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N•E•W•S S•A•L•E•S TODAY RESULTS STORM CAT FILLY STEALS SARATOGA SARATOGA TUESDAY-TOP FIVE COLTS HIP# SIRE DAM PRICE Tuesday night's first session of the LIMELIGHT 42 Deputy Minister Hunt $900,000 1998 Fasig-Tipton Saratoga Selected Yearling Sale in ($260,000 wnlg '97 KEENOV) Saratoga Springs, New York was topped by Hip 30, a Consigned by Dromoland/Hartwell, Agent I. $1. 7 million chestnut filly by Storm Cat--Gone to Venus Purchased by Shadwell Farm, Inc. (Gone West). The Kentucky-bred is the highest-priced 67 Deputy Minister Maison de Reve $725,000 yearling filly to sell at auction so far in 1 998, and is the Consigned by Muirfield East, Agent. fourth highest-priced yearling filly in Fasig-Tipton his Purchased by Reynolds Bell Jr., Agent. tory. She was consigned last night by Taylor Made 50 Woodman Jadana (Ire} $550,000 Sales Agency, agent, and was purchased by Richard . ($350,000 wnlg '97 KEENOV} Mulhall, agent for Prince Ahmed Salman's The Thor I Consigned by Eaton Sales, Agent. oughbred Corp. "She's very nice; she reminded me of Pwchased by Mr. & Mrs. Robert Baker. Sharp Cat," Mulhall said. "She's a big, good-looking filly 19 Kingfl1ambo Freewheel $525,000 and very hard to fault. We were prepared to go (to $1 . 7 Consigned by Lane's End, Agent. million). Prince Ahmed said he wanted her. Of all the Purchased by John Ferguson Bloodstock. horses in the sale, she's the top pick. She'll go to Cali 5 French Deputy Explosive $435,000 fornia and Wally Dollase, our private trainer, will train Consigned by Lane's End, Agent. her." The underbidder on the Storm Cat filly, who is the Purchased by Mrs. M J Dance Jr. first foal out of her dam, was trainer John Kimmel, bidding on behalf of Robert Waxman. When asked what SARATOGA TUESDAY-TOP FIVE FILLIES he liked about the filly, Kimmel commented, "Every HIP# SIRE DAM PRICE thing. We were looking at $1 .5 million. We've been ~Storm Cat Gone to Venus $1,700,000 trying to buy some nice fillies since Keeneland and have Consign d by Taylor Made Sales Agency, Agent XVII. been the underbidder on quite a few. It's getting particu urchased by The Thoroughbred Corp. 32 Hol Bull Good Morning Smile $400,000 larly frustrating in this market." Tuesday's top-priced Consi ned by Akindale Farm, Eaton Sales, Agent. colt at $900,000 was Hip 42, a chestnut by Deputy Purchased by Mrs. M J Dance Jr. Minister--Hunt (Secretariat). The Kentucky-bred colt has 53 Gui h Katie Love $400 ,000 quite a history in the sales arena, as he was sold in Consigned by Braeburn Farm Corp., utero to Morton Binn for $240,000 at the 1996 Walnut Green (Jones Bros.), Agent. Keeneland November sale, then again as a weanling to urchased by Reynolds Bell Jr., Agent. Hartwell Farm for $260,000 at the 1997 Keeneland 1 Tabasco Cat Empress Aly $380,000 November auction. He was consigned to last night's Consigned by Bertram N. Linder, Taylor Made Sales session by Dromoland/Hartwell, agent, and was pur Agency, Agent. Purchased by Eugene Melnyk. chased by Shadwell Farm, Inc. Shadwell representative 29 Holy Bull Goldminess $250,000 Rick Nichols said, "He's a very strong, athletic, good Consi~ ned by Walnut Green (Jones Bros.), Agent. moving colt. He'll stay in America and be trained by Pu rel ~ased by J. Davis, Agent for Quality Farm. Kia ran Mclaughlin. He was our number one pick." Over all, 58 yearlings were sold Tuesday night for a gross of STAKES CLOSINGS $13, 109,000, up 44 percent from last year's first ses TODAY, VEDNESDAY. AUGUST 12: sion, when 52 horses grossed $9, 119,000. The 8-75 $1,( 00, 000 Pacific Classic-GI, Dmr, $226,017 average represented a 29 percent increase 3y< 1/up, 10f, ($30,000s) from $175,365 last year. The median price was 8-23 $25 0,000 Del Mar Oaks-GI, Dmr, 3yo, f, ~ fT ($250) $155,000, with 16 yearlings listed as RNA. The 8-29 $75 000 Play the King-GJC, Wo, Saratoga Selected Yearling Sale continues tonight at 3yo lup, 7fT ($75) • 8 p.m., with the third and final session slated for Thurs- TOMORR '.JW THURSDAY AUGUST 13: day night, also at 8 p.m. 8-15 $15 J,000 Sorority-Gill, Mth, 2yo, t, 6t ($5,000s) 8-1 $300 000 Ramona H.-GJ, Dmr, 3yo/up, f/m, 9fT ($300) 8-2 $30C 000 Eddie Read H-GJ, Dmr, 3yo/up, 9fT ($300) News Continued, p. 6. PAGE 2 •THOROUGHBRED DAILY NEWS• 8-12-98 1st-DEL, $25,200, Msw, 2yo, 5 1 /2f, 1 :04 2/5, gd. PREVIEW +KLONDIKE GOLD (g, 2, Alaskan Frost--Dewy Rose, by • • Hooched), 4-1 in his debut, ran wire-to-wire and scored Today, Saratoga: by 4 3/4 lengths. Lifetime Record: 1-1-0-0, $14,400. A PHENOMENON H.-Gll, $125,000, 3yo/up, 6f, post O/B-John Porter (FL). T-Randy Nunley. ·time: 5: 15 p.m. EDT PP HORSE TRAINER JOCKEY ODDS Local News, Woodbine: 1 Johnny Legit Moschera Velazquez 20-1 Prince of Wales S. runner-up Nite Dreamer (El Prado 2 Royal Haven Moschera Migliore 6-1 {Ire}), considered a possible favorite for Sunday's 3 Kelly Kip Jerkens Samyn 9-5 $300,000 Breeders' S., the third leg in Canada's Triple 4 Punch Line Turner Chavez 8-1 Crown, has been withdrawn from the race, according to 5 Oro de Mexico Serpe Davis 1 2-1 trainer Niall O'Callaghan, who said the colt may be 6 Partner's Hero Lukas Day 12-1 slated for some time on the sidelines. ''I'm not com 7 Richter Scale Mott Bailey 5-2 pletely happy with the way the horse is going," said 8 Trafalger Lukas Smith 1 0-1 O'Callaghan. "I just don't think he would have been 9 Receiver Petalino Albarado 12-1 ready for Sunday's race." Richter Scale (*Habitony) began the year with back to-back wins in the Giii Maryland Breeders' Cup H. and Gii True North H., but faded to fifth in his last MIDWEST start, the Gil Tom Fool H. at Belmont July 5. Royal Yesterday's• Results: • Haven (Hail Emperor) ended 1997 with victories in 7th-HAW, $26,000, Alw, 3yo, f, 6 1 /2f, 1: 18, ft. the Gii Fall Highweight H. and Giii Gravesend H. and TACKALAC (f, 3, Known Fact--Little Fuzzy {SW}, by continued his winning ways this year with a two Turn and Count), a full sister to lt'sali'lknownfact, SW, length triumph in the February 16 Gii General George, $338,684, was second in her career debut at Churchill his only 1998 outing. Kelly Kip (Kipper Kelly) is com Downs in June '97. The dark bay was then off for 13 ing off wins in the June 20 Giii Finger Lakes Breed months before resurfacing at Hawthorne July 13 to take ers' Cup and July 18 Gii Frank J. Defrancis Memorial a maiden pecial weight by five lengths as the 2-5 fa Dash. Should Kelly Kip win this event in track-record vorite. Ma e the crowd's choice here once again at time, the colt would own track records at all four 8-5 odds, he came from just off the pace for a 2 3/4- New York tracks. length tall . Lifetime Record: 3-2-1-0, $38, 120. 0-J Castr . 8-The Estate of A Stoll (KY). T-H Robertson. 5th-HAW, $24,000, Msw, 2yo, 5 1 /2f, 1 :05 3/5, ft. EAST + DANCI G HARLAN (c, 2, Harlan--Come Dance With • • Me, by Re Ryder), 3-1 in his debut, rallied three wide Yesterday's Results: to take a ~lear lead into the stretch and drew off easily 8th-DEL, $30,000, Alw, 3yo/up, 6f, 1 :09, ft. to win by ~ive lengths. Dancing Harlan, a half brother to DEVIL'S TOUCH Ch, 5, Devil's Bag--Velvet Touch, by Her Lady hipp (Family Doctor), MSW, $225, 765, be Restless Native) was claimed from a winning effort off a came the hird winner for his freshman sire (by Storm two-year absence in May and returned to win back-to Cat). Lifet me Record: 1 -1 -0-0, $1 4 ,400. back allowance races before finishing seventh in his turf 0-Matthe Sularski. B-Mike Boyd (KY). T-A Granitz. debut in the Jeff S. last time out July 19. The 4-5 favor ite dueled for the early lead before outbattling second s, Kentucky Downs: choice FIVE ST AR DEPUTY (Silver Deputy) to the wire John A her will be the track announcer for the inau for a 1 3/4-length tally. The winner is a half to Bare gural 199 Kentucky Downs meeting. The Franklin, With Me (High Echelon), SW, $219,466; Grecian Touch Kentucky rack runs from September 13 through Sep (Euclid {Ire}), MSW, $212,526 and a full to Devilish tember 2 . Asher, currently serving as Director of News Touch, GSW, $397,955. Lifetime Record: 7-5-1-0, and lnfor ation and Racing Analyst at Churchill Downs, $74,520. was a rad o reporter for Louisville's WHAS-AM and 0-Sunny Acres Farms. B-Beth Clifton (KY). T-Frank A WAVG-A and has won five Eclipse Awards for Out Passero Jr. standing ational Coverage of Thoroughbred Racing.