13/05/2021. (USA) THA Chairman/CEO and Industry Lawyer Alan Foreman on What Comes Next for Baffert – (UK) War Front Filly A New Rising Star At Dundalk
 
 
   Normally, the TDN Writers’ Room podcast presented by Keeneland aims to touch on a wide variety of industry issues every week. But there was only one story worth discussing this week, so the writers broke down every angle of the explosive controversy surrounding Bob Baffert and the failed drug test of GI Kentucky Derby winner Medina Spirit. They also welcomed Thoroughbred Horsemen’s Association Chairman and CEO and prominent industry lawyer Alan Foreman as the Green Group Guest of the Week to explain the scandal’s legal ramifications.
 
  Asked about the frequent public appearances by Baffert to talk about a situation that’s still being litigated, particularly his revelation Tuesday that Medina Spirit was treated with a cream that contained betamethasone, Foreman said, “I don’t know what their strategy is. I don’t know if this is what Bob wanted to do or if he was under advice to do it. The information that came out [Tuesday] changes the whole landscape. The first thing that you do if you’re a trainer and you’re notified of a positive test, is ask your personnel and veterinarian, do we have betamethasone in the barn? You would know that fairly quickly, you wouldn’t know it 48 to 96 hours after the fact. You certainly wouldn’t go on television and say, ‘I don’t use the stuff. We don’t have it in the barn. I don’t know how it got there. It’s everybody else’s fault.’ That’s basic stuff. So the strategy makes no sense to me and I certainly wouldn’t counsel my clients that way.”
 
  Elsewhere on the show, which is also sponsored by West Point Thoroughbreds, the Minnesota Racehorse Engagement Project and new sponsor Legacy Bloodstock, the writers called out the decisions and behavior that led to the embarrassment this past week has brought racing, debated what can be done now and reacted to the decision to allow Medina Spirit’s entry in the Preakness.
 
 
 
 

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War Front Filly A New Rising Star At Dundalk

 

Yet (left) | Racingfotos.com

By Tom Frary

Some TDN Rising Stars get the tag for runaway victories and some for winning performances much slimmer but full of promise of what is to come and Ballydoyle’s newcomer Yet (War Front) fit into the latter category on Wednesday. On paper, the sizeable first foal out of a strong-staying half-sister to Giant’s Causeway had no right to be contesting a five-furlong carve-up on Dundalk’s Polytrack but she was quick out of the gates for the Irish Stallion Farms EBF Fillies Maiden and up on the lead from the outset to dispute it with the 150-1 outsider Pretty Pioneer (Ire) (Prince of Lir {Ire}). Having seen off that peer at the top of the straight, the bay had the strongly-supported and strong-travelling Orinoco River (War Front) to deal with as they pulled clear of the remainder and despite being headed in the closing stages dug deep to get back in front near the line and prevail by a neck.

“She’s a massive two-year-old. She had been working well and she’s done it well,” commented Seamie Heffernan after switching from the stable’s withdrawn Heart to Heart (GB) (Zoffany {Ire}), the half-sister to the G1 Commonwealth Cup hero Golden Horde (Ire) (Lethal Force {Ire}). “She has plenty of size to her, but she doesn’t feel weak. I think I got headed, but her heart is in the right place.” To underline the strength of the form despite the select number of runners, there were a further 7 1/2 lengths back to Cailin Cliste (Ire) (Bated Breath {GB}) in third and that filly had finished 8 1/2 lengths behind Rosegreen’s second 2-year-old TDN Rising Star of the year in Contarelli Chapel (Ire) (Caravaggio) in a red-hot Naas maiden last month.

The winner’s dam Butterflies (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}) is one of Coolmore’s more exciting broodmare prospects as the 13th progeny of the remarkable Mariah’s Storm (Rahy) who was herself successful six times in graded-stakes company. Runner-up in the G3 Munster Oaks and third in the G3 Flame of Tara S., she makes up a list of significant performers headed by the “Iron Horse” and also featuring the G2 Cherry Hinton S. and G3 Swordlestown Stud Sprint S. scorer You’resothrilling (Storm Cat). The latter has entered the operation’s own Hall of Fame by producing two Classic winners in Gleneagles (Ire) and Marvellous (Ire) as well as the high-class Happily (Ire) and Sunday’s G3 Irish 1000 Guineas Trial winner Joan of Arc (Ire) all by Galileo.

Another of Mariah’s Storm’s daughters Pearling is a full-sister to Giant’s Causeway who also proved what a potent influence Galileo is in this dynasty by throwing the G1 Irish Champion S. and G1 Tattersalls Gold Cup hero Decorated Knight (GB). Butterflies is also a full-sister to the unraced Fabulous (Ire), who has proven an instant success in her second career by producing the 3-year-old filly Thinking of You (American Pharoah) who was third behind Joan of Arc in the G3 Irish 1000 Guineas Trial. After Yet, there is a yearling colt by Quality Road and a 2021 filly by Justify.

1st-Dundalk, €14,000, Mdn, 5-12, 2yo, f, 5f (AWT), 1:00.26, st.
YET, f, 2, by War Front
     1st Dam: Butterflies (Ire) (MGSP-Ire), by Galileo (Ire)
     2nd Dam: Mariah’s Storm, by Rahy
     3rd Dam: Immense, by Roberto
Lifetime Record: 1-1-0-0, $10,205. O-Susan Magnier, Michael Tabor, Derrick Smith & Westerberg; B-Orpendale/Wynatt/Chelston (KY); T-Aidan O’Brien. Click for the Racing Post result or the free Equineline.com catalogue-style pedigree. VIDEO. (fonte : TDN)