TUESDAY, OCTOBER 3, 2017 PEDIGREE INSIGHTS: OP/ED: HORSE RACING WINS! AND HERE=S HOW WE ALL DID IT BOLT D=ORO by Alex Waldrop To the uninitiated, the new Treasury regulations redefining Athe amount of a wager@ published last week in the Federal Register might seem an unlikely cause for celebration. But these regulations, now final and effective as of Friday, Sept. 28, cap a 10-year odyssey that began with the bipartisan support of key Members of Congress. Along the way, the effort morphed from a legislative matter to a regulatory issue that saw breeders, owners, horsemen, racetrack and advance deposit wagering (ADW) operators, and thousands of customers join our allies on Capitol Hill in support of efforts to update antiquated tax treatment of pari-mutuel winnings. Cont. p5 (click here) IN TDN EUROPE TODAY Bolt d=Oro winning the GI FrontRunner S. | Benoit Photo TATTS BOOK 1 OPENS WITH BALLYMACOLL by Andrew Caulfield The first day of the Tattersalls October Book 1 Yearling Sale features a daughter of Kingman (GB) from the Ballymacoll In an action-packed week on both sides of the Atlantic, there Stud dispersal. Emma Berry has the details. Click or tap here were notable performances from quite a few stallions. For to go straight to TDN Europe. example, War Front had Grade I/Group 1 winners at Santa Anita and Newmarket, where his sons provided the exacta in the historic Middle Park S. Then there was the ever-reliable Dubawi, with his Grade I/Group 1 double at Santa Anita and Longchamp. And Dark Angel also deserves a mention, following the G2 success of his daughter Juliet Capulet and the brilliant performance of his son Battaash in the G1 Prix de l=Abbaye de Longchamp. He also supplied the second in the GI Turf Classic. Even so, my nomination for stallion of the week must go to the great Sadler=s Wells, even though this legendary sire died six years ago. For a start, the brilliant Arc winner Enable is inbred 3 x 2 to this 14-time champion sire, whose male line was also in magnificent form both in Europe and the U.S. Needless to say, the charge was led by Galileo, with his G1 treble in the Cheveley Park S., Prix Jean-Luc Lagardere and Prix de l=Opera. He also had a G1 winner in Australia, thanks to Foundry in The Metropolitan. Galileo=s stallion sons were also in fine form, with Nathaniel siring the Listed winner Face The Facts in addition to Enable. Frankel, for his part, came up with a likely classic contender in the G3 winner Elarqam and he wasn=t far off scoring other Group victories with Nelson and Lady Frankel. Cont. p3 ELITE SIRES STAND ON BODEMEISTER DISTORTED HUMOR MORE THAN READY PIONEEROF THE NILE SPEIGHTSTOWN SUPER SAVER TIZNOW G1 WINNERS 76 COMBINED Dream Big. 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It is no coincidence that two of these--Elate and New Money Galileo has to share the limelight with El Prado, Honey--are daughters of Medaglia d=Oro, as are the another of Sadler=s Wells=s champion stallion Graded-placed 3-year-olds Gato del Oro and Lady Montdore. sons, as El Prado=s sons Kitten=s Joy and Medaglia Medaglia d=Oro=s 44 foals out of Distorted Humor mares also d=Oro both enjoyed Graded/Group race doubles. include the GII-winning fillies Funny Proposition and Mrs Kitten=s Joy advertised his potential in Europe by McDougal (the former on dirt, the latter on turf). That adds up siring the G2 winners Roaring Lion at Newmarket to 9% black-type winners, whereas the overall figure for and Taareef at Longchamp, but pride of place went to Medaglia Distorted Humor mares is 4%. d=Oro, with Elate following up her victory in the GI Alabama S. The motivation for supporting Medaglia d=Oro with Distorted with another wide-margin GI success in the Beldame S. Then Humor mares, and other grand-daughters of Forty Niner, was Medaglia d=Oro came up with another contender for divisional provided by none other than Rachel Alexandra. This member of honors when Bolt d=Oro impressively added the FrontRunner S. Medaglia d=Oro=s first crop, who earned Horse of the Year to his previous GI success in the Del Mar Futurity. honors, is out of a mare by Forty Niner=s son Roar (a product of Both of these GI dirt winners by Medaglia d=Oro represent the same Wild Applause family which produced the very popular crosses, with Elate=s dam being by Distorted Humor and well-related Elate). Bolt d=Oro=s by A.P. Indy. This strategy has now been tried via daughters of sires such as Distorted Humor, of course, is riding high at the top of this Coronado=s Quest, Distorted Humor, Roar and West Acre and it year=s broodmare sires= table, thanks in no small part to continues to strike gold. This cross has produced four first-rate Arrogate=s huge paychecks at Gulfstream Park and Meydan, but fillies, with Medaglia d=Oro=s first foal out of a West Acre mare this is certainly no one-horse success story. In addition to Elate, being Songbird. This nine-time GI winner and two-time Distorted Humor=s daughters have also enjoyed GI success with champion is to be offered at Fasig-Tipton in November, when Takaful in Saturday=s Vosburgh S., Practical Joke in the H. Allen she will give us a good idea of Elate=s value (though it is most unlikely that she will ever come on the market). Cont. p4 TDN HEADLINE NEWS • PAGE 4 OF 10 • THETDN.COM TUESDAY • OCTOBER 3, 2017 BOLT D=ORO, c, 3 popular cross was provided by Plum Pretty, winner of the Lifetime Record: MGISW, 3-3-0-0, $396,000. GI Kentucky Oaks in 2011 and the GI Apple Blossom H. in 2012 Northern Dancer Sadler’s Wells before being sold to Whisper Hill Farm for $4.2 million. The Fairy Bridge El Prado (Ire) Medaglia d=Oro-A.P. Indy partnership has a third GI winner to its Sir Ivor Lady Capulet = Medaglia Cap and Bells credit in this year s accomplished turf mare Dickinson. d’Oro Damascus In recounting Medaglia d=Oro=s story, I have mainly mentioned Bailjumper Court Circuit Cappucino Bay his daughters, simply because they account for 11 of his 17 Silent Screen Dubbed In northern hemisphere GI winners. It is worth adding though, that Society Singer Bold Reasoning the GI-winning sons include Violence, who ranked as Medaglia Seattle Slew My Charmer d=Oro=s only GI-winning two-year-old son in the U.S. until Bolt A.P. Indy Globe Trot Weekend Secretariat d=Oro=s emergence. There have been other G1-winning juvenile 17-3-2-3 Surprise Lassie Dear colts in France and Australia, where the Ashford shuttler 3 Fls, 1 MGISW, Lord At War General (Fr) 1 MSW, Vancouver won the Golden Slipper S. The future looks bright Trip (Arg) Luna de Miel 10 Fls for the stallion prospects of Bolt d=Oro and Vancouver, judging Tour Forty Niner 10 Fls Fun Flight by the eye-catching start being made by Violence. Bolt d=Oro is quite unusual in that he has no inbreeding within five generations. It can do no harm that his second dam is by In the circumstances, we shouldn=t be too surprised that Forty Lord At War, whose daughters produced numerous high-class Niner=s name also crops up in the pedigree of Bolt d=Oro, as the performers, including War Emblem, Raven=s Pass and Pioneerof sire of Tour, his stakes-winning third dam.