COLIC SURGERY FOR LEFT BANK...p8 HEADLINE NEWS For information about TDN, DELIVERED EACH NIGHT call 732-747-8060. BY FAX AND INTERNET www.thoroughbreddailynews.com SUNDAY, AUGUST 11, 2002 THE WAIT IS OVER SAKHEE BEATEN AT DEAUVILLE The Pat Day watch has ended. With his victory Making his first start since finishing third in the Mar. aboard With Anticipation (Relaunch) in yesterday’s GI 23 G1 Dubai World Cup at Nad Al Sheba, Godolphin’s Sword Dancer Invitational H. at Saratoga, the Hall of Sakhee (Bahri) was sent of the 1-5 favourite in the G3 Famer became the all-time Prix Gontaut-Biron at Deauville, but could not get past leading money-winning rider 6-1 Wellbeing (GB) (Sadler’s Wells) and suffered the with $264,580,968 in earn- one-length upset. “It was obviously disappointing to get ings, breaking the mark of beaten and that must rate as a below-par perfor- $264,351,679 that has been mance,” Godolphin racing held by Chris McCarron manager Simon Crisford since he retired in June. “I said. “We needed him to win would like to thank the thou- to go forward with plans, so With Anticipation and Pat Day sands of horses that got me now we will have to take Horsephotos here,” Day said. “I would him home and see if some- also like to praise God for keeping me healthy and thing wrong comes to light.” Wellbeing Beats Sakhee Photo Finish injury-free. I want to thank my wife and my daughter. I The one-two finishers had also want to thank my agents over the years for doing last met in the 2000 G1 Epsom Derby, where 12 1/2 an awesome job of putting me on the stock.” (More on lengths separated the runner-up Sakhee and the fifth- the Sword Dancer, p2) placed Wellbeing. They had traveled very different paths since--while Sakhee was establishing himself as Saturday, Saratoga last year’s International Classifications highweight, SWORD DANCER INVITATIONAL H.-GI, $500,000, Wellbeing was winless in three starts, finishing second SAR, 8-10, 3yo/up, 1 1/2mT, 2:24, fm. in the G1 Coronation Cup before being transferred from 1--WITH ANTICIPATION, 120, g, 7, by Relaunch Henry Cecil’s yard to that of trainer Pascal Bary. This 1st Dam: Fran's Valentine (MGISW, $1,375,465), season, the five-year-old was disappointing when by Saros (GB) 2nd Dam: Iza Valentine, by Bicker eighth in the G3 Prix d’Hedouville over fast ground at 3rd Dam: Countess Market, by Count of Honor Longchamp Apr. 18, but showed he had retained his O-Augustin Stable; B-George Strawbridge, Jr (PA); ability when taking the Listed Grand Prix De Compiegne T-Jonathan E Sheppard; J-P Day; $300,000. Lifetime July 3 in impressive fashion. Here he was keen in the Record: 40-14-8-7, $1,857,204. *1/2 to With Fasci- early stages, but eventually settled in Thierry Thulliez’s nation (Dayjur), GSW & MG1SP-Fr, $174,978. hands as Sydenham (A. P. Indy) cut out the running for 2--Denon, 118, c, 4, Pleasant Colony--Aviance (Ire), by Sakhee, who sat third. Thulliez was content to race Northfields. O-Gann Edmund A & Flaxman Stable; alongside the favourite early, but made the decisive B-Flaxman Holdings, Ltd (KY); $100,000. move to go to the front at the half-mile marker. Sakhee 3--Volponi, 115, c, 4, Cryptoclearance--Prom Knight, by loomed at Wellbeing’s quarters and, for a brief period, it Sir Harry Lewis. O-Amherst Stable & Spruce Pond looked as if he might go past, but Wellbeing gained Stable; B-Amherst Stable (KY); $55,000. control. “I am convinced that he is better over a mile Margins: HD, 1 3/4, NK. Odds: 2.80, 2.10, 8.70. and a quarter than this mile and a half, but I was confi- Also Ran: Man From Wicklow, Startac, Whitmore's dent he would run a very good race today,” Bary said. Conn, Cetewayo, Grammarian, Hawkeye (Ire), As for what’s next, he added, “We have many options, Eltawaasul, Rhythm Band. but we may go for the G2 Prix Dollar [Oct. 5] before For the brisnet.com chart click here. For the video race going to Newmarket for the G1 Champion S. [Oct. 19], replay, click: Broadband or Modem or we could go straight to the Champion.” (Chart, p2) TDN P HEADLINE NEWS • 8/11/02 • PAGE 2 of 8 (Sword Dancer cont.) Saturday, Del Mar WITH ANTICIPATION DEFENDS HIS TITLE As SORRENTO S.-GII, $150,000, DMR, 8-10, 2yo, f, 6 he did last year, With Anticipation (Relaunch) prepped 1/2f, 1:17 1/5, ft. for the Sword Dancer in the GI United Nations H. at 1--BUFFYTHECENTERFOLD, 121, f, 2, by Capote Monmouth Park. The big gray finished first in the 2001 1st Dam: Augusta Springs (SP), by Nijinsky II U.N., but was disqualified and placed second for drift- 2nd Dam: Stellarette, by Tentam ing into Senure in the stretch. He went on to take the 3rd Dam: Square Angel, by Quadrangle Sword Dancer and the GI Man o’War S., but ended the ($40,000 yrl '01 KEESEP). O-Brian & Stronach season with off-the-board efforts in the GI Breeders’ Stables; B-Overbrook Farm (KY); T-M F Stute; J-M S Cup Turf and G1 Japan Cup. Second in a Gulfstream Garcia; $90,000. Lifetime Record: 3-3-0-0, $182,160. allowance in his 2002 debut, the seven-year-old ran 2--Tricks Her, 115, f, 2, Favorite Trick--Pudding Pop, by into Beat Hollow (GB) in his next two, finishing second It's Freezing. ($170,000 2yo 2002 BESMAR). to that rival in the May 4 GI Woodford Reserve S. and O-Legacy Ranch; B-Gulf Coast Farms Bloodstock, Lp fourth behind him in the June 8 GI Manhattan H. Back (KY); $30,000. for another tilt at the U.N. July 6, the Augustin Stable 3--Indy Groove, 117, f, 2, A.P. Indy--Niner's Home, by homebred hit the wire a neck in front of Denon (Pleas- Forty Niner. ($1,000,000 yrl '01 KEESEP). O-Glen Hill ant Colony) and this time was able to keep the winner’s Farm; B-Ten Broeck Farm Inc (KY); $18,000. share of the purse. The second choice behind the U.N. Margins: 3/4, 3, 3. Odds: 1.90, 2.40, 7.70. runner-up this time, he settled in fourth off a swift early Also Ran: Roar Madness, My Honey Bunny, Magic pace. Denon, just in front of him, strode to the front in Smoke, Himalayan, Voodoo's Sister. the stretch, but With Anticipation finished with determi- Scratches: Dutchess Eben nation for the score. “Pat did a masterful job,” trainer Buffythecenterfold dueled for the lead in her June 15 Jonathan Sheppard said. “Pat really got into him and, debut at Hollywood Park and prevailed by a length at sure enough, he dug down deep and did what he had 10-1, then went gate-to-wire to take the GIII Landaluce to do.” The winner will likely go after a second straight S. at 6-1 over that track July 4. Finally favored at third Man o’War S. at Belmont Park Sept. 7. asking, the bay was forced out into Indy Groove at the break, then raced head-and-head with longshot My Honey Bunny (Swiss Yodeler) through the opening P R E S U L T S P quarter. She was hooked by Tricks Her after a half, but fought her off to take a narrow score after a heated Saturday, Deauville, France stretch drive. “I thought she’d win it today,” jockey PRIX GONTAUT-BIRON-G3, i66,000, Deauville, 8-10, Matt Garcia said. “I rode with great confidence. I hit her 4yo/up, 1 1/4mT, 2:06.50, vsf. a couple of times in the lane, but I really didn’t have to 1--WELLBEING (GB), 123, h, 5, by Sadler’s Wells do too much with her. I could see she had the idea--she 1st Dam: Charming Life (NZ), by Sir Tristram (Ire) knew what to do.” Trainer Mel Stute compared the filly 2nd Dam: Lady Giselle (Fr), by Nureyev to his two Breeders’ Cup winners. “She stacks up with 3rd Dam: Valderna (Fr), by *Val de Loir Brave Raj [‘86 Juvenile Fillies] and Very Subtle [‘87 O-Plantation Stud Ltd; B-Lord Howard de Walden; Sprint],” he said. “You can see how she was today--she T-P Bary; J-T Thulliez; i33,000. Lifetime Record: went to the lead and battled all the way. Nothing much G1SP-GB, 12 starts, 6 wins, 4 places, i267,889. bothers her. She just keeps running--she just digs in.” *1/2 to Kingfisher Mill (Riverman), MGSW-GB, $210,328. The winner goes next in the GII Del Mar Debutante S. 2--Sakhee, 123, h, 5, c, 4, Bahri--Thawakib (Ire), by Aug. 31. Tricks Her was jostled at the start and her Sadler’s Wells. O-Godolphin; B-Shadwell Farm Inc; jockey, Pat Valenzuela, claimed foul against the winner, i13,200. but the stewards ruled it was My Honey Bunny that 3--Sunstrach (Ire), 128, c, 4, Polar Falcon--Lorne Lady caused the interference and allowed the result to stand. (GB), by Local Suitor. O-Scuderia Rencati; B-Azienda “The incident away from the gate cost her the race,” Agricola Francesa; i9,900. Valenzuela said. “I know it wasn’t the winner’s fault, Margins: 1, 2, 4.