TWICE THE VICE FACES SERENA'S SONG IN VANITY.Byline: Daily News Staff and Wire Services The best matchup in the six stakes races at Hollywood Park Hollywood Park may be several places:
The 1-1/8-mile race for a $250,000 purse will be the rubber game between D. Wayne Lukas-trained Serena's Song, who won the Feb. 17 Santa Maria Handicap The Santa Maria Handicap is a race for thoroughbred horses run each year at Santa Anita Park. A Grade I event, it is set at a distance of one and one-sixteenth miles on the dirt. The Santa Maria is open to fillies and mares age three and up and offers a purse of $250,000. at Santa Anita Santa Anita may refer to:
of Arkansas and Michigan. [Flower Symbolism: Golenpaul, 626] See : Flower, State at Oaklawn Park in Arkansas. ``Serena's Song and Twice the Vice are the top two, and with Jewel Princess in there, this will be probably the three best distaffers in the country,'' Ellis said. ``She (Serena's Song) beat us early in the year. But my mare has improved considerably since then. ``I don't think you've seen her absolute best this year,'' Ellis said. ``I think you'll see that this weekend.'' Twice the Vice, a 5-year-old mare owned by Martin and Pam Wygod, has lost only to Serena's Song this year and enters the Vanity off wins in the Santa Margarita, Apple Blossom and the June 23 Milady at Hollywood Park. The Milady put the daughter of Vice Regent over $1 million in career earnings. Ellis said he considered skipping the Vanity in favor of the Aug. 3 Ramona Handicap on the Del Mar turf to give Twice the Vice a shot at Grade I victories on dirt and grass this year. ``But Marty (Wygod) didn't want to give the impression we are ducking Serena's Song, and I don't either,'' the trainer said. Jerry Bailey will ride Serena's Song, who was assigned 125 pounds. Chris McCarron is the regular partner of Twice the Vice, carrying 122. Others expected to be entered this morning: Jewel Princess, Corey Nakatani, 120; Borodislew, Eddie Delahoussaye, 117; Top Rung, David Flores Flores, town, Guatemala Flores (flōrəs), town (1990 est. pop. 2,200), capital of Petén department, N Guatemala. Flores was built on an island in the southern part of Lake Petén Itzá and on the site of the , 115, and Real Connection, rider to be named, 112. Horses and post positions will be announced today for these Sunday stakes as well: the Caesars Palace Turf Championship, the Swaps Stakes, the Hollywood Juvenile Championship, the Answer Do Stakes and the Khaled Stakes. Positive numbers: A Japanese computer executive bought a son of Storm Cat out of Alpargata for $1.7 million during the final session of the Keeneland July Selected Yearling yearling an animal in its second year of age, e.g. yearling cattle, yearling filly, yearling colt. yearling disease rinderpest in wildebeeste in the Serengheti. Sale in Lexington, Ky. The purchase Tuesday night by Fusao Sekiguchi highlighted the two-day sale in which gross and averages were both significantly higher than those at the 1995 auction. John Ward, a Lexington horseman who represented Sekiguchi, said the colt will race in Japan. Three other yearlings sold for more than $1 million at the session, two of them purchased on behalf of Europeans John Magnier and Michael Tabor, who plan to send them to trainer D. Wayne Lukas Darrell Wayne Lukas (born September 2, 1935 in Antigo, Wisconsin) is a former educator who became one of the most successful horse trainers in American Thoroughbred horse racing history and a U.S. Racing Hall of Fame inductee. . Those two purchases were $1.5 million for a colt by A.P. Indy from Danzig Island and $1.05 million for a colt by Seeking the Gold Seeking The Gold (foaled 1985 in Kentucky) is an American thoroughbred Stallion racehorse. He was sired by the leading stud, Mr. Prospector, who in turn was a son of Raise a Native, out of the mare, Con Game. from Chimes of Freedom. Lukas trained 1995 Kentucky Derby and Belmont Stakes winner Thunder Gulch for Tabor. In all, 167 yearlings sold for $58,430,000, an average of $349,880. Compared to 1995, the gross amount was 25.8 percent higher and the average was 41.6 percent higher. Comeback: Maria's Mon, the nation's champion 2-year-old of 1995, finished second in a seven-horse field in his return to competition at Belmont Park in New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of . The colt, fully recovered from a broken bone in his left foreleg suffered while training for his Breeders' Cup engagement last year, raced creditably though the result disappointed bettors who made him an odds-on choice. He raced within easy striking distance of the leaders to the stretch, but was outfinished by May I Inquire, who went on to score by 3-1/4 lengths in the 6-1/2-furlong allowance race. The race was a tuneup for the Aug. 4 Jim Dandy and Aug. 24 Travers Stakes at Saratoga. |
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