BOSTON TRACK BRACES FOR ARRIVAL OF CIGAR.Byline: Daily News Staff and Wire Services Cigar will receive a welcome fit for the king of thoroughbreds when he travels from Belmont Park to Suffolk Downs for Saturday's Massachusetts Handicap. The Boston-area track has arranged for the 1995 Horse of the Year to have a police escort for the 85-mile van ride from the Connecticut border on Friday. Despite being assigned a career-high 130 pounds for the 1-1/8-mile race, Cigar is expected to be a 1-9 favorite to repeat his '95 Mass Cap victory and extend his winning streak to 15, one short of Citation's North American North American named after North America. North American blastomycosis see North American blastomycosis. North American cattle tick see boophilusannulatus. record. Cigar, ridden by Jerry Bailey, will give away 19 to 22 pounds to five opponents: Personal Merit, 111 pounds; Will to Reign, Prolanzier and Northern Ensign, 109 each; and Hogan's Goat, 108. The race will be simulcast to Hollywood Park at 1:40 p.m. Of the $250,000 purse, $150,000 will go to the winner, and Cigar is the only horse eligible for the $250,000 bonus that goes to any horse with three Grade I victories since January '95 who wins the Mass Cap. The $400,000 would boost Cigar's career earnings to $8,069,815, $2.4 million of it from winning the March 27 Dubai World Cup The Dubai World Cup is a Thoroughbred horse race held annually since 1996 at the Nad Al Sheba Racecourse in the city of Dubai, United Arab Emirates. The race is operated through the Emirates Horse Racing Authority (EHRA) whose Chairman is Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan, . He already is the only North American-based horse to top $7 million. Stevens still out: Gary Stevens, who hasn't raced since Friday because of problems related to his divorce, is scheduled to ride Serena's Song in Saturday's Fleur de Lis Handicap The Fleur De Lis Handicap is a race for Thoroughbred race horses run at Churchill Downs each year. The race is open to filles and mares, age three and up, willing to race one and one-eighth miles on the dirt. This Grade II event carries a purse of $321,900. at Churchill Downs, and return to action at Hollypark next Wednesday, agent Ron Anderson said. Helmsman set: Helmsman's trainer decided to point the turf and dirt star for a meeting with Cigar in the June 30 Hollywood Gold Cup The Hollywood Gold Cup is a Grade I stakes race for thoroughbred horses inaugurated in 1938 at Hollywood Park Racetrack in Inglewood, California. It was run as a handicap race until 1997 when it was switched to weight-for-age conditions. . The 4-year-old will prep in The Californian on Sunday. ``Helmsman is better on dirt than he is on turf,'' Wally Dollase said. ``But not by much.'' Others expected for the 1-1/8-mile Californian: Mr Purple, Del Mar Dennis, Siphon siphon (sī`fən, –fŏn), tube through which a liquid is lifted over an elevation by the pressure of the atmosphere and is then emptied at a lower level. , Tinners Way and possibly Score Quick. No. 1, for once: Despite a narrow defeat in the Kentucky Derby and a fourth in the Preakness, Cavonnier led this week's rankings of the nation's 3-year-olds. Preakness winner Louis Quatorze, Unbridled's Song and Derby winner Grindstone grindstone or grind common metaphor for industriousness. [Pop. Culture: Misc.] See : Industriousness followed Cavonnier in the Thoroughbred Racing Communications poll of racing reporters. Unbridled's Song was No. 1 before his defeat in the Peter Pan on Sunday. Cavonnier, a California-bred gelding gelding castrated male horse. and the Santa Anita Derby The Santa Anita Derby is an American Grade 1 thoroughbred horse race for three-year-olds run each April at Santa Anita Park in Arcadia, California and carries a purse of $750,000. winner, may run next in the June 8 Belmont Stakes. |
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