SATURDAY, JANUARY 11, 2014 732-747-8060 $ TDN Home Page Click Here REDOUTE’S COLT GOOD AS GOLD ‘HAWK’ SETS SIGHTS ON SHAM By Kelsey Riley Hall of Famer Bob Baffert sends out J “TDN Rising The Magic Millions complex came alive early in the Star” J Midnight Hawk (Midnight Lute) as the 8-5 Gold Coast Yearling Sale=s third session yesterday, with morning-line favorite in Santa Anita=s GIII Sham S. the sale=s top two transactions thus far coming a today. Owned by a partnership John Sikura=s Hill >n= frenzied 20 minutes apart. Gai Waterhouse became the Dale Equine Holdings, defending Stanley Cup champion woman of the hour after lodging a winning bid of Chicago Black Hawks head coach Joel Quenneville and A$1 million on lot 434, a son of Redoute=s Choice (Aus) assistant Mike Kitchen, from Newhaven Park, and it was later revealed that the former Minnesota Vikings Hall of Fame trainer would head coach Mike Tice and also receive lot 439, a breeder Mike Pegram, he Fastnet Rock (Aus) filly burst onto the scene with purchased by Coolmore=s a 6 1/4-length romp in his Tom Magnier for debut at Betfair A$700,000. Hollywood Park Dec. 13 The figures continued to despite plenty of trip reflect a solid market, with trouble. The gray has Lot 434 the clearance rate holding fired bullets in his last Midnight Hawk Magic Millions steady at a remarkable 88% two works, including a Benoit Photo over the first three days, best-of-32 five-furlong and rising to almost 92% for the session. The average breeze here Jan. 6, and gets blinkers off for this first rose 13% from Thursday to A$154,196, and the black-type attempt. AHis first race was a little erratic--I median held sway at Thursday=s figure of A$120,000. think a lot had to do with the blinkers,@ Baffert told the The gross for the first three sessions is A$63,447,500-- TDN earlier this week. ASo we are taking the blinkers almost A$8 million higher than this point 12 months off for this race. He=s much better without them. The ago. race is going to be two turns. We will find out if he can A buzz began to develop on the grounds as lot 434 handle it. He=s an extremely talented horse.@ Distance drew near, and it reached a peak as the colt stepped could be a slight question for the promising grey, as his into the ring. The bidding on the descendant of stakes-winning GISP dam Miss Wineshine (Wolf Power champion 2-year-old filly Hansa (Aus) (Snippets {Aus}) {SAf}) never tried beyond seven panels for Baffert and opened at A$400,000, and jumped up in increments of Pegram. Cont. p9 A$100,000 to A$600,000. Bids of A$50,000 took the price to A$800,000, and from there it climbed in smaller increments to A$1 million, with Gai Waterhouse, sitting alongside American owner Jon Kelly, fending off David Raphael and Damien Flower, who bowed out after offering A$950,000. Kelly, a Californian who bred and raced dual Grade I winner Borrego (El Prado {Ire}) in a partnership that included his wife, Sarah, owns the 15-acre Tres Palomas Farm in Santa Fe, California. Other graded stakes winners he has campaigned include Lady at Peace (Lord at War {Arg}), Meridiana (Ger) (Lomitas {GB}), Vacare (Lear Fan) and Sporting Art (Doneraile Court). He also owns horses in Europe and has owned in Australia in the past, purchasing Jon Kelly chiefly at Inglis and using Magic Millions trainers David Hayes and Gary Portelli. This is his first time at the Gold Coast Yearling Sale, and he got what he came for. Cont. p3 In This Issue Q&A: Jeff Gural 60 Broad St., Suite 100 Red Bank, NJ 07701 Sue Finley caught up with The (732) 747-8060 Meadowlands owner Jeff Gural, who has (732) 747-8955 (fax) become racing's poster boy for the concept of www.thoroughbreddailynews.com ‘'house rules' after he announced this week that www.thetdn.com he had been conducting out-of-competition testing for cobalt. 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AThat sealed it for me. He=s probably the nicest-looking young colt in the sale. He=s got a great shoulder and hip. He might go as far as a mile. He needs to grow a little bit, but he=s got all the goods. He=s very well bred so he meets all the criteria that I set out for acquisitions. I=m very pleased to buy him.@ Kelly, who is involved in media, banking and real estate businesses, said he thought the colt was good value considering what a horse of his type and pedigree might have brought at other sales rings around the world. The result was a homerun for John Kelly of Newhaven Park, who bred and raised the colt with his father and brother, Charlie, on their New South Wales farm. AHe was very popular and he presented himself very well,@ Kelly noted. AHe didn=t put a foot out of place all week, and I suppose if you=re going to get A$1 million for a horse, that=s what they need to do. I don=t think I had anyone who really canned him all week, which is really difficult at a yearling sale. It=s very hard to have the horse that everyone likes.@ AHe was spectacular, because he had an enormous amount of parades,@ Kelly added. AOne day he did about 150 parades, and he just took it in his stride. And he thrived while he was here. We were actually concerned he was starting to do a bit too well, that=s how well he coped with it.@ The 8-year-old Hades= first foal, also a colt by Redoute=s Choice, was hammered down to David Ingordo here last year for A$460,000 on behalf of Paul Fudge=s Waratah Thoroughbreds. Now named The Iliad (Aus) and in training with Peter Moody in Sydney, he won a Randwick barrier trial in late November. Kelly noted that Hades has a filly by Redoute=s Choice at foot, and is back in foal to Arrowfield=s Champion Sire. AIt is very unusual for us to go four years in a row [to the same stallion], but they=re just magnificent individuals, so we just keep backing up,@ Kelly explained, adding: AI always had a sneaking suspicion that this bloke was a little better than his brother.@ Kelly has been at the helm of Newhaven Park with his father and brother for about 20 years, and the trio currently own about 60 broodmares. Kelly expressed his satisfaction with the market at Magic Millions. AThe sale is terrific,@ he said. AAny sale that=s clearing nearly 90% is good. The average is a little better than last year, so you can=t ask for more. Any market where you can sell an A$1 million horse and an A$60,000 horse and anywhere in between, it=s a good market. Cont. p4 TDN P HEADLINE NEWS • 1/11/14 • PAGE 4 of 13 • thoroughbreddailynews.com MAGIC MILLIONS DAY THREE TOPPERS 560 c Encosta de Lago (Aus) Melito (Aus) 400,000 Lot Sex Sire Dam Price (A$) B-Katom 434 c Redoute’s Choice (Aus) Hades (Aus) 1,000,000 Consigned by Coolmore Stud B-Newhaven Park Stud Purchased by Katsumi Yoshida Consigned by Newhaven Park Purchased by Jon Kelly/Gai Waterhouse/James Harron Bloodstock 387 f Encosta de Lago (Aus) Fiction (NZ) 390,000 B-Newhaven Park Stud 439 f Fastnet Rock (Aus) Headway (Aus) 700,000 Consigned by Newhaven Park B-Makybe Racing & Breeding Purchased by Danny Bougoure Consigned by Milburn Creek Purchased by Tom Magnier " " " 534 f Redoute’s Choice (Aus) Luna Bella (NZ) 500,000 B-International Equities Holdings Inc.