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By Mustang Kenny · Posted
Will have a dramatic impact on either Timaru or Oamaru fields this coming Sunday. Surely common sense would say postpone Oamaru until the following Thursday. No meeting in NZ that day and it would enable many horses to back up that will not otherwise back up 4 days later after very hard runs at Timaru. I have phoned that suggestion through to NZTR but got no joy -
By muzenza365 · Posted
Ross may improve his golf handicap now with the spare time he will have. The recently retired Ivan Bridge, Ross's golf partner may also get his golf score, not to look like a score that a cricket player would love. Both are top blokes and they do enjoy their efforts to master the game of golf at Clarks Beach -
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By Adam Hamilton The standing start will be the least of the challenges to Leap To Fame’s New Zealand Cup hopes. Having just his second race from a stand, the Queensland champion stepped safely and quickly before making light work of a 30m handicap and winning easily at Albion Park last night. It was his first try from a stand since coming off 20m to win the Flashing Red at Albion Park a year ago. And it will likely be his last standing start race before tackling the iconic NZ Cup in November. Before then, Leap To Fame’s focus is back on mobile start racing and trying to win his second Inter Dominion at Albion Park next month. The six-year-old has won both starts back from a spell since winning the Race by betcha at Cambridge on April 4. “He’s had the two runs back from a break and one more will be ideal, especially two weeks out from the start of the series,” trainer-driver Grant Dixon said. Leap To Fame is $1.40 favourite for the $1 million Inter Dominion final on July 19 with defending champion Don Hugo considered the only real danger at $4. Don Hugo showed he is the biggest danger to Leap To Fame’s expected dominance next month when he scored a sparkling first-up win at Menangle last night. Luke McCarthy’s stable star worked forward from a wide draw to take the lead and scorched home his closing splits in 53.6 and 26.8sec to win without being extended by nine metres. “He felt sharp. He got away with a comfortable run in front, but did it so easily at the finish,” McCarthy said. McCarthy confirmed the five-year-old would back-up at Menangle again next Saturday as he final hit-out before the opening round of Inter Dominion heats at Albion Park on July 5. Don Hugo, who boasts 18 wins and over $2.25 million in prize money, is trying to defend the Inter Dominion crown he won at Menangle last December. But that was a series Leap To Fame, winner of the 2023 Inter Dominion, missed because of a health setback. Don Hugo and Leap To Fame have clashed three times – all this year – with the scoreline 2-1 in favour of Leap To Fame. Leap To Fame beat home Don Hugo in the Hunter Cup on February 1, then Don Hugo turned the tables to lead throughout and relegated Leap To Fame to second spot in the Miracle Mile on March 8. Then Leap To Fame gained revenge with the most dominant of displays to sit outside and beat Don Hugo in the Race by betcha at Cambridge in NZ on April 4. McCarthy conceded Leap To Fame was simply too good on the night, but revealed Don Hugo was found to have a virus after the race. “That’s why he didn’t go on to the big race in Perth and we gave him a break instead,” he said. “I’m thrilled how he’s come back and where he’s at now. One more run next will have him right where I want him going into Brisbane.” But McCarthy knows the enormity of the challenge taking on Leap To Fame on his own patch at Albion Park in a gruelling 3157m Inter Dominion final. “He’s an out-and-out champion, one of the greatest of all time and the (long) distance of the final is certainly in his favour,” he said. “But we’ve beaten him before I’m sure my guy will make a real race of it given how well he’s come back after his break.” View the full article -
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Jantar Mantar kicked off his four-year-old campaign in the best possible fashion when running out a comfortable winner of Sunday's G1 Yasuda Kinen at Tokyo, a 'Win and You're In' for the GI Breeders' Cup Mile. Sidelined since a down-the-field finish in December's G1 Hong Kong Mile at Sha Tin, the son of Palace Malice showed no signs of rustiness on his belated return with a sharp exit from the stalls in the hands of Yuga Kawada. Never far away from the pace set by Mad Cool (Dark Angel), the smooth-travelling Jantar Mantar moved up to challenge the long-time leader entering the final furlong and from there he quickly skipped clear to win by a length and a half from longshot Gaia Force (Kitasan Black). Race favourite Soul Rush (Rulership), reappearing after his G1 Dubai Turf defeat of Romantic Warrior back in March, was a neck further back as he finished third for the second consecutive year, with the same distance back to Brede Weg (Lord Kanaloa) in fourth. “The colt broke well and was in a good position in third to start, but then he got a little overexcited as horses came from behind so I got a little worried,” Kawada said of his fourth Yasuda Kinen winner. “I was still in doubt as to how he would respond at the stretch, but considering the circumstances, he really put in a good performance in the end and really exceeded my expectations as to how strong he is. He was unable to race to his standard at all last time, but I'm glad that he was able to show his true form today. I knew he would become a potential miler when he won the Asahi Hai as a two-year-old and was certain he was the best miler in Japan when taking the NHK Mile Cup title.” Trained by Tomokazu Takano, Jantar Mantar was named Japan's champion two-year-old colt of 2023 after winning each of his three starts, culminating with his maiden top-level victory in the Asahi Hai Futurity Stakes. Having kicked off his three-year-old season with back-to-back defeats, including a third-place finish in the G1 Satsuki Sho (Japanese 2,000 Guineas), he then doubled his Group 1 tally with a commanding performance in the NHK Mile Cup. On Sunday, the Shadai homebred became the first NHK Mile Cup winner to also land the Yasuda Kinen, further enhancing an excellent record which has seen him miss the frame just once in eight starts, having clearly not been himself when well beaten at Sha Tin. Pedigree Notes India Mantuana, the dam of Jantar Mantar, produced the best effort of her career when winning the GIII Red Carpet Handicap at Del Mar in 2018. She was led out unsold on a bid of $145,000 at the 2019 Fasig-Tipton November Sale, before being purchased by Shadai for $100,000, pregnant to Accelerate, at Keeneland January in 2020. She unfortunately aborted that foal and was bred to Palace Malice prior to her export to Japan, where she slipped her Kizuna foal in 2022. She was bred to Palace Malice again in 2024, with a two-year-old filly by Pyro and a yearling filly by Isla Bonita already on the ground. Sunday, Tokyo, Japan YASUDA KINEN-G1, ¥347,460,000, Tokyo, 6-8, 3yo/up, 1600mT, 1:32.70, fm. 1–JANTAR MANTAR (JPN), 128, c, 4, by Palace Malice 1st Dam: India Mantuana (GSW-US, $223,100), by Wilburn 2nd Dam: Speed Wagon, by Tomorrows Cat 3rd Dam: Rajica, by El Baba O-Shadai Race Horse; B-Shadai Farm (Jpn); T-Tomokazu Takano; J-Yuga Kawada; ¥183,822,000. Lifetime Record: Ch. 2yo Colt-Jpn, 8-5-1-1, ¥504,350,000. Werk Nick Rating: A+++ *Triple Plus*. Click for the eNicks report & 5-cross pedigree. Click for the free Equineline.com catalogue-style pedigree. 2–Gaia Force (Jpn), 128, h, 6, Kitasan Black (Jpn)–Natale (Jpn), by Kurofune. (¥30,000,000 Wlg '19 JRHJUL). O-KR Japan; B-Oiwake Farm (Jpn); ¥73,092,000. 3–Soul Rush (Jpn), 128, h, 7, Rulership (Jpn)–Broad Street (Jpn), by Agnes Tachyon (Jpn). O-Tatsue Ishikawa; B-Shimokobe Farm (Jpn); ¥45,546,000. Margins: 1HF, NK, NK. Odds: 4.30, 32.20, 3.30. Also Ran: Brede Weg (Jpn), Win Marvel (Jpn), Champagne Color (Jpn), Ecoro Walz (Jpn), Sakura Toujours (Jpn), Water Licht (Jpn), Mad Cool (Ire), Jun Blossom (Jpn), Sixpence (Jpn), Long Run (Jpn), Daddy's Vivid (Jpn), Red Mon Reve (Jpn), Gratias (Jpn), Trovatore (Jpn), Ho O Reality (Jpn). Click for the JRA chart & video. The post Jantar Mantar Returns In Style with Yasuda Kinen Strike appeared first on TDN | Thoroughbred Daily News | Horse Racing News, Results and Video | Thoroughbred Breeding and Auctions. View the full article
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