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both U.K. races grabs the big money — $1 million in cool cash. The winner of one race stateside and one in Europe takes home $50,000 (down from Lonesome Glory’s take of 75 grand last year.)
For the second time, this year a connected series of three maiden hurdle qualifying races are slated on the calendar. ,
The first takes place Sept. 18, over the natural brush course at St. James Farm in Chicago. The other two maiden races will be held in conjunction with novice venues — one Oct. 23 at Far Hills and one Nov. 6 at Columbus.
The winner of each maiden qualifier will be fully nominated to the 1994 Sport of Kings Challenge. As owners pay upwards of $3,500 to nominate runners to the novice series, the maiden victory in each of the trio of races is most important. In addition, the three races each carry a $20,000 purse.
Ten English and Irish novices have been nominated to the first stage for the Sport of Kings. As of this writing, the leading foreign nominee is Paul Mellon’s Englishbred King’s Treasure. The bay gelding trains with Wiltshire conditioner Ian Balding.
Balding has a pair nominated to the series, while Newmarket horseman Mark Thompkins has a trio entered. Toby Balding and Irishmen Michael O’Brien and Dermot Weld each have one nominee.
See Novice, Page 23
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