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Former St Leger hero, Conduit, who landed the King George en route to a fantastic Breeders’ Cup Turf double at Santa Anita, will bid farewell in the worlds richest flat race at approx. 6:20am GMT Sunday morning.
Ryan Moore will once again partner the 4YO, who will stand at stud in Japan after the race.
You can watch the action on ATR, coverage starts at 6:00am GMT.
He will be joined by the Richard Hannon trained Scintillo, ridden by Gerald Mosse.
I really think that Vodka may finally get her first win of the season here.
Despite her being at her strongest over a mile she was travelling extremely well last time out until Take got her into a pocket on the rail AGAIN. How many times has Take done this? I’ve lost count!
New jockey tonight, 4/1 is a nice price for a pace that should suit here (I think it’s going to be stop-start-stop-start but I know others will disagree with me on that).
I wouldn’t begrudge Conduit a final victory though. He’s definitely more than good enough to win this
Good call, HTH.
Vodka recorded her seventh Grade One victory by holding off the late lunge of Oken Bruce Lee by a nose.
Conduit, who looked a picture beforehand, slightly missed the break from his wide draw. He settled well during the race, but lacked that extra bit of speed in the straight before staying on to finish fourth, beaten around 3L.
This was his third start in eight weeks, after finishing fourth in the Arc and winning the Breeders’ Cup Turf in Santa Anita.
Before this event, he had amassed over £3.2m in prize money. An honourable effort to finish his career.
Vodka’s earnings are now 1,304,876,000Yen, or £9,158,407 at today’s exchange rate.
Not too shabby.The unusually sedate pace was against Conduit so he has run a very brave race.
The horse who benefitted most from the tempo was indeed the winner but I would be happy to assume she would have been heavily outstayed by Oken Bruce Lee et al if they went a stern gallop.
sedate pace ruined conduit chances here , anyone know if conduit stay in training next year
Conduit retires to stud in Japan – think this race was probably one of the conditions of sale.
ok thanks irish stamp
think conduit failed to repeat his breeders cup turf 2008 form this year , maybe the race was too hard , i remember they went a suicidal galop and soldier of fortune hasnt run since●Pace of the race ’09:
1000m–59.0
1200m–1:11:2
2400m–2:22:4●Best 3 in the JC
1. ’05 Alkaased 2:22:1
2. ’89 Horlicks 2:22:2
3．’09 Vodka 2:22:4Mr Okada at Big Red Farm ‘has nothing to do with his (=Conduit) running the race; Sir Michael Stout simply aimed at the prize money of $2.5m (for the winner) with $1.3m bonus.’ (a racing paper in Japan)
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