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W•E•E•K•E•N•D PREVIEW FREE HOUSE FAVORED IN SUPER Today, Belmont Park VOSBURGH 5.-GI, $250,000, 3yo/up, 7f, post time DERBY Making his first start since running third in 5: 18 p.m. EDT the GI Buick Haskell Invitational at Monmouth Park PF' HORSE TRAINER JOCKEY ODDS August 3, California invader Free House (Smokester) has 1 Kelly Kip Jerkens Samyn 7-2 been made the 9-5 morning-line favorite for Sunday's GI 2 Northern Afleet Hofmans McCarron 5-1 Super Derby XVIII at Louisiana Downs. The grey, third ~I Basqueian Orseno Wilson 1 2-1 in both the GI Kentucky Derby and GI Belmont S. and 4,a Cold Execution Martin Bailey 1 5-1 second by a head in the GI Preakness, arrived in Louisi fi Kid Katabatic VanOostdam Loseth 30-1 ana Thursday. "The flight went good," said trainer Paco E> Score A Birdie Pr ciado McCauley 15-1 Gonzalez. "Free House has traveled to many tracks and 7 Tale of the Cat Fo bes Krone 2-1 he's used to it. He gets a little nervous, but that's to be B Partner's Hero Lu as Smith 6-1 expected.'' As for future plans, the conditioner said, "H1:l ~~ Victor Cooley Fr stad Chavez 6-1 isn't Breeders' Cup eligible, so if the owners want to ruin 1 O Elajjud M Laughlin Migliore 20-1 him (in the Classic} they have to put up $800,000. They 11 a Circle Of Light M rtin Pezua 1 5-1 will see how he runs here; they haven't ruled it out. He 1 2 Diligence Zit Santos 1 2-1 could also run next in the Cal Cup (at Santa Anita Octa-· Tale of the Cat (Storm Cat) picks up eight pounds ber 25). We have to see how he runs in this one." The a"fter trouncing fellow thr e-year-olds in his first sprint colt drew post position #3 for the Super Derby. The attempt, the seven-furlo g Gii King's Bishop August 23. second choice at 5-2, GI Travers hero Deputy Com Victor Cooley (Cool Viet r) looks to break a five-race mander (Deputy Minister) breaks from post position #6 string of second-place fi ishes. The Canadian invader in the six-horse field. He worked three furlongs in :37 missed by three-quarters of a length in the Gii Forego H. 3/5 yesterday. "It was exactly what we wanted," said September 1 while givin 27-1 winner Score A Birdie Aimee Dollase, the assistant and daughter of trainer (Proud Birdie) seven pou ds. Kelly Kip (Kipper Kelly) set Wally Dollase. "It was just enough to stretch his legs a Saratoga track record or six-and-a-half furlongs in his and take the edge off. He was striding really good, latest, capturing an allo ance test by 3 1 /2 lengths 11 switched leads on time and did everything perfect. ,A,ug. 23. The three-year- Id is two-for-two at Belmont. (Complete Super Derby field, p3} Today, Ascot, England SUFFOLK DOWNS OPENS TODAY Live racing ClUEEN EUZABETH II S.- 1, $397 ,014a, 3yo/up, 1 mT returns to Massachusetts today as Suffolk Downs opens PP HORSE TRAINER JOCKEY WT. its 1997 Autumn Meet. The 55-day season features 1 2: 1 Centre Stalls (Ire) Johnson-Houghton Quinn 1 27 stakes worth more than $300,000. All the stakes will 2: Entrepreneur (GB) Stoute Kinane 123 be worth $25,000, with six added-money events for 3; Revoque (Ire) Chapple-Hyam Reid 123 Massachusetts-breds. The highlights of the state-bred 4 Bahhare Dunlop R Hills 1 23 schedule will be the Massachusetts Oaks October 11 5, Bijou D'lnde (GB) Johnston Weaver 127 and Massachusetts Derby October 25. Located in East 6 Allied Forces Bin Suroor Dettori 1 27 Boston, Suffolk Downs will race five days a week, with 7' Air Express (Ire) Brittain Peslier 123 post time at 12:45 p.m. daily. Tuesdays and Thursdays 8 Faithful Son Stoute Fallon 1 23 offer simulcasting only. All paid admissions will receive SI Rebecca Sharp (GB) G Wragg M Hills 1 20 a free $2 bet opening day, and visitors to the track this Clueen Elizabeth II S. con . p2 Saturday and Sunday will get passes good for free ad mission throughout September and October. "We closed STAKES CLOSINGS -~ on a positive note in June with a successful MassCap," :TODAY, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 27: said Executive Vice President of Racing Lou Raffetto Jr. 10-11 $300,000 Hawthorne Gold Cup-Gill, l • "We're anticipating a good fall with plenty of grass Haw, 3yo/up, 10f ($100) racing. We hope to give our fans some good, competi- 10-12 $250,000 Empire Classic, Bel, (S), tive racing. 11 Opening day also marks the launch of the 3yo/up, 9f ($250) Suffolk Downs website at www.suffolkdowns.com. The 10-12 $200, 000 Hawthorne Derby-GI/I, Haw, 3yo, 9fT ($100) Autumn Meet ends December 1 4. PAGE 2 •THOROUGHBRED DAILY NEWS• 9-27-97 Queen Elizabeth II S. cont. Today, Ascot, England Sires of Runners: Centre Stalls (Ire) (In the Wings RACAL DIADEM S.-G2, $119, 104a, 3yo/up, 6fT {GB}); Entrepreneur (GB) (Sadler's Wells); Revoque (Ire) PP HORSE TRAINER JOCKEY WT. (Fairy King); Bahhare (Woodman); Bijou D'lnde (GB) 1 Swift Gulliver (Ire) Bolger Manning 1 24 {Cadeaux Genereux {GB}); Allied Forces (Miswaki); Air 2 Averti (GB) Muir Fallon 1 26 Express (Ire} (Salse); Faithful Son (Zilzal); Rebecca Sharp 3 Russian Revival Gosden Dettori 1 26 (GB) (Machiavellian). 4 Tomba (GB) Meehan Tebbutt 124 Entrepreneur (GB), winner of the G1 English 2000 5 My Best Valentine (GB) Soane Rutter 1 26 Guineas May 3, has not started since finishing fourth in 6 Compton Place (GB) Toller Sanders 130 the Epsom Derby June 7. Revoque (Ire), three-quarter 7 Daring Destiny (GB) Burke Sprake 127 length runner-up in the English 2000 Guineas and sixth 8 Muchea (GB) Channon Quinn 124 in the Irish 2000 Guineas May 25, beat Bahhare by a 9 Dame Laura (Ire) Morrison Darley 1 21 length and a half in a conditions event at Doncaster 10 Cyrano's Lad (Ire) Dwyer Kinane 126 Sept 1 2; the runner-up was having his first start of the 11 Elnadim J L Dunlop R Hills 1 24 year. Air Express (Ire) won both the Italian and German 12 Monaassib (GB) EAL Dunlop O'Donohoe 126 2000 Guineas. Rebecca Sharp (GB), the only filly in the 13 Lochangel (GB) Balding Cochrane 1 21 field, won the G1 Coronation S. at Ascot June 18. 14 Rambling Bear (GB) 1'.3lanshard Roberts 1 26 Allied Forces, winner of the G2 Queen Anne S. at Ascot 15 Dazzle (GB) Stoute Reid 121 in June, ran sixth to Marlin in the Arlington Million in his 16 Cretan Gift (GB) Littmoden J Weaver 1 26 last start August 24. Improving Faithful Son won a Sires: Swift Gulliver (Ire) (Gulch}; Averti (GB) (Warning conditions event at Doncaster September 1 2. {GB}); Russian Revival (Nureyev); Tomba (GB) (Efisio {GB}); My Best Valentine (GB) (Try My Best); Compton Today, Arlington International Place (GB) (Indian Ridge {Ire}); Daring Destiny (GB) (Daring ARLINGTON-WASHINGTON LASSIE S.-Gll, $100,000, March {GB}); Muchea (GB) (Shalford {Ire}); Dame Laura 2yo, f, 1 m, post time 5:20 p.m. EDT (Ire) (Royal Academy); Cyr~no's Lad (Ire) (Cyrano de PP HORSE TRAINER JOCKEY ODDS Bergerac {Ire}); Elnadim (Danzig); Monaassib (GB) 1 Rattle My Nerves Young Douglas 3-1 (Cadeaux Genereux {GB}l;'Lochangel (GB) (Night Shift); 2 Silver Maiden McGehee Laviolette 9-5 Rambling Bear (GB) (Sharr od); Dazzle (GB) (Gone West); 3 Cool Dixie Roussel Ill Gomez 7-2 Cretan Gift (GB) (Cadeaux Genereux {GB}). 4 Barefoot Dyana Flint Sellers 8-1 Compton Place (GB) w n the G 1 July Cup July 10, 5 So Generous Von Hemel Perret 4-1 but failed badly in the G1 Nunthorpe S. Aug. 21. Averti 6 Arctic Lady Vanier Emigh 6-1 (Ire), winner of the G3 Ki g George S. Aug. 30, was Silver Maiden (Silver Buck) beat the boys in her latest, third in the Nunthorpe an most recently fourth in the taking the Honest Pleasure S. at Arlington Sept. 13. The G 1 Haydock Park Sprint up Sept. 5. Florida-bred filly is three-for-three lifetime. So Generous Today, Cologne, German (Fly So Free) broke her maiden in impression fashion, GROSSER KAUFHOF-PRE S-G2, $68,927, 3yo/up, 1 mT winning by 1 5 1 /2 lengths in her first start September PP HORSE RAINER JOCKEY WT. 10. She steps right into graded stakes competition in 1 Accento (GB) Tylicki 1 27 her second outing. Rattle My Nerves (Bertrando) ships in 2 Blue Chief (Den) Jojannson 1 27 from California, where she captured the CTBA S. at Del 3 Fine Fellow (Ire) Doleuze 1 21 Mar in her most recent appearance July 25. 4 Tres Heureux {Ger) L Mader 1 27 5 Orsetto (Ger) Van de Keere 1 21 ©Copyright Thoroughbred Daily News. 6 Fifire (Ger) ietsch Jakovlev 127 This newspaper may not be reproduced in any form or 7 Tajawall ichardson Woodburn 1 27 8 Jashin (Ire) Best 1 27 by any means, electronic or mechanical, without prior 9 Power Flame (Ger) ohler Boschert 1 29 written permission of the copyright owner, Media Vista. 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