TWO TOP HORSES ARE RETIRED : NORTHERN SPUR, AFTERNOON DEELITES HAVE INJURIES.Byline: Kevin Modesti Daily News Staff Writer Northern Spur Northern Spur (foaled 1991 in Ireland) was a Thoroughbred racehorse who raced in France and the United States. Bred at Robert Sangster's Swettenham Stud in Swettenham, Cheshire, England, he was a son of the champion sire Sadler's Wells and out of the mare, Fruition. , the 1995 national turf champion, and Afternoon Deelites, the winter-book favorite for the '95 Kentucky Derby, have been retired with injuries, their trainers said. Afternoon Deelites was scratched from the Triple Bend Breeders' Cup Handicap, a sprint on Sunday's 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. undercard un·der·card n. The event or events coming before and supporting the main event, as of boxing matches. , with what a Monday-morning ultrasound exam found to be a slight tear of the tendon in his right foreleg. A tendon tear in the other foreleg, sustained when Afternoon Deelites finished eighth in the Derby, had sidelined him for 7-1/2 months. He won a pair of sprints this year and retired with seven victories in 12 starts and $1,061,193 in earnings for his breeder and owner, composer Burt Bacharach. His biggest win came in the '94 Hollywood Futurity. The son of Private Terms and Intimate Girl won his first five races, all with Kent Desormeaux riding, before Larry the Legend headed him in 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. . ``I really think he was the fastest horse in the country this year or any of the last few years,'' trainer Richard Mandella said when he discussed Afternoon Deelites' injury after Mandella-trained 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. won the $1 million Hollywood Gold Cup on Sunday. ``I was really looking forward to running him in the Breeders' Cup Sprint The Breeders' Cup Sprint is an American Weight for Age Grade I Thoroughbred horse race for three year olds & up. Run on dirt over a distance of 6 Furlongs (3/4 mile), the race has been held annually since 1984 at a different racetrack in the United States or Canada as part of the (Oct. 26 at Woodbine woodbine, name for several vines, among them honeysuckle and Virginia creeper. woodbine Any of many species of vines belonging to various flowering-plant families, especially the Virginia creeper (Parthenocissus quinquefolia, family Vitaceae) of ).'' Under a syndication deal announced while his '95 comeback was uncertain, Afternoon Deelites will go to stud at Airdrie Stud, former Kentucky Gov. Brereton Jones' farm in Midway, Ky. Breeding plans for Northern Spur have not been announced. The 5-year-old son of Sadler's Wells came out of a third-place finish to Sandpit in the Caesars International Handicap at Atlantic City on June 22 with a slab fracture and a crack in his right knee. Owned by Oaklawn Park chairman Charles Cella, Northern Spur was bred in Ireland and began his career in France before winning the '95 Oak Tree Invitational at Santa Anita and the Breeders' Cup Turf The Breeders' Cup Turf is a Weight for Age Thoroughbred horse race on turf for three-year-olds and up. It is held annually at a different racetrack in the United States or Canada as part of the Breeders' Cup. The race's current title sponsor is John Deere. at Belmont Park - for jockey Chris McCarron and trainer Ron McAnally - in his third and fourth U.S. starts. He was voted the Eclipse Award winner among turf horses. He earned $1,616,792 from 15 starts and six victories. Hollywood Park racing resumes today at 1 p.m. In the third, Exotic Wood, the 4-year-old filly whose only defeat in seven starts came against Serena's Song in the Santa Monica, makes her first two-turn attempt in a 1 1/16-mile allowance event. CAPTION(S): Photo Photo: Afternoon Deelites has been retired to stud in Kentu cky because of a slight tendon tear in his right foreleg. He had seven career victories. Daily News File Photo |
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