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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~9I~~UN~~~RE DTM F RID A Y, JAN U A R Y 2 6, 1 996 W-E-E-K-E-N-D PREVIEW NATIONAL STEEPLECHASE ASSOCIATION Saturday, Santa Anita: APPROVES LASIX In a resolution announced yester SANTA MONICA H.-GI, $150,000a, 4yo/up, flm, 7f day, the National Steeplechase Association will allow PP HORSE TRAINER JOCKEY WT the use of Lasix at its sanctioned race meetings starting 1 Serena's Song Lukas Stevens 123 in 1996. Under the resolution, the final decision on Lasix 2 Morepheme Shirreffs Blanc 112 use will lie with the individual race meetings. Details of 3 That'll Be Fine Buss Garcia 106 the medication program, its enforcement and a list of 4 Ballerina Gal Fanning F. Valenzuela 114 those race meets which will allow the medication are 5 Exotic Wood Eliis McCarron 11 S being finalized and will be announced at a later date. 6 Klassy Kim Stute Delahoussaye 116 "We spent a lot of time debating the issue, TI said William 7 Top Rung Proctor Solis 116 L. Pape, NSA president. "The concerns of some meets Klassy Kim (Silent Screen) won the Gill Monrovia H. regarding the reactions of charitable beneficiaries and at 6 Yz -furlongs over the Santa Anita turf in her last corporate sponsors encouraged us to leave the ultimate start Jan. 6. The five-year-old mare won two stakes choice on Lasix with the meets. TI The NSA sanctions 40 on the main track last year--the Gil EI Encino S. and race meets in 11 states during the March to November the California Cup Distaff, both at Santa Anita. steeplechase season. In another ruling, the NSA board adopted an amateur/apprentice rider program to be Sunday, February 4, Santa Anita: funded through the National Steeplechase Foundation. STRUB S.-GI, $500,000,4yo, 1 114m The program designates 10 races as open to amateurs Helmsman (EI Gran Senor), who ventured off the turf and apprentices only; the NSF will offer $5,000 purse for the first time Jan. 13 to take the Gil San Fernando enhancements for each of the races. The board also S. at 1 1IS-miles over Santa Anita's main track, will elected its officers for 1996: Mrs. Miles Valentine, hon point next for the 1 1 14-mile Strub S. "1 can't see (the orary chairman; George Strawbridge Jr., chairman emer longer distance) being a problem at all," said trainer itus; John A. Wayt Jr., chairman of the board; William Wally Dollase. "He's by EI Gran Senor, and almost all L. Pape, president; Charles C. Fenwick Jr., vice presi of his progeny can run long. And he just runs like a dent; Gillian S. Johnston, treasurer; Richard J.M. horse who will take to the distance. He's finished all Poulson, secretary; Charles T. Colgan, executive vice of his races very, very well. ff Probables for the 49th president. Bill Gallo and Peter McGivney were appointed racing secretary and assistant racing secretary, respec running 9f the Strub S. also include Afternoon tively. Deelites (Private Terms), Flying Chevron (Carson City), Gold and Steel (Fr) (Shining Steel {GB}), Mighty DICK HANSON APPOINTED ACTING JOCKEY Magee (Cormorant), The Key Rainbow (Ire) (Rainbow Quest), Pinfloron (Fr) (Caerleon), Oncefortheroad CLUB STEWARD AT NYRA The Jockey Club ad (Falstaff) and Mr Purple (Deputy Minister). The Strub vised yesterday that longtime Finger Lakes racing official Richard Hanson has been appointed acting Jockey Club S. will be telecast live on ESPI\!. Chris Lincoln and Steward for the New York Racing Association. A state Dave Johnson will co-anchor the one-hour telecast, ment concerning Clinton P. Pitts Jr., who had been The which will run from 1:30 to 2:30 p.m. (PST). The Jockey Club Steward at NYRA since 1992 when he telecast will also include coverage of the Gil filled the seat vacated on the retirement of Dr. Manuel Hutcheson S. for three-year-olds from Gulfstream Gilman, will be made in the near future. The announce Park. ment follows a report published in the January 3 DailV Racing Form in which jockey agent Anthony Stabile W WEEKEND PREVIEW .......... accused Pitts of "making an ethnic slur and using profanity" during a confrontation between the two in the o NEWS CONTINUED .......... 2,3 Aqueduct racing office. Pitts denied the charges; Stabile -V'l RACING REPORTS ......... 3,4,5 was fined $500 for his part in the skirmish. Z TOTAL PAGES ................ 6 News Continued, p. 2. - PAGE 2. THOROUGHBRED DAILY NEWS. 1-26-96 News Continued. TAX REDUCTION BILL INTRODUCED IN TURFWAY BOOSTS PURSES Turfway Park offi KENTUCKY Two racetrack tax-reduction bills have ciais announced yesterday that, effective with last been introduced in Kentucky's General Assembly! night's card, the track will hike purses by as much as according to a story in today's Daily Racing Form. 18 percent. The increase raises Turfway's daily esti Legislation introduced Tuesday calls for a reduction in mated purse distribution to $240,000. "Turfway Park the state tax paid by Churchill Downs and Keeneland has endured significant adversity this month, and so from 3.5 percent to 1.5 percent, the amount paid by have our horse owners and trainers," said Mark all other racetracks in Kentucky. A second bill calls Simendinger, the track's president. "We have been for elimination of the state tax at racetracks where forced to cancel eight days of racing, and that has average daily handle is less than $350,000. Also had negative effects for both the track and our horse included in the second bill is a provision to split full men. Except for one snowy day during that period, card simulcasting dates between Keeneland and The The Race Book has been in operation, and our full Red Mile 60 percent to 40 percent, respectively. card simulcasts have generated new revenues for purses. We decided to give our loyal horse owners PEAKS TOPS CANADIAN FREE HANDICAP and trainers--the people who have weathered the Canadian Horse of the Year Peaks And Valleys (Mt. storm with us--an immediate chance to recoup some Livermore) was assigned highweight on the 1995 income through higher purses." Under the new purse Canadian Free Handicaps. The list was announced schedule, claiming races will be raised 10 percent, Wednesday by the Ontario Jockey Club. Peaks and and allowance and maiden special weight events will Valleys was listed at 130 pounds in the three-year-old go up by 18 percent, including supplements from the colts and geldings division of a nine furlong race. Kentucky Thoroughbred Development Fund for MGSW Timarida (Ire) (Kalaglow) was listed at 129 Kentucky-bred horses. The minimum purse, for pounds in the fillies and mares division in a 10 furlong $4,000 claimers, will now be $6,700. Turfway will turf race. The three pound sex allowance makes her also implement a change in how the purses are paid. the theoretical highweight on the list. Oaks champion In the past, purses were paid to the first four finishers Gal in a Ruckus (Bold Ruckus) was highweighted at in each race. Now, purse money will be paid to the 127 pounds for three-year-old fillies going nine fur first five finishers: 62 percent for first, 20 percent to longs. Lassigny (Gone West) also made an appear second, 10 percent to third, 5 percent to fourth, and ance on the top of the Handicap charts. The six-year 3 percent to fifth. old champion of last year's GI Rothmans International S. was listed at 126 pounds in the three-year-olds TOP TURF MARES TO NUREYEV Two seven and up, colts, geldings and horses division of a 10 year-old, multiple stakes-winning mares--Market furlong turf race. Booster (Green Dancer) and Words of War (Lord at War {Arg})--have been retired this week and will bred BETTING ON EPSOM DERBY DOWN The Epsom in 1996 to Nureyev. Market Booster, who in 1993 Derby suffered a 20 percent decrease in gambling in was named the Highweight Older Mare in both Ger 1995. Coral bookmakers, one of Britain's big-three many and Ireland at 9% to 11 furlongs, was a group betting firms, reported the drop and attributed much stakes winner in both countries at ages three and of it to the introduction of a weekly National Lottery four. She was then sent to the U.S., where she won as well as the Derby's move from its traditional Sun five of 26 starts, all on the turf, including the Gil day running to Saturday. Coral also reported a 10 Long Island H. and Gill Sheepshead Bay H. in 1994. percent drop in betting on the Grand National. A Owned by Moyglare Stud Farm, Market Booster last spokesman for the group said, "The old traditions of a raced Jan. 15, finishing fourth as the favorite in a turf flutter on the Derby and the National are under allowance at Gulfstream. She retires with earnings of threat." Betting on this year's Derby could be even $667,975. Words of War won five listed stakes from more precarious. The race is scheduled to be run just ages two to five; she last raced Oct. 13 at 35 minutes before England's soccer team starts a Keeneland, finishing fourth in the Bryan Station S. at game in the European Football Championships, June 8. a mile on the turf.