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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~PI~~UN~~~RE DM SATURDAY, MAY 13, 1995 W•E•E•K•E•N•D PREVIEW Saturday, Pimlico: URBANE INJURED Urbane (Citidancer), second as PIMLICO SPECIAL-GI, $600,000, 4yo/up, 1 3/16m the odds-on choice in the Kentucky Oaks, was injured in PP HORSE TRAINER JOCKEY ODDS the race and is still in Kentucky under the care of Dr. 1 Cigar Mott Bailey 3-5 Alex Harthill. "She was banged around in the race and 2 Concern Small Smith 8-5 was hurt," said her trainer, Brian Mayberry. "How 3 Frugal Doc Posey Wilson 20-1 badly she is injured, we don't know right now. It might 4 Devil His Due Jerkens Ramos 5-1 not be anything serious. Dr. Harthill is reporting to us 5 Dixie Hero Peoples Prado 1 5-1 every day." 6 Kissin Kris Violette Penna 20-1 Cigar (Palace Music) and Devil His Due (Devil's Bag) FOURSTARDAVE RETURNS SUNDAY Veteran arrived at Pimlico yesterday. "We feel pretty good New York-bred Fourstardave (Compliance), the 10-year about him," said trainer Bill Mott of the heavy favorite, old millionaire who has won at least one race at Cigar, who took the GI Oaklawn H. for his sixth straight Saratoga for each of the past eight years, will make his April 1 5. "Ideally, we would have liked a couple more return to action Sunday in Belmont's restricted Kingston weeks, but he has had 30 days to recover and he H. The gelding hasn't raced since suffering a condylar seems to be doing well." The Pimlico Special will be fracture of the left front ankle when third to Lure and televised live by ABC Sports; post time is set for 5:08 Paradise Creek in the Gii Bernard Baruch H. last August p.m. 1 2. "They put two screws in the ankle," said his trainer, Leo O'Brien, who was injured himself last Sun Saturday, Sportsman's Park: day when a horse he was saddling at Belmont knocked ILLINOIS DERBY-Gii, $500,000, 3yo, 1 1/Sm him to the ground, breaking his right shoulder. "Once pp HORSE TRAINER JOCKEY ODDS they do that, he's supposed to be as good as ever. We 1 Gadzook Sonnier Boulanger 30-1 gave him a nice, long vacation in Florida and he went 2f Danger Within Getz J.L. Diaz 20-1 back into training two months ago. He's been very 3 Petionville Bradshaw Antley 5-2 enthusiastic about his training. He gives you everything 4 Royal Mitch Ebert Davis 5-1 he's got in the mornings just like he does in the after 5 Peaks and Valleys Jim Day Krone 4-1 noons, and those kind of horses are rare." As for his 6f Unforbesgettable Vinci Baird 20-1 own mishap, O'Brien said, "It's okay--l'm a lefty." 7 Beavers Nose Hebert Bourque 20-1 Fourstardave will be making his 94th career start in the Sf Puff of Carb R. Harris Razo Jr. 20-1 Kingston; the chestnut has won 21 races, including 13 9 Dodge City Ward Jr. McCauley 15-1 stakes, and earned $1,626,641. 10 Western Echo Delp D'meaux 6-1 11 Da Hoss Dickinson Gomez 6-1 OJC ANNOUNCES PURSE HIKE Pat Keenan, Presi 12 No Spend No Glow Von Hemel Pettinger 12-1 dent and CEO of The Ontario Jockey Club, yesterday 13 Devious Course Bond Guidry 10-1 announced a five percent increase in purses for both 14 Silver Leader Flint T. Hebert 15-1 harness and Thoroughbred races. The raise will be f--Mutuel Field. come effective Wednesday, May 17 for Thoroughbred Weekend Preview cont. p2 racing and Friday, May 19 for harness racing. Said Keenan, "This increase ... is a direct result of the growth WEEKEND PREVIEW . p1-2 of our Champions off-track wagering network and the LI.I aggressive marketing of our simulcast product in Can 0 NEWS CONT. .............. p2 ada and the United States. When we started Champi V'l- RACING REPORTS . p2-4 ons we had one outlet. Now we have 24 in the greater Metro Toronto area and they are contributing greatly to z TOTAL PAGES ................ 5 revenues." - News cont. p2 PAGE 2 •THOROUGHBRED DAILY NEWS• 5-13-95 Weekend Preview cont. TON ANALYSIS--ILLINOIS DERBY Western Echo (Eastern Echo) battled bronchitis all T•R•l•P•L•E winter in Florida; forced to the sidelines for two THREATS months, he came back to miss by a neck going five furlongs, then stretched out to a mile and an eighth PREAKNESS NOTES with Kent Desormeaux in the irons for the first time and Jockey Kent Desormeaux has picked up the mount lost another photo in the Giii Federico Tesio. The colt aboard Our Gatsby (Strike Gold) in the second jewel in showed his class at two when he finished second by the Triple Crown. The colt, runner-up in the Derby Trial neck to Thunder Gulch in the Gii Remsen; he has last out, will join Thunder Gulch (Gulch) and Timber worked sharply for trainer Bud Delp since the Tesio, and Country (Woodman) on the plane from Churchill to should improve in his second two-turn start off the Pimlico Wednesday. Two Preakness runners are ex layoff. He gets seven pounds from the two favorites. pected to report to the Pimlico Stakes Barn Saturday: Petionville (Seeking the Gold) disappointed in the Itron (Quick Style) will arrive from Retama Park in Santa Anita Derby, pressing the pace before tiring to Texas; Tejano Run (Tejano) ships in from Keeneland. finish seventh. The colt picks up two pounds off that effort, and he is sure to be challenged early by Da Hoss (Gone West); suspect at the distance. NEW YORK The Bet: Western Echo to win, and in exactas over Royal Mitch (Homebuilder) and Peaks And Valleys (Mt. • • Yesterday's Results: Livermore). 8th-BEL, $48,000, Alw, 4yo/up, f/m, 1 1 /16m (off the turf), 1 :43 1 /5, my. News cont. 1--ISLAND OF SILVER, 114, f, 4, Forty Niner--Embel HICKEY SUSPENSION UPHELD Citing the "wide lished, by Seattle Slew. 0-Godolphin Racing Inc; discretionary powers" of the Illinois Racing Board, Cook B-Eaton Farms Inc, Red Bull Stable, Et Al (KY); County Circuit Court Judge Thomas Durkin yesterday T-Kiaran P Mclaughlin. Lifetime Record: SW, upheld owner/trainer Noel Hickey's one-year suspen 10-5-2-2, $77,779. *1/2 to Seattle Dawn (*Grey sion, imposed last year after six of his horses tested Dawn 2nd), MGSW, $276,250; and Lord Charmer positive for Albuterol. Arlington International Race (Our Native), GSP-Eng, SP-NA, $149,857. course stewards originally suspended Hickey for six 2--Starry Val, 117, m, 6, Val de L'Orne (Fr)--Starstruck months, but increased the penalty to a year after he Gal, by Stage Door Johnny. lodged an appeal. Hickey, who has won three trainer 3--Dancer's Gate, 112, m, 5, Gate Dancer--Lilya's for titles and four owner titles since Arlington reopened in Real, by In Reality. 1989, said he will appeal Judge Durkin's decision in the Margins: NK, 8, 4. Odds: 9.30, 6.40, 10. 70. First District Appellate Court of Illinois. Island Of Silver, making her U.S. debut after winning five of nine in England and Dubai, pressed the pace from the start, took a clear lead at the top of the stretch ST. LOUIS RIVERBOAT FOR DUCHOSSOIS It remains to be seen if the Illinois legislature will give and held on gamely to best Starry Val at the wire. The 3-5 choice HADEE MAE (Goldlust), looking for her third Arlington International Racecourse owner Dick straight after winning in the slop at Gulfstream and Duchossois the "racing industry" riverboat casino that Pimlico, was up with the leaders early but weakened in he covets for his track. However, it appears that he is the drive to finish fourth. going to get a riverboat casino on the Missouri side of the Mississippi River, off St. Louis. The St. Louis City 7th-BEL, $36,000, Alw, 3yo/up, 6 1/2f, 1:15 4/5, my. Commission has chosen the $80 million complex pro KINGS FICTION (c, 3, Believe the Queen--l'm a Story posed by Duchossois and his son, Craig, and two other teller, by l'ma Hell Raiser), fifth after showing brief Chicago-based investors, the Hyatt Corporation and speed in the Giii Bay Shore S. last out, had taken an Levy Restaurants. The next steps in the process are Aqueduct allowance two starts back. Showing a fond winning the approval of the St. Louis Board of Aldermen ness for the muddy going here, the grey was sent up to and the Missouri Gaming Commission. Although the St. the lead after a half and widened his advantage through Louis riverboat will be located 350 miles southwest of the lane to win by 6 % lengths at 5-2. Lifetime Record: Arlington International, it is expected to have a negative SW, 12-4-0-1, $95,494. impact on Illinois racing. Duchossois' boat will be com 0-Hardwicke Stable. B-Elisabeth Jerkens (NJ). T-H Allen peting for gambling dollars with Fairmount Park, just Jerkens. across the Mississippi River in Collinsville, Illinois. New York Report cont. p3 HOLY BULL: 1994 Horse of the Year Great Above--Sharon Brown, 1994 CHAMPION 3-YEAR-OLD COLT by Al Hattab Gl SW OF 11 STAKES; Gl SW AT 2 & 3 PAGE 3 •THOROUGHBRED DAILY NEWS• 5-13-95 New York Report cont.