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11/17/93 23: 15 THIJR. TI r'!E:3-T. D. t,lELJS tn [191=' F'E10L'001 The Thoroughbred Daily News is delivered to yaJr home or business by fax each morning by 6 a,m, For subscription information, please c311908-747-8060. HOROUGHBRE N·E-W-S THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 1 8 I 1 9 9 3 N~~ ~D'1 ; S .: 1 ,--I_W__p_·E_R_·E_E_·~_i_EE_·~_·_D_---l HOllYWOOD DERBY-SATURDAY All but one of 1994 GULFSTREAM MEETING RICHEST IN the three-year-olds scheduled to start in Saturday's Hollywood FLORIDA mSTORY Gulfstream Park will open its 1994 Derby began their racing careers in Europe. Earl of Barking 62-day season on January 4, with a daily average purse (IRE), a son of Common Grounds (GB), won five races in Great projection of $275,000, among the highest in the United States. Bri(ain before being transplanted to California. Trainer Richard A tQ(a I of 38 stakes. 22 of them graded, wi II represent the Cross said of the colt, "We bought him one year and six weeks highest ratio of stakes to days of competition ever presented In ago. He has prospered in American racing. He is better here Florida, Total stakes money offered is $4,575,000, including than he was in Europe. He is comil'\g up to this race very very $140,000 in Breeders' Cup funding. well. He's had time off and he runs well fresh. He's a very willing colt, a litHe fussy but easy to train.H When asked about SMITH TO RIDE 1HREE \VEEKS AT the highlight of Earl of Barking's career under his training, Cross HOLLYWOOD National leading money-earning jockey responded, IoIWinn;ng the Cinema Handicap was nice, but Mike Smith will ride the majority of this fall's Hollywood Park personally I liked winning the Hoist the flag as a lye better meeting, according to jockey agent Yony Matos. Smith, one of because it was twice as much money." Fatherland (IRE), a son the favorites for this year's Eclipse Award, will ride at of Sadler's Wells, won two Group races as a two-year-old in Hollywood on a regular basis from November 28 through the Ireland before shipping to Gary Jones' barn in California. "He end of the meet. which runs until December 20. came to uS four days before the Del Mar Derby," Jones said. "I thought he should have won. but It was a roughly run race with BAY MEADOWS, HOllYWOOD TO a field of 14 on a small track. He was flying late. If he got a COMMIN(7LE SIMULCAST BETS Bay Meadows and clear trip, 1think he would have won easy. He's coming up Hollywood Park received permission from the California Horse really good to the Hollywood Derby but I'm still worried he • Racing Board Wedneway morning to commingle win, place, might not get in. They give preference to waded stakes winners show and exacta wagers on simukast races. The tracks plan to and then money-earned. He was a champion two-yeaf-old last exchange races that have purses of at least $20,000 throughout year in Europe, but he's earned only $100,000 this year. I want Hollywood's autumn meeting, which opened yesterday and to run him in the worst way. He's a neat horse. He does continues through December 20. whatever you W<lnt him to do,!1 Other probable starters include Wharf, a son of Storm Bird, who will be making his first start JOHN CHURCHMAN RECOVERS FROM outside of England, and Blues Traveller (IRE); a son of the Storm Bird stallion aluebird, who finished third in the Epsom Derby SURGERY Churchill Downs-based trainer John Churchman and sixth in the Del Mar Derby in his only North American was reported to be doing well Wednesday morning following start. Guide (FR), a local Suitor colt, is undefeated in two starts quadruple bypass surgery Tuesday at Norton Hospital in since shipping from France, wfnning both the Oceanside Stakes lOUisville, The 56-year-old Louisville native has been training and the Pel Mar Derby at Del Mar. Fastness (IRE), by horses for more than 25 years. He campaigned Kentllcky Derby Rousillon, will make his first American start after winning two starter!:; fighting fantasy and Wilder Than Ever. fighting of ten races in France, including the listed Prix Herod. Eastern Fantasy, a son of Fighting Fit, has won 15 rtlces including three stakes for earnings of $499,263. Wilder Than Ever, a son of Memories liRE), a Don't Forget Me (IRE) colt, won four of nine Wild Again, was third in the 1991 Grade II Jim Beam Stakes. News ..................................................................... pl·2 NEWS Continued on p 2 Weekend Preview ..... ,........................................... p1-2 Racing Reports ......................................................p2-4 11/17/93 22:49 THOR. TIMES-T.D.~'lEvJS NO. 086 P002/004 .....A(:d~·~ • THURUUUHBRED DAILY NEWS • 11-18-93 WEEKEND PREVIEW Continued DICKSTEIN EXHIBIT COMING TO NAnONAL starts in England before shipping to the United States, where he MUSEUM OF RACING Equine photograpner Skip won the Volante Handicap on November 4 at Santa Anita. Dickstein has selected approximately 40 images from the Scheduled to go to the post for Andre Fabre are the Blushing thousands of racing photographs he has taken for IIMemorable Groom colt Sharman, who won the Group 3 Prix De La Moments: A Retrospective of The Racing Images"', an exnibition Jonchere earlier this year in France and is unraced in North that will run from December 6 to May 9 at the National America, and Demier Empereur, a Trempolino colt who will be Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame in Saratoga. Dickstein making his second start in California after finishing 12th in the says, '/People will see Alysheba in triumph, Sea Hero's Breeders' Cup Turf. Nonproouctiveasset, a son of Stalwart who Kentucky Derby, a steeplechase image or two. The exhibit will has won {our of eight lifetime starts. is the only probable starter combine images o{ racing action with behind-the.scenes views. who has raced solely on Amedcan soil. I photograph many subjects, but one of my major interests is Thoroughbred racing. I grew up in the horse bUSiness. They are part of my heritage." Dickstein will discuss his experiences HAWIHORNE GOID CtJP--SATIJRDAY Northern as an equine photographer at the Museum December 14th at Tfend, a flve-year.old son of Sunny North out of the Fleet 7;30 p.m. Nasrullah mare Trendville, is one of nine scheduled to go to the post. Calder-based trainer Bill White claimed Northern Trend near the end of the Gulfstream meet for $25,000 and he's gone N.Y. HORSES OF RACING AGE SALE UP 24.10/0 on to earn $200,000 since. According to White, "He Is coming Fasig-Tipton New York, Inc/s Belmont Horses of Racing Age into race really, really good, We worked him seven furlongs in sale sold 77 runners for an average of $11,766, up 24.1 % (rom the comparable '92 sale when 160 horses averaged $9,482. 1:282/5 Friday and he came out of the work good. He's a Hip 1~O, FAREWELL WAVE, topped the one-day vendue with a medium-sized chestnut, a blocky quarter-horse type. He's $62,~OO bid from West Point Thoroughbreds. Rokeby Stables frisky acting, a little nippy but easy to deal with." In Northern conSigned the MSP seven-year.old Virginia-bred gelding, who Trend's last outing, he finished ninth in a 7 1/2 furlong turf race has amassed $430,073 with 12 wins from 48 starts. at Calder. White says, "He had run three times on turf in his life and won one, so we used it as a prep. He didn't take to it well, PETERHOF TO BILLINGSLEY CREEK Peterhof, a that's why we worked him that seven-eighths five days 1ater." multiple graded stakes winner in Ireland, has been moved from Mark Guidry has the mount On Northern Trend. Replacing Kent DanDar Farm In Washington to stand the 1994 breeding season Desormeaux as Marquetry's rider will be Mike Smith. The at Billingsley Creek Ranch near Hagerman, Idaho. A sire of remainder of the jockey assignments are as follows: Valley seven SWs from seven crops and progeny earnings of more than Crossing, Andrea Seefeldt; Stalwars, luvena! Diaz; Powerful $3.7-mifliof'1, PETERHOF will stand for $1,000. Punch, Curt Bourque; Evanescent, Aaron Gryder; Dancing Jon, Shane Sellers; Rin Tin Bid, Randall Meier; Likely Target, Gabriel Retana. Racetracks that will take the Gold Cup simu least are Aqueduct Racetrack, Calder Race Course, Laurel Race Course, .E.W Y.o-R.K Woodbine, Delaware Park, Remington Park, Suffolk Downs, REPORT Bay Meadows and Fonner Park. Simulcasting the (uil Hawthorne card on Saturday, including the Gold Cup, are Birmingham Race Course, Mountaineer Park, Portland Yesterday's Re5ults 8th-Aqu, $48,000 Alw., 3yo/up, Sf, 1:36 1/5, ft. Owner/trainer Meadows, Prairie Meadows and the Woodlands. Murray Garren's Kentucky-bred FEDERAL FUNDS (c, 4, Settlement Day-Most Excellent, by '"Le Fabuleaux), stakes NEWS Continued placed this year in the $75,000 Aqueduct H.-G3, but beaten 17 3/4 last time out, won by a neck to increase earnings to $263,569, wins to 7. FAIR GROUNDS TO OPEN TIIANKSGIVING DAY The Fair Grounds open its 122nd season Thanksgiving 61h.Aqu, $34,000 Alw./ 3yo/up, Sf, 1:36 1/5, ft. REPLElION Day, November 25 with an l1-race card that will include the (e, 4, Alydar-FuH rlgress, by EI Tigre Grande), a $700,000 $SO,DOO-added Thanksgiving Handicap, contested at six Kee/July yearling in 1990, under jockey Mike Smith, won his furlongs {or ages three and up.