SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 2010 For information about TDN, call 732-747-8060. WINSTAR GETS THE POINTE EMPIRE MAKER SOLD TO JBBA WinStar Farm has been an active buyer of mares at Juddmonte Farms announced Friday that 2003 Keeneland this week and the farm made its biggest GI Belmont S. winner and successful sire Empire Maker splash yesterday, going to $400,000 to bring home (Unbridled--Toussaud, by El Gran Senor) has been sold Grosse Pointe Anne (Silver Deputy--Playa Maya, by to the Japan Bloodhorse Breeders= Association. Terms Arch), a half-sister to of the deal were not disclosed. A homebred son of GI Breeders= Cup Juvenile Juddmonte=s Broodmare of the Year Toussaud, the dark winner Uncle Mo (Indian Char- bay stood for $50,000 at lie). Recently appointed the Lexington, Kentucky, WinStar President Elliott nursery in 2010. This Walden signed the ticket on year, the 10-year-old stal- the three-year-old filly, who lion has been represented was selling as a broodmare by Grade I winner Acoma, Elliott Walden after WinStar’s Drosselmeyer won the Belmont prospect. For Walden, it was as well as Grade II winners WinStar photo easy to identify Grosse Pointe Acting Happy and Battle Anne=s appeal. AUncle Mo,@ he Plan. The latter was sold said succinctly with a chuckle. AWe think the world of to Japan for stud duty Uncle Mo, and just thought she=d be a good addition to earlier this year. From four Empire Maker juddmonte.com our broodmare band.@ A day after her son captured the crops of racing age, Em- Breeders= Cup Juvenile, Playa Maya sold for $1.65 pire Maker has sired top-level winners Country Star, million at the Fasig-Tipton November sale. Grosse Icon Project, Mushka and Pioneerof the Nile, and his Pointe Anne was purchased for $170,000 by trainer progeny have earned over $15.3 million to date. Among Ken McPeek as a Keeneland September yearling. She the stallions currently standing at the JBBA=s Shizunai won once in six starts while racing for Grosse Pointe Stallion Station are Bago (Fr), Johannesburg and Farm, and was consigned to the sale yesterday by Aldebaran. Three Chimneys as agent for the operation. Walden said no decision had been made on who to send Grosse QUALITY ROAD 2011 Fee Set at $35K........p10 Pointe Anne to, but he did mention Indian Charlie and KEENOV coverage cont. ...........................p2-5 Tiznow as possibilities. The dark bay filly was the 13th purchase of the week for WinStar. AWe=ve been active all week, wanting to ramp up our broodmare program and we felt she does just that,@ Walden explained. Also yesterday, WinStar spent $110,000 for the seven-year- old mare Coli Bear (Formal Dinner), in foal to Harlan=s Holiday. Among the farm=s other purchases this week are Moonbow (Distorted Humor) (hip 451) ($270,000); Superhalf (A.P. Indy) (hip 290) ($270,000), and Empire West (Empire Maker) (hip 144) ($230,000). -J Martini video KEENELAND NOVEMBER FRIDAY, NOV. 12, 2010 SESSION TOTALS 2010 2009 Catalogued 417 400 No. Offered 336 317 No. Sold 277 258 RNAs 59 59 % RNA 17.6% 19% High Price $400,000 $265,000 Gross $10,349,100 $10,837,000 Average (% change) $37,361 (-11%) $42,004 Median (% change) $27,000 (-15.6%) $32,000 www.keeneland.com www.coolmore.com P TDN HEADLINE NEWS • 11/13/10 • PAGE 2 of 10 • thoroughbreddailynews.com KEENELAND NOVEMBER Breeding Stock Sale Monday, Nov. 8 - Saturday, Nov. 20 10:00 a.m. Modification Goes for $195,000... Bill Betz, sitting in the sales pavilion, saw off a rival sitting across the aisle to land the day=s second-highest- priced mare, the five-year-old Modification (Vindication --Swift Alliance, by Afleet), for $195,000. Betz signed the ticket for Betz Thoroughbreds. It was Modification=s second trip through the ring at Keeneland. As a yearling, she sold here for $85,000 in 2006. Niall Brennan resold her to Dennis O=Neill for $360,000 as a Barretts March juvenile, and she proved her worth with several good efforts. In 2009, she was beaten just a length by subsequent GI Breeders= Cup Ladies= Classic heroine Life is Sweet (Storm Cat) when fourth in the GII La Canada S., and was just 1 1/4 lengths back of champion Informed Decision (Monarchos) when third in that year=s GI Humana Dis- taff at Churchill Downs. She raced for J. Paul Reddam and Mark Schlesinger, and was trained at times by Mark Hennig and Doug O=Neill. Selling in foal to Reddam=s young Grade I-winning sire Spring at Last (Silver Deputy), Modification was being offered by Roderick Wachman=s Kingswood Farm. AShe=s a beautiful mare,@ said Wachman. AShe had good performance--one was Grade I-placed--and she has a great pedigree. And she=s in foal to a nice young stallion. It was very straightforward. She was a big fish in a small pond. There=s a reason we placed her in Book 3.@ Wachman described Kingswood, in existence for nine or 10 years, as a small commercial operation based on a few hundred acres near Lexington. AI think we bred about 90 mares or so last year,@ he said. -LM KEENELAND NOVEMBER FRIDAY, NOV. 12, 2010 CUMULATIVE 2010 2009 Catalogued 1701 1692 No. Offered 1424 1311 No. Sold 1120 1049 RNAs 304 262 % RNA 21.3% 20% No. $1 million + 8 5 High Price $2,550,000 $3,100,000 Gross $118,752,100 $129,721,200 Average (% change) $106,029 (-14.3%) $123,662 Median (% change) $60,000 (-14.3%) $70,000 www.keeneland.com (859) 873-7270 • www.airdriestud.com P TDN HEADLINE NEWS • 11/13/10 • PAGE 3 of 10 • thoroughbreddailynews.com Glidawn Stud Active at Keeneland... Burke=s purchases this November include a filly by Gerry Burke was a busy man at Keeneland this week. Bernardini out of Shade Dance (Nureyev) (hip 525) for Flanked by his wife Patricia and 11-year-old daughter $75,000; a Speightstown filly out of Unrestrained Gillian, the Irishman darted between the back walking (Unbridled) (hip 594) for $27,000; a Mr. Greeley filly ring and the out of Victorica (Exbourne) (hip 600) for $90,000; and sales pavilion a Tapit filly out of Catlike Dancer (Tale of the Cat) (hip before ulti- 5013) for $22,000. mately signing Asked if he was finding the market competitive this the ticket for November, Burke said, AA nice horse is still hard to four weanlings. buy.@ As for where these weanlings will next see ac- The four are tion, Burke added, AWe sell at Goffs and Tattersalls, we destined for sell at Arqana in France--those are three main places. European sales We also sell at Doncaster. We try to spread them rings in a around.@ --JM The Burke family at Keeneland pinhooking mi- Joe DiOrio photo gration that Average, Median Down For Session Five... Burke has em- Action concluded Friday with an 11-percent drop in ployed for several years now. AWe came out to America average, from $42,004 to $37,361, and a 15.6-percent about 15 years ago,@ Burke said yesterday. AThe first drop in median, from $32,000 to $27,000, from last year, we bought a filly by Woodman who turned out to year=s corresponding figures. The cumulative average of be Hula Angel, and she won the G1 Irish 1000 Guin- $106,029 is down 14.3 percent, and the cumulative eas.@ Hula Angel was a $40,000 purchase at the 1996 median of $60,000 is also down 14.3 percent. Keeneland November sale. Burke=s Glidawn Stud resold the filly the following year at Goffs for ,85,000. AThat got us going,@ he said. AWe specialize in buying well- bred fillies. We buy foals and sell yearlings and race the odd ones if we can=t sell them.@ Buying American foals to sell in Europe may sound a little bit like swimming upstream, but Burke sees plenty of opportunity. AAmer- ica is the horse capital of the world, and we always consider it a great pleasure and a great privilege to KEENOV FRIDAY -- TOP BROODMARES come here,@ he said. AWe=re a very small operation-- Hip Name Covering Sire Price ($) most of the time we=d have maybe about 20 horses. 1552 Grosse Pointe Anne b’mare prospect 400,000 We just feel very fortunate to be able to do this.@ Re- (3, Silver Deputy--Playa Maya, by Arch) cent successes from the Waterford-based Glidawn Consigned by Three Chimneys Sales, agent for Grosse Pointe Farm pinhooking operation include a Strong Hope filly bought Purchased by WinStar Farm LLC for $25,000 at the 2008 Keeneland January sale who 1650 Modification Spring at Last 195,000 brought $119,068 at that year=s Tattersalls October (m, 5, Vindication--Swift Alliance, by Afleet) sale. A Stormy Atlantic filly bought for $25,000 at the Consigned by Kingswood Farm, Agent VI 2008 Keeneland November sale resold for the equiva- Purchased by Betz Thoroughbreds 1482 Coli Bear Harlan’s Holiday 110,000 lent of $130,229 at Tattersalls October the following year. Burke purchased a Medicean (GB) filly for (7, Formal Dinner--Crafty Marian, by Crafty Prospector) Consigned by Taylor Made Sales Agency, agent for Aaron & Marie Jones $27,000 at Keeneland January in 2009 and resold her Purchased by WinStar Farm LLC for $190,372 at Goffs and an Awesome Again filly 1318 Seattle Weekend War Pass 110,000 bought for $72,000 at last year=s November auction (9, A.P.