MONDAY, DECEMBER 9, 2013 732-747-8060 $ TDN Home Page Click Here AND THE STREAK CONTINUES RECORDS FALL IN DEAUVILLE The last seven and eight of the last 10 runnings of By Kelsey Riley the G1 Longines Hong Kong Mile had gone the way of After a booming opening session Saturday, which Hong Kong-based runners, but the presence of the top saw increased figures across the board, the strength of French mare Moonlight Cloud (GB) (Invincible Spirit the market at the Arqana December Breeding Stock {Ire}) and the slick 3-year-old filly miler Sky Lantern (Ire) Sale was highlighted yesterday when, midway through (Red Clubs {Ire}) raised the second of four sessions, the some serious challenges sale=s record aggregate of for the home team. The i19,561,500, recorded last vast majority of the year, was broken with 2 1/2 gamblers believed it days of selling still to take place. would be Pan Sutong=s By the end of the day yesterday, Gold-Fun (Ire) (Le Vie Dei the aggregate had reached Colori {GB}) who would i23,720,000. The average was Glorious Days HKJC.com defend the crown for duly up 19% to i24,015, while Hong Kong, but at the the median climbed from end of the 1600 meters, it was 2012 Mile runner-up i14,000 to i17,000. The Glorious Days (Aus) (Hussonet) who emerged with a clearance rate was up five points 7-1 upset for legendary trainer John Size. AThese races to 80%. have escaped me in the past, but it=s sweet now it has Ghislain Bozo=s Meridian happened,@ said the 59-year-old, who called the shots International led the way during on the career of former Hong Kong Horse of the Year the typically more low-key Ghislain Bozo Electronic Unicorn (Housebuster), a two-time runner-up session, signing for the top two ScoopDyga in the Mile. About six weeks ago, he started to tell us A lots of the session. On top of the that he would be ready to compete at this International leaderboard was the 3-year-old filly Abilene (GB) race meeting, and we=ve been getting more and more (Samum {Ger}), who entered the ring midway through confident since then.@ Cont. p2 the session as lot 378, and left with a final price tag of LONGINES HONG KONG MILE-G1, HK$20,000,000 i270,000 (US$370,263). A first-out winner at (US$2,579,673), Sha Tin, 12-8, 3yo/up, 1600mT, Kempton in April for Wildenstein Stables and trainer 1:33.60, gd/fm. Francis-Henri Graffard, Abilene was placed in the Listed 1--sGLORIOUS DAYS (AUS), 126, g, 6, by Hussonet Prix Solitude at Saint-Cloud Nov. 9. Cont. p13 1st Dam: San Century (NZ), by Centaine (Aus) 2nd Dam: Sandarac (NZ), by Grosvenor (NZ) 3rd Dam: Sellou (NZ), by Sound Reason (A$90,000 RNA yrl >09 NZBPRE). O-Tom Brown=s Syndicate; B-R Pietrykowski; T-John Size; J-Douglas Whyte; HK$11,400,000. Lifetime Record: 17-8-5-1, HK$31,523,900. *1/2 to Spurcent (Aus) (Flying Spur {Aus}), SW & G1SP-Aus; and full to Bangalore Bullet (Aus), MSW-NZ. Werk Nick Rating: A+. Click for the eNicks report & 5-cross pedigree. 2--Gold-Fun (Ire), 126, g, 4, Le Vie Dei Colori (GB)-- Goodwood March (GB), by Foxhound (10,000gns yrl >10 TATOCT). O-Pan Sutong; B-Michael Downey & Roalso; T-Richard Gibson; HK$4,400,000. 3--Packing Whiz (Ire), 126, 126, g, 5, Trade Fair (GB)-- Swizzle (GB), by Efisio (GB). (,6,500 yrl >09 DONSEP). O-Lee Man Yan; B-John Cullinan; T-Caspar Fownes; HK$2,000,000. Margins: 3/4, 3/4, HF. Odds: 7-1, 17-10, 10-1. Also Ran: Gordon Lord Byron (GB), Real Specialist (NZ), Moonlight Cloud (GB), Helene Spirit (Ire), Dan Excel (Ire), Xtension (Ire), Pure Champion (Ire), Shamalgan (Fr), King Kreesa, Linton (Aus), Sky Lantern (Ire). Click for the HKJC.com chart, HKJC.com form or brisnet.com catalogue-style pedigree. VIDEO. Their bloodlines run back one hundred generations. Their inheritance is speed, stamina, and courag e—along with breathtaking beauty. And with careful management, in the hands of experienced men and women, they will also be a legacy. For over a century, we have successfully managed the legacies of some of the world’s wealthiest families through wars, economic cycles, and changing tax and estate laws. To learn more about Bessemer Trust under the leadership of Chairman Stuart Janney III and Vice Chairman Ogden “Dinny” Phipps, read the recent Worth magazine article or visit www.bessemer.com . 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Robert Williams, Director of IT [email protected] Gregg Casillo, DB Administrator, Programming Page 9 [email protected] WORLDWIDE INFORMATION Kelsey Riley, International Editor [email protected] Seeing Red Sean Cronin, Newmarket Bureau, Cafe Racing Red Reveur (Jpn) (Stay Gold {Jpn} adds her name to the prestigious list of Tom Frary, Newmarket Bureau, Cafe Racing winners of the G1 Hanshin Juvenile Fillies. [email protected] Page 11 TDN P HEADLINE NEWS • 12/9/13 • PAGE 3 of 17 • thoroughbreddailynews.com Drawn one from the outside here, the veteran was FEATURE PRESENTATION • GI HONG KONG MILE allowed to drift back through the field as American outsider King Kreesa (King Cugat) crossed over and set a pressured pace from Helene Spirit (Ire) (Footstepsinthesand {GB}) down to his inside. Olivier Doleuze had Gold-Fun handy to what was only a moderate opening half-mile in :47.70. Moonlight Cloud was three wide and without cover in centerfield with Sky Lantern in her wake Glorious Days Victorious in Mile (cont. from p1) and Glorious Days On his day, Glorious Days is one of the world=s top following in behind milers, and exchanged blows with the now-sidelined that one into the former Horse of the Year Ambitious Dragon (NZ) (Pins turn. King Kreesa had {Aus}) last season, finishing second to that foe when run his race by the first-up in the Sha Tin Trophy H. before turning the time they reached tables in the G2 Jockey Club Mile. The Dragon the stretch, leaving reclaimed the upper hand in the head-to-head battle in Helene Spirit in front, this race, but Glorious Days drew even again in the but that was short- Glorious Days Stewards= Cup--with Ambitious Dragon fourth--in early lived, as Gold-Fun Horsephotos January. Third to his archrival in the Queen=s Silver raced into the lead Jubilee Cup in March, the 6-year-old was fourth to Dan three off the inside at the 250-meter point. But at the Excel (Ire) (Shamardal) when favored in the same time, Douglas Whyte was getting Glorious Days G1 Champions Mile May 5 and called it a season wound up, and they quickened past the one-paced following an 11th to Lord Kanaloa (Jpn) (King Moonlight Cloud entering the final eighth of a mile. He Kamehameha {Jpn}) in the G1 Yasuda Kinen in Tokyo eyeballed Gold-Fun 100 meters from home and was June 2. comfortably enough in front to allow Whyte some time Double digits for much of the betting, Glorious Days to showboat for the cameras. was supported late and was the fourth choice in the AWe were always pretty comfortable,@ the >Durban field. Demon= offered. AOnce we went past Moonlight Cloud, I just needed to keep his momentum up,@ he concluded. The foreign females were the disappointment of the race, as Moonlight Cloud could do no better than sixth, while Sky Lantern trailed. AI=m sorry. She didn=t relax today,@ jockey Thierry Jarnet told owner George Strawbridge. AShe wasn=t herself, and the ground was plenty quick enough.@ Of Sky Lantern, her jockey Richard Hughes said, ADisappointing. She ran very flat today and I don=t know why. I was very tender on her, I didn=t want to hurt her.@ TDN TODAY Headline News.