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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~9I~~UN~~~RE DM WEDNESDAY, JULY 16, 1997 K•E•E•N•E•L•A•N•D JULY KEENELAND TUESDAY -- TOP SEVEN COL TS $1.5 MILLION STORM CAT COLT TOPS Hip# SIRE DAM PRICE KEENELAND TUESDAY He lost the connection #185 Storm Cat Shared Interest $1,500,000 when the bidding reached $600,000, but trainer Bob Consigned by Taylor Made Sales Agency, Baffert got "the new guy" back on the telephone in time Agent for R. S. Evans to go to $1 .5 million for the sales topper at the 1997 Purchased by Bob Baffert, Agent Keeneland July Selected Yearling Sale in Lexington last # 188 Seattle Slew Sophisticated Girl $1 ,000 ,000 night. Hip number 185, a bay son of Storm Cat and the Consigned by Eaton Sales, Agent GISW Shared Interest (Pleasant Colony), was consigned Purchased by Demi O'Byrne by Taylor Made Safes Agency, agent for R.S. Evans, and #184 Danzig Sexy Slew $775,000 purchased by Baffert for a player to be named later--the Consigned by Three Chimneys Farm, Agent trainer of this year's Kentucky Derby and Preakness Purchased by Mohammed Alesayi winner Silver Charm said the buyer would reveal himself #203 Forty Niner Twilight Ridge $635,000 in the next few days. As for his million-dollar acquisi Consigned by Denali Stud (Craig Bandoroff), Agent tion, Baffert said, "Right now he's immature, he's not Purchased by Demi O'Byrne there yet. But he has the breeding and everything else. I #249 Seattle Slew Foreign Aid $625,000 figured he'd top the sale. You never pay too much Consigned by Dinwiddie Farm money for a horse that can run. I'll take my time with Purchased by John C. Kimmel, Agent him." The pair was in the hunt for Monday's session #141 Mr. Prospector Kooyonga (Ire) $550,000 topper, hip number 55, the $1,050,000 Gulch filly, but Consigned by William B. Harrigan Sales Agency, Agent Baffert told his mystery shopper, "Let's go for the colt. Purchased by Columbine Stable The plan was to go to a 'mil' (for the Storm Cat colt). #168 Gone West Performing Arts (Ire} $550,000 but he just said 'don't let him go.' In this market, if you Consigned by Camas Park Stud, Tim Hyde, Agent don't buy what you like you're going to be left out in Purchased by Robert & Beverly Lewis Thoroughbreds the cold." The underbidders on Tuesday's sales topper KEENELAND TUESDAY -- TOP FIVE FILLIES were Silver Charm's owners, Robert and Beverly Lewis, Hip# SIRE DAM PRICE and The Thoroughbred Corporation. Also reaching seven #145 Seattle Slew Lady's Secret $750,000 figures yesterday was hip number 188, a colt by Seattle Consigned by Fares Farm, Inc. Slew out of MGSP Sophisticated Girl (Stop the Music). Purchased by Takao Watanabe Consigned by Eaton Sales, agent, the dark bay half #133 Gone West Honoria $700,000 brother to GSP Proper Dance (Nureyev), GSP Private Consigned by Calumet Farm Interview (Nureyev) and G 1 SP Dancing Tribute Purchased by John Ferguson Bloodstock (Nureyev) was purchased by Demi O'Byrne. The top #177 Deputy Minister Romanette $600,000 priced filly during Tuesday's second session was hip Consigned by King Ranch Farm, Agent number 145, a daughter of Seattle Slew out of Horse of Purchased by G. Watts Humphrey, Jr. the Year Lady's Secret (Secretariat). The bay was con #224 Deputy Minister Barkerville Belle $600,000 signed by Fares Farm, Inc. and purchased by Takao Consigned by Jonabell Farm, Inc., Agent Watanabe; she will head to Japan for her racing career. Purchased by G. Watts Humphrey, Jr. A total of 84 hips sold for $29, 115,000 Tuesday, an #206 Seeking the Gold Via Borghese $450,000 average of $346,607. Overall, the July Sale saw 175 Consigned by Lane's End, Agent yearlings gross $62,565,000, up 7 percent from 1996 Purchased by Steve Hilbert when 167 head sold for $58,430,000. The 1997 aver age of $357,514 was up 2 percent from last year. "Last STAKES CLOSINGS year was certainly a test," said Rogers Beasley, Keeneland Director of 5ales. "There was a lot of talk TODAY, WEDNESDAY, JULY 16: about how last year was very positive, and this year 7-27 $150150,000 Bing Crosby Breeders' Cup H.-G/11, Dmr, 3yo/up, 6f ($100) maintained it. We were very pleased with that." • PAGE 2 •THOROUGHBRED DAILY NEWS• 7-16-97 News cont. FASIG-TIPTON JULY SET FOR TODAY Bidding EAST for the one-day Fasig-Tipton Kentucky July Selected • • Yearling Sale begins at 11 a.m. this morning at the Local News: Atlantic City Race Course Newton Paddocks in Lexington. A total of 254 year In the hopes that Atlantic City will become a major lings have been catalogued for the auction. Top sires auto speedway hosting NASCAR and Indy-sanctioned represented include Carson City, Deputy Minister, Mt. races, the track will introduce the sport to its fans this Livermore and Unbridled. Last year's top freshman sire Saturday, July 19, at the first annual Autosports Night Salt Lake has nine offspring in the sale; also on offer and Racefest. To be held from 6-11 p.m. in conjunction with the live Thoroughbred racing card, the event will are yearlings from such promising freshmen for 1 997 feature a display of every type of automobile from clas as Belong To Me, Exbourne, Fly So Free, Gilded Time, sics to Indy cars; attendees can also try out Cruisin' Kingmambo, Line In The Sand, Marquetry, Mountain USA,Daytona and Indy 500 video simulators. Cat and Strike The Gold. Last year, Fasig-Tipton sold 259 yearlings over two days for a gross of $10,013,500, up 52 percent from 1995's single-ses FOREIGN sion aggregate. The 1996 average of $38,662 was up • • 3.9 percent from the previous year's auction. Yesterday's Results: PRIX EUGENE ADAM-G2, $87,381, Saint-Cloud, MONTY ROBERTS BOOK DUE AUGUST 18 "The France, 7-15, 3yo/up, 1 1/4mT, 2:07.90, gd. Man Who Listens To Horses," which chronicles the life 1--KIRKWALL (GB), 123, c, 3, Selkirk--Kamkova, by of horse trainer Monty Roberts, will hit bookshelves Northern Dancer. 0-Khalid Abdullah; B-Juddmonte this August 18. Published by Random House, the book Farms; T-A Fabre; J-0 Peslier; $51,401. follows Roberts from his childhood days as a stunt 2--Rajpoute (Fr), 123, c, 3, Double Bed (Fr)--Gai Lizza double for such stars as Elizabeth Taylor in National (Fr), by Gairloch (GB). 0-J D Martin; $20,560. Velvet, to his stint as a rodeo rider, and on to the 3--Romanov (Ire), 123, c, 3, Nureyev--Morning development of his unconventional method for intro Devotion, by Affirmed. 0-R Sangster; $10,280. ducing horses to bridle and saddle. Suggested retail Margins: short HD, 1, 4. price for the book is $23. Also ran: Zenith Rose (Fr), Alekos, Kaldou Star (GB). Kirkwall (GB) gave trainer Andre Fabre his 10th suc NICK CARAS WINS DOGWOOD DOMINION cess in this event with a battling last stride victory over Rajpoute (Fr). Rajpoute led from the start and went clear AWARD Nick Caras, the recreation director for the on the turn into the straight. He still held the lead with a New York Racing Association, has been honored with furlong to run, but Kirkwall went after him and finally this year's Dogwood Dominion Award. A member of caught the pacesetter to get his head in front just at the the NYRA for 18 years, Caras was appointed to his wire. Romanov (Ire) made a strong late run, but it came present position in 1991, and has since been credited too late and he had to settle for third. with expanding the backstretch programs and improv ing morale at Aqueduct, Belmont Park and Saratoga. AMERICAN-BRED WINNER IN ENGLAND: "Nick has taken a job and turned it into a personal Guestimation, g, 8, Known Fact--Best Guess, by mission to add pleasure, excitement and hope to the Apalachee. Ayr, 7-14, Cameron Lodge Selling S., world of backstretch workers. Far beyond his job re 3yo/up, 1Of192ydsT, $4,051 to winner. 0-The quirement, Nick has organized countless educational Exclusive Two Partnership; B-Oak Crest Farm; T-J field trips ... initiated English-speaking programs, driven Pearce. * $48,000 wnl '89 KEENOV. needy people to doctor's appointments, helped with ****************************************** immigration problems, job placement, educational YESTERDAY IN HISTORY... needs and counseling referrals, to name just a few of July 15, 1966 ... 0ff at odds of 10-1 Dr. Fager won his his self-imposed duties," said Dogwood Stable Presi first race by seven lengths at Aqueduct. dent Cot Campbell. Caras will receive his award, a bronze statue of the horse Dominion and $ 5 ,000, at a July 15, 1972 ... Fourth in his debut 11 days earlier, Sec luncheon at the Reading Room in Saratoga Springs, retariat broke his maiden by six lengths at Aqueduct. New York August 6. Courtesy of Thoroughbred Racing Communications, Inc. Australia's RAROTONGA TREATY ARROWFIELD STUD John Messara A son of GEIGER COUNTER (USA) wins the Phone: (61-2) 9223 8277 Fax: (61-2) 9223 5795 Premier's Champion Stakes (Gl) in South Africa. E-MAIL: [email protected] PAGE 3 •THOROUGHBRED DAILY NEWS• 7-16-97 B•R•E•E•D•E•R•S EDITION ALLOWANCE RESULTS: LEADING NORTH AMERICAN SIRES OF 7th-DEL, $29,200, 3yo/up, 1 m, 1 :39 1 /5, ft.