The Thoroughbred Daily News is delivered to your home or business by fax each morning by 5a.m. For subscription information, please call 908-747-8060. T~?I~~UN~~~RE DM SATURDAY, JUNE 29,1996 $2 Daily W-E-E-K-E-N-D PREVIEW CAREER OVER FOR NORTHERN SPUR? Today, Belmont Park Last year's champion turf horse Northern Spur (Ire) HEMPSTEAD H.-GI, $200,000, 3yo/up, flm, 8.5f (Sadler's Wells), third in the GI Caesars International PP HORSE TRAINER JOCKEY ODDS 1 Restored Hope Levine Santos 1 0-1 at Atlantic City in his last start June 22, came out of 2 Shoop Moschera Smith 7-2 the race with a slab fracture of his right knee and will 3 Head East Badgett J Velazquez 15-' likely be retired. The five-year-old, a Group 2 winner 4 Blonde Actress Jolley C Velasquez 30-1 in France before he was purchased by owner Charles 5 Serena's Song Lukas Bailey 3-5 Cella, won three of eight U.S. outings and capped off 6 Smooth Charmer Jerkens Chavez 6-1 his Eclipse Award-winning campaign with a game 7 Transient Trend P J Kelly Samyn 15-1 neck victory over a boggy Belmont course in the GI 8 Clear Mandate Arnold Krone 8-1 Breeders' Cup Turf; he has won six of his 15 career The consistent Shoop (Double Sonic) didn't handle the starts and $1,616,792 to date. turf when 10th in the Gil Sheepshead Bay H. last out but finished only a length and a half behind champion ALBERT BROCCOLI DEAD Albert R. "Cubby" Serena's Song (Rahy) when second in the Gill Pimlico Broccoli, the producer of the James Bond films and a Distaff H. two starts back. First or second in nine of 11 prominent Thoroughbred owner, died Thursday at his outings this year, she was getting seven pounds from home in Beverly Hills of a heart-related ailment. He was Serena in that start, and gets an additional three pounds 87. A native of New York, Broccoli first ventured into today. racing in the 1950s, purchasing Derisley Wood, a farm near Newmarket, England, with film partner Irving Allen, Today, Arlington International but it was 30 years before his first major winner, PUCKER UP S.-GII, $150,000, 3yo, f, 9ft Dontstop Themusic (Stop the Music), who captured 10 PP HORSE TRAINER JOCKEY ODDS stakes, including the GI Vanity H. and GI Spinster H. in 1 Gold Memory Ebert Gomez 10-1 1985. Broccoli began concentrating on the two-year-old 2 Ms. Mostly Cesare Romero 12-1 market in 1990, when he was the leading buyer at the 3 Mountain Affair Casse Walls 5-' inaugural Barretts select sale; he was also the leading 4 Entrusted Arnold Gryder 3-1 buyer at that auction in 1991 and 1993, and the leading 5 Clamorosa Walden Albarado 2-1 American buyer in 1994, spending more than $1 million 6 Dyna ,lNhirl Ward Jr. Martinez 9-2 each year. His purchases included 1993 GI Breeders' 7 Opera (GB) Roussel Velasquez 15-1 Cup Juvenile and 1994 GI Santa Anita Derby winner 8 Wise Action McGehee Pettinger 12-1 Brocco (Kris S.), Gil Del Mar Oaks winner Suivi (Diesis 9 Tarte Aux Pommes (Fr) Frankel Guidry 8-1 {GB}) and Gil Del Mar Debutante heroine La Spia (Ca­ Claimed for $25,000 at Gulfstream in February, pote). Clamorosa (Seattle Dancer) won a stakes on the dirt at Turfway in March, then switched to the turf and took a KING RANCH UP FOR SALE King Ranch, Inc., stakes at Keeneland before finishing second to MGISW announced yesterday that it will be selling its Kentucky Antespend in the Gill Honeymoon H. at Hollywood in Thoroughbred farm. The farm, located on Old Frankfort her most recent effort May 26. The Maryland-bred miss Pike near Lexington, consists of 670 acres in the heart picks up five pounds off that race. of Bluegrass country. Originally part of Colonel E. R. Weekend Preview cont. p2 Bradley's Idle Hour Stock Farm, it became home to many of King Ranch's 89 stakes winners in the years STAKES CLOSINGS following its purchase in 1946. In recent years, it has TODA Y, SA TURDA y, JUNE 29: been operated as a boarding and breaking operation, 7-13 $150,000 New York H.-Gil, 8e/, and was the leading consignor on average at the 1993 3yolup, tim, 10tT ($150) and 1994 Keeneland July sales. News cont. p2-3 PAGE 2· THOROUGHBRED DAILY NEWS. 6-29-96 Today, Churchill Downs Sunday, The Curragh, Ireland BASHFORD MANOR S.-GIII, $100,000, 2yo, 6f BUDWEISER IRISH DERBY-G1, $906,618, 3yo, 12fT The field, from the rail out, will be: Nobel Talent The field of 13, in post position order, will be: His (Cahill Road), 115, Borel; Hoop Coyote Hoop (Once Excellence (EI Gran Senor), Alhaarth (Ire) (Unfuwain), Dr Wild), 121, Bain; Boston Harbor (Capote), 115, Luzzi; Massini (Ire) (Sadler's Wells), Amfortas (Ire) (Caerleon), Partner's Hero (Danzig), 115, Barton; Ballyconneely Rainbow Blues (Ire) (Bluebird), Dushyantor (Sadler's (Black Tie Affair {Ire}), 115, Perret; Prairie Junction (Mt. Wells), Spartan Heartbeat (GB) (Shareef Dancer), Polaris Livermore), 115, Day; Mountain Lion (Mt. Livermore), Flight (Northern Flagship), Private Song (Private Ac­ 115, Valdivia Jr.; Cat Burglar (Salerno), 112, Cooksey. count), Don Micheletto (GB) (Machiavellian), Sharaf Coupled: Boston Harbor & Prairie Junction. Kabeer (GB) (Machiavellian), Zagreb (Theatrical {Ire}) and Truth Or Dare (GB) (Royal Academy). Today, Churchill Downs DEBUTANTE S.-GIII, $100,000, 2yo, f, 5.5f Sunday, Saint-Cloud, France The expected starters, in post position order, are: Miz GRAND PRIX DE SAINT-CLOUD-G1, $390,655, 3yo/up, Mona (Apalachee), 115, Perret; Peppen (Pep Up), 118, clf, 12fT Kutz; Majestic Cloth (Majestic Light), 112, Bourque; The field of nine, in order of the draw, will be: Lear Move (Forty Niner), 121, Day; Live Your Best (Mt. White (Lear Fan), 134; Oliviero (Fr) (Vaguely Pleasant Livermore), 115, Woods Jr.; Lightly Salted (Salt Lakei, {Fr}), 120; Ragmar (Fr) (Tropular {GB}), 120; Swain (Ire) 112, Martin Jr.; Kore (Housebuster), 112, D'Amico; (Nashwan), 134; De Quest (GB) (Rainbow Quest), 134; Alarm The World (Darn That Alarm), 115, Bruin; Carling (Fr) (Garde Royale {Ire}), 131; Helissio (Fr) (Fairy Ljghtbeam (Rubiano), 115, Barton; Sarah's Prospector King), 120; Poliglote (GB) (Sadler's Wells), 134; and (Sutter's Prospect), 115, Borel; and Farma's Girl Bahamian Knight (Ascot Knight), 120. The only with­ (Farma's Way), 112, Cooksey. drawal at Friday's declaration stage was the Aga Khan's Darazari, allowing jockey Gerald lVIosse to reunite with Today, Monmouth Park his successful French Derby mount, Ragmar. LAMPLIGHTER H.-Gill, $100,000, 3yo, 8.5fT The field, from the inside, will be: Foolish Pole (Polish Sunday, Arlington International Numbers), 117, McCauley; In Contention (Devil's Bag), ARLINGTON CLASSIC-Gil, $200,000, 3yo, 9fT 119, Black; Stackhouse (Rock Point)' 114, no rider; Big The field of six, in post position order, will be: Winter Rut (Kokand), 114, no rider; Representative (North Quarters (EI Gran Senor), 114; Broadway Beau (Beau Prospect), 110, no rider; Fitz (Waquoit), 115, Lopez; Genius), 120; More Royal (Mt. Livermore), 120; Gotcha Silvange (Silver Hawk), 112, Boulanger; Rolling A Seven (Fred Astaire), 114; Mango Smash (Kris S.), 114; and (Lucky North), 113, King Jr.; Von Groovey (Sword Trail City (Red Ransom), 114. Dance {Ire}), 114, no rider; Choper (Vigors), 114, Marquez Jr.; Premium (Vigors), 111, DeCarlo; Allied News cant. Forces (Miswaki), 118, Migliore; and Optic Nerve (Ma­ EPSOM CONFIRMS SATURDAY DERBY Christo­ jestic Light), 118, Santos. Coupled: Rolling A Seven and pher Spence, chairman of the company which runs Von Groovey. Epsom racecourse, has confirmed that next year's Derby will again be run on a Saturday. June 7 has been Today, Newmarket, England chosen as the date for the 1997 renewal of Britain's VAN GEEST CRITERION S.-G3, $45,331 a, 3yo/up, 7fT premier Classic. A powerful body of opinion--including The field of sprinters, from the rail out, will be: Diffi­ British bookmakers, who estimate huge decline in bet­ dent (Fr) (Nureyev), 133, Thomson; World Premier (GB) ting turno.ver on the race--had been seeking to have the (Shareef Dancer), 119, Doyle; Tereshkova (Mr Prospec­ Derby returned to its traditional place on the first tor), 125, O'Connor; Inzar (GB) (Warning {GB}), 133, Wednesday in June. But Spence said yesterday: "We've Quinn; Prince Of India (GB) (Night Shift), 128, IVI Hills; taken this decision after wide consultation with inter­ Gabr (GB) (Green Desert), 136, R Hills; Ramooz (Rambo ested parties. We don't, at this stage, need to commit Dancer), 119, Eddery; Bin Rosie (GB) (Distant Relative to a date beyond 1997." Lord Wakeham, chairman of {Ire}), 128, Hughes; and Dance Sequence (Mr Prospec­ the British Horseracing Board, welcomed the choice of a tor), 116, Robinson. Ramooz, second in last week's Saturday spot. "Longer-term planning has triumphed Jersey S. at Royal Ascot, was bumped and hampered over short-termism," he stated. "I believe it's important when attempting to make his run in that field of 16 but this national event should be available to a newer and should have fewer traffic problems today. larger weekend audience." VIRGINIA RAPIDS G 1 Winner 7f. in 1:21:1 e 1 Mile in 1:32:3 eG2 Winner 1 1/8 miles e Very attractive son ofRiverman - Virginiana, by Sir Ivor Thank you to all of the Breeders who made his first year at stud a great success! PAGE 3· THOROUGHBRED DAILY NEWS. 6-29-96 News cont.