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The Thoroughbred Daily News is delivered to your home or business by fax each morning by 5 a.m. For subscription information, please call 908-747-8060. T~?I~~UN~~~RE DM S A T U RD A Y, A P RI L 2 9, 1 9 9 5 W•E•E•K•E•N•D RESULTS SERENA'S SONG TO OAKS? While trainer D. Friday, Keen eland Wayne Lukas said yesterday that an announcement concerning Serena's Song (Rahy) would be made this BEN ALI S.-Glll, $81,300, KEE, 4-28, 4yo/up, 1 1 /Sm, weekend, jockey agent Bob Meldahl believes the top 1 :49 3/5, ft. three-year-old filly will make her next start in the 1--#@WILDLY JOYOUS, 114, g, 4, Wild Again--Joyous Kentucky Oaks and not in the Derby. Meldahl, who Pirouette (SP-Ire), by Nureyev. ($95,000 wing '91 books mounts for the filly's regular rider, Corey KEENOV). 0-Woodlynn Farm; B-Axmar Stable (KY); Nakatani, said Friday, "Lukas told me he was running in T-James E. Baker; J-M. Walls; $50,406. Lifetime the Oaks. I'm riding In Character (GB) (Never So Bold Record: 14-4-3-1, $156,968. {GB}) in the Derby." Not making a commitment either 2--Danville, 117, g, 4, Demons Begone--Spare That way to reporters, Lukas said yesterday, "You do leave Tree, by Hatchet Man. 0-Top of the Key Stable; something out there if you run in the Derby, but you B-Lavin Bloodstock Services, Inc (KY); $16,260. also dare to be great." 3--Powerful Punch, 113, g, 6, Danzig Connection- Silvery Honey, by Silver Series. 0-Russell L. Reineman Stable Inc; B-Charles Nuckols, Jr & Sons NEW PARTNER JOINS TALKIN MAN TEAM (KY); $8, 130. David Willmot, president of Kinghaven Farms, Margins: NK, HD, 2. Odds: 1.60a, 2.30, 6.20. announced Friday that Kinghaven and Mrs. Helen Also Ran: Class 0 Lad, Flashing River, Mahogany Hall, Stollery have sold a one-third interest in Kentucky Derby hopeful Talkin Man (With Approval) to financier Fight for Love. Wildly Joyous, off since a 4th-place allowance finish Peter Wall of Vancouver, British Columbia for an at Santa Anita March 9, swerved out slightly at the undisclosed sum. The agreement provides that start lightly bumping Danville, gained a slim lead, then Kinghaven will continue as managing partner but does led the rest of the way through soft fractions to notch not determine or limit where the colt will stand at stud. his first stakes victory by a neck. "I wasn't planning to Willmot said that, should the Canadian champ race in go all that slow," said winning jockey Mickey Walls. "I all three legs of the Triple Crown, he will carry was hoping to let him roll a little faster, but he was Kinghaven's silks in the Derby, Mrs. Stollery's silks in giving me problems in the first turn--looking and the Preakness, and Mr. Wall's silks in the Belmont. gawking. I never got him really under control till halfway down the backstretch. By that time, we had TIKKANEN READY FOR RETURN Tikkanen already gone a half-mile and we weren't going that (C_ozzene), winner of last year's Breeders' Cup Turf, fast, so he had something left." Powerful Punch, who will begin his 1995 campaign in next Friday's G2 trailed the 7-horse field through most of the running, Jockey Club S. at Newmarket. Jonathan Pease, the rallied late for the show spot. "He made a gallant run," colt's trainer, was hoping to reintroduce his four-year said his rider, Mike Smith. "When we got up to (the old in Sunday's G1 Prix Ganay at Longchamp, but said, leaders), I just couldn't get by them. Another couple of "The going is too heavy in France, so he will go to jumps and I might have." Newmarket." Possibles for the Jockey Club S. are Overbury (Caerleon), Broadway Flyer (Theatrical {Ire}), Further Flight ( *Pharly {Fr}) and Only Royale (Caerleon). News cont. p2 ©Copyright Thoroughbred Daily News. * * * * * * * * * * This newspaper may not be reproduced in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, without prior AQUEDUCT•ACTION written permission of the copyright owner, Media Vista. Attention Horsemen! The following Belmont stakes will Information as to the races, race results and earnings close Saturday, April 29: Giii $75,000 Saranac S., 3yo, was obtained from results charts published in Daily 8fT, to be run May 13; $50,000a Kingston H., New York Racing Form and utilized herewith with the permission of bred 3yo/up, 8.5fT, to be run May 14; and $50,000a the copyright owner, Daily Racing Form. Mike Lee H., New York-bred 3yo, 7f, set for May 17. PAGE 2 •THOROUGHBRED DAILY NEWS• 4-29-95 News cont. SHOWBOAT SELLS CHARLES TOWN OPTION SUCCESSFUL OBS SALE CONCLUDES There Showboat Operating Company, a New Jersey-based were 538 juveniles sold during the four sessions of the casino operation which acquired an option to purchase Ocala Breeders' Sales Company's Annual Spring Sale of Charles Town Races Inc. last February 17, informed Two-Year-Olds in Training, which concluded Thursday. track president D. Keith Wagner yesterday that the The sale grossed $7,575,900 for an average of option to buy the assets of the Thoroughbred facility $14,082, up a healthy 24 percent from last year's has been sold to Bryant Development Company of average of $11,322. The highest price of Thursday's Virginia. Bryant Development paid Showboat an final session was brought by Leesto, a gray or roan colt undisclosed amount for the option, then paid Charles by With Approval--Loren' s Baby (Czaravich). Consigned Town owners $250,000 to extend the option through by Marta Meyers, agent, the colt, who had been March 31, 1996. Plans for the financially troubled previously sold as a Keeneland November weanling for racetrack were not immediately announced, but William $27,000, was purchased by Scott Savin for $85,000. L. Bryant, president of the Bryant Development Company, said yesterday, "My company is currently GARY STEVENS BACK FROM HONG KONG going through a period of due diligence in the process Jockey Gary Stevens will return from Hong Kong to of selecting a first class track operator and formulating America this week, a month before his contract with detailed plans for development of the property. It has trainer Steve Leung was to expire. Stevens will ride always been my feeling that the Charles Town, West Thunder Gulch (Gulch) in the Kentucky Derby, then Virginia area has great potential for economic growth return to Hollywood Park next Sunday on a permanent and prosperity. My goal is to be a part of the future of basis. Said his agent, Ron Anderson, "(Hong Kong) this dynamic region." was a great experience. It provided a whole different outlook on the business, because they only race two NEW YORK POLICIES UNDER REVIEW Joseph days a week. The people look forward to every day of P. Neglia, chairman of the New York State Racing and racing and it's on the front page of the sports section Wagering Board, has announced that he and board every day. But the two days a week left just a little too member Bennett Liebman have directed "an intensive much down time. There wasn't that much to do, and review of the Board's current policies and procedures" you're 15 hours from home. You can't just jump on a with the aim of making significant changes in the near plane and come home." future. New York's schedule of penalties for drug positives involving "medications that the industry OJC AID DELAYED The Ontario Jockey Club will regards as therapeutic and non-performance have to wait a little longer for financial assistance from enhancing," which has come under fire recently as its Thoroughbred horsemen. The OJC is asking the being too harsh, will be a focus of the review. The group for $2.2 million to help cover the cost of its study could also prompt the implementation of teletheater operations, and an additional $2.4 million reciprocal licensing arrangements with other racing for ongoing costs at Fort Erie racetrack. Members of jurusdictions. the Horsemen's Benevolent and Protective Association met Thursday night but could not agree on a plan to aid the troubled organization, which is carrying a better T•R•l•P•L•E than $71 million debt load. "Some felt we should lend the OJC the money. All felt we should help. The THREATS question is--what form of help?" said HBPA President Carmen Di Paola. The HBPA's Executive Committee KENTUCKY DERBY NOTES will meet to work out a proposal, which must then be Flitch (Demons Begone), runner-up in the Arkansas approved by the members; the date of the next HBPA Derby last time out, is on the grounds at Churchill and meeting was not announced. There was also no will "train as if he is running" in the Derby, according to announcement yesterday regarding the imminent sale Scotty Everett, assistant to trainer Bill Badgett. Everett of Greenwood Racetrack. It had been expected that said Badgett is scheduled to arrive in Louisville Sunday the OJC would enter into an agreement with Toronto or Monday, but that a decision on the colt's Derby area developers Marco Muzzo and Fred DeGasperis to status would not be reached until entries are drawn sell the track, which was closed for live racing in 1 993 Thursday. but is still maintained as a teletheater, for a price believed to be about $25 million.