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GII SUPER DERBY HEADLINE FIELD p. 2 NEWS For information about TDN, DELIVERED EACH NIGHT call 732-747-8060. BY FAX AND INTERNET www.thoroughbreddailynews.com FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 2002 BANKS HILL LIKELY TO PREP IN U.S. P R E V I E W Banks Hill (GB) (Danehill) could prep for the Oct. 26 P P Breeders’ Cup Filly and Mare Turf with a run in the Friday, Newbury, Britain, post time: 3:25 p.m. Sept. 28 GI Flower Bowl DUBAI DUTY FREE MILL REEF S.-G2, £55,000, 2yo, Invitational at Belmont or in 6f 8ydsT the Oct. 5 GI Yellow Ribbon SC PP HORSE SIRE TRAINER WT at Santa Anita. The four- 1 3 Baron's Pit (GB) Night Shift Hannon 127 year-old filly parlayed an 2 7 Al Turf (Ire) Alhaarth (Ire) Hannon 124 impressive 5 1/2-length vic- 3 2 Fiddlers Reach Kingmambo Meehan 124 tory in last year’s Filly and 4 1 Kawagino (Ire) Perugino Dutfield 124 Mare Turf at Belmont to an 5 8 Miguel Cervantes Danzig A O'Brien 124 Eclipse Award as the top 6 4 Monsieur Bond (Ire) Danehill Dancer (Ire) Smart 124 turf mare in the U.S. Of a Banks Hill 7 5 Zafeen (Fr) Zafonic Channon 124 possible Flower Bowl start, David Leeds/Getty Images 8 6 Cassis Danzig Noseda 119 Banks Hill’s trainer Andre Friday, The Meadowlands, post time: 10:41 p.m. EDT Fabre told the Daily Racing Form, “It’s first choice VIOLET H.-GIII, $150,000, 3yo/up, f/m, 1 1/16mT because she knows the course. She’s doing fine. Her PP HORSE SIRE TRAINER WT last two races were pretty good.” In her most recent 1 Wander Mom Maria’s Mon Plesa Jr. 115 start, Banks Hill ran second behind Rock of Gibraltar in 2 Jennasietta Septieme Ciel Iwinski 115 the Sept. 8 G1 Prix du Moulin de Longchamp. 3 Stylish Thunder Gulch Mott 119 4 Babae (Chi) Barkerville Alexander 119 ZAFEEN HEADS MILL REEF FIELD 5 Eventail Lear Fan Schosberg 115 Zafeen (Fr) (Zafonic) will start as the likely favourite 6a Tippity Witch Affirmed A Jerkens 114 in today’s G2 Mill Reef S. at Newbury after posting a 7 High Lady Lord Avie Goldberg 116 career-best effort when a three-parts of a length second 8 Lady Of The Future Eastern Echo Greene 117 to Elusive City in the G1 Prix Morny at Deauville last 9a Shooting Party Sky Classic A Jerkens 114 time out Aug. 25. He started his season by filling the 10 Secret River Secret Odds Murray 118 runner-up berth in a Salisbury maiden July 5 before 11 Rhum Go for Gin Servis 116 returning to the same track for his only win July 26. 12 Platinum Tiara Cozzene Kimmel 115 Cassis (Danzig) started her racing life with victory at Also Eligible: Lingfield June 29, but then went straight to pattern 13 Kiss A Miss Kissin Kris Johnson 113 company and finished second in the G2 Cherry Hinton 14 Coney Kitty (Ire) Lycius Clement 113 S. at Newmarket July 9. Her only other racecourse 15 Magic Mission (GB) Machiavellian Drysdale 112 appearance yielded a sixth-place finish in the G1 Phoe- 16 Reina Blanca (GB) Darshaan (GB) Pletcher 112 nix S. at The Curragh Aug. 11, but she had a legitimate excuse for that performance as she didn't take the Saturday, Belmont Park journey to Ireland well. The bay filly has solid claims if VOSBURGH S.-GI, $300,000, 3yo/up, 7f fully recovered. Miguel Cervantes (Danzig) is the PP HORSE SIRE JOCKEY 1 Multiple Choice Mt. Livermore Prado Ballydoyle representative and the July 27 Curragh 2 Griffinite Unbridled’s Song Castellano maiden winner merits the utmost respect. 3 Voodoo Petionville Velazquez 4 Bonapaw Sabona G Melancon TDN TODAY 5 Wild Summer Wild Again Gryder Headline News .................... 2 pages 6 Aldebaran Mr. Prospector Day All carry 126 pounds. (859) 233-4252 FAX (859) 987-0008 www.claibornefarm.com TDN P HEADLINE NEWS • 9/20/02 • PAGE 2 of 2 (Stakes previews cont.) P N E W S T O D A Y P Saturday, Louisiana Downs SUPER DERBY-GII, $500,000, 3yo, 1 1/8m GRAEME HALL TO WINDING OAKS Multiple PP HORSE SIRE JOCKEY graded stakes winner Graeme Hall (Dehere--Win 1 Essence of Dubai Pulpit Chavez Crafty Lady, by Crafty Prospector) will take up stud 2 Glitzi’s Classic Sky Classic Woolsey duties next season at Eugene and Laura Melnyk’s 3 A.P. Five Hundred A.P. Indy Albarado Winding Oaks Farm near Ocala, Florida, according to 4 Thunder Days Thunder Gulch Guidry The Blood-Horse. The five-year-old stallion captured 5 Private Emblem Our Emblem D Meche 6 Walk in the Snow In a Walk LeBlanc the GII Arkansas Derby and GII Jim Dandy S. as a 7 Chop Chop Thunder Gulch Faul three-year-old. He won last year’s GII Eclipse H. and 8 The Judge Sez Who Judge T C Coa GIII Stuyvesant H. and was second in the GI Cigar All carry 124 pounds. Mile H. On the board in 15 of 22 starts, Graeme Hall won seven races and earned $1,147,441. He will Saturday, Woodbine stand his first season at stud for a fee of $7,500. MAZARINE BREEDERS’ CUP-GII, C$250,000, 2yo, f, The Melnyks purchased the former 1,100-acre Mock- 1 1/16m ingbird Farm last year and renamed the historic prop- PP HORSE SIRE JOCKEY WT erty Winding Oaks. 1 Mountain Dawn Mountain Cat Somsanith 115 2 Handpainted A.P. Indy Kabel 120 COLTS SHARE TOP BILLING AT KEENELAND 3 Miss Mary Apples Clever Trick Landry 115 Two colts shared the top price of $60,000 at yester- 4 Raylene Tabasco Cat McAleney 115 day’s session of the Keeneland September Yearling Sale 5 Collymore Hall Concerto Griffith 117 in Lexington. Hip number 3350, a son of Partner’s Hero 6 Brusque Canaveral Ramsammy 115 out of the Raise a Bid mare Out of a Cannon, brought 7 Curiosity Tale of the Cat Callaghan 115 that session-topping bid. Consigned by Charlton, as 8 Island Refrain Petionville Lauzon 113 agent for Welcome Here Farm, the bay yearling was purchased by Halvorson Bloodstock. Hip number 3530, KEENELAND SEPTEMBER STATISTICS a gray colt by Fantastic Fellow--Cliff Lake (Mining), also brought $60,000. Consigned by Four Star Sales, agent, THURSDAY, SEPT. 19, 2002 the yearling was purchased by Von Flew. Through 10 session, the average sale price is $81,180--down 23 SESSION TOTALS 2002 2001 percent from the $105,234 recorded during the same No. Offered 324 340 No. Sold 264 236 period last year. The median fell one percent, from RNAs 60 104 $37,500 a year ago to $37,000 this year. The cumula- % RNA (% change) 19% (-39%) 31% tive buy-back rate of 23 percent is down 18 percent Gross $4,106,600 $3,333,200 from a year ago. The 13-day sale runs through Satur- Average (% change) $15,555 (+10%) $14,124 day. Bidding begins at 10 a.m. daily. Median (% change) $12,000 (+63%) $7,350 CUMULATIVE 2002 2001 © Copyright Thoroughbred Daily News. No. Offered 3301 3279 This newspaper may not be reproduced in any form or by No. Sold 2551 2372 any means, electronic or mechanical, without prior RNAs 750 907 written permission of the copyright owner, MediaVista. % RNA (% change) 23% (-18%) 28% Information as to the American races, race results and Gross $207,090,700 $249,615,700 earnings was obtained from results charts published in Average (% change) $81,180 (-23%) $105,234 Daily Racing Form and utilized here with with the Median (% change) $37,000 (-1%) $37,500 permission of the copyright owner, Daily Racing Form. www.keeneland.com FORESTRY * The #1 First-Crop Sire of yearlings, TAYLOR MADE with individuals selling for up to $950,000 (859) 885-3345 fax (859) 885-1533 *includes sires with 2 or more sold www.taylormadefarm.com FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 2002 AMERICAN 5 Pages EDITION 8th-BEL, $51,000, Alw, NW3X, 3yo/up, 6f, 1:10 2/5, I N E W Y O R K I ft. 1--TRUE DIRECTION, 118, c, 3, French Deputy--Ms Yesterday’s Results: Paragon, by Tank's Prospect. ($85,000 yrl '00 7th-BEL, $52,000, Alw, NW3X, 3yo/up, f/m, KEESEP). O-Morton & Marisol Binn; B-Beclawat Sta- 1 1/16mT, 1:43 2/5, gd. ble (ON); T-Carlos J Morales. Lifetime Record: SW & 1--LOVE N' KISS S., 121, f, 4, Kris S.--Key to My GSP, 6-4-0-1, $150,460. *1/2 to Williamthenchanted Heart, by Mr. Prospector. ($900,000 yrl '99 (Williamstown), GSP, $211,960. FTSAUG). O-Lael Stables; B-Darby Dan Stables (KY); 2--Mile, 118, c, 4, Hennessy--Lill's Cutlass, by Cutlass. T-Christophe Clement. Lifetime Record: GSW, ($130,000 wlng '98 KEENOV; $245,000 yrl '99 11-4-2-2, $195,795. KEESEP). 2--Longingtobeme, 118, m, 5, Belong to Me--I'm So 3--Gratiaen, 118, h, 5, Cure the Blues--Adorable Minis- Agreeable, by I Enclose. ter, by Deputy Minister. 3--Vespers, 121, f, 4, Known Fact--Sunset Service, by Margins: 1 1/4, 2HF, 2. Odds: 0.45, 7.70, 26.50. Deputy Minister. True Direction was easily the best in the May 18 Margins: 1 1/4, NO, 4. Odds: 1.10, 21.00, 4.00. Hirsch Jacobs S. at Pimlico when he defeated Listen Love N’ Kiss S. was good enough for a head victory Here and came back three weeks later to finish a solid in the nine-furlong GIII Pebbles H.