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The Thoroughbred Daily News is delivered to your home or business by fax each morning by 5 a.m. For subscription information, please call 908-747-8060. T~?I~~UN~~~RE DM T U E S D A Y, A U G U S T 1 5 1995 ' S•T•A•K•E•S PREVIEW Today, York, England CORDERO READY TO RIDE Angel Cordero Jr. expects to make his return to riding Sept. 3 at JUDDMONTE INTERNATIONAL S.-G1, $327,869a, Monmouth Park, where he will begin to prepare for a 3yo/up, 1 Of 85ydsT PP HORSE TRAINER JOCKEY ODDS fall riding schedule culminating in an appearance in the 1 Needle Gun Brittain Cochrane 20-1 Oct. 28 Breeders' Cup at Belmont Park. Cordero, a 52- 2 Halling bin Surror Swinburn 2-1 year-old Hall of Fame jockey who has not ridden in a 3 Annus Mirabilis Stoute Kinane 9-2 rac~ since suffering serious injuries in a Jan. 12, 1992 4 Bahri Dunlop Carson 11-8 a~c1dent at Aqueduct, has been a Thoroughbred trainer 5 Ela-Aristokrati Stoute Hills 50-1 since that time. He said he expected to ride two or 6 Eltish Cecil Eddery 5-1 three ~aces at Monmouth Sept. 3 and had mapped out a Three-year-old Bahri (Riverman), 123, on the board in tentative Belmont Park fall schedule which includes riding appearances on Super Saturday (Sept. 16), all nine career starts,_ earned Group 1 status winning the St. James Palace S. 1n June, then came back to finish Breeders' Cup Preview Day (Oct. 7), New York Show case Day (Oct. 14) and Breeders' Cup Day, Oct. 28. He second_ in t~e G 1 Sussex S. July 26. Halling (Diesis {GB}), m with 132 pounds, returned from a nine-month wil_I rid~ Rogues Walk (Ends Well), who he currently layoff to win the G1 Coral-Eclipse S. July 8, his first tr_am~, m the New York Showcase Day, and said he stakes win. He makes his second post-vacation start. d1dn t expect to have problems lining up mounts for the other days. Cordero will give up his trainer's license Today, York, England while he is riding; his stable will be trained by his wife GREAT VOLTIGEUR S.-G2, $81,967a, 2yo, 11f Marjorie. Cordero said he is also open to making speci~I 195ydsT ~ppearances at ~ther tracks, for a fee, and had already lined up a tentative stop at El Commandante in his PP HORSE TRAINER JOCKEY WT. 1 Pentire Wragg Hills 1 24 ~ative Puerto Rico. He expects to end his riding career 2 lhtiram Dunlop Carson 1 21 in the Dec. 3 Classico del Caribe Dec. 3 in Santo 3 Singspiel Stoute Kinane 1 21 D~mingo. "It doesn't matter to me that people say I 4 Luso Brittain Cochrane 1 26 miss the limelight," said Cordero. "When you get to be Highweight Luso (GB) (Salse), winner of this year's G1 my age, that doesn't mean anything to you. It's just Italian Derby, missed by just a neck to last year's Arc something that's bothering me--1 just wanted to ride one winner Carnegie in the G 1 Grand Prix de Saint-Cloud more time. I didn't want to retire like I did." Cordero last time out July 2. said his current weight had dropped to 11 2 pounds after working 2 months with a personal trainer. Saturday, Saratoga TRAVERS S.-GI, $750,000, 3yo, 1 Of HOLLYWOOD NEXT TO JUMP TRA SHIP? THUNDER GULCH READY TO RUMBLE Hollywoo? Park President R.D. Hubbard, talking to Kentucky Derby and Belmont Stakes winner Thunder reporters 1n Del Mar's paddock Sunday, said he did not Gulch (Gulch) worked five-eighths in an easy 1 :05.02 see his track continuing its membership with the Thor over Saratoga's Oklahoma training track yesterday. oughbred Racing Associations. "I see where Tom "We're just trying to keep him happy," said trainer D. Meeker. (President of Churchill Downs) is withdrawing Wayne Lukas, who described the colt as "the ultimate Churchill b~ca~1se of the direction the TRA is taking," alley fighter; he doesn't know the word give-up. Once Hubbard said. People have told me Meeker is one of he eyeballs you, you've got some problems." Trainer the smartest guys in racing, and if that's the way he John Ward Jr., who will saddle Pyramid Peak (Mt. feels, that's the way I'm going to go." If both Holly Livermore) in the Travers, agreed, saying, "He is proba wood and Churchill do leave the TRA, they will become bly the toughest competitior l 1 ve seen in the past 10 the fifth and sixth tracks to defect in the last nine years. He's the horse to beat--but he's beatable. Pyra- months, joining Golden Gate Fields 1 Oaklawn Park 1 mid Peak is the one to do it. He has improved tremen Sportsman's Park and Beulah Park. dously this season." Stakes, Travers Preview cont. p2 News cont. p2 PAGE 2 • THOROUGHBRED DAILY NEWS • 8-15-95 Travers Preview cont. News cont. CITADEED REBOUNDS AVERAGE UP AT SARATOGA PREFERRED Citadeed (Shadeed), third in the Belmont and the SALE While only half as many yearlings went through Haskell Invitational in his last two starts, breezed five the ring at Fasig-Tipton' s Saratoga Preferred Yearling furlongs in 1 :01.18 over the Saratoga main track Mon Sale, the average for the '95 auction, held Sunday, was day. "After the Haskell, he was tired from the race, the up 25 percent over last year's figure. A total of 30 hips heat and the travelling," said trainer Rick Violette Jr. sold for $551,500 this year, averaging $18,383; 60 "Since then, he's been eating up well and his coat looks yearlings sold for a gross of $882,300 in '94, an aver nice. He bounced back nicely." age of $14, 705. The '95 sales topper was Hip #517, a filly by Spectacular Bid--Torelia (Torsion). Consigned by Sunday, Del Mar: Harry L. Landry, agent for Howard T. Whitbred, the DEL MAR OAKS-GI, $250,000a, 3yo, f, 9fT dark bay went for a bid of $41,000 to the Klaravich Two fillies will be travelling from France for Sunday's Stables Inc.; she is a half to graded stakes winner Dr. Del Mar Oaks, and both will remain in the U.S. after Kiernan {Majesty's Prince) and New York-bred stakes wards for North American campaigns. "She's a big, winner Majesty's Time (Majesty's Prince). rangy, nice-looking filly," said trainer Gary Lewis of the new girl in his barn, Fiddling Blade (GB) (Sure Blade), winner of the Prix Caravelle Haras des Granges at CHURCHILL REPORTS STRONG SECOND Toulouse in her last start May 28. Lewis pointed out the QUARTER Churchill Downs Inc. yesterday announced bay filly carried 141 pounds in one of her three victories results for the three- and six-month periods which in France, and has won at 1 ~-miles. Fiddling Blade is ended June 30, 1995. The Company reported second owned by Charlie Dunn, owner of Jumron (GB), fourth quarter net income of $10.7 million, or $2.81 per share, in this year's Kentucky Derby. Leslie Grimm's Collecta as compared to $10.5 million, or $2. 77 per share, for (Fr) {Caerleon), who also notched a stakes victory in her the same period in 1 994. Second quarter revenues of last, taking the Prix des Lilas at Saint-Cloud June 13, $49.3 million were up 23 percent from the $40 million arrives in the U.S. Wednesday and won't be at new recorded in last year's second quarter. Record total trainer Ron McAnally's barn until Friday. wagering on Kentucky Derby and Kentucky Oaks Days, combined with substantial growth in the interstate Sunday, Woodbine simulcasting of Churchill Downs races, generated the BREEDERS' S.-GIC, $300,000 {R), 3yo, 12fT second-quarter increases. Net income for the first six The third leg in Canada's Triple Crown is expected to months of 1995 was $8.9 million, or $2.34 per share, attract a field of 13, including Queen's Plate winner compared to $8.3 million, or $2.19 per share, for the Regal Discovery (Regal Classic). The bay tried out the same time period last year. Revenues for the six months Woodbine turf course for the first time yesterday, gal were $58 million, an increase of 37 percent from $42.4 loping a mile and a half as he gets ready for his grass million for the first half of '94. But expenses resulting debut. "From what I could see, he seemed to enjoy it," from the first full year of operation of the Sports Spec said trainer Roger Attfield. The colt will work between trum training center, a slight decline in profit margins races Wednesday evening. Also expected for the race due to the shift from wagering on live racing to inter are Queen's Plate runner-up Freedom Fleet (Afleet); the state simulcast wagering, and start-up costs and delays chestnut worked six furlongs in 1 : 1 4 on the turf around in opening Churchill's satellite wagering facilities in the "dogs" yesterday. "This horse had a super work," Indiana contributing to lower-than-expected profits from said his conditioner, Daniel Vella. "I was thrilled." Mt. the operation in Indiana, are all expected to impact net Sassafras {Mt.