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 T H U R S D A Y, A U G U S T 1 0, 1 9 9 5 S•T•A•K•E•S RESULTS STORM CAT COLT TOPS SARATOGA'S THE ADIRONDACK S.-Gll, $109,600, SAR, 8-9, 2yo, SECOND SESSION A dark bay or brown colt by f, 6 1 /2f, 1: 1 6 3/5, ft. Storm Cat--Buy the Firm (Affirmed) topped Wednesday 1--#@FLAT FLEET FEET, 113, f, 2, Afleet--Czar night's second session of the Saratoga Select Yearling Dancer, by Czaravich. ($32,000 2yo 1995 Sale. Trainer D. Wayne Lukas, who purchased the colt FTFFEB). 0-Caesar P. Kimmel & Philip Solondz; on behalf of owners Robert and Beverly Lewis for B-Ollie A. Cohen (KY); T-John C. Kimmel; J-M E 11 $410,000, said, 1 liked the pedigree. We've had a lot Smith; $65,760. Lifetime Record: 3-2-1-0, of luck with Storm Cats so the pedigree fit. He was an $89,760. *~to Royal Mitch (SW, $137,844,to individual who appealed to me in a lot of ways and he's 1995, by Homebuilder). going to change a lot in the next six months." Bringing 2--Steady Cat, 112, f, 2, Storm Cat-­ the second highest price of $375,000 was a bay colt by Hopespringsforever, by Mr. Prospector. 0-William Storm Bird--Aquakiss (Fr) (Kings Lake). Said the colt's T. Young; B-Overbrook Farm (KY); $21,920. purchaser Jim Spence, 11We would have bought perhaps 3--Western Dreamer, 120, f, 2, Gone West--Dream a couple if we didn't buy a colt of this quality. We liked Launch, by Relaunch. ($52,000yrl '94 KEESEP; his breeding, of course, and that breeding is about the $225,000 2yo 1995 FTFFEB). 0-J. Fred Miller Ill; hottest thing there is today on the track. He has won­ B-Jayeff B Stables (KY); $12,056. derful conformation and he could be a classic colt." Margins: NK, NK, 1 1 /4. Odds: 0.80CT, 2.70, 4.80. Spence said the colt will be trained next year by D. Also Ran: Miners Mirage, Strawberry Clover, Echo Wayne Lukas. Ironically, a year ago yesterday Spence Echo Echo, Here's London. bought Bright Launch (Relaunch), one of the favorites 4-5 favorite Flat Fleet Feet, who broke her maiden for today's Gii Saratoga Special, out of this sale. The by 9 lengths in her last start at Saratoga July 21, top-priced filly selling last night was by Danzig out of proved the jump up to graded stakes company no the Gill Honey Bee H. winner Under Oath. Tim Sams, problem, settling just behind dueling leaders ECHO agent for buyer Bayard Sharp, said, "She's a beautiful filly. I had marked her as one of the best fillies in the ECHO ECHO (Eastern Echo) and MINERS MIRAGE sale. She has really good hindquarters and good bal­ (Mining) early, rallying three wide leaving the turn, ance." Overall, 61 yearlings sold Wednesday night for a surging to the front in midstretch then holding off a total of $8,079,000 and an average of $132,443, up late challenge from Steady Cat in the final strides to win by a neck. 11 She looked very determined coming 24 percent from last year's second session average of 11 $106,677. There were 8 yearlings reported as not sold. down the lane," said winning trainer John Kimmel. 1 The sale concludes tonight. think you're going to see this filly come back strong and this race will go a long way to enhance her ca­ TOP TWO COL TS: reer. It had been the plan to sit behind the speed and HIP # SIRE DAM PRICE make one run. I had been working her in behind 128 Storm Cat Buy the Firm $410,000 horses and she seemed to enjoy it. She put in a real Consigned by Walnut Green (Jones Bros.), agent. game effort and that has to be applauded." Kimmel Purchased by D. Wayne Lukas, agent for indicated that as long as his filly comes out of the Robert and Beverly Lewis. race in good shape, she will run next in the GI 115 Storm Bird Aquakiss (Fr) $375,000 Consigned by Camas Park (Tim Hyde), agent. Spinaway at Saratoga August 28. Purchased by James C. Spence. Stakes Results Continued, p. 2 TOP TWO FILLIES: HIP # SIRE DAM PRICE STAKES RESULTS . .. 1,2 97 Danzig Under Oath $250,000 NEWS CONTINUED . 2,3 Consigned by Lane's End, agent. STAKES PREVIEW ........... 3,4 fJ)- Purchased by Bayard Sharp. RACING RESULTS . 4,5,6 149 Unbridled Cruisie $190,000 z TOTAL PAGES ................ 7 Consigned by Gainesway Farm, agent for Carliwood Farm. Purchased by John Galbreath II, agent. PAGE 2 •THOROUGHBRED DAILY NEWS• 8-10-95 Stakes Results, Continued. winner with a score in the Dec. 7 J.O. Tobin S. at Hol­ SORRENTO S.-Gll, $104,200, DMR, 8-9, 2yo, f, 61/2f, lywood. In his only two starts this year, the four-year­ 1 : 1 5 3/5, ft. old finished fourth in both the San Fernando S. and the 1--@BATROYALE, 119, f, 2, Batonnier--Royal Merger, GI Strub S. at Santa Anita. "We always hoped he by Princely Native. 0-Mr & Mrs Robert H. Walter; would be able to realize his vast potential on the race­ B-Robert H. Walter (CA); T-Bob Baffert; J-G. Stevens; track, but we didn't want to get him hurt, so we de­ $59,200. Lifetime Record: 3-3-0-0, $88, 150. cided to bring him home," Hancock said. "This is a very 2--Cosmic Fire, 11 7, f, 2, Capote--Future Bright, by good racehorse who had some very bad luck. He has Lyphard's Wish (Fr). ($60,000 yrl '94 KEESEP). wonderful conformation and a world-class pedigree. I'm 0-Pine Creek Ranch; B-Donald S Zuckerman & very excited to have a Classic-placed son of Halo going Roberta Mary Zuckerman (KY); $20,000. to stud with this kind of potential." Strodes Creek re­ 3--Waycross, 117, f, 2, Conquistador Cielo--Zuri, by tires with a record of 9-3-2-2 for earnings of $430,006. Danzig. ($25,000 yrl '94 KEESEP). 0-D E & J E Weir; B-Loblolly Stable (KY); $15,000. FASIG-TIPTON AND KEENELAND SET Margins: 2 1 /4, 2 3/4, 1 3/4. Odds: 4.80, 1.00, 2.80. NOVEMBER SALES DATES The possibility of con­ Also Ran: Blacktie Bid, Love On the Rail, Totally Spell­ flicting sales dates between Fasig-Tipton and Keeneland bound. Scratched: Eastside Lass, Ocean View. in Kentucky in November has been averted. Breeders Batroyale, sent off the 9-2 third choice despite win­ had voiced concerns over a recent release that ning the Solano County Juvenile Fillies S. in her last Keeneland's sale would commence November 11, a start July 21, dueled for the early lead between rivals, date previously announced as a Fasig-Tipton sales day. shook clear at the top of the stretch and held off the Fasig-Tipton Chairman D.G. Van Clief Jr. noted that fast-closing Cosmic Fire for her first graded victory. while no commitment had been made by either organi­ "She feels like a mile and a quarter filly," said winning zation, the two auction companies prefer to avoid a jockey Gary Stevens. "She doesn't impress you; she clash. "It would be counter-productive for sellers and just gets it done. I was just cruising with her today. She buyers alike to go head-to-head in Lexington in Novem­ was running real easy in the early part. When I came ber," said Van Clief. Presently scheduled for Fasig­ back and saw those splits (: 21 4/5, : 44 2/5, 1 : 09 1 /5) I Tipton is an open sale Friday, November 10 and se­ was surprised. And she saved a nice kick for me at the lected sessions of foals and mares Saturday and Sun­ end. She could be special." Trainer Bob Baffert agreed. day, November 11 and 12. Keeneland's November "When he (owner Robert Walter) sent me these horses, Breeding Stock Sale is scheduled for November 1 2 I had papers but I didn't know who was who," Baffert through November 21 . said. "When I worked her the first time, I thought she was a three-year-old, big and robust. When I went back LAKEWAY RETURNS SUNDAY Sharing Sunday's and looked at the papers and saw she was a two-year­ spotlight at Del Mar with the $1,000,000 Pacific Clas­ old, I said she's gonna be all right." sic will be the return of one of the top three-year-old fillies of 1994, Lakeway (Seattle Slew), in the News Continued. $100,000-added Giii Rancho Bernardo Breeders' Cup H. STRODES CREEK RETIRED Strodes Creek (Halo), Lakeway has recorded six victories and two second­ second and third respectively in last year's Kentucky place efforts in eight career starts for earnings of Derby and Belmont Stakes, has been retired from racing $594,520. Her triumphs last year included victories in and will stand the 1996 breeding season at Arthur B. four Grade I events: the Santa Anita Oaks, Hollywood Hancock Ill's Stone Farm in Paris, Kentucky. Bred by Oaks, Mother Goose S.