Barbaro Update, Lost in the Fog Gets Rest HEADLINE p. 2 NEWS For information about TDN, DELIVERED EACH NIGHT BY FAX AND FREE BY E-MAIL TO SUBSCRIBERS OF call 732-747-8060. www.thoroughbreddailynews.com WEDNESDAY, JULY 19, 2006 GUENTHER SHOOTS, SCORES PULPIT COLT JAZIL SIDELINED Like a hockey player who puts a one-timer into the Diagnosed with a bruised cannon bone in his right corner of the goal, Scott Guenther made a single bid to rear leg, Shadwell Stable=s Jazil (Seeking the Gold) will secure hip 353 at $760,000, the highest price on the not start in the Aug. 26 GI Travers S. second and final day of at Saratoga. According to trainer trade at the Fasig-Tipton Kiaran McLaughlin, the GI Belmont S. Kentucky July Yearlings Sale winner has been shipped to his in Lexington. Guenther owner=s farm in Lexington, where he signed the ticket in the will be given 30 days off. McLaughlin name of his Desperado Sta- hopes that the colt will be back in bles. Widely expected to top time to make the Oct. 7 GI Jockey the session, the handsome Club Gold Cup at Belmont. He said bay colt by Pulpit-- another possibility is that Jazil could Mayhavebeentheone (Arch) make his next start in the Nov. 4 GI was consigned to the sale Breeders' Cup Classic at Churchill, by John Mayer=s Nursery Jazil Horsephotos training up to that race. It is ex- Place agency. Observing the pected that he will run next year as a action from the north side of four-year-old. AIt's not a big deal," McLaughlin said of the rear walking ring, the injury. AIf he wasn't who he is, we wouldn't even Guenther watched intently have been looking at him so carefully. But it's a good before nodding his head thing we found it when we did and found that a little Hip 353 Horsephotos when the tote read something was going on. But it won't require surgery. $750,000. "I just thought he was the best colt in the Nothing is happening other than bruising of the right sale. It was between him and the Forestry [hip 217] rear cannon bone. He is a very lightly framed horse who and this was my pick between the two of them," said doesn't require a lot of training and he won't lose a lot Guenther, who is based in Newport Beach, California, of fitness with 30 days off. Obviously, we will miss the but also maintains racing operations in the Midwest and Travers. The first race we have hopes of making is the New York. "The Forestry may have been more refined Jockey Club Gold Cup.@ The Travers was expected to than this one, but this horse just had more bone and feature a showdown between GI Preakness S. winner looks like my kind of horse." The Mar. 14 foal is from Bernardini and Jazil. an outstanding female family and was produced by a half-sister to MGSW and first-crop yearling sire Wise- FASIG-TIPTON KENTUCKY JULY man's Ferry. The cross has already clicked in the fam- TUESDAY, JULY 18, 2006 ily, as Pulpit's son Sky Mesa was produced by Caress, a half-sister to the dam of Wiseman's Ferry. As was the Cumulative Totals 2006 2005 case for many other shoppers, Guenther found that a No. Offered 407 601 good horse was tough to halter at Fasig-Tipton July. No. Sold 307 368 AThis was the third horse that I bid on, but the first one RNAs 100 233 that I've been able to get,@ he said, adding that hip 353 % RNAs 24.6% 38.8% was his focus all along. Desperado Stables has cam- Gross $35,598,000 $37,106,000 paigned such runners as GI Santa Anita Derby hero Average $115,954 (+15%) $100,832 Buddy Gil, the good sprinter Freespool, GISP Easy Median $90,000 (+20%) $75,000 Grades and the solid multiple-stakes winner Aviate. www.fasigtipton.com Toppers, F-T cont. p3-5 TDN P HEADLINE NEWS • 7/19/06 • PAGE 2 of 9 Barbaro P N E W S T O D A Y P FUTURE UNCERTAIN FOR ‘FOG’ The connections of Lost in the Fog (Lost Soldier) are contemplating his Update retirement after a lackluster performance in the GII Smile Sprint H. at Calder July 15, according to Daily Racing Form. After returning to his Golden Gate base yester- BARBARO'S CASTS CHANGED day, the four-year-old will get a by Gail Luciani, Director of UPenn Office of Communications freshener before returning to KENNETT SQUARE, PA...Kentucky Derby winner training; a decision on his fu- Barbaro remains in stable condition with good vital ture will then be made. AWe're signs after a restful night, according to Chief of not leaning one way or the Surgery Dean Richardson. AYesterday afternoon we other,@ Gilchrist told DRF. Lost in the Fog & Gilchrist changed his right hind leg cast to take new AWe'll give him time to get his Horsephotos feet underneath him and see radiographs and to examine the incision,@ said Dr. how he is. We want to determine if he can be competi- Richardson. AThe radiographs looked good; the plates tive at the level he should be. If it were going to take we placed on July 8 to fuse the pastern are intact and two or three months to bring him back, and there was the fetlock fusion is unchanged. The leg and the only one race left for him this year, we'd probably retire incision looked as good as we could have hoped.@ him.@ Recipient of an Eclipse Award as the nation=s top The right hind leg cast supports the repair of the sprinter in 2005, Lost in the Fog was the even-money injury suffered at the Preakness on May 20, and it favorite and 125-pound highweight in the Smile, but extends from the colt=s foot to just below his hock. never factored and wound up ninth. AYou can't put a The modified foot cast, which acts like a bandage positive spin on it,@ Gilchrist added. AIt's the first time I've seen him not try. He carried a lot of weight, but on Barbaro=s left hind foot, was also changed that had nothing to do with running that poorly. He's yesterday. The foot cast is rigid and provides stability got a lot of problems, things like quarter cracks and and support, but will be changed often so that the bumps and bruises. It's nothing life-threatening or ca- hoof can be treated. Both cast changes were reer-ending, but they catch up with him.@ The Florida- performed with Barbaro lightly sedated in a sling. He bred rattled off 10 straight wins to begin his career, but has adapted very well to being managed as needed in sustained his first loss when seventh in the GI Breeders= the sling. AHe is a very intelligent horse,@ said Dr. Cup Sprint Oct. 29. He finished second in his 2006 Richardson. opener before taking Churchill=s GIII Aristides BC H. Barbaro continues to be monitored closely in the June 3. Gilchrist also said that the three-year-old filly Victorina (Delaware Township), whom he saddled to Intensive Care Unit of the George D. Widener Hospital victory in the GIII Azalea Breeders= Cup S. on the Smile at the University of Pennsylvania=s New Bolton Center. undercard, would not return East for the GI Darley Test S. at Saratoga Aug. 5. That's only 2 1/2 weeks away, For more info on Barbaro, please see www.vet.upenn.edu. A @ Gilchrist continued. AThat ain't going to work.@ 859.455.9388 vinery.com TDN P HEADLINE NEWS • 7/19/06 • PAGE 3 of 9 Unraced Mare Produces Session Topper... F A S I G-T I P T O N J U L Y P P Mayhavebeentheone (Arch) was always cut out to be a nice racehorse, but she suffered a fractured pastern FASIG-TIPTON JULY as a foal that completely compromised her racing ca- reer. AWe decided to keep the TOP 10 YEARLINGS mare, because she was so beau- Hip Sex Sire Dam Price tiful. That's why we named her 353 c Pulpit Mayhavebeentheone $760,000 Mayhavebeentheone--she was B-Nursery Place & Robert T Manfuso (KY) just an extraordinary individual,@ Consigned by Nursery Place, agent said John Mayer of Nursery Purchased by Desperado Stables Place, which consigned yester- 380 c Kafwain Peyvon $485,000 day's topper. The mare failed to B-Clay & Mena Neel (KY) get in foal as a three-year-old Pulpit Claiborne Farm Consigned by Taylor Made Sales Agency, Agent XLIII maiden broodmare, but was suc- Purchased by Zayat Stables cessfully bred to Pulpit in the spring of 2004. "It's a 339 f Smart Strike Lisieux $410,000 great thing. It's the mare's first foal," Mayer continued. B-Gerry O=Meara & Stanley Inman (KY) "We're excited that he's going to get the chance to go Consigned by Mulholland Springs to a great racing stable. He's got a full sister that's a Purchased by Joseph Brocklebank, agent foal and she's just about as nice. We're very excited 320 f More Than Ready Itsmylife $375,000 about it." Mayer added that the colt did all the talking. B-Mike G Rutherford (KY) "He's probably one of the few real two-turn horses Consigned by Eaton Sales, agent here," he offered.