MONDAY, AUGUST 16, 2010 For information about TDN, call 732-747-8060. MAKFI HOLDS BACK THE GOLD RUSH TAKING IT TO THE ‘LIMIT’ While much of the build-up to yesterday's G1 Prix Position Limit (Bellamy Road) gave owner Starlight Jacques le Marois at Deauville concentrated on the Partners and trainer Todd Pletcher a match between Goldikova (Ire) (Anabaa) and Paco Boy second renewal of the GII (Ire) (Desert Style {Ire}), it was Makfi (GB) (Dubawi Adirondack S. at Saratoga Sunday. {Ire}) who tore up the script with a decisive victory to The crowd=s 3-2 choice defeated emulate his sire's success in this race five years ago. Alienation (Rock Hard Ten) by five Disappointing when only seventh in the G1 St James's lengths and joined former Pletcher Palace S. at Royal Ascot last time June 15, Mathieu inmate Octave (Unbridled=s Song) Offenstadt's G1 2000 Guineas hero had returned sick as an Adirondack heroine. Cont. p4 from that outing, but after being brought back to a peak by trainer Mikel Delzangles, rebounded with this TENTH STRAIGHT FOR ‘TEARS’ career-high. Sent off at 22-5, Christophe Soumillon was Bart Evans=s Wasted Tears (Najran) content to settle the bay off the even pace set by dug in to capture her 10th consecutive Goldikova's pacemakers and proved the more effective win on the spinach with a gutsy gate-to- over the testing ground in the final 150 meters to deny wire victory over longshot Lilly Fa Pootz the favorite by 2 1/2 lengths. "Running him in the St (Gilded Time) in Sunday=s GII John C. James's Palace was a mistake, but we only found out Mabee S. at Del Mar. AShe got tested, afterwards that he had a bad throat infection," truly tested,@ said winning jock Rajiv Delzangles said. AHe's a very gifted horse and, of Maragh. AAnd it made her show her de- course, we couldn't be more delighted.@ Cont. p2 termination. I thought I'd won it at the wire, but I knew it was close. She just Sunday, Deauville, France Benoit wants to win, this mare. She'll do what- PRIX DU HARAS DE FRESNAY-LE-BUFFARD - ever it takes to win." Cont. p3 JACQUES LE MAROIS-G1, i600,000, Deauville, 8-15, 3yo/up, 1mT, 1:39.40, vsf. ‘KAN’ DO ATTITUDE 1--MAKFI (GB), 123, c, 3, by Dubawi (Ire) Stonestreet Stables= unbeaten J “TDN Rising 1st Dam: Dhelaal (GB), by Green Desert Star” J Kantharos (Lion Heart) gets a class test in 2nd Dam: Irish Valley, by Irish River (Fr) today=s GII Saratoga Special S. at the Spa. Cont. p6 3rd Dam: Green Valley II (Fr), by Val de Loir (Fr) (26,000gns HIT >09 TATAUT). O-Mathieu Offenstadt, Alain Louis-Dreyfus, Sylvain Fargeon & Mikel Delzangles; B-Shadwell Estate Company Ltd; T-Mikel Delzangles; J-Christophe Soumillon; i342,840. Lifetime Record: Lifetime Record: 5-4-0-0, i650,530. Werk Nick Rating: A+. Click for the eNicks report & 5-cross pedigree. 2--Goldikova (Ire), 127, m, 5, Anabaa--Born Gold, by Blushing Groom (Fr). O/B-Wertheimer & Frere; T-Freddy Head; i137,160. 3--Paco Boy (Ire), 130, h, 5, Desert Style (Ire)--Tappen Zee (Ire), by Sandhurst Prince (Ire). (i18,000 wnlg >05 GOFNOV; i21,000 RNA yrl >06 GOFORB; i16,000 yrl >06 TATFLT; 30,000gns 2yo >07 DONAPR). O-The Calvera Partnership No 2; B-Joan Browne; T-Richard Hannon; i68,580. Pinhooked by Canice & Marette Farrell Margins: 2HF, NK, 6. Odds: 4.40, 1.30, 2.80. Also Ran: Fuisse (Fr), Royal Bench (Ire), Runaway (GB), Only Green (Ire), Saying. All horses in the TDN are bred in North America, unless otherwise indicated P TDN HEADLINE NEWS • 8/16/10 • PAGE 2 of 11 • thoroughbreddailynews.com JACQUES LE MAROIS-G1 cont. Goldikova's trainer Freddy Head was not too down- Makfi's story from Shadwell cast-off to Guineas hero cast after her first defeat at Deauville and said, "We is well-documented, but after his Royal Ascot debacle can't make any excuses. She has confirmed form with there were question marks over his ability to regain his Paco Boy, and when she moved on 1 1/2 furlongs out, I position at the top of the miling tree. What was not thought she'd win, but there is no doubt Makfi was a under scrutiny was the obvious merit of his decisive better horse on the day. Of course, we'll still target the beating of the star-studded Richard Hannon pair of Dick GI Breeders' Cup Mile, but we'll decide in time what her Turpin (Ire) (Arakan) and Canford Cliffs (Ire) (Tagula next race will be. Maybe she'll go for the G1 Prix du {Ire}) in that May 1 Newmarket Classic. He had also Moulin [at Longchamp Sept 5.] or the shown a marked ability to handle soft ground when G1 Prix de la Foret [also at Longchamp Oct. 3]. We'll putting over-matched rivals to the sword in the G3 Prix see." Paco Boy's jockey Richard Hughes said of the Djebel at Maisons-Laffitte Apr. 8 and that was certain third-place finisher, "When I moved out I thought he'd to help as the downpour continued to grace Normandy. win the race, but on that testing ground he didn't quite The weather had turned expectation into apprehension stay the mile." Click for the Racing Post chart or the free brisnet.com catalogue-style pedigree. as far as Goldikova's legions of fans were concerned, with the memory of her one true below-par effort com- Sunday, Cologne, Germany ing when Longchamp's ground had turned testing in RHEINLAND-POKAL-G1, i155,000, Cologne, 8-15, last year's G1 Prix d'Ispahan. That lack of the usual 3yo/up, 1 1/2mT, 2:40.81, hy. supreme confidence in the Wertheimers' queen was 1--CAMPANOLOGIST, 132, h, 5, by Kingmambo reflected in her starting price drifting to 13-10 before 1st Dam: Ring of Music (GB), by Sadler's Wells the off, and the smart money was following Makfi, 2nd Dam: Glorious Song, by Halo whose sire had a tendency to excel with give under- 3rd Dam: Ballade, by Herbager (Fr) foot. Christophe Soumillon always had plenty of horse O-Godolphin; B-Darley; T-Saeed bin Suroor; J-Adrie under him while buried in mid-pack, and when de Vries; i100,000. Lifetime Record: MGSW-Eng, Goldikova was left in front with over two furlongs to GSW-UAE, G1SP-Ity, 24-9-4-3, i783,182. run, he was happy to sit a bit longer. As she began to Werk Nick Rating: A+++ *Triple Plus*. flounder on the surface, Makfi delivered a telling burst Click for the eNicks report & 5-cross pedigree. of acceleration to cut between her and Paco Boy and 2--Appel Au Maitre (Fr), 132, h, 6, Starborough (GB)-- draw away for an authoritative success. "One can Rotina (Fr), by Crystal Glitters. (i155,000 yrl '05 never be confident of beating Goldikova, but we were DEAAUG). O-Stall Perlen; B-Gilles & Aliette Forien; confident he was back in great form and that he would T-Wido Neuroth; i33,000. go on the ground,@ trainer Mikel Delzangles added. AHe 3--Zazou (Ger), 122, c, 3, Shamardal--Zaza Top (Ger), has also proved in the past that he handles a straight by Lomitas (GB). (i38,000 yrl '08 BBASEP). O-WH course. The plan is to now go for the G1 Prix du Moulin Sport International; B-Stiftung Gestut Fahrhof; [at Longchamp Sept. 5] or the G1 Queen Elizabeth II S. T-Mario Hofer; i15,000. [at Ascot Sept. 25], but we could very well do both. Margins: 3HF, SHD, 4. Odds: 2.00, 4.40, 1.00. Later on, we may also think about the GI Breeders' Cup Also Ran: Quijano (Ger), Lyssio (Ger). Scratched: Titurel Mile." (Ger), Wiener Walzer (Ger). P TDN HEADLINE NEWS • 8/16/10 • PAGE 3 of 11 • thoroughbreddailynews.com RHEINLAND-POKAL-G1 cont. Sunday, Del Mar Godolphin have been supporters of Germany's best JOHN C. MABEE S.-GII, $250,000, DMR, 8-15, 3yo/up, contests in recent years and were rewarded with more f/m, 1 1/8mT, 1:47 1/5, fm. success here in a race weakened by the withdrawal of 1--WASTED TEARS, 121, m, 5, by Najran Weiner Walzer (Ger) (Dynaformer) due to ground condi- 1st Dam: Wishes and Roses (SW), by Greinton (GB) tions. Mostly a nearly horse in Britain's top contests, 2nd Dam: Anniversary Wish, by Beau's Eagle Campanologist had joined the stable's past stalwarts 3rd Dam: Dinner Music, by Raise a Cup Cherry Mix (Fr) (Linamix {Fr}), Mutafaweq (Silver O/B/T-Bart B Evans (KY); J-Rajiv Maragh; $150,000. Hawk), Marienbard (Ire) (Caerleon), Kutub (Ire) (In the Lifetime Record: 16-11-1-0, $708,598. *1/2 to Wings {GB}) and Mamool (Ire) (In the Wings {GB}) in Wishingitwas (Sandpit {Brz}), MSW, $273,870; plundering a top-level race in this land when annexing Almost Certain (Favorite Trick), SW, $210,385. Click the G1 Deutschland-Preis at Hamburg last time July 17. for the eNicks report & 5-cross pedigree. Werk Nick With unrelenting heavy rain preceding this edition and Rating: A. Adrie de Vries stepping in late for the ride on the even- 2--Lilly Fa Pootz, 119, m, 5, Gilded Time--Dark Rhythm, tual winner after Frankie Dettori got stuck in traffic, the by Fit to Fight.