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 M 0 N DAY, MAY 20, 1 996 $2 Daily W-E-E-K-E-N-D RESULTS PREAKNESS WRAP-UP Louis Quatorze (Sover­ Sunday, Longchamp, France: eign Dancer), whose triumph in Saturday's 121 st PRIX SAINT-ALARY-G1, $160,788, Longchamp, Preakness was the first wire-to-wire win in the race France, 5-19, 3yo, f, 10fT, 2:13.60, very soft. since Aloma's Ruler in 1982, vanned from Pimlico to 1--LUNA WELLS (IRE)' 126, f, 3, Sadler's Wells-- trainer Nick Zito's Belmont Park base Sunday morning. Lunadix (Frj (GSP-Fr), by Breton. O-Jean-Luc Zito said the colt, who equalled the Preakness S. record Lagardere; B-SNC Lagardere Elevage & Roncon Ltd of 1:53 2/5, is a definite starter for the June 8 Belmont (Ire); T-Andre Fabre; J-T. Jarnet; $96,329. * 1/2 to S. Also leaving the Pimlico backside bright and early Long lVIick (Fr) (Gay Mecene), Ch. 2yo Colt-Fr, Sunday was Preakness runner-up Skip Away (Skip MGSW-Fr, SW & MGISP-NA, $270,645; and Linamix Trial)' who left at about 3:30 a.m. and arrived at (Fr) (Mendez {Fr}), G1 SW-Fr, G1 SP-Eng, $667,239. Monmouth Park by 8 a.m. Trainer Sonny Hine said late 2--Miss Tahiti (Ire), 126, f, 3, Tirol (Ire}--Mini Luthe (Fr), Saturday that Skip Away's odds of running in the by Luthier (Fr). O-Daniel Wildenstein; B-Dayton Ltd Belmont S. are "50-50, maybe 40-60. If the horse is (Ire); $ 38,247. half as tired as me, he needs a rest. We'll give him a 3--Ecoute, 126, f, 3, Manila--Soundings, by Mr. little break, make a last-minute decision." Trainer D. Prospector. OIB-Wertheimer et Frere (Ky); $18,418. Wayne Lukas's three Preakness horses all shipped to Margins: 1 1/2, 5, 3. Winner's Odds: 2.00. Churchill Downs Sunday. Editor's Note (Forty Niner) and Also Ran: Beauty To Petriolo (Ire), L'Annee Folie (Fr), Prince of Thieves (Hansel), third and seventh respec­ Papalma. tively in the Preakness, will be pointed to the Belmont Jean-Luc Lagardere's filly Luna Wells scored another S., according to Lukas, but fifth-place finisher Victory impressive victory here, giving her trainer, Andre Fabre, Speech (Deputy Minister) will probably wait for the Gil his fifth successive win in the event and setting herself Dwyer S. at Belmont July 6. Beaten Preakness favorite up for a try in either the Epsom Oaks or the French Cavonnier (Batonnier) shipped to Belmont Sunday, but equivalent at Chantilly June 9. Ridden by Thierry Jarnet, with no guarantee he will run in the Belmont S. "He'll Luna Wells came to take the lead at the top of the train for a while. If it looks like he likes the surface, straight, opened up a few lengths on her rivals and, we'll run in the Belmont. If he doesn't, we'll take him although lVIiss Tahiti came with a good finish, was al­ back home," said Bob Baffert, the colt's California­ ways in command. Lagardere's racing manager, Mr. de based trainer. Of Cavonnier's fourth-place effort Satur­ Longevialle, said, "She's a true champion. She's only day, Baffert said, "He was trying; he was running at the been beaten once in her life, that as a two-year-old. She end. He's the only horse that passed anybody down the can do anything, come from behind or take the lead stretch." Baffert added, jokingly, "That second in the early. We have not yet decided where she will go next, Derby is looking pretty good now." Preakness eighth but it will be either to Epsom or to Chantilly." Luna Allied Forces (Miswaki) was shipped back to Belmont Wells, a daughter of Sadler's Wells, is jointly owned by Park late Saturday and will now return to grass races, Lagardere and Coolmore Stud, as she was the subject of with his immediate goal being the Gill Hill Prince S. at a foal sharing agreement between the two parties. 1 1 !16-miles over the Belmont turf June 16. Secreta de Estado (General Assembly) nearly fell at the start of the STAKES CLOSING Preakness before going on to finish ninth of 12. "He TODA Y. MONDA Y. MA Y 20: grabbed a quarter," said Eduardo Escobar, exercise rider 6-1 S250,OOOg Massachusetts H., Suf, for trainer Alfredo Callejas. Angel Cordero Jr., condi­ 3yo/up, 9f (S100) tioner of last-place finisher Feather Box (Cherokee Col­ ony), reported Sunday that the colt, who was shipped home to Belmont within two hours of his race at Pim­ lico, will go next in the Belmont. "If he's okay, I'm I.U WEEKEND RESULTS . .. 1,2 gonna run him," Cordero said. "1 think it'll be a small o NEWS CONTINUED ............ 2 field, and it will be good for him." -tJl RACING REPORTS ............ 2-6 Unbridled's Song Works, News Continued, p. 2. Z TOTAL PAGES ................. 7 PAGE 2· THOROUGHBRED DAILY NEWS· 5-20-96 Weekend Results Continued. HORSES RETURN TO RIVER DOWNS The back­ Sunday, Milan, Italy: stretch area of River Downs has been reopened to OAKS O'ITALlA-G1, $248,391, Milan, Italy, 5-19, 11fT, horses and horsemen who were evacuated last Thurs­ 3yo, f, 2: 18.90, gd. day because of predicted flooding levels of the Ohio 1--@GERMIGNAGA (lTY)' 123, t, 3, Miswaki Tern-­ River. While some water covers the inside portion of the Guida Centrale (lty), by Teenoso. O/B-Alievamento main track, no water ever reached the stable area. "It Gialloblu (lty); T-Luigi Camici; ..I-M Cangiano; should be a quick clean up," stated track spokesman $125,037. John Engelhardt. "Unlike the flooding we experienced 2--Blu Meltemi (lty), 123, f, 3, Star Shareef (GB)-­ this winter, the water that is on the track is run-off from Antonietta Pagnini (Ity), by Scouting Miller. O-C & E the storm system. There won't be a lot of river debris Protetti; B-V Ricci (lty); $65,346. left behind. The water never did make it to the turf 3--Bog Wild, 123, f, 3, Once Wild--Bog, by Majestic course and the main track was well sealed prior to the Light. ($12,000 yrl '94 OBSAUG). O-Scuderia del flooding." Racing was cancelled for today and the track Bargello; B-Sally J Anderson (Fla); $38,672. is closed each Tuesday and Wednesday. Officials be­ Margins: 1, 1/2, HD. lieve the main track will be open for training Wednesday Also ran: Karlaska (GB), Grey Way, Robereva (Ire), Story and that live racing will resume Thursday. River Downs Line (GB), Bellflower (Fr), Sopran Benda (lty), Black plans to offer "double header" programs this Friday and Wood. Sunday. News Continued. UNBRIDLED'S SONG WORKS AT BELMONT MIDWEST Unbridled's Song (Unbridled) worked five furlongs over • • Belmont Park's main track Sunday morning with jockey Yesterday'S Results: Mike Smith aboard and was timed in :58.22, breezing. His splits were :12.17, :23.47 and :34.69; the colt was 8th-COX, $42,300, Alw, 3yo, 1 1/16mT, 1:42, fm. out six furlongs in 1: 10 4/5. The Wood Memorial win­ 1--UNRULEO, 118, c, 3, Notebook--Splash Em Baby, by ner, who arrived at Belmont Saturday from Monmouth Bucksplasher. O-Jack Hammer & W.L. Heiligbrodt; Park, had been slated to run next in the Gil Dwyer S. at B-August Moon Farm (IL); T-James O. Keefer. Lifetime Belmont July 6. But his connections are now saying that Record: SW, 11-4-2-1, $149,210. the three-year-old may resurface in either Sunday's Gil 2--Sampras, 116, c, 3, Secret Hello--Secret War, by Peter Pan S. or Monday's GI Met Mile. Trainer Jim Lord At War (Argl. Ryerson said that while those races are under consider­ 3--Tax Amour, 109, c, 3, Stately Don--Princess Amoura, ation, no definite plans have been made and the condi­ by Apalachee. tion of Unbridled's Song will dictate whether the colt Margins: NO, 2, 3. Odds: 3.20, 0.70, 59.20. will run this weekend. "We'll keep an eye on him and Off the board in the American Turf S, at Churchill last see how he comes out of the work," Ryerson said. "The time out in his grass debut, Unruled returned to the work was fabulous, but he can do that sort of thing." main track here and closed from well off the early frac­ Ryerson added that the bar shoes Unbridled's Song tions to take game, set and match from Sampras on the wore to a fifth-place finish in the Kentucky Derby have wire. been removed. The colt, however, is wearing a patch to protect the quarter crack in his left hoof. 7th-COX, $40,200, Alw, 3yo, f, 6f, 1:09 4/5, ft. 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