N•E•W•S S•T•A•K•E•S TODAY RESULTS MARYLAND MATCH RACE PROPOSED Maryland EPSOM CUP-G3 Jpn, $596,827, Tokyo, Japan, 6-6, Jockey Club President Joe DeFrancis has confirmed that 3yo/up, 9fT, 1 :48.2, yl. he has a proposed a $2 million match race between 1--#@TSUKUBA SYMPHONY (GB), 125, h, 5, Danehill-­ champions Silver Charm (Silver Buck) and Skip Away Lyndonville (Ire), by Top Ville (Ire). ($70,970 wnlg '93 (Skip Trial). However, according to DeFrancis, the Silver T ADEF). 0-A Hosoya; B-West lodge Stud & Sean Charm camp has expressed no interest in such a show­ Kelly; T-Masanori Ito; J-Norihiro Yokoyama; down. "I've talked casually with the connections of both $314,967. Lifetime Record: 18-3-8-3, $1,946,626. horses about it and I think that the Skip Away people 2--Big Sunday (Jpn), 1 28, c, 4, Sunday Silence--Kitano are very interested in it, but trainer Bob Baffert is con­ Ogojo (Jpn), by Tosha Boy (Jpn). 0-U Big; $123,979. cerned about running Silver Charm in the heat in the 3--0ffside Trap (Jpn), 125, h, 7, Tony Bin (lre)--Toko summertime. At this stage, I don't think there's much Carol (Jpn), by Hospitality (Jpn). 0-Takashi Watanabe likelihood that it's going to happen." The proposed race $80,014. would be run in late July at Laurel Park. Meanwhile, an Margins: NK, 3/4, NK. Internet site reported yesterday that Hollywood Park Usually close, but rarely a winner, Tsukuba Symphony was trying to put together a match race between the (GB) finally managed a victory as the 5-2 favorite in his same two horses, but Hollywood's Chairman of the third start this year. Unplaced in his last start of 1 997, Board and Chief Executive Officer R.D. Hubbard denied the G1 Japan Cup, he ran third in his 1998 debut at the report. "We haven't talked to anybody," Hubbard Nakayama April 18th, and improved to second last time said. "The first I knew about it was when someone out at Tokyo May 2. The winner sat second for most of showed it to me on the Internet." Meanwhile, back on the race before challenging inside to score by a neck. the race track, Skip Away, aiming towards the June 28 GI Hollywood Gold Cup, had his first workout since his BALLYCORUS S.-G3, $40, 741, leopardstown, Ireland, win in the May 30 Giii Massachusetts H. yesterday, going 6-10, 3yo/up, 7fT, 1 :35.40, yl/sf. four furlongs in :46 4/5 over the main track at Belmont. 1--TUMBLEWEED RIDGE (GB), 132, h, 5, Indian Ridge (lre)--Billie Blue (Ire), by Ballad Rock (Ire). ($22,650 WEEKEND PEDIGREE PERSPECTIVES wnlg '93 TADEF; $42,920 yrl '94 TAOCT). 0-The Tumbleweed Partnership; B-R A Dalton; T-Brian by Alan Porter Meehan; J-M Tebbutt; $27,585. The successful combination of Sadler's Wells and 2--Wizard King (GB), 1 39, h, 7, Shaadi--Broomstick Fairy King over mares carrying Never Bend (giving a Cottage (Ire), by Habitat. 0-Sheikh Ahmed bin Saeed duplication of the mare Lalun) is one of the best known al IVlaktoum; $8,063. of the recent era. It is becoming increasingly clear that 3--Poke~-B (Ire), 132, c, 4, Shalford (lre)--Far From the reverse can work quite well too. Silic (Fr) (c, 3, Home (Ire), by Habitat. 0-Patrick F Headon; $3,819. Sillery--Balletomane {Ire}, by Sadler's Wells), winner of Margins: 1, 2, 2. the G3 Prix de la Jonchere, is by a sire who carries Also ran: Burden Of Proof (Ire), Heeremandi (Ire). Never Bend and is out of a Sadler's Wells mare. There On his third start of the season, Tumbleweed Ridge have already been at least four other stakes winners (GB) secured his fifth lifetime win from 26 starts and his bred on this pattern, including Group 1 winner Medaaly first Group race success while denying Wizard King (GB) and group winner Rouquette. his second straight win in this race and his fifth Irish Unusual inbreeding appears in the pedigree of Jullie Group race success. The runner-up had not run since Zen (f, 3, Cartwright--Zentoo, by Zen), who took finishing fourth in December's G2 International Bowl at Sunday's Lawdy Miss Clawdy S. at Sportsman's Park. Sha-Tin in Hong Kong, and the receipt of seven pounds She has Bold Ruler and his brother Nasco 4x4 through a from the race-rusty Wizard King undoubtedly contrib­ son and a daughter. Three-year-old Jullie Zen is from the uted to Tumbleweed Ridge's success. Leading from the first crop by her sire, the unraced Cartwright. Cartwright gate, he was strongly challenged by Wizard King from is a son of Forty Niner, and with Forty Niner freshman the three-eighths pole, but gradually asserted command sons Twining, Tactical Advantage, End Sweep and inside the final eighth of a mile to win by a length. This Marked Tree all having juvenile winners already, things was a first Group race victory for winning trainer Brian are looking promising for sons of Forty Niner. Meehan in his native Ireland. PAGE2 • THOROUGHBRED DAILY NEWS • 6-11-98 ~ Trainer Ian Balding has announced that Border Ar­ I • FOREIGN • I row (GB) (Selkirk), third behind High-Rise (Ire) (High Stakes Result: Estate {Ire}) in last Saturday's Epsom Derby, will have GLENCAIRN S., $26,594, Leopardstown, Ireland, 6-10, England's final Classic, the G1 Pertemps St. Leger S. 4yo/up, 1 1 /8mT, 2:01.00, yl/sf. at Doncaster September 1 2, as his long-term target. 1--SENSE OF HONOUR, 120, f, 4, Be My Guest-- Well Balding said, "He is fine but we will not run him again Supported, by Key To The Mint. 0/B-Moyglare Stud until the (G2 Stakis Casinos) Great Voltigeur S. at Farm; T-Dermot Weld; J-Pat Shanahan; $18,248. York August 18. He is having a nice rest at the mo­ 2--Renge (Ire), 120, f, 4, Generous (lre)--Lyphard's ment before a possible crack at the St. Leger later in Lady, by Lyphard. $5,234. the season." 3--Graduated (Ire), 123, g, 4, Royal Academy--Saviour, by Majestic Light. $2,404. Margins: SHD, 3, SHD. C• NEW YORK • I AMERICAN-BRED WINNER IN ENGLAND: Yesterday's Results: Zihaam, c, 3, Dayjur--Asl (G1 SP-lty, GSP-Fr, Eng), by 3rd-BEL, $47,000, Alw, 4yo/up, f/m, 1 1 /8mT, Caro (Ire). Salisbury, 6-10, Bali Rice Maiden S., 3yo, 1 :47 3/5, fm. 6f 212ydsT, $6,187 to winner. 0-Sheikh Hamdan bin IRISH DAISY (m, 5, Allen's Alydar--Nara, by Green Rashid al Maktoum; B-Shadwell Farm Inc; T-John Forest), the winner of the Oct 1 2 state-bred Dunlop. * 1 /2 to Labibeh (Lyphard), GSW-Eng. Ticonderoga H. at Belmont, came into this race off seventh place finishes in her last two outings. AMERICAN-BRED WINNER IN IRELAND: Scratched out of the Gill Just A Game Breeders' Cup Sycamore Boy, g, 4, Woodman--Kafiyah (SP-Eng), by H. on Saturday in favor of this allowance, she rallied Shadeed. Laytown, 6-9, Arthur Guinness Maiden three wide to cruise to a 5 1 /2-length victory as the S., 4yo/up, 7f (Sand), $3,342 to winner. 0-P Joseph 3-1 second choice in a field of six. Lifetime Record: Kelly; B-Thoroughbred Advisory Group Inc & Ashford SW, 29-6-5-7, $298,377. Stud; T-D T Hughes. * $72,000 wnlg '94 KEENOV. 0/B-Delaney Austin (NY). T-Leo O'Brien. * * Racing at Laytown is the only offical meeting in the world to be held on a beach. Three or four races are run when the tide is out. Obviously, the going is 8th-BEL, $38,000, Alw, 3yo/up, f/m, 1 1 /4mT, "sandy." 2:00 4/5, fm. COZZALL (f, 4, Cozzene--All Dance {SP}, by Northern AMERICAN-BRED WINNER IN SCOTLAND: Dancer), sent off as the 5-2 favorite, was gunned to Takhlid, h, 7, Nureyev--Savonnerie (GSP-Fr), by Irish the front by Mike Smith, opening as many as six River (Fr). Hamilton, Saints And Sinners Challenge lengths on the field. A half to Carezza (Caro {Ire}, SP­ Cup H., 3yo/up, Sf 65ydsT, $11,389 to winner. Fr, SW-N.A., $165,485), the winner had enough left 0-Miss N F Thesiger; B-John T L Jones; T-David in reserve to hold off the closers by 1 1 /4 lengths. Chapman. * $750,000 yrl '92 KEEJUL. Lifetime Record: 5-2-0-3, $55,950. 0-Roberts Bea & Robert H. B-Echo Valley Horse Farm Local News, England: & Swettenham Stud (KY). T-Stanley M Hough. Victory Note (Fairy King), winner of the G1 French 2,000 Guineas at Longchamp, May 10, has been sup­ plemented to run in the G 1 St James's Palace S. at ©Copyright Thoroughbred Daily News. Royal Ascot next Tuesday, June 16. Victory Note skipped the G1 Irish 2,000 Guineas at The Curragh May This newspaper may not be reproduced in any form or 24 after his owners decided only to be represented by by any means, electronic or mechanical, without prior the eventual third-place finisher Second Empire (Ire) written permission of the copyright owner, Media Vista. (Fairy King). Trainer Peter Chapple-Hyam said, "I wasn't Information as to the races, race results and earnings disappointed to miss the Irish 2,000 Guineas as it gave was obtained from results charts published in Daily us more time to get him ready for this.