SATURDAY, OCTOBER 21, 2017 BULLARDS ALLEY, RACING'S CHOICE ON BREAKTHROUGH RESEARCH: ACTION OR WORDS? BUCCHERO GIVE GLYSHAW News Analysis, by T.D. Thornton A Lexington, Kentucky-based veterinarian has assembled a BC BREAKTHROUGH scientific team that has proven in principle it can radically alter racing's drug-testing landscape while simultaneously providing a reasonably priced diagnostic tool to vastly improve overall horse health. The time frame in which the team has accomplished this work has been remarkably short, the methods by which they have secured funding to date have been ingenious, and the long-term implications for this research extend far beyond the horse world and into the realm of human medicine. Cont. p4 (Click here) IN TDN EUROPE TODAY CRACKSMAN THE PRODIGAL SON? Cracksman will attempt to become Frankel’s first European Group 1 winner by emulating his sire with victory in the G1 Qipco Champion S. on Saturday. Tim Glyshaw | Coady Click or tap here to go straight to TDN Europe. by Michael Adolphson Trainer Tim Glyshaw has had a bittersweet 2017, but the sweet is absolutely saccharine right now and the 48-year-old proud Indiana University alum is heading to the Breeders= Cup with his first two starters. While GI Breeders= Cup Turf Sprint-bound Bucchero (Kantharos) was already slated to head to Del Mar for the World Championships, it was not until the morning of Oct. 19 that a definitive decision had been made on barn star and Woodbine romper Bullards Alley (Flower Alley). Each horse exits a big victory against their respective divisions within eight days of one another. Ironhorse Racing Stable=s Indiana-bred Bucchero was a 26-1 handy 1 3/4-length winner of the GII Woodford S. Oct. 7 at Keeneland, while Bullards Alley gave Glyshaw his biggest career victory Oct. 15, taking the GI Pattison Canadian International by 10 3/4 lengths at 42-1 for owners Wayne Spalding and Faron McCubbins. 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AYou may never get an opportunity like this again and I=m not completely certain he can=t run that same race back. I know the numbers guys may disagree, but this horse runs hard every time and if he runs anywhere close to that, he will be competitive. If his best effort puts him third, fifth or seventh, I=ll be happy, as long as it=s his best. AI know the history on him says he=s best on softer turf courses, but I believe he could have won if he was not impeded badly in the (GIII) American St. Leger (at Arlington) on firm ground,@ he continued. AHe just needs a softer pace earlier, so he can be within range. On firm turf, sometimes they run off and he is too far behind, which isn=t the way he naturally runs. He=s had plenty of excuses and some bad luck, but that=s turf racing. It all worked out at Woodbine and he ran big. Eurico (Rosa Da Silva) rode a beautiful race and kept him to task, as he can get to waiting on horses, which is why he won by as far as he did. He came out great and he=s definitely a better horse this year than last year.@ Bullards Alley, an $11,000 bargain from the 2014 Eugene Melnyk dispersal at Fasig-Tipton, is back at Churchill Downs. Bucchero, on the other hand, is with Glyshaw=s Indiana Grand string and worked four furlongs in :52.80 Friday. AIt=ll be a nice slow work by design for him,@ Glyshaw said. AWe know he=s fast, so he doesn=t have to show it in the morning. He really likes it up in Indiana and that=s where his exercise rider is, so I don=t want to change anything with him. AHe would have been a turf sprinter his whole career if he didn=t have the AIN@ next to his name,@ Glyshaw continued. AHe has taken advantage of the Indiana-bred program and done really well. He=s won four stakes on the dirt against them, but he is a better horse on the grass and showed that. I know there are better horses in the country, but if you=re looking at Del Mar and the way he can sit behind the speed and make a big run, I=ll take my chances with my horse. He has never had a physical issue in his life and beat some very good horses.@ A pair of big chances in the Breeders= Cup is a welcome panacea for the former school teacher and assistant to Bob Holthus and Cole Norman. He and wife/assistant Natalie, daughter of legendary Louisiana jockey Ron Ardoin (5,226 wins), weathered a tough winter at the Fair Grounds [due to the equine herpesvirus outbreak] in which they only won three races from 77 tries, but finished second 12 times. A trip back west could also heal the woulds of 2013, when an in-form Taptowne (Tapit) was a vet scratch with a bruised hoof the morning of the 2013 Breeders= Cup Dirt Mile. AThis definitely makes up for the winter we had and the tough year so far,@ he said. TDN HEADLINE NEWS • PAGE 4 OF 10 • THETDN.COM SATURDAY • OCTOBER 21, 2017 AWe just got unlucky over and over and this definitely helps. tool. It=ll be nice to get back there, especially after Taptowne. We Nash proved to be highly quotable, with no shortage of were really excited and don=t get me wrong--I am glad the opinions on the subject of doping, and he had and both veterinarian was doing their job--it just was heartbreaking when racetrack- and science-related credibility to back up his strongly a horse is doing that well and can=t run in such a big race. worded assertions. AIt=s great to have these two barn favorites going to the Nash, now 61, grew up at Belmont Park, where his father, Breeders= Cup,@ Glyshaw concluded. AThey both deserve the Joseph, trained horses for 45 years. His family's roots in both the chance and have always had the talent and they=re both honest Thoroughbred and Standardbred industries go back several horses for great owners who love the game. Things have turned generations, including a great-grandfather who bred the first around and it=s really a great feeling.@ winner of harness racing's Hambletonian S. In addition to his decades of private-practice experience with Thoroughbreds on major racing circuits, Nash has worked as a consultant or advisor to a number of global pharmaceutical firms, and in the 2000s he RACING'S CHOICE ON BREAKTHROUGH RESEARCH cont. served as executive director of the industry-funded Equine Drug Research Institute. What really stuck with me about our nearly two-hour EBP conversation that day was Nash's enthusiasm and passion for a counter plan he was trying to orchestrate in which testing for illicit drugs was just a small part of a grand vision he had for a tool that could also quickly and accurately screen for diseases and pinpoint infectious outbreaks before they raged into epidemics. This was during the time when cobalt abuse was first being documented on a widespread basis, and regulators worldwide were scrambling for some sort of passport-like device to curtail it.