Dubai Winter Carnival opens with a different look
The Dubai Winter Carnival begins Thursday night at Meydan, and there are changes afoot, including the absence of jockey Frankie Dettori.
Marcus HershJan 08, 2013
The Dubai Winter Carnival begins Thursday night at Meydan, and there are changes afoot, including the absence of jockey Frankie Dettori.
Logotype, a 33-1 outsider, held off a late threat from the 3-10 favorite Codino to win Sunday’s $1.832 million Asahi Hai Futurity at Nakayama Racecourse, Japan’s top race for 2-year-olds.
A Shin Top, an undefeated Kentucky-bred colt by Tale of the Cat, can win his fourth race in Sunday’s $1.832 million Asahi Hai Futurity at Nakayama Racecourse.
Robe Tissage, a filly by Kentucky Derby winner War Emblem, won her first stakes in her third career start in Sunday’s $1.68 million Hanshin Juvenile Fillies, Japan’s top race for 2-year-old fillies.
California Memory won the Group 1 Hong Kong Cup, becoming the race’s first two-time winner, while Ambitions Dragon, who came close to being scratched from the race because of lameness, won the Group 1Hong Kong Mile.
Cirrus des Aigles injured his left foreleg while training on Thursday at Sha Tin Racecourse in Hong Kong and had to be scratched from the Group 1 Hong Kong Cup on Sunday.
The four Group 1 stakes Sunday at Sha Tin on Hong Kong’s biggest day of racing will have to do without the best-known horse on the program as French invader Cirrus des Aigles has been withdrawn from the Hong Kong Cup after injuring a leg during training Thursday.
The November stakes winners Collector Item and Sound Rihanna are the leading contenders for Sunday’s Grade 1 Hanshin Juvenile Fillies in Japan, the nation’s top race for 2-year-old fillies.
Former British champion jockey Frankie Dettori has been suspended six months by French racing authorities after failing a drug test at Longchamp Racecourse in Paris in September.
Nihonpiro Ours, an 18-1 outsider, won the biggest race of his career, and first Grade 1, in Sunday’s $3.3 million Japan Cup Dirt at Hanshin Racecourse.