Pair Named to Hall HEADLINE p. 2 NEWS For information about TDN, DELIVERED EACH NIGHT call 732-747-8060. BY FAX AND INTERNET www.thoroughbreddailynews.com THURSDAY, JULY 15, 2004 YEARLY REPORT EYES FOURTH STRAIGHT VALIXIR BREAKS THROUGH Californian invader Yearly Report (General Meeting) Like many of his contemporaries, Valixir (Ire) takes aim on her fourth straight victory in Saturday’s (Trempolino) lived in the shadow of Bago (Fr) at two, GII Delaware Oaks at Delaware Park. The Bob Baffert having chased that smart colt home when runner-up in trainee has lost only once in five lifetime starts and is the G3 Prix des Chenes last September. But it was his coming into Saturday’s 1 1/16- chance to shine yesterday as he wired the G2 Prix miles contest off wins in the GII Eugene Adam S. at Maisons-Laffitte. Valixer returned Santa Ynez, Melair S. and May from a winter holiday to record an impressive tally in 14 GII Black Eyed Susan S. She the Listed Prix Matchem at this track Apr. 20 before is the 5-2 morning-line favorite in finishing third in the G1 Prix Lupin at Longchamp May the 10-horse field. The Oaks is 16. He may have found the mile and a half of the G1 the opening salvo in a festival of Prix du Jockey-Club (French Derby) too far, but still Yearly Report Benoit weekend racing at Delaware managed a highly respectable third behind Blue Canari Park, as older fillies and mares (Fr) in that Chantilly Classic June 6. Taken to the front take to the track Sunday for the GII Delaware H. Sum- in the early stages here, he was still traveling easily mer Wind Dancer (Siberian Summer), most recently when his rivals tried to ruffle his feathers at the top of winner of the June 6 GIII Hawthorne H., is the 5-2 the straight. Quickening clear again, he was allowed to morning-line favorite in that 10-furlong affair. coast to the line under a hand ride. “He will be rested until the G2 Prix Niel [at Longchamp Sept. 12] and we Saturday, Delaware Park can dream about the G1 Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe [at DELAWARE OAKS-GII, $500,000, 3yo, f, 1 1/16m Longchamp Oct. 3] now,” commented the Lagardere PP HORSE SIRE JOCKEY WT Family’s Racing Manager Roland de Longevialle. Click for 1 Becky in Pink Formal Gold Arroyo 115 the free racing-post.co.uk chart or the free brisnet.com catalogue- 2 Strategy A.P. Indy no rider 115 style pedigree. 3 Richetta Polish Numbers Rose 115 4 Pilfer Deputy Minister Caraballo 117 Wednesday, Maisons-Laffitte, France 5 Yearly Report General Meeting Bailey 122 PRIX EUGENE ADAM (GRAND PRIX DE MAISONS- 6 A Lulu ofa Menifee Menifee Dominguez 115 LAFFITTE)-G2, i105,000, Maisons-Laffitte, France, 7 Hopelessly Devoted Storm Creek Alvarado 119 3yo, 1 1/4mT, 2:07.90, sf. 8 Irish Melody Unbridled’s Song Velazquez 115 1--@VALIXIR (IRE), 123, c, 3, by Trempolino 9 Ender’s Sister A.P. Indy Velasquez 119 1st Dam: Vadlamixa (Fr) (SW-Fr), by Linamix (Fr) 10 Bending Strings American Chance no rider 115 2nd Dam: Vadlava (Fr), by Bikala (Ire) 3rd Dam: Vadsa, by Halo. Sunday, Delaware Park O-Lagardere Family; B-Jean-Luc Lagardere; T-Andre DELAWARE H.-GII, $750,000, 3yo/up, f/m, 1 1/4m Fabre; J-Eric Legrix; i59,850. Lifetime Record: PP HORSE SIRE JOCKEY WT MG1SP-Fr, 7 starts, 4 wins, 3 places, i267,140. 1 Shiny Sheet Press Card Rose 115 2--Delfos (Ire), 123, c, 3, Green Tune--Akhla, by 2 Misty Sixes Summer Squall Pino 116 Nashwan. O-Leonidas Marinopoulos; B-Stilvi 3 Go on Baby With Approval Castellano 112 Compania Financiera SA; i23,100. 4 Gelli Geri Dominguez 112 3--Hazyview (GB), 123, c, 3, Cape Cross (Ire)--Euridice 5 Roar Emotion Roar Bailey 117 (Ire), by Woodman. (70,000gns wnlg ‘01 TATDEC; 6 Cloakof Vagueness El Prado (Ire) Arroyo 112 80,000gns yrl ‘02 TATHOU). O-T Mohan; B-N E 7 Redoubled Miss Adhocracy Dominguez 115 Poole; i11,025. 8 Firecard Press Card no rider 108 Margins: 3, HF, 2HF. Odds: 0.60, 5.40, 8.00. 9 Summer Wind Dancer Siberian Summer Espinoza 116 Also Ran: African Dream (GB), Mohandas (Fr), Tiganello 10 Savedbythelight Saint Ballado no rider 114 (Ger). Scratched: Ecole d'Art. www.hillndalefarms.com 30, 33, 68, 81, 119, 143, 196, 213, 366 TDN P HEADLINE NEWS • 7/15/04 • PAGE 2 of 2 Paramount N E W S T O D A Y PARAMOUNT TO CONSIGN AT TATTS P P Sales, managed by Pat Costello, and Jamie Railton have BOWL OF FLOWERS, WINKFIELD NAMED TO announced a joint venture to consign horses at this HALL Bowl of Flowers (Sailor--Flower Bowl, by year’s Tattersalls October yearling sale in Newmarket. Alibhai), a two-time filly champion in the 1960s and “We have a few European-type mares and we feel that international rider Jimmy Winkfield have been elected to we’ll have more horses in the future and it’s kind of a the National Museum of Racing’s Hall of Fame. The two natural step forward for us to sell them over there,” were approved by the Museum’s Historic Review Com- Costello said. “I’m very excited about the consignment. mittee and will be inducted next month along with This year, we’re bringing over two Red Ransoms, a trainer Shug McGaughey, jockey Kent Desormeaux and Machiavellian and a Giant’s Causeway. They’re all nice champions Skip Away and Flawlessly. “The Historic individuals and we’ll be very well represented over Review Committee was established to review horses there.” Paramount Sales, which combines the forces of and individuals of the distant past in racing,” museum Taylor Made Farm and Gaines-Gentry Thoroughbreds, director Peter Hammell explained. “We recognize that was founded just three years ago, but has sold well at over the years some worthy candidates might not win American auction houses. Part of their consignment to election and then gradually fade from memory.” the 2002 Keeneland September sale was a colt by Winkfield won the 1901 Kentucky Derby aboard His Danzig--Catchascatchcan (GB) (Pursuit of Love {GB}), Eminence and the 1902 Run for the Roses with Alan-a- who was purchased by Demi O’Byrne for $1.5 million. Dale. He is one of four jockeys to win the Derby in That colt, now known as Antonius Pius, won the G2 consecutive years. Winkfield moved to Russia in 1904 Railway S. last season and was third in this year’s G1 and became an instant success, winning four Russian St James’s Palace S. at Royal Ascot. This will be their Derbys, as well as top races in Poland and Germany. first overseas draft. Railton, also a relative newcomer to During the Russian Revolution, the jockey led a number the business, has made a big splash, according to of people and some 200 horses on a 1,000-mile escape Costello. “He’s made a big impact over there in the last out of Odessa. He took up riding in France and, by the three or four years. He’s one of the top consignors time of his retirement at the age of 50, he had won there now,” he commented. “Jamie knows a lot of the more than 2,500 races. He is the subject of the upcom- English breeders and trainers that don’t come to Amer- ing biography Wink: The Incredible Life and Epic Jour- ica and that will be a big help to us.” ney of Jimmy Winkfield. Written by Ed Hotaling, the book will be published in November by McGraw-Hill. Bowl of Flowers won 10 of 16 races at two and three. She was the juvenile filly champion in 1960 and was FOALING NEWS champion three-year-old filly the following season. A ALMA MATER OHIO, 9, Kyle’s Our Man--Ohio Royal T., homebred in Isabel Dodge Sloane’s Brookmeade Stable, by Winged T. Bowl of Flowers was one of six champions trained by Foal born June 10, a filly by Awesome Again. Elliott Burch. The Hall of Fame induction will be held Will be bred back to More Than Ready. Aug. 9 at 10:30 a.m. at the Fasig-Tipton Sale Pavilion Owned by Peter Wetterman. in Saratoga Springs, NY. Boarded at Taylor Made Farm, Ky. Accomplishments: SW. TDN TODAY All horses in the TDN are bred in North America, Headline News .................... 2 pages unless otherwise indicated Lane’s End Sales Grads Win! 10 Lane’s End Sales Graduates have won Stakes this year, including recent winners: FILM MAKER Jeff Coady ! Grade 1 Winner FILM MAKER - WON $200,000 All Along Breeders’ Cup S. ! BROADWAY GOLD - WON $100,000 Astoria S. (Undefeated) BOX 626, VERSAILLES, KY 40383 (859) 873-7300 FAX (859) 873-3742 ! SHANGHIED (by A.P. INDY) - WON Derby Trial S. (3 for 6) E-MAIL: [email protected] W EB SITE: lanesend.com THURSDAY, JULY 15, 2004 7th-BEL, $46,000, Alw, NW2X, (S), 3yo/up, 1 1/16m, 1:42 1/5, gd. WILL'S JOURNEY (c, 4, Will's Way--Holly Creek, by Crafty Prospector) was a half-length winner in his latest going a furlong shorter against state-breds at Aqueduct H N E W Y O R K H Apr. 17 and was given a 2-1 chance to make it two in a row. A close up fourth early, the chestnut gained a Yesterday’s Results: narrow lead after three quarters in 1:10.99 and drew 3rd-BEL, $50,000, Alw, NW3X, 3yo/up, f/m, 1mT, off in the stretch to score by an eye-catching 11 1/2- 1:38 4/5, sf.