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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~?I~~UN~!!~RE DM FRIDAY, MARCH 14, 1997 W•E•E•K•E•N•D PREVIEW Today, Gulfstream Park: DAILY RACING FORM FOR SALE According to GULFSTREAM PARK BREEDERS' CUP SPRINT Wednesday's New York Daily News, K-111 Communi CHAMPIONSIP-Glll, $150,000, 3yo/up, 7f cations, owner of the Daily Racing Form, is looking to PP HORSE TRAINER JOCKEY ODDS sell the racing publication. The media conglomerate, 1 Sea Emperor Tortora Ferrer 10-1 which publishes Seventeen and New York magazines, 2 Frisco View Brothers Bailey 5-1 also hopes to dispense of New Woman and Pro Foot 3 Sierra Grande Bryne Sellers 8-1 ball Weekly in order to reduce its debt and concen 4 Wild Escapade Barbazon Bain 30-1 trate on concerns with more potential for growth. The 5 El Amante Mott Day 3-1 Daily News reported that K-111 purchased the Form 6 Why Change Pierce Guidry 6-1 from Rupert Murdoch in 1991 for $650 million, and 7 Hold the Torch Perry Bravo 1 5-1 that the change of ownership will be the newspaper's 8 Punch Line Turner Krone 4-1 third in the past 12 years. "(The publications up for 9 Templado (Ven) Morales Coa 8-1 sale) have served their usefulness," Bishop Cheen, an Sires of runners: Sea Emperor (Naked Sky), 113 pounds; analyst with First Union Capital Markets, told the Frisco View (Mt. Livermore), 116; Sierra Grande Daily News. "It's time to take the profits and move (Ogygian), 114; Wild Escapade (Wild Again), 11 O; El on." Amante (Wild Again), 11 4; Why Change (Time for a Change), 115; Hold the Torch (Fire Maker), 112; Punch KAMMTARRA TAKES MAKTOUM ROUND line {Two Punch), 116; Templado (Ven) (Mazag), 114. THREE Kammtarra (Zilzal) appears likely to gain an Saturday, Aqueduct: invitation to the March 29 Dubai World Cup after his DISTAFF H.-Gll, $100,000, 3yo/up, f/m, 7f victory in the third and final round of the Sheikh The field, in post position order, is as follows, Maktoum bin Rashid Al Maktoum Challenge at Nad Al You'renotlistening (Kennedy Road), 113 pounds; Punkin Sheba Thursday. Gothenberg (Ire) (Polish Patriot) set Pie (Our Liberty), 109; Termly (Private Terms), 11 O; out to make all the running in this mile and a quarter Whaleneck (Cormorant), 112; Nappelon (Bold Revenue), test, but Kammtarra, partnered by Frankie Dettori, 111; Miss Golden Circle (Crafty Prospector), 120; In swept into the lead inside the final furlong to beat quisitive Look (Crafty Prospector), 110. Tamhid (Gulch) by a length and a half. learmont (Lear Fan) finished third with Gothenberg fading to fourth in Sunday, Santa Anita Park: the field of five. SAN FELIPE S.-Gll, $250,000, 3yo, 1 1 /16m Gii Norfolk S. winner Free House (Smokester) BELLE'S FLAG OUT FOR SEVERAL MONTHS worked a half-mile Thursday at Hollywood Park in :48 Gii La Canada S. winner Belle's Flag (Avenue of 1 /5. The gray colt was second in his lone previous Flags) will get an extended vacation from the race start this year, the Feb. 8 San Vicente S. Steel Ruhlr track, according to her trainer Darrell Vienna. The filly (Ruhlmann) worked a bullet three furlongs in :35 was scratched from last Sunday's GI Santa Margarita yesterday. with swelling in her left foreleg and has now been sent to owner Ernest Auerbach's farm in Ramona to STAKES CLOSINGS recuperate. "We'll give her four or five months," Vienna said. "She'll be back later in the year and we TODAY, FRIDAY, MARCH 14: expect that she'll be 100 percent." Undefeated in two 6-28 $125,000 Arlington Classic-Gii, AP, starts this year, the four-year-old's career to date 3yo, 9fT ($300) 7-20 $200,000 American Derby-GIL AP, 3yo, includes six victories in eight efforts for earnings of 91hfT ($300) $416,909. In addition to the La Canada S., Belle's 8-24 $400,000 Secretariat-GI, AP, 3yo, 10fT ($300)• Flag earned victories in the 1 997 Gil El Encino, and TOMORROW, SATURDAY, MARCH 15: last year's California Matron H. and Fleet Treat S. 3-29 $200,000 Gotham S.-GI/, Aqu, 3yo, Bf ($200) PAGE 2 e THOROUGHBRED DAILY NEWS• 3-14-97 News cont. AMERICAN-BRED WINNERS IN ENGLAND: 20-1 SHOT WINS CHELTENHAM GOLD CUP The Roman Reel, g, 6, Sword Dance (lre)--Our Mimi, by 20-1 outsider Mr Mulligan (Ire) (Torus {GB}), trained at Believe it. Lingfield, 3-13, Reid Minty Amateur Riders Lambourn in England by Irishman Noel Chance and H. (Div 1), 8f (all weather), 4yo/up, $3,541 to winner. ridden by champion jump jockey Tony McCoy, ran away 0-K Higson; B-Dorothy Price, Jackie W. Ramos & Ken with Thursday's Cheltenham Gold Cup Steeplechase Hickson; T-G L Moore. *SP-Ger. over three miles and 2 % furlongs, the most prestigious Secret Aly, g, 7, Secreto--Bouffant, by Alydar. Lingfield, weight-for-age jump event in Europe, beating the 33-1 3-13, Reid Minty 17th Aniversary H., 1 Of (all outsider Barton Bank (Ire) (Kambalda {GB}), with weather), 4yo/up, $8,899 to winner. 0-South Eastern Irish-trained 10-1 shot Dorans Pride third. The Electrical Pie; B-Northern Equine Thoroughbred nine-year-old Mr Mulligan led almost the whole way and Productions; T-Clive E Brittain. * $19,000 wnlg '90 won by nine lengths on only his third start this season, K~~NOV; $29,000 yrl '91 FTKJUL. completing a famous "double" for McCoy, who on Tues Don't Drop Bombs, g, 8, Fighting Fit--Promised Star, by day won the Champion Hurdle on the Martin Star de Naskra. Lingfield, 3-13, Reid Minty Amateur Pipe-trained Make A Stand (GB) (Master Willie {GB}), Riders H. (Div 2), Sf, 4yo/up, $3,541 to winner. who also led the entire way in the two-mile event. 0-Miss J Feilden; B-Hurstland Farm Inc.; T-D T Thomas. * $40,000 yrl '90 KEESEP . ._____+_F_o_R_E_I_G_N_+_ _JI .__I _+_F_L_O_R_I_o_A __ +_ __. Stakes Results: PRIX MAURICE CAILLAULT, $49,219, Saint-Cloud, Yesterday's Results: France, 3-13, 10%fT, 3yo, 2:21.3, gd. 1--#FRAGRANT MIX {IRE), 123, c, 3, Linamix (Fr)-- 10th-GPX, $51,550, Alw, 4yo/up, f/m, 5f, :57 4/5, ft. Fragrant Hill (GB) (SW-Eng), by Shirley Heights (GB). 1--GOLD MEMORY, 115, f, 4, Crafty Prospector--Sweet O/B-J L Lagadere; T-Andre Fabre; J-T Jarnet; Nostalgia {MSW & GSP, $211,577}, by Mr. Redoy. $26,502. 0-Drey Alan; B-Summerplace Farm (KY); T-Dennis W 2--Keroub (Fr}, 1 23, c, 3, Tropular (GB)--Keen's Like Ebert. Lifetime Record: MSW, 11-6-2-0, $130,300. (GB), by King's lake. $9,087. 2--Bluff's Dividend, 114, m, 5, Sunny Clime--Ann's 3--Veiled Threat (Ire), 120, f, 3, Be My Guest--Primrose Bluff, by Secretary of State. Valley (GB), by Mill Reef. $6,815. 3--Freddie Frisson, 114, f, 4, Dixieland Band--Frisson, by Margins: 2 % , 3/4, 3. Fappiano. Margins: 2HF, NK, HD. Odds: 4.40, 23.70, 10.80. Local News, Dubai: Gold Memory, winner of last July's TV Vixen S. at French trainer Elie Lellouche expressed himself "de Arlington, ran second in a Jan. 30 Gulfstream allowance lighted" with the progress his 1996 Prix de l'Arc de last out. Looking for her first win of the year in her third Triomphe winner Helissio (Fr) (Fairy King) has made start, the 4-1 shot was reserved in the early going, recently in Dubai, where he has been preparing for the reached contention at the top of the stretch and Dubai World Cup. "He has made real progress recently," stormed to a 2 1 /2-length win. said Lellouche,"and has thrived out in Dubai. He has adapted to the sand well and he worked excellently last 6th-GPX, $39,000, Alw, 4yo/up, 1 1 /16m, 1 :43 1 /5, ft. Saturday when Olivier Peslier partnered him in serious BERT'S BUBBLECTO (g, 5, Mi Selecto--Magic Number work under floodlights. He will have two more serious Nine, by Sunny Clime) was beaten a neck last time out workouts before the race. We will then make a decision in a Feb. 17 Gulfstream claimer and stepped up in class about whether to run or not." to win here. The 9-2 shot wired the field for a 1 1 /2- Two World Cup hopefuls worked over the Nad Al length victory. SIERRA DIABLO (Conquistador CieloL Sheba course recently. Eclipse Champion Turf Horse second as the 5-2 favorite, tracked the winner but could Singspiel (Ire) (In the Wings {GB}) went five furlongs in not catch him in the stretch. The winner is a 1 /2 to :58.8 Wednesday evening. Flemensfirth (Alleged), a Bert's Bubbleator (Advocator), MSW, $341, 129. Life Grade 1 winner in France and Italy, worked the same time Record: 21-6-5-1, $111, 170. distance Thursday morning in :59. 0-New Farm. B-Alberta Butner (KY). T-B W Perkins. Five stakes horses including Group 1 winner Mr. McCartney PARIS, KY (606) 233-4252 1997 Fee: $3,500 Live Foal Academy Award FAX (606) 987-0008 PAGE 3 e THOROUGHBRED DAILY NEWS• 3-14-97 9th-GPX, $33,000, Alw, 4/up, a8.5fT, 1 :41 3/5, fm.