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LADY TAK Returns Wednesday HEADLINE ...p. 4 NEWS For information about TDN, DELIVERED EACH NIGHT call 732-747-8060. BY FAX AND INTERNET www.thoroughbreddailynews.com TUESDAY, APRIL 6, 2004 HALL OF FAME NOMINATIONS ANNOUNCED T R I P L E T H R E A T S Trainer Shug McGaughey and Horse of the Year Skip P P Away, both entering their first year of eligibility, were among those nominated for the 2004 class of the Na- Frankel Could Master Wood Again tional Museum of Racing’s Hall of Fame, which an- Trainer Bobby Frankel’s Empire Maker ensured chalk nounced its candidates yesterday. Over 140 members status in last year’s Kentucky Derby with a victory over of the racing media will vote on Funny Cide in the GI Wood Memorial at Aqueduct. With the Hall of Fame, with one winner the Derby picture thrown from each category being an- into further disarray with a nounced Tuesday, May 25. weekend of longshot bombs McGaughey, who has conditioned and dismal performances by eight champions for the Phipps favorites, a strong showing Family stable and other owners in in the 2004 renewal of the his 25-year career, is joined in the Wood, set for this Saturday, trainer category by John Veitch, could mean favoritism for whose charge Alydar dueled to another Frankel runner, immortality with Affirmed, and Master David Benoit photos Shug McGaughey Master David (Grand Slam). Nick Zito, the trainer of Kentucky Horsephotos Frankel sent out the colt, Derby winners Strike the Gold and winner of the Feb. 8 Sham S. at Santa Anita, to a five- Go For Gin. Skip Away, owned by Carolyn Hine and furlong move in 1:00 3/5 at Hollywood Park yesterday. trained by her husband Sonny, was named in succes- “He worked fine,” said Frankel. “He’s been training very sive years champion three-year-old, champion older well since the Sham.” Though Master David is unraced male and Horse of the Year. The gray retired with over $9.6 million in earnings and 10 Grade I victories to his since beating a strong Sham field, Frankel believes a credit. Also in the male horse category is two-time return to Aqueduct, the track over which Master David Breeders’ Cup Mile winner Lure--a McGaughey trainee-- ran second to Read the Footnotes in November’s GII and champion grass horse Manila, winner of the 1986 Remsen S., will benefit the chestnut. “I think the horse Breeders’ Cup Turf. The female horse category includes likes Aqueduct,” the Hall of Famer said. “The main Flawlessly, named champion grass mare in both 1992 things for the Wood are for him not to leave his race on and 1993; New York Filly Triple Crown victress Mom’s the track and to earn enough money to get into the Command; and Sky Beauty, also a winner of the Filly Derby. I’m looking for a top-three finish.” Master David Triple Crown. A quartet of top riders has been nomi- is expected to ship this morning to New York. nated in the jockey category, with Kent Desormeaux, Eddie Maple, Randy Romero and Jose Santos on the Value Plus Takes on New York ballot. Winners will inducted into the Hall of Fame dur- Following a strong work Sunday, Aaron and Marie ing a public ceremony at the Fasig-Tipton Sales Pavilion Jone’s Value Plus (Unbridled’s Song) will ship from in Saratoga Springs, NY on Aug. 9. Palm Meadows in Florida to New York this morning with the Wood Memorial in his sights. The strapping And the Nominees Are... gray shared the bullet when he zipped five furlongs in Jockeys: Kent Desormeaux, Eddie Maple, Randy :59 3/5, much to the approval of trainer Todd Pletcher, Romero, Jose Santos who added of distance concerns, “When you watch Trainers: Shug McGaughey, John Veitch, Nick Zito him train, he gives you the impression that he’ll run all Male horses: Lure, Manila, Skip Away day. His dam’s side doesn’t scream mile and a quarter, Female horses: Flawlessly, Mom’s Command, Sky but he looks a lot more like his sire, and I think he car- Beauty ries more of his sire line than his dam’s line.” Cont. p2 Broodmares P Stallion Seasons P Stallion Shares P etc... Introducing This Week: Stallion Shares & In Utero Foals Next WeeK: Foal Sharings & Mare Sharings (859) 422-4222 Click here for this week’s complete listings. www.equinecommerce.com TDN P HEADLINE NEWS • 4/6/04 • PAGE 2 of 4 P T R I P L E T H R E A T S CONT. P P R E S U L T S P Bush Aims Cuba Toward Wood Sunday, Nakayama, Japan Though the time doesn’t jump off the page, the LORD DERBY CHALLENGE TROPHY-G3-JRA, breeze of Cam Allard’s Cuba (Not for Love) at Belmont ¥82,600,000, 4-4, Nakayama, 4yo/up, 1600mT, Sunday morning was better than it might appear. The 1:33.40, fm. colt got the five-furlong distance in 1:01 2/5, but 1--@MEINER MORGEN (JPN), 119, c, 4, by Mt. Livermore earned the bullet over a sluggish track that yielded an 1st Dam: Morningtide, by Seeking the Gold average time of 1:04 for the same distance. “The track 2nd Dam: Eastern Dawn, by Damascus was quite deep [Sunday],” explained trainer Tom Bush. 3rd Dam: Euryanthe, by Nijinsky II “I was very comfortable with how he worked. He was O-Thoroughbred Club Ruffian; B-Matsuura Farm; blowing quite a bit after the work.” The move con- T-Masahiro Horii; J-Hiroki Goto; ¥43,560,000. vinced Bush to try the bay in Saturday’s GI Wood Me- Lifetime Record: 21-5-2-4, $1,672,404. morial at Aqueduct. Cuba graduated by 5 3/4 lengths in 2--Meiner Solomon (Jpn), 119, c, 4, Tokai Teio (Jpn)-- Takai Rodrigo (Jpn), by Rodrigo de Triano. O-K his route debut at the Big A Feb. 28, then ran second Thoroughbred Club Ruffian; B-Nakamoto Bokujo; by a half length in an entry-level allowance race Mar. ¥17,160,000. 12. Both races were at nine furlongs. Cuba has been 3--Win Radius (Jpn), 123, h, 6, Sunday Silence--Jono equipped with blinkers for his last few works, and Bush Matiere (Jpn), by Maruzensky (Jpn). O-Win Co Ltd; will keep them on his charge for the Wood. “I’ve al- B-Sanjo Bokujo; ¥11,080,000. ways felt that he might need blinkers,” he said. “His Margins: NK, NK, NK. Odds: 18.60, 12.20, 1.90. last two works have been in blinkers now and they’ve Meiner Morgen, third in the G1 NHK Mile Champion- both been bullets. He seems to be more responsive.” ship last May, opened his 2004 campaign with a runner-up finish in the New Year S., but recorded disap- Lion Heart Feeling Frisky in Work pointing efforts when 13th in the G3 Tokyo Shimbun Derrick Smith and Michael Tabor’s Lion Heart (Tale of Hai in February and 16th in the Kochi S. in March. the Cat), gearing up for a tilt in Saturday’s GI Toyota Settled in mid-pack in the 15-horse field here, the colt Blue Grass S. at Keeneland, let the fur fly outbattled Meiner Solomon to the wire to earn his first as he sped through five furlongs in :58 Japanese group win. 2/5, the co-fastest of 63 works at the distance at Santa Anita Monday morn- TDN Fax-on-Demand ing. Also moving five panels was GII San Don’t wait one more minute Felipe S. winner Preachinatthebar (Silver to get a resend of your TDN. 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TDN P HEADLINE NEWS • 4/6/04 • PAGE 3 of 4 P EDIGREE INSIGHTS I nearly described Nijinsky Star's pedigree as unique, but four of Chris Evert's five living foals (all fillies) were BY ANDREW CAULFIELD either by Nijinsky or Secretariat, another Triple Crown legend. One of her Secretariat fillies, Six Crowns, pro- Saturday, Hawthorne duced the Grade I winner Classic Crown to Mr. Pros- ILLINOIS DERBY-GII, $500,000, HAW, 4-3, 3yo, pector and the champion juvenile Chief's Crown to 1 1/8m, 1:50 4/5, ft. Danzig. Nijinsky Star didn't enjoy broodmare success 1--@#POLLARD'S VISION, 114, c, 3, by Carson City on that level, but the signs are that, in the long term, 1st Dam: Etats Unis, by Dixieland Band she is going to play a bigger role than Six Crowns in 2nd Dam: Hometown Queen, by Pleasant Colony extending the success of this remarkable female line.