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Show __ TheSalt LakeTribune HORSE RACING Friday, May 28, 1999 _ TWO-TIME WINNERS Horses that won only the Kentucky Derby and Preakness,with the Beimont winner Owners Happy No One Claimed Charismatic Belmont _BurgooKing BurgooKing Bold VentureBold Venture Faireno _ Granville THE ASSOCIATED PRESS You've heard it before: If Kentucky Derby and Preakness win- ner Charismatic takes the $1 mil_____‘Shertuck Quadrangle Amberoid ___StageDoor Johnny ArtsandLetters Pass Catcher THE ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW YORK — Rightfrom the rt, breeder Tom Roach thought “Alysheba “Sundaysilence Hall of Fametrainer D. Wayne jukas also saw promise, but he uldn’t bring it out. harismatic has paid his feed bill and then some. Should he win the Belmont takes June 5 and become the irst Triple Crown championin 21 years, he would earn $600,000 rom the purse plus a $5 million That would push his bankroll to morethan $6.8 million In February, however, Charis- matic had eaten his Lewis’ favor. way out of Lukas ran him in a claiming race for a $62,500 pricetag at Santa Anita. At that time, anyone with that amount could have bought Charismatic, although Lu- kas did not wantto see the horse purchased. “We shared Wayne's feeling, but if we lost him, we'd have been very happy to get the $62,500. The horse was costing us money,” Lewissaid. Racing, after all, is a business, and even when you owna money- makerlike 1997 Kentucky Derby and Preakness winner Silver Charm, as Lewis and his wife Bev- erly do, youstill try to cut your losses. The Lewises bought Char- ismatic for $200,000 as a weanling, and theinkin his ledger was redder than his chestnut coat. The colt with the four white socks and the oval star and con- sie aernRALEWAYS Preakness winner, out of Bali Babe. Secretariat and Northern Dancer are his paternal great grand sires, and Secretariat's sire race. He finished second, but he got the win when the first-place finisher was disqualified He also did not get claimed fore the race, and walked away with the future Kentucky Derby yanfor the claiming price of $62.51 By valde Charismaticin such we got awaywith onethere.” Overlooking Charismatic is what handicappers and bettors did in the Derby. Charismatic’s winning mutuelof $64.60 was the and Beverly Lewis, that didn’t Ben Roach and his son, Tom, who bought Bali Babe about ae years ago at the K land November sale. Summer Sauail stands at William S. Farish’s Lane's End Farm. Thesolidly built colt — Lukas estimated he still weighed about 1,200 pounds at the Preakness — third largest in the 125-year history of the race starts. 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