FORT LARNED DAILY ADENA SPRINGS FRIDAY, OCTOBER 2, 2015 WWW.BLOODHORSE.COM KENTUCKY IN TODAY’S EDITION KENTUCKY OAKS WINNERS MEET IN SPINSTER 3 UNBRIDLED DADDY INTRIGUES IN BOURBON 4 INTERNATIONAL STARTERS PREP AT KEENELAND 4 KENTUCKY DOWNS WINS PURSES BATTLE 5 WINX, PEARLS STAR AT SPRING CARNIVAL 5 RECORD CATALOG AT JS COMPANY SALE 6 MARKETWATCH: EMPIRE MAKER 'WAS NEVER FOR SALE' 7 COGLIANESE PHOTOS RESULTS 8 Rock Fall won the Sept. 26 Vosburgh Stakes, his seventh straight win ENTRIES 9 ROCK FALL TO STAND AT WINSTAR IN 2016 LEADING LISTS 13 By Ian Tapp ike a chip off the old block, Stonestreet Stables' LRock Fall has emulated his sire, WinStar Farm's Speightstown, all year. So what better place than WinStar for him to begin his stud career in 2016? BENCHMARK TRAINING CENTER Rock Fall, out of the Medaglia d'Oro mare Ren- da, is currently riding a seven-race win streak that includes the grade II True North Stakes—a race Speightstown won in 2004—and the grade I Alfred G. 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JOAQUIN A FACTOR IN HILL PRINCE The impact of Hurricane Joaquin on the New York metropolitan area will play a part in the outcome of the Oct. 3 Hill Prince Stakes (gr. IIIT). The nine-furlong race at Belmont Park is for 3-year-olds. JIMMY BOUNCER, MIDNIGHT STORM MEET IN ANNE M. EBERHARDT ANNE M. EDDIE D A field of 11 turf sprinters will compete 2015 Kentucky Oaks winner Lovely Maria returns to the track where in the Oct. 3 Eddie D Stakes (gr. IIIT) coming she won the Ashland this spring down the Santa Anita Park hillside course at about 6 1/2 furlongs. KENTUCKY OAKS WINNERS MEET LUKES ALLEY CONTINUES COMEBACK IN IN SPINSTER DURHAM CUP Melnyk Racing Stable's Lukes By Frank Angst Alley, a winner Sept. 12 in his first start since November 2014, quickly jumps up to graded hile winning the Juddmonte Spinster stakes company for the $150,000 Durham Cup WStakes (gr. I) carries prestige, the connec- (Can-III) at Woodbine Oct. 3. tions of the nine fillies and mares entered Oct. FLORIDA SIRE STAKES FINALE AT GULFSTREAM 4 at Keeneland are also thinking ahead to the PARK The Oct. 3 Florida Sire Stakes finale at Oct. 30 Longines Breeders' Cup Distaff (gr. I) at Gulfstream Park will feature three juveniles the Lexington track. seeking their second win in the series. Sunday's field includes the past two Lon- BREEDERS' CUP, LARC BUILD ON RELATIONSHIP gines Kentucky Oaks (gr. I) winners: Winchell Breeders' Cup and the Latin American Racing Thoroughbreds homebred Untapable, who won Channel, which facilitates simulcasts to and four grade I races including the Distaff to earn from other countries including the U.S., have champion 3-year-old filly honors last season; five-year partnership agreement through 2020. and Brereton Jones' 2015 winner Lovely Maria. MURRAY RECALLS LATE BREEDER HOWARD With Keeneland hosting this year's Breed- BENDER The Sept. 28 death of Howard Bender, ers' Cup, the Spinster, which like the Distaff is who along with his late wife, Sondra, was among run at 1 1/8 miles, is an obvious prep. But it the leading breeders in Maryland, came as a already has a long history as a springboard with shock to the couple's long-time trainer, Larry Murray. a Spinster starter going on to win the Distaff 10 times. The record has been especially strong when Keeneland's eight Polytrack years are not considered; they didn't deliver a single Distaff Contact us (800) 582-5604 or (859) 278-2361 winner. Comments, Story Ideas Following Keeneland's return to dirt last fall, [email protected] Spinster winner Don't Tell Sophia finished sec- Advertising Questions ond to Untapable in the Distaff. BH [email protected] Customer Service © 2015 Blood-Horse LLC [email protected] BLOOD-HORSE DAILY Download the FREE FRIDAY, OCTOBER 2, 2015 PAGE 3 OF 13 smartphone app UNBRIDLED DADDY INTRIGUES IN BOURBON By Eric Mitchell n oversubscribed field for the A$250,000 Dixiana Bourbon Stakes (gr. IIIT) Oct. 4 at Keeneland includes four juveniles who have finished in the money in stakes. The most intriguing stakes horse is Unbridled Daddy, a homebred for John Brunetti's Red Oak Stable. In his last start the Scat Daddy colt finished third in the grade II With Anticipation Stakes going 1 COGLIANESE PHOTOS 1/16 miles on the Saratoga turf. Unbri- Unbridled Daddy broke his maiden Aug. 16 at Saratoga, then ran third in the Sept. 2 dled Daddy broke his maiden at Saratoga With Anticipation on the grass in his second start, going the same distance. Trained by Todd Pletcher, the colt the Del Mar Juvenile Turf Stakes; and Don't Be So Salty will be ridden by Javier Castellano. (by Tiz Wonderful), third in the Schenectady Stakes. The other stakes horses include Uncle Brennie (by The Bourbon is a Breeders' Cup Challenge "Win and Uncle Mo), who took the Sunday Silence Stakes at Lou- You're In" race for the one-mile Juvenile Turf (gr. IT). BH isiana Downs; Hot Ore (by Unusual Heat), second in INTERNATIONAL STARTERS PREP After three straight synthetic track wins in Eng- AT KEENELAND land, Godolphin Racing's Hawkbill, by Kitten's Joy, makes his dirt debut for trainer Charlie Appleby in By Frank Angst the Claiborne Breeders' Futurity (gr. I). BH s this year's Breeders' Cup host, Keene- Aland likely picked up some internation- al horses prepping for the World Champi- onships. Keeneland vice president of racing Rogers Beasley said the Lexington track is thrilled to have eight European-trained horses starting in its Oct. 3 graded stakes. Those starters include three for Aidan O'Brien: stakes winners Easter and Out- standing, Galileo daughters trying the First Lady (gr. IT) after finishing second and third, respectively, in a group III stakes at Gowran Park; and War Envoy, a group II- placed War Front colt in the Shadwell Turf Mile (gr. IT). Also in the First Lady, trainer Thomas Dascombe sends out Crowley's Law, third in the Noble Damsel (gr. IIIT) at Belmont Park. In the Turf Mile, Kevin Ryan enters group III winner Kelinni, and Charles Hills KEENELAND PHOTO saddles two-time group III winner (twice From the Aidan O'Brien stable, War Envoy (right) leads fillies Outstanding and Easter group I-placed) Dutch Connection. at Keeneland BLOOD-HORSE DAILY Download the FREE FRIDAY, OCTOBER 2, 2015 PAGE 4 OF 13 smartphone app GRANT GUY RICK SAMUELS Kentucky Downs paid out $6.6 million in purses during its recently Pearls, a half sister to two group I winners, runs in the Oct. 3 completed meet Flight Stakes KENTUCKY DOWNS WINS PURSES BATTLE WINX, PEARLS STAR AT SPRING CARNIVAL By Ron Mitchell By Tara Madgwick f purses are the engine that drives Kentucky rac- ydney's Spring Carnival reaches a crescendo I ing, then Kentucky Downs has the upper hand SOct. 3 with a program of nine stakes races at over Churchill Downs in the battle for September, Randwick, three of them group Is. While the group making a good case that it should get more dates I staying feature, the Metropolitan Handicap in the future. (2,400 meters), comprises entirely imported gal- With its boutique all-turf meet comprising 48 lopers, the $1 million Epsom Handicap (1,600 me- races over four full cards and part of another, ters) and Flight Stakes (1,600 meters) for 3-year- Kentucky Downs paid out nearly $6.6 million in old fillies are packed with locally bred talent. purses, compared with Churchill's $3.6 million for Quality mare Winx (by Street Cry) is a short- 109 races during an 11-day meet. priced favorite for the Epsom while progressive Predictably, Churchill's handle of $33.2 million gelding Sadler's Lake (High Chaparral), also from was well above the $16.8 million at the smaller the Chris Waller stable, is seen as her biggest Franklin, Ky., track.