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~9I~~UN~~~RE DM THURSDAY, MAY 23, 1996 WeEeEeKeEeNeD PREVIEW UNBRIDLED'S SONG TO MET MILE The next race Monday, Belmont Park: for Unbridled's Song (Unbridled) will be this Monday's METROPOLITAN H.-GI, $400,000, 3yo/up, 1m GI Metropolitan Mile at Belmont, owner Ernie Paragailo Trainer Dick Dutrow caught Lite the Fuse (Buckaroo!, confirmed yesterday. Paragallo had also been consider­ winner of the GI Carter H. May 5 for the second straight ing the Gil Peter Pan, which is run the day before. year, working five furlongs Wednesday at Aqueduct in Paragalio added that the June 8 Belmont S. is still a :59, galloping out seven-eighths in 1 :26 under regular possibility. "I'd like to make the Belmont, but I won't jockey Julie Krone. "Everything's fine," said Dutrow. "I abuse the horse," he said. "If he has an easy race in the couldn't be happier with him." Asked about the pres­ Met, which is extremely unlikely against horses like ence of Unbridled's Song (Unbridled) in the Met Mile, Afternoon Deelites (Private Terms) and Lite the Fuse Dutrow said, "That'd be good. It would make it a real (Buckaroo), then we might come back in the Belmont. interesting race." Honour and Glory (Relaunch), 18th in But that would be a difficult task." Unbridled's Song the Kentucky Derby, drilled five furlongs in :59 2/5 at was assigned 112 pounds for the Met. According to the Churchill Downs Monday. "He looks terrific," said Jockey Club scale of weights, a three-year-old should George Weaver, assistant to trainer D. Wayne lukas, get a 14-pound advantage over an older horse in a one­ adding that John Velazquez will pick up the mount. mile race in May, but NYRA Racing Secretary Mike Afternoon Deelites (Private Terms), who will ship to lakow said he gave the three-year-olds an 11-pound New York today, breezed a half-mile in :50 4/5 Tuesday edge in the weights. "I was only concerned with the at Hollywood. Also scheduled to run in the Met Mile are weights given the top two," Paragallo said. "I wanted Flying Chevron (Carson City), Criollito (Arg) (Candy eight or nine pounds. The scale isn't important." After­ Stripes), Placid Fund (Dixieland Band), Prenup (Smarten) noon Deelites was assigned 1 23 pounds and Lite the and Spanos {Strawberry Road {Aus}), Withers winner Fuse was next at 122. Considering the 11-pound weight Appealing Skier (Baldskil will start in either the Met Mile advantage, Unbridled's Song was handicapped as the or Sunday's Peter Pan S.; Sea Emperor (Naked Sky) and co-starting highweight. Pacific Fleet (Afleet) are listed as possible starters. NORTHERN SPUR SET FOR ARC RAID Northern Monday, Hollywood Park: Spur (Ire) (Sadler's Wells), winner of last year's Breed­ HOllYWOOD TURF H.-GI, $500,000, 3yo/up, 1 1/4mT ers' Cup Turf, will ship to Europe this summer to pre­ Petit Poucet (GB) (Fairy King), a game second to pare for a start in the Oct. 6 Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe Mecke in the GI Early Times Turf Classic at Churchill at longchamp, according to trainer Ron McAnally. Downs May 4, will skip the GI Early Times Manhattan at McAnally has confirmed his intention to launch a chal­ Belmont June 8 to run in Monday's Hollywood Turf H. lenge for France's best-known horserace and will proba­ "Well, to be honest, if labeeb (GB) (lear Fan) doesn't bly send his charge to Europe in mid-summer and then go (in the Hollywood Turf H.L it's not as tough a race give him a prep run as part of his buildup to the Group 1 as it first looked," trainer Ben Cecil said. "We feel we event. Northern Spur was handled at two and three by have a decent chance to beat most of those horses." Chantilly-based Andre Fabre and is expected to lodge last year's GI Hollywood Derby winner labeeb, who with his original trainer from around July. "The Arc has returned from a 5 %-month layoff to take a turf allow­ been on the cards for about six weeks," McAnally said, ance at Hollywood May 12, is listed as possible for the "and horses have to be given a fair chance to accli­ race. The four-year-old has been wearing a protective mate." Fabre, meanwhile, will almost certainly be field­ patch that covers a quarter-crack, and trainer Neil Drys­ ing a strong hand against his former trainee in October. dale said labeeb will work a half-mile today before a His name appears alongside 26 in the total of 154 pre­ decision is made whether to run. Northern Spur (Ire) liminary entries for this season's Arc. Northern Spur is (Sadler's Wells), assigned highweight of 123 pounds, scheduled to run next in Monday's GI Hollywood Turf H. breezed six furlongs in 1:13 2/5 with Chris McCarron up at Hollywood yesterday. Defending Turf H. hero Earl of STAKES CLOSINGS Barking (Ire) (Common Grounds {GB}) went six furlongs in 1 : 1 3 2/5 at Santa Anita, also yesterday. Other TOMORROW, FRIDAY, MAY 24: probables for the race are Sandpit (Braz) (Baynoun 6-22 $500,OOOg Caesars International H.­ {Ire}), Awad (Caveat) and The Key Rainbow (Ire) (Rain­ GI, At/, 3yo/up, 9.5fT ($1500) bow Quest). PAGE 2 • THOROUGHBRED DAILY NEWS • 5-23-96 Weekend Preview Continued. HIALEAH MEET ENDS Hialeah Park's live race Friday Night, Garden State Park: meeting ended Wednesday. Sandi Kleeman led all JERSEY DERBY-Gil, $150,000, 3yo, 1 1/16mT owners with 13 wins; Dan Hurtak topped the trainers The field of 11, in post position order, is as follows: standings with 28 victories; and jockey Abdiel Toribio Majestic Jazz (lV1ajestic Light), 116 pounds; Cheyenne was the leading rider with 46 winners from 217 Red (Relaunch), 116; Ok By Me (With Approval), 126; mounts. Class Kris (Kris S.) was named "Horse of the Fitz (Waquoit), 121; Kashary (Gone West), 116; Meet." The four-year-old turf filly won the $100,000 Harrowman (Dawn Quixote), 123; Currency Arbitrage Hialeah Breeders' Cup S. March 30 and the Gil (Green Dancer), 121; Devil's Honor (Devil's Bag), $200,000 Black Helen H. April 13. South Florida 126; More Royal (Mt. Livermore), 126; Value Investor racing resumes at Calder Race Course Friday. (Cahill Road), 116; Optic Nerve (Majestic Light), 116. THOROUGHBRED OWNERSHIP FOCUS OF Saturday, Hollywood Park: CIGAR AFICIONADO STORY The risks and re­ HAWTHORNE H.-Gil, $100,000a, 3yo/up, f/m, 1 1/16m wards of owning a Thoroughbred racehorse are ex­ Borodislew (Seattle Slew), winner of the Santa Lucia plored in a feature article in the Summer issue of H. at Santa Anita in her last outing April 7, drilled a Cigar Aficionado magazine, due out in early June. The half-mile in :47 115 at Hollywood Tuesday. Also breez­ magazine, widely credited with igniting the cigar ing at Hollywood Tuesday were Jewel Princess (Key to boom in the U.S., features owners and breeders Rob­ the Mint), who went five furlongs in 1 :00 4/5, and ert Clay, Gary Biszantz, Joe Cornacchia and Cot Cat's Cradle (Flying Paster)' who covered the same Campbell in the piece, entitled "Running For The distance in 1 :00 2/5. Borodislew's trainer John Roses," by writer John Lee. Shirreffs has pegged Jewel Princess as the horse to beat in the Hawthorne. "I've seen her run some abso­ lutely unbelievable races," Shirreffs said. "Her win over MIDWEST Radu Cool in the Linda Vista (at Santa Anita) was • • phenomenal. And then she just beat Serena's Song (in Yesterday's Result: the Gil Louisville Breeders' Cup H. May 3). She's defi­ nitely the horse to beat." Also pointing to the Gil event 9th-COX, $54,200, Alw, 3yo/up, flm, 6f, 1:10 2/5, ft. are Urbane (Citidancer), Sleep Easy (Seattle Slew), 1--MORRIS CODE, 122, f, 4, Lost Code--Unique Millie Klassy Kim (Silent Screen) and Above the Table (Never R., by Olden Times. O-Dolphus Morrison; 8-Hargus Tabled). Sexton (KY); T-Hal R. Wiggins. Lifetime Record: MSW, 28-10-6-3, $472,257. News Continued. 2--She's a Lively One, 119, f, 4, Lively One--Hope She's FRENCH DERBY FIELD TAKES SHAPE France Bold, by Bold Forbes. will defend its Derby (Prix du Jockey Club) in strength 3--Clever Act, 117, m, 5, Gulch--AII Week End, by AI at Chantilly June 2, with all the best middle-distance Hattab. three-year-old colts in the country looking almost Margins: 2HF, 2HF, 1 HF. Odds: 0.30CT, 12.20, 5.50. certain to run in the mile and a half classic. Heading Morris Code, winner of four listed stakes in her 10 the French team is G 1 Prix Lupin winner Helissio (Fr) prior starts, was most recently third by a neck in the (Fairy King); the runner-up in that event, trainer Andre Gill Humana Distaff H. at Churchill Downs May 4. Fabre's two-year-old champion Loup Solitaire (Lear Dropping..down to face allowance company as the Fan); G2 Prix Greffulhe winner Ragmar (Fr) (Tropular overwhelming 1-5 favorite, the bay filly pressed the {GB}); and G2 Prix Hocquart winner Arbatax (Ire) pace early while outside of frontrunning GRACEFUL (Mtoto {GB}I, Other probables for the French classic MINISTER (Deputy Minister) (4th), reached the front a include Criquette Head's pair L'Africain Bleu (Fr) quarter-mile out then moved clear to win under a (Saint Cyrien {Fr}) and Dark Nile (Riverman); and the hand ride from new jockey Pat Day.