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W•E•E•K•E•N•D RESULTS HALL OF FAME TRAINER BUDDY Saturday, Moonee Valley, Australia BMW COX PLATE-G1, $1,096,440, Moonee Valley HIRSCH PASSES A WAY William James (Melbourne), Australia, 10-25, 3yo/up, 1 1 /4mT, "Buddy" Hirsch, inducted into racing's Hall of Fame in 2:07.65, gd. 1982 after nearly 60 years in the sport, died Saturday 1--DANE RIPPER (AUS}, 120, f, 4, Danehill--Red Express in Bal Harbour, Florida after a lengthy illness. He was (Aus) (G1 SW-Aus), by Sovereign Red (NZ). O/B-Pitt 88. Born in 1909 in San Francisco, California, Hirsch Place Pty Ltd Syndicate (NSW); T-Bart Cummings; J-D was the son of trainer Max Hirsch, himself a Hall of Oliver; $705,397. Farner who won three Kentucky Derbies and a Triple 2--Filante !NZ), 126, c, 4, Star Way (GB)--Eau D'Etoile Crown. A graduate of Georgetown University, he (Aus), by Sir Tristram (Ire). 0-Mr. & Mrs. Geoff White; worked for Bernard Baruch's Wall Street brokerage B-Tyreel Stud (NSW); $217,045. firm during the Depression. He served with the Army 3--Vialli (Ire), 130, h, 7, Niniski--Vaison La Romaine during World War II, earning a Bronze Star and the (GB), by Arctic Tern. 0-Mualim Hasnan Ltd; B-Airlie Purple Heart. During his six decades on the racetrack, Stud (Ire); $97,670. he handled champions such as Gallant Bloom and Margins: 1 1 /2, 1 1 /4, NK. Kentucky Derby winner Canonero II, saddling more Also ran: Encounter (Aus), Moss Downs (NZ), Schubert (Aus), Juggler (Aus), Alfa (Aus), Tarnpir Lane (Aus). than 1,000 winners of more than $15 million. Hirsch Australia's most valuable and prestigious weight leaves his wife of 49 years, Sandy, sons Bill and for-age event was won by the 20-1 outsider Dane Michael, daughter Marilyn and a sister, Catherine Ripper (Aus), ridden by Damien Oliver. The bay filly Reynolds. A private burial will be held at Holy Rood became only the fourth of her sex in history to win Cemetery in Westbury, New York. There will be a the Cox Plate--the last was Surround (NZ) in 1976. memorial service this winter in Bal Harbour. In lieu of She gave her master trainer Bart Cummings, known flowers, the family requests donations be made to the as the "Cups King," his second straight win in the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame, the race. This was Dane Ripper's second Group 1 suc Thoroughbred Retirement Foundation or the Alzhei cess, following the Stradbroke H. in Queensland in mer's Foundation. June. Her long odds betrayed the fact that she had never run beyond a mile, but the dark horse enjoyed a ROWDY IRISHMAN TAKES BREEDERS' CUP perfect trip, coming through smoothly to beat last GRAND NATIONAL Vesta Balestiere's Rowdy Irish year's runner-up, favored Filante (NZ), into second man (Erins Isle {Ire}) ended an 11-race losing streak place once again. over fences with a 1 1 /4-length score in Saturday's Weekend Results cont. p2 $161,400 Breeders' Cup Grand National at Far Hills, New Jersey. The eight-year-old, ridden by Sean Clancy BREEDERS' CUP CLOSINGS and trained by Bruce Haynes, took over with seven furlongs left to run in the 2 5/8-mile test, then held off TODAY, MONDAY. OCTOBER 27: the late bid of Master McGrath (Compliance) for the 11-8 $4,000,000 Breeders' Cup Classic-GI, victory. His final time over a soft turf was 5:09 2/5. Hof, 3yo/up, 10f ($40,000) "Usually you wait and try to outrun the other horses 11-8 $2,000,000 Breeders' Cup Turf-GI, Hof, over the last three fences," said Clancy, whose only 3yo/up, 12fT ($20,000) • other ride aboard Rowdy Irishman came when the pair 11-8 $1,000,000 Breeders' Cup Mile-GI, Hof, 3yo/up, 8fT was fourth in the New York Turf Writers Cup at ($10,000) Saratoga August 21 . "But I learned at Saratoga that this 11-8 $1,000,000 Breeders' Cup Sprint-GI, Hof, 3yo/up, horse doesn't have a lot of kick. He's got a great gallop 6f ($10,000) 11-8 $1,000,000 Breeders' Cup Juvenile-GI, Hof, 2yo, and will give it to you the whole race, so I decided a 8.5f ($10,000) few days ago that moving early was a better plan." 11-8 $1,000,000 Breeders' Cup Distaff-GI, Ho/, 3yo/up, Purchased by Haynes for $1,500 after an unsuccessful t/m, 9t ($10,000) career on the flat, the winner has earned $400,808, 11 ~a $ 1, 000, 000 Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies-GI, Hof, 10th on the all-time leading steeplechasers' list. 2}lO, f, 8.5f ($10,000) GENTLEMEN (ARG) OUT OF CLASSIC .. BC Bulletin, p2 PAGE 2 •THOROUGHBRED DAILY NEWS• 10-27-97 • Prix Royal-Oak cont. B R E E D E R S' • C U P Also ran: Silver Fun (Fr), Double Eclipse (Ire), Camporese (Ire), Nothin' Leica Dane (Aus), Stretarez (Fr), Further BULLETIN Flight (GB), Grey Shot (GB), Bahamian Knight. Returning to the form which she showed when win •GENTLEMEN BOWS OUT OF BREEDERS' ning the G 1 Kildangan Stud Irish Oaks at The Curragh in July, Ebadiyla (Ire) bounced back handsomely from a CUP It's official. Gentlemen (Arg) (Robin des Bois), 12th-place finish in the Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe Octo who would have been one of the favorites for this ber 5. Ridden for the first time by French jockey Gerald year's $4 million Breeders' Cup Classic at Hollywood Mosse, the three-year-old filly was always travelling well Park November B, will not be supplemented to the race in midfield; when odds-on Oscar Schindler (Ire), fourth in after coming down with a fever last week. "He's not the Arc, made his move for home at the quarter-mile going to run," said trainer Richard Mandella yesterday. pole, she cruised up alongside and then steadily drew "His blood work and his temperature were back to nor away. The five-year-old mare Snow Princess (Ire) fin mal (Sunday), which is good. But if I went ahead and ished strongly to pip Oscar Schindler on the line for the started galloping him and then worked him, he'd be at place. Masse said: "Ebadiyla was clearly a sharper filly the risk of getting pneumonia and I can't do that. We X today than in the Arc, and the ground suited her." rayed his lungs and there's a little dense area on the right side, which means it's not just a virus. Who knows Sunday, Aqueduct what it is? Maybe it was the start of pneumonia." The COWDIN S.-Gll, $110,900, AOU, 10-26, 2yo, 6 1 /2f five-year-old will, however, run again next year. Added 1:141/5 (NTR), gd. Mandella, "I'd like to show him off one more time be 1--@#CORONADO'S QUEST, 122, c, 2, Forty Niner- fore everyone votes for the championships but, then Laughing Look, by Damascus. O/B-Janney Stuart S Ill again, a rest will do him good." (KY); T-Claude McGaughey 111; J-M E Smith; $66,540. Lifetime Record: 4-3-0-0, $121, 140. * 1 /2 to Warning •BC BANTEJ'?... Gll Kelso H. winner Lucky Coin (Chas Glance (Caveat), GSW, $646,268; Military Look Conerly), seven-for-eight on the grass, will be supple (Assault Landing), MSW, $328, 130. mented to the Mile, trainer Richard Nieminski reported 2--Not Tricky, 1 22, c, 2, Phone Trick--Daimon, by Strike yesterday ... Kelly Kip (Kipper Kelly) will not, however, Gold. O/B-Hobeau Farm, Ltd {FL); $22, 180. have to be supplemented to the Sprint; he is already 3--Scatmandu, 1 22, c, 2, Storm Cat--Princess Alydar, fully nominated ... Advancing Star (Soviet Star), hoping by Alydar. ($275,000 yrl '96 KEEJUL; $1, 100,000 for a berth in the Sprint, worked a bullet five furlongs in 2yo 1997 BESMAR). 0-Waxman Robert; B-D J :57 1 /5 at Hollywood Sunday ... Mile candidate Pinfloron Stables, Nita Brooks, & Duncan Taylor (KY); $12, 199. (Fr) (Caerleon) went a half-mile in :47 2/5 at Santa Margins: 5HF, NO, 2. Odds: 0.70, 14.70, 10.00. Anita ... El Angelo (El Gran Senor), also pointing for the Also Ran: Dice Dancer, Overlord, Dynatron, Medford, Mile, went seven furlongs in 1 :30 2/5 over the Holly Raghib. Scratched: Limit Out. wood turf.. .Juvenile Fillies hopeful Came Unwound Coronado's Quest struck gold in his debut with a 7 (Cryptoclearance) worked a mile in 1 :39 2/5. 3/4-length romp in a Saratoga maiden event and fol lowed up with an Aug. 15 allowance victory at the Spa, Weekend Results cont. but weakened to run fourth in the Aug. 30 GI Hopeful Sunday, longchamp, France S. Returning off a two-month break, the favorite stalked PRIX ROYAL-OAK-G1, $115,069, Longchamp, France, the early pace before accelerating to the front at the top 3yo/up, 15f 11 OydsT, 3: 26. 50, gd/sf. of the lane and pulling away to set a new track record. 1--EBADIYLA (IRE), 119, f, 3, Sadler's Wells--Ebaziya "He warmed up well and then went out and ran a tre Ure) (MSW & MGSP-lre), by Darshaan (GB). 0-H H mendous race today," jockey Mike Smith said. "I cer Aga Khan; B-H H The Aga Khan's Studs S.C.; T-John tainly felt like I had a lot of horse out there.