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Posted on Sunday, December 6th, 2009
Espoir City won the $4.7 million Japan Cup Dirt by 3 1/2 lengths over Silk Mobius at Hanshim Racecourse on Sunday, December 6.
The favorite in 16-horse Japan Cup Dirt field, Espoir City took the lead at the start of the race and led wire-to-wire for his first victory in an international Grade 1 race.
Four-year-old Espoir City had a winning time of 1:49.90 for the 1,800-meter race. The victory was the colt’s ninth in 17 career starts. Golden Ticket was third.
Tizway, the lone entry from overseas trained by H. James Bond, finished 12th. The Belmont Stakes winner Summer Bird was pulled out of the race last week with a minor leg injury.
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Summer Birt Out Of The Japan Cup Dirt
Posted on Saturday, November 28th, 2009
The Belmont Stakes winner Summer Bird has been declared out of the Dec. 6 Japan Cup Dirt after a small chip was detected in his right front carpal bone.
According to the colt’s owner, Dr. Kalarikkal Jayaraman, the chip was detected following the 3-year-old colt’s preparatory workout for race horse trainer Tim Ice at Hanshin Race Course in Japan on Sunday morning.
“He breezed today in preparation for the race and afterward he was not walking right, so Tim took an X-ray and they found the chip,” Jayaraman said from Japan. “We are going to watch him for a couple of days here and then ship him back to Lexington. He’s comfortable, he’s not in any pain.”
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Bets on Hong Kong horse racing in the USA
Posted on Saturday, June 30th, 2007
Bets on Hong Kong horse racing races will be accepted in the USA, the Home Affairs Bureau says.
The approval, effective for five years and subject to the validity of the horse race betting licence granted to the Hong Kong Jockey Club Horse Race Betting, is made in accordance with an Agreement for Telecast & Placing of Bets on Horse Races relating to a one-way arrangement between the club and Las Vegas Dissemination. Bets can be placed on the club’s hose races at authorised betting locations in the USA.
Horse Betting duty is charged on net stake receipts, or gross profits. A discount is allowed if the club accepts qualified bets outside Hong Kong within a charging period. In the case of the US, the betting duty discount will be half of the lowest marginal duty rate.
The bureau said the acceptance of qualified bets will benefit Hong Kong horse racing in terms of additional betting duty receivable. But the approval does not authorise Las Vegas Dissemination to accept bets in Hong Kong. Nor does it authorise any people in Hong Kong to place bets with any bookmaker outside Hong Kong, including Las Vegas Dissemination.
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Filly Vodka Wins Japanese Derby
Posted on Monday, May 28th, 2007
Vodka, becomes the first filly in 50 years to win the Japanese Derby. Ridden by Hirofumi Shii and trained by Katsuhiko Sumii, put on a show fitting for the imperial visit to Tokyo Racecourse of Crown Prince Naruhito and Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. The victory was her fifth in seven starts.
Vodka, by Tanino Gimlet out of Tanino Sister, became just the third filly to win the Japanese Derby, and the first since Kurifuji in 1943. She crossed the finish line in 2:24.5 as the third favorite in the 2,400-meter event.
Fourth choice Admire Aura took third, 1 3/4 lengths behind Asakusa Kings, who was jockeyed by Yuichi Fukunaga, the winner of last week???s Yushun Himba (Japanese Oaks).
Satsuki Sho (Japanese Two Thousand Guineas) champion Victory, second choice in the 18-horse field, got a bad hop out of the gate and finished ninth. Top pick Fusaichi Ho O came in seventh.
It was the first Japanese Derby victory for both Shii and Sumii, who has said he will consider entering Vodka, also the winner of the Hanshin Juvenile Fillies, in the Prix de l???Arc de Triomphe (Fr-I) this autumn.
???She felt great around that last turn,??? said the 34-year-old Shii, who had come in third in the Japanese Derby the last two years aboard Sixth Sense and Dream Passport. ???Once she was free, I was desperate to keep her out in front. I mean, it was the Derby.
???I???m not surprised by this. I always felt she had this kind of potential. I looked at this as a good challenge for her. I didn???t ride her thinking she was a filly. As far as I???m concerned, she???s one of the boys.???
The Japanese Derby had been won by the Satsuki Sho champion the past two years, Deep Impact doing the double in 2005 and Meisho Samson in 2006.
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Australian Jockey Chris Munce arrested by Hong Kong’s anti-corruption watchdogs
Posted on Thursday, July 6th, 2006
Melbourne Cup-winning jockey Chris Munce has fallen foul of one of the strictest racing regimes in the world. He is waiting to hear what charge he may face after being arrested by Hong Kong’s anti-corruption watchdog on Monday night for allegedly providing racing tips to illegal bookmakers in return for them placing bets of $HK600,000 ($103,000) on his behalf.
The Hong Kong Jockey Club stipendiary stewards are among the best-equipped racing police in the world [...]
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Hong Kong Jockey In Coma After fall
Posted on Monday, June 26th, 2006
Hongkong horse racing Champion jockey Shane Dye is in a coma after a race fall on Sunday, the South China Morning Post reports. Dye, 39, was aboard Ambitious Marju in the second race at Hong Kong’s Sha Tin race track when his mount clipped the heels of another horse and he was thrown.
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Rakuten expand to online horse race betting
Posted on Friday, June 16th, 2006
Rakuten Inc., a Japanese Internet mall operator, has announced Wednesday that it will form mutually beneficial business alliances with 12 horse racing operators in Japan to sell horse-betting tickets via the Internet. Rakuten aims to start sales by the end of this year, it said.
The alliance will benefit local race operators by attracting horse racing fans from outside their areas, while Rakuten can cash in on Net users who visit the Web site to buy the betting tickets.
Rakuten says it still needs to work on its purchasing system to prevent anyone under 20 years of age from illegally buying the tickets. The company’s 12 partners include horse race operators in the Hokkaido, Aichi and Kochi prefectures.
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