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STUD FEE SET FOR SKIP AWAY Rick Trontz's SUN BLUSH TOPS KEENELAND TUESDAY Selling Hopewell Farm in Lexington, Kentucky has set the 1999 as hip number 3295, the nine-year-old mare Sun Blush stud fee for Horse of the Year candidate Skip Away (Ogygian-lmmense, by Roberto), in foal to Boone's Mill (Skip Trial) at $50,000 live foal. "We think it's a great (Carson City), brought $290,000 to top yesterday's value for a horse like Skip Away," said Trontz. "We've session of the Keeneland November Breeding Stock had an excellent response from breeders and look for Sale. Phil T. Owens, agent, bought the half-sister to ward to an outstanding book of mares." The Champion multiple graded stakes-winner Mariah's Storm (Rahy) Three-Year-Old Colt of 1996 and Champion Older Horse from the consignment of John Williams, agent. Sun of 1997, Skip Away retired with 18 wins and earnings Blush is the dam of the stakes winning three-year-old of $9,616,360. filly Relinquish (Rahy). Hip number 3394, a bay colt by Supremo~By Four Thirty (Proudest Roman), bought CARTIER AWARDS ANNOUNCED The Cartier for $73,000 by John Oxiey to bring the top weanling Awards, the first in a number of competing awards price of the session. Consigned by Pegasus Stud honoring Europe's top horses, named Godolphin's Swain (Melinda A. Smith), agent, he is a half-brother to graded (Ire) () as the Champion Older Horse at a cere stakes-placed Johnny Legit (Double Negative). mony last night in London, . The six-year-old finished his European campaign with victories in the G1 TOP 3 BROODMARES King George VI & Queen Elizabeth Diamond S. and the Hip# Name Covering Stallion Price G1 Irish Champion S., then ended his career with an 3295 Sun Blush Boone's Mill $290,000 unlucky third in the Gl Breeders' Cup Classic. Horse of Ogygian-lmmense, by Roberto the Year and Champion Three-Year-Old Colt honors Consigned by John Williams, agent went to French and hero Dream Well (Fr) Phil T. Owens, agent (Sadler's Wells), while Gl Haydock Park Sprint Cup 3526 Lady Tactical Advantage $130,000 winner (Ire) (), who was shunned Cozzene—Baronova, by // by the Breeders' Cup Sprint selection committee, won Consigned by John C. Bell & Rob Theisen the award for top sprinter. Purchased by Robert Berger 3481 Fordyce B'mare prospect $85,000 1QQ8 CARTIER AWARDS Cox's Ridge-Foresta, by A/ydar CATEGORY HORSE (SIRE) Consigned by Denali Stud (Craig Bandoroff), agent Horse of the Yeor/Syo Male Dream Weil(fr) (Sadler's Wells) Purchased by George Brunacini Owner: Niarchos Family & Jean-Louis Bouchard Keeneland cent, page 2 Breeder: Stavros Niarchos Older Horse Swain (Ire) (Nashwan) Owner: Godoiphin Racing inc. STAKES CLOSINGS Breeder: Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid ai Makfoum Sprinter Tamarisk (Ire) (Green Desert) TODAY. WEDNESDAY. NOVEMBER 18: Owner: Highciere Thoroughbred Racing Ltd. 03-28 $4,000,000 Dubai Worid Cup-i, Breeder: Mount Coofe Stud Nad Ai Shaba, Syo/up, 10f, (0) 3yo Filly Cape Verdi (Ire) () 11-27 $200,000 -lii, Hoi, 2yo, f, SfT, Owner: Godoiphin Racing inc. (10000s) Breeder: Swettenham Stud 11-27 $200,000 Hoiiywood TurfExpress, Hoi, 3yo/up, Stayer Kayf Tara (GB) (Sadler's Wells) 5.SfT, (10000s) Owner: Godoiphin Racing inc. 11-28 $300,000 Citation H.-ii, Hot, 3yo/up, 9fT, Breeder: Mean Vaiiey Stud (12500s) 2yo Male Aljabr (Storm Cat) 11-28 $250,000 S.-lii, Hoi, 2yo, 8fT, (10000s) Owner: Godoiphin Racing inc. 11-29 $500,000 Early Times Hollywood Derby-!, Hoi, Breeder: Shadweii Farm inc. (Ky) 3yo, 9fT, (17500s) 11-29 $ 700,000 Matriarch-I, Hoi, 3yo/up, f/m, lOfT, 2yo Filly BintAllayl (GB) (Green Desert) (30000s) Owner/Breeder: Sheikh Ahmed bin Rashid ai Maktoum PAGE 2 • THOROUGHBRED DABLY NEWS • 11-18-98

Keeneland November cent. East report cont. TOP 3 WEANLINGS Local News, The Meadowlands: Hip# Sex Sire Dam Price Purses will be increased 20 percent effective Thurs 3394 c Supremo By Four Thirty $73,000 day and continuing through the end of the meet. "Our Consigned by Pegasus Stud (Melinda A. Smith), agent business, both live and simulcast, continues to show Purchased by John C. Oxiey gains over last year's figures," said Michael Dempsey, 3383 c Supremo Biuff for Biuff $69,000 Director of Racing. The purse increase is the second of Consigned by Lane's End, agent the meet. Purchased by Ole A. Nielsen Local News, Canada: 3606 c Roar Paterby $62,000 The stewards of The Jockey Club of Canada have Consigned by Lane's End, agent chosen to honor David Willmot, President and CEO of Purchased by Southern Cypress Stable the Ontario Jockey Club and owner of Kinghaven Farms, with the E.P. Taylor Award of Merit. The award, which KEENELAND NOVEMBER STATISTICS recognizes extreme effort and dedication within the industry, will be presented at the 24th annual Sovereign TUESDAY. NOVEMBER 17. 1998 Awards Dec. 3 in Toronto. KbEINbLAISD. Local News, New England: SESSION TOTALS 1998 No. Sold 259 The five-year-old mare Sandy Gator (Vicksburg), victorious in four of 10 races this year and two local Gross $4,937,100 stakes, was named the winner of the first annual Average $19,062 James B. Moseley Award for New England's Horse of Median $12,500 the Year. CUMULATIVE TOTALS 1998 ♦ ♦ No. Sold 2,580 Midwest Gross $255,504,000 Average $99,033 Yesterday's Results: 7th-CDX, $42,000, Alw, 3yo/up, 7 1/2f, 1:30 2/5, ft. Median $40,000 WITCHER'S CREEK (g, 3, Star de Naskra-Klandra, by Shareef Dancer) aired a field of $50,000 maiden claim- ers by seven lengths in his last start at Nov. ♦ ♦ 5. Taking the step back into allowance company, the East chestnut angled in to save ground in the early run ning, came out to attack five-wide once into the Yesterday's Result: stretch and drew off at the eighth pole to a 4 1/4- Bth-PHA, $21,000, Aiw, 3yo/up, 6f, 1:09 4/5, ft. STORMY (c, 4, Storm Cat-Hail Atlantis length decision as the 7-10 choice. Lifetime Record: {GiSW, $176,325}, by Seattle Slew), last out third in 3-2-0-1, $41,070. the Consent H. at Delaware Sept. 20, sat just off the 0-Grum D J. B-McCullough Betsi (KY). T-Cecil P Borel. dueling leaders for a quarter-mile, took command on the turn and drew off to a 4 1/4-length score as the 4-5 6th-CDX, $37,800, Msw, 2yo, f, 6f, 1:11 1/5, ft. chalk. Lifetime Record: MSW, 14-6-2-1, $146,446. WIND TUNNEL (f, 2, Summer Squall-Tlvll {MSW, 0/B-Arthur I Appleton (PL). T-Robert W Camac. $164,218}, by Mt. LIvermore) attended a very quick pace in her last try Oct. 23 at Keeneland, but faded ®Copyright Thoroughbred Daily News. This newspaper may through the stretch to be second by 7 1/2 lengths. She not be reproduced in any form or by any means, electronic or rebounded nicely from that effort with a bullet four mechanical, without prior written permission of the copyright furlongs in :48 1/5 Nov. 14 and carried that speed over owner, MediaVista. Information as to the races, race results into this race. The 3-5 favorite stalked the early pace, and earnings was obtained from results charts published in took over at will on the turn and drew off to win by nine Daily Racing Form and utilized herewith with the permission lengths. Lifetime Record: 4-1-2-0, $41,640. of the copyright owner. Daily Racing Form. 0/B-William 8 Parish (KY). T-Neil J Howard.

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Midwest report cent. Ist-CDX, $37,800, Msw, 2yo, f, 6f, 1:13 2/5, ft. ♦ WEST ♦ + INTO TEMPTATION (f, 2, Kris S.-Twang, by Stop the Local News, Golden Gate Fields: ) readied herself for her first lifetime start with Golden Gate Fields in Albany, California opens its three solid breezes over the Churchill main track, gates today for its 45-day fall/ meeting, which including one Nov. 8 at today's distance. The bay continues through Monday, January 18. Racing will be took over two furlongs from the wire after pressing conducted Wednesday through Sunday with the excep the pace early and responded under urging to a 3 1/4- tion of Dec. 21, Dec. 28 and Jan. 18, when special length triumph at odds of 9-1. She is a 1/2 to Hard Monday racing will be held. The meet's traditional high Freeze (It's Freezing), MSP, $255,061 and Baba Bang light is the $150,000 Golden Gate Derby for three-year- Bang (El Baba), SW, $190,894. Lifetime Record: olds, to be run over 1 1/16-miles Saturday, Jan. 16. 1-1-0-0, $23,760 0-David Alban & Morris Floyd. B-Morris B Floyd, Pat Local News, Bay Meadows: Farrah, Dan Tsujioka & Dave Alban (KY). T-Terrance W Bay Meadows ended its 56-day 1998 fall racing sea Dunlavy. son Sunday. Including its 50-day winter/spring meeting, which was held Jan. 22 through March 30, total daily Local News, Churchill: average handle (excluding Southern California) was up The "Baffert Brigade" was in full force yesterday as 8.6 percent from 1997 to $3,646,345. In addition, a Gl Breeders' Cup Classic runner-up Silver Charm (Sil daily average of $1,121,406-down 9.29 percent from ver Buck) worked four furlongs in :48 preparing for last year-was wagered in Southern California on races the Gil Clark H. Nov. 27. "It was a maintenance conducted at Bay Meadows. Daily average on-track work," said trainer Bob Baffert. "He went nice and attendance declined three percent to 4,271. Russell easy." Baze won his 20th Bay Meadows riding championship Mike Pegram's Gl Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies while Jerry Hollendorfer ran his streak of consecutive winner Silverbulletday (Silver Deputy) breezed a half training championships at Bay Meadows to 17. Event of in :49 2/5. She is entered to run in the Gill Golden the Year (Seattle Slew) was voted Bay Meadows' Horse Rod S. Nov. 28. of 1998. Bob and Beverly Lewis' Exploit (Storm Cat), winner of the Gill Iroquois on the Breeders' Cup undercard, ♦ ♦ worked four furlongs handily in :47 1/5. The unde Foreign feated colt will try two turns for the first time in the Gil Brown & Williamson Kentucky Jockey Club S. on European Stakes Results: Nov. 28. "You don't know if they can go long until PRIX ZEDDAAN, $46,878, Maisons-Laffitte, France, you send them long," said Baffert. "He still has to 11-17, 2yo, 6fT, 1:17.50, hy. 1 -#TARAZU, 123, c, 2, Zllzal-Ellzabeth Clare, by Lord answer that." Durham. 0-A Holmes; B-Dr Stephen G Jackson & Juvenile Fillies runner-up Excellent Meeting (General Farm Inc (KY); T-Elie Leilouche; J-D Meeting) worked a bullet :47 2/5 over a fast track on Bonilla; $25,242. *1/2 to Slick Groom (Runaway Tuesday. Groom), SW, $155,118. **$30,000 yrl '97 KEESEP. Local News, Kentucky: 2-Party Zane (GB), 120, f, 2, -Party Doll (GB), by Be My Guest. $8,654. Wimbledon Farm in Lexington, Kentucky will stand 3-Zippergate (GB), 123, c, 2, -Branitska (GB), the recently retired Flag Down (Deputy Minister- by Mummy's Pet (GB). $6,490. Sharp Call, by Sharpen Up {GB}) for the 1999 breed Margins: 1 1/2, 1/2, 5. ing season. While racing for Allen Paulson, Flag Down won 11 of 43 starts and finished in the money 30 times for earnings of $1,701,253. Along with wins in MOVING ??? the Gil Pan American H. and Gil Bowling Green H., Flag Down was third in the 1997 Gl Breeders' Cup For just a day or forever... Turf and also Grade l-placed on dirt in the 1994 Call us with your new fax niunber. Jockey Club Gold Cup. The eight-year-old will stand (732) 747-8060 for $7,500 live foal.

Back-to-back winner ofthe $1,000,000 Pacific Classic (Gl) TINNERS WAY By HotYSECRETARIAT out ofa mare hy HotY Firstfoals are weanlings 5214 www vinery net PAGE 4 • THOROUGHBRED DAH.Y NEWS • 11-18-98

Foreign report cont. PRIX CONTESSINA, $46,878, Maisons-Laffitte, France, 11-17, 3yo/up, 6fT, 1:17.20, hy. B*r*e*e*d*e*r*S 1-WINNING SMILE |FR), 123, h, 8, Never So Bold (Ire)-- EDITION Funny Reef (Fr) (GSW-Eng), by Mill Reef. 0-Y Asakawa; B-Kyowa Stud; T-Tony Clout; J-T Gillet; $25,242. *1/2 to Funny Baby (Fr) (Baby Turk {Ire}), ALLOWANCE RESULTS: GSW-lty, MSW-Fr, $218,661. Sth-CDX, $46,200, 3yo/up, f/m, 1 1/16m, 1:44 4/5, ft. 2~Last Mecene (Fr), 120, f, 3, Last Tycoon (lre)~Belle DIGGINS (f, 4, Seeking the Gold-Crafty Satin, by Crim Mecene (Fr), by Gay Mecene. $8,654. son Satan) Lifetime Record: 9-3-1-1, $90,990. 0-Allen 3-Diableneyev, 123, c, 3, Nureyev—La Pitie, by Devil's R Dragone & December Hill Farm. B-River Bend Farm & Bag. $6,490. Robert N Clay (KY). T-Mark Hennig. Margins: 1/2, HQ, 1 1/2. 3rd-CDX, $42,000, 3yo/up, f/m, 7 1/2f, 1:30 3/5, ft. AMERICAN-BRED WINNER IN ENGLAND: GRAND PRIX (f, 3, A.P. indy-irish Wave, by Raise a Fahs, g, 6, Riverman—Tanwi (Ire) (GSW-Ire), by Vision. Native) Lifetime Record: 10-2-1-1, $55,706. 0-G W Lingfield, 11-17, Parties In Pavillion Amateur Riders Humphrey Jr. B-G Watts Humphrey & Pamela H Firman H., 3yo/up, 1 1/2mT, $2,959 to winner. 0-City (KY). T-George R Arnold II. Industrial Supplies Ltd; B-Shadwell Farm Inc; T-Geoff Lewis. 9th-H00, $31,950, 11-16, 3/up, f/m, 1m, 1:39 1/5, ft. LUTE TO BOOT (f, 3, Storm Boot-Lute Song, by Cormo Local News, Japan: rant) Lifetime Record: 21-4-5-3, $68,701. 0-McKee Chief Bearhart (Chief's Crown) and Maxzene Stables. B-Scott E Ricker, Thomas J. Kelly & Partners (Cozzene) are the North American-based horses that (KY). T-Robert Zahl. have accepted invitations to run in the Japan Cup. The European-based runners that will be competing in the lOth-CRC, $26,000, Opt. CIm. ($40-35,000), 3yo/up, Nov. 29 event are Caitano (GB) (), Faithful Son 6 1/2f, 1:18, sy. (Zilzal), Luso (GB) (Salse) and Ungaro (Ger) (Goofalik). SEA HORSE (g, 5, Cutlass-Charquillo, by Native Charger) Lifetime Record: 37-9-13-5, $269,917. Local News, England: 0-James F Lewis Jr. B-Harry T Mangurian Jr (FL). Next year's Martell Grand National, the world's T-Emanuel Tortora. most famous steeplechase, will be the richest ever when run April 10 at Aintree racecourse. Prize money 8th-CRC, $25,000, 3yo/up, f/m, 5f, :59 (off turf), sy. will increase from $614,924 this year to $698,022. DOUBLEDIPPINDEBBIE (m, 5, Carson City-Acting Brave In order to better promote the 414-mile steeplechase {SW}, by Naskra) Lifetime Record: SW, 20-7-3-8, in Britain, a $332,391 virtual-reality simulator was $132,379. 0/B-Alex G Campbell Jr (KY). T-B A Cleary. unveiled yesterday, giving people the chance to expe rience what it is like to go over some of the 30 fences 9th-PHA, $23,400, 3yo/up, 7f, 1:24 1/5, ft. jumped in the race. MUSKIE (c, 4, Sportin' Life-C'Est Moi Meme {SP}, by Tony McCoy, the 24-year-old champion jump Miswaki) Lifetime Record: 15-3-3-1, $65,790. jockey in Britain, received a 14-day extra ban, plus 0-Andrew Stamatatos. B-Stud Aire Farms (PA). four days which are deferred, from the British Jockey T-Margarita Tzortzakis. Club for repeatedly breaking the whip rules. Under totting-up procedures designed to encourage jockeys ATTENTION: to stay within the rules, McCoy will be out of action KEENELAND CONSIGNORS!! from November 19 to December 4, a penalty which To include your Keenelond November could cost him up to £100,000 ($166,389) in lost catalogue updates in the TON, please earnings and percentages. The British Jockey Club call (732) 747-8060 today! UPDATES has some of strictest whip rules in the world, de SESSION DEADLINE (PRICE) signed to head off criticism from animal rights activ Sat., Nov. 21 Wed., Nov. 18 at 4 p.m. ($150 per) ists.

Record breaking Preakness Stakes winner! Ashford Stud LOUIS QUATORZE Alsiing Cross, Dermot Ryon or Dr. Bony Simon Tel: 606-873-7088. Fox: 606-879-5756. ••• ••••• HedefeatedSkip Away by3 lengths in the Preakness Stakes in race record time! PAGE 5 • THOROUGHBRED DABLY NEWS • 11-18-98

Breeders' Edition cent. WEEKEND PEDIGREE PERSPECTIVES 2nd-CRC, $22,500, 3yo/up, f/m, 1 1/16m (off turf), 1:49 1/5, sy. by Alan Porter CASSIE'S NOACTOR (f, 4, Noactor-Jedam, by Amber Pass) Lifetime Record: 42-7-6-10, $93,839. 0-Harold J MAZEL TRICK (c, 3, Phone Trick-Mazatieca Rose and Steve Schemer. B-Randy Mills (FL). T-Harold J {Mex}, by Ramahorn) Rose. On a quiet post-Breeders' Cup weekend, one of the most interesting winners-from a pedigree perspective- llth-HOO, $21,300, 11-16, 3yo/up, 1m, 1:38 1/5, ft. was Mazel Trick. This ex-French raced three-year-old PUNT (c, 3, Forty Niner-Siew and Easy, by Slew o' became a first-time stakes winner with a victory in Gold) Lifetime Record: 12-3-1-0, $46,017. O-John G Saturday's GIN Lazaro S. Barrera H. at Hollywood Park. Goode Jr. B-Claiborne Farm (KY). T-Melvin Kendrick. Phone Trick, the sire of Mazel Trick, is out of a mare by the obscure sire Finnegan. A smart performer on the MAIDEN RESULTS: West Coast, Finnegan won six stakes events, including the San Felipe and Los Angeles Handicaps and the Cali Dr. Fallen, c, 2, -Second Veil, by Two a fornia Derby. As a stallion, however, he was less suc Day. PHA, 11-17, 7f, 1:26 4/5. B-Stanley cessful, getting just two stakes winners from 110 foals. For all his shortcomings as a sire, Finnegan was ex Marcinkowski & Muirfield Ventures (Pa). *$23,000 yrl '97 FTMSEP; $45,000 2yo 1998 FTMMAY. tremely well bred. By Royal Charger, he was out of a + lnto Temptation, f, 2, Kris S.—Twang, by Stop the daughter of the Matron S. winner Nellie Flag, and his Music. CDX, 11-17, 6f, 1:13 2/5. B-Morris B Floyd, third dam was the Preakness S. heroine, Nellie Morse, a great Calumet Farm tap-root mare. Pat Farrah, Dan Tsujioka & Dave Alban (KY). *1/2 to Hard Freeze (It's Freezing), MSP, $255,061; Baba Mazel Trick is out of Mazatleca, a mare who was born in Mexico but raced in the U.S., winning 14 races Bang Bang (El Baba), SW, $190,894. and $368,474, including the Gill Red Bank H. Surpris Wind Tunnel, f, 2, Summer Squall-Tivli, by Mt. ingly, the key connection in Mazel Trick's pedigree is Livermore. CDX, 11-17, 6f, 1:11 1/5. B-W S Farish between Finnegan and the Mexican-bred Mazatleca. (Ky). Mazatleca's sire, Ramahorn-himself a talented juvenile- Dankel, f, 3, At the Threshold-Theregoesmyemerald, by is a son of the stallion, Dewan. Like Time for a Change. CDX, 11-17, (C), 6 1/2f, Finnegan, Dewan is a grandson of Nellie Flag, and 1:19 2/5. B-Janet Dunlavy (Ar). Dewan is by a son of , a three-parts brother to Sinjar, c, 3, Mountain Cat-Dolphin's Queen, by Gentle Royal Charger, the sire of Finnegan. King. CDX, 11-17, (C), 6f, 1:11 2/5. B-Joseph J As a result, Mazel Trick has the closely related Barbazon & Bob Candow (Ky). *$70,000 yrl '96 Finnegan and Dewan both in the third generation of his KEESEP; $210,000 2yo 1997 FTFFEB. pedigree. This type of pattern isn't an isolated incidence for Phone Trick, either. The Gill Bay Shore S. winner Prank Call has the three-parts sisters Last Wave (dam of 1998 THOROUGHBRED RACING LEADERS Finnegan) and Girlea 4x4, one a daughter of Nellie Flag (by earnings through November 15, 1998) and the other a granddaughter. ®1998/Equibase Company (Subject to audit) Even more complex is the pedigree of Phone Trick's T rainers Starts/Wins Purses Gil Saratoga Special winner All Chatter. He has Bob Baffert 467/124 $13,403,479 Finnegan's dam. Last Wave (Bull Lea-Nellie Flag) 4x3, Bill Mott 553/132 $ 9,652,249 but, in addition, his broodmare sire. Bold Forbes, is out D. Wayne Lukas 543/93 $ 6,743,778 of Comely Nell (by a son of Bull Lea out of a daughter of Neil Drysdale 251/64 $ 6,168,794 Nellie Flag). Jerry Hollendorfer 795/204 $ 5,665,776 In addition to Bold Forbes, Dewan and their sons and Patrick Byrne 80/34 $ 5,157,367 daughters, the Nellie Morse/Nellie Flag family is found in Richard Mandella 293/54 $ 5,099,107 the tail-female line of numerous broodmares, as well as Shug McGaughey 269/59 $ 4,743,721 the stallions Saratoga Six and Sunny (broodmare sire of W. Elliott Walden 401/66 $ 4,659,457 Sunny's Halo), so there should be plenty of scope for Todd Pletcher 485/93 $ 4,600,366 further experimenting with Phone Trick. 2YOs Running & Winning! Four 2YO SWs, 11 zYO winners in ^8 PinOakStud P.O.Box68 >Route60 •Versailles,KY40383 CALLER I.D. Inquiries to CUfTorcl Bany (502) 695-9090 PAGE 6 • THOROUGHBRED DAILY NEWS • 11-18-98

PEDIGREE SHORTS Binalong is by In Reality's son. , and The very successful combination of and Binelong Rose's broodmare sire. Unreal Zeal, is out of Sharpen Up {which works either way around) struck a mare by Dr. Fager, Binelong Rose is yet another again in Saturday's Gil Churchill Downs Distaff H., stakes winner with inbreeding to Rough 'n Tumble via which was won by Dream Scheme (m, 5, Danzig- Girl (dam of In Reality) and Dr. Fager. The Dream Deal, by Sharpen Up {GB}). As we have men pedigree has another interesting twist, as Binalong is tioned before, the connections are a closely related out of a mare by Alydar, and Unreal Zeal is by pair of English Oaks winners Steady Aim and . Alydar's close genetic relative, Mr. Prospector. Steady Aim is the third dam of Danzig, and Rockfel is dam of Sharpen Up's broodmare sire, Rockefella. Coretta (Ire) (f, 4, Caerleon~Free At Last, by Shir 1998 THOROUGHBRED RACING LEADERS ley Heights {GB}), who recorded her first stakes vic (by earnings through November 15, 1998) tory when taking Saturday's Gil Long Island H. (1st ®1998/Equibase Company (Subject to audit) Div) by six lengths, is the product of another prolific cross, that of Caerleon and . To date, Jockevs Mounts/Wins Purses Caerleon has been represented by at least four Gary Stevens 808/162 $18,188,800 group/graded stakes winners out of Shirley Heights Jerry Bailey 1,011/256 $16,703,843 mares, while his son. Generous, also sired a group Pat Day 1,161/251 $16,503,053 winner out of a Shirley Heights mare. The reverse Kent Desormeaux 963/180 $13,433,879 cross-Shirley Heights and sons over Caerleon mares- Corey Nakatani 908/198 $12,619,013 has also worked, with at least four stakes winners to Shane Sellers 1,188/230 $11,874,461 its credit. Chris McCarron 663/147 $ 9,906,458 The second division of the Gil Long Island H. at John Velazquez 1,285/215 $ 9,747,093 Aqueduct went to Yokama (m, 5, Irish River {Fr}- Alex Soils 921/142 $ 9,285,492 Dicken's Miss, by ^). She has an un Edgar Prado 1,748/416 $ 8,897,371 usual on a pattern which is often successful, inbreeding to a sire through the tail male line, and Horses Starts/Wins Purses through a daughter in the tail female line. Yokama Silver Charm 8/5 $4,420,730 goes back to Nasrullah in the tale male line, and her Awesome Again 6/6 $3,845,990 third dam is by Nasrullah's three-parts brother, Skip Away 9/7 $2,740,000 Madara. For good measure, she also has a daughter Escena 9/5 $2,032,425 of -sire of Nasrullah and Madara- in the center Victory Gallop 8/3 $1,981,720 of her pedigree. Buck's Boy 10/6 $1,874,020 Freshman sire was represented by his Real Quiet 6/2 $1,788,800 fourth juvenile stakes winner when Holy Golightly (f, Coronado's Quest 10/5 $1,721,950 $1,425,980 2, Holy Bull-Tenacious Tiffany, by Star de Naskra) Banshee Breeze 10/6 $1,008,820 took the Bloomfield College S. at the Meadowlands Classic Cat 9/3 Friday night. Since Holy Bull's dam is inbred to Mahmoud, it was always in the cards that Holy Bull GIVE THE GIFT THAT KEEPS ON FAXINC would work well with mares with concentrations of Nasrullah and Royal Charger, respectively a son and PLEASE CALL 732-747-8060 TO SEND A FRIEND THE grandson of Mahmoud's three-parts sister, Mumtaz THOROUGHBRED DAILY NEWS Begum. Holy Golightly's dam has Nasrullah/Royal 3 months: $ 182 Charger 4x5x6x5. 6 months: $355 Freshman sire Binalong was represented by a first 1 year: $699 crop stakes winner when Binelong Rose (f, 2, All prices are for the Continental U.S. only. Binalong- Unreal Rose, by Unreal Zeal) captured the Call for Canadian/International and E-Mail rates. Amelia Peabody S. at Suffolk Downs Saturday. Since

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Catalogue Updates for Thursday Keeneland November Sale 91 m Savanna Danna 2nd dam: 95 c Tomorrows Cat (Storm Cat-Tomorrow's Child) \low graded stakes winner Won 9-25 Med G2 $500K Pegasus H. by 3 lengths Earnings now $484,410 Taylor Made. Agent, Barn 34

84 m Tammy 0 Shanter Produce: 95 c Future Cat Now placed at 3 4084 3rd 9-26 Wds Msw Taylor Made. Agent. Barn 34

92 m Accuracy 1st dam: 95 f Yes Ma'am (Cormorant) Now winner Won 10-16 Bel $38K Msw in second start 4122 Earnings $22,800 96 c Cobblers Rock (Cure The Blues) Now placed in only start 3rd 11-8 Aqu Msw Taylor Made, Agent, Barn 34

91 m Caudalie 2nd dam: 93 m Housa Dancer (Fr) (Fabulous Dancer- Housatonic) 4170 G1 stakes placed 2nd 6-27 Hol$350KG1 Vanity Earnings $378,493 Taylor Made. Agent. Barn 34

98 c Sea Salute-Closure 2nd dam; 95 f Anguilla (Seattle Slew-Awesome Account) 4182 Now stakes winner, 3 wins Won 10-31 Wo $56K River Memories H. Earnings $96,600 Taylor Made. Agent, Barn 34

98 c (GB}-Conductrice 1st dam: 92 h Gaily Gold (Java Gold) 4186 3 wins inJapan Earnings $902,852 Taylor Made, Agent, Barn 34