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W•E•E•K•E•N•D PREVIE1W $1 MILLION GOLD CUP HEADS HOLLYWOOD Saturday, Gulfstream Park: STAKES SCHEDULE The $1-million mile-and-a-quar DONN H.-GI, $300,000, 3yo/up, 9f ter Hollywood Gold Cup, set for June 28, highlights the The field of 10 will line up in the following order: 1998 spring/summer stakes schedule at Hollywood Firecrest (Montagnet), 112; Wagon Limit (Conquista Park. The 55-race program, worth $7. 7 million, includes dor Cielo), 112; Skip Away (Skip Trial), 126; Unruled 29 graded events, six of them Grade I. The track will (Notebook), 112; Black Forest (Broad Brush), 112; also offer 1 5 overnight stakes boasting a total of $1 Frisk Me Now (Mister Frisky), 11 6; Kiridashi (Bold million in purses. The pots have been raised for several Ruckus), 113; Behrens (Pleasant Colony), 116; Sir events. The Gii A Gleam H. has been boosted Bear (Sir Leon), 113; Shrike (Afleet), 112. $150,000; the seven-furlong event for fillies and mares, Wagon Limit breezed three furlongs in :36 yester now worth $250,000, will be run on the Gold Cup day. undercard. Also set for Gold Cup Day, the seven-furlong Gii Triple Bend Breeders' Cup H. has received a $50,000 increase to $300,000. The GI $400,000 Holly Saturday, Santa Anita: wood Turf H. May 25, Gii $400,000 Shoemaker Breed STRUB S.-Gll, $500,000, 4yo, 9f ers' Cup Mile June 14 and the GI $300,000 Beverly The field will line up in the following order: Mud Hills H. July 4 headline the 24 turf stakes on the sched Route (Strawberry Road {Aus}), 117; Photarc ule. Hollywood's "Super Sunday" July 19, one of 16 (Skywalker), 117; Bag Shot (Smokester), 117; Silver multiple-stakes day during the meet, features five stakes Charm (Silver Buck}, 123; Steel Ruhlr (Ruhlmann), worth $1 .2 million, including the Gii $500,000 Swaps 117; Tru Story (Capote), 117; Kukulcan (Cox's S. for three-year-olds, Gii $350,000 Sunset H. at a mile Rid~~e), 119. and a half on the turf and the Giii $100 ,000 Hollywood Juvenile Championship for two-year-olds. The 67-day Saturday, Santa Anita: spring/summer season opens April 24 and closes July SAN ANTONIO H.-Gll, $300,000, 4yo/up, 9f 20. The field, in post position order, is as follows: Da Bull (Country Pine), 11 O; Refinado Tom (Arg) {Shy LEAK CHANGES '98 HALL OF FAME BALLOT Tonn), 120; Stalwart Tsu (Stalwart), 111; Gentlemen According to the Daily Racing Form, this year's Racing (Ar!l) (Robin des Bois), 124; Hal's Pal (GB) (Caerleon), Hall of Fame ballots will list five candidates in each 114; Dramatic Gold (Slew o'Gold), 118. category, instead of the traditional three, because a member of the Hall's nomination and selection commit Saturday, Santa Anita: tee leaked the original roster to the press. Both the SAl\I VICENTE S.-Gll, $100,000, 3yo, 7f Associated Press and The Blood-Horse On-Line ran The field, in order of the draw, is as follows: Pleas stories Tuesday which revealed the confidential list of ant Drive (Salem Drive), 116; Sea1rch Me (Regal candidates that had been sent to the 14-person nomina Search), 116; Orville N Wilbur's (Out of Place), 116; tion and selection committee. The committee would Late Edition (Cryptoclearance), 113; Sea of Secrets normally shorten the list to three candidates in each (Storm Cat), 11 6. category, but due to the leak, all five names will be on the ballot this year. The candidates for induction into Orville N Wilbur's worked three furlongs Thursday the Hall of Fame in '98 are: Trainers--Bill Mott, Carl in :34 3/5. Hanford, Willard Proctor, Buddy Raines, Robert Wheeler; • Jockeys--Russell Baze, Earlie Fires, Ismael Valenzuela, WEEKEND PREVIEW ........... Jacinto Vasquez, Jack Westrope; Contemporary Male LU Horse--Cougar II, Exceller, Ferdinand, Manila, Riva 0 NEWS CONTINUED . 2 Ridge; Contemporary Female Horse--Bayakoa (Arg), fJ'J- RACING REPORTS . 2-5 Dance Smartly, Miesque, Mom's Command, Winning Colors; Horse of Yesteryear--Bald Eagle, Bowl of Flow z TOTAL PAGES ................. 6 ers, Fort Marcy, Gun Bow, Needles. PAGE 2 • THOROUGHBRED DAILY NEWS • 2-6-98 (News cont.) TURFWAY CLOSED AGAIN Turfway Park in Flor HANDEL TO PHILLY PARK Greenwood Racing, ence, Kentucky was forced to cancel live racing for the Inc., the owners of Philadelphia Park Racetrack, the second straight day yesterday as extreme snowfall Turf Clubs and Phonebet, announced yesterday the blanketed the area. Officials were forced to cancel appointment of Hal Handel as chief executive officer racing Wednesday night after nearly a foot of snow fell of Philadelphia Park. Handel, who resigns his post as on the area and, with the prediction of continued bad the New Jersey Sports and Exposition Authority's weather, Thursday night's card was also jettisoned. chief operating officer for racing, will be responsible IRac:ing is scheduled to resume Friday with a first post for all aspects of Philadelphia Park's operations. "I am time of 5:30 p.m. delighted that Hal will be joining our organization," said Bob Green, chairman and president of Green wood. "He is one of the leading figures in our industry FLORIDA and has done a magnificent job for the New Jersey • ILocal News, Gulfstream Park: Sports and Exposition Authority with his management Tale of the Cat (Storm Cat), who reportedly came of Meadowlands and Monmouth Park racetracks." back lame from a half-mile work at Gulfstream Monday, Commenting on the move, Handel said, "I have had a has just been walking the shedrow since the breeze. On wonderful 1 3 years at the Sports Authority and have Thursday, Pat McBerney, assistant to trainer John enjoyed the challenge of helping to develop the Mead !Forbes said, "John is in New Jersev for a couple of owlands and Monmouth Park into two of the most days, but when he comes back on :Sunday, he'll decide successful racetracks in America. The racing industry whether to work him or not. We thought there was a is going through a number of fundamental changes bruise, but there was nothing on the X-ray. Both of his and I believe Greenwood is poised to take advantage l[front) hoofs are warm, but there doesn't seem to be an of these changes and grow into one of the major abscess. We're keeping a close eye on him." racing operations in the country." Yesterday's Results: BACK ON TRACK AT GULFSTREAM Ted Malloy, 9th-GPX, $50,000, Alw, 4yo/up, 7f, 1 :21 1/5, ft. Gulfstream Park track superintendent, said repairs 1--E:LUSIVE QUALITY, 115, h, 5, Gone West--Touch of made to the sinkhole which materialized between the Greatness, by Hero's Honor. 0-Darley Stud three-sixteenths and the eighth pole Wednesday, Management; 8-Silver Springs Stud Farm, Inc & Mrs J were completed early Thursday morning. "I sent my Costelloe (KY); T-William I Mott. Lifetime Record: crew home at 2 a.m," Malloy said. He continued MGSP, 14-6-3-2, $225,494. working alone well past 4:30. The track was available :2--Sea Horse, 117, h, 5, Cutlass--Charquillo, by Native for horses at the regular 5:30 a.m. opening. Malloy Charger. said plumbers had to dig out a 20-foot section of 30- 3--Cache in, 11 7, c, 4, Lac Ouimet--A Screen Classic, inch corrugated pipe to reconnect a broken strap that by Screen King. Margins: 7, 5, 3. Odds: 0.40, 6.00, 12.90. had caused the sinkhole. "The plumbers finished at Elusive Quality finished third in the July 6 Gii Tom 10 last (Wednesday} night," Malloy added. The sink Fool H. at Belmont in his prior trip to the post and re hole suspended the day's card after the first race, turned to the winner's circle here for the first time since which meant the seven-furlong $1 00 ,000 G 111 Shirley breaking the Gulfstream track record at this distance Jones H. was lost. Racing Secretary Bob Umphrey Feb. 21, 1997, five races back. Coming off of a seven said he was rescheduling the race for Sunday. "The month layoff, the 2-5 favorite quickly sprinted clear in matter was discussed with the owners and trainers of the early stages and coasted home an easy victor. the original entries and it was agreed this was the most equitable way of handling the situation," said A #' will distinguish first-time stakes-winners, a @ will Umphrey. "Of the original field, only two, Everhope indicate first-time graded stakes-winners, a + will de (Danzig) and Dance for Thee (Sword Dance {Ire}), no1t1e winners who are first-time starters, an (S) will be said they could not run." Umphrey said the field, now used for state-bred races, a (CJ will be used for maiden claiming races and an (R) will be us:ed for other re down to five entries, would run in the post positions stri11:ted races. drawn for the Wednesday race. Sultry Song 2YO Colt sold for $375,000 PARIS, KY (606) 233-4252 at OBS-Calder FAX (606) 987-0008 PAGE 3 • THOROUGHBRED DAILY NEWS • 2-6-98 ' Florida report cont. 7th-GPX, $32,000, Alw, 4yo/up, 1 1 /16m, 1 :44 2/5, ft. NEW YORK PRIVATE JOE (c, 4, Private Account--Jody G., by • • Roberto), who romped by 11 lengths in an Aug. 21 Lat::al News, Saratoga: Saratoga off-the-turf allowance event three starts ago, Applications for the New York Racing Association's came in fourth in a Nov.