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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~1?1~~UN~~~RE DM TUESDAY, MARCH 18, 1997 T•R•I•P•L•E THREATS DUBAI WORLD CUP PROBABLES RELEASED THE TDN TOP 10 LIST The probable field for the March 29 $4 million Dubai 1--St-IARP CAT (Storm Cat) - If he lets the "Cat" out of World Cup, issued yesterday, includes the following 13 the bag, D. Wayne Lukas could have his eighth Triple horses: Bijou D'lnde (GB) (Cadeaux Genereux {GB}), Crown race win in the last nine chances, and his third Even Top (Ire) (Topanoora {Ire}), Flemensfirth (Alleged), straight Kentucky Derby score. Formal Gold (Black Tie Affair {Ire}), Helissio (Fr) (Fairy Last Out - GI Santa Anita Oaks, won by 5 1/2, March 9 King), Hokuto Vega (Jpn) {Nagurski), Juggler (Aus) Next Start - GI Santa Anita Derby, 1 1/Sm, April 5 (Jugah), Kammtarra (Zilzal), Key Of luck (Chief's Crown), luso (GB) (Salse), Sandpit (Brz) (Baynoun {Ire}), 2--CAPTAIN BODGIT (Saint Bailado) - He outranked Singspiel (Ire) (In The Wings {GB}), and Siphon (Brz) favored Pulpit in his first Grade I attempt, and has never (ltajara {Brz}). Ladbrokes, the biggest bookmaking com been worse than third in nine career starts. pany in Britain, have the Richard Mandella pair of Siphon Last Out - GI Florida Derby, won by 2 1/2, March 15 (Brz), 3-1, and Sandpit (Brz), 7-2, as the favorites. Prix Next Start - GI/ Blue Grass at KEE, 1 1/Sm, April 12 de I' Arc de Triomphe hero Helissio (Fr) and Canadian 3--SllVER CHARM (Silver Buck} - First or second in all International and Japan Cup winner Singspiel {Ire) come five starts, the grey just missed in the San Felipe, his next at 5-1. Mike Dillon, spokesman for Ladbrokes, said: two-turn debut and second start in five months. "This looks to be an ultra-competitive field, which is last Out - GI/ San Felipe, 2nd by 314 's, March 16 highly appropriate. In my opinion the professional dirt Next Start - GI Santa Anita Derby, 1 1/Bm, April 5 horses from America must have an advantage with their 4--PUlPIT (A.P. Indy) - Lost a little of his luster in his experience on the surface and must have the call in the first career defeat, but was by no means embarrassed in market." (Severe weather in Dubai puts the event in the Florida Derby; gets another chance" jeopardy--see related News). Last Out - GI Florida Derby, 2nd by 2 1/2, March 15 Next Start - GI/ Blue Grass (?) at KEE, 1 1/Bm, April 12 HEAVY RAIN CLOSES NADAL SHEBA Dubai's Nad Al Sheba racecourse, venue of the $4 million Dubai 5--CONCERTO (Chief's Crown) - Second to Captain World Cup on March 29, has been badly affected by Bodgit in the Giii Laurel Futurity last season and un persistent heavy rain recently and, as the deluge contin beaten since; can he carry the tune to the Derby? ues, the main sand track has been flooded and is now last Out - John Battaglia Memorial S., won by 6, March 8 Next Start - GI/ Jim Beam S. at TP, 1 1/Bm, March 29 closed for training, which, ironically, has been trans ferred to the grass. Monday, the Prix de I' Arc de 6--FREE HOUSE (Smokester) - When he is good, he is Triomphe winner Helissio (Fr) (Fairy King) and the John very, very good, but when he is bad the #House" goes Gosden-trained Flemensfirth (Alleged) had to be vanned up in smoke. to another track to do their work. With more rain fore Last Out - GI/ San Felipe S., won by 3/4's, March 16 cast, doubts are already being expressed in Dubai about Next Start - GI Santa Anita Derby, 1 1/Bm, April 5 Nad Ai Sheba being able to stage the World Cup, which 7--TRAITOR (Cryptoclearance) - Showed flashes as a might have to be transferred to another track or even be two-year-old with Grade I success; will he go back on canceled. that promise at three? News cont. o2 Last Out - GI Moet Champagne, 2nd by 1 3/4's, Oct. 5 STAKES CLOSINGS Next Start - OBS Championship S., 1 1!16m, March 24 TOMORROW, WEDNESDAY. MARCH 19: 8--PACIFICBOUNTY (Pirate's Bounty) - Has put together 3-29 $175,000 Explosive Bid H.-G/11, FG, three straight since breaking his maiden at Hollywood in 4yo/up, 9fT ($50) December, looks for big reward next time. 3-29 $60150,000 Queen Breeders' Cup, TP, Last Dut - Giii El Camino Real Derby, won by 1, March 8 4yo/up, f/m, 6f ($50) Next Start - GI Santa Anita Derby, 1 1/Bm, April 5 3-29 $ 7 00, 000 Bourbonette, TP, 3yo, f, Bf ( $100)• 7-26 $200,000 Mid-South Futurity, LS, (R), 2yo, 6f Triple Threats cont. p2 ($200) .,PAGE-,2 •THOROUGHBRED DAILY NEWS• 3-18-97 Triple Threats cont. COOPERATION RESOLVES RACETRACK 9--CRYPTO STAR (Cryptoclearance) - Proved a star in LIABILITY ISSUE In a joint effort between the Thor his first graded stakes attempt; can he pass the screen oughbred Owners and Breeders Association, the United test in the big leagues? Thoroughbred Trainers of America, and Kentucky race Last Out - GI/I Louisiana Derby, won by a head, March 16 tracks, a model regulation has been adopted in Kentucky Next Start - Gii Blue Grass at KEE, 1 1/Bm, April 12 dealing with issues of liability at the track. The Ken 10-KING CRIMSON (Capote) - No reason to turn red tucky Racing Commission recently approved the regula after his stakes and two-turn debut in the San Felipe; tion; it was also approved by the interim joint committee could be King of the Hill with a win next time. on Licensing and Occupations March 1 4 and becomes last Out - Gii San Felipe S., 3rd by 1 3/4's, March 16 effective immediately. Sam Ramer, executive director of Next Start - GI Santa Anita Derby(?), 1 1/Bm, April 5 the UTTA, explained, "For a long time nationwide there has existed what I've always believed to be an inequity NEXT WEEK'S TRIPLE CROWN PREPS between the relationship of the horsemen and the race tracks. Buried in all documents such as stakes nomina Saturday, March 22: tions, stall applications and badge lists was language, in Giii $125,000 Rebel S., 1 1 /16m, Oaklawn Park small type, that basically moved the line of responsibility Sunday, March 23: away from the racetrack for their own negligence $150,000 Tampa Bay Derby, 1 1 /16m, Tampa Bay and ... assigned that responsibility to the owner and/or Monday, March 24: the trainer. We have found language wherein everybody $100,000 OBS Championship S., 1 1 /16m, Ocala, Fl. stands good for their own negligence on the racetrack, just as they do outside the racetrack, with the tempo News cont. rary exception dealing with injury to horses as property TRAITOR RETURNS AT OBS Last year's GI Futurity damage." As to that particular issue, Ramer added, "If a winner Traitor (Cryptoclearance), away from the races horse was damaged off the racing surface due to the since finishing second in the GI Moet Champagne last negli!~ence of the racetrack, and that were proven, then October, will make his three-year-old debut in the we feel that there should be some way for the racetrack $100,000 OBS Championship S. in Ocala, Florida, Mon to accept some exposure. At the same time, we also day, March 24. A $102,000 purchase from last year's want to limit this exposure because we realize that one Ocala Breeders' Sales Company's Calder Two-Year-Olds horse--for instance Cigar--could come onto the race in Training Sale, the Alfred Vanderbilt colt heads a field track, take a bad step, and basically bankrupt a racing of 11 in the mile-and-a-sixteenth event; he will be ridden association. We don't want the regulation to be all inclu:sive, but we want it such that the track shoulders by jockey John Velazquez. some responsibility ... " Drew J. Couto, president of TOBA, added, "The issues addressed--personal injury LOTTSA TALC RETIRED Lottsa Talc (Talc), one of and property damage--were not the easiest issues to New York's most durable and consistent stakes per resolve because of the diversity of the parties' interests. formers the past several seasons, has been retired after But it was a very creative group of individuals who got a seventh-place finish in Sunday's Next Move H. at together and put serious effort into equitably resolving Aqueduct. The seven-year-old mare won 21 of 65 thesH issues. And I think we've come a long way to starts, earning $1,211,996 in a career that spanned ward! a fair solution, one that will protect the interests four-and-a-half years. Sixteen of those wins came in of the racetracks, of owners, trainers and of the sport." stakes, including the 1996 Gii Barbara Fritchie at Laurel. Nine of those stakes wins, topped by the '96 Gii Dis PAULSON FILES INSURANCE CLAIM Allen taff, were at Aqueduct. She placed in 1 5 other stakes Paulson has filed an infertility claim with the insurers of events, and finished in the money in 43 of her 64 out Ciga1r (Palace Music) after a team of fertility experts ings. "We had been discussing retiring her the last cou announced that "we unanimously believe that Cigar will ple of months, and we just wanted to see how she not be capable of rendering any mares pregnant in the fared this year," said her trainer, Tim Kelly.