Monday, Thoroughbred Daily News December 31, 2001 TDN For information, call (732) 747-8060. HEADLINE NEWS AS IT WAS IN THE BEGINNING... Irish Prize (Irish River {Fr}), who started the season P R E S U L T S P with a victory in the Jan. 1 GII San Gabriel H., closed out the campaign with a win in the same event, charg- Saturday, Ohi, Japan ing down the Santa Anita stretch yesterday to best TOKYO DAISHOTEN-G1-NAR, 3yo/up, 2000m, 2:05.2, gd. Sligo Bay (Ire) (Sadler’s Wells) by a head. Given a four- 1--TOHO EMPEROR (JPN), 125, h, 5, by Brian’s Time month break after his first San Gabriel score, the chest- 1st Dam: Rainbow Blue (Jpn), by No Lute (Fr) nut was fourth in his return, then put together consecu- 2nd Dam: Eden Blues (Jpn), by Match Won (GB) tive tallies in the May 13 GIII Fastness H., May 28 GI 3rd Dam: Suzubue (Jpn), by Harroway (GB) Shoemaker Breeders’ Cup Mile and July 4 GII Fire- O-Toho Bussan Inc; B-Chiba Iida Farm; T-Yotsumi cracker Breeders’ Cup H. Fourth in his next two out- Chiba; J-Isao Sugawara; ¥80,000,000. Lifetime Re- ings, including the GI Breeders’ Cup Mile, he was com- cord: 25-17-5-1, ¥225,880,000. ing off a third-place finish in the Nov. 24 GII Citation H. 2--Regent Bluff (Jpn), 125, h, 5, Park Regent--Sally The gelding was bounced around at the break in his Belle (Jpn), by Goodly (Fr). O-Akihiro Ohara; 2001 finale, but overcame the start to get up for the B-Takashi Yoshida. game victory. “What a lovely old horse, isn’t he,” 3--Toshin Blizzard (Jpn), 121, c, 3, Doulab--Yuwa Top trainer Neil Drysdale said. “If everything is all right, Lady (Jpn), by Bravest Roman. O-Hironobu Inagaki; we’ll go on to the [GII San Marcos H., Jan. 21].” B-Kazuhide Muranaka. Margins: HF, 2, NO. Winner’s Odds: 5.10. Sunday, Santa Anita SAN GABRIEL H.-GII, $150,000, SAX, 12-30, 3yo/up, 1 1/8mT, 1:50 2/5, fm. P P R E V I E W P 1--IRISH PRIZE, 121, h, 5, by Irish River (Fr) 1st Dam: Cadeaux D'Amie (MGSP-Fr), by Lyphard Monday, Santa Anita, post time: 4:07 p.m. PST 2nd Dam: Tananarive, by *Le Fabuleux MONROVIA H.-GIII, $100,000, 3yo/up, f/m, 6 1/2fT 3rd Dam: Ten Double, by Decathlon PP HORSE SIRE TRAINER WT O-Sheik Maktoum Al Maktoum; B-Gainsborough 1 Smart Timing Miswaki Lukas 112 Farm, Inc (KY); T-Neil Drysdale; J-G L Stevens; 2 Honesty Fair (GB) Reprimand (GB) Walsh 116 $90,000. Lifetime Record: GISW, GSP-Fr, 24-9-3-2, 3 Fair Apache Bertrando Paasch 114 $1,122,380. *Full to Hatoof, Hwt. 2yo Filly-Fr, Hwt. 4 Gabriellina Giof (GB)Ashkalani (Ire) McAnally 116 Older Horse-Fr at 9.5-11f, Ch. Turf Mare-US, 5 Twin Set (Ger) Second Set (Ire) Frankel 114 MG1SW-GB, GISW-US, MGSW & MG1SP-Fr, 6 Favorite Funtime Seeking the Gold Baffert 116 $1,848,185; and 1/2 to Insijaam (Secretariat), 7 Dusty Heather M. Double M. Garcia 115 MSW-Fr; and Fasateen (Alysheba), SW-Fr. 8 Impeachable Ends Well Hansen 113 2--Sligo Bay (Ire), 117, c, 3, Sadler's Wells--Angelic 9 Top Of Our Game Steinlen (GB) Gaines 117 Song, by Halo. O-Columbine Stable; B-Orpendale 10 High Margin Repriced C Dollase 117 (IRE); $30,000. 11 Rolly Polly (Ire) Mukaddamah Frankel 118 3--El Gran Papa, 114, c, 4, El Gran Senor--Banner Hit, 12 Verruma (Brz) Emmson (Ire) Chapman 117 by Oh Say. ($72,000 wlng '97 KEENOV; $220,000 13 Paga (Arg) Montreal Marty Mandella 117 yrl '98 KEESEP). O-Oakcliff Stable; B-Robert Losey, 14 Minor Details General Meeting Baffert 115 William Ezzell & Paul Mcginty (KY); $18,000. AE Nanogram Quiet American Sadler 112 Margins: HD, HD, 1. Odds: 2.00, 3.90, 11.30. AE Princess Ti (Brz) Sunny’s Halo Walsh 112 Also Ran: No Slip (Fr), Sarafan, Northern Quest (Fr), CORRECTION: Great Fever (Fr) (Kaldoun {Fr}), third in Bonapartiste (Fr), Golden General, Kerrygold (Fr), Agol Saturday’s GII La Prevoyante H., sold for FF200,000 as Lack, Beriskaio (Ire). Scratched: Little Ghazi. a yearling at the 1998 Deauville August Sale. FAVORITE TRICK Phone Trick-Evil Elaine, by Medieval Man $15,000 live foal, due September 1 Horse of the Year and undefeated at the age of two, his first runners in 2002. “...make no mistake about it: Favorite Trick has the tools to sire quality sprinter/milers.” Lauren Stich, DRF Winning the world over 859 299.0473 • 859 299.1259 Fax • www.walmac.com TDN WORLDWIDE Monda,y December 31, 2001 H B R I T A I N H H I T A L Y H FROST HITS BRITAIN Yesterday’s Results: British racecourses around2.35 the Naples, country Premio are likely Tblisi to (Cond.)be , L26,775,000, 2yo, hit by severe frost in the 1new 1/16mT, year which time: threatens n/a, gd/sf. to cancel out many planned fixtuILres. GUERRIERO While today’s (GB) (c, 2, Close Conflict {USA}--La meetings at Catterick and FontwellBusona {Ire},were abandonedby Broken Hearted {Ire}) Lifetime Record: yesterday following inspections,17 starts,the cold 4 snapwins, may 6 places,rule L87,635,000. O-Scuderia out racing throughout the comingLady Fashion; week. Today’s B-Miss Nathalie Lismonde; T-A Tortorella; feature meeting at CheltenhamJ-Armando faces aC orniani.7 a.m. inspection, with clerk of the course Simon Claisse telling PA Sport: “The temperature3.00 Livorno, got down Premio to minusEnrico Camici (Cond.), two last night and we could L15,300,000probably have, 2yo,raced 7 1/to2fT,day time: n/a, sf. as it is above freezing now.VID Ho wever,(IRE) the(c, 2,forecast Wolfho undis {USA}--Vicomtesse Mag for it to get down to minus{Fr} five {MSP-Fr} tonight, byand, Highest if that Hon oris {Fr}) Lifetime Record: right, then we will not be able to race tomorrow. Warwick is also under threat,9 starts,while th e2 all-weatherwins, 2 places, L219,300,000. O-Roberto action at Wolverhampton may Saggini;suffer fromB-Azienda the weather,Agricola Rosati Colarieti; T-Georgio e as the surface has been describedGraziano as Verricel slow foli;r today'sJ-Walter Gambarota. meeting. New year action at Exeter, Plumpton, Leicester looks unlikely to Htake S place,I N G Awhile P O all-weatherR E H racing continues at Southwell, where the going is slow. In Scotland, Ayr’s Wednesday card is another under threat, while Ireland, who lostBOCELLI yesterday’s DQ’ED FROMonly meetingQEII at Punchestown due to frost, loo Singaporek increasingly champion likely Bocelli to (NZ) (Lord Ballina lose today’s planned fixture {Aus})at Gowran was disqualPark. ified from his victory in the Oct. 20 Queen Elizabeth II Cup at Kranji after testing RESEARCH UNVEILS NEW TRUTH positive for Salicylic Acid, commonly known as After a lengthy genetic researchaspirin. inTrainer Britain, Paddy it Busuttin, was who was fined revealed yesterday that at leastS$2,000, 95 pertol centd Racing of BritishPost, “It is a medication that racehorses can be traced backBocelli solely has to alwaysthe Darley trained on. We have always Arabian. The study, undertaken at Trinity College in Dublin, highlights the overwhelmingfollowed thesignificance guidelines of and,that until now, it has never stallion, imported into Britainbeen afr omproblem Syria.” in The 1706, race as was awarded to runner-up opposed to the Byerley Turk andSaddle Godolphin Up (In d)Arabian. (Bold Russian {USA}). A winner of These two stallions, believednine for of many his years11 racesto b e inas Singapore, Bocelli will be vital to the ancestry of thepointed Thoroug forhbred the inSingapore Britain, Airlin are es International in said to have had minimal impact.May. Outlined in the Sunday Telegraph, the most significant pedigree research of all time involved a million British horses over two centuries. Leading geneticistH M A I PaddyD E N CunninghamW I N N E R S H said: “About 150 years ago the Darley Arabian’s genes raced away from all the otheBertors.” (GB), c, 2, Be My Chief (USA)--Sunflower Seed (GB), by Mummy’s Pet (GB). Naples, Italy, 12-30, TDN Worldwide Today 1 page Premio Samir (Mdn), 2yo, 7 1/2fT, L12,750,000 to winner. B-Hyde Stud. *4,000gns wnlg ‘99 TATDEC. TDN P WORLDWIDE • 12/31/01 • PAGE 2 of 2 TDN AMERICAN Monday, December 31, 2001 5th-AQU, $42,000, Msw, 2yo, 1 1/16m, 1:46 3/5, ft. I N E W Y O R K I MY MAN RYAN (c, 2, Mutakddim--Talicat, by Talinum), a distant third for a $75,000 tag at Belmont Oct. 17, Yesterday’s Results: added blinkers for his last and improved to finish sec- ALEX M. ROBB H., $84,850, AQU, 12-30, (S), 3yo/up, ond by a 1/2 length in the mud Dec. 9. Stepping up in 1 1/16m, 1:44 1/5, ft. company for his two-turn debut, the $70,000 FTKJUL 1--SWEET RICKY, 115, c, 3, Astudillo (Ire)--She's yearling charged up along the inside on the turn, angled Sweet, by Hamza. O/B-Robert Perez (NY); T-Alfredo out for the drive and ran down Unanimous Decision (Fit Callejas; J-L Lezcano; $50,910. Lifetime Record: To Fight) to win by 2 3/4 widening lengths at odds of 9-4-1-0, $238,824.