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~9I~~UN~!!~RE DM M 0 ND A Y, MARCH 3, 199 7 W•E•E•K•E•N•D RESULTS Sunday, Santa Anita Park SOUTH AMERICAN SWEEP IN BIG 'CAP SANTA ANITA H.-GI, $1,000,000, SAX, 3-2, 4yo/up, Trainer Richard Mandella, who saddled Atticus to a 1 1 /4m, 2:00 1 /5, ft. world record-setting performance in the Gii Arcadia H. 1--SIPHON (BRZ), 120, h, 6, ltajara (Brz)--Ebrea (Brz), by Saturday, eclipsed that feat with an astonishing uno­ Kublai Khan (Arg). 0-Rio Claro Thoroughbreds; dos-tres finish in yesterday's GI $1 million Santa B-Haras Sao Jose E Expedictus (Brz); T-Richard Anita H. The trio, all imported from South America, Mandella; J-D R Flores; $600,000. Lifetime Record: was headed by the accomplished Gentlemen (Arg) 21-12-3-2, $1,773,619. (Robin des Bois), a winner of five straight who was 2--Sandpit {Brz), 1 21, h, 8, Baynoun (lre)--Sand Dancer sent off the 8-5 favorite in the field of 11, but it was (Fr), by Green Dancer. 0-Sierra Thoroughbreds; last year's GI Hollywood Gold Cup winner Siphon 8-Haras Sao Jose Da Serra (Brz); $200,000. (Brz) (ltajara {Brz}l who went to the front at the start 3--Gentlemen (Arg), 123, h, 5, Robin des Bois--Elegant and never looked back, coasting to a three-length Glance, by Loose Cannon. 0-Andrea E & Hubbard; score at 3-1 . Gentlemen, who pressed the pace B-Haras de la Pomme (Arg); $120,000. throughout, was edged out for second as turf star and Margins: 3, NO, 1 HF. Odds: 5.10, 8.00, 1. 70. stablemate Sandpit (Brz) (Baynoun {Ire}) closed like a Also Ran: Marlin, Chequer, Formal Gold, Kingdom Found, Just Java, Zanferrier, The Barking Shark, Edi­ flash to get the place by the bob of a head in his very tor's Note. first try on the dirt. "The horses, on form, looked that First in five of his last six starts, including last year's good," said Mandella. "Sandpit we didn't know about. GI Hollywood Gold Cup at this distance, Siphon (Brz) He actually had never run on the dirt before--there ended 1996 with a third in the GI Pacific Classic August was a mistake in the past performances. It's a good 1 O; he returned to take a Santa Anita allowance Janu­ thing I didn't know that three days ago, I might not ary 26. Primed for this performance with a series of have entered him. It's a great bunch of horses--more solid works, the brilliant Brazilian sambaed his way than any one man should have, that's for sure." through fractions of :46 2/5 and 1 : 10, shaking off the Mandella's Latin threesome picked up $920,000 of challenge of his more fancied stablemate Gentlemen the Big 'Cap pot. "What can you say? (South Ameri­ (Arg) at the top of the stretch and dancing away to a can horses) stand up in the best races in the world," decisive score. "This horse gives me a lot of confi­ said the trainer. "A great horse, you don't know dence," said winning rider David Flores. "Gentlemen got where they're going to come from. But as consis­ pretty close at the top of the stretch, but I knew I had a tently as they are coming from South America, we lot of horse left. Gentlemen was trying pretty hard on have to take pretty serious note of it." Siphon takes the inside, but Siphon was just so much horse today." the first leg of the MGM Grand Classic Crown; the Sandpit (Brz), a multiple Grade I winner on the grass, series continues with the GI Hollywood Gold Cup in made his first start on the dirt and finished fastest of all June and the GI Pacific Classic at Del Mar in August. to get second, a nose in front of the favorite. "He han­ dled the dirt well," said his rider, Corey Nakatani. "He GLITTER WOMAN SHARP FOR BONNIE MISS was shaking his head a little bit at first with the dirt Glitter Woman (Glitterman), the top three-year-old filly flying back at him--1 moved him out of it for a little bit in the East after commanding victories in the Giii down the backside, and he was traveling fine." Both Siphon and Gentlemen made the short list for the Dubai Forward Gal and Giii Davona Dale S., worked five World Cup March 29, as had fourth-place finisher MAR­ furlongs in 1 :00 2/5 at Gulfstream yesterday morning. LIN (Sword Dance {Ire}), sixth-placed FORMAL GOLD The Shug McGaughey trainee makes her next start in (Black Tie Affair {Ire}) and 11th-placed EDITOR'S NOTE the Gil Bonnie Miss S. at a mile and a sixteenth (Forty Niner), who was rank early and showed little March 9. "She's been doing good," said McGaughey. while finishing last. Trainer William Perry said he has not "She's had a little more time between her races, so yet canceled the trip for GI Donn H. winner Formal Gold. she's pretty fresh. With as good as she's doing and "I just hope he came back all right," he said. "That's our as well as she likes this racetrack, it will take a pretty main concern. We're going to have to reevaluate going good filly to beat her." to Dubai. It's not ruled out yet." PAGE 2 • THOROUGHBRED DAILY NEWS • 3-3-97 News cont. Sunday, Santa Anita Park HINE: SKIP AWAY WENT 'BERSERK' The morn­ SAN RAFAEL S.-Gll, $201,800, SAX, 3-2, 3yo, 1 m, ing after Skip Away (Skip Trial)'s second-place finish to 1 :36, ft. Mt. Sassafras (Mt. Livermore) in the Gulfstream Park H., 1--#@FUNONTHERUN, 115, c, 3, Runaway Groom-­ trainer Sonny Hine remained baffled about the erratic Alden's Juana, by John Alden. ($14,500 wing '94 behavior he said prevented the three-year-old champion KEENOV; $30,000 yrl '95 OBSAUG; $70,000 2yo from winning the race. "He went berserk and I don't 1996 BESMAR). 0-Alpert D & H; B-Cook Dee Ellen know why," said Hine. "From the time he left the hold­ (KY); T-Melvin F Stute; J-G F Almeida; $121,800. ing barn, he was a mess. Usually, he's very docile. In Lifetime Record: 4-2-0-2, $161,550. the post parade, he was lunging and kicking and un­ 2--lnexcessivelygood, 115, c, 3, In Excess (lre)--Sable controllable." Hine said the colt failed to settle down Decor, by High Counsel. 0-Pegram Mike; B-Romi during the race, and was difficult to cool out after­ Stables (CA); $40,000. wards. "When he ran, he ran himself out. I don't know 3--Hello (Ire}, 121, c, 3, Lycius--ltqan, by Sadler's Wells. what happened to him. It's very uncharacteristic. He 0-Kirkwood Al & Sandee; B-Romi Stables (IRE); had the race at his mercy. All he had to do was run his $24,000. race, but he was just uncontrollable and wouldn't get Margins: 3/4, 1 1 /4, 2 3/4. Odds: 8.00, 13.00, 1.50. off the bit and relax. It took us two hours to cool him Also Ran: Bagshot, Swiss Yodeler, Daylight in Dubai, out." Hine said that Skip Away appeared fine yesterday Wild Rush, Celtic Warrior, Alamocitos, Master Marshal. morning, and would still be pointed next for the April 5 Scratched: Carmen's Baby, Steel Ruhlr. GI Oaklawn Park H. Funontherun trounced maidens with an 11-length romp two starts back, then set the pace before tiring to WILLIE CARSON RETIRES Jockey Willie Carson, third in his stakes debut, the Giii San Vicente S., in his five-time British champion and winner of four Epsom latest. Stretching it out to a mile for the first time here, Derbys, has announced his retirement. The 54-year-old the free-running three-year-old once again took the lead Scottish-born rider suffered life-threatening liver damage at the break; he was hooked by lnexcessivelygood at when kicked in the stomach before a two-year-old race the quarter pole but fought back to take a determined at Newbury last autumn and has been sidelined ever victory. The colt, who has been put on the vet's list since. He had been working hard in the gym to get after every start, appeared sore once again after the himself fit enough to partner Bahhare (Woodman), rated race, but trainer Mel Stute said, "It's a thing we just second among the European juveniles of 1996, in the can't seem to find. We've had him nuclear scanned, 2000 Guineas at Newmarket May 3. But, after aggra­ four sets of X-rays, and we can't seem to find anything. vating an old back injury, Carson decided Saturday night He just walks bad after his races. Hopefully, he's like to end a successful career stretching over 35 years. 11 I one of those athletes who, when they're done playing, am getting old and my body won't do what it used to," hurt all over--and then they come back. So far, he has." said Carson. "The old bones and muscles are just not as If he bounces back from this effort, the Kentucky-bred supple as they used to be.