WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 9, 2019 FULL FIELD SET FOR JESSAMINE GISW & GI PRODUCER A competitive group of 14 juvenile fillies are set to compete AMONG FIRST for a spot in next month's GI Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies at Keeneland Wednesday in the GII J.P. Morgan Chase Jessamine S. SUPPLEMENTS TO FTKNOV The likely favorite is undefeated Jezebel's Kitten (Kitten's Joy). A debut winner at Ellis Aug. 10, the Brad Cox pupil followed suit with a decisive score in the Juvenile Fillies S. at Kentucky Downs Aug. 31. Todd Pletcher saddles a live contender in Sweet Melania (American Pharoah). Third in her first two attempts sprinting on dirt, the $600,000 KEESEP buy blossomed when switched to the turf and stretched to a route of ground, earning her diploma in a Saratoga test July 14. She came up just a neck short next out in that venue's P.G. Johnson S. Aug. 29. Cont. p3 IN TDN EUROPE TODAY DUBAWI DEMAND SOARS AT BOOK 1 OPENER A colt by Dubawi (Ire) topped the first session of the Mirth | Benoit Tattersalls October Yearling Sale Book 1 at 3.6 million guineas in Newmarket on Tuesday. Click or tap here to go straight to Recent GI Rodeo Drive S. victress Mirth (Colonel John) TDN Europe. (Hip 205) and Torreadora (El Prado {Ire}) (Hip 204), dam of GI Woodbine Mile hero El Tormenta (Stormy Atlantic), headline a group of six supplemental entries for the Nov. 5 Fasig-Tipton November Sale. Mirth will be consigned by Taylor Made as a racing/broodmare prospect and Torreadora is offered in foal to Munnings by Warrendale Sales. The other additions are: MGSW Cactus Kris (Cactus Ridge) (Hip 202), who sells in foal to Twirling Candy as part of the Lane's End consignment; French GSW Barkaa (Fr) (Siyouni {Fr}) (Hip 203) is offered as a racing or broodmare prospect by Elite; Steamy Hot (Discreet Cat) (Hip 206) is a half-sister to the dam of GISW Eight Rings (Empire Maker) and is consigned by Eaton Sales as a racing/broodmare prospect; and 2-year-old K P Dreamin (Union Rags) (Hip 207), who was third in the GI Chandelier S., is offered by Taylor Made as a racing/broodmare prospect. Fasig-Tipton will continue to accept supplemental entries until the Breeders' Cup. THE WAR FRONT WE WILL ALL REMEMBER. PUBLISHER & CEO Sue Morris Finley @suefinley [email protected] V.P., INTERNATIONAL OPERATIONS Gary King @garykingTDN [email protected] EDITORIAL [email protected] Editor-in-Chief Jessica Martini @JessMartiniTDN Managing Editor Wednesday, October 9, 2019 Alan Carasso @EquinealTDN Senior Editor Steve Sherack @SteveSherackTDN Racing Editor Brian DiDonato @BDiDonatoTDN News and Features Editor Ben Massam @BMassamTDN Associate Editors Christie DeBernardis @CDeBernardisTDN Joe Bianca @JBiancaTDN ADVERTISING [email protected] Director of Advertising Alycia Borer Advertising Manager Lia Best Advertising Designer Amanda Crelin Advertising Assistants Alexa Reisfield Amie Morosco Advertising Assistant/Dir. Of Distribution Rachel McCaffrey Photographer/Photo Editor Sale Topper! Lot 148 became the third son of Darley’s Dubawi (Ire) to reach seven Sarah K. Andrew @SarahKAndrew figures at Tattersalls on Tuesday, selling to Anthony Stroud for 3.6 million gns [email protected] ($4,638,060). See TDN Europe for more. | Tattersalls Social Media Strategist Justina Severni GOUVERNEUR MORRIS OUT OF BREEDERS' CUP 3 Director of Customer Service 'TDN Rising Star' and GI Claiborne Breeders' Futurity S. Vicki Forbes [email protected] runner-up Gouverneur Morris (Constitution) will skip the Breeders' Cup and instead get a break at the farm. Marketing Manager Alayna Cullen @AlaynaCullen PRESERVATIONIST RETIRED TO AIRDRIE 5 Director of Information Technology GI Woodward S. victor Preservationist (Arch) has been Ray Villa [email protected] retired from racing and will stand at Airdrie Farm. Bookkeeper Terry May [email protected] TODAY’S GRADED STAKES EST Race Click for TV WORLDWIDE INFORMATION 4:24p Jessamine S.-GII, KEE TJCIS PPs TVG 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 Red Bank, NJ 07701 732-747-8060 | 732-747-8955 (fax) www.TheTDN.com TDN HEADLINE NEWS • PAGE 3 OF 14 • THETDN.COM WEDNESDAY • OCTOBER 9, 2019 Jessamine cont. from p1 Thoroughbreds and Gary Barber and transferred to Casse. The bay rallied to be fourth in her lone start for that barn in Woodbine's GI Natalma S. Sept. 15. GOUVERNEUR MORRIS TO SKIP BREEDERS’ CUP by Joe Bianca Team Valor International and WinStar Farm’s ‘TDN Rising Star’ Gouverneur Morris (Constitution), a distant runner-up in Saturday’s GI Claiborne Breeders’ Futurity at Keeneland, will pass on a run in the GI TVG Breeders’ Cup Juvenile, Team Valor’s Barry Irwin confirmed to TDN Tuesday. The story was first reported by Daily Racing Form. "I thought he had a very hard race and was not hoping to see Jezebel's Kitten | Coady that hard of a race,” Irwin said of Gouverneur Morris, who was Chad Brown and Peter Brant can never be ignored in a turf caught wide on both turns and covered 39 more feet than race and they team up here with Indochine (War Front). Third in winner Maxfield (Street Sense), according to Trakus data. “"He her turf sprint unveiling at the Spa Aug. 9, the dark bay broke lost a lot of ground and ran over a lot more ground than through next out going a mile over the Belmont lawn Sept. 14. everyone else. We like him and think he’s going to be a Triple Mark Casse also sends out an interesting competitor in Crown-type horse. I’ll do with him what I did with [Irwin’s 2011 Diamond Sparkles (War Front). Breaking her maiden at second GI Kentucky Derby winner] Animal Kingdom and turn him out, asking in England July 26, she was privately purchased by Eclipse give him six weeks in the paddock at WinStar.” Cont. p4 LIAM’S MAP Unbridled’s Song – Miss Macy Sue, by Trippi BASIN HOPEFUL S. (G1) AMONG THE GREAT STALLIONS THAT HAVE SIRED MULTIPLE GRADE 1 WINNERS FROM THEIR FIRST CROP OF 2YOs DANZIG ALYDAR SADLER’S WELLS TAPIT UNCLE MO UNION RAGS WICKED WHISPER FRIZETTE S. (G1) lanesend.com t: 859.873.7300 TDN HEADLINE NEWS • PAGE 4 OF 14 • THETDN.COM WEDNESDAY • OCTOBER 9, 2019 Gouverneur Morris cont. Hammered down to 3-5 when debuting on closing day at Saratoga, the gray won by a wrapped-up nine lengths, but showed some greenness that day when having to be asked along early by jockey John Velazquez. Irwin said he saw some of that reappear Saturday at Keeneland when Gouverneur Morris “dropped the bit around the three-eighths pole” and that the colt needs to develop mentally as well as physically “He’s just green,”Irwin commented. “Three times in that first race, he did kind of weird things. He’s still immature. He’s got all the ability in the world, but that’s why I want to give him a little time.” Follow the TDN staff on Twitter Gouverneur Morris | Sarah Andrew Thoroughbred Daily News Irwin added that his main goal with Gouverneur Morris’s layoff will be for the $575,000 Fasig-Tipton Gulfstream buy to add @kelseynrileyTDN @BDiDonatoTDN @SteveSherackTDN weight to his frame. @JessMartiniTDN @CDeBernardisTDN @BMassamTDN “Hopefully, he’ll have a growth spurt, gain some weight and @EquinealTDN @HLAndersonTDN @suefinley get more robust,” Irwin said. “When I bought him, he was a little underweight, he gained some weight but is still a little light and @MKane49 @thorntontd @garykingTDN we want to do the right thing and build him back up.” @SarahKAndrew @theTDN @JBiancaTDN TDN HEADLINE NEWS • PAGE 5 OF 14 • THETDN.COM WEDNESDAY • OCTOBER 9, 2019 PRESERVATIONIST RETIRED TO AIRDRIE breaking his maiden going 6 furlongs in 1:09 1. He had exceptional ability, and when combined with his blue blooded pedigree and the over-the-top good looks that made him Arch’s most expensive yearling of his sale year, we really believe we have an exceptional stallion prospect. The team at Centennial Farms is absolutely top class, and we are very grateful to them for giving us the opportunity to stand their special horse.” “Preservationist was one of the most gifted and generous horses I’ve ever trained,” added Jerkens. “I’ve said multiple times that the two best training horses I’ve ever had were Preservationist and Quality Road. I’m convinced he would’ve stamped himself as a top miler had he not so excelled at the longer distances.” Preservationist will stand his initial season at Airdrie for a stud fee of $10,000. Preservationist | Sarah Andrew LIAM’S MAP COLT TOPS OBS OPENER Centennial Farms’ Grade I winner Preservationist (Arch--Flying by Brian DiDonato & Jessica Martini Dixie, by Dixieland Band) has been retired from racing and will The Ocala Breeders’ Sales Company’s October Yearling Sale take up stud duty at Mr. and Mrs. Brereton C. Jones’s Airdrie opened Tuesday with competitive bidding for the top lots Stud for the 2020 breeding season. leading to an increase in both average and median and a colt by Bred in Kentucky by Emory A. Hamilton, Preservationist was a hot freshman sire Liam’s Map bringing top price of $230,000. $485,000 yearling purchase by Centennial before going on to In all, 121 yearlings sold for $5,605,200. The average was become one of this year’s top-rated older horses following wins $46,324--a 13% increase from the 2018 select session--and the in the GI Woodward S.