FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 2010 For information about TDN, call 732-747-8060. COZZENE MARE TOPS KEENOV THURSDAY SUPER SAVER TO STAND FOR $20,000 Conchita (Cozzene--Desert Gold, by Seeking the Gold) GI Kentucky Derby hero Super Saver (Maria=s Mon-- will join the commercial broodmare band of Atlanta real Supercharger, by A.P. estate developer Peter Blum after topping Thursday=s Indy) will stand for session at Keeneland November at $370,000 . The gray $20,000 when he goes mare, in foal to More Than to stud at WinStar Farm Ready, is a half-sister to un- in Versailles for 2011. beaten Group 1 winner White AWe've had overwhelm- Moonstone (Dynaformer). ing response since an- Mark Maronde, talking to nouncing Super Saver's Blum via telephone, handled retirement, and we felt the bidding from the back of at $20,000 he would be the sales pavilion. [Blum] has A placed in the market to a top broodmare band, he=s a have a strong first book commercial breeder who is of mares, while also pro- always looking for something White Moonstone viding good value to that can appreciate,@ Maronde sportinglife.com breeders, said WinStar said. AHe liked the pedigree, @ took a swing and got it done.@ Maronde admitted White President and CEO Elliott Moonstone, who is four-for-four after her victory in the Walden. AWhen you take into account that he G1 Meon Valley Fillies Mile S. in September, was piv- Sarah K Andrew photo otal in the decision to bid on Conchita. AWhite Moon- was a record-setting stone was the key,@ he said. AShe=s a good two-year-old two-year-old, the Derby winner, and hails from the that Peter is hoping trains on and becomes a top three- hottest active family in the stud book, there isn't an- year-old, and then the pedigree improves. A young other horse entering stud around that price that can mare in the right hands, with the first dam being young, match his credentials.@ the pedigree could explode.@ The final price was over what Blum had expected to pay for the five-year-old Cartier Award Nominations.. Page 15 mare. AHe went a little bit beyond what we talked about originally, but Peter is game and he was happy to get her,@ Maronde said. AFor what we went over, he said, >If we=re right, we=re right and if we=re wrong, we=re wrong. It=s not going to be the end of the world for what we valued her at and what we went over to get her.=@ Cont. p2 KEENELAND NOVEMBER THURSDAY, NOV. 10, 2010 CUMULATIVE 2010 2009 Catalogued 1361 1292 No. Offered 1088 994 No. Sold 843 791 RNAs 245 203 % RNA 22.5% 20.4% No. $1m+ 8 5 High Price $2,550,000 $3,100,000 Gross $108,403,000 $118,884,200 Average (% change) $128,592 (-14.4%) $150,296 Median (% change) $77,000 (-18.9%) $95,000 www.keeneland.com 859.233.4252 • www.claibornefarm.com P TDN HEADLINE NEWS • 11/12/10 • PAGE 2 of 18 • thoroughbreddailynews.com Cozzene Mare cont. Any standouts among the future group to carry the Thursday=s $370,000 session topper was a major West=s pink and black silks? score for Jody and Michelle Huckabay=s Elm Tree Farm. AI bought three colts and one filly, and the filly is the Huckabay and partners purchased the mare, in foal to raciest-looking one in the bunch,@ Glass replied. AMr. Congaree, for $40,000 out of the 2008 Keeneland West doesn=t usually buy fillies, but we couldn=t find November sale. AWe bought her for the bottom side,@ any other colts [that we liked]. We really liked her, so Huckabay said. AWe=ve been a big fan of Desert he said >yeah, go ahead and buy her.=@ Stormer for years. [Conchita=s breeder] Stonerside has The Wests ranked third amongst the leading buyers great horses and we were just lucky to get her bought.@ at this year=s Keeneland September sale, purchasing 18 Conchita is out of graded stakes placed Desert Gold horses for $3,722,000, good for an average of (Seeking the Gold), and her second dam is Desert $206,778. Stormette (Storm Cat), a full-sister to GI Breeders= Cup AWe have about 30-35 horses on the track right now, Sprint winner Desert Stormer. Conchita has produced about 20 others coming off the farm--two-year-olds two foals, her yearling Congaree filly and a weanling going back in training--and 41 yearlings being broken in filly by Exchange Rate. AWe=ve kept both the fillies she=s Ocala,@ Glass continued before adding with a laugh, had,@ Huckabay said. AWe=ll keep them for a while and AWe have enough.@ -SS see what happens.@ Huckabay added that the weanling may be sent through the sales ring in 2011. In addition Hernon Toes the “Line”... to the exploits of White Moonstone, the page enjoyed a Keeneland faithful are familiar with Michael Hernon as boost when stallion More Than Ready was represented Gainesway=s director of sales, but the Irishman enjoyed by two Breeders= Cup winners. AWe bred her to More success as a breeder at the November sale yesterday Than Ready, and what a weekend he had,@ Huckabay when a gray colt by Tapit sold for $260,000. Hip 892 said. AEverything just came together. -J Martini is out of Rhumb Line (Mr. Greeley), a 10-year-old mare Hernon owns in partnership with Dr. Bill Andrade. He Weanlings Heading West... originally purchased Rhumb Line in partnership with Gary and Mary West, who have campaigned top-class Michael Narlinger for $20,000 out of the 2005 Fasig- runners such as GI Wood Memorial hero Buddha (Unbri- Tipton Kentucky February sale. dled=s Song) and GI Forego S. hero and promising AI was at Fasig-Tipton when I first saw her,@ Hernon young sire Mass Me- recalled yesterday. AAnd I was immediately captured by dia (Touch Gold), her. She=s just a beautiful mare. She=s got size and have been active par- scope and she=s correct.@ Cont. p3 ticipants in the lively weanling trade TDN TODAY through the first four Headline News.................... 15 pages days of the Keeneland November Sale. The West=s rac- ing manager and bloodstock advisor Gary and Mary West westwirelesshealth.org Ben Glass has signed for a quartet of youngsters for a sum of $1,040,000, led by hip 80, a $310,000 Pulpit colt out of MGSW and GISP Winter Garden (Roy). The Feb. 12 foal was consigned by Tay- lor Made Sales Agency, Agent LV. The couple also purchased three weanlings by Tapit from Gainesway=s draft--hip 426, a colt out of the unraced Lady Solvig (Giant=s Causeway) for $260,000; hip 892, a colt out of the Mr. Greeley mare Rhumb Line for $260,000; and hip 925, a filly from the winning Grand Slam mare Slammingpartygirl for $210,000. AWe buy to race, we don=t buy to pinhook,@ Glass said while taking a break from the action out back. AWe usually get four to five weanlings every November. I=d buy more, but they=re tough to get--you get outbid, you can=t get them past the vet, etc. We like to find racey- looking individuals. They=re tough to find and everyone else wants them too, obviously.@ P TDN HEADLINE NEWS • 11/12/10 • PAGE 3 of 18 • thoroughbreddailynews.com Rhumb Line cont. Now named Zazu and racing for Jerry and Ann Moss, After her purchase in 2005, Rhumb Line was bred to the two-year-old was an impressive winner in her sec- Officer and the resulting foal was Art Princess. Art ond start at Hollywood Park in October, and is being Princess, a $60,000 Fasig-Tipton November weanling, pointed towards the Moccasin S. Rhumb Line=s 2009 went on to finish second in the 2008 colt by Corinthian brought $130,000 at this year=s G2 Cherry Hinton S. Hernon was so September sale. impressed with the family, he reac- Hernon admitted he was Adelighted@ by yesterday=s quired Art Princess when she went final bid of $260,000, made by bloodstock agent Ben through the sales ring at Keeneland Glass. last November. AThe colt has lots of potential to him, and his sister I bought her for $50,000 last year A might be the real deal,@ he added. and I own her with [Gainesway presi- Hernon said that he currently owns three mares in dent] Antony Beck,@ Hernon said. AShe partnership, but that number could increase in the near is currently pregnant to Tapit.@ future. Rhumb Line was bred to Tapit in Michael Hernon AI=ll be hoping later in the week to try and find a nice gainesway.com 2006 and, at the request of Narlinger, she was put through the ring at the young mare to add to the band,@ he confirmed. AI=m 2007 Keeneland January sale. looking to establish myself as a serious breeder in the AI bought her back for $65,000,@ Hernon said. AI industry. It=s always been my goal. I believe you can always believed in the mare and didn=t want to sell her. make a mare if you go about it the right way. I study it So I went back after her and bought her. I thought she hard and I=m working in that direction.@ had all the potential in the world, and was a mare who Rhumb Line is currently in foal to Birdstone.