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作者: 新水星 時間: 23/2/2007 02:54 PM 標題: 牛精福星獲邀出戰杜拜世界杯

Bullish to contest world's richest race

Cruz accepts Dubai World Cup challenge despite HK champion having to compete on dirt for first time

MURRAY BELL

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Bullish Luck, Hong Kong's reigning Horse of the Year, has been invited to compete against the world's number one racehorse, Invasor, in the US$6 million Dubai World Cup on March 31.

And to the surprise of most, owner Wong Wing-keung and trainer Tony Cruz have decided to take up the challenge, with Cruz confirming yesterday that Bullish Luck will switch from the Dubai Duty Free on turf to tackle the world's richest horse race, on a totally foreign dirt surface.

"I know it will surprise some people but I've had this in the back of my mind for a while and we now that we have been invited, we have decided to go ahead," Cruz said yesterday.

"He's a year older now and has been finding the mile races a fraction short, and we know he's already proven at 2,000 metres - on turf, at least. First, we will run in the Hong Kong Gold Cup here on Sunday week [March 4]."

While there are huge question marks over Bullish Luck's ability to handle the Dubai dirt track, Cruz is taking the optimistic view.

"I think he maybe able to handle it. Whenever we have trialled him on the dirt here at Sha Tin, he's always gone well, even though the trials are at 1,050 or 1,200 metres - way short of his best distances."

Cruz said there is also breeding evidence to suggest Bullish Luck will handle the dirt, with three champion dirt middle-distance racers close up in the mother's half of the pedigree. "His dam is American-bred, by Alysheba, who won a Kentucky Derby, Preakness Stakes and Breeders' Cup Classic - he was a champion at 2,000 metres on dirt," Cruz said. "He [Alysheba] was by Alydar, who was also a dirt champion in America, while Bullish Luck's grandmother is by another Kentucky Derby winner in Foolish Pleasure. So there are a lot of reasons to believe he might handle the dirt track in Dubai."

Last June in Tokyo, Bullish Luck became only the fourth Hong Kong horse - after Fairy King Prawn, Cape Of Good Hope and Silent Witness - to win a Group One race on foreign soil. His sparkling victory in the Yasuda Kinen, trouncing the best Japanese milers and two of Hong Kong's best in Joyful Winner and The Duke, saw him maintain his spot on the official list of the world's top 50 racehorses.

He returned from Tokyo to make a clean sweep of the end of season awards, taking the gongs for Champion Miler, Horse of the Year and Hong Kong's Most Popular horse.

This season, Bullish Luck has been solid without being spectacular, with his best effort being a late-closing fourth to The Duke in the HK$14 million Cathay Pacific Hong Kong Mile on December 10.

Since arriving here as a three-year-old in 2002, Bullish Luck has scored nine wins and eight minor placings from 40 starts, for prize money of HK$53,560,180, making him the leading active prize money winner in Hong Kong and second, behind his recently retired stablemate Silent Witness (HK$62,496,396) on the all-time earners list. The Dubai World Cup is the centrepiece of the world's richest night of racing, where some 70 to 80 racehorses ship in from all over the world to complete for a share in a US$21 million pie.

Hong Kong's best performance at this meeting was staged by Fairy King Prawn who, like Bullish Luck, was a winner of Japan's premier mile, the Yasuda Kinen. Fairy King Prawn, ridden by Robbie Fradd, was a close second to Jim And Tonic in the Group One Dubai Duty Free in 2001.

Hong Kong's other prominent performance came from the David Hayes-trained Helene Vitality, who ran second in the Dubai Sheema Classic (2,400m) in 2002 when ridden by Gerald Mosse.

作者: iceson 時間: 23/2/2007 02:57 PM

情願跑番1777仲好, 今年好似加左獎金, 杜拜世界杯陪跑居多

作者: 風雲小子 時間: 23/2/2007 03:05 PM

支持牛精福星遠征:hhhhh:

作者: souphen 時間: 23/2/2007 03:05 PM

但有得跑世界杯的確難得 :zzz:

當然免稅店杯係最好選擇 :lll:

但一生馬難得一次既榮譽 , 仲要係比人邀請先有得跑既世界一級大賽

試一次 , 又何妨 :yyy:

作者: 直布羅山 時間: 23/2/2007 03:11 PM

其實跑免稅店贏的機會都唔係好大...

試下跑世界杯都好 :fff:

作者: 西人堅 時間: 23/2/2007 03:21 PM

杜拜咁大 bias 點追, 橫掂都係冇,
跑 WC 玩下好過:eee:

作者: poiuy 時間: 23/2/2007 03:38 PM

QUOTE:

原帖由 西人堅 於 23/2/2007 03:21 PM 發表
杜拜咁大 bias 點追, 橫掂都係冇,
跑 WC 玩下好過:eee:

一個好彩贏左:fff:

作者: 新水星 時間: 23/2/2007 03:41 PM

QUOTE:

原帖由 poiuy 於 23/2/2007 03:38 PM 發表

一個好彩贏左:fff:

$$:jjjj:
再剝埋美國佬棚牙:zzz:

作者: EternitY 時間: 23/2/2007 03:57 PM

支持跑世界杯。:qqq:

作者: 西人堅 時間: 23/2/2007 04:43 PM

QUOTE:

原帖由 poiuy 於 23/2/2007 03:38 PM 發表

一個好彩贏左:fff:

係就好 law, 到時盲目唱衰香港果班____收都收唔切:yyy:

作者: 新水星 時間: 23/2/2007 04:50 PM

QUOTE:

原帖由 西人堅 於 23/2/2007 04:43 PM 發表

係就好 law, 到時盲目唱衰香港果班____收都收唔切:yyy:

最爽既係繼凱旋門後再截日本仔胡:zzz:

作者: poiuy 時間: 23/2/2007 04:56 PM

QUOTE:

原帖由 新水星 於 23/2/2007 04:50 PM 發表

最爽既係繼凱旋門後再截日本仔胡:zzz:

ヴァーミリアン冇雷神咁勁:fff:

作者: 西人堅 時間: 23/2/2007 05:01 PM

QUOTE:

原帖由 poiuy 於 23/2/2007 04:56 PM 發表

ヴァーミリアン冇雷神咁勁:fff:

係 WOR, 唔駛多, 贏唔到場WC, 贏到日本仔都夠曬:yyy: :eee: :eee:
到時又會唔會重現 sidebet 潮:fff:

作者: 李澤楷 時間: 23/2/2007 06:33 PM

QUOTE:

原帖由 新水星 於 23/2/2007 04:50 PM 發表

最爽既係繼凱旋門後再截日本仔胡:zzz:

香港人馬主贏過凱旋門大賽:zzz: :fff:

作者: iamjack 時間: 23/2/2007 06:54 PM

QUOTE:

原帖由 李澤楷 於 23/2/2007 06:33 PM 發表

香港人馬主贏過凱旋門大賽:zzz: :fff:

海都市 :eee:

作者: 直布羅山 時間: 23/2/2007 06:58 PM

QUOTE:

原帖由 iamjack 於 23/2/2007 06:54 PM 發表

海都市 :eee:

o個場第二仲要係白口罩 :fff:

作者: 李澤楷 時間: 23/2/2007 06:58 PM

QUOTE:

原帖由 iamjack 於 23/2/2007 06:54 PM 發表

海都市 :eee:

唔排除俊歡騰再創歷使:fff:

作者: WinKey 時間: 23/2/2007 08:03 PM

QUOTE:

原帖由 李澤楷 於 23/2/2007 06:58 PM 發表

唔排除俊歡騰再創歷使:fff:

日本仔都而家都未有馬贏到的大賽,我地已經贏左:yyy:

作者: yinho 時間: 23/2/2007 08:13 PM

海都市贏o個陣都幾奇蹟下嫁喎

作者: 李澤楷 時間: 23/2/2007 08:14 PM

QUOTE:

原帖由 直布羅山 於 23/2/2007 06:58 PM 發表

o個場第二仲要係白口罩 :fff:

但GR白口罩能力係高過海都市:zzz:

作者: yinho 時間: 23/2/2007 08:16 PM

QUOTE:

原帖由 李澤楷 於 23/2/2007 08:14 PM 發表

但GR白口罩能力係高過海都市:zzz:

海都市贏在大爛地?

作者: 新水星 時間: 23/2/2007 08:28 PM

QUOTE:

原帖由 李澤楷 於 23/2/2007 08:14 PM 發表

但GR白口罩能力係高過海都市:zzz:

日本仔唔服氣:zzz:

作者: 帶來吉利 時間: 24/2/2007 12:41 AM

1777有賞月.大和主將

加上牛精福星又退化中

跑世界杯冇防:lll:

作者: raulwong1 時間: 24/2/2007 12:46 AM

跑世界杯爆出黎,美國種,唔信唔得

作者: 真誇張!嵩哥 時間: 24/2/2007 01:17 AM

QUOTE:

原帖由 raulwong1 於 24/2/2007 12:46 AM 發表
跑世界杯爆出黎,美國種,唔信唔得

呢D幻想吓好喇:lll:

作者: timothyhin 時間: 24/2/2007 01:20 AM

QUOTE:

原帖由 真誇張!嵩哥 於 24/2/2007 01:17 AM 發表

呢D幻想吓好喇:lll:

牛牛贏到discreet cat同invasor是但一隻都已經好叻:fff: :ppp:

作者: 新水星 時間: 24/2/2007 01:23 AM

有馬神吹淡風...有機贏架.....
現在有兩個合理期望...1.贏日本仔 2.表現比當年原居民好

(我寫緊有關新聞中....:zzz: )

作者: 真誇張!嵩哥 時間: 24/2/2007 01:24 AM

QUOTE:

原帖由 timothyhin 於 24/2/2007 01:20 AM 發表

牛牛贏到discreet cat同invasor是但一隻都已經好叻:fff: :ppp:

一隻老馬跑開草地轉跑泥你估重有冇新鮮感:lll:
我覺得佢一定驚年年贏親WC既馬都惡型惡相成個大佬咁:fff:

作者: 吉兆 時間: 24/2/2007 10:42 AM

咩當比佢見識下囉

不過如果金杯一個唔好彩跑到成pat屎咁(機會好細) 都唔會去了

見完d 惡野可能番黎ungrade:yyy:

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