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1he 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 D™ WEDNESDAY, 0 CT 0 BER 1 8, BOUND For The B R E E D E R S' C U P LURE FOR SALE Plans to stand two-time Breeders CANADIAN REPORT Cup Mile champion Lure (Danzig) at lreland 1 s Coolmore By: Perry Lefko Stud have broken down and the six-year-old is back on Canada will send its smallest ever contingent to the the market. Coolmore announced it had purchased Lure Breeders' Cup this year. Only one horse, Mrs. Josephine for a reputed $7 million in August, but a subsequent Abercrombie's Peaks and Valleys (Mt. Livermore), is legal wrangle over whether details of the deal were to likely to represent the land of the Maple Leaf in the 1 2th be arranged under English or Irish law has caused the edition of the Breeders' Cup at Belmont Park. complete collapse of negotiations. Lure, flown into The winner of two consecutive Grade I races--the County Tipperary three weeks ago, is now stabled at Molson Export Million and the Meadowlands Cup--has Ireland's National Stud in County Kildare until a new been pre-entered for the $3 million Classic and, based buyer can be arrange?. The stallion became the property on his current form and the fact he beat older horses in of insurance underwriters (Lloyds and Assucuazion his last test, will likely rule the second choice behind the Generali acting in tandem) after previous owners mighty Cigar (Palace Music). Claiborne Farm accepted a claim on an infertility con Peaks and Valleys, a Kentucky-bred who began his tract. Sheila Simison, of London-based solicitors Clyde & career at Woodbine and ran his last three races there Co. acting for the insurers, said, "There has been inter before shipping to The Meadowlands, will not only be est in the horse from several areas. However, so far, running against tougher horses than he's previously there has been no formal offer of purchase." faced, but he will also be running farther than ever. The three-year-old colt has never run a mile and a quarter. BA~RI RETIRED Bahri (Riverman), winner of this The trainer, who has the task of raising the colt to the year s G 1 St. James Palace S. and G 1 Queen Elizabeth next level, is Woodbine-based Jim Day, who is no 11 ~· at Ascot, has been retired. The John Dunlop stranger to the Breeders' Cup, having saddled 12 previ tr~1nee,. runner-up to Celtic Swing (GB) in the G3 ous starters. Day, a member of Canada's equestrian Triplepnnt Greenham S. at Newbury and to Sayyedati te~m that ~on a gold medal at the 1968 Olympics, (GB) in Goodwood's G1 Sussex S. and third in both the trained Ernie Samuel's Dance Smartly to victory in the .Ne~ma~ke~ and Irish 2000 Guineas, proved disappoint 1991 Breeders' Cup Distaff. That broke a winless streak ~g in his f~nal appearance when fifth in last Saturday's for Canadian-based horses, who many times had come 1 c.hamp1on s. ~unlap put that defeat dovvn to lack of stamina o:'er a n:i11e and a quarter. But remembering ~o the Breede_rs' Cup with big reputations but failed to live up to their advanced billing. The year bef D th?se"ear~1er achievements in mile races, the handler Sm ti h' d ore, ance said: Hes bee.n a very good horse for us this year." ar Y ~an t 1r for .the ?amuel-Day connection in the Breed.ers Cup Juvenile Fillies. Day also finished a heart- Ehnvironme~t Friend (GB) (Cozzene), who finished last in ~reakrng second by a snout with Samuel's Sky Classic t e Champ1~n ~· to easy winner Spectrum (IRE} has also made ~1s final appearance on the track. Th~ seven in t~e 1992 Turf, the third consecutive year the horse year-~l~, wmn.er of ~he 1991 G1 Coral Eclipse S., was r~n, rn the Breeders' Cup. That year marked Sky Clas- 1 1 s~c s best performance and, coupled with some impres fi:~ ~~~:~~ ~;0 ~~h s~~lliodn duties •. but after he was sive pe~forrnances earlier in the year, garnered him event it has been deci~ed ~~ ves~el 'r:1 Saturday's G1 Champion Male Grass Horse in North A . sheds at owner Bill Gredley'srM~~~ ~';kt°s;~J ibnreeding Canada had hoped to be ~enc;:a. Newmarket. Juvenile Fillies by the unde~:~~e~e(~~ed in this year's Cat (St?rn:i Cat), but she devel~ped ~e~~~f;-~~~:~e~!lken after winning the Mazarine S wh1'ch m k d News Continued, p. 2 h f ·' ar e not only er irst added-money fixture, but also her first trip L.U BREEDERS' CUP PREVIEW . 1,2 around two turns. Owned by Samuel and trained b 0 NEWS CONTINUED . 2 3 Ma~k Frostad'. Silken Cat commanded attention in t~e 1 racing world m her first career start when she d h d V) RACING REPORTS th · · as e to - THE ARC MYSTIQU~ ......... '. 3 an au on.tative--and quick--score in a five furlong race z TOTAL PAGES ........ · · 4 at Woodbine. - ................ 4 Canadian Report Continued, p. 2. PAGE 2 •THOROUGHBRED DAILY NEWS• 10-18-95 Canadian Report Continued. EVANSVILLE SLEW TO WALMAC Last year's Gil Wild Zone (Wild Again), owned in partnership by Arlington-Washington Futurity winner Evansville Slew Frank Stronach and Mrs. Adlaide Riggs, has been pre (Slew City Slew) arrived last Thursday at Walmac lnt'I entered for the Breeders' Cup Mile, which reportedly and will begin stud duty at the Lexington, Kentucky drew 24 pre-entries. The five-year-old horse, who has farm in 1996. As a two-year-old, Evansville Slew scored won two stakes at Woodbine this year, ran fifth last out a 1 2 Yz length victory in the Juvenile Breeders Cup S. at in the Giii Kelso at a mile over the Belmont turf. Aksarben and a 2 Yz length win in the Honest Pleasure Frank Stronach's King Ruckus (Bold Ruckus), who S. at Arlington He won the Arlington-Washington Futu finished 12th in last year's Sprint, had been considered rity by 1 % lengths in only his fourth start, keeping his a possibility for this year's edition, but ran a disappoint undefeated record intact. Evansville Slew was the sev ing third in his last race, the $114,000 Highlander H. at enth high-weighted colt on the Experimental Handicap, Woodbine Oct. 15. above subsequent GI winners Thunder Gulch and Peaks and Valleys. In his final start Sept. 23 at Turfway, Ev News Continued. ansville Slew returned from an 11-month layoff and OJC SEEKS ADDITIONAL DATES The Ontario reinjured his suspensory ligament while finishing third in Jockey Club has applied to the Ontario Racing Commis the $1 50,000 Kentucky Cup Sprint H. He won five of sion to extend its current meet, in what may be a test seven career starts for earnings of $338,040. He will pilot for winter Thoroughbred racing. The OJC's meet is stand for $3,000 live foal, payable September 1. scheduled to end Dec. 6, but it has applied for race dates Wednesdays and Saturdays beginning December CALDER INCREASES PURSES AGAIN Calder 9 and the organization has also asked for race dates President Ken Dunn announced yesterday that the New Year's Eve. There has been considerable interest track's daily purse distribution will be boosted to a level from the local chapter of the Ontario Horsemen Benevo slightly above that of when the season first started. lent and Protective Association to conduct a winter The increase goes into effect this Friday and is due to meet, although the OJC had been cool to the idea be the success of full-card simulcasting, which resumed at cause of problems with maintenance and a conflict with the Miami track October 1. the Standardbred operation that races at Woodbine at that time of year. HOOSIER PARK RAISES DAILY PURSES Hoosier Park in Anderson, Indiana has announced a five percent ARLINGTON ACCEPTS '96 DATES Arlington increase in its daily purse structure for the Thorough International Racecourse reluctantly agreed late Monday bred meet. The increase is immediate and will be in to accept the 1 996 racing dates it was awarded last effect through the end of the meeting, which closes month by the Illinois Racing Board. Arlington will con October 28. With the five percent increase, the average duct the longest meeting in its history from May12 daily purse at Hoosier Park is now just under $65,000. through Oct. 13. However, owner Dick Duchossois had sought more--an "absolute minimum" meeting beginning ACADEMY AWARD COLT TOPS AT FASIG May 1 and ending Nov. 17. When the request was TIPTON A dark bay or brown colt by first-crop sire denied, Duchossois waited from Sept. 19, when the Academy Award out of Curious (Rare Performer) topped dates were awarded, until Monday before announcing Monday's Fasig-Tipton Kentucky Fall Yearling Sale. his track would race next year. The Board also asked Named Mr. Smith, the colt was consigned by Dromoland the Chicago tracks to end this year's five-day racing Farm, agent for Cedar Spring Farm, and purchased for week experiment and return to a six-day schedule next $75,000 by Philip M.