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I IS•T•A•K•E•SI PREVIEW SARATOGA OPENS TODAY Saratoga Racecourse Today, Goodwood, England: begins its 36-day summer run today in upstate New SUSSEX S.-G1, $254,934, 3yo/up, 1 mT York. The 130th meet at the historic oval runs PP HORSE TRAINER JOCKEY WT. through Monday, September 7 and is closed Tues 1 Lend ! Hand (GB) Johnston Holland 1 25 days. Post time is 1 p.m. daily, except Travers Day 2 Bold F ct H Cecil Pat Eddery 1 25 (August 29) and Labor Day (September 7), when the 3 Poteen L Cumani Swinburn 133 4 Tarasc n (Ire) T Stack Spencer 122 first race goes off at 12:30 p.m. The opening day 5 Victor Note Chapple-Hyam Reid 1 25 feature is the Gil Sch:'Jylerville for two-year-old fillies 6 Starbo ough (GB) S Bin Suroor Dettori 133 going six furlongs on the main track. Grade I events 1 7 Almus tarak (Ire) K Mahdi Cochrane 133 on the stakes schedu 1e include the August 1 GI Test 8 Centre Stalls (Ire) Johnson-Houghton T Quinn 1 33 S., the August 2 GI Go For Wand H., August 8 GI 9 Muchea (GB) M Channon Harrison 133 Whitney H., August 15 GI Sword Dancer Invitational 1 O Amon Men M Stoute M Kinane 1 33 and August 22 GI ,l\labama. Completing Saratoga's 11 Porto oricos H Cecil K Fallon 1 25 Grade I roster ar-·e the August 23 GI Ballerina H., Au Sires of runners: Lend A Hand (Great Commotion), :wst 28 GJ. P'crsonal Ensign H., August 29 GI Travers Bold Fact (Known Fact), Poteen (Irish River {Fr}), S., September 4 GI Spinaway and September 5 GI Tarascon Tirol {Ire}), Victory Note (Fairy King), Hopeful. Starborou h (Soviet Star), Almushtarak (Fairy King), Centre St lls (In The Wings {GB}), Muchea (Shalford GALLERY FURNITURE TO SPONSOR TURFWAY {Ire}), Among Men (Zilzal), Porto Foricos (Mr. Pros- DERBY PREP Turfway Park and Gallery Furniture pector). officials have reached an agreement that will make the Poteen egan 1 998 with a second-place finish in Houston, Texas-based furniture company the title spon the G 1 Juddmonte Lockinge S. in May and returned sor of Turfway's Triple Crown prep race. The $750,000 to run thi d in the G2 Queen Anne S. at Royal Ascot Gii Gallery Furniture.com S., formerly the Jim Beam S., before a f fth-place effort in the G 1 Coral-Eclipse S. will be held Saturday, March 27, 1999. The value of the last time ut July 4. race has been increased by $1 50,000 from its 1997 running. The agreement also calls for Gallery Furniture Today, Sa atoga: to sponsor Turfway's Kentucky Cup Juvenile. The SCHUYLE VILLE S.-Gll, $100,000, 2yo, f, 6f, post $100,000 Gill Gallery Furniture Kentucky Cup Juvenile time: 5:1 p.m. ET will be part of Turfway's Kentucky Cup Day of Champi pp HORS TRAINER JOCKEY ODDS ons September 26. Gallery Furniture is owned by Jim 1 a Mc Ke zie Sue Callejas Bravo 8-1 and Linda Mclngvale of Houston, Texas. "This is a very 2 Fanta y Lake Attfield Bailey 5-2 exciting time for us here at Turfway," said Jerry Carroll, 3a Call Me Up Callejas Chavez 8-1 co-owner and chairman of Turfway Park. "Our new 4 Round Robin Flint Day 7-2 agreement allows us to continue the strong tradition of 5 Aquilino Leon 8-1 this race, plus raise the purse, which puts us at the 6 Pletcher Smith 4-1 forefront of the national scene when it comes to Triple 7 Mikea dmegandrew Walden Sellers 3-1 Crown prep races. We look forward to a long and excit 8 Wedg field Terrill Teator 12-1 ing relationship with the Gallery Furniture team." Sum Fantas Lake (Salt Lake) won the June 27 GllG My mer Squall, Hansel, Lil E. Tee and Prairie Bayou all cap Dear S. a Woodbine in her only start to date. Round tured the Grade II race en route to classic success. Robin (M . Livermore), fifth in her debut at Keeneland in April, i proved to take her second outing by 7 3/.4 lengths a Churchill before winning Belmont's Aston a ST AKES CLOSINGS S. in her ast outing July 3. Mikeandmegandrew TOMORROW, THURSDAY, JULY 30: (Buckaro ) scored by 1 0 3/4 lengths in her debut at 8-9 $75175,000 Thistledown Breeders' Cup Laurel Ju y 16 and looks for a graded win in her sec- H.-G/11, Tdn, 3yo/up, 9f ($100) • ond start!' JiAGE 2 •THOROUGHBRED DAILY NEWS• 7-29-98 Today, Goodwood, England: KING GEOIRGE GROSVENOR CASINOS S. results cont. LANSON CHAMPAGNE VINTAGE S.-G3, $69,901, Land of !Dreams (GB) made good progress down the 2yo, 7fT center of ihe track at the quarter-mile pole and quick The field, in post position order, is as follows: Gold ened brilli+ntly at the eighth pole and, despite drifting Academy (Ire) (Royal Academy), Dane O'Neill, 123; across Loa:hangel (GB) inside the final 50 yards, ran out Aljabr (Storm Cat), L Dettori, 123; Raise A Grand (Ire) a comfort~ble winner from the fast-closing Lady Alexan- ' (Grand Lodge), G Carter, 123; Tayil (Ire) (Caerleon), R der (Ire). ~inning trainer Mark Johnston said, "I've been Hills, 123; Rhapsodist (Affirmed), Pat Eddery, 126; shouting fbr a long time that Land Of Dreams is the Mensa (GB) (Rudimentary), M J Kinane, 123; Lots Of fastest ho~se I've ever trained. I thought she was spe Magic (GB) (Magic Ring {Ire}), K Fallon, 123. cial last year and I was convinced this year, but every thing has to go right for these sprinters and I was get Today, Vichy, France: ting worried that she might never prove it and I would GRAND PRIX DE VICHY-G3, $60,910, 3yo/up, have been very disappointed if she had not won today. But this is an out-and-out five-furlong horse and I would 1 1/4mT think she will now go for the (G 1) Nunthorpe S. at York The field, in post position order, is: Night Player (August 2pl and then possibly the (G1) Prix de l'Abbaye (Ire) (Night Shift), D Boeuf, 128; Foggy Day (Fr) at Longch~mp (October 4) and perhaps even the Breed (Pistolet Bleu {Ire}), T Thulliez, 128; Blasket Island ers' Cup print." (Ire) (Kenmare {Fr}), 0 Peslier, 128; Sensitivity (Blush ing John), G Mosse, 125; Go Boldly (Ire) (Sadler's PEUGEOT GORDON S.-G3, $70,066, Goodwood, Eng Wells), T Jarnet, 128; Steward (Fr) (Saumarez {GB}), land, 7-2 , 3yo, 1 1/2mT, 2:37.54, gd. S Guillot, 1 34; Seigniorage (Nureyev), C Asmussen, (DH)1--# NEDAWI (GB), 122, c, 3, Rainbow Quest- 125. Wajd ( GSW-Fr, $190,655), by Northern Dancer. 0-Godo phin; B-Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid al Maktou ; T-Saeed Bin Suroor; J-L Dettori; $28,94 7. FOREIGN *1/2 to Wall Street (Mr. Prospector), GSW-Eng. • • {DH)1--@ ABAH (GB), 122, c, 3, Nashwan--The Perfect European Stakes Results: Life (Ire (GSW-Fr), by Try My Best. 0-Sheikh Hamdan KING GEORGE GROSVENOR CASINOS S.-G3, $75,493, bin Ras id al Maktoum; B-Shadwell Estate Co Ltd; Goodwood, England, 7-28, 3yo/up, 5fT, :58.13, gd. T-John unlap; J-R Hills; $28,947. 1--LAND OF DREAMS (GB), 119, f, 3, Cadeaux 3--Hitman (Ire), 1 22, c, 3, Contract Law-··Loveville, by Genereux (GB}--Sahara Star (GB) (GSW-Eng), by Assert Ire). 0-The Paper Boys. $7,484. Green Desert. 0-Sheikh Maktoum bin Rashid al Margins: H, 1 3/4, 4. Maktoum; B-Gainsborough Stud Management Ltd; Also ran: ark Shell, Casino Captive, Clapham Common. T-Mark Johnston; J-D Holland; $46,217. After 2 minutes, the stewards and judge still could 2--Lady Alexander (Ire), 119, f, 3, Night Shift- n't separ te Rabah (GB) and Nedawi (GB), who may Sandhurst Goddess (GB), by Sandhurst Princess (Ire). meet agai in the G2 Great Voltigeur S. Aug. 18 and 0-Mrs N O'Callaghan. $17,311. then poss bly in the G 1 St Leger Sept. 1 2. Ra bah, win 3--Lochangel (GB), 123, f, 4, Night Shift--Peckitts Well ner of the Predominate S. May 19, led from the start, (GB), by Lochnager (GB). 0-J C Smith. $8,327. pursued by Nedawi and the 6-4 favorite Hitman (Ire). Margins: 3/4, HD, 3/4. That orde was maintained until the quarter-mile pole, Also ran: My Best Valentine (GB), Bishops Court (GB), where th three leaders joined battle in a line across the Tedburrow (GB), Cathedral (Ire), Rambling Bear (GB), track. At he eighth pole Hitman could find no more and Dashing Blue (GB), Tadeo (GB), Easycall (GB), Averti a real bat le developed between Rabah and Nedawi and (Ire), Carmine Lake, Midnight Escape (GB), Almaty (Ire). the two b ushed twice in the closing stages. However, neither w s held to blame and the stewards allowed the ©Copyright Thoroughbred Daily News. This newspaper may dead-hea to stand. Godolphin's racing manager Simon not be reproduced in any form or by any means, electronic or Crisford s id, "We thought Nedawi had been beaten, mechanical, without prior written permission of the copyright especially when Frankie (Dettori) unsaddled in the spot owner, MediaVista. 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