T~e Tho.roughbred Daiily News is delivered to your fax each morning by 5 a.m. For subscription information, please call (732) 747-8060. ====================================THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 1997 $2 Daily K•E•E•N•E•L•A•N•D RESULTS RECORD KEENELAND SEPTEMBER TOP THREE COLTS WEDNESDAY HIP# SIRE DAM PRICE SALE ENDS After reaching new highs for total 3457 Willnamstown Suedemark $38,000 sales, average price, top-priced colt and top-priced filly, (named - Run Spree) the 10-day 1997 Keeneland September Yearling Sale Consigned by Fairhill Farm (Linda Schroetlin), agent ended Wednesday. Buyers from North America, Europe, Purchased by Stumpf Stable the Far East, Middle East and South America combined 3563 Badger Land Courtly Native $35,000 to spend $1 54,666,800 for 2,844 yearlings, eclipsing Consigned by Tri-County Farms LLC the previous mark of $137 ,358,500 for 2,949 horses Purchased by Ron Frederic sold during last year's 11-day auction. The gross 3544 West by West Celerity (Fr) $30,000 showed a 12.6 percent increase over 1996. The 1997 Consigned by Spring Farm average was $54,384, up 16.8 percent from last year's Purchased by Bryan Rice record figure of $46,578. It was the fifth consecutive year the Keeneland September average has shown an TOP FOUR FILLIES WEDNESDAY increase. The 1997 median, $26,000, was up 1 :S per­ HIP# SIRE DAM PRICE cent from the '96 figure of $22,000. During Wednes­ 3630 Caller l.D. Last Chanz to Danz $60,000 day's final session, a total of 200 horses brought Consigned by Summers End $2,072,400 for an average of $10,362; the median Purchased by David & Patricia Block was $7 ,500. A filly by Caller l.D. out of Last Chanz to 3444 Harllan Some Catch $ 50 ,000 Danz (Dynastic) topped the last session. Consigned by Consigned by Wafare Farm, agent Summers End, the half-sister to stakes winner The Way Purchased by: Bob Baffert, agent It's Binn (Peterhof) sold for $60,000 to David and Patri­ 36i24 Badger Land Jus a Little Honey $40,000 cia Block. The sale started with a bang when Satish (named - AND 0 HONEY) Sanan's Padua Stables paid a record $2.3 million for a Consigned by M s. Charles M. Boone, colt by Mr. Prospector out of Missy's Mirage (Stop the Agent for Ge rge A. Zimmerman Music) on opening day, September 8; that marked the Purchased y R. L. Buse, Jr. highest price paid for a yearling colt since July, '1991. 3523 Mining Ban er's Bet $40,000 The September Sale sold two seven-figure yearlings in Consigned b Spendthrift Farm the same year for the first time when Shadwell Estate Purchased by Chuck Calvin Company went to $1 . 7 million for a colt by Gone West out of My Song For You (Seattle Song) on the second day of the auction. A dauighter of Danzig out of I'm [ PREVIEW Sweets (Alydar) set a record for a filly at the sale, at­ . • tracting a bid of $950,000 from Demi O'Byrne, agent Saturday, Woodbine for John Magnier and Michael Tabor. Eaton Sales, WOODBINE MILE-GIC, $ 00,000, 3yo/up, 1 mT agent, consigned both the sale's top filly and top colt. The field of 1 2, in post position order, will be: Gentle­ m1:m (Arg) (Robin des Bai ), 124; Kiridashi (Bold SHARE IN TALE OF THE CAT SOLD According to Ruckus), 119; Crown Att rney (Silver Deputy), 117; the Blood-Horse On-Line, the Coolmore-Ashford group GE~ri (Theatrical {Ire}), 11 ; All Firmed Up (Affirmed), has signed an agreement to purchase a 50-percent 117; Same Old Wish (Ly hard's Wish {Fr}), 117; John interest in GSW Tale of the Cat (Storm Cat) for a re­ The Magician (Bold Ruck s), 114; Even Top (Ire) ported $ 7. 1 million. The three-year-old Phantom House (Topanoora {Ire}), 117; almsman (El Gran Senor), 117; Farm runner has won three of his four career starts, Elated Guy (Brave Shot { B}), 117; Skybound (Sky including the Gii l<ing's Bishop S. in his last start August Classic), 11 2; and Jilin ( ougar' s Crown), 11 7. 23 at Saratoga. His lone loss came when he finished fourth to Touch Gold in the GI Buick Haskell Invitational STAKES CLOSIN S at Monmouth Park. A $375,000 Keeneland September yearling, the colt is scheduled to make his next start TODA LJHURSDA Y, SEPTEMBER 78: against older horses in the GI Vosburgh September 27. 9-20 $500,000 Woodbine Mile-GIG, Wo, 3yo/up, BfT ($20,000s) News cont. p2 • PAGE 2 • THOROUGHBRED DAILY NEWS • 9-18-97 News cont. TOUCH GOLD, FRISK ME NOW IN FINAL L NEW YORK PEGASUS TUNE-UPS GI Buick Haskell Invitational • • and GI Belmont S. winner Touch Gold (Deputy Minister) Yesterday's Results: zipped five furlongs in : 58 4/5 at Hollywood Park BERTRAM F. BONGARD S., $54, 700, BEL, 9-17, (S), Wednesday morning in his final tune-up for Saturday's 2yo, 7f, 1 :24 1 /5, ft. Gii Buick Pegasus H. at the Meadowlands. "He went in 1--#RUBY HILL, 117, c, 2, Pentelicus--Ruby Wax, by company and he did it nicely," said trainer David Gallant Romeo. 0/8-Elnar Paul Robesham (NY); Hofmans. "He cooled out super. He is coming up to the T-Stanley M Hough; J-J Santos; $32,820. Lifetime Pegasus great and he should run a very good race." The Record: 3-2-0-0, $53,220. colt ships to New Jersey this morning; he will be stabled 2--Mellow Roll, 122, c, 2, Distinctive Pro--Tim's Lady, with trainer Joe Orseno's string at the Meadowlands. by Oh Say. ($35,000 yrl '96 FTKJUL; $67,000 2yo Gii Ohio Derby and Giii Pennsylvania Derby victor Frisk '97 FTFFEB). 0-Antsu Stable; $10,940. Me Now (Mister Frisky) also breezed yesterday, going 3--Soulman, 117, c, 2, Cure the Blues--Patti's Lark, by five furlongs in 1 :00 at the Meadowlands, galloping out Apalachee. 0-Wallpart Stables; $6,017. the six furlongs in 1: 14 2/5. 11 He handled the racetrack Margins: 2, NK, 6. Odds: 26.00, 0.65, 12.50. beautifully," said trainer Bob Durso. "He is the only Ruby Hill won an Aug. 13 New York-bred maiden race horse to work over the track, the only horse to win over by 2 1 /2 lengths in his second career start last time out the track, and I nHed to take all the edge I can get with over a sloppy Saratoga main track and handled the jump this field." in class and a fast track here. Making his stakes debut, the longshot winner bumped rivals at the start, hustled ROBERT SCHAEDLE III NAMED TOBA'S on the outside while going wide and got up in the final furlong to defeat favored Mellow Roll. 11 Stanley (winning AUGUST "OWNER OF THE MONTH" With Mid­ trainer Hough) told me that this horse doesn't have America Triple winner Honor Glide (Honor Grades) lead­ much speed, but he has a strong kick at the end," win­ ing his stable, owner Robert Schaedle Ill has been hon­ 11 11 ning jockey Jose Santos said. ln the paddock he was ored with the August 0wner of the Month" Award acting up a bit, but when he was on the track he was all from the Thoroughbred Owners and Breeders Associa­ business. I think that the added distance helped, and I tion. Honor Glide became the first horse since believe that he's going to get better the farther he Buckpasser to sweep Arlington lnternational's trio of goes." Hough indicated the winner may run next in the three-year-old stakes, taking the Gii Arlington Classic Oct. 12 Sleepy Hollow S. for New York-breds. and Gii American Derby before completing the series with a win in the GI Secretariat S. August 24. A resi­ 7th-BEL, $36,000, Msw, 2yo, f, 1 mT, 1 :34 4/5, fm. dent of Franklin, Tennessee, Schaedle was introduced to MYSTERIOUS MOLL Cf, Bates Motel--Surruptitious racing through friends in the horse show world; the 42- 2, {Ire}, by Northfields) checked in third in an Aug. 23 year-old has been involved in racing for three years. He Saratoga dirt maiden sprint first time out, but the purchased Honor Glide as a yearling in partnership with $40,000 1997 OBSMAR two-year-old graduate won by trainer Jim Day, himself a former Olympic rider. The 11 11 lengths here. Trying turf for the first time, the 3-1 TOBA 0wner of the Month" Award is sponsored by second choice took the lead early, opened up a clear Gainsborough Farm. advantage around the far turn and overwhelmed his opponents in the drive fo an easy victory. Lifetime TRACK ABBREVIATIONS: Record: 2-1-·0-1, $25,34 . APX Arlington BEL Belmont Park 0-Pont Street Stable. 8-Sunrise Stable South Training BMX Bay Meadows CNL Colonial Downs CEmter (FL). T-Del W Car all II. CRC Calder DEL Delaware Park New York Report cont. p3 EMO Emerald Downs FEX Fort Erie FPX Fairplex Park HAW Hawthorne ©Copyright Thoroughbred aily News. 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