WEDNESDAY, JULY 8, 2015 732-747-8060 $ TDN Home Page Click Here BC BOARD ELECTION RESULTS ANNOUNCED The Breeders= Cup has announced election results for its Board of Directors. Antony Beck, Bobby Flay, and Bret Jones were re-elected and will each serve a four-year term. Fred Hertrich was elected to the board FASIG SIRES and will serve a one-year term. The board was selected Having covered the new sires with their in voting by the 45 Breeders= Cup Members. first yearlings selling at Fasig July Following the election, the Board of 14 Directors is as extensively, it is appropriate for us to follows: Barbara Banke; Stonestreet Stables; Antony acknowledge that there are other sires Beck, Gainesway Farm; William S. Farish, Jr., represented--quite a few of them, and quite (Chairman), Lane=s End Farm; Bobby Flay, Chef and important Restaurateur; Craig Fravel, President & CEO of the ones, too. There=s one Breeders= Cup; Roy Jackson, Lael Stables; Bret Jones, Tapit filly catalogued Airdrie Stud; Tom Ludt, Owner/Breeder; Clem Murphy, from Gainesway, and one Coolmore Stud; Bill Oppenheim, Journalist and Pedigree War Front colt bred by Consultant; Dan Pride, Darley; J. David Richardson, Southern Equine and M.D., Chief of Surgery, University of Louisville; Elliott consigned by Bluewater; Walden, WinStar Farm and Fred Hertrich, Owner/Breeder. a couple of Kitten=s Joy colts, and a Distorted Humor; but this is a sale that is timed to Archarcharch is most-represented TATTERSALLS SALE KICKS OFF JULY WEEK accommodate precocity freshman at Fasig July | Spendthrift By Emma Berry and aspires to a $100,000 Newmarket=s >July Week= gets properly underway average; the really big guns in quantity arrive later. Wednesday with the start of Tattersalls= three-day July Of the 22 >F2014= (first foals 2014) sires with their Sale, which includes a mixture of mares in foal, first yearlings catalogued at Fasig, 13 have four or more broodmare prospects and horses in training. catalogued for tomorrow=s sale, of which six have four With 803 lots catalogued, the sale has risen in size or five catalogued, and seven have six or more in the from last year, which sale (see last week=s column). But there are also saw turnover of 20 sires with foals of racing age with four or more 8,342,700gns and catalogued, of which 10 have six or more in the an average price of yearling book. Cont. p9 16,685gns, though only around 600 of those in the book are set to come under the hammer after a significant number of pre-sale withdrawals. Those remaining, however, have Park Paddocks | Tattersalls drawn the ever-varied gathering of international shoppers to Newmarket, with plenty patrolling Park Paddocks on Tuesday in search of horses to go to Australia, Qatar and beyond. They included the Qatari champion trainer Jassim Al Ghazali, a now-familiar face at Tattersalls who signed for 21 horses at this sale 12 months ago. A visitor in his relatively new role as a trainer is Archie Alexander, the British-born handler who is based at Ballarat in Victoria. Timing his visit back home as the Australian season draws to a close, Alexander said, AIt=s great to be back for a while. I=m here for my sister=s wedding and I=m also hoping I can pick up a horse at the sale this week.@ Cont. p13 Classic-Placed 3YO By DYNAFORMER n Keeneland Graded winner on the main track: Won $100,000 Transylvania S. (G3), good runner-up in $750,000 Blue Grass S. (G1) just 8 days later. n Placed in $1,500,000 Belmont S. (G1) on dirt, beaten only a length by Tonalist while finishing ahead of KY Derby & Preakness champ California Chrome. n Debut MdSpWt winner on dirt at 2, drawing off by 6 1/4 lengths at a mile. n Recorded a 5 1/2 Ragozin in the Transylvania, and a 99 Beyer in the Belmont Stakes. n Performed in 6 G1s, including 4 prestigious G1s on dirt: Breeders’ Cup Juvenile (G1), Kentucky Derby (G1), Belmont S. (G1), & Haskell Inv. (G1). n Out of the Graded stakes-placed Unbridled’s Song mare, BRISQUETTE, and a half to Graded stakes-winning 2-year-old filly GARDEN DISTRICT. New for 2016 MEDAL COUNT Dynaformer – Brisquette, by Unbridled’s Song 2016 fee: $5,000 S&N SHARE THE UPSIDE FEE: $6,500 S&N Des Dempsey (859) 509-2106 Brian Lyle (859) 519-6477 Mark Toothaker (859) 421-0151 IN THIS ISSUE Future Hinges on ‘Big Data’ The Welfare and Safety of the Racehorse Summit will be held Wednesday at Keeneland. It will be the first time in the event’s history that it will be held in successive years. "Now that we President & Co-Publisher: Barry Weisbord have people in this [welfare-first] mindset they are used to it," [email protected] Jamie Haydon, the manager of industry initiatives for The @barryweisbord Jockey Club, said. "So we've gone to a yearly format to get that exchange of ideas out there." Keeneland Sales Pavilion | Sr. V.P. & Co-Publisher: Sue Finley Coady Photography [email protected] @suefinley Page 3 V.P., International Operations: Gary King [email protected] @garykingTDN RMTC Issues Mid-Year Report EDITORIAL [email protected] The Racing Medication and Testint Consortium issued a Editor-in-Chief: Jessica Martini mid-year progress report on its efforts towards uniform Managing Editor: Alan Carasso adoption of a national medication program Tuesday. Senior Editor: Steve Sherack Racing Editor: Brian DiDonato Associate Editor: Justina Severni Page 6 Associate Editor: Christie DeBernardis Assistant Editor: Heather Likins Motion Seeks Another Delaware Oaks Assistant Editor: Ben Massam ADVERTISING Trainer Graham Motion looks for a second consecutive [email protected] renewal of the GIII Delaware Oaks Saturday with Peace and War Director of Advertising: Alycia Borer (War Front). It will be the GI Darley Alcibiades S. winner’s Art Director: Lia Kusch second start for Motion. "This is a nice filly,” Motion said. “She Sr. Ad Coordinator/Dir. of Distribution: has won a Grade I, and if she can get back to the form she Sarah K. Andrew showed as a 2-year-old, she should be competitive." Advertising Designer: Amanda Crelin Advertising Assistant: Amanda Foster Motion & Velazquez | Social Media Strategist: Nichola Henry Horsephotos CUSTOMER SERVICE Page 7 [email protected] Golden Horn Given 130 Rating Dir. of Customer Service: Vicki Forbes INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY Anthony Oppenheimer’s Golden Horn (GB) (Cape Cross Director of IT: Robert Williams [email protected] {Ire}), the first horse to sweep the G2 Dante S., G1 Epsom Derby and G1 Coral-Eclipse S., has been given a rating of 130 Director of Internal IT: Ray Villa by British Horseracing Authority handicapper Phil Smith. His [email protected] new rating marks a rise of four points from the 126 he was WORLDWIDE INFORMATION assigned after the Derby. Golden Horn joins Frankel (GB) International Editor: Kelsey Riley (Galileo {Ire}) as the only British-trained 3-year-olds since 1996 Golden Horn | Racing Post to achieve a rating of 130. [email protected] Newmarket Bureau, Cafe Racing: Page 15 Sean Cronin & Tom Frary [email protected] Medal Count Retired 60 Broad Street, Suite 100 Red Bank, NJ 07701 Graded stakes winner Medal Count (Dynaformer), third in last year’s GI Belmont S., 732-747-8060 | 732-747-8955 (fax) has been retired from racing. The 4-year-old will take up stud duties next season as part of www.thoroughbreddailynews.com Spendthrift Farm’s Share the Upside Program. www.thetdn.com Page 1RR TDN P HEADLINE NEWS • 7/8/15 • PAGE 3 of 17 • thoroughbreddailynews.com FUTURE HINGES ON ‘BIG DATA’ By T.D. Thornton When the Welfare and Safety of the Racehorse Summit opens Wednesday at the Keeneland Association sales pavilion in Lexington, it will mark the first time that the summit will be held in consecutive years since the Grayson-Jockey Club Research Foundation and The Jockey Club began the event in 2006. Considering the expanded emphasis on equine safety within the racing industry over the past decade, the switch seems both appropriate and warranted. AWhen you turn, it=s like turning the Keeneland Sales Pavilion | Titanic, said Jamie Coady Photography @ Haydon, the manager of industry initiatives for The Jockey Club, using the Peterson, a mechanical engineer who will moderate a analogy of steering a large ship to underscore how panel of five track superintendents from the nation=s unwieldy it can be to get industry stakeholders to align top racing associations, called the acceptance of Abig and take action on significant issues. data@ and detailed electronic recordkeeping Athe hardest But, Haydon continued, once a change in direction sell in this sport@ because the concept of crunching has been initiated, that same large ship can generate an numbers doesn=t come across as scientifically enormous amount of forward momentum. glamorous. ANow that we have people in this [welfare-first] Peterson recalled how when he was asked to consult mindset they are used to it,@ Haydon said. ASo we=ve for the New York Racing Association in 2011 after a gone to a yearly format to get that exchange of ideas rash of catastrophic injuries, the first thing he did was out there.@ examine the daily track maintenance logs to see if he Presentations on racetrack surfaces, jockey safety, could pinpoint a problem with the track surface at continuing-education courses for trainers, the Equine Aqueduct. He found no deficiencies in protocol. Injury Database, and lessons learned from post-mortem AThey were doing everything right,@ Peterson said. veterinary examinations will be spotlighted on the ABut [the records] looked like 1960.