MONDAY, AUGUST 27, 2012 732-747-8060 $ TDN Home Page Click Here DULLAHAN SHIPS IN FOR PACIFIC SCORE LOVE AND A LITTLE BIT OF LUCK Heading into yesterday=s GI Pacific Classic at Del Overlooked at odds of 10-1 in a field loaded with Mar, Donegal Racing=s Dullahan (Even the Score) hadn=t quality, Love and Pride (A.P. Indy) took advantage of a visited the winner=s circle since a solid score in the messy start by Grade I winner It=s Tricky (Mineshaft) Apr. 14 GI Blue Grass and repelled the late run of reigning champion 3-year- S. at Keeneland. Facing old filly Royal Delta (Empire Maker) to punch her ticket off in a competitive to Santa Anita when taking Sunday=s Breeders= Cup affair which included AWin and You=re In@ designated GI Personal Ensign S. at West Coast stand outs Saratoga. The tone for the race was set as soon as the Game On Dude gate flew open as favored It=s Tricky went to her knees, (Awesome Again), Rail spotting the field several lengths. Meanwhile, Love and Trip (Jump Start) and Pride--with blinkers off--enjoyed a better break and Richard=s Kid (Lemon settled in second behind Brushed by a Star (Eddington), Drop Kid), the striking who set an opening half in :47 3/5. Keeping that rival in Dullahan chestnut needed to her sights down the backstretch, the Green Hills Farm Benoit Photo produce his best effort runner inherited the lead as the pacesetter began to wilt and he did just that following three quarters in 1:11 1/5. Turning for home, with a record-setting performance, earning an Love and Pride drifted out enough to allow It=s Tricky, automatic berth in to the GI Breeders= Cup Classic at who was hustled into position after her troubled start, Santa Anita Nov. 3. AHow about that,@ said Tammy slip through along the inside as Royal Delta--with Mike Fox, assistant to trainer Dale Romans. AOh my God; he Smith at the helm--took the overland route. For a brief ran great. I=m so glad we can come to California and moment, it appeared the champion would not have the take the west coast money. They always take our necessary kick to challenge the new leader but, while money, now we=re taking theirs.@ Off at odds of 5-1, he she found extra to reel in Lone and Pride nearing the was well-rated under Joel Rosario as rank outsider wire, she didn=t have enough to seal the deal and had Riveting Reason (Fusaichi Pegasus) made the early to play the bridesmaid. Despite trying her best along running. Game On Dude, the expected pacesetter, was the inner, It=s Tricky=s early exertions appeared to have unhurried in third, and while he put his head in front as taken their toll in the stretch and the Godolphin runner they moved into the far turn, had to settle for third. Cont. p4 it was Dullahan who caught the eye as he began mowing down rivals with a five-wide move. Once into the stretch, Dullahan cut into Game On Dude's lead with every stride and was along in plenty of time to get up and win by a length. Richard's Kid (Lemon Drop Kid) finished third and Rail Trip (Jump Start) completed the super. A[Dullahan=s connections] didn=t give me any special instructions, said Rosario. Dullahan, Joel Rosario & @ Just said the obvious: he s a owner Jerry Crawford A = Benoit Photo closer, save ground if you can, then make a late run. It worked out perfect. He=s a one-paced horse. He just goes and goes. When we went for home and I saw [Game On Dude] in front of me, I knew I had a big chance. My horse was coming and coming. He doesn=t stop. He=s a nice horse; a very nice horse.@ Cont. p3 In This Issue Capital Account Tops 60 Broad St., Suite 100 Red Bank, NJ 07701 GII Pat O’Brien S. 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The bay finished B-Phil & Judy Needham & Bena Halecky (KY); fourth in last year=s renewal of the 1 T-Dale L Romans; J-Joel Rosario. $600,000. Lifetime 1/4-mile race. AThat was him Record: 12-3-2-3, $1,702,091. *1/2 to Mine That making that move on the Bird (Birdstone), Ch. 2yo-Can, GISW, $1,924,256. backstretch. I didn=t send him,@ Werk Nick Rating: A+++ *Triple Plus*. explained Chantal Sutherland, Click for the eNicks report & 5-cross pedigree. aboard the runner up. AHe just got A top heart score candidate at yrlg auction for EQB client Donegal Stable strong at the five [furlong pole]. He KY-BRED QUALITY wanted to go. When he put his KTA / KTOB head in front of David [Flores on 2--Game On Dude, 124, g, 5, Awesome Again- - longshot Riveting Reason], he was Worldly Pleasure, by Devil His Due. ($210,000 RNA fine. Then around the sixteenth yrl '08 KEESEP). O-Diamond Pride LLC, Lanni Family pole, as I was switching my stick to Trust, Mercedes Stable LLC & B Schiappa; the left hand, I pushed my rein B-Adena Springs (KY); T-Bob Baffert. $200,000. Dullahan loose. It was dangling at the end; it Hidden Brook consigned for Adena Springs Horsephotos looked awful sloppy. I haven=t done something like that in 13 years. But 3--Richard's Kid, 124, h, 7, Lemon Drop Kid- - Tough I don=t think it affected anything. He was still doing Broad, by Broad Brush. O-D Kenney, Triple B Farms what he could do. Just unfortunate.@ Dullahan launched (Boghossian), Westside Rentalscom & Et Al; his juvenile campaign with little fanfare sprinting at B-Fitzhugh LLC (MD); T-Leandro Mora. $120,000. Churchill Downs last summer, but was only a nose removed from getting off the duck going past a mile at Saratoga in August. Third in the grassy with GII With Margins: HF, 2 3/4, 1 1/4. Odds: 5.30, 1.30, 4.80. Anticipation S. in September, he came back to score in Also Ran: Rail Trip, Suggestive Boy (Arg), Amani (Chi), the GI Breeders= Futurity over Keeneland=s Polytrack Jaycito, Where's Sterling, Akkadian, Riveting Reason. Oct. 8. Sent off at 17-1 for the GI Breeders= Cup Click for the brisnet.com chart, the brisnet.com PPs o r Juvenile, the half to GI Kentucky Derby hero Mine That the free brisnet.com catalogue-style pedigree. Video, Bird (Birdstone) closed well to be fourth. Second in his sponsored by Taylor Made Sales.