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The Thoroughbred Daily News is delivered to your home or business by fax each morning by 5 am. For subscription information, please call 908-7 47-8060. T~9I~~UN~~~RE D™ WEDNESDAY, N 0 VE MB ER 2, 1 9 9 4 B•R•E•E•D•E•R•S CUP JEUNE TAKES :MELBOURNE CUP Jeune (GB) Correction: It was reported in yesterday's TDN that {Kalaglow), a 20-1 shot owned by Sheikh Hamdan al jockey Donna Barton, set to ride Cat Appeal in the Maktoum and trained by David Hayes, proved a con Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies Saturday, would be vincing winner of the G1 Foster's Melbourne Cup at come the second woman to ride in the event. In fact, Flemington, Australia Tuesday. The British-bred led she will be the third. Julie Krone became the first, one and a half furlongs from home and comfortably guiding Darby Shuffle to a second-place finish in the held off the challenge of Paris Lane (Persian Heights). 1988 Juvenile Fillies. She has had a total of seven The official margin of victory was a length and three Breeders' Cup mounts. Francine Villeneuve was, in quarters. Oompala (Kampala) finished third, beaten a fact, the second; Villeneuve was aboard Wilderness further short neck, but last year's hero Vintage Crop Song when she finished seventh in the '91 Distaff. {Rousillonl faded in the final straight and could man age no better than seventh. Hayes, who saddled CLASSIC: Molson Million winner Dramatic Gold (Slew three others in the field of 24, said, "It's very excit o' Gold) worked six furlongs from the five-eighths to ing. The winner has hit form at just the right time." the seven-eighths pole yesterday, getting the dis Jeune took part in the two-mile event only after it tance in 1: 14. Classic colt Tabasco Cat (Storm Cat) was learned he was not on the short-list of invitations also had his final prep for the big event, going five for the Japan Cup November 27. However, Hayes is furlongs in 1 :00 with Pat Day up. "We use a target hoping that, following this latest win, he may gain with him every time he works because he has not promotion from the substitute nominations. been a real stellar work horse and he has a tendency once he gets by the work mate to kind of lighten up a EUROPEANS ARRIVE FOR BREEDERS' CUP little bit," said Day. "But today, the work horse and The charter flight from Beauvais Airport, near Paris, a couple of other horses got with us coming off the carrying 13 Breeders' Cup hopefuls, touched down in turn; (Tabasco Cat) went by them inside the eighth Louisville Monday afternoon after an 11 1 /2-hour pole and it was just like he was looking at the wire. flight. The French runners were expected to clear He never slowed down, never hesitated. He went quarantine late Tuesday. Millkom (GB) (Cyrano de right on about his business. That shows how he has Bergerac) (Classic), who suffered his first defeat in 11 matured." s~arts in t~e Ar~ last out, was accompanied on the The Scoop; Encouraged by the victory of 133-1 shot flight ?v his trainer, Jean-Claude Rouget, and travelled Arcangues in last year's Classic, five European run alone in a three-horse box. "That's not unusual for a ne~~ are set to challeng~ the Americans in this year's horse who can be difficult or is a bad traveller," said ed1t1on, the largest foreign contingent for the race John Shortell, general manager of the shipping com e:ver. A total of 11 Classic runners have had their pany, "Mers~nt lnt'I. "He travelled well, just like all of final prep for the race in Europe, with one win, one them. A flight from Stansted Airport near second and one third, an on-the-board average of 27 N.ew~a~ket wa? expected in Louisville Tuesday eve percent ..The average odds for a European invader in ning; 1t 1~ carrying 10 Breeders' Cup runners from the Classic: 72-1 .. The English colt Rodrigo De Triano England including sprinter Lochsong (GB) (Song {GB}). was the ~ost fancied of the group, but finished 14th and last m 1992 at 6-1. HOLLYWOOD AUTUMN FESTIVAL TO FE~TURE FRIDAY NIGHT RACING Friday night Breeders' Cup Preview Continued, p. 2 racin~, featu_red at Hollywood Park's spring/summer meeting~, will be a fixture at the 1994 Autumn Festi BREEDERS' CUP PREVIEW . 1,2,3 val meeting. The 34-day stand begins Wednesday Nov. ~ and continues through Sat., Dec. 24. First' NEWS CONTINUED . 3 post time Fridays will be 6:45 p.m., with gates open RACING REPORTS . 3,4 ing at 4:45 p.m. The lone exception is Friday Nov 25, the day after Thanksgiving, when post ti~e is 4 p.m. PAGE 2 •THOROUGHBRED DAILY NEWS• 11-2-94 Breeders' Cup Preview cont. SPRINT: Meritocrat (On to Glory), winner of five of JUVENILE: R.L. Sanford's unbeaten Evansville Slew six lifetime starts including a wire-to-wire score in (Slew City Slew) put in his final prep for the Juvenile the Giii Boojum H. at Belmont in his last, breezed yesterday at Churchill Downs, going three-eighths in five furlongs in 1 :01 3/5 Tuesday at Churchill :37 and galloping out the half in :49 1 /5. Regular Downs in his final preparation for the Sprint. "The jockey Perry Compton was up. Evansville Slew ran work was beautiful," said trainer Ben Perkins Sr. his record to five-for-five with a 4-length victory in "He's coming up to the race real good and we the Oct. 23 Remington Futurity. "We wanted to run couldn't ask for anything more." With Shane Sell that race without going to the bottom of the tank, ers up, King Ruckus (Bold Ruckus) went five fur because this race was in a couple of weeks," said longs in 1 :03 yesterday. The four-year-old gelding trainer Donnie Von Hemel. "He (Compton) didn't will be shooting for his fourth straight stakes victo have to ask him for his life to win that race. His ry. "Shane said he liked the track and felt good blood count was the same coming out of the race as under him," said assistant trainer Ken Barber. it was going in." Mike Smith will replace Robert Landry as the rider of Talkin Man (With Approval) on The Scoop: Trainer Mark Cassa said yesterday that Breeders' Cup Day. "Actually, that was the plan all "everything is in line now" with his Sprint contend along," said trainer Roger Attfield. Western Echo er End Sweep (Forty Niner). That was in reference (Eastern Echo) stepped on the Churchill racing strip to the fact the three-year-old has bitten one of the for the first time Tues. morning, galloping 1 5/8-miles. hands that feeds him. "He almost bit my thumb off "He handled it well. The exercise rider said he was just before the Kentucky Cup Sprint (which he smooth as silk," said trainer Bud Delp. Cinch won), and bit (groom) Mitch Downs' hand before (Temperence Hill) clocked 1 :02 4/5 for five furlongs he won the Highlander (at Woodbine)," said Casse. yesterday. Craig Perret, who will ride Sat., was in the "He got (hot walker) John Cox Sunday, so we've irons. "He worked good," said trainer Carl Nafzger. found our sacrificial lamb for the Breeders' Cup." "He finished good. He did just what we wanted." MILE: Megan's lnterco (lnterco) blew out for the JUVENILE FILLIES: Trainer Scotty Schulhofer, bidding race in :36 4/5 over the main track yesterday. He for his third Breeders' Cup win, sent out Stormy Blues is set to school in the paddock today. Dominant (Cure the Blues) for a five-furlong breeze in 1 :00 4/5 Prospect (Fortunate Prospect) went a half-mile yesterday at Churchill. The early favorite for the race, around the dogs on the Churchill turf in :49 3/5. Flanders (Seeking the Gold) went the same distance "We got him the last eighth in : 11 1 /5," said trainer in 1 :01 2/5 with jockey Pat Day aboard. "She Gary Sciacca. "I think he'll like this course and worked well and got over the ground a little better that's why we decided to take a shot at Lure. He's this morning than she did last week," said Day. The got a little gas to him and he'll be one-two-three on other undefeated filly in the field, Honky Tonk Tune the lead. The turns here are tight. If he can have a (Cure the Blues) also worked five furlongs, going in good position turning for home, he'll be tough." 1 :03 with stablemate King Ruckus. Fellow Canadian The Scoop: Trainer Luca Cumani has done every Bo Cheryl (Beau Genius) arrived Tuesday, while Flori thing possible to insure that (IRE) da-bred Fortune Pending (Fortunate Prospect) was Barathea scheduled to ship in later in the day. Lilly Capote (Sadler's Wells) will negotiate the first turn at Chur (Capote), part of the four-horse Team Lukas entry, chill better than he did the bend at Santa Anita a worked a half-mile in :48 2/5; stablemate Serena's year ago. Peter Amos, who manages the 90 miles Song (Rahy) went a sharp five-eighths in 1 :00. of gallops at Newmarket, called the Louisville oval The Scoop: Trainer D.