MONDAY, OCTOBER 28, 2019 BAFFERT RUNNERS QUALITY ROAD TO $200,000; GAME WINNER TO LANE=S END TUNE UP FOR CUP DATES Quality Road will join Tapit and Medaglia d=Oro as the second highest-priced stallions in the country with a 2020 stud fee of $200,000, Lane=s End Farm announced Sunday. That news was announced in tandem with that of a new stallion addition: the 2018 champion 2-year-old Game Winner (Candy Ride {Arg}-- Indyan Giving, by A.P. Indy) will join the farm=s roster, along with the previously announced Catalina Cruiser (Union Rags), upon his retirement. AWe are very excited to have the opportunity to stand Game Winner upon retirement in 2021,@ said Lane=s End=s Bill Farish. AChampion 2-year-olds are hard to come by and we are honored that Gary and Mary West have entrusted Lane=s End with his stallion career.@ Game Winner, who has earned over $2 million from four graded stakes wins, is by perennial leading sire and Lane=s End Eight Rings | Horsephotos stallion Candy Ride. Cont. p6 Trainer Bob Baffert sent out a trio of Breeders= Cup contenders IN TDN EUROPE TODAY to work at Santa Anita Sunday. Leading the way was ALSON DOMINATES CRITERIUM MATCH GI Breeders= Cup Juvenile contender Eight Rings (Empire Alson (Ger) (Areion {Ger}) dominated the G1 Criterium International Maker). Working in company with unraced 2-year-old Azul Coast after the field was scratch down to just two runners on Sunday. (Super Saver), the GI American Pharoah S. winner went four Click or tap here to go straight to TDN Europe. furlongs in :47.20 (2/62). AIt was a good work, I=m happy with him,@ trainer Bob Baffert, shooting for his fifth Juvenile victory, said. AHe worked with a maiden who hasn=t started. I wanted to give him a little target to run at.@ Evin Roman was aboard for the 7:45 a.m. drill. AHe=s healthy and he looks good,@ Baffert added of Eight Rings. AThe track=s pretty deep today. It=s different, a lot deeper, than it was yesterday...overall, it was a very good work. Now we just wait, buy our tickets, enter and hope we get a good draw.@ GI Breeders= Cup Juvenile Fillies hopeful Bast (Uncle Mo), winner of the GI Chandelier S. and GI Del Mar Debutante, worked five furlongs in 1:01.60 (14/42) in company with 5-year-old gelding Hot Sean (Flatter). Improbable (City Zip), aiming for the GI Breeders= Cup Dirt Mile, earned the five-furlong bullet Sunday, covering the distance in :59.20 (1/42). Baffert=s GI Breeders= Classic hopeful McKinzie (Street Sense) is expected to have his final major work ahead of the $6-million race Monday. 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[email protected] Bookkeeper Terry May THE WEEK IN REVIEW 8 [email protected] The book on Maximum Security (New Year’s Day), who returned to the races with a win in Saturday’s GIII Bold Ruler S., is still WORLDWIDE INFORMATION International Editor a work in progress, T.D. Thornton writes in The Week in Review. Kelsey Riley @kelseynrileyTDN [email protected] European Editor Emma Berry [email protected] Associate International Editor Heather Anderson @HLAndersonTDN Newmarket Bureau, Cafe Racing Sean Cronin & Tom Frary [email protected] 60 Broad Street, Suite 100 Red Bank, NJ 07701 732-747-8060 | 732-747-8955 (fax) www.TheTDN.com TDN HEADLINE NEWS • PAGE 3 OF 13 • THETDN.COM MONDAY • OCTOBER 28, 2019 BREEDERS= CUP BULLETIN: OCT. 27 Elate won Saratoga=s GI Alabama S. at 10 furlongs as a 3-year-old and has taken the GII Delaware H. at that same ! Claiborne Farm and Adele Dilschneider=s Elate (Medaglia distance the past two years, all three victories coming by open d=Oro), coming off runner-up efforts in the GI Personal Ensign S. lengths. and GI Juddmonte Spinster S., tuned up for Saturday=s AWe=re throwing her in deep water,@ Mott acknowledged. AWe GI Breeders= Cup Classic with a three-furlong drill in :36.80 very seldom run the fillies against (5/12). the colts unless we think we have a Elate will be trying to join top-class horse and one that would Zenyatta as the only females fit the race. I think she fits the to win the 1 1/4-mile Classic. conditions of the race very well. AThe fact that she is three- She=s proven it. It=s not like it=s a for-three at 1 1/4 miles is the guessing game at a mile and a reason why we chose the quarter. Of course we=re running Classic,@ explained trainer Bill against good competition, so she Mott. AShe=s a top-class mare still has to run her very best race to and she=s run very well at the compete.@ distance, and we want to Mott also sent Classic hopeful give her the best opportunity Yoshida (Jpn) (Heart=s Cry {Jpn}) out we can at that trip. It just to work Sunday at Santa Anita. The seems--for whatever reason- 5-year-old, most recently third in -that she cruises along very Elate | Horsephotos the GI Woodward S., went four well and still has run in her furlongs in :50 flat (39/62). The going a mile and a quarter. Some horses, they=ll tend to flatten Mott-trained GI Breeders= Cup Turf contender Channel Maker out a little bit at that distance. But she seems to be always (English Channel) went the same distance in :49.80 (36/62). coming on strong.@ TDN HEADLINE NEWS • PAGE 4 OF 13 • THETDN.COM MONDAY • OCTOBER 28, 2019 ! Also working for the Classic, GI Awesome Again S. winner Mongolian Groom (Hightail) went five furlongs in 1:02 flat (17/42) for trainer Enebish Ganbat. ! GI Zenyatta S. winner Paradise Woods (Union Rags), aiming for the GI Breeders= Cup Distaff, went five furlongs in 1:00 flat (2/42) under Abel Cedillo for trainer John Shirreffs. ! GI Breeders= Cup F/M Turf contender Mirth (Colonel John) went five furlongs over the training track in 1:01.80 (1/7) for trainer Phil D=Amato. The Little Red Feather Racing colorbearer is coming off a win in the Sept. 28 GI Rodeo Drive S. ! The Rood & Riddle Breeders= Cup Post-Position Draw for the 2019 Breeders= Cup World Championships will be shown live Monday from the Trackside Breakfast Marquee at Santa Anita Park starting at 3:30 p.m. PT, with the first race drawn at 4 p.m. All 14 Breeders= Cup races will be drawn and announced on TVG, along with the Breeders= Cup website, Official Mobile App and YouTube, Twitter, and Facebook pages. SPENDTHRIFT ACQUIRES INTEREST IN MR. MONEY B. Wayne Hughes=s Spendthrift Farm has acquired an interest in GI Breeders= Cup Dirt Mile contender Mr. Money (Goldencents--Plenty O=Toole, by Tiznow). The 3-year-old, campaigned by Chester Thomas=s Allied Racing Stable and trained by Bret Calhoun, won this year=s GIII Indiana Derby, GIII West Virginia Derby, GIII Pat Day Mile S., and GIII Matt Winn S. He was most recently second in the Sept. 21 GI Pennsylvania Derby. AWe are very excited to partner with Chester Thomas and his entire team on Mr. Money, who we believe to be one of the most talented colts of this year=s 3-year-old crop, with the potential of becoming a leading handicap horse in 2020,@ said Ned Toffey, Spendthrift general manager. AObviously, we believe in the sire line and know it very well. Mr. Money is a fantastic physical representation of Goldencents and Into Mischief, and he has that tremendous desire to compete, which we=ve come to know from this sire line. We think it=s only a matter of time before he gets his Grade I.@ Both two-time GI Breeders= Cup Dirt Mile winner Goldencents and his sire, Into Mischief, stand at Spendthrift. In preparation for championship weekend, Mr. Money worked four furlongs over a sloppy Churchill track in :49.80 (26/34) Saturday. He is expected to ship to Santa Anita Tuesday and long-term plans call for a 4-year-old campaign in 2020. Cont. p5 TDN HEADLINE NEWS • PAGE 5 OF 13 • THETDN.COM MONDAY • OCTOBER 28, 2019 AWe are excited to bring in Spendthrift as a partner on Mr.