N•E•W•S S·T•A•K•E•S TODAY PREVIEW REAL QUIET TO SKIP SWAPS Kentucky Derby and Today, Newmarket, England: Preakness S. winner Real Quiet (Quiet American) will DARLEY JULY CUP-G1, $250,710, 3yo/up, 6fT make his next start in Monmouth Park's GI Buick PP HORSE TRAINER JOCKEY WT 1 Diktat (GB) Loder Peslier 1 25 Haskell Invitational August 9, trainer Bob Baffert con­ 2 Charge D'Affaires (GB) Royer-Dupre Masse 125 firmed. Baffert had been contemplating running the 3 Arkadian Hero Cumani Kinane 1 25 three-year-old colt in the July 19 Gii Swaps before the 4 Russian Revival Gosden Swinburn 131 Haskell, but has decided to skip the Hollywood Park 5 Averti (Ire) Muir Weaver 131 race and go straight to the Haskell. Real Quiet, 6 Monaassib (GB) Dunlop Darley 131 unraced since a narrow defeat to Victory Gallop 7 Cathedral (Ire) Meehan Tebbutt 131 (Cryptoclearance) in the GI Belmont S. June 6, skipped 8 Pas 9e Reponse Head Doleuze 1 28 a scheduled work Tuesday, but Baffert said the colt 9 Easy9all (GB) Meehan Quinn 131 1 0 My Best Valentine (GB) Soane Cochrane 1 31 was doing fine. 1 11 Dane~ime (Ire) Callaghan no rider 131 12 Kahal (GB) Bin Suroor Dettori 131 GOLD CUP RATING SETS RECORD The special 1 3 Bold act Cecil Eddery 1 25 edition of "NTRA Racing to the Breeders' Cup" series 14 Tama isk (Ire) Charlton Sprake 1 25 telecast of the June 28 GI Hollywood Gold Cup on 1 5 ComRton Place (GB) Toller Sanders 1 31 ESPN earned the highest rating of any Thoroughbred 16 Lord ~intyre (GB) Millman Hughes 125 racing show in the network's history. The show regis­ 1 7 Bolshpi (Ire) Berry Lowther 1 31 tered a 2.02 rating from 7:30-7:45 p.m. Based on 18 Elnadim Dunlop Hills 131 ESPN's universe of 74 million households, the show 19 Bollin I Joanne (GB) Easterby Fortune 128 was seen in 1,494,800 homes. The 1998 Gold Cup 20 Carmjne Lake (Ire) Chapple-Hyam Reid 1 28 viewing audience was more than three times greater Sires: iktat (Warning {GB}), Charge D'Affaires than the 1 997 telecast which was seen in approxi­ (Kendor {Fr}), Arkadian Hero (Trempolino), Russian mately 431,000 homes. This year's 30-minute tele­ Revival ( ureyev), Averti (Warning {GB}l, Monaassib cast was pre-empted by a 13-minute delay due to a (Cadeaux Genereux {GB}), Cathedral (Prince Sabo {GB}), P s De Reponse (Danzig), Easycall (Forzando late finish of a NASCAR Winston Cup race. ESPN aired {GB}), M Best Valentine (Try My Best), Danetime "NTRA Racing to the Breeders' Cup" and then an (Danehill), Kahal (Machiavellian), Bold Fact (Known abbreviated version of Baseball Tonight prior to a Fact), Ta arisk (Green Desert), Compton Place (Indian Yankees-Mets telecast. Ridge {Ir }), Lord Kintyre {Makbul {GB}), Bolshoi (Royal Academ ), Elnadim (Danzig), Bollin Joanne (Damister), TATTERSALLS WEDNESDAY RESULTS During Carmine ake (Royal Academy). the first of two Wednesday sessions of the Tattersalls Undefeated in three starts this year, Diktat (GB), July Mixed Sale yesterday in Newmarket, England, winner o the G3 Jersey S. at Ascot June 17, is the high price was paid for hip number 136, Vibrant (GB) likely fav rite. She will not run, however, if the ground (Machiavellian). The three-year-old filly was consigned becomes firm. Group One winner Pas De Reponse fin­ by Ecurie J C Rouget, France, the property of Darley ished se ond in her only two starts this year, just miss­ ing by a hort head in her last, the G3 Prix du Palais Stud Management Co., Ltd. and brought a final bid of Royal at ongchamp May 26. $193,04 7 from Clovelly Farms. At the morning ses­ sion, 62 horses sold for $1,344,923 and an average of $21,691. Hip number 194, Inspiring Story (Wood­ WEEKEND PREVIEW .................... 1 man), topped the third session of the sale. Consigned STAKES RESULTS ...................... 2 by Rosewell House Stables, Ireland, the three-year-old 1rJ)- RACING REPORTS . 2-4 colt was purchased for $52,649 by Danny Murphy. I During the session, 50 horses sold for $598,270 and z ITOTAL PAGES ......................... 6 an average of $11 ,965. The sale concludes today. - PAGE 2 • THOROUGHBRED DAILY NEWS • 7-9-98 JULY S.-G3 results cont. RESULTS Beaten as the odds-on favorite in his Doncaster debut AMCOR• FALMOUTH S.-G2, $95,269, Newmarket,• Eng­ May 23 and then fifth in the G3 Coventry S. at Royal land, 7-8, 3yo, f, 1 mT, 1 :35.53 (NCR), gd/fm. Ascot June 16, the $750,000 yearling purchase 1--#@LOVERS KNOT (GB), 118, f, 3, Groom Dancer-- Bertoloni produced an impressive performance as the 3- Nemea, by The Minstrel. 0-Cheveley Park Stud; B-The 1 second choice to give trainer John Gosden his first Overbury Stud; T-Michael Stoute; J-J Reid; $57,329. July S. win. Restrained in last behind a solid pace, 2--Wren (Ire), 118, f, 3, Bob Back--ln The Rigging, by Bertoloni was still last at the three-sixteenths pole when Topsider. 0-Anglia Bloodstock Syndicate 1996; switched to the outside. Quickening brilliantly, he soon $21,226. caught the leaders and won with plenty left. Gosden 3--Flawless (GB), 118, f, 3, Warning (GB)--Made Of said, "I'm not saying Bertoloni is a superstar, but he's a Pearl, by Nureyev. 0-Cheveley Park Stud; $1O,195. very nice, improving colt. I thought it was asking a lot Margins: 3, 3/4, HF. for him to come from last to first in a slowly-run race, Also ran: Beraysim (GB), Equity Princess (GB), Supercal but Frankie (Dettori) said he always had plenty of horse (GB), Lady In Waiting (GB}, La Nuit Rose (Fr), Yabint El under him. I think the horse will stay seven furlongs, but Sultan (GB), Lilli Claire (GB), Reunion (Ire), Cortona (Ire), we'll stick to six furlongs for now. He's entered in the Digitalize. (G2) Prix Robert Papin in France later this month (July Although coming in with a one-for-four lifetime record, 26) and there are also Group 2 races at Goodwood and Lovers Knot (GB) had finished a good third in the G3 York for him next month." Jersey S. at Royal Ascot, causing the bettors to make her the 11-4 favorite. Slowly into her stride from the AMERICAN-BRED WINNERS IN ENGLAND: gate, she trailed to the quarter-mile pole until she found Mujahid, c, 2, Danzig--Elrafa Ah (SW), by Storm Cat. the perfect split between horses and surged clear inside Newmarket, 7-8, EBF Francis Graves Novice S., 2yo, the final eighth breaking the Newmarket July Course 6fT, $9,082 to winner. 0-Sheikh Hamdan bin Rashid track record for the mile by a second. "Initially we al Mak~oum; B-Shadwell Farm Inc; T-John Dunlop. thought she was good enough for the Classics," said Sihafi, g, 15, Elmaamul--Kit's Double (GSW, $297,693), Cheveley Park Stud's General Manager Chrish Richard­ by Spripg Double. Folkestone, 7-8, Sandgate Motors son, "but she has taken a lot of time to come to hand. Skoda Octavia H., 3yo/up, 5fT, $6,272 to winner. We've always known she was good and we saw the 0-Johnl Gilbertson; B-Shadwell Farm Inc; T-David true Lovers Knot today. She's entered in the (G2) Cele­ Nicholl * 1 /2 to Double Wedge (Northern Baby), bration Mile at Goodwood, but we'll have to wait and MGSWI $435,523. see." Local Ne'l"s, New Zealand: Groom Dancer (Blushing Groom {Fr}--Featherhill, by FOREIGN Lyphard) will shuttle to New Zealand for the 1 998 Southern I Hemisphere covering season and will stand at English• Stakes Result· • Ra Ora S ud near Auckland for a fee of $ 5, 71 9. Winner TNT INTERNATIONAL AVIATION JULY S.-G3, $50,476, of the G 1 Prix Lupin in France as a three-year-old, Newmarket, England, 7-8, 2yo, 6fT, 1: 12.16, gd/fm. Groom Dancer was bought in 1994 by Shadai Farm in 1--#@BERTOLONI, 122, c, 2, Danzig--Aquilegia (MGSW, Japan. G oom Dancer has already registered his first $446,081 ), by Alydar. ($750,000 yrl '97 KEEJUL). success in New Zealand with his four-year-old filly 0-Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid al Maktoum; B-H Guardian Angel, who won last week at Te Awamutu. Alexander, H Groves & D Alexander; T-John Gosden; J-L Dettori; $30,519. © Thoroughbred Daily News. 2--EI Tango (GB), 1 22, g, 2, Risk Me (Fr)--Princess Tara Copyn~ht This newspaper may not be reproduced in any form or (GB), by Prince Sabo (GB). 0-Mrs Sheila Tucker; by any means, electronic or mechanical, without prior $11,265. written ,Permission of the copyright owner, Media Vista. 3--Black Amber (Ire), 122, c, 2, College Chapel (GB)-­ Flying Diva (GB), by Chief Singer (GB). 0-Michael lnformaiion as to the races, race results and earnings Tabor & Mrs John Magnier; $5,381. was obt'flined from results charts published in Daily Margins: HF, 1 1 /4, 3/4. Racing J arm and utilized herewith with the permission Also ran: Sheer Viking (Ire), Mutaahab, Red Delirium (GB). of the c 'opyright owner, Daily Racing Form. 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