SATURDAY, OCTOBER 15, 2016 THEORY RETURNS IN FUTURITY >GLIMPSE= & >MOTION= By Christie DeBernardis The China Horse Club enjoyed their first Grade I success in REMATCH IN QEII America last Saturday when Yellow Agate (Gemologist) captured the GI Frizette S. The rapidly rising organization looks to capture another graded event for juveniles this Saturday with another offspring of that freshman sire when Theory, whom they own in partnership with WinStar, lines up in Belmont=s GII Futurity S. One of Theory | Sarah K. Andrew the most impressive maiden winners of the Saratoga meet, the Todd Pletcher trainee romped by 5 1/2 lengths over Reckling (Dialed In) July 30 to become a ATDN Rising Star,@ after which he was briefly sidelined with what turned out to be a foot bruise. Cont. p4 Catch a Glimpse (right) & Time and Motion battling to the wire in the GI Belmont Oaks | A. Coglianese IN TDN EUROPE TODAY FOUND SEARCHES FOR CHAMPION GLORY By Christie DeBernardis G1 Qatar Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe winner Found (Ire) (Galileo Canadian Horse of the Year and MGISW Catch a Glimpse (City {Ire}) looks to improve on last year’s second-place finish in the G1 Zip) and GSW Time and Motion (Tapit) have developed a bit of a QIPCO Champion S. on Saturday. Click or tap here to go straight to TDN Europe. rivalry throughout the past two seasons with Catch a Glimpse coming out on top in two of their three meetings. However, Time and Motion got the better of her millionaire rival last time, ending Catch a Glimpse=s perfect record on grass with a neck victory in the GII Lake Placid S. Aug. 21, and will look to tie things up on the scoreboard in Saturday=s GI Queen Elizabeth II Challenge Cup at Keeneland. Two-time Sovereign Award winner Catch a Glimpse captured her first eight starts on the turf, including last term=s GI Breeders= Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf, in which Time and Motion finished fifth. Besting males with a front running score in the GIII Penn Mile June 4, she went wire-to-wire once again in the 10-furlong GI Belmont Oaks Invitational S., silencing all of those who argued she was distance limited and besting Time and Motion by a half-length. Catch a Glimpse went straight to the front last time in Saratoga=s Lake Placid, but this time was unable to hold off a determined late bid from Time and Motion, who followed her maiden breaker at Gulfstream in March with wins in the Memories of Silver S. and Wonder Again S. this spring. Cont. p3 PRESIDENT & CO-PUBLISHER Barry Weisbord @barryweisbord [email protected] SR. 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AThe fillies in there have won 37 races.@ Some 53 weeks after winning the GIII Jessamine S. in Lexington, Larkin Armstrong=s Harmonize (Scat Daddy) returns to Keeneland in hopes of scoring her second straight win at the highest level after shipping west to capture the GI Del Mar Oaks last time Aug. 20. Closing strongly to finish a hard-luck third behind Catch a Glimpse in Churchill=s GIII Edgewood S. May 6, the Bill Mott pupil came up a half-length short when second to Time and Motion in the Wonder Again S. a month later and was fifth in the Belmont Oaks July 9. AOur filly=s pretty versatile,@ Riley Mott, assistant to his father, told the Keeneland notes team. AJunior [Alvarado] knows her very well. She has a win over the course, so we=ll just play it from the break and see how it unfolds. She=s really matured and she=s training extremely well. We=re not afraid to take those other two on; we=re here to win.@ The biggest threat to the top two, however, may come in the form of a rival they have yet to face in Stuart Janney homebred On Leave (War Front). A half- sister to MGSW and recent GI Shadwell Turf Mile runner- up Ironicus (Distorted Humor), the Shug McGaughey trainee is four- for-four this season, opening her sophomore account by On Leave | Christie DeBernardis donning cap and gown over the Belmont lawn June 9. Capturing an optional claimer in Elmont July 17, the gray scored a decisive victory in Saratoga=s Riskaverse S. Aug. 25 and went gate-to-wire in Belmont=s nine- panel GII Sands Point S. last time Sept. 17. AShe just keeps getting better,@ said Reeve McGaughey, assistant to his Hall of Fame father. AShe has won four straight and won in four different ways, but this is her toughest test yet.@ TDN HEADLINE NEWS • PAGE 4 OF 7 • THETDN.COM SATURDAY • OCTOBER 15, 2016 Saturday, Keeneland, post time: 5:30 p.m. EDT Theory Returns in Futurity cont. from p1 QUEEN ELIZABETH II CHALLENGE CUP S. PRESENTED BY LANE'S END-GI, Forced to miss the GI Hopeful S. and GI Champagne S. while $500,000, 3yo, f, 1 1/8mT recovering from that issue, the bay returns in this spot off a PP HORSE SIRE JOCKEY TRAINER ML bullet five furlongs in 1:00 2/5 over the training track Oct. 10. K 1 Catch a Glimpse City Zip Geroux Casse 2-1 "I thought he worked great," said Pletcher. "As soon as I 2 On Leave War Front Ortiz McGaughey III 5-1 watched him work, I entered him. I feel good [about the race]. 3 Stays in Vegas K City Zip Prat Hollendorfer 12-1 He's had four good breezes since he got here. We're fortunate 4 Harmonize K Scat Daddy Alvarado Mott 8-1 5 Hawksmoor (Ire) Azamour (Ire) Lanerie Palmer 6-1 that we got to work around the weather a little bit. Everything 6 Try Your Luck K Lookin At Lucky Leparoux Maker 15-1 has gone according to plan." 7 Time and Motion Tapit Velazquez Toner 5-2 William and Corinne 8 Queen Caroline K Blame Cintron Matz 20-1 Heiligbrodt=s Reckling further 9 Mokat K Uncle Mo Desormeaux Baltas 12-1 flattered Theory with a front- Owners: 1-Gary Barber, Michael James Ambler and Windways Farm (Jeff running score against a solid Begg), 2-Stuart S. Janney, III, 3-Jungle Racing LLC, KMN Racing LLC and LNJ field of juveniles on Travers Foxwoods, 4-Larkin Armstrong, 5-Lael Stables (Roy Jackson), 6-Out Of This day Aug. 27. The form of that World Racing, LLC (Stephanie Carroll), 7-Phillips Racing Partnership (John race was also franked when Phillips), 8-Amy N. Moore, 9-J K Racing Stable (John Manni). Reckling | Christie DeBernardis Breeders: runner-up Mo Town (Uncle 1-Branch Equine, LLC, 2-Stuart S. Janney, III LLC, 3-John McCormack, 4-Jack Mo) graduated with a ATDN Rising Star@-worthy effort at Swain III, 5-Tenuta Genzianella, 6-Fred W. Hertrich lll & John D. Fielding, 7-Phillips Racing Partnership, 8-Morgan's Ford Farm, 9-Dr. Charles S. Giles Belmont Sept. 24. Trainer Jeremiah Englehart saddles another interesting contender in debut winner Moves Like Ali (Maclean=s Music), who went wire to wire to capture a six- furlong test at the Spa on closing weekend Sept. 4. TDN HEADLINE NEWS • PAGE 5 OF 7 • THETDN.COM SATURDAY • OCTOBER 15, 2016 Saturday, Belmont Park, post time: 2:01 p.m.