FRIDAY, AUGUST 10, 2018 TAKING STOCK: TAYLOR MADE'S STAR PACER--YES, PACER-- MAKES DEBUT FRIDAY BLAME GAME IS ON by Bill Finley Taylor Made is the leading consignor in the sport, stands several top stallions and operates the racing partnership Medallion Racing. It seems like the Taylor brothers are always looking for new area's of the industry to conquer, and they've found another one--harness racing. Typical of Taylor Made, they're not dipping their toe in the harness racing waters, but looking to make a huge splash. Taylor Made recently purchased the top pacer in New Zealand, Lazarus. With a record of 35 for 45, including 15 Group 1 wins in New Zealand and Australia, he will make his U.S. debut Friday in the $300,000 Dan Patch S. at Hoosier Park. So far, he has earned the equivalent of $2.66 million U.S. during his career. Cont. p5 (click here) Mucho | Sarah Andrew IN TDN EUROPE TODAY by Sid Fernando Claiborne Farm and Adele B. Dilschneider’s Mucho (Blame-- TDN Q&A: O’CALLAGHAN TALKS CAMACHO Extent, by Pulpit), a colt bred to be a two-turn 3-year-old, has The TDN’s Alayna Cullen chats with Yeomanstown Stud’s David O’Callaghan about the recent success of Camacho (GB) already made himself known at two after an ultra-impressive (Danehill). Click or tap here to go straight to TDN Europe. maiden win over six furlongs at Saratoga last Saturday. The ‘TDN Rising Star’ won his second start by almost 10 lengths in 1:10.19, and it doesn’t take a rocket scientist to extrapolate that he’ll get better as the distances increase. His win symbolizes a turnaround in the fortunes of Blame, too. However, the Claiborne brain trust always had faith in Blame and in fact doubled down on him with Mucho, so to speak. Mucho is inbred closely, at 3x3, to Bound (Nijinsky--Special, by Forli) on the tail-female line through her daughters Limit (Cox’s Ridge) and Liable (Seeking the Gold). Bound is Blame’s second dam--he is out of Liable--and the third dam of Mucho, as Limit is the dam of Extent. Claiborne’s president Walker Hancock and stallion seasons and bloodstock manager Bernie Sams were at the Fasig-Tipton sale this week and discussed this interesting mating, Blame’s big year, and Claiborne’s philosophies. “It’s obviously just a special family for us,” Hancock said of Mucho, who is a sixth-generation descendant of Rough Shod II, a broodmare imported to the U.S. by Hancock’s grandfather, Arthur “Bull” Hancock, Jr. Cont. p3 PUBLISHER & CEO Sue Morris Finley @suefinley [email protected] V.P., INTERNATIONAL OPERATIONS Gary King @garykingTDN [email protected] EDITORIAL [email protected] Editor-in-Chief Jessica Martini @JessMartiniTDN Managing Editor Alan Carasso @EquinealTDN Friday, August 10, 2018 Senior Editor Steve Sherack @SteveSherackTDN Racing Editor Brian DiDonato @BDiDonatoTDN News and Features Editor Ben Massam @BMassamTDN Associate Editors Christie DeBernardis @CDeBernardisTDN Joe Bianca @JBiancaTDN ADVERTISING [email protected] Director of Advertising Alycia Borer Advertising Manager Lia Best Advertising Designer Amanda Crelin Advertising Assistants Alexa Reisfield Amie Morosco Advertising Assistant/Dir. of Distribution Rachel McCaffrey Photo Editor Morning line favorite Jump To Juneau, trained by Jonathan Sheppard, warms up under Sarah K. 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Because three-quarter brothers Sadler’s Wells and Nureyev get crossed quite a bit in international pedigrees, particularly as Blame Game Is On cont. from p1 Sadler’s Wells is a sire of sires and Nureyev appears mostly in “Dad [Seth] loves the family, and I think he thought, ‘Let’s see the internal parts of pedigrees, Special gets duplicated quite a what happens if you double up on it,’” Hancock continued. “It’s bit (though not on the tail-female line). To date, there are more been successful so far. You know his full-sister [Width] won than 100 Group 1 winners with Special or her descendants first-time out here [at Saratoga] in a ‘Rising Star’ performance doubled up, and they include such as Cracksman (5x5 Special), and we thought we’d go back to see if we could get a colt out of Enable (3x2 Sadler’s Wells), Archipenko (4x2 Special), Camelot her on the same cross. And we did, so here we are. You give (4x5 Special), El Condor Pasa (4x4 Special and 5x4x5 Thong), things a try here and there, and three [by three inbreeding] Workforce (5x4 Special), and Madame Chiang (3x5x4 Special). would probably be the closest we’d go. We’re not afraid to take Based on this success, inbreeding to Special’s daughter Bound a chance and see what we can get. It’s just such a good family, makes sense, and Claiborne and Mrs. Dilschneider--who has and we tried to capitalize on it.” assumed the partnership role once occupied by Perry and later Aside from Blame, it’s a family particularly noted for three by his widow Nicole Perry Gorman--have also bred Mucho’s outstanding Northern Dancer stallions, two of which were Grade III-winning half-sister Size (First Samurai) to Blame as champions. Bound is a three-quarter sister to Nureyev, who was well. Those foals--yearling and weanling colts--are inbred 3x4 to disqualified from first in the G1 2000 Guineas but made his mark Bound. as a stallion at Walmac International; and she’s a half-sister to Blame Fairy Bridge, who produced the iconic sire and Irish 2000 Blame (Arch) was bred and raced by Claiborne and Mrs. Guineas winner Sadler’s Wells and his once-raced and unplaced Dilschneider and won nine of 13 starts, including the GI brother Fairy King, both of which stood at Coolmore. Claiborne Breeders’ Cup Classic over Zenyatta, and earned $4,368,214. bred Thong, Special, Nureyev, and Fairy Bridge alone and Bound Cont. p4 TDN HEADLINE NEWS • PAGE 4 OF 14 • THETDN.COM FRIDAY • AUGUST 10, 2018 After starting out at stud for $35,000 live foal--the co-most Sams said that Senga’s French classic win, ironically, didn’t expensive fee for a new horse in North America in 2011, along move the needle, even though it had been quite a while since an with Lookin At Lucky and Quality Road--Blame’s fee had American-based sire was represented by a major European dropped to $12,500 this spring despite siring last summer’s Derby or Oaks winner. “That’s what shows you how much G1 Prix de Diane winner Senga. Central Kentucky people pay attention to European racing,” In hindsight, $12,500 was an incredible bargain, as similar as Sams said. “The Blames had sold well, some had run, some catching Curlin at $25,000, Scat Daddy at $10,000, and hadn’t, you had Senga with the Group 1, but it wasn’t enough Ghostzapper at $20,000 after those horses had fallen to their for the guys around here. They wanted it all in front of them, nadirs from loftier initial fees. Blame is represented by 10 and if it’s not there in front of them, they’ll walk away. The black-type winners this year, five of them graded winners, and commercial part of the deal is brutal.” he sits second behind Quality Road ($70,000 fee in ’18) for Sams then gestured to the back walking ring at the sales fifth-year sires, ahead of such as Kantharos ($15,000), Lookin At pavilion to make his point and said, “Everybody’s very focused Lucky ($17,500), Munnings ($25,000), Super Saver ($35,000), on this”--the selling--“They don’t want to own a set of silks. They and Temple City ($15,000). don’t want to pay a trainer.” In other words, people don’t breed to race anymore in the numbers that they once did, and in that, he’s right. Owner/breeders tend to be more patient with their horses, and the handling of Blame as a racehorse is an example of just that. He won once from two starts at two, was a Grade II winner at three, and blossomed into a champion and multiple Grade I winner at four.