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The Thoroughbred Daily News is delivered to your home or business by fax each morning by 5a.m. For subSCription information, please call 908-747-8060. T~?I~~UN~~~RE DM WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 11,1996 K-E-E-N-E-L-A-N-D SALE RESULTS GONE WEST COLT BRINGS RECORD KEENELAND TUESDAY-TOP FIVE COLTS HIP# SIRE DAM PRICE $1.4 MILLION AT KEENELAND A chestnut 656 Gone West Existentialist $1,400,000 colt by Gone West--Existentialist (Relaunch) brought a Consigned by Mill Ridge Sales, agent. Purchased by final bid of $1.4 million during Tuesday's second ses Buzz Chace, agent for Richard C. Porter's Fox Hill Farm. sion of the 1996 Keeneland September Yearling Sale. It was the highest price ever at the auction, eclipsing the 588 Halo Bottle Top $550,000 previous mark of $1.2 million set in 1995 by Earth Star, Consigned by Stone Farm, agent for Robert McNair and a colt by Deputy Minister--Bold Lady Anne (Bold Josh). Arthur B. Hancock III. Purchased by Robert and Janice Tuesday's record-breaking colt, whose dam Existential McNair's Stonerside Stables. ist is a half-sister to 1994 Broodmare of the Year Fall 584 Kingmambo Bittersweet Hour $520,000 Aspen, was purchased by Buzz Chace, agent for Richard Consigned by Blackburn Farm, agent for Longleaf (Rick) C. Porter's Fox Hill Farm. Porter, who owns sev Pine Farm. Purchased by W. Bruce Lunsford. eral car dealerships, was in Florida at the time of the 513 Seeking the Gold Top Trestle $500,000 sale. "The horses I'm buying for Rick I'm buying to (Previously Sold: $170,000 wnlg '95 KEENOV) pinhook," Chace said. "That's our formato-to pinhook. Consigned by Hartwell Farm, agent III. We probably will (pinhook the colt). The good horses Purchased by Shadwell Estate Co. Ltd. like that bring good money." Chace added, "He's an 655 Royal Academy Exclusive Life $500,000 outstanding-looking horse ... very good conformation, Consigned by Mill Ridge Sales, agent. good eye, good attitude." Trainer D. Wayne Lukas was Purchased by Can-Am Bldstk Services. the underbidder, dropping out after a bid of $1.35 mil lion. The second highest-priced colt of the day at KEENELAND TUESDAY-TOP FIVE FILLIES $550,000 was a bay by Halo--Bottle Top (Topsider). HIP# SIRE DAM PRICE The colt, a full-brother to 1994 Kentucky Derby runner 402 Forty Niner My Song for You $600,000 up Strodes Creek, was bred by Robert McNair and Ar Consigned by Mill Ridge Sales, agent. thur B. Hancock III, consigned by Hancock's Stone Purchased by Robert & Beverly Lewis. Farm as agent for the partnership and purchased by 510 Danzig Tis Juliet $375,000 Stonerside Stables, which is owned by Robert McNair Consigned by Lane's End, agent. and his wife, Janice. McNair said no decision has been Purchased by Tim Sams, agent for Stephen C. Hilbert. made on who will train the colt. "He's well-balanced 535 Dayjur Won't She Tell $320,000 and he comes from a great family," McNair stated. Consigned by Fawn Leap Farm. "He looks a lot like Strodes Creek. Strodes Creek, if he Purchased by Cheveley Park Stud Ltd. hadn't been injured, in our view, was probably the best 503 Relaunch Switchboard $300,000 three-year-old in his crop." The third highest-priced (Previously Sold: $32,000 wnlg '95 KEENOV) colt Tuesday at $520,000 was a bay by Kingmambo- Consigned by Dixiana Farm Inc. (Bruce Kline), agent I. Bittersweet Hour (Seattle Slew). Named King Of Spring, Purchased by Clarence Scharbauer Jr. the Kentucky-bred will be trained by Bill Mott. Overall, 545 Nureyev Agacerie $275,000 265 yearlings were sold Tuesday for a gross of Consigned by Walmac International, agent. $32,620,000 and an average of $123,094, up 10.9 Purchased by Darley Stud Management. percent from last year's second session average of $110,953. Yesterday'S median price of $82,000 repre sented a 13.9 percent from $72,000 in 1995. Through STAKES CLOSINGS the first two days of the auction, 529 yearlings have TODA y, WEDNESDA y, SEPTEMBER 11: brought $69,406,000 for an average of $131,202, up 9-28 $100,000 Canadian-GIC, Wo, 17.6 percent from the first two sessions a year ago. 3yolup, flm, 8.5fT ($100) The 11-day sale concludes Thursday, September 19. 10-06 $200,000 Arlington-Washington Futurity-Gil, AP, 2yo, 8f ($800) News Continued, p. 2. • I PAGE 2 • THOROUGHBRED DAILY NEWS. 9-11-96 News Continued. Saturday, Belmont Park: HORSEMAN VINNIE MOSCARELLI DEAD Horse WOODWARD S.-GI, $500,000, 3yo/up, 1 118m man Vinnie Moscarelli, who bred andlor raised champion Eltish (Cox's Ridge), second to Smart Strike (Mr. Heartlight No. One and millionaires Afternoon Deelites Prospector) in the GI Iselin H. Aug. 25, breezed six and Soul of the Matter with his longtime partner Burt furlongs in 1: 13.69 Tuesday morning over Belmont's Bacharach, suffered a heart attack and died Sunday, main track. The four-year-old galloped out seven fur Sept. 8 while attending the races at Delaware Park. He longs in 1 :26.22 under "stout restraint," according to was 66 years old. Moscarelli and his wife Suzanne had I\lYRA clockers. "He went nice and easy working in just moved to an 85-acre farm in Warwick, Maryland company with Man 0' War candidate Raintrap (GB) after spending several decades at Country Road Farm in (Rainbow Quest)," trainer Bobby Frankel said. "They Charles Town, West Virginia. "I'm just stunned," went in the same time, but Eltish was going easier--it Bacharach said Tuesday morning. "He was a great guy was a perfect work. Our plans are to run (Eltish) in the and a great horseman and I didn't know anyone who Woodward, the Jockey Club Gold Cup and the Breeders' didn't love Vinnie. He loved what he was doing and he Cup, so we've got to try him now." Woodward hopeful was so proud of the new farm and the pleasure it would L'Carriere (Carr de Naskral, coming off a victory in the bring him in the future. It's heartbreaking for me and it's Aug. 25 Saratoga Cup, zipped a half-mile in :46.41 unbelievable that the guy who made it all possible for yesterday under regular rider Jorge Chavez. "His work me in racing is gone." Moscarelli trained horses in Mary was super," said Everardo Cambray, assistant to trainer land, West Virginia and Pennsylvania, but enjoyed his H. James Bond. "He came back very good and we're greatest success preparing some of Bacharach's West looking forward to Saturday. It's going to be a tough Virginia-bred stock on the farm before shipping them off race with Cigar (Palace Music) and Smart Strike going, to race. A race will be named in Moscarelli's honor but we hope L'Carriere will run very good." Trainer John during the Oct. 6 running of the West Virginia Breeders Ward has decided to pass the Woodward and point Classics. Memorial services are planned for Thursday at MGSW Pyramid Peak (Mt. Livermore) toward the Sept. Jacobson Funeral Home in Huntington Station, New 21 Kentucky Cup instead. York and Monday at the farm. Sunday, Woodbine: WOODBINE MILLION S.-GI, $1,000,000, 3yo, 1 118m PREVIEW Probable favorite Skip Away (Skip Trial) worked over • • Woodbine's main track Tuesday morning, drilling an Today, Del Mar: opening three furlongs in :34 en route to a five-furlong DEL MAR FUTURITY-Gil, $250,000, 2yo, 7t clocking in :58. The GI Haskell winner went out six PP HORSE TRAINER JOCKEY ODDS furlongs in 1: 11 4/5 and was pulled up seven-eighths in 1 General Royal J. Bonde McCarron 10-1 1 : 28 2/5. "He's special," said trainer Sonny Hine. "I 2 Zippersup Baffert Delahoussaye 8-1 think it's a tribute to this horse and a horse like Louis 3a Gold Tribute Lukas Stevens 4-1 Quatorze (Sovereign Dancer), who have performed so 4 Red Moreno Douglas 2-1 well for so long. These horses have been going hard for 5 Golden Bronze M. Stute Almeida 6-1 seven months now and they continue to amaze me with 6 Swiss Yodeler Harrington Solis 8-5 the way they continue to perform." Skip Away finished 7a Silver Charm Baffert Flores 4-1 third in the GI Travers S. in his last outing Aug. 24, one Undefeated Swiss Yodeler (Eastern Echo) will try to length behind runner-up Louis Quatorze. The Woodbine raise his career record to a perfect six-for-six this after Million field is also expected to include Louis Quatorze, noon. The chestnut colt already has two graded stakes Gil Swaps-and Gil Dwyer S. winner Victory Speech wins to his credit--the Gil Hollywood Juvenile Champi (Deputy Minister), California shipper Odyle (Alleged), onship and the Gill Best Pal S. Queen's Plate hero Victory Cooley (Cool Victor), Prince of Wales S. winner Stephanotis (Regal Classic) and Firm Today, Doncaster, England: Dancer (Affirmed), runner-up in the Plate Trial, Prince of STONES BITTER PARK HILL S.-G3, $46,707, 3yo/up, Wales and Breeders'S. Stephanotis blew out five fur tIm, 14f 132ydsT longs yesterday in 1 :00 1/5, galloping out six furlongs in The field, in post position order, is as follows: 1 : 14 2/5. "It was just an easy maintenance breeze and Beauchamp Jade (GB) (Kalaglow {Ire}l, Russian Snows he worked perfectly," said trainer Barb Minshall.