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The Thoroughbred Dally 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 T U E S DAY, FEB R U A R Y 6, 1 9 9 6 $2 Daily W-E-E-K-E-N-D PREVIEW TOYOTA TO SPONSOR BLUE GRASS Saturday, Gulfstream Park Officials from Toyota and Keeneland announced yester DONN H.-GI, $300,000, 3yo/uPI 9f day that the Japanese auto manufacturer, which oper Star Standard (Risen Star), who finished second to ates a plant in Kentucky, will sponsor the 1996 Gil Blue Cigar (Palace Music) in last year's GI Woodward, Grass S., and that the purse will be raised to $700,000 breezed five furlongs in 1 :02 2/5 yesterday morning. for this year's 72nd running. The nine-furlong race, The four-year-old makes his third start of the year in the which will be run April 13, has been renamed the Toy Donn; he took a Gulfstream allowance in his latest start ota Blue Grass S., and the purse increase makes it the January 26. lilt looks like everything is positive," said second richest race in Kentucky, behind only the Derby. trainer Nick Zito. "The only negative is that we are Four of the last six Derby winners have used the Blue running against Cigar." Zito's colt will get 15 pounds Grass as a stepping stone to the "Run for the Roses." from the favorite Saturday; jockey Shane Sellers takes "Even before the first car rolled off the assembly line in over for Pat Day, who will ride Heavenly Prize (Seeking May, 1988 in Georgetown, Kentucky, Toyota has had a the Gold). positive influence on the economy and quality of life throughout the region," said Keeneland spokesman Jim Saturday, Santa Anita Williams. Williams added that the sponsorship is a four SAN VICENTE S.-GIII, $100,000a, 3yo, 7f way partnership between Keeneland, Toyota Motor Honour and Glory (Relaunch) heads a probable field of Manufacturing of Georgetown, the Toyota Dealers Asso five or six for Saturday's stake. Three-for-five lifetime l ciation of Lexington and Cincinnati, and Toyota Motor and fourth in last year's Breeders Cup Juvenile, the bay Sales, U.S.A. "Through the leadership of the local Toy came back after a three-month holiday to take the San ota dealers, the three groups joined together to make Miguel S. January 18 in an eye-catching 1 :08 4/5. Also this sponsorship a reality," he said. The Toyota Blue expected for the San Vicente: San Miguel runner-up Grass will be televised live on ESPN from 4-5 p.m. (ET). Afleetaffair (Afleet), who has never been worse than second in five starts; King Of The Heap (Allen's Pros OBS TWO-YEAR-OLDS IN TRAINING SALE AT pect), a Santa Anita allowance winner in his 196 opener; l Odin's Primo (Idabel); and SW Ready To Order (Order). CALDER TODAY The Ocala Breeders Sales Com Slews Royal Son (Slews Royalty) is possible for the pany will hold its 1996 Selected Two-Year-Olds in Train race. ing Sale at Calder Race Course today. There have been 240 juveniles catalogued for the auction, which begins Sunday, Gulfstream Park at 11 a.m. Farnsworth Farms leads all consignors with DAVONA DALE S.-GIII, $100 1 000, 3yo, f, 1 m 70yds 31 horses being offered, 15 of them as agent. Fortunate My Flag (Easy Goer), prepping for Sunday's feature, Prospect has 12 two-year-olds scheduled to sell, more worked five-eighths in 1 :01 at Gulfstream yesterday. than any other sire. Also represented in the catalogue The Shug McGaughey trainee makes her first start since are leading sires Affirmed Black Tie Affair (Ire), Broad l winning last year's GI Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies. Brush, Cozzene, Farma Way, Miswaki, Mt. Livermore, Also pointing for the race, La Rosa (Wild Again) worked Phone Trick, Rahy, Relaunch, Storm Catl Summer Squall the same distance in 1 :04. Fifth in the Breeders' Cup and Valid Appeal. Scheduled to sell are half-siblings to and second in her last start, a Gulfstream allowance graded stakes-winners Cut the Charm, Suave Prospect, January 25, the three-year-old ended her two-year-old Jackie Wackie, You and I and Chaposa Springs, Moun campaign with an eight-length romp in the Gil Demoi tain Affair, Cat On Tour Perfect Arc and Meritocrat, as l selle at Aqueduct. well as full-siblings to last year's Gill California Juvenile S. winner Mountain Skier (Baldski), GSW Green Alligator (Gate Dancer) and GI Vosburgh S. winner Birdonthewire L.L.I WEEKEND PREVIEW. .. p1 (Proud Birdie). All horses selling through this two-year olds in training sale are eligible for, and will automati o NEWS CONTINUED ......... p2-3 cally be nominated to, the 1997 running of the Ocala Vi RACING REPORTS .......... p3-5 Breeders l Sales Championship S. Z News cont. p2 TOTAL PAGES ................ 5 PAGE 2. THOROUGHBRED DAILY NEWS. 2-6-96 News cont. FIRST FOAL FOR NOVEMBER SNOW Multiple NEW EVENT FOR DURAl WORLD COP CARD Grade I winner November Snow (Storm CatL who was The Dubai World Cup Committee has created a new purchased by her owner, Fares Farm, for $700,000 at race, the $500,000 Emirates Airline Invitational, which the 1994 Keeneland November Sales, produced her first will be run on the Dubai World Cup undercard March foal January 31. The foal, a bay filly, is by Seattle 27. Written at the same 10-furlong distance as the Slew. November Snow, who earned $554,628 during Dubai World Cup, the Emirates Airline Invitational is her racing career, will be bred back to Seattle Slew. open to reserves for the World Cup and will precede that race on the program. It will not only give the re LIGHT SCHEDULE FOR COBRA KING Cobra serves the opportunity to compete for a valuable purse King (Farma Way), winner of the Gill Holy Bull S. in his in Dubai, but also ensure that there are reserves for the last start Jan. 20, is unlikely to run in the Feb. 24 Foun main event in the case of late scratches. The cost of tain of Youth, trainer Mike Puype said yesterday. Puype shipping horses and their connections for the supporting is mulling what some would consider an unusual route feature will be funded by the Committee. Three horses to the Kentucky Derby, one that may include just two have already accepted invitations: March Hare (Aus) preps as a three-year-old. After a scheduled start in the (Marscay {Aus}) from Australia, Dare and Go (Alydar) March 16 Florida Derby, Cobra King may not run again from the U.S., and Needle Gun (Ire) (Sure Blade) from until the lVIay 4 Kentucky Derby. "This horse, when he England. Clive Brittain, trainer of Needle Gun, said, runs, it takes a fair amount out of him," Puype said. "If "Our plan is to run. Needle Gun is very well, and it's a we want to conserve him for the Kentucky Derby and good prize to aim at. You always know you will be the Triple Crown, I want to make sure there's enough mixing with the best when there is that much on offer." gas in the tank when we get there. If he can win the Florida Derby at a mile and an eighth off an eight-week TRIPLE CROWN NOMINATIONS ON THE RISE layoff, there's no reason to believe he couldn't come A total of 354 three-year-olds have been named to the back in seven weeks and win at a mile and a quarter. early-nomination list for the 1996 $5 million Visa Triple Off the top of my head, I'd say that would be a great Crown Challenge. That represents an 11.5 percent way of going." Cobra King. who has won five of seven increase over 1995. The early nominations, which starts to date, including four stakes, for earnings of closed January 20, are headed by last year's two-year $256,825, breezed a half-mile at Gulfstream yesterday, old champion Maria's Mon (Wavering Monarch), and going in :50 3/5. Breeders' Cup Juvenile winner Unbridled's Song (Unbri dled). Maria's Mon, on the shelf after undergoing ankle FERRARA TO WALMAC Walmac International Gen surgery last year, is expected to miss the series. The eral Manager John T. L. Jones Jr. announced yesterday 354 nominees, which equals the number from 1994, is that mUltiple graded stakes-placed Ferrara (Capote) will considered a dramatic upturn because of the continuing enter stud this season at Walmac, where he will stand decrease in the foal crop and the downward trend that as property of a partnership for a fee of $2,500, live the nominations had shown in recent years. Included foal. The five-year-old won or placed in 10 of 14 career among the nominations are six from Europe and one starts, including six graded stakes, and earned from Japan. Nine American fillies are also nominated, $237,400; at three, he equalled the track record at including the 1-2 finishers from the Breeders' Cup Juve Hollywood for six-and-a-half furlongs, going the distance nile Fillies, My Flag (Easy Goer) and Cara Rafaela (Quiet in 1: 13 4/5. Ferrara finished second in the Gil Mervyn American). D. Wayne Lukas leads the trainers with 17 Leroy H. in his final career start last May.