SUNDAY, DECEMBER 1, 2013 732-747-8060 $ TDN Home Page Click Here FEATURE PRESENTATION • GI CIGAR MILE STRENGTH AND ‘HONOR’ Lane=s End Racing and Dell Ridge Farm=s J “TDN Rising Star” J Honor Code (A.P. Indy) looked defeated as Cairo Prince (Pioneerof the Nile) gained command in the stretch in yesterday=s GII Remsen S. at the Big A, but he called on all of his class to fight back and post a thrilling nose decision. Off to a slight A FLAT OUT RUNNER stumble at the start, the Squaring off against a star-studded field of more 4-5 chalk was placed in flashy types in yesterday=s GI Cigar Mile H., the old a tracking fourth along veteran Flat Out (Flatter) asserted his superiority to the inside through a provide Hall of Fame conditioner Bill Mott with a second glacial opening quarter Honor Code (inside) and Cairo Prince renewal in three years of the race named for the most in :25.84. Jockey Javier throw down in the Remsen accomplished horse he has ever trained. The Preston Castellano quickly got a NYRA/Coglianese Stables colorbearer, who was running for a $750,000 sense of the slow purse as a Grade I winner thanks to added incentives fractions and had his charge challenge for the lead from from NYRA, uncorked a powerful turn move from the outside through a half mile in :52.74. Honor Code midpack and dispatched with pacesetter Private Zone poked a head in front at the top of the lane, and was (Macho Uno) in the final sixteenth to win by immediately tackled by the aforementioned unbeaten 1 1/4 lengths at 6-1 odds. Verrazano (More Than winner of the GII Nashua S. Nov. 3. Cairo Prince took Ready) took third, while Breeders= Cup winners Groupie over in the stretch and looked to have it all wrapped up, but Honor Code never said die while pinned on the Doll (Bowman=s Band) and Goldencents (Into Mischief), favored at 3-1, could do no better than fourth and inside, and got his nose down on the line first in dramatic fashion. He showed a lot of guts, Hall of seventh, respectively. A @ Fame trainer Shug McGaughey said. AI'm proud of him. AThis horse, I can't say enough about him,@ said Mott, I think the horse in second is a nice horse, and it was a who annexed this race two years ago with To Honor peculiar race.@ Cont. p5 and Serve (Bernardini) and with Cigar himself in 1994 when it was contested as the NYRA Mile. AHe's just been a real tough, durable horse, a horse that I've always felt may be as good at a flat mile as he is at 10 furlongs. Although he has won the [GI] Jockey Club Gold Cup twice at 10 furlongs, [he's] versatile enough to get up and get the job done at a mile." Cont. p3 Flat Out (center) strides away at the Big A NYRA/Coglianese In This Issue Record-breaking Tatts Foal Sale Ends 60 Broad St., Suite 100 Red Bank, NJ 07701 The curtain fell yesterday on a record-breaking Tattersalls December Foal Sale, (732) 747-8060 and Emma Berry reports on the closing day highlights. 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Cup for Scooter Dickey and the 2012 running for Mott, 1--FLAT OUT, 119, h, 7, by Flatter needed three starts to round into form this year at age 1st Dam: Cresta Lil (MSW), by Cresta Rider seven, but when he did, he earned a gaudy 116 Beyer 2nd Dam: Rugosa, by Double Jay Speed Figure for besting the talented Cross Traffic 3rd Dam: Rose, by Sailor (Unbridled=s Song) in that ($11,000 wlng '06 OBSOCT; $85,000 yrl '07 FTKJUL). O-Preston venue=s one-mile Stables LLC; B-Nikolaus Bock (FL); T-William I Mott; J-Junior GIII Westchester H. Apr. 27. Alvarado. $450,000. Lifetime Record: 29-9-5-5, $3,645,383. Third as the favorite with *1/2 to Our Best Man (Runaway Groom), MSW, $328,565. Click slight trouble in the for eNicks report & 5-cross pedigree. Werk Nick Rating: B. GI Metropolitan H. May 27, Hip 631 - Half sis sells with Mulholland Springs at KEEJAN he grabbed a second GII Suburban H. title July 6. Flat Out was out-headed by RAISED AND PINHOOKED BY MACHMER HALL Alpha (Bernardini) in NYRA/Coglianese 2--Private Zone, 118, g, 4, Macho Uno--Auburn Beauty, by Siphon Saratoga=s sloppy (Brz). ($15,000 yrl '10 KEESEP). O-Good Friends Stable; B-Adena GI Woodward S. Aug. 31, and could only muster a Springs (ON); T-Doug F O'Neill. $150,000. third-place run after an awkward start behind former Registered Ontario-Bred stablemate Ron the Greek (Full Mandate) when trying 3--Verrazano, 117, c, 3, More Than Ready--Enchanted Rock, by Giant's for a Jockey Club three-peat as a prep for Santa Anita. Causeway. ($250,000 yrl '11 KEESEP). O-Let's Go Stable, Michael Content to track from the back of the first flight as Tabor, Susan Magnier & Derrick Smith; B-Emory A Hamilton (KY); Private Zone posted solid splits of :22.59 and :45.39 T-Todd A Pletcher. $75,000. with that runner=s stablemate Goldencents and an eager Clearly Now (Horse Greeley) in closest pursuit, Flat Out caught the eye when mounting a bid four or five wide on the turn. He kept on coming in the stretch despite Margins: 1 1/4, 2, NK. Odds: 6.50, 32.50, 3.80. failing to switch leads, and was taken in hand nearing Also Ran: Groupie Doll, Clearly Now, Forty Tales, Goldencents, the wire to score snugly. The stewards conducted an Saratoga Snacks, Laugh Track, Capo Bastone. Scratched: Praetereo. inquiry into a bad stumble by Clearly Now near the top Click for the brisnet.com chart, the brisnet.com PPs or the free of the stretch, but determined that he caused his own brisnet.com catalogue-style pedigree. VIDEO. trouble. Cont. p4 TDN P HEADLINE NEWS • 12/1/13 • PAGE 4 of 18 • thoroughbreddailynews.com Cigar Mile cont. AHe broke very well,@ said winning pilot Junior Alvarado of his trip. AI put him in the race and made sure he wasn't too far back. I had a perfect trip. I couldn't ask for anything better than that. For him, I think it was the dream trip--on the outside, clear, nothing bothering him, the speed was going very fast in front. When I asked him, he definitely gave me all he had. He's a very nice horse and he made a very nice run." Preston Stables is the nom de course of Art Preston, a Texas-based geologist who spent more than four decades in the gas and oil business. He has been involved in Thoroughbred ownership since the 70s, and operates Oxbow Farm in Paris, Kentucky. In addition to the various stakes campaigners to run under the Preston Stables banner, he owned two-time GI Breeders= Cup Mile winner Da Hoss along with his brothers J.R. and Jack as Prestonwood Farm. SAY WHAT? Doug O=Neill, trainer of Private Zone and Goldencents: We've got to try to dissect [Goldencents's performance]. [Jockey Rafael Bejarano] said [Saratoga Snacks {Tale of the Cat}] kind of stumbled and almost came over in front of Goldencents. After that, he thought he had him in a good spot, but just didn't kick on like we had hoped. No real excuse, just trying to figure it all out.