SUNDAY, MAY 7, 2017 TODAY IN THE TDN FINLEY: GOOD FOR YOU, TODD DIVISIDERO=S THIRD STRAIGHT DERBY DAY WIN PAULASSILVERLINING HOLDS ON IN HUMANA FIRST GRADED WIN FOR LIMOUSINE LIBERAL IN TDN EUROPE CHURCHILL GIVES O=BRIEN EIGHTH 2000 GUINEAS Click or tap here to go straight to TDN Europe/International First-crop 3yo colt ALWAYS DREAMING made it back-to-back Grade 1 wins with an emphatic 2 ¾-length victory in the 143rd Kentucky Derby (G1) Saturday, remaining perfect in four starts this year and avenging his sire’s narrow defeat in the 2012 Derby. Bodemeister joins Pioneerof the Nile as Kentucky Derby-winning sires by Empire Maker. Empire Maker - Untouched Talent, by Storm Cat Fee: $25,000 S&N Owners: MeB Racing, Brooklyn Boyz, Teresa Viola, St. Elias Stable, Siena Farm and West Point Thoroughbreds Trainer: Todd Pletcher Breeder: Santa Rosa Partners [watch race] (859) 873-1717 | WinStarFarm.com PRESIDENT & CO-PUBLISHER Barry Weisbord @barryweisbord [email protected] SR. 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BRANDS-GI, $2,395,800, CD, 5-6, 3yo, 1 1/4m, 2:03.59, wf. 1--ALWAYS DREAMING, 126, c, 3, by Bodemeister 1st Dam: Above Perfection (GSW & GISP, $380,737), by In Excess (Ire) 2nd Dam: Something Perfect, by Somethingfabulous 3rd Dam: Happening, by Terrang ($350,000 Ylg '15 KEESEP). O-MeB Racing, Brooklyn Boyz, Teresa Viola, St Elias, Siena Farm & West Point; B-Santa Rosa Partners (KY); T-Todd A. Pletcher; J-John R. Velazquez. $1,635,800. Lifetime Record: 6-4-1-1, $2,284,700. *1/2 to Hot Dixie Chick (Dixie Union), GISW, $343,252. Werk Nick Rating: A. Click for the eNicks report & 5-cross pedigree. DROMOLAND FARM BRED, BORN, & RAISED Trained at Crupi’s New Castle Farm XIB Xavier Int’l Bloodstock Recommended Purchase XIB 2--Lookin At Lee, 126, c, 3, Lookin At Lucky--Langara Lass, by Langfuhr. ($70,000 Ylg '15 KEESEP). O-L and N Racing LLC; B-Ray Hanson (KY); T-Steven M. Asmussen. $400,000. Two Half-Sisters Owned by Mulholland Springs 3--Battle of Midway, 126, c, 3, Smart Strike--Rigoletta, by Concerto. >TDN Rising Star= ($410,000 Ylg '15 FTSAUG). O-Don Alberto Stable & WinStar Farm LLC; B-Thor-Bred Stables, LLC Away very cleanly from the five hole, Always Dreaming hugged (KY); T-Jerry Hollendorfer. $200,000. the fence into the first turn as State of Honor (To Honor and Serve) went on with it through hot opening splits of :22.70 and Consigned by GAINESWAY :46.53. Hall of Famer John Velazquez guided Always Dreaming to the right flank of the frontrunner as they started their run down the backside. Cont. p4 Margins: 2 3/4, 5, 1. Odds: 4.70, 33.20, 40.00. Also Ran: Classic Empire, Practical Joke, Tapwrit, Gunnevera, McCraken, Gormley, Irish War Cry, Hence, Untrapped, Girvin, Patch, J Boys Echo, Sonneteer, Fast and Accurate, Irap, State of Honor, Thunder Snow (Ire). Scratched: Royal Mo, Master Plan. Click for the Equibase.com chart, the TJCIS.com PPs or the free Equineline.com catalogue-style pedigree. VIDEO, sponsored by Fasig-Tipton. Always Dreaming had been headstrong in his morning gallops in the lead-up to the GI Kentucky Derby, but he was all business Saturday. Installed the narrow 9-2 favorite over Irish War Cry (Curlin), the flashy Todd Pletcher trainee stalked and pounced to a powerful victory, avenging his young sire=s game runner-up finish in the 2012 ARun for the Roses.@ Lookin At Lee rallied along the inside from out of the clouds to be second, while fellow longshot Battle of Midway, a >TDN Rising Star=, further juiced the $16,594.40 trifecta. The start of the 143rd Kentucky Derby | Coady TDN HEADLINE NEWS • PAGE 4 OF 21 • THETDN.COM SUNDAY • MAY 7, 2017 Kentucky Derby cont. others, but this was the Battle of Midway wasn=t best horse. I got a good far behind in between position with him early and horses, and Irish War Cry then he relaxed. When we was outside of that one. hit the quarter pole, I Always Dreaming took over asked him and he from the stopping responded. He did it pacesetter hitting the himself from there.@ home bend, and a Always Dreaming kicked confidently ridden Irish off his career with War Cry ranged up for the Brooklyn Boyz Stables, heavyweight fight with MeB Stables and trainer Battle of Midway keeping Dominick Schettino. He pace in between. Irish War was third on debut at Cry was stuck in neutral Belmont last July, and was past the quarter pole as beaten a neck after looking Always Dreaming started like a winner at the Spa in to inch clear. Lookin At Lee August in his final try as a emerged up the fence in Coady Photo juvenile. Transferred to midstretch, but Always Todd Pletcher in Dreaming was long gone as he skipped over the wet surface September when longtime friends Anthony Bonomo of Brooklyn effortlessly. Boyz and Vincent Viola of St Elias partnered on a package of AThis is the best horse Todd and I have ever come to the horses, he was sent to J. J. Crupi=s New Castle Farm in Ocala for Kentucky Derby with,@ said Velazquez. ANothing against all the a freshening. Cont. p5 TDN HEADLINE NEWS • PAGE 5 OF 21 • THETDN.COM SUNDAY • MAY 7, 2017 Kentucky Derby cont. business, sometimes it works out. A lot of times it doesn't. So AWe picked the horse up right at the beginning of September when you kind of have a vision four or five months in advance, and decided, after we all talked about it, that a little freshening then it all comes together, it's especially rewarding.@ would be good for him,@ Pletcher recalled. ASo Jim Crupi who had prepared the colt as a yearling, we sent him back to him. He The Winning Connections: gave him some time off. It paid off. When he sent him back to Seven-time Eclipse winner Pletcher and Hall of Famer us, he was in great form, looked fantastic. We could see right Velazquez are a pair who need no introduction. This is the away, as soon as we were breezing him, that he had extra second Derby win for each as Pletcher teamed with rider Calvin special talent.@ Borel to take home the roses in 2010 with Super Saver (Maria=s The dark bay resurfaced going an extended mile at Tampa Bay Mon) and Velazquez visited the Derby winner=s circle just one Downs Jan. 25 and could not have been much more dominant as year later courtesy of the Graham Motion-trained Animal he cruised to an 11 1/2-length graduation. Controlling the most Kingdom (Leroidesanimaux {Brz}). The New York-based glacial of paces en route to a four-length Gulfstream optional conditioner has now saddled 48 Derby contenders with longtime claiming tally going nine panels Mar. 4, he took a steep jump up go-to rider Velazquez piloting 11 of them. Pletcher has no on everyone=s speed figures (97 Beyer, -1/2 Thoro-Graph) when Preakness wins to his name, but does own two GI Belmont S. besting State of Honor by five lengths in Gulfstream=s Apr. 1 trophies, scoring in 2007 GI Xpressbet Florida Derby. with the filly Rags to Riches He couldn=t have been (A.P. Indy), who was ridden heading into Derby week by Velazquez, and 2013 much better on paper, but with Palace Malice (Curlin). once he arrived in The two-time Eclipse Louisville, he had gotten winning rider also has no noticeably eager in the Preakness wins, but two mornings, prompting Belmont victories, Pletcher to switch to draw capturing the 2012 reins midway through the renewal with Union Rags week.