France: Multiple venues fill in while Longchamp closed
A two-year redevelopment of Longchamp Racecourse in Paris has led to significant changes to the venues of some major stakes on the French racing schedule in 2016.
Steve AndersenJan 10, 2016
A two-year redevelopment of Longchamp Racecourse in Paris has led to significant changes to the venues of some major stakes on the French racing schedule in 2016.
Veteran Dubai owner-trainer Ali al Raihe stole the show on the first night of the Dubai World Cup Carnival, winning four of the six Thoroughbred races on the card, including the Group 2, $250,000 Al Maktoum Challenge Round 1 with Le Bernardin.
Meydan Racecourse in Dubai hosts the first of 11 Dubai World Cup Carnival racecards Thursday night, a program highlighted by the Al Maktoum Challenge Round 1.
Gold Actor (16-1) extended his winning streak to four races with the most prestigious win of his career Sunday in the $4,332,650 Arima Kinen Stakes at Nakayama Racecourse in Japan.
A Shin Hikari, Highland Reel, Maurice, and Peniaphobia won seven-figure Group 1 races on turf Sunday in Hong Kong on a program in which Breeders’ Cup Turf Sprint winner Mongolian Saturday could finish only fifth behind Peniaphoabia in the $2.38 million Hong Kong Sprint at Sha Tin Racecourse.
The quality of the Breeders’ Cup Turf Sprint at Keeneland on Oct. 31 will get a stern test in the Far East on Sunday when the first- and third-place finishers, Mongolian Saturday and Green Mask, start in the $2.38 million Hong Kong Sprint at Sha Tin Racecourse.
Shanon Pandora, one of three females in a field of 18, scored a mild upset Sunday in the $4.68 million Japan Cup at Tokyo Racecourse, the fifth filly or mare to win Japan’s top race in the last seven years.
Lovely Day has been in peak form in the last six months, winning four consecutive graded stakes across Japan. The races were in preparation for the most important start of his career in Sunday’s $4.68 million Japan Cup at Tokyo Racecourse.
Red Cadeaux, a globe-hopping gelding who raced in eight countries and finished second in the Melbourne Cup three times, was euthanized on Friday as a result of injuries suffered in the Melbourne Cup earlier this month.
Annacotty was 16th of 24 in a handicap steeplechase last March at Cheltenham Racecourse in western England. That was better than his subsequent start, when he fell in a handicap chase over the Grand National fences at Aintree in Liverpool last April.