Nakayama Grand Jump 2010

[Gerald]

http://japanracing.jp/en/nakayama/index.html

This race will come as a bit of a shock to the hurdler Jumbo Rio.

European Nominations

GB FIX THE RIB(IRE) G7 G Moore
GB GINOLAD(AUS) G10 V Williams
GB KALAHARI KING(FR) G9 F Murphy
GB STAN(NZ) G11 V Williams
IRE JUMBO RIO(IRE) G5 E O’Grady
FR ROI DU VAL(FR) G8 J Gallorini
FR TROQUE(FR) G6 F Doumen

[Deleted – I must have got Stan mixed up with another horse.]

AUS MAZZACANO(AUS) G10 R Laing
AUS PENTIFFIC(NZ) G7 F Houlahan

Mazzacano probably won’t go.

Because of the still-standing Australian quarantine rules, there seems to be a chance that Pentiffic will come to Britain after Japan.

[Irish Stamp]

Roi Du Val is a very decent horse Gerald – Willie Mullins tried to buy him at the Arqana Sales in November, went for 70,000 in the end and has won both his starts since including very impressively in a Group 3 last time out.

Interesting to see where they go with him – if they go to Japan or for something like the French National around the same time as the yard have Remember Rose for the big staying Chases this season and he’s unlikely to be beaten in the ones that matter (Grand Steeplechase De Paris and Prix La Haye Jousselin later in the season).

[Grasshopper]

Isn’t this race run routinely on firm ground? That would tend to rule out Jumbo Rio and Roi Du Val, I reckon.

[Irish Stamp]

If you play G1 Jockey 4 Grassy – it’s basically either of the Grade 1 Chases on that

But yeah it is generally run on firmish ground

[Gerald]

ttt Take To Top, in case anyone has something to post about this in the next day or so.

Pity about Pentiffic. I’m not sure whether the plan is still to put the horse into the hands of Miss Venetia Williams, considering that the Australian quarantine regulations are going to be relaxed a bit in the next few months.

Racing Post:-

Preview: Japan, Saturday 7.40am BST

Nakayama: Nakayama Grand Jump (Grade 1 jumps) 2m5f (4,250m) chase, 4yo+

THE world’s richest jumps race takes place on Saturday, in the early hours of the morning UK time, with the 12th running of the Nakayama Grand Jump in Japan.

Worth a total of 143 million yen (£1m), this idiosyncratic contest is rivalled only by the Nakayama Daishogai, Japan’s domestic jumping championship event, in purse terms.

The John Smith’s Grand National has now fallen behind owing to exchange-rate fluctuations.

In recent years the race has suffered from a lack of European runners, perhaps deterred by the likelihood of fast ground and a breakneck pace as a big field – starting from stalls – hurtles around a meandering circuit on the interior of the Flat track at Nakayama, featuring uneven gradients and a bewildering array of obstacles.

This year, though, the race in which Australian-trained horses have a fine record features not a single overseas runner after the withdrawal of Pentiffic with tendonitis.

In his absence, a 14-runner field of domestic jumpers is headed by last year’s runner-up Merci A Time, in the frame in the last three runnings, and Bashi Ken, who won last month’s Pegasus Jump, the designated trial.

[AngloGerman]

And a great race it was too! Pity that Spring Ghent and King Joy were absentees, but it was a really well contested race with a surprise 38-1 winner!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FHYaTMWty6g

There doesn’t seem to be an English language commentary yet, but it’s an enthralling race all the same!

[AndyRAC]

I’m sure that course is on the G1 Jockey racing game.

Maybe it’s Japanese racing – but it looked like a ‘Flat race’ – but with obstacles put in. They weren’t strung out like you’d expect in a NH race – and all finished in a heap. Are all their NH races like that?

[Kifill]

Aside from the undulations, it very definitely had the feel of Auteuil about it.

[Gerald]

Lets see how this one pans out:-

Bergo

08Mar10 Ffos Las ( 16 Gd ,RPR150 )

He will definitely swerve Cheltenham next week and go to Aintree as long as the ground is good or faster as that is important to him and that is why he has not run for over three months. The long term plan is the Grand Jump in Nakayama a year in April as they will go fast on that firm ground over there which will suit us as this horse thrives on it.-Harry Findlay, winning owner

Horse is now owned by the Sangsters. Would that kill off any Nakayama Jumps aspirations?

[jose1993]

At this stage, are any of the ex Findlay horses really

owned

by anyone else?

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