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The Thoroughbred Daily News is delivered to your home or business by fax each morning by 5 a.m. For subscription information, please call 908-747-8060. T~?I~~UN~~~RE DM TUESDAY, AUGUST 8, 1 9 9 5 S•T•A•K•E•S RESULTS Monday, Saratoga BIDDING READY TO START AT NATIONAL MUSEUM OF RACING HALL OF FAMES. SARATOGA The 75th annual Fasig-Tipton Glll, $139,500, SAR, 8-7, 3yo, 11/8mT,1:48, gd. Saratoga Summer Yearling Sale gets underway to 1--#@FLITCH, 113, c, 3, Demons Begone--Whiffling, by night at 8:00 p.m., with 75 yearlings scheduled to Wavering Monarch. O/B-Loblolly Stable (KY); pass through the sales ring in Saratoga Springs, New T-William Badgett Jr; J-M E Smith; $83, 700. Lifetime York. A total of 212 colts and fillies will be offered Record: 14-4-2-3, $319,716. *1/2 to Prairie Bayou over the course of the three-day sale, which con (Little Missouri), Ch. 3yo Colt, GISW, $1,450,621. cludes Thursday night. "We think we're going to 2--Diplomatic Jet, 120, c, 3, Roman Diplomat--Precious have a good sale," said Geoffrey Russell, Director of Jet, by Tri Jet. 0-Hooper Fred W; B-Hooper F W (FL); Sales Administration for Fasig-Tipton. "The com $27,900. ments from the people on the grounds about the 3--Nostra, 112, c, 3, Greinton (GB)--lndex's, by Storm confirmation and physical attributes of the horses Bird. 0-Condren & Cornacchia & Paulson; B-Paulson have been very favorable. The right people are here." Allen E (KY); $15,345. Among the expected highlights are Hip #46, a colt by Margins: NK, 3HF, NO. Odds: 5.50, 4.40, 7.10. Danzig--Safely Home (Winning Hit); consigned by Also Ran: Claudius, Smells and Bells, No Secrets, Gainesway Farm as agent for Dark Hollow Farm/Wild Sikkim, Debonair Dan. Oak Plantation, the bay is a half-brother to champion Flitch, third in both previous grass starts, shortened up after a troubled trip in the 10-furlong Lexington at Safely Kept (Horatius); Hip #67, a colt by Storm Cat- S. Belmont last time. Rallying to hook Diplomatic Jet in Stick to Beauty (Illustrious); consigned by Taylor midstretch here, the Loblolly homebred extended just Made Sales Agency, agent for Wycombe House Stud, enough effort to pick up his first stakes victory in a he is a half-brother to champion sprinter Gold Beauty photo. "He's still playing games," said trainer Bill (Mr. Prospector), herself dam of MGISW Maplejinsky Badgett. "He's got a way to go mentally, but he's putt and European Horse of the Year Dayjur; and Hip ing things together to get the job done." The colt will #110, a colt by Gone West--Ambassador of Luck make his next start in the Secretariat S. at Arlington. (What Luck); out of a champion, the yearling is a half to two stakes winners. Top filly prospects include Hip Monday, Woodbine #2, a daughter of Deputy Minister--Meadow Star FAIR PLAY BREEDERS' CUP S.-GllC, $106,370, WOX, (Meadowlake); she is the first foal from the champion 8-7, 3yo/up, 1 1 /16m, 1 :44, ft. and six-time Grade I winner who is best remembered 1--MYSTERIOUSLY, 113, f, 4, Afleet--Puzzle Book (SW, for her gallant photo-finish victory over Lite Light in $111,425), by Text. ($30,000 yrl '92 KEESEP). 0-F the 1991 Mother Goose. "The consignors have been H Stronach; B-Moihoogte Stud & Reade Baker (CAN); saying that they've been showing horses non-stop T-Daniel J Vella; J-T K Kabel; $63,822. Lifetime since Saturday morning," said Russell. "This year, Record: 21-10-5-1, $507,884. *Full to Brock Street, our thought has been to cut out a couple of horses at GSW, $263, 775. the bottom and hopefully improve at the top." Last 2--Nice to Know, 115, c, 4, Known Fact--l'm in year, 192 yearlings were sold for a gross of Celebration, by Copelan. $21,274. $18,566,000 and an average of $96,698. 3--Comarctic, 121, g, 6, Commemorate--Arctic Fling, by (DEVIL HIS DUE DISPUTE ENDS--news cont. p2-3) Northern Dancer. ($5,000 wing '89 ONTOCT). $11, 700. Margins: 1, NK, 2. Odds: 1.90A, 1.90A, 3.80. STAKES RESULTS ............ p1 Looking for her first win of '95 after notching six NEWS CONTINUED . p2-3 stakes victories in 1994, Mysteriously took on the boys and proved best. Allowed to trail the field for a half, the rJ'J- RACING REPORTS . p3-5 grey began picking them up on the far turn, racing past z TOTAL PAGES ................ 6 stablemate Nice To Know in the final yards to win going away. "The Queen is back," said trainer Dan Vella. PAGE 2 • THOROUGHBRED DAILY NEWS • 8-8-95 News cont. ARLINGTON HANDLE SUFFERS Full-card simul DEVIL HIS DUE CASE SETTLED One year after casting from out-of-state has generated a seven percent the Internal Revenue Service attempted to seize multiple increase in total handle at Arlington International Race Grade I winner Devil His Due (Devil's Bag) due to al course, but betting on the cards from Arlington has leged financial ties between owner Edith LiButti and her nosedived during the first 30 days of the 55-day meet father Robert LiButti involving the horse, Edith LiButti ing. On-track betting on Arlington programs is down 27 has been ruled the rightful owner of the six-year-old. percent; Illinois intertrack betting has declined 51 per The levy placed on Devil His Due by the IRS last August cent; and Illinois off-track betting has fallen 45 percent was "wrongful," ruled Judge Thomas McEvoy, the when measured against the numbers from June 24-July Chief Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Northern 31 last year when Arlington raced 131 days. The fig District of New York. In a 26-page ruling handed down ures were released Monday by Scott Mardell, the Thursday and delivered to Edith LiButti's lawyers over track's chief executive officer. "More than 40 percent the weekend, McEvoy said Libutti had met her burden of the consumer choices are going to full-card simul of proof in showing the levy was wrongful and the casting," pointed out Mardell. "This is dramatic when government had failed in its burden to show any finan you consider that three months ago (in Illinois) there cial relationship between Robert LiButti and Devil His was no full-card simulcasing. At the same time, total Due. The court ordered the levy be lifted and the IRS be purses are up 11 percent from 1 994. The key is to permanently enjoined from enforcing such a levy. maintain quality racing, but horses per race have not Libutti' s lawyers are now deciding whether or not to increased from 1 994, even with the purse increase. claim damages and attorney fees from the IRS. Devil There has been no influx of Kentucky horsemen after His Due last raced May 13, finishing second in the GI the close of Churchill Downs. The 300 stalls set aside Pimlico Special. His current earnings total $3,920,405. eventually were declined. The cash we're putting on the IRS officials from the Newark, New Jersey office which board isn't enough to make the horsemen want to handled the matter declined to comment. come. Ellis Park is drawing horses which used to come to Arlington." Legalization of full-card simulcasting and RECORD CATALOGUE FOR KEENELAND raising purses were key components in the legislature's SEPTEMBER SALE Keeneland will catalog a record revision of the Illinois racing statute this year. 3, 705 horses for its annual September Yearling Sale in Lexington, Kentucky. The 1 0-day auction begins Mon RACING WELCOMES NEWEST HALL OF day, Sept. 11 and continues through Wednesday, Sept. FAMERS Jockey Jerry Bailey and trainer Bobby 20 in the Keeneland sales pavilion. The total consists of Frankel were at Saratoga Springs yesterday to accept 1,951 colts, 1,749 fillies and five geldings. It tops by their accolades as racing' s latest inductees to the Hall 147 the previous record of 3,558 yearlings catalogued of Fame. Said the normally reticent Frankel, "It was a for the 1990 sale. Last year, Keeneland catalogued very emotional day and I didn't think I'd get emotional, 3,492 horses for the fall auction. The September Sale to be honest with you. But we still have to go back to has produced 186 individual stakes winners who have work tomorrow." Bailey, who has narrowly missed out won 240 stakes races through the first seven months in the Eclipse Award voting for top jockey, remarked, "I of 1995. Successful fall sale products include Japanese certainly appreciate that being in the Hall of Fame takes Group 1 winner Dantsu Seattle, Kentucky and Canadian precedent over so many things. An Eclipse Award Oaks winner Gal in a Ruckus and British 2000 Guineas would be nice, but it's an affirmation of one year's victor Pennekamp. In 1994, for the second year in a worth of work, while the Hall of Fame is an affirmation row, the September Sale set records for gross sales of years worth of work." Also inducted yesterday were ($104,709,900) and average ($37,171). A total of racing greats La Prevoyante, Crusader and Foolish Plea 2, 81 7 horses were sold. sure. Hall of Farner Leroy Jolley, who trained Foolish Pleasure, said, "He was a wonderful horse to have.