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The Thoroughbred Daily News is delivered to your home or business by fax each morning by 5a.m. For subscription information, please call 908-747-8060. T~~I~~UN~~~RE DM WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 6,1996 SeTeAeKeEeS RESULTS CIGAR ARRIVES AT CHURCHILL DOWNS Cigar FOSTERS MElBOURNE CUP-G1, $1,738,718, Fleming (Palace Music) arrived at Churchill Downs Tuesday ton (Melbourne), Australia, 11-5, 3yo/up, 16fT, morning and took up residence in trainer Bill Mott's barn 3: 18.80, gd/fm. in preparation for Saturday's parade appearance sched 1--SAINTlY (AUS), 122, g, 4, Sky Chase (NZ)--AII uled at the Louisville, Kentucky track. The six-year-old Grace (NZ), by Sir Tristram (Ire). O-Bart Cummings, will parade before the track's crowd between the sev Dato Tan Chin Nam, Dr C Lim, E H K Hong & T Tan; enth and eighth races before retiring to Ashford Stud. BIT-Bart Cummings; J-D Beadman; $1,130,167. He arrived in Kentucky on a flight from New York early 2--Count Chivas (NZ), 126, g, 5, Lord Ballina (Aus)--In Tuesday. "We were a little late leaving, but the flight quisit (NZ), by Imposing (Aus). O-R D & Mrs I M Wood went without a hitch," said lVIott. "We got him here & N E Tsalikis; B-Mrs I M Wood (NZ); $347,744. safely and got him to the barn in good shape. He's 3--Skybeau (NZ), 111, g, 4, Dahar--Beaumont Babe ready to go to work Saturday." Mott said Cigar will go (Aus), by Sky Diver (Ire). O-Mrs M M Smith, Mrs A to the track each day heading into his parade day. Re Grayling, A J Eastgate, E M Potter, T J & R J McLeay; garding the horse's retirement, his trainer said, "I don't B-Waikato Stud Holdings Ltd (NZ); $156,484. think it really hit me until yesterday when he galloped at Margins: 2 1/4, NK, HD. Belmont for the last time. It was a sad time." Also Ran: Senator (NZ), Nothin' Leica Dane (Aus), Doriemus (NZl, Grey Shot (GB), Sapio (NZ), Alcove PEAKS AND V ALLEYS RETIRED TO PIN OAK (Aus), Cheviot (Aus), The Bandette (NZ), Arctic Scent STUD Josephine Abercrombie of Pin Oak Stud an (Aus), Istidaad, Circles Of Gold (Aus), Oscar Schindler nounced yesterday that her homebred Canadian Horse (Ire), Centico (NZ), The Phantom Chance (NZ), Super of the Year and Sovereign Award-winning three-year-old Slew (Aus), Few Are Chosen (NZ), Court Of Honour colt Peaks and Valleys (Mt. Livermore) has been retired (Ire), My Kiwi Gold (NZ), Beaux Art (Aus). from racing and will stand the 1997 season at stud at Non-runners: Crying Game (Aus) & Magnet Bay (NZ). Pin Oak in Versailles, Kentucky. The four-year-old won This year's Melbourne Cup saw the 'heavenly' con nine of 16 starts for earnings of $1,589,270. He was nection of the gelding Saintly; jockey Darren Beadman, a victorious in four graded stakes--the GI Molson Export born-again Christian; and trainer Bart Cummings, who is Million, GI Meadowlands Cup, Gil Illinois Derby and Gill 'God' when it comes to Cup winners, prevail. Cummings Derby Trial. He also placed in the GI Whitney H., Gill now has 10 miniature trophies in his cabinet. His grip on Saratoga Cup, Gill Lafayette S. and Gill Kentucky the Cup stretches back to 1950, when he saddled Jockey Club S. While finishing sixth as the favorite in Comic Court to victory for his father. Since then, Light Sunday's Gill Sport Page H. at Aqueduct, Peaks and Fingers, Red Handed, Galilee, Think Big Twice, Gold and Valleys pulled a muscle, prompting his connections' Black, Hyperno, Kingston Rule and Let's Elope have all decision to retire him. Abercrombie said, "We had big tasted glory under his expertise. But yesterday was plans for J 97. However, we look forward to a successful Saintly's day. A horse Cummings bred himself in a rare stallion career." The champion will stand for $10,000 venture into breeding r the chunky gelding became the live foal, due October 1. first horse since Rising Fast in 1954 to capture Austra lia's two most prestigious races--the Cox Plate and SERENA'S SONG CHASES RECORD Breeders' Cup Melbourne Cup. Ridden beautifully by Beadman, Saintly Distaff runner-up Serena's Song (Rahy) is expected to sprinted clear halfway down the straight to win by 2 contest Saturday's Gil $200,000a Churchill Downs 114 lengths. The 4-1 favorite Oscar Schindler settled Distaff H., and either a victory or a second-place finish back in the field early and failed to make an impression in the one-mile event would make her the all-time earn in the run home, finishing 15th. ings champ among fillies and mares. The record, set by Dance Smartly, is $3,263,836; Serena's Song goes into STAKES CLOSINGS .-~ Saturday's race with earnings of $3,238,348. A field of TODAY. WEDNESDAY. NOVEMBER 6: • seven or eight is expected for the Grade II race, with 11-16 $300,000 Hawthorne Gold Cup-Gil,' • Serena's Song carrying highweight of 125 pounds and Haw, 3yo/up, 10f ($100) spotting Morris Code (Lost Code), who may be the 11-17 $150,000 Hawthorne Juvenile, Haw, second highweight, 10 pounds. 2yo, 8.5f ($50) PAGE 2 - THOROUGHBRED DAILY NEWS -11-6-96 Stakes Results Continued. CALDER MEETING ENDS The first full season of KIKUKA SHO (JAPANESE ST. LEGER)-G1-Jpn, live racing coexisting with full-card simulcasting at a $2,423,239, Kyoto, Japan, 11-3, 3yo, c/f, 15fT, Florida Thoroughbred racetrack came to a close Tues 3:05.10, fm. day at Calder. During the 122-day Calder meeting, 1--DANCE IN THE DARK (JPN)' c, 3, Sunday Silence- total on-track attendance of 689,691 was down 7% Dancing Key, by Njjinsky II. O-Shadai Race Horse; from last year, and on-track handle of $74,544,771 B-Shadai Farm; T-Kojiro Hashinguchi; J-Yutaka Take; (not including full-card simulcasting) was down 22.8%. $1,362,127. *% to Air Dublin (Jpn) (Tony Bin {Ire}), However, because the ITW and ISW wagering handle MSW-Jpn; Full to Dance Partner (Jpn), Ch. 3yo Filly of $208,105,039 (not including full-card simulcasting) Jpn, MSW-Jpn. was up 22.9% from 1995, the combined handle on 2--Royal Touch (Jpn), c, 3, Sunday Silence--Powerful Calder races rose 6.3% to $282,649,810. Another Lady (Jpn), by Maruzensky (Jpn). $505,823. $87,072,335 was wagered on full-card simulcasting. 3--Fusaichi Concorde (Jpn), c, 3, Caerleon--Ballet Queen Also at the meeting, purses were increased three (Ire), by Sadler's Wells. $302,261. times, bringing the daily outlay to $160,000, the high Margins: %, NK, 2. Odds: 2.60, 12.40, 5.00. est purse structure a Calder summer meet has ever seen. Eibar Coa led the jockeys standings, with the News Continued. trainer's title going to Dan Hurtak. The 1996-97 Tropi THREE 1996 GROUP 1 WINNERS HIGHLIGHT cal at Calder meet begins this Thursday. TATTERSALLS DECEMBER SALES Three 1996 Group 1-winning fillies, including two French Classic winners, look set to star at the upcoming Tattersalls FOREIGN December Sales, to be held in Newmarket, England Nov. 25 through Dec. 6. The three fillies are G 1 Prix de Diane • • Stakes Results: . Hermes winner Sil Sila (Ire) (Marju {Ire}), G1 Prix Royal Oak heroine Red Roses Story (Fr) (Pink {Fr}) and Luna TOKYO CHUNICHI SPORTS HAl NEGISHI S.-G3-Jpn, Wells (Ire) (Sadler's Wells), winner of the G 1 Prix Saint $729,924, Tokyo, Japan, 11-2, 3yo/up, 6f (dirt)' Alary and fifth in the Prix de I' Arc de Triomphe. All three 1: 10.60, my. are being offered as both racing and breeding prospects. 1 --#@STONE STEPPER, c, 3, Crafty Prospector-- In total, there are nearly 1,300 mares and fillies cata Cassadaga, by Cassaleria. ($45,000 yrl '94 KEESEP; logued, including mares in foal to Sadler's Wells, $110,000 2yo '95 KEEAPR). O-Isao Ogawa; B-Marvin Caerleon, Rainbow Quest, Lammtarra, Lure and Seeking Little Jr. & James Iselin; T-Tetsuya Meno; J-Shigefumi the Gold. The foals, numbering 890, are headlined by Kumazawa; $382,189. the Sadler's Wells half-brother to 1991 Epsom Derby 2--Big Shori (Jpn), h, 5, Northern Taste--Crafty Wife, by winner Generous (Ire), while the largest ever December Crafty Prospector. $154,060. Yearling catalogue includes half-brothers to Gil E.P. 3--Shake Hand, f, 4, Mr. Prospector--Dancing Tribute, Taylor S. winner Wandering Star and G 1 winner Tagula by Nureyev. ($500,000 yrl '93 KEEJUL). $99,462. (Ire). Tattersalls Chairman Edmond Mahony said, "We Margins: 1, NK, 1 3/4. Odds: 3.40, 6.40, 13.40. are delighted with the quality of the December Sales in all categories. It is particularly exciting to have three KBS KYOTO SHO FANTASY S.-G3-Jpn, $290,327, 1996 Group 1 winners catalogued, and after the suc Kyoto, Japan, 11-2, 2yo, f, 7fT, 1:21.20, fm cesses of our Houghton and October Yearling Sales, we 1--SHE'S PRINCESS (JPN), f, 2, Cacoethes--Yuwa are looking forward to rounding off the year with a lively Candy,oby Longleat. O-Takashi Saito; B-Meiji Bokujo; December sale." T-Shuji Ito; ..I-Hirofumi Shii; $290,328. 2--Super Dress, f, 2, Storm Cat--Decorated Image, by Well Decorated. ($195,000 yrl '95 KEESEP; © Copyright Thoroughbred Daily News, 1996. This newspaper $460,000 2yo '96 BESMAR).