The Thoroughbred Daily News is delivered to your home or business by fax each morning by 5 a.m. For subscription information, please call 908-747-8060. T~~I~~UN~~~RE DM SATURDAY, JULY 5, 1997 W•E•E•K•E•N•D RESULTS Friday, Belmont Park INDEPENDENCE DAY DISPLAY BY SKIP SUBURBAN H.-Gll, $350,000, BEL, 7-4 , 3yo/up, AW AY The whisper was he just wasn't the same. 1 1 /4m, 2:02 1 /5, ft. After his first four starts of the season, last year' s top 1--SKIP AWAY, 122, c, 4, Skip Trial--lngot Way (MSW), three-year-old Skip Away (Skip Trial) was still without a by Diplomat Way. ($30,000 2yo 1995 OBSFEB) . win and the title he very nearly snagged last year, that 0-Hine Carolyn H; B-Barnhart Anna Marie (FL); left behind by two-time Horse of the Year Cigar, was up T-Hubert Hine; J-S J Sellers; $210,000. Lifetime for grabs. But with his impressive win in yesterday's Gii Record: Ch. 3yo Colt, 24-9-8-4, $3, 799,860. $350,000 Suburban H. at Belmont Park, the champ 2--Will's Way, 116, c, 4, Easy Goer--Willamae, by gave notice he is back in the running. Beaten a half­ Tentam. ($95,000 yrl '94 KEESEP). 0-Clifton W illiam length by the best in the west, Gentlemen (Arg), in the Jr & Rudlein Stable; B-Quinichett Robert (KY); GI Pimlico Special, the grey came back to take t he Giii $70,000. Massachusetts H. in a game effort May 31. He made it 3--Formal Gold, 120, c, 4, Black Tie Affair (lre)-­ two in a row in the Suburban, sweeping to the lead at lngoldsby, by Screen King. ($62,000 yrl '94 KEESEP; the head of the stretch and drawing off to win by a $75,000 2yo 1995 SARTWO). 0 -Murphy John D; length and a half as the even-money favorite. "I have a B-Kelly Rodes Mr & Mrs (CAN) ; $38,500. lot of confidence in Skip Away," said winning rider Margins: 1 HF, 3/4, 15. Odds: 1.00, 2. 10 , 2.85. Shane Sellers. "I knew if he was clear and had some­ Also Ran: Natural Selection, Ormsby, Gator Dancer. thing to run at, he would fire. I know that when I call on Scratched: Instant Friendship. him, he's going to deliver." The colt will make his next Making good on the promise he has shown in his start in the GI Whitney S. at Saratoga August 2. last two starts, last year's Eclipse Award-winning three-year-old Skip Away followed a gallant photo TOUCH GOLD POINTS FOR HASKELL After finish win in the Giii Mass 'Cap May 31 with a more having a planned workout postponed yet again Friday, dominant performance here. Bet down to even money Belmont S. winner Touch Gold (Deputy Minister) will despite the narrow score over subsequent Brooklyn H. definitely miss the Gii Swaps S. July 20 and instead get winner Formal Gold at Suffolk Downs, the striking ready for a rematch with the Belmont runner-up, Derby grey colt was on the lead early, dropped back to and Preakness winner Silver Charm (Silver Buck), in the fourth while hard-held after three-quarters in 1: 12.15, GI Buick Haskell Invitational at Monmouth Park August then came with a three-wide bid at the top of the lane 3. Trainer David Hofmans said yesterday he is still con­ to take command and draw clear. "Now I know if this cerned with the quarter crack on the colt's left front didn't work out, people would be saying the jockey hoof. "We're not happy with how the foot is doing," was an idiot for letting those other horses go by," said Hofmans. "Right now, the patch is off it and we're said winning rider Shane Sellers. "But you have to letting it air out. The Haskell is his next likely start." realize that I know Skip Away like the back of my News cont. o4 hand. Sonny (Hine) wanted me to be off the rail, and STAKES CLOSINGS • neither of us wanted to be on the lead. I had plenty of horse and plenty of run." Runner-up Will's Way put a TODA Y. SATURDA Y. J ULY 5: I t 7- 19 $250,000 Coaching Club American head in front after a mile and held the lead until the Oaks-GI, BEL, 3yo, f, 1 1/4m ($250) stretch, then gave way grudgingly. "What more can 7- 19 $75175, 000 River Downs Breeders' Cup you say? He tried his best," said trainer Jim Bond. H., RD, 3yo/ up, f/ m, 1 1/ 16m T ( $100) "He seemed to be running strong down the stretch-­ 7-26 $200,000 Mid-South Futurity, LS, 2yo, @, 6f he just got outrun at the end." The top two will now ($12,000s) head to Saratoga and the GI Whitney S. August 2, TOMORROW, SUNDAY. JULY 6: while third-placed Formal Gold will get a break, then 7-19 $75175,000a Remington Park Breeders' Cup, RP, point for the Gii lselin H. at Monmouth August 23. 3yo/ up, 1 1/ 16mT($150) Weekend Results cont. p2 PAGE 2 •THOROUGHBRED DAILY NEWS• 7-5-97 Weekend Results cont. Coral-Eclipse S. cont. Friday, Hollywood Park Champion filly Basra Sham is odds-on to win this after AMERICAN H.-Gll, $160,600, HOL, 7-4, 3yo/up, her demolition of the field ih the Prince Of Wales S. at 1 1 /8mT, 1 :46 4/5, fm. Ascot June 1 7. Representing the three-year-old genera­ 1--EL ANGELO, 118, h, 5, El Gran Senor--Angela Serra tion is Epsom Derby winner Benny The Dip, but the form (GB) (GSW-lty), by Arctic Tern. 0-Evergreen Farm; of that race was let down by the short-head runner-up B-Panama Foreign Traders & Skymarc Farm (KY); T-J Silver Patriarch (Ire), who could finish only fifth behind Sahadi; J-A Solis; $96,360. Lifetime Record: 15-6-2-3, Desert King (Ire) in last Sunday's Budweiser Irish Derby. $300,372. * 1/2 to Miswaki Tern (Miswaki), GSW-lty, The 1 996 Breeders' Cup Turf hero Pilsudski (Ire) was MGSP-U.S., GSP-Fr, $216,592-U.S. & Fr; Via Borghese well beaten by Helissio (Fr) in the Prix Ganay April 27 (Seattle Dancer), MGSW-U.S., GSW-lre, $681 ,250; and and was subsequently upset by Predappio (GB) in the Porto Varas (Miswaki), GSW-Fr. G2 Hardwicke S. at Ascot June 20. 2--Naninja, 114, c, 4, Alysheba--Nijinsky's Lover, by Nijinsky II. 0-Horton & Merhab & Nance; B-Allez Today, Monmouth Park France Stables, Ltd (KY); $32, 120. MONMOUTH BREEDERS' CUP OAKS-Gii, $200,000, 3--Wavy Run (Ire), 117, h, 6, Commanche Run--Wavy 3yo,f, 11/16m Reef, by Kris. 0-Herrick & No Problem Stable & Red PP HORSE TRAINER JOCKEY ODDS Baron's Barn; B-Jose Gonzalez (Ire); $19,272. 1 Snowy Apparition Lukas Martinez 8-1 Margins: 1, 1, NK. Odds: 1.00, 5. 70, 6.40. 2 Royal Form Reese A Black 15-1 Also Ran: Tychonic (GB), Torch Rouge (GB), Arroblero 3 Semaphore Ms. Perry Marquez 15-1 (Arg). Scratched: Irish Wings (Ire). 4 Holiday Ball Capuano Lopez 1 2-1 El Angelo won three of his first four starts this sea­ 5 Timely Broad M Petro N Petro 6-1 son, including the Giii Inglewood H., but then ran into a 6 Stormy Temper Walden Krone 30-1 traffic jam in the Gii Shoemaker Breeders' Cup Mile and 7 Blushing K.D. David Jr. Meche 1-5 ended up sixth. Bet down to even-money here, the dark Blushing K.D. (Blushing John), winner of the Giii Fair bay raced off the rail in fourth down the backstretch, Grounds Oaks, Gii Fantasy S. and GI Kentucky Oaks in switched to the inside on the final turn, then came back quick succession, suffered a setback when fourth in the out for the stretch drive and rallied to get the lead late Gii Black-Eyed Susan S. at Pimlico May 16. Treated for and edge clear. "I was really disappointed after the high potassium levels which may have caused the lack­ Shoemaker," said trainer Jenine Sahadi. "I really felt he luster effort and with her blood count back in order, the didn't get an opportunity to run. Running him right back filly bids for her eighth win in her 10th career start. like this is a little sooner than I normally do, but I figured that I would have some time between this and the Eddie Today, Belmont Park Read (at Del Mar August 3). It worked out well." Irish DWYER S.-Gll, $1 50,000, 3yo, 1 1 /16m Wings (Ire), who suffers from allergies, was scratched PP HORSE TRAINER JOCKEY ODDS after coughing the morning of the race. He will be 1 Wouldn't We All Kimmel Migliore 6-1 turned out at owner Edmund Gann's farm with an eye 2 Banker's Gold Jerkens Maple 7-5 toward a return at Del Mar. 3 Smokin Mel Destefano Jr. Velazquez 9-5 4 Glitman Kimmel Smith 4-1 5 Tejano Couture Zito Antley 1 5-1 PREVIEW 6 Behrens Bond Bailey 8-1 • • After taking his first three starts in photo finishes, Today, Sandown Park, England undefeated Banker's Gold (Forty Niner) took the jump up CORAL-ECLIPSE S.-G1, $262,209a, 3yo/up, 1 1 /4mT to graded stakes company and had an easier time of it, PP HORSE TRAINER JOCKEY WT.