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VOL. 44, NO. 9/SEPTEMBER 2016Editor A PUBLICATION OFJoan Colby THE ILLINOIS THOROUGHBREDPublisher BREEDERS AND OWNERS FOUNDATIONIllinois Thoroughbred Breedersand Owners Foundation “Past Performances reprinted by permission of copyrightExecutive Director owner, Daily Racing Form, Inc. Reproduction prohibited.”Dan ArrigoProduction Manager CONTENTSDena GervasiGraphic Design & Page Layout It’s Official . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3Ann E. Littleson Mondialiste VictoriousPhoto/Art EditorJesse Saenz, Jr. in the 2016 Arlington Million . . . . . . . . . . . . . . By Neil Milbert . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .4Mailing Director Festival Undercard Belongs to Geroux . . . . . . . . . By David Zenner . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .6Tom Mikulski Sire Profiles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . By Sid Fernando and Frances J. Karon . . .8Advertising Sales & Point of View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . By Ray Hallett . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .10Subscriptions ITBOF President’s Update . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . By Dan Sullivan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .11Dan Arrigo Classifieds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 Professional Services. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 Copyright 2016. Written permission must be ON  THE  COVER:obtained to reprint photographs and editorial material. Congratulations to Mondialiste, winner of the Arlington Million, ILLINOIS RACING NEWS, (ISSN  #1083-8309), is and all his connections.published bi-monthly by Illinois Thoroughbred FourFootedFotos.Breeders and Owners Foundation for $24.00 per year.Periodicals Postage paid at Oak Brook, IL  and at Cover design by Jesse Saenz, Jr.additional mailing offices. POSTMASTER: Sendaddress corrections to: Illinois ThoroughbredBreeders and Owners Foundation, P.O. Box 578,Arlington Heights, IL  60006. (847-253-3670). Unsolicited manuscripts and photographs arewelcome, and all will be considered. Return postagemust accompany all submitted materials if they are tobe returned. ILLINOIS RACING NEWS assumes noresponsibility for loss or damage thereto. Any materi-al accepted is subject to such revision as is necessaryin our sole discretion to meet the requirements of thepublication. Opinions expressed in this publication are thoseof the writers and do not necessarily represent theviews of the management.

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Mondialiste Victoriousin the 2016 Arlington Million by Neil Milbert “I didn’t have a bad trip,” Smith said. “He’s just not himself right now. He’s kind of just going through the motions. I was hav- ing to work to try to get him into the race. “When I rode him last year he had such acceleration, I barely moved. “I don’t know what it is. He just isn’t giving us 100 percent.” Rich Papiese also had no ex- cuses. “There was nothing wrong with the race,” Papiese said. “It was just one of those things. As long as he’s sound that’s okay. “From now on it looks like he’ll just run a mile and a half and beyond. There are plenty of those kind of races the rest of the year. We’ll finish out the year and then decide what to do.”Mondialiste. Photo courtesy of FourFootedFoto Hail to the victors This was the third North Amer- This time The Pizza Man didn’t deliver. ican appearance for Mondialiste, After being a paragon of reliability at Arlington International a six-year-old Irish-bred horseRacecourse for virtually his entire career, the two-time Illinois-bred who is owned by Geoff and San-Horse of the Year on Aug. 13 unsuccessfully attempted to become the dra Turnbull, trained by David O’Meara and ridden by Danielsecond two-time winner in the 34-year history of the Arlington Mil- Tudhope.lion. “We couldn’t have asked for a better run,” said Tudhope. “We Alas, the defending champion finished sixth in the field of 11 knew we couldn’t get too far back and if we got in position we’d havewho competed in the 1-1/4-mile grass race, going under the wire a great chance.”about two lengths back of the victorious Mondialiste of England. Making a five-wide move from the middle of the field in the In the seven-year-old gelding’s 14 previous races on the Arlington stretch, Mondialiste made the lead in the final 16th and went on toturf course his resume showed 10 wins, one place and one show. win in 2:01.87 on firm turf. A portent of the out-of-character performance came in his race be- In his prior trips across the Atlantic, Mondialiste won the Grade Ifore the Million when he finished a close fourth in the Grade III Stars Woodbine Mile last September and was second in the $2 millionand Stripes, a 1-1/2-mile race that he had won twice before. Breeders’ Cup Mile at Keeneland on Oct. 31. Since winning the 2015 Million, The Pizza Man has lost six of his Mondialiste concluded his 2015 campaign with a 12th place finishseven races. His only conquest came last Thanksgiving Day when in the Group I Hong Kong Mile and in his first two starts this year heMike Smith guided him to a come-from-behind two-length victory in was seventh in a 1-1/8-mile Group I race in France and 11th in a one-the Grade II Hollywood Turf Cup, a 1-1/2-mile race at Del Mar. mile Group I in England. That was Smith’s only ride on the illustrious Illinois-bred until O’Meara then decided to give Mondialiste more ground and ranMillion day. The Pizza Man’s owner-breeders, Rich and Karen Pa- him in a 1 5/16 mile Group II race in England on July 23.piese, who race under the name Midwest Thoroughbreds, and his A strong second place finish prompted the trainer to send the sonowner-trainer, Roger Brueggemann, were hoping that the Hall of of the world’s foremost grass horse sire, Galileo, to Arlington for theFame jockey could snap him out of his slump but that scenario didn’t Million.materialize. Not quite The illustrious Illinois-bred spent the opening half-mile running Although the Grade III Arlington Handicap is designed to be theninth and then dropped back to last. That’s where he was running prep race for the Million no winner has gone on to capture the mainwhen Smith took him outside his adversaries in the stretch to make event.his late move. He gained some ground but not enough. Kasaqui came close to succeeding this year. The six-year-old horse, who came to this country from his native Argentina this year, finished second, a neck shy of Mondialiste. Jockey Robby Albarado had some traffic problems.4 / ILLINOIS RACING NEWS / SEPTEMBER 2016

“I liked my trip until the 3/8ths pole,” Albarado said. “I needed to the Million since the French filly Lady in Silver was a game secondget out a jump and a half earlier and I would have won.” in 1989.Third best “My horse was the only three-year-old in the race,” pointed out Coming in third, a neck behind Kasaqui, was Deauville, an Irish jockey Seamie Heffernan. “He had a pretty good run, a solid perform- ance. The other two horses just came and got me.”colt who became the first three-year-old to finish in the top three in Florent Geroux Mondialiste won Ar- Beach Patrol was acquired by owners James Covello, Sol Kumin, Jay Hanley and partners prior to his only bad race, a sixth place fin- lington Million XXXIV, ish in the Grade III Penn Mile on June 4. but Florent Geroux, who “They didn’t worry about it,” Brown said. “They were in it for the long term and it paid off today.” rode the out-of-the-money Geroux rode him for the first time in the 1-1/4-mile race. beaten favorite in the In Brown’s opinion, “Florent rode a beautiful race from a difficult post.” most lucrative and presti- Beach Patrol had the outside post position in the field of nine. He stalked the pace set by 73-1 long shot Scissors and Tape for three gious race in Illinois, nev- quarters, then came on in the stretch. His margin of victory over Long Island Sound was a head and his time was 2:01.95, only a ertheless managed to steal smidgeon slower than Mondialiste’s 2:01.87 clocking in the Million. Geroux was aboard The Pizza Man last year when the gelding be- the show. came the first Illinois-bred winner in the history of the Million. This year he had a different mount, World Approval, a four-year- Geroux rode the win- old gelding owned by Charlotte Weber and trained by Mark Casse. They teamed up for the first time in World Approval’s preceding ners of the state’s only start, the Grade I United Nations at Monmouth, and the result was a 1-1/4-length victory. other Grade I races, even- World Approval went off the 3-1 favorite, but couldn’t come up with an encore. After running second for the first mile, he faded in money favorite Sea Calisi the late stages and finished seventh. “When they picked it up, he couldn’t keep up,” said Geroux. in the $750,000 Beverly Million Day was a homecoming of sorts for the 30-year-old jockey who rode for 2 1/2 years in his native France before moving to D. for fillies and mares the U.S. in 2007. Injury problems marred Geroux’s performance dur- ing his first three years in this country, but after he hooked up with and 2-1 favorite Beach agent Doug Bredar and came to Arlington in 2010, his rise to promi- nence began. Patrol in the Grade I In the spring of 2011 at Hawthorne Race Course, he won the Grade III $300,000 Illinois Derby with Joe Vann and that fall he was $450,000 Secretariat for the Stickney track’s jockey champion. On Nov. 1, 2014, Geroux attracted national attention by winning three-year-olds. his first Grade I race, the $1.5 million Breeders’ Cup Sprint at Santa Anita with Work All Week, the Illinois-bred stalwart who was dis-Photo: Arlington International Racecourse. But, that’s not all he did. missed as a 19-1 long shot. That victory made Work All Week the second Illinois-bred to win He rode Da Big Hoss to a Breeders’ Cup race, joining Buck’s Boy, winner of the 1998 Breed- ers’ Cup Turf. victory in the Grade III (Work All Week went on to be selected as the recipient of an Eclipse Award designating him North America’s champion male$300,000 American St. Leger; he won the Grade III $100,000 Pucker sprinter of 2014 and he was chosen Illinois-bred Horse of the Year for the second straight year.)Up with Noble Beauty, thanks to the disqualification of first place Finish lines: By finishing fifth in the American St. Leger, Bill-finisher Try Your Life; and he captured a race for $25,000 claimers abong made history. He became the first horse bred in Morocco to compete at Arlington and, according to Adrian Beaumont of the In-with Mendota. ternational Racing Bureau, “he’s almost certainly the first ever to race in America.”All five conquests came on the turf course. There’s a heartwarming footnote to Yo Carm’s upset victory in theTrainer Chad Brown was Geroux’s accomplice in the Beverly D., $77,000 Bruce D. Memorial, a race for three-year-olds named in honor of the memory of Bruce Duchossois, the late son of ArlingtonSecretariat and Pucker Up. chairman Dick Duchossois. Yo Carm was bred and is owned by Ed Fortino whose wife, Dayle, is Bruce’s sister.“Chad is one of the hottest trainers in North America and No. 1on turf,” Geroux said. “I went to visit him in Saratoga and asked if hecould give me some horses because I’ve been doing quite good onthe turf. We agreed to come here together.”Sea Calisi’s 1/2-length victory over stretch-running 20-1 longshot Al’s Gal sent owner Martin Schwartz to the winner’s circle for aBeverly D. record fourth time. His prior winners were Angara in2005, Gorella in 2006 and Stacelita in 2011.“We were out in the parking lot to start,” Schwartz said, referringto Sea Calisi’s No. 13 post position in the 14-horse race.“Florent, with a beautiful ride, overcame that.”Geroux and Brown gave an assist to Julio Felix, the rider of thewinner’s frontrunning stablemate, Elusive Million.Elusive Million ran the quarter in :23.71 and the half in :47.68 topave the way for Sea Calisi’s winning move that saw her come from11th at the three-quarters call.According to Brown, “It was an integral part of the game planand Julio rode the pacemaker perfectly. Because the distance was atouch short for Sea Calisi, she definitely needed a solid pace to getthere in time.”The four-year-old French import raced the 1 3/16 miles in 1:54.93in winning for the second time in three starts since moving to NewYork this year.Although Beach Patrol was bred in Kentucky and has done all ofhis racing in the U.S., he also gets around. The son of 1999 Belmontwinner Lemon Drop Kid had raced in Louisiana, California, Ken-tucky, Pennsylvania and New York before coming to Arlington.By virtue of his Secretariat victory, his eight-race resume readsthree wins, two places and two shows. ILLINOIS RACING NEWS / SEPTEMBER 2016 / 5

Festival Undercard Belongs to Geroux by David Zenner The 2016 edition of Arlington’s International Festival of son of Lemon Drop Kid has proved to be worth the outlay earn-Racing will be remembered as the “Year of Geroux” with the ing $174,600 for the St. Leger tally to boost his lifetime bankrollFrench-born jockey winning four graded stakes races including to $1,198,536, most of which has been earned since the claim.the Grade I Beverly D. with the French-bred Sea Calisi and the The victory was his 11th in 20 starts and his fourth of the year,Grade I Secretariat aboard James Covello, Sheep Pond Partners all of which have come in stakes races.and Head of Plains Partners’ Beach Patrol. The only gig prizethat eluded the 30-year-old Geroux was the Grade I Arlington “His pedigree and his looks gave me the impression [heMillion, a race that he won last year with Midwest would like marathon races],” Maker said.Thoroughbreds’ The Pizza Man. European runners finished second and third, with Irish-bred Let’s take a look back at the “undercard” races—the Grade III Clondaw Warrior rallying to nail the German-bred Wasir for theAmerican St. Leger, the Grade III Pucker Up Stakes and the place money.$75,000-added Bruce D. Memorial. Neil Milbert recaps the threeGrade I races elsewhere in this edition of Illinois Racing News. “He ran a lovely race,” said Seamie Heffernan, who rode the William Mullins-trained Clondaw Warrior. “He was a bit slowThe American St. Leger (Grade III) from the gate, but the American horses are usually quicker thanDa Big Hoss us, but he’s a very sweet horse and he ran a lovely race.”Ch. h. ‘11, by Lemon Drop Kid – Lady Struck Gold, byTouch Gold “I was really pleased with him, he had a very good run.Breeder: Gary & Mary West Stables Inc. (Ky.) Maybe even a career best,” said Wasir’s jockey William Buick.Owner: Skichai Racing LLC “The pace was fine. We rode a sensible race up front, and heTrainer: Mike Maker stayed all the way to the line. It was a very great race, as simpleJockey: Florent Geroux as that.” O’Prado Ole set the pace in the race through fractions of 50.96 seconds for the half-mile, 1:16.26 for six furlongs, 1:42.51 for the mile and 2:06.52 for 1 1/14 miles before fading to last in the nine-horse field. The odds-on choice at 4-5, Da Big Hoss paid $3.60, $2.60 and $2.10. Clondaw Warrior returned $5.20 and $3.40. Wasir paid $5.80. Montclair, Billabong, Tobias, Generous Kitten, Hart Hills Road and O’Prado Ole completed the order of finish. The Pucker Up Stakes (Grade III) Noble Beauty B. f. ‘13, by Kitten’s Joy – Money Huntress, by Mineshaft Breeder: Kenneth L. & Sarah K. Ramsey Owner: Great Point Stables LLC Trainer: Chad Brown Jockey: Florent GerouxDa Big Hoss. Photo courtesy of FourFootedFoto. Noble Beauty. Photo courtesy of FourFootedFoto. The first of five graded stakes on the International Festival ofRacing card was the Grade III American St. Leger, now in itsfifth running. Coming in off consecutive stakes scores in theGrade II Elkhorn over 1 1/2 miles at Keeneland and the$300,000 Belmont Gold Cup at a two-mile distance in New York,Skychai Racing’s Da Big Hoss was the obvious choice in the 111/16 miles St. Leger and he did not disappoint coasting to a 1-3/4-length tally under Florent Geroux. The Mike Maker chargecovered the marathon distance in 2:49.47 over a course labeledfirm. “He just loves to win. He always finds a way to find the wireand it doesn’t matter where he is, when you ask him to go, hegoes.” Claimed by Skychai and Maker for $50,000 in June 2015, the6 / ILLINOIS RACING NEWS / SEPTEMBER 2016

It took the disqualification of Try Your Luck, who was first Yo Carm. Photo courtesy of FourFootedFoto.through the finish line but placed third by the Arlington stewardsfor interference to third-place runner Auntie Joy, to give the Chris Block-trained son of Flatter covered the one-mile overGrade III Pucker Up Stakes victory to Great Point Stables’ Noble Polytrack in 1:36.47.Beauty and complete jockey Florent Geroux’s Festival stakesgrand slam. The Chad Brown-trained daughter of Kitten’s Joy Yo Carm raced mid-pace early before moving up steadily onwas only a nose behind Try Your Luck at the line in the mile and the turn and coming out in the lane to get up for the win, hisan eighth race, which was clocked in 1:50.09 over a firm turf third in 10 trips to the post. The $43,890 winner’s share of thecourse. $77,000 pot pushed his earnings to $96,862. “I thought the filly ran terrific,” said Brown. “Challenging “He broke good, and I got a very good trip inside the wholepost (11 in a field of 12), once again Florent found the right way way,” said Lezcano. “At the three-sixteenths pole we went out ahome. We got lucky there, there was some interference in the little bit, and he came on great. He ran a very good race.”lane, and I thought our filly did run the best race so I think she’sa deserving winner.” Runningfromthefeds was second in the 10-horse field, three- quarters of a length clear of Pilot House who ran third. Cortege, Far back early in the race, Noble Beauty raced wide through- Call the Colonel, Two Step Time, Michael J.,out and stormed home rallying in the center of the course, falling Itsnoteasybeinbreezy, Who’s Your Drama and Mongolian Holidayjust short to Try Your Luck before being awarded the victory. completed the order of finish. “It’s always fun to come back here, to where I got started,” Yo Carm paid $24, $10.40 and $6. RunningfromthefedsGeroux said. “I know the track like my pocket, and it’s like play- returned $5.20 and $3.60. Pilot House paid $3.60.ing home court advantage. It’s a magnificent turf course, defi-nitely one of the best ones in the country and it’s always fun Finish Lines: Jose Valdivia Jr. has a nearly 30-win lead overwhen you ride good horses.” Mitchell Murrill 85-57 through Aug. 21. Carlos Marquez Jr. (55), Edgar Perez (39) and Santo Sanjur (30) complete the top five. Auntie Joy, who was bothered in the stretch, was elevated tothe place spot. Larry Rivelli and Mike Stidham continue to battle in the trainers’ race with Rivelli holding a nine-win lead (48-39) “We had a good trip up until the eighth-pole when (Try Your through Aug. 21. Steve Manley is next with 21 victories followedLuck), kind of pointed out and bumped into us at one point, and by Louie Roussell, III (15), Scott Becker (14) and Mike Reavisthen from there just kept herding us out,” said her jockey Brian (14) to round out the top tier.Hernandez Jr. “It definitely cost our filly a lot—anytime you tryto get by a horse and they keep coming into your path it makes it Through Aug. 21 Patricia’s Hope LLC of Vince Foglia is lead-really difficult to get by them.” ing owner with 21 wins, three more than Midwest Thoroughbreds of Richard and Karen Papiese. William Stiritz is The unlucky Try Your Luck was knocked down to third after next with 14 tallies, followed by Louie Roussell, III (13) andthe stewards’ review but her jockey Corey Lanerie disagreed with Earl Hughes (10) complete the top five.the decision. “My filly drifted a touch but the horse was running awayfrom her,” said Lanerie shortly after the disqualification wasannounced. “I thought it was a bad call. I laid third, had the per-fect trip, let my horse come to [the leader]. She was alone byherself so she may have drifted just a touch, but I only hit hertwice then hand rode her in. They were never going to beat her.” The win for Noble Beauty was her first in stakes competitionand second from five starts overall, rebounding from an eighth-place finish in the Grade I Belmont Oaks in July. She earned$55,400 to boost her bankroll to $127,350. Noble Beauty, the 5-2 second choice in the wagering, paid$7.20, $3.80 and $2.60. Auntie Joy returned $3.20 and $2.60 asthe 2-1 post time favorite. Try Your Luck paid $3.60. Nawlins Kitty, Miss Gossip, Galilea, Bonita Cat, MomsChoice, Inconclusive, Fitpitcher, Princess Erindelle and Nobody’sFault completed the order of finish.The Bruce D. Memorial StakesYo CarmB. c. ‘13, by Flatter – Iolanda, by Tale of the CatBreeder/Owner: Fortino Inc. (Ill.)Trainer: Chris BlockJockey: Jose Lezcano It seemed fitting that the race named in honor of the lateBruce Duchossois was won by Yo Carm a horse owned by hisbrother-in-law Ed Fortino. With Jose Lezcano in the irons, the ILLINOIS RACING NEWS / SEPTEMBER 2016 / 7

Sire Profiles: Mondialiste by Sid Fernando and Frances J. KaronThe six-year-old Irish- with first yearlings in 2016. Sasparella, a Groupbred Arlington Million 3 winner by Shamardal, also counts Occupandistewinner Mondialiste is the as her second dam.second son of leading in- But as rich as the line descending from Occu-ternational sire Galileo to pandiste is, it’s barely touching the surface of awin the famed 10-furlong deep family that traces back to Broodmare of theturf race, following Cape Year Fall Aspen (by Pre- tense), Mondialiste’sBlanco in 2011, and he’s fourth dam. Winner of the Grade 1 Matron Stakes atone of 59 Grade/Group 1 Belmont Park, Fall Aspen foaled eight graded orwinners for his sire to group stakes winners, led by U.S. champion two-year-old male Timber Country (Woodman),date. Yes, you read that winner of the Preakness Stakes; French Group 1 winner Fort Wood (Sadler’s Wells), sire of South African Horse of the Year and Triplecorrectly. Most stallions Crown winner Horse Chestnut, who stood at Claiborne Farm in Ken- tucky prior to returning to his homeland; Northern Aspen, a Northernwill not sire 59 stakes Dancer filly who won a Grade 1 in the U.S.; the full brothers Hamas- G1 and Bianconi-G2 (Danzig); Group 2 winner Colorado Dancer, awinners in a career, let Shareef Dancer daughter and dam of Dubai World Cup victor Dubai Millennium, sire of Dubawi, currently Great Britain’s most expensivealone five Grade 1 win- sire; Mazzacano-G3 (Alleged); and Mondialiste’s third dam Elle Seule, a Group 3 winner by Exclusive Native.ners, but Galileo, obvi- Elle Seule continued the family tradition of producing a classic winner when her daughter Mehthaaf (by Nureyev) won the Irish Oneously, is extraordinary Mondialiste. Photo courtesy of FourFootedFoto Thousand Guineas. She’s also the dam of high weighted European sprinter Elnadim, a Group 1 winner by Danzig, and granddam ofand unprecedented with three-year-old Ribchester, who won the Prix du Haras Fresnay-le- Buffard Jacques Le Marois on August 14, earning his first Group 1that many winners at the highest level. one day after Mondialiste’s Million. Mondialiste’s second dam Only Seule was an underachiever, byGalileo, by the way, is also the sire of three Grade 1 Secretariat this family’s standards only, in that she did not earn black-type and produced just one group stakes winner, Occupandiste, to bring theStakes winners on the Arlington Million undercard: Highland Reel conversation back to Mondialiste. Closer to home and perhaps more familiar to readers of this pub-(2015), Adelaide (2014), and Treasure Beach (2011). lication will be other relatives of Mondialiste: Dixie Union, once a top U.S. sire before his death in 2010, and now a leading broodmareGalileo stands at stud at Coolmore in Ireland and is a son of the sire; and Cozzene, a U.S. turf champion. Dixie Union’s third dam was a half-sister to Fall Aspen and to one-time Maryland sire Allen’sequally extraordinary Sadler’s Wells, whose sons Beat Hollow (2002) Prospect, while Cozzene’s tie comes farther back through Portage, the granddam of Fall Aspen.and Powerscourt (2005; disqualified from first in 2004), also won the If that is a lot to take in, just know this: Mondialiste is impeccably bred, a boast that is backed up for generations, and comes from aArlington Million. This branch of Northern Dancer—the sire of family that has produced many sires, so it would be no surprise to see him meet with some success at stud, in whatever country he happensSadler’s Wells—has long dominated the classics scene in Europe, to retire at the end of his career.along with the late Sadler’s Wells stallion Montjeu, because these Frances J. Karon is editor of North American Trainer magazine. She runs Rough Shod LLC, a pedigree consultancy, in Lexington,horses are extremely well suited for turf racing from distances of a Ky., and blogs at Running Roughshod (Runroughshod.blogspot.com).mile to a mile and three-quarters. Of the last 12 Epsom Derby win- Sid Fernando is President of Werk Thoroughbred Consultants, Inc. (eNicks.com), and eMatings.com. He blogs about racing atners, for example, seven have been sons of either Montjeu or Galileo. www.sidfernando.wordpress.com and is an advisor to many promi- nent breeders.With turf racing expanding in North America, stud farms herehave started to pay attention, and at present there are more sons ofGalileo at stud on this side of the Atlantic than ever before. The greatFrankel’s full brother, Noble Mission, leads this group and is themost expensive at $25,000 live foal at Lane’s End. Coolmore’s Ash-ford division, which once stood Powerscourt and Cape Blanco,stands Magician, at $12,500. And Calumet stands Red Rocks at$12,500, too. Outside of Kentucky, Pleasant Acres Stallions inFlorida stands Treasure Beach for $10,000, while Heritage Stallionsin Maryland stands Seville for $6,000, and Rockridge Stud in NewYork stands Midas Touch for $3,500.Geoff and Sandra Turnbull’s Mondialiste, who is trained by DavidO’Meara, certainly has a chance to stand here as well, consideringthat his best races have been in North America. Before the Million,the horse’s biggest score was a win in the Grade 1 Ricoh WoodbineMile Stakes last year. Mondialiste also was second to champion mareTepin in the Grade 1 Breeders’ Cup Mile at Keeneland last year. InEurope, however, he was only a Group 3 winner but was Group 1-placed once.Mondialiste was bred by Wertheimer & Frere and is out of theKaldoun mare Occupandiste, the high weighted older mare fromseven to nine furlongs in Europe at four in 1997. Occupandiste’s sixwins include the Prix Maurice de Gheest and the Prix de la Foret,both Group 1 races against males, and her racecourse success trans-lated impressively to the breeding shed. Among her other eight foalsare Impressionnante, a Group 2 winner by Danehill who was classic-placed in the Poule d’Essai des Pouliches-French One ThousandGuineas; Only Answer, a multiple Group 3-winning daughter ofGreen Desert; and the Listed stakes winner Planetaire, a full brotherto Mondialiste. Impressionnante is the dam of Prix du Jockey Club-French Derby winner Intello (also by Galileo), a European-based sire8 / ILLINOIS RACING NEWS / SEPTEMBER 2016



Point of View by Ray Hallett I took a break from overdosing on the Rio Olympics last month to III winner at Delaware in his last start. Aiden O’Brien trained Long Is-attend the 34th running of the Arlington Million. I didn’t want to break land Sound. More on that later.the streak. I’ve been there to see every Million, even the one in Canada.I would have attended anyway, but the streak is just icing on the cake. Sea Calisi ($4.20) was the very chalky winner of the Beverly D.No marching bands this year. Didn’t see any visiting celebrities. If there Long shots Al’s Gal and Zipessa trailed her home. Following two startswas a parade somewhere, I missed it. Was there a Million Ball? If there in New York, this was only Sea Calisi’s third start on this side of the At-were, I would have passed anyway. lantic, and with success now in both Europe and America, she looks like the kind that might have a solid chance to be heard from again this I’d love to say I was blown away by the day, but to be truthful, the fall. Let’s hope that is the case, because I don’t see anyone else from theMillion has settled nicely into middle age. It just doesn’t have the same field showing any indications of being special in any way.“oomph” that it did in the early days. I miss all of the hoopla. Instead, ithas turned into just another horse race with a big purse. Maybe it isn’t I’ll skip the Million for the moment.the world championship race that was envisioned, but it is still special The final race of the Million Day card was the Grade III Pucker Upin its own right. I’m not complaining. I just miss that the day no longer for three-year-old fillies on the grass. I suppose that the plan is to buildsurprises me. up this race to accompany the Secretariat. The Pucker Up can be a lead in to next year’s Beverly D, just as the Secretariat leads to the Million. I We did get the traditional skydiver. The Blackhawks national an- like that.them singer was there to blast everyone out of his or her seats. (Though In the Pucker Up, Noble Beauty ($7.20) was awarded first place fol-I still can’t figure out why the national anthem is in the middle of the lowing the disqualification of Try Your Luck. Auntie Joy was movedcard.) The weather was great, not a single drop of rain and I didn’t see from third to second following the disqualification. The stewards slot-anyone melt from the heat. Three buglers calling the horses to the post ted the first across the line, Try Your Luck, into the third spot. The re-was a nice touch. arrangement allowed New York horses to be placed first and second. Of course, the Headliner race of the day was the Arlington Million Can’t say that there was a single horse in any of the festival races (GI). I’m not sure if there were any champions in this year’s field.that I would have gone to the track to see—no big stars this year. As Mondialiste ($10.80) was the well-deserved winner. He struggled a bitusual, the foreign contingent was mostly second string, but still pretty in Europe this year, but did well when he shipped to North America lastgood. fall. He won the grade I Woodbine Mile in Canada and then finished second in the Breeders’ Cup Mile. Those are worthy credentials for a It was a fun day. I’ll try to forget for a moment that I didn’t cash a Million winner. I expect he will hang around for the Breeders’ Cupsingle ticket all day long and broke a long Million Day win streak. It again.would have been a lot more fun if I had cashed something. Kasaqui, the Arlington Handicap winner, picked up the place spot. The three-year-old Deauville was third. I haven’t gotten out my calculator, but I believe that the handle for Interestingly, Deauville, who is trained by Aiden O’Brien, was thethe day was in the neighborhood of $15 million. If so, that is a fantastic winner of the Belmont Derby in his last start, and as such would havenumber. We got some help from the East Coast on the handle. Finger probably been the favorite in the Secretariat. Why did he not startLakes cancelled their card because of a lack of horses. Delaware can- there? I possess no inside information, but reading the tealeaves wouldcelled because of the heat. Saratoga cancelled about halfway through indicate that O’Brien, one of Europe’s best trainers, was probablytheir day because of rain. The lack of competition certainly didn’t hurt shooting for both the Secretariat and the Million. He got neither, butthe Arlington handle. It was about time the track caught a break. did pick up a second in the Secretariat with Long Island Sound and a third in the Million. Not a bad day’s work for O’Brien, and a real score Arlington had a nice crowd, but it had to be a disappointment. The for sharp handicappers who were looking for backups in the gimmicks.parking lots were far from full, a big contrast to the early days of the I’m locked into the Olympics, so it is easy to do a medal count forMillion when all on-grounds parking was taken and cars spilled over the day. Based on the location of their last starts, the count for the dayinto outside lots. Still, the betting lines were reasonable and the lines at is as follows: Belmont 5, Europe 3, Arlington 2, Indiana 2, Canada 1,the refreshment stands seemed manageable. But, I hate to see so many Churchill 1, Delaware 1, Parx 1. The European number should haveempty seats on the biggest day of racing in Illinois. been higher, but several members of the European contingent had made previous starts in America. With six stakes races on tap, Arlington certainly believes in putting Notice who is missing from the medal count? Not a single horseall of its eggs in one basket. Throw in a plethora of ever-popular grass from the West Coast made it to Arlington this year. I wonder what israces and this year it paid off handsomely. The on-track crowd might going on there?have been light, but the money poured in from elsewhere. New York horses did extremely well this year and it potentially could have been better if the Fourstardave Handicap (GI) hadn’t been The only non-graded stakes race on the card was The Bruce D Me- scheduled at Saratoga. Someone explain to me why we need two grademorial Stakes, and it was a cinch for hunch players. The race was I races on the turf on the same day. I’m not completely buying the dif-named in honor of Dick Duchossois’ son. The winner, Yo Carm, is ferent distances argument. By the way, the Million had a better field.owned by Ed Forino, Duchossois’ son-in-law. Nothing like keeping The days are gone when the Million and accompanying races couldeverything in the family. The hunch bettors were rewarded with a very draw all the best turf horses in America and a share of what the worldgenerous $24 to win. Wish it had been me. had to offer. Still, I’m not complaining. While this year’s Million Day may have only been average, it was still head and shoulders better than The 1-11/16-mile American St. Leger (GIII), the longest race of the what we have for the rest of the year in Illinois.summer, was taken by Da Big Hoss, who returned a paltry $3.60. Two In retrospect, the day was only missing one thing. I never found aEuropean distance specialists followed him across the line. The winner monitor that was tuned to the Olympics. After all, The Million may bewas a bit chalky for my taste but the pool for long distance horses in special, but the Olympics only come around once every four years.America is pretty shallow and that is what you get. The Secretariat, for three-year-olds, looked like it might be a testbetween horses from the Belmont Derby and the American Derby.Those entrants made up five of the nine starters. The Preakness runner-up, Cherry Wine, was also entered. In the end, the bragging rights went to the East Coast contingent asBeach Patrol ($7.60) and Long Island Sound, both from the BelmontDerby, ran 1-2. The third spot was taken by American Patriot, a grade10 / ILLINOIS RACING NEWS / SEPTEMBER 2016

President’s UpdateITBOF By Dan SullivanDates, Oh Them Dates The annual Dates Hearing is set before the Illinois Racing Board live racing in Illinois is not to be found in electronic gaming. If youon September 22, 2016. This is a very important exercise and it rep- go to the track and you can shoot a gun down the backstretch or in theresents whether owners and breeders participate in Illinois racing—or stands, then any meet and any set of dates the Illinois Racing Boardeven want to participate. So, Arlington wants 71 programs (215 host gives will eventually fail.days). Hawthorne wants 59 programs (150 host days) andHawthorne, as Suburban Downs, Inc., wants 80 harness programs How can race attendance be increased? By marketing the product(365 host days). Fairmont wants 150 programs. and causing people to want to come to the races. Is that a responsibil- ity of the owner or the breeder? No, that is the responsibility of the So, in Northern Illinois thoroughbred owners get 130 days of rac- track. It is the responsibility of the track to want people to come to theing but the owners can watch other tracks race on television the rest races. Why is a focus on marketing approach that important? Becauseof the time. But what will that do to the purses? What will that do in today’s urban society, people don’t become fascinated with horseswith the racing opportunities? because they grew up with them. They have to be introduced to them. They have to come to appreciate their beauty and their effort. The questions underlying those raw numbers are perhaps muchmore interesting. With those racing days, will the backstretches at And why does the track need this effort? Because these are theIllinois’ remaining three tracks fill? Or, will they be as sparsely pop- people that become bettors. The loss of bettor interest by introducingulated as they have been? new and younger bettors is critical to horse racing’s survival. This is, and will be more and more difficult. Because, right now, young Will cutting down the race days diminish the number of racing strangers who have never petted a horse have more and more placesopportunities? Will the standard race day include seven races instead to try to realize on a bet. Because, the tracks are losing the interest ofof 10, or nine or eight? Will each race track be able to write two the bettors when there are so many competitive outlets that can gen-Illinois races per day as required by statute? Can the Illinois races be erate excitement. This is the failure of the tracks and it is shown byfilled with the dwindling number of Illinois foals? the date requests when the tracks are more interested in getting host dates than live racing. If the trend lines of the past several years continue, the suckingsounds you will continue to hear will be the horses leaving Illinois A greater focus on live racing is also important in another way. Itback stretches for greener pastures. Whether those pastures are other garners public support for gaming legislation. This is desperatelytracks or just retirement. needed right now in the legislature to pass expanded gaming that can expand interest in live racing in Illinois. If there was the huge audi- What is the sole cause for the trend lines? Purses. The purses just ence that follows football clamoring for gaming at the race trackscan’t get any lower. In fact, they just can’t continue at the same level. would gaming legislation have passed long ago? You bet it wouldWhy can’t they? Because owners cannot and will not subsidize their have passed. The legislature would have ignored the petty bickeringhorses indefinitely. of competing special interest groups. What is the solution? Gaming isn’t going to come fast enough to The hope this fall is there may still just enough public support toact as an interim panacea helping to support live racing. So, immedi- get a gaming bill passed to help tracks market horse racing. (Not justately, any cost pulled from the purse account has to be eliminated. get gaming to abandon horse racing.) Otherwise, if there is a contin-The honey in the honey pot of the purse account is too low to support ued loss of interest in live racing in Illinois, one wonders if it will everthe bees (owners) that make it possible for the honey to exist. get done. And, if it doesn’t get done soon, one wonders how long there will be date hearings. After slapping stray hands dipping in the purse account what canbe done? About all that can be done it seems is hope the tracks try toburnish their business model. That would include helping the purseaccount by working to increase the attendance at races. The answer to ATTENTION! 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