The Thoro'ughbred 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, MAY 16, 1997 W•E•E•K•E•N•D PREVIEW FASIG-TIPTON MIDLANTIC STARTS MONDAY Today, Newbury, England: The Fasig-Tipton Midlantic Spring Two-Year-Olds in JUDDMONTE LOCKINGE S.-G1, $162,259, 4yo/up, SfT Training and Horses of Racing Age Sale, to be held at PP HORSE TRAINER JOCKEY WT. the Timonium Sales Pavilion in Timonium, Maryland, 1 First Island (Ire) Wragg M Hills 1 26 begins Monday. A total of 450 hips have been cata­ 2 Ali-Royal (Ire) Cecil Fallon 1 26 logued for the two-day auction, including 25 horses 3 Bin Rosie (GB) Loder Darley 126 from Phase I of the C. Oliver Goldsmith dispersal, con­ 4 Even Top (Ire) Tompkins Quinn 1 26 signed by Litz Bloodstock Services. Nine horses were 5 Acharne (GB) Brittain Doyle 126 added to that dispersal after the catalogue had been 6 Beauchamp King (GB) Dunlop Reid 126 printed; to receive pedigree information on those hips, 7 Spinning World Pease Asmussen 1 26 call Fasig-Tipton's Fax On Demand service at (606) 8 Decorated Hero (GB) Gosden Cochrane 126 288-1015. Last year's GI Hopeful winner Smoke 9 Gothenberg (Ire) Johnston Weaver 1 26 Glacken was purchased for $65,000 at this sale last 1 0 Alhaarth (Ire) bin Suroor Dettori 126 year. Among the 46 stakes winners to pass through the 11 Cayman Kai (Ire) Hannon O'Neill 126 Fasig-Tipton Midlantic sales ring in 1996 was GI Breed­ 1 2 Allied Forces bin Suroor Eddery 1 26 ers' Cup Classic winner Alphabet Soup. Bidding for the Sires: First Island (Ire) (Dominion {GB}), Ali-Royal 1997 Spring Sale begins at 11 a.m. and the auction (Ire) (Royal Academy), Bin Rosie (GB) (Distant Relative continues at 11 a.m. Tuesday. {Ire}), Even Top (Ire} (Topanoora {Ire}), Acharne (GB) JIM BOLUS DEAD Jim Bolus, Kentucky Derby histo­ (Pharly {Fr}), Beauchamp King {GB) (Nishapour {Fr}), rian, author-writer and a contributor to the Thorough­ Spinning World (Nureyev), Decorated Hero (GB) bred Daily News, died of a heart attack Wednesday, (Warning {GB}), Gothenberg (Ire) (Polish Patriot), May 14 after an evening jog in Louisville, Kentucky. He Alhaarth (Ire) (Unfuwain), Cayman Kai (Ire) (Imperial was 54. Bolus, longtime secretary-treasurer of the Na­ Frontier), Allied Forces (Miswaki). tional Turf Writers Association, is survived by his wife, a son, a daughter and a one-year-old grandson, Eli. A Today, Pimlico: former University of Kentucky football player, Bolus knew everything there was to know about the Kentucky BLACK-EYED SUSAN S.-Gll, $200,000, 3yo, f, 1 1/Sm Derby and everyone who participated in it. "You can't PP HORSE TRAINER JOCKEY ODDS say enough about Jim. I loved him," two-time Derby­ 1 Larkwhistle Attfield Stevens 20-1 winning trainer Nick Zito said Thursday. Bolus worked 2 Salt It Bodner Marquez 20-1 23 years for the Louisville Courier-Journal and Louisville 3 Global Star Donk Solis 8-1 Times before becoming a freelance writer, author and 4 Blushing K.D. David Mechel 2-5 editor. Over the past five years, he published a series of 5 Holiday Ball Capuano Johnston 8-1 Derby story collections for Pelican Publishing. He was 6 Truth and Nobility Fallon Capanas 1 5-1 also the curator for the Kentucky Derby Museum. Visita­ 7 Buckeye Search Nafzger Peck 6-1 tion will be May 16 from 2-5 p.m. and 7-9 p.m. at Arch Blushing K.D. (Blushing John), beaten only once in L Heady Funeral Home in Louisville. Memorial contribu­ her career, looks to solidify her position at the top of tions can be made either to Kosair Children's Hospital in the three-year-old filly division after a 2 ~-length win Louisville or the Thoroughbred Retirement Foundation. in the GI Kentucky Oaks May 2. Salt It (Salt Lake), looking for her fourth straight win, comes into her STAKES CLOSINGS graded-stakes debut off of a victory in Laurel's Wide Country S. March 23. The filly's lone loss came in her TOMORROW. SATURDAY. MAY 17: debut in January at Aqueduct. Global Star (Relaunch) 5-31 $150,000 Acorn-GI, Bel, 3yo, t, 8t ($150) seeks a return to the winner's circle after second­ 6-1 $150, 000 Sheepshead Bay H. -GI/, Bel, place finishes in the March 23 Giii Florida Oaks and 3yo/up, f/m, 11fT ($150) • April 19 Gill Comely. PAGE 2 • "fHOROUGHBRED DAILY NEWS• 5-16-97 Weekend Stakes Previews cont. (News cont.) Today, Saint-Cloud, France: TOGA TOGA TOGA RETIRES Toga Toga Toga PRIX JEAN DE CHAUDENAY-G2, $88,665, 4yo/up, (Saratoga Six), winner of this year's GI Santa Monica H. 12fT has been retired from racing after suffering a tendon PP HORSE TRAINER JOCKEY WT injury while winning the April 26 Gii A Gleam H. "She 1 Flyway (Fr) E Lellouche T Thulliez 123 bowed a tendon in the A Gleam," trainer Eduardo Inda 2 Key Change (Ire) J Oxx J P Murtagh 127 confirmed. "It's unfortunate--she's been running some 3 Busy Flight (GB) BW Hills 0 Peslier 123 good races lately. Things like this happen, but they (her 4 Darazari (Ire) Royer-Dupre G Masse 128 owners) are going to make her a broodmare next sea­ 5 De Quest (GB) A Fabre T Jarnet 123 son." The five-year-old chestnut mare will be sent to owner Stanley Bell's farm in Sacramento, California and Today, Pimlico: is scheduled to be shipped to Kentucky in November. GALLORETTE H.-Glll, $100,000, 3/up, f/m, 1 1/16mT Plans on which farm she will be sent to have not been The field, in post position order, is as follows: Silent finalized. Toga Toga Toga retires with seven wins in 18 Greeting (Secret Hello), Prado, 115; Palliser Bay (Frosty starts and earnings of $374,489. the Snowman), Marquez, 111; See Your Point (Rock Point), no rider, 113; Elusive (Elmaamul), Pino, 114; VALID APPEAL'S BREEDING SEASON ON Reeve's lib (Horatius), Martinez, 11 O; Powder Bowl HOLD Twenty five-year-old Valid Appeal (In Reality), (Pleasant Colony), McCauley, 115; Faster and Farther sire of 70 stakes-winners, will take a three-week break (Thirty Eight Paces), Pino, 109; Afleet Would (Afleet), from covering mares at Mockingbird Farm in Ocala, Stevens, 112; Sangria (El Gran Senor), Desormeaux, Florida. In a release issued yesterday, Farm Manager 117. Tom Drier said, "Although he has produced eighteen crops in a seemingly effortless manner, for the current Saturday, Pimlico: breeding season, Valid Appeal has not displayed his DIXIE S.-Gll, $200,000, 3yo/up, 9fT usual ability to stop mares. Due to his decline in fertility, The field, in order of the draw, is as follows: Claudius we feel it is necessary to stop all breeding for a period (Majestic Light), 115; Ops Smile (Caveat), 115; Sharp of three weeks. At that time, we will re-evaluate and Appeal (World Appeal), 121; Defacto (Diesis {GB}), decide if he should continue to breed for the remainder 115; Brave Note (Ire) (Dancing Brave), 115; Same Old of the 1997 season." Florida's all-time leading sire by Wish (lyphard's Wish), 121; Officious (Magesterial), money earned, Valid Appeal's best runners include 115; Soviet Line (Ire) (Soviet Star), 115. 1981 Blue Grass winner Proud Appeal; Nannerl, a MGSW of $553,465; GI Santa Monica H. winner Saturday, Aqueduct: Stormy But Valid; Gii Pegasus H. hero World Appeal; GENUINE RISK H.-Gll, $100,000, 3yo/up, f/m, 6f and GI Remsen and GI Laurel Futurity victor Mighty The field, in post position order, is as follows: Phone Appealing. the Doctor (Phone Trick), 115 pounds; Miss Golden Circle (Crafty Prospector), 1 20; Red Hot Iron (Iron), 113; Nappelon (Bold Revenue), 110; Surprising Fact (Known Fact), 113; Echo Echo Echo (Eastern Echo), FOALING NEWS 11 O; Start At Once (Gone West), 111. © Copyright Thoroughbred Daily News. HISTOIRE (FR), 18, Riverman--Helvetie (GB) ( * Klairon) This newspaper may not be reproduced in any form or Foal born 4-16-97, a filly by Mr. Prospector. by any means, electronic or mechanical, without prior Owned by Shadwell Farm, Inc. Boarded at Shadwell Farm in Lexington, Ky. written permission of the copyright owner, Media Vista. Accomplishments: Dam of Erhaab (Chief's Crown), Hwt. Information as to the races, race results and earnings at 3 in England 9 1/2-11f & 11-14f, G1-Eng, $899,306; was obtained from results charts published in Daily Oumaldaaya (Nureyev), GSW-lty, SW-Eng; Hittias (GB) Racing Form and utilized herewith with the permission (Touching Wood), GSP-N.A., SP-Fr, $136,045; of the copyright owner, Daily Racing Form. Hispanolia (Fr) (Kris {GB}), MSW-Fr. Academy Award 40 Winners, Five Stakes Horses, PARIS, KY (606) 233-4252 including a G 1 winner FAX (606) 987-0008 PAGE 3 •'THOROUGHBRED DAILY NEWS• 5-16-97 DUKE OF YORK INTERNATIONAL FACTORS S.-G3, FOREIGN $75,288, York, England, 5-15, 3/up, 6fT, 1: 12.13, gd. • • 1--ROYAL APPLAUSE (GB), 126, c, 4, Waajib (lre)-- Yesterday's Results: Flying Melody (Ire), by Auction Ring. 0-Sheikh Maktoum al Maktoum; B-Gainsborough Stud YORKSHIRE CUP-G2, $148, 742, York, England, 5-15, Management Ltd; T-Barry Hills; J-M Hills; $46,081. 4yo/up, 13f 194ydsT, 2:59.39, gd. * 1 /2 to Lyric Fantasy (Ire) (Tate Gallery), Hwt.