ETC. KENTUCKY DERBY LOSES TOP CONTENDER

                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: TUESDAY, March 2, 1993                   TAG: 9303020110
SECTION: SPORTS                    PAGE: B3   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: Associated Press
DATELINE:                                 LENGTH: Short
ETC. KENTUCKY DERBY LOSES TOP CONTENDER
Gilded Time, the Eclipse Award winner as a 2-year-old and a top Kentucky Derby contender, won't compete in the Triple Crown races because of a foot injury.
Owner David Milch said his undefeated colt has experienced hoof problems all along and will be X-rayed today. Gilded Time won all four of his starts last year and earned $855,980.
The newest member of the East Coast Hockey League has a name. The expansion team in Charlotte, N.C., will begin play next season as the Charlotte Checkers. More than 200 of the 2,200 entries in a contest to name the team were for Checkers. The name was also used by a professional hockey team in Charlotte that played in the Eastern and Southern Leagues from 1956 to 1977.
Cameroon became the ninth and final nation to advance to the second round of African qualifying for the 1994 World Cup soccer tournament when it played a scoreless tie against Zaire.
Cameroon (2-0-2) won Group B with six points and joined Algeria, Egypt, Guinea, Nigeria, Ivory Coast, Morocco, Senegal and Zambia in the second round.
Iva Majoli of Croatia, who took a quantum leap up the women's rankings in 1992, vaulted past 11th-seeded Gigi Fernandez in the opening round of the $375,000 Virginia Slims of Florida in Delray Beach, Fla.
Majoli, 15, beat the Puerto Rican-born Fernandez 7-5, 2-6, 6-3.

by Archana Subramaniam by CNB