE STAR Every year, Breeders’ Cup day plays host to racing’s BREEDERS’ CUP greatest stars, and this year’s edition at Lone Star Park BULLETIN in Grand Prairie, Texas, is no different. Pleasantly Per- fect (Pleasant Colony) (Classic), Six Perfections (Celtic Swing {GB}) (Mile) and Cajun Beat (Grand Slam) CLASSIC, POWERED BY DODGE, $4,000,000, (Sprint) will try and defend their respective titles, while 3yo/up, 1 1/4m Storm Flag Flying (Storm Cat) and With most of the final preparations already com- Azeri (Jade Hunter) are striking out pleted, most horses and their connections enjoy an into unchartered territory. Storm uneventful, if not routine, day heading into the main Flag Flying will attempt to become event. And that was the case for most Friday, except the first horse in Breeders’ Cup his- for trainer Bobby Frankel and his tory to take two different events on charge Ghostzapper (Awesome the card. and 2002 Horse of the Again). Scheduled for a routine Year Azeri will try and add the Clas- 1 1/2-mile gallop, exercise rider sic to her victory in the Distaff two Azeri Coady photos Nuno Santos misunderstood years ago. Two-time Breeders’ Cup Frankel’s instructions and only champions are few and far in between, and only a galloped the horse five-eighths. handful of horses have accomplished that feat. Miesque Frankel quickly realized the Ghostzapper Horsephotos (1987/88) and Lure (1992/93) both won back-to-back rider’s error and sent the four- Miles, while Da Hoss bagged the race in 1996 and came year-old back to complete the work, which the colt did back two years later to win again for trainer Michael with ease. “What are you going to do,” said Frankel. Dickinson. Also responsible for the Breeders’ Cup dou- “You’ve got to adapt to how it all happens. He’s OK. ble is Argentine import Bayakoa, who won the Distaff He came back nice and loose. We got done what we in 1989 and ‘90, while High Chaparral (Ire) collected a needed to get done.” Perhaps reflecting his confidence Turf victory in 2002 before dead-heating for first with in the bay, a reserved Frankel quipped, “So what we Johar in 2003. Tiznow, however, holds the distinction did [Friday] was interval training. If he wins [today], for most money earned on Breeders’ Cup day, having we’ll have to train him like that all the time.” scored in consecutive Classics in 2000 and 2001. Trainer Christophe Clement does not believe Lone Second Time’s the Charm... Star experience will give his Classic contender Dynever Numerous horses are returning to take another shot an edge. “He won over the track, so obvi- at racing’s championship day, including Elloluv (Gilded ously he likes it, but I don’t think a race Time) and Ashado (Saint Ballado), who finished runner- over the track is a big deal,” he said. “He up in last year’s Distaff and Juvenile Fillies, respec- didn’t ever run below form because of the tively. Both entered for this year’s Distaff, Ashado is racetrack--there was always some other the winner of three of her last five starts, including the explanation.” But Clement doesn’t believe nine-furlong GI Kentucky Oaks, while Elloluv’s most his colt, third in the 2003 Classic at 15-1, recent win was recorded in the mile Piedra Foundation will be looking for excuses after this year’s H. at Del Mar Sept. 2. A pair of fillies, Life’s Magic in Dynever running. “He is training well--I think he is 1984 and Lady’s Secret in 1985, came back from Horsephotos doing at least as well as last year,” he second-place finishes in the contest for older fillies and said. The majority of this year’s contenders mares to score in the race the following year, while no have not yet had the chance to test the surface in the horse has yet to step up from the Juvenile Fillies and afternoon, but there has been widespread praise for the follow up with a Distaff win. track by the horsemen visiting for the first time. TDN P HEADLINE NEWS • 10/30/04 • PAGE 2 of 5 (Breeders’ Cup Bulletin cont.) Today’s Graded Stakes NETJETS MILE, $1,500,000, 3yo/up, 1mT brought to you by Flaxman Holdings’ Six Perfections (Fr) (Celtic Swing {GB}) had her final workout at Lone Star Friday in prep- aration for today’s Mile. The defending champion cov- ered three-eighths of a mile in :43 flat over the yielding turf course. According to trainer Pascal Bary, the move, which was required to satisfy Texas Racing Commis- sion rules, was more of a strong gallop than an actual 12:25p First Flight H.-GII, Aqueduct workout. Off since a second-place finish in the G1 Prix 12:55p Knickerbocker H.-GII, Aqueduct du Haras de Fresnay-le Buffard Jacques Le Marois Aug. 1:20p Breeders’ Cup Distaff-GI, Lone Star Park 15, Six Perfections needed to record a work in the state 1:55p Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies-GI, Lone Star Park of Texas before being given the go-ahead to race today. 2:10p Fayette S.-GIII, Keeneland “It was just a nice blowout for her,” said Bary. “I think 2:35p Breeders’ Cup Mile-GI, Lone Star Park the turf track has a good enough cushion and the turns are fairly cambered.” 3:10p Breeders’ Cup Sprint-GI, Lone Star Park 3:45p Breeders’ Cup Filly/Mare Turf-GI, Lone Star Park 4:20p Breeders’ Cup Juvenile-GI, Lone Star Park N E W S T O D A Y P P 4:55p Breeders’ Cup Turf-GI, Lone Star Park 5:35p Breeders’ Cup Classic-GI, Lone Star Park SILVER CHARM HEADED TO JAPAN Kentucky 8:08p Morvich H.-GIII, Santa Anita Derby winner Silver Charm (Silver Buck--Bonnie’s Poker, Eastern Daylight Time by Poker) has been purchased by the Japanese Racing MORE MOONLIGHT is Third Stakes Association for an undisclosed price, according to syn- Winner for MORE THAN READY! dicate manager Robert Clay Friday. “We received an Click here for more... offer that, at my stage in life, I could not turn down,” said Bob Lewis, who campaigned the colt with his wife Beverly and retained a 75% interest in Silver Charm P P R E V I E W S P following his retirement. “The contract gives us the right of first refusal to purchase him if he is ever sold, so that we can ensure his well being. It provides that Saturday, Aqueduct, post time: 12:25 p.m. EDT he may return to Three Chimneys upon his retirement FIRST FLIGHT H.-GII, $150,000, 3yo/up, f/m, 7f [from stud duty].” Agent Rollin Baugh represented the PP HORSE SIRE TRAINER ODDS JRA in the purchase of the 10-year-old. From two crops 1 Smokey Glacken Forestry J Jerkens 3-1 2 Sensibly Chic Distorted Humor Tullock Jr 12-1 to race, the 10-year-old stallion has sired graded-stakes 3 Hidden Ransom Silver Ghost Hennig 8-1 winner Consecrate and stakes performers Silver Impulse 4 Passing Shot A.P. Indy H Jerkens 2-1 and Silver Indy. Over the course of four seasons on the 5 Bending Strings American Chance McLaughlin 5-2 track, the roan won 11 of 22 starts, including the Ken- 6 Schedule (GB) Brian’s Time Goldberg 4-1 tucky Derby and Preakness S. at three, and came back the following year to score in the G1 Dubai World Cup. (cont. p3) TDN P HEADLINE NEWS • 10/30/04 • PAGE 3 of 5 First Flight H. cont. Saturday, Aqueduct, post time: 12:55 p.m. EDT The graded stakes action gets off to an early start at KNICKERBOCKER H.-GII, $150,000, 3yo/up, 1 1/8mT the Big A to accommodate the Breeders' Cup. Bending PP HORSE SIRE TRAINER ODDS Strings looks to capture consecutive starts for the first 1 Caesarion (Ire) Danehill de Roualle 15-1 time this season, coming off a convincing victory over 2 Hotstufanthensome Awesome Again Pointer 6-1 even-money chalk Smokey Glacken in the GIII Safely 3 Evening Attire Black Tie Affair (Ire) Kelly 6-1 Kept Breeders' Cup S. at Pimlico Oct. 2. The three-year- 4 Dr. Kashnikow El Gran Senor Fisher 6-1 old has had reasonable success this season knocking heads with the division's best fillies. She's finished 5 L’Oiseau d’Argent Silver Hawk McLaughlin 8-1 second to Society Selection twice, including the GI Test 6 Host (Chi) Hussonet Pletcher 4-1 S. at Saratoga in July. The lightly-raced Smokey 7 Balestrini (Ire) Danehill Drysdale 10-1 Glacken, a half to successful sire Smoke Glacken, 8 Mr. Light (Arg) Numerous Penna 15-1 returned from a 5 1/2-month break to take a pair of 9 Sailaway Our Emblem McGaughey 15-1 minor stakes events at Monmouth and Saratoga in 10 Denon Pleasant Colony Frankel 5-2 August, then failed to fend off Bending Strings in Speed hasn’t done especially well in the opening days her latest going six panels. The bay is likely to be on of the meet, but the fleet L’Oiseau d’Argent looms the the engine early and may find the added panel a hin- one to run down this afternoon.