Go for Wand Tragedy Mars

20—MANCHESTER HERALD. Monday, October 29.1990 In Brief . Go for Wand tragedy mars Cup TUESDAY Mudd takes Nabisco title By JOHN NELSON Three horses died on Breeders’ Cup The Associated Press Mudd defeated Billy day, two on the track and one a few hours ^ yiair on the first extra hole to capture the PGA’s $2.5 later in his bam. million Nabisco Championship»s. NEW YORK — Millions saw it on It began in the Sprint when Mr. Nicker M ud^ who l^g ed one shot between a photogrtqiher’s television, the twisted, shattered body of son, a 4-ycar-old colt who had won five LOCAL NEWS INSIDE stomach and lus belt and hit another out of bounds, Go for Wand spinning gruesomcly stakes races this year, dropped dead of an through the air, as though some giant rt^v ered to birdie the final three holes played — the apparent heart attack going into the turn anrhpHtpr hand had swatted her across the track. i J regulation and the first playoff hole. for home. Another horse. Shaker Knit, And horsemen wept at a sight they ■ Genga bashes Munns’s allegations. Mudd matched Mayfair’s closing round of 68 as the two went flying over the top of him and had were Ued at 11-under 273. dread the most. The screen went up in front of Go for Wand as she was humane to be destroyed Saturday night after sus Mudd’s final birdie was worth $450,000, the richest taining a severe trauma to his spinal ■ Bolton reports to NEASC pnze in American golf. Mayfair earned $270,000. ly desu-oyed on the track by lethal injec tion. chord. Shaker Knit was awake and alert, 3. Greg Norman, tied for seventh at 279 in the PGA’s but he either couldn’t or wouldn’t stand s^on-ending event, won $82,500 and finished first on Rose Badgctt, Go for Wand’s exercise up. ■ Andover OKs Vietnam memorial. W hat’S we money list at $1,165,477, Wayne Levi and Ian rider who married trainer Billy Badgett just three weeks ago, knelt over the Mr. Nickerson’s jockey, Chris Antley, Baker-Fmch were next at 276 and each won $146,260. broke a collar bone, while Shaker Knit’s *5* horse’s head and added her tears to the ■ Debate is off in 12th District. News Levi’s earnings pushed him over the $1 million mark, jockey, Jose Santos, was not seriously in second behind Norman. torrent that would be shed that day. jured. Horse racing had lost one of its A third horse in the race. Adjudicating, Oct. 30, 1990 brightest stars on what was supposed to Local/Regional Section, Page 7. Archer wins Senior Gold Rush broke a canon bone in his right hind leg RANCHO MURIETA, Calif. (AP) — George Archer have been its greatest day of the year__ and was retired. the $10 million Breeders’ Cup. overcame a four-stroke deficit over the final 10 holes Last year’s sprint champion. Safely “You go on,” Billy Badgett said Sun Sunday for a one-stroke victory over Dale Douglass in Kept, won the race when Dayjur, the Ybur Hometown Nin^paper Voted 1990 New England Newspaper of the Year day morning, facing what probably would the Rancho Murieta Senior Gold Rush. champion European sprinter, jump<^ a Newsstand Price: 35 Cents be the longest workday of his life. Archer, in his fourth Senior Tour win of the year, shadow not more than 30 yards from the finished with a 6-under 66 for a tournament-record 12- “There’s nothing else you can do. You just go on. finish line after taking the lead at the head imder 204 total. He earned $60,000. Douglas was at 205 of the stretch. There was a sudden gasp “My wife is still beside herself. She and Charles Coody was third at 209. when Dayjur made his leap, for many couldn’t face coming to the raceu-ack Coleman signs with the Nets today. I think she loved Go for Wand thought he, too, had broken down. But he Barrett out was fine. Grain truck flips over EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. (AP) — Derrick more than she does me.” Badgett s stable held 32 more horses “We don’t have the money, but we still Coleman, the NBA’s No. 1 draft choice, signed a five- have the best horse,” Dayjur’s jockey, By RICK SANTOS who needed training. the vehicle, which rolled over on for no apparent reason it flipped year contract Sunday with the New Jersey Nets that will four-time British champion Willie Car- Manchester Herald pay at least $15 million. “I thought about not getting out of bed son, said. of probate its side while Ellis attempted to over. today,” he said, “but I can’t really do make a left turn from Oakland The NCAA’s all-time leading rebounder from Santos recovered to ride Carl Icahn’s The destination of the truck, that.” MANCHESTER — The driver Street onto Deming Street, said Syracuse missed training camp and said he won’t be at Meadow Star to victory in the next race, from the Central Connecticut Co It could have been a day of unbridled of a grain truck that rolled over officer Jeff Lampson, who was on full speed for two to three weeks. The first four years of the Juvenile Rllies, and, on the next page operative Farmers Association glory. Meadow Star, the marvelous 2- early this morning on Deming the scene supervising the traffic the contact are reportedly guaranteed. The Nets have the of the program, was the Distaff. Street was not injured and the ac Inc. of 10 Apel Place, is un option to pick up the fifth year. ycar-old filly, extended her unbeaten situation. known. Go for Wand, winner of five straight iki _ Th9AssoclatBdPrBst judge race cident caused only minor traffic streak to seven races in the Breeders’ Cup “Apparently, it was just a freak Grade I stakes, took the lead shortly after IN HAPPIER TIMES — Trainer Billy Badgett and his wife. Rose, Workers from the farmers co Williams to the 76ers Juvenile, British champion jockey Lester problems, police said. thing,” said Lampson, explaining HAROLD E. the start of the I'/s-mile race, with op were on the scene with a Piggott came out of retirement to ride pose in mid-October with champion filly Go for Wand. In Saturday’s By ALEXGIRELLI The driver, Richard Ellis of that wimesses told him the truck TURKINGTON PHOENK (AP) — The Phoenix Suns traded first- defending champion Bayakoa on her out The Republicans cannot offer Royal Academy to victory in the Mile, Breeders Cup $1 million Distaff event. Go for Wand collapsed during Tolland, was the only occupant of was moving at a slow crawl when Please see TRUCK, page 6. round draft pick Jayson Williams to the Philadelphia side flank. Never more than a half length Manchester Herald another candidate because the and Kentucky Derby winner Unbridled 76ers on Sunday for a first-round selection in the 1993 separated them until Go for Wand’s ankle a stirring stretch duel with Bayakoa and had to be humanely withdrawal took place within 10 Herald editor, stormed from next-to-last to win the $3 draft shattered inside the sixteenth pole. destroyed. MANCHESTER — Leo J. Barrett days of the election. million Classic. has withdrawn as Republican can turkingfon, dies Williams, a 6-foot-lO forward from S t John’s, was the When her leg gave way underneath her. Garside, who was at the press The Distaff itself could have been a death throes from the crowd. didate for Judge of Probate, leaving Harold Edward l\irkington, 21st player selected in the draft despite missing all but 13 Go for Wand’s nose dug into the track, one of the best of all time.” conference with Barrett, also glorious highlight to the day, with Go for A note distributed later by the New incumbent Democrat William 67, of 15 Berkley St., games last season with a fractured right foot The trade is sending up a plume of dirt like a crashing In uibute of her brilliance, the NYRA declined to elaborate on the reasons Wand and trainer Ron McAnally’s mare, York Racing Association read: FitzGerald unopposed for the third Manchester, the frmner execu contingent on Williams passing a physical and signing a airplane. Then, her neck curled under her, offered to have her buried at Belmont for the surprising withdrawal, except Bayakoa, battling for the lead all the way “According to NYRA attending time in his career. tive editor of the Manchester contact which the 76ers expect Monday. she went over onto her jockey, Randy alongside another great fallen filly. Ruf to say he is aware that Barrett’s around Belmont Park’s track. Instead, it veterinarian Dr. Neil Cleary, Go for Wand Barrett announce his withdrawal Herald, died suddenly Monday Romero. As Romero lay motionless on fian, who died after breaking down at business has increased. Barrett is a turned into a day of horror when, with the ‘suffered a major breakdown in her right at a brief press conference this (Oct. 29) at the Manchester the track. Go for Wand struggled back to Belmont in the infamous 1975 match race lawyer. finish line in sight. Go for Wand’s right front ankle. She had a compound injury. with Foolish Pleasure. Jane du Pont morning, saying he made his FitzGerald said this morning that Monmial Hospital, following an her feet and lunged drunkenly across the apparent heart attack at his front ankle shattered on impact with the finish line.

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