The Cliff’s Edge Dominant in Iroquois HEADLINE p.3 NEWS For information about TDN, DELIVERED EACH NIGHT call 732-747-8060. BY FAX AND INTERNET www.thoroughbreddailynews.com MONDAY, NOV. 3, 2003 LAISSEZ LES BON TEMPS ROULER WELL-NOTED WIN On the heels of a wildly successful yearling sales Taking advantage of a miscue by favored Value Plus season, both at home and abroad, optimism runs ram- (Unbridled’s Song), whose dramatic stumble at the pant as the Keeneland November Breeding Stock Sale break unseated jockey John Velazquez, second choice commences its 11-day run this morning in Lexington. Read the Footnotes (Smoke Glacken) notched a front- So, let the good times roll. “We anticipate a strong running victory in yesterday’s GIII Nashua S. at Belmont sale,” Keeneland Director of Sales Geoffrey Russell Park. Sent to the front under jockey Jerry Bailey, Read commented. “The quality of the catalogue is excellent.” the Footnotes set a measured pace with Paddington And that might just be the understatement of the cen- (Saint Ballado) glued to his flank, then outslugged that tury. Among the 4,001 foe to the wire to win by 2 1/4 lengths. “That wasn’t horses set to go under auc- exactly what we had planned,” said winning trainer tioneer Ryan Mahan’s ham- Rick Violette, Jr. “Jerry and I talked before the race and mer are some top-shelf, thought that Paddington could be out there with Value Grade I-winning racemares Plus. If that happened, we wanted to track those two. from the past several Jerry is a good jockey to have on your side when you years, including all-time need to call an audible.” Paddington was clearly second leading female money win- best, finishing 6 1/2 lengths ahead of the running-on ner Spain (Thunder Gulch) Who is Chris G. (Numerous). Velazquez was uninjured (hip 157), who sells in foal in the fall. Value Plus recovered from the stumble and Spain winning the 2000 Breeders’ to Storm Cat; multiple Ca- ran with the field up the backstretch, appearing unin- Cup Distaff www.breederscup.com nadian champion jured. (Nashua cont. p4) Windsharp (Lear Fan) (hip 508), the dam of Breeders’ Cup Turf hero Johar (Gone LADY TOPS AT FASIG-TIPTON NOVEMBER West) and carrying a full sibling to the four-year-old; GSW Win Crafty Lady (Crafty Prospector--Honeytab, Golden Apples (Ire) (Pivotal {GB}) (hip 309), the cham- by Al Hattab) brought a $900,000 final bid to top pion turf mare in the U.S. in 2002, selling as a Sunday’s November Selected Sale hosted by Fasig- broodmare prospect; a top three-year-old filly of 2003, Tipton at the Newtown Paddocks in Lexington. The 15- Composure (Touch Gold) (hip 253 ); and Sharp Cat year-old mare, who is the dam of MGSW Graeme Hall (Storm Cat) (hip 446), who sells on a May 28 cover to and GISW Harmony Lodge, was purchased by Classic Gone West. She will be followed into the ring by her Star Ltd from the Blackburn Farm consigment. “We weanling filly by first-year sire Point Given (Thunder were hoping for a little bit cheaper,” said Classic Star’s Gulch). Her foal of 2002, a filly by Fusaichi Pegasus Nick Plumber. “We looked at the mare about a month brought $1.5 million at the September Sale. Bidding for ago down in Florida. They wanted $1-million for her each day of the sale commences at 10 a.m. then and we actually turned them down. We thought (Keeneland report cont. p2) she would go for $800,000, but I had to pay for her. I thought she was the best mare in the sale.” Owned and Catalogue Gets a Bump... raced by Joe Greeley, who owns Sabine Stable, the The 4,001 head catalogued for the sale represents an chestnut is also the dam of stakes winner Win’s Fair increase of over 11 percent versus last year, when the Lady (by Dehere), who is also owned by Greeley. The weanling portion of the sale was adversely affected by second highest price of the night at $600,000 was Mare Reproductive Loss Syndrome, and is within three handed out for MGSW Santa Catalina (Cure The Blues-- percent of the 2001 catalogue, which contained 4,116 Swept Off Her Feet, by Foreten). Consigned by Angus horses. This year’s books are comprised of 2,135 Glen Farm, agent, the dam of GISW Golden Missile was broodmares, 1,565 weanlings, 301 horses of other purchased by the partnership of Gainesway and Gorden categories and one stallion prospect. Stollery. (F/T report cont. p6) STORM CAT Leading Sire of (859) 273-1514 P Fax (859) 273-0034 www.overbrookfarm.com G1 Winners in 2003 TDN P HEADLINE NEWS • 11/3/03 • PAGE 2 of 6 The Good Gets Even Better.. P K E E N E L A N D P Saudi Poetry (Gone West), a $1.7-million yearling purchase who won the GII Louisville Breeders’ Cup H. Thoroughbred Corp. Team Rich in Talent, Pedigree... for Salman, sells this afternoon as hip 142 in foal to At the time of his death at just 43 in July 2002, Silver Deputy. Habibti (Tabasco Cat) should spice up Prince Ahmed Salman had accomplished more in the the late going on Tuesday. A two-time Grade I winner game than many do in a lifetime. He had just celebrated at two, the four-year-old filly is in foal on an Apr. 8 his first Kentucky Derby win with War Emblem, an cover date to Point Given and sells as hip 639. Her Epsom Derby winner and a trio of Breeders’ Cup cham- dam, Miss Sobriety, not part of this consignment, has pions. The Prince consistently pointed to one horse been withdrawn from the sale. Overall, most of the which put him on the map, a filly by Storm Cat out of Prince’s breeding stock will be sold, including 42 In Neon (Ack Ack) he purchased for $900,000 at the broodmares and 16 weanlings. They are spread among 1996 Barretts March Sale. Sharp Cat was a near instant the consignments of Mill Ridge Sales, Three Chimneys, dynamo at the races and retained that brilliance over Taylor Made, Lane’s End and Hopewell Farm. her three years at the track, winning 14 of her 21 starts, including seven Grade 1s, for earnings of nearly The Running of the Bulls... $2 million. She sells Tuesday at Keeneland followed by If this sale progresses in the bullish way sales offi- her weanling daughter by Point Given (hip 447). Sharp cials expect it will, buyers might just confuse Lexington Cat’s first foal, the three-year-old filly A.S. Cat (A.P. with Pamplona. “Our September Sale was the second- Indy), is offered this afternoon in foal to Point Given as strongest on record and yearling sales around the world hip 206. Spain, the winner of the Breeders’ Cup Distaff have been strong as well,” Geoffrey Russell said. There are other tangibles in place, according to the director of in 2000 and runner-up in 2001, sells in foal to Storm sales. “Keeneland’s fall race meet set attendance and Cat, and she will be followed in the ring by her foal of mutuel handle records, the Breeders’ Cup had record this year, a son of Storm Cat (hip 157). Spain’s dam mutuel handle and recent economic indicators point Drina (Regal and Royal) is catalogued as hip 588 during toward improvement,” Russell explained. “One of these tomorrow’s session. Also the dam of GSW Puerto factors would be a boost. Add all of them together and Banus (Supremo), Drina sells carrying a full sibling to we’re very encouraged.” Just last week it was an- Spain. Salman campaigned Windsharp (Lear Fan) in nounced that the gross domestic product for the third partnership and she has already proven herself as a quarter had advanced by a stronger-than-expected 7.2 broodmare. A millionaire at the races, the 12-year-old percent. Last year’s sale saw 2,377 horses sold for mare has produced Johar (Gone West), dead-heat win- gross receipts of $187,230,000. The average was ner of the Breeders’ Cup Turf as well as GI Del Mar $78,767 with a median price of $28,000. Bless, a full Oaks heroine Dessert (Storm Cat). The dark bay mare is sister to Fusaichi Pegasus in foal to Storm Cat, topped pregnant on a Feb. 27 cover to Gone West. While the sale at $4 million. would-be Triple Crown winner Point Given is tucked neatly away in the stallion barn at nearby Three Chim- Norfields Dispersal... neys Farm, buyers will have ample opportunity to get to Taylor Made Sales Agency is handling a reduction of his family. The first chance comes this afternoon when bloodstock of Joanne Nor’s Norfields, which sell as hips Point Gained, a four-year-old Hennessy half sister to 59-75 following Monday’s opening session. The draft Point Given, sells in foal to the late Anees (Unbridled) was originally scheduled to go through the ring Sunday as hip 110. She should serve to whet the appetite for night following the William Schettine dispersal, but was Tuesday, when Turko’s Turn (Turkoman), the dam of pushed back after Schettine decided against selling his the 2001 Horse of the Year, goes through the ring as horses. Chief among the 10 horses remaining in the hip 485. She is carrying a full sibling to Point Given and catalogue for Nor following scratches are hip 63, a will be followed by her foal of this year, a colt by Thun- weanling colt by Silver Charm out of Quiet Honestly der Gulch (hip 486).