MACHO UNO Sire of Multiple G1 Winners Mucho Macho Man ($5.6m), Private Zone ($2.9m), etc. Find the ONE DAILY at OBS June AAAAA SSSSASS TUESDAY, MAY 31, 2016 WWW.BLOODHORSE.COM K A A K K K KK IN TODAY’S EDITION GAMELY FALLS TO ILLUMINANT LIVING THE LIFE ENHANCES SYNTHETIC RECORD 4 By Tom LaMarra LONE STAR HANDICAP TO CYRUS ALEXANDER 4 RECORDS BROKEN AT MAGIC MILLIONS SALE 5 FIRST TRIP TO TRACK FOR EXAGGERATOR 6 SWIPE RECOVERED FROM BREATHING ISSUES 6 CREATOR PLEASES CONNECTIONS WITH WORK 7 SOLID CHURCHILL WORK BY UNTAPABLE 8 SECOND STAKES DEAD HEAT FOR WEEKEND 8 GREAT WEEKEND FOR SHAMARDAL 9 BENOIT PHOTOGRAPHY FIRST NEW YORK STAKES FOR POPE 9 Illuminant and Flavien Prat take the grade I Gamely Stakes at Santa Anita Park BOB BARRY: RUNNING STYLE AND THE BELMONT 10 clipse Thoroughbred Partners' Illuminant got the RESULTS 11 Ejump on heavily favored Wekeela on the far turn and pulled away to win the $300,000 Gamely Stakes ENTRIES 16 (gr. IT) May 30 at Santa Anita Park. LEADING LISTS 18 It was the first stakes win for Illuminant, who had made 10 previous starts with three wins. With Flavien Prat riding for trainer Michael McCa- rthy, Illuminant sat just behind front-running Fanti- cola through the final turn in the 1 1/8-mile stakes. The 4-year-old filly by Quality Road out of the Polish Numbers mare Sparkling Number drew away from the leader and easily held off Wekeela to win in 1:48.34 on a turf course rated firm. Elektrum was third and Keri Belle fourth. The win- ner paid $12.40 as the second choice in the Gamely. In her previous start, Illuminant finished third behind champion Tepin and Wekeela in the Cool- more Jenny Wiley Stakes (gr. IT) at Keeneland in April. Illuminant, bred in Pennsylvania by Sycamore Hall Farm, was purchased by Eclipse for $180,000 at the 2014 Ocala Breeders' Sales Co. March sale of select- ed 2-year-olds in training and was withdrawn from the 2015 Keeneland November breeding stock sale. (continued on page 3) BLOOD-HORSE DAILY Download the FREE smartphone app PAGE 1 OF 18 WE’RE WITH YOU AT EVERY TURN RACING BREEDING NEWS COURTNEY BEARSE PHOTO WEEKLY PRINT EDITION Subscribe today! TABLET EDITION ONLY $69/YEAR BloodHorse.com/Subscribe 800.582.5604 SERVING THE THOROUGHBRED INDUSTRY FOR 100 YEARS Download the FREE smartphone app BHMag_WithYouAtEveryTurn.indd 1 5/20/16 2:18 PM GAMELY FALLS TO ILLUMINANT (continued from page 1) Aron Wellman of Eclipse Partners gave credit to McCarthy for train- ing Illuminant. McCarthy was an assistant to Todd Pletcher before he ventured out on his own. "This filly is high-maintenance and he has done a great job," Well- man said. "She ran her heart out last time at Keeneland. Winning big races like this at Santa Anita and other tracks around the country is what it's all about. Without our partners we wouldn't be able to do this. "We're a Todd Pletcher organization; he's our main man. As a dis- ciple of Todd's it just made all the sense in the world for us to sup- port Michael when he hung up his shingle to go out on his own, and I couldn't be happier for him and his family. He's got about five or six for us now. Gary (Young) and I are a two-man team at the 2-year-old sales and we found her at the sale in Ocala, Fla., together." "It's pretty exciting to win a race like this," said McCarthy, who won his first grade I stakes. "I thought she would run well today. She's a very honest filly, tries hard, and I thought the mile and an eighth would be right up her alley. I didn't give Flavien a whole of instructions before the race. I didn't think he needed it." Prat got Illuminant out of the gate well and was content to sit behind Fanticola through fractions of :24, :48.04, and 1:12.31 before he made his move on the far turn. Illuminant was in front past the one-mile mark BENOIT PHOTOGRAPHY in 1:36.26 and wasn't threatened. BH Flavien Prat and Illuminant First winner T D N BLOOD-HORSE DAILY Download the FREE TUESDAY, MAY 31, 2016 PAGE 3 OF 18 smartphone app LIVING THE LIFE ENHANCES nR Nothhaft Horse Racing's Living The Life ran SYNTHETIC RECORD Hher Golden Gate Fields record to two-for-two with a victory over males in the $100,000 All American By Tom LaMarra Stakes (gr. III) on the Tapeta surface May 30. With Drayden Van Dyke riding for trainer Gary Mandella, Living The Life rated along the inside just off moderate fractions, was guided off the inside in the stretch and just got by the front-runner to win the one-mile event from Southern Freedom and Eckers- ley. Living The Life won the Presque Isle Downs Mas- ters Stakes (gr. II) on Tapeta last September and in 2014, and this year has been competitive in graded stakes on dirt at Santa Anita Park. "Anytime you beat the boys, you're doing some- thing out of the ordinary," Mandella said. "As good as the colts were, there was no Beholder, and that's what we would have faced if we ran in the Vanity (June 4 at Santa Anita).” Mandella said an attempt at a third Presque Isle Masters Sept. 7 was likely. Living The Life, a 6-year-old mare by Footstepsin- SHANE MICHAELI/VASSAR PHOTOGRAPHY SHANE MICHAELI/VASSAR thesand, has 10 wins (eight on synthetic surfaces), Living The Life (outside) wins the grade III All American Stakes five seconds, and four thirds in 33 starts. BH LONE STAR HANDICAP TO CYRUS ALEXANDER four seconds, and two thirds in 15 starts. By Tom LaMarra Bred in Kentucky by WinStar Farm out of the A.P. Indy mare Supercharger, Cyrus Alexander was pur- pendthrift Farm and Stonestreet Stables' Cyrus chased by his owners for $1.7 million at the 2013 SAlexander, a 4-year-old Medaglia d'Oro colt, got Keeneland September yearling sale. BH his first stakes win when he captured the $200,000 Lone Star Handicap (gr. III) for 3-year-olds and up May 30 at Lone Star Park. Ridden by Martin Garcia for trainer Jerry Hollendorfer, Cyrus Alexander was near the pace early through honest fractions, followed Shotgun Kowboy as that one made his bid for the lead on the far turn, and glided by to win comfortably in 1:43.12 for 1 1/16 miles on a track rated fast. Shotgun Kowboy was second, followed by Rocket Time in third. Cyrus Alexander, who paid $6 to win as the second choice behind Shotgun Kowboy, finished fourth in the Santana Mile at Santa Anita Park in his previous start April 2 and before that finished eighth in the Santa An- DUSTIN ORONA PHOTOGRAPHY ita Handicap (gr. I). The colt has four wins, Cyrus Alexander is too strong in the Lone Star Handicap BLOOD-HORSE DAILY Download the FREE TUESDAY, MAY 31, 2016 PAGE 4 OF 18 smartphone app SALES UPDATE RECORDS BROKEN AT MAGIC MILLIONS SALE By Blood-Horse Staff Fastnet Rock half brother to Australian cham- Apion Whobegotyou brought the overall highest price at the record-breaking Magic Millions National COURTESY OF MAGIC MILLIONS COURTESY weanling sale May 29-30. A Fastnet Rock—Temple of Peace colt topped the Magic Millions Leading Sydney-based bloodstock agent James National weanling sale Harron secured Murrulla Stud's colt out of the Carnegie mare Temple of Peace on day one for ($158,098). The gray youngster, from his sire's first Aus$400,000 (US$287,448). Australian crop, was consigned by Newgate Farm, to Japanese-bred and French stakes-performed which the son of War Front shuttles from Lane's End Temple of Peace is the dam of four winners, head- near Versailles, Ky. lined by $2.69 million earner Whobegotyou, champi- Overall, 11 weanlings by The Factor were sold, in- on 3-year-old male of 2009. cluding a filly out of stakes winner Come Fly With Me "He's extremely well bred," Harron said of the for Aus$150,000 ($107,792) bought by Glenvale Stud. sale topper. "He's obviously by a champion sire in The Factor is due back in Australia for the 2016 Fastnet Rock. Southern Hemisphere season and will stand at New- "It was great that we got the opportunity to buy gate in the Hunter Valley of New South Wales for an him and he being offered here. He's a horse that Aus$16,500 fee. could have made a lot more money as a yearling A colt by leading sire Exceed And Excel topped and I'm delighted to get him." day two trading when knocked down to the bid The two-day weanling sale set records for all key by Damion Flower—purchasing the youngster in market indicators. conjunction with Amarina Farm—for Aus$350,000 "It's the highest-grossing sale ever conducted in ($251,517). the Southern Hemisphere and that's a big number," Offered by Rothwell Park, he is the first foal of Magic Millions managing director Vin Cox said. the unraced Artie Schiller mare Doctrine, a half sister Overall total receipts for 284 horses sold round- to group II-winning sprinter and $1.5 million-earner ed out at more than Aus$17 million ($12,216,799), Rain Affair.