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 TUESDAY, MAY 21,1996 $2 Daily SeTeAeKeEeS PREVIEW CIGAR SHARP FOR MASSCAP Horse of the Year Today, Goodwood, England Cigar (Palace Music) worked seven furlongs in 1 :26 at PREDOMINATE S., 3yo, clg, 10fT Belmont Park Monday morning and is on target for the The field, in order of the draw, will be: Prize Giving $250,000 Massachusetts H. at Suffolk Downs June 1. (GB) (Most Welcome {GB}l, 123, M Hills; Legal Right The six-year-old was clocked in fractions of :24 2/5, :48 (Alleged), 120, J Reid; St. Mawes (Frl (Shahrastani), 1/5 and 1 :00 1/5 with jockey Jerry Bailey in the irons. 120, P Robinson; Don Micheletto (GB) (Machiavellian), "We sent him out with a couple of other horses; I was 120, M J Kinane; Masehaab (Ire) (Mujtahid), 120, W amazed with how easily he passed them," said trainer Carson; Side Note (GBI (Warning {GB}), 120, Pat Bill Mott. Eddery; Rio Duvida (GB) (Salse), 120, R Hughes; Swift Fandango (Lear Fan), 120, T Quinn; and General Acad­ DEATH OF SIMON WEINSTOCK Simon Weinstock, emy (Ire) (Royal Academy), 120, R Cochrane. The final owner of 1980 King George & Queen Elizabeth Diamond serious trial for the Epsom Derby June 8 has attracted a S. winner Ela-Mana-Mou (Ire) (Pitcairn {Ire}) and a string field of nine. The Listed event, won last year by subse­ of other top-class horses, has died of cancer. He was quent G1 Irish Champion S. hero Pentire (GB), often has 44. Weinstock, whose family's business was the giant a bearing on Britain's major races later in the season industrial company General Electric, will be buried today and centre of attention today will be the Derby hope St. after passing away in his sleep Saturday. Robert Mawes (Fr). But the John Dunlop-trained colt--currently Sangster, a friend for many years, said: "He will be a 20-1 shot for Epsom--lines up against stiff competition sadly missed. He had a wonderful knowledge of racing." in this 1 O-furlong contest. His toughest rival may be Weinstock shared the great majority of horses with his Pentire's stablemate Prize Giving (GB), who does not father, Lord Arnold, and grandfather, Sir Michael Sobell. hold a Derby entry but is unbeaten in two 1996 starts. Their big-race successes included Troy (winner of the '79 Epsom Derby) and Sun Princess (heroine of both the Friday, Garden State Park Oaks at Epsom and the Doncaster St Leger in '83). JERSEY DERBY-Gil, $150,000, 3yo, 8.5fT The first three finishers from the Garden State S. are SWEET ALLIANCE DEAD Kentucky Oaks winner expected to renew their rivalry Friday night. Ed Coletti, trainer of the Fitz (Waquoit), the winner of that race, Sweet Alliance (Sir Ivor), the dam of European champion confirmed his colt as a runner over the weekend. He will Shareef Dancer, was humanely destroyed due to compli­ ship to the track from his barn at Philadelphia Park cations after foaling a colt by Hansel at Brookdale Farm today. "We just want to him to get used to the sur­ in Versailles, Kentucky. The 22-year-old took the 1977 roundings and he'll just gallop before the race," said Oaks carrying the colors of Windfields Farm. Her first Coletti. Also expected are Value Investor (Cahill Road), foal, Shareef Dancer, was sold for $3.3 million in 1981. She also produced stakes winner Zaffaran and War runner-up in the Garden State S., and Majestic Jazz (Majestic Light), third in the event; and five-time SW Deputy; her Hansel colt will be sold at Keeneland in Devil's Honor (Devil's Bag). November during the complete dispersal of Windfields breeding stock. STAKES CLOSINGS STERNS NAMED ITB CHAIRMAN International TOMORROW, WEDNESDA Y, MA Y 22: Thoroughbred Breeders, Inc. has named Joel H. Sterns 6-2 $250,000 The Californian-GI, Hal, to replace Robert J. Quigley as chairman of the board. 3yo/up, 9f ($200) Quigley will continue as president and chief operating officer. Sterns is recognized as one of the foremost attorneys in the field of casino regulation and is the L.U WEEKEND PREVIEW 1 immediate past president of the International Associa­ tion of Gaming Attorneys. In the 1960s he held posts in o NEWS CONTINUED 2 the U.S. Department of State and later served as Chief -rJ') RACING REPORTS ............ 3-5 Counsel to New Jersey Governor Richard Hughes. Z News cant. p2 TOTAL PAGES ................. 5 PAGE 2. THOROUGHBRED DAILY NEWS. 5-21-96 BRITAIN IN SATELLITE TALKS Representatives of PREAKNESS RATINGS ON THE RISE Following Britain's racecourses are discussing the possibility of the trend which started with this year's Kentucky linking-up with Australian media moguls Kerry Packer Derby, the preliminary television ratings for the 1996 and Rupert Murdoch to broadcast a 24-hour interna­ Preakness showed a marked increase over the all-time tional racing channel. John Sanderson, set to take over low figures registered for last year's program featuring early next month as vice-chairman for the Racecourse the second leg of the Triple Crown. According to ABC, Association, has confirmed that talks have already be­ the '96 telecast drew a 4.4, up 15.9 percent over gun. "It's a very exciting time," he said. "The RCA's 1995, and a 12 share, a slight rise over last year's 11 view is that the future lies in the global exploitation of share. The final figures will be out later this week. media rights." An agreement with Packer and Murdoch would virtually guarantee an increase in income for Britain's racing, which has recently been hit by competi­ NEW YORK tion from the weekly televised National Lottery. Plans • • would include broadcasts to countries such as China, Local News: New York India and Russia, but the main targets will be the New York Thoroughbred Breeders, Inc. has an­ high-rolling gambling centres of the Far East. nounced their split-vote decision to terminate their busi­ ness relationship with Robert Fierro's Old Empire Thor­ SEATTLE DANCER FOR JAPAN Seattle Dancer oughbreds, Ltd, which has been the association's media (*Nijinsky II), whose son Taiki Fortune won the G1 Niik consultant for the past 10 years. "I'm proud of what we Mile Cup in Tokyo nine days ago, has joined the increas­ have accomplished and extremely grateful to all the ing total of European stallions to be sold to Japan. The friends I have made through my personal association former Vincent O'Brien trainee--who as a yearling set with the organization as long-time director and former what was a then a record auction figure when pur­ president," Fierro said in a statement released Monday. chased for £13.1 million (almost $20 million}--has now "I wish all the best of luck to the organization on the been sold by Ireland's Coolmore Stud for an undisclosed new course its new leadership has charted for it." sum. His new home will be the East Stud in Hokkaido, which already houses the 1994 Epsom Derby winner Erhaab. Seattle Dancer, twice successful at the Group EAST Two level over 10 furlongs in his own racing career, has • • sired Group One winners in England (Seattle Rhyme the Racing Post Trophy hero) and Australia (Derby winner NEW PROVIDENCE S.-GIIIC, $78,750, WOX, 5-20, Dance The Day Away). 3yo/up, 6f, 1:09 (NSR), ft. 1--GLANMIRE, 115, g, 6, Briartic--On My Account, by APRIL TOBA OWNER OF THE MONTH Private Account. O-Kenny Mockler O'Leary & Schickedanz; B-Schickedanz Gustav (CAN); T-Michael AWARDED TO WALTER F AMIL Y TRUST The Keogh; J-D Penna; $47,250. Lifetime Record: Thoroughbred Owners and Breeders Association Owner 32-8-8-5, $352,775. of the Month Award for April goes to Barbara and Rob­ 2--Bold Anthony, 115, h, 6, Bold Ruckus--Knock'em ert Walter, racing under the stable name of Walter Fam­ Over, by Annihilate 'em. ($28,282 yrl '91 CBSOCT). ily Trust. Walter, a cattle broker in the Midwest, relo­ $1 750. cated to California in the 1950s and purchased a large 3--King Ruckus, 121, h, 6, Bold Ruckus--Baby Grace ranch north of San Francisco. He turned his attention to (Arg), b.y Cipayo. ($60,000 yrl '91 KEESEP). $8,662. Thoroughbred breeding in 1969, then sold his first ranch Margins: 7, 5HF, 2HF. Odds: 2.00, 9.00, 0.50. and purchased Vine Hill Farm in the early 1980s. Bar­ Glanmire, victor of the '94 edition of the New Provi­ bara Walter determines the matings for the broodmare dence S., was second in an $80,000 Woodbine claimer band. During the month of April, Walter Family Trust in his last start May 5. The gelding departed from his started 16 horses and collected two wins, four seconds traditional come-from-behind running style to vie for the and three thirds; their homebred Cavonnier (Batonnier) early lead through fractions of :22 and :44 1/5 seconds. captured the $1 million GI Santa Anita Derby, and Glanmire began drawing off at the top of the stretch Argonnier (Batonnier) was second in the San Pedro S. and finished seven lenghts in front in stakes-record The Walters own the stallion Batonnier, who stands at time. Longview Stud in central California; they also have more than 55 horses of racing age, 50 broodmares, three East Report Cont.