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The Thornughbred Daily News is delivered to your home or business by fax each morning by 5 a.m. For subscription information, please call 908-747-8060. T~?I~~UN~~~RE DM THURSDAY, APRIL 3, 1997 S•T•A•K•E•S PREVIEW Today, Nad Al Sheba, Dubai: Kentucky CAPTAIN BODGIT READY FOR WOOD DUBAI WORLD CUP, $4,000,000, 4yo/up, 10f Derby hopeful Captain Bodgit (Saint Bailado), who upset PP HORSE TRAINER JOCKEY ODDS the previously undefeated Pulpit (A.P. Indy) to win the 1 Even Top (Ire) Tompkins Hills 20-1 GI Florida Derby March 1 5, had his final breeze for the 2 Singspiel (Ire) Stoute Bailey 6-1 April 12 Wood Memorial yesterday. The three-year-old 3 Formal Gold Perry Bravo 6-1 colt sped a half-mile in a bullet :46 1 /5 at his home 4 Bijou d'lnde (GB) Johnston Weaver 33-1 training base--Bowie Racetrack in Maryland. Owned by 5 Flemensfirth Gosden Hind 10-1 Team Valor, Captain Bodgit was caught in fractions of 6 Luso (GB) Brittain Kinane 33-1 :11 2/5, :22 3/5 and :34 2/5 and galloped out five 1 7 Hokuto Vega (Jpn) Nakano Yokoyama 25-1 furlongs in :59 3/5. 'He loves this track," said trainer 8 Juggler (Aus) Waterhouse Boss 33-1 Gary Capuano. "He really gets a hold of it. It's the type 9 Siphon (Brz) Mandella Flores 5-2 of track that horses do get a hold of. He was very, very 10 Kammtarra bin Suroor Dettori 7-1 sharp today." Captain Bodgit is scheduled to work once 11 Sandpit (Brz) Mandella Nakatani 9-2 more at Bowie before vanning to Aqueduct the day 1 2 Key Of Luck McLaughlin Arias 16-1 before the Wood. The five-year-old lightly-raced Flemensfirth (Alleged) appears the best chance for a European Cup triumph, FAIR GROUNDS ENDS RECORD SEASON particularly after the defection of Arc hero Helissio (Fr) Strengthened by a vast simulcasting network, the Fair (Fairy King). But the American three-horse contingen~, at Grounds ended its 1 25th anniversary season Monday home on the dirt, looms powerfully. Siphon (Brz) (ltaiara with record overall mutuel handle. During the 88-day {Brz}) has taken six of his last seven and w~s most meet, total mutuel handle on Fair Grounds races, includ impressive in his latest, a three-length tally in the GI ing off-track betting and simulcast outlets nationwide, Santa Anita H. March 2. Stablemate Sandpit (Brz) reached $221,652,207 for a record daily average of (Baynoun {Ire}) was second in that event while making. $2,518,775. That was a gain of 26 percent compared his dirt debut. GI Donn H. winner Formal Gold (Black Tie to last season's previous record handle of Affair {Ire}), a disappointing sixth in the Big 'Cap, raised $175,360,001 for an average of $1,992,727. The on eyebrows with an impressive work Tuesday. track handle was $20,237 ,627 for an average daily handle of $229,554. That was up .1 percent from a Saturday, Santa Anita Park: year ago when the on-track handle was $20, 180,889 SANTA ANITA DERBY-GI, $750,000, 3yo, 1 1/8m for an average of $229,328. Jockey Curt Bourque tow GI Hollywood Futurity winner Swiss Yodeler (Eastern ered over a talented jockey colony, earning 91 wins and Echo) breezed at Hollywood Park yesterday for the final over $1 .6 million in purses. Ronald Ardoin finished sec time before Saturday's race. The chestnut colt worked a ond in the rider's race with 75 wins. Owner-trainer half-mile in :4 7 2/5 with exercise rider John Cisneros Louie Roussel Ill ran away with the owner's title with aboard. "I'm very pleased with the work," trainer Mike 28 wins. Bradley Cathey, second in last year's trainer's Harrington said. "He looked very sharp. He couldn't be race, won this year's title with 38 races, one more than any more ready for the race." Swiss Yodeler is sched Tom Amoss. uled to ship to Santa Anita Saturday morning. Trainer Fidel Cardiel sent Steel Ruhlr (Ruhlmann) STAKES CLOSINGS through a three-furlong drill Wednesday morning, which TODAY, THURSDAY. APRIL 3: the grey colt completed in :35 2/5 with exercise rider 4-5 $750,000 Santa Anita Derby-GI, SA, Jesus Jimenez in the irons. "He came back to the barn 3yo, 9f ($20000s) and, as always, didn't seem the least bit tired afte.r the work," said owner Ed Kelaplane. "We moved up his TOMORROW. FRIDAY. APRIL 4: breeze because he felt so good this morning." 9-27 $100,000 Arlington-Washington Lassie-GI/, AP, 2yo, f, Bf ($100) • News cont. p. 2 10-5 $150, 000 Arlington-Washington Futurity-Gll, AP, 2yo, Bf ($150) PAGE 2 •THOROUGHBRED DAILY NEWS• 4-3-97 News cont. DANEHILL COLT TOPS SECOND DAY IN FOREIGN SYDNEY While his illustrious Coolmore Stud rival • • Sadler's Wells stole the show on the first day of the Yesterday's Stakes Result: Inglis Easter yearling sale in Sydney, it was champion PRIX MONTENICA, $45,202, Saint-Cloud, France, 4-2, Australian sire Danehill's turn on the second day to take 3yo, c/g, BfT, 1 :42:80, gd. center stage and his colt out of the G 1 Blue Diamond S. 1--#KIRKWALL (GB), 128, c, 3, Selkirk--Kamkova, by winner Lady Jakeo (Aus) (Last Tycoon {Ire}) topped the Northern Dancer. 0-K Abdullah; B-Juddmonte Farms; sale at $554,060 when bought by Epsom/Melbourne T-Andre Fabre; J-T Jarnet; $24,339. trainer David Hall after a protracted duel with trainer Bill 2--Such Charisma, 1 28, c, 3, Zilzal--Starstruck Gal, by Mitchell from Queensland. The price exceeded that paid Stage Door Johnny. $8,345. for the top-priced Danehill colt at last year's sale, which 3--Kaldou Star (GB), 128, c, 3, Kaldoun (Fr)--Loisaida went for $534,273. Hall would not identify his clients (Fr), by Sicyos. 0-J C Seroul; T-Elie Lellouche; J-S but said that "they are overseas buyers, having their Guillot; $6,259. first foray in Australia" and added the colt, "will also Margins: 3/4, 2 % , 1. race on Australian tracks." The colt was bred by Arrowfield Stud, who stood Danehill before the stallion Local News, England: was bought outright by Coolmore. Twenty-two of Serious doubts now surround the prospects of Classic Danehill's yearlings have been sold on the first two days hope Bahhare (Woodman), undefeated in three starts of the sale and they have averaged $207,490, more and winner of the G2 Laurent Perrier Champagne S., than twice the sale average of $78,715. Another making the line-up for next month's 2000 Guineas. The high-priced colt by Danehill was bought by New Zealand John Dunlop-trained colt had been favorite for the May agent Michael Stedman for $534,273. This one is out of 3 Newmarket Classic, but Britain's bookmakers eased the American-bred mare Kingston Cara (Seattle Slew). his odds significantly yesterday after it was revealed On the first day of the Inglis sale, 1 65 yearlings were that the unbeaten three-year-old has suffered a training sold for a gross of $12, 739,433--an average of setback. No precise details of Bahhare's condition will $77,211. On the second day 85 were sold for a gross be released from Dunlap's stables at Arundel in Sussex of $7, 115,324 and an average of $83, 709. until Friday and the trainer's spokesman refused to confirm any more than that colt "missed work on Tues PERSONAL HOPE IN DEMAND AT SYDNEY day because he was not moving well." Offspring of Ashford Stud's 'shuttle' stallion SALES Local News, Australia: Personal Hope have been in demand on the first two Champion three-year-old Mouawad (NZ) (Zabeel {NZ}, days of the Inglis Easter yearling sales in Sydney. His six by Sir Tristram) was put on the market as a stallion yearlings to sell grossed $386,259--an average of prospect only Tuesday and a deal has already been $64,376. His sale topper was a chestnut colt out of struck which values him at $3, 166,069. His owners, Inject (Aus) (Marauding {NZ}, by Sir Tristram), which the Rob McAnulty-led Easter Syndicate, which includes was sold to Belmont Bloodstock for $229,539. Two the colt's New Zealand-based breeder Patrick Hogan, yearlings by Juddmonte Farm's Epsom Derby winner have clinched a deal which will mean Mouawad will be Quest For Fame grossed $134,558 for an average of shared between Glenlogan Park Stud in Queensland and $67,279, with his filly out of Kibitka (Fr) (Baby Turk the German-backed Roselands Stud in Victoria, with the {Ire}) going to trainer John Morrisey for $102,897. Six new stallion doing alternate seasons at each. yearlings by Cigar's sire Palace Music grossed $334,415 for an average of $55,735, with a filly out of the American-bred mare Evening Sea (Alydar) fetching ©Copyright Thoroughbred Daily News. $158,303. Chief's Crown's sole representative at the This newspaper may not be reproduced in any form or sale did not reach its reserve. by any means, electronic or mechanical, without prior written permission of the copyright owner, Media Vista. A # will distinguish first-time stakes-winners, a @ will Information as to the races, race results and earnings indicate first-time graded stakes-winners, a + will de was obtained from results charts published in Daily note winners who are first-time starters, an (S) will be Racing Form and utilized herewith with the permission used for state-bred races, a ( C) will be used for maiden of the copyright owner, Daily Racing Form.