SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 2018 KEESEP: PHAROAH BIDS LADY ELI TO BE OFFERED AT KEENELAND NOVEMBER TO JOIN BIG GUNS OF Eclipse Award winner Lady Eli (Divine Park--Sacre Coeur, by Saint Ballado), a Grade I winner each year from age two to five >THE TAPIT ERA= and described by Chad Brown as Athe best turf horse I=ve ever trained,@ will be offered in foal to War Front by John Sikura=s Hill >n= Dale Farm at this year=s Keeneland Breeding Stock November Sale, it was announced Saturday. Bred in Kentucky by Catesby W. Clay and Runnymede Farm Inc., Lady Eli--also a graduate of Keeneland=s September and April 2-Year-Old sales--was perfect in three starts as a juvenile, including the 2014 GI Breeders= Cup Juvenile Fillies= Turf, and tacked on three consecutive victories as a 3-year-old, capped by a rousing success in the GI Belmont Oaks Invitational. Cont. p5 IN TDN EUROPE TODAY Triple Crown winner American Pharoah pictured at THE TIN MAN GETS HIS TURN IN SPRINT CUP Ashford Stud shortly after capturing the 2015 GI Breeders= The Tin Man (GB) (Equiano {Fr}) struck for the first time this Cup Classic at Keeneland | Sherackatthetrack year when gaining a deserved win in the G1 Sprint Cup at Haydock. Click or tap here to go straight to TDN Europe. by Chris McGrath So let=s hear it for Hip 4538. A chestnut filly by Hampton Court (Aus) (Redoute=s Choice {Aus}). Not a bad page, actually: she=s out of a half-sister to the dual Grade II-winning dam of a Breeders= Cup runner-up. You=ll find her with the Vinery consignment, Barns 9 & 10. Whether you will still have soles to your shoes, by that stage, remains to be seen; never mind whether you have somehow kept body and soul together. But whatever her future holds, on the track, she deserves at least this fleeting notice now. Because there may not be ink enough, never mind a residue of coherence, for the press to record the aspirations of her purchaser. He will literally be the last man standing. When the gavel comes down on this filly, it will conclude the 13th session of what mightCwith due apologies to Man o= War, a Saratoga graduate after allCbe termed the Amostest@ horse sale in the world. Book 1 has again been tweaked, from a single evening last year to four days this time, but the point of the Keeneland September Sale is that it covers the whole spectrum. It isn=t a snapshot or a sample of the market, like other sales: it is the market. Cont. p3 No. 1 sire of 2YOs, led by Best Pal (G2) winner INSTAGRAND No. 2 active sire of 3YOs, led by Florida Derby (G1) winner AUDIBLE “Now a top 3 sire, with Tapit and War Front” -Bill Oppenheim Look for his best-bred crop to date at Keeneland September. w w w . s p e n dthri f t f arm. c o m INTO MISCHIEF 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 Sunday, September 9, 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 The first day of the New Vocations All-Thoroughbred Charity Horse Show was a Sarah K. 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And the sheer volume of $200,000 covering fee for the first Triple Crown winner since the equine traffic virtually guarantees that some golden nuggets are 1970s. So far he has processed 15 yearlings, from 17 offered to going to fall through the cracks. date at Saratoga and elsewhere, at a clip of $643,605. (Even the The uniform aspect of the six catalogs reflects that democratic two who went home stalled at $800,000 and $495,000, opportunity: each in the same dark green livery, with four respectively.) But to maintain those kind of returns, in such identical squares front and back framing a sale graduate. The concentration, looks a lot to ask; certainly those who think they eight on Book 1 inevitably include Justify (Scat Daddy), the can afford one should not have to go home empty-handed. mould-breaking Triple Crown winner, as well as Monomoy Girl However he gets on, American Pharoah has already altered (Tapizar), Accelerate (Lookin At Lucky) and Good Magic (Curlin). the dynamic at the top end of the market. While the proof of Justify raised $500,000 as Hip 50 two years ago, but remember the pudding naturally awaits, on the racetrack, for now he has that Monomoy Girl entered the ring only as Hip 1611, and that barged his way straight into the midst of the supersires who the fillies who followed her home in the Kentucky Oaks were increasingly dominate the bloodstock economy. At Fasig- even later: Wonder Gadot (Medaglia d=Oro) as Hip 2121, and Tipton=s Select Sale in Saratoga, for instance, American Pharoah Midnight Bisou (Midnight Lute), unsold for $19,000, as Hip 4015. had a filly and colt join three yearlings by Medaglia d=Oro (El So the rewards are there, if your hard work is matched by equal Prado) in carving up the five seven-figure lots. luck. Because the big shots will have left town long before that Medaglia d=Oro, of course, has long since earned his stripes in Hampton Court filly leaves a lonely back ring. his second career, seven individual Grade 1 winners last year To most of us, the sale will sooner take its tone from the very spiking his feeCat the age of 19Cfrom $150,000 to $250,000. first lot: another filly, foaled six days after the one by Hampton He must make do with 48 Book 1 hips. CourtCbut a galaxy away in terms of expectation. For Hip 1 is As proven big hitters of that ilk gain in stature, of course, so the first of a staggering 66 yearlings by American Pharoah they tend to be used by more of the top owner-breeders. (Pioneerof The Nile) accommodated in Book 1, with another 15 Perhaps that contributed to the defections and RNAs that listed later. brought down Tapit (Pulpit) sales to 17 last year, from 31 in TDN HEADLINE NEWS • PAGE 4 OF 13 • THETDN.COM SUNDAY • SEPTEMBER 9, 2018 2016. Nonetheless only 51 yearlings from the final crop of Scat This is a trend that might have faltered with the disappearance Daddy (Johannesburg) were sufficient to deny Tapit top gross of of Scat Daddy, but the farm that lost him is trusting American the sale, and he was clear even of War Front (Danzig)Cwhose Pharoah to step straight into the breach. And we can still expect books, still more carefully managed, will always see him major in a strong play from all the other usual suspects, with those quality rather than quantityCat the head of the averages. bubbling under including Uncle Mo (Indian Charlie)Clikely to The rise of Tapit has, in fact, been coterminous with an era of prove a big factor with a crop produced from 256 covers. He growing commitment to the elite cadre. Back in 2010, when his edges out even American Pharoah with 67 in Book 1, with first runners had consecutively raised his fee from $12,500 to another 38 to follow thereafter. $35,000 and then $50,000, the Gainesway sire ranked #18 by It is also easy to picture Uncle Mo=s replacement as the gross here, shifting 29 yearlings at $126,310. Just behind, in nation=s busiest sire, Into Mischief (Harlan=s Holiday), reaching 20th, was Medaglia d=Oro, who sold the same number at yet another milestone with a first $1-million yearling.