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 M 0 ND A Y, AUGUST 1 4, 1 9 9 5 W•E•E•K•E•N•D RESULTS Saturday, Del Mar FRANKEL HITS GRAND SLAM IN PACIFIC CLASSIC-GI, $1,000,000, DMR, 8-13, 3yo/up, PACIFIC CLASSIC Bobby Frankel owns the Pa­ 1 1 /4m, 1 :59 3/5, ft. cific Classic. Still flying high after his enshrinement in 1--TINNERS WAY, 124, h, 5, Secretariat--Devon Diva, racing's hallowed Hall Monday in Saratoga, Frankel by The Minstrel. O/B-Juddmonte Farms (Ky); T-Bobby caught a jet back to California in time to saddle Tinners Frankel; J-E Delahoussaye; $550,000. Lifetime Way (Secretariat) in his quest for a fourth straight win Record: 21-6-5-4, $1,615,072. * Y2 to West- in Del Mar's $1,000,000 signature event, and the big ern Approach (Gone West), SW, $143,325; red horse came through with a sure cure for jet lag, 2--Soul of the Matter, 124, c, 4, Private Terms--Soul powering to a four-and-a-half length victory under Light, by T.V. Commercial. 0-Burt Bachrach; B-Blue jockey Eddie Delahoussaye. "I wanted this so badly," Seas Music Inc. (WV); $200,000. said Frankel. "I had faith in the horse and I didn't want 3--Blumin Affair, 1 24, c, 4, Dynaformer--Medical Affair, to be wrong. I feel really, really good." It seems Frankel by Dr. Blum. ($20,000 yrl '92 KEESEP). 0-Bowman & can do no wrong when it comes to this race. In just five Vogel; B-Gulf States Racing Stables (Ky). $150,000. runnings, the newest Hall of Fame trainer can claim four Margins: 4 1 /2, 1 1 /4, HD. Odds: 2. 70, 3.00, 8.00. winners: Missionary Ridge (Caerleon), 1992; Marquetry Also ran: Slew Of Damascus, Concern, Cleante (Arg). (Conquistador Cielo), 1993; and Tinners Way, 1994 and Looking for his first win since taking this race last '95; he also sent out the runner-up in '92, and finished year, Tinners Way was making only his fourth start 1-2-4 in '93--and not one of his runners has been fa­ since that victory and his third of the year. Second to vored. Tinners Way, 7-1 last year, was only the 5-2 Cigar in the GI Hollywood Gold Cup last out, the gleam­ second choice yesterday but proved much the best. ing chestnut found no such rival in his path this time, Sitting just off moderate fractions cut out by the speedy rallying from just off the lead to put a head in front at Slew Of Damascus (Slewacide), the five-year-old moved the top of the lane and drawing clear. "Down the back­ with Soul Of The Matter (Private Account) as they side, I felt like I was in control of the race," said win­ headed around the far turn but quickly put that one ning rider Eddie Delahoussaye. "I knew I had a ton of away and galloped clear. "We drew a great post and horse under me; when I asked my horse he fired--he the race shaped up just like I thought it would," said fired big. I think he's just coming into himself. I'd like Frankel. "He actually ran a better race this year than him against most any man's horse. Oh, you've got to last." Frankel, who has yet to win a Breeders' Cup race, beat Cigar, no doubt about that. But if Bobby wants to becomes the first trainer to take a $1 million stakes four try that, I'll be there." Trainer Bobby Frankel will be years in a row, rivaling trainer D. Wayne Lukas' feat of trying for another big payday with the Juddmonte four straight Triple Crown events. But he downplays homebred next time, switching to the turf for the his success, saying, "I was lucky with the right horses." Arlington Million with an eye towards the Breeders' Cup Or the horses were lucky with the right trainer. Turf in October. CONCERN (Broad Brush), favored at 8-5, lost a three-way photo for third while lacking his HENNESSY FUTURITY-BOUND Trainer D. Wayne usual late punch. "He broke in a bit on me and then he Lukas said yesterday that star two-year-old Hennessy never handled the track at all," said rider Gary Stevens. (Storm Cat) came back from his impressive Sapling "It was too loose for him. He gave it his best, but he victory in good order and will make his next start in the never was comfortable out there." Del Mar (Sept. 13) or Belmont Futurity (Sept. 16). "We Weekend Results cont. p2-3 haven't decided on which one," said Lukas. "We may be leaning towards Del Mar, because (owners Bob and WEEKEND RESULTS ......... p1-3 Beverly Lewis) live around there. That won't be the LU deciding factor, but we'll have to take that into ac­ 0 NEWS CONTINUED ........... p2 count." Hennessy will remain at Monmouth for now. IJ'J RACING REPORTS . p3-5 "We'll give him a chance to recover and probably ship him out around the first of the month," said Lukas. z TOTAL PAGES ................ 8 News cont. p2 PAGE 2 •THOROUGHBRED DAILY NEWS• 8-14-95 News cont. Weekend Results cont. ROUND TABLE LOOKS TO FUTURE Though the Sunday, Saratoga speakers came from diverse backgrounds, there was a BALLERINAS-GI, $150,000, SAR, 8-13, 3yo/up, f/m, central theme to yesterday's annual Jockey Club Round 7f, 1 :22 2/5, gd. Table Conference For Matters Pertaining to Racing: how 1--CLASSY MIRAGE, 119, m, 5, Storm Bird--First Mi­ the industry can adapt to changing times. John rage, by Riva Ridge. 0-Middletown Stables; B-J & W Reardon, former President of MTV, told the audience Stavola (NJ); T-H A Jerkens; J-J Krone; $90,000. gathered at the Gideon Putnam Hotel in Saratoga Lifetime Record: 22-12-3-4, $629,222. * % to Joey's Springs, New York, that racing must not only strive for First Jove (Northern Jove), MSW, $309,072; Missy's more television exposure, but must format its program­ Mirage (Stop The Music), MGISW, $838,894. ming in a way that will lure a younger audience. "Do 2--lnside Information, 126, f, 4, Private Account--Pure what the National Basketball Association did--make your Profit, by Key to the Mint. 0/B-Phipps Ogden Mills sport an exciting entertainment experience that will (KY); $30,000. attract the younger audience your sport so desperately 3--Laura's Pistolette, 112, f, 4, Big Pistol--Lovely Nedra, needs to survive," he said. Steve Crist, New York Rac­ by Irish Tower. ($30,000 yrl '92 KEESEP). 0-J Smith ing Association Director of Communications and Devel­ Ill; B-N & B Jones Partnership (KY); $16,500. opment, took virtually the opposite position, recognizing Margins: 6, 4HF, 5. Odds: 5.40, 0.40, 13.10. that while racing needed far more t.v. time, "racing Also Ran: Low Key Affair, Unlawful Behavior, Madder must not be reinvented for television; sold as something Than Mad. it is not ... " Masayuki Goto, New York representative for The 2-5 choice, Inside Information fell to her knees the Japan Racing Association, reported on the state of one jump out of the gate; forced to play catch-up, she the industry in Japan, where a flourishing sport has had to settle for second place behind pacesetter Classy been able to attract more young people and more Mirage. "I wasn't banking on (Inside Information) going women. He said that advertising campaigns focusing on to her knees right out of the gate, but sometimes you the excitement and entertainment involved with the have to take advantage of other peoples' misfortune," sport have been highly successful. In 1975, with ad­ said winning rider Julie Krone. "However, you can't vancements in off-track betting, on-track attendance at take anything away from my horse. She ran great." Japanese tracks eventually dropped 44 percent, but Mike Smith, who rode the beaten favorite, said his thanks to the JRA' s recent efforts, on-track figures strategy was wiped out with the incident. "She was have rebounded to their pre-1975 levels. Will Farish, fast out of there in the first jump, but in the second Vice Chairman of The Jockey Club, and Richard LeBere, jump she bounced right off her head," said Smith. "We CEO, Equibase Co., both spoke of the role Equibase can wanted to press the pace and be up there, but all I play in the gambling market of the future which will could do was sit there off the pace." Trainer Allen more and more include the information superhighway. Jerkens was uncertain about the winner's next start, "As racing moves forward with full-card simulcasting but Shug McGaughey said Inside Information would still and into the age of interactivity, Equibase will provide likely be pointed to the Sept. 1 6 Ruffian at Belmont. for the industry the information and thus the freedom to promote racing in the very best manner possible. I am Saturday, Deauville, France totally convinced there is no industry initiative more PRIX DU HARAS DE FRESNAY-LE-BUFFARD JACQUES important than Equibase," said Farish. LE MAROIS-G1, $362,473, Deauville, France, 8-13, 3yo/up, c/f, 8fT, 1:35.70, gd.