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SOVEREIGN AWARD FINALISTS HEADLINE p4 NEWS For information about TDN, DELIVERED EACH NIGHT BY FAX AND FREE BY E-MAIL TO SUBSCRIBERS OF call 732-747-8060. www.thoroughbreddailynews.com FRIDAY, DECEMBER 8, 2006 FORMIDABLE FIFTY SET FOR HKIR HONG KONG INT’L A total of 50 of the top turf horses from around the P P world were entered yesterday morning for Sunday’s Cathay Pacific Hong Kong International Races at Sha Sunday, Sha Tin, Hong Kong Tin Racecourse. Competing for the HK$62 million in CATHAY PACIFIC HONG KONG CUP-G1, prize money are three defending champions from last HK$20,000,000, 3yo/up, 2000mT year’s races, but none will receive SC PP HORSE SIRE JOCKEY WT more attention than Lord Derby’s 1 2 Vengeance of Rain (NZ) Zabeel (NZ) Delpech 126 Ouija Board (GB) (Cape Cross {Ire}), 2 8 Viva Pataca (GB) Marju (Ire) Soumillon 126 who makes the final start of her 3 7 Growl (NZ) Montjeu (Ire) Williams 126 brilliant career in the G1 Hong Kong 4 6 Hello Pretty (Aus) Distorted Humor Prebble 126 Vase. Sunday’s event is just two 5 12 Art Trader Arch Saint-Martin 126 weeks removed from her excellent 6 1 High Intelligent (Aus) Anabaa Whyte 126 third-place effort in Tokyo’s G1 Ja- 7 4 Admire Moon (Jpn) End Sweep Y Take 123 pan Cup, a result which followed by 8 9 Pride (Fr) Peintre Celebre Lemaire 122 just 22 days her victory in the GI 9 10 Alexander Goldrun (Ire) Gold Away (Ire) Manning 122 Breeders’ Cup Filly and Mare Turf. 10 5 Satwa Queen (Fr) Muhtathir (GB) Thuillez 122 Still, the five-year-old has looked 11 11 Dia de la Novia (Jpn) Sunday Silence Fukunaga 122 Ouija Board HKJC.com fresh as a daisy in the mornings and 12 3 Musical Way (Fr) Gold Away (Ire) Thomas 122 connections were pleased after Hello Pretty, fifth to Viva Pataca in last year’s Hong drawing the two hole for the 2400-meter event. “No Kong Derby, rides a two-race winning streak into the problems there with the draw and I can tell you that Cup, including a visually [jockey] Frankie [Dettori] said she was awesome this impressive 2 3/4-length morning so that's good enough for me,” commented victory in the G2-HK Inter- trainer Ed Dunlop. Ouija Board blew out a quarter mile national Cup Trial Nov. 12. in :22.8 on the turf yesterday. “The signs are good. Her He completed his prepara- bodyweight is right and I just hope that it's not one tions for Sunday’s race by race too many. We would rolling home in :21.3 over like a good pace. Sha the all-weather surface Tin's mile and a half is yesterday morning. “He's easier than the one in To- spot-on,” his trainer Tony Hello Pretty HKJC.com kyo and Frankie rides it Cruz offered. “He's raring brilliantly.” Vengeance of to go and he will run very well--it's a beautiful gate too. Rain (NZ) (Zabeel {NZ}) He will have a trouble-free run from six.” will shoot for a repeat victory in the G1 Hong CATHAY PACIFIC HONG KONG Kong Cup. Perfect in five The Sha Tin parade ring hosts the INTERNATIONAL RACES course-and-distance ap- barrier draw HKJC.com Sunday, December 10, 2006 pearances, the six-year- old will also leave from post position number two be- 2:00p G1 Hong Kong Vase neath jockey Anthony Delpech. "It's a fantastic barrier, 3:10p G1 Hong Kong Sprint I'm delighted with it,” trainer David Ferraris said. “The 4:20p G1 Hong Kong Mile horse is in great shape and it's been well reported how 5:00p G1 Hong Kong Cup well his work has gone leading up to now. I am as Hong Kong is 13 hours ahead of Eastern Standard time confident now as I was last year when he won." (859) 233-4252 www.claibornefarm.com TDN P HEADLINE NEWS • 12/8/06 • PAGE 2 of 4 Cathay Pacific Hong Kong International Races cont. Sunday, Sha Tin, Hong Kong Sunday, Sha Tin, Hong Kong CATHAY PACIFIC HONG KONG VASE-G1, CATHAY PACIFIC HONG KONG MILE-G1, HK$14,000,000, 3yo/up, 2400mT HK$16,000,000, 3yo/up, 1600mT SC PP HORSE SIRE JOCKEY WT SC PP HORSE SIRE JOCKEY 1 9 Maraahel (Ire) Alzao R Hills 126 1 7 Bullish Luck Royal Academy Prebble 2 10 Collier Hill (GB) Dr Devious (Ire) McKeown 126 2 12 Ramonti (Fr) Martino Alonso (Ire) E Botti 3 7 Egerton (Ger) Groom Dancer Mundry 126 3 11 Mustameet Sahm McDonogh 4 5 Scorpion (Ire) Montjeu (Ire) Heffernan 126 4 2 Joyful Winner (Aus) El Moxie Soumillon 5 8 Saturn (Ire) Marju (Ire) Nikolic 126 5 10 Russian Pearl (NZ) Soviet Star Saint-Martin 6 2 Ouija Board (GB) Cape Cross (Ire) Dettori 122 6 5 Armada (NZ) Towkay (Aus) Whyte 7 1 Kastoria (Ire) Selkirk Kinane 122 7 13 Linngari (Ire) Indian Ridge (Ire) Schofield 8 3 Shamdala (Ire) Grand Lodge Soumillon 122 8 3 Rebel Rebel (Ire) Revoque (Ire) Prado 9 6 Song of Wind (Jpn) El Condor Pasa K Take 121 9 8 Bowman’s Crossing (Ire) Dolphin Street (Fr) Mosse 10 4 Admire Main (Jpn) Sunday Silence Y Take 121 10 4 The Duke (Aus) Danehill Doleuze Maraahel, third to Vengeance of Rain (NZ) and Pride 11 6 Floral Pegasus (Aus) Fusaichi Pegasus Dettori (Fr) in last year’s Cup, tries his luck over an extra quar- 12 9 Dave’s Best (GB) Bishop of Cashel (GB) Kinane ter mile this year. Winless in nine tries at Group 1 level, 13 1 Sir Ernesto (Aus) Danehill Coetzee the five-year-old will be paired with Richard Hills and 14 14 Dance in the Mood (Jpn) Sunday Silence Y Take has drawn outside in nine. "He can be a bit of a fidget All carry 126 pounds, except Dance in the Mood, 122. in the stalls but if things go okay there I would like to Just five foreign raiders have signed on to tackle the have him sitting in midfield,” the jockey commented. home team this time around, including Linngari, who “He ran a fantastic race a year ago [in the Cup] and has racked up his fair share of frequent flyer miles this he's in top form. He's an old hand at this game." season. A dual group winner during the Dubai Interna- Hong Kong International Races cont. p3 tional Racing Carnival over the winter, the chestnut took the G2 Goldene CATHAY PACIFIC HONG KONG Peitsche at Baden-Baden in INTERNATIONAL RACES August. He missed by a Winners by country short neck to the top-class Caradak (Ire) in the G1 Prix Cup Vase Sprint Mile Tot de la Foret Sept. 30 and Hong Kong 5 1 5 3 14 was narrowly beaten when Great Britain 2 5 0 2 9 Linngari HKJC.com fourth in the G3 Prix Seine- France 1 5 0 1 7 et-Oise Oct. 28. Connec- Australia 1 0 2 3 6 tions were not thrilled with the draw, which lands the Japan 3 1 0 2 6 four-year-old in gate 13. "I'm not happy with that draw New Zealand 3 0 0 1 4 at all,” said trainer Herman Brown. “It forces us to sit Ireland 1 0 0 1 2 and ride more of a waiting race and to try and run them United States 1 0 0 1 2 down in the last 200 meters." America’s Rebel Rebel is UAE 1 0 0 1 2 reported to have settled in nicely in Hong Kong and will Singapore 1 0 0 0 1 jump from post position three with Edgar Prado. www.winstarfarm.com TDN P HEADLINE NEWS • 12/8/06 • PAGE 3 of 4 Sunday, Sha Tin, Hong Kong Bump in the Road for Target?... CATHAY PACIFIC HONG KONG SPRINT-G1, The Hong Kong Jockey Club yesterday put out a HK$12,000,000, 3yo/up, 1200mT release indicating that samples drawn from G1 Hong SC PP HORSE SIRE JOCKEY Kong Sprint favorite Takeover Target (Aus) (Celtic 1 12 Takeover Target (Aus) Celtic Swing (GB) Ford Swing {GB}) have shown 2 4 Desert Lord (GB) Green Desert Callan “an irregularity.” In part, 3 14 Red Oog (Aus) Brief Truce Bowman the statement reads, “It 4 7 Meisho Bowler (Aus) Taiki Shuttle Fukunaga is a practice of The Hong 5 3 Benbaun (Ire) Stravinsky Spencer Kong Jockey Club to ob- 6 6 Scintillation (Aus) Danehill Mosse tain samples from over- 7 2 Silent Witness (Aus) El Moxie Coetzee seas horses which are to 8 8 Sunny Sing (Ire) Sri Pekan Soumillon participate in any of the 9 1 Natural Blitz (Aus) Maroof Delpech Club's international races 10 9 Able Prince (Aus) Hurricane Sky (Aus) Nunes Takeover Target HKJC.com after the horse arrives in 11 13 Down Town (Aus) Scenic (Ire) Doleuze Hong Kong. From time to 12 5 Absolute Champion (Aus) Marauding (NZ) Prebble time these post-arrival samples show irregularities and 13 10 Billet Express (Aus) Keltrice (Aus) Whyte when this occurs further samples are taken for analysis 14 11 She Is Tosho (Jpn) Sakura Bakushin O (Jpn) Ikezoe from the relevant horse leading up to the race.” All carry 126 pounds, except She Is Tosho, 122. After being forced to miss a three-peat attempt in last year’s Sprint, won by Natural Blitz, Archie and Betty da Fast Parade Out of Sprint..