Bandari Takes Brigadier Gerard HEADLINE p.2 NEWS For information about TDN, DELIVERED EACH NIGHT call 732-747-8060. BY FAX AND INTERNET www.thoroughbreddailynews.com WEDNESDAY, JUNE 2, 2004 Keeping Up With P N E W S T O D A Y P The (Smarty) Jones VALENZUELA TO MISS MOUNT ON ‘ROCK’ Jockey Patrick Valenzuela was denied a stay of a California Horse Racing Board suspension yesterday in Belmont Park Braces for Smarty Mania Los Angeles Superior Court and will not be able to ride The Smarty Jones (Elusive Quality) road show is Rock Hard Ten (Kris S.) in Saturday's GI Belmont S. scheduled to roll into Elmont, New York today, when Following the news, trainer Jason Orman announced racing’s newest star arrives at Belmont Park for a tilt at that Alex Solis will be aboard the Preakness runner-up, Saturday’s GI Belmont S. Fresh off a routine 1 1/2-mile who is expected to be the second choice behind gallop yesterday morning at Philadelphia Park, Smarty Smarty Jones in the Belmont."I'm very surprised and Jones is set to have one final gallop over his home base I'm not happy with it," said Valenzuela's attorney Don before departing by van between Calabria. "Basically, life has to go on. He's the greatest 9:30-10:00 a.m. “We let him jockey in the world and I'm sorry the public isn't going have a good strong gallop [Tues- to get to see him on this horse, Rock Hard Ten." day] and he handled it great,” Calabria said there may be other legal avenues he could said trainer John Servis. “He take in an attempt to allow Valenzuela to ride Saturday, was playing a little bit while he was in there cooling out in the but added that he would not pursue them. "Enough is barn, and he gave a little back enough," he said. Valenzuela was hoping the court jump.” Thrust into National would grant him a stay of the final month of a four- prominence following a convinc- month suspension handed down by the CHRB after ing score in the Kentucky Derby Valenzuela missed a mandatory drug test at Santa May 1, Smarty Jones’ popularity Anita Jan. 22. Having been given credit by the Califor- vaulted him into the stratosphere nia racing board for the three months he sat out while after a romp in the GI Preakness his case was waiting to be heard, the final month of his S. May 15. “He’ll have a police suspension was set to begin yesterday, barring a court escort the whole way,” con- ruling giving him a stay. Calabria said Valenzuela, who Smarty Jones Equi-photo firmed Servis. “The police [in did not return a phone call seeking comment, took the Philadelphia] will excort him out news well and is looking forward to his return July 1. of Pennsylvania and then the New Jersey police will "Patrick is a very optimistic young man," Calabria said. pick him up. The New York police will then escort him "He is disappointed that he won't get to ride this horse, once he leaves New Jersey.” And how is the horse on but every horse he jumps on he improves. And he'll be the verge of racing immortality holding out under all the riding for a lot of years and will be riding a lot of good pressure? “Very, very good,” said Servis. “He’s an horses. He said to me, I just hope I can get back on him amazing horse. I don’t know when the time is going to by Breeders' Cup so I can win the Classic on him and come that he has reached his peak.” show everyone.'" Orman said he was disappointed that Newest Arrivals at Belmont... Valenzuela will not be allowed to ride Rock Hard Ten, Victor Achar’s Caiman (Malibu Moon) arrived on the but was pleased that Solis was available. "Obviously, I Belmont backstretch late Monday night, while Marylou would have liked to have had Patrick ride him, but Whitney’s Birdstone (Grindstone) was scheduled to sometimes things happen for a reason," Orman said. arrive at Belmont Park today from trainer Nick Zito’s "Alex is as good as anyone out there. We'll just have to training base at Saratoga Race Course. move forward." (News cont. p6) NO PLACE LIKE IT, from the first crop of Kentucky Derby-G1 and TAYLOR MADE Preakness S.-G1 Winner REAL QUIET, (859) 885-3345 wins the $200,000 Pin Oak Stud USA S. at Lone Star Park on May 31. www.taylormadefarm.com TDN P HEADLINE NEWS • 6/2/04 • PAGE 2 of 6 Things can only get better.. P R E S U L T S P Bandari proved consistent if not impressive through- out his four-year-old campaign, highlighted by a second Tuesday, Sandown, Britain placing in the G2 Princess of Wales’s S. at Newmarket betfair.com BRIGADIER GERARD S.-G3, £50,000, in July, before injury intervened. He was 11th in the G3 Sandown, 6-1, 4yo/up, 10 7ydsT, 2:10.65, gd/sf. John Porter S. after the lengthy lay-off at Newbury Apr. 1--BANDARI (IRE), 122, h, 5, by Alhaarth (Ire) 17, but bounced back to a Newmarket conditions race 1st Dam: Miss Audimar (MSW & GSP, $153,695), and the Listed Huxley S. at Chester in the space of five by Mr. Leader days in early May. “He is a much more relaxed horse 2nd Dam: Quick Selection, by Viceregal this year and Willie said there’s no reason why he can’t 3rd Dam: Lachine II (GB), Grey Sovereign (GB) go back to a mile and a half,” commented trainer Mark (Ir^40,000 yrl ‘00 GOFORB). O-Sheikh Hamdan bin Johnston. “He has lots of options, with the likes of the Rashid al Maktoum; B-Rathasker Stud; T-Mark G1 Prince of Wales’s S. [at Royal Ascot June 16] and Johnston; J-Willie Supple; £29,000. Lifetime Record: G1 Eclipse S. [at Sandown July 3] the exciting ones to G1SP-Eng, 17-9-1-1, £338,170. *1/2 to Gaily Eagle think about, but Sheikh Hamdan will have his own (Ire) (Mujtahid), SW-Jpn, $1,138,051. input.” Jockey Richard Hills, who chose Ikhtyar before 2--Ikhtyar (Ire), 122, c, 4, Unfuwain--Sabria, by the rain, suggested that the weather had made the Miswaki. (65,000gns wnlg ‘00 TATDEC; Ir^380,000 difference. “I felt my fellow had a bit more turn of foot, yrl ‘01 GOFORB). O-Sheikh Hamdan bin Rashid al but it’s gone soft tonight and had it been good ground Maktoum; B-Rockwell Bloodstock; £11,000. it would have been a different result.” Click for the 3--Sunstrach (Ire), 122, h, 6, Polar Falcon--Lorne Lady racingpost.co.uk chart. (GB), by Local Suitor. O-Scuderia Rencati SRL; B-Azienda Agricola Francesca; £5,500. Today’s Graded Stakes Margins: NK, 7, 2HF. Odds: 7-2, 7-2, 10-1. brought to you by Also Ran: Nysaean (Ire), Comfy, Kaieteur, Lateen Sails (GB), Easter Ogil (Ire), Chancellor (Ire). This race promised to be a spectacle to savor and did not disappoint as Bandari and Ikhtyar battled it out up the Sandown hill, with the former winning the war of attrition. Always in the front two, Bandari was commit- ted at the start of the winding turn into the straight by Willie Supple and looked beaten as the smooth-traveling 4:50p Premio Emilio Turati-G2, Milan Ikhtyar loomed upsides and briefly passed him inside Eastern Daylight Time. the final quarter. Relishing the rain-softened ground, he FIRST JAPANESE CROP OF TWINING battled to regain the lead soon after and pulled out NOW HAS 58 WINNERS! extra in the dying strides to continue his recent renais- Click here for more... sance. Despite collecting the G3 Lingfield Derby Trial, G3 Gordon S. and G2 Great Voltigeur S. at three, he failed to collect in the major prizes, having disappointed TDN TODAY when only eighth in the G1 Epsom Derby before faring Headline News .................... 6 pages better when third in the G1 St Leger at Doncaster. SOME KIND OF TOUGH On Sunday, DESIGNED FOR LUCK became RAHY’s EIGHTH Grade I Winner, to go with TEN millionaires, when he kicked home to win the Shoemaker Breeders’ Cup Mile S.-G1 at age 7. By Blushing Groom, out of Glorious Song RAHY www.threechimneys.com (859) 873-7053 $80,000 live foal TDN P HEADLINE NEWS • 6/2/04 • PAGE 3 of 6 (Results cont.) Sunday, Scottsville, South Africa Sunday, Scottsville, South Africa THE SOUTH AFRICAN FILLIES SPRINT-G1, R250,000, THE GOLDEN HORSE SPRINT-G1, R400,000, Scottsville, South Africa, 5-30, 3yo/up, f/m, 6fT, Scottsville, South Africa, 5-30, 3yo/up, 6fT, 1:07.06 1:08.49, gd. (NTR), gd. 1--s#@OVERARCHING, 128, f, 4, by Arch 1--KEY OF DESTINY (SAF), 116, g, 5, by Qui Danzig 1st Dam: Lonely Fact (MSW), by Known Fact 1st Dam: Twist Of Fate (SAf), by Secret Prospector 2nd Dam: Lonely Beach, by Kennedy Road 2nd Dam: Birthday Lady (SAf), by Dieudonne (GB) 3rd Dam: Desolate Sands, by Majestic Prince 3rd Dam: Dare All (SAf), by Olean II (Fr) ($70,000 yrl ‘01 KEESEP). O-Graham & Mrs R D O-N R Loudon, H J Clark & P Geldenhuys; B-Bellwood Beck; B-Don M Robinson & Dennis H Marks; T-O A Stud; T-C R C Lee; J-N Shearer; R250,000.