Canford Cliffs, So You Think and Treasure
Beach nominated to Breeders’ Cup
The Breeders’ Cup
announced Tuesday that multiple Group 1-winning international stars
TREASURE BEACH (Galileo [Ire]), CANFORD CLIFFS (Tagula) and SO YOU THINK (High
Chaparral [Ire]) have been nominated to the Breeders’ Cup program through the
special Open Enrollment program for this year’s Breeders’ Cup World
Championships.
Coolmore nominated all three runners for $25,000 each under the
Open Enrollment program, which was instituted by Breeders’ Cup Ltd., during the
first half of 2011 to increase the number of eligible horses participating in
the Breeders’ Cup World Championships on November 4-5 at Churchill Downs.
Treasure Beach, Canford Cliffs and So You Think were not nominated to the
Breeders’ Cup program as foals.
The three-year-old Treasure Beach won last Sunday’s Irish Derby
(Ire-G1) at the Curragh by three-quarters of a length over stablemate Seville
(Galileo [Ire]). Trained by Aidan O’Brien, Treasure Beach came into the Irish
Derby off a second place finish in the Epsom Derby (Eng-G1) earlier this month.
The four-year-old Canford Cliffs has won five consecutive races
Group 1 races over the past two years, most recently defeating three-time
defending Breeders’ Cup Mile (G1) winner Goldikova (Ire) (Anabaa) in the Queen
Anne S. (Eng-G1) at Royal Ascot. Trained by Richard Hannon, Canford Cliffs also
won the Lockinge S. (Eng-G1) at Newberry prior to Royal Ascot. In 2010, he won
the Sussex S. (Eng-G1) at Goodwood, the St. James’s Palace Stakes (Eng-G1) at
Royal Ascot and the Irish Two Thousand Guineas (Ire-G1) at The Curragh.
A dominant winner of eight stakes races in Australia, the
six-year-old So You Think, trained by O’Brien, began a European campaign this
year by winning the Tattersalls Gold Cup (Ire-G1). He then finished second by a
neck in the Prince of Wales’s S. (Eng-G1) at Royal Ascot.
The Open Enrollment period, which will end on Thursday, is
available to any previously non-nominated horse sired by any stallion standing
anywhere in the world that has been nominated to the Breeders’ Cup in 2011.
“This open enrollment period has given us the chance to nominate
our runners to the Breeders’ Cup at a reduced price than the usual $100,000 per
horse,” said O’Brien, head trainer for Coolmore. “Making it easier for
European-based horses to run in the Breeders’ Cup also gives them future
stallion prospects in the American market at the end of their racing careers.”
The fee payment structure in Open Enrollment is as follows:
| Yearlings (Born
in 2010): |
$3,000 | |
|
2-year-olds (Born in 2009): |
$6,000 | |
| 3-year-old
and older (Born in 2008 and Earlier): |
$25,000 |
After the June 30 deadline, owners of non-nominated
two-year-olds and three-year-olds and older, can nominate their horses to the
Breeders’ Cup program for either $100,000 or $200,000 (if the stallion was not
nominated) by October 24 under the Horses of Racing Age program.
Open enrollment information can be found at the following link:
www.members.breederscup.com
“The Open Enrollment program has proven to be a great
opportunity for owners on a global basis to nominate their racing stock at
extremely favorable prices,” said Dora Delgado, Breeders Cup senior vice
president. “We want to provide those who did not nominate under the previous
system the chance to take advantage of the full benefits of the Breeders’ Cup
program.”
In addition to the nomination of yearlings and horses of racing
age, a total of 324 international stallions from 16 countries outside of North
America have thus far been nominated to the Breeders’ Cup through the
International Nominations program, which makes all of their offspring eligible
for nomination. Those stallion owners in the North Hemisphere paid an annual
nomination fee of 50 percent of the advertised stallion’s stud fee, while
stallion owners in the Southern Hemisphere paid 25 percent of the advertised
stud fee to nominate their stallions.