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The Thoroughbred Daily News is delivered to your fax each morning by 5 a.m. For ubscription information, please call (732) 747-8060. SUNDAY, JUNE 21, •E•E•K•E•N•D RESULTS SKIP A WAY QUESTIONABLE FOR GOLD Saturday, Belmont Park HEMPSTE D H.-GI, $250,000, BEL, 6-20, 3yo/up, f/m, CUP After getting loose at Belmont Park Friday morn 1 1 /16m, 1 :39 4/5, ft. ing, Skip Away (Skip Trial) has developed filling in both 1--#@MIO SFLOWER, 114, f, 4, Affirmed--Chinguetti front legs and is no longer a definite starter for next (Fr} (GSP-N.A., SP-Fr}, by Green Dancer. Sunday's GI Hollywood Gold Cup, according to trainer 0-Whitewood Farm; B-Ohrstrom George L Jr (VA); Sonny Hine. "It's minor, but it's there," said the trainer. T-Richard Schosberg; J-R G Davis; $150,000. Life "The horse is not lame and the horse is not sore, but time Record: 6-6-0-0, $270,000. we're concerned." Hine said he remained optimistic that 2--Glitter Woman, 120, f, 4, Glitterman--Carols Folly, by he could still make the race, but said he would not Taylor's Falls. ($8,000 yrl '95 FTKJUL; $7,000 yrl make a final decision until after Skip Away works Tues '95 OBSJAN). 0-Allen Joseph; B-Golden Orb Farm & day. He had originally planned to breeze the five-year K David Schwartz (FL); $50,000. old tomorrow, but has put the work off a day due to 3--Colonial Minstrel, 118, f, 4, Pleasant Colony- the problem. "I just looked at him and he was 75 per Minstrella, by The Minstrel. 0/8-Evans Edward P (VA); cent better than he was this morning," Hine said yester $27,SOO. day afternoon. "There's a better chance that I'll go than Margins: 12, NO, 1. Odds: 4.60, 2.50, 4.20. not go, but it all depends. We've got to make sure all Also Ran: Ajina, Dixie Flag, Royal Indy. the filling is out. I don't want to run him on Bute be All the questions surrounding Mossflower's class and cause he's never been on medication like that before ability against proven competition were forcefully an and I don't want to start." Skip Away jogged a mile and swered by; the 1 2 lengths separating her and a a half yesterday morning, but may not go to the track Hempstea~ field comprised of all multiple graded stakes today, Hine said. "We're anxious to come (to the Gold winners. With runaway scores in her only three starts at Cup), and now that Silver Charm is in there, we're dou three, Mo$sflower returned as a four-year-old to post bly anxious. But the horse has to go to the Gold Cup allowance'; victories at Aqueduct May 6 and Belmont first-class. I don't want to make any excuses for him. If June 3 before trying this tough crowd. Glitter Woman I come, you can bet he's 100 percent." and DIXIE FLAG (Dixieland Band} set a suicidal pace of :44 4/5 arid 1 :08 3/5 as 8-5 AJINA (Strawberry Road ALBARADO SURGERY A SUCCESS Jockey Robby {Aus}) sat stalking in third and Mossflower lingered in Albarado was released from Louisville's Caritas Medical last place. The favorite was unable to muster any re Center Saturday morning, less than 24 hours after un sponse in the stretch, but Mossflower ate up ground on dergoing surgery for a fractured skull suffered in a spill the turn, angled out three-wide, then drew off power Wednesday at Churchill Downs. Neurosurgeon Dr. fully to score in stakes-record time. "I'm flabbergasted Lansing Cowles performed a cranioplasty on Albarado that she won as easily as she did because the talent she Friday afternoon, placing titanium mesh over the inden was up against today called for a lot more effort from tation fracture and then covering it with a polymer, her than ~er prior allowance races," said trainer Richard which hardened and will protect the area from future Schosberg. "From here, the Go For Wand S. (nine fur injury. "He said he feels great," said Albarado' s agent, longs, GI, !August 2) and Personal Ensign H. (10 fur Lenny Pike, yesterday. "There's no headache or any longs, Gl,:August 28) at Saratoga could be next, but our thing. I think he'll be ready to ride just as soon as it's ultimate goal is the Breeders' Cup Distaff." comfortable to put his helmet back on." If all goes well, Albarado expects to be back over the July 4 weekend. TELL IT TO THE TON ... Want:to send a "Letter to the Editor" of the WEEKEND RES ULTS . p1 Thoroughbred Daily News? Our address is 811 NEWS CONTINUED . p2 River Rd., Fair Haven, NJ, 07704; or send a fax WEEKEND PREVIEW .................. p2-3 -Cl') to: (732) 747-8955; or an e-mail to: Tbrednews RACING REPORTS .................... p4-9 z @AOL.com. - TOTAL PAGES ........................ 11 PAGE 2 •THOROUGHBRED DAILY NEWS• 6-21-98 News cont. Grand Prix de Paris cont. SELLERS STARS IN NTRA JOCKEY Croco R uge (Ire) goes for his second Group 1 win of CHAMPIONSHIP Jockey Shane Sellers captured three the year, aving followed his '98 debut win in the G2 of four races to earn 36 points and score a commanding Prix Greff !he win a score in the G 1 Prix Lupin at victory in the $100,0000 NTRA All-Star Jockey Cham Longcham May 10. He just missed to Dream Well (Fr) pionship Friday night at Lone Star Park in Texas. Tenth last out w en second by a neck in the Prix du Jockey in the inaugural edition of the event last year, Sellers Club May 1 at Chantilly. beat out a field which included seven Hall of Famers to take the top prize of $25,000. He guided 6-1 shot Today, Mi an, Italy: Shareff Prospect to victory in the first leg of the event, GRAN PR MIO DI MILANO-G1, $313,301, 3yo/up, elf, upset the second race in the series with 43-1 Miami 1 1/2mT Flyer, was off the board in the third leg, then came back PP HOR E TRAINER JOCKEY aboard 6-5 Mocha Express to win the final race by three 1 Marc Groom 0 Gervai J D Hillis lengths. "I was lucky ... the horses ran for me," said 2 Santil.lana J Gosden W Ryan Sellers. "When you go against this caliber of riders, it 3 Garuda (Ire) J Dunlop J Reid comes down to the horses. It was my night tonight." 4 LusoiGB) C Brittain M Kinane Julie Krone was the only other All-Star to win a race, 5 Bad ertrich Again (Ire) F Gang F Jovine getting Illusive Ghost up in the final strides to take the 6 Unga o (Ger) H Blume T Hellier third event; she finished second overall with 18 points. 7 War eclaration (Ire) B Grizzetti M Tellini Jerry Bailey was third, Kent Desormeaux finished fourth 8 Ivan Luis (Fr) M Bell M Hills and Mike Smith was fifth. The rest of the field, in order 9 Rio Napo (Ire) L Camici Mezzatesta of the finish, was Chris Mccarron, Pat Day, Sandy 10 Caitano (GB) B Schutz A Starke Hawley, Laffit Pincay Jr., Marlon St. Julien, last year's All carry 132 pounds. winner Gary Stevens and Eddie Delahoussaye. Sellers, Lusa (GB) (Salse), second in this event in both 1996 whose mounts were coupled in the "All-Star Wager" as and 1997, looks to finally make it to the winner's circle #9 on the program, paid $14.80 to win, $10.20 to in this year's renewal. The well-traveled six-year-old has place and $5.80 to show; Krone, #6, paid $8.20 to bankrolled over $1 . 5 million with wins in nine group place and $4.00 to show; and Bailey, #1, paid $5.00 to events in England, Italy, Germany and Hong Kong, but show. The Sellers/Krone exacta paid $150.80, and the has yet to hit the board in three outings this year. He Sellers/Krone/Bailey trifecta paid $670.60. The Champi most recently finished fifth in the G 1 Vodafone Corona onship raised more than $1 43 ,000 for the Disabled tion Cup at Epsom June 5. Jockeys Fund and the Jockeys' Guild. Today, W~odbine: PREVIEW QUEEN'S PLATE-GIC, $500,000, (S), 3yo, 1 1/4m, post time 5:10 p.m. EDT • pp TRAINER JOCKEY ODDS • HORSE Today, Longchamp, France: 5-1 GRAND PRIX DE PARIS-G1, $341,708, 3yo, c/f, 10fT 1 Nite Dreamer O'Callaghan Perret Rams am my 1 5-1 PP HORSE TRAINER JOCKEY 2a Yodelman Vella 3-1 1 Daymarti (Ire) de Royer-Dupre Mosse 3 Brite Adam Schnitzler McKnight 20-1 2 Croco Rouge (Ire) Bary Guillot 4 One Way Love Wright Clark 3 Limpid (GB) Fabre Peslier 5 Zap fiappy Tiller McCauley 10-1 4 Prolix (GB) Hills Pat Eddery 6 Prim9ly Attfield Kabel 8-1 5 Special Quest (Fr) Head Doleuze 7 Archf:?rs Bay Pletcher Desormeaux 4-1 6 Angel Heart (Fr) Lautner Junk 8a Star On Fire Vella Bahen 1 5-1 7 Almutawakel (GB) Bin Suroor Dettori 9 Bronze Shoal Di Marco Husbands 30-1 All carry 1 28 pounds. 1 Oa Platino Vella Montpellier 1 5-1 Sires: Daymarti (Caerleon), Croco Rouge (Rainbow 11 Kinkennie Keogh Platts 6-1 Quest), Limpid (Soviet Star), Prolix (Kris {GB}), Special 12 The Fed Bell Walls 10-1 Quest (Rainbow Quest), Angel Heart (Hero's Honor), 13 Pinafore Park Attfield Landry 20-1 Aimutawakel (Machiavellian).