N•E•W•S W•E•E•K•E•N•D TODAY RESULTS TIME LIMIT SPOILS "CORONADO'S" Satu1rday, Gulfstream Park HUTCHESON S.-Gll, $100,000, GPX, 1-31, 3yo, 7f, QUEST IN HUTCHESON Helped perhaps when 1 :2.2 2/5, ft. 4-5 Coronado's Quest (Forty Niner) threw a tantrum in 1--TIME LIMIT, 119, g, 3, Gilded Time--Savanna Anna, the paddock and post parade, second choice Time Limit by Vice Regent. ($160,000 wing '95 KEENOV). (Gilded Time) outfinished the favorite to win Saturday's ()-Overbrook Farm; B-Vinery & John R Gaines (KY); Gii Hutcheson S. at Gulfstream Park by a neck. "He's a T-D Wayne Lukas; J-J D Bailey; $60,000. Lifetime very, very good sprinter," said winning rider Jerry Record: 10-5-4-0, $335,379. * 1 /2 to Miss Indy Anna Bailey. "The question is whether he can go long or not." (Apalachee), MGSW & GISP, $349, 175. Time Limit, winner of the six-furlong Giii Spectacular Bid 2--Coronado's Quest, 122, c, 3, Forty Niner--Laughing S. over this track last time out, settled in third as Zippy Look, by Damascus. O/B-Janney Stuart S 111 (KY); Zeal (Unreal Zeal) cut out fractions of :22.33 and $20,000. :44.90. With the crowd's choice boxed in along the rail, 3--Zippy Zeal, 114, c, 3, Unreal Zeal--Shift Surprise, by the gelding made his move from the outside at the top Night Shift. ($59,000 2yo 1997 OBSFEB). 0-Stud of the stretch, opened up his advantage at the eighth Evelani; B-De Hechavarria Luis (FL); $11,000. pole and just held on over the fast-closing Coronado's Margins: NK, 4 1 /4, 8. Odds: 1.60, 0.80, 8.80. Quest. The runner-up, five-for-six at two, showed tem­ Also Ran: Red Wraith, Voyamerican. perament as well as talent during his juvenile campaign Scratched: One Way Love. but had settled down and was all gentleman before his Time Limit, runner-up in the Nov. 29 G 111 Kentucky five-length victory Gil Remsen S. at Aqueduct in his Jockey Club S. at 1 1 /16 miles in his final 1997 start, 1 997 finale. But making his three-year-old debut, the successfully turned back to a sprint with a 5 1 /4- cantankerous colt was fractious in the paddock, refused length tally in the Jan. 4 Giii Spectacular Bid S. at to be mounted by jockey Mike Smith, and broke away Gulfstream in his previous trip to the post. The winner from his lead pony when Smith finally got a leg up once was never far from the lead while racing on the outside on the track. Smith got him under control and back to down the backside, went after pacesetting Zippy Zeal his pony, and after the race blamed his ride more than approaching the stretch, ducked in slightly_ after getting the bad behavior on the chestnut's narrow loss. "I'll to the front near the final furlong and dug 1n late to take the credit," he said. "I got him beat. I think so--1 hold off favored Coronado's Quest at the wire. Said know so. If I would have let him (go up with the lead­ winning jockey Jerry Bailey, "(Coronado's Quest) di?­ ers), I'd have been fine. But I didn't want three of us n't have a very good post (#3). He got stuck down 1n going head-to-head and setting it up for Time Limit ... so I there. I had the dream post (#6). I had the time to get decided to ease back. When that happened, they a free run and Mike (Smith) had to shuffle back. It backed up in my face." Once in the clear, Coronado's probably didn't help him." Added trainer D. vyayne Quest came running and just missed. "I'm disappointed Lukas of the winner, "He's a very relaxed, laid-back in two things," said trainer Shug McGaughey. "He didn't horse. This was a nice progression. He's had two good win, and especially the way he acted. We had ~chooled him and he acted perfect. I don't know why this hap­ races where he has relaxed. I think he'll stretch out pened today." The colt will have the chance to redeem better now." As for the future, Lukas said, "I've got himself in the Gii Fountain of Youth S. February 21, but Cape Town pointed to the Fountain of Youth (February Time Limit may skip the race as stablemate Cape Town 21). I don't know where we'll take (Time Limit)." The takes up the Triple Crown chase. odds-on choice in his three-year-old bow, Coronado's News cont. p2 Quest, who acted up in the post parade, raced just off the pace while caught behind horses down the back­ LU WEEKEND RESULTS ........... p1-2 strntch, was eased back around the far turn to move 0 WEEKEND PREVIEW . p2 to the outside and finished well but could not get by NEWS CONTINUED . p2 Time Limit in the drive. Runaway winner of the mile­ Cl)- RACING REPORTS ............ p3-7 and-an-eighth Gii Remsen in his lone two-turn try, he will stretch out for his next start in the mile-and-a­ z TOTAL PAGES ................. 9 sixteenth Gii Fountain of Youth. PAGE 2 •THOROUGHBRED DAILY NEWS• 2-1-98 News cont. Weekend Results cont. LIL'S LAD ROMPS AGAIN Opting to stretch out to Saturday, Santa Anita two turns rather than take on Grade II company in the PALOS VERDES H.-Gll, $200,000, SAX, 1-31, 4yolup, seven-furlong Hutcheson S., three-year-old sensation 6f, 1 :OB 4/5, ft. Lil's Lad (Pine Bluff) overwhelmed a field of allowance 1--FUNONTHERUN, 113, c, 4, Runaway Groom--Alden's foes with a 6 1 /4-length victory in yesterday's ninth Juana, by John Alden. ($14,500 wing '94 KEENOV; race at Gulfstream Park. Sent off the 1-5 favorite in $30,000 yrl '95 OBSAUG; $70,000 2yo 1996 the mile-and-a-sixteenth test, the colt dragged jockey BESMAR). 0-Alpert David & Herb; B-Cook Dee Ellen Jerry Bailey to the lead right out of the gate and had (KY); T-Melvin F Stute; J-G F Almeida; $120,000. seven lengths on the field after a half despite fanning Lifetime Record: 7-3-0-2, $293,550. wide around the first turn. With the result never in 2--Red, 116, c, 4, Siyah Kalem--Satan's Pride, by doubt, Bailey barely moved his hands as the pair Crimson Satan. ($26,000 yrl '95 CALAUG). 0-Finley coasted to an easy decision. "Kristi (Chapman, aboard .Jack L; B-Bachman Thomas W (CA); $40,000. Kin of Fire, who finished fourth after pressing the 3-.. Elmhurst, 119, h, 8, Wild Again--Mimbet, by Raise a pace) was chirping to her horse to get him going. My l\Jative. ($100,000 yrl '91 KEEJAN). 0-Evergreen horse heard it and took off on his own. He went very Farm & Sahadi; B-Calumet Farm (KY); $24,000. fast early," said Bailey. "I would have liked to go a Margins: HF, HF, NO. Odds: 13. 70, 5.90, 1.20. little slower, but considering what happened ... ! kind Also Ran: Paying Dues, Venus Genus, The Exeter Man, of expected it. He galloped out real good. I think I had Larry the Legend, Trafalger, Swiss Yodeler. something left with him." Trainer Neil Howard said his Scratched: Big Find, Scurry Home, Tower Full. colt, who has won his last two by a combined 22 3/4 After a promising start to his career which saw him lengths, would go next in the Gii Fountain of Youth S. run third behind Silver Charm and Free House in last February 21 . year's Giii San Vicente S. and win the Gii San Rafael, Funontherun had no fun at all in his next two starts. Eased behind a spill in the Gii Jim Beam S. in March, PREVIEW he came back as the favorite in the Giii California • • Derby and was eased again after pressing the pace in Today, Gulfstream Park what was his turf debut. On the sidelines since that SABIN H.-Glll, $75,000, 3yo/up, f/m, 1 m 70yd, post April 19 outing, the grey had worked sharply for his time 4:43 p.m. EST return and was fit despite the layoff, setting all the The field, in post position order, will be: Cotton pace and outfinishing Red in the drive to the wire for Carnival (Dixieland Band), Smith, 11 6; Radiant Megan the victory. "I tried him in (the California Derby) and (Commadore C.), Krone, 113; Escena (Strawberry he just didn't run at all," said trainer Mel Stute. "He Road {Aus}), Bailey, 119; Biding Time (Seeking the made the vet's list that day. I said to (owner Herb Gold), Davis, 111; Velvet Panther (Pentaquod), Alpert) that we really can't find anything wrong with Santos, 112; Montecito (Seeking the Gold), Sellers, him. He's always been a very bad going horse. I sent 113; Tomisue's Indy (A.P. Indy), Day, 116; Relic him out to the farm, and flew in a vet who ended up Rhythm (Prospector's Halo), Boulanger, 117. operating on him. He found chips, so we took the chips out of both knees. He still travels the same way ... that's just the kind of horse he is.