Sacred Kingdom scored his third victory in four years in the Centenary Sprint Cup at Sha Tin on Sunday, but Japan Cup winner Rose Kingdom went down to defeat in the Grade 2 Nikkei Shinshum Hai at Kyoto.
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Rose Kingdom, placed first in the Japan Cup at the expense of Japanese Horse of the Year Buena Vista but denied a rematch with the filly when scratched form the Arima Kinen, drops down to Grade 2 company at Kyoto on Sunday for the 1 1/2-mile, $1.35 million Nikkei Shinshun Hai.
Mendip returned to winning ways with a comfortable victory in Round 1 of the $200,000 Maktoum Challenge on Thursday night at Meydan as the Dubai Racing Carnival got under way. The Group 3 mile, run on Meydan’s synthetic Tapeta surface, serves as the first stepping-stone to the $10 million Dubai World Cup on March 26, and in Mendip, trainer Saeed bin Suroor appears to have himself a prime contender for the world’s richest race.
New Zealand Thoroughbred Racing announced Tuesday that it is raising the minimum weights for many of its races by one kilogram, or 2.2 pounds. The increase applies to all handicap races, including those with black-type status as well as non-black-type races at set weights for 2-year-olds and 3-year-olds.
The owners of 160 stallions based outside the U.S. and Canada have paid fees that make all of the stallions’ progeny eligible to run in the 14 Breeders’ Cup races, the Breeders’ Cup announced on Monday, seven days after nominations opened under a new structure for international stallions.
The Dubai Racing Carnival kicks off the stakes race season at Meydan Racecourse on Thursday. The Emirates Racing Authority will present 28 black-type races on 13 evenings of racing at Meydan between then and Saturday, March 26, the date of the 16th running of the Dubai World Cup, the world’s richest race at $10 million.
The 28 stakes at Meydan this year include four Group 1’s, 11 Group 2’s, eight Group 3’s, and five listed races worth a total of $30.6 million. The seven group races on Dubai World Cup Night have a total value of $26 million.
Buena Vista was named Horse of the Year by the Japan Racing Association on Friday despite having lost her last two starts. Trained by Hiroyoshi Matsuda for Sunday Racing Co. Ltd., the 4-year-old daughter of Special Week began the year with a victory in the Grade 2 Kyoto Kinen, but was then an unlucky second to Dar Re Mi in the Dubai Sheema Classic. Back in Japan she won a pair of Grade 1’s, the Victoria Mile and the Autumn Tenno Sho, before crossing the line first in the Japan Cup, only to suffer a controversial disqualification for which she was placed second to Rose Kingdom. On Dec.
Baron Thierry van Zuylen, the Dutch banker who was part owner of Perrault, winner of the 1982 Eclipse Award as best turf horse, died in London on Sunday at the age of 78. Van Zuylen, who owned the Charlie Whittingham-trained Perrault in partnership with Serge Fradkoff, had been a leading figure on the French racing scene for more than 50 years.
At $10 million, the Dubai World Cup was once again the world’s richest race in 2010. Run at the new Meydan Racecourse for the first time, the World Cup received a $4 million purse increase this year, giving it some breathing room over the Melbourne Cup, which, thanks to a rise in purse money and the strength of the Australian dollar, jumped from $4.9 million in 2009 to $5.9 million and from sixth to second place.