Machiavellian Colt Tops Third Day at HEADLINE Deauville...p5 NEWS For information about TDN, DELIVERED EACH NIGHT call 732-747-8060. BY FAX AND INTERNET www.thoroughbreddailynews.com TUESDAY, AUGUST 20, 2002 SUNDAY SILENCE DEAD A Champion on the Track... After undergoing three surgeries and battling laminitis Sunday Silence was bred in Kentucky by Oak Cliff for nearly two weeks, Sunday Silence (Halo--Wishing Thoroughbreds and owned by Ernest Galliard and Ar- Well, by Understanding) died of heart failure yesterday thur B. Hancock. “My first memory was of him as a foal at Shadai Stallion Station in Ja- in the field,” Hancock said. “When he was little, he was pan. The 1989 Horse of the silver-gray, and he just kept running and running and Year, who won two-thirds of the running, in and out of the mares and the other foals. He American Triple Crown and domi- must have kept running for five minutes.” Nearly black nated the Japanese stallion ranks by the time he reached the track, he caught the eye of for nearly a decade, was 16. “He his trainer, Charlie Whittingham, early. “I knew he was has been getting very much really going to be something when Charlie called me worse the last few days,” Shadai one day and said, ‘this big black son of a bitch can run spokesman Eisuke Tokutake said a little.’ Those were his exact yesterday. “Today he got down words--he was a master of and was unable to get back up. understatement,” Hancock He was in a lot of pain despite recalled. The talented Thor- the strong medicines we gave oughbred won just one of three starts at two, breaking him. He died earlier today of Sunday Silence Horsephotos his maiden by 10 lengths in heart failure and we are very up- his second appearance at Hol- set about the loss of such a great horse.” In an official lywood Park, but he became statement, Japan Racing Association President a force to be reckoned with Masayushi Takahashi said, “It is with deep regret that at three. Sunday Silence we witness the passing of Sunday Silence, who has reeled off consecutive wins in given us so many outstanding racehorses, and whose a March allowance at Santa name is known not only in our country, but throughout Anita, the GII San Felipe S. the world.” Sunday Silence, who stood his entire career and the GI Santa Anita Derby. at Shadai Stallion Sta- Still, he was sent off the 3-1 Sunday Silence & Easy tion, was taken out of second favorite in the Ken- stud duty in May after Goer in 1989 Preakness tucky Derby to Easy Goer, Horsephotos showing inflammation who had sailed through his in his right foreleg. He East Coast preps in similar style. He got the better of underwent three oper- his New York nemesis in the Derby, winning by 2 1/2 ations in an attempt lengths, yet was the crowd’s 2-1 second choice once to alleviate the condi- again at Pimlico. But it was in the Preakness that, ac- tion; the most recent cording to Hancock, the colt ran the race of his life. surgery was per- Headed by Easy Goer as they raced into the far turn, he formed July 18 after Stay Gold HJKC photo battled back to win by a nose. “Easy Goer swept past he showed signs of him and I was 100 percent sure the race was over,” bacterial peritendinitis, an inflammation of the tendon Stone Farm’s owner admitted. “In fact, I put my binoc- sheath, and he seemed to be recovering. He began to ulars down and didn’t look up for four or five seconds. show signs of laminitis in his left foreleg at the end of But my wife, Traci, kept saying, ‘he’s coming back,’ the first week of August, but, showing the courage he and I’ll be damned if he wasn’t. I’d never seen a horse displayed as a racehorse, he battled the disease before do that before--he just wouldn’t quit.” finally succumbing yesterday. Sunday Silence cont. p2 A leading first crop sire at Fasig-Tipton July S yearlings sold averaged $89,000. Look for more yearlings selling at OBS, Woodbine & Keeneland September. SCATMANDU Storm Cat S Princess Alydar, by Alydar Winning the world over 859 299.0473 • www.walmac.com TDN P HEADLINE NEWS • 8/20/02 • PAGE 2 of 6 “The Gift of a Lifetime”... P R E V I E W His jockey, Patrick Valenzuela, was equally amazed P P by the willingness his colt displayed. “He was very Tuesday, York, Britain, post time: 2:55 p.m. rambunctious on the track, but he was talented and JUDDMONTE INTERNATIONAL S.-G1, £450,000, quick as a cat,” he commented. “He’d do anything for 3yo/up, 10f 85ydsT you and race any way you asked him to. He gave me SC PP HORSE SIRE TRAINER the gift of a lifetime in the Kentucky Derby and the 1 2 Chancellor (Ire) Halling B Hills Preakness.” The tough competitor was denied a Triple 2 6 Golan (Ire) Spectrum (Ire) Stoute Crown sweep, finishing eight lengths behind Easy Goer 3 1 Indian Creek (GB) Indian Ridge (Ire) Elsworth in the Belmont, but he got his revenge in a dramatic 4 5 Nayef Gulch Tregoning showdown with his arch rival in the final race of his 5 4 No Excuse Needed (GB) Machiavellian Stoute 1989 campaign, the Breeders’ Cup Classic, outfinishing 6 7 Noverre Rahy Bin Suroor Easy Goer by a neck and, in so doing, earning honors 7 3 Starbourne (Ire) Sadler's Wells A O'Brien as the Horse of the Year and champion three-year-old. All carry 131 pounds except Starbourne, 120 pounds. Sunday Silence opened 1990 with a win in the GI Cali- Following their epic struggle in the G1 King George VI fornian, but was retired with an injury after finishing & Queen Elizabeth Diamond S. at Ascot, Golan (Ire) and second in the GI Hollywood Gold Cup. He ended his Nayef are back in the ring for this afternoon’s feature. racing career with nine wins and five seconds from 14 Golan’s, winner of last year’s G1 2000 Guineas, was a starts for earnings of $4,968,554, but the best was yet runner-up in the G1 Epsom Derby last June and third in to come. the Irish version at The Curragh in July. Despite his A Champion in the Breeding Shed... recent King George effort and his wins in the G3 Select S. at Goodwood and G3 Cumberland Lodge S. at Ascot Sunday Silence was sent to Japan to stand at stud last year, the left-handed courses suit him best. Impres- because there was little enthusiasm for the horse sive in the G1 Dubai Sheema Classic at Nad al Sheba among Kentucky breeders. “I think Easy Goer already Mar. 23, he later won the G1 Champion S. at had 40 contracts, and we had two,” Hancock said. “I Newmarket in October and was fourth in the G1 Prince called everybody in the world and only three people of Wales’s S. at Royal Ascot June 19. Interestingly, his wanted shares in him. People weren’t interested in owner was only keen to run him at Ascot after race- breeding to him, it was as simple as that.” But he course officials had turned on the taps. Noverre, last quickly established himself as that country’s leading year’s G1 Sussex S. winner, was a closing second in stallion, smashing Japanese sire records from the time the G1 Dubai Duty Free at Nad al Sheba Mar. 23 before his first crop hit the racetrack in 1994. He was the another second in the Sussex S. at Goodwood last time champion sire in Japan every year from 1995 through July 31. 2001, and maintains a sizeable lead in 2002. Through Aug. 13, Sunday Silence had sired 75 stakes winners, 10 champions, four Japanese Derby winners and the JAPANESE CHAMPIONS earners of $322,194,260 from nine crops to race. Special Week (Jpn), winner of the 1999 G1 Japan Cup, FOR SUNDAY SILENCE is his leading money winner to date with earnings of Name Japanese Awards $9,346,435. He also sired champion older mare To The Air Shakur 3yo Colt - ‘00 Victory (Jpn), who was second in the 2001 G1 Dubai Bubble Gum Fellow 2yo Colt - ‘95 World Cup; and Stay Gold (Jpn), hero of the 2001 G2 Cheers Grace 3yo Filly - ‘00 Dubai Sheema Classic and the 2001 G1 Hong Kong Dance in the Dark 3yo Colt - ‘96 Vase. The average price of Sunday Silence’s foals at Fuji Kiseki 2yo Colt - ‘94 the Select Sale in July was ¥92.48 million; Green Dance Partner 3yo Filly - ‘95, Older Mare - ‘96 Desert, second on the list, averaged ¥35.33 million and Marvelous Sunday Older Horse - ‘97 El Condor Pasa, third, averaged ¥24.91 million. “I think Mejiro Bailey 2yo Colt - ‘00 he would have been a great stallion here,” Hancock Stinger 2yo Filly - ‘98 said. “He would have passed on that spirit of his wher- To The Victory Older Mare - 01 ever he stood.” FARDA AMIGA — Straight to the head of the Class 3YO filly follows commanding Kentucky Oaks (G1) with Alabama (G1) for BROAD BRUSH Graham J. Beck, President Inquiries: Michael Hernon 859-293-2676 Fax 859-299-9371 www.gainesway.com Look for Yearlings by this perennial Leading Sire in September. TDN P HEADLINE NEWS • 8/20/02 • PAGE 3 of 6 (Previews cont.) Wednesday, York, Britain, post time: 2:20 p.m.