Buena Vista (pictured below), disqualified from the win in the Japan Cup (G1), and second home in the Dubai Sheema Classic (G1), makes an appearance in Sunday’s Arima Kinen (G1) while Maktoum Challenge (G2) winner Red Desire returns from the Breeders’ Cup Filly & Mare Turf (G1). The put-up winner of the Japan Cup, Rose [...]
Red Desire, winner of the 2010 Maktoum Challenge – R3 (G2), was strong in morning trackwork at Churchill Downs on Saturday morning, traveling five furlongs in 1:00 flat. Kent Desormeaux was aboard for trainer Mikio Matsunaga and kept his filly well off the rail for the long-striding work. Presumably, had Desormeaux kept Red Desire towards [...]
Richard’s Kid was send postward at a staggering 8-1 off his Pacific Classic (G1) win and tracked down heavily-backed Twirling Candy to win the Goodwood Stakes (G1) at Hollywood Park’s Oak Tree meeting. Seventh beaten about three lengths in the 2010 Dubai World Cup (G1), Richard’s Kid was third in his first two starts following Dubai [...]
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Winner of the Maktoum Challenge – R3 (G2), Red Desire will make her American debut on Saturday over a likely boggy turf course at Belmont Park in the Flower Bowl Invitation (G1). Breaking from stall two in the 10-furlon event, Kent Desormeaux has been named to ride the filly, who will race while medicated with [...]
Red Desire, the one horse to defeat Gloria De Campeao in the Maktoum Challenge (G2) before he went on to win the 2010 Dubai World Cup (G1), has arrived in America in preparation for two races this autumn. Trained by Mikio Matsunaga, Red Desire is expected to contest the Flower Bowl Invitational (G1) on October [...]
The flashing winner of the 2010 Maktoum Challenge – R3 (G2), Red Desire will be aimed for two starts in the United States this fall. Trainer Mikio Matsunaga will send his daughter of the sneaky sire Manhattan Cafe to New York’s Belmont Park for a prep race in the Flower Bowl Invitational (G1) over 10 [...]
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Just minutes before the first race of the day here at Kranji, the Japanese media huddled around a variety of computers to watch the Victoria Mile (G1) from Tokyo Racecourse. Buena Vista, just less than a length behind Dar Re Mi in the 2010 Dubai Sheema Classic, was heavily backed along with 2010 Maktoum Challenge [...]
There was plenty of praise and exaultation for the champion, Gloria De Campeao, the Brazilian-bred son of Argentine-sire Impression, a winner by the slimmest of discernable margins in the $10 million Dubai World Cup (G1). The winner of the Maktoum Challenge – R1 (G3), and a tough second parallel Red Desire in the Maktoum Challenge [...]
The Dubai World Cup will go the way of Japan when RED DESIRE scores a knockout punch. Maybe. At least, the consensus among the international media and meet-long observers is that the Japanese filly could be the next superstar in racing, and there are few to go against that opinion. She was an amazing specimen [...]
As Olivier Peslier is booked to ride Vision D’Etat in next Saturday’s Dubai World Cup (G1), one of Meydan’s leading riders, Christophe Soumillon, will get the mount on the flashy Red Desire. As a result, Mike De Kock will give Kevin Shea the choice of either Lizard’s Desire or Mr. Brock for the big race. [...]