WEDNESDAY, MAY 10, 2017 ALWAYS DREAMING ARRIVES AT PIMLICO THE AMERICAN DREAM The first thing we have to say about last Saturday=s GI Kentucky Derby Presented by Yum! Brands is that GI Xpressbet Florida Derby winner Always Dreaming, from the first crop by WinStar=s Bodemeister, was the worthy winner. Johnny Velazquez had him in the perfect stalking position all the way around, went to the lead by the half-mile pole, repelled >TDN Rising Star= Battle of Midway (Smart Strike)--who held on gallantly for third--and fellow >Rising Star= Irish War Cry (Curlin) at the quarter pole, and was always the winner from there. Cont. p4 IN TDN EUROPE TODAY CHURCHILL GUINEAS WIN RATED 120 Churchill has been given a performance rating of 120 by the BHA for his win in the G1 2000 Guineas on Saturday. G1 1000 Always Dreaming walks the shedrow after arriving at Pimlico Guineas winner Winter was rated 116. Click or tap here to go straight to TDN Europe. GI Kentucky Derby hero Always Dreaming (Bodemeister) arrived at Pimlico Race Course Tuesday morning to begin preparations for the May 20 GI Preakness S. Ginny DePasquale, longtime assistant to trainer Todd Pletcher, was on hand to supervise the arrival, which can be viewed here. AI just spoke to Todd and told him the horse looks very bright-eyed and very happy. He looks like his normal self that we see every day,@ DePasquale told the Pimlico notes team. AIt=s pretty special to see him looking that well. I=m happy and I know Todd is.@ Always Dreaming arrived from Churchill Downs, where the dark bay scored a convincing 2 3/4-length victory in Saturday=s 143rd Derby. The $350,000 Keeneland September yearling buy boarded a van at 6:30 a.m. with GII Black-Eyed Susan S. contender and stablemate Moana (Uncle Mo) and headed to Louisville International Airport, where the two were flown to Baltimore-Washington International airport, arriving at 9:28 a.m. Cont. p3 PRESIDENT & CO-PUBLISHER Barry Weisbord @barryweisbord [email protected] SR. V.P. & CO-PUBLISHER Sue Morris Finley @suefinley [email protected] V.P., INTERNATIONAL OPERATIONS Gary King @garykingTDN [email protected] Wednesday, May 10, 2017 EDITORIAL [email protected] Editor-in-Chief Jessica Martini @JessMartiniTDN Managing Editor Alan Carasso @EquinealTDN Senior Editor Steve Sherack @SteveSherackTDN Racing Editor Brian DiDonato @BDiDonatoTDN Associate Editors Christie DeBernardis @CDeBernardisTDN Ben Massam @BMassamTDN Assistant Editors Heather Anderson @HLAndersonTDN Joe Bianca @JBiancaTDN ADVERTISING [email protected] Director of Advertising Alycia Borer Advertising Manager Lia Best Advertising Designer Amanda Crelin Advertising Assistants Alexa Reisfield Michelle Benson New dreams. Following his Tuesday morning flight from Churchill Downs (left), GI Kentucky Derby hero Always Dreaming arrives at Pimlico Race Course in style and Photo Editor/Dir. of Distribution settles into historic Stall 40 (right), home of many famous Derby-winning residents, Sarah K. Andrew @SarahKAndrew [email protected] including Triple Crown champions Secretariat, Seattle Slew, Affirmed, and American Pharoah. | Left: Coady Photography Right: Maryland Jockey Club Social Media Strategist Justina Severni Director of Customer Service SOUTH AMERICAN STAKES RESULTS 7 Vicki Forbes A trio of Group 1 races were contested at Cidade Jardim in Brazil [email protected] this past weekend. Check out the race charts and video replays. Director of Information Technology Ray Villa [email protected] INSIDE THE WINNER’S CIRCLE: ANTHONY BONOMO WORLDWIDE INFORMATION In this week’s Inside the Winner’s Circle Presented by Keeneland, International Editor Ben Massam talks to Anthony Bonomo, co-owner of GI Kentucky Kelsey Riley @kelseynrileyTDN Derby hero Always Dreaming (Bodemeister). Find the story at the [email protected] back of Headline News. European Editor Emma Berry [email protected] Newmarket Bureau, Cafe Racing Sean Cronin & Tom Frary [email protected] 60 Broad Street, Suite 100 Red Bank, NJ 07701 732-747-8060 | 732-747-8955 (fax) www.TheTDN.com TDN HEADLINE NEWS • PAGE 3 OF 7 • THETDN.COM WEDNESDAY • MAY 10, 2017 Always Dreaming arrives at Pimlico cont. AHe=s just going to jog with the pony one time around The van carrying the Pletcher trainees entered the Pimlico tomorrow at 6:30,@ said DePasquale, who will supervise the stable gate at 11 a.m. and Always Dreaming followed Moana off training session prior to Pletcher=s scheduled arrival in Baltimore the van at 11:08 before walking Wednesday afternoon. the shedrow of the Preakness In other Preakness news, Stakes Barn for six minutes and contender Royal Mo (Uncle Mo), entering Stall 40, the stall who finished third in the traditionally reserved for the GI Santa Anita Derby and was Kentucky Derby champion. left out of the starting gate at AThis year, it=s very, very Churchill due to insufficient exciting, because we think he=s a qualifying points, accompanied really special horse,@ DePasquale the Pletcher trainees on the said. flight from Louisville. The John Always Dreaming, who Shirreffs-trained colt is prepped for his Derby win by scheduled to go to the track powerfully annexing the between 9-9:30 a.m. GI Xpressbet Florida Derby Wednesday. Apr. 1 at Gulfstream Park, has Derby seventh-place finisher won all four of his starts this Gunnevera (Dialed In), who was year by a combined Always Dreaming | Horsephotos added to the Preakness 23 1/4 lengths. The colt is probable list Monday, returned scheduled to get acquainted with the Pimlico racing surface to the track at Churchill to jog twice around alongside a pony Wednesday morning. Tuesday. Cont. p4 TDN HEADLINE NEWS • PAGE 4 OF 7 • THETDN.COM WEDNESDAY • MAY 10, 2017 Always Dreaming/Preakness notes cont. Oppenheim cont. AThe main factor in deciding to run is that he is sound and Lookin At Lee, a deep closer by Lookin At Lucky (also by Smart doing good and we think we have a good chance in the Strike) who had finished third in the GI Arkansas Derby, ran on Preakness,@ said Allessandro Sano, son of trainer Antonio Sano, for second, with Battle of Midway third and Arkansas Derby who returned Monday to Miami. AHe doesn=t seem like he ran a winner Classic Empire fourth, having encountered enough mile and a quarter. We are going to take it one race at a time trouble to keep it from being an Empire Maker exacta--since and right now, the Preakness is the main goal.@ Classic Empire is by Pioneerof the Nile, like Bodemeister a son of The winner of the GII Xpressbet Fountain of Youth S., who will Empire Maker. This does make it the second time in three years have Mike Smith aboard in the Preakness, is slated to van to that Empire Maker, now himself back in residence in Kentucky Baltimore early Saturday morning. at Gainesway Farm, is the grandsire of the Derby winner, since Derby runner-up Lookin At Lee (Lookin At Lucky) and of course Pioneerof the Nile, also a WinStar stallion, is the sire of 11th-place finisher Hence (Street Boss) both walked the 2015 Triple Crown winner American Pharoah. So I think we can shedrow and will resume training Wednesday at Churchill. Scott now officially refer to Empire Maker/Unbridled (also sire of Blasi, assistant to Hall of Fame trainer Steve Asmussen, said the Unbridled=s Song)/Fappiano as a hot two-turn Classic dirt sire horses would fly to Baltimore Tuesday, May 16, on a Tex Sutton line. = flight. That s probably not just a convenient classifying system; in the case of Always Dreaming, neither his sire nor his dam stayed Classic Empire (Pioneerof the Nile), fourth in the Derby after a 10 furlongs. Bodemeister definitely did not; he got nine furlongs troubled trip, also walked the shedrow. Norman Casse, assistant all right, as evidenced by his 9 1/2-length demolition job in the to and son of trainer Mark Casse, relayed that the colt=s eye, 2012 GI Arkansas Derby. But after setting a :45 1/5 and 1:09 4/5 which had swollen shut after the Derby, was Aperfect.@ pace he couldn=t see out the trip, and I=ll Have Another Ken McPeek, who trains GIII Lexington S. winner Senior outstayed him to win the GI Kentucky Derby by 1 1/2 lengths. Investment (Discreetly Mine), said his charge will also fly out of Bodemeister set a much slower pace in the GI Preakness S.-- Louisville next Tuesday. The colt walked Tuesday after breezing :47 3/5, 1:11 3/5--but still I=ll Have Another got up to win. a bullet five furlongs in 1:00 2/5 (1/23) Monday at Keeneland. Always Dreaming=s dam, Above Perfection, was an out-and-out Multiplier (The Factor), winner of the GIII Illinois Derby Apr. 23 sprinter; the only times she went two turns were in a van. So it=s at Hawthorne, jogged Tuesday at Keeneland for trainer Brendan pretty likely Empire Maker, second to Funny Cide (from Walsh and is another runner scheduled to fly to Baltimore Distorted Humor=s first crop) as the favorite in the 2003 Derby May 16. but winner of the 12-furlong GI Belmont S. in his next start, provided a positive injection of stamina. That is absolutely the best news the many followers of Bodemeister could have, CAN’T WAIT TO GET YOUR because it means he has already proven he can sire a Derby winner, even if he couldn=t win the Derby himself. TDN BREAKING NEWS AND Of course, Bodemeister now gallops to the front among North American second-crop sires, since the Derby winner=s share of RACE RESULTS? $1,635,800 was by itself more than the former leader and new Click Here to sign up for TDN Alerts runner-up, Darby Dan=s Shackleford, himself has in progeny earnings for the whole of the year so far (click here).