WEDNESDAY, JULY 4, 2012 732-747-8060 $ TDN Home Page Click Here HALL OF FAME BARNS SQUARE OFF IN SWAPS FAIRYHOUSE RESCHEDULED Bob Baffert and Jerry Hollendorfer will saddle four of Today's meeting at Fairyhouse has been abandoned the seven runners booked to contest today=s GII Swaps and will take place next Tuesday. Officials were forced S. at Betfair Hollywood Park. Liaison (Indian Charlie) and to reschedule the card, which featured the Rousing Sermon (Lucky Pulpit), one-two in last term=s G3 Brownstown S., after heavy rain waterlogged the GI CashCall Futurity and Real course. Quiet S. over this strip, renew their rivalry. The former, a GITCHEE GOOMIE GETS HER respectable sixth in the GRADED WIN GI Kentucky Derby, was runner- Patsy C. Symons=s hard-knocking up to Nonios (Pleasantly Perfect) New York-bred Gitchee Goomie (City in the GIII Affirmed H. last time Zip), third in the 2010 GI Garden City June 3. Rousing Sermon S. at Belmont Park, collected her first followed a third-place finish in graded trophy in Tuesday=s GIII Dr. the GII Louisiana Derby Apr. 1 James Penny Memorial H. at Parx. Gitchee Goomie with an eighth-place finish in the Cont. p5 Equi-Photo Run for the Roses. Team Jerry Hollendorfer Hollendorfer is shopping for out- MAN HAS KING GEORGE AIM Horsephotos of-town spots for both Nonios Trainer Alain de Royer-Dupre is targeting Pride Racing and Rousing Sermon following Club=s Reliable Man (GB) (Dalakhani {Ire}) at the the Fourth of July feature. AThis G1 King George VI and Queen Elizabeth S., he race will get you ready to ship,@ announced yesterday. Fourth in the G1 Prince of Hollendorfer=s assistant trainer Wales=s S. at Royal Ascot June 20, last year=s G1 Prix Dan Ward told Daily Racing du Jockey Club hero will return to that venue to tackle Form. AThere are three races the July 21 mile-and-a-half feature. "He=s going to the within a week--the [GII] Jim King George if he gallops well," Royer-Dupre said. "I Dandy [at Saratoga July 28] for think he is going better than he was before his last race $600,000, the [GI] Haskell [at in Ascot, so we want to come back and it will be Bob Baffert Monmouth July 29] for interesting." Horsephotos $1 million, and the [GII] West Virginia Derby [at Mountaineer Aug. 4] for $750,000. This race will set them up.@ In addition to Liaison, Baffert will also saddle game GI Santa Anita Derby third-place finisher Blueskiesnrainbows (English Channel). He adds blinkers after a ninth-place finish in the grassy GII American Turf S. at Churchill Downs May 4. Wednesday, Betfair Hollywood Park, post time: 7:06 p.m. EDT SWAPS S.-GII, $150,000, 3yo, 1 1/8m (AWT) PP HORSE SIRE JOCKEY TRAINER ML 1 Rousing Sermon Lucky Pulpit Smith Hollendorfer 4-1 2 Blueskiesnrainbows K English Channel Talamo Baffert 4-1 3 Empire Way K Empire Maker Garcia Harrington 12-1 4 All Squared Away K Bellamy Road Flores Miller 10-1 5 Liaison K Indian Charlie Bejarano Baffert 5-2 6 Nonios K Pleasantly Perfect Pedroza Hollendorfer 3-1 7 Called To Serve K Afleet Alex Gomez Eurton 5-1 Look for the K throughout the TDN graded stakes entries, denoting Keeneland sales graduates. In This Issue Holiday Graded Action... 60 Broad St., Suite 100 Red Bank, NJ 07701 In addition to the GII Swaps S. at Betfair Hollywood Park, there’s also some (732) 747-8060 graded action on the East Coast today. Grass milers will be on display in (732) 747-8955 (fax) Belmont’s GIII Poker S. and Monmouth’s GIII Red Bank S. www.thoroughbreddailynews.com www.thetdn.com Coverage begins page 3 Barry Weisbord, co-publisher From the Desk of Bill [email protected] Sue Finley, co-publisher Oppenheim... [email protected] In this week’s column, Bill Oppenheim gears up for the Editorial upcoming yearling sales. He takes a closer look at a handful of [email protected] sires that will be represented by their first yearlings, including Jessica Martini, Editor-in-Chief Alan Carasso, Managing Editor Empire Maker’s Pioneerof The Nile and Tiznow’s Colonel Marie Kizenko, Senior Editor John. Christina Bossinakis, Senior Editor Lucas Marquardt, Features Editor Coverage begins page 6 Steve Sherack, Racing Editor Brian DiDonato, Racing Analyst/Soc. Media Dir. Saratoga Limits Juvenile Justina Severni, Assistant Editor Advertising [email protected] Fields... 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[email protected] Coverage begins page 1 (ATW) Vicki Forbes, Director of Customer Service Information Technology Robert Williams, Director of IT [email protected] Gregg Casillo, DB Administrator, Programming [email protected] Marketing EST Race Click for TV Gary King, Marketing Manager 5:06p Poker S.-GIII, BEL (brisnet.com PPs) HR/TVG [email protected] 5:17p Red Bank S.-GIII, MTH (brisnet.com PPs) TVG 7:06p Swaps S.-GII, BHP (brisnet.com PPs) TVG TDN Newmarket Bureau: Cafe Racing [email protected] Sean Cronin Tom Frary TDN P HEADLINE NEWS • 7/4/12 • PAGE 3 of 9 • thoroughbreddailynews.com Wednesday, Monmouth Park, post time: 5:17 p.m. EDT BLACK-TYPE PREVIEW S RED BANK S.-GIII, $100,000, 3yo/up, 1mT PP HORSE SIRE JOCKEY TRAINER ML 1 Yummy With Butter Silvador Lopez Belsoeur 6-1 Wednesday, Belmont Park, post time: 5:06 p.m. EDT K POKER S.-GIII, $150,000, 3yo/up, 1mT 2 Boots Ahead Storm Boot Carmouche Weaver 9-2 PP HORSE SIRE JOCKEY TRAINER ML 3 Get Serious City Zip Fragoso Forbes 4-1 K 4 Lubash Freud Bravo Clement 5-1 1 Compliance Officer Officer Castellano Brown 5-2 5 Hermosillo Sea Of Secrets Lopez DiMauro 30-1 2 Gourmet Dinner Trippi Luzzi Brown 30-1 6 Queen'splatekitten Kitten's Joy DeCarlo Pletcher 5-2 3 Queen'splatekitten Kitten's Joy Napravnik Pletcher 6-1 7 Monument Hill Royal Academy Trujillo Weaver 7-2 4 Monument Hill Royal Academy Maragh Weaver 12-1 8 El Commodore El Prado (Ire) Serpa Griffith 8-1 5 Yield Bogey Langfuhr Prado Kelly 10-1 6 Clear Attempt A.P. Indy Lezcano Mott 6-1 Thursday, Hamburg, Germany, post time: 6.55 p.m. 7 Boots Ahead K Storm Boot Castro Weaver 15-1 GROSSER PREIS VON LOTTO HAMBURG (HAMBURGER STUTEN- 8 El Commodore El Prado (Ire) Alvarado Griffith 12-1 PREIS)-G3, €55.000, 3yo, f, 1 3/8mT 9 Right One (Fr) Anabaa Leparoux Clement 3-1 SC PP HORSE SIRE JOCKEY TRAINER 10 Voodoo Storm K Storm Cat Rosario McGaughey 8-1 1 6 Albamara (GB) Galileo (Ire) Morris Prescott Also Eligibile: 2 10 All For You (Ger) Shirocco (Ger) Richter Harley 11 Uncle T Seven Freud No Rider Dutrow Jr 5-2 3 1 Caitania (Ire) Aussie Rules de Vries Sprengel 12 Isn't He Perfect Pleasantly Perfect No Rider Dutrow Jr 2-1 4 4 Goldschatzchen (Ger) Dai Jin (GB) Pietsch Hickst 5 7 Ilena (Ger) Areion (Ger) Hellier Bolte 6 2 Kolosseum (Ger) Samum (Ger) Minarik Figge 7 8 Lady of Budysin (Ger) Soldier Hollow (GB) Suerland Lowe 8 9 Monami (Ger) Sholokhov (Ire) Pedroza Wohler 9 3 Salomina (Ger) Lomitas (GB) Starke Schiergen The brisnet.com >Race of the Day= is the 10 5 Wilddrossel (Ger) Dalakhani (Ire) Frank Klug GIII POKER S. at Belmont Park All carry 128 pounds. For pps and a complete race analysis, click here. TDN P HEADLINE NEWS • 7/4/12 • PAGE 4 of 9 • thoroughbreddailynews.com GRADED/GROUP RESULTS Tuesday, Hamburg, Germany IDEE HANSA-PREIS-G2, i70,000, Hamburg, 7-3, 3yo/up, 1 1/2mT, 2:35.96, gd. 1--OVAMBO QUEEN (GER), 129, m, 5, by Kalatos (Ger) 1st Dam: Oxalaguna (Ger), by Lagunas (GB) 2nd Dam: Oxalis (Ger), by Ashmore (Fr) 3rd Dam: Observanz (Ger), by Frontal (Fr) O-Dr Hans-Hermann Leimbach; B-Gestut Rietberg; T-Andreas Bolte; J-Filip Minarik; i40,000. Lifetime Record: MGSW-Ger & Den, 15 starts, 7 wins, 7 places, i221,368. Werk Nick Rating: A++. Click for the eNicks report & 5-cross pedigree. 2--Waldpark (Ger), 132, c, 4, Dubawi (Ire)--Wurftaube (Ger), by Acatenango (Ger). O/B-Gestut Ravensberg; T-Andreas Wohler; i15,500. 3--Atempo (Ger), 132, c, 4, Monsun (Ger)--Anatola (Ger), by Tiger Hill (Ire). O/B-Gestut Schlenderhan; T-Jens Hirschberger; i6,500. Margins: NO, 2HF, 1. Odds: 2.40, 1.40, 2.30. Also Ran: Baschar (GB), Lindenthaler (Ger), Silvaner (Ger), Kasumi (Ger). Click for the Racing Post chart or the free brisnet.com catalogue-style pedigree. There were two class acts among the colts in this line-up, but in the end it was the tough and consistent mare Ovambo Queen who upstaged the boys with a typically game display. Not out of the frame since her debut, the dark bay had only been kept out of the exacta on two occasions and boasted Pattern-race wins in the G3 Walther J Jacobs-Stutenpreis at Bremen in August 2010 and G3 Scandinavian Open Championship at Klampenborg a year later. Succumbing only to Danedream (Ger) (Lomitas {GB}) when 3/4-of-a-length second to the Arc winner on her seasonal bow in the G2 Grosser Preis der Badischen Unternehmer over 11 furlongs at Baden-Baden last time May 20, she stalked the early pace in second here before tackling Waldpark inside the final quarter.