PIMLICO SPECIAL RETURNS HEADLINE p.3 NEWS For information about TDN, DELIVERED EACH NIGHT call 732-747-8060. BY FAX AND INTERNET www.thoroughbreddailynews.com TUESDAY, JAN. 21, 2003 ELLOLUV WINS SANTA YNEZ JOHAR BEST IN TIGHT SAN MARCOS FINISH Elloluv (Gilded Time) had only a maiden win to her Johar (Gone West) added yet another notch to his credit when she was dismissed at 30-1 in the Dec. 14 illustrious predecessor’s belts as he battled gamely in GI Hollywood Starlet S., but the filly set the pace and the Santa Anita stretch to score in yesterday’s GII San drew clear to win that 1 1/16-miles contest by four Marcos. In the money in eight of 11 starts as a three- lengths. Attracting greater respect in yesterday’s GII year-old, including the GII Del Mar Derby Sept. 7, the Santa Ynez S. at Santa Anita, homebred closed out the season with a pair of nine- she glided home a 2 1/2- furlong victories; the GII Oak Tree Derby Oct. 13 and length winner as the 9-5 sec- the Dec. 1 GI Hollywood Derby. Sent off the 2-1 sec- ond choice. Elloluv pressed the ond choice behind 9-5 choice stablemate The Tin Man pace before swinging out four (Affirmed), Johar was content to track the pace in wide nearing the turn. She seventh as Grammarian (Definate Article {GB}) cut out battled between foes on the quick early fractions. Drawn wide at the top of the bend, took a narrow lead into stretch and still in fifth with a quarter of a mile left to Elloluv Benoit photo the stretch and pulled clear to run, the Richard Mandella trainee rallied gamely in the the wire. According to winning final strides to reach the hard-running leader as The Tin jockey Pat Valenzuela, “She was running relatively easy Man ranged up alongside, but it was Johar who poked the whole way down the backside. When the two horse his nose over the wire first, in the process establishing [Puxa Saco (Dehere)] got through on the rail, I was a a new course record. Mandella will target the first and little concerned that she might shake away from us, so second-place finishers to either the 10-furlong GII San I edged my filly up next to Corey [Nakatani] on Himala- Luis Rey H. Mar. 15 or the G1 Dubai Sheema Classic yan (Mountain Cat) and the last quarter mile, I just later that month. “All those little losses we had in the asked her and she took off.” Winning trainer Craig summer, he’s kind of winning them now,” he said. “I Dollase targeted the Feb. 9 GI Las Virgenes as Elloluv’s think he’s just a horse that just gets better and better next start. Click for the brisnet.com chart or the free with age.” Click for the brisnet.com chart or the free brisnet.com catalogue-style pedigree. brisnet.com catalogue-style pedigree. Monday, Santa Anita SAN MARCOS S.-GII, $150,000, SAX, 1-20, 4yo/up, SANTA YNEZ S.-GII, $150,000, SAX, 1-20, 3yo, f, 7f, 1 1/4mT, 1:57 4/5, fm. 1:23, ft. 1--JOHAR, 120, c, 4, by Gone West 1--ELLOLUV, 121, f, 3, by Gilded Time 1st Dam: Windsharp ( Ch. Older & Turf Mare-Can, 1st Dam: Currency Quest (SW), by Cryptoclearance MGISW-US, MSP-Fr, $1,290,495), by Lear Fan 2nd Dam: Crystal Blaze, by Spectacular Bid 2nd Dam: Yes She's Sharp, by Sharpen Up (GB) 3rd Dam: Stiff Breeze, by Never Bend 3rd Dam: Yes Sir, by Sir Gaylord ($120,000 2yo 2002 KEEAPR). O-John Reddam; O-The Thoroughbred Corporation; B-The Thorough- B-North Wales LLC (KY); T-C Dollase; J-P Valenzuela; bred Corporation (KY); T-Richard Mandella; J-A Solis; $90,000. Lifetime Record: 4-3-0-1, $332,700. $90,000. Lifetime Record: 12-5-3-1, $672,215. 2--Watching You, 116, f, 3, Coronado's Quest--Dodie 2--The Tin Man, 122, h, 5, Affirmed--Lizzie Rolfe, by Mae, by Capote. O/B-B W Hughes (KY); $30,000. Tom Rolfe. O/B-Aury & Ralph E Todd (KY); $30,000. 3--Himalayan, 116, f, 3, Mountain Cat--Polly Daniels, 3--Grammarian, 122, h, 5, Definite Article (GB)--Leaping by Clever Trick. ($10,000 yrl '01 KEEJAN). O-Mary Water (GB), by Sure Blade. O/B-Pacific Heritage Farm; West; B-Dr Donald Dreyfuss (KY); $18,000. $18,000. Margins: 2HF, 8, 2. Odds: 1.80, 3.60, 7.30. Margins: HD, NO, HF. Odds: 2.30, 1.80, 3.60. Also Ran: Puxa Saco, No Love Song. Also Ran: Harrisand (Fr), National Anthem (GB), El Gran Scratches: Buttertart Papa, T. H. Lear. Scratches: Night Patrol, Hataab Keeneland’s Selected Yearling Sale Early Closing for Selected Sessions in September S March 3 Contact Geoffrey Russell (859 288-4358) or (800) 456-3412 Tom Thornbury (859 288-4352) for more information. www.keeneland.com TDN P HEADLINE NEWS • 1/21/03 • PAGE 2 of 4 P EDIGREE INSIGHTS Emerging Stars.. This crop's only stakes winner last year was Net BY ANDREW CAULFIELD Force, at Sunray Park, but Domestic Dispute showed plenty of potential when he finished third (promoted to SANTA CATALINA S.-GII, $150,000, SAX, 1-18, 3yo, second) behind Toccet in the GI Hollywood Futurity. 1 1/16m, 1:42 1/5, ft. Now Domestic Dispute has added to his reputation with 1--#@DOMESTIC DISPUTE, 113, c, 3, by Unbridled's Song his decisive victory in the GII Santa Catalina S. and 1st Dam: Majestical Moment (GSP, $135,959), by Magesterial there is good reason to think he will continue to prog- 2nd Dam: Olay Monique, by Drouilly (Fr) ress over slightly longer distances. His dam, the Bay 3rd Dam: Castinette, by Captain Courageous Meadows Oaks runner-up Majestical Moment, is by O/B-Gary M Garber (KY); T-Bob Baffert; J-D R Flores; Magesterial, a Group 2 winner over 1 1/2 miles in Ire- $90,000. Lifetime Record: GISP, 7-2-2-1, $224,320. land, and his second dam, Olay Monique, was by Drouilly, a Mill Reef horse with middle-distance blood- Following in father's footsteps has pretty much been lines. Olay Monique also produced Dianes Halo, a the story so far for Unbridled's Song. For a start, both Sunny's Halo filly who gained Grade I status with her he and his sire Unbridled inherited plenty of size from win in the La Canada S. over a mile and an eighth. Unbridled's sire Fappiano, with Unbridled measuring Majestical Moment may not have a tremendously 16.3 hands and his son now standing a full 17 hands. fashionably pedigree, but she raced 15 times in two The comparisons continued during their racing ca- seasons and her durability could prove helpful to Do- reers, with both father and son winning the Florida mestic Dispute. Unbridled's Song has had 76 percent Derby and both landing one of the highly coveted prizes starters to named foals in his first two crops, which is on Breeders' Cup Day. higher than Unbridled achieved with his first seven Now the similarities seem to have extended to the crops to the end of their three-year-old days. early stages of their stallion careers. Both made a spec- Unbridled was undoubtedly a very good sire when he tacular start at stud, with a pair of Grade I winners, got it right--as he showed by siring Grade I winners of including a Breeders' Cup winner, in their first crop. the calibre of Unbrdiled's Song, Grindstone, Banshee Almost inevitably, their second crops struggled to Breeze, Manistique, Anees, Red Bullet, Unshaded and match their predecessors. Unbridled sired nothing better Exogenous--but his percentage of graded winners than a Grade III winner in his 1994 collection, whereas stands at only 3.6 percent and his percentage of stakes Unbridled's Song so far has just one Graded winner winners at 6.9 percent. Needless to say, these figures among the 68 named foals in his second crop. I should fall a long way behind those achieved by such wonder- quickly add, though, that that Graded winner was Bud- fully consistent stallions as Mr. Prospector, Nureyev dha, who won the GI Wood Memorial S. on what and Danzig, but I suspect that today's stallions, cover- proved to be the last of his four starts. ing much bigger books than used to be the norm, are Although Unbridled's third-crop runners failed to going to struggle to match their predecessors' impres- make an impact as two-year-olds in 1997, two excel- sive figures. lent fillies--Banshee Breeze and Manistique--eventually emerged from this crop. By the time they had finished, (Pedigree Insights cont. p4) this pair had jointly collected more than $4 million. The question now is whether Unbridled's Song will TDN TODAY make a similar impact with his third crop-and he needs Headline News .................... 4 pages to if he is to continue to justify his fee of $100,000. www.coolmore.com TDN P HEADLINE NEWS • 1/21/03 • PAGE 3 of 4 P N E W S P P R E S U L T S P PIMLICO SPECIAL RETURNS IN 2003 Forced out Sunday, Nakayama, Japan of Pimlico Racecourses’ 2002 lineup because of lack of KEISEI HAI-G3-JRA, ¥76,760,000, Nakayama, 1-19, funds, the Pimlico Special will return to ‘Old Hilltop’ 3yo, 2000mT, 2:01.70, fm.