NORTH LIGHT OUT OF KING GEORGE HEADLINE ...p5 NEWS For information about TDN, DELIVERED EACH NIGHT call 732-747-8060. BY FAX AND INTERNET www.thoroughbreddailynews.com MONDAY, JULY 13, 2004 IN THE GROOVE NEWFOUNDLAND TO BROOKDALE Air Groove (Jpn) (Tony Bin {Ire}) is back in the head- MGSW Newfoundland (Storm Cat--Clear Mandate, by lines. First, her four-year-old daughter Admire Groove Deputy Minister), who was beaten just a neck by Peace (Jpn) (Sunday Silence) cap- Rules in the July 3 GI Suburban H. tured Sunday’s G3-JRA Mer- last time out, will stand the 2005 maid S., then her foal by breeding season at Brookdale Farm Dance in the Dark (Jpn) set a in Versailles, Kentucky. The world record when he topped Sumaya U.S. Stable four-year-old, Monday’s opening session of whose first three dams are all the JRHA Select Sale at Grade I winners, is a son of Clear Northern Horse Park in Mandate, who captured three Admire Groove (# 7) JRA Photo Hokkaido. Consigned by Grade Is and earned more than $1 Newfoundland Equi-Photo Northern Farm, the bay colt million. The mare is also the dam brought a final bid of ¥490,000,000 ($4,537,037) from of three-year-old The Mighty Tiger (Storm Cat), a $2.5 Fusaro Sekiguchi. The previous world mark was set by million KEESEP yearling who has twice been group Padua’s Pride (Ire) (Caerleon), placed in England, and $3.2 million KEESEP yearling who brought $4.425 million at and stakes winner Full Mandate (A.P. Indy). A $3.3 the 1997 Tattersalls December million KEESEP yearling, Newfoundland has won seven sale. It is not the first time Ja- of his 18 career starts, including the GIII Canadian Turf pan’s 1997 Horse of the Year H. and GIII Skip Away H. He was also second in the GII Air Groove has made history at Gulfstream Park H. and third in the GII Brooklyn H. and the Select Sale. Admire Groove has earned $459,705 to date. The chestnut will race set the benchmark for a filly through the end of 2004. Trained by Todd Pletcher, he when she realized Air Groove & her record foal is being pointed for GI Whitney H. at Saratoga Aug. 7. ¥230,000,000 as a foal in “This horse has it all--a world-class pedigree and a 2000. Her little brother, widely regarded as the star of yearling price that speaks for his conformation and he is the 2004 catalogue, was the subject of a 10-minute quickly becoming one of North America’s top older bidding war between Sekiguchi and Admire Groove’s runners. We’re delighted to have him at Brookdale and owner Riichi Kondo. Sekiguchi admitted he was bidding appreciate the faith and trust of our good friend [owner] with his heart, not his head. “You cannot be realistic Oussama Aboughazaleh,” said Brookdale’s Fred Seitz. when you try to buy a horse with such class,” he said. “I had the same feeling about this colt as when I saw Fusaichi Pegasus at Keeneland. I sat in the sales pavil- JRHA SELECT FOALS ion with a limitless budget.” Sekiguchi went to $4 MONDAY, JULY 12, 2004 million for Kentucky Derby hero Fusaichi Pegasus at the 1998 Keeneland July sale. Katsumi Yoshida of Northern SESSION TOTALS 2004 2003 Farm was thrilled by yesterday’s final price. “This is just No. Offered 159 149 amazing,” he said. “This colt has been a great individual No. Sold 122 109 since the day he was born and I expected a good sale, RNAs 37 40 but this price is more than double what I expected.” % RNA 23.2% 26.8% Dance in the Dark, an 11-year-old son of Sunday Si- Gross (¥) 4,018,500,000 3,792,000,000 lence who was champion first-crop sire in Japan in Average (¥) (% change) 32,938,525 (-5.3%) 34,788,991 2000, accounted for three of the top six sellers yester- Median (% change) 24,240,000 (+10%) 22,000,000 day. (JRHA Toppers, p2) http://www.jrha.or.jp/eng To submit your ask listings, please contact one of our members TODAY! Click here for the Equine Commerce member roster. (859) 422-4222 TDN P HEADLINE NEWS • 7/13/04 • PAGE 2 of 5 JRHA Sale cont. P EDIGREE INSIGHTS A Pleasant Surprise... With wet weather dampening the festivities and the BY ANDREW CAULFIELD absence of Sunday Silence weakening the catalogue, JRHA officials had been only cautiously optimistic UAE EQUESTRIAN & RACING FEDERATION FALMOUTH about the 2004 Select Sale, but they were very pleased S.-G1, £200,000, Newmarket, 7-6, 3yo/up, f/m, 1mT, with the Day 1 results. “I am more than happy,” said 1:36.11, gd. Vice Chairman Teruya Yoshida. “I had an optimistic 1--SOVIET SONG (IRE), 127, f, 4, by Marju (Ire) outlook, but this is better than I expected. It is a great 1st Dam: Kalinka (Ire), by Soviet Star pleasure to see that stallions such as Dance in the Dark, 2nd Dam: Tralthee, by Tromos (GB) Jungle Pocket...and Kurofune are so popular.” The final 3rd Dam: Swalthee (Fr), by Sword Dancer session of the sale will be held today at 11 a.m. O/B-Elite Racing Club; T-James Fanshawe; J-Johnny Murtagh; £116,000. Lifetime Record: GSW-Ire, MONDAY - TOP TEN LOTS 12-5-3-1, £474,049. Hip Sex Sire Dam Price (¥) Click for Racing Post chart or brisnet.com catalogue- 68 c Dance in the Dark (Jpn) Air Groove (Jpn) 490,000,000 style pedigree. Consigned by Northern Farm Purchased by Fusaro Sekiguchi 103 c Dance in the Dark (Jpn) Star Ballerina (Jpn) 171,000,000 Inevitably, the G1 Falmouth S. is destined to be re- Consigned by Shadai Farm membered more as the race where Attraction lost her Purchased by Takaya Shimakawa unbeaten record after a thrilling sequence of eight victo- 105 c Agnes Tachyon (Jpn) Fair Deal 103,000,000 ries than for the superb effort by the winner Soviet Consigned by Northern Farm Song, whose trainer, James Fanshawe, was compared Purchased by Miduki Noda by one wit to the man who shot Bambi's mother. 18 c Jungle Pocket (Jpn) Admire Sunday (Jpn) 100,000,000 Soviet Song's triumph was only her second in her last Consigned by Northern Farm nine starts. Even so, she now looks poised to achieve Purchased by Fusaro Sekiguchi the champion status promised by her unbeaten juvenile 127 c Kurofune Really Happy 100,000,000 Consigned by Northern Farm campaign, which ended with a victory over future Oaks Purchased by Riichi Kondo winner Casual Look in the Meon Valley Stud Fillies' 115 c Dance in the Dark (Jpn) Bubble Dream (Jpn) 81,000,000 Mile. Four of her last nine starts were against colts and Consigned by Paca Paca Farm Soviet Song had underlined her return to form by run- Purchased by Soda Noen Co Ltd ning the 2000 Guineas winner Refuse to Bend to a neck 94 c Gone West Donna Viola (GB) 80,000,000 in the Queen Anne S. three weeks before the Falmouth. Consigned by Shadai Farm Soviet Song qualifies as one of the finest achieve- Purchased by Danox Co Ltd ments by her sire Marju, a 16-year-old son of Last 58 c Black Hawk Dancing Sunday (Jpn) 72,000,000 Tycoon based at Sheikh Hamdan's Derrinstown Stud in Consigned by Shadai Farm Ireland. Thanks to this year's Group 2 victories by Purchased by Fusaro Sekiguchi 113 c Fusaichi Pegasus Primaly 62,000,000 Brunel (German 2000 Guineas) and Marbye (Premio Consigned by Oiwake Farm Emilio Turati), Marju now has 10 winners at Group 1 or Purchased by Makoto Kaneko Group 2 levels. Interestingly, all three of his European 96 c French Deputy Katies First 56,000,000 Group 1 winners are fillies--the others being My Emma Consigned by Northern Farm (Yorkshire Oaks and Prix Vermeille) and Sil Sila (Prix de Purchased by RRA Co Ltd Diane)--and so are four of his seven Group 2 scorers. TDN P HEADLINE NEWS • 7/13/04 • PAGE 3 of 5 Pedigree Insights cont. He was a thoroughly admirable racehorse, but suc- The three male exceptions are the German Group 2 cess came too slowly as a stallion and he was sold to winners Stormont and Brunel and the Hong Kong star Japan in 1994, when his eldest progeny were four. The Indigenous, runner-up in the 1999 Japan Cup. next few years saw him represented by such top-class Although the males outnumber the fillies eight to colts as Ashkalani, Starborough, Limpid and Freedom seven among Marju's 15 group winners, the fillies seem Cry and Soviet Star's services were again secured for to represent a better chance of a top-level winner. European breeders when he returned to stand at Perhaps this isn't so surprising, as Marju's dam, Flame Ballylinch Stud in 2000. His second Irish crop contains of Tara, was an extremely able racemare, as was the group-winning juvenile Democratic Deficit and he Marju's half-sister Salsabil, who took the 1000 Guineas and Oaks prior to defeating the colts in the Irish Derby. has been doing very well recently with his progeny born Incidentally, Flame of Tara's half-sister Welsh Love in New Zealand. One of his sons, Starcraft, landed the ranks as the second dam of last week's highly impres- Australian Derby in April. sive debutant Belenus (by Dubai Millennium).