Tanto spazio per i 2 anni nel mercoledì di corse al galoppo all’Ippodromo Snai San Siro. Inizio convegno dalle ore 15:20 con ingresso gratuito. Vediamo insieme il programma completo.
PRIMA CORSA – PREMIO SANT’AMBROGIO
Apertura di giornata con una maiden sui 1.200 metri. Si rivede in azione Sopran Noble, che arrivò seconda nel Poncia destando una favorevole impressione, ma ancor più di lei convince SENTIERO LUCENTE, che ha pagato caro dazio all’inesperienza al debutto nella fase iniziale, proponendo tuttavia un finale pieno di promesse che avrà fatto scrivere il suo nome su molte agende. Ferro E Foco ha invece esordito in un contesto complicato e può essere molto più centrato ora, e attenzione anche a Cecino Di Mamma, non dispiaciuto su distanza superiore.
SECONDA CORSA – PREMIO PIAZZA MERCANTI
Si resta sui 1.200 metri e Si resta con i puledri, che hanno a disposizione una nursery di buona categoria per quelli veloci. Campo piuttosto ridotto, ma corsa ugualmente molto incerta, con possibilità concrete per l’ospite Puo Succede che arriva da imbattuto dopo due successi a vendere e per Sopran Leila che arriva anche lei da valide prestazioni a reclamare, ma con la nomination che spetta a LADY BARDIGIANNA, che ha vinto una corsa incredibile l’ultima volta, battendo Universo Mare e Sopran Tajmahal che si ritrova di fronte con un peso più brutto, ma con tutte le carte in regola per concedere il bis. Kiwyf debutta in perizia e va rispettato.
TERZA CORSA – PREMIO REDORTA
Tocca ai fondisti, che possono contare su un handicap sul miglio e mezzo della pista circolare di categoria ordinaria. Se Rossese dovesse ritrovarsi non avrebbe rivali in questa compagnia, ma in questo momento resta una sorta di mina vagante, e un discorso più o meno simile si può applicare anche a FARADAYS SPARK, un altro che non sta brillando di recente, ma che torna su distanza verosimilmente più congeniale, autorizzando pertanto l’idea di un prestazione in progresso. Over Joy, Amelin e Adivinadora, citati in ordine di preferenza, sono altri pretendenti accompagnati da una forma positiva.
QUARTA CORSA – PREMIO NICO E VITTORIO CASTELLINI
Il livello sale decisamente con questo handicap di categoria più che buona per i 3 anni sui 1.800 metri della pista circolare intitolato a Nico e Vittorio Castellini. Tasso di competitività certamente degno, con il top weight SIBERIUS che si merita la nomination dopo un’ultima apparizione non troppo fortunata contro avversari addirittura più cattivi di questi, e con la distanza ibrida che gli calza a pennello. Lo stesso Brando’s Revenge si presenta da una piazza d’onore in Handicap Limitato e si colloca sullo stesso piano, con poco più dietro Sir Geims, a sua volta con le sue brave carte in mano. Non finisce qui perché le compagne di training Piazza Di Siena e Walplata si sono viste molto toniche, e Albareto può subito riscattarsi dopo aver mancato la hat-trick.
QUINTA CORSA – PREMIO DUOMO DI MILANO
Torna in azione la generazione più giovane, con un’altra nursery della stessa categoria della precedente, ma allungata sui 1.500 metri della pista circolare. Scenario molto simile alla prova per i velocisti vista in precedenza, con una lieve preferenza orientata verso MYSTIC KNIGHT, che torna ad affrontare un compito più congeniale dopo aver giustamente provato a testare le sue ambizioni a seguito delle buone prestazioni estive. Anche Sky Whale abbassa un po’ il tiro e insieme a lui nella valutazione c’è Chat Noir, con linea comune, e se Brezza Dei Grif e In The Woods si sono ben comportati a reclamare, la stessa Rosetta O’Hara non pare affatto tagliata fuori.
SESTA CORSA – PREMIO COPPA D’ORO EMILIO BADINI
A chiudere l’infrasettimanale all’Ippodromo Snai San Siro ci sono le amazzoni e i cavalieri con la Coppa d’Oro Emilio Badini, handicap sul miglio di pista circolare per i 3 anni ed oltre. Difficile andare contro SOUVLAKI, che ha letteralmente demolito i suoi avversari un paio di settimane fa, con un numero tale dal poter reggere la penalità al peso e l’accorciamento della distanza. Mutineer l’aveva però preceduta con i professionisti in sella ed oggi guadagna tanti chili, quindi sarà un avversario potenzialmente assai pericoloso, esattamente come Battle Commence, che torna sulla distanza preferita. Anche Time Sky e Jak Du Lad possono dire la loro.
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fonte : ippodromimilano.it
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By Emma Berry
We are in that strange week of the year after Champions Day, with much tweeting about the end of the Flat season but with at least one highly informative juvenile race yet to be run. It’s a misconception aided largely by the fact that the jockeys’ and apprentices’ championships both end that day, representing only a subset of the season as a whole. John Dance has been a breath of fresh air since joining the British owners’ ranks, his joy for the game understandably heightened by being associated with the brilliant Laurens(Fr) (Siyouni {Fr}). With Karl Burke he has campaigned her sportingly and openly and we wish the mare continued success from the paddocks via her offspring.
Last year, Dance’s company took on the sponsorship of Britain’sfinal Group 1 juvenile contest of the season, the Vertem Futurity Trophy at Doncaster. And while some of us may be forgiven for still occasionally and erroneously referring to it as the ‘Racing Post Trophy’ following that long sponsorship association, it is unforgivable, both for Doncaster and for Vertem Futurity, that racing fans are encouraged to have looked upon last weekend as the end of the season. (fonte : ThoroughbredDailyNews)
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KOREA : Blue Chipper En-Route to LA & Planned Breeders’ Cup Startby gyongmaman |
Blue Chipper flew out of Incheon Airport late on Monday evening en-route to Santa Anita and a planned start in the delightfully named Big Ass Fans Breeders’ Cup Dirt Mile (G1) at Santa Anita on November 2. If all goes to plan, he will be the first Korea-trained runner to participate in a Breeders’ Cup race.
Having traveled up from Busan last week, Blue Chipper spent four days in pre-export quarantine in the International Isolation Stables at Seoul Racecourse (the same ones that the international horses are stabled in during the Korea Cup & Sprint) before departing from nearby Incheon Airport at 11:50pm on Monday evening, scheduled to arrive at LAX on Monday evening US time.
Blue Chipper left the Seoul Racecourse international isolation stables this afternoon headed for Incheon Airport. He is due to fly to Los Angeles late tonight. pic.twitter.com/yMvY2T7N1J
— Korea Racing (@korearacing) October 21, 2019
Blue Chipper [Tiznow – Dixie City (Dixie Union)] was bred in Kentucky by Diamond A Racing Corp. He was selected and purchased at Keeneland by Busan-based trainer Bart Rice on behalf of owner Choi Byeong-bu. Now he’s a four-year-old gelding who has won seven of his eight lifetime starts. He was a four-length winner on debut as a juvenile at Busan in September 2017, trained by Rice.
He then suffered what is to date his only defeat when last in the Gyeongnam Do Min Ilbo Cup, Busan’s top race for imported two-year-olds. Blue Chipper ran once more that year, returning to winning ways with a three-length score on New Year’s Ever over 1200M.
Blue Chipper did not race again for more than a year with a number of setbacks meaning he spent almost his entire three-year-old year spelled, with only occasional trips to the racetrack to trial. He finally returned to action in April of 2019, now in trainer Kim Young-kwan’s stable, and picked up where he left off, scoring by thirteen-lengths over 1200M.
That win was followed up by two more with a combined winning margin of eighteen lengths before Blue Chipper tackled a Korean Graded race for the first time, the Busan Owners’ Cup (KOR G3) at the end of July. It was his first try at a mile but that didn’t trouble him as he romped away from a high class field to win by ten-lengths in track-record time.
International weekend was up next at Seoul and Blue Chipper was sent to the 1 Billion Won Keeneland Korea Sprint (KOR G1) back down at 1200M. Despite being drawn in gate 13, he was sent off as favourite and duly made it to the pace early. He would eventually shake off local rival Gaon Champ and run on to win by a length and a half becoming the first locally-trained horse to win the Korea Sprint.
Seemingly out of challenges in Korea for the time being, and with connections aware that he was registered for the Breeders’ Cup as a weanling, Blue Chipper will now be taken overseas and will move back up to a mile for his biggest challenge. If he adapts to the Santa Anita dirt, he’s not to be taken lightly.
Having had positive experiences with international jockeys on Korean horses at the Dubai World Cup Carnival, the decision was made to engage a Santa Anita-based rider and Flavien Prat, who won the race on Battle Of Midway in 2017, has accepted the ride.
How good is Blue Chipper? We don’t yet know and that’s basically why he is going. What we do know is that Bart found a good one that day at Keeneland and a number of seasoned observers of Korean racing have told this blog that he is the best horse they have seen run in Korea. While they are very different types of horse, that includes the Dubai star, Dolkong.
He will be up against it at Santa Anita. The dirt is very different to the sand he has experienced in Korea – although his sire, Tiznow, and damsire Dixie Union, did finish 1st and 2nd at Santa Anita in the Affirmed Handicap back in 2000. Then there is the obvious medication issue – there are no plans for Blue Chipper to run on lasix. That’s all without taking into account his opponents, among whom is expected to be Omaha Beach and Mr. Money. All through his brief career so far, Blue Chipper has stepped up.
KOREA : Silver Wolf Sweeps the Queens’ Tour Againby gyongmaman |
Silver Wolf has once more swept all three legs of the Queens’ Tour Series to be crowned Korea’s Champion Filly or Mare of 2019.
The seven-year-old Australian import won the Ttukseom Cup, KNN Cup and Gyeongnam Governor’s Cup in 2017 butbwas ineligible for last year’s series as it was at that time only open to fillies and mares aged five and under.
That restriction was lifted this year and the Series proved to be a cakewalk for Silver Wolf. The last leg did though prove the toughest as she first had to battle to find a clear run at the top of the stretch and was then pushed all the way by fast finishing pair Gold Blue and Seouri Byeol. The margin on the line was less than two lengths.
Silver Wolf (Oratorio) was winning for the fifth time in a row in an unbeaten 2019 campaign. She has seventeen career wins from thirty-three lifetime starts and on Sunday broke the 3 Billion Won Prize Money mark. She now lies in 3rd on the all-time money earners list behind only Triple Nine and Power Blade, the latter of whom she holds a win over.
