Canadian Frontier to Airdrie HEADLINE p. 4 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, NOVEMBER 3, 2004 MAKYBE DIVA AGAIN ROCK THE VOTE Marvellous stayer Makybe Diva (GB) (Desert King Aqueduct’s Election Day feature, the GIII Nashua S., {Ire}) became the first mare in history to capture went to Fox Hill Farm’s Rockport Harbor (Unbridled’s back-to-back Melbourne Cups with a Song), who galloped away from his rivals to remain dominant victory in driving rain at unbeaten. With the same Flemington Tuesday. Makybe Diva jockey/trainer combination as won the race for now Hong Smarty Jones--Stewart Elliott Kong-based conditioner David Hall and John Servis--the two-year- last year at A$8 but she was sensa- old romped in a pair of starts at tionally backed from A$4.20 into Philly Park, by 8 3/4 lengths in A$3.60 on track at her second at- his Sept. 12 debut and by 7 1/2 tempt, and trainer Lee Freedman and Rockport Harbor lengths in an allowance test one jockey Glen Boss seemed over- Adam Coglianese month later. Breaking alertly, the whelmed by relief when the power- blaze-faced grey went up to fully built mare rocketed away from a show the way, then kicked on for home at the top of determined Vinnie Roe (Ire) (Definite the stretch. He glided home under minimal encourage- Makybe Diva Getty Images Article {GB}) to win by 1 1/4 lengths. “It was like having a present ment. “I think now we will start looking for a long-term under the tree and not being able to open it until 3:15 goal and getting him ready for next year,” Servis said. p.m.,” Freedman grinned. “She is one of the greatest “He needs to put some weight on and he has a lot of mares to race in the country,” he added. “Glen had her growing up to do.” a long way back, but he saved a lot of ground. It was a Click here for the brisnet.com chart. top ride, but I would not have expected anything less.” Cont. p2 Tuesday, Aqueduct NASHUA S.-GIII, $109,500, AQU, 11-2, 2yo, 1m, EMIRATES MELBOURNE CUP-G1, A$4,050,000, Flem- 1:36 3/5, ft. ington (Melbourne), 11-2, 2mT, 3yo/up, 3:28.55, dead. 1--@#ROCKPORT HARBOR, 118, c, 2, by Unbridled's Song 1--MAKYBE DIVA (GB), 122, m, 6, by Desert King (Ire) 1st Dam: Regal Miss Copelan (SW), by Copelan 1st Dam: Tugela, by Riverman 2nd Dam: Regal Pennant, by Banner Bob 2nd Dam: Rambushka, by Roberto 3rd Dam: Regal Relation, by *Kamaraan II 3rd Dam: Katsura, by Northern Dancer ($470,000 yrl '03 KEESEP). O-Fox Hill Farms Inc; O/B-Emily Krstina (Aust) Pty Ltd; T-Lee Freedman; B-Heiligbrodt Racing Stable & Taylor Made Farm Inc J-Glen Boss; A$2,700,000. (KY); T-John C Servis; J-S Elliott; $65,700. Lifetime 2--Vinnie Roe (Ire), 128, h, 7, Definite Article (GB)-- Record: 3-3-0-0, $90,300. Kayu (Ire), by Tap On Wood (Ire). (Ir48,000gns wnlg 2--Defer, 116, c, 2, Danzig--Hidden Reserve, by Mr. ‘98 GOFNOV; Ir50,000gns yrl ‘99 GOFORB). O-S Prospector. O/B-Ogden Mills Phipps (KY); $21,900. Sheridan, M Watt & D K Weld; B-Virginia Moeran; 3--Better Than Bonds, 116, c, 2, Sweetsouthernsaint-- A$730,000. Jabesh, by Vanlandingham. ($30,000 yrl '03 3--Zazzman (Aus), 116, g, 7, Distinctly North--Glen Iris (Aus), by Marscay (Aus). O-R A Lyons, R F Green & P KEESEP; $67,000 2yo ‘04 OBSAPR). O-Robert D J Potter; B-Mr & Mrs T S Dennis; A$335,000. Abbo; B-L Riley Mangum (FL); $10,950. Margins: 1 1/4, 2HF. Odds: 5-2, 5-1, 100-1. Margins: 6 1/4, HD, 2 1/4. Odds: 0.90, 3.50, 3.50. Also Ran: Elvstroem (Aus), Hugs Dancer (Fr), Distinction (Ire), Mamool (Ire), Also Ran: Doctor Voodoo, Reverberate, Favalora. Catchmeifyoucan (NZ), Razkalla, Strasbourg (Aus), On A Jeune (Aus), Media Scratched: All Trumps. Puzzle, Grey Song (Aus), Roman Arch (Aus), Upsetthym (NZ), Another TDN Warrior (Aus), Winning Belle (NZ), Lashed (Aus), Mummify (Aus), Don Raphael All horses in the are bred in North America, (Aus), Pacific Dancer (NZ), Hard To Get (Aus), Delzao (Aus), She's Archie (Aus). unless otherwise indicated www.taylormadefarm.com TDN P HEADLINE NEWS • 11/3/04 • PAGE 2 of 8 Anatomy of a Melbourne Cup Repeat (cont. from p1) Conditions Hamper Also Rans Makybe Diva was tucked away 12th of 24 on the While Media Puzzle (Theatrical {Ire}) struggled in the fence, with Vinnie Roe on her outside. While Zazzman soft going to finish 12th, Vinnie Roe appeared as (Aus) (Distinctly North) and Caulfield Cup victor though he could have sustained the fight for several Elvstroem (Aus) (Danehill) set a solid pace, Boss crept more furlongs. Trainer Dermot Weld said he would stealthily forward and as the field swung for home, consider returning with Vinnie Roe in 2005. “He had Boss let the mighty mare have her head and she accel- everything in his favor today and he ran a superb race. I erated on the rails to leave all but an extraordinarily thought he might win a furlong out. We might even dogged Vinnie Roe in her wake. Boss, renowned for his come back next year,” he said. Distinction (Ire) high-spirited jubilance returning to the winners’ stall, (Danehill)’s rider Darren Beadman said the soft condi- had tears streaming down his face and broke down tions were the undoing of his mount. “He's a big-strid- again during the presentation. “What a mighty mare, ing horse and didn’t let down on the track,” Beadman she gave me the ride of my life,” he said. “At the half commented. “It might have been a completely different mile I felt like I was ‘in the zone’ again, it was a flash- story on a firmer track.” Frankie Dettori said Mamool back to last year, I was so confident and relaxed, in a (Ire) (In the Wings {GB}), who sustained a fracture on a little world of my own. It was a walk in the park,” he firm track in the race last year, failed to stay, while said. Godolphin stablemate Razkalla (Caerleon)’s rider Kerrin McEvoy said: “He tried to go with Vinnie Roe but didn't Makybe Diva’s the Boss let down on the ground." Damien Oliver rode Distinc- “I’m not a legend, don’t go down that path,” said tion in trackwork before opting to stick with 12th Boss in response to a media question. “She’s a legend. placed Media Puzzle, but said: "He couldn't go in the I’m just the lucky bastard who gets to sit on her back. ground. He copped a bump from Mamool on the turn There was a lot of pressure, she was the defending when I tried to track behind Vinnie Roe. From there, his champion, the favorite. All the people who do all the race was over." work back at the stables, I get the accolades, but they are the ones…I just sit there and steer in the right direc- Melbourne Cup Betting Sets Record tion.” Makybe Diva, only the second horse in 143 years Makybe Diva, at 5-2, the shortest-priced favorite to to win the Sydney-Melbourne Cup double in the same win the Melbourne Cup in 50 years, inspired a record year, has earnings of A$7,177,135, making her the A$126-million betting splurge at Australian TABs Tues- second highest earning mare in Australasia after Sunline day, Australian Associated Press reported. The previous (NZ) (A$11,690,679). Freedman has also won the record was A$117 million, set when the mare won the Melbourne Cup with Tawrrific in 1989, Subzero in Cup last year. 1992 and Doriemus in 1995. Freedman’s long-held dream to race a horse in the Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe is fast crystalling, but he must convince laid-back owner Tony Santic. “It’s been a dream of mine to race TELL IT TO THE TDN... a horse in the Arc, but I've never had one good Want to send a “Letter to the Editor” of the enough,” Freedman said. “But this mare is right out of Thoroughbred Daily News? Our address is 27 the box. She's the perfect horse for a race like the Monmouth St., Red Bank, NJ, 07701; or send a Arc.” fax to: (732) 747-8955; or an e-mail to: [email protected]. For a replay, please click modem or broadband. War Chant WORLD WIDE SUCCESS with his 10th and 11th winners. Last week his colt PANDEMIC aired by 2 1/2 in Japan and his filly KAREN’S CAPER impressed by five lengths against colts in England. www.threechimneys.com 15 Starters…2 stakes winners….11 winners…. (859) 873-7053 TDN P HEADLINE NEWS • 11/3/04 • PAGE 3 of 8 Tuesday, Aqueduct P R E S U L T S P TEMPTED S.-GIII, $104,600, AQU, 11-2, 2yo, f, 1m, 1:36, ft. Tuesday, Maisons-Laffitte, France 1--@#SUMMER RAVEN, 115, f, 2, by Summer Squall PRIX MIESQUE-G3, i73,000, Maisons-Laffitte, 11-2, 1st Dam: Rahy Rose, by Rahy 2yo, f, 7fT, 1:30.60, hy.