I~~Un~!!~Re Dm Thursda Y, Ma Y 9, 1996
Total Page:16
File Type:pdf, Size:1020Kb
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 THURSDA Y, MA Y 9, 1996 WeEeEeKeEeNeD PREVIEW UNBRIDLED'S SONG TUNES OUT PREAKNESS Saturday, Belmont Park: While admitting there was a slight chance he could still WITHERS S.-GII, $100,OOOa, 3yo, 1m change his mind, owner Ernie Paragallo said yesterday Gil Jim Beam and Gill Swale S. winner Roar {Forty that he plans for Unbridled's Song (Unbridled) to pass Niner} is a definite starter for the Withers, trainer Shug the Preakness in favor of the May 27 Met Mile at McGaughey confirmed Wednesday. Roar could face six Belmont Park. Paragallo still intends to run in the June or seven rivals in the Grade II event, including Appealing 8 Belmont Stakes. "Unless something happens next Skier (Baldski), winner of the Gil Hutcheson S. over week, he's definitely not going to the Preakness," said seven furlongs at Gulfstream. Appealing Skier drilled Paragallo. "He looks fine, but we want to be careful. five furlongs in :58.04 Tuesday over Belmont's sloppy (Trainer) Jimmy (Ryerson) said everything is healed, track. Also probable for the Withers are Clive den Hall (Mt. Livermore), Gill Bay Shore S. winner Jamies First but we want some vets and blacksmiths to take a look Punch (Fit to Fight), Gil Gotham S. winner Romano at him so we know we have no chance of hurting him. Gucci (Aaron's Concorde) and a Robert Perez-owned The Preakness is a very prestigious race, but we're not entry of Rumbo al Esta (Eastern Echo) and Secreto de going for just prestige. We want to make sure he's Estado (General Assembly). Paraneck Stables' Firey right." Paragallo knows the Met Mile could be a diffi Jennifer (Tilt Up), third in the Bay Shore, will go next in cult assignment as well. "We'll be running against either the Withers or a six-furlong race at Pimlico Satur Afternoon Deelites (Private Terms) and Lite the Fuse day, trainer Joe Aquilino said. (Buckaroo) as a three-year-old. We'll be running against some of the best sprinters in the country./I Paragallo Sunday, Hollywood Park: confirmed that Unbridled's Song will not run in bar INGLEWOOD H.-GilL $125,OOOa, 3yo/up, 1 1/16mT shoes in his next start. Helmsman (EI Gran Senor) drilled five furlongs in :59 4/5 Wednesday at Hollywood under jockey Chris KENTUCKY DERBY 122 SETS WAGERL~G McCarron, and trainer Wally Dollase indicated the four RECORDS Preliminary Kentucky Derby wagering fig year-old colt will run on the turf in the Inglewood. ures, including on-track, Kentucky ITW/OTB, the Sports Helmsman, winner of the GI Strub S. and Gil San Spectrum and national and international sources, totaled Fernando S. this past winter over Santa Anita's main a record $47,387,442, an increase of $1,169,553 from track, hasn't raced since displacing his soft palate while iast year. Simulcast wagering sources, which included finishing f.,ourth in the March 2 Santa Anita H. "This commingled and separate pool outlets, totaled a record horse is one of those special ones who can go on either $37,543,930, an increase of $186,496. A record 996 turf or dirt," Dollase said. "He's training well. I got his sites took part in the simulcast, with 690 domestic sites last quarter today in : 11 4/5 and (the Inglewood) is a and an additional 306 international sources. Churchill good place to start." Also working for the race was Downs on-track wagering was $7,488,725, with an 1995 Breeders' Cup Mile runner-up Fastness (Ire) additional $338,774 handled at the Sports Spectrum. (Rousillon), who went seven furlongs Monday in 1 :24 Derby wagering in-state through Kentucky ITW and OTB 3/5 under jockey Corey Nakatani. Fastness has not sources totaled $2,016,013. In addition, total wagering raced since winning the Gil Citation H. over the Holly wood turf last November. Other probables for the for the entire Kentucky Derby Day race card climbed to Inglewood are Tychonic (GB) (Last Tycoon {Ire}), cur a record $75,534,151, an increase of $8,606,532 over rently riding a five-race win streak; Dernier Empereur 1995. The breakdown on the entire Derby Day race (Trempolino); College Town (Snow Chief); and Lord card included: $16,739,132 wagered at Churchill Shirldor (SAf) (Elliodor {Fr}l. Downs; $752,842 at the Sports Spectrum, including $61,349 wagered through Churchill's at home wagering Weekend Preview Continued, p. 3. experiment; $4,084,093 through Kentucky ITW/OTB sources; and $53,896,735 handled by national and STAKES CLOSINGS international sources. TOMORROW, FRIDAY, MAY 10: 8-10 $ 1,000,OOOg Pacific Classic-GI, Dmr, News Continued, p. 2. 3ya/up, 10t (4/up-$2,000; 3yo-$1,OOO) PAGE 2 • THOROUGHBRED DAILY NEWS • 5-9-96 News Continued. STALLIONS SET FOR VINERY MATCHMAKER ONTARIO'S PARI-MUTUEL TAX REDUCED The STAKES Atlantic City's "race for love and money" will Ontario Provincial Government made a significant move take on an expanded name. In 1996, for the first time in to help the slumping Ontario horse racing industry Tues its 30-year history, some of the finest turf distaffers in day by significantly dropping the pari-mutuel tax. The the nation will benefit from the Vinery sponsorship of previous tax had been five percent. It is now 0.5 per donated Stallion seasons. The 1 3/16-mile grass feature cent, which could mean growth revenues of $45 million for fillies and mares will be run Wednesday, July 24. a year. The industry will continue the rebate program The stallions awaiting the first three finishers in the which the government had previously subsidized that 1996 Grade II event all stand at Mr. and Mrs. Ben P. allocates 2.4 percent of money wagered to horsemen's Walden Jr.'s Vinery near Midway, Kentucky. They are purse accounts. Individual racetracks have been lobby Strike the Gold (Alydar), River Special (Riverman) and ing the government to reduce pari-mutuel taxes for De Niro (Gulch). Choice of breedings plus the winners' years, but the movement gained momentum when the shares of the $100,000 purse await the top three finish collective group joined together under the auspices of ers. Early nominations closed April 12 with 38 nomina the Ontario Horse Racing Industry Association (OHRIA) tions; the late closing will be Friday, June 28. two years ago. One of OHRIA's mandates was to let the government know that the horse racing industry was DEPUTY MINISTER COLT TOPS BARRETTS being taxed unfairly, given that it no longer has the SECOND SESSION A dark bay or brown colt by Dep monopoly on legalized gambling. "It puts the horse uty Minister out of the Grade I winning mare Anka racing industry on a competitive playing field with the Germania (Ire) (Malinowski) brought a final bid of rest of the gaming sectors," said Jane Holmes, execu $205,000 to top Tuesday's second and final session of tive director of OHRIA. "We have the chance to be Barretts' Spring Sale of Two-Year-Olds in Training in revitalized. We think the money will be invested back Pomona, California. Consigned by Jerry Bailey Sales into the industry and be returned to the customers as Agency, agent for Bailey-Ellenberg Select, the Kentucky well." It is up to individual racetracks to decide how bred colt had been previously sold for $120,000 as a they want to pass on the savings to customers, but it is weanling at the 1994 Keeneland November Breeding expected some of the tracks will lower their pari-mutuel Stock Sale. He was purchased Tuesday by Wallace takeouts. Collectively, on horse racing in Ontario last Dollase, agent. Overall, 107 juveniles were sold during year, $1.17 billion was wagered. The Ontario Jockey the second session for a gross of $2,599,700, an aver Club, the largest racing organization of all track opera age of $24,296 and a median of $15,000. There were tors in the province, had 75 to 80 percent of the money 54 horses reported as not sold. Final statistics for the wagered at its tracks. The OJC is expected to use some two-day auction had 208 two-year-olds sold for a gross of the money for improvements that will be in effect for of $5,029,700, an average of $24,181 and a median the Breeders' Cup Oct. 26 at Woodbine. The govern price of $15,000, with 106 individuals listed as not ment also announced that video lottery terminals will be sold. The 1996 average was up 25.6 percent from last introduced at racetracks and charity casinos in Ontario. year's $19,246. VLTs are in use already at some Canadian tracks. MEADOWLANDS EXPANDS The New Jersey Sports Pike PIKE PLACE DANCER TO MOTHER GOOSE and Exposition Authority yesterday unveiled plans for a Place Dancer (Seattle Dancer), winner of her last four $265 million retail and entertainment center designed to races--all stakes--including the GI Kentucky Oaks at attract a broader range of customers to its Meadow Churchill Downs last Friday, is back home in trainer lands Sports Complex, which includes Meadowlands Jerry Hollendorfer's barn at Golden Gate Fields. "She Racetrack. The five-year project calls for construction of flew to Hollywood Park Monday and (vanned) here a 1.1 million square-foot pavilion with a 20-screen, (Tuesday)," said Hollendorfer, who added that the three 7,000-seat cinema, restaurants, retail stores and an 85 year-old filly is being pointed for a pair of Grade I stakes foot high, glass-enclosed atrium.