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SANAN RESIGNS FROM BC BOARD Padua Stables= owner Satish Sanan handed in hisletter of resignation to the Breeders= Cup Board ofDirectors Thursday. He has served the organization fora decade, but said he has been frustrated by a lack of

transparency and opencommunication and has sufferedpersonal attacks from fellowboard members who accused himof leaking information to themedia. AIt's gotten to the pointwhere, I think the few people onthe board who had control, theydon't like things that I believe in,and that a whole bunch of otherpeople believe in,@ Sanan said.

AWhen you disagree on an issue, they take it personally.They were attacking me personally for leaking information to the media and I said I've never donethat.@ He added, AThey don=t believe in opencommunication. They want to control everything. Theywant everything going from them. They have done thisfor many years. It's gotten to the point where it is nolonger in the best interest of my mind and my health [toremain on the board].@ Cont. p4

RULING THE WORLD Ruler of the World (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}) has taken longerthan his half-brother Duke of Marmalade (Ire) to createan impact on the track, but he looked as if he wasready to make up for lost time with this power-packeddisplay on Chester=s ARoodeye@in Thursday=s G3 Chester Vase.Well-supported coming into thisDerby trial on the back of a10-furlong debut win in amaiden at The Curragh Apr. 7,the bay sported cheekpieces andtracked Mister Impatience earlywith Ryan Moore asking him toextend approaching the hometurn. In front at the top of the 11/2-furlong straight, he hit topgear soon after and drew clearfor an emphatic fourth renewalfor Ballydoyle since 2007. AHe did it nicely and the raceworked out well for him, as he got a nice lead,@ his ridersaid. AHe=s still a bit green, but once I grabbed hold ofhim he lengthened really well. He=ll learn a lot and goinground here will have done him good.@ Part-owner PaulSmith added, AAidan thinks quite a lot of him. He=s beenworking well at home, but we thought he might be alittle bit green and a little bit babyish. I think with thetight, turning track and the crowd, it was a good choiceand it paid dividends.@ Cont. pX

HOLLYWOOD PARK TO CEASE OPERATIONS The Hollywood Park Land Company issued astatement Thursday stating that it would not seek2014 live racing dates at Hollywood Park. HollywoodPresident Jack Liebau informed the California HorseRacing Board of the decision in a letter dated May 8. The Land Company, which purchased Hollywood Parkfrom Churchill Downs in 2005, stated it would continueracing for a minimum of three years, and during thattime, would attempt to improve racing=s business modelat the Inglewood oval. AWithout success, the Land Company spent millionson two statewide initiatives that would have broughtslot machines to Hollywood Park and thereby assuredthe continuation of racing,@ said Hollywood ParkPresident Jack Liebau. AUnfortunately, that didn=thappen in California, which would have turned thingsaround as they have in other states as in New York andNew Mexico. Sadly for we who love racing andHollywood Park, it was simply a matter of time.@ Liebau added, AThe property has a higher and betteruse than it has being a racetrack. This property is on>go=. They started the planning with the City ofInglewod in 2005 and they have gone through thatentitlement process,so that is in place. It looks likeground will be broken in January of 2014.@ The 2013 meet begins Nov. 7 and continues throughDec. 22. The Hollywood stable area is also expected toclose at the end of the year.

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In This IssueORB GEARING UP FOR PREAKNESS

Shug McGaughey,trainer of Ky Derby winnerOrb (Malibu Moon), islooking forward to nextweek’s GI Preakness S. "Ifound that I'm a bit morenervous than I was leadingup to the Derby,"McGaughey said. "I'mlooking forward to it. LikeI said in Louisville, I can'twait for a week fromSaturday."

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Groupie Doll Returns Last year's champion female sprinter Groupie Doll (Bowman's Band)

returned to Churchill Downs Monday after a three-month stint at Indian RidgeFarm in Frankfort. Trainer Buff Bradley, who owns Groupie Doll in partnershipwith his father Fred, Carl Hurst and Brent Burns, sent the 5-year-old home inearly February after she was not training to his satisfaction at Gulfstream Park. "Isit a 180-degree turnaround from Florida?--Absolutely," said Bradley.

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Goldencents Gallops Goldencents (Into Mischief) returned to the track for the first time since his

17th-place effort in the GI Kentucky Derby yesterday at Pimlico. The onlyPreakness contender already on the grounds, the colt jogged once around thePimlico oval with jockey Kevin Krigger in the irons. Story on page 9

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Horsemen Weigh in on Hollywood Closure... Among those who will be undoubtedly affected byHollywood=s closure is trainer Ron Ellis, who currentlyhas 40 horses stabled at the oval. AIt was not a surpriseto me, because we had been hearing over the past fewmonths that it was very serious,@ said Ellis. AThe nicething about stabling at Hollywood was that I could keepall of my horses together, which was a big reason Idecided to go take them over to Hollywood. I also reallyliked the track and the barn area and on the track itself,the turns are a little bit bigger. I thought it was just abetter track to train on.@ Ellis, who lives only momentsfrom Santa Anita, has trained his entire stable atHollywood for over 10 years. AIt will certainly be easierfor me to get to work, and I=ll just have to put in for asmany stalls as I can get. The biggest inconvenience totrainers that I can see will be that trainers will have tofight for stalls at Santa Anita and then having to decidewhere they will have to go if they can=t get stalls.@Currently, Santa Anita can accommodate between1800-1900, while the overall Southern California circuitgenerally consists of anywhere between 2800-3000horses. ABasically, it will affect trainers on where theywill send their second string, or in some cases, theirfirst string,@ continued Ellis. AAlmost everybody I'vespoken to have said they will try and get stalls forSanta Anita, but it will be awfully tight.@ Ellis indicatedhe would take at least part of his team to San Luis ReyDowns Training Center in northern San Diego County ifhe couldn=t get all the stalls he needed at Santa Anita.

San Luis Rey, also owned by Stronach Group, wasleased to a group of horsemen through March, but thetraining facility is now back under the management ofSanta Anita. Upgrades to San Luis Rey are set to beginJune 2. Along with the refurbishment of the main track,plans call for the addition of a seven-furlong turf courseand a turf gallop outside the one-mile main track. ATheidea is to make it like Palm Meadows in Florida,@ saidEllis. ABut it can only hold 575 horses, but we needstalls for about 500-600 more than that. So it will haveto be decided whether those horses will go to Fairplexor Los Alamitos.@ Asked how the closure of the storiedtrack might affect the bigger picture in SouthernCalifornia, Ellis opined, AI don=t think this will hurt racingin Southern California at all. What will happen is thatSanta Anita and Del Mar will absorb the dates, butwhat it will hurt will be the convenience of being ableto train where you want and keeping the horsestogether because everyone is going to want to be atSanta Anita.@ Also commenting on the closure, Hall ofFame jockey Gary Stevens added, AWe knew it wascoming. I=m not suprised. We felt that it was comingprobably after this summer. It=s sad, but it is somethingthat we have had plenty of time to prepare for and Idon=t know if we have done a very good job atpreparing for it as far as where all these horses that arestabled at Hollywood Park are going to go. I=m sure allthe horsemen=s organizations are going to get togetheras well as the California horse racing board to devisethe best plan.

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Sanan Resigns Cont. from p1

AI arrived at this decision after considerable lack oftransparency, personal agendas, meetings beforemeetings, continued control by power brokers andpersonal attacks by some of the board meetings in thelast meeting,@ Sanan continued. AI love Breeders= Cup. Ilove the industry. I put in a lot of my own personalresources and time and energy and, yes, I amoutspoken and controversial, but I always tried to bringpositive change.@ Sanan said he was criticized for giving details of aBreeders= Cup meeting earlier this year at which theorganization=s Lasix policy was discussed. Heresponded, AIn my view, people should know what isgoing on.@ Asked what recommendations he would make to theBreeders= Cup and the industry as a whole, Sanan said,AI would strongly recommend, not just going throughthe motions, but to honestly look at where our industryis going, look at the strategic plan, define what isneeded and then put a plan in place. But plans are onlyplans if you don=t have the management that canexecute. Look at the strategic plan, make sure you havethe right management and the infastructure andresources and then you just have to execute, execute,execute.@

RODRIGUEZ ON FENCE WITH VYJACK Rudy Rodriguez is still undecided on Vyjack (IntoMischief)=s participation in the May 18 GI Preakness S.

Wet weather in theNew York area haslimited the gelding=sactivity sincefinishing 18th in theGI Kentucky Derby.AWe=ve beenbabying him,@Rodriguez said. AIwould like to gallophim and see what=sgoing on.@Rodriguez said adecision would bemade with owner

David Wilkenfeld. AI=m just going to wait and make mydecision and then tell the owner what is going on,@ hesaid. ASo far, everything is good. I have to talk with theowner first and see what he wants to do.@

GOLDENCENTS JOGS AT PIMLICO Goldencents (Into Mischief) returned to the track forthe first time since his 17th-place effort in the GI Kentucky Derby yesterday at Pimlico. The onlyPreakness contender already on the grounds, the coltjogged once around the Pimlico oval with jockey KevinKrigger in the irons. ABasically, this morningwas just to have himstretch his legs, getwarmed up fortomorrow,@ Kriggersaid. AIt was more tofeel how good he feltand he felt perfecttoday. Everything wasgood. He was smooth,graceful on the track,and relaxed. That=s allthe factors you=relooking for.@ The GI Santa Anita Derby winner, who isexpected to work Monday, is following the same pre-Preakness routine of last year=s winner I=ll Have Another(Flower Alley). AIt was successful last year, so whychange it?@ asked Jack Sisterson, assistant to trainerDoug O=Neill. Of Goldencent=s Thursday morning jog,Sisterson added, AThis is one of the first stepstraining-wise leading up to the Preakness. We justjogged him and we were very happy. There was no signof stiffness or tightness. His energy level was high.He=s a very happy horse.@

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SHUG LOOKS FORWARD TO PREAKNESS Shug McGaughey is still in a whirlwind after his firstGI Kentucky Derby win with Orb (Malibu Moon) lastSaturday, but is looking forward to the GI Preakness S.May 18. AI found that I=m a bit more nervous than I wasleading up to the Derby,@ McGaughey said. AI=m lookingforward to it. Like I said in Louisville, I can=t wait for aweek from Saturday.@ McGaughey is not overly concerned with the quickturn-around between Triple Crown races. He advocatesthe set-up, stating the time is the difficult part. AIt=s my job and my people=s job to try and get himover the Derby, try and get him fresh and happy again,@McGaughey said. AA little breezing Monday to try to puthim back in the game, then try to get him used toPimlico.

If we get him out of the Preakness and everything isstill a go, we get to relax a little longer with the threeweeks, then go 1 1/2 miles here at Belmont, which willobviously be a little easier on me. I=ll be living at homeand Orb=s going to be living at home, too.@ Orb has won off a two-week break before when hewas sixth in a maiden special weight at the Big A Nov.10 and came back on Nov. 24 to break his maidenthere. AI have run him back in a hurry and he ran well off ofit,@ McGaughey said. AWhat has really given meconfidence is what I=ve seen with him coming out of hisraces.@ Orb sat near the back of the field through blisteringfractions in the Derby and ran right by the tiringpacesetters in the stretch to win. He has proven to beversatile at both coming from behind off a fast pace orrunning closer to the leaders on a slow pace. AWe had a fast pace in the [GII] Fountain of Youthand he won,@ McGaughey said. AWe had a slow pace inthe [GI] Florida Derby and he won. I really think in theseraces he has been a pretty convincing winner.@ GIII Illinois Derby victor Departing (War Front) will bea new competitor for Orb in the Preakness andMcGaughey calls him a Aworthy opponent.@ He alsocited Orb=s Derby rivals Oxbow (Awesome Again), Will Take Charge (Unbridled=s Song), and NormandyInvasion (Tapit) as possible competition in thePreakness. AI=m not going to let myself sit around and thinkabout who is the guy to beat and this or that,@McGaughey said. AIf Orb runs his race, and sitting hereon Thursday afternoon, I don=t see any reason why hewouldn=t, I think they will all have him to beat.@ The conditioner feels shipping to and getting used toPimlico will be Orb=s biggest challenge. If he wins thePreakness, he will return to his home track to run thefinal leg of the Triple Crown, which gives him a home-field advantage. AIt=s not going to be unfamiliar for him and I think thatis a pretty settling factor, not only to the people aroundhim, but to the horse himself,@ McGaughey said.

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DEPARTING IN THE PREAKNESS? Departing (War Front), winner of the GIII IllinoisDerby, will head to Pimlico on Wednesday to challengelast Saturday=s GI Kentucky Derby victor Orb (MalibuMoon) in the GI Preakness S. May 18. AWe are happy with him,@ trainer Al Stall said. AHe=sacting like a fresh horse. He=s had one breeze [4f in :49at Churchill Downs May 2] since the race in Illinois. Heis scheduled to have another one this weekend and shipover to Baltimore on Wednesday, so we are very happywith this horse.@ He will be one of the few runners coming into thePreakness with more than two weeks rest, havingbypassed the Derby. After a third in his fourth lifetimestart in the GII Louisiana Derby, Stall felt the horselacked the seasoning to Run for the Roses. A[The Derby] is a tough race and he is a gelding,@ Stallsaid. AWe are looking for quite a bit of longevity out ofhim, so we decided to pass on the Derby.@ Stall felt the Illinois Derby, which had been movedback due to it=s lack of Kentucky Derby points, was abetter fit for Departing and would be a good Preaknessprep. The gelding=s performance in that race proved himright. The conditioner feels Departing has progressed a lotin the past two months. AThis horse seems to be getting better and you cansee it before your eyes,@ Stall said. AIn the spring of the3-year-old year, a nice 3-year-old will raise his hand andsay, >I want to get better and I=m going forward.= Hecertainly gives us every indication that he is that typeof horse.@ Stall was impressed by Orb=s run in the Derby andrealizes he is the horse to beat. AWe plan on going in there without hesitation andrunning our >A= race,@ Stall said. AWhether that is goodenough to beat Orb, I have no earthly idea, but all wecan do it take care of our horse and bring him overthere with confidence.@

STEVENS READY FOR HIS 17TH PREAKNESS Hall of fame jockey Gary Stevens is no stranger tothe GI Preakness S, but this will be his first start in racesince coming out of an eight-year retirement in January.He has ridden in the Preakness 17 times, been in themoney on 10 occasions, and won twice with PointGiven (Thunder Gulch) in 2001 and Silver Charm (SilverBuck) in 1997. AI have been back for five months and my focus hasreturned every bit as much as what it had been uponmy retirement,@ Stevens said. He will ride his GI Kentucky Derby mount Oxbow(Awesome Again) for a shot at the black-eyed susansMay 18. They finished sixth in the Run for the Roses,but Stevens was proud of his mount=s effort. AI think the thing I was most impressed about withhim at the Derby, is that he was the only one of the topsix horses that was part of that heated battle early onin those fast fractions that stuck around for the rest ofthe race,@ said Stevens. There was a point in the race where Stevens eventhought they had the race won. AI thought to myself just before we entered thestretch >Man I am going to win my fourth Derby,=@Stevens said. AIt only lasted three or four seconds, butthe thing that was great about him is he had every rightto just chuck it in like the rest of the pacemakers did inthe race and he battled on to the finish line.@ Stevens hopes Oxbow settles into Pimlico well andruns in his usual manner in the Preakness for a chanceto beat Derby hero Orb (Malibu Moon). AI liked what I saw in [Orb] and I think we are seeinga colt that really has some untapped resources rightnow,@ Stevens said. AI think that he is still improvingand that is kind of a scary thought.@ Stevens will wait to devise his strategy until after thepost positions are drawn, but plans to be on or near thelead with Oxbow on Preakness day.

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Thursday, Chester, BritainMBNA CHESTER VASE-G3, ,60,000, Chester, 5-9,3yo, c/g, 12f 66ydsT, 2:40.29, gd.1--#@RULER OF THE WORLD (IRE), 124, c, 3, by Galileo (Ire)

1st Dam: Love Me True (GSP-Ire), by Kingmambo2nd Dam: Lassie’s Lady, by Alydar3rd Dam: Lassie Dear, by Buckpasser

O-Susan Magnier, Michael Tabor & Derrick Smith; B-Southern Bloodstock; T-Aidan O=Brien; J-Ryan Moore; ,34,026. Lifetime Record: 2-2-0-0, ,42,121. *1/2 to Duke of Marmalade (Ire) (Danehill), Ch. Older Horse-Eur, Hwt. Older Horse-Eng at 9.5-10.5f & 10.5-13.5f, Hwt. Older Horse-Ire at 9.5-11f & 11- 14f, MG1SW-Eng, G1SW-Fr & Ire, $2,798,855; and Countess Lemonade (Storm Cat), GSP-US & SP-Fr. Werk Nick Rating: B. Click for the eNicks report & 5-cross pedigree.2--Mister Impatience (GB), 124, c, 3, Hernando (Fr)-- Katy Nowaitee (GB), by Komaite. (42,000gns yrl >11 TATDEC). O-The Originals; B-The Kathryn Stud Ltd; T-Mark Johnston; ,12,900.3--Havana Beat (Ire), 124, c, 3, Teofilo (Ire)--Sweet Home Alabama (Ire), by Desert Prince (Ire). (33,000gns wnlg >10 TATDEC; 65,000gns yrl >11 TATOCT). O-Mick & Janice Mariscotti; B-Natalie Cleary; T-Andrew Balding; ,6,456.Margins: 6, 1 1/2, 2. Odds: 10-11, 11-1, 11-4.Also Ran: Feel Like Dancing (GB).Click for the Racing Post result or the brisnet.com PPs.VIDEO, courtesy Racing UK.

Thursday, Chester, BritainSTELLA ARTOIS HUXLEY S. (FOR THE TRADESMAN=SCUP)-G3, ,60,000, Chester, 5-9, 4yo/up, 10f 75ydsT,2:11.65, gd.1--DANADANA (IRE), 126, h, 5, by Dubawi (Ire)

1st Dam: Zeeba (Ire), by Barathea (Ire)2nd Dam: Donya (Ire), by Mill Reef3rd Dam: Dunette (Fr), by Hard to Beat (Ire)

O-Sheikh Mohammed Obaid Al Maktoum; B-Darley; T-Luca Cumani; J-Kieren Fallon; ,34,026. Lifetime Record: 11-5-1-1, ,80,472. Werk Nick Rating: A+++ *Triple Plus*. Click for the eNicks report & 5-cross pedigree.2--Highland Knight (Ire), 126, g, 6, Night Shift-- Highland Shot (GB), by Selkirk. (37,000gns RNA HIT >10 TATHIT). O-J C Smith; B-Littleton Stud; T-Andrew Balding; ,12,900.3--Gabrial (Ire), 126, g, 4, Dark Angel (Ire)--Guajira (Fr), by Mtoto (GB). (25,000gns wnlg >09 TATDEC; ,46,000 yrl >10 DONAUG). O-Dr Marwan Koukash; B-B Kennedy; T-Richard Fahey; ,6,456.Margins: 3/4, NK, 2. Odds: 10-3, 4-1, 7-2.Also Ran: Miblish (GB), Dick Doughtywylie (GB),Rewarded (GB), Bonfire (GB).Click for the Racing Post result or the brisnet.com PPs. VIDEO, courtesy Racing UK.

Taking time to find his feet at two and three,Danadana finally began to show the talent his trainerknew was under the covers when registering a 10-furlong handicap success at Newmarket last May.Following up in Redcar=s Zetland Gold Cup the followingmonth, the bay=s momentum was derailed at GloriousGoodwood, but he put that unplaced effort behind himwith another score under top weight in a competitivehandicap at York=s Ebor meeting in August. Held upearly with only Gabrial behind, he soon dropped to lastas he struggled to come to terms with the turningcircuit, but was cajoled into contention on the final turnwhen angled widest of all. As soon as he leveled up,Danadana ate up the ground to grab the lead from therail-running long-time leader Highland Knight with 150yards remaining and was comfortably on top at the line.AHe=s improved a lot since last year and he=s done itwell,@ said jockey Kieren Fallon. AI didn=t think he=d likethe ground, but it=s fresher on the outside and not asbad as it=s probably going to get--with this rain, it willturn to soft pretty soon. He=s a grand, big horse and hedid nothing only improve last year.@ Trainer LucaCumani=s son and assistant Matt Cumani added, ATheground looks quite loose and we know he doesn=t likesoft ground. Going round the first bend, he looked likehe was going to go out into Chester town so that madeit all the more impressive when he finally let go. Welove him and the whole family, which includes [lastyear=s GI Arlington Million runner-up] Afsare (GB)(Dubawi {Ire}) and he looks like Dubawi. He=s a verynice, impressive horse. He=s very well behaved, but hashad his problems. Royal Ascot will be the target,probably the [June 21] Listed Wolferton S.@

Thursday, Baden-Baden, GermanyBADENER MEILE-G3, i55,000, Baden-Baden, 5-9,3yo/up, 1mT, 1:40.90, gd/sf.1--FELICIAN (GER), 126, g, 5, by Motivator (GB)

1st Dam: Felicity (Ger) (GSW-Ger & SP-Fr,$155,698), by Inchinor (GB)2nd Dam: Felina (Ger), by Acatenango (Ger)3rd Dam: Fireglow (Fr), by Glow

O/B-Gestut Haus Ittlingen; T-Ferdinand Leve; J-Lennart Hammer-Hansen; i32,000. Lifetime Record: 9 starts, 5 wins, 0 places, i55,500. Werk Nick Rating: A+. Click for the eNicks report & 5-cross pedigree.2--Neatico (Ger), 126, h, 6, Medicean (GB)--Nicola Bella (Ire), by Sadler=s Wells. O-Gestut Ittlingen; B-Gestut Hof Ittlingen; T-Peter Schiergen; i11,000.3--Combat Zone (Ire), 132, g, 7, Refuse to Bend (Ire)-- Zeiting (Ire), by Zieten. (i280,000 yrl >07 GOFMIL; 7,000gns HIT >09 TATAUT). O-Guido Werner Hermann Schmitt; B-Twelve Oaks Stud; T-Mario Hofer; i5,500.Margins: HF, 1, HD. Odds: 15.50, 3.60, 21.70.Also Ran: Amarillo (Ire), Point Blank (Ger), Indomito(Ger), Sommerabend (GB), Global Thrill (GB), Zazou(Ger), Samba Brazil (Ger), King=s Hall (GB).Click for the Racing Post result.

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G3 Badener Meile cont.

Felician, who rattled up a trio of handicap wins lastsummer, had managed a fourth placing behind CombatZone in Munich=s G2 Grosse Europa Meile in Septemberbefore finishing last of five in the G3 Grosser Preis derLandeshauptstadt Dusseldorf over a half-furlong furtherat Dusseldorf the following month. Rated early towardsthe rear of the tightly-packed field, the bay wasdelivered as the gaps opened ahead inside the finalfurlong and had first run on Neatico in the final 50yards. AHe traveled beautifully, the pace was perfect,and in the end he showed a great turn-of-foot,@ jockeyLennart Hammer-Hansen said. The result proved afamily affair, as the winning owner and trainerFerdinand Leve is the husband of JanetLeve-Ostermann, owner of Gestut Haus Ittlingen andsister of Manfred Ostermann, whose Gestut Ittlingenraces the favorite Neatico. The race also coincided withthe winning couple=s 16th wedding anniversary.

No Bolger Runners in Poulains Trainer Jim Bolger will be without a representative inSunday=s G1 Poule d=Essai des Poulains at Longchampafter scratching both Loch Garman (Ire) (Teofilo {Ire})and Leitir Mor (Ire) (Holy Roman Emperor {Ire}) atyesterday=s forfeit stage. Their withdrawal means that amaximum of 19 colts will go to post for the mileClassic, with Marco Botti taking out Prince Faisal=sKempton maiden winner String Theory (Ire) (Medicean{GB}).

DEE-DAY Today=s G3 Dee S. has presented two Epsom Derbywinners in Oath (Ire) (Fairy King) in 1999 and Kris Kin(Kris S.) four years later, and for the six protagonistsassembled for the latest renewal, the distant dream isstill alive. Holding the aces on established form is QatarRacing Limited=s Willie the Whipper (GB) (Whipper),who followed a first black-type success in Pontefract=sListed Silver Tankard S. in October with a seven-lengthssecond to Morandi (Fr) ( Holy Roman Emperor {Ire}) inthe G1 Criterium de Saint-Cloud the following month. Inhis favor will be the softening of the ground followingyesterday=s rain, and his Yorkshire-based trainer AnnDuffield is hoping he can put her stable on a bigger mapthis term. AThe horse is in good order,@ she told PASport. AI think he will improve for the run, but we=rereally excited about running him.

I think we=ll get this race out of the way before westart making future plans.@ Trainer Ed Dunlop holdsContributer (Ire) (High Chaparral {Ire}) in high regardand he looked on the upgrade when taking a 10-furlongconditions event at Newbury Apr. 19. AHe=s a horse welike and it=s time to step him up in class now,@ hecommented. AHe was bought in the breeze-ups and isn=tentered in the Derby. I=ve already said that were he togo and run very well or win his trial, then I would bekeen to supplement him for a Derby, but let=s see howhe goes first.@

Friday, Chester, Britain, post time: 2:45 p.m.BOODLES DIAMOND ORMONDE S.-G3, £75,000, 4yo/up, 13f 89ydsTSC PP HORSE SIRE JOCKEY TRAINER1 2 Communicator (GB) Motivator (GB) Probert Balding2 6 Mad Moose (Ire) Presenting (GB) Tudhope Twston-Davies3 3 Memphis Tennessee (Ire) Hurricane Run (Ire) Moore A O'Brien4 5 Mount Athos (Ire) Montjeu (Ire) Spencer Cumani5 4 Zafarqand (Ire) Halling Fanning Brady6 1 Luthien (Ire) Polish Precedent Mackay HalesAll carry 126 pounds bar Luthien, 123.

Friday, Chester, Britain, post time: 2:15 p.m.BETVICTOR.COM DEE S.-G3, £60,000, 3yo, c/g, 10f 75ydsTSC PP HORSE SIRE JOCKEY TRAINER1 6 Contributer (Ire) High Chaparral (Ire) G Lee E Dunlop2 2 Gabrial's Kaka (Ire) Jeremy Hamilton Fahey3 4 Glacial Age (Ire) Verglas (Ire) Fanning Hughes4 5 Holy Warrior (Ire) Holy Roman Emperor (Ire) Callan Kelleway5 3 Magician (Ire) Galileo (Ire) Moore A O'Brien6 1 Willie the Whipper (GB) Whipper Spencer DuffieldAll carry 124 pounds.

BIN SUROOR TO TAKE CHARGE Saeed bin Suroor is to assume short-termresponsibility of the Moulton Paddocks base recentlyvacated by banned trainer Mahmood Al Zarooni,according to a statement released by GodolphinThursday. ASaeed bin Suroor is taking over the traininglicence at Moulton Paddocks on a temporary basis untila new trainer is appointed by Godolphin for thatproperty. The role is in addition to Saeed bin Suroor=sresponsibilities for horses based at Godolphin Stables inNewmarket. The test results for horses at MoultonPaddocks are still awaited and there will be no runnersfrom there until they are all known,@ the statementread. The British Horseracing Authority subsequentlyconfirmed that bin Suroor will be granted such atraining licence once drugs tests on all of the MoultonPaddocks-based horses are returned clear. AdamBrickell, the BHA's director of integrity, said, AWe haveinformed Saeed bin Suroor and Godolphin that the BHAwill not be relicensing the yard until the test results areknown for all the Godolphin-owned horses stabled inNewmarket.@

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Tongue-Tie for Toronado... Sheikh Joaan bin Hamad Al Thani=s Toronado (Ire)(High Chaparral {Ire}) is set to be fitted with atongue-tie when he reappears at Royal Ascot,connections revealed yesterday. With post-race testsshowing nothing untoward following his below-pareffort when fourth in Saturday=s G1 2,000 Guineas, theG3 Craven S. winner will race with the wind aid in theJune 18 G1 St James=s Palace S. AToronado=s blood hascome back fine, but we suspect that he might havesuffered a displaced palate which would explain why hehit the wall so quickly, so we will tie his tongue downnext time,@ Richard Hannon Jr explained. AWe also planto dispense with the drop noseband and ride him with alittle bit more restraint and, having digested ouroptions, we have decided to bring him back for the [G1] St James=s Palace S. at Royal Ascot [June 19].The round mile should suit him perfectly. We havecertainly not lost faith in Toronado. Clearly, he did notshow anything like his true form at Newmarket--weknow that from his work at home with Van der Neerand we hope that we might have found the reason andthat he will bounce back in style.@ Hannon Jr alsoannounced that Ben Keswick=s G1 1,000 Guineasheroine Sky Lantern (Ire) (Red Clubs {Ire}) will joinToronado at the Royal meeting and contest the June 21G1 Coronation S., with Ahmad Alkhallafi=s Maureen(Ire) (Holy Roman Emperor {Ire}), who was a close-upsixth behind her at Newmarket, being aimed at the G1Irish 1,000 Guineas at The Curragh May 26. ASkyLantern has come out of Newmarket better than wecould have hoped,@ he added. AShe gave us a day thatnone of us will ever forget when winning the 1,000Guineas and now we look to top up the celebrations inthe Coronation S. at Royal Ascot, where we will againcross swords with runner-up Just the Judge. Maureenalso delighted us at Newmarket, finishing better thananything, and now we know that she gets the mile wellwe have more options available, and the Irish 1,000Guineas is very much the next port of call.@

GROUPIE DOLL RETURNS TO TRACK Last year=s champion female sprinter Groupie Doll(Bowman=s Band), who capped off 2012 with a win inthe Nov. 3 GI Breeders= Cup Filly& Mare Sprint and arunner-up finish in the Nov. 24 GI Cigar Mile, returnedto Churchill Downs Monday after a three-month stint atIndian Ridge Farm in Frankfort. Trainer Buff Bradley,who owns Groupie Doll in partnership with his fatherFred, Carl Hurst and Brent Burns, sent the 5-year-oldhome in early February after she was not training to hissatisfaction at Gulfstream Park. AIs it a 180-degreeturnaround from Florida?--Absolutely,@ said Bradley.

AShe has really good energy and she wants to do it. Iknew we were good and did not anticipate anyproblems bringing her back.@ During her time off, thechestnut shared a pasture with a former star from theBadley barn, 12-year-old MGSW Brass Hat (Prized).>Brass= was training her,@ Bradley said of the previousstable star who earned more than $2.1 million in hiscareer. AThey would run for 10 minutes and Brass wasso smart, he would cut the corner on her and whenthey were done, she was really blowing.@ Bradleyindicated he will jog Groupie Doll through the remainderof the month before beginning galloping the mare inJune.

Twilight at the Track“In the center Island of a sleepy cul-de-sac in my suburban Kansas City,Mo., neighborhood, a pair of huge stone markers stand in memory oftwo horses buried beneath the stones. Lawrin, one stone announcessolemnly. A darkly handsome Thoroughbred with matching white sockson his forelegs, Lawrin charged from the pack at Churchill Downs to winthe 1938 Kentucky Derby by a length with a 22-year-old Eddie Arcaro onhis back.” David Von Drehle, TIME Magazine

Departing's entry in Preakness leads to homecoming for NicoleStall“Stall, a 1992 John Carroll graduate whose maiden name is Schab, willreturn to her home state next week, this time in hopes of celebrating.Her husband will enter Departing — the Illinois Derby winner and topchallenger among the “new shooters” who did not run in the KentuckyDerby — in the Preakness.” Chris Korman, The Baltimore Sun

Up the Backstretch: Monmouth Park betting on sports wagering“This year marks the 68th season of thoroughbred racing at MonmouthPark on the New Jersey shore. Currently operated by the New JerseyThoroughbred Horsemen's Association, the racetrack is already liningthings up for the expected advent of sports betting in the Garden State.”Don Agriss, The Sports Network

Winning in a Snap: A History of Photo Finishes and Horse Racing“Before photography was used, a placing judge who stood at the finishline had the final say in which horse had won. However, many people,including famous photographer Eadward Muybridge, were of the opinionthat horse racing and other sports depended on new technology foraccurate results.” Mary Karmelek, Scientific American

NEWS FROM THE GAMING WORLD:Massachusetts Gaming Commission picks UMass team to studylong-term impact of casinos“The Massachusetts Gaming Commission announced Thursday that ithas selected a University of Massachusetts Amherst School of PublicHealth and Health Sciences research team to perform a comprehensive,multi-year $3.64 million research project, believed to be the first of itskind, on the economic and social impacts of introducing casino gamblingin Massachusetts.” Larry Rivais, The Republican

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Stables migrating from New York to Florida in the late fall and

returning in the spring is as familiar as the birds which tail them. But besides the weather, the horses in those stables, on arrival and then departure, must get accustomed to changes in their drug routine, as important as any decision a trainer will make nowadays.

This is what the stables had grown used to in the Sunshine State. Corticosteroids, such as betamethasone (Celestone) and triamcinolone acetonide (Vetalog), can be administered 24 hours before a race, with the unique exception of prednisolone sodium succinate, which is allowed, like furosemide (Lasix), four hours before post. The 24-hour threshold also goes for a host of non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) – flunixin, ketoprofen, phenylbutazone. Clenbuterol, the popular bronchodilator beloved for its anabolic effects, reportedly has a five-day withdrawal time. The analgesic butorphanol is also reportedly permitted until three days before a race, the sedative acepromazine at four days, the pain-killer lidocaine at seven. The state doesn’t regulate total carbon dioxide (TCO2), the byproduct of milkshaking (a solution of sodium bicarbonate administered to racehorses by stomach tube 4 to 6 hours before racing to counteract the accumulation of lactic acid in the muscles), ceding this responsibility to its racetracks. Tampa Bay Downs, for example, claims to test all graded-stakes runners and randomly in other races.

Arriving in New York only weeks ago, the same trainers found different standards: five-day withdrawal periods for corticosteroids when administered systemically and seven days when injected in the joints. Like most states, Florida evidently doesn’t make a distinction. Flunixin is

allowed until 24 hours before a race, ketoprofen and phenylbutazone until 48 hours. Clenbuterol cannot be used within 14 days. Butorphanol and acepromazine and lidocaine are permitted until four days. The state calls a positive on TCO2 levels above 37 millimoles per liter.

Something as standard as who administers Lasix differs: private veterinarians in Florida versus state veterinarians in New York. Even the drug tests are dissimilar. To test for several of the more common corticosteroids and a select number

of NSAIDs – all Class 4 and 5 substances – Florida employs thin-layer chromatography (TLC), a fast and inexpensive method which, according to expert opinion, has been outdated since the 1980s and utilized by few other states. The state legislature determines this.

“That testing is not sensitive at all,” says Dr. Mary Scollay, the equine medical director of the Kentucky Horse Racing Commission, who previously spent 13 years in Florida racing. “There is a general knowledge that going to Florida in the winter, a

trainer will have more options to race on medication than he would in his home state.”

The differences between the two states are made greater because of recent changes in New York in response to the task force on the 2011-12 fatalities at Aqueduct (the New York Task Force on Racehorse Health and Safety). It extended its withdrawal time for clenbuterol from four to 14 days, systemic use of corticosteroids from 48 hours to five days and their intra-articular administration from five to seven days. The withdrawal time for methylprednisolone acetate, a popular corticosteroid, but potentially degradative to the joint capsule, sold as DepoMedrol, was extended to 15 days.

The value of the task force’s report cannot be overstated. Like a time capsule, it pulls back the veil on racing as it currently operates, portraying its profound dependence on permissible drugs. Scollay was one of its authors, along with Jerry Bailey, Scott Palmer and Alan M. Foreman.

What happened when New York reformed its medication rules? Shippers disappeared, its average field size dropped, and Aqueduct cut six mid-week days. One could not have dreamed up a better summary of the need for uniform, not to mention tougher, drug regulations.

The comparison between Florida and New York is only one example; every state offers a dizzying assortment of drugs for trainers, by way of their veterinarians, to choose from. As far as withdrawal times and thresholds – not to mention penalties for exceeding them – no two states are alike.

Not even neighbors, like Texas and Louisiana, which share horses and horsemen and where the most common drugs are treated differently. Texas permits only furosemide on the day of the race, whereas

Louisiana reportedly allows up to five adjunct bleeder medications. The same for bute. Louisiana allows 5 milligrams the day before – though 2 milligrams for graded stakes – but Texas sticks with the lower administration of 2 milligrams for all races. And following new Racing Medication and Testing Consortium (RMTC) guidelines, Texas recently extended its withdrawal time for clenbuterol to 14 days and intra-articular injections of corticosteroids to seven days, plus 21 for DepoMedrol.

Louisiana, without identifying which drugs, authorizes the “full use

of modern therapeutic measures for the improvement and protection of the health of a horse,” except on the day of the race. This 24-hour anything-goes rule is unique. In racing parlance, Louisiana is called a horsemen-friendly state.

“I have serious questions about it, to be honest,” says Dr. Ken Quirk, the Texas Racing Commission’s equine medical director, who fears his state will lose even more horses to Louisiana as a result.

These disparities raise a question at the heart of permissive medication and American racing: If all of these drugs are classified as therapeutic, their purpose presumably based on science, then how could separate

racing jurisdictions approach them so differently?

It seems a trainer would have to be crazy to use illegal drugs when so many legal ones are at his disposal. Before the days of pharmacological drugs, the goal was to “hop ‘em or stop ‘em,” but what the picture looks like now is an everyday practice of using drugs to manage pain and other complications to get a horse to post. Since the majority of horses race for tags, it makes sense. “The claiming game does not protect the horse,” Scollay says. “It’s like day-trading on the stock market.”

From 2005 through 2011, there were 3,497 post-race medication rulings, not including furosemide, collected from 32 states by The Jockey Club. Of this total, 2,006 were for drugs related to pain management and another 216 for corticosteroids.

Medical records for the horses who died at Aqueduct elevate to life these cruel statistics. You see nearly every trainer push right up against the withdrawal time for a variety of drugs, stacking similar NSAIDs and corticosteroids, searching for combinations which might prove more effective than the parts. The RMTC recently proposed rules against “stacking” NSAIDs, but at present few states have them.

“It’s not uncommon for a racehorse in a lot of jurisdictions, not just Texas,” Quirk says, “to receive flunixin at 36 or 24 hours before the race, maybe even ketoprofen at the same time, and the day before two milligrams of bute and then also dexamethasone phosphate, which is a corticosteroid. I have an issue with that. If you have all those on board, how does that impact the pre-race inspection process?”

This greatly concerned the authors of the Aqueduct report. Seven of the 21 fatalities had received intra-articular injections of corticosteroids near the race, but their trainers didn’t

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What happened when New York reformed its medication rules?

Shippers disappeared,

dropped, and Aqueduct cut six mid-week days.

report this to the stewards, a rule that was never enforced. Coronado Heights, a name which never leaves the mind once you hear his story, was one of those horses.

The four-year-old bay gelding could never match his well-regarded pedigree, by Pulpit out of the Coronado’s Quest mare Coronado Rose. He began his career for a

$12,500 tag on Jan. 12, 2012, and won that day, but two starts and six weeks later, on Feb. 25, he broke down on the track.

The following was his pre-race regimen. Five days before his final race, he was treated for inflammation of the medial stifle joints. He was sedated intravenously with xylazine and dormosedan, his joints injected

with 80 mg of DepoMedrol and 5 cc hyaluronic acid – the first to decrease inflammation and the other to prevent it – and given 5 mg of flunixin. Three days later, he got an assortment of NSAIDs intravenously – two mg of bute, five more mg of flunixin, and Legend, pure hyaluronic acid – and injected intra-muscularly with Estrone and joint treatment

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Adequan. The next day, Feb. 24, two more mg of bute, and Vitamin B1 and calcium. According to the death certificate, Michael McCarthy, overseeing Coronado Heights for trainer Todd Pletcher, said the breakdown was a complete shock to him and that the horse had no soundness issues. Either this was a cruel joke or this battery of drugs was standard practice.

Nothing about this was prohibited, although injecting DepoMedrol so close to the race is now forbidden in New York. Coronado Heights wouldn’t have failed a drug test, since each was prescribed according to its individual threshold. There are no rules in New York against stacking similar-working drugs.

When tests are blown, it is the cost of doing business. For instance, no trainer in America has had more reported drug positives than Kirk Ziadie, according to public records, yet Ziadie once again leads the Calder standings as he has for much of his 12-year career. His horses have earned about $11 million in purses, while on 41 occasions they’ve failed drug tests, tests which are widely seen as insensitive anyway. Despite this record, Ziadie was only fined a total of $13,100 – not even the winner’s share of one race – and his horses never disqualified of purse money. When Florida’s Division of Pari-Mutuel Wagering finally tried

suspending Ziadie for two months, he appealed the case for two years.

Even something as severe as the findings of dermorphin, the extremely powerful painkiller derived from South American frog secretion, doesn’t mean an automatic ban. Though Quarter horse racetracks

in Oklahoma, Texas, New Mexico and California have used their private-property rights to exclude trainers for Class 1 violations, in Louisiana, seven of the eight frog-juice trainers have obtained stays of their suspensions – Alvin Smith Jr. (suspended 10 years); John Darrel Soileau (10 years); Alonzo Loya (five years); Kyi Lormand (three years); Anthony Agilar (six years); and Gonzalo Gonzales (three years). In the meantime, they keep winning races.

As far as their everyday use on the track, corticosteroids have become a new front in medication reform. Though states like New York, Texas and Minnesota have restricted its use close to the race, most states seem stuck at the 48-hour threshold, or even 24 hours. Which means a horse can be injected, dangerously in the joints, after it passes the entry box.

The medical opinion on corticosteroids is that they are highly potent, especially when injected intra-articularly, and successfully

quiet joint inflammation and thereby reduce pain and lameness. Their relief is often temporary, however, and when used close to exercise can prove deleterious. You can only “tap” a horse so many times, too, before finding diminishing returns.

And not all corticosteroids are created equal, claims Dr. Wayne McIlwraith, Director of the Orthopaedic Research Center at Colorado State University, who has studied them intensely. “DepoMedrol is bad; the others are good. That’s the bottom line,” McIlwraith said at the Welfare and Safety of the Racehorse Summit IV held last October at Keeneland.

Because the drugs are long-acting and, depending on their administration, may stay in the bloodstream for several weeks or more, regulation is challenging. Blood tests cannot indicate how or when they were administered, says Texas’s Quirk. Until recently, states rarely tested for it; through the ‘60s and ‘70s, they

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According to the

Michael McCarthy, overseeing Coronado

Heights for trainer Todd Pletcher, said

the breakdown was a complete shock to him and that the horse had no soundness issues.

Either this was a cruel joke or this

standard practice.

were legal on the day of the race. Minnesota was one of the first to change. Only with the newest testing method – liquid chromatography–mass spectrometry (LC-MS) – can it be detected at minute amounts, says Dr. Jill Hovda, the equine medical director there. Older techniques are bound to miss them;

for this reason, Florida, which uses the antiquated TLC method, has never called a positive since at least 2005.

In Florida, the use of prednisolone sodium succinate on race-day is a relic of that older time. Kent Stirling, the head of its horsemen’s group, has argued that it prevents heat

prostration. However, no other states in sunny climes allow it. Short-acting, it supposedly treats animals on the verge of shock. “As an effort to stave off heat prostration I think it is a real stretch,” says Quirk, himself familiar with sweltering Texas days. Several Northeast trainers who race in Florida during the winter have confided that they believe this practice crazy.

As powerful as they are, McIlwraith said that corticosteroids can easily be pushed out to 14 days – a great distance from the common 48-hour rule. “There needs to be a point where therapy ends and competition begins,” he said pointedly. “That is part of the dilemma we have.”

Repetitive use, McIlwraith found, particularly of DepoMedrol, can cause significant damage to the cartilage in the joint. Out-of-competition regulation, the Aqueduct report concluded, is desperately needed. Horses passing through the claiming ranks are bound to receive redundant, and thus dangerous, treatment. Like Almighty Silver, who made 44 starts for earnings of $372,215 and was claimed three times in the three months leading up to his final race at Aqueduct, each claim making his medical record, which didn’t transfer with change in trainers, increasingly problematic. He received four intra-articular injections five days prior to his fatal breakdown on March 4, 2012. Not enough time had passed to assess

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his response to that treatment, the report concluded.

“Trainers were quite frank to say they would claim a horse and inject it with corticosteroids to get it out there and get claimed,” Scollay says. “And this is not only in New York.”

She added: “The industry as a whole needs to contemplate what we learned from New York.”

What else did they learn? That nothing epitomizes racing’s drug problems better than clenbuterol, which goes by the trade name Ventipulmin and treats lower airway inflammation and upper respiratory infections, but also builds muscle mass. Scollay and her colleagues found that clenbuterol was being used beyond its labeled therapeutic purposes and was as regular as feed time.

Clenbuterol arrived on the backstretch around 30 years ago; the late veterinarian Alex Harthill was one of the first to import it, from Europe, and prescribe it here. It did not gain F.D.A. approval until 1998, and thus went undetected in the afternoons for almost two decades. Once a test came out, it quickly surfaced in post-race samples, especially in California, where six trainers, including Darrell Vienna, Bruce Headley, and Vladimir Cerin, had horses test positive. Ted West, the trainer of Budroyale, had eight different horses fail tests. California officials decided to allow it, with minor restrictions, and for much of the next 10 years, there and elsewhere, its withdrawal time was on the order of a few days to a week.

When anabolic steroids were banned in 2010, clenbuterol became even more popular. “I use a lot of clenbuterol in horses,” Scott Lake, who has led the nation in wins several times, said that year in a television interview. The number of positives support this trend: from 2005 through 2012, 61 percent of the total occurred in the last three years of that period, according to

public records from 23 states.In 2011, California found the drug

in 54 percent of horses. “Clenbuterol is one of the worst things that happened to racing,” Hall of Fame trainer Jack Van Berg told a forum on drug use last year.

For its Aqueduct investigation, Scollay says, “We asked trainers, ‘Do you have a regular training program?’ All of them said no. And then we asked them, ‘Do you use clenbuterol?’ ‘Yes, we do and we

give it on a daily basis.’” The way they described it, she says, “was not like a prescription drug, which is what it is, but like a feed supplement you give twice a day.”

The trainers described how, on a regular cycle, a horse bounced back and ate better and looked

better – effects of anabolic steroids, Scollay says, not airway medication. “We gave them the opportunity to say we need it to maintain airway health. ‘The barns are dusty,’ things like that…You could’ve given them that. But no, they all described the anabolic effects.”

Its manufacturer, Boehringer Ingelheim, says clenbuterol should be withdrawn 30 days before a race, and the American Quarter Horse Association now follows that guideline. New Mexico recently banned it going on a second year.

Clenbuterol clears the system slowly in urine but quickly in blood, usually gone within 96 hours in the latter. Its anabolic effects remain. It takes approximately 30 days to clear urine. Most states still test blood, Scollay says, but the only way to legitimately prohibit its use is by testing urine; with a 72-hour withdrawal time, for example, a blood test cannot distinguish between a trainer who used clenbuterol every day for a month up to that threshold, or for five days.

Despite this, clenbuterol is treated differently from state to state, according to a survey of state racing commissions and state veterinarians – anywhere from a 24-hour withdrawal (Louisiana and Oklahoma) to 14 days (New York, Texas, Maryland) or 21 days (Arizona, California) or 30 days (Oregon, New Mexico). The rest, however,

For its Aqueduct investigation, Scollay

says, “We asked trainers, ‘Do you have

a regular training program?’ All of them said no. And then we asked them, ‘Do you

use clenbuterol?’ ‘Yes, we do and we give it

on a daily basis.’” The way they described it, she says, “was not like

a prescription drug, which is what it is, but like a feed supplement you give twice a day.”

fall under a week, and some, like Arkansas, Kansas, Nebraska and Massachusetts offer no guideline. The racing commissions of Florida, at five days, and Illinois, at seven days, declare a zero-tolerance policy, whatever that means. Kentucky and Pennsylvania and Canada are at three days, New Jersey and Iowa and Ohio at four days, and Delaware and West Virginia and Michigan at a week.

Looking at clenbuterol rulings from 2005 through 2012, which can be incomplete, one finds almost no interstate or even intrastate rhyme or reason in how rule-breaking is handled. Some states always take away the purse, others do not. Some states hand out penalties of a few hundred dollars, others a few thousand.

The number of positives per state could depend on many things. Take Pennsylvania, which led all states with 66. Does that mean it has greater clenbuterol abuse or more enforcement? Does it employ more sensitive tests? Do their penalties affect recidivism? In every instance, Pennsylvania took away the purse.

Ohio had 18 positives, all of which merited disqualifications. Its fines were $250 or $500, although it handed out suspensions of 15 or 30 days. Illinois, a “zero-tolerance” state, levied fines of $1,000 or $1,500 but only one suspension. California, which had 51 positives and disqualified the horse all but 10 times, seemed to offer a ladder of penalties from no fine for a first offense, to $1,000, to $3,000, and up to $10,000 and $15,000. Other states rarely fine a trainer more than $1,000. In 2011, one California offender earned a $7,500 fine and a 90-day suspension.

Kentucky had only six reported positives, which seems low compared to other major states. It only disqualified the winner on three occasions, assigned 15- or 30-day

suspensions, and didn’t levy a fine but once.

Florida, with its “zero-tolerance” approach, had 34 reported positives. Not a single one merited a disqualification, and only once a suspension. Most fines were like traffic tickets – either $250 or $300 – with the recent average at $500. Only three times did a fine reach $1,000.

“If one were inclined to race on clenbuterol, then why not race in Florida?” asks Scollay. “It’s the cost of doing business. Two-hundred dollars is not a bad investment.”

Clenbuterol is classified as a class 3 drug, but Florida’s penalties for more serious offenses – the first two classes of drugs – are softer than other major racing jurisdictions. So the sunshine isn’t the only attraction.

For the Jockeys’ Guild last January, officials of The Jockey Club revealed statistics on medication rulings it had collected. They found that 15 percent of trainers licensed between 2005 and 2011 had drug rulings during that time. Excluding those with two or three rulings separated by years, 1.5 percent – approximately 200 trainers – accounted for a third of all drug rulings. In their words, this small group was shaping public perception of racing.

Using publicly available documents, the Thoroughbred Daily News learned the identities of these trainers. They are familiar names. The top three had the majority of their violations in Florida.

From 2005 through 2011, Kirk Ziadie led all trainers with 33 reported positives. Then came Dale Bennett, who races in Tampa in the winter and Chicago the rest of the year, with 25. Marty Wolfson, a Breeders’ Cup winner, completed the trifecta with 21. They were followed by Jamie Ness, the nation’s leading trainer by wins (15 violations); Edward Clouston (all 13 in West Virginia); Jason Wise (all 12 in Nebraska);

Rick Dutrow (12, seven of those in Florida); Jerry Hollendorfer (all 11 in California); Troy Bethke (all 11 in Minnesota); and Scooter Davis (nine of 10 in West Virginia).

Some conclusions can be drawn. None of the individuals were scared away by their racing commissions during this time, as their rule-breaking was concentrated in one state. Only later did Dutrow get slapped with a 10-year suspension and Davis booted from Charles Town for using a program trainer while serving a six-month drug suspension. Bethke has not entered a horse since September. The other trainers are still in business.

The most obvious conclusion, especially after expanding the picture to the 50 most-penalized trainers, is alarming: the correlation between leading in drug violations and leading in wins and training titles. These trainers enjoy unbridled success at their home tracks. It is a truth of American racing that falls with the weight of an anvil.

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CALDER, HORSEMEN REACH TEMPORARYAGREEMENT Calder Race Course confirmedThursday that a temporary agreement has been struckwith the Florida horsemen which extends the pursecontract through June 2, according to publishedreports. The agreement consequently allows the Miamitrack to distribute its signal at out-of-state simulcastsites and account wagering operations. Effective May9, Calder will restoring average daily overnight pursesto approximately $180,000, the level prior to thefour-day signal cutoff that began May 2. Calder had cutovernight purses 20% in anticipation of reducedpari-mutuel handle. Owned by Churchill Downs, Calderhas been without a contract with the local horsemensince May 3 and the new agreement grants the partiesan extended period of three weeks to strike to a long-term deal. The long-term deal has been hampered bythe dispute between Calder, which has issued a ban onhorses from returning to the track if it competes at anoutside establishment, and Gulfstream Park for racingdates in Southern Florida. The two tracks are set torace concurrently, beginning July 1.

Yesterday=s Results:8th-CDX, $50,936, Alw, NW1X, 3yo/up, f/m, 1 1/16m,1:45, ft.HITECHNOWEENIE (f, 3, Harlan=s Holiday--Hi TechHoneycomb {SW & MGSP, $278,128}, by MeadowMonster), third in a Keeneland turf maiden last Oct. 7, was fourth in a seven-furlong maiden over this maintrack Nov. 4, but graduated when returned to the lawnNov. 24. The bay returned from a six-month hiatus andshowed speed for the opening six panels of a first-levelgrass allowance in Lexington Apr. 21 before hoistingthe white flag and drifting back to ninth. Racing with apedestrian early pace while three wide, the 6-1 gambleedged to the front on the turn and scampered down thecenter of the track for a 5 1/4-length success. FavoredPedestrian (Street Sense) just held for second. Saleshistory: $37,000 yrl '11 KEESEP. Lifetime Record:6-2-0-1, $73,122. Click for the brisnet.com chart orVIDEO.O-Peter J Callahan. B-Mark Stanley (KY). T-Kenneth GMcPeek.

3rd-CDX, $42,257, Msw, 2yo, f, 4 1/2f, :52, ft.+MORE THAN BEAUTY (f, 2, More Than Ready--BrownEyed Beauty {SW, $295,865}, by Miswaki) was betdown to 11-10 favoritism to give jockey Calvin Borelhis first winner of the current meeting and his brother,trainer Cecil Borel, his first win of 2013, and madefairly light work of this bunch. A half-step slow tobegin, Borel rode aggressively in the first few stridesand had his filly at the head of affairs by the time theyreached the bend. Always comfortable up front, thehomebred kicked away in upper stretch and was keptto her task in the final 100 yards to score by a handy 5 1/4 lengths. Deliver (Article of Faith) completed theexacta as the second-longest shot on the board. Thewinner's dam, guided by Borel to a debut victory goingfive furlongs of this main track in 2001, went on to winthe Spring Fever S. as a 4-year-old and retired withseven wins from her 19 trips to the post. More ThanBeauty is her fourth winner from as many foals to race. Lifetime Record: 1-1-0-0, $27,000. Click for thebrisnet.com chart or VIDEO.O/B-Clifford J Grum (KY). T-Cecil P Borel.

Yesterday=s Results:CORMA RAY S., $83,300, BEL, 5-9, (S), 4yo/up, 7f,1:22 4/5, my.1--MINE OVER MATTER, 120, h, 6, Mineshaft--Hansel's Girl (MGSP, $237,980), by Hansel. O/B-Chester & Mary R Broman (NY); T-Michael E Hushion; J-Joel Rosario. $51,000. Lifetime Record: GSP, 39-7-4-10, $455,934. *1/2 to Chestertown Slew (Seattle Slew), MSP, $171,826.

2--Be Bullish, 120, g, 8, Pure Prize--Smart Holly, by Smarten. O-Christopher T Dunn. $17,000.3--Fiddlers Afleet, 120, h, 7, Northern Afleet--American Tango, by Quiet American. ($14,000 RNA yrl '07 FTNAUG). O-Michael Dubb, Michael Imperio & Gary Aisquith. $8,500.

Margins: 1, HF, 2 3/4. Odds: 1.40, 2.25, 2.40. Of the six previous wins recorded by Mine OverMatter, four had come over off tracks. The 6-year-oldlucked into his preferred underfoot conditions yet againand was along close home for his fourth black-typevictory. Winner of the Hudson S. at this track Oct. 20,the chestnut was third in the GIII Fall Highweight H.Nov. 22. and got a breather. The chestnut resumedwith a decent second to Brigand (Flatter) in the Jan. 20Turnofthecentury S. over the Aqueduct inner, but wasonly sixth in the GIII Toboggan H. Feb. 2 and wasexiting a fourth in the Compelling Word S. Mar. 21.Wrestled back into fourth after winning the break, MineOver Matter clocked the leading trio from fourth beforeadvancing outside and in hand for Joel Rosario on theturn. He came calling for the lead three off the insideentering the final furlong and won by a deceptivelyeasy margin. Click for the brisnet.com chart or VIDEO.

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8th-BEL, $74,000, Alw, Opt. Clm. ($62,500), NW2X,3yo/up, 7f (off turf), 1:22 3/5, my.RELOAD (c, 4, Hard Spun--Hidden Reserve {MGSP,$203,630}, by Mr. Prospector) continued his upwardprogression here and could earn consideration for a racelike the GII True North H. over this track and distanceJune 8. Second and third in seven-furlong allowancetests at Aqueduct Nov. 10 and Dec. 1, respectively, thehomebred was fourth going Gulfstream=s one-turn mileJan. 6. He ran a race good enough to win a gradedstakes when 6 3/4 lengths best at Keeneland Apr. 12(Beyer 101) and was the 3-4 chalk to put them back-to-back. Forwardly placed from the outset, Reload bid forthe lead between horses on the turn, went further clearin upper stretch and had five lengths on Escrow Kid(City Place) at the wire. The winner is a half toPhilanthropist (Kris S.), GSW, $194,580; and 3/4 toDefer (Danzig), GSW, $260,365. Lifetime Record:11-3-4-1, $194,825. Click for the brisnet.com chart orVIDEO.O/B-Phipps Stable (KY). T-Claude R McGaughey III.

2nd-BEL, $64,000, Alw, Opt. Clm. ($25,000), NW2X,(S), 3yo/up, 1m, 1:36 3/5, sy.HAY SHARES (g, 3, Henny Hughes--Omshanti, byConcern) drifted from his morning line of 5-2 all theway out to 9-2, but retained his unblemished record indetermined fashion. Never headed when graduating by5 1/4 lengths at Aqueduct Mar. 27, the dark bay alsowired a first-level optional-tagger at the Big A Apr. 20,but had a couple of extra furlongs to deal with this timearound. In front soon after the start, Hay Shares set astrong pace beneath Cornelio Velasquez, but wasconfronted at the quarter pole by perfect-trip Bigger IsBettor (Grand Reward) and Anaphylaxis (TomorrowsCat) three deep on the track. Hay Shares looked to bein some trouble, but boxed on gamely inside and gothome a neck ahead of Anaphylaxis. Sales history:$19,000 RNA yrl '11 FTNAUG; $42,000 2yo >12OBSAPR. Lifetime Record: 3-3-0-0, $99,600. Click forthe brisnet.com chart or VIDEO.O-A Shares Stables. B-First Class Thoroughbreds LLC(NY). T-Linda Rice.

Garden City Belmont Festival to be Held June 7: The 16th annual Garden City Belmont Festival willtake place on Seventh Street from 6-10:00 p.m. on theeve of the Belmont S., June 7. The festival will featurelive music, food, games, prizes and a chicken AWingOff-Competition.@ AThe Belmont Stakes is atime-honored tradition which all of us in Garden Citylook forward to with anticipation each year,@ saidGarden City Belmont Festival Chairperson Mary DolanGrippo. AThis tremendous event would not be possiblewithout the continued support of NYRA and our newestpartner Stifel Nicolaus. We are very grateful for theircommitment and thank them for their involvement inthis year=s festival.@ For more information or toparticipate, contact Mary Dolan Grippo at 516-571-1936.

Yesterday=s Results:9th-LAD, $26,000, Msw, (S), 3yo, f, 6f, 1:13, ft.+MILLIONS OF CATS (f, 3, Lion Heart--Hope'sTriumph, by A.P. Indy) was made the 23-10 post timefavorite for these high-profile connections and got thejob done. Settled just off the pace following a cleandispatch, the homebred overtook pacesetting Kisses forCarrots (B.J.=s Mark) approaching the eighth pole andsprinted home a three-length winner. Lifetime Record:1-1-0-0, $15,600. Click for the brisnet.com chart or VIDEO.O/B-Columbine Stable LLC (LA). T-Albert M Stall Jr.

Yesterday=s Results:7th-BHP, $57,000, Alw, Opt. Clm. ($62,500), NW2$X,3yo/up, f/m, 1 1/16m (AWT), 1:43 3/5, ft.1--ESENTEPE (IRE), 120, f, 4, Oratorio {Ire}--Mythie (Fr), by Octagonal (NZ). (22,000gns yrl '10 TATOCT; 220,000gns HRA >12 TATJUL). O-William Deburgh; B-Peter Kelly & Ms Wendy Daly (IRE); T-J Hollendorfer. Lifetime Record: GSW-Eng, 20-3-4-7, $150,937. 2--Plaza de Indias (Chi), 120, m, 5, Indy Dancer-- Place Lycees (Chi), by Stuka.3--Miss Radiance, 120, m, 5, Yes It's True--Radiant Glow, by War Chant. ($14,000 RNA yrl '09 FTKJUL).Margins: 3 1/4, 3 3/4, 4HF. Odds: 0.40, 11.10, 9.40. Esentepe upset last year=s G3 Nell Gwyn S. at oddsof 28-1 and was a distant third to The Fugue (GB)(Dansili {GB}) in the G3 Musidora S. for trainer RichardHannon and was snapped up for 220,000gns atTATJUL last summer. Unplaced in a pair of tries forDavid Wachman, she was sent stateside and was adecent third in a down-the-hill allowance at Santa AnitaMar. 14. She missed by a nose when stretched to amile in Arcadia 15 days later and most recently split thefield in fourth behind stablemate Halo Dolly (Popular) inthe GIII Wilshire H. over this turf course Apr. 28. Tryingthe all-weather for the second time in her career as theprohibitive 2-5 chalk, Esentepe was fastest out,dictated even fractions on the front end and neverreally took a deep breath, scoring by 3 1/4 lengths.

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4th-BHP, $54,934, Msw, 2yo, 4 1/2f (AWT), :52 2/5,ft.+STREET ICON (c, 2, Street Boss--Legion of Merit, byDanzig) was one of a handful of horses to breeze in:9 4/5 for this year=s Barretts March Sale of 2-Year-Oldsin Training and was hammered down for $85,000. Hewas sent off at debut odds of 9-2 to repay at least partof that investment and turned in a front-running effortto graduate first time out. Hustled away from the stallsby Joe Talamo, Street Icon dueled for the lead inside ofGeldautomat (Fusaichi Pegasus) to the turn and theyhad the race between them at the head of the stretch.Street Icon drifted in a touch approaching the eighthpole, causing Tyler Baze aboard Geldautomat to take upslightly, but stayed on well to hold that resurgent rivalby 3/4 of a length. An objection lodged by Baze againstthe winner was ultimately disallowed by the stewards.Sales history: $47,000 wlng '11 KEENOV; $70,000 yrl'12 KEESEP; $85,000 2yo >13 BESMAR. LifetimeRecord: 1-1-0-0, $31,200. Click for the brisnet.comchart or VIDEO.O-J W Singer LLC. B-Liberation Farm & BrandywineFarm (KY). T-John W Sadler.

Increased AShip and Win@ Returns to Del Mar in >13: Del Mar=s AShip and Win@ program will return for itsthird year at the oceanside oval=s 2013 meeting. Theprogram rewards owners with a $1,000 directpayment, as well as purse boosts, for horse=s shippedin to race for the first time at the track. In 2013, thepurse bonus will be 33 1/3% for new starters, up from25% in 2011 and 20% in 2011. AAt the racetrack, they=ll tell you to stick with awinner,@ said Del Mar Thoroughbred Club=s executivevice president for racing Tom Robbins. AAnd this simpleplan has been an absolute winner. Through it, we notonly are encouraging owners and trainers from aroundNorth America to consider running with us thissummer, we=re prodding our local owners and trainersto use their sources and resources to bring new facesinto the mix.@ Since implementing the AShip and Win@ program, DelMar has seen an increase in starters. The average fieldsize in 2010 was 8.2; in 2011, the number was up to8.4 and in 2012 it rose to 8.7. Other California tracksalso enjoyed benefits from the program, with Del Mar=s137 AShip and Win@ horses last year making anadditional 318 starts at other race meetings in the statethrough the end of 2012. AA program like this does nothing but good for all ourracetracks,@ said Mike Pegram, chairman of the board ofdirectors of the Thoroughbred Owners of California.AWe=re happy to partner with Del Mar on it once againand have high hopes that it will prove even moresuccessful in its third go-round.@

IN BRITAIN:Eshtiaal, c, 3, Dynaformer. See ABritain.@

First-crop starters to watch: Friday, May 10Sire (Sire’s Sire), current farm, 2010 Fee, #foals of racing age/Winners/BlackTypeWnrs * Race #-track, race type, distance, runner, odds (if available)

TALENT SEARCH (Catienus), Ramsey Farm, $3K, 27/2/01-CD, Msw, 4 1/2f, +Big Blue Talent, 8-51-CD, Msw, 4 1/2f, +Talented Cat, 8-5VISIONAIRE (Grand Slam), Summerhill Stud, 25/1/01-CD, Msw, 4 1/2f, Colonel Harlan, 8-11-CD, Msw, 4 1/2f, Lucky Luminaire, $11K RNA KEE SEP yrl, 30-1

First/Second-crop starters to watch: Friday, May 10Sire (Sire’s Sire), current farm, 2009 Fee, #foals of racing age/Winners/BlackTypeWnrs * Race #-track, race type, distance, runner, odds (if available)

MIDNIGHT LUTE (Real Quiet), Hill N Dale, $20K, 195/22/43-EVD, Msw, 1m, +Midnight Lure, $47K RNA TEX AUG yrl, 12-1ZANJERO (Cherokee Run), Millennium, $10K, 112/9/15-LS, Msw, 6f, +Zara Lauren, $19K TEX AUG yrl, 15-1

Yesterday=s Results:Chester, 15.50, Mdn, ,14,000, 2yo, 5f 16ydsT,1:03.41, gd/sf.FINE >N DANDY (IRE) (c, 2, Dandy Man {Ire}--PearlyBrooks {GB}, by Efisio {GB}), runner-up over fivefurlongs on Lingfield=s Polytrack Apr. 25, broke withalacrity and held a narrow lead racing against the rail.Turning the screw passing the quarter pole, thei32,000 GOFNOV weanling and ,30,000 DONAUGyearling stretched clear to record an impressive eight-length success from Inciting Incident (Ire) (Camacho{GB}) as the 13-8 favorite. He becomes the fifth winnerfor his freshman sire (by Mozart {Ire}). VIDEO, courtesyRacing UK. Lifetime Record: 2-1-1-0, ,9,826.O-The United Rocks; B-G Flannery Developments; T-Tom Dascombe.

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Goodwood, 15.00, Mdn, ,6,000, 2yo, 6fT, 1:12.59,gd.MALACHIM MIST (IRE) (c, 2, Dark Angel {Ire}--SixfieldsFlyer {Ire}, by Desert Style {Ire}), only eighth on debutin a decent maiden over this trip at Newbury Apr. 19,broke well and soon led against the stand=s rail in thisfirst six-furlong juvenile race of the season. In nodanger late on, the 5-1 shot was geared down to recorda 2 3/4-length score from Lanark (Ire) (Cape Cross{Ire}). Sales history: ,45,000 yrl >12 DONAUG. VIDEO,courtesy Racing UK. Lifetime Record: 2-1-0-0, ,3,881.O-Michael Daniels; B-Guy O=Callaghan; T-RichardHannon.

Goodwood, 13.55, Mdn, ,5,000, 3yo/up, 1mT,1:40.59, gd.ENOBLED (GB) (c, 3, Dansili {GB}--Peeress {GB} {Hwt.Older Mare-Eng & Ire at 7-9.5f, MG1SW-Eng, G1SP-Ire& Fr, $922,917}, by Pivotal {GB}), a once-out third atKempton Oct. 24, raced in a midfield seventh untilmaking ominous headway into contention in thestraight here. Looming large on the bridle passing thetwo pole, the 6-4 chalk quickened to challengeapproaching the final furlong and was shaken up in thelatter stages to easily assert by 1 1/4 lengths fromFrankel=s half-brother Morpheus (GB) (Oasis Dream{GB}). VIDEO, courtesy Racing UK. Lifetime Record: 2-1-0-1, ,3,668.O/B-Cheveley Park Stud; T-Sir Michael Stoute.

Goodwood, 17.15, Mdn, ,5,000, 3yo/up, 1 1/2mT,2:41.49, gd.ESHTIAAL (c, 3, Dynaformer--Enfiraaj, by Kingmambo),fourth in a decent Newmarket maiden over 10 furlongslast time Apr. 17, was reserved towards the back early.Making his move out wide, the 9-4 favorite grounddown Seamless (GB) (Beat Hollow {GB}) with 100yards remaining before holding on for a short-headsuccess. VIDEO, courtesy Racing UK. Lifetime Record:3-1-0-0, ,4,990.O-Sheikh Hamdan bin Rashid Al Maktoum; B-ShadwellFarm LLC; T-Brian Meehan.

Yesterday=s Results:COUPE DES TROIS ANS-Listed, i55,000, Lyon-Parilly,5-9, 3yo, 1 1/2mT, 2:41.60, sf.1--#TRES BLUE (IRE), 128, c, 3, by Anabaa Blue (GB)

1st Dam: Tres Ravi (Ger) (GSP-Ger & Fr), by Monsun (Ger)2nd Dam: Tres Magnifique (GB), by Gay Fandango3rd Dam: Toscadora (GB), by Orsini II (Ger)

(27,000gns RNA wnlg >10 TATDEC). O-Horst Rapp; B-Chevotel de la Hauquerie; T-Henri-Alex Pantall; J-Fabrice Veron; i27,500. Lifetime Record: 6 starts, 2 win, 2 places, i51,000. *Full to Tres Rapide (Ire), MGSP-Fr & GSP-Ger, $218,770; and half to Tres Rock Danon (Fr) (Rock of Gibraltar {Ire}), Hwt. Older Horse-Ger at 14f+, MGSW-Ger & G1SP-Fr, $303,320. 2--Garrogorille (Fr), 128, c, 3, Rock of Gibraltar (Ire)-- From This Day On, by El Prado (Ire). O-Ecurie La Vallee Martigny, Benjamin Patou, Yvan Lachaud & Michel Turon; B-Ecurie La Vallee Martigny; T-Yan Durepaire; i11,000.3--Sahawar (Fr), 128, c, 3, Dark Angel (Ire)--Saaryeh (GB), by Royal Academy. (i55,000 yrl >11 ARQAUG). O-Simon Springer; B-Haras de Beauvoir; T-Christophe Ferland; i8,250.Margins: NK, 3/4, 3HF. Odds: 10.00, 1.80, 2.80.Also Ran: Le Mechouar (Fr), Ketchikan (Ire), MissingOnes (Fr), Niente Paura (Ire). Scratched: Vancouverite(GB). Click for the Racing Post result. Click for EquidiaVIDEO. Tres Blue was highly tried in his second go, runningninth in Germany=s prestigious G3 Preis desWinterfavoriten at Dusseldorf Oct. 14, and closed hisjuvenile campaign with a breakthrough score atChantilly Nov. 6. Sixth in the Mar. 16 Listed PrixMaurice Caillault on seasonal return, he was allowed offat double-digit odds here returning from a conditionsfifth back at Chantilly Apr. 10. The homebred baystalked a modest pace in fourth for much of thisstamina test. Stoked up soon after turning for home, hemoved into second entering the final eighth and stayedon resolutely under a continued drive to oustGarrogorille in the dying strides for a career high.

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French Report cont.

Tarbes, 18.55, Mdn, i15,000, 2yo, 5.5fT, 1:10.10, sf.SALAI (FR) (c, 2, Myboycharlie {Ire}--Mabadi {SW &GSP, $159,231}, by Sahm) was away well for thiscareer debut, and took back shortly after the break totravel near the rear of the pack, two paths off thefence. The bay swung three-wide entering the straightand quickened well in the soft going, finishing three-quarters of a length the best in a hand ride. Falkhair (Fr)(Falco) was second. Salai becomes the first Europeanwinner for his freshman sire (by Danetime {Ire}). Saleshistory: i35,000 i/u >10 ARCDEC; i55,000 yrl >12ARQOCT. Click for Equidia VIDEO. Lifetime Record: 1-1-0-0, i7,500. O-Ecurie La Vallee Martigny Earl; B-S.F.Bloodstock LLC. T-J.C. Rouget.

SAVABEEL COLT TOPS NZB WEANLING SALE The weanling section of New Zealand Bloodstock=sNational Weanling, Broodmare, and Mixed BloodstockSale concluded yesterday, with a son of Savabeel (Aus)(Zabeel {NZ}) bringing the top price of NZ$115,000(US$97,118). Catalogued as lot 304, the dark bay waspurchased by Bruce and Maureen Harvey of Ascot Studfrom the draft of Curraghmore Stud.

AHe=s a lovely horse,@ saidBruce Harvey. AHe=s a lovelycolor, a very athletic individual,and he was well sought after inthe ring as we were pushed toget him. Curraghmore Stud do agreat job with their draft--theirhorses are always well preparedand he looked great in the ring.All going well he will come backfor the yearling sales.@

Ascot and Curraghmore Studs finished the weanlingportion of the sale as the leading buyer and vendor,respectively. Ascot Stud purchased eight weanlings fora total of $404,500, all with the goal of re-selling asyearlings. It was the eighth consecutive leading vendortitle for Gordon Cunningham=s Curraghmore Stud,which provided four the top six lots.

AThis has always been an important sale forCurraghmore and our clients,@ Cunningham said. AI canonly speak for ourselves, but our good colts were busyand in strong demand, and in the current climate it wasgood to be able to sell our fillies at reasonable pricestoo.@ Savabeel emerged the leading sire of weanlingssold, while first season sires Makfi (GB) (Dubawi {Ire})and Shocking (Aus) (Street Cry {Ire}) also made strongshowings. The weanling sale concluded with 234 lots sold forNZ$2,540,650, for a clearance rate of 77% to matchlast year=s figure. The median was up 25% from lastyear=s figure to NZ$5,000, and the average was down9% to $NZ10,857. Curraghmore also made a splash during the firstsession of the mixed portion of the sale, which beganupon the conclusion of the weanlings. Curraghmorewent to NZ$80,000 (US$67,560) to secure PrestigiousMiss (Aus) (Written Tycoon {Aus}--Mathematical {NZ},by Honor Grades), a 5-year-old Group 2-placed mareoffered as a horse in training. She went through thering as lot 371 from the draft of Oxford Thoroughbreds. AShe=s a lovely, quality mare with good performance,and I thought she was great value,@ Cunningham said.AShe=s going to visit Pierro in the spring.@ In total, the second session of the sale saw 58 of 81catalogued sell for NZ$277,950, resulting in aclearance rate of 72%, and an average of NZ$4,792,for a total turnover of NZ$2,819,750 over the first twodays of the sale. The sale=s third and final sessionbegins tomorrow at 10 a.m. local time, and can beviewed live at www.nzb.co.nz.

LUCKY CHAPPY TO RACE IN AUSTRALIA Team Valor International=s Lucky Chappy (Ire) (HighChaparral {Ire}) has been shipped to Australia where hewill continue his racing career, according to Team ValorChief Executive Officer Barry Irwin. A two-time winnerin Italy as a juvenile, Lucky Chappy has been graded-placed five times since arriving in the U.S. in October2011, with his most notable finish being a third-placeeffort in last November=s GI Hollywood Derby. Irwin noted that there were a number of factorsinvolved in the decision to send the 4-year-old toAustralia, and the performance of his sire down underwas a notable consideration. A dual-hemisphere shuttlerfor Coolmore, High Chaparral has sired six Group 1winners in Australia. AHis sire knocks >em dead down there,@ Irwinexplained. AThat=s where he does his best, althoughhe=s doing pretty good in Europe this year, too.@ Irwin noted that Lucky Chappy looks like he wants 1 1/2-miles or more, leaving his options in Americalimited. AI=m intrigued by the Melbourne Cup,@ Irwin said. AIthink this horse fits the profile of a horse that could getin that race, not this coming year, but maybe the yearafter. I think if this horse were there, had enough racesand matured, he could develop into a Melbourne Cup-type horse.@Cont. p6

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WEANLING TOTALS: 2013 2012 Catalogued 355 351 Offered 307 322 No. Sold 234 248 RNA 73 74 %RNA 31 30 Gross (NZ$) 2,540,650 2,970,300 Average (NZ$) 10,857 11,997 Median (NZ$) 5,000 4,000

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Irwin said having a horse race in Australia will helphim learn more about that industry. AThat race intrigues me, as does racing down there,and since we=re going to have Animal Kingdom standdown there [at Arrowfield Stud], it behooves me tolearn more about it and get more involved in the racingdown there,@ he said. In his only two racetrack appearances this season,Lucky Chappy finished seventh in the GII Mac DiarmidaS. at Gulfstream Feb. 16 and fifth in allowancecompany Mar. 2. Irwin noted that the bay was recentlyfound to have bone bruising that required a brief periodof rest, but that he would be able to return to trainingupon arriving in Australia. Lucky Chappy will join trainerPat Carey. AHe seems to be the kind of guy I want,@Irwin explained. AHe only trains about 30 horses. I wentto his place, visited him, and watched him do his thing.He=s the kind of guy that will be able to give individualattention to my horse, and he=s a specialist withstayers.@

ALLOWANCE RESULTS:6th-BHP, $54,750, NW1$X, (S), 3yo/up, 6fT, 1:08, fm.KILAT (g, 4, Perfect Mandate--Old Habits, by Show'emSlew) Lifetime Record: 5-2-0-1, $74,430. O-JeffDavenport, Neil Haymes, Tom Lenner, Thomas Murray& Alex Solis II. B-Rodel Corriente (CA). T-Mike Puype.

7th-PIM, $45,000, Opt. Clm. ($25,000-$20,000),NW2X, 3yo/up, f/m, 1 1/16mT, 1:46, fm.WAR PROSPECTOR (m, 5, War Front--Latori, byUnaccounted For) Lifetime Record: 18-4-1-2,$128,400. O-Florence Patitucci. B-Pat Coleman (KY).T-Juan C Vazquez. *$22,000 yrl '09 FTKJUL. **1/2 toMartins Point (Sea Salute), SW, $132,290.

5th-IND, $39,961, 5-8, Opt. Clm. ($40,000), NW2X,3yo/up, 1mT, 1:38 3/5, fm.CHALICE (g, 5, Pulpit--Copperfield, by Tricky Creek)Lifetime Record: 21-4-6-5, $210,387. O/B-AshbyThoroughbreds (KY). T-Kellyn Gorder. *$37,000 RNAyrl '09 KEESEP. **1/2 to Big Cheque (Regal Classic),SP, $363,690.

6th-PEN, $35,000, NW1X, (S), 4yo/up, 1m70y, 1:43 1/5, gd.STINKING CREEK (g, 5, Tapit--Galilani, by Storm Creek)Lifetime Record: 22-5-2-2, $128,036. O-Doug DMatthews. B-Mark Reid Bloodstock & DDS Stable (PA).T-Louis C Linder, Jr. *$90,000 yrl '09 FTMOCT;$60,000 RNA yrl '09 FTKJUL.

3rd-IND, $34,501, 5-8, Opt. Clm. ($25,000), NW1X,3yo/up, f/m, 1mT, 1:39, fm.MEGNOG (f, 4, Northern Afleet--Blue Northern, by TopAccount) Lifetime Record: 17-5-2-4, $94,178. O-PeterMcFarland. B-Nelson Clemmens (KY). T-Joseph Davis.

9th-EVD, $31,000, 5-8, NW2L, (S), 3yo/up, f/m, a1mT,1:37 1/5, fm.FLOWER LADY (f, 3, Flower Alley--Weepnomoremylady{SP}, by Summer Squall) Lifetime Record: 4-2-0-0,$45,150. O-Jackie Barberito. B-Allen Guillotte Jr (LA).T-Ricky Courville.

4th-PEN, $31,000, 5-8, NW1X, 3yo/up, f/m, 6f, 1:11 4/5, sy.PHOENIX COURT (m, 5, Doneraile Court--ArizonaCrossing, by Coronado's Quest) Lifetime Record:22-3-6-3, $91,958. O-Mario Forgione. B-StonewallFarm Stallions (KY). T-Sandee Beattie. *$4,500 yrl '09FTKOCT.

8th-CTX, $30,000, 5-8, Opt. Clm. ($12,500), NW1X,3yo/up, 1 1/16m, 1:47 2/5, my.BURNT OFFERING (g, 5, Burning Roma--Wild in Manila,by Wild Rush) Lifetime Record: 27-8-1-1, $103,420.O/T-Ernest Haynes. B-Dr D W Frazier (FL). *$1,000 yrl'09 OBSAUG; $8,500 RNA 2yo >10 OBSAPR; $9,200RNA 2yo >10 OBSJUN.

6th-LAD, $26,450, Opt. Clm. ($17,500), NW2X,3yo/up, f/m, a1mT, 1:37, fm.ESTHER CARL (m, 5, Sefapiano--Kirsten, by Rare Brick)Lifetime Record: MSP, 15-4-3-6, $155,006.O/B-Alamae Schultz (LA). T-Robert D Schultz.

6th-CTX, $26,000, 5-8, NW2LX, 3yo/up, 4 1/2f, :52 2/5, my.BIG AND BRIGHT (g, 5, Prized--My Sister Pearl {MSW,$157,157}, by Feel the Power) Lifetime Record:27-4-9-2, $106,830. O-Winfred Hess, Jr. B-RonneyBrown (WV). T-Crystal Pickett.

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ADDITIONAL MAIDEN WINNERS:

+Pleasant Miss, f, 2, Pleasantly Perfect--Winter Tide, by Tale of the Cat. BHP, 5-9, (C), 4 1/2f (AWT), :52 2/5. B-Catesby W & James E Clay (KY). *$3,700 yrl '12 FTKOCT. **Won by 6 1/4 lengths.+Primed N Willing, f, 2, Primal Storm--Readylight, by More Than Ready. CDX, 5-9, (C), 4 1/2f, :52 2/5. B-Keith I Asmussen & Connie Scherr (LA).+No Makeup, f, 2, Successful Appeal--Stark Beauty, by Unbridled's Song. PIM, 5-9, (C), 4 1/2f, :53 4/5. B-Farm III Enterprises & Off The Hook Partners LLC (FL). *$17,000 yrl '12 KEESEP.City Walker, g, 3, City Zip--China Sky, by Skywalker. PEN, 5-9, (S), 1m, 1:42 1/5. B-Lawrence Karp (PA). *1/2 to Justice for Auston (Lit de Justice), GSP, $394,208; and Lune Rouge (Malibu Moon), SW, $132,434.Sucess Is Racing, g, 3, Major Success--Lady Benchmark, by Benchmark. IND, 5-8, (S), 6f, 1:11 1/5. B-Everett Hammond (IN).Monkey's Three, f, 3, Millennium Wind--Jane Marple, by Twining. EVD, 5-9, a5fT, :56 3/5. B-Thomas J Abbott (LA).Too Much Scat, g, 3, Scat Daddy--Far Away Lady, by Farma Way. CTX, 5-9, 6 1/2f, 1:20 2/5. B-Marilyn F Seltzer (KY). *$28,000 yrl '11 KEESEP; $55,000 2yo >12 OBSAPR.Ultimate Empire, c, 3, Utopia (Jpn)--Dancin on Broadway, by Menifee. BEL, 5-9, (S), 1 1/16m (off turf), 1:44. B-Ted Taylor Thoroughbreds (NY). *$7,500 yrl '11 OBSAUG; $90,000 2yo >12 OBSAPR. **Won by 13 lengths.Minister of Gold, g, 4, Minister's Gold--Bid Me Justice, by Once Wild. EVD, 5-8, a5fT, :55 4/5. B-Everett Kahla (LA).Broadmoor De Light, f, 4, North Light (Ire)--Because Your You, by You and I. GGX, 5-9, 1mT, 1:41 1/5. B-Adena Springs (KY). *$1,500 RNA yrl '10 KEESEP.Krazypapaya, f, 4, Unusual Heat--Coke's Melody (SW, $136,451), by Distinctive Cat. BHP, 5-9, (S), 1mT, 1:35 4/5. B-Eric Kruljac & DAK Holdings LLC (CA).

CONDITIONS RESULTS:

FRANCE, Lyon-Parilly, 14.20, i32,000, 3yo, 1mT,1:43.26, sf.ADMIRE FUJI (IRE) (c, 3, Oasis Dream {GB}--SunBittern, by Seeking the Gold) Lifetime Record: 8 starts,2 wins, 3 places, i30,300. O-Riichi Kondo; B-SergeBoucheron; T-Satoshi Kobayashi. *i90,000 yrl >11ARQAUG.

HANDICAP RESULTS:BRITAIN, Chester, 13.45, ,25,000, 4yo/up, 10f 75ydsT, 2:11.15, gd/fm.SIR JOHN HAWKWOOD (IRE) (g, 4, Sir Percy {GB}--Athene {Ire}, by Rousillon) Lifetime Record: 6-3-0-0,,31,886. O/B-Ballymacoll Stud; T-Sir Michael Stoute.*1/2 to Side Saddle (Ire) (Saddlers= Hall {Ire}), GSW-Fr,$129,245; and Greek Renaissance (Ire) (Machiavellian),GSW, $178,928.

BRITAIN, Chester, 15.15, 5-9, ,25,000, 3yo, 7f 122ydsT, 1:35.95, gd.HERE COMES WHEN (IRE) (c, 3, Danehill Dancer {Ire}--Quad=s Melody {Ire} {GSW-Fr}, by Spinning World)Lifetime Record: 4-2-1-0, ,23,981. O-Fitri Hay; B-OldCarhue & Grange Bloodstock; T-Andrew Balding.*i170,000 yrl >11 GOFSPT.

ADDITIONAL MAIDEN WINNERS:Bayaka (Fr), f, 3, Nayef--Senkaya (Fr), by Valanour (Ire). Lyon-Parilly, France, 5-9, Cond, 3yo, 1mT. B-Wertheimer & Frere. *1/2 to Kabaya (GB) (Anabaa), SW-Fr, $100,046; and Barbayam (GB) (Stormy River {Fr}), SW & GSP-Fr, $101,507.Musical Peace (Ire), f, 3, Oratorio (Ire)--Gothic Dream (Ire) (G1SP-Ire, GSP-Eng & GSP-Ger, $195,847), by Nashwan. Gowran Park, Ireland, 5-8, Mdn, 3yo, f, 9f 100ydsT. B-Newberry Stud Company. *i14,500 yrl >11 GOFNOV. **1/2 to Pugin (Ire) (Darshaan {GB}), MSW & G1SP-Ire & GSP-UAE, $230,903; and Chartres (Ire) (Danehill), SW-Ire.

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