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June 1, 2011
Training Report of Foreign Entrees
61st Running of the Yasuda Kinen (G1)
June 1, 2011 (Wednesday)

Tokyo Race Course

Weather: Cloudy Firm (turf course), Standard (dirt course)

Beauty FlashBEAUTY FLASH (NZ, G6, chestnut)

- jogged 1/4 lap, cantered 1 lap and jogged (dirt course)
(exercised from 7:30 AM to 7:40 AM, ridden by Kin Wai Cheung)

"The horse was very relaxed this morning and I'm very pleased with him. Our trainer Anthony Cruz will be here tomorrow morning to see him do a 400m dash after starting from the gate on the turf course. Since it's his second time here, we're not worried about him running the left-handed course."

(comments taken from Kin Wai Cheung)


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Thumbs UpTHUMBS UP (NZ, G7, bay)

jogged, cantered and galloped from 1,200m out, stronger on stretch (turf course)
(exercised from 6:31 AM to 6:40 AM, ridden by Dale Bussey)
[fractional time] 6F (79.2 – 64.7 – 50.0 – 35.8 – 11.7)

"Obviously he missed some work in the quarantine, so we gave him a nice bit of work this morning. He's had a nice bit of a blow there, so we hope that it'll bring him on even more, and we're happy with him.
There are no worries about the grass, he's handled it very well. He's just a little bit lazy by himself but I'm happy with the fractional time I've been shown. He'll do some light work on the dirt tomorrow. "

(comments taken from Caspar Fownes)