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S•T•A•K•E•S RESULTS SILVER CHARM SECOND IN COMEBACK Silver Friday, Santa Anita: Charm (Silver Buck) returned to the races yesterday at MALIBU S.-GI, $200,000, SAX, 12-26, 3yo, 7f, 1 :21 Santa Anita for the first time since being denied the 2/5, ft. Triple Crown in the June 7 Belmont S., with a runner-up 1--LORD GRILLO (ARG), 119, c, 3, Engrillado (Arg)- finish in the GI Malibu S. The Kentucky Derby champion Lady Match, by Match the Hatch. 0-Cobra Farm Inc; was made the prohibitive 1-5 favorite of the Opening B-Haras de la Pomme (Arg); T-Mike Puype; J-E Day crowd, but was plagued with traffic troubles before Delahoussaye; $120,000. Lifetime Record: 5-3-2-0, breaking lose at the eighth pole and just missed catch $263,990. ing 9-1 outsider Lord Grillo (Arg) (Eng rill ado { Arg}). "I 2--Silver Charm, 123, c, 3, Silver Buck--Bonnie's Poker, couldn't get through until too late," said Silver Charm's by Poker. ($16,500 yrl '95 OBSAUG; $100,000 2yo jockey Gary Stevens. "The winner's momentum was 1 996 OBSAPR). 0-Lewis Beverly J & Robert B; built up. We should have won by five." Trainer Bob B-Wootton Mary Lou (FL); $40,000. Baffert echoed Stevens's assement of the race and 3--Swiss Yodeler, 115, c, 3, Eastern Echo--Drapeau, by added, "He would have beaten them without the traffic Raja Baba. ($60,000 yrl '95 KEESEP). 0-Steinmann problems. He showed some heart and he hasn't lost a Heinz; B-Martha F Gerry & W S Farish (KY); $24,000. competitive step." Baffert said the grey colt will start Margins: HF, 3, 2. Odds: 9.30, 0.30, 16.10. next in the January 17 Gii San Fernando S. Also Ran: Mud Route, Crypto Star, Apalachee Ridge, Emailit, Trafalger, Latin Dancer. TRIPLE CROWN NOMINATIONS DUE JAN. 17 Lord Grillo (Arg) captured the June 1 6 G 1 Carrera de The first deadline for nominations to the 1998 $5 mil las Estrellas in his native Argentina before finishing lion Visa Triple Crown Challenge is January 17. The second in a Nov. 22 optional claimer in his United early fee is $600 per horse nominated to the three States debut. Third choice behind the heavily favored races--the May 2 Kentucky Derby, the May 16 Silver Charm, Lord Grillo, off slowly, raced in eighth Preakness S. and the June 6 Belmont S. A late nomina early, rallied five wide turning for home, overtook Swiss tion period will close March 27. The entry fee during Yodeler in deep stretch and then gamely held off Silver Charm that period will be $6,000 per horse. Representatives to the wire. "My wife told me, 'If you beat Silver from Churchill Downs, Pimlico and Belmont Park will be Charm, the fans are going to be mad at you,"' winning at tracks around the country during a two-week period owner Gary Biszantz said. "I said, 'I don't mind beating Baffert ever. I love him, but I don't mind beating him. in January to take nominations. In addition, the racing He's beaten me enough in the past.' I was worried that offices at each of the Triple Crown tracks will accept nominations by phone or fax until midnight January 1 7. seven furlongs wasn't far enough for him, that he's For additional information, contact Triple Crown Produc really a mile or a mile-and-a-quarter horse. He really made up a lot of ground today." Winning jockey Eddie tions at (502) 636-4405 or the Churchill Downs Racing Office at (800) 928-3372. Delahoussaye had nothing but praise for his mount. "I didn't know if we could beat Silver Charm, but this horse just cut when I called on him. He's got a lot of LEWISES RECEIVE ECLIPSE AWARD OF class, this little horse. He doesn't worry about anything. MERIT Bob and Beverly Lewis were named the recipi I never did see Silver Charm during the race. The only ents of the 1997 Eclipse Award of Merit yesterday. The time I heard Silver Charm was when I heard (track an couple, who celebrated 50 years of marriage in August, nouncer) Trevor Denman say his name." The first two became ambassadors for the sport last spring when finishers will meet up again in the second leg of the their three-year-old colt Silver Charm captured the pub Strub Series, the January 17 Gii San Fernando S. lic's imagination with wins in the Kentucky Derby and Preakness S. The Lewises also campaigned champion Serena's Song and owned a one-third interest in 1994's WEEKEND PREVIEW 2 champion two-year-old Timber Country. Thoroughbred NEWS CONTINUED 2 owners since 1 990, the Lewis Stable now includes 45- 50 horses in training, another 20 two-year-olds at farms -fJ"} RACING REPORTS . 3-5 and training centers in Kentucky and six broodmares, z TOTAL PAGES ................. 7 including Serena's Song, who is in foal to Mr. Prospector. PAGE 2 • 'fHOROUGHBRED DAILY NEWS• 12-27-97 (News cont.) Today, Calder: ALWAYS FAIR TO PRESTONWOOD Multiple LA PREVOYANTE H.-Gll, $150,000, 3yo/up, f/m, group stakes winner Always Fair (Danzig--Carduel 1 1/2mT, post time: 3:05 p.m. EST {Buckpasser}) will stand the 1998 breeding season at PP HORSE TRAINER JOCKEY ODDS Prestonwood Farm in Versailles, Kentucky. The 12-year 1 Mystery Code Kessinger Davis 5-1 old stallion formerly stood at stud in France. As a two 2 Ms. Mostly Cesare Romero 12-1 year-old, he captured the G3 Coventry S. at Royal As 3 Flying Concert Knibbs Castillo, Jr. 20-1 cot, at three he won the G3 Prix Quincey at Deauville, 4 Born Twice Johnson Samyn 20-1 and he placed second in four other graded events during 5 Yokama Mott Bailey 3-1 his career. Always Fair was represented by six stakes 6 Sweet Sondra Carroll Espinoza 20-1 winners from his first crop, including Group winners 7 Sagar Pride (Ire) Byrne Sellers 6-1 Vadlawys and Lunafairy. The property of a syndicate, 8a Last Approach Sheppard Krone 1 2-1 ~!ways Fair will stand for a 1998 stud fee of $6,000 9 Overcharger Knoll Rivera II 8-1 live foal, due November 1. 10 Grey Way Byrne Day 8-1 11 Mousse Glacee (Fr) Kimmel Smith 4-1 12a Beyrouth Sheppard Rice 12-1 PRE:VIEW ALSO ELIGIBLE 1 3 Almost Skint (Ire) Wolfson Coa 30-1 • • 14 Illume Skiffington Toribio 30-1 Today, Santa Anita: LA BREA S.-GI, $150,00IOa, 3yo, f, 7f, post time: 4:07 Sires of Runners and weights: Mystery Code (Lost Code), 114; Ms. Mostly (Copelan), 114; Flying Concert p.m. PST {Zafarrancho {Arg}), 114; Born Twice (Opening Verse), PP HORSE TRAINER JOCKEY ODDS 115; Yokama {Irish River {Fr}), 118; Sweet Sondra 1 Corona Lake Mandella Stevens 7-2 (Wolf Power {SAf}), 114; Sagar Pride (Ire) (Jareer), 2 Starry Ice Dutton Gomez 30-1 113; Last Approach (Far Out East), 114; Overcharger 3 Minister's Melody Hofmans Nakatani 10-1 (Overskate), 116; Grey Way (Cozzene), 114; Mousse 4 Bali Beauty Van Overschot Espinoza 30-1 Glacee (Fr) {Mtoto {GB}), 116; Beyrouth (Alleged), 115; 5 Fun in Excess Baffert Flores 1 2-1 Almost Skint (Ire) {Last Tycoon {Ire}), 113; Illume 6 Alzora McAnally Mccarron 3-1 (Alwuhush), 112. 7 Lavender Drysdale Desormeaux 1 5-1 MSW Yokama has the class edge over this field after 8 I Ain't Bluffing Ellis Delahoussaye 5-2 a third-place finish in her latest start in the Nov. 30 GI 9 Praviana (Chi) Solis Puype 8-1 Matriarch S. at Hollywood. Mousse Glacee (Fr), runner 10 Tomorrows Sunshine Sadler Asmussen 8-1 up in this year's G 1 French Oaks, finished second in the 11 Fair Margarita Hofmans Black 1 2-1 Oct. 19 Gii E. P. Taylor S. at Woodbine in her North Sires of Runners and weights: Corona Lake (Storm American debut last time out. Sagar Pride (Ire), winner Cat), 115; Starry Ice {Ice Age), 117; Minister's Melody of the Oct. 15 Dowager S., ran third in her previous (Deputy Minister), 119; Bali Beauty (Seven Zero), 119; outing in the Nov. 15 Giii Cardinal H. at Churchill. Fun in Excess (In Excess {Ire}), 119; Alzora (Seattle Slew), 115; Lavender (Smile), 119; I Ain't Bluffing (Pine Today, Calder: Bluff), 119; Praviana (Chi) (Nureyev Dancer), 115; To VIRGINIA H.-Glll, $100,000, 3/up, f/m, 7f, PT: 4:19 EST morrows Sunshine (Silver Deputy), 115; Fair Margarita The field, in post position order, is: Start At Once (Crafty Prospector), 115. {Gone West), Bailey, 113; Try My Thai {Sewickley), The speedy I Ain't Bluffing, winner of the May 18 Santos, 113; Special Request (Sovereign Dancer), Gii Railbird S. at Hollywood, switches back to the McCauley, 114; Gold Memory {Crafty Prospector), Coa, 117; U Can Do It (Gold Alert), Hameister, 115; Dance main track here after capturing two straight stakes on for Thee (Sword Dance {Ire}), Jurado, 113; Flashy n the turf. Alzora will be looking for her first stakes Smart {Smarten), Day, 118; Vivace (Shot Gun Scott), victory in this spot after romping by nine lengths last Romero, 1 21; Mistress Fletcher (Sovereign Don), Nunez, time out in an Oct. 22 Santa Anita $62,500 optional 111; Scotzanna (Silver Deputy), Bravo, 111; Flying claimer. Corona Lake, who is three-for-five lifetime, Concert (Zafarrancho {Arg}), Castillo, Jr, 115; Fortunate was bested in her previous start, the Nov.