• 7 G1 WINNERS SO FAR THIS YEAR HEADLINE • 2008-09 LEADING OWNERS WERE CLIENTS NEWS Patti Miller For information about TDN, Jeff Seder call 732-747-8060. 1.800.223.7014 www.thoroughbreddailynews.com WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 2009 www.EQB.com MELBOURNE CUP GLORY FOR BROWN Jockey Corey Brown was aboard Bauer (Ire) (Halling) when the former Luca Cumani trainee lunged, but missed by a nose to Viewed (Aus) (Scenic {Ire}) in the 2008 G1 Melbourne Cup. There were no such disap- pointments yesterday, when the veteran reinsman guided 9-1 chance Shocking (Aus) (Street Cry {Ire}) to ZENYATTA FAVORED IN CLASSIC QUEST a 3/4-length victory in the Arace that stops the nation.@ It=s official. Zenyatta (Street Cry {Ire}) will put her Until Saturday, Brown was engaged to ride Vigor (NZ) perfect record on the line when she takes on 12 male (O=Reilly {NZ}), but picked up the mount on Shocking when the G1 Caulfield Cup third was denied a berth in rivals in the $5-million GI Breeders= Cup Classic at Santa the Melbourne Cup. ALast year was very disappointing-- Anita Saturday. Last year=s GI BC Ladies= Classic hero- being beaten by a nose in the Melbourne Cup is pretty ine turned in a sterling workout this past Saturday at hard to cope with,@ Brown commented. ABut I've finally her Hollywood Park base (video) , won the Melbourne Cup. My dream has come true, I which convinced her connections can't describe it, it's unbelievable. I wish everyone that the time was right to step out could feel what I am feeling right now. It is unbeliev- of her division. With regular rider able.@ Cont. p7-8 Mike Smith in the irons, the tower- ing mare will break from post four, and she has been installed as the 5-2 favorite on the morning line. Zenyatta AWe all watched everything she did Sarah K Andrew photo over time, watching works and studying her races,@ said co-owner Jerry Moss. AThen we got together Sunday night and said if there is the slightest doubt, we would not run in the Classic. Everybody said she was ready. So now I think everybody is in for a treat come Saturday.@ Trainer John Shirreffs isn=t concerned about the draw Getty Images for the confirmed closer. AThe way she runs, we didn=t have any strong feeling about a post,@ Shirreffs said. A[Smith] can put her where he wants her. She=ll be fine.@ Breeders= Cup draw fields cont. p2-7 CLASSIC-GI, $5,000,000, 3yo/up, 1 1/4m (AWT) PP HORSE SIRE JOCKEY TRAINER ML 1 Mine That Bird Birdstone Borel Woolley Jr 12-1 ($9,500 yrl ‘07 FTKOCT) 2 Colonel John Tiznow Gomez Harty 12-1 3 Summer Bird Birdstone D’mo Ice 9-2 4 Zenyatta Street Cry (Ire) Smith Shirreffs 5-2 ($60,000 yrl ‘05 KEESEP) 5 Twice Over (GB) Observatory Queally H Cecil 20-1 6 Richard's Kid Lemon Drop Kid Solis Baffert 12-1 7 Gio Ponti Tale of the Cat Dominguez Clement 12-1 8 Einstein (Brz) Spend a Buck Leparoux Pitts 12-1 9 Girolamo A.P. Indy Garcia bin Suroor 20-1 10 Rip Van Winkle (Ire) Galileo (Ire) Murtagh O’Brien 7-2 (€170,000 yrl ‘07 ITYSEP) 11 Regal Ransom Distorted Humor Migliore bin Suroor 20-1 ($675,000 2yo ‘08 FTFFEB) 12 Quality Road Elusive Quality Velazquez Pletcher 12-1 13 Awesome Gem Awesome Again Flores C Dollase 30-1 ($150,000 yrl ‘04 FTSAUG; $150,000 2yo ‘05 BESMAR) www.winstarfarm.com TDN P HEADLINE NEWS • 11/4/09 • PAGE 2 of 14 Breeders= Cup Classic cont. Mine That Bird will break from the inside in his quest to get his first win since his rail-skimming success in the GI Kentucky Derby. AWe're going to be near the back, so we might as well save ground,@ said trainer Chip Woolley Jr. AIt's good. I'm glad because he won't have to do a lot of work from there. He was towards the outside in the [GI] Goodwood [at Oak Tree Oct. 10], and [jockey] Calvin [Borel] had to work to get back inside. I want him covered up, and it will be easy to do from there. It's the perfect spot. I just told HRTV that I'd be happy to draw the one, two, or three hole." Playing Favorites A total of 149 horses, including 30 from Europe, passed the entry box for the 14 races of the Breeders= Cup World Championships. Conduit (Ire) (Dalakhani {Ire}) and Goldikova (Ire) (Anabaa) are favored to defend their titles in the GI Emirates Air- line BC Turf and GI TVG BC Mile, respectively, at 7-5 and 8-5. Unbeaten Lookin at Lucky (Smart Strike) is the 8-5 morning-line favorite in the GI Grey Goose BC Juvenile, but Conduit Horsephotos will have to overcome the out- side 13 post. AI really wasn't sure where I wanted him, but he is very manageable so it shouldn't be a problem, and there's nothing I can do about it anyway,@ trainer Bob Baffert summed up. It=s the other side of the gate for Baffert=s GI Sentient Jet BC Sprint hopeful Zensational (Unbridled=s Song). "Of course I don't like it, you never like the one hole especially with speed horses, but they all have to break,@ the Hall of Famer noted. AI was hoping to get the outside and we're stuck in the one hole, but all the real speed is inside.@ BREEDERS’ CUP BULLETIN EMIRATES AIRLINE TURF-GI, $3,000,000, 3yo/up, 1 1/2mT PP HORSE SIRE JOCKEY TRAINER ML 1 Telling A.P. Indy Castellano Hobby 20-1 2 Conduit (Ire) Dalakhani (Ire) Moore Stoute 7-5 3 Red Rocks (Ire) Galileo (Ire) Leparoux Meehan 20-1 (130,000gns yrl ‘04 GOFORB) 4 Allegre Orientate Velazquez Koriner 50-1 ($2,500 HRA ‘08 KEEJAN) 5 Dar Re Mi (GB) Singspiel (Ire) Dettori Gosden 3-1 6 Presious Passion Royal Anthem Trujillo Hartmann 4-1 7Spanish Moon (GB) El Prado (Ire) Fallon Stoute 5-2 8 Monzante Maria’s Mon Bejarano Mitchell 30-1 (100,000gns HRA ‘07 TATJUL) www.coolmore.com P TDN HEADLINE NEWS • 11/4/09 • PAGE 3 of 14 GREY GOOSE JUVENILE-GI, $2,000,000, 2yo, c/g, 1 1/16m (AWT) PP HORSE SIRE JOCKEY TRAINER ML 1Alfred Nobel (Ire) Danehill Dancer (Ire) Murtagh O’Brien 20-1 (220,000gns yrl ‘08 TATOCT) 2 Piscitelli Victory Gallop D’mo Sacco 50-1 ($60,000 2yo ‘’09OBSAPR) 3 Beethoven (Ire) Oratorio (Ire) Moore O’Brien 20-1 (€260,000 yrl ‘08 GOFMIL) 4 Noble’s Promise Cuvee Martinez McPeek 8-1 ($10,000 wnlg ‘07 KEENOV; $25,000 RNA yrl ‘08 OBSAUG) 5 D’ Funnybone D’wildcat Prado Dutrow Jr 5-2 6 Pulsion Include Smith Biancone 20-1 7Vale of York (Ire) Invincible Spirit (Ire) Ajtebi bin Suroor 20-1 (23,000gns yrl ‘08 TATDEC; 65,00gns RNA 2yo ‘09 TATAPR) 8 Eskendereya Giant’s Causeway Castellano Pletcher 10-1 ($250,000 yrl ‘08 KEESEP) 9 Aikenite Yes It’s True Garcia Pletcher 8-1 ($60,000 yrl ‘08 OBSAUG; $225,000 2yo ‘09 OBSFEB) 10 Aspire Tale of the Cat Leparoux Kenneally 30-1 11 Radiohead (GB) Johannesburg Dwyer Meehan 15-1 (€130,000 wnlg ‘07 GOFNOV; 78,000gns yrl ‘08 TATOCT) 12 William’s Kitten Kitten’s Joy Dominguez Maker 30-1 13 Lookin at Lucky Smart Strike Gomez Baffert 8-5 ($35,000 RNA ‘08 yrl KEESEP; $475,000 2yo ‘09 KEEAPR) TVG MILE-GI, $2,000,000, 3yo/up, 1mT PP HORSE SIRE JOCKEY TRAINER ML 1 Court Vision Gulch Albarado Dutrow Jr 12-1 ($180,000 yrl ‘06 KEESEP; $350,000 2yo ‘07 FTFFEB) 2 Whatsthescript (Ire) Royal Applause (GB) D’mo Sadler 15-1 (70,000gns wnl ‘04 TATDEC; 70,000gns yrl ‘05 TATOCT) 3 Cowboy Cal Giant’s Causeway Velazquez Pletcher 6-1 4 Delegator (GB) Dansili (GB) Dettori bin Suroor 3-1 5 Karelian Bertrando Maragh Arnold 20-1 ($47,000 RNA yrl ‘03 KEESEP) 6 Courageous Cat Storm Cat Gomez Mott 20-1 7 Ferneley (Ire) Ishiguru Bejarano B Cecil 20-1 (€24,000 yrl ‘05 TATIRE; 50,000gns 2yo ‘06 TATAPR) 8 Zacinto (GB) Dansili (GB) Moore Stoute 8-1 9 Gladiatorus Silic (Fr) Ajtebi bin Suroor 20-1 ($8,000 yrl ‘06 FTKOCT) 10 Justenuffhumor Distorted Humor Garcia McLaughlin 10-1 ($550,000 yrl ‘06 KEESEP) 11 Goldikova (Ire) Anabaa Peslier F Head 8-5 BREEDERS= CUP POST TIMES (ET) - SATURDAY Juvenile Turf 1:45 p.m. Turf Sprint 2:23 p.m. Sprint 3:10 p.m. Juvenile 3:49 p.m. Mile 4:28 p.m. Dirt Mile 5:12 p.m. Turf 5:57 p.m. Classic 6:45 p.m. www.coolmore.com P TDN HEADLINE NEWS • 11/4/09 • PAGE 4 of 14 SENTIENT JET SPRINT-GI, $2,000,000, 3yo/up, 6f (AWT) PP HORSE SIRE JOCKEY TRAINER ML 1 Zensational Unbridled’s Song Espinoza Baffert 7-5 ($20,000 yrl ‘07 KEESEP; $700,000 2yo ‘08 FTFFEB) 2 Cost of Freedom Cee’s Tizzy T Baze Sadler 20-1 3 Fatal Bullet Red Bullet Da Silva Baker 9-2 ($27,000 2yo ‘07 ADNMAR) 4 Crown of Thorns Repent Bejarano Mandella 12-1 ($300,000 2yo ‘07 OBSMAR) 5 Gayego Gilded Time Gomez bin Suroor 5-2 ($32,000 yrl ‘06 KEESEP) 6 Dancing in Silks Black Minnaloushe Rosario Gaines 12-1 ($20,000 wlng ‘05 KEENOV; C$24,000 yrl ‘06 BRCSEP) 7 Join in the Dance Sky Mesa Velazquez Pletcher 30-1 ($130,000 RNA yrl ‘07 KEESEP; $90,000 RNA 2yo ‘08 FTFFEB) 8 Capt.