WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 2012 732-747-8060 $ TDN Home Page Click Here ELLIS SENDS OUT BIG 3 THIS WEEKEND MARCHAND D’OR RETIRED Conditioner Ron Ellis will send out three of his barn=s Carla Giral=s veteran speedster Marchand d=Or (Fr) top horses, Rail Trip (Jump Start), Include Me Out (Marchand de Sable--Fedora {Fr}, by Kendor {Fr}), (Include) and Casino Host (Dynaformer), in stakes races Europe=s champion sprinter of 2008, has been retired. Saturday at Santa Anita. The 9-year-old homebred gelding, who registered a Rail Trip, who has already unique treble in Deauville=s G1 Prix Maurice de Gheest secured a berth in the between 2006 and 2008 whilst under the care of GI Breeders= Cup Dirt Mile Freddy Head, will join his dam Fedora at Gilles with his win in the Deroubaix=s Haras de Sou. Starting off his career under GII San Diego H. July 28, Aurelien Malenfant in a juvenile claimer at Chantilly in will make a start in the 2005, his only freshman start, he quickly rose through GI Awesome Again S., a the ranks and, after bagging Longchamp=s Listed Prix AWin and You=re In@ for du Pont Neuf in 2006, raced exclusively in pattern-race the Breeders= Cup company since, winning 10 such events. His banner Classic. AWe=re not really year of 2008 also included victories in the G1 July Cup Rail Trip sure if he=s better at a at Newmarket and the G1 Prix de l=Abbaye at EquiSport mile or better at a mile Longchamp. Injury curtailed his 2009 campaign, but he and a quarter,@ said Ellis. came back the following term to register a win in AMost big purses that we=ve gone after have been at a Longchamp=s G3 Prix de Saint-Georges for new trainer mile and a quarter, so we=ve never really focused on Mikel Delzangles. He also hit the board in last year=s him being a miler. When he broke his maiden, he ran G1 Prix Maurice de Gheest, his fourth appearance in 1:07 and change and he always seemed like he=d be a Deauville=s 6 1/2-furlong test, and followed that effort good miler. We=re going to run in the Awesome Again by winning the G3 Prix de Meautry, his final triumph, and decide what the next move is off of that.@ also at the Normandy track. This semester has been Cont. p4 Marchand d=Or=s swansong and, after running eighth in yet another try at the Maurice de Gheest last month, GROUP 2 WINNER OLYMPIC GLORY SOLD brought the curtain down with a fifth in the Sept. 16 Leading European juvenile Olympic Glory (Ire) (Choisir G3 Prix du Petit Couvert at Longchamp. He was ridden {Aus}), who bagged the July 14 G2 Superlative S. at by Davy Bonilla in all but one of his 40 starts and Newmarket and the Aug. 1 G2 Vintage S. at Goodwood retires with a career record of 40-12-2-4, and earnings in the colors of Julie of i1,462,500. Wood, has been sold to Sheikh Joann bin Hamad Al Thani in a private deal. The 2-year-old bay, who also ran second to subsequent G1 Vincent O=Brien National S. hero Dawn Approach (Ire) (New Approach {Ire}) in Royal Ascot=s G2 Coventry S. June 19, will Olympic Glory continue under the wing Racing Post/Mark Cranham of veteran conditioner Richard Hannon and will point to Oct. 7 G1 Prix Jean-Luc Lagardere. AOlympic Glory has been bought to stay in the yard, and he will run in his new owner=s colors in the Prix Jean-Luc Lagardere at Longchamp on Sunday week,@ said Hannon. AHopefully, he will make up into a [G1 2000] Guineas horse for next year.@ Former owner Julie Wood added, AOlympic Glory has given us enormous pleasure and we sincerely hope that he proves equally successful for his new owners, and that they have as much fun with him as we did.@ In This Issue Mott Barn Armed & Dangerous 60 Broad St., Suite 100 Trainer Bill Mott presents a high caliber trio for this weekend’s Super Red Bank, NJ 07701 (732) 747-8060 Saturday showcase at Belmont (732) 747-8955 (fax) Park. The Hall of Fame www.thoroughbreddailynews.com conditioner will send out www.thetdn.com Ron The Greek (Full Mandate), , co-publisher GI Woodward winner To Honor Barry Weisbord and Serve (Bernardini) will start [email protected] in the GII Kelso H. Saturday, Sue Finley, co-publisher while Royal Delta (Empire [email protected] Maker) is scheduled for her first start since a runner-up effort in Editorial the GI Personal Ensign H. at [email protected] Jessica Martini, Editor-in-Chief Saratoga Aug. 26 in Saturday's Alan Carasso, Managing Editor GI Beldame Invitational. Royal Delta Marie Kizenko, Senior Editor Reed Palmer Christina Bossinakis, Senior Editor Lucas Marquardt, Features Editor Coverage begins page 3 Steve Sherack, Racing Editor Brian DiDonato, Racing Analyst/Soc. Media Dir. Justina Severni, Assistant Editor Oppenheim on European Sales Kelsey Riley, Assistant Editor This week, TDN columnist Bill Oppenheim takes a look at the Advertising [email protected] upcoming European sales schedule, including the Tattersalls October sale, Alycia Borer, Director of Advertising which gets underway in Newmarket Oct. 8. Among the 194 stallions Lia Kusch, Senior Advertising Designer represented at this year’s sale, half brothers Galileo (Ire) and Sea The Stars Sarah K. Andrew, Adv Assistant/Distribution (Ire) have 72 of the 577 yearlings catalogued in October 1. Check out who Amanda Crelin, Advertising Assistant Amanda Foster, Advertising Assistant else will be well represented at Tattersalls, Goffs and Arqana in the upcoming weeks. Customer Service Coverage begins p6; additional sire yearling stats starts on p9 [email protected] Vicki Forbes, Director of Customer Service Information Technology Robert Williams, Director of IT Churchill Files Suit in Texas [email protected] Gregg Casillo, DB Administrator, Programming Churchill Downs Inc. filed suit against the Texas Racing Commission [email protected] and its executive director, Chuck Trout, in an Austin, Texas court Sept. 21. Business Development The suit states that the existing legislation that permits patrons to only bet in Gary King, Director of Business Development person on track or at a simulcast venue, therefore disallowing online and [email protected] telephone wagering, is unconstitutional. Internet and phone wagering has been ongoing in the state, despite a 1986 law that stipulated that Texans TDN Newmarket Bureau: Cafe Racing [email protected] could only wager in person. Sean Cronin Coverage begins page 4 Tom Frary P TDN HEADLINE NEWS • 9/26/12 • PAGE 3 of 13 • thoroughbreddailynews.com FEATURE PRESENTATION • GI JOCKEY CLUB GOLD CUP MOTT BARNS SENDS OUT SLEW OF BREEDERS’ CUP HOPEFULS Things are starting to heat up for the Bill Mott stable, which will send out four horses in three AWin and You=re In@ contests at Belmont Saturday. AI get excited and I get a little anxious,@ said Mott. AIt=s a very important day for us because you want to see the horses run well and come out of the race good and be able to go to the big day at Santa Anita.@ The Hall of Fame conditioner will send out Ron The Greek Ron The Greek (Full Mandate) and Flat Benoit Photo Out (Flatter) in Belmont=s GI Jockey Club Gold Cup. GI Woodward winner To Honor and Serve (Bernardini) Both horses last ran in Saratoga=s GI Whitney will start in the GII Kelso H. Saturday. AHe=s coming off Invitational H. Aug. 4, finishing second and third, a good, hard race in the Woodward,@ commented Mott. respectively, behind Fort Larned (E Dubai). AI was wondering if coming AHe=s doing very well,@ Mott said of Flat Out. AI=m back in four weeks would be happy with the works that he=s put in, happy with the too much for him and, at the way he=s going. It seems like he feels good and is ready end of the day, we=ll find that to run. He=s had a fair amount of time to get over the out, but he seems as though Whitney. We had a nice training schedule since then, he=s doing very well and and obviously he=s run well on the track before. That=s we=ve taken the option to got to be a bonus anytime you=ve got one running on enter him and plan to run.@ any particular track if they=ve already been a dual As for his Breeders= Cup winner there.@ Flat Out won last year=s Jockey Club plans for To Honor and Gold Cub and GII Suburban H. over the Belmont oval. Serve, Mott said, AI think To Honor and Serve As for his other entrant, Mott noted, ARon continues we=re probably leaning in the Horsephotos to do well. He=s just one of those horses that maintains direction of the Classic and I his condition. He looks good, he=s moving well, his think the connections would like to give that a chance, works are consistent with what we saw earlier in the so right now that=s what we=re planning to do.@ year. He=s not a really flashy work horse. His works are more or less workmanlike, but he=s really doing well. w TDN CRITERIA w He=s a beautiful horse with a great constitution.@ With the expected fast Belmont main track, the The races covered in the TDN are as follows: conditioner figures that Flat Out will be able to Alay in a w Stakes: purses of $50,000/up stalking position.