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Hong Kong raiders - Yasuda Kinen
Stupid JRA making everyone wait.....
Bullish Luck and Floral Peg have better things to do. Four raiders in quarantine, just incase..... Tuesday, May 8, 2007 HK quartet enter quarantine in bid to reach Japan ALAN AITKEN Four of Hong Kong's top horses entered quarantine yesterday with connections hopeful of a tilt at the Yasuda Kinen in Tokyo next month following "some progress" in negotiations between the governments of Hong Kong and Japan. The outbreak of equine herpes virus (EHV) at Sha Tin had brought a ban on horses travelling to Japan, which was expected to keep them out of the fourth and final leg of the Asian Mile Challenge on June 3. But the Jockey Club's international racing manager, Mark Player, said yesterday three trainers had taken the option proposed by the club last week to place horses into quarantine while top-level negotiations continue over a compromise quarantine regime that would enable Hong Kong to participate in the race. "Joyful Winner and Able One from John Moore's yard, Good Ba Ba from Andreas Schutz and The Duke from Caspar Fownes have entered quarantine and the signs have been slightly more encouraging from the negotiating table," Player said. The compromise deal proposed last week was for the horses to undertake 14 days of quarantine here before leaving for Japan, ensuring that they leave clear of EHV. When they arrive in Tokyo, there is another regulation quarantine to undertake as well. If the travel ban is lifted, the four will comprise the strongest team ever to leave for a major event overseas in a race which has quite a history for Hong Kong horses. Fairy King Prawn was Hong Kong's first Group One winner on foreign soil when he took the 2000 Yasuda Kinen. There had been Hong Kong runners most years since, with Bullish Luck able to win the challenge last year. The trip is especially important for Able One, who stands to win a US$1 million bonus if he can take out the Yasuda Kinen as he is already the winner of an earlier leg of the challenge, the Champions Mile at Sha Tin last month. "The Golden Week national holidays in Japan have slowed things down but I'm hoping that we will get an official answer regarding the trip by Wednesday," Player said. "We've had great support from the Hong Kong government, speaking on a government to government level with Japan's Department of Agriculture and Fisheries, and the Japan Racing Association has been a huge help in ensuring that the situation is properly understood by the government on their side. "Although it has been slow going, I would say this has probably gone better than past negotiations with Japan to alter something like quarantine schedules, so we're hopeful." http://racing.scmp.com/freeservice/n...s20070508a.asp |
Update.....
Kids are in quarantine with all facilities available (hmmm..... i forgot to ask about swimming). They have to work out later and it's been hot but besides that, they're good! :) edit: They're allowed to swim.:cool: http://www.hkjc.com/english/racing/m...000_S_SWIM.xml |
Breaking news...
Good Ba Ba had a swim today. :) |
Update...
Still no answer from Japan as of Friday morning...:mad: Mick not going to Japan with Able One..... Ba Ba and Able will both have a reverse gallop later today (Friday) as per Pako. Douggie and Brett (swoon :D ) both staying put at Sha Tin in their jocks championship battle. |
YEA!!!!!
From the Hong Kong Jockey Club..... they're going! :cool: HK quartet cleared to contest the Yasuda Kinen 11 May 2007 Four of Hong Kong's best horses have been cleared to travel to Tokyo for the Yasuda Kinen. The Duke, Able One, Good Ba Ba and Joyful Winner will now comprise the strongest ever raiding party of Hong Kong horses for an overseas race on June 3. "Everyone at the Club is delighted and also very grateful this conclusion has been reached because one of Japan's most prestigious races is once again open to some of Hong Kong's best milers," said Mr Winfried Engelbrecht-Bresges, the Club's Chief Executive Officer. "I would to like take this opportunity to thank the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries of Japan for agreeing to the revised quarantine conditions. Hong Kong's Agriculture, Fisheries and Conservation Department also deserve our thanks, as does the Japan Racing Association for liaising between parties." The Yasuda Kinen, the fourth leg of the Asian Mile Challenge (AMC), will be simulcast to Hong Kong race fans. Able One, winner of the Champions Mile on April 29, bids for a US$1 million bonus for adding a second AMC leg. Hong Kong horses have a proud history in one of Japan's most prestigious races. Fairy King Prawn won in 2000 and Bullish Luck followed up last year to collect the same US$1 million bonus that Able One will try to emulate. |
Great news for the Raiders!
I hope they show the JRA who is boss.:D Imagine if one of the raiders pull off an upset in Japan.:eek: |
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If??? What does this mean, this "if"? Have you not seen this... last year... do you not remember? Have you amnesia? WATCH! :) Scroll down to June 4th ("To close on 25 April") and watch!!!!! :cool: It was stunning. http://japanracing.jp/information/list2006.html |
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The IF was in reference to this time, didn't mean to imply that they never had in the past. just settle down, catch your breath, no offense to the Raiders was intended by my big IF.:) |
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Remember to wear red on race day. :eek: edit - oh and did you watch it? Cause if you didn't I'll know.....:p |
... and so will Bullish Luck. :D
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You have to be on some kind of Hong Kong payroll of some sort, right? tourist bureau, HKJC, something. come on, admit it. |
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There is no way she'd be able to work over there, no work would get done!! |
Yeah no work would get done cause I'd be too busy running in and out of the ER from trying to pet Bulldozer.
Let's stay on topic and besides... everyone knows I'm on the Godolphin payroll. I'm an honerary international ambassador for the HKJC. That way i don't get my phone tapped. :eek: Let's chill and sing the raiders song. C'mon everyone..... Gallant and noooooble, local and gloooooobal Lazy, silly Bullish Luck Brett Prebble's the one I wanna....... :eek: :D |
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How dare you! |
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You know it's bad when the horses take out restraining orders on her
Ace Rakti Iffraaj Bullish Luck Bulldozer the list goes on :p |
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Robbie Fradd gets the mount on The Duke and Noel Callow on Able One... http://www.turfclub.com.sg/DesktopMo...158&PortalId=0 |
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From the HKJC.....
Special Grass Gallops for Able One and Good Ba Ba 19 May 2007 At the request of Trainers John Moore and Andreas Schutz, and to assist with the training of Able One (G108) and Good Ba Ba (E201) before their departure for the Yasuda Kinen, these two horses will gallop on the Sha Tin Turf Track in an anti-clockwise direction along the inside running rail on Sunday 20 May 2007 at the conclusion of the local track work. Footage of their gallops will be replayed on the Diamond Vision screens and closed-circuit televisions at both Sha Tin and Happy Valley racecourses around 12:30 on that day. * * * On the Japanese runners, from the JRA..... Oh right! NO information released yet..... I keep forgetting. |
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YEA! :cool:
Arrival of Hong Kong Raiders (No really..... that's the headline! Look!)! :D http://japanracing.jp/_news2007/070523.html The four raiders from Hong Kong, including the top three finishers of the Champions Mile, the 3rd leg of the Asian Mile Challenge, arrived in Japan on Wednesday, 23rd May. Despite the delay with the cargo flight, all four geldings arrived to the quarantine center in Shiroi safe and sound, after a twelve hours journey from Sha Tin. The Hong Kong team will move to the Tokyo Racecourse next Tuesday to set out to duplicate last year’s win by Bullish Luck. |
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I'll try to play nicey-nice here and say okay at least the JRA allowed them to come. To be fair, they did have some nice pics and an article on their site. The Four Geldings (shall we have shirts made?) though? Geez..... how about The Fantastic Four? Oh wait... that's taken. Let's forgive them as they're afraid, very afraid, of our boys. Wear red, cheer loudly, and watch out world..... let the invasion begin. Hong Kong Raiders! edit: Good Lord how did i miss this yesterday????? Check it out! http://www.hkjc.com/english/news/news_2007052316064.htm Awwwww. |
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Could the pictures of the Japanese horses be any more colorful? anymore exciting? The pictures of the raiders are all drap and colorless.:( Well there are a couple of green bushes in Good Baa Baa's picture, that adds a little color. |
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Anyway, the "four geldings" look quite lovely. Someday..... someday HK will get international respect. For now we shall wear red and sing songs and hey we can draw comic books of the 4 Amigos in their capes, fighting crime, winning races and, and..... :p Go, Raiders! :cool: |
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easy. the duke. |
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the four geldings of the apocalypse? |
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aren't there
gallops reports yet? I don't find anything. what's taking so long? |
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Dear Hong Kong Jockey Club,
Will you marry me? Fondly, mmsc Starting tomorrow we can view workouts for the Fab Four! http://special.hkjc.com/promo/en/200...yk07_index.asp |
Hey Arl Jim,
Since you know the score with the JRA get this..... Bullish Luck wasn't invited this year!:eek: :mad: |
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perhaps because last year he embarassed them by winning the darn thing? |
Yeah well the official excu..... i mean reason ha ha is that he didn't win the Champions mile.
Whatever! The barrier draw..... http://japanracing.jp/_news2007/070601.html HK (hope it's Good Ba Ba or The Duke but will be happy with either of the other two as well.....) to win and I like Kongo Rikishio to hit the board..... Sniper's boy Daiwa Major 4th..... |
On Daiwa Major from SCMP.....
http://racing.scmp.com/freeservice/n...s20070602b.asp On Joyful Winner, SCMP..... http://racing.scmp.com/freeservice/n...ws20070602.asp Cool stuff, pictures,etc from the HKJC..... http://www.hkjc.com/english/news/index.htm More fun stuff from the JRA..... http://japanracing.jp/ |
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