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The Thoroughbred Daily News is delivered to your home or business by fax each morning by 5a.m. For subscription information, please call 908-747-8060. T~?I~~UN~~~RE DTM MONDAY, JULY 15,1996 W-E-E-K-E-N-D RESULTS UNBRIDLED'S SONG FRACTURES KILDANGAN STUD IRISH OAKS-G1, $298,768, The Curragh, Ireland, 7-14, 3yo, f, 2:29.70, gd/fm. SPLINT BONE Unbridled's Song (Unbridled) suf 1--DANCE DESIGN (IRE). 126, f, 3, Sadler's Wells- fered a non-displaced fracture of the splint bone in his Elegance In Design (Ire) (SW-Ire), by Habitat. left front leg during Saturday's Arlington Citation Chal O/B-Moyglare Stud Farm Ltd; T -Dermot Weld; J-M J lenge, trainer Jim Ryerson reported yesterday. Ryerson Kinane; $189,950. * Hwt Filly at 2 in Ireland. said the injury is not serious, adding that the three-year 2--Shamadara (Ire), 126, f, 3, Kahyasi (lre)--Shamarzana old colt may race again before the year is over. In what (Ire), by Darshaan (GB). O-H H Aga Khan; B-H H Aga was arguably the worst race of his career, Unbridled's Khan's Stud S.C; $64,010. Song finished ninth in the 10-horse Challenge field. 3--Key Change (Ire), 126, f, 3, Darshaan (GB)--Kashka, According to Ryerson, the gray colt also bled in the by The Minstrel. O-Lady Clague; B-Collinstown Stud race. "I've talked to (owner) Ernie (Paragallo) and Ernie's Farm Ltd; $32,005. plan is to try and bring him back," Ryerson said. "I Margins: short head, 2, 2 1/2. Odds: 9/2, 6/1, 8/1. believe he's thinking this year. /I When asked when the Also Ran: Lady Carla (GB), French Ballerina (Ire), Tout A horse may reappear at the races, Ryerson responded, "I Coup (Ire). Scratched: Camporese (Ire). don't want to get into that. I haven't got a real estimate Dance Design (Ire) gave her trainer Dermot Weld a of that. It's going to take some time. At this time we're just looking to give him some rest and will try and get memorable Classic double when narrowly beating the splint bone to heal." Unbridled's Song accompanied French raider Shamadara (Ire) in yesterday's Kildangan Cigar on a flight Sunday from Chicago to Saratoga. He Stud Irish Oaks. LADY CARLA (GB) (Caerleon), a very is expected to remain there for at least the next few easy winner of the Epsom Oaks on her previous start, days while he recuperates. Unbridled's Song, fifth as was made the 1-2 favorite to claim this prize for Eng the favorite in this year's Kentucky Derby, won the GI land and Pat Eddery confidently sent her off in front Breeders' Cup Juvenile, GI Florida Derby and Gil Wood from the start. But she could never establish a clear Memorial for earnings to date of $1,253,000. lead and, even when Eddery asked her to quicken turning into the home stretch, she was unable to KEENELAND JULY YEARLING SALE BEGINS shake off Key Change (Ire), who had shadowed the TONIGHT The 1996 Keeneland July Select Yearling market leader for every stride of the first mile. Sale begins tonight at 7:30 p.m. Eastern Time. The Shamadara began to gain ground as the front two second of the sale's two sessions will be held Tuesday started to work hard with two furlongs left to race night, also at 7:30 p.m. Catalogue highlights include a and, for a moment, appeared likely to claim the con half-brother to 1986 Horse of the Year Lady's Secret test. But Michael Kinane, timing his run on Dance (by Gone West--Great Lady M.); a half-sister to 1991 Design to perfection, hit the front in the final 100 Horse of the Year Black Tie Affair (Ire) (by Storm Cat- yards and drove head down to the post. Weld, suc Hat Tab Girl); a full-brother to champion Pleasant Tap cessful with the colt Zagreb (Theatrical {Ire}) in the and half-brother to 1994 Kentucky Derby winner Go For I rish Derby two weeks previously, said, II Dance De Gin (by Pleasant Colony--Never Knock); and a half-sister sign is a lovely filly. We had our doubts about her to champion Gold Beauty (by Storm Cat--Stick to Beauty). stamina, but she did it well and it's great to complete Taylor Made Sales Agency, agent, leads all consignors the Classic double. She'll have a short break now and with 26 yearlings in the 219-strong catalogue. Among the 1996 racing stars who graduated from the sale are then we'll think about an autumn campaign." GI Belmont S. winner Editor's Note (Forty Niner), GI Weekend Results Continued, p. 2. Preakness S. winner Louis Quatorze (Sovereign Dancer) and GI Hempstead H. winner Serena's Song (Rahy). Another prime purchase from the Keeneland July Sale u..I WEEKEND RESULTS . .. 1,2 was Mr. Prospector (Raise a Native), who topped the o NEWS CONTINUED 2 1971 auction. A.1. "Butch" Savin purchased Mr. Pros IJ) pector for $220,000. The bay went on to earn - STAKES PREVIEW ............. 3 $112,171 as a racehorse and to date has sired 147 Z TOTAL PAGES ................ 10 stakes winners and the earners of over $63,800,000. PAGE 2 • THOROUGHBRED DAILY NEWS • 7-15-96 Weekend Results Continued. News Continued. BEL AIR H.-Gil, $102,802, Hal, 7-14, 3yo/up, CIGAR RETURNS TO NEW YORK After posting 1 1/16m, 1:41, ft. his 16th consecutive victory before a national television 1--CLEANTE (ARG)' 115, h, 7, Kleiglight--Orientadora audience in Saturday's Arlington Citation Challenge, (Arg), by Pepenador. a-Janis R. Whitham; B-Haras EI superstar Cigar (Palace Music) left Chicago Sunday Malacate (ARG); T -Ronald McAnally; J-C J McCarron; morning on a flight from O'Hare Airport to Saratoga. $62,940. Lifetime Record: 34-11-5-3, $533,923. Dramatic Gold (Slew 0' Gold), who hooked Cigar at the *Horse of the Year & Ch. Miler in Argentina, MG1-Arg. top of the stretch then held on to be second, beaten 2--Dare and Go, 120, h, 5, Alydar--Partygoer, by Secre 3 %-lengths, will wait until Monday or Tuesday to leave tariat. O-Presle Farm; B-Wertheimer & Frere (KY); by van for Churchill Downs, and will then fly back to $20,980. California and Hollywood Park Wednesday. Darla Elliott, 3--Dernier Empereur, 113, h, 6, Trempolino--Dear who travelled with Dramatic Gold, reported that the Colleen, by In Reality. a-Gary A. Tanaka; B-Mayland's five-year-old came out of Saturday's event in good Stud Company, Ltd (KY); $12,588. shape. "He always gives his all," Elliott said. "When Margins: HD, 11, 6. Odds: 2.10, 0.60CT, 6.00. they (Cigar and Dramatic Gold) came together, it was so Also Ran: Flying Marfa. Scratched: Moving Tribute, R exciting to see Dramatic Gold dig in like that and chal Friar Tuck, The Exeter Man. lenge Cigar. But, after all, it was Cigar. What can you Cleante, named the 1993 Horse of the Year and do?" Trainer Bobby Frankel indicated that he will proba Champion Miler in his native Argentina, had registered bly keep third-place finisher Eltish {Cox's Ridge} at only one victory in 18 previous starts in the U.S. when Arlington to run in the $200,000 Arlington H. Aug. 4 at he dead-heated for first in the Bates Motel S. at Santa 1 1 14-miles on the grass. "If he does well in there, who Anita April 23, 1995. Second to Soul of the Matter in knows, maybe he'll run in the Arlington Million," said last year's Bel Air H., the dark bay came into this year's Ruben loza, Frankel's barn foreman. event off a second-place finish to Dramatic Gold in a *Cigar's earnings now total $8,819,815, including his June 19 Hollywood allowance. Sent off the 2-1 second winnings in the Dubai World Cup. Yesterday's TDN choice in this short four-horse field, he was bumped at incorrectly listed his current earnings at $6,419,813. the start, stalked the pace through moderate fractions of :23 4/5 and :47 1/5, moved up outside on the sec MARIA'S MON RETURNS WEDNESDAY Last ond turn, came four-wide into the drive and battled year's Champion Two-Year-Old Colt Maria's Mon (Wa gamely outside Dare and Go through the final furlong to vering Monarch), unraced since his Oct. 7 victory in the narrowly prevail for his first North American graded GI Moet Champagne S., will return Wednesday at stakes victory. "He's very durable; he's stayed sound Belmont Park in a 6 %-furlong allowance event. The gray and he hasn't missed too many dances," said winning has been sidelined with a leg fracture, but is reportedly trainer Ron McAnally. "Today he looked good. A mile fully recovered and has been training sharply for his and a sixteenth is just about his limit." Gary Mandella, return. With regular rider Robbie Davis aboard and carry assistant to Dare and Go's trainer Richard Mandella, ing 115 pounds, Maria's Mon will meet six others in a said of the beaten favorite, who finished fifth in the GI race that is expected to be a steppingstone for him to Hollywood Gold Cup two weeks ago, "I would rather the Aug.