Scorpion Added to Grand Prix de Paris HEADLINE p.2 NEWS For information about TDN, DELIVERED EACH NIGHT BY FAX AND FREE BY E-MAIL TO SUBSCRIBERS OF call 732-747-8060. www.thoroughbreddailynews.com TUESDAY, JULY 12, 2005 SYMBOLI KRIS S COLT TOP JRHA OPENER JRHA SELECT SALE Two-time Japanese Horse of the Year Symboli Kris S MONDAY’S TOP COLTS (Kris S.) got off to a flying start in the sale’s ring yes- Hip Sire Dam Price terday when a colt from his first crop topped the open- 068 Symboli Kris S Must Be Loved (Jpn) $1,875,000 ing session of the Japan Racing Horse Association’s Consigned by Northern Farm Select Foal Sale at the Northern Purchased by Danox Co Ltd Horse Park on Hokkaido, with a 032 Admire Vega (Jpn) Fairy Doll $1,517,857 final bid of $1,875,000. The bay Consigned by Northern Farm colt was consigned by Northern Purchased by Nobutaka Tada Farm and was purchased by 097 Agnes Tachyon (Jpn) Fanjica (Ire) $1,071,429 Mizuki Noda’s Danox Co. Ltd. Consigned by Shadai Farm He is out of Must Be Loved (Jpn) Purchased by Takaya Shimakawa (Sunday Silence), the dam of 094 Fasliyev Good Game $803,571 leading sophomore filly Rhein Consigned by Northern Farm Kraft (Jpn). The session-topping Hip 68 JRHA Purchased by RRA Co Ltd. foal was one of three lots to 105 Symboli Kris S Smala $723,214 break the million-dollar barrier. A Consigned by Shadai Farm colt by Japanese Derby winner Admire Vega (Jpn) Purchased by Mizuki Noda (Sunday Silence) brought the day’s second highest 128 Fusaichi Pegasus November Slew $723,214 price, fetching a final bid of $1,517,857. The bay foal, Consigned by Chiyoda Farm from the Northern Farm consignment, is out of Fairy Purchased by Grandprix Co Ltd. Doll and is a three-quarter brother to Japanese cham- 081 Jungle Pocket (Jpn) Crafty Wife $669,643 pion mare To the Victory (Jpn) and to Japanese group Consigned by Northern Farm winners Be Positive (Jpn) and Silent Deal (Jpn). He was Purchased by AHS purchased by Nobutaka Tada. Also topping the seven- 107 Falbrav (Ire) Sun Spring (Arg) $607,143 figure mark was a son of Japanese 2000 Guineas win- Consigned by Northern Farm ner Agnes Tachyon (Jpn) (Sunday Silence), who was Purchased by RRA Co Ltd purchased by Takaya Shimakawa for $1,071,429. Out of the Grade I placed Fanjica (Ire) (Law Society), the MONDAY’S TOP FILLIES colt was consigned by Shadai Farm. During yesterday’s Hip Sire Dam Price session, 128 foals sold for $39,428,571 and an aver- 127 Symboli Kris S Shinko Lovely (Ire) $455,357 age of $308,036. The sale’s final session begins today Consigned by Shinkoh Farm at 11 a.m. Purchased by Makoto Kaneko JRHA SELECT FOALS 121 Agnes Tachyon (Jpn) Fornalina (Jpn) $366,071 Consigned by Shadai Farm MONDAY, JULY 11, 2005 Purchased by Koichi Hori 165 Sakura Bakushin O (Jpn) O.P. Cat $321,429 SESSION TOTALS 2005 2004 No. Offered 157 159 Consigned by Northern Farm No. Sold 128 122 Purchased by RRA Co Ltd RNAs 29 37 118 Admire Vega (Jpn) Fair Deal $312,500 % RNA 18.5% 23.2% Consigned by Northern Farm Gross (¥) 4,416,000,000 4,018,500,000 Purchased by Riichi Kondo Average (¥) (% change) 34,500,000 (+4.7%) 32,938,525 018 Taiki Shuttle Star My Life $276,786 Median (% change) 28,750,000 (+18.6%) 24,240,000 Consigned by Chiyoda Farm http://www.jrha.or.jp/eng/index.html Purchased by Nobutaka Tada Email: [email protected] www.juddmonte.com TDN P HEADLINE NEWS • 7/12/05 • PAGE 2 of 4 P N E W S T O D A Y P P R E S U L T S P SCORPION ADDED TO GRAND PRIX Susan Sunday, Fukushima, Japan Magnier’s G1 Irish Derby runner-up Scorpion (Ire) TANABATA SHO-G3-JRA, ¥82,330,000, Fukushima, (Montjeu {Ire}) was yesterday supplemented to Thurs- 7-10, 3yo/up, 2000mT, 2:00.4, fm. day’s G1 Juddmonte Grand Prix de Paris at Longchamp. 1--#DAIWA RAIDERS (JPN), 123, h, 6, by Sunday Silence The Aidan O’Brien-trained colt, last seen finishing a 1st Dam: Dyna Idol (Jpn), by Northern Taste half-length adrift of Hurricane Run (Ire) in the Curragh 2nd Dam: Shadai Princess (Jpn), by *Diatome Classic June 26, joined Orion Star (Fr) (Sternkoenig 3rd Dam: Night & Day (Jpn), by Ratification (GB) {Ire}) in being added at a cost of i30,000 each. “He’s O-Keizo Oshiro; B-Shadai Farm; T-Yasuhisa come out of the Irish Derby very well and we’re really Matsuyama; J-Hiroki Goto; ¥43,371,000. Lifetime pleased with him,” the Ballydoyle conditioner told the Record: 16-6-1-3. Racing Post. Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum 2--Tosen Dandy (Jpn), 123, h, 7, White Muzzle (GB)-- could be double-handed in the contest, run over a mile Kikuno Topolino (Jpn), by Crystal Palace (Fr). and a half for the first time this season, as the G2 King O-Takaya Shimakawa; B-Mitsuhiro Ogura; Edward VII S. winner Plea Bargain (GB) (Machiavellian) ¥17,106,000. looks set to join the Andre Fabre-trained G3 Prix du Lys 3--Grass Bomber (Jpn), 121, h, 5, Machiavellian--Blue scorer Desideratum (GB) (Darshaan {GB}). Lustre (Ire), by Nureyev. O-Hanzawa Y.; B-Northern Farm; ¥11,053,000. COLIC SCARE FOR PHOENIX REACH Winterbeck Margins: 3/4, 3/4, 1 3/4. Odds: 3.10, 12.70, 5.90. Manor Stud’s Phoenix Reach (Ire) (Alhaarth {Ire}) may Daiwa Raiders, looking for the first group win of his be forced to sidestep the July 23 G1 King George VI career, settled at mid-field early under Hiroki Goto. He and Queen Elizabeth Diamond S. at Newbury after gained command in the stretch and held off Tosen suffering another setback, it was announced yesterday. Dandy late. Since returning from a one-year layoff last The globe-trotting five-year-old had recovered from an October, Daiwa Raiders was second in the Ireland Tro- eye infection picked up in Singapore after finishing phy and third in the Jan. 22 Iwashimizu S. before win- second in the G1 Singapore Airlines International Cup at ning the Feb. 20 Amethyst S. He was coming off a Kranji May 15, but met with another scare over the third-place finish in the June 12 G3 Epsom Cup. weekend when reacting from an injection administered for a bout of colic. “He had colic for the last couple of JAPANESE GRADE 1 STAKES AS days and had an injection on Friday,” trainer Andrew Balding said of the GI Canadian International, G1 Hong RECOGNIZED BY THE INTERNATIONAL Kong Vase and G1 Dubai Sheema Classic hero. “He had CATALOGING STANDARDS COMMITTEE a bad reaction to it and we’ve got to take every day as Name (2005 running) Track it comes. Missing two days' training is not ideal for any race, let alone a race of the calibre of the King George, G1 Japan Cup (Nov. 27) Toyko but if any horse can overcome it, it’s Phoenix Reach, as G1 Mile Championship (Nov. 20) Kyoto his powers of recovery are extraordinary. We’ll just G1 Takarazuka Kinen (June 26) Hanshin have to keep a close eye on him over the next couple of G1 Yasuda Kinen (June 5) Tokyo days.” TDN P HEADLINE NEWS • 7/12/05 • PAGE 3 of 4 (Results cont.) PEDIGREE INSIGHTS Sunday, Hanshin, Japan BY ANDREW CAULFIELD MERMAID S.-G3-JRA, ¥75,100,000, 7-10, 3yo/up, f/m, 2000mT, 2:00.5, gd. DARLEY JULY CUP-G1, £250,000, Newmarket, 7-7, 1--DAIWA EL CIELO (JPN), 123, f, 4, by Sunday Silence 3yo/up, 6fT, 1:11.86, gd/sf. 1st Dam: London Bridge (Jpn) (SW-Jpn, 1--sPASTORAL PURSUITS (GB), 131, c, 4, by Bahamian Bounty (GB) $769,317), by Dr Devious 1st Dam: Star (GB), by Most Welcome (GB) 2nd Dam: All for London, by Danzig 2nd Dam: Marista (GB), by Mansingh 3rd Dam: Full Card, by Damascus 3rd Dam: Evendo (GB), by Derring-Do (GB) O-Keizo Oshiro; B-Shimokobe Farm; T-Kunihide (24,000gns yrl ‘02 TATOCT). O-The Pursuits & Matsuda; J-Yuichi Fukunaga; ¥39,350,000. Lifetime National Stud Partnership; B-Red House Stud; T-Hugh Record: 13-5-1-1. *1/2 to Big Planet (Jpn) (Brian’s Morrison; J-John Egan; £145,000. Lifetime Record: Time), SW-Jpn, $450,765. 10-6-2-0, £264,496. 2--Meine Samantha (Jpn), 121, m, 5, Diablo--Aoe Click for the racingpost.co.uk chart or the free Tosho (Jpn), by Tosho Boy (Jpn). O-K. Thoroughbred brisnet.com catalogue-style pedigree. Club Ruffian; B-Takao Obara; ¥16,100,000. 3--Miss Pascali (Jpn), 121, f, 4, Mr. Greeley--Blue One of the saddest stories in Britain’s breeding indus- Avenue, by Classic Go Go. O-Makoto Kaneko; try in recent years has been the decline in the fortunes B-Northern Farm; ¥9,850,000. of the country’s National Stud at Newmarket. Little Margins: 1 3/4, 4, 2 1/2. Odds: 4.50, 5.20, 6.50. more than 20 years ago the stud was home to the Daiwa El Cielo captured last year’s Japanese Oaks, Derby winners Mill Reef, Blakeney, Grundy and Royal but had been winless since taking the G3 Keihan Hai. Palace, as well as Moorestyle, a sprinter who earned The filly took the lead from the start and maintained her Horse of the Year honors, and Star Appeal, a champion advantage throughout.