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 SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 1994 W•E•E•K•E•N•D RESULTS TURFWAY OPENS TODAY Turfway Park, in the Saturday, Aqueduct midst of a $5 million improvement program, launches its 25-day Holiday Meet this afternoon. The opening NYRA MILE H.-GI, $250,000, AQU, 11-26, 3yo/up, day feature, the Holiday Inaugural S., kicks off the 1 m, 1 :36, ft. $300,000 stakes schedule for the meeting, which 1--#@CIGAR, 111, c, 4, Palace Music--Solar Slew, by runs through December 31. Post time will be 7:00 Seattle Slew. 0-Paulson Madeleine; B-Paulson Allen p.m. Wednesdays through Fridays, and 1 :30 p.m. E (MD); T-William I Mott; J-J D Bailey; $150,000. Saturdays and Sundays, with Mondays and Tuesdays Lifetime Record: 15-4-2-4, $270,013. *1/2 to dark. The track will be closed Christmas Eve and Mulca (MSW in PR, Ch. 3yo filly in PR). Christmas Day, reopening for an eight-day stretch 2--Devil His Due, 124, h, 5, Devil's Bag--Plenty December 26; post time for the eight post-Christmas O'Toole, by Raise a Cup. ($25,000 wing '89 cards will be 1 :30 p.m. The Turfway Winter-Spring KEENOV). 0-Lion Crest Stable; B-Blum Peter E (KY); Meet begins New Year's Day. $55,000. 3--Punch Line, 11 2, g, 4, Two Punch--Hilarious Astra, CALDER STAKES RENAMED FOR KENNY by Fast Hilarious. O/B-Johnson Althea R Mrs (VA); $30,000. NOE Tropical at Calder President C. Kenneth Dunn Margins: 7, 2HF, 1. Odds: 8.90, 2.30, 78.20. announced Saturday the renaming of the $100,000 Also Ran: American Chance, Brunswick, Key Con­ Sunny Isle H. as the Kenny Noe, Jr. H. to honor the tender, ltaka, Storm Tower, Ulises, Bertrando, Harlan, former Calder president and executive vice president, Swamp King. who was recently named president of the New York Cigar, who had campaigned almost exclusively on Racing Association. "It almost goes without s~ying the grass, returned to the main track last time out and that Kenny was the driving force in the ascension of went wire-to-wire to win an Aqueduct allowance Calder Race Course into a major racetrack," said going a mile by eight lengths; the four-year~old came Dunn. "He provided credibility for the racing program, into the NYRA Mile with a record of two wins from created one of the best backstretches in the country just three dirt starts. Ridden by jockey Jerry Bailey, and was instrumental in advancing the state's breed­ the Paulson homebred rated in fourth to the quarter ing program, particularly through the creation of the pole, then took control of the race, galloping awa_y Florida Stallion Stakes. Any future success we may from the field and winning as much the best. "Cigar have will emanate from the foundation Kenny built really smoked them," said Bailey. "I rode him before, here at Calder." Noe will be in Florida to attend to but that was on the grass and he was flat that day. inaugural running of the Kenny Noe, Jr. H., set for On the dirt, he has been a different horse." Winning December 24. trainer Bill Mott was in Japan, saddling Fraise and Paradise Creek for the Japan Cup. The 2-1 favorite NATIONAL BEST SEVEN RESULTS The Nation­ Devil His Due, giving 15 pounds to the winner, rallied al Best Seven results for Saturday, November 26 are: from mid-pack but had to settle for the runner-up Seven of Seven: No Winners spot. Six of Seven: $209.25 for a 50 cent bet Weekend Results cont. p2 ( 1 51 winning tickets) Total Pool: $140, 529.00 WEEKEND RESULTS ....... p1-2 Carryover: $66,400.04 WEEKEND PREVIEW ........ p2 Jackpot Carryover: $7 ,377. 66. RACING REPORTS ........ p3-6 (+ Indicates Best Seven Event) PAGE 2 •THOROUGHBRED DAILY NEWS• 11-27-94 Weekend Results cont. REMSEN S.-Gll, $200,000, AQU, 11-26, 2yo, W•E•E•K•E•N•D 1 1 /8m, 1 :53 4/5, ft. 1--#@THUNDER GULCH, 115, c, 2, Gulch--Line of PREVIEW Thunder, by Storm Bird. ($40,000 yrl '93 KEEJUL). 0-Tabor Michael; B-Brant Peter M (KY); T-D Wayne Lukas; J-G L Stevens; $120,000. Lifetime Record: Sunday, Tokyo, Japan 5-2-1-1, $171,006. GI $3,000,000 Japan Cup, 3yo/up, 12fT 2--Western Echo, 119, c, 2, Eastern Echo--Cherry PP HORSE TRAINER JOCKEY WT. D'Or, by Cassaleria. ($30,000 yrl '93 KEESEP). 1 Apple Tree Fabre Jarnet 1 26 0-Meyerhoff Harry C; B-Bradyleigh Farms Inc (KY)· 2 Fraise Mott Take 126 $44,000. I I 3 Paradise Creek Mott Day 1 26 3--Mighty Magee, 114, c, 2, Cormorant--Final Vows, 4 Marvelous Crown Osawa Minai 1 26 by Halo. ($22,000 yrl '93 KEESEP). 0-Spath Allen 5 Fujiyama Kenzan Mori Ebina 126 6 Rough Habit Wheeler Cassidy 1 26 H; B-Copeland Dreabon (KY); $24,000. Margins: NK, 3, 3/4. Odds: 5.60, 1.05, 5.60. 7 Jeune Hayes Harris 1 26 8 Matikanetannhauser Ito Shibata 1 26 Also Ran: Devil's Brew, Ave's Flag, Kresa, Tymtodyn, 9 Johann Quatz McAnally Solis 1 26 Outlaw, Mane Ingredient, Sham Francisco. 10 Sandpit Mandella Nakatani 1 26 With a sweeping come-from-behind drive, Thunder 11 Nice Nature Y Matsunaga Matsunaga 1 26 Gulch rallied to nip Western Echo by a neck at the 12 Hernando Boutin Asmussen 126 wire for his first graded stakes victory. After break­ 13 Grand Flotilla Sahadi Black 1 26 ing his maiden at Belmont Oct. 4, the colt jumped up 14 Raintrap Frankel Eddery 126 to graded stakes competition, picking up checks in the Gii Cowdin and the Giii Nashua in his last two 15 Royce And Royce Matsuyama Yokoyama 126 Apple Tree (Bikala) is the favorite with British book­ starts. "My horse was in a good spot throughout the makers to take this race, but he has drawn the rail race, " said winning jockey Gary Stevens. "Coming and the last 1 2 winners of the event have raced out down the stretch he started to lug in quite a bit so I of post eight or higher. couldn't let him run as much as I wanted to. I ' thought he could have won by a lot farther than he Sunday, Hollywood did--the last 80 yards I was just trying to keep him GI $400,000 Matriarch S., 3yo/up, f/m, 9fT straight." PP HORSE TRAINER JOCKEY WT. 1 Aube lndienne (Fr) Whittingham Desormeaux 1 23 DEMOISELLE S.-Gll, $200,000, AQU, 11-26, 2yo, f, 2 Corrazona Mandella Antley 123 1 1 /8m, 1 :53 2/5, ft. 3a Wandesta (GB) Frankel Day 120 1--@MINISTER WIFE, 121, f, 2, Deputy Minister-­ 4 Exchange Spawr Pincay Jr. 123 Dowery (GSW, $398,676), by Full Pocket. 5 Zoonaqua Mayberry Mccarron 123 0/B-Fares Farm, Inc (KY); T-D Wayne Lukas; J-J D 6 Fondly Remembered Abrams D'houssaye 1 23 Bailey; $120,000. Lifetime Record: 5-4-1-0, 7 Las Meninas (Ire) Stack Stevens 120 $228, 178. 8 Alywow Attfield Smith 1 20 2--Miss Golden Circle, 118, f, 2, Crafty Prospector-­ 9a Skimble Frankel Nakatani 123 River Missy, by Riverman. ($82,000 yrl '93 The race will be televised on ESPN; post time is FTSAUG). 0-Kimmel Caesar P & Nicholson Ronald· 3:45 p.m. PST. Charlie Whittingham goes for his B-Riordan Michael (KY); $44,000. ' fourth straight Matriarch victory; the veteran horse­ 3--Special Broad, 121, f, 2, Broad Brush--Special man sent out champion Flawlessly to win the last Strike, by Mr. Prospector. O/B-Meyerhoff Robert E three editions of the race. He saddles Aube lndienne (MD); $24,000. (Fr) (Bluebird); the four-year-old is looking for her third Margins: 4, 7HF, NO. Odds: 3.40B, 0.80CT, 2.65. straight graded stakes win after taking the Gii Las Also Ran: Golden Bri, F Sharp, Rose Law Firm, Bo Palmas and the GI Yellow Ribbon S. Exchange (Ex­ Cheryl, Mimi's Cherub, Laguna Seca. plodent), seventh in the Breeders' Cup Distaff in her Minister Wife, winner of the Pocahontas S. at a mile most recent try but a winner of seven of 11 on the in her most recent outing, found the extra furlong to grass, will become a millionaire with a first or second­ her liking, widening in the stretch after dueling with place finish in the Matriarch. The six-year-old was Miss Golden Circle, part of the favored entry, to the claimed for $50,000 from her second career start. top of the lane. The filly leaves Kentucky for the first time and registers her first graded stakes victory and fourth in a row. "I planned to take her back, but we A # will distinguish first-time stakes-winners, a @ will got in good position and she was pulling pretty strong indicate first-time graded stakes-winners and a + will so we hooked on early," said jockey Jerry Bailey, denote winners who are first-time starters. who was aboard Minister Wife for the first time. "It made for a great race." PAGE 3 •THOROUGHBRED DAILY NEWS• 11-27-94 +ILLINOIS CAVALIER S., $52, 100, HAW, 11-26, 2yo, 6 1/2f, 1:18 1/5, ft.