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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 T H U R S DAY, FEB R U A R Y 8, $2 Dally W-E-E-K-E-N-D PREVIEW JACQUES WERTHEIMER DEAD AT 84 Jacques Saturday, Gulfstream Park: Wertheimer, one of France's most successful owner DONN H.-GI, $300,000, 3yo/up, 1 118m breeders, has died at the age of 84, it was reported in PP HORSE TRAINER JOCKEY WT ODDS yesterday's Racing Post. Wertheimer owned two Prix de 1 Cigar Mott Bailey 128 3-5 I'Arc de Triomphe winners, Ivanjica (Sir Ivor) (1976) and 2 Wekiva Springs Mott Smith 117 6-1 Gold River (Fr) (Riverman) (1981), both trained by Alec 3 Primitive Hall W.J. Lewis Molina 110 20-1 Head. He inherited his father Pierre's famous blue and 4 Heavenly Prize McGaughey Day 11 5 4-1 white colors in 1965, and his horses, nearly all trained 5 Bay Street Star McKenzie Santos 110 20-1 by the Head family, continued to win top prizes in 6 Bound By Honor Nafzger Krone 112 12-1 France. Last year Wertheimer won 43 races and over 7 Flying Chevron Toner Davis 114 20-1 $1.8 million in prize money. He is survived by his sons 8 Star Standard Zito Sellers 113 8-1 Alain and Gerard, who will continue to run the family Cigar (Palace Music) breezed a half-mile in :48 2/5 Chanel perfume business as well as the racing stable. Wednesday morning under regular exercise rider Judy Nicks in his final preparation for the Donn. Asked SEATTLE SONG EUTHANIZED Seattle Song (Seat whether the six-year-old would be ready to run his best tle Slew), a Grade/Group 1 winner in both France and race Saturday, trainer Bill Mott responded, "1 hope he the U.S., was euthanized Saturday, Feb. 3, at Rood and wins and I hope it is not his best race. I can see that he Riddle Equine Hospital in Lexington, Kentucky. The 15 is as good going into this race as he was going into part year-old stallion suffered a fractured pelvis and massive of his races last year. I think anyone of them should be hemorrhaging in a paddock accident at Mr. and Mrs. enough. When you look back at his last 12 races (all Kenneth Jones Jr.'s Domino Stud. Seattle Song sired wins), if he runs back to any of them, he should be the earners of over $11 million, including European more than competitive." Cigar, who will be carrying his champions Lucky Song and Dictator's Song. His prog career heaviest impost Saturday, will be breaking from eny also include graded stakes-winners Irish Linnet post position one. "He has won from there before," ($1,220,179). Cudas, Whadjathink, Amal Hayati, Hold Mott said. Cigar won the Hollywood Gold Cup and the Old Blue, Sahib's Light and Lioubovnik. Pimlico Special from the one hole last year. Commenting on the prospect of another of his charges, Wekiva SERENA'S SONG TO SANTA MARIA Serena's Springs (Runaway Groom), defeating Cigar in the Grade Song (Rahy), %-length winner of the GI Santa Monica I event, Mott said, "I suppose it is possible with Wekiva H. in her last start Jan. 27, will bypass Sunday's Gil La getting enough of a weight concession and Cigar run Canada S. and instead run in the GI Santa Maria H. ning in his first race in 3 %-months. Cigar has run well Monday, February 19. "We get an extra week, a Grade I fresh before, but by the same token, the other horse has and a mile and a sixteenth," explained trainer D. Wayne had a race." Wekiva Springs was second by a nose in the Gill Broward H. at Gulfstream in his last start Jan. 13. Lukas. "Considering how tough the La Canada has come up, it's in our best interest to go a sixteenth of a mile shorter following the seven-furlong Santa Monica." Also Sunday, Santa Anita: LA CANADA S.-GII, $200,000a, 4yo, 1 118m pointing to the Santa Maria are Grade I winners Twice 1. Urbane (Citidancer) breezed five furlongs in 1 :01 at the Vice (Vice Regent) and Alpride (Ire) (Alzao). Twice Hollywood Park Tuesday. The winner of last year's GI the Vice breezed a mile in 1 :42 4/5 Tuesday at Santa Anita. Alpride, winner of the GI Yellow Ribbon Invita Ashland S. at Keeneland finished third in the Gil EI tional over the Santa Anita turf last November, will be Encino S. in her four-year-old debut Jan. 20. Trainer making her main track debut. Bobby Frankel sent his pair of La Canada probables to the Hollywood Park track for six-furlong works Tues day. Privity (Private Account), a G2 winner in France u.J WEEKEND PREVIEW .......... last year, worked in 1: 14 4/5, while EI Encino runner-up o NEWS CONTINUED ........... 2 Sleep Easy (Seattle Slew) covered the same distance in 1: 15 2/5. Also confirmed for the race are EI Encino RACING REPORTS .......... 2-5 V"J winner Jewel Princess (Key to the Mint) and D. Wayne Z TOTAL PAGES ................ 5 Lukas-trainee Sharp Point (Ire) (Royal Academy). PAGE 2 • THOROUGHBRED DAILY NEWS • 2-8-96 News Continued. PURE GRAIN TO BE BRED IN 1996 Pure Grain FREEDOM CRY RETIRED Freedom Cry (G8) (So (G8) (Polish PrecedentL winner of last year's Irish and viet Star), runner-up in last year's Prix de I' Arc de Yorkshire Oaks, will be fit to begin her career as a Triomphe and Breeders Cup Turf, has suffered a seri broodmare this spring. The filly fractured a leg while ous tendon injury and has been retired. His owner finishing tenth in last November's Japan Cup. After a Daniel Wildenstein said in Paris yesterday, "The train lengthy stay in Tokyo to recover, Pure Grain was ing tracks at Chantilly have been frozen and the horse returned to Michael Stoute's Newmarket stables in knocked a tendon. It is an injury which would keep early January and is now healthy enough for cover him off the racecourse for at least a year, so we have ing. Owner Robert Barnett explained, "Pure Grain is definitely retired him. No plans have yet been made walking now and I am fairly sure she will be covered about his stud career. I'm very sad. He is quite a loss. this year. We have not decided on a stallion as yet - He has been a very brave horse and proved himself at it is obviously short notice -- but we have a few ideas the very top level. I hope we can find a good stud at and will be inquiring about their availability very which to stand him. If The five-year-old, who had been soon. " an intended starter in the March 27 Dubai World Cup, won five of 12 career starts, with five second-place ECONOMIC IMPACT STLJDY ENTERS NEXT finishes, for earnings of $1,084,411. He was a group PHASE An economic impact study being conducted stakes winner in both France and Germany. on behalf of the American Horse Council "to promote the industry and educate people" will enter its next L'CARRIERE TO SKIP DONN L'Carriere (Carr de phase later this month when tens of thousands of Naskra), runner-up to Cigar in the Breeders' Cup Clas individual questionnaires are mailed out to racetracks, sic in his last start Oct. 28, was notably absent from owners, breeders, rodeos, show horse associations yesterday'S Donn H. draw, but fans will probably be and a multitude of other "economic entities" in the able to see the five-year-old in action in the GI horse world. The five organizations funding the study, Gulfstream Park H. March 2, according to trainer entitled "The Economic Impact of the United States James Bond. "1 really didn't want to hook Cigar until Horse Industry," are the American Quarter Horse Dubai," Bond said. "Hopefully someone else will Association, Breeders' Cup Ltd., The Jockey Club, soften him up first, if that is possible. The Gulfstream Keeneland Association and the Thoroughbred Owners Park Handicap is most likely. If there is any change, it and Breeders Association. The Washington D.C. would be the Santa Anita Handicap or an allowance based Barents Group has been retained to conduct race. Our goal is to get one race into him before the study, while Racing Resource Group Inc. of Vir Dubai." Bond also commented on his Gill Tropical ginia will serve as a liaison between Barents Group Park Derby winner Ok by Me (With Approval), saying and the horse industry. Tom Aronson, president of "He may run in the Fountain of Youth S. (Feb. 24) or Racing Resource Group, believes the study will be the Palm Beach S. (March 3)." come "a very important tool" in dealing with Con gress and state legislatures. But Aronson also be ROMAN DIPLOMAT DEAD Roman Diplomat lieves it will serve important purposes beyond the (RobertoL who was scheduled to stand his first sea legislative arena. lilt will have some marketing appli son at Doug Arnold's Buck Pond Farm in Versailles, cations as well," he said. "The industry can use it to Kentucky in 1996, was euthanized Jan. 22. The 15 educate people (about the sport)' attract sponsorships year-old stallion had developed a tumorous growth in and gauge markets for horse products." his small intestine, and was sent to Rood and Riddle Equine Hospital in Lexington, where he had the tumor removed in surgery performed Jan.