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W•E•E•K•E•N•D RESULTS XAAR OUT OF EPSOM DERBY Xaar (GB) PIMLICO SPECIAL H.-GI, $750,000, PIM, 5-9, 3yo/up, {Zafonic), who finished fourth as the favorite in the 1 3/16m, 1 :54 1 /5, gd. May 2 G 1 Sagitta 2000 Guineas at Newmarket, will 1--SKIP AWAY, 128, h, 5, Skip Trial--lngot Way (MSW), miss the G 1 Vodafone Epsom Derby June 6, it was by Diplomat Way. ($30,000 2yo 1995 OBSFEB). confirmed yesterday. "He is absolutely sound, but he 0-Hine Carolyn H; B-Barnhart Anna Marie (FL); T-Hubert Hine; J-J D Bailey; $450,000. Lifetime is below par," said owner Prince Khalid Abdullah's Record: Ch. 3yo Colt, Ch. Older Horse, MGISW, racing manager, Grant Pritchard-Gordon. "I saw him 32-14·10-5, $7 ,806,360. earlier this week and he clearly wasn't right and was 2--Precocity, 115, c, 4, Aferd--Super Starlz, by Super visibly out of sorts. I think you can rule him out of the Concorde. ($2,500 yrl '95 OBSAUG). 0-Franks John Derby." last year's two-year-old champion in England A; B-Plemmons Jim H (KY); $150,000. and France, Xaar has won five of his seven career 3--Hot Brush, 113, c, 4, Broad Brush--Hot Milk, by Rest starts, earning $416,611. less N~tive. ($70,000 wing '94 KEENOV). 0-Robert E Meyerhoff; B-Southeast Associates (PA); $82,500. COUNTESS DIANA RETURNS WEDNESDAY Last Margins: 3 1 /4, NK, 3/4. Odds: 0.20CT, 5.50, 16.00. year's Champion Two-Year-Old Filly Countess Diana Also Ran: Wagon Limit, Draw. (Deerhound) is scheduled to make her three-year-old Second to Gentlemen (Arg) in last year's Pimlico debut in the Giii $75,000a Nassau County S. at Special, Skip Away rode a four-race Grade I winning seven furlongs, to be run during this Wednesday's streak into this year's event. The Champion Older Horse opening day card at Belmont Park. The former Patrick of 1997 wrapped up his four-year-old season with wins Byrne-trainee, who has now switched to Bill Mott's in the GI Jockey Club Gold Cup and the GI Breeders' barn, has not started since winning the GI Breeders' Cup Classic, and picked right up where he left off, scor Cup Juvenile Fillies by 8 1 /2 lengths at Hollywood ing in the GI Donn H. and the GI Gulfstream Park H. this winter. Off since that Feb. 28 victory but sharpened by Park Nov. 8. In mid-December, Richard S. Kaster's four bullet works in the past month, Skip Away bounded filly underwent surgery to remove chips in her knee, out of the gate here, led the field through the first turn and was back walking a month later. During her and dow.n the backstretch and drew away at the top of championship season, she won five of six starts with the stret,ch for the victory while never seriously chal one second-place finish for earnings of $1,019, 785. lenged a~ the crowd's overwhelming 1-5 choice. "He was great," said winning jockey Jerry Bailey. "He took BARRETTS SPRING PREVIEW RESULTS The commadd on the turn. I just shook my whip at him and two-year-olds slated to sell at the Barretts Spring Sale of he drop8ed down two inches and took off so hard it Two-Year-Olds in Training this Monday and Tuesday at threw m'.e right into the back seat. Right now, anyone Fairplex Park in Pomona, California took to the track would b13 hard pressed to beat him." Skip Away's Friday. Working the fastest one furlong of the day was trainer Slonny Hine added, "When somebody told me Hip 144, a dark bay or brown filly by Valid Appeal that it ~as the most weight anybody had carried since Program Pick (Peterhof). Named Valid Miss Pick, the 1937, it worried me a bit. One more to go (Massachu Donna M. Wormser, inc. consignee covered the distance setts H. lat Suffolk Downs May 30), and then it's in : 10. 21 . The fastest two furlongs of the sales preview weight-fer-age races. He's a great racehorse. I think was logged by Hip 129, an unnamed chestnut filly by he's goirg to go down in history as a great horse. He Dehere-Our little Margie (Majestic Light). Consigned by deserves it. He's just a special horse." Jerry Bailey Sales Agency, Agent, the Kentucky-bred ! breezed in :21.77. The fastest three furlongs, :34.20, WEEKEND RESULTS . 1,2 was posted by Hip 205, a dark bay or brown filly by St. Jovite-Spring Innocence (Sharpen Up {GB}). Named NEWS CONTINUED . 2 Sweetness Follows, the filly is consigned to the sale by -CJ) WEEKEND PREVIEW . 3,4 Sequel Bloodstock, Inc. (Becky Thomas), Agent. z , TOTAL PAGES ........................ 12 News Continued, p. 2. - PAGE 2 •THOROUGHBRED DAILY NEWS• 5-10-98 Weekend Results Continued. News Continued. ILLINOIS DERBY-Gil, $500,000, SPT, 5-9, 3yo, 1 1 /8m, FINAL KENTUCKY DERBY WAGERING 1:511/5,ft. FIGURES RELEASED It's official: the final figures for 1-#@YARROW BRAE, 114, c, 3, Deputy Minister--Bally wagering on the 1 24th Kentucky Derby are in, and new Five, by Miswaki. ($150,000 yrl '96 KEEJAN; records have been established across the board. The $310,000 2yo 1 997 BE SMAR). 0-Magnier Mrs John combined total for the entire Derby Day card climbed to & Tabor Michael; B-Pirates Associates (KY); T-D $88,941,006, an increase of 8.10 percent from the Wayne Lukas; J-W Martinez; $300,000. Lifetime previous record set last year. The on-track total at Chur Record: 13-3-5-2, $544,580. chill Downs provided the largest gain from 1 997, up *2--0ne Bold Stroke, 117, c, 3, Broad Brush--Noon An' 8.63 percent to $18,467 ,859. Total wagering on the Night, by Fabled Monarch. 0/B-Landon Knight & Mary Kentucky Derby race rose to an all-time high of lu Noonan !OH); $100,000. *Finished third; placed $55,240,673, an increase of 7.25 from last year. The second through disqualification. on-track figure for the Derby was $8,343,844, a gain of *3--0rville N Wilbur's, 124, c, 3, Out of Place--Squalling, 6.81 percent from 1997. Kentucky Derby attendance by Beau's Eagle. 0-The Thoroughbred Corp; B-Lacroix totaled 143,215, the third-largest crowd in Derby history. David (FL); $55,000. *Finished second; disqualified and placed third. DANCE FLOOR TO CALIFORNIA Dance Floor (Star Margins: 3/4, (1 HF), HF. Odds: 6.30, 22.70, 3.50. de Naskra), a multiple graded stakes winner of Also Ran: Raffle's Majesty, Phone the King, Smolderin $863,299 who finished third behind Lil E. Tee in the Heart, Souvenir Copy, Voyamerican, Dabney Carr, 1992 Kentucky Derby, will return to the U.S. from New Middlesex Drive. Zealand for stud duties beginning in 1999. The nine Yarrow Brae managed just one win from seven starts year-old stallion was purchased by Jeff Gangi of at two, but hasn't missed hitting the board since finish Texacali Racing and will be syndicated to stand at stud ing second in the Giii Iroquois S. at Churchill in his next in Solvang, California at Monty and Pat Roberts' Flag Is to-last start of '97. While winning just once this year Up Farms for a stud fee of $3,500. "I'm looking forward coming into this event, he had been second in two to adding a stallion of Dance Floor's caliber to my stal graded stakes--the March 29 Gil Jim Beam at Turfway lion roster," said Gangi. "There's no doubt Dance Floor and the April 25 Gill Derby TriaHn his last two outings. will have an immediate impact on a booming California The fourth choice here, he stalked the early pace of breeding market." Orville N Wilbur's, took a short lead entering the stretch and edged away for the win. Orville N Wilbur's lugged in during the final furlong, forcing One Bold Stroke to I +TRIPLE THREATS• I check on the rail, and was demoted from second to third. Winning jockey Willie Martinez said of Yarrow Saturday, May 16, Pimlico: Brae, "He broke good, then scrambled a little bit for PREAKNESS S.-Gi, $1,000,000, 3yo, 1 3/16m position, We were right in the race without much trou Kentucky Derby fourth Halory Hunter (Jade Hunter) ble. The colt was pretty much his own pilot after that." arrived at Pimlico for the Preakness after a 14-hour Gm Derby Trial winner SOUVENIR COPY (Mr. Prospec van trip from Louisville, Kentucky Friday. The Gii tor) was seventh as the 2-1 favorite. "He just didn't Toyota Blue Grass winner took to the Maryland track have it today," said his rider, David Flores. "We had no for the first time Saturday, taking what trainer Nick trouble, no traffic. I thought I was placed in a perfect Zito called a "light gallop" under regular exercise rider spot in third, but it seemed like he didn't like the track, Terri Berwanger. "Everything's fine," Zito reported. which seemed a little deep and loose, and he didn't Victory Gallop (Cryptoclearance), who missed by handle the turns too well." only a h<j1lf-length when second in the May 2 Ken A # will distinguish first-time stakes-winners, a @ will tucky D~rby, is back on the Preakness possibles list, indicate first-time graded stakes-winners, a + will de said David Fortner, assistant to trainer Elliott Walden, note winners who are first-time starters, an (S) will be yesterday.