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PICTURE PERFECT AT ARLINGTON HEADLINE ...p3 NEWS For information about TDN, DELIVERED EACH NIGHT call 732-747-8060. BY FAX AND INTERNET www.thoroughbreddailynews.com SUNDAY, JULY 20, 2003 “FUR” FLIES AT BELMONT PARK PERFECT SUMMER Two down, one to go. Spoken Fur (Notebook) moved Summer Colony (Summer Squall), three-for-three at a one race closer to a $2 million bonus yesterday, cruis- mile and a quarter, puts her perfect record at the dis- ing to a decisive 3 1/2-length tance on the line in the GIII Delaware H. today. The victory in the second leg of five-year-old, who took this event by a neck last year, New York’s new Triple Tiara, followed the victory with an impressive 4 1/2-length the GI Coaching Club Ameri- score in the 10-furlong GI Personal Ensign H. at can Oaks at Belmont Park. In Saratoga. Freshened after running eighth in the GI the process, the gray gave Breeders’ Cup Distaff, she returned to be second by a trainer Bobby Frankel his sixth neck to Mandy’s Gold (Gilded Time) in the May 16 GIII Grade I win at the Belmont Pimlico Distaff H. The Edward Evans homebred comes meet. There have been nine into this race off a three-length score in the June 28 GII Spoken Fur Adam Coglianese Grade I events at the meet- Molly Pitcher Breeders’ Cup H. at Monmouth Park. Also ing, but Frankel has had run- perfect at the Delaware H. route is the Bobby Frankel- ners in only seven of them. The Hall of Fame horseman trained Wild Spirit (Chi) (Hussonet). The four-year-old believes the Triple Tiara bonus is all but in the bag. The filly won a pair of Group 1 races at the distance in her final race in the series is the GI Alabama S. at Saratoga native country. She made her U.S. bow in the May 17 Aug. 16. “She won so big in the Mother Goose and GII Shuvee H. going a mile and cruised to a 3 1/2- she’s really come on since the last race. If she runs like length tally. But Take Charge Lady (Dehere) has yet to she has in the last two races, she should be very tough go beyond a mile and an eighth. First or second in 15 of to beat,” he said. CCAO cont. p2 her 17 starts, she was beaten a head by Azeri in her Click for the brisnet.com chart or the free brisnet.com 2003 debut, the Apr. 5 GI Apple Blossom H., and had catalogue-style pedigree. For the video race replay, to settle for the runner-up spot again in her most recent select: broadband or modem. outing, the June 21 GI Ogden Phipps H. at Belmont. Both of her starts this season have been at a mile and a Saturday, Belmont Park sixteenth. “There is a little bit of concern [about the COACHING CLUB AMERICAN OAKS-GI, $500,000, added distance],” trainer Ken McPeek said. “She has BEL, 7-19, 3yo, f, 1 1/2m, 2:31, ft. never run that far before, but she is doing extremely 1--SPOKEN FUR, 121, f, 3, by Notebook well and I think she will perform well.” Mandy’s Gold, 1st Dam: Siberian Fur, by Siberian Express who sandwiched her Pimlico victory between third- 2nd Dam: Siksika, by Quack place finishes in the Apple Blossom and the Ogden 3rd Dam: Salmon Lake, by Tom Fool Phipps, also tries a mile and a quarter for the first time. O-Amerman Racing Stables LLC; B-George A Smith & Dr W E Johnston (FL); T-Robert Frankel; J-J D Bailey; Sunday, Delaware Park, post time: 5:40 p.m. EDT $300,000. Lifetime Record: 9-5-1-2, $565,880. DELAWARE H.-GIII, $750,000, 3yo/up, f/m, 1 1/4m 2--Fircroft, 121, f, 3, A.P. Indy--Pemaquid, by Deputy PP HORSE SIRE TRAINER ODDS Minister. O-Humphrey G W Jr; B-G Watts Humphrey 1 French Hideaway French Deputy Moloney 20-1 Jr (KY); $100,000. 2 Wild Spirit (Chi) Hussonet Frankel 4-1 3--Savedbythelight, 121, f, 3, Saint Ballado--Wild Royal, 3 Take Charge Lady Dehere McPeek 3-1 by Wild Again. O-Mack Earle I; B-R C Durr & George 4 Jaramar Rain Thunder Gulch Arnold II 12-1 Budig (KY); $55,000. 5 Mandy’s Gold Gilded Time Gorham 5-1 Margins: 3HF, 2HF, 4 1/4. Odds: 0.90, 17.60, 6.90. 6 Shiny Sheet Press Card Hadry 15-1 Also Ran: Yell, Little Bonnet, Shapes and Shadows, 7 Devon Rose Devongate Iwinski 8-1 Skipamiss. 8 Summer Colony Summer Squall Hennig 2-1 TDN P HEADLINE NEWS • 7/20/03 • PAGE 2 of 6 CCAO cont. Getting the Distance... P R E S U L T S P Spoken Fur has been unbeatable since breaking her maiden by 6 1/4 lengths at Keeneland in April. She Saturday, Maisons-Laffitte, France returned to take back to back-to-back allowance races PRIX MAURICE DE NIEUIL-G2, i95,000, Maisons- at Churchill for trainer Austin Laffitte, 7-19, 4yo/up, 1 3/4mT, 2:55.01, gd/sf. Smith, then shipped to 1--MARTALINE (GB), 126, c, 4, by Linamix (Fr) Belmont for the June 28 GI 1st Dam: Coraline (GB), by Sadler's Wells Mother Goose S. “They sent 2nd Dam: Bahamian (Ire), by Mill Reef her to me from Kentucky to 3rd Dam: Sorbus (Ire), by Busted (GB) train, but I knew she was for O-Khalid Abdullah; B-Juddmonte Farms; T-Andre sale, too,” Frankel said. “I Fabre; J-Christophe Soumillon; i54,150. Lifetime needed a nice three-year-old Record: 14 starts, 4 wins, 8 places, i180,336. *1/2 Accepting the CCAO trophy is filly.” Purchased by Frankel’s to Clear Thinking (GB) (Rainbow Quest), GSP-Fr. John Amerman (third from client Amerman Racing Sta- 2--Westerner (GB), 126, c, 4, Danehill--Walensee (Ire), left), with Jerry Bailey (left) bles LLC, the Florida-bred by Troy (GB). O-Ecurie Wildenstein; B-Dayton and Bobby Frankel (right) made her debut under new Investments Ltd; i20,900. Adam Coglianese silks in the Mother Goose and 3--Clety (Fr), 126, h, 7, Sillery--La Bucaille (Fr), by ran her winning streak to four in a row. Spoken Fur was Labus (Fr). (FF350,000 yrl ‘97 DEAAUG). trying a mile and a half for the first--and likely only-- O-Jean-Claude Seroul; B-H Delloye; i9,975. time in her career yesterday, but the result was nearly Margins: 3/4, 3/4, 3/4. Odds: 1.20, 10.20, 5.50. identical. Allowed to settle off a solid early pace, she Also ran: Zindabad (Fr), Cut Quartz (Fr), King Of Boxmeer (Ger), Terrazzo. swept past the field on the far turn, opened up eight Martaline managed just a single conditions race vic- lengths at midstretch and needed no more than a hand tory in a six-start sophomore campaign, but started this ride to hold Fircroft (A.P. Indy) safe to the wire. “I was year the right way by posting his first stakes success in surprised how fast they were going early,” winning the G3 Prix d'Hedouville at Longchamp Apr. 17. He jockey Jerry Bailey said. “I figured no one would be moved up a class to finish third in the G2 Prix Jean de anxious for the lead, considering no one really wanted Chaudenay at Saint-Cloud May 21, went one place to go a mile and a half. I was very confident down the better in the G2 Grand Prix de Chantilly June 8 and backstretch with the fast pace. You don’t see too many secured his most important win to date with this domi- horses accelerate like she did in a mile-and-a-half race. nant stretch display. Leading jockey Christophe She put the race away at the quarter pole. She’s very Soumillon maintained a stalking position in second good.” The runner-up, last early, finished well, but was aboard the grey, behind British raider Zindabad (Fr) second best. “Overall, this was a good effort,” trainer (Shirley Heights {GB}), until pushing his mount to the Rusty Arnold said. “We’ll take a look at the Alabama.” front at the quarter-mile marker. The result was never in doubt from there as Martaline exhibited an abun- A Trip Too Far... dance of stamina in the closing stages to easily hold the Yell (A.P. Indy), the second choice at 3-2, pressed late rally of Westerner. Martaline shares his second dam the pace and took the lead after a mile, but weakened Bahamian (Ire) with recent G1 July Cup victor Oasis late to be fourth. The early leaders, longshots Shapes Dream (GB) and 2002 G1 Poule d’Essai des Pouliches and Shadows (Dynaformer) and Skipamiss (Skip Away), heroine Zenda (GB). Click for the racingpost.co.uk chart tired badly and were both eased in the stretch. or the brisnet.com catalogue-style pedigree. WEEKEND STAKES WINNERS BELONG TO ME EBONY BREEZE S 1st Azalea Breeders’ Cup S.-G3 SMART STRIKE TENPINS S 1st Prairie Meadows Cornhusker Breeders’ Cup H.-G3 BOX 626, VERSAILLES, KY 40383 A.P. INDY (859) 873-7300 FAX (859) 873-3742 E-MAIL: [email protected] New Stakes Winner S SPIN CONTROL WEB SITE: lanesend.com TDN P HEADLINE NEWS • 7/20/03 • PAGE 3 of 6 Saturday, Arlington Park Saturday, Delaware Park WASHINGTON PARK H.-GII, $400,000, APX, 7-19, DELAWARE OAKS-GIII, $500,000, DEL, 7-19, 3yo, f, 3yo/up, 1 3/16m, 1:55 2/5, ft.