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The Thoroughbred Daily News is delivered to your home or business by fax each morning by 5 a.m. For subscription information, please call 908-747-8060. T~9I~~UN~!!~RE DM TUESDAY, JANUARY 7, 1997 K•E•E•N•E•L•A•N•D RESULTS STRONG OPENING AT KEENENLAND MONDA Y'S TOP TEN JANUARY The 5-year-old MGSW mare lgotrhythm (Dixieland Band) topped yesterday's opening session of Dam Price the Keeneland January Horses of All Ages Sale in IGOTRHYTHM (not in foal) Lexington. Consigned by Mill Ridge Sales, agent, 96 Dixieland Band Slew Princess $ 71 0 ,000 igotrhythm brought a final bid of $710,000 from C~es Consigned by Mill Ridge Sales, agent ter Broman, owner of 270-acre Chestertown Farm m Purchased by Chestertown Farm Chestertown, NY. "I didn't see too much wrong with FLOOD (In foal to Caerleon) her " Broman said of lgotrhythm. "She looks close to 66 Riverman Hail Maggie $430 ,000 bei~g perfect." The mare will go to Hedgewood Farm in Consigned by Mill Ridge Sales, agent Lexington, Ky to be bred and then she'll be taken to Purchased by Belgrave Bloodstock Chestertown Farm to have the foal. In all, 257 horses RUBY SLIPPERS (In foal to Affirmed) were sold in the first session for a total of $9,628,800. 211 Nijinsky II Moon Glitter $350,000 The gross is up 65 percent from last year's aggregate of Consigned by Robert Courtney/Crestfield Farm LLC, $5,837,700 when 250 horses were sold. The open agent for Heronwood Farm session average of $ 37,466 is up 60 percent from last Purchased by Aisling Cross year's average of $23,351. The four-day sale continues WINDMILL POINT (In foal to Miswaki) through Thursday. 295 Storm Bird Cinegita $335,000 JACK KENT COOKE TO DISPERSE AT Consigned by Taylor Made Sales Agency, agent IV Purchased by Walnut Green Bloodstock Sports and business mogul Jack Kent KEENELAND HUJJAB (In foal to Caerleon) Cooke announced yesterday that he will completely 93 Woodman Winters' Love $325,000 disperse his Thoroughbred racing and breeding stock at Consigned by Windfields Farm, agent Keeneland during 1 997. The Virginia resident will sell Purchased by B.B.A. (Ireland) approximately 140 horses; his 500-acre Elmendorf Farm KRISTANA (GB) (In foal to Deputy Minister) near Lexington, Kentucky is also up for sale. Cooke's 111 Kris Sleat $300,000 two-year-olds and horses of racing age will be sold in Consigned by Robert E Courtney/Crestfield Farm LLC, April; his yearlings will be offered in July and Septem agent for Heronwood Farm, Inc. ber while broodmares, weanlings and stallion shares Purchased by Aisling Cross will' sell in November. Cooke, who has been involved in CHARMING FAPPIANO !In foal to End Sweep} sports for more than 40 years, is the current .own~r .of 8 Fappiano Charming Story $235,000 the Washington Redskins football team, and 1s building a Consigned by Mark Casse, agent $200-million stadium for the team in Raljon, Maryland, a Purchased by Nobuo Tsunoda suburb of Washington, D.C. He also owns the Los An HARBOR ISLAND (not in foal) geles Daily News and the Chrysler Building in New.York. 65 Danzig Flippers $230,000 In racing since 1980, Cooke purchased Elmendorf m Consigned by Claiborne Farm, agent 1984, and has since raced such top homebred as 1 996 Purchased by Brookdale Farm MGSW Antespend and MGSW Flying Continental. SPOTTY LIGHT RAIN (In foal to Tabasco Cat) 246 Cryptoclearance Rain a Little $ 210 ,000 STAKES CLOSINGS Consigned by James B Keogh (Grovendale), agent TOMORROW, WEDNESDAY, JAN. 8: clII Purchased by Walnut Green Bloodstock 1-18 $100,000 Holy Bull-GI/I, GP, 3yo, ·,~It NASTY AFFAIR (In foal to End Sweep) 81hf ($100} 150 Nasty and Bold L' Affaire $175,000 1-19 $ 125, 000 San Gorgonio H. -Gil, SA, Consigned by Mark Gasse, agent 4yo/up, f/m, 9fT ($50) Purchased by W. S. Farish 1-20 $150,000 San Marcos H.-Gll, SA, 4yo/up, 10fT ($50) .. News cont. p. 2 1-20 $125,000 El Encino-Gil, SA, 4yo, f, 81hf ($l:•_O_~ _ ___, PAGE 2 •THOROUGHBRED DAILY NEWS• 1-7-97 RECORD YEARLING DIES The colt whose $1 .4- HELISSIO FOR DUBAI WORLD CUP According to million price tag set a Keeneland September yearling a report in the Racing Post, the 1996 Prix de l'Arc de sale record last year was euthanized after suffering a Triomphe winner Helissio {Fr) (Fairy King) is to be severe case of laminitis. The Gone West--Existentialist aimed at the $4 million Dubai World Cup in the Gulf colt was purchased by bloodstock agent Buzz Chace for on March 29. Helissio is expected to leave trainer Elie Rick Porter's Fox Hill Farm and was being prepared for Lellouche's stable for the warm Dubai climate on Barretts March 2-year-olds in training sale at Bob January 14 with his stable companion, Joselito. Scanlon's Sunnyside Farm near Ocala, Florida. The colt Owner Enrique Sarasola's racing manager Bruno was sent to the University of Florida veterinary center at Ridoux said: "We obviously hope he will run well in Gainesville where he was put down January 3. the Dubai World Cup, but whatever happens, he will benefit from a winter in the sun. If all goes well and Stallion STALLION ACCESS SALE TONIGHT he runs in Dubai, he will bypass the Prix Ganay and Access will conduct their January Sale of Selected go directly to the Coronation Cup at Epsom in June." Seasons and Shares at Newton Paddocks in Lexington Helissio won six of his eight starts in 1996, beaten tonight, with bidding set to begin at 7:30 p.m. Fea only in the French Derby and the Japan Cup, when he tured among the 91 lots are 1997 seasons in such dead-heated for third place behind Canadian Interna sires as Cozzene, Broad Brush, Danzig, Kris S., tional winner and Breeders' Cup Turf runner-up Sing Miswaki, Mt. Livermore and Rubiano. For the conve spiel. nience of buyers, Stallion Access will offer bid-by phone accommodations. Last year, 57 seasons and DON CLIPPINGER AND TOM KEYSER EARN 11 shares sold at the January Stallion Access Sale, Don Clippinger, manag bringing a total of $1, 109, 700. MEDIA ECLIPSE AWARDS ing editor of the Thoroughbred Times, and Tom Keyser, horse racing writer for the Baltimore Sun, JIM KEEFER DEAD Veteran Churchill Downs condi have been honored with the 1996 Eclipse Awards for tioner Jim Keefer died Sunday at Caritas Medical Center of a heart attack after being hospitalized earlier due to outstanding writing. Clippinger earned the Eclipse for emphysema. Keefer, a native of Somerset, Texas and a Outstanding Achievement in Magazine Writing for his veteran of the Korean War, initially trained quarter story "Focusing on the Big Picture: How TV Relates horses but switched to thoroughbreds in 1958. During to Racing," which appeared in the March/April issue his career, Keefer accumulated nine Churchill stakes of the Mid-Atlantic Thoroughbred. Honorable men wins from 1975 through 1996. His most recent tions in the category went to Thoroughbred Daily Downs' s stakes victory was a 21-1 upset by Global News contributor John Lee for two stories, "Running View in the fall meet's Iroquois for 2-year-olds. Facing for the Roses" and "Cigar!," published in Cigar Aficio declining health, Keefer turned his eight-horse stable nado; and John P. Sparkman for his Thoroughbred over to trainer Lynn Whiting in December. Visitation will Times story "Courage in the Desert." Keyser took the be at O.D. White Funeral Home in Louisville, Ky .Jan. 7 award for Outstanding Achievement in Newspaper from 3 PM to 8 PM. A memorial service will be held Writing for his overall excellence in the coverage of beginning at 8 PM on Tuesday. Contributions may be Thoroughbred racing during the year; judges reviewed made to the American Lung Association or the American three samples of Keyser' s work, stories on horse Heart Association. intelligence, racing at Saratoga and Cigar's farewell appearance at Churchill Downs. Honorable mentions for newspaper writing went to Cindy Mullaney for her TELL IT TO THE TON ... Daily Racing Form entry "Rose Hamburger's Love of Racing," Gary West for "Remembering a lone Star Want to send a "Letter to the Editor" of the Legend" and Tracy Gantz for the five-part series Thoroughbred Daily News? Our address is 811 "Racing in the West." River Rd., Fair Haven, NJ, 07704; or send a fax to: (908) 747-8955; or an e-mail to: MediaVista @AOL.com. News cont. p. 3 GAINESWAY STALLIONS AVAILABLE Graham J. Beck, President Inquiries: Michael Hernon F•OR INSPECTION DURING THE 606-293-2676 Fax 606-299-9371 JANUARY SALES PAGE 3 •THOROUGHBRED DAILY NEWS• 1-7-97 AKSARBEN OAKS MOVES TO REMINGTON PARK The Giii AKsarben Oaks, last run at the Ne EAST braska track in 1995, will move to Remington Park in • Yesterday's Results: • 1997, and the North American Graded Stakes Com mittee announced yesterday that the event will retain its graded status for this year's edition. It will be the 8th-GPX, $37,000, Alw, 4yo/up, a11/16mT,1:42 1/5, fm. first graded Thoroughbred stakes to be run at the DONTHELUMBERTRADER (c, John Casey--Miss Oklahoma track. "We are going to do everything we 4, Swiss, by Captain Courageous), winner of two straight can to make sure we keep this grade and hopefully including the Pete Axthelm H.