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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~?I~~UN~~~RE DM THURSDAY, JUNE 27,1996 W-E-E-K-E-N-D PREVIEW FASIG-TIPTON CATALOGUES 233 YEARLINGS Sunday, Hollywood Park: FOR SARATOGA SALE Fasig-Tipton has catalogued HOLLYWOOD GOLD CUP H.·GI, $1,000,000, 3yo/up, 233 yearlings for its 76th annual Saratoga Summer 1 114m Yearling Sales, to be held August 6-8, 1996. During the Trainer Wally Dollase, already scheduled to saddle sale's three sessions, 125 colts and 108 fillies will be Helmsman (EI Gran Senor) in the Hollywood Gold Cup, offered; the sessions will begin at 8 p.m. each evening. doubled his chances Wednesday with the announce Yearlings will be featured by leading lifetime sires ment that he will also enter Nonproductiveasset (Stal Danzig, Mr. Prospector, Nureyev and Seattle Slew. wart) in the race. "He's been training great and I know Heading the 12 first-crop yearling sires of 1996 at he can get the distance," said Dollase, who claimed Saratoga is Strike the Gold, winner of the 1991 Ken Nonproductiveasset for $40,000 in 1993. "I know he tucky Derby. Catalogues for the 1996 Saratoga Sale will will like the 1 1/4-miles. He got beat a nose in the be available from all Fasig-Tipton offices July 1 . (1994) Strub, and lost the Big 'Cap by only 3 %-lengths a couple years ago (in 1994). It's a very competitive DOUBLE TRIGGER SOLD TO MIDDLE EAST race. When the winner gets there, whoever it is, you'll Double Trigger (Ire) (Ela-Mana-Mou {lre}L winner of last know there's a reason why he's there first." year's G 1 Ascot Gold Cup, appears to have run his final Nonproductiveasset gets into the Gold Cup with the light impost of 114 pounds, and will be ridden by Rene race in Britain. Owner Ron Huggins has accepted "an Douglas. The six-year-old prepped for Sunday's test by offer too good to refuse" from interests in Saudi Arabia. working seven furlongs in 1 :26 Monday at Hollywood. The sale, for an undisclosed sum, is dependent on a In other Gold Cup developments, trainer Ron McAnally veterinary inspection. The check is considered "a for has named Corey Nakatani to ride Santa Anita H. winner mality" by present connections, despite a foot problem Mr Purple (Deputy Minister). Also, GI Californian S. caused when the five-year-old ripped off a shoe while winner Tinners Way (Secretariat) breezed six furlongs in running second to Classic Cliche (Ire) (Salse) in last 1:14 Wednesday morning, and GI Oaklawn H. win week's Gold Cup renewal. Double Trigger has served 2/5 ner Geri (Theatrical {Ire}) arrived at Hollywood at 1 p.m. Huggins and his trainer Mark Johnston remarkably well yesterday; the Bill Mott-trainee was bedded down in Bill in his four-year British career. He has won nine races, Shoemakfir's barn. eight at the Group level, for a total of over $600,000 in prize money. Johnston admitted, "It will obviously leave Saturday I Belmont Park: a huge gap in the stable. But the offer just couldn't be HEMPSTEAD H.·GI, $200,000, 3yo/up, flm, 1 1/16m refused. It was simply too good to turn down." Serena's Song (Rahy), highweighted at 125 pounds for the Hempstead, came out of Monday's five-furlong KNOCKADOON UNDERGOES EMERGENCY breeze in 1 :01 .44 at Belmont in good shape. "She's SURGERY Knockadoon (Dixieland Band), winner of the done very well since she arrived here from Churchill Gill Ben Ali S. at Keeneland April 25, underwent emer Downs," said George Weaver, assistant to trainer D. gency colic surgery June 21 in Lexington, Kentucky. Wayne Lukas. "She's a happy camper." Last year's Trainer Tony Reinstedler told the Daily Racing Form Champion Three-Year-Old Filly jumps up to Grade I Tuesday that the four-year-old colt was "doing just company after winning the Gill Pimlico Distaff and Gill okay" after veterinarians discovered a scrotal hernia had Fleur de Lis H. in her last two starts. Clear Mandate caused an intestinal blockage. Surgery was performed (Deputy Minister), three-length winner of the GI Shuvee at Hagyard-Davidson-McGee equine clinic late Friday. H. May 25 at odds of 23-1, breezed a half-mile at Belmont Monday in :49.15. "She trained good going STAKES CLOSINGS into the Shuvee and she's trained excellent going into TOMORROW. FRIDA y, JUNE 28: the Hempstead," said trainer Rusty Arnold. "She will run 6-30 $200,000g Arlington Classic·GII, AP, her race, but I don't know if she can beat Serena's 3yo, 9tT ($ 12,500s) Song." Clear Mandate will carry 116 pounds for the 7-24 $ 100,OOOg Vinery Matchmaker S.-GII, assignment. Atl, 3yolup, tim, 9.5tT ($500) Weekend Preview Continued, p. 2. PAGE 2. THOROUGHBRED DAILY NEWS. 6-27-96 Weekend Preview Continued. REMINGTON PARK RELEASES FALL STAKES Sunday, The Curragh, Ireland: SCHEDULE A total of 27 added-money events with IRISH DERBY-G1, $935,745, 3yo, c & f, 12fT gross purses in excess of $1.2 million will highlight Dushyantor (Sadler's Wells), second in the Epsom Remington Park's 1996 Fall Meeting, which begins Derby and the early favorite to win the Irish equiva Sept. 13 and runs through Dec. 1. Remington Park lent, completed his preparation for the Group One Director of Racing and Racing Secretary Mike Anifantis event with a pleasing workout at Newmarket yester announced the stakes schedule for the 54-day Fall day. The Henry Cecil-trainee exercised with two sta Meeting Wednesday. With the success of full-card si ble companions on a strip of turf known as the mulcasting, the daily purse distribution at Remington will 'Watered Gallop', and eased well clear under jockey also rise to an all-time high of approximately $100,000 per day. "We're looking forward to the best quality of Willie Ryan. Pat Eddery will be on board Dushyantor racing we've ever had at Remington Park because of the Sunday, with Ryan expected to ride the Roger proceeds from full-card simulcasting," Anifantis said. Charlton-trained colt Private Song (Private Account). "We're at an all-time high for purses and we've added a couple of stakes races and increased the purses on a Sunday, Saint-Cloud. France: few more." The staple of the 1996 Fall Meeting will GRAND PRIX DE SAINT-CLOUD-Gl, $390,654, 3yo/up, once again be the $300,000-estimated Mathis Brothers c&f,11/2mT Remington Futurity, the richest sprint race in the coun Three English-trained horses--Paul Cole's recent Gran try for juveniles. This year's event will be held Oct. 20. Premio di Milano winner Strategic Choice (Alleged), The main prep for the Mathis Brothers, the Prevue S., David Loder's Italian Derby winner Bahamian Knight has been increased from $25,000 to $35,000 and will (Ascot Knight) and Paul Kelleway's Lear White (Lear be run Oct. 6. Other highlights of the stakes schedule Fan)--are among the 13 still engaged in Sunday's Grand are the $150,000 Remington Green H. Oct. 5, up from Prix de Saint-Cloud after Wednesday's first forfeit stage. $75,000 last year; and the $100,000 Red Earth Derby Also engaged are Pascal Bary's French Derby winner Oct. 12. Ragmar (Fr) (Tropular {GB}L Andre Fabre's Coronation Cup winner Swain (Ire) (Nashwan), Elie Lellouche's Prix Lupin winner Helissio (Fr) (Fairy King) and Corinne FOREIGN Barbe's 1995 French Oaks heroine Carling (Fr) (Garde Royale {Ire}). The remaining six are: De Quest (GB) • • Stakes Results: (Rainbow Quest), Poliglote (GB) (Sadler's Wells), Red Roses Story (Fr) (Pink {Fr}), Russian Snows (Ire) GRAND PRIX DE LYON, $70,854, Lyon, France, 6-24, (Sadler's Wells), Darazari (Ire) (Sadler's Wells) and 3yo/up, 12fT, time nla, gd. Oliviero (Fr) (Vaguely Pleasant {Fr}). 1--#TAIPAN (IRE)' 128, c, 4, Last Tycoon IIre)--Alidiva (Ire) (SW-Eng), by Chief Singer (Ire). O-Lord News Continued. Swaythling; B-C. Wacker III; T-John Dunlop; J-S. TRPB VICE PRESIDENT RETIRES Thoroughbred Guillot; $42,129. Racing Protective Bureau Vice President Donald C. 2--Leeds (Ire), 131, c, 4, Law Society--Miss Persia (Ire), Krause is retiring after more than 31 years of service by Persian Bold (Ire). $15,320. to the investigative subsidiary of the Thoroughbred 3--Megaron IFr), 120, c, 3, Le Glorieux (GB)--Mer Racing Associations. Krause joined the TRPB March d'Huile (Fr), by Kenmare (Fr). $7,660. 8, 1965 and worked as an agent in more than 11 Margins: 3/4, 1 %, 2 %. states before being named its Secretary-Treasurer in .. 1984. He was promoted to TRPB Vice President in PRIX LOVelACE, $46,342, Evry, France, 6-26, 4yo/up, 1988. He retires to his home in Westbury, Long Is 1mT, 1:39:60, gd. land. 1--#ROYAL PHILOSOPHER (GB), 123, c, 4, Faustus- Princess Lucy (Ire) by Local Suitor. O-A. Miller; 8-AN. A # will distinguish first-time stakes-winners, a @ will Miller; T-John Hills; J-O. Peslier; $26,810. indicate first-time graded stakes-winners, a + will de 2--Super Gascon (Fr), 128, c, 4, Lesotho--Superstition note winners who are first-time starters, an (S) will be (Ire), by Touching Wood. $9,192. used for state-bred races and an (A) will be used for 3--Verzen (Ire), 123, c, 4, Salse--Virelai (GB), by Kris other restricted races.