Youmzain over a run of big-race on Sunday.
June 30th, 2008 Posted in Horse Racing newsYoumzain completed a row of big-race seconds on Sunday. As he held off the favored Soldier of Fortune to win the Group 1, $631,000 Grand Prix de Saint-Cloud.
Richard Hughes put the trouper 5-year-old on the lead approaching the eighth pole and was soon clear, screening true grit to hold Soldier of Fortune safe by a half-time. Doctor Dino was three lengths back in , with Zambezi Sun quarter and Getaway fifth. The 5-1 victor covered the 1 1/2 miles on good to soft crushed in 2:28.20.
Youmzain’s accomplishment was a reversal of the Coronation Cup form in which the Aidan O’Brien-skilled Soldier of Fortune had beaten him by three-digs of a interval into subsequent. Youmzain had also been a fast-terminating, heartbreaking head following to Dylan Thomas in last fall’s Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe, in which Soldier of Fortune was .
Trained by Michael Channon at Newbury, Youmzain is a son of the Epsom Derby-Irish Derby-Arc hit Sinndar. A half member to one-mile Group 1 Lockinge Stakes leader Creachadoir, he was endearing for the main time since attractive the 1 1/2-mile, Group 1 Preis von Europa at Cologne on Sept. 24, 2006, and was beating an superb Saint-Cloud discipline in the procedure. Another Group 1 at 1 1/2 miles, the King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes at Ascot on July 26, is the in the cards next stop for the rising opposition between Youmzain and Soldier of Fortune.
* In Hanshin, Japan, the 10-1 Eishin Deputy led throughout to win the Grade 1, $2.3 million Takarazuka Kinen by a head from the 11-10 Meisho Samson, peripatetic the 1 3/8 miles on firm powdered in 2:15.30. The contender-up had to clique the province to take additional by a neck from Inti Raimi and is still on plan for a crack at the Arc, and a possible date with Youmzain and Soldier of Fortune, on Oct. 5.
