TUESDAY, OCTOBER 10, 2017 BIG NAMES THROUGHOUT DIVERSIFY STEALS GOLD CUP WITH HONEST EFFORT The Week in Review, by T.D. Thornton FTKNOV CATALOGUE You might call it a nice bit of honest thievery that earned Diversify (Bellamy Road) the wire-to-wire win in Saturday=s GI Jockey Club Gold Cup at Belmont Park. It was no secret going into the race that this New York-bred >TDN Rising Star= would attempt to seize the lead and wing it on the front end for as far as he could over 10 furlongs. Diversify and jockey Irad Ortiz, Jr. executed their part of the plan flawlessly, opening up by three lengths in the initial stages before settling willingly into a rhythmic backstretch run through moderate splits about two lengths ahead of the pack. Furlong after furlong, Diversify=s head-of-affairs tactics were aided by an absence of internal pressure from the perceived main dangers in the JCGC field, most of whom were closers known for firing their best shots in the latter stages. Cont. p4 Tepin (left) & Songbird are among the many top-class racemares IN TDN EUROPE TODAY catalogued for Fasig-Tipton=s November Sale | Horsephotos LOPE DE VEGA FILLY STARS AT BOOK 2 The 192-strong Fasig-Tipton November Sale catalogue, which A half-sister to recent French Group 2 winner Luminate (Ire) features 15 Grade I winners and another seven Grade I (Lawman {Fr}) topped day one of Tatts Book 2 when selling for producers, has been released. Scheduled for Monday, Nov. 6 at 370,000gns. Click or tap here to go straight to TDN Europe. 4:00 p.m. in Lexington, the single-session sale features 81 selected weanlings followed by top-shelf racing prospects and broodmares. Fasig will also be offering an enhanced catalogue which features continuously updated catalogue pages, past performances and race replays; pedigree analysis for all racing/broodmare prospects and broodmares, as well as photos, statistics and other resources. The enhanced catalogue can be viewed via mobile phone, tablet or computer. Print catalogues will be available as of Oct. 17. AThis is an outstanding catalogue from top to bottom--there is depth, diversity, and quality,@ said Fasig-Tipton President Boyd Browning. AThe evening will begin with 81 selected weanlings-- the strongest group of foals we have put together in many years--and then move into a top rung collection of racing stars and high-class broodmares. In total, this year=s catalogue features 50 graded stakes winners or producers, 22 of which are Grade I, three Eclipse champions and four Breeders= Cup winners. Nearly 80% of the racing/broodmare prospects and broodmares catalogued are black-type earners or producers.@ Cont. p3 Wnrs Earnings Comparing OVERANALYZE 23 $1,058,572 - With 12 weeks to go FINAL STATISTICS Recorded By Recent CHAMPION Dialed In 19 $1,544,836 FIRST-CROP Uncle Mo 28 $3,675,294 Quality Road 18 $1,572,480 SIRES: Scat Daddy 29 $1,521,410 Congrats 25 $1,660,269 Tapit 24 $2,811,337 #1 FIRST-CROP SIRE DIXIE UNION - UNACLOUD, by UNACCOUNTED FOR 859.873.1717 | www.winstarfarm.com Source: Arion Pedigrees PRESIDENT & CO-PUBLISHER Barry Weisbord @barryweisbord [email protected] SR. V.P. & CO-PUBLISHER Sue Morris Finley @suefinley [email protected] V.P., INTERNATIONAL OPERATIONS Gary King @garykingTDN [email protected] EDITORIAL Tuesday, October 10, 2017 [email protected] Editor-in-Chief Jessica Martini @JessMartiniTDN Managing Editor Alan Carasso @EquinealTDN Senior Editor Steve Sherack @SteveSherackTDN Racing Editor Brian DiDonato @BDiDonatoTDN Associate Editors Christie DeBernardis @CDeBernardisTDN Ben Massam @BMassamTDN Joe Bianca @JBiancaTDN Assistant Editor Bobby Klatt ADVERTISING [email protected] Director of Advertising Alycia Borer Advertising Manager Lia Best Advertising Designer Amanda Crelin Remembering Penny Chenery. Horsemen, racing professionals, and fans gather in Advertising Assistants Alexa Reisfield the Keeneland Sales Pavilion on Monday to honor the life and legacy of Helen Michelle Benson "Penny" Chenery, who passed away on September 16th. Story on page 8. | Keeneland Photo Editor/Dir. of Distribution Sarah K. Andrew @SarahKAndrew [email protected] GORMLEY RETIRED TO SPENDTHRIFT 5 Two-time Grade I winner Gormley (Malibu Moon) Social Media Strategist has been retired from racing and will take up stud duties Justina Severni in 2018 at B. Wayne Hughes’s Spendthrift Farm. Director of Customer Service Vicki Forbes [email protected] TAYLOR MADE, WINSTAR PARTNER ON ‘STORM’ RIGHTS 6 Taylor Made Stallions, in partnership with WinStar Farm, Marketing Manager has entered an agreement to purchase the breeding rights Alayna Cullen @AlaynaCullen to versatile Grade I winner Midnight Storm (Pioneerof the Nile) upon his retirement. Director of Information Technology Ray Villa [email protected] TODAY’S GRADED STAKES EST Race Click for TV Bookkeeper Terry May 7:25a Prix Andre Baboin-Grand Prix des Provinces-G3, BLB -------------- ----- [email protected] WORLDWIDE INFORMATION International Editor Kelsey Riley @kelseynrileyTDN [email protected] European Editor Emma Berry [email protected] Associate International Editor Heather Anderson @HLAndersonTDN Newmarket Bureau, Cafe Racing Sean Cronin & Tom Frary [email protected] 60 Broad Street, Suite 100 TDN HEADLINE NEWS • PAGE 3 OF 10 • THETDN.COM TUESDAY • OCTOBER 10, 2017 FTKNOV cont. first crop of Triple Crown winner American Pharoah. The Fasig-Tipton November Sale will also offer a supplemental AIt looks like a very strong catalogue with a lot of really elite catalogue, with Fasig-Tipton accepting entries for the broodmares and broodmare prospects coming to the market@ supplemental portion through the Breeders= Cup Nov. 3-4. said Mark Taylor of Taylor Made Sales Agency, which consigns Among the top just-off-the-track racing/broodmare or the likes of Songbird, Sambuca Classica and Grade I-winning broodmare prospects to be offered include two-time Eclipse stallion prospect Ralis (Square Eddie) (hip 192). A[Songbird is] Award winner Songbird (Medaglia d=Oro) (hip 120), who won just one of those once-in-a-lifetime kind of horses. She=s here on the GI Breeders= Cup Juvenile Fillies; Royal Ascot wunderkind the farm and we=re very excited about that, but beyond her, and two-time champion grass mare Tepin (Bernstein) (hip 130), there=s just tons of depth and quality.@ who landed a historic victory in Royal Ascot=s G1 Queen Anne S., Taylor continued, AThe momentum we see in the marketplace as well as a win in the GI Breeders= Cup Mile; fellow globetrotter right now is just kind of building and the strongest part of the Miss Temple City (Temple City) (hip 99), who boasts victories whole market is the top-end broodmares and broodmare against males in Keeneland=s GI Shadwell Turf Mile S. and the GI prospects. The international audience really likes our product. A Maker=s 46 Mile S.; recent GI First Lady S. heroine Zipessa (City lot of these mares are really producing in Japan, in Europe and Zip) (hip 139), Canadian Horse of the Year and GI Breeders= Cup really around the world.@ Juvenile Fillies Turf victress Catch a Glimpse (City Zip) (hip 157); Taylor expects plenty of money to show up to meet the hip 162, Dacita (Chi) (Scat Daddy), who is a multiple champion in sizeable supply of top-end prospects. Chile and took her show Stateside with two Grade I victories; AWhen you get all these blockbuster type mares coming off and champion Finest City (City Zip) (hip 171), who won the GI the track at the same time, it almost has the same effect as Breeders= Cup Filly & Mare Sprint. having a major dispersal--I think the more quality that=s there, Also to be offered at the blockbuster auction is Sambuca the more money that steps up to participate,@ he said. AFor the Classica (Cat Thief) (hip 112), carrying a full to champion juvenile real cream of the crop, people come out of the woodwork. They Classic Empire (Pioneerof the Nile); and Wild Forest (Forest want to be there, they want to see what=s going to happen and Wildcat), carrying a full to MGISW >TDN Rising Star= and GI what [Songbird=s] worth, then what the next one=s worth in Breeders= Cup Distaff contender Paradise Woods (Union Rags). relation to her, and so on and so forth right down the line.@ The sale will kick off with 81 weanlings, including six from the TDN HEADLINE NEWS • PAGE 4 OF 10 • THETDN.COM TUESDAY • OCTOBER 10, 2017 Week in Review cont. Samaritan would return to training up in Saratoga and was By the time Keen Ice (Curlin) and Pavel (Creative Cause) unlikely for any Breeders= Cup race. A switch back to grass unleashed their stretch bids, Diversify still had a two-length (where he started his first six races) could be in his future. cushion backed up by untapped reserves of stamina, and he churned through the homestretch willingly maintaining a safe Go West, Young Guns margin that got whittled down to one length at the wire. The two winners of this past Saturday=s marquee stakes for In terms of the JCGC=s impact on the Nov. 4 GI Breeders= Cup 2-year-old males both exit a common stakes at Saratoga Race Classic at Del Mar, it is possible that the only challenger to Course earlier this season, and Firenze Fire (Poseidon=s Warrior) emerge out of this bunch willing to take on the likes of Arrogate and Free Drop Billy (Union Rags) are on target to square off (Unbridled=s Song) and Gun Runner (Candy Ride {Arg}) will be again in the GI Breeders= Cup Juvenile. runner-up Keen Ice. Despite a 3-for-24 lifetime record, the Firenze Fire won the GI Champagne S.