HOLLYWOOD PARK STABLE NOTES

Monday, June 12, 1995

By Vince Bruun & Ed Golden

INDA TO TRAIN FOR 505 FARMS

Eduardo Inda, who helped develop champions such as John Henry, Bayakoa and Paseana

as an assistant to Ron McAnally for more than 20 years, is leaving the Hall of Fame conditioner to become head trainer for Marshall Naify's 505 Farms.

"I expect to start for Mr. Naify in a week to 10 days," said Inda, 52, who has been with

McAnally "about 23 or 24 years."

Inda will initiate his replacement, Dan Landers, a brother-in-law of agent Scott

McClellan, during his final days with McAnally. Landers formerly worked for trainer Jay Robbins.

Inda will take over a string of "25 to 30" horses for Naify, who will retain trainer John

Shirreffs to work with him.

Inda had nothing but praise for his lengthy tenure with McAnally, 62, who was inducted

into the Hall of Fame in 1990 along with John Henry, the 1981 and 1984 Horse of the Year, which he trained.

"He's been a real good man to work for," Inda said of McAnally. "I can't say enough

about him. He's a good horseman and I learned a lot from him. He knows how to put horses in the right spots, and that's very important in this business.

"It's been super to work with the kind of horses we have. It just makes you feel so good.

And Ron gave me a lot of confidence and I was really relaxed working for him. It's very hard to find a guy like him to work for, he's so easy-going. He's very good."

CONCERN EXPECTED BACK FOR GOLD CUP

Wham, bam, thank you, ma'am.

That about describes how quickly Breeders' Cup Classic winner Concern came, won The

Californian on Sunday, and went.

Robert Meyerhoff's well-traveled colt is due to fly to his home base in Maryland at 3

a.m. Tuesday, and trainer Richard Small is expected to bring the son of Broad Brush back to Inglewood for the $750,000 Hollywood Gold Cup on July 2.

"He's quite a horse," said Hall of Famer Charlie Whittingham, at whose barn Concern

was stabled during his brief stay. "He sure made it look easy."

The top five finishers in The Californian are expected back for the 1 1/4-mile Gold Cup.

Runner-up Tossofthecoin came out of the race well, according to Ron McAnally's soon-to-be-departed assistant, Eduardo Inda. The consistent son of Magesterial will be pointed to the

Grade I Gold Cup.

"I'm very happy," trainer Bobby Frankel said of Tinners Way's third-place finish, his

first race since last September.

Best Pal, who finished fourth after making a run from behind, also is likely to take

another shot at Concern in the Gold Cup, as is Let's Be Curious, who ran fifth.

New shooters may include Santa Anita Handicap winner Urgent Request, multiple

graded stakes winner Del Mar Dennis and Blumin Affair.

Concern's rise to prominence is an exceptional one, according to his owner and breeder.

"Broad Brush is the leading sire in the United States, but the big breeders won't breed to him," Meyerhoff said. "He's by Ack Ack, and Ack Ack was never a commercial sire, so nobody breeds to him. People are breeding to resell horses. Therefore, I had to go out and buy mares that I thought would fit Broad Brush. One of them was Fara's Team, and it turned out to be right. I bought her at auction.

"Every Broad Brush seems to be the same in the sense that they want to win. I've been in

the horse business 30-some years and what upsets trainers most is a horse that will train well in the morning but won't run in the afternoons. But Broad Brushes are always trying."

ANTLEY RELEASES 'BEAR' FOR NEW AGENT

Jockey Chris Antley and agent Bill (Bear) Barisoff have parted company and Antley's

assignments will be handled by Ron Ebanks, starting with the fourth Hollywood Park condition book on June 27. Ebanks forerly was agent for top midwestern rider Shane Sellers.

"It's just a business decision," Antley said Monday morning. "That's pretty much it.

There's nothing personal. I love Bear to death. It's just a business decision I made."

Antley, who won the Shoemaker Handicap on Unfinished Symph just last Saturday, was

tied for seventh in the Hollywood Park standings with 19 wins, 22 seconds and 12 thirds in 140 mounts for a win percentage of 10.8 through Sunday.

The 29-year-old rider is one of the few to invade Southern California and gain a regular

niche among the top 10 in the toughest jockey colony in the country. Antley was a leading rider on the East Coast before moving to Santa Anita in the fall of 1993, when Barisoff took his book.

Barisoff said he will handle Antley's mounts through the conclusion of Hollywood

Park's third condition book, which runs through June 26.

"I have no plans beyond that," Barisoff said, "other than to go to Del Mar."

Trainer Cliff Sise Jr., who engaged Antley on many of his horses, said Barisoff was the

most dependable agent in the business, as far as he was concerned.

"When Bear gives you a call," Sise said, "I know you can count on him."

FRANKEL RESPECTS 'PERFECT' RIVAL WORK THE CROWD

Blue Vista, Inc.'s Possibly Perfect, winner of her last five races including three Grade I's,

could have her sternest challenge when Northern California-based Work The Crowd invades Hollywood Park for the $300,000-added Beverly Hills Handicap on July 2.

"She could have won those races Possibly Perfect was in," Possibly Perfect's trainer,

Bobby Frankel, offered Monday morning. "She's a good filly," Hollywood Park's leading trainer added with respect.

Work The Crowd won the Grade III Yerba Buena Handicap at Golden Gate Fields on

May 27, and is being pointed to the Grade I Beverly Hills Handicap at nine furlongs on the turf by trainer Greg Gilchrist.

SOVIET PROBLEM TO DRILL FOR VALKYR HANDICAP

Soviet Problem, 1994 California Horse of the Year, arrived safe and sound from Northern

California in trainer John Sadler's barn late Sunday for her 1995 debut in the $100,000-added Valkyr Handicap at Hollywood Park on Saturday.

"She'll gallop Tuesday and is scheduled to work on the turf here Wednesday," Sadler

said of the Greg Gilchrist-trained mare, who won the Valkyr last year.

Soviet Problem raced last on Dec. 18 when she finished seventh in the Sprinters Stakes at

Nakayama Race Course in Japan. She was second, beaten a head by Eclipse champion Cherokee Run, in the Breeders' Cup Sprint.

In 19 career starts, the daughter of Moscow Ballet has 14 wins, three seconds and

earnings of $842,916.

The probable field for the 5 1/2-furlong dash for California-bred fillies and mares: Flying

In The Lane, Alex Solis, 119; Gorky Square, Corey Nakatani, 108; Magical Flyer, Gary Stevens, 114; Mystical Sky, Eddie Delahoussaye, 113; Snowy's Mark, Kent Desormeaux, 113, and Soviet Problem, Chris McCarron, 127.

STEVENS ON LUKAS FILLY IN PRINCESS STAKES

Gary Stevens, on a roll with trainer D. Wayne Lukas of late, has been engaged to ride

Robert and Beverly Lewis' Laguna Seca for Lukas in the $100,000-added Princess Stakes at Hollywood Park on Sunday.

Stevens won the Kentucky Derby and Belmont Stakes on the Lukas-trained Thunder

Gulch, and also won the Mother Goose last Friday for the Lewises and Lukas.

The probable field for the Grade II Princess, at 1 1/16 miles for 3-year-old fillies: Artica,

Laffit Pincay Jr.; Favored One, Eddie Delahoussaye; Laguna Seca, Stevens; Ski Dancer, Chris McCarron; Sleep Easy, Corey Nakatani, and Texinadress, Kent Desormeaux.

FINISH LINES: Casey Maslonka, who claimed Don't Read My Lips for $16,000 and developed her into a Grade I stakes-placed filly, plans to run her back in the $75,000-added Queen to Conquer Handicap at 1 1/2 miles on the turf on June 25. Don't Read My Lips was third to Possibly Perfect in the Grade I Gamely Handicap on June 4 . . . Jockey Kent Desormeaux took a personal holiday Monday, but before he left he worked Burt Bacharach's Soul of the Matter six furlongs on Hollywood Park's fast main track in 1:13 1/5. "He was well within himself," said assistant Chris Baker of Soul of the Matter, who is expected to start before the meet is over . . . Bob Marshall sent 1994 Horse of the Year Holy Bull's half- sister, Ed's Holy Cow, five furlongs in 1:02 1/5 as she nears her debut . . . Howard J. Baker's Stoller, who suffered a slab fracture to his left fore in The Californian, had to be put down . . . Hollywood Park will offer simulcast wagering on races from Stockton beginning at 1:30 p.m. Thursday.

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