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 IJ MONDAY, NOVEMBER 28, W•E•E•K•E•N•D RESULTS JAPAN CUP GOES TO HOME TEAM The Sunday, Hollywood MATRIARCH S.-GI, $400,000, HOL, 11-27, 3yo/up, Japanese-based Marvelous Crown (Miswaki) f/m, 9fT, 1 :49 2/5, gd. outbattled Paradise Creek (Irish River {Fr}) in the 1--EXCHANGE, 123, m, 6, Explodent--Wooly Willow, stretch run of yesterday's Japan Cup to win the by Irish Stronghold. ($50,000 wnl '88 KING HA). world's richest race by a nose over his American rival. 0-Sidney H. Craig; B-Kinghaven Farms Ltd. (Ont-C); In the process, the four-year-old gave Japan its third T-Bill Spawr; J-L Pincay Jr.; $220,000. Lifetime straight victory in the race, which is worth about Record: 28-14-7-3, $1,149,950. *1/2 to Lone Pine $4.03 million, and earned about $1.74 million. It was (Apalachee), 17 wins, $259,475. another 1 1 /4 lengths back to third-place finisher 2--Aube lndienne (Fr), 123, f, 4, Bluebird--Salvora, by Royce and Royce (Tony Bin), also Japanese based. Spectacular Bid. 0-Frankfurt Stable; B-Stavros France's Hernando (Niniski) was fourth, ahead of the Niarchos; $80,000. U.S. entrant Sandpit (Baynoun {Ire}), who led as the 3--Wandesta (GB), 120, f, 3, Nashwan--De Stael, by field turned for home but was squeezed between *Nijinsky II. O/B-Juddmonte Farms (GB); $60,000. Royce and Royce and Paradise Creek in the stretch. Margins: HD, 1/2, 1 1/4. Odds: 3.10, 4.30, 10.60. Due to the incident, Pat Day, aboard Paradise Creek, Also ran: Zoonaqua, Corrazona, Fondly Remembered, was fined $309 and Royce and Royce's rider, Norihiro Alywow, Las Meninas (Ire). Ser: Skimble. Yokoyama, was fined $103. Grand Flotilla (Caro Bouncing back from a seventh-place finish in the {Ire}), a seven-year-old half-brother to the winner, Breeders' Cup Distaff, Exchange returned to the turf finished eighth. Marvelous Crown sat behind the for the first time since finishing off the board in the GI leaders to the stretch, then rallied past Sandpit and Gamely H. in May, '93. Made the second choice in Johann Quatz (Sadler's Wells) (12th), but still had to the eight-horse field, racing's newest millionaire run down Paradise Creek. "I was not sure if I had moved to the lead soon after the break, going head­ won until I saw the toteboard," said winning rider and-head with ZOONAQUA (Silver Hawk) to the top Katsumi Minai. A two-time stakes winner in Japan, of the lane, then digging down deep to best Aube Marvelous Crown is out of Maurita (NZ) (Harbor lndienne at the wire. "Maybe she isn't a champion, Prince), a GISW in New Zealand. The final time for but she's right next to 'em," said winning trainer Bill the 1 1 /2 miles was 2:23.60 and the crowd at Tokyo Spawr, who claimed the mare from her second career Race Course was 165,930. start for $50,000. "This is my biggest win, and my most satisfying." Said jockey Laffit Pincay Jr., "She CHURCHILL DOWNS FALL MEET POSTS hopped leaving the gate ... I was a little worried be­ RECORD NUMBERS The 1994 Fall Meet at Chur­ cause I thought I was going to make an easy lead. I chill Downs, which ended Saturday, was the most had to rush her a little to make the lead; then she was successful in the track's 105 years of autumn racing. able to relax. I just tried to save her for the last part. Total wagering on Churchill races, including on-track, (Aube lndienne) headed me, but my mare responded. Kentucky ITW/OTB and out-of-state, was up 55 per­ She wanted to win this race." Favored ALYWOW cent over 1993; the handle was buoyed by an impres­ (Alysheba) raced closer to the pace than usual but sive 438 percent increase in inter-state simulcasting had no response in the drive, finishing seventh. and the track's third hosting of the Breeders' Cup. On-track handle, up 1 7 percent, and on-track atten­ dance, which rose seven percent, were also strong for the meet. A record $314,397 per day in over­ WEEKEND RESULTS ........ p1 night purses was paid out during the meet, placing Churchill behind only NYRA and Southern California in NEWS CONT. ........... p2 purse distribution. "Our goal is to be the nuf!lber one racing center in North America," said Churchill Downs RACING REPORTS ........ p2-4 President and CEO Thomas H. Meeker. News cont. p2 PAGE 2 •THOROUGHBRED DAILY NEWS• 11-28-94 News cont. EVERETT NOV ACK NAMED OCTOBER "OWNER OF THE MONTH" The "Owner of the BREEDER JOHN SIKURA KILLED IN CAR Month" award, sponsored by Gainsborough Farm, FIRE A brief police statement issued Sunday con­ honors Everett Novak for October. Novack's New firmed that John Sikura, 60, owner of Hill 'n' Dale Farm had 13 starters at the Meadowlands during the Farms and involved in horse racing for 35 years, died month, posting six wins, two seconds and two thirds accidentally in a car fire at his 50-acre property north with earnings of just under $400,000; his Conveyor of Toronto Friday evening. Sikura was alone in his was the longshot winner of the GI Meadowlands Cup car when it apparently exploded. Police treated it as October 14. In addition, New Farm's Meritocrat a "suspicious" death at first, but foul play has now captured the Gii Boojum H. at Belmont October 9 for been ruled out. Sikura, who also owned a farm in his fifth consecutive victory. Raised in Cherry Hill, Lexington, bred Canadian champion Driving Home, New Jersey, Novack worked at Garden State Race winner of the 1980 Queen's Plate, and GSW Rahy. Track while in high school. He purchased New Farm Born in Czechoslovakia, Sikura arrived in Canada with in Marlton, New Jersey in 1987. Novack and his wife his family at 16, working as a laborer, an automobile of 37 years, Nancy, who is active in the daily opera­ salesman and a real estate salesman before starting tions of New Farm, currently have 31 horses in train­ his own real estate business. He leaves five children. ing with Ben Perkins Sr., and 10 yearlings. TATTERSALLS DECEMBER YEARLING SALE SHOWS GAINS Both the average and the gross showed major increases at the Tattersalls December Yearling Sales, held last Tuesday and Wednesday. A total of 1 77 yearlings were sold during the two-day auction, bringing in 1,937, 150 guineas; that figure Local News: Saratoga Springs was up 10 percent over '93 when 201 hips sold for Margo B. Olson has joined the staff of the National 1, 764,200 guineas. The '94 average, 10,944 guin­ Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame in Saratoga eas, posted a gain of 25 percent over the average of Springs as Curator of Education. A graduate of the 8, 777 guineas in '93. The sales topper was a bay State University of New York at Binghampton and a filly by Sadler's Wells--Ridge The Times, by Riva fomer National Park Service Ranger, Olson settled in Ridge; consigned as property of lslanmore Stud, Ire­ the Albany region after completing her Masters in land, the 1 /2 to top Irish two-year-old Pharaoh's De­ education at SUNY-Albany. She had worked for eight light, winner of this year's GI Heinz "57" Phoenix S., years as Director of Education at the Junior Museum attracted a bid of 1 25 ,000 guineas from G. Gordon­ in Troy, New York. Watson Bloodstock. Yesterday's Results: TATTERSALLS DECEMBER FOALS SALE PERPETUATE S., $53,800, AOU, 11-27, 2yo, 6f, RESULTS A total of 539 weanlings were sold during 1 : 11 1 /5' ft. the three sessions of the 1994 Tattersalls December 1--LORD CARSON, 122, c, 2, Carson City--Bedgay's Foals Sales which ended Saturday. The gross for the Lady, by Lord Gaylord. O/B-Reynolds David P (KY); sale was 7, 118, 110 guineas, down fractionally from T-D Wayne Lukas; J-J R Velazquez; $32,280. Life­ last year when 51 2 lots went for 7, 1 55,970 guineas. time Record: 6-3-1-0, $83,008. The '94 average of 13,206 guineas was down five 2--lnvestor, 114, c, 2, Seeking the Gold--Arabian percent from the average of 13,977 guineas a year Miss, by Damascus. 0-Phipps Ogden Mills. ago. A weanling colt by Sadler's Wells--Amorique $11,836. (Ire), by Top Ville (Ire) brought the highest bid at the 3--Merciful Judge, 114, c, 2, Easy Goer--Fair to All, sale; consigned by West Blagdon, the bay, first foal of by Al Nasr (Fr). ($105,000 yrl '93 KEEJUL). a daughter of Irish 1000 Guineas winner Arctique 0-Condren William & Cornacchia Joseph. $6,456. Royale, was sold for 160,000 guineas to German Margins: 1 1 /4, 8, 1. Odds: 2.20, 0.60, 15.20. International Bloodstock. "The rise in average at the Lord Carson set the pace but tired to be fifth as the December Yearling Sale has been followed by a good 9-5 choice in the Giii Iroquois S. at Churchill Downs foal trade," said Tattersalls Sale Chairman Edmond going a mile last time out.