B R E E D E R S' • C U P BULLETIN •FORMAL COLD INJURED; OUT OF CLASSIC SHOEMAKER TO RETIRE FROM TRAINING Bill Formal Gold (Black Tie Affair {Ire}) will miss the Novem­ Shoemaker announced yesterday that he will retire from ber 8 GI Breeders' Cup Classic after suffering a condylar training at the conclusion of the Oak Tree meeting at fracture of his right hind leg Thursday morning at Holly­ Santa Anita Park this Monday. Shoemaker, 66, rode wood Park. The injury was discovered after he returned more winners--8,833--than any jockey in history before from a morning gallop. "(Exercise rider) David Nunn retiring to train February 3, 1990. "I just decided that I called me here, as he does every day, about 7:00 Thurs­ couldn't devote as much time to the business as I would day morning and he told me that Formal Gold ate well like," said Shoemaker. After speaking with his owners, and was doing great and he was going out to train him, 11 Shoemaker said he planned to turn most of the 25 said trainer Bill Perry from his barn at Aqueduct yester­ horses in his care over to assistant Paddy Gallagher. day. "About 11 :30 a.m. our time, David called back. Santa Anita will salute Shoemaker with a ceremony in The vet hadn't even seen Formal Gold yet, but David the winner's circle after tomorrow's third race. "I'd told me that the horse wasn't doing good. He said it certainly like to thank all the owners for their wonderful looked like it was an ankle, and that's what it was." support," said Shoemaker, who sent out 90 winners Said Nunn, "We jogged a mile and three-eighths. He from 71 3 runners in his seven-and-a-half-year career as came off the track great, jogged home, and I said, a trainer. His starters earned $3,699,439. "I plan to be 'they'll never beat this horse.' We took him outside and around, but I'll be out here from now on as a fan." gave him a bath. As soon as we walked him off from 11 THREE MORE STALLIONS TO LEAVE VINERY the bath, he couldn't walk. Perry said Dr. Wayne Stuka (Jade Hunter), Twilight Agenda (Devil's Bag) and Mcilwraith was scheduled to perform surgery today or Rockamundo (Key to the Mint) will leave Vinery in Mid­ tomorrow, and that the prognosis was excellent for the way, Ky. and stand at stud elsewhere in 1998, bringing four-year-old to race again. "I feel bad about this be­ to six the number of Vinery stallions that will have cause Formal Gold had shown his talent all year long moved since the end of the 1 997 breeding season, it and this was a chance for him to show it to the world," was announced yesterday by the farm's owners, Elaine said Perry. "I really felt he was going to run a big race in and Ben Walden Jr. Stuka will be relocated to Dr. David the Breeders' Cup, and by winning it, would be Horse of Menard's Magnolia Run Farm in Summerfield, Florida, the Year. I guess right now I feel pretty numb." Formal where he will remain the property of a syndicate headed Gold won four of eight starts this year, including the GI by Vinery and Allen Paulson; Twilight Agenda has been Woodward S., GI Donn H., Gii Philip H. lselin H. and Gii sold to James E. Helzer and will stand at JEH Stallion Brooklyn H., and earned $978,500 in 1997. Station in Pilot Point, Texas; and Rockamundo, owned by Gary and Mary West, will be offered for private sale. •TOUCH GOLD, DEPUTY COMMANDER "After a dozen years of lush growth, Elaine and I look TUNE UP Belmont Stakes winner Touch Gold (Dep­ ahead to a heightened level of quality in the Vinery uty Minister) br.eezed one mile yesterday morning at organization as we streamline our operation," said Ben Hollywood Park in 1 :38 1 /5, while two-time GI winner Walden Jr. This past summer, Walden announced plans Deputy Commander (Deputy Minister) went the distance to trim the stallion roster, and shortly thereafter Black a tick faster in 1 :38. Both are preparing for the Breed­ Tie Affair (Ire) was sold to Japan, and Prenup and Dixie ers' Cup Classic. Chris Mccarron was aboard Touch Brass were moved to Virginia and N. Y., respectively. Gold, and saw him through fractions of :24 4/5, :48 BREEDERS' CUP BULLETIN, CONT. 4/5, and three-quarters in 1: 12 4/5. "He was very aggressive," said trainer David Hofmans, "maybe too •BREEDERS' CUP BRIEFS Desert King Ure) aggressive for Chris. When they crossed the wire, I (Danehill), a three-time Irish G 1 winner this season said, 'Holy smoke!' He didn't want to pull up. I couldn't stabled with Aidan O'Brien, will not run in the Turf due be more happy. This sets him up for the big race." to a fever ... Three Breeders' Cup-bound horses worked Deputy Commander's connections were equally pleased over the Belmont main track yesterday morning. Lucky with their colt's move. "The work served its purpose," Coin (Chas Connerly) worked a half-mile in :48 in prepa­ said Corey Nakatani, aboard for the drill. "We started ration for the Mile; Hidden Lake (Quiet American) him off slow and finished up fast. I'll be smiling if he breezed five furlongs in ;59 4/5 en route to the Distaff; does that in the Breeders' Cup." and Kelly Kip (Kipper Kelly) prepared for the Sprint, going six furlongs in 1 : 11 4/5. PAGE 2 e THOROUGHBRED DAILY NEWS• 11-1-97 News Cont. Criterium de Saint-Cloud, cont. FASIG, LONE STAR EXPAND SALES France's front-running Special Quest and Daymarti SCHEDULE Fasig-Tipton Company, Inc. and Lone Star were separated by only a head when second and third Park at Grand Prairie officials announced yesterday that respectively the Gr. 3 Prix de Conde at Longchamp Oct. they had reached an agreement for Fasig-Tipton to 4, while Daymarti finished fast on that occasion and conduct 1 998 two-year-olds-in-training and summer gives the impression that the extra furlong will be to his yearling sales at Lone Star Park, located between Dallas benefit. The well-regarded Croco Rouge won his debut and Fort Worth. The agreement marks an expansion of in good style at Longchamp Oct. 9. ~h.e relationship between the two organizations, which Jointly held a two-year-olds-in-training sale this past Today, Santa Anita M~rch. The second annual two-year-olds-in-training sale CARLETON F. BURKE H.-Gll, $125,000, 3yo/up, will be held March 17, 1998. Entries will for the sale 1 1/2mT. Post time: 4:07 p.m. PST will close December 5, 1997. The yearling sale, a new PP HORSE TRAINER JOCKEY ODDS addition to Fasig-Tipton's sales schedule at Lone Star 1 Top Glory Puype Flores 6-1 Park, will be held August 31 and September 1 , 1 998. 2 Belgravia (GB) s c r at c h e d 3 Security Code Lloyd Vergara 30-1 GOFFS SALE CONCLUDES The Gaffs Horses in 4 Kessem Power (NZ) Mitchell Solis 6-1 Training and Autumn Bonus Yearling sale in Kildare, 5 Konba Cerin Matos 1 2-1 Ireland concluded yesterday. The highest price of the 6 Embraceable You (Fr) Canani Delahoussaye 4-1 session was paid for hip no. 147, a yearling colt by 7 Sonabove s c r a t c h e d Scenic (lrel--Miss Bagatelle (GB), who was sold to Pat­ 8 Prussian Blue Dupuis Desormeaux 5-2 rick J. Flynn for $35,953. A total of 149 horses sold 9 Lord Jain (Arg) Baffert Stevens 8-5 yesterday for a gross of $601, 191 and an average of Lord Jain (Arg) (Lord Halley), winless in seven starts $4,034. Over the two-day sale, 198 horses sold for a since coming to the United States from Argentina, fin­ total of $979,852, an average of $4,948, down 22% ished third, but was placed second through disqualifica­ from last year's sale. tion in his last outing, the Oct. 1 2 GI 1 1 /4-mile Oak Tree Turf Championship at Santa Anita. He attempts his longest distance to date here. Prussian Blue (Polish Navy) captured the Sept. 21 Grand Prix du Sud-Quest in France in his latest and will test American competition • • for the first time. Today, Saint-Cloud, France CRITERIUM DE SAINT-CLOUD-G1, $115,069, 2yo, c/f, 1 1/4mT Today, Woodbine PP HORSE TRAINER JOCKEY WT. CORONATION FUTURITY-GIG, $166,450, (R), 2yo, 1 Wales (GB) Cole Quinn 126 1 1 /Sm. Post time: 3: 17 p.rn. EST 2 Croco Rouge (Ire) Bary Guillot 1 26 The field, in post position order, will be: Brite Adam 3 Daymarti (Ire) de Royer-Dupre Masse 1 26 (High Brite), Bahen, 122; The Fed (Key to the Mint), Poznansky, 122; Patriot Love (With Approval), Walls, 4 Abbatiale (Fr) Sepulchre Jarnet 1 22 5 Distant Mirage (Ire) Chapple-Hyam Peslier 126 122; Star On Fire (Miswaki), Kabel, 122; Platino 6 Special Quest (Fr) Head Doleuze 1 26 (Miswaki), Kabel, 122; Dance Brightly (Mr. Prospector), 7 Asakir (GB) -Bin Suroor Dettori 1 26 Ramsammy, 122; Gudai Might (Seattle Dancer), Dos Ramos, 122; Classic Result (Jade Hunter), Landry, Sires of Runners: Wales (GB) (Caerleon); Croco Rouge (Ire) (Rainbow Quest); Daymarti (Ire) (Caerleon); 122; Hunter's Branch (Bold Ruckus), Clark, 122.