$2 Daily W•E•E•K•E•N•D PREVIEW TOUCH GOLD RETURNS SUNDAY Touch Gold Today, Hollywood Park: (Deputy Minister), winner last year of the GI Belmont VANITY INVITATIONAL H.-GI, $350,000, 3yo/up, f/m, S. and GI Buick Haskell Invitational, makes his four­ 1 1 /Sm, post time 4:07 p.m. PDT year-old bow in Sunday's seventh race at Churchill PP HORSE TRAINER JOCKEY ODDS Downs, a mile allowance test. Fourth and last in the 1 Real Connection Stute Almeida 20-1 GI Buick Pegasus H. last September and ninth in the 2 Different (Arg) McAnally Mccarron 5-2 3 Sonja's Faith (Ire) Jory Solis 15-1 GI Breeders' Cup Classic to end his three-year-old 4 Freeport Flight Gaines Nakatani 20-1 season, the colt has recovered from the quarter crack 5 Fleet Lady Hollendorfer Gomez 6-1 which sidelined him for seven months and has been 6 Corona Lake Mandella Delahoussaye 4-1 training without a bar shoe in recent weeks. ''I'm 7 Escena Mott Bailey 7-5 looking forward to seeing him run, just like everybody 8 Hou a Dancer (Fr) Cecil Stevens 1 5-1 else," said trainer Pat Byrne, who will be saddling the Escen (Strawberry Road {Aus}) ships west seeking Classic winner for the first time. "I think we've got her four h victory in a row. Third at this track in the him tight enough to go a flat mile and he's trained Breeder ' Cup Distaff last year, she enters off wins in awfully well." Jockey Pat Day will ride Touch Gold for the GI pple Blossom H. at Oaklawn April 10, the Gii the first time Sunday. Louisvill Breeders' Cup H. at Churchill May 1 and her most re ent, the Giii Fleur De Lis H. at Churchill June 6. DARLEY STUD TO SELL AT TATTERSALLS Differen (Arg) (Candy Stripes), a Grade I winner on turf JULY Sheikh Mohammed's Darley Stud Management and dirt will get strong support at the windows, but will offer the largest consignment, a total of 45 lots, hasn't on since taking the GI Spinster S. at Keeneland at the upcoming Tattersalls July Sale. Sheikh Hamdan in Octo er of 1996. In two starts this year, she finished al Maktoum's Shadwell Estates will sell 19 lots, up the t ack in the Apple Blossom and ran second in a Sheikh Maktoum al Maktoum's Gainsborough Stud mile tur allowance at Hollywood May 20. Management will offer 11 and Juddmonte Farms will have 14 in the sale. A catalogue of 320 lots will in­ Today, elmont Park: 1 /Sm, post clude more than 110 broodmares by top stallions MO THE GOOSE S.-GI, $200,000, 3yo, f, 1 such as Caerleon, Fairy King, In The Wings (GB), time 4:45 p.m. EDT TRAINER JOCKEY ODDS Machiavellian, Nureyev and Shirley Heights (GB), as PP HORSE 1 Hansel's Girl Hernandez Migliore 30-1 well as more than 70 winning horses in training. 2 Keeper Hill Frankel Flores 3-1 Among the top quality fillies in training in the sale are 3 Soaring Softly Toner Gryder 20-1 an unraced three-year-old by Rainbow Quest out of 4 Let Arnold Santos 15-1 champion Sonic Lady (Nureyev); and an unraced 5 Countess Diana Mott Sellers 6-1 three-year-old by Caerleon out of G 1 Yorkshire Oaks 6 Who Did It and Run Sones Ortiz 4-1 winner Untold (GB) (Final Straw {GB}). The July Sale 7 Really Polish Capuano Coa 12-1 will be held July 7-9 in Newmarket, England. 8 Soft Senorita Callejas Bravo 50-1 9 Banshee Breeze Nafzger Davis 6-1 NTRA "RACING TO THE BREEDERS' CUP" 1 0 Added Gold Dank Velazquez 10-1 SCHEDULE UNVEILED Fifteen Grade I races, be­ 11 Jers,ey Girl Pletcher Smith 7-2 ginning with tomorrow's showdown between Skip Mother poose S. cont. p2 Away (Skip Trial) and Gentlemen (Arg) (Robin des Bois) in the $1 million Hollywood Gold Cup at 7 p.m. ST AKES CLOSINGS EDT, will highlight this year's NTRA "Racing to the TODAY:, SATURDAY, JUNE 27: Breeders' Cup" series on ESPN. The series has been 7-11 $ t00/100,000 Monmouth Breeders' C p Oaks-GI/, Mth, 3yo, f, 8.5f ($100) expanded to 1 5 shows this season, five more than 7-11 $ 50,000 Bowling Green H.-Gll, Bel, last year. A total of 19 races, with purses worth more 3yo/up, 11fT ($150) than $8 million, will be featured. The complete 1998 7-12 $ 750,000 Dwyer-GI/, Bel, 3yo, 8. 5f ($150)• schedule follows on page 2. PAGE 2 •THOROUGHBRED DAILY NEWS• 6-27-98 • Mother Goose S. cont. Today, he Curragh, Ireland: Banshee Breeze (Unbridled) began 1998 with three INDEPE DENT NEWSPAPERS PRETTY POLLY S.-G2, consecutive wins at Gulfstream, including the Gil Bonnie $84,87 , 3yo/up, f/m, 1 1 /4mT Miss S. March 16., but faltered to third in the GI PP HO SE TRAINER JOCKEY Ashland S. April 4 at Keeneland. In her last start, the 1 Alb rada (GB) M Prescott Duffield May 2 GI Kentucky Oaks, she made a six-wide move 2 Bri f Sentiment (Ire) Prendergast Smith around the far turn and showed courage in the stretch, 3 Idle Rich Weld Kinane just missing by a neck to Keeper Hill (Deputy Minister). 4 He d My Warning (Ire) Collins Shanahan That filly, an off-the-pace runner, came onto the scene 5 Nie la Bella (Ire) Oxx Murtagh with a 5 72-length score in the GI Las Virgenes S. at 6 Att active Crown Prendergast Craine Santa Anita February 15. She also hasn't run since her All carr 120 pounds. ground-saving Kentucky Oaks score. Who Did It and Sires of runners: Alborada (Alzao}, Brief Sentiment Run (Polish Numbers) defeated the boys in her last (Brief Truce), Idle Rich (Sky Classic), Heed My Warn­ three, winning an April 24 allowance and the May 22 ing (Second Set {Ire}), Nicola Bella (Sadler's Wells), Gii Jersey Derby over the Garden State turf and scoring Attractive Crown (Chief's Crown). by 1 2 on the main track in the May 9 Garden State S. Alborada (GB) has not raced since winning the G3 An indisputable front runner, she'll be pressured early by C. L. Weld Park S. last October. Brief Sentiment (Ire) Jersey Girl (Belong to Me), winner of her last five, in­ defeated third-place finisher Idle Rich while runner-up cluding the GI Acorn S. at Belmont June 7, but suspect in the May 10 Derrinstown Stud 1000 Guineas Trial, at the longer distance. but will have to rebound from a sixth-place finish in a 1 1 /2- 1 ile effort in her last start June 19. NTRARACING hurchill Downs: to the RD MANOR S.-Glll, $100,000a, 2yo, 6f, post ti e 5:05 p.m. EDT BREEDERS' CUP: The field, in the order of the draw, is: Yes It's True (Is It Tr e), Day, 121; Time Bandit (Time for a Sunday, July 28: Hollywood Gold Cup - 7-7:30 p.m Change , Woods, Jr, 115; Robahush (Alwuhush), Saturday, Aug. 8: Whitney H. - 5-6 p.m. Peck, 1 5; Haus of Dehere (Dehere), Martinez, 115; Sunday, Aug. 9: Buick Haskell Invitational - 5-6 p.m. Saratog Summer (Time for a Change), Borel, 115; Saturday, Aug. 15: Pacific Classic - 6-7 p.m. Fantast sch (Dayjur), Johnson, 11 2; Late Carson Saturday, Aug. 22: Alabama S. - 4:30-5:30 p.m. (Carson City), Torres, 115; Chief Howcome (Carson Sunday, Aug. 23: Ballerina S. - 4:30-5:30 p.m. City), P rret, 112. Yes It's True and Time Bandit will Saturday, Aug. 29: Travers S. - 4:30-5:30 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 30: lselin H. - 5-6 p.m. run as n entry. Saturday, Sept. 5: Del Mar H., Hopeful S. - 6-7 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 12: Man O'War S., Gazelle H. - 6-7 p.m. Today, ~hurchill Downs: Saturday, Sept. 19: Woodward S., Ruffian H. - 4-5 p.m. DEBUT)j\NTE S.-Glll, $100,000a, 2yo, f, 5 1/2f, post Sunday, Sept. 20: Futurity, Matron - 4-5 p.m. time 4:04 p.m. EDT Saturday, Oct. 17: Three Chimneys Spinster, The field, in post position order, is: Miss Kitty's City Kelso H. - 4-5:30 p.m. (Carsonj City), Barton, 115; The Happy Hopper (El Sunday, Oct. 18: Lane's End Breeders' Futurity - 4-5 p.m. Prado {~re}), Torres, 115; Leslie's Lady (Tricky Creek), Sunday, Nov. 1: Breeders' Cup Special - 1-2 p.m Arguellq, 11 2; Silverbulletday (Silver Deputy), Marti­ All times are EDT. nez, 11 !:;; Stormin Hanna (Storm Boot), D' Amico, 115; M!ning Missharriet (Mining), Borel, 115; Citizen A # will distinguish first-time stakes-winners, a @ will indicate Crane (Wayne's Crane), Peck, 112; Mancari's Rose first-time graded stakes-winners, a + will denote winners who (Glitterrhan), Day, 115; Cold Awakening (Dehere), are first-time starters, an (S) will be used for state-bred races, Woods) Jr, 112. a (Cl will be used for maiden-claiming races and an (R) will be I used for other restricted races. Weekend Preview cont. p3 " ••• Dream Chie)qulckened and destroyed the field." Juddmonte Farm ho~ebred an impressive 4-length winner at Maisons-Laffitte joini 1 g Stakes Winner Smokey Mirage as the 2nd winner fro 3 starters by Horse-of-the-Year Lexington, Kentucky 1 (606) 255-8537 FAX 233-2373 H LYBULL PAGE 3 •THOROUGHBRED DAILY NEWS• 6-27-98 "Weekend Preview cont.