DISCREET CAT looks to stay perfect HEADLINE p. 17 NEWS For information about TDN, DELIVERED EACH NIGHT BY FAX AND FREE BY E-MAIL TO SUBSCRIBERS OF call 732-747-8060. www.thoroughbreddailynews.com SUNDAY, OCTOBER 1, 2006 READY FOR IMPACT INVASOR DOUBTFUL FOR GOLD CUP History will be rewritten today if Makoto Kaneko=s Shadwell Stable=s Invasor (Arg) (Candy Stripes) is Deep Impact (Jpn) (Sunday Silence) can conquer the G1 recovering from a fever and is Avery doubt- Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe Lucien ful@ for next Saturday=s GI Jockey Club Gold Barriere at Longchamp. Had El Cup. AThe timing of this is very inopportune,@ Condor Pasa not encountered said trainer Kiaran McLaughlin. AWe could try Montjeu (Ire) seven years ago, to rush a work into him to make the race, Japan would already be counting but we d hate to risk him being sick again. = @ Horsephotos a landmark success in Europe=s Cont. pX premier test. Now it is up to that country=s most revered equine CALIFORNIA DREAMING Deep Impact Japan Racing photo deity to feed a nation=s desire, Wait a While (Maria=s Mon) may call Belmont Park and his trainer Yasuo Ikee is home, but the grey filly has had a field day with her building the expectation. AI compare my feelings about cross-country voyages. She earned her him now to that of Miyamoto Musashi, one of the second Grade I in as many trips out greatest Japanese swordsmen, who lived in the 17th West with a rousing defeat of her elders century,@ he said. AWe don't need to sharpen this great in the GI Yellow Ribbon S. yesterday at sword any more. I just put it back in the sheath and Oak Tree. Now, it=s on to Kentucky. wait for the raceday, so that he will be able to run the AShe=s going back to Churchill on Mon- race of his life. I want to go home with the best possi- day and be there until the Breeders= Cup ble result.@ Deep Impact=s reign was built on completing [Nov. 4],@ said Ginny DePasquale, assis- last year=s Triple Crown, and he=s been unstoppable this Benoit Photo tant to trainer Todd Pletcher. AShe loves season as well, with sensational wins at Kyoto in the to win and that=s the name of the game.@ Cont. p3 Apr. 30 G1 Tenno Sho Spring and G1 Takarazuka Kinen on his last start June 25. Most came on a firm surface, so the question remains of how he will handle yielding EIGHT IS ENOUGH ground in Paris. Ikee is unconcerned. ASince arriving The Tin Man (Affirmed) just might be having his best here, he's been training for almost two hours everyday season ever at age eight. He became the oldest winner on the sand course, which is deeper than that of Ja- of the GI Clement L. Hirsch Memorial pan,@ he added. AWe are ready for the race.@ Cont. p2 Turf Championship S. yesterday with another gritty peformance, A Day of Stars... outbattling T.H. Approval (With Ap- The remainder of Longchamp=s racing could hardly be proval) to win by a head as the 1-2 described as an undercard, with triple Oaks heroine chalk. AOf all the horses I=ve ridden, Alexandrova (Ire) (Sadler=s Wells) taking on multiple nobody tries harder,@ said winning Group 1 winner Mandesha (Fr) (Desert Style {Ire}) in rider Victor Espinoza. AThis isn=t just the G1 Prix de l=Opera. A clutch of high-class two-year- >The Tin Man,= this is >The Gold Benoit Photo old colts square off in the G1 Prix Jean-Luc Lagardere, Man.=@ It was the second triumph in this race for The where unbeaten Visionario (Ire) (Spinning World) lines Tin Man; he had previously won in 2002. Cont. p3 up against G1 Phoenix S. winner Holy Roman Emperor (Ire) (Danehill), while Legerete (Rahy) looks to dominate the juvenile fillies in the G1 Prix Marcel Boussac. In the CASH CALL Purchased privately following a Del Mar maiden win, G1 Prix de l=Abbaye, Reverence (GB) (Mark of Esteem Cash Included (Include) shook free of favored Point {Ire}) bids for his third Group 1 sprint. Marathoner Ashley (Point Given) to post an 11-1 upset of the GI Reefscape (GB) (Linamix {Fr}) bids for back-to-back Oak Leaf S. at Santa Anita yesterday. Cont. p4 renewals of the G1 Prix du Cadran. Cont. p14-16 TDN P HEADLINE NEWS • 10/1/06 • PAGE 2 of 18 Of the remaining three-year-olds, Paul and Susan Roy=s Sixties Icon has been supplemented as a result of Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe his highly impressive success in the G1 St Leger at York Sept. 9. Despite the ease of that win, history is GENERATION CLASH With fellow elders Hurricane against him as no winner of that Classic has triumphed Run, Shirocco and Pride stacking up against the sopho- here in the same year, even though Nijinsky, Sun Prin- more challenge, the odds appear against that category. cess (GB) and User Friendly (GB) found only one better However, three-year-olds have dominated recently, when attempting the double. AIt=s a fantastic race and accounting for their elders on 12 occasions since 1990. I=m as excited as anyone else,@ commented jockey Of those, nine had either won or placed in the course- Frankie Dettori, looking for his fourth Arc. AI wouldn=t and-distance G2 Prix Niel; this year=s winner Rail Link be surprised if Shirocco goes to the front, but my horse (GB) (Dansili {GB}) fits the bill. Successful in the July is very straightforward and I=ll have a chat with Paul 14 G1 Grand Prix de Paris, the Khalid Abdullah [Roy] and [trainer] Jeremy [Noseda] on the day and homebred enjoyed the typical mid-summer break before we=ll work something out.@ Paul Vidal=s G1 Prix du returning to take that prep Sept. 10. AIt=s a very high- Jockey-Club runner-up Best Name warmed up for his class Arc, but Rail Link is in very good form,@ the tilt at this contest with a win in the G3 Prix du Prince owner-breeder=s Racing Manager Teddy Grimthorpe said d=Orange here Sept. 17 and bids to emulate Saumarez yesterday. AThis is going to be a huge test for him, not (GB), who in 1990 was the last to win that en route to least because of his two stable mates, but we=re hope- Arc success. ful the ground is going to be nice for him as he=s a DID YOU KNOW... good-striding horse. I think there will be an honest The last horse to repeat as Prix de l=Arc de Triomphe gallop, as most of them want a mile and a half.@ champion was Alleged in 1977-78. Sunday, Longchamp, France, post time: 5:35 p.m. PRIX DE L=ARC DE TRIOMPHE LUCIEN BARRIERE-G1, i2,000,000, 3yo/up, c/f, 1 1/2mT SC PP HORSE OWNER BREEDER TRAINER/JOCKEY WT 1 2 Deep Impact (Jpn) Kaneko Makoto Holdings Co Ltd Northern Farm Ikee/ 131 (c, 4, Sunday Silence--Wind In Her Hair {Ire}, by Alzao) Take 2 1 Hurricane Run (Ire) Michael Tabor Gestut Ammerland Fabre/ 131 (c, 4, Montjeu {Ire}--Hold On {Ger}, by Surumu {Ger}) Fallon 3 6 Shirocco (Ger) Baron Georg von Ullmann Baron Georg von Ullmann Fabre/ 131 (h, 5, Monsun {Ger}--So Sedulous, by The Minstrel) Soumillon 4 5 Pride (Fr) N P Bloodstock Ltd N P Bloodstock Ltd de Royer-Dupre/ 128 (m, 6, Peintre Celebre--Specificity, by Alleged) Lemaire 5 4 Rail Link (GB) Khalid Abdullah Juddmonte Farms Fabre/ 123 (c, 3, Dansili {GB}--Docklands, by Theatrical {Ire}) Pasquier 6 8 Sixties Icon (GB) Mrs Susan Roy Lordship Stud Ltd Noseda/ 123 (c, 3, Galileo {Ire}--Love Divine {GB}, by Diesis {GB}) Dettori 7 7 Irish Wells (Fr) Berend van Dalfsen Eight International Racing Ltd Rohaut/ 123 (c, 3, Poliglote {GB}--Sign of the Vine {Fr}, by Kendor {Fr}) Boeuf 8 3 Best Name (GB) Paul Vidal Newsells Park Stud Rob Collet/ 123 (c, 3, King=s Best--Flawly {GB}, by Old Vic {GB}) Peslier www.stonewallstallions.com TDN P HEADLINE NEWS • 10/1/06 • PAGE 3 of 18 Saturday, Oak Tree at Santa Anita Saturday, Oak Tree at Santa Anita YELLOW RIBBON S.-GI, $400,000, OSA, 9-30, 3yo/up, CLEMENT L. HIRSCH MEMORIAL TURF CHAMPION- f/m, 1 1/4mT, 1:59 2/5, fm. SHIP S.-GI, $250,000, OSA, 9-30, 3yo/up, 1 1/4mT, 1--WAIT A WHILE, 120, f, 3, by Maria=s Mon 2:00, fm. 1st Dam: Flirtatious, by A.P. Indy 1--THE TIN MAN, 124, g, 8, by Affirmed 2nd Dam: Grand Charmer, by Lord Avie 1st Dam: Lizzie Rolfe, by Tom Rolfe 3rd Dam: Regal Feeling, by Clever Trick 2nd Dam: Dancing Liz, by Northern Dancer ($50,000 yrl '04 KEESEP; $260,000 2yo >05 3rd Dam: Crimson Queen, by Crimson Satan OBSFEB). O-Arindel Farm; B-W S Farish & W Temple O/B-Ralph & Aury Todd (KY); T-Richard E Mandella; Webber Jr (KY); T-Todd A Pletcher; J-G K Gomez; J-V Espinoza; $150,000. Lifetime Record: G1SP-UAE, $240,000. Lifetime Record: 12-7-1-3, $1,218,086. 27-12-5-2, $3,126,860. *1/2 to Mama Simba 2--Dancing Edie, 123, f, 4, Moscow Ballet--Duchess of (Mamaison), MSW & GISP, $505,775.