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FLETCHER JONES'SUNUSUAL RACING LEGACY

by Sid Fernando

Warmed by the fireplace, or perhaps by sipping yet another

glass of a Santa Ynez vineyard's rich and full-bodied red, I was

contemplating the new year and how it needs to be better than

the fiasco that was 2020. The wine, by the way, was issued by a

label called Westerly and named Fletcher's Red, and it happens

to be the namesake of a man who burned a short but bright

trajectory through horseracing. He's also had a positive impact

on young people's lives in ways in which he could never have

imagined or predicted.

By most accounts, the handsome, tough, and brilliant Fletcher

Jones had it all. He was enthusiastic about the future; about his

two sons; his extensive art collection that included a famous

Picasso; his horses; and his company that made it all possible,

which was the cutting-edge Computer Sciences Corporation

(CSC) that had turned him a multi-millionaire in his 30s. But

unless you're in your 70s or older, you've probably never heard

of him.

On a rainy evening in early November of 1972, shortly after an

election that subsequently featured one of the greatest crooks

of presidential history in Richard Nixon, Jones left his offices in

Century City and piloted his small plane towards home. His

destination was the nearly 4,000-acre Westerly Stud Farm in

Santa Barbara County near the Danish-settled village of Solvang,

about an hour northwest. Cont. p3

FLORIDA TRAINERS REACT TO LASIX BAN IN

STAKES by Bill Finley In Imprimis (Broken Vow), Joe Orseno has the morning-line

favorite in Friday's Janus S. at Gulfstream, the first race that will

be held at the South Florida track under new rules that prohibit

the use of Lasix in stakes races. Orseno isn't looking forward to

what will become the new normal for horsemen across the

country at most major tracks.

"It's a big adjustment and I'm not fond of the new rules," he

said. "I don't see how you can take a horse who has been

running on Lasix his whole life and all of a sudden penalize the

best horses in the country for being good horses. They didn't

think this through. I don't know how it won't be animal cruelty

when you see a horse come back and there is blood coming out

of both nostrils." Cont. p5

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Taking Stock cont. from p1 He'd bought the place in 1965, a smaller parcel first, the

Sigvard Hansen Ranch of transplanted eastern socialite, painter,

poet, author, and breeder Amory Hare Hutchinson, who'd died

the previous year. Later, Jones added a massive chunk of

adjoining acreage from the Rancho Piocho and developed

Westerly into what's been universally described as an

immaculate state-of-the-art facility for breeding, foaling, and

training--a home at one point to more than 300 horses, half of

them owned by Jones, with the others boarders. Promised Land

was one of three stallions at Westerly at the time, and it's where

his California-bred daughter Spectacular was conceived. She

would foal Spectacular Bid in 1976.

The only place comparable to Westerly in California back then

was nearby Flag Is Up Farm in Solvang, which was developed by

publishing heir Hastings Harcourt and Monty Roberts and

housed a number of stallions, including Petrone (Fr) and

Successor, the Bold Ruler champion 2-year-old colt of 1966

who'd been purchased for a reported $1 million from Wheatley

Stable. Both showplaces were nestled in a verdant northern

Santa Barbara valley between the Pacific Ocean and the foothills

of the Santa Ynez mountains, in a region not known at the time

as a place for breeding and raising high-class racehorses. Later,

other prominent farms would follow, including in 1975 Marty

Wygod's River Edge Farm near Buellton, a leading California

nursery for years and the home of California leading sire Pirate's

Bounty. Wygod, incidentally, once worked for Jones at CSC, and

Jones reportedly gifted Wygod with Wygod's first two horses.

Jones never made it home from that election night, reaching

neither the Santa Ynez airport nor the landing strip on a

driveway at Westerly that he also sometimes used. Instead, he

crashed into a ridge about eight miles from the airport and died,

aged 41 and in his prime. He was a skilled pilot in good health,

by all accounts, and there's never been an explanation of how

and why the plane crashed.

In late October of 2020, shortly before an election that

featured one of the most divisive, civics-challenged, and chaotic

presidents in history, The Fletcher Jones Foundation announced

that it was granting $1 million to endow a chair in Citizenship

and Civic Virtue in the Honors College at Azusa Pacific

University. "Students will learn what democracy requires of its

citizens and will benefit from an education that promotes moral

and political principles and practices concerned with the welfare

of the community as a whole," the Christian university said in a

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statement upon receiving the grant.

In 2019, the foundation awarded $6.4 million in grants and it

has altogether given more than $230 million since it first began

operations under John Pollock, who was Jones's longtime

attorney.

Pollock knew Jones well, liked and admired him, and wrote a

succinct and unvarnished biography of him. According to

Pollock, Jones wasn't a particularly charitable man. He wrote:

"Although today the world remembers the philanthropic

accomplishments of The Fletcher Jones Foundation and its

special support for the colleges and universities in California,

Fletcher did not, in his lifetime, spend money or time to help his

fellow man. His income tax returns for the last few years of his

life show charitable gifts of less than $200 per year. The creation

of The Fletcher Jones Foundation as the beneficiary of the bulk

of his estate was prompted more by his desire to minimize

estate taxes than it was to support in perpetuity the various

charitable and educational organizations that today receive over

$7 million a year."

It wasn't Jones's intent to help and educate young people, but

it's his legacy that he has done so, transcending anything he did

in racing, where he did quite a bit in a short time.

Typecast Versus Convenience

Jones bought his first yearlings in 1964, a year before

establishing Westerly, and one of them was Fleet Host, a

California-bred son of My Host who won the California Derby

and a division of the San Luis Rey and later went to stud at

Westerly. His best, however, was the Prince John mare

Typecast, who at six in 1972 defeated males in the Sunset H.,

Man O' War S., and Hollywood Park Invitational Turf H. and was

named the Eclipse champion handicap mare.

Craig Bernick, 42, who runs Glen Hill Farm, is that rare

youngster who knows of Jones, and it's not only because he

happens to be well read and a student of pedigrees and racing

history. His grandfather Leonard Lavin, then president of the

cosmetics giant Alberto-Culver Co., established Glen Hill in Ocala

at about the same time Jones was setting up his Santa Ynez

property, and the two titans clashed when Jones issued that

time-honored challenge to Lavin: My horse is faster than yours

and let's put up money for a match race and settle it.

Reports at the time said that Jones was irked that Lavin's

trainer, Willard Proctor, had suggested that Convenience, a

4-year-old daughter of Fleet Nasrullah who'd defeated Typecast

in the Vanity H. by a half-length with a five-pound advantage,

was just as good as Jones's mare, who'd finished second with

trouble.

The Typecast versus Convenience match race materialized at

Hollywood Park in mid-June of 1972 with each owner putting up

$100,000 and the track adding another $50,000 for a

winner-take-all purse of $250,000 over nine furlongs on dirt at

level weights--a record purse for a match at the time. The race

was memorable, with Convenience winning by a head in

1:47 3/5, and Jones, always pragmatic, was a gracious loser.

Five months later, Jones was dead, and the following January

his stock was dispersed for $4.4 million at a special auction at

Hollywood Park that drew buyers from around the world. Heron

Bloodstock, as agent for Shigeo Yoshida (not to be confused with

Zenya Yoshida, who purchased eventual leading Japanese sire

Northern Taste as a yearling for $100,000 in 1972), bought

Typecast for a then-world record of $725,000 for a horse at

auction. She was bred to Sir Ivor that spring and sent to

Yoshida's farm in Japan, where her second foal, the filly Pretty

Cast, was the champion older mare in Japan in 1980. There's

been only one other stakes winner from the family since then,

the aptly named Australian-bred Group 3 winner There's Only

One, whose fourth dam is Typecast. Convenience, on the other

hand, is ancestress of too many stakes winners to list here, and

Bernick said that Glen Hill still owns four mares that trace to her

--which is also a connection to his grandpa and tangentially to

Jones.

As for Westerly Stud Farm, it was split into parcels and sold.

Most notably, D. Wayne Lukas utilized part of it for his Westerly

Training Center, where horses such as Gl Kentucky Derby winner

Grindstone were prepared for the track. It later morphed into

part of what's now Tommy Town Thoroughbreds.

Perhaps the biggest growth in Santa Ynez since the breakup of

Westerly has been in the wine-growing sector. Michael

Speakman bought the Westerly label three years ago, and he's

been curious about Fletcher Jones since. By chance, I spoke to

him about Typecast and suggested that he name a bottle after

her, and he loved the idea and promised to do so in this new

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The best son of leading young sire CONSTITUTION.

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Classic-winning 3-year-old 1st Belmont Stakes-Gr.1, Belmont Park, 9f, by 3¾ lengths

1st Florida Derby-Gr.1, Gulfstream Park, 9f, on debut by 4¼ lengths Leading sires to win it include Scat Daddy, Quality Road, Constitution & Nyquist

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1st Holy Bull Stakes-Gr.3, Gulfstream Park, 8½f, by 3 lengths

2nd Kentucky Derby-Gr.1, Churchill Downs, 10f, to Authentic

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year.

I suppose Fletcher Jones's racing legacy isn't quite done yet.

Sid Fernando is president and CEO of Werk Thoroughbred

Consultants, Inc., originator of the Werk Nick Rating and eNicks.

Florida Trainers React to Lasix Ban cont. from p1

Though no fan of the new rules, Orseno doesn't believe that

Imprimis will have a problem and he did start the turf sprinter

without Lasix in 2019 when venturing to Royal Ascot for the

G1 King's Stand S. Imprimis was sixth that day in his only career

start without the anti-bleeding medication. But Orseno is

adamant that the new rules will cause more problems than they

will solve.

"Lasix isn't going away," he said. "These horses are still going

to train on it and we're going to breeze our horses on it. We're

going to do everything but run on it that day. And you know

what? They're going to find other things to use on these horses,

whether it's tomorrow or the next day. Someone down the line

is going to find something they can cheat with and everyone is

going to find out about it. All they are doing is creating cheaters

in the sport. This just isn't good."

Trainer Eddie Plesa Jr. will send out Miss Auramet

(Uncaptured) in the day's Abundantia S. It will be her 17th

career start and first without Lasix. Like Orseno, he is not a fan

of the new regulations.

"I have been doing this for a long time and the one medication

that I have seen that has been most important for the well being

of the horses has been Lasix," he said. "There has been a

negative reaction to Lasix, but not from the horsemen or by

horse people that use it. They say a concern is that it masks

other drugs. I don't see it that way. I see it as a medication that

people take every single day. It helps people without doing

anything negative to them and it's the same thing with horses.

People that aren't horse people have made these decisions and I

think it was somewhat fueled by PETA and others. If you went

ahead and polled all the horse trainers they would be

overwhelmingly for the use of Lasix."

Lasix will be less of a factor in the Cash Run S., a race for

3-year-old fillies. With Lasix having been banned in 2-year-old

races at Gulfstream in 2019, most of the starters have been

running medication free. That's nowhere near the case for the

Janus S., which brings together a group of veteran turf sprinters,

most of whom have never run without the medication. That

includes the second choice on the morning line, Extravagant Kid

(Kiss the Kid). Trained by Brendan Walsh, the 8-year-old veteran

will be making his 47th career start. Walsh has no idea what to

expect.

"You wonder what's going to happen with an older horse like

this one who has run a bunch of times on Lasix," he said. "How is

he going to react to it? We'll just have to see what happens. He's

not a bleeder but he's never run without it. We'll be able to

form a better opinion after we've seen a bunch of these races.

It's hard to make any judgments."

While Walsh is willing to keep an open mind, he is among the

many horsemen who believe the sport has far bigger problems

than Lasix.

"I don't think this is the be all and end all of the problems

here," he said. "There are a lot more factors outside of this.

Lasix is one of the sport's lesser problems."

Trainer Jose Delgado will start The Critical Way (Tizway) in the

Janus. He says his horse has been getting the minimum dosage

of Lasix and should be fine without the medication. But he is

among those who is not in favor of the ban. He doesn't want to

see situations where horses are visibly bleeding from nostrils

after running without Lasix.

"I really don't think it is fair for a lot of horses because they

normally bleed," he said. "I don't know why they are doing this.

Maybe PETA has something to do with it. You're going to see

horses come out of races bleeding from the nose and the public

is going to see that. That's not going to look good. But what can

we do? We have to follow the rules."

Kent Sweezey has Blind Ambition (Tapit), a horse who comes

from off the pace, in the Janus. Sweezey said the Lasix ban is

more likely to hurt front runners because they exert themselves

early on in their races.

"I think the pace will be a big thing," he said. "I'd love to see it

where horses settled rather than always having some horse

going :22 and change on the front end. You may not see that

anymore because if they do that they're going to bleed without

the Lasix. It could be so bad that they won't be able to run for

another six weeks or at least run competitively for another six

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weeks."

That's something bettors may need time to figure out. And not

only will they have to decipher races like the Janus and the

Abundantia where every horse is coming off Lasix, there are

nine horses on the Friday card at Gulfstream that are racing with

Lasix for the first time. There will be dozens more in the days

ahead, most of them newly turned 3-year-olds who are coming

out of 2-year-old races where Lasix was banned in 2020.

Orseno wishes they just left everything the way it was.

"There are a lot of things they need to address, things a lot

more important than Lasix," he said. "And now they are picking

on the best horses in the country by banning it in stakes races.

To me, it just doesn't make any sense."

TOP VIDEOS OF THE YEAR

It was a record-breaking year for video production at the TDN,

and for video views, with over 3.8 million TDN videos and

advertisers= commercials shown on our platforms. We took a

look to see what you were watching the most. Here are our top

11 videos of the year, as watched on the TDN=s YouTube

Channel and the TDN site combined. Click on the red links below

to watch.

1. Zenyatta and Her Candy Ride Filly at Lane=s End. 108,960

views. She may be the fan-favorite of all time.

2. Meet the First Foal from Songbird, By Arrogate. 91,160

views. Even though this video was published in March of 2019, it

had legs, racking up over 90,000 views in 2020.

3. The Incomparable, Invincible, Unbeatable Cigar. 56,962

views. This 20-minute video wasn=t published until Oct. 16

under the TDN Look banner, but still racked up an impressive

amount of views...even if it was a little depressing when Tom

Durkin told us that what he had really said was Aunconquerable@

and not Aincomparable.@ Whoops. Sorry, Tom.

4. A.P. Indy Turns 30. 51,968 views. Here=s another video with

legs: published in March, 2019, it racked up over 50,000 views in

2020 alone.

5. Authentic Retired to Spendthrift. 49,163 views. The

retirement and arrival of the sure-to-be Horse of the Year at

Spendthrift has been watched almost 50,000 times already.

6. The Late Arrogate=s First Yearlings go to Market. 44,189

views. Between the video on his Songbird foal and this one

featuring his first yearlings, Arrogate was a popular, if sadly

tragic, topic for viewers in 2020.

7. Taylor Made Stallions on the Rise, 41,217 views. Katie Ritz

talks to Ben and Frank Taylor about first-crop sire Not This Time,

Midnight Storm, and Taylor Made=s new arrival, Instagrand.

8. An Unexpected Storybook Ending for Midnight Bisou. 36,963

views. Owner Jeff Bloom reminisces on the incredible career of

Midnight Bisou as she prepares to sell at the Fasig-Tipton

November sale.

9. Songbird Celebrates Her Second Mother=s Day. 33,296

views. This addition gives Songbird has two of the top 10 videos

of the year. People clearly love checking in with the top mares.

10. Volatile Settling in at Three Chimneys, 26,182 views. Visits

with new stallions are always popular, and Volatile sat just off

the pace of Authentic as this year=s leader.

11. Tour Newmarket With John Berry, 23,052 views. Early on in

the pandemic, we tried to help people feel as if they were

getting out of their homes with video tours. John Berry was kind

enough to take us on a multi-part tour of Newmarket and the

series drew tens of thousands of views.

SPUN TO RUN LOOKS TO BUILD UPON DIRT

MILE SUCCESS By Katie Ritz

In just its first 14 years of running, the GI Breeders= Cup Dirt

Mile has emerged as a stallion-making race and in recent years,

its winners are making top headlines as they kick off their stud

careers.

Goldencents (Into Mischief), winner of both the 2013 and

2014 editions, now leads his class of third-crop sires. The

following year=s winner, Liam=s Map (Unbridled=s Song), is

already a two-time Grade I producer with his first crop of 3-

year-olds while 2016 champion Tamarkuz (Speightstown) now

has a Grade III winner in his first crop of juveniles. The

subsequent winners in the late Battle of Midway (Smart Strike)

and City of Light (Quality Road) are still waiting for their first

runners, but initial first crops are already turning heads both on

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the farm and in the sales ring.

2019=s Dirt Mile Champion Spun to Run (Hard Spun) retired to

Gainesway Farm this year and will stand his initial season at stud

for $12,500.

ASpun to Run is a horse that we=re very excited about,@ said

Gainesway=s Director of Stallion Sales and Recruitment Sean

Tugel. ACertainly his Breeders= Cup Dirt Mile win was his

marquee victory and he did it very easily. He did it by widening

lengths. On that day he ran a 109 Beyer and he certainly made

everyone realize the type of talent he had.@

Spun to Run broke first at last year=s championship meet at

Santa Anita and was never passed, besting a field that included

Grade I winners Omaha Beach (War Front) and Improbable (City

Zip), as well as Coal Front (Stay Thirsty) and Mr. Money

(Goldencents).

Prior to his Breeders= Cup victory, the Juan Carlos Guerrero-

trainee blossomed in the later half of his sophomore season,

finishing third in the GI Haskell Invitational S. behind Maximum

Security (New Year=s Day) before taking the GIII Smarty Jones S.

and later earning a 110 Beyer in the M.P Ballezzi Appreciation

Mile S.

AIt was a very strong 3-year-old campaign,@ Tugel said. AHe ran

a `zero= five times on Thorographs, which was very good. He=s a

horse that showed brilliance, and brilliance makes sires.@

Following his Breeders= Cup victory, Spun to Run wrapped up

his sophomore season with a runner-up effort behind Maximum

Security in the GI Cigar Mile H. While prepping for the 2020

GI Pegasus World Cup Invitational, an injury forced the dark bay

to scratch and ultimately retire.

AIt was bad timing,@ Tugel said. A[Owner Bob Donaldson] had a

big 4-year-old campaign planned out for him. Unfortunately it

didn=t go as the owner had hoped, but that allowed us to go out

and get him. It was an injury that took time to come back from,

and unfortunately he missed the breeding season and the racing

season this year. But certainly he=s a young horse still, he=s

turning five, and he=s let down beautifully in his time off from

training. I think people are going to be very excited when they

see him.@

The son of Hard Spun is out of the stakes-winning Grand Slam

mare Yawkey Way and his half-sister Tap It All (Tapizar) is also a

stakes winner.

ACertainly the Danzig sire line has been a sire line that has

been dominant throughout the world, not only in America but in

Australia and Europe,@ Tugel said. AThe fact that his first three

dams are all juvenile winners and his first dam was a juvenile

stakes winner at Saratoga makes it very exciting to think that

speed and precocity is going to be passed on through his

offspring.@

Tugel added that he finds Spun to Run to represent the best

blend of Grand Slam and Hard Spun.

AHe has a beautiful shoulder and a beautiful amount of bone,@

he said. AYou see a lot of that Grand Slam and Gone West in

through his neckline and jaw. The strength of his hind leg is a

great benefit that he gets from his bottom side. He=s a beautiful

mover and he has a lot of leg to him. I think he=s a true miler,

and milers make stallions.@

Tugel said that breeders have been impressed by the million-

dollar-earning miler as he nears the start of his stud career.

AThe breeders that have seen him so far have really liked him,@

he said. AHe=s a horse that kind of grabs your imagination as

soon as you see him. He has a personality and an intelligence.

He=s a horse that captivates the breeders when he walks out and

that=s what drew us to him.@

PENNSYLVANIA CASINOS REOPEN MONDAY

by T.D. Thornton

Pennsylvania casinos have been greenlighted to reopen as of

Monday, Jan. 4, rekindling revenue streams that fund

Thoroughbred purses in the state.

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Governor Tom Wolf announced Dec. 30 that because COVID-

19 mitigation efforts have been working to tamp down the

spread of the pandemic, he will allow more stringent safety

restrictions that went into effect Dec. 12 to expire as planned.

But that doesn=t mean a full-blown opening for the 13 casinos

in the state: Mitigation efforts will roll back to what they were

on Dec. 11, which still caps casinos at 50% of occupancy. Similar

restrictions were also eased for other social activities, like indoor

dining, gyms, theaters and high school sports.

Parx and Penn National are the only two Thoroughbred tracks

operating in Pennsylvania at this time of year.

AI think that=s really good news. We can go back to getting

monies from the casinos, and that=s very important to us,@ said

Pennsylvania Thoroughbred Horsemen=s Association President

Sal DeBunda in a video message posted to the organization=s

website Dec.31.

DeBunda noted owners will still not be able to enter the

winner=s circle to pose with their horses, Aso it=s not a total open

situation, but it=s back to the old rules before the mitigation

rules were put in.@

Earlier this week, Penn National had announced a contingency

plan to stay open through the month of January based on

maintaining a nightly handle benchmark of $1.4 million in the

event that Wolf had decided to extend the casino shutdown.

BROWN, ORTIZ REGISTER YEAR-END NYRA TITLES Chad Brown won his sixth consecutive New York Racing

Association, Inc. (NYRA) year-end training title with 91 wins

while Jose Ortiz compiled his second riding crown with 142

victories as racing in 2020 was capped with the conclusion of the

Aqueduct card Dec. 31.

Klaravich Stables was the runaway winner as top owner,

racking up 48 wins, 14 more than the next-closest competitor,

Repole Stable, to finish as the leading owner for the second

straight year at NYRA tracks, which encompasses Belmont Park,

Saratoga Race Course and Aqueduct Racetrack.

Ortiz posted a record of 142-139-95 in 707 mounts to win his

first year-end title since 2016. His 2020 season saw him win his

2,000th career race while posting $9.62 million in earnings with

a 20.08% winning percentage on the NYRA circuit.

"I'm pretty happy about it and I'm very proud of the work we

put into it," Ortiz said. "This is why you work this hard. It was a

tough year. We couldn't work horses in the morning like we

normally could, but we made it through and I'm just happy

we're all healthy coming out of this."

Brown compiled a 91-81-83 record with 411 starters to

become the first NYRA trainer to record six straight training

titles since Gasper Moschera from 1993-98. He won two

individual meets, leading the Belmont spring/summer with 23

wins and the Belmont fall with 22 victories. He ended 2020

ahead of Todd Pletcher, whose 81 wins were the second-most

among conditioners.

The four-time reigning Eclipse Award Champion trainer racked

up earnings of more than $7.4 million while winning more than

22% of the time. Brown's starters finished on the board at a

62.04% clip.

Headed by Seth Klarman, Klaravich Stables won at least a

share of four of the five individual NYRA individual meets in

2020. Klaravich won the Belmont fall and spring/summer

outright, as well as Saratoga, while tying Repole Stable for the

recently concluded Aqueduct fall meet.

In total, Klaravich sent out 171 starters, going 48-30-39,

winning at a 28.07% clip, while racking up earnings of $3.23

million in the process. Repole Stable's stellar 34 wins was

second-most on the circuit.

TVG PREMIERS YEAR IN REVIEW SPECIAL TVG premiers a special feature Saturday, Jan. 2 which will

focus on the impact COVID-19 had on the global horse racing

industry. The 2020 retrospective will air at approximately

5:30p.m. ET/2:30 p.m. PT. To watch a one-minute preview, click

here.

Saturday coverage, hosted by Todd Schrupp, Christina Blacker

and Britney Eurton, will feature a nine-race card from Santa

Anita, highlighted by the GIII San Gabriel S. and the GIII Sham S.

The 2020 renewal of the Sham S. was won by Authentic, who

went on to win the GI Kentucky Derby and GI Breeders= Cup

Classic. The Sham offers 10-4-2-1 Kentucky Derby points to the

top four finishers. The day=s coverage also includes racing from

Gulfstream Park, featuring five stakes races, including the

Mucho Macho Man S.

For more information on Saturday=s lineup, visit www.tvg.com.

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2020 FANDUEL RACING MOMENT OF THE YEAR

VOTING OPEN Eleven of the most memorable events from the last 12 months

of Thoroughbred racing are up for the 2020 FanDuel Racing

NTRA Moment of the Year, which is determined by fan voting

and recognized at the Eclipse Awards. To vote or to view the

complete listing of eligible moments, visit the National

Thoroughbred Racing Association (NTRA) website

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Voting can also be executed via Twitter, where every retweet or

use of the official hashtag for the moments as presented on the

@NTRA account will be counted as one vote. Votes for the poll

must be submitted by Jan. 12 at 11:59 p.m. (ET).

The FanDuel Racing-NTRA Moment of the Year, which will be

revealed during a virtual ceremony for the 50th Annual Eclipse

Awards Jan. 28, 2021, will be presented from Spendthrift Farm

in Lexington, Kentucky and will be streamed on multiple

platforms and televised on TVG.

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Friday, Santa Anita, post time: 6:30 p.m. EST

JOE HERNANDEZ S.-GII, $200,000, 4yo/up, 6 1/2fT

PP HORSE SIRE OWNER TRAINER JOCKEY ML

1 Texas Wedge K Colonel John Altamira Racing Stable, Rafter JR Ranch LLC, Miller Prat 4-1

STD Racing Stable and Miller, A.

2 P R Radio Star K Warrior's Reward Jacobsen, Gordon, Lewis, Michael & Vanderslice, J D'Amato Hernandez 12-1

3 Encoder English Channel Hronis Racing LLC Sadler Baze 20-1

4 Hembree K Proud Citizen Tom Kagele Miller Rosario 5-1

5 True Valour (Ire) Kodiac (GB) R. Larry Johnson Motion Van Dyke 8-1

6 Blitzkrieg War Front R3 Racing LLC and Calara Farms O'Neill Espinoza 5-1

7 Wildman Jack Goldencents W.C. Racing Inc. O'Neill Cedillo 3-1

8 Chaos Theory K Curlin Hronis Racing LLC Sadler Rispoli 4-1

9 Oiseau de Guerre K War Front Westside Racing Stable, Bambauer, Bob & Sheila, SCRACTHED SCR SCR

Linderman, Alan, Ouriel, Wendy and Tucker, Terri

10 Mesut Gio Ponti Keith Brackpool Gaines Smith 15-1

11 Ohio (Brz) Elusive Quality Eclipse Thoroughbred Partners & Treitman, Bruce McCarthy Gonzalez 12-1

Breeders: 1-Nancy Shuford, 2-Tonya Jurgens & Mark Toothaker, 3-Peter Lamantia & Greg Ramsby, 4-Derby Lane Farm, LLC, 5-Mr P. O'Rourke,

6-Ramona S. Bass, LLC., 7-W C Racing, 8-Bluewater Sales & Mike Carpenter, 9-Jay W. Bligh, 10-Brackpool Racing LLC, 11-Fazenda Mondesir

Saturday, Santa Anita, post time: 6:30 p.m. EST

SAN GABRIEL S.-GII, $200,000, 4yo/up, 1 1/8mT

PP HORSE SIRE OWNER TRAINER JOCKEY WT

1 Cleopatra's Strike Smart Strike Atreides, LLC Hess, Jr. Desormeaux 120

2 Next Shares K Archarcharch Baltas, Debby, Baltas, Richard, Ivarone, Julia C., Baltas Valdivia, Jr. 120

Iavarone, Michael, McClanahan, Jerry, Peskoff,

Jeremy, Robershaw, Ritchie and Taylor, Mark

3 Bob and Jackie K Twirling Candy Nguyen, Calvin and Tran, Joey Baltas Figueroa 120

4 Multiplier K The Factor Wachtel Stable, Kerr, George J. and Barber, Gary Miller Cedillo 120

5 Count Again Awesome Again Agave Racing Stable and Sam-Son Farm D'Amato Hernandez 124

6 Anothertwistafate Scat Daddy Peter Redekop B. C., Ltd. Miller Rosario 122

7 Bowies Hero K Artie Schiller Agave Racing Stable, ERJ Racing, LLC, Madaket D'Amato Prat 120

Stables LLC and Rockin Robin Racing Stable

Breeders: 1-Sam-Son Farm, 2-Buck Pond Farm, Inc., 3-Zayat Stables LLC, 4-Mark Stansell, 5-Sam-Son Farm, 6-Pursuit of Success LLC, 7-Pope McLean,

Pope McLean Jr. &Marc McLean

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Saturday, Santa Anita, post time: 7:00 p.m. EST

SHAM S.-GIII, $100,000, 3yo, 1m


1 Medina Spirit Protonico Zedan Racing Stables Inc Baffert Cedillo 120

2 Waspirant Union Rags Wygod, Martin J., Wygod, Pam and Lessee Shirreffs Rispoli 120

3 Parnelli K Quality Road C R K Stable LLC Shirreffs Van Dyke 120

4 Uncle Boogie Ride On Curlin Eric Homme Lerner Prat 120

5 Life Is Good K Into Mischief CHC INC. and WinStar Farm LLC Baffert Smith 120

Breeders: 1-Gail Rice, 2-Wygod Equine, LLC, 3-Gainesway Thoroughbreds Ltd., 4-Pinky Mendoza, 5-Gary and Mary West Stable, Inc.

Sunday, Santa Anita, post time: 7:00 p.m. EST

SANTA YNEZ S.-GII, $200,000, 3yo, f, 7f


1 Brilliant Cut K Speightstown ERJ Racing LLC, Kenney, David, Strauss, William

and O'Neill, Dennis and Doug O'Neill Gonzalez 120

2 Nasreddine Nyquist Warren, Andrew and Warren, Rania McCarthy Pereira 120

3 Exotic West Hard Spun West, Gary and West, Mary Baffert Cedillo 120

4 Queengol K Flashback Saragol Stable Corp. and Viana, Johana Sadler Prat 120

5 Varda Distorted Humor Baoma Corporation Baffert Van Dyke 124

6 Frosteria Frosted Godolphin, LLC Baffert Smith 120

7 Kalypso Brody's Cause David Bernsen, Rockingham Ranch & Littlefield, Chad Baffert Rosario 122

Breeders: 1-McCauley Farm & Speightstown Syndicate, 2-John C. Oxley, 3-Gary & Mary West Stables Inc., 4-John R. Penn, 5-Masters 2013 LLC

&Distorted Humor Syndicate, 6-Godolphin, 7-Spendthrift Farm LLC

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2020 Leading Siresfor stallions standing in North America through Wednesday, December 30

Earnings represent worldwide figures, stud fees listed are 2020 fees.

Rank Stallion BTW BTH GSW GSH G1SW G1SH Starters Wnrs Highest Earner Earnings

1 Into Mischief 29 64 12 28 3 7 421 194 7,170,000 22,480,471

(2005) by Harlan's Holiday FYR: 2010 Crops: 9 Stands: Spendthrift Farm KY Fee: $175,000 Authentic

2 Medaglia d'Oro 9 25 3 16 1 3 232 94 5,930,205 12,517,951

(1999) by El Prado (Ire) FYR: 2006 Crops: 13 Stands: Darley KY Fee: $200,000 Golden Sixty (AUS)

3 Tapit 14 30 11 23 2 5 267 113 1,570,000 12,405,464

(2001) by Pulpit FYR: 2006 Crops: 13 Stands: Gainesway Farm KY Fee: $200,000 Tacitus

4 Uncle Mo 22 37 14 26 -- 5 314 155 593,056 12,022,399

(2008) by Indian Charlie FYR: 2013 Crops: 6 Stands: Ashford Stud KY Fee: $125,000 Golden Pal

5 Speightstown 17 30 10 17 4 8 243 128 1,505,909 11,688,842

(1998) by Gone West FYR: 2006 Crops: 13 Stands: WinStar Farm KY Fee: $70,000 Mozu Superflare

6 Curlin 15 35 8 24 2 5 282 135 1,020,600 10,780,114

(2004) by Smart Strike FYR: 2010 Crops: 9 Stands: Hill 'n' Dale Farms KY Fee: $175,000 Global Campaign

7 I'll Have Another 2 2 -- 1 -- -- 218 111 562,889 9,634,188

(2009) by Flower Alley FYR: 2014 Crops: 5 Stands: Ballena Vista Farm CA Fee: $6,000 Another Truth (JPN)

8 Munnings 12 21 6 11 -- 4 289 156 571,000 9,389,346

(2006) by Speightstown FYR: 2012 Crops: 7 Stands: Ashford Stud KY Fee: $30,000 Warrior's Charge

9 Hard Spun 7 18 3 9 -- 2 294 130 433,600 8,707,257

(2004) by Danzig FYR: 2009 Crops: 10 Stands: Darley KY Fee: $40,000 Antoinette

10 Street Sense 9 15 4 7 -- -- 252 122 699,166 8,201,094

(2004) by Street Cry (Ire) FYR: 2009 Crops: 10 Stands: Darley KY Fee: $75,000 Fashionista (JPN)

11 City Zip 10 16 4 10 1 3 198 112 1,810,000 7,932,273

(1998) by Carson City FYR: 2003 Crops: 15 Stands: Lane's End Farm USA (Dead/Ret) Improbable

12 More Than Ready 10 25 4 13 3 5 251 108 880,000 7,866,878

(1997) by Southern Halo FYR: 2002 Crops: 17 Stands: WinStar Farm KY Fee: $80,000 Rushing Fall

13 The Factor 6 13 3 8 -- 2 292 150 822,250 7,813,774

(2008) by War Front FYR: 2014 Crops: 5 Stands: Lane's End Farm KY Fee: $17,500 Factor This

14 Midnight Lute 5 8 4 4 1 4 156 79 3,721,520 7,758,297

(2003) by Real Quiet FYR: 2010 Crops: 9 Stands: Hill 'n' Dale Farms KY Fee: $15,000 Midnight Bisou

15 Candy Ride (Arg) 8 21 5 13 1 3 231 109 456,675 7,214,408

(1999) by Ride the Rails FYR: 2006 Crops: 13 Stands: Lane's End Farm KY Fee: $100,000 Vekoma

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$650K CANDY RIDE COLT DEBUTS AT SANTA

ANITASponsored by Alex Nichols Agency

9th-SA, $61K, Msw, 3yo, 6f, 7:30p.m.

Hronis Racing LLC and David Michael Talla=s ROCK YOUR

WORLD (Candy Ride {Arg}) kicks off his career for John Sadler.

Coming off a steady stream of breezes in preparation for this

unveiling, the February foal was a $650,000 Keeneland

September yearling purchase, the co-second highest price for

the stallion in 2019. Joel Rosario gets the call. TJCIS PPs

IN ORDER OF PURSE:Friday, Aqueduct, post time: 3:50 p.m. EDTJEROME S., $150,000, 3yo, 8fPP HORSE SIRE JOCKEY TRAINER ML1 Capo Kane Street Sense Davis Wyner 12-12 Swill Munnings Carmouche Cox 7-53 Hold the Salsa Hold Me Back Maragh Lugovich 4-14 Eagle Orb Orb Franco Rodriguez 9-55 Original Quality Road Lezcano Terranova 7-2

Friday, Gulfstream park, post time: 4:42 p.m. EDTCASH RUN S., $75,000, 3yo, f, 8fPP HORSE SIRE JOCKEY TRAINER ML1 Shea D Summer Summer Front J Ortiz David 5-22 Gulf Coast Union Rags I Ortiz Jr. Brisset 4-13 Adios Trippi Adios Charlie Vasquez Walder 20-14 Sky Proposal Liam’s Map Lopez Breen 12-15 Lucifer’s Lair Quality Road Zayas Pletcher 7-26 Quinoa Tifah Gemologist Saez J Alvarado 6-17 Orbs Baby Girl Orb Velazquez Margotta 15-18 Gladys Medalia d’Oro Arroyo Danner 12-19 Honorifique Honor Code Gaffalione Kenneally 5-1

LOUISIANA FUTURITY, $113,100, Fair Grounds, 12-31, (S), 2yo,

f, 6f, 1:13.51, sy.

1--BIG TIME, 122, f, 2, by Astrology

1st Dam: Kitty's Got Class (MSW, $209,635), by Old Forester

2nd Dam: Dancing Courtesan, by Doneraile Court

3rd Dam: Dancing Rhythm, by Flying Pidgeon

($30,000 RNA Ylg '19 ESLYRL). O-Valene Farms LLC; B-Tom

Curtis & Wayne Simpson (LA); T-Dallas Stewart; J-Brian Joseph

Hernandez, Jr. $67,860. Lifetime Record: 3-3-0-0, $160,564.

*1/2 to Classy John (Songandaprayer), MSW, $208,952.

2--Spirited Beauty, 122, f, 2, Star Guitar--Sunday's Child, by

Any Given Saturday. O/B-Brittlyn, Inc. (LA); T-Jose M. Camejo.

$22,620.

3--Winning Romance, 122, f, 2, First Samurai--Lipstick Junky, by

Flatter. O/B-Allied Racing Stable, LLC (LA); T-W. Bret Calhoun.

$12,441.

Margins: HF, NO, 5HF. Odds: 0.60, 20.80, 3.00.

Also Ran: Halfglamorous, Louleigh, Rue Lala, Amoreena Star.

Scratched: Inawic, Mrs. Judy, Smittys Barracuda.

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Big Time (outside) | Hodges Photography

Quattroelle (Ire) | Benoit

Big Time kept her undefeated streak intact with another

impressive win in Thursday=s filly division of the soggy renewal

of the Louisiana Futurity. At the back of the seven-horse field,

she began to take closer order approaching the quarter pole. Set

down for the drive by Brian Hernandez Jr., Big Time wore down

the game leaders Spirited Beauty and Winning Romance to win

by a neck.

Big Time kicked off her career with a narrow win going five

panels at Churchill Downs in June before winning with relative

ease adding an extra furlong in the Louisiana Lassie S. against

statebred fillies at the Fair Grounds Dec. 12.

MSW Kitty=s Got Class produced a Custom For Carlos colt in

2019 followed by a Cross Traffic filly this season and was bred

back to Gemologist. Click for the Equibase.com chart or VIDEO,

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BLUE NORTHER S., $80,150, Santa Anita, 12-31, 2yo, f, 1mT,

1:35.72, fm.

1--QUATTROELLE (IRE), 120, f, 2, by Mehmas (Ire)

1st Dam: Heavenly River (Fr), by Stormy River (Fr)

2nd Dam: Aaliyah (Ger), by Anabaa

3rd Dam: Arpista (Ger), by Chief Singer (Ire)

(i10,000 RNA Ylg '19 TIRSEP). 1ST BLACK TYPE WIN. O-Red

Baron's Barn LLC & Rancho Temescal LLC; B-Rossenarra

Bloodstock Ltd (IRE); T-Jeff Mullins; J-Tyler Baze. $46,920.

Lifetime Record: 4-2-0-2, $94,572.

2--Javanica, 120, f, 2, Medaglia d=Oro--Shuruq, by Elusive

Quality. O/B-Godolphin (KY); T-Eoin G. Harty. $15,640.

3--Carpe Fortuna, 120, f, 2, Carpe Diem--Seeking Luck, by

Seeking the Gold. ($72,000 Ylg '19 KEEJAN; $155,000 2yo '20

OBSAPR). O-Little Red Feather Racing & Madaket Stables LLC;

B-Fred W. Hertrich III & John D. Fielding (KY); T-Peter Eurton.

$9,384.

Margins: 3/4, 1 1/4, 7. Odds: 3.10, 1.80, 5.70.

Also Ran: Pizzazz, Michalska, Derby Quest, Absolute Scenes (Ire),

Royal Blend.

Quattroelle unleashed an impressive turn of foot in the late

stages of Thursday=s Blue Norther S. at Santa Anita to win by

three quarters of a length under Tyler Baze. One of three fillies

to exit the Nov. 28 GIII Jimmy Durante S. at Del Mar, Quattroelle

saved ground along the inside to the far turn while about five

lengths off the lead. Straightening for home, she angled outside

of pacesetter Michalska and gamely held off a stout challenge

from favored Javanica to her outside to win in-hand on the wire.

AShe=s a nice filly,@ said Baze. AI don=t know how good she is,

she is just very nice. She still has a lot of learning. Once I hit the

lead, she was pulling herself up all the way down the lane, really

just having fun.@

Campaigned by Red Baron=s Barn, LLC and Rancho Temescal,

LLC, Quattroelle broke her maiden going a mile on turf in her

U.S. debut Oct. 3 before finishing third in the Jimmy Durante.

AShe ran great and we weren=t surprised,@ said trainer Jeff

Mullins. AShe got knocked sideways real bad last time at Del Mar

and she should=ve won. She=s a real hard trying filly and she=s

done everything we=ve asked her.@

Quattroelle=s dam, Heavenly River, produced consecutive

Markaz (Ire) foals--a colt in 2019 and a filly this season. With the

victory, Quattroelle becomes the fifth stakes winner for her sire.

Click for the Equibase.com chart or VIDEO, sponsored by Fasig-

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PRAIRIE BAYOU S., $55,235, Turfway, 12-31, 3yo/up, 1 1/16m

(AWT), 1:43.36, ft.

1--SET PIECE (GB), 120, g, 4, Dansili (GB)--Portodora, by

Kingmambo. O-Juddmonte Farms Inc.; B-Juddmonte Farms

(East) Ltd (GB); T-Brad H. Cox; J-Joseph Talamo. $29,140.

Lifetime Record: 11-6-0-1, $132,748. *1/2 to Alocasia (GB)

(Kingman (GB)), MSW & MGSP-Fr, $116,189.

2--Signalman, 120, c, 4, General Quarters--Trip South, by Trippi.

($32,000 Ylg '17 FTKOCT). O-Tommie M. Lewis, Steve Crabtree,

Dean Demaree, David A. Bernsen, LLC & Jim Chambers;

B-Monticule (KY); T-Kenneth G. McPeek. $12,220.

3--Visitant, 120, c, 4, Ghostzapper--Peppermint Lounge, by

Distorted Humor. O/B-Williamson Racing, LLC (KY); T-William

E. Morey. $6,110.

Margins: 3 1/4, 1, 1 1/4. Odds: 2.30, 5.20, 5.90.

Also Ran: Ritzy A. P., Dabo, Hemp Hemp Hurray, Skywire, Big

Agenda, Sandino Ruler (Arg), Marzo, Siberian Iris (Ire).

Scratched: Lanier, Peekacho, Rated R Superstar.

European transplant Set Piece (GB) came from off the pace to

remain undefeated in five starts on a synthetic in Thursday=s

Prairie Bayou S. at Fair Grounds. A three-time winner in Europe,

the Juddmonte homebred kicked off his U.S. campaign with Brad

Cox, winning in a grassy one-mile Churchill optional claimer last

June. Off the board in his next two turf starts, he came from well

off the pace to gain a head decision against optional claiming

company on the Turfway main Dec. 3. Sent off the lukewarm

favorite in this step up in class, he assumed his customary place

at the back through initial splits of :24.22 and :48.14. Closing

with purpose on the outside leaving the backstretch, the gelding

was fanned out six wide turning for home, took over from

Signalman with ease and rolled home an easy winner.

Portodora is a granddaughter Modena (Roberto), the dam of

English champion juvenile filly Reams of Verse (Nureyev) and

Group 1 winner Elmaamul (Diesis {GB}). Having already

produced French listed winner Alocasia (GB) (Kingman {GB}), the

15-year-old mare foaled a Frankel (GB) colt in 2018 and a

Nathaniel (Ire) filly in 2020. Click for the Equibase.com chart or

VIDEO, sponsored by Fasig-Tipton.

IN ORDER OF PURSE:

2nd-Aqueduct, $72,000, (S), Alw, 12-31, (NW1$X), 3yo/up, f/m,

1m, 1:40.09, sy, 1 length.

WASP (f, 3, American Pharoah--Visions of Annette, by

Distorted Humor) has been no worse than second in a trio of

starts, including a 10 1/4-length romp against statebreds in the

Belmont slop in October followed by a narrow second last out

over a soggy track here Dec. 5. Installed the 1-5 choice

reopposing Empire breds again here, she settled in a stalking

position through legitimate early fractions. Four wide turning for

home, the bay overtook Courageous Girl (Bourbon Courage) late

and was a length clear at the wire. Visions of Annette produced

a Frosted filly in 2018 followed by a colt by that sire last year.

She was bred to Mendelssohn this term. This is the family of

dual Grade I winning Evening Jewel (Northern Afleet). Sales

history: $450,000 Ylg '18 SARAUG; $350,000 2yo '19 OBSAPR;

$385,000 RNA 3yo '20 FTKNOV. Lifetime Record: 4-2-2-0,

$102,900. Click for the Equibase.com chart or VIDEO,


O-A One A Racing; B-Joanne T. Nielsen (NY); T-Todd A. Pletcher.

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7th-Fair Grounds, $43,000, Alw (NW1X)/Opt. Clm ($50,000),

12-31, 2yo, f, 1 1/16m (off turf), 1:47.30, sy, nose.

BARISTA (f, 2, Medaglia d=Oro--Callista, by Tapit), off the board

when unveiled routing over the Keeneland sod on Oct. 15,

stalked and closed to win going away cutting back to a mile over

the Churchill Downs lawn Nov. 12. Made a 5-1 proposition in

this pared down off-turf affair, the gray bobbled a bit at the start

and raced last into the clubhouse turn. Able to avoid a bit of

kickback while glued to the rail, she improved to fourth after a

half in :48.88 and loomed with promise as the field rounded the

far bend. The front-running even-money favorite Sylvia Q

(Violence) left a large gap at the fence turning into the straight,

and Barista took advantage, forging a path up the inside to

confront that foe, before besting her close home to win by a

nose. The first foal from her dam, the Courtlandt Farm-bred is

followed by a Shackleford yearling colt. Callista was covered by

Runhappy last spring. Barista=s dam is a half-sister to MGSP

Perregaux (Distorted Humor) and a full-sister to Japanese listed

placed American Seed (Tapit). The winner=s second dam is

GI Queen Elizabeth II Challenge Cup S. heroine Sweet Talker

(Stormin Fever), who was also second in the GI Diana S. at

Saratoga. Sales history: $100,000 Ylg '19 KEESEP. Lifetime

Record: 3-2-0-0, $75,092. Click for the Equibase.com chart or

VIDEO, sponsored by Fasig-Tipton.

O-Miacomet Farm & Michael A. Pietrangelo; B-Courtlandt Farm

(KY); T-James E. Baker.

8th-Gulfstream, $40,000, Alw (NW1$X)/Opt. Clm ($25,000),

12-31, 3yo/up, f/m, 1 1/16mT, 1:41.44, fm, 1 3/4 lengths.

NEW YORK GIRL (IRE) (f, 3, New Approach {Ire}--Annee

Lumiere {Ire} {SP-Fr }, by Giant's Causeway) won the G3 Weld

Park S. for trainer Joseph O=Brien at The Curragh in only her

second career start at two before heading to the sidelines for

the rest of the season. Off the board in three consecutive

Curragh Group 1 tests over the spring and summer, she rounded

out her European campaign with a ninth in Leopardstown=s

G1 Matron S. in September. Installed the 2-1 choice while

debuting for Hall of Famer Bill Mott, the chestnut broke well but

was eased back to midpack from her inside draw and had to

endure some light bumping heading into the first turn as

Amadora (Goldencents) led.

A covered-up fourth down the backstretch, New York Girl

needed a way out of her confinement approaching the quarter

pole and found it turning for home. Full of run in the waning

stages, she edged past late leader Osaka Girl (First Samurai) to

score by 1 3/4 lengths, giving her trainer his third winner on

Thursday=s Gulfstream card. The winner=s dam Annee Lumiere, a

half-sister to GSWs Little Treasure (Night Shift) and Keep Quiet

(Elusive City), is also responsible for an unraced juvenile filly by

Awtaad (Ire) and a yearling filly by Fast Company (Ire). Sales

history: 32,000gns Wlg '17 TATFOA. Lifetime Record: GSW-Ire,

7-2-0-0, $79,571. Click for the Equibase.com chart or VIDEO,


O-R Unicorn Stable; B-P. F. & Peter Kelly (IRE); T-William I. Mott.

IN ORDER OF PURSE:

9th-Fair Grounds, $42,000, Msw, 12-31, 3yo/up, 1 1/16m (off

turf), 1:46.35, sy, 5 1/4 lengths.

KITTANSETT (c, 3, American Pharoah--Bsharpsonata {MGSW &

MGISP, $595,010}, by Pulpit), sixth for Chad Brown sprinting at

Saratoga Aug. 10, joined the Brad Cox barn in the interim.

Favored at even-money in this off-turf contest, he broke alertly

and raced just off Brew Crew (Blame) to his inside. The pace was

steady with fractions of :23.94 and the half in :47.95. The $1.4-

million Keeneland September yearling stuck his head in front

turning for home, although Brew Crew clung persistently

through three quarters in 1:12.86. The bay shook off that rival in

the straight and withstood the charge of Absam (Hard Spun) to

win going away by 5 1/4 impressive lengths. His dam, who won

twice at Grade II level and played the bridesmaid in the

GI Ashland S. with a third in the GI La Brea S., has a yearling filly

by Arrogate and a filly of 2020 by Uncle Mo. Her first foal, Play It

Loud (Unbridled=s Song), was second in the GIII Hill Prince S., her

third, Vigilante (Tiznow) (GSP, $218,377), was third in the GII

Mathis Brothers Mile S. and the latter=s full-sister Mihrab was

third in the Suncoast S. at Tampa. The winner=s second dam, the

stakes-winning Apasionata Sonata (Affirmed) is also responsible

for Backtalk (Smarty Jones), a winner of the GII Sanford S. and

GIII Bashford Manor S. Sales history: $1,400,000 Ylg '18 KEESEP.

Lifetime Record: 2-1-0-0, $25,875. Click for the Equibase.com

chart or VIDEO, sponsored by Fasig-Tipton.

O-OXO Equine LLC; B-Sierra Farm (KY); T-Brad H. Cox.

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3rd-Fair Grounds, $42,000, (S), Msw, 12-31, 2yo, f, 5 1/2f (off

turf), 1:06.05, sy, 7 1/2 lengths.

PHILLY WINS (f, 2, Custom for Carlos--Kindling {MSP,

$304,881}, by Boundary), second in her career debut going six

panels against LA-breds here Dec. 13, went off a well-supported

5-2 chance to go one better. To the front early, the filly

extended her lead late, scoring by an easy 7 1/2-length margin

over Platinum Queen (Tapiture). Lifetime Record: 2-1-1-0,

$34,600. Click for the Equibase.com chart or VIDEO, sponsored

by Fasig-Tipton.

O-Ken Sentel & Merrill R Scherer; B/T-Merrill R. Scherer (LA).

5th-Gulfstream, $40,000, Msw, 12-31, 3yo/up, f/m, 1mT,

1:34.50, fm, neck.

MISS TAPIRADO (f, 3, Tapit--My Conquestadory {GISW-USA,

GSW-Can, $503,526}, by Artie Schiller), a distant seventh going

a mile in the Churchill slop Nov. 22, was given a 5-1 chance to

redeem herself on the sod. Never far behind pacesetter Katama

Moonlight (Malibu Moon), who carved out opening fractions of

:23.92 and :48.10, the Bill Mott trainee started to put the screws

to the leader down the length of the lane and got up in time to

eke out a neck victory. Favored Dinn Righ (Karakontie {Jpn}) was

third. The $775,000 KEENOV weanling and $1,300,000 KEEAPR

juvenile is a full to Bourbon War, GSP, $234,100. The winner=s

dam GISW My Conquestadory, who brought $1.5 million

carrying this filly at Keeneland November in 2016, is also

responsible for a yearling filly by Russian Revolution (Aus) and

was bred back to I Am Invincible (Aus). Lifetime Record: 2-1-0-0,


by Fasig-Tipton.

O-HRH Prince Sultan Bin Mishal Al Saud; B-SF Bloodstock LLC

(KY); T-William I. Mott.

6th-Gulfstream, $40,000, (S), Msw, 12-31, 2yo, 6f, 1:11.59, ft, NK

SIR OLLIE (c, 2, Quality Road--Harbouring, by Indian Charlie),

sent off at 5-1 for this unveiling, was reserved near the back of

the field through a :22.74 initial quarter. Fanned wide turning

for home, the dark bay forged past Joshy Jak (Khozan) late en

route to a neck victory. Proud Contender (Jess=s Dream) was

third. Harbouring, a full-sister to multiple stakes winner and

graded placed Star Harbour, foaled a Mr Speaker colt this term

and was bred back to Hard Spun. Lifetime Record: 1-1-0-0,


by Fasig-Tipton.

O-Peter Vegso; B-Vegso Racing Stable (FL); T-William I. Mott.

SECOND-CROP STARTERS TO WATCH: FRIDAY, JANUARY 1

2020 Stud Fees Listed

Anchor Down (Tapit), Gainesway Farm, $7,500

51 foals of racing age/8 winners/0 black-type winners

6-Gulfstream, Aoc 5fT, LIONESSOFBRITTANY, 9-2

$25,000 OBS APR 2yo

Big Blue Kitten (Kitten's Joy), Calumet Farm, $10,000

44 foals of racing age/1 winner/0 black-type winners

5-Tampa Bay Downs, Msw 1 1/8mT, DYNABLUE, 8-1

California Chrome (Lucky Pulpit), Arrow Stud, private


6-Gulfstream, Aoc 5fT, CALIFORNIA LILY, 5-2

$80,000 FTK JUL yrl; $87,000 OBS MAR 2yo; $35,000 OBS OPN

2yo

Firing Line (Line of David), Crestwood Farm, $5,000


7-Fair Grounds, Msw 6f, FIRINGTOTHEFRONT, 6-1

$13,000 KEE SEP yrl; $10,000 OBS APR 2yo

Flintshire (GB) (Dansili {GB}), Hill 'n' Dale Farms, $15,000


7-Tampa Bay Downs, Msw 1 1/8mT, CONNAGH'S QUAY, 3-1

Slumber (GB) (Cacique {Ire}), Calumet Farm, $5,000

16 foals of racing age/1 winner/1 black-type winner

5-Tampa Bay Downs, Msw 1 1/8mT, JIMMY P, 3-1

Speightster (Speightstown), WinStar Farm, $10,000


9-Santa Anita, Msw 6fT, BUTKUS, 10-1

$67,000 RNA KEE NOV wnl; $50,000 KEE SEP yrl; $95,000 RNA

EAS MAY 2yo

Tamarkuz (Speightstown), Shadwell Farm, $10,000

29 foals of racing age/5 winners/1 black-type winner

9-Santa Anita, Msw 6fT, GREGORY'S PRIDE, 4-1

$21,000 KEE SEP yrl

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5-Laurel, Aoc 6 1/2f, SUPREME BLESSING, 30-1

$32,000 RNA KEE NOV wnl; $8,000 RNA FTK OCT yrl; $8,000 EAS

MAY 2yo

STAKES RESULTS:

LOUISIANA FUTURITY, $110,400, Fair Grounds, 12-31, (S), 2yo,

c/g, 6f, 1:12.35, sy.

1--JIMMY TWO TIMES, 122, g, 2, by Half Ours--Sammy Van

Ammy (MSP, $185,383), by Van Nistelrooy. 1ST BLACK-TYPE

WIN. O-Andrus J. Pellerin; B-Larry Romero & Cradle Song Farm

(LA); T-Keith G. Bourgeois; J-Colby J. Hernandez. $66,240.

Lifetime Record: 5-3-0-0, $111,240.

2--Swot Analysis, 122, c, 2, Anchor Down--Solo Buena, by Half

Ours. ($50,000 Ylg '19 OBSOCT; $70,000 RNA 2yo '20 OBSAPR;

$62,000 2yo '20 OBSOPN). O-D. J. Stable LLC, Cash is King LLC

& West Point Thoroughbreds; B-Clear Creek Stud LLC (LA);

T-Mark E. Casse. $22,080.

3--Creole Charlie, 122, g, 2, My Pal Charlie--Cajun Yankee, by

Yankee Gentleman. O/B-Horseplayers Racing Club LLC (LA);

T-Justin Jeansonne. $12,144.

Margins: 7HF, 2HF, HF. Odds: 6.50, 0.70, 8.90.

ALLOWANCE RESULTS:

7th-Aqueduct, $82,000, 12-31, (NW1$X), 3yo/up, f/m, 6f,

1:11.29, sy, 2 1/4 lengths.

LETMETAKETHISCALL (m, 5, Take Charge Indy--Spring Elusion,

by Elusive Quality) Lifetime Record: 30-11-6-3, $381,162.

O-Mathew Levy & Kenneth Greenvald; B-Danzel Brendemuehl &

Sandra Lombardo (NY); T-James W. Ferraro. *$75,000 Ylg '16

SARAUG; $65,000 2yo '17 OBSOPN.

1st-Santa Anita, $65,500, (S), 12-31, (NW1$X), 3yo/up, f/m, 6fT,

1:08.57, fm, 1 1/4 lengths.

SILK FROM HEAVEN (f, 4, Richard's Kid--Elegant in Silk, by Hard

Spun) Lifetime Record: 16-3-2-2, $152,531. O-Royalty Stable &

Dolores Riggio; B-DP Racing, LLC (CA); T-Hector O. Palma.

*$32,000 Ylg '17 BAROCT.

6th-Santa Anita, $63,700, (NW2$X)/Opt. Clm ($62,500), 12-31,

3yo/up, 6 1/2f, 1:15.28, ft, 2 1/4 lengths.

KNEEDEEPINSNOW (c, 4, Flat Out--Michelleinhearts, by Lion

Heart) Lifetime Record: 12-3-2-2, $162,115. O-Ruis Racing LLC;

B-BWB Bloodstock, LLC & WDS Bloodstock (KY); T-Shelbe Ruis.

*$42,000 Wlg '16 KEENOV; $130,000 Ylg '17 KEESEP.

7th-Laurel, $57,645, (NW2X)/Opt. Clm ($35,000), 12-31,

3yo/up, f/m, 7f, 1:25.14, ft, 1 length.

COCONUT CAKE (f, 3, Bandbox--English Muffin, by English

Channel) Lifetime Record: 6-4-1-1, $126,875. O-N R S Stable,

James Chambers & Timothy L. Keefe; B-Charles McGinnes (MD);

T-Timothy L. Keefe. *$30,000 Ylg '18 EASOCT.

8th-Laurel, $50,652, 12-31, (NW1X), 3yo/up, f/m, 7f, 1:24.72, ft,

5 lengths.

DANCE AND DANCE (f, 4, Verrazano--Rhythm and Rhyme, by

Unbridled's Song) Lifetime Record: 20-5-4-4, $132,970. O-Rising

Sun Racing Stables, Inc.; B-Rhythm And Rhyme Syndicate (KY);

T-Claudio A. Gonzalez. *$23,000 3yo '19 EASDEC.

6th-Fair Grounds, $49,000, (S), (NW2X)/Opt. Clm ($20,000),

12-31, 3yo/up, f/m, 6f, 1:13.33, sy, 1 1/4 lengths.

SHE'S GONE D'WILD (f, 3, D'wildcat--Bonita Saleeta, by Porto

Foricos) Lifetime Record: 7-3-1-1, $78,072. O/B-William T. Reed

(LA); T-W. Bret Calhoun.

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Two winners for American Pharoah Thursday | Coolmore

4th-Fair Grounds, $48,000, (NW1X)/Opt. Clm ($17,500), 12-31,

3yo/up, f/m, 6f, 1:12.54, sy, 1 3/4 lengths.

FREE (f, 3, Shackleford--Splendid Honor, by Double Honor)

Lifetime Record: 9-3-3-1, $70,578. O-J S Stables LLC; B-Anderson

Boulton Thoroughbreds LLC (KY); T-Steve Margolis. *$100,000

Ylg '18 KEESEP.

7th-Delta Downs, $36,000, (S), 12-31, (NW1X), 3yo/up, f/m, 1m,

1:42.04, wf, 3 lengths.

STORIED TRIP (f, 3, Guilt Trip--Tory's Triumph {SP}, by Grand

Appointment) Lifetime Record: 13-2-2-3, $68,585. O/B-World

War IV Racing (LA); T-Allen Landry. *$5,000 RNA Ylg '18 ESLYRL.

3rd-Turfway, $33,998, 12-31, (NW3L), 3yo/up, 6 1/2f (AWT),

1:16.40, ft, 1/2 length.

JOKER ON JACK (g, 3, Declaration of War--Aventure Love {Fr}

{MSP-Fr, $161,406}, by Orpen) Lifetime Record: 6-3-0-1,

$101,488. O-Ice Wine Stable; B/T-Wesley Ward (KY).

6th-Penn National, $31,600, (S), 12-30, (NW1X), 3yo/up, 1m

70y, 1:44.49, ft, head.

BOYS OF QUEENS (g, 5, Boys At Tosconova--Mahalia, by

Songandaprayer) Lifetime Record: 49-4-3-7, $105,575. O/B-IBB

Thoroughbred (PA); T-Mark Ippolito.

ADDITIONAL MAIDEN WINNERS:

St Helena, f, 2, Bluegrass Cat--Russian River, by Stravinsky.

Santa Anita, 12-31, (S), 1mT, 1:37.23. B-Frank Mermenstein &

Tom McCrocklin (FL). *$50,000 2yo '20 OBSAPR. **1/2 to

Marckie's Water (Tribal Rule), GSW, $518,034.

The Predicament, g, 2, Gemologist--Granby Girl, by Badge of

Silver. Turfway, 12-31, 6f (AWT), 1:10.76. B-Ramspring Farm &

Clay B. Patrick (KY). *1/2 to Winning Envelope (More Than

Ready), SW & GSP, $339,883.

Dr. Ferber, g, 2, Lookin At Lucky--Thrill Seeker, by Housebuster.

Laurel, 12-31, (WC), 1m, 1:40.71. B-Dr. & Mrs. Thomas

Bowman, Ricky L. Buckley & Joshua Dreiband (MD). *$7,000

Wlg '18 EASDEC; $15,000 Ylg '19 EASOCT; $40,000 2yo '20

EASMAY.

Oscar Nod, f, 2, Mshawish--Beautified, by Congrats. Santa Anita,

12-31, (C), 6f, 1:12.98. B-George Krikorian (KY). *$47,000 RNA

Ylg '19 KEESEP. **1ST-TIME STARTER. **13th winner for

freshman sire (by Medaglia d=Oro).

Dancing Buck, g, 2, War Dancer--Frivolous Buck (MSP,

$222,374), by Catienus. Aqueduct, 12-31, (S), 6f, 1:12.17.

B-J & N Stables LLC (NY). *Seventh winner for freshman sire

(by War Front).

American Chestnut, g, 2, Well Spelled--Bank Scholarship, by

Bank Heist. Penn National, 12-30, 6f, 1:11.73. B-Godstone

Farm LLC (PA). *Won by 10 3/4 lengths.

Miss Charlie Sioux, f, 3, My Pal Charlie--Miss Dealbreaker, by

Lydgate. Delta Downs, 12-31, (S), 6 1/2f, 1:22.41. B-Pam

Stephenson (LA). *$5,000 RNA Ylg '18 ESLYRL.

Mucho Sunshine, g, 4, Mucho Macho Man--Carolina Sunrise, by

Awesome Again. Aqueduct, 12-31, (WC), 6f, 1:12.75. B-Equus

Farm (KY). *$55,000 Wlg '16 FTKNOV; $40,000 2yo '18

EASMAY. **1/2 to Reveron (Songandaprayer), SW & GISP,

$332,865.

AMERICAN PHAROAH, Kittansett, c, 3, o/o Bsharpsonata, by

Pulpit. MSW, 12-31, Fair Grounds

AMERICAN PHAROAH, Wasp, f, 3, o/o Visions of Annette, by

Distorted Humor. ALW, 12-31, Aqueduct

ASTROLOGY, Big Time, f, 2, o/o Kitty's Got Class, by Old

Forester. Louisiana Futurity, 12-31, Fair Grounds

BANDBOX, Coconut Cake, f, 3, o/o English Muffin, by English

Channel. AOC, 12-31, Laurel

BLUEGRASS CAT, St Helena, f, 2, o/o Russian River, by

Stravinsky. MSW, 12-31, Santa Anita

BOYS AT TOSCONOVA, Boys of Queens, g, 5, o/o Mahalia, by

Songandaprayer. ALW, 12-30, Penn National

Cont. p8

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Impressive winner of the Clark H. (G1) at

Churchill Downs.

Won or placed in eight Graded stakes, including victories in the Stephen Foster S. (G2) and

Ack Ack S. (G3).

Runner-up in the $1 million Breeders’ Cup Dirt Mile (G1) and

$9 million Pegasus World Cup Invitational S. (G1).

Career earnings of $3,470,153.

GRADE 1 WINNER, MULTIPLE G1-PLACED

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Cont.

CUSTOM FOR CARLOS, Philly Wins, f, 2, o/o Kindling, by

Boundary. MSW, 12-31, Fair Grounds

D'WILDCAT, She's Gone d'Wild, f, 3, o/o Bonita Saleeta, by Porto

Foricos. AOC, 12-31, Fair Grounds

DANSILI (GB), Set Piece (GB), g, 4, o/o Portodora, by

Kingmambo. Prairie Bayou S., 12-31, Turfway

DECLARATION OF WAR, Joker On Jack, g, 3, o/o Aventure Love

(Fr), by Orpen. ALW, 12-31, Turfway

FLAT OUT, Kneedeepinsnow, c, 4, o/o Michelleinhearts, by Lion

Heart. AOC, 12-31, Santa Anita

GEMOLOGIST, The Predicament, g, 2, o/o Granby Girl, by Badge

of Silver. MSW, 12-31, Turfway

GUILT TRIP, Storied Trip, f, 3, o/o Tory's Triumph, by Grand

Appointment. ALW, 12-31, Delta Downs

HALF OURS, Jimmy Two Times, g, 2, o/o Sammy Van Ammy, by

Van Nistelrooy. Louisiana Futurity, 12-31, Fair Grounds

LOOKIN AT LUCKY, Dr. Ferber, g, 2, o/o Thrill Seeker, by

Housebuster. WMC, 12-31, Laurel

MAJESTICPERFECTION, Majestic Blend, f, 3, o/o Decennial, by

Trippi. ALW, 12-31, Turfway

MEDAGLIA D'ORO, Barista, f, 2, o/o Callista, by Tapit. AOC,

12-31, Fair Grounds

MEHMAS (IRE), Quattroelle (Ire), f, 2, o/o Heavenly River (Fr),

by Stormy River (Fr). Blue Norther S., 12-31, Santa Anita

MSHAWISH, Oscar Nod, f, 2, o/o Beautified, by Congrats. MCL,

12-31, Santa Anita

MUCHO MACHO MAN, Mucho Sunshine, g, 4, o/o Carolina

Sunrise, by Awesome Again. WMC, 12-31, Aqueduct

MY PAL CHARLIE, Miss Charlie Sioux, f, 3, o/o Miss Dealbreaker,

by Lydgate. MSW, 12-31, Delta Downs

NEW APPROACH (IRE), New York Girl (Ire), f, 3, o/o Annee

Lumiere (Ire), by Giant's Causeway. AOC, 12-31, Gulfstream

QUALITY ROAD, Sir Ollie, c, 2, o/o Harbouring, by Indian Charlie.

MSW, 12-31, Gulfstream

RICHARD'S KID, Silk From Heaven, f, 4, o/o Elegant in Silk, by

Hard Spun. ALW, 12-31, Santa Anita

SHACKLEFORD, Free, f, 3, o/o Splendid Honor, by Double Honor.

AOC, 12-31, Fair Grounds

TAKE CHARGE INDY, Letmetakethiscall, m, 5, o/o Spring Elusion,

by Elusive Quality. ALW, 12-31, Aqueduct

TAPIT, Miss Tapirado, f, 3, o/o My Conquestadory, by Artie

Schiller. MSW, 12-31, Gulfstream

VERRAZANO, Dance and Dance, f, 4, o/o Rhythm and Rhyme, by

Unbridled's Song. ALW, 12-31, Laurel

WAR DANCER, Dancing Buck, g, 2, o/o Frivolous Buck, by

Catienus. MSW, 12-31, Aqueduct

WELL SPELLED, American Chestnut, g, 2, o/o Bank Scholarship,

by Bank Heist. MSW, 12-30, Penn National

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FRIDAY, 1 JANUARY 2021

Perennially leading sire Galileo | Coolmore

IN TDN AMERICA TODAYFLETCHER JONE’S UNUSUAL RACING LEGACY Sid Fernando pens a brief racing history of owner/breeder

Fletcher Jones. Click or tap here to go straight to TDN

America.

Tarnawa | Racingfotos.com

GALILEO: THE HARDEST OFACTS TO FOLLOW

By Emma Berry

In a temporarily upside-down world, a comforting air of

normality can be found in a perusal of the end-of-year stallion

tables. To Benjamin Franklin's certainties of death and taxes, in

this smaller world we can add just about the only sure thing in

racing and bloodstock: Galileo (Ire) is champion sire.

Perhaps the greatest compliment that can be paid to the King

of Tipperary is the fact that, even at his home at Coolmore, the

operation which naturally has free-flowing access to the

supersire via some of the best mares on the planet, the hunt is

still on for his rightful heir. It may be too much to expect that a

son will be able to continue the line with a show of such

dominance, as Galileo did for his own sire Sadler's Wells, and he

in turn for Northern Dancer. Galileo certainly has some very

good sire sons out there--not least his greatest achievement,

Frankel (GB), and the former champion 2-year-old Teofilo (Ire)--

but he once again remains way out in front of allcomers after

another record-breaking year.

Galileo officially turns 23 on New Year's Day and he has now

been champion sire in Britain and Ireland for more than half of

his life. After the most unsettling year in living memory, when

the Guineas, Oaks and Derby were all delayed, Galileo once

again left his increasingly imposing mark on the season's

Classics. Cont. p2

MOMENT OF 2020: EUROPEAN SUCCESS AT

THE BREEDERS= CUP By Kelsey Riley In Moment of 2020, the staff of TDN Europe reflect on their

favourite moments in racing for the year.

The Breeders= Cup is always a meeting that I particularly enjoy;

it is a time when my keen interests in both European and

American racing come together. The Breeders= Cup always

involves some incredible clashes of the continents, and it is the

most international meeting when you consider participation and

the gravity that both sides place on it.

The 2020 Breeders= Cup at Keeneland included a remarkably

strong European presence, with seven of the 13 trainers that

sent horses across the Atlantic having their first runners at the

meeting. After eight months of relative isolation in Lexington,

where I am based, it was fantastic to get out to Keeneland in the

mornings ahead the Breeders= Cup and catch up with some of

these connections, all of whom were excited and enthusiastic

about the opportunity.

There were a few promising performances on the FridayBI=m

thinking of Ubettabelieveit (GB) (Kodiac {GB}) blowing the break

in the Juvenile Turf Sprint and then riding the rail under a

sterling ride from young jockey Rowan Scott to get up for third;

a remarkable effort from both horse and rider. Cont. p5

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Dubawi | Darley

Dark Angel | Yeomanstown Stud

Galileo: The Hardest of Acts to Follow Cont. from p1

His daughter Love (Ire) won the 1000 Guineas before posting

arguably the most impressive performance by a 3-year-old all

season when going on to land the Oaks. Between those two

races, her stablemate Peaceful (Ire) had pushed Galileo into new

record-breaking ter

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