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~?I~~UN~:!~RE DTM MONDA Y, JUNE 10, 1996 WeEeEeKeEeNeD RESULTS CAVONNIER RETIRED Cavonnier (Batonnier), Sunday, Chantilly I France who was pulled up after suffering a bowed right front PRIX DE DIANE HERMES-G1, $469,169, Chantilly, France, 6-9, 3yo, f, 10f 11 OydsT, 2:07.30, gd. tendon in Saturday's Belmont Stakes, has been re­ 1--@SIL SILA (IRE), 126, f, 3, Marju (lre)--Porto Alegre tired, trainer Bob Baffert announced yesterday. "We (Ire), by Habitat. OIB-Luis Alvarez Cervera (Ire); could give him a year off and bring him back, but he's T-Bryan Smart; J·C Asmussen; $268,097. * 1/2 to been such a good horse there's no way we would put Frequent Flyer (Ire) (Night Shift), G1 SP-Eng, him through that. (Owner Robert Walter) is a horse­ MSP-U.S., $177,757. man and he knows these things happen. He took it a 2--Miss Tahiti (Ire), 126, f, 3, Tirol (lre)--Mini Luthe (FrL little better than I did. Cavonnier will have his own by Luthier (Fr). O-Daniel Wildenstein; B-Dayton Ltd little paddock (at Walter's farm) and he's going to (Ire); $107,239. have a great life. He's going to have a better life than 3--Matiya (Ire), 126, f, 3, Alzao-- Purchasepaperchase you or me." The gutsy gelding, winner of the GI Santa (GB), by Young Generation (Ire). a-Sheikh Hamdan al Anita Derby and a nose behind Grindstone in this Maktoum; B-Barronstown Stud (Ire); $53,619. year's Kentucky Derby, retires with six wins from 16 Margins: 1, 2 1/2, HD. Winner's odds: 30.60. career starts and earnings of $1,139,397. He headed Also ran: Averring, Wedding Gift (Fr), Khalisa (Ire), Luna home to California yesterday. Wells (Ire), Solar Crystal (Ire), A Votre Sante, When by, Melina Mou (Ire), Restless Mixa (Ire). BELl\10NT WRAP-UP Belmont Stakes winner Edi­ Lambourn-based Sil Sila pulled off a 30-1 surprise in tor's Note (Forty Niner), none the worse for the wear the French Oaks, defeating Miss Tahiti by a length with after a hard-fought decision Saturday, shipped back to Irish 1000 Guineas heroine Matiya third. Ridden by his base at Churchill Downs Sunday morning. Joining Texan Cash Asmussen, the Bryan Smart-trained filly was well in rear for much of the race as SOLAR CRYS­ him on the trip was Prince Of Thieves (Hansel), fifth TAL (IRE) (Alzao), ridden by Willie Ryan, set the pace; in the Belmont. "Everything is beautiful," said George Matiya took the lead with a furlong and a half to run, Weaver, assistant to trainer D. Wayne Lukas. "They followed by Miss Tahiti, but Sil Sila closed strongly on both pulled up good, ate well, and they got off o.k." the wide outside, took command inside the final furlong Skip Away (Skip Trial), the Belmont bridesmaid, was and ran on well to win comfortably. Smart, who has back at his barn at Monmouth yesterday morning. He some 30 Ilorses in his yard, almost half of them jump­ will take on Editor's Note once again in the GI Buick ers, was saddling his first Classic runner. He said: "I've Haskell Invitational at Monmouth August 4. Trainer always had confidence in Sil Sila's ability after she won Shug McGaughey said Sunday that My Flag (Easy both of her races as a two-year-old. We also had Cash Goer), third in the Belmont, Ji came out of the spit box Asmussen here and he's a great man on the French playing" after the race and would make her next start tracks, knowing them so well. My filly never goes well against fillies in the GI Coaching Club American Oaks at home and in a big stable she'd probably be in the July 20. Preakness winner Louis Quatorze (Sovereign , bottom yard.' But Cash said that today she settled so Dancer), fourth in the third jewel in the Triple Crown, well and was always travelling so well; he thinks this is will get a short break before gearing up for the Jim her best distance and I doubt that we will take on Lady Dandy August 4 and the Travers August 24. Carla (winner of the Oaks at Epsom) over a mile and a News cant. p2 half, but you never know. The sky's the limit now. We might come back to France for the Prix Vermeille in September, with the Arc in mind. We can go where we L.U WEEKEND RESULTS ......... p1 & 3 want now." Smart also paid tribute to Major Dick Hern NEWS CONTINUED ........... p2-3 for letting him use his private gallops at Lambourn on o which to train the filly. Cash Asmussen said: "lid like to - RACING REPORTS ............ p3-7 thank Ray Cochrane, her usual rider, for suggesting how TOTAL PAGES ................. 9 I should ride Sil Sila, after he was injured in Sweden last weekend. He phoned me ... and his advice was abso­ lutely perfect." PAGE 2 • THOROUGHBRED DAILY NEWS • 6-10-96 News cont. EPSOM LOOKING AT DERBY SWITCH Execu­ WINDSHARP OUT OF ESTRAPADE S. Top turf tives at Epsom will take "two to three weeks" before mare Windsharp (Lear Fan), twice a winner over colts making any decision over whether the Derby should this year and second in the GI San Juan Capistrano April revert to its traditional position on the first Wednesday 21 last out, has come down with a fever and will miss in June. Britain's premier Classic has been run on a her scheduled return to the races in Saturday's Saturday for the past two years, but there is now strong $100,OOOa Estrapade S. at Hollywood. "She'll be okay, pressure from many interested parties to return it to a but she had a 1 03-degree temperature and she's mid-week spot. Racegoers voted with their feet by knocked out a little bit," said trainer Wally Dollase. "It's shunning Epsom's top draw again this year--only the same thing she had this winter (after winning the Gil 56,000 paid to get in--and bookmakers described bet­ San Luis Obispo H. February 19)." Dollase added that, ting turnover as n not much better than a normal Satur­ despite the setback, the five-year-old should have no day." Even the Queen has expressed the opinion that trouble making her main objective, the GI Beverly D. at Wednesday is preferable and Home Secretary Michael Arlington August 24. Howard stated that he also had "a slight soft spot" for a return to the pre-1995 timing. However, Edward EPSOM DERBY NOTES Shaamit {Irel (Mtoto {GB}L Gillespie, Epsom's director of racing, insisted that there hero of Saturday's Epsom Derby, looks set to make his is to be no rush to change and that much consultation next appearance in the Irish equivalent at The Curragh will take place before any date is set for next season. June 30. The colt was not among the original entries for He added: "We will want to speak to a lot of people Ireland's premier event, but could be supplemented to before reaching our decision." the race. Trainer William Haggas said yesterday: nlf the owner is prepared to supplement him and the horse is CAREER OVER FOR BINT SALSABIL? Bint okay, we shall probably send him to Ireland. He has Salsabil (Nashwanl, considered a leading Epsom Oaks taken his Derby win a lot better than all of us--eaten up contender but last to finish in the Classic last Friday, all his food--and really looks fantastic. We have always has almost certainly run her final race. The John Dunlop thought he was a superstar and now he is!" Derby third trainee, owned by Hamdan al Maktoum, underwent Shantou (Alleged) also appears likely to go next to The searching tests from veterinarians following her Epsom Curragh, but runner-up Dushyantor (Sadler's Wells) will eclipse and was found to have a problem with her heart. probably take on older horses in the King George VI & Dunlop is pessimistic about her prospects of running Queen Elizabeth Diamond S. at Ascot July 27. But his again. He said: "It seems 90 percent likely we will have trainer, 10-time British champion handler Henry Cecil, to retire her." Bint Salsabil won three of her four juvenile believes the Derby second would have an excellent starts last year but disappointed when finishing eighth in chance of beating Shaamit if the duo do meet again. Doncaster's May Hill S. She ran well when second Overhead pictures revealed Dushyantor was clearly in the Nell Gwyn S. at Newmarket on her 1996 reap­ hampered after five furlongs at Epsom and Cecil said: pearance, then ran seventh in last month's 1000 Guin­ nHe was flattened, wasn't he? He went down on his eas on the same course. At Epsom, though, she was knees and was pushed right back." Glory Of Dancer never going well and, after starting at 10-1, seemed {GBl (Shareef Dancer), fourth in Saturday's Epsom ill-at-ease for the last six furlongs before trailing in well Derby, now steps back in distance for the 10-furlong G 1 behind the other 10 starters. Grand Prix de Paris at Longchamp June 23. The Paul Kelleway trainee faded in the final furlong of Epsom's MARYLAND HANDLE SHOWS DECLINE Pimlico mile and and a half, so the switch to shorter distances Race Course wrapped up its 48-day spring meet Sunday is no surprise.