TUESDAY, AUGUST 30, 2016 JUDDMONTE=S LATEST KENNEALLY RUNNERS SHARP FOR SPA CLOSING WEEKEND CLAIM TO SUCCESS Trainer Eddie Kenneally looms as a major player on closing weekend at Saratoga with veteran Bradester (Lion Heart) carrying a three-race win streak in Saturday=s GI Woodward S. and unbeaten juvenile >TDN Rising Star= Bitumen (Mineshaft) slated to make his Grade I debut in Monday=s Hopeful S. The latter, who won the GIII Sanford S. at the Spa July 23, worked four furlongs in :48.65 in company with the 3-year-old filly Blast (Harlan=s Holiday) on the main track Monday morning--the fastest of 46 works at the distance. AHe worked super,@ Kenneally said of the Joseph Sutton colorbearer. AHe likes the track. He's had a while since the Sanford and he's done well training here this summer. He's trained along nicely here all summer and hasn't missed a beat since the Sanford. He's still has an advantage over some of the other horses, he's run twice. Some of them have only run once. So the timing is ideal, really.@ Cont. p5 Arrogate | Sarah K. Andrew IN TDN EUROPE TODAY by Andrew Caulfield WACHMAN TO RETIRE FROM TRAINING David Wachman, who saddled Legatissimo (Ire) (Danehill Resumes don=t come much more impressive than the one Dancer {Ire}) to three Group 1 wins last year, will hand in his compiled by Khalid Abdullah=s Juddmonte Farms since Known training license at the end of the season. Click or tap here to Fact gave the Prince his first Classic success in the 1980 G1 2000 go straight to TDN Europe. Guineas. There have been three more wins of the 2000 Guineas, thanks to Dancing Brave, Zafonic and the mighty Frankel, and the famous green, pink and white colors have also been carried to success in the G1 1000 Guineas (twice), G1 Oaks, G1 Derby (three times) and the G1 St Leger. In Ireland, there have been wins in the G1 2000 Guineas, G1 Derby and G1 Oaks (two), while the extensive Classic haul in France features two in the G1 Prix du Jockey-Club, the so-called French Derby. There have also been a highly impressive four winners of the G1 Arc and four in the G1 Grand Prix de Paris, including one by Flintshire, who initiated a spectacular Grade I double for Juddmonte at Saratoga three days ago. Over in the U.S., there have also been an impressive number of Grade I turf successes from the likes of Banks Hill, Beat Hollow, Cacique, Champs Elysees, Chester House, Heat Haze, Intercontinental, Midday, Proviso, Ryafan and Ventura. However, horse racing in the U.S. is mainly about dirt and that surface has been less rewarding for the Juddmonte homebreds, with their predominantly turf pedigrees. 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This time sons of Malibu Moon, Success (cont. from p1) Speightstown and Street Cry were purchased, but it was in 2014 Of course there have been a few notable that the new venture gathered momentum. This time the haul exceptions, thanks largely to some distinguished stretched to eight colts, for an average price of just under dirt stallions. Seattle Slew supplied Juddmonte $400,000. They comprised sons of Candy Ride, Harlan=s Holiday, with Flute (GI Kentucky Oaks and GI Alabama S.), Honest Lady Midnight Lute, Scat Daddy, Speightstown, Trappe Shot (two) and (GI Santa Monica H.) and Sleep Easy (GI Hollywood Oaks), while Unbridled=s Song, with the Unbridled=s Song colt out of Bubbler his son A.P. Indy was responsible for Aptitude (GI Hollywood being the second-most expensive at $560,000. Gold Cup and GI Jockey Club Gold Cup). Unbridled excelled by It was back to the Keeneland well in 2015, with the haul made siring the GI Belmont S. winner Empire Maker and another of his up of colts by Bernardini, Ghostzapper, Harlan=s Holiday, Malibu sons, Unbridled=s Song, sired First Defence, winner of the Moon and Sidney=s Candy. These have been joined under GI Forego H. First Defence himself sired Close Hatches, who did Baffert=s care by a Mineshaft colt bought at the 2-year-old sales. so well on dirt that she was named champion older mare. These latest purchases have a lot to live up to now that >TDN The fact that Aptitude and Empire Maker both finished second Rising Star= Arrogate--the 2013 Unbridled=s Song--Bubbler colt-- in the Kentucky Derby only intensified the desire to add this has burst onto the racing scene with all the elan and swagger of historic Classic to Juddmonte=s CV, to complete the set of major a superstar. His winning margin of 13 1/2 lengths in the Northern Hemisphere Derbys. A slight change of policy GI Travers S. was stunning enough, but then we saw that he had therefore ensued. Juddmonte has bought only the occasional stopped the clock at a magical 1:59.36. yearling in recent decades, but in 2012 a bolder approach was TDN HEADLINE NEWS • PAGE 4 OF 9 • THETDN.COM TUESDAY • AUGUST 30, 2016 ARROGATE, c, 2013 Fappiano Mr. Prospector Unbridled Killaloe Gana Facil Le Fabuleux (Fr) Charedi Unbridled’s Song Fortino II (Fr) Caro (Ire) Chambord Trolley Song Lucky Mel Lucky Spell Incantation Forty Niner Mr. Prospector Distorted Humor File Bubbler Danzig’s Beauty Danzig MSW & GSP, Sweetest Chant 9-6-0-2, $211,622 Vice Regent 3Fls, 1GISW Grechelle Deputy Minister GSP, 7-2-0-3 Mint Copy 6Fls, 2SW Meadow Star Meadowlake 5Fls, 1GSP, 4Wnrs Inreality Star Filly & Mare Turf: His winning margin has been bettered on two occasions. September 17, Canadian Stakes. - GII Damascus came home 22 lengths clear in the 1967 Travers, but WO, 3yo & up, 1 1/8 Miles (T), Closes August 31 Juvenile Fillies Turf: he was faced by only three rivals. Then, in 1979, General September 18, Natalma Stakes - GI Assembly scored by 15 lengths in setting a track record of WO, 2 YO, 1 mile (T), Closes August 31 2:00.00 on a sloppy track, which effectively meant he was racing Juvenile Turf: September 18, Summer Stakes - GI on the hard base. No Travers winner before Arrogate had WO, 2 YO, 1 mile (T), Closes August 31 previously dipped below the two-minute mark, even though the roll of honor includes nine horses which went on to be named For additional information, incl. the complete Win and You’re In schedule, click here or call the Breeders’ Cup Racing Office at (859) 514-9422. Horse of the Year at the age of three. *Travel awards for ALL Championship starters (based outside CA). Arrogate=s rider Mike Smith immediately drew comparisons between the Juddmonte colt and his sire Unbridled=s Song. Minister, sire of Arrogate=s second dam Grechelle, got into the Recalling the 1995 GI Breeders= Cup Juvenile winner, who went act, thanks to his son Deputy Commander in 1997. on to add the GI Florida Derby and GI Wood Memorial, Smith Coincidentally, Will Take Charge is out of Deputy Minister=s said, AHe was an unbelievably talented horse, his son might even distinguished granddaughter Take Charge Lady (Dehere). be more talented. It=s crazy, Graydar, another of Unbridled=s Song=s high-class sons, also has he just did a mile and a a dam by Dehere.