The Atlanta Constitution from Atlanta, Georgia • 76

OQXluG: EVANDER HOLYFIELD, WORLD HEAWWHGHT CHAMPION Holyfield takes a day off to watch brother play football A fV4 '1 A "Besides, it's a business, and thatis the way it should be. But the Foreman fight is 'going to be next April. We do know that" i Holyfield saw not much more of Atlanta Saturday than Hartsfield International Airport and the city's skyline as he traveled west on 1-20. He was met at the airport by a limousine. "I flew in from Los Angeles," he said.

"Really, though, I ain't got no home to go home to. Seems like I'm always in training camp in Houston. And that's where I'm headed back to. I'm going to New York and do a couple of shows there early next week. Holyfield looked at his watch.

"Soon as this fight's over I mean soon as this game's over it's right back to Houston. i "But when I get back to Atlanta Wednesday, I'm going straight to the Boys Club the Warren Boys-Girls Club near Grant Park, where he began in boxing at age 8." Of the Douglas fight, Holyfield said, "He made a mistake. In life, when you make a mistake, you pay for it. He paid for it. I was standing back, a long way away from him.

Then he came with that uppercut. Right then I knew I had him. If I'd been right up there close, and he threw it, he might have gotten away with it. But not from where I was standing. "I came over with that right, and! knew that was the fight." had to work.

He's always working. Maybe that's where I get it from, because I'm always working, too. But we're planning a family homecoming soon." Holyfield, moving with his priestlike calm, began climbing the cement steps of the stadium near the end of the third quarter, making his way to the upper level of the press box. Just a face in the crowd until halfway up the steep stadium, Holyfield was recognized, and then came the roar of appreciation from the crowd. In the upper level of the press box, he did a radio interview, then posed for pictures.

Holyfield wore a dark gold shirt and a maroon cap with on it. He had followed the game along the sidelines, getting as close to the action as possible. A Birmingam policeman followed him, his lone security. Several times, Mike Coley, out of the game as offense worked, stood beside his brother. Still, boxing was on his mind.

"There's a chance I will fight Mike Tyson before George Foreman," Holy-field said. "It all depends on the world governing body, and especially promoter Don King. There's one man against a Foreman fight, and that's King. "But we have a contract with Foreman. Whoever's world champion gets two-thirds of the $30 million purse.

I got one-third for Douglas. I'm the champion now. I had to fight for peanuts before, but now I want the two-thirds. I'm not going to fight for peanuts anymore. By Bill Robinson Staff writer BIRMINGHAM He won the heavyweight championship in Las Vegas Thursday.

He appeared on "The Ar-v senio Hall Show" in Los Angeles Friday. He was invited to New York to host "Saturday Night Live." Evander Holyfield declined the latter invitation to watch his brother play football for Alabama at Legion Field. "I wouldn't have missed this for anything in the world," Holyfield said. "I don't ever get to see him play. I had to be here." Holy field's younger brother, Mike Coley, 22, played cornerback for the Bulldogs, who lost to Alabama State 24-20 in the Magic City Classic, which attracted a crowd of 48,000, few of whom knew the heavyweight champion was at the game until it was announced over the public-address system.

"I got here just in time to see Mike on the field before the game," Holyfield said. "He was pumped-up. He told me, 'Evander, I'm going to play a game for And he did. He's really good." Holyfield was offered the host spot on "Saturday Night Live" Friday, just hours after knocking out James "Buster" Douglas for the world heavyweight championship. "They got in touch with my promotions agent," Holyfield said.

"But there wasn't any need talking about it. I was going to be right here." Ron HoskinsSpecial Family man: Evander Holyfield (left), the new heavyweight champ, passed up a TV appearance Saturday to watch his brother, Michael Coley, play football in Birmingham. County. Ricky was with me all day today on the sidelines. Ricky Coley, 30, is an older brother who played first at Alabama, then at Alabama and persuaded Mike, the youngest brother, to attend the university in Normal, near Huntsville.

"Isom, though, my daddy, he couldn't make it," Holyfield said. "He Holyfield has been rediscovering his Alabama family. He was born in Atmore and left at an early age with his mother. He didn't see his father, Isom Coley, until he was grown. "I came back to Atmore in 1984," said Holyfield, who was given the surname of his stepfather, Joseph Holy-field.

"I was born there, in Escambia AUTO RACluG ISOHSE RACING: THE BREEDERS' CUP says speedway's new owner 5 r1" 1 i The Associated Press Go for Wand, a 3-year-old filly, breaks her right front ankle in a fall in the Breeders' Cup Distaff, spilling jockey Randy Romero. The horse was humanely destroyed on the track. I ff File Dale Earnhardt preferred fishing to engine testing. Breeders' Cup at a glance The $3,000,000 Classic, IV4 miles 3-year-olds and up Horse Jockey Payoffs NOTEBOOK Unbridled 15.20 8.20 5.60 Day Quinn 30.60 13.60 Ibn Bey 12.20 Thirty Six Red Smith BILL ROBINSON HAMPTON, Ga. Bruton Smith is the new owner of Atlanta.

Motor Speedway (AMS), not Atlanta International Racway (AIR). "When he formed the corporation," said Lee McClurkin, "AIR officially changed to Atlanta Motor Speedway." McClurkin handled the $19.8 million sale of AIR to Smith through his Robinson and Humphries brokerage firm. The second official act by Smith, who also owns Charlotte Motor Speedway (CMS), was bringing former South Carolina athletics director Bob Marcum from CMS to be vice president and general manager of AMS. Marcum, who left the Gamecocks in 1988 after a drug scandal, was hired by Smith as vice president and GM at CMS. Then, for three years, Marcum directed CMS's Speedway Club, bringing it from a red-ink operation into prosperity.

Smith plans $75 million in improvements at AMS in the next three to four years. He has had architects and engineers busy here for three months. Smith also had state and county development board members, as well as other officials, at his press conference at the track Tuesday. "We've got to work through local and state governments to get things done here," he said. "There is no other way to get things done.

And we've got to be good neighbors. "People coming to races are our guests for only five or six hours. We've got to get a workable traffic plan make an impression on our neighbors that we're going to get folks in and out of here without disturbing them too much. We only get seven or eight cents from each fan at- tending, but each race brings several millions of dollars in to the state." Smith believes he can tap metro Atlanta's population of close to 3 million and have crowds between 150,000 and 200,000 at AMS within five years. "Charlotte has 1 million," he said.

"We sold all our seat tickets, 118,000, for our Oct. 7 race. That was the first sellout ever for that race. We drew 158,400, a record crowd. And we draw more than that for our May race, around 165,000.

It can and will be done in Atlanta." Breeders' Cup Turf, Vh miles 3-year-olds and up 2 horses die in Belmont Park races Go for Wand breaks leg; Mr. Nickerson collapses The Associated Press NEW YORK Brilliance matching i sunshine was eclipsed by tragedy Satur- day on racing's biggest day in the Breeders' Cup at Belmont Park. i Meadow Star, the 2-year-old filly, glittered as her name suggests. Lester Piggott, the great English jockey, rode I again as masterfully as he has on many, many days in his career. Unbri- died returned to his Kentucky Derby form to win the world's richest race and did it without any medical aid.

I Go for Wand died. i So did Mr. Nickerson. That's what the seventh Breeders' Cup day will be remembered for. Go for Wand, the brilliant 3-year-old filly, crashed to the ground while fight- ing off Bayakoa in a desperate bid for victory in the Distaff.

Mr. Nickerson collapsed and died on i the first turn in the Sprint. Go for Wand shattered her right front ankle just a stride inside the six-' teenth pole, falling and spilling jockey Randy Romero. Bayakoa charged on to i victory, but most of the crowd of 51,236 was watching Go for Wand. The filly struggled to her feet and staggered to the finish line.

Just past the wire, she was wrestled to the ground by those trying to help her. Then she was humanely destroyed. Hundreds of fans then left Belmont "Park. "It's like my wife said," said Baya-koa's trainer, Ron McAnally, tears in his eyes. "They give their lives for our en-! joyment.

"I can't cope," he said in the win-; ner's circle. In talking about Meadow Star, his unbeaten 2-year-old filly who won the 1 l-16th-mile Juvenile Fillies by five lengths, owner Carl Icahn said, "You don't get many like her, maybe once in a lifetime and maybe this is mine." I Go for Wand was 76-year-old Mrs. Jane Dupont Lunger's once-in-a-life-I time horse. i The filly finished her career and her i life with 10 victories in 13 starts, seven in nine races this year. In 1989, she won the Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies and was 2-year-old champion.

The duel between Go for Wand and Bayakoa started at the break. Romero put Go for Wand on the lead and she was never more than a half-length in front of Bayakoa as they headed into the stretch. In The Wings Stevens 5.60 3.40 2.40 5.40 3.80 With Approval Perret ElSenor Cordero 5.80 Breeders Cup' Juvenile, 1 l16th 2-year-olds Fly So Free Santos 4.80 3.60 3.20 Take Me Out Smith 17.40 12.60 Lost Mountain McCarron 9.00 4 i i 1 S. 1. 4.

I I 1 I x. Breeders' Cup Turf Mile 3-year-olds and up Royal Academy Piggot 7.60 5.60 4.20 18.20 9.20 Itsallgreektome Nakatanl Asmussen Priolo 4.80 Breeders' Cup Distaff, Vk miles 3-year-olds and up Bayakoa Pincay 4.20 2.80 4.80 Colonial Waters Santos 6.40 8.80 18.20 Valay Maid Castaneda Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies, 1116 2-year-olds Derrike Cope coming in Thursday. Winston Cup, with its tight, points race, moves to Phoenix International Raceway next Sunday, the next-to- last race before the Nov. 18 Atlanta Journal 500 ends the season. Earn- hardt trails Ford driver and points leader Mark Martin by 45 points.

Earnhardt won the 1989 Atlanta Journal 500, but lost the Winston Cup, by 12 points to Pontiac driver Rusty Wallace. IMSA POINTS BATTLE: The International Motor Sports Association (IMSA) has already crowned 18 of itsi 20 driving champions for 1990. But; the big battle between Nissan team- mates Geoff Brabham and Chip Robin-! son goes right down to the Nov. lit wire, with the running of the Camel Grand Prix of Greater San Brabham has won the title the pastf two years. He needs but a singie point i to edge Robinson for the 1990 title.

It may be hard to come by, Brabham wrecked at the World Chal- lenge of Tampa, the last race. Brab-I ham's 188 points lead Robinson by! 19, and all he has to do is finish in the! top 10 at the Del Mar, track tof clinch a third straight. "The odds are. certainly in favor of Geoff," said Rob-j inson. "All he needs is one lousy point.

I need 20. It would take a mir- acle, but miracles happen." Robinson was the IMSA Camel GTP champion! before Brabham began his string. He' was a member of the Porsche team' then, which had Derek Bell as its lead driver. Meadow Star Santos 2.40 2.40 2.10 8.00 3.40 Private Treasure Bailey 2.60 Dance Smartly Hawley Breeders' Cup Sprint, six furlongs 3-year-olds and up Safely Kepi Perret, 26.40 8.20 5.6 The Associated Press Carson 5.60 4.00 Dayjur 13.60 Black Tie Affair Pincay Bayakoa races the stretch to victory in the $1 million Breeders' Cup Distaff. "It's the track," said Rose Badgett, the wife of and assistant to trainer Billy Badgett.

Trainer D. Wayne Lukas said: "This has to come under serious review. There is something wrong here. I. am not a track superintendent, but too many horses are breaking down and not just Breeders' Cup horses." "You can't blame the track," McAn- ally said.

"The inside is the worst part of any track. Not because it is unsafe because itis a tough place there are COOL EARNHARDT: Weather caused Dale Earnhardt to postpone test sessions at AMS Wednesday and Thursday. "I'm going fishing in Ala-. bama," said Earnhardt when bad weather threatened the two-day tests of his Richard Chlldress-owned Chevrolet team. Bill Elliott tested his Ford at AIR earlier in the week, finishing up Tuesday.

Harry Gant and his Old-mobile took Earnhardt's place Wednesday, with Chevrolet driver several factors involved in a horse breaking down." The victory for Bayakoa, a 6-year-old mare, was her second straight in the lVs-mile Distaff. Mr. Nickerson apparently died of a heart attack. After he fell, Shaker Knit tumbled over him. Mr.

Nickerson's jockey, Chris Antley, sustained a broken right collarbone, but Jose Santos, aboard Shaker Knit, returned to win the Juvenile Fillies on Meadow Star and the, Juvenile on Fly So Free. The duel drew lots of cheers when it th stretch. Suddenly, the A VUVIiVU sound changed to one of shock. It was as I. if someone had hit the large crowd a collective blow in the stomach.

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