IRISH CHAMPION S. field p. 2 HEADLINE NEWS For information about TDN, DELIVERED EACH NIGHT call 732-747-8060. BY FAX AND INTERNET www.thoroughbreddailynews.com FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 2002 BELMONT RETURNS WITH A VENGEANCE P R E V I E W Racing returns to Belmont Park Friday and the meet P P gets off to a roaring start with a Super Saturday card that includes three Grade I events. Veterans Lido Palace Friday, The Meadowlands, post time: 10:41 p.m. (Chi) (Rich Man’s Gold) and With Anticipation (Re- BOILING SPRINGS BREEDERS’ CUP H.-GIII, $200,000, launch) seek repeat wins in the GI Woodward and GI 3yo, f, 1 1/16mT Man o’ War, respectively, PP HORSE SIRE TRAINER WT while a talented field of 1 Title Nine Royal Academy Clement 115 three-year-old fillies will 2 Cat Rocket Sir Cat De Rosa 117 square off in the GI Gazelle 3 Guana (Fr) Sillery Walden 118 H. Trainer Bobby Frankel’s 4 With Patience With Approval Hendriks 117 Lido Palace won both the 5 Sixtyone Margaux Cozzene McCarthy 117 GI Whitney and the Wood- 6 Dreamers Glory Holy Bull Orseno 116 ward last year before end- 7 Showlady Theatrical (Ire) McLaughlin 114 With Anticipation (right) ing the season with an 8 Once Around You and I V Oliver 117 Equi-Photo eighth-place effort in the 9 Something Ventured Cobra King Pletcher 115 G1 Japan Cup. The five- year-old Chilean-bred is Saturday, Belmont Park winless in three starts this year, most recently running WOODWARD S.-GI, $500,000, 3yo/up, 1 1/8m third in the Whitney, but Frankel is confident Lido Pal- PP HORSE SIRE JOCKEY ace can regain his winning form Saturday. “He’s the 1 Lido Palace (Chi) Rich Man’s Gold Chavez class and it’s weight for age,” Frankel commented. 2 Express Tour Tour d’Or Velazquez “He’s doing really well.” With Anticipation, a seven- 3 Cat’s at Home Tabasco Cat Prado year-old gelding, will seek to become only the third 4 Sherpa Guide Ends Well Santos horse in 44 years to win back-to-back runnings of the 5 Gander Cormorant Migliore Man o’ War. The gray is coming off victories in the GI 6 Baseball Champion Wild Again Day United Nations H. and GI Sword Dancer Invitational H. All carry 126 pounds. “What’s amazing about him is that he maintains his enthusiasm at his age,” trainer Jonathon Sheppard said Saturday, Belmont Park of With Anticipation. In the Gazelle, three distaffers will MAN O’ WAR S.-GI, $500,000, 3yo/up, 1 3/8mT try and reassert their positions among the top of the PP HORSE SIRE JOCKEY deep sophomore fillies division. Godolphin’s Imperial 1 Man from Wicklow Turkoman Castellano Gesture (Langfuhr) dominated competition at Nad al 2 Lord Flasheart Blush Rambler Prado Sheba before an eighth-place effort in the GI Kentucky Oaks. “She got banged up at the start of the Oaks and 3 With Anticipation Relaunch Day ran hard just trying to catch up through the race,” 4 Blazing Fury Dynaformer Santos explained assistant trainer Tom Albertrani. “She didn’t 5 Tobougg (Ire) Barathea (Ire) Velazquez seem herself afterwards. She was dull in her training 6 Regal Dynasty Dynaformer Samyn and lost a lot of weight.” Given time off after the Oaks, 7 Balto Star Glitterman Migliore Imperial Gesture impressed with a six-length allowance 8 Skipping (GB) Rainbow Quest Desormeaux victory at Saratoga in her Aug. 23 return to the races. All carry 126 pounds. Also in the Gazelle field is GSW Bella Bellucci (French Deputy), off since an 11 3/4-length allowance win at TDN TODAY Belmont July 19 and Take Charge Lady (Dehere), off Headline News ................... 2 pages since winning the May 25 GIII Dogwood. (859) 233-4252 FAX (859) 987-0008 www.claibornefarm.com TDN P HEADLINE NEWS • 9/6/02 • PAGE 2 of 2 (Stakes previews cont.) Saturday, Leopardstown, Ireland, post time: 4:00 p.m. Saturday, Belmont Park IRELAND THE FOOD ISLAND CHAMPION S.-G1, GAZELLE H.-GI, $250,000, 3yo, f, 1 1/8m i1,100,000, 3yo/up, 1 1/4mT PP HORSE SIRE JOCKEY WT SC PP HORSE SIRE JOCKEY WT 1 Bella Bellucci French Deputy Velazquez 118 1 8 Best Of The Bests (Ire) Machiavellian Spencer 130 2 Jaramar Rain Thunder Gulch Luzzi 114 2 7 Grandera (Ire) Grand Lodge Dettori 130 3 Spring Meadow Meadowlake Chavez 114 3 9 No Excuse Needed (GB) Machiavellian Smullen 130 4 Nonsuch Bay Mr. Greeley Castellano 117 4 2 Rebelline (Ire) Robellino McDonogh 127 5 Imperial Gesture Langfuhr Santos 117 5 3 Common World Spinning World Murtagh 123 6 Take Charge Lady Dehere Prado 121 6 6 Hawk Wing Woodman Kinane 123 7 Lost at Sea Lost Soldier Day 115 7 4 High Chaparral (Ire) Sadler’s Wells Heffernan123 8 1 Sholokhov (Ire) Sadler’s Wells Scallan 123 Saturday, Haydock, Britain, post time: 3:30 p.m. 9 5 Margarula (Ire) Doyoun (Ire) Manning 120 STANLEY LEISURE SPRINT CUP-G1, £200,000, Aidan O’Brien yesterday declared both Hawk Wing 3yo/up, 6fT and High Chaparral for tomorrow’s G1 Ireland the Food SC PP HORSE SIRE JOCKEY WT Island Champion S. While Hawk Wing came through the 1 5 Bahamian Pirate Housebuster M Hills 126 latest tests carried out at Ballydoyle, the inclusion of 2 8 Continent (GB) Lake Coniston (Ire) Dalgleish 126 dual Derby winner High Chaparral in tomorrow’s con- 3 3 Frenchmans Bay (Fr) Polar Falcon Drowne 126 test is a precautionary measure should the current 2-5 4 10 Invincible Spirit (Ire) Green Desert Carroll 126 favourite scope unclean on the eve of the race. Kevin 5 7 Malhub Kingmambo R Hills 126 Prendergast reiterated yesterday that Rebelline would 6 2 Mount Abu (Ire) Foxhound Fortune 126 need softening of the ground, currently riding good-to- 7 12 Nayyir (GB) Indian Ridge (Ire) Ahern 126 firm, to ensure her participation. 8 4 Orientor (GB) Inchinor (GB) Culhane 126 9 11 Three Points (GB) Bering (GB) Darley 126 Saturday, Del Mar 10 6 Landseer (GB) Danehill Fallon 124 DEL MAR DERBY-GII, $300,000, 3yo, 1 1/8mT 11 13 Twilight Blues (Ire) Bluebird No Jockey 124 PP HORSE SIRE JOCKEY 12 14 Air Thule (Jpn) Tony Bin (Ire) Take 123 1 Hecandigit Marlin Vergara 13 1 Danehurst (GB) Danehill Duffield 123 2 Johar Gone West Solis 14 9 May Ball (GB) Cadeaux Genereux (GB) No Jockey 123 3 Mr. Mellon Red Ransom Douglas While 14 were declared for tomorrow’s sprint, ground 4 Inesperado (Fr) Zayyani (Ire) Nakatani conditions hold the key to a handful of hopefuls. Dandy 5 Golden Arrow Rahy Espinoza Nicholls, who yesterday booked Keith Dalgleish to ride 6 Mountain Rage Mecke Smith Continent following the absence of Darryll Holland and 7 Rock Opera Royal Academy Pincay Olivier Peslier, warned that rain was essential for that 8 True Phenomenon Afternoon Deelites Valenzuela gelding and Bahamian Pirate, who were first and sec- 9 Dell Place Royal Academy Stevens ond, respectively, in the G1 July Cup at Newmarket All carry 121 pounds. July 11. Danehurst, who took the G2 Flying Five at The Curragh on Sunday, also needs rain at Haydock to line Post times are listed in local time. up. Malhub, Three Points and Invincible Spirit require ground good or faster to run, according to connections. © Copyright Thoroughbred Daily News. This newspaper may not be reproduced in any form or by CURRENCY CONVERSIONS any means, electronic or mechanical, without prior written permission of the copyright owner, MediaVista. Unit/US$ Unit/GB£ Information as to the American races, race results and British pound 1.56524 1.00 earnings was obtained from results charts published in Euro 0.991630 0.633541 Daily Racing Form and utilized here with with the U.S. dollar 1.00 0.638879 permission of the copyright owner, Daily Racing Form. Stakes Winner #33 for SAINT BALLADO Two-year-old RUN PRODUCTION, by SAINT BALLADO, TAYLOR MADE wins the Comet S. at The Meadowlands September 2. (859) 885-3345 Congratulations to owner/breeder Four Horsemen’s Ranch and trainer John Salzman. www.taylormadestallions.com FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 2002 AMERICAN 4 Pages EDITION Preakness runner- MAGIC WEISNER IMPROVES M I D W E S T up Magic Weisner (Ameri Valay) appears to be im- I I proving from a mysterious neurological disorder which afflicted him over the weekend, according to Wednesday’s Late Results: The Baltimore Sun. Magic Weisner remains at New 9th-TPX, $24,400, Alw, 3yo/up, 6 1/2f, 1:17 2/5, ft. Bolton Center in Kennett Square, Pennsylvania, but SEA OF TRANQUILITY (h, 6, Heff--Bonkey, by Fit to his Maryland-based veterinarian Dr. Bob Vallance is Fight), has finished in the money in all seven of his encouraged by the gelding’s condition. “They’re not starts this year, including consecutive victories over a really sure what’s wrong with him,” Vallance told the mile at Monmouth May 26 and June 16. Second in the 1 1/16-miles Skip Away S., the chestnut backed into a Sun yesterday. “But I’m very optimistic because his second straight win in Monmouth’s Salvator Mile H. condition is improving rather than deteriorating.” when first-place finisher First Lieutenant was disquali- Nancy Alberts, who bred, owns and trains Magic fied. A modestly backed 2-1 second choice, Sea of Weisner, admitted, “He’s a sick horse. He’s listless, Tranquility stalked in fourth through a solid quarter but he’s eating and drinking.