HASSINGER JOINS TEAM GODOLPHIN HEADLINE p. 2 NEWS For information about TDN, DELIVERED EACH NIGHT call 732-747-8060. BY FAX AND INTERNET www.thoroughbreddailynews.com WEDNESDAY, FEB. 5, 2003 RECORD SEVEN-FIGURE COLT TOPS OBS OBS SELECTED TWO-YEAR-OLDS The Ocala Breeders’ Sales Company really did save TOP NINE LOTS the best for last at yesterday’s Selected Two-Year-Olds Hip# Sex Sire Dam Price in Training Sale at Calder Race Course in Miami, Florida, 201 colt Montbrook Cut Class Leanne $1,200,000 when hip number 201, the final lot through the sale’s B-Ocala Stud Farm (Fl) ring, brought a record final bid of $1.2 million from Irish Consigned by Ocala Stud Farms bloodstock agent Demi O’Byrne. The sale-topping colt Purchased by Demi O’Byrne is by the Ocala Stud Farms stallion Montbrook and out 173 filly Polish Numbers Biogio’s Girl $450,000 of the Cutlass mare Cut B-Richard Saxton (NY) Class Leanne. During the Consigned by Wavertree Stables, Inc., Agent II sale’s Jan. 27 under tack Purchased by Eugene Melnyk preview, the two-year-old 026 colt Doneraile Court Future Guest $400,000 worked a half mile in :22.0. ($60,000 yrl ‘02 FTKJUL) The seven-figure price tag B-Douglas Arnold & Dr Roy Sadovsky (Ky) bested the previous OBS- Consigned by Murray Smith, agent Calder record of $1.05 mil- Purchased by John Ferguson lion set in 2001. A daughter 108 colt Silver Charm Secret Harbor $360,000 of Polish Numbers brought ($75,000 yrl ‘02 KEESEP) $450,000, the highest price B-Mr & Mrs Robert Lewis (Ky) for a filly at yesterday’s sale. Hip 201 Horsephotos Consigned by Hartley/DeRenzo Thoroughbreds, agent The bay was consigned by Purchased by Mike Gill Ciaran Dunne’s Wavertree Stables, Inc., agent, and 179 filly Montbrook Bold Burst $300,000 Eugene Melnyk made the winning bid. She is out of B-Wiest - Heathers 01 (Fl) Biogio’s Girl (Exclusive Era), a half sister to multiple Consigned by Ocala Stud Farms, agent graded stakes winner Biogio’s Rose (Polish Numbers). Purchased by Equine Analysis Selling as hip number 173, the juvenile worked one 092 filly Tale of the Cat Princess Harriet $260,000 furlong in :10.1 at the sale’s Jan. 27 under tack show. ($32,000 yrl ‘02 FTNAUG) A son from the first crop of graded stakes winner B-Hugo Reynolds (NY) Doneraile Court (Seattle Slew) led the sale in the early Consigned by Sequel Bloodstock, agent going with a price tag of $400,000. Sold as hip 26, the Purchased by John Oxley dark bay was consigned by Murray Smith, agent, and 053 colt Northern Afleet Kathcarn $250,000 was purchased by John Ferguson. The two-year-old is B-Janet Brickle (Fl) out of Future Guest (Copelan), a half sister to multiple ($90,000 yrl ‘02 OBSAUG) graded stakes winner Whata Brainstorm (Honor Grades). Consigned by Hoby & Layna Kight, agent Purchased by Mike Gill OBS 2YOS in TRAINING SALE 107 filly Saint Ballado Scottische $250,000 TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 2003 B-Double D Racing Stable, Inc. (Ky) SESSION TOTALS 2003 2002 Consigned by Sez Who Thoroughbreds No. Offered 166 175 Purchased by Mike Gill No. Sold 117 114 141 filly Allen’s Prospect Tern $220,000 RNAs 49 (30%) 61 (35%) ($20,000 wnlg ‘01 KEENOV; $45,000 yrl ‘02 FTMSEP) Gross $12,733,000 $13,041,000 B-Welcome Here Farm (Pa) Average (% change) $108,829 (-5%) $114,395 Consigned by Nick de Meric, Agent IV Median $75,000 (-17%) $90,000 Purchased by E P Robsham Atlantic Ocean Continues to Make Waves on the Pacific Coast! TAYLOR Taylor Made Sales graduate ATLANTIC OCEAN MADE wins her third straight stakes January 25 in the $250,000 John Deere Sunshine Millions Oaks. Phone (859) 885-3345 Isn’t it time you came to Taylor Made? www.taylormadefarm.com TDN P HEADLINE NEWS • 2/5/03 • PAGE 2 of 6 P N E W S T O D A Y P WEEKEND PEDIGREE PERSPECTIVES HASSINGER ACCEPTS GODOLPHIN ROLE Alex by Alan Porter Hassinger, who trained champions Eliza and Anees, has accepted a position as assistant trainer to Godolphin’s BROWN BESS H.-GIII, $100,000, GGX, 2-1, 4yo/up, California conditioner Eoin Harty. For the past two f/m, 1 1/16mT, 1:44 1/5, yl. years, Hassinger has been assistant trainer to Laura de 1--@LINDSAY JEAN, 116, m, 5, by Saint Ballado 1st Dam: Colony Bay, by Pleasant Colony Seroux. “Eoin Harty approached me a couple of months 2nd Dam: Oceana, by Northern Dancer ago about becoming an assistant under him in Califor- 3rd Dam: South Ocean, by New Providence nia,” Hassinger confirmed yesterday. “The idea grabbed ($120,000 yrl '99 KEESEP; $250,000 2yo ‘00 my interest and he made an offer that was difficult to FTFFEB). O-Mr & Mrs Jerome S Moss; B-Robert turn down--and I didn’t turn it down.” Hassinger ex- Lothenbach (FL); T-Art Sherman; J-C P Schvaneveldt; pects to spend two to three months in Dubai during the $55,000. Lifetime Record: 22-5-8-3, $261,034. winter. “In our business, to be involved with Godolphin Click for the free brisnet.com catalogue-style pedigree. is the opportunity of a lifetime,” he said. “It’s probably There is a natural assumption that the better a stal- the largest stable in the world. With the horses they lion’s books of mares, the better will be his runners. breed, race and buy, in this sport, everyone looks to This is not always the case, however, and it would be them.” difficult to find a stronger illustration of the point than Saint Ballado. A brother to champion two-year-old Devil’s Bag and S O P H O M O R E S C E N E P P champion older mare Glorious Song, Saint Ballado, was a good second-flight performer at three, winning four of Santa Anita Works eight starts, including the GII Arlington Classic (by 4 GI Futurity S. winner Whywhywhy (Mr. Greeley) 1/2 lengths) and GIII Sheridan S. (by seven lengths). worked seven furlongs at Santa Anita Monday in With Devil’s Bag, eight years his senior, having shown 1:25.80. It was the fastest of three works at the dis- himself to be no more than a useful sire, there was not tance. Whywhywhy is expected to make his sophomore exactly a clamor among the farms of the Blue Grass to debut in the GI Fountain of Youth S. Feb. 15. secure the services of Saint Ballado at stud, and he A star of last year’s Sophomore Scene, GI Belmont S. retired to Mike O’Farrell’s Ocala Stud Farm in Florida. winner Sarava (Wild Again), coming back from a frac- Saint Ballado began his stud career at a fee of $2,500 (raised to $3,500 for his second season on- tured cannon bone suffered last summer, worked five wards) and that he was not generally regarded as des- furlongs at Santa Anita Monday in 1:01.60 for new tined for stardom is clear from the average of $13,400 trainer Bob Baffert. It was the four-year-old’s fourth which his first-crop yearlings realized at the sales. How- work of the year. ever, that crop of 31 foals contained three stakes win- ners, headed by Saint Ballado’s first star Captain CURRENCY CONVERSIONS Bodgit. A winner of five of six starts at two, including Unit/US$ Unit/GB£ the Bimelech S., Dover S. and GIII Laurel Futurity, Cap- British pound 1.64901 1.00 tain Bodgit was even better at three, when he added the GII Wood Memorial S. and GI Florida Derby, and Euro 1.08855 0.660120 went down by just a head to Silver Charm in the GI U.S. dollar 1.00 0.606424 Kentucky Derby. Cont. p. 5 His yearlings averaged over 5 times their stud fee in September. His 2-year-old colt brought 14 times his stud fee yesterday. You’re hearing great things about his 2-year-olds. We keep telling you... you’ll wish your mare were in foal to him a year from now. Sire of $360,000 juvenile colt SILVER CHARM www.threechimneys.com (859) 873-7053 $25,000 live foal TDN P HEADLINE NEWS • 2/5/03 • PAGE 3 of 6 Keeneland (which, I assume, will not particularly please FROM THE DESK OF... Keeneland. And, by the way, there is no chance of Keeneland being able to start September earlier, be- Bill Oppenheim cause the first Monday in September is Labor Day, and for many reasons it’s not even the remotest possibility). WAR BREAKS OUT This puts massive pressure on people who would like to One thing about war, once it breaks out, it's always be active at both sales, and will certainly cost consign- the other guy’s fault. I'm not talking about the impend- ors money, because bidders who would otherwise be ing invasion of Iraq or World War 3; these things are no there will not be. Furthermore, it’s unnecessary. If joke, and if I were a political columnist instead of a Fairyhouse stayed in the week of the 16th, and Goffs horse industry analyst, you can bet I'd have plenty to was the following week, all the international buyers say on that subject. But, no, what I'm talking about is could easily cover both, and the three major British/Irish the war of words between the two biggest European sales would be in consecutive weeks, as they have sales companies, Tattersalls and Goffs, which is threat- been (but in a different order) up until now.