Hong Kong!

[my miss storm cat]

Retired... Californiamountain and Namjong Sky

Barrier trials...

http://www.hkjc.com/english/press/btrs.asp

(Dream Team, Windicator Returns, South China Elite all win!)

Happy Valley tomorow... good luck to Amo (R3) and Eight Plus Nine (R6).

Entries... including some HK supah stars!

07/06/2009 Sha Tin Track : AWT
Meeting No : 72 Course : -
Race Name : THE SKOL CUP (HANDICAP) Distance : 1650m
Race Class : Class 1 Sec./Div. No : 1
Rating Range : 110-090

Horse (Brand No) Trainer Wt. WFA. Rtg. Rtg.+/- P Remarks
NOBLE CONQUEROR (G169)
C Fownes 133 - 110 0 1
SYLLABUS (D388)
D E Ferraris 133 - 110 1 1
RIVER JORDAN (G194)
C H Yip 132 - 109 -2 2
JOYFUL WINNER (E045)
C H Yip 128 - 105 5 1
WILLING STORM (J187)
J Moore 128 - 105 0 1 +
DANESIS (H194)
A S Cruz 123 - 100 0 1 +
SKYVIEW BAR (G024)
A Lee 123 - 100 -1 1
WATCH WHAT HAPPENS (H145)
S Woods 123 - 100 -1 1 +
GREAT ACHIEVEMENT (D250)
K L Man 121 - 98 -1 1 +
SILVER SUN (E126)
Y S Tsui 115 - 92 0 1
NATURAL NINE (G087)
C Fownes 114 - 91 0 2 #

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Originally Posted by my miss storm cat

Retired... Namjong Sky

Awww, hope he's okay. I didn't watch the barrier trial but he didn't finish, poor guy.

edit - doesn't look like he did from what I'm finding. Poor baby.

Retired... Packing Supreme.

Good luck to Bullish Win in his (Friday) barrier trial!!!

Weird to see entries sans Prebble and Whyte. Good luck in Japan!

Hope Chadwick has a stellar day. Wonder if Lloyd knows he's riding the kindest horse in HK...

Race 7 - THE SKOL CUP (HANDICAP)
Sunday, June 07, 2009, Sha Tin, 16:10
All Weather Track ,1650m

Prize Money: $1,750,000.00, Rating: 110-90, Class 1

Horse No. Last 6 Runs Colour Horse Wt. Jockey Draw Trainer Rtg. Rtg.+/- Horse Wt. (Declaration) Gear
1 6/1/6/5/3/5 NOBLE CONQUEROR 133 W C Marwing 6 C Fownes 110 0 P
2 4/1/8/13/1/10 SYLLABUS 133 J Lloyd 3 D E Ferraris 110 1 B/TT
3 6/8/8/10/6/7 RIVER JORDAN 132 C W Wong (-3) 4 C H Yip 109 -2
4 1/3/9/8/11/11 JOYFUL WINNER 128 K C Leung (-7) 10 C H Yip 105 5
5 5/5/1/1/6/7 WILLING STORM 128 D Beadman 5 J Moore 105 0 H
6 9/2/10/8/8/1 DANESIS 123 J Winks 2 A S Cruz 100 0 TT
7 11/12/8/12/8/6 SKYVIEW BAR 123 M L Yeung (-10) 7 A Lee 100 -1 P1
8 8/7/9/2/5/1 WATCH WHAT HAPPENS 123 Z Purton 9 S Woods 100 -1
9 6/5/4/2/4/10 GREAT ACHIEVEMENT 121 H W Lai (-2) 8 K L Man 98 -1 TT
10 11/11/3/1/9/5 SILVER SUN 115 Y T Cheng (-2) 1 Y S Tsui 92 0
11 3/2/11/2/12/2 NATURAL NINE 114 C K Tong (-3) 11 C Fownes 91 0 XB

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Retired... Famagusta (4 wins from 6... wonder what happened) and Spring Sun (former name, The Hunted, from NZ).

Congrats to 8YO Speed of Light for passing his vet exam.

He has a current rating of 17, poor guy... hope that 78th start gets him a(nother) win.

The current Top 10...

131 GOOD BA BA E201 A Schutz
129 SACRED KINGDOM G268 P F Yiu
129 VIVA PATACA G096 J Moore
126 EGYPTIAN RA E002 A S Cruz
124 ABLE ONE G108 J Moore
124 HAWKES BAY G064 D J Hall
124 MORE BOUNTIFUL J094 J Size
124 SIGHT WINNER J049 J Size
124 THUMBS UP K005 C S Shum
123 INSPIRATION G111 J Moore

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Sacred Kingdom departs...

http://www.hkjc.com/english/news/news_2009060722290.htm

Scratched and retired today.....

10 year old Amo.

You'll be missed!

His record, replays...

http://www.hkjc.com/english/racing/h...&Option=1#htop


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NAMJONG SKY
HKJC

On Wednesday 3 June 2009, the Stewards interviewed Mr S Woods, the trainer of NAMJONG SKY, which suffered a catastrophic injury when it fractured the sesamoid bones in its left front leg shortly after entering the Home Straight in batch 2 of the official barrier trials held at Sha Tin on 2 June 2009. Also interviewed were Dr B D Stewart, Head of Veterinary Regulation & International Liaison, Dr K H Lam, Veterinary Officer, Jockey Z Purton who rode NAMJONG SKY in the official barrier trial, Mr J Gadsby, Expert Work Rider, Mr C K Tsang, Assistant Trainer to Mr Woods, and Mr C P Ting, Work Rider I, who is allocated to the stable of Mr Woods.

The evidence disclosed that NAMJONG SKY was transferred to Mr Woods' stable on 2 April 2009. On the day following its arrival at Mr Woods' stable, NAMJONG SKY was ridden in light work by Mr Gadsby. Following this work, Mr Woods and Mr Gadsby spoke and both expressed concerns over the action of the horse. Because of this Mr Woods requested his Clinical Veterinary Surgeon investigate the horse's poor action. It was noted NAMJONG SKY had a history of ongoing soreness in both front legs and also the left hind leg. During the clinical examination of NAMJONG SKY on 3 April 2009, X-rays were taken of all four legs. On 9 April 2009, bone scans were conducted on all four legs of NAMJONG SKY. The examination of NAMJONG SKY showed the horse to have degenerative changes in all four fetlock joints. The bone scans showed no active fracture lesions in the horse's legs. Because of these findings, the Department of Veterinary Regulation & International Liaison decided NAMJONG SKY would be required to pass an official veterinary examination prior to being permitted to race again.

Mr Woods said because of the veterinary findings he eased off the work being given to NAMJONG SKY to assist the horse in recovering from its issues. He said NAMJONG SKY resumed fast work on 6 May 2009 when in his opinion the horse's action was suitable to have pressure applied to it. He said as the progress of NAMJONG SKY continued to satisfy him, the horse was entered for and took part in an official barrier trial at Sha Tin on 19 May 2009 immediately after which the horse was subjected to the required official veterinary examination. Z Purton, who rode NAMJONG SKY in this trial, advised the Stewards he was satisfied with the action of the horse during the trial. Dr Lam, who examined NAMJONG SKY after the trial, advised the horse passed the official veterinary examination when no soreness was evident in its action. Mr Woods said he then continued to work NAMJONG SKY in accordance with his usual stable routine and entered the horse for a further official barrier trial on 2 June 2009. He said he hoped to start NAMJONG SKY in a race prior to the end of the season. He said there had been no cause to have NAMJONG SKY examined or treated by a Clinical Veterinary Surgeon between the official barrier trials in which it took part. NAMJONG SKY was again ridden by Z Purton in the official barrier trial, 1050 Metres, on 2 June 2009 and said he was satisfied with the horse's action on the way to the Start and during the trial until NAMJONG SKY went amiss near the 400 Metres and fell.

Mr Gadsby said after riding NAMJONG SKY on 3 April 2009, he advised Mr Tsang that he did not wish to ride the horse in further work due to its action. Mr Gadsby said he was not then rostered to ride NAMJONG SKY again until 28 April 2009. He said the only other occasion he was rostered to ride NAMJONG SKY was Monday 1 June 2009 and on that morning after riding the horse in the trotting ring to warm it up for its work, he advised Mr Woods that he did not wish to ride the horse on the training track. He said Mr Woods then organised him to swap horses with Mr Ting prior to proceeding to the track. Mr Gadsby told the Stewards he did not wish to ride NAMJONG SKY on the track on the morning of 1 June 2009 because he generally did not like the action of the horse and not that he had specific concerns with the horse's action that morning. He said in his opinion the action of NAMJONG SKY was similar on each of the three occasions he had ridden the horse and there had been no noticeable deterioration in the action of NAMJONG SKY during the period the horse had been trained by Mr Woods.

Mr Ting said he had frequently ridden NAMJONG SKY in work since the horse had joined Mr Woods' stable and in his opinion the horse's action was satisfactory and had not deteriorated in that time. He said when he worked NAMJONG SKY on 1 June 2009, the action of the horse was not of a concern to him.

Dr Stewart advised the inquiry that in his opinion the investigation of NAMJONG SKY's soreness was appropriate.

On the evidence before them, the Stewards did not believe it appropriate for this matter to be taken further.

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Retired today... South China Elite.

His finest moment...

http://www.hkjc.com/english/racing/r...2007&raceno=07

[my miss storm cat]

Good luck in HK, Aaron Gryder!

Retired... Multo Expresso, Super Red.

Barrier trials... Dynamic Blitz wins batch 1!

http://www.hkjc.com/english/press/btrs.asp

Good luck to Windicator Returns in R6 and He Can Tango in the final.

My lock of the day... Best Friend in R8 at a decent price.

Wondering if Chadwick will do it...

Race 9 - THE PREMIER CUP (HANDICAP)
Saturday, June 13, 2009, Sha Tin, 17:10
Turf ,"C+3" Course ,1400m ,Good

Prize Money: $2,300,000.00, Rating: 95+, HONG KONG GROUP 3

Horse No. Last 6 Runs Colour Horse Wt. Jockey Draw Trainer Rtg. Rtg.+/- Horse Wt. (Declaration) Gear
1 8/10/11/9/1/7 JOY AND FUN 133 B Doyle 8 D Cruz 117 -1 1137 SW
2 7/2/11/3/3/1 REGENCY DRAGON 132 K C Leung (-7) 10 D E Ferraris 116 0 1196 B/TT
3 4/3/2/6/4/1 ONE WORLD 129 W C Marwing 12 J Moore 113 0 1113 XB/H/TT
4 2/1/1/6/2/1 SPECIAL DAYS 129 D Whyte 3 J Size 113 2 1151
5 5/8/2/1/3/7 EXPRESS WIN 128 B Prebble 13 C H Yip 112 0 1161 TT
6 10/10/3/4/12/3 BULLISH CASH 127 Y T Cheng (-2) 11 A S Cruz 111 -1 1052 TT
7 1/2/4/6/6/4 GALLANT LION 127 Z Purton 2 C Fownes 111 6 1103 H
8 12/14/8/1/11/5 FULL OF JOY 125 K T Yeung (-3) 1 A Lee 109 -1 1103
9 10/6/8/8/10/6 RIVER JORDAN 123 C W Wong (-3) 9 C H Yip 107 -2 1108
10 8/1/3/9/8/11 JOYFUL WINNER 121 R Fradd 5 C H Yip 105 0 1089
11 11/5/8/5/10/8 MASTER POWER 117 J Winks 4 J Moore 101 -1 1060 B
12 12/1/1/1/7/1 DREAM TEAM 116 M Chadwick (-7) 6 A S Cruz 100 0 1281 TT
13 7/10/8/8/10/8 GOLD STRIKER 116 W M Lai (-2) 7 J Size 100 -2 1280

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Joy and Fun wins...

"He's the one, he's my favourite horse." D. Cruz (SCMP)

http://www.hkjc.com/english/racing/r...eno=9&venue=ST

Retired... Mr. Cool and Jade Dragonfly.

Chadwick!

http://racing.scmp.com/freeservice/n...s20090614a.asp