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-R-I-P-L-E THREATS "QUATORZE" QUASHES COMPETITION Saturday, Pimlico Race Course PREAKNESS S.-Gl, $704,800, PIM, 5-18, 3yo, IN PREAKNESS Trainer Nick Zito, the last man to 1 3/16m, 1:53 2/5, ft. saddle a Triple Crown race winner before D. Wayne 1--#@LOUIS QUATORZE, 126, c, 3, Sovereign Dancer-­ Lukas went on a tear that gave him six in a row, yester­ On to Royalty (MGSW, $318,539). by On to Glory. day put a stop to the streak, sending out 8-1 Louis O-Condren & Cornacchia & Hofmann; B-Hofmann Quatorze (Sovereign Dancer) to take a handy 3 1/4­ Georgia E (KY); T-Nicholas P Zito; J-P Day; $458,120. length victory going wire-to-wire in the 121 st Preakness Lifetime Record: 10-4-3-0, $749,120. at Pimlico. Jockey Pat Day picked up the mount and his 2--Skip Away, 126, c, 3, Skip Trial--Ingot Way, by fifth victory in the event; it was a measure of revenge Diplomat Way. ($30,000 2yo 1995 OBSFEB). O-Hine for the rider, who had won the last two runnings of this Carolyn H; B-Barnhart Anna Marie (FL); $140,960. race aboard Lukas trainees and piloted Lukas' Prince Of 3--Editor's Note, 126, c, 3, Forty Niner--Beware of the Thieves (Hansel) to a third-place finish in the Kentucky Cat, by Caveat. ($125,000 yrl '94 KEESEP). Derby before losing the mount to Jerry Bailey. "I was O-Overbrook Farm; B-Fawn Leap Farm (KY); $70,480. disappointed when I got taken off Prince Of Thieves, iVlargins: 3 1/4, 3, 2HF. Odds: 8.50, 3.30, 6.50. but, inevitably, things work out. I come over and do the Also Ran: Cavonnier, Victory Speech, In Contention, best that I can and leave the results in the hands of the Prince of Thieves, Allied Forces, Secreta de Estado, master," said Day. It was the first Preakness win for Tour's Big Red, Mixed Count, Feather Box. Zito, who has already collected two Kentucky Derby Louis Quatorze suffered what was by far the worst trophies this decade; the New York native earned his defeat of his career when 16th in the Kentucky Derby second Grade I win at the Baltimore track in as many two weeks ago, but the dark bay with the strip of white Saturdays after his Star Standard, also ridden by Day, lightning down his face bounced back to give his own­ produced a similar front-running finish in last week's ers and trainer their very first success in the Preakness. Pimlico Special. Team Lukas had a trio of starters in the The colt showed no speed after finding himself in close second leg of this year's Triple but could do no better quarters at the start of the Derby and never got into the than third with Editor's Note (Forty Niner); his Victory race, but this time bounded out of the gate on top and Speech (Deputy Minister) was fifth and Prince Of was never headed, turning back a challenge from Skip Thieves, the most fancied of the three and a three-quar­ Away on the far turn and cruising to a decisive victory, ter brother to last year's winner, Timber Country, was the third straight in the race for new jockey Pat Day. seventh. "This gives us an opportunity to start a new "He turned up the backside pricking his ears and went streak and to show our character," said Lukas. The to waiting on horses; I thought then he'd be tough to three-year-olds go at it again in the third leg of the Visa beat," said Day. "He came home running." Skip Away, Triple Crown Challenge, the Belmont S. June 8. second throughout, easily held the place spot. "The post News cant. p2 killed us," said his trainer, Sonny Hine. "He got parked out there on the first turn; we got up to (the winnerl. STAKES CLOSINGS but it was too much to overcome." Editor's Note, last TOMORROW, MONDA y, MA Y 20: early, rallied to get third for the best finish of the Team 6-1 $250,000g Massachusetts H., Suf, Lukas entry. "I thought he made a monster run," said 3yo/up, 9f ($100) trainer D. Wayne Lukas. "Gary (Stevens) thought it was his best race to date." CAVONNIER (Batonnierl. nosed out in the Derby, was sent off the 7-5 favorite but did not handle the Pimlico surface as well and finished an even fourth. "Quite frankly, he didn't feel the same on L.L.I WEEKEND RESULTS ........... p1-2 it," said jockey Chris McCarron. "It was like he was NEWS CONTINUED ............ p2 o struggling. I really had to encourage him around the - WEEKEND PREVIEW ............ p3 home turn--I've never had to do that before. It wasn't RACING REPORTS ............ p3-7 his race today. Hopefully he'll rebound and you'll see TOTAL PAGES ................. 9 the real Cavonnier." The first four are expected to meet - again at Belmont Park in three weeks. PAGE 2 • THOROUGHBRED DAILY NEWS • 5-19-96 Saturday, Belmont Park Juddmonte Lockinge S. cont. ACORN S.-GI, $150,000, BEL, 5-18, 3yo, f, 1m, 1:34 Soviet Line (Ire) put up a courageous display to win 3/5, wf. the Juddmonte Lockinge S. for the second successive 1--@STAR DE LADY ANN, 121, f, 3, Star de Naskra-­ season. The six-year-old gelding broke smartly from the Lady Vixen, by Sir Ivor. ($18,000 yrl '94 KEESEP; stalls and was always at the front of the field under $45,000 2yo 1995 OBSMAR). a-Murphy John D; jockey Richard Quinn. Gabr (GB) (Green Desert) kept B-Brilie S D (KY); T-William W Perry; J-M E Smith; him company for four furlongs but, on grass softened by $90,000. Lifetime Record: 7-5-1-0, $196,830. prolonged rain, he soon faded out of contention to leave 2--Yanks Music, 121! f, 3, Air Forbes Won--Traipsing, Charnwood Forest (Ire) as the main danger. Soviet Line, by Darby Creek Road. a-Cooper A H & Fennessy M; as he often does when put under pressure, drifted B-lrish American Bloodhorse Agency (KY); $30,000. steadily left inside the final quarter, but Charnwood 3--Stop Traffic, 121, f, 3, Cure the Blues--Save My Forest could not quite peg him back. Spectrum (Ire), Soul, by I'ma Hell Raiser. ($85,000 yrl '94 KEESEP). sent off favourite following his good fourth last time out a-Austin Dale H & Heatherwood Farm; B-Dale V in the G1 Prix Ganay at Longchamp, threatened briefly Nelson & Vinery (KY); $16,500. to make late progress but found little when asked to Margins: HF, 1 HF, 2. Odds: 7.10, 0.80, 12.00. quicken by jockey John Reid and there may be some Also Ran: Top Secret, Vashon, Mama Dean, La Rosa, physical reason for this distinctly disappointing perfor­ Double Dee's, Mindy Gayle, Thunder Achiever, Stormy mance. No explanation was needed from the successful Krissy, Oxford Scholar. connections, who nominated the G2 Queen Anne S. at Star de Lady Ann was coming off back-to-back stakes Royal Ascot among Soviet Line's next possible targets. wins, having scored in the North Miami Beach S. at The runner-up could also head for that mile contest Hialeah in Apr. and the Nassau County H. at Belmont June 18. May 1. The filly quickly gained the lead, set fractions of :21.80 and :44.45, then dug in gamely to hold off the News cont. traffic-plagued Yanks Music. "When I saw the first two MARIA'S MON ON THE WORK TAB Last year's fractions, I turned to the owner and said, 'We're in champion two-year-old colt Maria's Mon (Wavering serious trouble'," said winning trainer Bill Perry. "1 Monarch) had his first breeze of the year over the wanted to be on the lead--her speed is her strength--but Belmont training track yesterday, going three furlongs in I thought they were going too fast. At the end, I kept :37, according to trainer Rick Schosberg. "He was looking at her, and the wire, her and the wire." Perry perfect/' said Schosberg. "It's a good feeling seeing him said the Mother Goose (June 22) was a possible next out doing what he wants to do. He came back bouncing start. John Velazquez, rider of previously undefeated and biting the pony--he was very happy." As for a re­ 4-5 favorite Yanks Music said, "It was a bad post and turn date, the trainer said he would breeze every six or there were a lot of horses in here. We had no luck. I seven days and then "worry about his path to the tried to get out, but every time I'd get pushed back in. Travers. We had originally planned on a comeback in the Once clear, she was running really strong at the end." Riva Ridge (June 8) because seven furlongs would be an The runner-up also points for the Mother Goose. ideal spot, but it's too close. It's hard to say now where helll come back. What's important is he's on track, Saturday, Newbury, England going forward and we're looking forward to the rest of JUDDMONTE LOCKINGE S.-G1, $183,379, Newbury, the season." England, 5-18, 8fT, 4yo/up, 1:44.22, sf.