SUNDAY, JULY 8, 2012 732-747-8060 $ TDN Home Page Click Here BACK-TO-BACK BAFFERT EXACTAS PLENTY OF STYLE Game On Dude (Awesome Again) lost a tough one to Just an hour after his full-sister Great Heavens (GB) stablemate First Dude (Stephen Got Even) in last year=s captured the G2 Lancashire Oaks, Lady Rothschild=s renewal of the GI Nathaniel (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}) Hollywood Gold Cup H., made it a red-letter day for his but it was his turn to already accomplished dam head this year=s Bob Magnificient Style (Silver Hawk) Baffert exacta as the five- when winning a thrilling renewal year-old handed fast- of the G1 Coral-Eclipse at closing Richard=s Kid Sandown. Capping a remarkable (Lemon Drop Kid) a run of form for his owner--who 1 1/2-length defeat and also captured the feature earned an automatic berth handicap on this card as well as into the Nov. 3 the Lancashire Oaks--last year=s Nathaniel GI Breeders= Cup Classic. G1 King George VI & Queen Racing Post/Ed Whitaker Kettle Corn (Candy Ride Elizabeth S. hero was able to {Arg}) was third. AI could employ his ample stamina actually hear [jockey reserves on rain-softened ground and hold off the Rafael Bejarano on 11-4 pick Farhh (GB) (Pivotal {GB}) for a half-length Game on Dude (blue) holds off his success. Acquired as a stallion prospect earlier this year stablemate Benoit Photo Richard=s Kid] yell 'I'm coming Chantal' at the by Newsells Park Stud, where he will stand alongside another former Eclipse hero in Mount Nelson (GB) (Rock quarter pole,@ said jockey Chantal Sutherland, who of Gibraltar {Ire}) at the end of the current season, the became the first female rider to win the Gold Cup. 7-2 second choice had no hiding place after being AWe're friends, and it was just like 'I'm coming to get committed by William Buick three furlongs from home, you,' like a game of tag. [Game On Dude] wanted to go and defied a lengthy absence since finishing fifth in the after that other horse (Spud Spivens {Tizbud}) early and G1 Champion S. at Ascot in October. His rider hailed kept fighting and fighting, but then he kind of chilled out the achievement of the bay=s conditioner afterwards. a little bit. When he started getting a little pushy about AThis was a fantastic training performance by John it, I had to let him do his thing. Down the lane, I didn't Gosden, and all credit to him for getting him here in this want to hit him or push on him, but I was getting a little shape,@ Buick said. AHe=s got real quality and showed nervous. Cont. p5 @ today what a good horse he is.@ Cont. p3 MACHO MAN FLEXES MUSCLES IN SUBURBAN Reeves Thoroughbred Racing=s Mucho Macho Man (Macho Uno) reclaimed his spot among the top older males in the U.S. with a powerful 2 1/2-length stalking score over GI Donn H. hero Hymn Book (Arch) in Belmont=s GII Suburban H. yesterday. Pacesetter Trickmeister (Proud Citizen) held on for third, while 7-5 favorite To Honor and Serve (Bernardini) had no Mucho Macho Man apparent excuse as he Horsephotos checked in fourth. AIt was an awesome job by [jockey] Mike Smith, [trainer] Kathy [Ritvo], and everyone involved,@ said owner Dean Reeves. AI=m so happy for my horse. He ran a good race, a solid race. This is really an extraordinary horse. He beat a great field of horses today.@ Cont. p10 In This Issue Turbo Charged 60 Broad St., Suite 100 Red Bank, NJ 07701 Turbo Compressor (Halo’s Image) goes wire-to- (732) 747-8060 wire in GI United Nations H. at Monmouth Park. 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Click for the Racing Post 3yo/up, 10f 7ydsT, 2:06.94, gd/sf. chart, the brisnet.com PPs or the free brisnet.com catalogue-style 1--NATHANIEL (IRE), 133, c, 4, by Galileo (Ire) pedigree. Video, courtesy Racing UK. 1st Dam: Magnificient Style (GSW-Eng), by Silver Hawk Nathaniel=s debut has become the stuff of legend 2nd Dam: Mia Karina, by Icecapade now, as he lined up in the Newmarket mile maiden won 3rd Dam: Basin, by Tom Rolfe by Frankel (GB) (Galileo {Ire}) in August 2010 and O-Lady Rothschild & Newsells Park Stud; B-Kincorth managed to beat all without achieving the impossible Investments Inc; T-John Gosden; J-William Buick; there. By the time he got to the G3 Chester Vase last ,241,585. Lifetime Record: Hwt. 3yo Colt-Eng at May, he was beginning to blossom into another of the 9.5-11f & 11-14f 8-4-3-0, ,991,475. *Full to Great smart middle-distance performers his prolific producer is Heavens (GB), GSW-Eng, $105,152; 3/4 to Playful famed for, but he came up short against the eventual Act (Ire) (Sadler's Wells), Co-Hwt 2yo Filly-Eng, Irish Derby hero Treasure Beach (GB) (Galileo {Ire}) G1SW-Eng & G1SP-Ire, $485,838; Changing Skies there. Missing the Epsom Derby due to fast ground, he (Ire) (Sadler's Wells), MGSW & GISP-US, GSP-Fr & was sent to a rain-soaked Royal Ascot for the G2 King SP-Eng, $438,993; 1/2 to Echoes in Eternity (Ire) Edward VII S. and, despite running freely for the most (Spinning World), MGSW-Eng, $241,555; Stylelistick part, stamped his authority on affairs. With the ground (Storm Cat), SW & GSP-US, $234,788; Petara Bay unexpectedly shifting back to soft ahead of the G1 King (Ire) (Peintre Celebre), SW & GSP-Eng, $174,416. George VI and Queen Elizabeth S. at the end of July, Click for the eNicks report & 5-cross pedigree. Werk connections rolled the dice by supplementing him, and Nick Rating: A+. that decision paid handsome dividends as he 2--Farhh (GB), 133, c, 4, Pivotal (GB)--Gonbarda (Ger), outmaneuvered Workforce (GB) (King=s Best) and St by Lando (Ger). O-Godolphin; B-Darley; T-Saeed bin Nicholas Abbey (Ire) (Montjeu {Ire}) to win a tactical Suroor; 91,590. , renewal. After the wet summer, the autumn proved dry 3--Twice Over (GB), 133, h, 7, Observatory--Double and the opportunities barren as a result, and an Arc Crossed (GB), by Caerleon. O-Khalid Abdullah; challenge went by the wayside before he was chanced B-Juddmonte Farms; T-Sir Henry Cecil; ,45,838. in the feature of Champions= Day. Cont. p4 Margins: HF, 2 3/4, 5. Odds: 7-2, 11-4, 16-1. TDN P HEADLINE NEWS • 7/8/12 • PAGE 4 of 22 • thoroughbreddailynews.com Coral-Eclipse cont. mover, so I let him use it, as it=s no good holding him Drawn wide and forced to race up with the pace up. I have always had a lot of faith in this horse, and throughout on that occasion, Nathaniel was far from things didn=t go his way in the Champion S., as he was disgraced when beaten just over three lengths by Cirrus racing a long way out. Today he showed his versatility-- des Aigles (Fr) (Even Top {Ire}), and proved deserving of So You Think (NZ) didn=t run, but there was still a lot of another crack at 10 furlongs. Out of sorts in the spring, strength in depth in this field, and this is one of the best he was deemed to be running races over this distance.