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04-18-2007, 07:22 PM
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It will be announced tomorrow that the French will withdraw their runners...
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04-18-2007, 10:06 PM
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SCMP.....
Thursday, April 19, 2007 French pair throw in the towel before race ALAN AITKEN The Group One Champions Mile on Sunday week has been hit early after two French trainers decided the opposition was too strong. Freddy Head-trained Racinger and Francois Rohault's Turtle Bowl were withdrawn from the third Asian Mile Challenge series leg yesterday. The pair had quinellaed the Group Three Prix Edmond Blanc over a mile on heavy ground at Saint-Cloud 17 days ago at their first outings for the new European flat season, but their trainers were daunted by the much tougher task at Sha Tin. "They said they'd looked at the depth of the race and decided it was too strong for them to be taking on so early in the season," said Jockey Club international racing manager Mark Player. "It would have been nice to have a French flavour but it isn't easy to get the Europeans here at this stage of the year. "There don't seem to be any appropriate replacements available for them, so we'll run the Champions Mile with a field of 12 rather than trying to fill it for the sake of filling it." Player said he had made a last-ditch attempt to enrol Kenji Yamauchi-trained Japanese miler Kongo Rikishio following his win in the Group Two Yomiuri Miles Cup at Hanshin last Saturday but to no avail. "Before the selections, they were very keen to bring the horse for the Champions Mile but his rating didn't quite get him into the field," Player said. "After he won at Hanshin and his rating was raised, he would have been a welcome addition, but it was all too late." Last edited by my miss storm cat : 04-18-2007 at 11:57 PM.
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04-20-2007, 12:22 AM
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Barrier rogue and diva Ms. Aqua has been retired.
 Aqua no more By Mandy Cottell April 20, 2007 GROUP I-winning racemare Aqua d'Amore has been retired after failing to pass a barrier test at Randwick today. The quirky mare needed to show stewards she had overcome her habit of sitting down in the starting stalls in order to be cleared to race in the Champion Mile in Hong Kong on Sunday week. But she reverted to type and stewards had no option but to maintain the bar on her racing. "Obviously the owners are disappointed, Hong Kong are disappointed and we're disappointed," Racing New South Wales chief steward Ray Murrihy said. "Hong Kong expressed to us that they didn't want the horse to come all the way across unless she had completed all the requirements, and she obviously hasn't. "She did sit down so she's been given an unsatisfactory and she's still under a bar." Aqua d'Amore passed a jumpout at Randwick last Friday and a trial at the venue on Tuesday before failing at the final hurdle today. Michael Kirwan, representing owners Coolmore Stud, felt the requirements imposed by stewards on Aqua d'Amore were too tough. "It was probably a bit much I'd say," Kirwan said. "It seems silly for a mare to have to trial three times in a week. "But the stewards were acting in the best interests of racing, and that's how it goes. "She's retired now,. "She's finished racing." Trained by Gai Waterhouse, Aqua d'Amore started 34 times for nine wins, 11 placings and more than $1.9 million prizemoney. A daughter of the late Danehill, she recorded her biggest triumph in the Group I Futurity Stakes (1600m) at Caulfield last month. She was also brilliant last spring without winning, running placings in the Caulfield Cup, Mackinnon and Turnbull Stakes as well as finishing fourth in the W.S. Cox Plate. "She was a top-class mare and a fun mare," Kirwan said. "She was a real trier and she never ran a bad race. "She's going to be missed. "She was quite popular given her antics, but she's off to stud this season and she'll be served by Encosta De Lago." The retirement of Aqua d'Amore means the Anthony Cummings-trained Casino Prince will be Australia's sole representative at the Hong Kong meeting on April 29. http://www.foxsports.com.au/story/0,...-32343,00.html
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04-20-2007, 09:06 PM
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Down Town ruled out of the Champions Mile.....
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04-23-2007, 12:28 AM
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Nne left in the Champions Mile..... Green Treasure was ruled out.
Doleuze takes the Good Ba Ba mount. Wonder who will ride The Duke..... Trackwork photos..... http://www.hkjc.com/english/news/news_2007042315825.htm
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