HEADLINE THREE CHIMNEYS NEWS The Idea is Excellence. For information about TDN, EXCHANGE RATE call 732-747-8060. 9% Stakes Winners from Foals www.thoroughbreddailynews.com THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 2008 MAKING PLANS FOR STARDOM NATAGORA STAYING IN TRAINING? Stardom Bound (Tapit)=s 2009 itinerary could include Stefan Friborg=s G1 1000 Guineas heroine Natagora stops in the GI Santa Anita Derby and GI Kentucky (Fr) (Divine Light {Jpn}) looks likely to remain in training Derby, IEAH Stables Co-President and Co-CEO Michael at four after connections revealed a possible change of Iavarone told Thoroughbred plans. Although the grey is entered in the Tattersalls Daily News. IEAH recently December sale, the consistent Group 1 performer may purchased the 2-year-old filly stay with trainer Pascal Bary for a for $5.7 million at the Fasig- trip to Hong Kong before embark- Tipton Kentucky November ing on a 2009 campaign. AShe is Selected Fall Mixed Sale in still in the sales and we won=t be Lexington and immediately withdrawing her straight away, announced plans to campaign but she=ll probably stay with her in California in 2009. Hav- Pascal and race on when she=s ing now laid out a more spe- four,@ the owner=s Racing Man- Steve Cargill photo cific schedule for his filly, ager Patrick Barbe told Racing Post. AWe put her in the Sarah K Andrew photo Iavarone said her 3-year-old sales in August, when the catalogue was being com- campaign would commence piled and, at that stage, she hadn=t finished second in with the GI Las Virgenes in February and the GI Santa the [G1] Prix de la Foret, and top milers like Raven=s Anita Oaks the following month. Should she run well in Pass (Elusive Quality) and Henrythenavigator both races, Iavarone said the Santa Anita Derby Apr. 4 (Kingmambo) were still in training. They will be gone to would likely be next. AIf she runs the way she=s sup- stud next year, along with Zarkava (Ire) (Zamindar) and posed to run in those races, overpowers her competi- several others, sowe think Natagora may have opportu- tion and has nothing left to prove against fillies, then nities to win some more of the major prizes. She might we=d try the Santa Anita Derby,@ he said. The next step also take on some of the big sprint races next year, we could be the Kentucky Derby. AIf she has proven to us shall just have to see, and there=s a possibility she=ll go that she belongs in a race like that, it is something we to Hong Kong to race there in December. She=s got an will strongly consider,@ he said. Iavarone understands entry in a mile race and a sprint, but the shorter event that the Eight Belles (Unbridled=s Song) situation has is likely to be a target for Marchand d=Or (Fr) (Marchand made some hesitant to run a filly in the Kentucky de Sable), so, if she goes, it=s quite likely the mile will Derby, but he is confident that the race is a good fit for be the race that=s chosen for her.@ the right filly. AWe=ve seen horses like Goldikova (Ire) ARIEGE TO LA BREA and Zarkava (Ire) beat males this year, he said. Kip @ A Ariege (Doneraile Court), purchased by Adena Springs Deville is a top-class horse and he ran all out in the for $1.8 million at FTKNOV, has rejoined trainer Bobby Breeders= Cup Mile, and Goldikova beat him easily. I Frankel=s Southern California string and will start next in don=t think fillies are necessarily overmatched against Santa Anita=s seven-furlong GI La Brea S. Dec. 29, colts or it s dangerous to run them against colts. If she = according to Daily Racing Form. Previously campaigned were to win the Santa Anita Derby, we d be crazy not = by IEAH Stables and Pegasus Holding Group Stables, to come back in the Kentucky Derby. @ the versatile three-year-old captured the GI Santa Anita Oaks and the GII Stonerside Beaumont S. on synthet- You can also pick up a copy of the ics, and also placed third in the grassy GI Garden City TDN today at the Goffs November S. Last seen finishing fifth in the GI Queen Elizabeth II Challenge Cup S. Oct. 11, the dark bay returned to the Sale. worktab with a four-furlong move in :49.40 at Santa Anita Nov. 18. www.hillndalefarms.com P TDN HEADLINE NEWS • 11/20/08 • PAGE 2 of 5 P P R E V I E W P Saturday, Churchill Downs RIVER CITY H.-GIII, $100,000, 3yo/up, 1 1/8mT PP HORSE SIRE JOCKEY WT 1 Yate's Black Cat Black Minnaloushe Mena 119 2 Mr. Sidney Storm Cat Velazquez 113 3 Star Plus (Arg) Alpha Plus Desormeaux 116 4 Pleasant Strike Smart Strike DeCarlo 115 5 Karelian Bertrando Borel 119 6 Just as Well A.P. Indy Baird 113 7 Telling A.P. Indy Bridgmohan 117 8 Demarcation Gulch Castanon 117 9 Canela El Corredor Leparoux 115 10 Steve's Double Stephen Got Even Theriot 117 11 Thorn Song Unbridled=s Song Albarado 122 Saturday, Hollywood Park VERNON O. UNDERWOOD S.-GIII, $100,000, 3yo, 6f (AWT) PP HORSE SIRE JOCKEY WT 1Wiredfortwotwenty Greatness Talamo 116 2 Six Pack Abs Forest Wildcat T Baze 118 3 Noble Court Doneraile Court Smith 122 4 Master Daniel Broken Vow Bejarano 114 5 Bob Black Jack Stormy Jack Flores 122 6 Johnny Eves Skimming Gomez 122 7 Northern Soldier Yankee Victor Gryder 118 Box 626, Versailles, KY 40383 (859) 873-7300 FAX (859) 873-3746 E-MAIL: [email protected] www.lanesend.com TDN Feature Presentation GIII Hollywood Prevue S. cont. Eugene Melnyk homebred Congor Bay GRADE 3 HOLLYWOOD PREVUE STAKES (Speightstown), who has won his first two starts at Woodbine by a combined margin of 8 3/4 lengths, is expected to make the trip from Canada. Jack Goodman third- and fourth-place finishers Arashi Cat (Fusaichi Pegasus) and Ventana (Toccet), Barretts Juvenile S. winner and California Cup Juvenile S. runner-up Trium- PLEASANT TAP phant Flight (Chullo {Arg}), and recent Oak Tree $75,000 maiden claimer winner Jack O= Lantern (Flat- SIRE OF 17% LIFETIME STAKES HORSES ter) round out the likely field. UPCOMING MAJOR NORTH AMERICAN STAKES SEVEN SET TO AUDITION IN PREVUE A field of seven--headlined by MGSW Azul Leon Date Race Track (Lion Heart) and unbeaten Backbackbackgone (Put It Nov. 22 GIII Discovery H. AQU Back)--is shaping up for Sunday=s GIII Hollywood GIII River City H. CD Prevue S., according to Hollywood Park Stakes Coor- GIII Vernon O. Underwood H. HOL dinator and Assistant Racing Secretary Dan Edison. GIII Kennedy Road H. WO Azul Leon, a winner of his first three starts, including Nov. 23 GIII Hollywood Prevue S. HOL the GIII Hollywood Juvenile Championship S. in July, cuts back to seven furlongs following a ninth-place Nov. 27 GII Falls City H. CD finish in the GI Breeders= Cup Juvenile Oct. 25. Nov. 28 GI Citation H. HOL Backbackbackgone, tabbed as a J “TDN Rising GII Top Flight H. AQU Star” J following a 10-length debut win at Bay GII Clark H. CD Meadows in May, most recently annexed the Jack GIII Miesque S. HOL Goodman S. at Oak Tree Oct. 18. P TDN HEADLINE NEWS • 11/20/08 • PAGE 3 of 5 Previews cont. GOFFS NOVEMBER FOALS Sunday, Kyoto, Japan MILE CHAMPIONSHIP S.-G1, -213,000,000, 3yo/up, 17 - 21 November 1mT A full field is expected for Japan=s top race over the ORATORIO COLT AT THE FOREFRONT Day four metric mile, and the $2-million feature has attracted a of the Goffs November Foal Sale witnessed a steady single foreign invader, GI Woodbine Mile hero Rahy=s trade yesterday which was highlighted by the sale of a Attorney (Crown Attorney). The four-year-old arrived in son of Coolmore=s Oratorio (Ire) (Danehill) for i90,000. Japan Nov. 11 following a 24-hour journey from his Sent up by Peter Nolan=s Jamestown Consignment, the Woodbine base and seems to have taken the trip in February-foaled colt sparked stride. AHis condition has not changed since he was late life into the day=s action back home,@ said exer- when prompting Brendan cise rider Tyler Gas- Morrin=s Pier House Stud to kin. AHe has overcome dig deep. He is out of Janette the transportation and Parkes (GB) (Pursuit of Love is doing very well. If {GB}), a half-sister to 1995 he can maintain his G1 Moyglare Stud S. third My form after all of the Melody Parkes (GB) and the transportation [Can- talented duo Summerhill ada to Narita/Shiroi to Oratorio, sire of Wednesday’s Parkes (GB) and Lucky Parkes topper Kyoto], I think he can Rahy’s Attorney japanracing.jp (GB). Earlier, a daughter of coolmore.com run fairly well in the Refuse to Bend (Ire) (Sadler=s race. He is a clever horse, so as long as he can give it Wells) attracted keen interest before selling to Joe his best, he will have a chance to finish near the top.@ Osborne on behalf of John Ferguson for i60,000. Rahy=s Attorney completed his stay in quarantine Mon- Consigned by Knockananig Stud, hip 725 is a half to day and was transferred to Kyoto Racecourse the fol- this year=s GII Arcadia H. third-place finisher Golden lowing morning. The gelding cantered one lap of the Balls (Ire) (Danehill Dancer {Ire}).