SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 2018 SHORT, BUT SWEET FIELD FOR DEBUTANTE SMITH, BAFFERT GO Even though >TDN Rising Star= Chasing Yesterday (Tapit) has FOR SPINAWAY FIRSTS been shipped cross-country for Saturday=s GI Spinaway S., three of the five fillies signed on for the GI Del Mar Debutante have legitimate claims to become marquee horses now and into the near future. Bellafina (Quality Road) gets the nod on experience, even if she is the one of the >big three= to not have broken her maiden first time out. The $800,000 Fasig-Tipton March juvenile ran well, but not well enough, to be second on her July 4 debut at Los Alamitos, but connections never lost confidence, equipped her with blinkers for the Aug. 5 GII Sorrento S. and she obliged with a 4 1/4-length success, with Boujie Girl (Flashback) just nosed out for second. The Kaleem Shah runner tuned up for the Debutante with a bullet (1/62) five furlongs in 1:00 2/5 Aug. 24. Trainer Simon Callaghan and jockey Flavien Prat won last year=s race with >TDN Rising Star= Moonshine Memories (Malibu Moon). Cont. p4 Chasing Yesterday | Sarah K. Andrew IN TDN EUROPE TODAY What have Jeffrey Fell, Martin Pedroza and Donnie Meche GERMAN SALE TOPPERS BOUND FOR UK accomplished that Mike Smith has not? And what can Lou A filly by Sea The Stars and a colt by Siyouni were the joint Rondinello and Joe Pierce, Jr. claim to have accomplished that top lots at BBAG on Friday, and both will be trained in Britain. Bob Baffert cannot? Neither Smith nor Baffert, each of whom Click or tap here to go straight to TDN Europe. had a productive Travers weekend, has ever won Saratoga=s GI Spinaway S., but that could very well change in the span of 83 or so seconds this weekend when the two Hall of Famers team with Summer Wind Equine=s aptly named Chasing Yesterday (Tapit). The Spinaway is a >Win and You=re In= qualifier for the GI Breeders= Cup Juvenile Fillies. The chestnut=s pedigree requires little introduction, as she is the half-sister to one Triple Crown winner American Pharoah (Pioneerof the Nile) and--in fact--has already outdone her illustrious sibling by breaking her maiden at first asking. Sent off at 30 cents on the dollar, the chestnut never looked a loser, as she kicked away to graduate by 4 1/4 lengths en route to becoming a no-brainer >TDN Rising Star.= But the Spinaway will be anything other than a walkover for Chasing Yesterday, her regal bloodlines notwithstanding. John Oxley and Mark Casse teamed to win the 2015 renewal with Pretty City Dancer (Tapit)--who dead-heated with Sweet Loretta (Tapit)--and the owner/trainer duo look dangerous here in the form of Catherinethegreat. 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Andrew A daughter of the former Oxley/Casse galloper Uncaptured, the $170,000 OBS October yearling got her career going in Florida, parlaying a 10 1/4-length romp through the Gulfstream slop June 23 into a 4 1/4-length defeat of favored Nonna Madeline (Candy Ride {Arg}) in the GIII Schuylerville S. on opening day July 20. The latter >TDN Rising Star= is conditioned by Todd Pletcher, who has won a record six Spinaways, and who will also saddle late-on-the-scene GII Adirondack S. runner-up Virginia Eloise (Curlin) and that heat=s third-place finisher Guacamole (Flat Out). >TDN Rising Star= Restless Rider (Distorted Humor) is undefeated in two tries to date, having won her maiden first time out at Churchill June 8 before overcoming a severe check to add the June 30 Debutante S. by a whopping 11 1/4 lengths in her most recent racetrack appearance. Sippican Harbor (Orb), an even fourth in a two-turn turf maiden July 22, took her chance in a rained-off event going seven panels Aug. 12 and decimated her rivals by some 17 lengths. She=ll need an effort as good and probably better than that one to be a factor here. Restless Rider | Coady TDN HEADLINE NEWS • PAGE 4 OF 9 • THETDN.COM SATURDAY • SEPTEMBER 1, 2018 Del Mar Debutante cont. from p1 Bellafina and owner Kaleem Shah | Benoit Brill (Medaglia d=Oro) topped the 2017 Fasig-Tipton July sale on a bid of $1 million from Larry Best=s OXO Equine, and the bay increased her value incrementally with a powerful 1 1/4-length defeat of future Sorrento runner-up Del Mar May (Jimmy Creed) in a five-furlong maiden on opening day July 18, good for the >Rising Star= designation. The bay was out to breeze the morning after Bellafina and was the day=s fastest over five-eighths, clocking :59 4/5 to best 49 other workers at the distance. Drayden Van Dyke, on the cusp of his first Southern California riding title, opts to stay here. Joe Talamo replaces Van Dyke atop Mother Mother (Pioneerof the Nile), a $450,000 Keeneland September purchase bred--like American Pharoah--from a Storm Cat-line dam. The dark bay become one of five >TDN Rising Stars= for Bob Baffert at Del Mar this summer with a towering 6 1/2-length tally July 22. A May foal, she worked six furlongs in a best-of-four 1:12 4/5 Aug. 21 and five furlongs in 1:00 4/5 (5/45) six days later. Mother Mother | Benoit Now Accepting Southern Hemisphere Nominations. Call Rebecca Nicholson or Tom Hamm for more information (859) 873-7053 LGB, LLC 2018 TDN HEADLINE NEWS • PAGE 5 OF 9 • THETDN.COM SATURDAY • SEPTEMBER 1, 2018 >Y= NOT YOSHIDA IN THE WOODWARD? main track at Oklahoma and his connections= Good Samaritan (Harlan=s Holiday) made a successful transition from turf to dirt in the GII Jim Dandy S. a year ago. Gunnevera (Dialed In) has made the most of two previous trips to upstate New York, having upset the 2016 GII Saratoga Special S. at 9-1 ahead of a very strong runner-up effort behind champion West Coast (Flatter) in last year=s GI Travers S. Third in the GI Pegasus World Cup in January, the track was against him when eighth in the G1 Dubai World Cup in March and he prepped for this with a facile allowance tally at Gulfstream Aug. 10. He used a similar race as a springboard to his Travers effort last summer. Seeking the Soul (Perfect Soul {Ire}) pulled a 7-1 surprise in last year=s GI Clark H. at Churchill, but was fifth in the Pegasus and was upset by a head in the Michael Schaefer Memorial S. at Indiana Grand July 14. Yoshida | Sarah K Andrew Discreet Lover (Repent) will get many votes for 2018 blue- In the last decade alone, the GI Woodward S. has been won by collar horse of the year, as the 5-year-old has picked up nice the likes of Rachel Alexandra (Medaglia d=Oro), Havre de Grace checks when fourth in the GI Met Mile and third in the (Saint Liam), Quality Road (Elusive Quality), Liam=s Map GII Suburban S. and in the GI Whitney S. A minor award is (Unbridled=s Song) and Gun Runner (Candy Ride {Arg}).