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 SATURDAY, MAY 1 7, 199 7 N•E•W•S P•R•E•A•K•N•E•S•S TODAY STAKES Today, Pimlico SALT IT LEAVES "K.D." BLUSHING IN PREAKNESS S.-GI, $500,000, 3yo, 9Yzf BLACK-EYED SUSAN Making her first start in a PP HORSE TRAINER JOCKEY ODDS graded race after running rapidly up the ladder in her 1 a Jack at the Bank Callejas McCauley 50-1 last three, Salt It (Salt Lake) stunned the fans at Pimlico 2 Wild Tempest Zito Bravo 20-1 yesterday afternoon as she led from gate to wire in the 3a Hoxie Callejas Santos 50-1 Gil $200,000 Black-Eyed Susan for her fourth consecu­ 4 Free House Gonzalez Desormeaux 9-2 tive score. But it wasn't the winner's 10-1 odds that 5 Touch Gold Hofmans Mccarron 5-1 caused a collective outcry from the crowd; it was the 6 Concerto Tammaro Ill Smith 1 2-1 fourth-place finish of 1-10 favorite Blushing K.D. (Blush­ 7 Silver Charm Baffert Stevens 9-5 ing John), who suffered only the second loss in her 8 Frisk Me Now Durso King 1 5-1 career. "She was not herself today," said Blushing 9 Captain Bodgit Capuano Solis 2-1 K.D.'s rider, Lonnie Meche. "She didn't seem to have 10 Cryp Too Borosh Lopez 30-1 running on her mind. At about the half-mile pole, I felt All starters carry 126 pounds. she wanted to quit on me. And that's not her." With the The Picks: odds-on choice out of the money, show prices for the BILL FINLEY, New York Daily News top three lit up the tote board--Salt It paid $22.20 to win but $62.40 to show, while runner-up Buckeye (Picked the triple cold in the Derby!) Search (Meadowlake) paid $72.20 to show and Holiday 1--Captain Bodgit (Saint Bailado) - Ready to get his Ball (Black Tie Affair {Ire}) rewarded her backers with a revenge. $95.00 payoff in the show spot. "I was looking for 2--Silver Charm (Silver Buck) - Might have trouble Blushing K.D.," said winning jockey Carlos Marquez Jr. duplicating his outstanding effort in the Derby. "But they let me go so easy, my filly was relaxing down 3--Free House (Smokester) - Third best again. the backside. When I got to the eighth pole, she just took off. I knew they had to run to beat her today." The JAY PRIVMAN, California correspondent for the New winner, an $18,000 two-year-old purchase from last York Times year's Fasig-Tipton Midlantic May sale, will start next in 1--Silver Charm - Big, strong colt still hasn't peaked. the GI Mother Goose at Belmont June 21. (Chart, p2) 2--Touch Gold (Deputy Minister) - Inexperienced, but loved the way he won the Lexington S.; terrific GEORGE STRAWBRIDGE J. NAMED TOBA trainer. "OWNER OF THE MONTH" After sending out 3--Captain Bodgit - Had every chance to get by Silver winners on the flat and over fences, and stakes winners Charm in the Derby and couldn't. in America and Europe, George Strawbridge Jr. has been named the Thoroughbred Owners and Breeders DAVID GREATHOUSE, Bloodstock agent and winner Association "Owner of the Month" for April. His home­ of the TDN Kentucky Derby contest bred Powder Bowl (Pleasant Colony) captured the Gii 1--Free House - Preakness has more pace than the Black Helen H. at Hialeah April 19, while Hidden Derby; good rider, good work and good price. Meadow (GB) (Selkirk) took the European Free H. on 2--Silver Charm - Always tough, will be right there. April 1 6; Strawbridge runners were also placed in stakes 3--Captain Bodgit - Post position hurts. in France and England and at Keeneland, while his stee­ plechase stable boasted two winners during the month. The 59-year-old sportsman, a director of the Campbell's STAKES CLOSINGS Soup Co. and Core States Financial Corp, sits on the TODAY. SATURDAY. MAY 17: executive committee of the National Hockey League's 5-31 $150,000 Acorn-GI, Bel, 3yo, f, Bf Buffalo Sabres. His Augustin Stables is the National ($150) Steeplechase Association's all-time leading money win­ 6-1 $150,000 Sheepshead Bay H-Gll, ner. Strawbridge, who has bred more than 35 stakes Bel, 3yo/up, f/m, 11fT ($150) winners, currently has more than 40 horses in training. • PAGE 2 •THOROUGHBRED DAILY NEWS• 5-17-97 Yesterday, Newbury, England Yesterday, Pimlico JUDDMONTE LOCKINGE S.-G1, $190,550, Newbury, BLACK-EYED SUSAN S.-Gll, $200,000, PIM, 5-16, 3yo, England, 5-16, 4yo/up, 8fT, 1 :40.04, gd/sf. f, 1 1 /8m, 1 :50 2/5, ft. 1--FIRST ISLAND (IRE), 126, h, 5, Dominion (GB)-- 1--@SALT IT, 117, f, 3, Salt Lake--Let It Fly (SW), by Caymana (Fr), by Bellypha (Ire). ($206,993 yrl Hatchet Man. ($7,000 yrl '95 KEESEP; $14,000 2yo '93 GOOC1 ). 0-Mollers Racing; B-Citadel Stud (Ire); 1996 FTMMAY). O/T-Deborah S Bodner; B-Jones T-Geoffrey Wragg; J-M Hills; $117, 126. *GSW-HK. John TL Jr (KY); J-C H Marquez Jr; $120,000. 2--Ali-Royal (Ire}, 1 26, c, 4, Royal Academy--Alidiva Lifetime Record: 5-4-0-1, $182,210. (GB), by Chief Singer (Ire). 0-Greenbay Stables Ltd; 2--Buckeye Search, 122, f, 3, Meadowlake--Pride of B-Charles H Wacker Ill (Ire); $43,666. Darby, by Danzig. 0-Darby Dan Farm; B-Galbreath/ 3--Even Top (Ire), 1 26,c, 4, Topanoora (lre)--Skevena Phillips Racing Partnership (KY); $40,000. (GB), by Niniski. ($4, 775 wnl '93 GODE1; $43,809 3--Holiday Ball, 115, f, 3, Black Tie Affair (lre)--Angelina yrl '94 GOOC1 ). 0-B Schmidt-Bodner; B-M Dwan County, by Rollicking. 0/B-Miller C K (KY); $22,000. (Ire); $20,837. Margins: 4HF, 1 1 /4, 2. Odds: 10.10, 15.30, 18.30. Margins: 1 1 /2, 5, HD. Odds: 2. 75, 9.00, 9.00. Also Ran: Blushing K. D., Truth and Nobility, Also ran: Spinning World, Gothenberg (Ire), Decorated Larkwhistle, Global Star. Hero (GB), Acharne (GB), Bin Rosie (GB), Beauchamp Salt It was beaten a neck in her debut, then reeled off King (GB), Cayman Kai (Ire). three straight, most recently wiring the field in the Scratched: Alhaarth (Ire), Allied Forces. March 23 Wide Country S. by 3 Yz lengths at Laurel. Given a perfect lead in the centre of the track in this Back after a two-month break, the crowd's second straight mile by Ali-Royal (Ire), First Island (Ire) smoothly choice broke alertly to set the pace and then pulled won his second Group One event and his eighth career away in the stretch for her fourth victory in a row and victory and now heads for a choice of engagements at her first in graded company. The 1-1 0 favorite BLUSH­ Royal Ascot next month. The runner-up cruised to the ING K.D. (Blushing John), winner of five consecutive lead a quarter mile out, but he was closely followed by stakes races including the May 2 GI Kentucky Oaks in First Island, who took over a furlong from home and, her previous start, raced just off the early pace on the despite drifting to his left, ran on strongly for a comfort­ inside before being steadied entering the backstretch; able win. The 1996 Irish 2000 Guineas winner Spinning she angled out three-wide around the far turn to reach World, the 9-4 favorite, made some progress at the contention at the top of the stretch but weakened in the eighth pole, but his effort petered out and he was drive to finish fourth. caught on the line for third by Even Top (Ire). First Is­ land, who won the G 1 Sussex S. over a mile at Good­ wood last summer, may stick to a mile for the G2 PREVIE\N Queen Anne S. at Royal Ascot (June 1 7) or attempt to • • win the G2 Prince Of Wales S. over a mile and a quarter Today, Pimlico the same day for the second straight year. Winning DIXIE S.-Gll, $200,000, 3yo/up, 1 1 /8mT trainer Geoffrey Wragg said: "He's so versatile that he is PP HORSE TRAINER JOCKEY ODDS engaged in all the top mile and mile-and-a-quarter races, 1 a Claudius Wolfson Solis 5-2 giving us plenty of options. He's so much better on 2 Ops Smile Boniface Prado 4-1 ground like this, rather than when it's really soft." Spin­ 3a Sharp Appeal Wolfson Santos 5-2 ning World was a great disappointment. Alan Cooper, 4 Defacto McGaughey Smith 5-1 racing manager to the Niarchos family, said: "He ran 5 Brave Note (Ire) Fisher No Rider 1 0-1 flat. He won in France on May 1 and he obviously needs 6 Same Old Wish Barbara No Rider 2-1 more time between his races. He will probably have a 7 Officious Johnson Beckner 1 2-1 break now until the Prix Jacques Le Marois at Deauville 8 Soviet Line (Ire) Mclaughlin Bailey 8-1 in August." Ops Smile (Caveat), sixth over a yielding course in this event last year, is two-for-three over the Pimlico A # will distinguish first-time stakes-winners, a @ will turf.