NATIVE DIVER result HEADLINE p. 5 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 MONDAY, DECEMBER 11, 2006 PRIDE GOETH BEFORE ALL COLLIER HILL TURNS BACK TIME N P Bloodstock Ltd=s Pride (Fr) (Peintre Celebre) One of just two eight-year-olds to take their chance crafted the perfect ending to an epic career, barely on the day, Collier Hill (GB) (Dr Devious {Ire}) proved holding off Japan=s Admire Moon (Jpn) (End Sweep) to yet again that age has not yet caught up with him, win Sunday=s G1 Hong finding the line just ahead of His Highness The Aga Kong Cup on International Khan=s Kastoria (Ire) (Selkirk) in yesterday=s G1 Hong Races day at Sha Tin Race- Kong Vase. Having been course. Reserved early, the purchased for ,5,500 as a six-year-old got a beautiful cast-off to win a bumper run into the race following at Catterick early in his 2004 Cup victress Alexan- der Goldrun (Ire) (Gold career, and subsequently Away {Ire}) around the sent for a spell over hur- Pride (inside) goes out a winner dles, the gelding has un- HKJC.com final bend. Switched out- side that one, Pride dis- dergone a fairy-tale meta- posed of defending champ Vengeance of Rain (NZ) Collier Hill (shadow roll) holds off morphosis and now sports (Zabeel {NZ}) at the 200, but Admire Moon came with Kastoria HKJC.com earnings approaching $4 a barnstorming run to just miss. Hong Kong Cup cont. p2 million. As it turns out, he was lucky to make the gate yesterday. "He was a bit Sunday, Sha Tin, Hong Kong dehydrated on Thursday and for a time it was touch CATHAY PACIFIC HONG KONG CUP-G1, and go whether we would run, and it was only [Sat- HK$20,000,000, Sha Tin, 12-10, 3yo/up, 2000mT, urday] that he came right again,@ trainer Alan 2:01.6, gd/fm. Swinback commented. AWe have always had trouble 1--PRIDE (FR), 122, m, 6, by Peintre Celebre with his joints and now we can look after them when 1st Dam: Specificity (SW-Eng, SP-Fr), by Alleged 2nd Dam: Mandera, by *Vaguely Noble he gets home. He deserves a break now, doesn't 3rd Dam: Foolish One, by Tom Fool he?" HK Vase cont. p3 O/B-N P Bloodstock; T-A de Royer-Dupre; J-C P Lemaire; HK$11,400,000. Lifetime Record: Hwt. TAKEOVER TARGET SCRATCHED Older Mare-Eng at 9.5-11f, Hwt. Older Mare-Eur, Takeover Target (Aus) (Celtic Swing {GB}), the ante- G1SW-Eng & Fr, 26-9-5-4, HK$29,950,000. post favorite for the G1 Hong Kong Sprint, was 2--Admire Moon (Jpn), 123, c, 3, End Sweep--My scratched from the race by Hong Kong Jockey Club Katies (Jpn), by Sunday Silence. (-16,000,000 fl >03 stewards after a final blood sample produced yet an- JPNJUL). O-Riichi Kondo; B-Northern Farm; T-H other positive result for a banned substance. Since his Matsuda; HK$4,400,000. arrival in Hong Kong in late October, the seven-year-old 3--Vengeance of Rain (NZ), 126, g, 6, Zabeel (NZ)-- was tested no fewer than six times and on each occa- Danelagh (Aus), by Danehill. O-Raymond Gianco sion, the results came back positive for 17-alpha- Chow Hon Man & the Executors of the Estate of the hydroxyprogesterone hexanoate, a banned substance. late Chow Nam; B-K Biggs Enterprise Pty Ltd, et al; Trainer Joe Janiak was advised at 12:25 p.m. yester- T-D E Ferraris; HK$2,000,000. day of the results and the decision of the stewards to Margins: SHD, 2, 1HF. Odds: 5-2, 10-1, 4-1. compulsorily withdraw Takeover Target from the race. Also Ran: Viva Pataca (GB), Art Trader, Satwa Queen (Fr), Dia de la Novia (Jpn), Hello Pretty (Aus), Alexander TDN TODAY Goldrun (Ire), Musical Way (Fr), Growl (Aus), High Intelligent (Aus). Headline News.................... 6 pages www.overbrookfarm.com TDN P HEADLINE NEWS • 12/11/06 • PAGE 2 of 6 Staking Her Claim in the Cup (cont. from p1) Sunday, Sha Tin, Hong Kong Runner-up by a neck in last year=s Cup, Pride was in CATHAY PACIFIC HONG KONG MILE-G1, need of the run when just fourth in the G1 Prix Ganay HK$16,000,000, Sha Tin, 12-10, 3yo/up, 1600mT, Apr. 30. Following an easy victory in the G2 Prix 1:33.4, gd/fm. Corrida a month later, she rediscovered her best form, 1--sTHE DUKE (AUS), 126, g, 7, by Danehill tagging Hurricane Run (Ire) with a head defeat in the G1 1st Dam: Mer du Sud (Ire), by Bluebird Grand Prix de Saint-Cloud June 25. Rested for a fall 2nd Dam: Make Plans, by Go Marching campaign, she prepped for the G1 Prix de l=Arc de 3rd Dam: Sister Antoine, by Royal Serenade Triomphe with a close third to Shirocco (Ger) in the G2 (NZ$200,000 yrl >01 NZBPRE; HK$1,600,000 2yo Prix Foy Sept. 10 before going down by a neck in the >01 HKIS). O-Eddie Junior Yau; B-Caradale Pty Ltd; Longchamp centerpiece Oct. 1 while giving weight to T-C Fownes; J-O Doleuze; HK$9,120,000. Lifetime the winner, Rail Link (GB). She atoned for that disap- Record: 54-10-12-7, HK$29,237,000. pointment by registering a three-length victory in the 2--Armada (NZ), 126, g, 5, Towkay (Aus)--Dance In G1 Champion S. Oct. 14, setting her up for her career Time (NZ), by Red Tempo (NZ). O-Wong Yuk Lun; B-J swansong. Fleming, G G James & T E Jamison; T-J Size; HK$3,520,000. Revenge is Sweet... 3--Ramonti (Fr), 126, c, 4, Martino Alonso (Ire)--Fosca, Pride broke well, but came back nicely to jockey by El Gran Senor. O-Scuderia Antezzate; B-Scuderia Christophe-Patrice Lemaire, who settled the mare last Siba; T-A & G Botti; HK$1,600,000. out of the stretch, but allowed her to creep forward Margins: HD, 1HF, 3/4. Odds: 14-1, 6-5, 16-1. midway up the backstretch. The field began to bunch Also Ran: Bullish Luck, Linngari (Ire), Joyful Winner up as the front-runners began to lose steam and they (Aus), Floral Pegasus (Aus), Rebel Rebel (Ire), Sir lined up five across the track at the quarter pole as the Ernesto (Aus), Russian Pearl (NZ), Bowman=s Crossing table was set for a dramatic finish. Vengeance of Rain (Ire), Dance in the Mood (Jpn), Dave=s Best (GB), was the first to come calling, and had the call in upper Mustameet. stretch, but he may have gone too soon, as Pride Cathay Pacific Hong Kong Mile cont. p3 easily reeled him in and looked well on her way to CATHAY PACIFIC HONG KONG the win. But Admire Moon, INTERNATIONAL RACES third to Daiwa Major (Jpn) Winners by country in the Tenno Sho (Autumn) Oct. 29, came with a Cup Vase Sprint Mile Tot cracking run and was tak- Pride (widest) races into the Hong Kong 5 1 6 4 16 ing ground from the winner stretch HKJC.com Great Britain 2 6 0 2 10 with each stride, but the France 2 5 0 1 8 wire came one jump too soon. AShe has a great turn of Australia 1 0 2 3 6 foot, but her run is quite short so she was stopping a Japan 3 1 0 2 6 bit for me at the end and I was frightened we might get New Zealand 3 0 0 1 4 caught,@ Lemaire admitted. AIt was her special fighting spirit that got her home." Click for the HKJC.com chart Ireland 1 0 0 1 2 or the free brisnet.com catalogue-style pedigree. For a United States 1 0 0 1 2 video replay, click broadband or modem. UAE 1 0 0 1 2 www.winstarfarm.com TDN P HEADLINE NEWS • 12/11/06 • PAGE 3 of 6 Cathay Pacific Hong Kong Mile cont. Sunday, Sha Tin, Hong Kong Third in the 2004 running and second last year, The CATHAY PACIFIC HONG KONG VASE-G1, Duke proved third-time lucky, sitting a perfect trip from HK$14,000,000, Sha Tin, 12-10, 3yo/up, 2400mT, the box seat before holding off Armada. A graduate of 2:27.1, gd/fm. the 2001 Hong Kong International Sale, the seven-year- 1--COLLIER HILL (GB), 126, g, 8, by Dr Devious (Ire) old ventured overseas for the first time last June, but 1st Dam: Polar Queen (GB), by Polish Precedent could do no better than 15th, beaten over nine lengths, 2nd Dam: Rain Date (GB), by Rainbow Quest to Bullish Luck (Royal Academy) in the G1 Yasuda 3rd Dam: Roussalka (GB), by Habitat Kinen in Tokyo. The geld- (97,000gns HIT >05 TATHIT). O-R H Hall, J D Abell & ing resurfaced with a sev- R Crowe; B-George Strawbridge; T-G A Swinback; enth in the G3-HK Na- J-Dean McKeown; HK$7,980,000. Lifetime Record: tional Day Cup H. over an Co. Hwt. Older Horse-Ire at 14f+, G1SW-Ire, GISW- insufficient 1200 meters NA, MGSW-Swe, GSW & MG1SP-Ger, MG1SP-UAE, Oct. 1, but returned on 40-13-9-5, HK$31,787,000. two weeks= rest to fill the 2--Kastoria (Ire), 122, m, 5, Selkirk--Kassana (Ire), by runner-up spot in the Shernazar (Ire).