MONDAY, JUNE 29, 2015 732-747-8060 $ TDN Home Page Click Here TREVE ON TRACK CRUCERO UPSETS SAN JUAN CAPISTRANO Building on her comeback win over 10 1/2 furlongs in Big Chief Racing=s Crucero (Admiral=s Cruise), who the G2 Prix Corrida here May 29, Al Shaqab Racing=s graduated against $20,000 taggers just four months Treve (Fr) (Motivator {GB}) returned to upstage some of ago, earned both his first black type and graded victory France=s premier performers in the venue=s feature in Sunday=s GIII San Juan Capistrano off a runner-up G1 Grand Prix de Saint-Cloud on Sunday without being effort in an optional asked a serious question. Sent off the 3-5 favorite, the claimer seven days bay raced keenly in customary fashion for Thierry earlier. Crucero saved Jarnet tracking the pace ground as he stalked and, after easing ahead the pace from the of Flintshire (GB) (Dansili inside rail through the {GB}) with 300 meters opening stages as remaining, was always heavily favored Going holding him in the run to Somewhere (Brz) the line for a 1 1/4-length (Sulamani {Ire}) led verdict. AShe=s just early, floated a bit terrific, but we=ve all Crucero| Santa Anita known that for a long wide on the turns and time,@ trainer Criquette had to settle in a Treve geared down at the line | Head-Maarek said. AShe=s pressing position after Tiz Futurity (Tizbud) slipped up Scoop Dyga a once-in-a-lifetime horse the rail to take command. Crucero angled out four wide for a trainer and I=ve been on the final turn, duked it out with Going Somewhere in the lucky one. Thierry gave her a perfect ride, as he the stretch and gained control late for the win. didn=t want to give her a hard race and didn=t have to. AKeith prepped him in a mile and a quarter race just She is on holiday now and, as we have said all year, seven days ago and I think he was a better horse today the [Oct. 4] G1 Prix de l=Arc de Triomphe must be her because of it,@ winning pilot Kent Desormeaux noted. target so she will run in a trial, either the G2 Prix Foy or AHe was aggressive last time and he just cantered G1 Prix Vermeille [at Longchamp Sept. 13] before around the racetrack today and had tons left down the trying to win it for a third time.@ Cont. p5 lane. Some horses want a mile and three quarters; he could run two miles. He should probably live in Europe PRECIOUS where they run that distance often. America needs Fourth in the G1 Epsom Oaks after annexing last some more two-mile races.@ month=s Listed Cheshire Oaks, Roisin Henry and Susan Cont. p3 Magnier=s Diamondsandrubies (Ire) (Fastnet Rock {Aus}) bounced back in game fashion to make almost all in Sunday=s G1 Pretty Polly S. at The Curragh. Asserting for the lead along the rail after the initial exchanges, the 8-1 chance was pestered by Secret Gesture (GB) (Galileo {Ire}) into the stretch run and, once seeing off that rival under a Diamondsandrubies and the drive winning connections | Racing Post approaching the final eighth, kept on resolutely in the dying embers to bravely hold G1 1000 Guineas victress Legatissimo (Ire) (Danehill Dancer {Ire}) and last term=s G1 Prix Jean Romanet winner Ribbons (GB) (Manduro {Ger}) by a short head and a neck in a three-way photo. 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Sean Cronin & Tom Frary Page 12 [email protected] 60 Broad Street, Suite 100 Red Bank, NJ 07701 732-747-8060 | 732-747-8955 (fax) www.thoroughbreddailynews.com www.thetdn.com EDT Race 7:20a Prix du Bois-G3, CTY 7:50a Prix Daphnis-G3, CTY 8:55a Prix Chloe-G3, CTY TDN P HEADLINE NEWS • 6/29/15 • PAGE 3 of 13 • thoroughbreddailynews.com I did the best I could to convince myself not to run back in a week. But this race stared me in the face, a mile and three-quarters, and with that long, lumbering stride he has, plus the fact that he can cover it so well, I just had to do it. Definitely [Going Somewhere, getting out on the turns] helped us out. I just told Kent in the paddock that it=s all about putting the horse to sleep the first part of the race. It doesn=t matter if they run Sunday, Santa Anita the half in :46 or :51, it=s how well your horse is SAN JUAN CAPISTRANO S.-GIII, $150,500, SA, 6-28, relaxed during the first part of the race. It=s of ultimate 3yo/up, 1 3/4mT, 2:49.46, fm. importance in a mile and three-quarter race, and that=s 1--#@CRUCERO, 119, h, 5, by Admiral's Cruise exactly what he did; he put him to sleep.@ 1st Dam: Saint Gal, by Saint Ballado Neil Drysdale, trainer of Going Somwhere, noted that 2nd Dam: Gallery's Sunset, by Deputy Minister the horse had trouble on the turns due to his 3rd Dam: Gallery, by Green Dancer equipment. AWe had trouble with the bit, we had the O-Big Chief Racing, LLC; B-Santa Cruz Ranch Inc. wrong bit on him,@ Drysdale said. AHe ran dynamite (FL); T-J. Keith Desormeaux; J-Kent J. Desormeaux. considering Mike couldn=t steer him.@ $90,000. Lifetime Record: 17-2-5-5, $190,380. Click Crucero was claimed off of Hronis Racing and trainer for eNicks report & catalogue-style pedigree. Werk John Sadler for $40,000 after finishing fifth going a Nick Rating: C+. mile over the main track here in January. He graduated 2--Going Somewhere (Brz), 119, h, 6, Sulamani (Ire)-- in his next start against $20,000 taggers Feb. 15 and Angel Star (Brz), by Special Nash (Ire). O/B-Haras was fourth in an allowance back on the turf Mar. 8. Phillipson (BRZ); T-Neil D. Drysdale. $30,000. Third in both an optional claimer Apr. 2 and wheeled 3--Decisive Edge, 119, c, 4, Bernardini--A Precious back in an allowance Apr. 9, he the finished fifth Memory, by Honor Grades. ($200,000 Ylg '12 stepping up to graded company in the GII Charles FTSAUG; $650,000 2yo '13 FTFMAR). O-Nancy Whittingham S. stretching out to 1 1/2 miles May 24. Favreau & Kathy Psoinos; B-Epona Equine, LLC (KY); He was runner-up in a 1 1/4-mile optional claimer T-Jerry Hollendorfer. $18,000. June 21. Mauk Equine Brokerage private sale as weanling to Carrie Brogden & partners " " " PINHOOKED BY AND RAISED AT MACHMER HALL SELECT SALES Graduate...Exceeding Expectations IN OTHER NEWS... SEQUEL BLO ODSTOC K gra duate A Daily Roundup of Racing Articles in Non-Industry Media Margins: NK, 1 1/4, 2HF. Odds: 23.20, 0.70, 4.00. Also Ran: Golden Soul, Customer Base, Tiz Futurity, Thoroughbred racing keeps tenuous foothold at Los Alamitos Dusk Patriots Rule. Click for the Equibase.com chart or has settled over Los Alamitos Race Course, and from the deck at the TJCIS.com PPs. VIDEO, sponsored by Fasig-Tipton. Vessels Club, high in the grandstands, marketing director Orlando As for wheeling him back on seven days rest, trainer Gutierrez points toward the horizon where a dim, orange glow from the Keith Desormeaux said, AThe typical signs after a horse setting sun bends around the oval track’s far turn – a turn that, without runs a tough race are, they come out of the feed tub, the tumultuous state of Southern California thoroughbred racing, might they might not have as much enthusiasm during never have existed. Ryan Kartje, The Orange County Register training, they lose a little weight; typical stuff, and he didn=t show any of those signs during the week. TDN P HEADLINE NEWS • 6/29/15 • PAGE 4 of 13 • thoroughbreddailynews.com PRAIRIE MEADOWS CORNHUSKER H.-GIII, $300,000, PRM, 6-27, 3yo/up, 1 1/8m, 1:49.86, ft.