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W•E•E•K•E•N•D PREVIEW SKIP AWAY SHARP AT SARATOGA Two-time Saturday, Saratoga Eclipse winner Skip Away (Skip Trial) breezed five WHITNEY S.-GI, $400,000, 3yo/up, 1 1 /Sm furlongs in 1 :00 yesterday morning at Saratoga. With Stronach Stable's Awesome Again (Deputy Minister) jockey Jerry Bailey in the saddle, the five-year-old worked five furlongs in :59, galloping out the three skipped through fractions of : 11 2/5, :23, :34 3/5 and quarters in 1: 11 4/5 with Pat Day in the irons at Saratoga yesterday morning. "Everybody you talked to :47 3/5 and galloped out six furlongs in 1: 14 3/5. "He today said the track was on the dead side, but it didn't put in two bullet works before this one, so he didn't matter," said Brian Ainge, assistant to trainer Pat Byrne. need another one today," said trainer Sonny Hine. "I've galloped him for the past three days and he really "When he was coming off the track, Jerry said to me loves it here." The four-year-old captured last year's Gii that Skip Away felt good, he wasn't blowing and he Jim Dandy over the track. went very easy. Jerry said that he was very sound MGSW Frisk Me Now (Mister Frisky), prepping for the and I believe him--he knows this horse like the back Whitney at Monmouth Park, went five furlongs in 1 :00 of his hand." The gray, pointing for the $500,000 Gii and galloped out the six furlongs in 1 : 1 2 4/5 with regu lselin H. at Monmouth Park August 30, is scheduled lar rider ~ddie King aboard. "Frisky's ready now," said to work again between races at the Spa August 16. trainer B0b Durso. "We'll ship to Saratoga (this morn- "Right now, that's his scheduled work day and that is ing)." I two weeks before the lselin, which sets him up good Bankerrs Gold (Forty Niner), also pointing for the for the race," said Hine. Whitney, went a mile in 1 :41 1 /5 on the Saratoga main track yesterday. SILVER CHARM WORKS ON TURF Dubai World Weekend Preview cont. p2 Cup hero Silver Charm (Silver Buck), a disappointing fifth in the Gill San Diego H. July 25, worked a half News cont. mile in :48 1 /5 over Del Mar's Jimmy Durante Turf HEADLEY ONE OF CLENBUTEROL SEVEN Vet Course yesterday morning. ''I'm happy with the eran trai~er Bruce Headley is one of the seven California work," said trainer Bob Baffert. "We decided to do trainers who have had horses confirmed as testing something new with him. I'm not thinking about any positive or clenbuterol since it was legalized for thera races right now. I'm just trying to get him back to peutic use in horses at the beginning of May, according where he was. He's a long way from retiring." The to the 0 nge County Register. Headley, 64, said that champion three-year-old in 1997 after winning the he had b en notified by the California Horse Racing Kentucky Derby and Preakness, Silver Charm finished Board of positive tests and went on to both admit and off the board for the first time in his career in the San defend h s use of the drug. "It's the most humane thing they've ver come up with to keep horses breathing," Diego. Headley fold the paper. In related news, co-owner Trudy McCaffery confirmed reports that Free House UPCOMING FASIG-TIPTON SALES: (Smokester) came up positive for clenbuteroi following Aug. 11-13: Fasig-Tipton Saratoga Selected Yearling his win im the Bel Air H. at Hollywood Park July 11, but Sale, Saratoga Springs, NY. denied tr iner Paco Gonzalez was using the drug. Aug. 14: Stallion Access sale of select seasons and "We're devastated," Toffan said. "We don't use that shares, Saratoga Springs, NY. stuff. At this point, we haven't gotten the split sample Aug. 16: Fasig-Tipton New York preferred yearlings, back, so who the hell knows what's going on. It's un Saratoga Springs, NY. fortunat that it has been leaked because now the dam Aug. 18: Fasig-Tipton New York 2-year-olds in training age has !ready been done. Where do we go from here? and horses of racing age sale, Saratoga I don't k ow. It's a hopeless situation and we're sitting Springs, NY. here wo dering how the hell it happened." Added Gon Aug. 31-Sept. l: Fasig-Tipton Texas summer yearlings, zalez, "T e only comment I have is that I am clean and I Lone Star Park, Grand Prairie, TX. didn't gi e anything to that horse. I don't know how Oct. 5-6: Fasig-Tlpton tastern Fall Yearlings, Timonium, they ca e out with this. I feel really bad. How can we MD. fight it? don't even know what to do." ·PAGE 2 • THOROUGHBRED DAILY NEWS • 8-4-98 Weekend Preview cont. LAKE GEORGE S.-Glll (Div. 2), $84,600, SAR, 8-3, Sunday, Saratoga 3yo, f, 11/16mT,1:41, fm. JIM DANDY S.-Gll, $250,000, 3yo, 1 1 /8m 1--@CAVEAT COMPETOR, 116, f, 3, Caveat--Empress Trainer Bill Mott said yesterday that Favorite Trick Tigere (MSW, $279,052), by What luck. O/B-Ford (Phone Trick) will make his next start in the Jim Dandy. Eugene F (MD); T-H Graham Motion; J-J R "Our plan is to stay here and run," said Mott. Velazquez; $50, 760. Lifetime Record: 14-5-2-2, Real Quiet's defection from Sunday's $1 million Buick $144, 105. Haskell at Monmouth has not caused trainer Todd 2--Mysterious Moll, 114, f, 3, Bates Motel- Pletcher to change his plans for Archers Bay (Silver Surruptitious (Ire), by Northfields. ( $40,000 2yo Deputy), either. The winner of the first two legs of the 1997 OBS MAR). 0-Pont Street Stable; B-Sunrise Canadian Triple Crown worked five-eighths in 1 :03 1 /5 Stable South Training Center (FL); $16,920. yesterday at Saratoga and will go in the Jim Dandy as 3--Recording, 121, f, 3, Danzig--Ratings, by Caveat. well. 0-Augustin Stable; B-Strawbridge George Jr (PA); $9,306. Margins: NO, 3, 1 HF. Odds: 12.40, 12.60, 5.00. NEW YORK Also Ran: Voodoo Lounge (Ger), Justenuffheart, • • Naskra's de Light, Mississippi Queen, Griselda, Formal Yesterday's Results: Tango, Soft Senorita. LAKE GEORGE S.-Glll (Div. 1), $83,450, SAR, 8-3, 3yo, A stakes winner at Delaware Park in her second start f, 1 1 /16mT, 1 :40 4/5, fm. on turf, Caveat Competor had been on the board in all 1--#@TENSKI, 114, f, 3, Polish Numbers--Miss Rudy T. four prior starts on the surface, but was overlooked at (SP), by Lord Gaylord. 0-Golden Richard L; B-Dr & the windows in her first try against graded company. Mrs Thomas Bowman (MD); T-Linda Rice; J-R Migliore; Just behind the leaders while on the rail early, she $50,070. Lifetime Record: 7-5-1-0, $143,470. found running room at the quarter-pole, got past pace 2--Pratella, 114, f, 3, Jade Hunter--Dancing Devlette, by setter Mysterious Moll in midstretch, then had to dig Devil's Bag. ($17,000 yrl '96 FTMDEC). 0-Barton down deep when that one came back at her in the final Bruce & Haynes Alvin; B-Hickory Tree Farm (VA); yards. "It didn't work out the way we wanted, but we $16,690. still won: it," said jockey John Velazquez. "Usually she 3--Camella, 114, f, 3, Housebuster--Have It Out, by drops w~ll back early and that was the plan, but she Roberto. 0-Matz Deborah A; B-Matz Dorothy was on ~he bit and closer than usual today. She was Alexander (KY); $9, 179. doing it easily, so I let her do what she wanted to do." Margins: 2, 3HF, 3. Odds: 0.45, 12.70, 39.75. As for what's next, trainer Graham Motion said, "The Also Ran: Dancewiththebride, Madge, Little Gazer, next one (Giii Lake Placid S., August 26) could be Magic Way, Rashas Warning. tempting." Scratched: Candleinthedark. Tenski, a perfect two-for-two on the turf coming into 7th-SAR, $41,000, Alw, 3yo/up, f/m, 6f, 1 :09 4/5, ft. this event, most recently won a grass allowance at 1--FOIL, 1114, f, 3, Darn That Alarm--Glaive (SW), by Belmont by 8 1 /2 lengths July 23. Making her stakes Cutlas . O/B-Joseph V Shields Jr (FL); T-H Allen debut here as the overwhelming 2-5 favorite, the chest Jerke s. Lifetime Record: MGSP, 8-4-1-3, nut filly was up close early, circled three-wide on the $108, 01. final turn and drew clear to maintain her unbeaten grass 2--Mink ble, 117, f, 4, Expensive Decision--Lady record. "She just keeps proving that she's a nice filly Profes ional, by Distinctive Pro. and that she obviously likes the turf," said winning 3--Eveni g Hush, 113, f, 3, Saint Ballado--Tres Dulce, trainer Linda Rice. "I was a bit concerned because she by Ho est Pleasure. only raced 11 days ago and now I'm just happy that Margins: 7, 2 1 /2, 1. Odds: 3.35, 19.30, 4.00. we've gotten past this race. I feel a lot more comfort Foil firiished third in her last three starts--the Giii able with the position that we're in now and this will Nassau founty May 13, Gil Prioress S.