SUNDAY, AUGUST 28, 2016 FLINTSHIRE PUTS THEM TO THE >SWORD= STAKING HIS CLAIM IN THE Heading into Saturday=s GI Longines Sword Dancer Invitational SOPHOMORE DIVISION S., bad luck was, for all intents and purposes, the only true opponent facing Juddmonte Farm=s Flintshire (GB) (Dansili {GB}). Off at 20 cents on the dollar while in search of a fourth consecutive win on these shores and looking to successfully defend his Sword Dancer title, the 6-year-old was given a daring hedge-clipping trip by Javier Castellano, was able to squeeze through that slimmest of openings inside of his rabbit Inordinate (Harlan=s Holiday) in upper stretch and streaked home to defeat stablemate Money Multiplier (Lookin at Lucky) by 1 3/4 lengths. For the third straight year, Twilight Eclipse (Purim) rounded out the Sword Dancer trifecta. AI've never seen anything like him outside of Lady Eli. He's the greatest horse I've ever seen,@ enthused trainer Chad Brown. "He came to me a great racehorse. I just try to keep him happy and healthy. Give credit to my team. They have kept him in top form." Cont. p7 Arrogate All Alone at the Wire | NYRA/Coglianese Arrogate: to take or claim something without justification. IN TDN EUROPE TODAY After crushing General Assembly=s 37-year-old 1 1/4-mile track record at Saratoga while setting scorching early fractions in a GI ‘BART’ THE BEST IN MEMSIE Travers S. performance for the ages, it=s pretty safe to say that Black Heart Bart (Aus) (Blackfriars {Aus}) landed the G1 New Zealand Bloodstock Memsie S. at Caulfield Racecourse Saturday, even the most over-the-top praise of >TDN Rising Star= Arrogate the first Group 1 of the Australian season. Click or tap here to go (Unbridled=s Song)=s 13 1/2-length win in his stakes debut would straight to TDN Europe. be quite justified. AWhat he did today is pretty incredible,@ Bob Baffert said of the Juddmonte colorbearer=s tour de force. AHe looks like a superstar in the making. So I think the fans will remember watching a horse like this because I know when I see performances like this, it=s very rare.@ It was an emotional win for the Hall of Fame conditioner, securing his first Travers since Horse of the Year Point Given in 2001, fresh off the heels of last year=s Triple Crown hero American Pharoah (Pioneerof the Nile) getting upset in the Mid- Summer Derby. Baffert also trains the runner-up in Saturday=s renewal, American Freedom (Pulpit). ALast year you probably could have poured me out of a shot glass,@ Baffert admitted. AWe were pretty dejected. I felt bad for the horse. The horse got beat, but he ran his heart out. The whole town came out to see him do something like Arrogate did today. 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Travers Coverage cont. Arrogate completed a Juddmonte daily double following Flintshire (GB) (Dansili {GB})=s score in the GI Sword Dancer S., while Baffert took the GI King=s Bishop S. earlier on the card with fellow >TDN Rising Star= Drefong (Gio Ponti). Breeders’ Cup Filly & Mare Turf: Baffert began training October 2, Longines Prix de L’Opera- GI for Prince Khalid CHY, 3yo & up F & M, 1 1/4m (T), Closes August 29 Abdullah=s operation three years ago. Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf: APrince Khalid has October 2, Total Prix Marcel Boussac- GI been in major CHY, 2yo F, 1m (T), Closes August 29 international racing for 40 years, and he's had For additional information, incl. the complete Win and You’re In schedule, Dr. Chandler (right) in the Travers click here or call the Breeders’ Cup Racing Office at (859) 514-9422. some of the best horses *Travel awards for ALL Championship starters (based outside CA). winner=s circle | Sarah K. Andrew in the world,@ said Dr. John Chandler, President of Juddmonte Farms USA. AAnd he has established by General Assembly in a sloppy renewal of the always had implicit trust in his trainers. He's never told a trainer 1979 Travers. The 13 1/2-length margin is the third-largest in what to do, where to run a horse, or when not to run a horse. Travers history behind Damascus=s 22-length romp in 1967. So, after Bobby [Frankel] died, we didn't have any horses in AI rode his father--he looks so California, and he said he'd like to have some there. Obviously, much like his father,@ Smith said. he chose Bob. Our breeding program doesn=t quite produce the AHe was an unbelievably sort of horses that Bob trained, and he said, >Well, buy some talented horse and his son might horses then.=@ be even more talented. It's Arrogate, a debut third as the 1-2 favorite after a slow start crazy. He just did a mile and a going six furlongs at Los Alamitos Apr. 17, has been unstoppable quarter and as you can see since shedding blinkers and stretching to two turns. The galloping out, I had trouble $560,000 KEESEP yearling purchase earned the >Rising Star= getting him to stop. We headed Arrogate | NYRA/Coglianese distinction with a powerful maiden win going 1 1/16 miles at for home and he picked it up Santa Anita June 5, then added a pair of easy optional claiming when I asked him. I was amazed how he lengthened his stride tallies while facing four rivals in Arcadia June 24 and only two the last sixteenth of a mile and opened up.@ others at Del Mar Aug. 4. As for what=s next, Baffert added, AI really didn't have a plan. It was unclear which of the two Baffert pupils would lead early This was the plan, today. So I'll just get him back, and then we'll in the Travers, but Arrogate, drawn on the rail beneath Mike see how much this race took out of him. That was a pretty big Smith, seized command into the first turn with stablemate jump that he made today. I'm sure that all his Beyers and sheet American Freedom in closest pursuit. The fractions were more numbers are going to be off the chart. There's no rush. I think than honest--:23.23 and :46.84 and six furlongs in 1:10.85--but that he's the kind of horse that, after what he did today, he Arrogate seemed to be getting stronger as the race went on. could go into the Breeders' Cup fresh like Pharaoh did. I don't Arrogate began to open up turning for home and from there, it think that's a big problem for him. I think that, what he did was only a question of by how much. And how fast. Arrogate=s today, he deserves a little break.@ final time of 1:59.36 shattered the track record of 2:00 flat TDN HEADLINE NEWS • PAGE 4 OF 18 • THETDN.COM SUNDAY • AUGUST 28, 2016 Pedigree Notes..