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BY FAX AND INTERNET www.thoroughbreddailynews.com SATURDAY, JULY 6, 2002 COMING TO AMERICA HAWK SEEKING REDEMPTION The inaugural running of the $500,000 American The beaten favourite in two English Classics this Oaks this afternoon at Hollywood Park has drawn a year, Hawk Wing (Woodman) will head the market once contentious field from across the U.S. as well as ship- again in the G1 Coral-Eclipse S. today at Sandown. pers from France and Ireland. “There is no other race Trainer Aidan O’Brien’s tentative theory in April that like it for three-year-old fillies in North America,” said Hawk Wing could provide him with his first Triple Hollywood Park racing secretary Martin Panza. “It gives Crown winner might have been realized in any other them a chance to stay in their own age group and run a year, without two such outstanding stablemates--Rock classic distance before meeting older fillies and mares in of Gibraltar (Ire) and High Chaparral (Ire)--with a slice the Breeders’ Cup.” Megahertz (GB) (Pivotal {GB}) more luck on their side. He will be a short price here, on began her career in French ground that will be plenty soft enough for him, but he claiming races, but has should find life a lot easier than his conditioner’s only lifted her game since com- other Eclipse winner, Giant’s Causeway. Godolphin will ing to the States late last look to the unbeaten Equerry (St. year. She has flashed her Jovite) to encroach on the big closing kick to win four stage here. Brought along stealth- straight stakes races, in- ily up to now, he has readily out- cluding a hard-charging vic- classed smart rivals at tory over Arabic Song (Ire) Longchamp in both the G3 Prix du (Alhaarth {Ire}) in the GII Megahertz (outside) wins Honeymoon Prince d’Orange in September and Honeymoon Breeders’ Cup G3 La Coupe June 20. Strictly on Benoit Photo H. June 8 going nine fur- the reading of his half-length de- longs over this course. Trainer Bill Mott has shipped in feat of Sagacity (Fr) in the former Maliziosa (Dynaformer), who is on a three-race winning event, he has to be considered up streak, including a victory over GSW Cellars Shiraz to this class, especially on this (Kissin Kris) in the Edgewood S. May 3. easier surface, but he faces a Saturday, Hollywood Park, post time: 4:23 p.m. PDT baptism of fire against the favour- AMERICAN OAKS, $500,000, 3yo, f, 1 1/4mT ite. Indian Creek (GB) (Indian Equerry Scoop-Dyga PP HORSE SIRE TRAINER ODDS Ridge {Ire}) could be the fly in the 1 Malizioza Dynaformer Mott 5-1 ointment on the basis of his performance when runner- 2 Cyclorama Theatrical (Ire) Bond 12-1 up to Grandera (Ire) in the G1 Prince of Wales’ S. at the 3 Alozaina (Ire) Perugino McAnally 20-1 Royal meeting June 19. He suffered an interrupted 4 Devon Rose Devongate N Canani 30-1 preparation for that race and is the type of improving 5a Distant Valley (GB) Distant Relative (Ire) O’Callaghan 8-1 older horse with which trainer David Elsworth excels. 6 Dublino Lear Fan de Seroux 6-1 7a Ombre Legere (Ire) Double Bed (Fr) Lellouche 8-1 Saturday, Sandown, Britain, post time: 3:35 p.m. 8 Clerical Error (Ire) Kendor (Fr) C Dollase 12-1 CORAL ECLIPSE S.-G1, £350,000, 3yo/up, 10f 7ydsT 9 A B Noodle Alphabet Soup Jenda 30-1 SC PP HORSE SIRE TRAINER WT 10 Cellars Shiraz Kissin Kris Cesare 15-1 1 3 Bach (Ire) Caerleon A O’Brien 133 11 Saranac Lake Smart Strike Weld 20-1 2 7 Equerry St. Jovite bin Suroor 133 12 Arabic Song (Ire) Alhaarth (Ire) Drysdale 8-1 3 1 Imperial Dancer (GB) Primo Dominie (GB) Channon 133 13 Megahertz (GB) Pivotal (GB) Frankel 5-2 4 5 Indian Creek (GB) Indian Ridge (Ire) Elsworth 133 14 Riskaverse Dynaformer P Kelly 8-1 5 4 No Excuse Needed (GB) Machiavellian Stoute 133 AE Linda Eder Lear Fan Hofmans 6 6 Hawk Wing Woodman A O’Brien 122 All carry 121 pounds. 7 2 Sholokhov (Ire) Sadler's Wells A O’Brien 122 www.coolmore.com TDN P HEADLINE NEWS • 7/6/02 • PAGE 2 of 6 Friday, Hamburg, Germany P R E S U L T S P PREIS DER FIRMA JUNGHEINRICH GABELSTAPLER-G3, i65,000, Hamburg, 7-5, 3yo/up, f/m, 1 3/8mT, Friday, Belmont Park 2:41.30, hy. POKER H.-GIII, $111,200, BEL, 7-5, 3yo/up, 1mT, 1--@CASANGA (GB), 119, f, 3, by Rainbow Quest 1:32 1/5, fm. 1st dam: Comprida (Ger) (MGSW-Ger), by Windwurf (Ger) 1--VOLPONI, 115, c, 4, by Cryptoclearance 2nd dam: Colatina (Ger), by *Tudor Melody 1st Dam: Prom Knight, by Sir Harry Lewis 3rd dam: Colima (Ger), by Neckar (Ger) 2nd Dam: Dancing Party, by Danzig O/B-Stiftung Gestut Fahrhof; T-Peter Schiergen; 3rd Dam: Irish Party, by Irish Lancer J-Filip Minarik; i38,000. Lifetime Record: 5 starts, O-Amherst Stable & Spruce Pond Stable; B-Amherst 2 wins, 2 places, i55,580. *1/2 to Colon (Ger) Stable (KY); T-Philip G Johnson; J-S X Bridgmohan; (Acatenango {Ger}), SW & GSP-Ger, SW-Swe & $66,720. Lifetime Record: 18-6-4-2, $462,256. *1/2 SP-Tur; and Concepcion (Ger) (Acatenango {Ger}), to Fickle Friends (Demons Begone), MGSP, Hwt. Older Horse-Ity at 9.5-11f, GSW & G1SP-Ger, $254,130. GSW-Ity, SP-Fr & Den, $389,814-Ger, Ity & Fr. 2--Saint Verre, 112, c, 4, Saint Ballado--Margot Verre, 2--Saldenschwinge (Ger), 134, f, 4, In the Wings (GB)-- by Tom Rolfe. ($50,000 2yo ‘00 FTFFEB). O-Joseph Salde (Ger), by Alkalde (Ger). O/B-Gestut Allen; B-Georgelina Gonzalez (FL); $22,240. Wittekindshof; i15,000. 3--Navesink, 117, c, 4, Irish River (Fr)--Sailing Minstrel, 3--Templerin (Ger), 117, f, 3, Acatenango (Ger)-- by The Minstrel. ($140,000 yrl '99 KEESEP). Tempelwache (Ger), by Konigsstuhl (Ger). O-Stiftung O-Jayeff B Stables; B-Lazy Lane Stables, Inc (VA); Gestut Fahrhof; B-D Furstin zu Oettingen-Wallerstein; $12,232. i7,500. Margins: 2 1/4, NK, 3/4. Odds: 9.30, 18.30, 4.80. Margins: 4HF, 3/4, 4HF. Odds: 6.70, 2.10, 7.10. Also Ran: Polish Miner, Shibboleth, Keats and Yeats, Also ran: Art Antique (Ire), Night Woman (Ger), Boastful. Atarama (Ire). The bridgejumpers were out yesterday afternoon at Scratched: Pepsi (Ger). Belmont Park as the hot 1-2 chalk Shibboleth (Danzig) Casanga made all here in the desperate conditions to came up empty in the final furlong. The winner, Volponi record her second stakes success. Having won the was making his first start on the turf in nearly a year, Listed Grosser Hoppegartener Stutenpreis der but had broken his maiden in the GIII Pilgrim S. on the Dreijahrigen at Hoppegarten May 19, she was sent to grass at Belmont as a two-year-old. At three the bay the G1 Preis der Diana at Mulheim June 9, but could colt had finished fourth in the GIII Lexington S. before finish only eighth. Breaking well, she raced to the front heading back to the main track, where he posted a win to set a moderate pace before kicking on in the in the GII Pegasus H. Oct. 19. Fourth in the GI Cigar straight. Lengthening well in the testing conditions, she Mile to close out 2001, he returned with a sharp allow- was sent clear to win unchallenged. ance score at Belmont May 8, but bounced in his next start, running fourth at 2-5 in a money allowance. The SUMMER SALES blinkers were taken off for this outing. Saint Verre KEENELAND - FRESHMAN SIRES jumped out to set the pace, with Shibboleth racing in Stallion Fillies Colts second as Volponi took third on the outside. After Artax 65 three-quarters in 1:08 1/5, Volponi made his move and Charismatic 58, 141 170 collared Saint Verre in midstretch before drawing clear. Exploit 23, 116, 151, 177 19, 47, 172 “I guess I’m going to keep him on the turf for now,” Forestry 57, 137, 144 28, 40, 62, 110, 188 said winning trainer Phil Johnson. “We’ll look at the Horse Chestnut (SAf) 119 Bernard Baruch [GII, 9f, 7-26]. I’ll also look at the Old Trieste 139, 176 43, 55, 198 Sword Dancer [GI, 12f, 8-10]. I’ve had a lot of success Silver Charm 127 in that race and I love a mile and a half [for Volponi].” Stravinsky 30 As for Shibboleth, jockey Jerry Bailey said, “I never had Victory Gallop 24, 148 any horse at any time.” www.keeneland.com Click here for the brisnet.com chart. www.jonabell.com (859) 255-8537 FAX 259-0040 TDN P HEADLINE NEWS • 7/6/02 • PAGE 3 of 6 GI Prioress S. cont. P P R E V I E W P Spring Meadow looks to continue a strong Belmont meeting for her California-based trainer. A distant sec- Saturday, Monmouth Park, post time: 5:09 p.m. EDT ond in Churchill allowance company May 4, the chest- UNITED NATIONS H.-GI, $500,000, 3yo/up, 1 3/8mT nut earned her first stakes victory with a one-length PP HORSE SIRE TRAINER ODDS win in the May 25 Stonerside S. at Lone Star. She got 1 Deputy Strike Smart Strike Contessa 15-1 a taste of the local main track with a popular three- 2 Ready to Roll (Ire) Priolo Manning 20-1 length win June 19 and drilled three-eighths of a mile in 3 Crash Course Holy Bull W Croll 10-1 a bullet :34 1/5 June 30.