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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~PI~~UN~:!~RE DM THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 2, S•T•A•K•E•S RESULT FRANCOIS BOUTIN DEAD AT 58 Francois THE SABIN HANDICAP-Giii, $75,000, GPX, 2-1, 3yo/up, f/m, a1 m70yd, 1 :42 2/5, ft. Boutin, one of Europe's most successful trainers over 1--RECOGNIZABLE, 115, f, 4, Seattle Slew--Highest the past three decades, died in Paris Wednesday Regard (MSW, $166,638), by Gallant Romeo. morning after a long battle with cancer. He was 58 O/B-Ogden Mills Phipps (KY); T-Claude McGaughey years old. Boutin was perhaps most famous in Ameri Ill; J-M E Smith; $45,000. ca as the trainer of Miesque, winner of back-to-back Lifetime Record: 10-6-2-1, $173,904. Breeders' Cup Miles in 1987 and '88, and Arazi, 2--Jade Flush, 113, f, 4, Jade Hunter--Royal Strait winner of the 1 991 Breeders' Cup Juvenile and the Flush, by Seattle Slew. 0-Condren & Cornacchia & favorite in the '92 Kentucky Derby. But Boutin's re Paulson; B-Allen Paulson (KY); $15,000. cord on his native continent and his always impec 3--Sambacarioca, 118, m, 6, Irish Tower--Doonazon, cable manners marked him not only as a great pro by Doonesbury. ($17,000 wing '89 KEENOV; fessional but also placed him among the most popular $17,000 yrl '90 KEESEP). 0-Team Valor; B-Ritter men in racing. Born Jan 21, 1 937, Boutin was assis Park Stable (KY); $8,250. tant to Etienne Pollet for four years before taking out Margins: 1 1 /4, 1 /2, 1 3/4. Odds: 1.00, 7. 70, 3.00. his own license in 1964. He won 1,881 races, in Also Ran: Regal Joy, My Mamma's Jolene, Clean cluding over 70 Group or Grade I races since 1 980 Wager, lmah, Star Jolie. alone, an average of nearly five a year for 15 con Recognizable, winner of her last 3 starts secutive years. His impressive list of wins in France including the Gill First Lady H. at Gulfstream Jan. featured great names like April Run, Nureyev and Sagaro. He won the Prix de la Salamandre seven 11, made it 4 straight with a gate-to-wire, 1 1 /4- times and the Paule d'Essai des Poulains and Prix length triumph as the even-money favorite. Jade Jacques le Marois six times each. British successes Flush closed from the back of the pack for 2nd, included wins in the 1000 Guineas (Miesque, 1977), while 3-1 second choice Sambacarioca, never far 2000 Guineas (Nonoalco in 1974 and Zino in 1 982), back, held on for third. The winner is 1 /2 to Awe as well as the Oaks with La Lagune in 1 968, his first Inspiring (MGI, $904,072, by Slew o' Gold). Classic win. But, astonishingly, he never managed a victory in either the Epsom Derby or the Arc de Triomphe, where his best finish was Northern Trick's © Copyright Thoroughbred Daily News. This second-place behind Sagace in 1 984. Diagnosed with newspaper may not be reproduced in any form cancer of the liver in 1993, Boutin nonetheless con or by any means, electronic or mechanical, tinued to train his large string at his Chantilly base. without prior written permission of the copyright He is survived by his wife, Lucy, the daughter of owner, MediaVista. owner-breeder William T. Young, as well as three Information as to the races, race results and children by a previous marriage, Eric, Patricia and earnings was obtained from results charts pub lished in Daily Racing Form and utilized herewith Nathalie. with the permission of the copyright owner, BREEDERS' CUP REDUCES SUPPLEMENTAL Daily Racing Form. FEES Supplemental fees for Breeders' Cup Champi onship races will be reduced from the current 1 2 percent of the purse to nine percent, officials of Breeders' Cup Ltd. announced yesterday. The change ST AKES RESULT . 1 will take effect with the two-year-old races to be run in the 1998 Breeders' Cup Championship. The sup NEWS CONTINUED . 2,3 plemental fee applies to horses who were not nomi nated as foals, but were sired by Breeders' Cup nomi RACING REPORTS . 3,4,5 nated stallions. Breeders' Cup continued, p. 2 PAGE 2 • THOROUGHBRED DAILY NEWS • 2-2-95 BREEDERS' CUP REDUCES SUPPLEMENTAL "The time lag between the start of simulcast and live FEES, Continued: racing is necessary to allow sufficient time to reestab Horses sired by stallions not nominated to the lish our horse population and allow the horsemen to Breeders' Cup will still have to be supplemented for a rebuild their purse fund through simulcast revenues." fee of 20 percent of the purse. "Our directors have The application requests 221 racing days, one more indicated an increasing interest during the past year in than the 220 required for tracks offering full-card reviewing and reevaluating our supplemental entry simulcasting. requirements," said James I. Bassett Ill, president of Breeders' Cup Ltd. "We feel that this modification TURFWAY CANCELS WEDNESDAY CARD For will not result in a reduction in foal nominations. At the fourth time since the beginning of its Winter/ the same time, this change will also provide more Spring meet January 1, Turfway Park's live racing encouragement to owners of non-eligible horses to card was cancelled last night, this time due to track supplement and participate in the Breeders' Cup condition. Because of Wednesday's warmer weather, Championship." In a related development, the main track thawed and became waterlogged. yesterday's Racing Post reported that an agreement "The track maintenance crew will attempt to squeeze has been reached on a new cross-registration deal be some of the water out of the racing surface before it tween the European Breeders' Fund and Breeders' tightens up again as temperatures drop this evening," Cup Ltd. to allow European-bred horses to take part in said Turfway President Mark Simendinger yesterday. the series without having to pay the highest level of "As of now, we plan to race tomorrow evening." supplementary fees. Full details of the agreement will Thursday's first race post time is 7 p.m. be revealed at a press conference next Tuesday. TRAINER KILLED AT MONMOUTH Trainer CHARLES TOWN TRACK OFFICIALS APPLY Michael J. Vincitore was killed by a northbound FOR INTERIM RACING SCHEDULE The New Jersey Transit commuter train as it passed Charles Town Races board of directors voted yester through a portion of the Monmouth Park stable area day to apply for an interim racing schedule, a decision around 9:30 Wednesday morning. Vincitore, 68, enabling the resumption of live racing while track was in his van when the accident occurred. Offi officials continue their efforts to sell the troubled cials from the New Jersey Sports and Exposition Thoroughbred track. Track President D. Keith Wagner Authority declined to comment, referring inquiries credited the newly formed Charles Town Horsemen's to local police. "The accident took place at a pri Association and the West Virginia Racing Commission vate crossing in the back portion of the stable ar for making the return of racing possible. "The Charles ea," said Robert Joyce, Chief of the Oceanport, Town Horsemen's Association came to us in a spirit N.J. police department where Monmouth is locat of true cooperation and expressed an interest in work ed. "He was a trainer who had a barn in the stable ing out a plan under which we could resume racing area." With training closed for the winter, howev while we look for a buyer," said Wagner. "As a result er, Joyce said it was unclear why Vincitore was in of our talks and the cooperation of the Commission, the backstretch. "We're still looking into why he we believe we've identified enough expense-cutting may have been there. He may have been dropping measures to bring our projected losses down to a off some equipment at the barn for the spring, but level that we believe we can withstand while we we don't want to speculate." Joyce was unaware continue our efforts to sell the track. That will allow of any other injuries caused by the accident. the horsemen a place to race their horses, it'll put Vincitore, who has trained in New York, New Jer many of our employees back to work, it will lessen sey, Pennsylvania and Florida, saddled seven win the impact on our colleagues in the business commu ners last year from 69 starts for earnings of nity and it hopefully will enhance the prospects for selling the track." Among the cost-saving measures $62,874. taken were the closing of the Shenandoah Downs training facility and the elimination of a state-mandat CALIPHA READY FOR RETURN Trainer Bud ed patrol judge position which had been funded by the Delp will send three-time stakes winner Calipha track. In an effort to enhance revenues, the track and (Two Punch) against odds-on favorite Educated horsemen plan to offer additional simulcast racing, Risk (Mr. Prospector) in the seven-furlong, Giii including the introduction of greyhound simulcasts. Shirley Jones H. at Gulfstream Sunday. Winner of The track's license application, submitted Wednesday her last five starts, four-year-old Calipha has not to the West Virginia Racing Commission, requests raced since taking the Gii Reeve Schley Jr. S. at approval to conduct live racing March 1 through De Monmouth by seven lengths last June 26.