W•E•E•K•E•N•D PREVIEW DANZIG SEASON TOPS STALLION ACCESS Today, Del Mar: SALE One 1 999 no guarantee nomination to the 21- PACIFIC CLASSIC-GI, $1,000,000, 3yo/up, 1 1 /4m, year-old stallion Danzig (Northern Dancer) brought a post time 3:42 p.m. PDT final bid of $215,000 to top last night's Stallion Access PP HORSE TRAINER JOCKEY ODDS Champagne Sale of Selected Seasons and Shares in 1 Lazy Lode (Arg) Dollase Stevens 15-1 Saratoga Springs, New York. By comparison, three 2 Pacificbounty Greenman Delahoussaye 30-1 seasons to Claiborne Farm's top-class sire sold for sale­ 3 Touch Gold Byrne Day 7-5 high bids of $136,000, $1 28,000 and $125,000 during 4 Ayrton S Avila Berrio 30-1 last year's Stallion Access auction. Two seasons to 28- 5a Puerto Madero (Chi) Mandella Desormeaux 6-5 year-old Mr. Prospector (Raise A Native) brought 6 Albaha Canani Solis 30-1 $170,000 apiece as the second highest-priced nomina­ 7a Gentlemen (Arg) Mandella Nakatani 6-5 tions last night. Fourth on the evening was a season to 8 Free House Gonzalez Mccarron 3-1 13-year-old Seeking the Gold (Mr. Prospector), which 9 Don't Blame Rio Peterson Garcia 30-1 sold for $115,000. A 1998 nomination to that stallion Is G~ntlrmen (Arg} (Robin des Bois) back in top form? didn't reach its reserve of $94,000 last year. Further }he winnjr of all_three of California's million-dollar hand­ proof of a strong market, one season to the successful icaps last year will get to answer that question today. young sire Gilded Time (Timeless Moment) sold for Laid off a ter bleeding in the GI Santa Anita H. in March, $25,000 this year after bringing only $18,000 during Gentlemer returned to run third to Skip Away in the GI the '97 sale. A share in the eight-year-old, the only Hollywoo~ Gold Cup June 28, and has been posting share offered yesterday, sold for $155,000. A total of bullet wo ks over the Del Mar strip. If he doesn't win, stablemat Puerto Madero (Chi) (GallantskyL coming off 41 seasons grossed $1,624,300. Last year's Stallion 1 Access Sale saw 34 nominations bring $1, 174,900. two seco111ds to Skip Away in the Gold Cup and the Giii Massachusetts H. May 30, could take it with his late closing ruQ. Free House (Smokester), winner of last TOP SEASONS AT STALLION ACCESS year's GI Santa Anita Derby, will make his second start since returning from a nine-month layoff with a brilliant 1999 NO GUARANTEE NOMINATIONS: seven-len th victory in the Gii Bel Air at Hollywood July Lot No. Stallion Price 11. Touc Gold (Deputy Minister), winner of the GI 6 Danzig $215,000 Belmont nd GI Haskell last year, was put on the shelf 17 Mr. Prospector $170,000 after a la t-place finish in the '97 Breeders' Cup Classic. 41 Mr. Prospector $170,000 Switched to the barn of Patrick Byrne, he returned to 25 Seeking the Gold $115,000 post a Churchill allowance win June 28 in near track­ 21 Pleasant Colony $ 52,000 record ti e. 12 Gulch $ 50,000 Weekend review cont. p2 9 Dixieland Band $ 46,000 35 Dixieland Band $ 46,000 14 Kris S. $ 44,000 TODAY 'ATURDAY AUGUST 15: 38 Kris S. $ 44,000 8-26 $1 0,000 Lake Placid H.-G/11, Sar, 3yo, f, fT ($150) 8-28 $4 0,000 Personal Ensign-GI, Sar, 3y /up, f/m, 10f ($400) • RACING ON TV THIS 8-29 $7 0,000 Travers-GI, Sar, 3yo, 10f ($750) WEEKEND: 8-29 $2 0,000 King's Bishop-GI/, Sar, 3yo, 7f ($200) [] 8-30 $5 0,000 Philip H. lselin H.-GI/, Mth, 3yo/up, 9f ($2j50) SATURDAY, AUGUST 15: 8-30 $2001100,000 Saratoga Breeders' Cup H.-GI/, Sar, NTRA Racing to the Breeders' Cup: $1,000,000 GI Pacific 3yo/up, 10! ($200) Classic-Del Mar - 6 p.m. EDT 11-1 $7!i,OOO Remington Futurity, RP, 7f ($750) PAGE 2 •THOROUGHBRED DAILY NEWS• 8-15-98 News cont. Today, Newbury, England: FLAG DOWN RETIRED According to the Daily GEOFFREY FREER S.-G2, $115, 131, 3yo/up, 13f 61 ydsT Racing Form, MGSW Flag Down (Deputy Minister), PP HORSE TRAINER JOCKEY WT unraced since finishing sixth as the 1 5-1 0 favorite in 1 Multicoloured (Ire) Stoute No Rider 1 29 the Giii Hialeah Turf Cup April 18, has been retired and 2 Memorise Cecil Fallon 1 29 will stand at stud in 1999. "We discovered a small 3 Single Empire (Ire) Chapple-Hyam Reid 1 29 problem after (his last) race," trainer Christophe Clem­ 4 The Fly (GB) Hills Hills 129 ent told the Form, "and we gave him some time off. 5 Strategic Choice Cole Quinn 1 29 Then we put him back in training, but he had a recur­ 6 Silver Patriarch (Ire) Dunlop Eddery 135 rence of the problem. That's when we decided it Sires: Multicoloured (Rainbow Quest), Memorise would be best to stop him." A Group 3 winner in (Lyphard), Single Empire (Kris {GB}), The Fly (Pharly France and first in 11 of his 43 career starts, Flag {Fr}), Strategic Choice (Alleged), Silver Patriarch (Sad­ Down won four Grade II stakes; a grass specialist, he dlers' Hall {Ire}). placed in eight Grade Is on the turf and was third in Fourth to eventual Breeders' Cup Turf and turf cham­ the 1994 GI Jockey Club Gold Cup on the main track pion Chief Bearhart in the GI Canadian International last as well. He earned $1, 701,253. His final victory came October, Strategic Choice has started just once since, in this year's Gii Gulfstream Park Breeders' Cup H. in missing by three-parts of a length in the G2 Yorkshire Cup May 14. Silver Patriarch (Ire), winner of the G 1 St. February. Flag Down will now be sent to owner Allen Leger last, year and the G 1 Vodafone Coronation Cup Paulson's Brookside Farm in Kentucky, but stud plans this past Jlune, looks to rebound after a pair of off-the­ have not yet been finalized. board eff1rts facing Group 1 company in his last two. Weekend Preview cont. Today, France: Today, Saratoga: D~auville, PRIX GUIHAUME D'ORNANO-G2, $85,427, 3yo, 1 OfT SWORD DANCER INVITATIONAL H.-GI, $300,000, PP HORSE TRAINER JOCKEY WT 3yo/up, 1 1 /2mT, post time 4:50 p.m. EDT 1 Special Quest (Fr) C Head Doleuze 1 28 PP HORSE TRAINER JOCKEY ODDS 2 Makaruka Cunnington Sanchez 1 23 1 Cetewayo Dickinson Velazquez 10-1 3 Quel Senor (Fr) Doumen Boeuf 123 2 Val's Prince Picou Chavez 20-1 4 Xaar (GB) Fabre Peslier 1 23 3 Buck's Boy Hickey Fires 7-2 5 Kaba I (GB) Clement Dettori 123 4 Panama City Mott Smith 9-2 6 Sopra fino Lellouche Take 1 23 5 Dushyantor Frankel Bailey 2-1 Sires: pecial Quest (Rainbow Quest), Makaruka 6 Composer Romans Davis 20-1 (Trempoli o), Ouel Senor (Tel Quel {Fr}), Xaar (Zafonic), 7 Chief Bearhart Frostad Santos 8-5 Kabool (Groom Dancer), Sopraffino (Nureyev). Buck's Boy (Bucksplasher), who appears to be the A cha pion in England and France last year, Xaar controlling speed of this race, has his best shot at {GB) won a Group 3 race in his three-year-old debut, getting a Grade I victory here. Third to Chief Bearhart was fourth in the English 2000 Guineas May 2 and has (Chief's Crown) after contesting a very fast pace in not been ut since. A Group 1 winner at two, Special the GI Manhattan at Belmont June 6, he is coming off Quest (Fr captured the G2 Prix Noailles on his first start wins in the July 4 Fort McHenry at Laurel and the this seas n, but has been fourth in his last two, includ­ July 26 GIC Hong Kong Jockey Club S. at Woodbine. ing the P ix Eugene Adam in his latest July 19. Normally consistent Chief Bearhart followed his Manhattan win with a third in the Gil Bowling Green Today, T e Curragh, Ireland: H. at Belmont July 11, an effort that was called by ROYAL HIP S.-G2, $70,621, 3yo/up, 1 1 /4mT trainer Mark Frostad, "Just a flat race." A victim of PP HOR E TRAINER JOCKEY WT slow early fractions in that one, the pace scenario 1 Make o Mistake (Ire) Weld Kinane 1 20 doesn't appear much better here for the reigning turf 2 Quw (GB) Prendergast Craine 134 champion. Dushyantor (Sadler's Wells), fresh off a 3 Nicol Bella (Ire) Oxx Smullen 11 7 win in the Giii Golden Gate H. June 20, looks to be­ 4 Cam odian Bolger Manning 1 29 come the fourth Grade I winner out of his dam 5 Risk aterial (Ire) O'Brien Heffernan 120 Slightly Dangerous (Roberto). 6 Suns ine Street Meade Murtagh 120 $400,000, $250,000, $200,000, $170,000 Top Yearli gs at SARATOGA by Lexington, Kentucky (606) 255-8537 FAX 233-2373 PAGE 3 •THOROUGHBRED DAILY NEWS• 8-15-98 Royal Whip S. cont. Sunday, Deauville, France: Sires: Make No Mistake (Darshaan {GB}), Quws PRIX DU HARAS DE FRESNAY-LE-BUFFARD (Robellino), Nicola Bella (Sadler's Wells), Cambodian JACQUES LE MAROIS-G1, $284,757, 3yo/up, 1 mT (Roanoke), Risk Material (Danehill), Sunshine Street The field, in alphabetical order, is: Among Men (Sunshine Forever).