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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 DM F RID A Y, MAY 3, 1 996 $2 Daily T-R-I-P-L-E THREATS HOLLYWOOD GETS INCREASE FROM Saturday, Churchill Downs: NEVADA CASINOS Hollywood Park has reached an KENTUCKY DERBY-GI, $1,000,000, 3yo, 1 114m agreement with Nevada outlets and will begin sending Trainer D. Wayne Lukas has named Aaron Gryder to the signal of its races to Nevada in time for tonight's ride Honour and Glory (Relaunch) in Saturday's 122nd card. The agreement covers only the current spring/ Run for the Roses. It will be the second Derby mount summer meeting. "This is a single-meeting deal only," for Gryder, who rode Mi Cielo to a 14th-place finish in Hollywood Park Chairman R.D. Hubbard said. liThe 1993. reason we settled is any additional increase would have Favorite Unbridled's Song (Unbridled) walked for an required approval from the Nevada Gaming Commission. hour under the shedrow with trainer Jim Ryerson Thurs That would have taken 30 to 60 days and the meeting day morning following his half-mile work Wednesday. would have been over. We'll continue to discuss an· Buzz Chace, racing manager for owner Ernie Paragallo's increase for the fall meeting with the Gaming Commis Paraneck Stable, reported that things were looking good sion. We thank our fans for bearing with us through this for the Florida Derby and Wood Memorial winner. "He difficult negotiation period. II Hollywood Park received a had a nice work yesterday and came out of it fine," commission of 3% on win/place/show and 3.5% on all Chace said Thursday. "He ate all his oats and is a very other wagers from Nevada racebooks in 1995. The happy horse this morning. Since Tuesday, he has im commission is now 3.5% on all wagers. Hollywood proved, going forward all the way. As it stands right Park, which opened its 67-day spring/summer meeting now, it looks like we are in the thick of it." Chace said last Friday, did not send its signal to Nevada during the the two bar shoes remain on Unbridled's Song, but the first five days of racing. decision to run in them probably will not be made until NEW DERBY POST-POSITION DRAW IN 1997? Saturday. liThe way he worked in them yesterday, we're kind of leaning toward that," Chace said. Churchill Downs officials confirmed yesterday that there Former New York Yankees first baseman Don have been talks about changing the entire format for the post position draw for the Kentucky Derby. Impressed Mattingly paid a visit to trainer Nick 2ito's barn at by the popularity of the NBA draft, Churchill President Churchill Downs yesterday. Zito is the trainer of Derby and CEO Tom Meeker thought that the post draw for starter Diligence (Miswaki), who is owned by George the Derby could use the same type of formula. Instead Steinbrenner, owner of the Yankees. Mattingly and his of drawing post positions, there would be a lottery. The wife were on their way to a horse show in Lexington. owner of the first horse drawn would choose whatever post he or she wanted. Each successive horse drawn TODAY'S KENTUCKY DERBYIOAKS COVERAGE: would then be given whatever remaining post position his or her owner chose. Meeker is considering making Event Time (Eastern) ( Network the change in the future. "It's one of the most innova 5/3 BreakfastlChurchili 7:00-9:00 a.m., ESPN2 tive ideas I've ever heard for the Derby," said trainer D. 5/3 Ky Oaks Special 3:30-5:00 p.m., ESPN2 Wayne Lukas. 5/3 Ky Oaks (CD) 5:00-6:00 p.m., ESPN Ky DerbylUp Close 6:00-6:30 p.m., ESPN BIG DROP IN BRITISH PRIZE MONEY FUNDS 5/3 11 p.m.-12:30 a.m., ESPN2 Britain's Horserace Betting Levy Board, which derives 5/3 Derby Night of Stars the vast majority of its funds from deductions on wag ers in off-course betting shops, is to make a 4.7 percent cut in its projected allocation of prize money for 1997. There has been a huge decline in gambling on British STAKES CLOSINGS horseracing following the introduction of a National TOMORROW, SA TURDA Y, MA Y 4: Lottery some 1 8 months ago and this has resulted in a 5-18 $150,000 Acorn-GI, Bel, 3yo, t, 8t deficit on the Board's revenue account of approximately ($150) $7.75 million. Next year's Levy allocation for prize 5-18 $ 100, 00011 00,OOOa Maryland Breeders' money (split 60-40 between flat and jump racing) will Cup-Gill, Pim, 3yolup, 6t ($100) 5-18 $200,000g Pimlico Distaff-Gill, Pim, 3yolup, therefore amount to about $43.3 million. This figure is tim, 9t ($300) down $2.1 million from 1996. PAGE 2 • THOROUGHBRED DAILY NEWS • 5-3-96 Today, Newmarket, England: PREVIEW JOCKEY CLUB S.-G2, 3yo/up, 12fT • • PP HORSE (SIRE) JOCKEY Today, Churchill Downs: 1 Moonshell (Ire) (Sadler's Wells) Dettori KENTUCKY OAKS-GI, $500,000, 3yo, f, 9f 2 Riyadian (GB) (Polish Precedent) Quinn PP HORSE TRAINER JOCKEY ODDS 3 Sacrament (GB) (Shirley Heights {GB}) Reid 1 Escena Mott Day 5-2 4 Juyush (Silver Hawk) Hills 2 Birr Walden Sellers 8-1 5 Midnight Legend (GB) (Night Shift) Eddery 3 Antespend McAnally Antley 3-1 6 Valley Of Gold (Fr) (Shirley Heights {GB}) Kinane 4 Pike Place Dancer Hollendorfer Nakatani 12-1 7 Naked Welcome (GB) (Most Welcome) Ryan 5 My Flag McGawghey Bailey 9-5 a Commoner (Far North) Hughes 6 Cara Rafaela Lukas Stevens 4-1 9 Burooj (GBl (Danzig) Carson In a race where the entrants have combined to hit All starters carry 121 pounds. the board in 43 of 50 starts and picked up 1 5 stakes Moonshell (Ire), winner of last year's Epsom Oaks, will wins, five of them Grade I, the winner will certainly face eight rivals when she makes her British comeback. move to the head of her class. lVIy Flag (Easy Goer) The Godolphin-trained filly, whose only previous start on currently sits in that spot after a dominant three the course resulted in a third in last May's 1000 Guin length victory in the GI Ashland S. at Keeneland April eas, suffered a training setback soon after her Classic 20; she takes on West Coast star Antespend (Spend triumph and has therefore raced only once since, when a Buck), whose five-race winning streak ended with a third in a contest on sand at Nad AI Sheba earlier this seven-length loss to Escena (Strawberry Road {Aus}) year; connections are hoping for a much-improved showing on her return to turf. in the Gil Fantasy S. last out. Birr (Farma Way), the only filly in the field with a win over the track, makes Today, Churchill Downs: her second start off a four-month layoff; she was a CROWN ROYAL AMERICAN TURF S., $100,000a, 3yo, troubled second in the Gil Beaumont S. in her first 1 1/16mT start back. The field of 11, in post position order, is as follows: Krigeorj's Gold (Kris {GB}), J. Johnson; Chief Bearheart Today, Churchill Downs: (Chief's Crown), Perret; Alyrob (AlyshebaL LOUISVILLE BREEDERS' CUP H.-Gil, $200,000a, SCRATCHED; Unruled (Notebook), Lester; Gotcha (Fred 3yo/up, f/m, a.5f Astaire)' Romero; Ensign Ray (Blue Ensign), Sellers; PP HORSE TRAINER JOCKEY WT. Broadway Beau (Beau Genius), McCarron; Black Tie 1 Naskra Colors Reinstedler Sellers 110 Dinner (Black Tie Affair {Ire}), Court; Darn That Erica 2 Sneaky Quiet Howard Martinez 109 (Darn That Alarm), Stevens; Rough Opening (Opening 3 Jewel Princess Dollase McCarron 118 Verse), Smith; Handsome Hansel (Hansell, Bailey; Trail 4 Serena's Song Lukas Stevens 123 City (Red Ransom), Day. 5 Calliope's Spirit Jacobs Nakatani 110 6 Heavenliness Flint Neagle 110 Saturday, Hollywood Park: 7 Clear Mandate Arnold II Day 112 MERVYN LEROY H.-Gil, $100,000a, 3yo/up, 1 1/16m Jewel Princess (Key to the Mint), a winner in three A short field of four has been entered. The entrants of her four starts at this distance, ships in from the are, in post-position order, Siphon (Braz) (ltajara {Braz}), Left Coast after an eight-week break; the four-year 117 pounds; Dramatic Gold (Slew 0' Gold), 117; Del Mar old took back-to-back Grade" events at Santa Anita Dennis (Dixieland Band), 119; Eltish (Cox's Ridge), 11 7. before finishing a close-up third to Twice The Vice after a rough trip in the GI Santa Margarita H. March 10; Twice The Vice came back to best Serena's Song © Copyright Thoroughbred Daily News. This newspaper may (Rahy) over a sloppy track in the GI Apple Blossom H. not be reproduced in any form or by any means, electronic or at Oaklawn. Serena's Song suffered back-to-back mechanical, without prior written permission of the copyright losses for the first time since her two-year-old cam owner, MediaVista. 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