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INTERNATIONAL RACING : FEBRUARY - MARCH 2012

The Cathay Pacific Hong Kong
International Races- 2011

The Cathay Pacific Hong Kong International Races, a race meeting that has gained a reputation as the Turf World Championships, have been one of the most important fixtures for the world’s leading horses, jockeys, trainers and owners. The 25th edition of the premier Hong Kong sporting event was staged on 11 December 2011 at Sha Tin Racecourse, comprising four Group One events on turf worth a combined HK$68 million (approx. US$8.7m). Cathay Pacific has been the title sponsor of the Hong Kong International Races since 2004.

The Cathay Pacific Hong Kong Cup was originally run as the Hong Kong Invitation Cup on 24 January 1988 when overseas entries were restricted to horses from Malaysia and Singapore. Since then the number of countries and regions competing

has increased significantly to include Australia, Denmark, France, Germany, Great Britain, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Macau, New Zealand, South Africa, the United Arab Emirates and the United States of America...

THE CATHAY PACIFIC HONG KONG MILE was originally run as the Hong Kong Invitation Bowl over 1400 metres in December 1991 to mark the staging of the 22nd Asian Racing Conference in Hong Kong. It was renamed Hong Kong International Bowl in the second year. The Hong Kong International Bowl was

given the international Group 3 status in 1994 and was accorded Group 2 status in 1995. In 1999, the race was renamed the Hong Kong Mile and run over 1600 metres. In 2000, it was further upgraded to an international Group 1 event...

THE CATHAY PACIFIC HONG KONG VASE was originally run as the Hong Kong International Vase, which was introduced in December 1994 as a third International Race to encourage Hong Kong horse owners to

import topclass stayers. The Vase, run over 2400 metres, was accorded international Group 2 status in April 1996 by the International Cataloguing...

THE CATHAY PACIFIC HONG KONG SPRINT formerly the Hong Kong Sprint, was added to the Hong Kong International Races in 1999. It was initially run as a Listed Race and was accorded international Group 3 status in

2000. It was then promoted to Group 2 status in 2001. In 2002, the Sprint was further upgraded to an international Group 1 event...

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Dubai Carnival News

With more than $38 million on the line with some of the world’s best horses, from about 14 countries poised to compete, the Dubai World Cup Carnival could be its most exciting season ever. The Dubai World Cup program has eight prestigious races with stakes of $27million with the Dubai World Cup winner taking away a cool $10million, and is slated to be run on March 31.

GAMILATI SCORES
Williams and Godolphin’s Gamilati scored a bloodless victory in the 1400m UAE 1000 Guineas Trial. A Group 2 winner on turf in the UK, the three-year-old daughter of Bernardini was always travelling ominously well under Frankie Dettori and once the pair hit the front about 200m out the...

MAXIME GUYON WANTS MORE OF DUBAI Frankie Dettori said that the next generation of talented jockeys are from France. Judging by Mickael Barzalona’s success at the opening day of the 2012 Dubai World Cup Carnival, he was absolutely spot on.

However, in France, the jockey who was talked about the most in 2011 was Maxime Guyon. At 22, he is only two years older than Barzalona, who happens to be working in the same yard of André Fabre and is also a close...

FIRST CITY WINS CAPE VERDI First City, making her UAE debut and first start for local champion trainer Ali Rashid Al Raihe, secured a thrilling victory in the Group Two Cape Verdi, a 1600m turf feature which is

restricted to fillies and mares, producing an amazing finish with Royston Ffrench in the last strides to deny Pick Six favourite Mahbooba of victory. Emirati trainer Ali Raihe...

MUSIR CONQUERS CHALLENGE The phone lines to South Africa must have been busy after the ultra-impressive victory of Musir in the Group Three Maktoum Challenge Round I (for Thoroughbreds), the featured 1600m

all-weather contest. Trained by South African Mike de Kock, Musir, the UAE 2,000 Guineas and UAE Derby winner of 2010 was always going well under Christophe Soumillon who eased his mount to the...

IP MAN NABS MEYDAN FEATURE Singapore-based trainer Steven Burridge has made a flying start to the 2012 Dubai World Cup Carnival and saddled his third winner from only four runners when Ip Man broke the track record in the 1400m Saeed &

Mohammed Al Naboodah Group handicap at Meydan. Ip Man produced a withering late run by Oscar Chavez who now has the enviable record of two winners from two rides in the UAE...

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Sea The Stars in Demand at
Tattersalls December Foal Sale

It is so rare in racing to find a horse that really does have it all, but in Sea The Stars, that seems to be so. Superbly bred, being out of a Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe winner and a half-brother to one of the greatest stallions of the post-war era in Galileo, Sea The Stars carved out his own legend in

winning six Group 1 races, including the Epsom Derby and Arc. Understandably, his first foals are fiercely in demand, and following record prices paid for several members of his first crop at the Goffs November Sale, attention switched to Tattersalls...

MILLION-GUINEA LOTS AT TATTERSALLS DECEMBER MARE SALE
The autumn of 2011 saw the British bloodstock market bouncing back to something like its former self after three years in the doldrums caused by the global economic crisis, and the December Mare Sale saw very strong returns, aided as ever by a buoyant overseas market.
The Danehill mare Sumora was one of the jewels of the catalogue and unsurprisingly topped the sale, after a bidding war that saw MV Magnier go to 2.4m gns to secure her...

DUTCH ART A MASTER The end of 2011 saw the crowning of champion sires in Europe, and it was no surprise to see Dutch Art named as the leading first-season sire both in Britain

and in Europe. The son of Medicean, who stands alongside his sire at Cheveley Park Stud in Newmarket, was the sire of 27 individual twoyear- old winners...

TOP MILERS AMONG NEW RECRUITS TO STUD IN BRITAIN Among those new recruits to stud in Britain in 2012 are several young guns aiming to emulate their older rivals. The most pricey of

the new first-season sires is Poet’s Voice, who will stand at Darley’s Dalham Hall Stud for £12,000. Poet’s Voice is the second son of Dubawi to take up stud duties...

AUSSIE RULES ON THE MOVE Among the more established stallions making the switch to Britain this year is Aussie Rules, who has been purchased from Coolmore in a joint venture between Lanwades Stud and

Denford Stud. The son of Danehill will stand at Kirsten Rausing’s Lanwades Stud in Newmarket for £5,000. Aussie Rules hails from an outstanding family that has served both...

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News From USA
NEW STALLIONS FOR 2012

The New Year begins with the usual crop of new stallions entering the ranks, and that charge will be led by 2010 Juvenile Champion Uncle Mo. He will be standing for $35,000 at the Ashford Stud and at that price will likely get a full book. This fee is exactly the same as the top three new sires last year, and of those, only Looking at Lucky has seen a decrease to $30,000. Other new sires of interest include veteran Gio Ponti ($20,000), Tizway ($25,000), Breeders Cup Classic winner Drosselmeyer ($17,500) and turf superstar Cape Blanco who is tremendous value at $17,500.
As far as established stallions go, there have been numerous fee changes both

ways.
     Most dramatic increase is the doubling of the fee of Bernadini to $150,000, and the increase in Tapit’s fee to $125,000 from $80,000. His big winners of 2011 were Zazu and Hansen, the probable Kentucky Derby favorite.
     As far as 2011 goes, the leading sire in earnings was Distorted Humor with gross earnings of $10.3 million which was helped a lot by Drosselmeyer. His 2012 fee stands at $100,000, and at age 19 it seems like he has a few good years left at WinStar Farm. Others in the top five were Smart Strike, Tapit, Giant’s Causeway and Malibu...
                              — Michael Hepworth

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