TUESDAY, OCTOBER 13, 2015 SUPER MAJESTY EYES BREEDERS’ CUP KEENELAND REVIEWS TRACK CONDITION by Ben Massam In the wake of three fatal breakdowns over its main track this LNJ Foxwoods’s Super Majesty (Super Saver), “TDN Rising meet, Keeneland on Monday released results of a racetrack Star” and recent winner of the GIII Dogwood S. at Churchill review conducted by Dr. Mick Peterson. Peterson, a University Downs, is being pointed to a start in the GI Breeders’ Cup Filly of Maine professor and executive director of the Racing Surfaces and Mare Sprint, according to bloodstock agent and Foxwoods business partner Alex Solis, II. The filly is currently stabled at Testing Laboratory, worked with track officials over this past Keeneland and is scheduled to work Tuesday morning at the weekend to review testing and daily measuring procedures to Lexington oval. ensure the safety of the dirt track. The review found that Solis said that the original Keeneland’s dirt surface met all of the pre-meet test criteria and plan was to run Super Majesty all maintenance had been performed in accordance with in Saturday’s protocols developed for the track. GII Lexus Raven Run S., but the “Keeneland, along with a small group of industry leaders, has owners and trainer Jerry made a commitment to advancing knowledge and providing the Hollendorfer opted to call an most consistent surfaces in the industry,” Peterson said in a audible after she worked Keeneland release. “By participating in the maintenance tracking impressively over the local system to measure and monitor the surface performance, surface. Super Majesty | “My dad [regular rider Alex Four Footed Fotos Keeneland both defines the state of the art and is helping to Solis] flew out to work her [at Keeneland] when Jerry was here advance our understanding of racing surfaces. When questions last week and they both came home with raving reviews,” Solis arise, these records allow us to review all of the maintenance commented. “They wanted to give the Breeders’ Cup a go, so and operating conditions as well as the daily surface inspections, we’ll run her in the Filly and Mare Sprint [Oct. 31].” that help to ensure that the most consistent possible surface is Super Majesty annexed her first two starts and checked in a provided. Because the racing surface is a critical safety system, narrowly beaten second in an Aug. 23 allowance event at Del all of the maintenance must be performed in accordance with Mar. The bay ventured out of California for the first time in the best practices in the industry.” Dogwood and was never threatened in a wire-to-wire 1 3/4- Cont. p4 length score. Super Majesty will join Nickname (Scat Daddy) to form a pair of ‘Foxwoods’ fillies competing in the world championships. The juvenile, who recently captured the GI Frizette S. at Belmont Oct. 4, registered her first workout since that authoritative triumph with a five-furlong breeze in 1:01.80 Monday at Keeneland. Solis said the Steve Asmussen trainee emerged from her race in good order and is on target for a start in the GI Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies Oct. 31. “Steve seemed very happy with her,” Solis said. “He said she worked really nicely [Monday morning], just a nice easy breeze to keep her fit. We’ll tighten the screws a little more next week and get ready for the big dance.” One day after Nickname scored in the Frizette, LNJ Foxwoods and Asmussen found themselves in the Belmont winner’s circle again with “TDN Rising Star” Inheritance (Tapit), who graduated by a dominant 16 lengths in her second career start. The gray set an all-time OBS sales record after being acquired for $1.9 million by Solis & Litt Bloodstock at the April Sale, and Solis says the connections are taking a long-term approach with their promising prospect. Cont. p3 FIRST-CROP G1 WINNERS INCLUDE Top Breeders’ Cup Sprint (G1) Contender RUNHAPPY KING’S BISHOP S. (G1) 1:20.54 - Saratoga New Stakes Record 113 Beyer - Fastest by a 3-year-old & fastest by any horse up to one mile in 2015 PHOENIX S. (G3) Unchallenged victory over a top cast of older sprinters Owner: James McIngvale Breeder: Wayne, Gray, & Bryan Lyster Trainer: Maria Borell www.WinStarFarm.com Office: (859) 873-1717 | Kyle Wilson: (859) 699-8589 Caroline Walsh: (859) 537-2527 | Sean Tugel: (859) 940-0456 IN THIS ISSUE President & Co-Publisher: Barry Weisbord [email protected] @barryweisbord Sr. V.P. & Co-Publisher: Sue Finley [email protected] @suefinley V.P., International Operations: Gary King Honor Code Pleases McGaughey [email protected] @garykingTDN EDITORIAL Multiple Grade I winner Honor Code (A.P. Indy) tuned up for [email protected] Editor-in-Chief: Jessica Martini the Oct. 31 GI Breeders’ Cup Classic with a five-furlong move at Managing Editor: Alan Carasso Belmont Monday. The drill earned rave reviews from trainer Senior Editor: Steve Sherack Shug McGaughey, who said, “That's the best he's worked all Racing Editor: Brian DiDonato summer." The 4-year-old, who won the GI Met Mile and Associate Editor: Justina Severni Associate Editor: Christie DeBernardis GI Whitney H., is coming off a late-closing third-place effort in Assistant Editor: Heather Anderson the GII Kelso H. Honor Code | A Coglianese Assistant Editor: Ben Massam Page 4 ADVERTISING [email protected] Cup Possible for Artemis Agrotera Director of Advertising: Alycia Borer Art Director: Lia Kusch Sr. Ad Coordinator/Dir. of Distribution: Last year’s GI Ballerina S. winner Artemis Agrotera (Roman Sarah K. Andrew Ruler), not seen since finishing seventh in last year’s Advertising Designer: Amanda Crelin GI Breeders’ Cup F/M Sprint, could make her return in this Advertising Assistant: Amanda Foster year’s renewal of the seven-furlong race. The filly has impressed Social Media Strategist: Nichola Henry trainer Mike Hushion with recent works, including a bullet CUSTOMER SERVICE five-furlong work at Belmont Monday. [email protected] Artemis Agrotera | Dir. of Customer Service: Vicki Forbes Adam Mooshian Page 5 INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY Director of IT: Robert Williams Lea to Claiborne in 2016 [email protected] Director of Internal IT: Ray Villa Claiborne Farm released its 2016 stud fees Monday. War [email protected] Front, represented this term by MG1SW Air Force Blue, will stand for $200,000--up from $150,000 in 2015. Joining the WORLDWIDE INFORMATION Claiborne roster next season will be the farm’s GI Donn H. International Editor: Kelsey Riley winner Lea (First Samurai), who is expected to conclude his [email protected] racing career in either the GI Breeders’ Cup Mile or Newmarket Bureau, Cafe Racing: GI Breeders’ Cup Dirt Mile. Lea | A Coglianese Sean Cronin & Tom Frary [email protected] Page 5 60 Broad Street, Suite 100 Raven’s Pass Filly on Top at Tatts Red Bank, NJ 07701 732-747-8060 | 732-747-8955 (fax) www.thoroughbreddailynews.com A filly by Raven’s Pass out of the listed-placed Aneedah (Ire) (Invincible Spirit {Ire}) www.thetdn.com topped Monday’s session of the Tattersalls October sale when selling for 370,000gns. Tony Nerses held his nerve the longest to add the sturdy bay filly to the racing string of Saleh Al Homaizi and Imad Al Sagar, seeing off attempts by Ross Doyle and Liam Norris. Page 8 HEADLINE NEWS • PAGE 3 OF 14 • THETDN.COM TUES • OCT. 13, 2015 Super Majesty Eyes Breeders’ Cup (cont. from p1) “She came out of the race really well and we’re going to give her a little bit of time now,” Solis said of Inheritance. “We’re hoping she’s a filly for the spring next year. We’ve got Nickname going to the Breeders’ Cup and some other fillies running, so I think we’ll give [Inheritance] a little time now and get her ready for next year. ” Inheritance | Unbeaten 2-year-old filly Songbird (Medaglia d’Oro) worked Solis added that LNJ Foxwoods will be A Coglianese five furlongs at Santa Anita Monday in 1:00.20 ahead of the in graded stakes action on both coasts GI Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies. “It went perfect,” Dan Ward, with another pair of fillies this weekend, including their third assistant to trainer Jerry Hollendorfer, said. | Horsephotos “TDN Rising Star,” Constellation (Bellamy Road), who is scheduled to start in the GII Matron over six furlongs at Belmont this Sunday. In California, 3-year-old Dreamologist (Tapit) will make her first appearance since a wire-to-wire maiden score in Saturday’s GIII Autumn Miss S. The gray is a daughter of 2006 champion 2-year-old filly Dreaming of Anna (Rahy). HEADLINE NEWS • PAGE 4 OF 14 • THETDN.COM TUES • OCT. 13, 2015 Keeneland Reviews Track (cont. from p1) Peterson reviews Keeneland’s turf and dirt tracks prior to the start of each meet. His findings this weekend match findings prior to the Oct. 2 start of the Fall Meet. Peterson also monitors daily measurements taken by Keeneland officials on both racing surfaces every race day. “The safety of our horses and riders is priority number one, and we remain confident in the performance of our racetrack,” Keeneland Vice President of Racing W.B. Rogers Beasley said. “Our team works very hard every day to carefully maintain and monitor the racetrack.” Keeneland President and CEO Bill Thomason added, “We have the best people in the industry on our track crew, led by Track Superintendent Javier Barajas, who are using state-of-the-art technology in consultation with the industry’s most knowledgeable experts. The data we retrieve is part of an ongoing dialogue among major North American racetracks about surface safety and maintenance.” Thomason continued, “The status quo is unacceptable to Keeneland when it comes to safety and other issues critically important to the future of our industry.