FRIDAY, JULY 1, 2016 SOMEWHERE IN (ON?) (NOT NEW) JERSEY FASIG-TIPTON CATALOGUES By Bill Finley 252 FOR SARATOGA SALE When it comes to racing I have always liked the offbeat. When you=ve seen 25 or so runnings of the GI Mother Goose S. at Belmont, the Mother Goose just doesn=t do it for you anymore. So while many of the finest 3-year-old fillies in the country will be racing at Belmont Park I will be some 3,500 miles away trying to figure out the card at Les Landes Race Course in Jersey. Not that Jersey. Not Monmouth Park Jersey or Bruce Springsteen, Chris Christie, Snooki or traffic circles, but the Isle of Jersey. It is part of the Channel Islands, a small group of islands just off the coast of Normandy, France yet part of the United Kingdom. Why I am I here? Because different is fun. Les Landes runs nine meetings a year. There is also one meeting on another of the Channel Islands, Guernsey. The Les Landes races will be held Friday and there is a five-race card, one jumper and four flat races. Cont. p4 Leading sire Tapit, who accounted for the 2015 sales-topper, has 13 yearlings catalogued for this year=s Saratoga sale | Mathea Kelley IN TDN EUROPE TODAY STAKES TARGETS FOR JUDDMONTE RUNNERS Fasig-Tipton has catalogued 252 selected yearlings for its Exciting 2-year-old filly Fair Eva (GB) (Frankel {GB}) is among the Saratoga Sale to be held Aug. 8-9. Sessions will begin each Juddmonte bluebloods with stakes ambitions this summer. evening at 6:30 p.m in the Humphrey S. Finney Pavilion. This Click or tap here to go straight to TDN Europe. year=s catalogue cover features Saratoga=s four 2015 Eclipse Champion sale graduates. AWe are thrilled with the catalogue,@ said Fasig-Tipton President and Chief Executive Officer Boyd Browning, Jr. AIt is a spectacular group of horses, both on the front cover and the back cover and everything in between. We=re really proud of it. We=re proud of this year=s group and we=re proud of our graduates. He added, ASaratoga produced four Eclipse Champions in 2015--American Pharoah, Songbird, Stellar Wind, and Tepin-- more than any other individual Thoroughbred auction in the world. And, not only are these horses great champions, they are arguably some of the most accomplished racehorses we=ve seen in some time--a testament to the type of quality our consignors offer at Saratoga.@ Some potential highlights of this year=s catalogue include hip 122, a War Front filly out of MGISW millionaire and GI Kentucky Oaks winner Plum Pretty (Medaglia d=Oro); and hip 49, a Tapit filly out of MGISW Her Smile (Include), one of 13 in the catalogue for her hugely successful sire. Cont. p3 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] Friday, July 1, 2016 EDITORIAL [email protected] Editor-in-Chief Jessica Martini @JessMartiniTDN Managing Editor Alan Carasso @EquinealTDN Senior Editor Steve Sherack @SteveSherackTDN Racing Editor Brian DiDonato @BDiDonatoTDN Associate Editor Christie DeBernardis @CDeBernardisTDN Assistant Editors Heather Anderson @HLAndersonTDN Ben Massam @BMassamTDN Joe Bianca @JBiancaTDN ADVERTISING [email protected] Director of Advertising Alycia Borer Advertising Manager Lia Kusch Advertising Designer Amanda Crelin Advertising Assistants Bitumen (Mineshaft) stamps himself as a juvenile with a very bright future with this Brittlan Wall @bwallTDN August Pons @APonsTDN runaway 'TDN Rising Star' performance at Churchill Downs Thursday. Alexa Reisfield Coady Photography Photo Editor/Dir. of Distribution AMERICAN FREEDOM GETS TEST IN IOWA DERBY Sarah K. 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AHis 2-year-olds are off to a fantastic start; he was Patrick=s Day 2015, is a Ghostzapper daughter of the talented a brilliant racehorse and obviously he=s off to a very successful Ivanavinalot (West Acre), making her a half-sister to the start as a stallion, so we=re very please to have the opportunity aforementioned and still-undefeated Songbird as well as the to have some Frankels this year. We didn=t have any last year, dam of GSW Mico Margarita (Run Away and Hide). There will but it=s just reflective of the growing international nature of our also be yearlings offered by business.@ Galileo (Ire), Animal Kingdom, And not to be forgotten is the inherent allure of Saratoga. Bernardini, Uncle Mo, the late AThe great thing about Saratoga is if you=re a racing enthusiast- Scat Daddy, Pioneerof the Nile, -whether a racing fan or a breeding fan or a sales fan--there is Medaglia d=Oro, Paynter and almost magical pixie dust in the air,@ he said. AThe quality of Curlin. Browning Jr. is particularly racing is fantastic, the atmosphere around it is so good, you see impressed with the depth of multiple generations of families with a Form talking about >who quality in terms of the Saratoga do you like in the third?= or who=s going to be a really hot sales sale=s sire power. sire this year. Saratoga puts a little bounce in everyone=s step, AI think all of us were a little bit whether you=re a consignor, buyer, trainer, owner, fan or a fearful of what was going to bettor. There=s always a sense of anticipation when you get to happen and how we were going Saratoga and we=re thrilled to be a big part of that.@ to replace the Storm Cats and The catalogue may now be viewed online. Print catalogues will Boyd Browning Jr. the A. P. Indys of the world and be available from all Fasig-Tipton offices beginning July 1. Horsephotos lo and behold, there are new superstars that emerge,@ he commented. AThe Tapits and in the form of exciting horses like War Front and Frankel and Uncle Mo is off to a phenomenal start and we have some really nice Fasig-Tipton Saratoga freshman sires. It is kind of an exciting time in the Thoroughbred Sires With 8+ Yearlings Catalogued industry with significant performers on the racetrack and significant performers in the breeding shed.@ Tapit 13 While the 2015 Saratoga was void of first-crop yearlings by the Uncle Mo 13 irrepressible Frankel, buyers will be able to avail themselves of a Curlin 12 couple of opportunities in 2016. Indian Creek, agent, offers hip Into Mischief 12 65, a Feb. 28-foaled filly out of MGSW J=ray (Distant View), Scat Daddy 12 making her a half-sister to MSW General Jack (Giant=s Medaglia d=Oro 10 Causeway). Hip 148 is a colt out of champion She Be Wild (Offlee Bernardini 9 Wild) from the consignment of Bluewater Sales, as agent. And Malibu Moon 9 after a year=s absence, Galileo offspring--a pair of colts and one Orb 8 filly--return to Saratoga. TDN HEADLINE NEWS • PAGE 4 OF 9 • THETDN.COM FRIDAY • JULY 1, 2016 Bill Finley cont. from p1 I can tell you that the feature race is the one jump race, the Channel Islands Champion Hurdle, and the winner will receive ,2,380. I also know that Mark Johnson, the track announcer at Churchill Downs between 2009 and 2013, is the regular caller at Les Landes. Go figure. I also googled away and found out that our New Jersey indeed comes from this Jersey. New Jersey was named by James, Duke of York (the brother of King Charles II of England), who was given New Jersey by his brother. James later gave New Jersey to Lord John Berkeley and Sir George Carteret. James named Racing at Les Landes the colony New Jersey Jersey Race Club photo to honor Carteret, who had been the Governor of Jersey, a British island in the English Channel. But that=s about all I know. Who are these horses, jockeys, trainers and where do they come from? Why would a remote island with just 92,000 residents have a racetrack? Can they compete on the mainland of the UK or are they hopelessly outclassed. Are there any past performances? I searched long and far for that information and could come up with little.