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Chavez finally puts something into Cup
Will be UPDATED after Classic
By ED SCHUYLER JR.
AP Racing Writer
HALLANDALE, Fla. (AP) Jorge Chavez poured two wins into what had been an
empty Breeders' Cup at Gulfstream Park on Saturday.
After going 0-for-19 in his previous Cup rides, Chavez opened the program by
guiding Beautiful Pleasure to a front-running victory in the Distaff as trainer
Bob Baffert's favored Silverbulletday lost a second straight race for the first
time in her career.
Chavez's second win came when Artax won the six-furlong Sprint, equaling a
Gulfstream Park track record of 1:07 4-5.
"I'm living the American Dream right now," said the 37-year-old Chavez, a
native of Peru, who finished last on Quiet Resolve in the Mile on the grass.
His only other mount was on Behrens in the $4 million Classic, the eighth and
final Breeders' Cup race of the day.
Jerry Bailey boosted his number of winning Breeders' Cup rides to nine with
Cash Run in the Juvenile Fillies and Soaring Softly in the Filly & Mare Turf.
Baffert's other two favorites also lost.
Chilukki, lost for the first time in her seven-race career when she finished
second 1 1-4 lengths behind the D. Wayne Lukas-trained Cash Run. The winner
paid $67, a Juvenile Fillies record.
Forest Camp took the lead entering the final turn, but faded and finished
sixth in the Juvenile won by Anees, who paid $62.60, also the biggest price
ever for a Juvenile winner. The winner was clocked at 1:42 1-5 over 1 1-16
miles and was trained by Alex Hassinger Jr., a nephew of John Gaines, a creator
of the Breeders' Cup.
Baffert got another second when Tuzla, a 13-1 shot finished a neck behind
Silic in the Mile on the grass.
Beautiful Pleasure ($8) clinched the older filly and mare championship by
beating Banshee Breeze by 3 lengths in the 1 1-8-mile Distaff in 1:47 2-5 for
her third straight win. Heritage of Gold was third.
Banshee Breeze needed to be hosed down after the race when she suffered what
trainer Carl Nafzger called a slight heat stroke. Nafzger said she was OK after
she got back to her barn.
Silverbulletday, ridden by Bailey, who had clinched the 3-year-old filly
title, was second with three-eighths-mile remaining, then faded.
Cash Run, was considered the weaker of Lukas' two starters in the Juvenile
Fillies. The triumph was the 14th in Cup races and the fourth in the Juvenile
Fillies for Lukas.
Cash Run completed the 1 1-16-mile in 1:43 1-5 in beating Chilukki, who
finished a half-length ahead of the Lukas-trained Surfside.
Anees, ridden by Gary Stevens, was far back on the final turn, but came
flying down the stretch to pass Chief Seattle and High Yield, He beat Chief
Seattle by 2 1-2 lengths, with High Yield another three-quarters lengths back.
Asked if Anees would now be the Kentucky Derby favorite, the
California-based colt's owner, Prince Ahmed Salman of Saudi Arabia, said:
"Absolutely."
Artax ($9.40) took the lead on the turn and held off Kona Gold by a
half-length, with Big Jag another length back in the Sprint.
The Mile was a real cavalry charge, with the first five finishers bunched
within a length. Silic ($16.40), ridden by Corey Nakatani, was four wide
entering the stretch, then charged into the lead inside the sixteenth pole and
beat Tuzla by a neck. Docksider was another head back.
Silic is a French-bred colt, trained by Julio Canari, a native of Peru based
in California, and has been racing in the United States since last November.
Soaring Softly ($9.20), trained by Jimmy Toner, who lost three horses in a
barn fire at Belmont Park in June, took the lead from Coretta nearing the wire
and beat her by three-quarters. Zomaradah was another head back.
"It's been a trying year, but today makes it all worthwhile," Toner said.
"She's kept us going. Thank God for her."
The Associated Press News Service Copyright 1999 The information contained in the AP News report may not be published, broadcast or redistributed without prior written authority of The Associated Press.
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