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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 caU908-747-8060. T~~I~~UN~~~RE DTM T U E S DAY, FEB R U A R Y 1 3, 1 996 $2 Daily W-E-E-K-E-N-D PREVIEW THE VID INJURED Joseph Sullivan's multiple graded Saturday, Laurel Park stakes winner The Vid (World Appeal) suffered a frac BARBARA FRITCHIE H.-Gil, $200,000, 3yo/up, flm, 7f ture of the right front sesamoid during a workout at GISW Chaposa Springs {Baldskil, who scratched from Gulfstream yesterday and is likely to be retired. Sullivan the Gill Shirley Jones H. when the track came up said he and trainer Marty Wolfson would send the x muddy, rates highweight of 123 pounds. The four-year rays to another veterinarian for a second opinion, but it old has been first or second in 15 of 17 starts, and rides appears the six-year-old's racing career is over. Unde a two-race winning streak into this stakes. Morris Code feated in two starts this year, the Florida-bred, who was (Lost Code), 119, ships in from the Fair Grounds after named for Sullivan's close friend, Arnold Vorda, made taking the American Beauty S. at Oaklawn in her season his last start in the Gill Appleton H. at Gulfstream Janu opener. The expected field of 12 also includes Lottsa ary 27; he has won 13 of 39 career starts and Talc (Talc), 117; Traverse City (Halo), 117; Cormorant's $937,626. Sullivan added that, even if The Vid is re Flight (Cormorant)' 116; Lucky Lavender Gal (Carson tired this year, he will not go to stud until 1997. City), 113; Clever Act (Gulch)' 112; Denied Access (Cryptociearance), 112; I'll Get Along (Smile), 112; Lulu (Afleet)' 110; and Forested (Country Pine), 109. COBRA KING SHARP AT GULFSTREAM Cobra King (Farma Way), winner of the Gill Holy Bull S. in his Sunday, Gulfstream Park three-year-old debut, worked five furlongs in 1 :01 under DEPUTY MINISTER H., $50,000, 3yo/up, 6f jockey Shane Sellers at Gulfstream yesterday morning. Not Surprising (Medieval Man), last year's champion "I want to take my time and not push him too hard," sprinter, makes his first start of the year Sunday. The said trainer Mike Puype, who is leaning towards running six-year-old, fourth in the Breeders' Cup Sprint in his the colt in the GI Florida Derby March 16 next. "He last start of '95, shoulders highweight of 123 pounds seems to do really good the further he gets away from for his return. A $7,200 Ocala Breeders Sales Company his races. He is just now starting to pick it up again yearling, the gelding has won 18 races while bankrolling (after his Holy Bull win). He puts a lot into what he $901,073. "Once we gelded him, that's when we does. If he were to run in the Fountain of Youth (Febru found his true ability," said his trainer, Judson Van ary 24), he might get tired and it might affect us in the Worp. IIHe has always been a sound horse who tries Florida Derby, which is our focus. We want to go into hard. II Also possible for the race is millionaire Friendly that race 100 percent, instead of maybe 80 percent." Lover (Cl.ltlass), 118, third in the Olympic H. in his '96 News cont. p2 debut and also nominated to Laurel's General George. STAKES CLOSINGS: Monday, Laurel Park TOMORROW, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 14 GENERAL GEORGE H.-Gil, $200,000, 3yo/up, 7f 2-24 $200,000g Fountain of Youth-Gil, GP, Meadow Monster (Meadowlake), impressive winner of two stakes in his two starts at Gulfstream this year, has 3yo, 8.5f ($250) been supplemented to the General George for $3,000 2-24 $ 125,000a Las Flores H-GIII, SA, and will share top weight of 120 pounds in the race 4yo/up, f/m, 6f ($50) with Foxie G. (Horatius). The five-year-old Meadow 2-25 $200,000g Rampart H.-Gil, GP, 3yo/up, flm, Monster is expected to ship to Maryland Wednesday; 8.5f ($250) Rick Wilson rides Saturday. Foxie G., a Maryland-based five-year-old trained by Dale Capuano, is also two-for two in 1996; he looks for his fourth consecutive Laurel WEEKEND PREVIEW ........... p1 stakes victory. Also probable for the race: Sunny Sun rise (Sunny's Halo), 115; Sea Emperor (Naked Sky), NEWS CONTINUED ........... p2 113; Mary's Buckaroo (Roo Art), 112; Jealous Crusader fJ')- RACING REPORTS .......... p2-4 (Crusader Sword)' 110; Jed Forest (Gold Alert), 110; Z Higher Strata (Afleet), 109; Marry Me Do (Blushing TOTAL PAGES ................ 5 Groom {Fr}l, 109; Splendid Sprinter (Valid Appeal), 109; - and Yappy (Herat), 108. PAGE 2. THOROUGHBRED DAILY NEWS. 2-13-96 News cant. CEZZANE FOURTH IN DUBAI Cezzane 1GB} SWINBURN 'UPDATE Jockey Walter Swinburn was (Ajda!), one of four Godolphin horses nominated to the listed in serious but stable condition and remains in March 27 Dubai World Cup, finished fourth in the first intensive care at the Prince of Wales Hospital in Hong leg of the Maktoum Challenge at Nad AI Sheba Race Kong yesterday, where he underwent two operations, course in Dubai Sunday night. Cezzane, a graded stakes one to ease pressure under his skull and the other to winner in Germany and Ireland, was making his first drain fluid from his lungs. Swinburn was injured in a spill start in 15 months in the one-mile race and is expected Sunday at Sha Tin Racecourse in Hong Kong. The 34 to improve with added distance. The seven-year-old's year-old winner of three Epsom Derbies, including last stablemate Tamayaz (Gone West) confirmed his place year's win on Lammtarra, was catapulted into a stan among the reserves for the Dubai World Cup with his chion when his mount, liffey River {Irish River {Fr}) decisive three-length win in the race. Rounding out the collided with the running rails. X-rays revealed several top three in the first round of the Maktoum Challenge broken ribs, a multiple fracture of his left collar-bone, a were Wathink (Ogygian) and Dover Straits (Riverman). broken left shoulder and internal bruising. A spokesman for the Royal Hong Kong Jockey Club said Monday, THISTLEDOWN STAKES WORTH $1.29 "Walter is expected to make a full recovery and he MILLION Thistledown's 1996 racing season opens should be able to ride again by mid-summer. His doc Friday, March 1 and will feature 28 stakes races worth tors' main concern is fluid on his lungs, but I am certain a total of $1,290,000. The season's highlight will be the they are doing all they can to help him." Gil $300,000 Ohio Derby Sunday, June 23. For the first time this year, the Thistledown Breeders' Cup will be FIRST FOAL FOR FURIOUSLY Mr. and Mrs. Ben P. run as a graded race. The race's new Grade III status Walden, Jr.'s Vinery has announced the arrival of the makes it and the Derby the only two graded events on first foal by GISW Furiously (Danzig). The foal, a filly the Ohio racing calender. out of MSW Bionic Soul, was born February 9 at the Midway, Kentucky farm. After experiencing fertility problems at the beginning of the 1995 season in his first FLORIDA year as a sire, Furiously did get 14 mares in foal. He • • stands the 1996 season at Vinery at private treaty. Local News: Gulfstream Park Editor's Note (Forty Niner), runner-up in the Gill Holy FHBPA REACHES CONTRACT SETTLEMENTS 8ull S. last time out, breezed six furlongs in a bullet Executive Director Kent Stirling reported yesterday that 1: 11 4/5 under regular rider Jerry Bailey Monday; he the Florida Horsemen's Benevolent and Protective Asso will make his next start in the Fountain of Youth Febru ciation has successfully concluded settlement negotia ary 24. "The race is in a couple of weeks, and it was tions with 36 of the 73 off-track betting outlets that will time to bear down, II said Dallas Stewart, assistant to protect the interests of Florida horsemen during the trainer D. Wayne Lukas. "He responded great. He is upcoming 1996 meet at Hialeah Park. The FHBPA filed definitely a lot more focused than he was last time. He an action in Miami federal court last June against is right where we want him to be." Team Lukas will Hialeah and 75 casinos, racetracks and other off-track also send out impressive Gulfstream allowance winner betting systems after Hialeah allegedly violated the Victory Speech (Deputy Minister) in the Fountain of 1995 FHBPA contract and underpaid purses to horse Youth; jockey Gary Stevens picks up the mount. men during the 1995 race meet. During the past six months, the FHBPA has conducted significant settle Yesterday's Results: ment negotiations with many of the out-of-state betting 9th-GPX.. $33,000, Alw, 4yo/up, 1 1 116m, 1 :44 1/5, ft. outlets, some of which have agreed they will not take ROY AL MITCH (c, 4, Homebuilder--Czar Dancer, by interstate wagers on Hialeah races without the consent Czaravich) captured a Gulfstream allowance by 6 Y:z of the FHBPA. IIWe are pleased at the number of receiv lengths last out and was even-money to make it two in ing outlets who understand the concept of the Interstate a row. Rated just off the pace, the chestnut dominated Horseracing Act and the rights it bestows upon horse the field once again, launching a six-wide bid that car men/' stated Stirling.