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| | Stable Notes Del Mar, California Sunday, August 17, 1997 (Day 23) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04) |
 | | Headed by Hollywood Juvenile Championship second-place finisher Old Topper and Graduation Stakes victor Billy Black, nine 2-year-olds, including an entry, are expected to go to the post in Wednesday's 27th running of the Grade III, $100,000-added Best Pal Stakes at 6 1/2 furlongs on Del Mar's main track. |
 | | The Best Pal, known for 25 years as the Balboa Stakes, was renamed last year in honor of California's all-time purse-winning champion, Golden Eagle Farm's Best Pal, whose career earnings reached $5.6 million, which also puts him fourth on the all-time earnings list of all North American Thoroughbreds. |
 | | Touch Gold, whose continuing foot problems moved trainer David Hofmans to withdraw him from consideration as a starter in the Grade I Travers Stakes at Saratoga Race Course next Saturday, will be returning to Hofmans' care Monday to be prepared for the possibility of running in the $1-million Pegasus Handicap September 20 at The Meadowlands. |
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