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Tuesday, Thoroughbred Daily News October 23, 2001 TDN For inform ation, call (732) 747- 8060. HEADLINE NEWS said. As for Kona Gold, trainer Bruce Headley said, “He was CLASSIC...Albert The Great (Go For Gin), jum ping and squealing when he pulled up. He’s com ing up who will be trying to end a three- race los- to the race perfect.” ing streak when he starts in the Classic, BESSEMER TRUST JUVENILE...The three favorites for Satur- breezed five furlongs in 1:02 over the day’s race recorded solid works yesterday m orning. GI Belm ont m ain track yesterday m orning. Cham pagne S. winner O ffic e r (Bertrando), who loom s the “That was the plan, we didn’t want to go too fast,” said heaviest favorite on the card, stopped trainer Bob Baffert’s trainer Nick Zito. Jockey Jorge Chavez was in the saddle for clock in :59 2/5 for five furlongs at Santa Anita. “He the m ove and w ill be back aboard the Tracy Farm er- ow ned worked great,” the conditioner said of his unbeaten colt. “It four- year- old Saturday. Gary Stevens rode the bay to a was a nice steady five-eighths. I clocked him going out fourth-place finish in the GI Jockey Club Gold Cup Oct. 6. three- quarters in 1:11.74. He was really aggressive and he “Jorge worked him in 1:05 before the Classic last year and didn’t get tired.” John Toffan and Trudy McCaffery’s he ran fourth,” Zito continued. “He went 1:02 with him here, Cam e so m aybe he’ll win by 15.” Riding assignm ents were secured Hom e (Gone West) also had his final prep at Santa Anita yesterday for a pair of Classic contenders. GII Meadowlands yesterday m orning, getting his half m ile in :48 2/5. The Cup winner Gander (Corm orant), who breezed five-eighths winner of the GI Hopeful S. at Saratoga Sept. 1, the colt is of a m ile yesterday in :59, will have Victor Espinoza in the scheduled to arrive in New York this afternoon. Already irons for the first tim e Saturday. John Velazquez has the stabled on the Belm ont backstretch is GII Lane’s End call aboard Include (Broad Brush) for trainer Bud Delp. Breeders’ Futurity hero Siphonic (Siphon {Brz}), who drilled Velazquez rode Gander to his Meadowlands Cup victory, but six furlongs yesterday in 1:12 4/5. “He felt great, like an com m itted to Include when the connections of Gander were old horse,” said jockey Jerry Bailey to trainer David considering a run in Saturday’s Em pire Classic at Belm ont. Hofm ans. Bailey will ride the undefeated colt on Saturday. Third to Gander in the Meadowlands Cup, Include was the Chris McCarron, who guided Siphonic to his Keeneland winner earlier this year of the GI Pim lico Special. He will van victory, has the call aboard Cam e Hom e. to Belm ont tom orrow and is scheduled to gallop up to the race. TURF...Blueprint (Ire) (Generous {Ire}) has been declared out of the race after suffering an injury during a workout Sat- PEN SKE AU TO CEN TER SPRINT...Three of the top candidates urday. The bay had not run since taking the GII Sunset H. worked yesterday, with Delaware Township (Notebook) going a half in a rapid :45 2/5 at Belm ont Park; El Corredor (M r. at Hollywood Park July 15. “He suffered a strain in his right Greeley) going five furlongs in :59 4/5 at Santa Anita; and foreleg,” trainer Bob Hess Jr. said from his barn at Santa defending cham p Kona Gold (Java Gold) going an easy Anita yesterday. “It’s a strain in the inner branch of his three furlongs in :37 at Santa Anita. Delaware Township has suspensory ligam ent. We noticed the injury right after the won three of his four starts over the Belm ont surface, workout.” He added, “Considering his value, it’s probably including the GII Forest Hills H. last tim e out. “He just career- ending, but we’ll have to wait and see.” The six- always seem s to be com ing just right when we run him year- old has nine wins, two seconds and four thirds for here,” trainer Ben Perkins Jr. said. El Corredor, two- for- two earnings of $569,481. His other stakes wins include the G2 on the year, com es off a victory in the Sept. 2 GII Del Mar Jockey Club S. at Newm arket last year and the GII San Luis Breeders’ Cup H. at a m ile. “The Sprint is a little bit short Rey H. at Santa Anita in March. for him , but he’s been training great,” trainer Bob Baffert Breeders’ Cup Notes cont. p2 2020 Thursday, Nov. 8 • KY 859-873- 0948 7:30 p.m . – Com plim entary Adena Springs dinner @ 6:30 Toll Free 877- 945- ADENA SPRINGS @ WORLDWIDE TDN Tuesday, October 23, 2001 now- - it is a Group race and you would have had to think H B R I T A I N H he would have had a good chance. He will be trained for a Derby.” Yesterday’s Results: TOTE BOOKMAKERS SILVER TANKARD S.-Listed, £28,000, 2.15 Pontefract, White Swan Maiden Auction S. (Class F) Pontefract, 10- 22, 2yo, 1m 4ydsT, 1:48.70, sf. (Div 1), £5,525, 2yo, 6fT, 1:22.70, sf. 1- - #BANDARI (IRE), 123, c, 2, by Alhaarth (Ire) RED TO VIOLET (GB) (f, 2, Spectrum {Ire}--Khalsheva {GB}, 1st Dam : Miss Audim ar (USA) (MSW & GSP- US, by Shirley Heights {GB}), a well backed 7- 2 chance, was $153,695), by M r. Leader (USA) settled in third as the 13-8 m arket leader Tom illie (GB) 2nd Dam : Quick Selection (USA), by Viceregal (USA) (Ventiquattrofogli {Ire}) led, but was ridden to challenge 3rd Dam : *Lachine II, by Grey Sovereign (GB) once into the hom e straight. He led at the eighth pole and (Ir£40,000 yrl ‘00 GOFORB). O- A Al- Rostam ani; was pushed out in the closing stages to beat Tom illie by 2½ B- Rathasker Stud; T- Mark Johnston; J- Kevin Darley; lengths. The filly was a 10,000gns TATOCT yearling. Lifetim e £16,240. Lifetim e Record: 4- 3- 0- 0, £25,203. *Third Record: 3- 1- 0- 0, £3,591. stakes winner for freshm an sire (by Unfuw ain {USA}). O- Ohilip A Jarvis; B- M onym usk Stud Farm ; T- Jerem y 2- - Infinite Spirit (USA), 118, f, 2, Maria’s Mon (USA)- - Glover; J- Robert Winston. Eternal Reve (USA), by Diesis (GB). £6,160. 3- - White Rabbit (GB), 118, f, 2, Zilzal (USA)- - Trick (Ire), 5.15 Pontefract, White Swan Maiden Auction S. (Class F) by Shirley Heights (GB). £3,080. (Div 2), £5,500, 2yo, 6fT, 1:23.50, sf. Margins: 9, 3/4, NK. Odds: 7- 2, 11- 2, 9- 1. + BELUGA BAY (GB) (g, 2, Millkom {GB}- - Bellyphax {GB}, by Also ran: Sophorific (Ire), Bit Of Luck (GB), Raison Garde Bellypha {Ire}), a weak- in- the- m arket 7- 1 chance, was (Ire), Jack The Track (Ire), Kasam ba (GB), Duke Of Earl positioned in fourth as Em peror Of Dream s (GB) (Em peror (Ire), Harnour (GB), Don Fernando (GB), Wishingwell Lady Jones {USA}) led, but m ade progress to challenge ap- (Ire). proaching the final quarter m ile. The 5,000gns TATDEC Bandari put up an awesom e perform ance here to storm yearling was ridden into the lead at the eighth pole and was away with this com petitve affair. He has developed into a driven out to hold the fast- closing Secreto Dream s (Ire) highly effective front- runner and he displayed his pow er (Distinctly North {USA}) by a head. Beluga Bay becam e the from that position here under Kevin Darley. Having m ade an second winner for his freshm an sire (by Cyrano de Bergerac im pressive winning debut in a Beverley m aiden Aug. 15, he {Ire}). Lifetim e Record: 1- 1- 0- 0, £3,575. was put in his place in the G3 Solario S. at Sandown Sept. O- Beluga Bay Partnership; B- Red House Stud; T- Jam es 1 when finishing seventh, having raced up with the pace Fanshawe; J- Joe Fanning. until the straight. M aking no m istake from the front next tim e at Ayr in a conditions event Sept. 22, he had Bit of DONCASTER HORSES IN TRAINING SALE TODAY Luck (GB) (First Trum p {GB}) 3 1/2 lengths back in second. Doncaster Bloodstock Com pany stage a one- day Flat Here he showed the sam e early dash to grab the lead and National Hunt Horses in Training Sale today, offering under Darley as Jam ie Spencer tracked him in second on 230 lots. Brian Meehan is responsible for the largest draft Infinite Spirit. That pair appeared to have the race between of 15 lots headed by lot 126, the sm art Shoeshine Boy them approaching the turn into the straight as m ost of (Ire) (Prince Sabo {GB}) and lot 127, the prom ising two- their rivals struggled on the slow ground off the pace. Yet it year- old Triple Play (Ire) (Tagula {Ire}). The sale also in- was Bandari who had all the answers once in the straight cludes a clutch of proven all- weather perform ers featuring and with a shake of the reins he quickened away from the M eehan’s Grizel (GB) (Lion Cavern {USA}), lot 61.