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(Wednesday March 29, 2017)
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DRF Past Performances
Seiun Kosei won the first graded stakes of his career, and sixth race overall, in Sunday’s Grade 1 Takamatsunomiya Kinen at six furlongs on turf at Chuyko Racecourse in Japan.
The $1.733 million race was the first Grade 1 turf race of the year in Japan.
Seiun Kosei (7-1) closed from fourth with a wide rally to win by 1 1/4 lengths over Let’s Go Donki in the field of 18. Let’s Go Donki, the winner of the Japanese 1000 Guineas in 2015, was the 4-1 second choice and finished a neck in front of Red Falx, the 5-2 favorite who won the Grade 1 Sprinters’ Stakes last fall.
SHA TIN SELECTIONS
(Sunday, March 26, 2017)
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Brett Davis - Selections
Race 1: - 1-7-8-5
Race 2: 14-2-4-12
Race 3: 11-12-1-2
Race 4: 12-3-1-6
Race 5: 5-7-6-11
Race 6: 10-2-4-6
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates – Jack Hobbs’s 4-year-old season began last April with a cracked pelvis suffered in the running of the Jockey Club Stakes at Newmarket. His 5-year-old campaign got off to a much more auspicious beginning Saturday night at Meydan Racecourse, where Jack Hobbs decisively won the Group 1, $6 million Sheema Classic.
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates – All week in Dubai, the outcome of the $10 million World Cup felt preordained: The great horse Arrogate could not lose.
Then the starting gate clanged open, and there was no way Arrogate could win.
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates – Trainer Chad Summers wants Mind Your Biscuits to prove he can run a route of ground at some point this year. But for all intents and purposes, he already has.
At least six paths wide into the turn and losing precious ground all the way around the bend, Mind Your Biscuits stormed to the lead with a little more than 100 meters left to run and won the Group 1, $2 million Dubai Golden Shaheen by three lengths, going away. The colt ran much farther than everyone else in the six-furlong Shaheen – and was much, much better than them.
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates – Thunder Snow was a very good horse racing on the European turf last year, and he is doing pretty well so far on dirt.
After winning the UAE 2000 Guineas at Meydan Racecourse in his dirt debut, Thunder Snow ran out a dead-game nose winner over the Japanese colt Epicharis on Saturday in the Group 1, $2 million UAE Derby.
Thunder Snow gave jockey Christophe Soumillon his second straight win on the card, following his Gold Cup triumph on Vazirabad, and became the eighth UAE Derby winner for Saeed bin Suroor, who trains Thunder Snow for Godolphin.
The Right Man, a 20-1 outsider, had the right trip in Saturday’s Group 1 Al Quoz Sprint on turf at Meydan Racecourse in Dubai.
The American shipper Long On Value was not as fortunate and nearly won the race despite a troubled trip early in the $1 million race on a straightaway course.
The Right Man, who finished 11th in a Group 1 sprint in France last August, held off a determined rally from Long On Value to win by a nose. Ridden by regular rider Francois Xavier-Bertras, The Right Man ran about six furlongs on a yielding turf course in 1:09.59.
The French stayer Vazirabad is very much at home in the Dubai desert.
For the second consecutive year, Vazirabad won the Group 2 Dubai Gold Cup at Meydan Racecourse in Dubai on Saturday on the undercard of the $10 million Dubai World Cup.
Ridden by Christophe Soumillon, Vazirabad closed from about ninth in the final three furlongs to win by a neck over the 5-year-old mare Beautiful Romance. Vazirabad ran about two miles on a yielding turf course in 3:14.76.
“Fortunately for us, the pace was quite good, so I knew we could make [up] some lengths,” Soumillon said.