MONDAY, AUGUST 15, 2016 RECORD COLT PACES FASIG NEW YORK SALE GUNNEVERA PICKS UP by Jessica Martini PIECES IN >SPECIAL= The Fasig-Tipton New York-Bred Yearlings Sale, condensed down to one session when severe weather in Saratoga forced the cancellation of Saturday=s scheduled evening session, concluded Sunday with a sales-record $450,000 top price even as figures were off slightly from 2015. A total of 177 yearlings sold for $13,672,500. The average was down 5.5% to $77,246, while the median dipped 7.7% to $60,000. A year ago, 182 horses grossed $14,876,500 for an average of $81,739 and a median of $65,000. AI think it was a pretty similar marketplace to last year,@ said Fasig-Tipton President and CEO Boyd Browning, Jr. AIt might be a tiny bit tighter. We saw slight declines, not alarming declines, but slight declines. If you are in the upper echelon of the catalogue, whatever catalogue it happens to be, you=re going to be in really good shape and there is plenty of activity.@ Cont. p9 IN TDN EUROPE TODAY Gunnevera (left) gets up in the Saratoga Special | Adam Coglianese FRANKEL OUT IN FRONT AGAIN AT ARQANA Progeny of Frankel (GB) proved popular during the opening Allowed to linger several lengths behind his four rivals in session of Arqana’s August sale, with Shadwell snapping up the Sunday=s GII Saratoga Special S., Peacock Racing Stables=s session-topping colt by Frankel for €850,000. Gunnevera (Dialed In) took advantage of a hot early pace and Click or tap here to go straight to TDN Europe. stormed down the center of the track and came calling late to cause a 9-1 upset. Recruiting Ready (Algorithms) crossed the line second, but was ultimately demoted to fourth for >clobbering= Tip Tap Tapizar (Tapizar) as the field raced into the far turn. The latter was placed second while Sonic Mule (Distorted Humor) was put up to third. "My horse is a really good horse,@ said jockey Javier Castellano, winning his fourth of the afternoon. AWe came from behind, in the clear and finished really well. I think he had a really good setup today and everything went the right way.@ Gunnevera turned in a debut effort that was promising enough, finishing 3 1/2 lengths behind the still-unbeaten Three Rules (Gone Astray) in a June 10 maiden over a sloppy Gulfstream main track, then showed some late interest to finish fourth to that rival in the July 2 Birdonthewire S. in Hallandale. The chestnut backed up on just two weeks= rest for his latest, but the quick turnaround was no issue, as he bridged a four-length deficit in the final furlong to graduate by 3/4 of a length July 16. Cont. p3 PRESIDENT & CO-PUBLISHER Barry Weisbord @barryweisbord [email protected] SR. 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Ray Villa [email protected] TODAY’S GRADED STAKES WORLDWIDE INFORMATION EDT Race Click for TV International Editor 9:25a Prix de Lieurey-G3, DEA ---------------- ----- Kelsey Riley @kelseynrileyTDN 10:00a Prix Guillaume d’Ornano-Haras du Saint-Germain-G2, DEA ---------------- ----- [email protected] 10:40a Prix Gontaut-Biron Hong Kong Jockey Club-G3, DEA ---------------- ----- European Editor Emma Berry [email protected] Newmarket Bureau, Cafe Racing Sean Cronin & Tom Frary [email protected] 60 Broad Street, Suite 100 Red Bank, NJ 07701 732-747-8060 | 732-747-8955 (fax) www.TheTDN.com TDN HEADLINE NEWS • PAGE 3 OF 15 • THETDN.COM MONDAY • AUGUST 15, 2016 FIRST GRADED WINNER FOR FRESHMAN SIRE The opening quarter-mile was up in a pressured :21.69, and as Sunday, Saratoga Race Course they made the bend into the far turn, Tip Tap Tapizar was taken SARATOGA SPECIAL S.-GII, $196,000, SAR, 8-14, 2yo, 6 1/2f, up after being broadsided by the race favorite, who was going 1:17.00, ft. best of the leading trio while widest on the track. The Sagamore 1--#@GUNNEVERA, 118, c, 2, by Dialed In runner cruised to the 1st Dam: Unbridled Rage, by Unbridled front under a hold 2 2nd Dam: Suite, by Graustark 1/2 furlongs from the 3rd Dam: Minstrel Princess, by The Minstrel wire and as he began ($16,000 Ylg '15 KEESEP). O-Peacock Racing Stables, LLC; to widen B-Brandywine Farm & Stephen Upchurch (KY); T-Antonio Sano; approaching the final J-Javier Castellano. $120,000. Lifetime Record: 4-2-1-0, eighth of a mile, $156,000. *Second black-type winner (first GSW) for freshman Gunnevera was sire (by Mineshaft). Werk Nick Rating: A. Click for the finding his best stride eNicks report & 5-cross pedigree. and was emerging as Gunnevera (left) rallies widest CO-BRED, FOALED & RAISED by Brandywine Farm (Jim & Pam Robinson) the sole late danger. into the lane | Adam Coglianese Irad Ortiz Jr. took a concerned look under his right armpit and got to work right- 2--Tip Tap Tapizar, 118, c, 2, Tapizar--Counterpoise, by Storm handed on the chalk, but Gunnevera kept plugging away and Cat. ($175,000 Ylg '15 KEESEP). O-Whispering Oaks Farm LLC; was up in the final three jumps. B-Summer Hill Farm LLC (LA); T-Steven M. Asmussen. $40,000. "I liked the race, but I told [Javier] Castellano, 'he's slow but the last three furlongs are strong,=@ commented winning trainer Antonio Sano. AI liked this horse at a longer distance. We'll see 3--Sonic Mule, 118, c, 2, Distorted Humor--Globe Trot, by A.P. you Sept. 5 here [for the GI, $350,000 Hopeful S.]." Indy. ($175,000 Ylg '15 KEESEP). O-Calumet Farm; B-WinStar Farm, LLC (KY); T-Todd A. Pletcher. $20,000. SELECT SALES Graduate...Exceeding Expectations Pedigree Notes: Margins: 1, (14), 3 3/4. Odds: 9.20, 11.20, 2.40. Gunnevera is one of five winners for his first-crop sire (by Also Ran: *Recruiting Ready, Get Lit N Get Wild. Mineshaft) and is his first graded winner as well as his maiden *Recruiting Ready finished second, but was DQd to fourth. American black-type winner. Dialed In=s daughter Ruffenuff (ex Click for the Equibase.com chart, the TJCIS.com PPs or the free Augusta Queen, by Forestry) broke her maiden on her career Equineline.com catalogue-style pedigree. VIDEO, sponsored by debut in the Princess Margaret S. at Alberta=s Northlands Park. Fasig-Tipton. The $16,000 Keeneland September, who descends from the Immediately out the back, Gunnevera found himself better female family of Sovereign Award winner Van Lear Rose (Stroll) than a half-dozen lengths behind as longshot Get Lit and Get --also from the A.P. Indy sire line--is the final live foal produced Wild (Wildcat Heir) pushed through at the rail to take up the by her 21-year-old Maryland-bred dam. running as Sonic Mule, Tip Tap Tapizar and Recruiting Ready were right on the pace stacked up to the outside. TDN HEADLINE NEWS • PAGE 4 OF 15 • THETDN.COM MONDAY • AUGUST 15, 2016 Graded-Stakes Results cont. A maiden winner in five Irish starts for trainer Aidan O=Brien, Point Piper won the H. F. Brubaker S. in his second start for this Sunday, Emerald Downs barn a little over a year ago and earned his first bit of graded LONGACRES MILE H.-GIII, $200,000, EMD, 8-14, 3yo/up, 1m, black-type when third to Majestic Harbor (Rockport Harbor) in 1:32.90 (NTR), ft. the GIII Mineshaft H. at the Fair Grounds this past Feb. 20. The 1--@POINT PIPER, 118, h, 6, by Giant=s Causeway bay entire passed a few rivals when a never-nearer fifth to 1st Dam: Imagine (Ire) (Hwt. 3yo Filly-Eng at 11-14f, Melatonin (Kodiak Kowboy) in the GI Santa Anita H. Mar. 12, G1SW-Eng & Ire, $527,013), by Sadler's Wells rounded out the triple at 41-1 behind Effinex (Mineshaft) in the 2nd Dam: Doff the Derby, by Master Derby GII Oaklawn H. Apr. 16 and was exiting a latest fourth in the 3rd Dam: Margarethen, by Tulyar GII Californian S. at Santa Anita May 22. ($80,000 3yo '13 FTKHRA). O-Hollendorfer, Gatto & Russo Favored speester O B Harbor won the hop and made a Racing; B-Barronstown Stud (KY); T-Jerry Hollendorfer; J-Mario relatively easy lead as Mario Gutierrez was able to secure a rail- Gutierrez.