SATURDAY, AUGUST 4, 2012 732-747-8060 $ TDN Home Page Click Here TAKE ME HOME, COUNTRY ROADS Whitney Handicap The marquee name in today's $750,000 GII West Virginia Derby is Hansen (Tapit), last year's champion juvenile who shrugged off a ninth-place finish in the GI Kentucky Derby to dominate the GIII Iowa Derby at HOLDING DOWN THE FORT Prairie Meadows Janis Whitham=s rapidly improving homebred Fort June 30. As the lone Larned (E Dubai) shoots for a career high in today=s Grade I winner in the GI Whitney Invitational H. at the Spa. If able to forgive field, the nearly white his eighth-place finish behind Ron colt is eligible for a the Greek (Full Mandate) in the $150,000 bonus if he GI Stephen Foster H. at Churchill makes it to the winner's Downs June 16, the bay has circle. Hansen's biggest done little wrong in 2012. He challenge will likely come was awarded gaudy 108 Beyers from Le Bernardin in three out of his last four (Bernardini), who also put attempts, including a strong behind a disappointing Hansen second to Successful Dan effort--a 10th in the Adam Coglianese Fort Larned (Successful Appeal) in the GII GII Peter Pan S. Adam Coglianese Alysheba S. beneath the Twin May 12--by showing grit in winning the GIII Pegasus S. Spires May 4 and a wire-to-wire at Monmouth June 17. Mike Luzzi will be in the irons win in the GIII Prairie Meadows Cornhusker H. last time once more aboard the Darley colorbearer, who has done June 30. Fort Larned continues to take his game to new his best running close to the pace. "Hansen is awfully levels since adding blinkers when annexing a Churchill tough, and I don=t want to get into a situation where we allowance in his 2011 finale. AHe really stepped it up,@ lose a chance for a nice part of the purse by going out trainer Ian Wilkes offered. AThe blinkers really helped there too fast to challenge him,@ trainer Kiaran him. He just wanted to run a little bit. I went into the McLaughlin told Daily Racing Form. ASo the tactical part, Stephen Foster with a pretty horse--I didn=t have a that=s kind of tricky. I=ll just let Mike try to make those racehorse. So, he didn=t run much that day. The owner tough decisions.@ Cont. p7 was willing to take a shot [two weeks later for the Cornhusker H.].@ Cont. p3 THE CLASH OF CLAREHAVEN John Gosden has been a prominent figure on the European scene over the past few weeks, and two of the finest at his Clarehaven Stable are brought together to contest today=s G1 Nassau S. at Goodwood. Izzi Top (GB) (Pivotal {GB}) has carried all before her in the main contests open to older fillies and mares, while the year-younger The Fugue (GB) (Dansili {GB}) has played a Izzi Top winning the Pretty major role in the Classics. Polly Racing Post/Patrick McCann The Meon Valley homebred Izzi Top is on a roll, having garnered the nine-furlong G3 Dahlia S. at Newmarket May 6 before stepping up to this trip to add York=s G2 Middleton S. to her tally 11 days later followed by the G1 Pretty Polly S. at The Curragh last time July 1. Cont. p4 In This Issue Agave Kiss Looks to Rebound 60 Broad St., Suite 100 Red Bank, NJ 07701 Today's GI Prioress S. at Saratoga features (732) 747-8060 Flying Zee Racing Stables's Agave Kiss (Lion (732) 747-8955 (fax) Heart), who seeks to make amends for her www.thoroughbreddailynews.com head-scratching fifth behind Emma's Encore www.thetdn.com (Congrats), Jamaican Smoke (Latent Heat), and Tu Endie Wei (Johar) in the GIII Victory Ride S. at Belmont July 7. The previously undefeated Barry Weisbord, co-publisher chestnut rolled through her first six starts, [email protected] including tour-de-force victories in Aqueduct's Agave Kiss Sue Finley, co-publisher GIII Cicada S. Mar. 10 and Pimlico's Miss Adam Coglianese [email protected] Preakness S. May 18. Coverage begins page 5 Editorial [email protected] Jessica Martini, Editor-in-Chief Alan Carasso, Managing Editor Churchill Announces Fall Schedule Marie Kizenko, Senior Editor Christina Bossinakis, Senior Editor Churchill Downs announced that the $400,000 GI Clark H. will top its stakes Lucas Marquardt, Features Editor schedule for the fall meet, which will take place Oct. 28-Nov. 25. Steve Sherack, Racing Editor Brian DiDonato, Racing Analyst/Soc. Media Dir. Coverage begins page 13 Justina Severni, Assistant Editor Advertising [email protected] Sherack Stays Hot at the Spa Alycia Borer, Director of Advertising Steve Sherack added a $17.80 winner at Saratoga Friday to continue his Lia Kusch, Senior Advertising Designer impressive run in ‘Showdown at the Spa.’ Coverage begins page 1 (ATW) Sarah K. Andrew, Adv Assistant/Distribution Amanda Crelin, Advertising Assistant Customer Service [email protected] Vicki Forbes, Director of Customer Service Information Technology Robert Williams, Director of IT [email protected] EST Race Click for TV Gregg Casillo, DB Administrator, Programming 10:15a Nassau S.-G1, GOO (brisnet.com PPs) HRTV [email protected] 4:50p Seagram Cup S.-GIII, WO (brisnet.com PPs) TVG 5:12p Prioress S.-GI, SAR (brisnet.com PPs) HR/TVG Marketing 5:45p West Virginia Derby-GII, MNR (brisnet.com PPs) HR/TVG Gary King, Marketing Manager 5:45p Whitney Invitational H.-GI, SAR (brisnet.com PPs) HR/TVG [email protected] 8:30p Clement L Hirsch S.-GI, DMR (brisnet.com PPs) TVG TDN Newmarket Bureau: Cafe Racing [email protected] Sean Cronin Tom Frary TDN P HEADLINE NEWS • 8/4/12 • PAGE 3 of 16 • thoroughbreddailynews.com FEATURE PRESENTATION • GI WHITNEY H. (cont. from p1) Hymn Book (Arch) looks primed to deliver trainer Shug McGaughey a third Whitney. The GI Donn H. hero made up for off-the-board finishes in the GII Oaklawn H. Apr. 14 and GIII Pimlico Special S. May 18 with a very good second to Mucho Macho Man (Macho Uno) after exiting the stalls a bit flat- footed in a salty renewal of the GII Suburban H. at Belmont Park July 7. AI=m going to say he stumbled [in Hymn Book the Suburban], and I think that=s Adam Coglianese what he did,@ said McGaughey, who saddled the legendary Personal Ensign and Easy Goer to collect back-to-back renewals of this prestigious contest in 1988-89, respectively. AI think he just broke hard, and his right front went out from under him. When it did, [Garcia] 859-873-7270 • www.airdriestud.com had to gather him up and sort of lost all position. I was pretty happy with the way he did finish. He came on against that group of horses. The winner is a very nice horse, Mucho Macho Man. He had a really good trip and been laying up there, and it=s hard when you give up Purple indicates Breeders= Cup Win & You=re In Race; that much ground to catch up to that kind of horse.@ BC pre-entry and entry fees paid and travel to the BC Ron the Greek is certainly a deserving favorite with will be subsidized by Breeders= Cup Ltd. for BC- Grade I victories in this term=s Santa Anita H. and nominated horses. Click here for details. Stephen Foster already under his belt. Saturday, Saratoga, post time: 5:45 p.m. EDT WHITNEY H.-GI, $750,000, 3yo/up, 1 1/8m PP HORSE OWNER BREEDER TRAINER/JOCKEY ML 1 Rule WinStar Farm LLC WinStar Farm LLC-KY Pletcher 5-1 (h, 5, Roman Ruler--Rock Cide, by Personal Flag) Bravo 2 Hunters Bay Stronach Stables Adena Springs-KY Baker 20-1 (h, 5, Ghostzapper--Smok’n Frolic, by Smoke Glacken) Wilson 3 Caixa Eletronica Repole Stable Richard Rowan-KY Pletcher 15-1 (h, 7, Arromanches--Edyta, by Skip Away) Castellano 4 Endorsement K Casner Racing LLC Kilroy Thoroughbred Partnership-KY Harty 20-1 (h, 5, Distorted Humor--Charmed Gift, by A.P. Indy) Rosario 5 Trickmeister K IEAH Stables, Pegasus Holdings, et al Brereton C Jones & Timothy C Thornton-KY R Dutrow 15-1 (h, 5, Proud Citizen--Afternoon Trick, by Afternoon Deelites) Dominguez 6 Ron The Greek Brous Stable, Wachtel Stable & J Hammer Jack T Hammer-FL Mott 3-1 (h, 5, Full Mandate--Flambe, by Fortunate Prospect) Lezcano 7 Flat Out Preston Stables LLC Nikolaus Bock-FL Mott 4-1 (h, 6, Flatter--Cresta Lil, by Cresta Rider) Napravnik 8 Hymn Book Stuart S Janney III Stuart S Janney III LLC-KY McGaughey 4-1 (g, 6, Arch--Vespers, by Known Fact) Velazquez 9 Fort Larned Janis R Whitham Janis R Whitham-KY Wilkes 7-2 (c, 4, E Dubai--Arlucea, by Broad Brush) Hernandez TDN P HEADLINE NEWS • 8/4/12 • PAGE 4 of 16 • thoroughbreddailynews.com Saturday, Goodwood, Britain, post time: 3:15 p.m. MARKEL INSURANCE NASSAU S.-G1, £185,000, 3yo/up, f/m, 9f 192ydsT SC PP HORSE SIRE JOCKEY TRAINER 1 4 Clinical (GB) Motivator (GB) Morris Prescott 2 8 Izzi Top (GB) Pivotal (GB) Buick Gosden 3 5 Lay Time (GB) Galileo (Ire) Fortune Balding 4 2 Nahrain (GB) Selkirk Callan Varian 5 3 Sea of Heartbreak (Ire) Rock of Gibraltar (Ire) J Doyle Charlton 6 1 Timepiece (GB) Zamindar Queally Cecil 7 7 The Fugue (GB) Dansili (GB) R Hughes Gosden 8 6 Was (Ire) Galileo (Ire) R Moore A O'Brien All carry 132 pounds bar The Fugue & Was, 123.