Laughing all the way in the Matchmaker

Shimmering Moment was herself 3 1/2 lengths clear of Island School, who got

up late for third. Both also earned a date to a Taylor Made stallion for their

placed efforts.

Island Time checked in fourth. Silver Screamer faded to fifth, and Unbridled

Humor, a rank third early, wilted to last of six. Dealbata was withdrawn, as was

Hessonite, winner of Friday's Irish Linnet at Saratoga.

Laughing's resume now reads 8-4-1-1, $210,795. Bred by Floors Farming and the

Duke of Devonshire in Ireland, the daughter of Dansili was purchased by her

original trainer Charles O'Brien for $460,411 as a Tattersalls October yearling.

Laughing first sported the silks of Mrs. John Magnier, breaking her maiden in

her third try as a three-year-old in Ireland and promptly following up in the

Nijinsky Stakes at Leopardstown.

Subsequently bought by Santulli, Laughing made her North American debut in a

tough spot in last October's Grade 1 E.P. Taylor Stakes, where she finished

seventh. She was transferred to Goldberg for her four-year-old campaign, and

started off on a winning note by defeating Silver Screamer in a second-level

optional claimer at Aqueduct on April 20. Laughing raced only once in the

interim, reporting home third to Zagora in the Grade 3 Gallorette Handicap at

Pimlico on Preakness Day.

Laughing's half-brother, Viva Pataca, reigned as Hong Kong's Horse of the

Year and all-time leading money winner with more than HK$83 million in the bank.

A two-time hero of the Group 1 Queen Elizabeth II Cup, he also won a trio of

Group 1 Champions & Chater Cups, a pair of Group 1 Hong Kong Gold Cups and the

Hong Kong Derby, among other titles. Viva Pataca's lengthy list of placings

includes two more runnings of the QEII, as well as the Group 1 Hong Kong Cup and

Group 1 Dubai Sheema Classic.

Their dam, the winning Be My Chief mare Comic, is herself a half-sister to

multiple Grade 2-winning millionaire Brave Act. Laughing's third dam, English

co-champion juvenile filly Circus Ring, is the ancestress of Italian co-highweight

Voila Ici and Australian champion filly Serenade Rose, heroine of such major

events as the Group 1 V.R.C. Oaks and Group 1 A.J.C. Australian Oaks.

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