! The Thoroughbred Daily News is delivered to your fax each morning by 5 a.m. For Jubscription information, please call (732) 747-8060. N•E•W•S S·A•L•E•S TODAY RESULTS DANZIG FILLY SUPPLIES THE POLISH ON SARATOGA WEDNESDAY -- TOP FIVE COLTS SARATOGA WEDNESDAY Hip number 121, a bay HIP# SIRE DAM PRICE filly by Danzig--Sea Breezer (Gulch), brought a final bid 156 Miswaki Touch of Greatness $500,000 of $800,000 to top yesterday's second session of the Consigned by Dromoland/Hartwell, Agent V Fasig-Tipton Saratoga Selected Yearling Sale at the Purchased by Demi O'Byrne Humphrey S. Finney Pavilion in Saratoga Springs, New 090 Mr. Greeley Permissive $425,000 York. Consigned by Walnut Green, agent, the filly was ($100,000 yrl '98 KEEJAN} purchased by Rollin Baugh on behalf of Keiji Nagai. After Consigned by Eaton Sales, agent signing the ticket, Baugh explained, "She was just so Purchased by Padua Stables, Inc. Danzig-ish--with all that Grade I power. Up close, we 091 Seattle Slew Phone Booth $300,000 just thought we had to have her." The filly, sold in utero Consigned by Peter Taaffe, agent for $425,000 to Walnut Green at the 1996 Keeneland Purchased by Full Circle Racing November sale, will be broken in California before being 115 Di ieland Band Royal Devotion $270,000 shipped to Japan for her racing career. She is the first onsigned by Darby Dan Farm, agent foal of her Grade I stakes placed dam. The second high­ Purchased by W. S. Farish est price of the night was paid for hip number 159, a 085 M adowlake Northern Pageant $240,000 daughter of Gone West--Trumpet's Blare (Vice Regent). ($100,000 wnlg '97 KEENOVl The filly was consigned by Muirfield East, agent, and Consig ed by Taylor Made Sales Agency, Agent VI was purchased for $725,000 by Kern Lillingston Associ­ urchased by William McDonald, agent ation on behalf of Richard Colton. "We were looking for a filly by a top sire with good conformation," Kern GA WEDNESDAY -- TOP FIVE FILLIES Lillingston's Lincoln Collins explained. Tom Amoss will HIP# DAM PRICE train the bay filly. A New Orleans resident, Colton is in 121 D nzig Sea Breezer $800,000 the process of establishing his own breeding operation. Consig ed by Walnut Green (Jones Brothers), agent The top priced colt of last night's session was hip num­ Purchased by Rollin Baugh, agent ber 156, a son of Miswaki--Touch of Greatness (Hero's 159 G ne West Trumpet's Blaze $725,000 Honor). Demi O'Byrne went to $500,000 to purchase Consigned by Muirfield East, agent the half brother of world-record holder Elusive Quality P rchased by Kern Lillingston Association (Gone West) from Dromoland/Hartwell, Agent V. Padua 136 D puty Minister Songlines $650,000 Stables brought home the second highest priced colt of Consigned by Eaton Sales, agent the session, spending $425,000 for hip number 90, a Purchased by Padua Stables, Inc. son of Mr. Greeley--Permissive (Wardlaw). After the 110 R hy Reverie $360,000 purchase, trainer D. Wayne Lukas explained, "It's a first Consign d by Burning Daylight Farms, Inc., Bluegrass year sire so it is a little bit of a grey area, but he's ex­ Thoroughbred Services, Inc. (John Stuart), agent tremely well conformed and looks like he'll be a two­ Purchased by John Kimmel, agent year-old winner." Padua Stables also went home with 123 Lo d at War (Arg) Secret Squaw $320,000 hip number 136, a filly by Deputy Minister--Songlines Consi ned by Fred Seitz (Brookdale Farm), agent (Diesis {GB}), consigned by Eaton Sales, agent. After urchased by Robert and Beverly Lewis signing the $650,000 ticket, Lukas admitted, "We loved everything about her." During yesterday's session, 56 yearlings sold for a total of $10,805,000. That's up STAK S CLOSINGS .~ 34.5 percent from last year's aggregate of $8,035,000 TODAY 'HURSDAY AUGUST 13: I ~I grossed from the sale of 53 horses. The 1 998 session 8-15 $1 0,000 Sorority-GI/I, Mth, 2yo, f, 6f average of $1 92,946 marked a 27 .3-percent increase ($ ,OOOs) from the 1997 figure of $151,604. Wednesday night's TOMORR W FRIDAY AUGUST 14: median price was $155,000. The sale's final session 8-23 $2 'o,ooo Longacres Mile-GI//, EmD, 3yo/up, Bf ($ O,OOOs) begins tonight at 8 p.m. ?AGE.2 •THOROUGHBRED DAILY NEWS• 8-13-98 NTRA, ABC AGREE TO ADD T.V. RACES The National Thoroughbred Racing Association has reached RESULTS an agreement in principle with ABC Sports for an ex­ • • panded package of Triple Crown prep races for 1999 Wednesday, Saratoga: and 2000, according to a press release issued by the A PHENOMENON-Gil, $137,575, SAR, 8-12, 3yo/up, NTRA yesterday. While not naming which Triple Crown 6f, 1 :09 3/5, ft. preps would be aired, the release said that four addi­ 1--KELLY KIP, 122, c, 4, Kipper Kelly--Marianne tional races, presented in half-hour increments, would Theresa, by John's Gold. O/B-Hobeau Farm, Ltd (FL); be added to those televised in 1998, when just the T-H Allen Jerkens; J-J L Samyn; $82,545. Lifetime Florida Derby and Wood Memorial were shown by ABC. Record: 23-12-2-3, $983,342. One of those two telecasts will also be expanded, for a 2--Trafalger, 114, c, 4, Storm Bird--Alamosa (GB), by total of 2 Yz hours of additional pre-Triple Crown cover­ Alydar. ($450,000 yrl '95 KEESEP). 0-Lewis Beverly age. "ABC Sports is synonymous with coverage of the J & Robert B; B-lndian Creek, Hugo Lascelles, Et Al Triple Crown and the races leading up to it," said NTRA (KY); $27,515. Commissioner Tim Smith. "With these new racing tele­ 3--Receiver, 113, h, 5, Phone Trick--Bruces Blue Lou, by casts and the three-year-old races on ESPN, we'll have Storm lird. ($145,000 yrl '94 KEESEP). 0-Lazy E Triple Crown prep races on national television on nearly Racing ~)table Inc; B-Gentry Robert A (KY); $15, 133. a weekly basis from late January through late April." Margins: ~, 2HF, 2 1 /4. Odds: 1 .05, 11 .80, 26.25. Also Ran: Partner's Hero, Royal Haven, Richter Scale, ISELIN POSSIBLE FOR AWESOME AGAIN Oro de ME xico. Trainer Pat Byrne is mulling over a start in the Aug. 30 Scratched: Johnny Legit, Punch Line. Gii lselin H. at Monmouth Park for his GI Whitney H. Kelly Kip, seeking his fourth graded stakes triumph winner Awesome Again (Deputy Minister), the trainer of 1998, was coming off wins in the June 20 Giii said yesterday. Byrne said he would consider taking on Finger Lal es Breeders' Cup and July 18 Gil DeFrancis Skip Away (Skip Trial) in the race if he were satisfied Memorial Dash. The even-money choice dueled with with his weight assignment. "If I like the sound of the second choice RICHTER SCALE (Habitony {GB}) early, weights for the lselin, I'll consider going to Monmouth," put that r val away nearing the stretch and came said Byrne. "Skip Away is a wonderful horse and I'm home as 11nuch the best. "He's not good," winning not going to ship all the way to Monmouth just to fill the trainer H. Allen Jerkens said of Kelly Kip after the race for them. But if (owner Frank) Stronach and I feel race. "He s remarkable. He can be vanned for four or the weights are in our favor, it could be a possibility. five hour~ and be ready to run. He's got God-given Skip Away is a brilliant race horse. For me to take on a speed." Winning jockey Jean-Luc Samyn added, "He brilliant race horse, I need to be weighted fairly." Byrne has been getting better and better during the year. said a start in the Gil Saratoga Breeders' Cup H. the He's got ~print-champion material." Kelly Kip may same day would also depend on the weights. make his next start in the Gii Forest Hill at Belmont Oct. 1 7. Jerry Bailey, riding sixth-place finisher PREVIEW Richter S1 ale, commented, "At one point, we were on Sunday,• Deauville, France: • even tern s and I thought we were going to be able to PRIX DU HARAS DE FRESNAY-LE-BUFFARD JACQUES outrun him, but once Kelly Kip started to open up, my LE MAROIS-G1, $284,471, 3yo/up, 1 mT horse jus1 vanished underneath me. I just don't know Sunday's Group 1 event will feature the reappearance what happened." of G1 Paule d'Essai des Pouliches (French 1000 Guin­ eas) winner Zalaiyka (Fr) (Royal Academy), who has ©Cop yr~ 1ht Thoroughbred Daily News. been off the track since her runner-up performance in This ne111 spaper may not be reproduced in any form or the G 1 Coronation S. at Royal Ascot June 17. Also by any means, electronic or mechanical, without prior expected in the lineup is Miss Berbere (Fr} (Bering {GB}), written f. ermission of the copyright owner, Media Vista. winner of the Aug. 2 G2 Prix d'Astarte. The filly was In format on as to the races, race results and earnings recently bought privately by the Yoshida family from was obt1~ined from results charts published in Daily Japan for an undisclosed sum and will run in the colors Racing Porm and utilized herewith with the permission of her new owners Sunday.