18/11/2018. KOREA : Ace Korea Downs His Seniors In Kookje News Cup 2018 // Goffs TV guest presenter Nick Luck talks pinhooking, possibility and why the Goffs November Sale is the only place to be this week // Ippodromo del Mediterraneo, Siracusa, arrivi di sabato 17/11

 

KOREA : Ace Korea Downs His Seniors In Kookje News Cup

by gyongmaman

Ace Korea produced a breakout performance to win the Kookje News Cup at Busan Racecourse on Sunday afternoon. The three-year-old dominated a field containing some of the nation’s best sprinters as he cruised to a two-and-a-half length victory.

 

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Ace Korea (Pic: Ross Holburt/KRA)

 

Always set to be a battle of the up and comers against the established stars, the five-year-old Doraonpogyeongseon, recognised as the current top one-turn horse in Korea was sent off as slight favourite ahead of Ace Korea with Today and champion mare Silver Wolf also well supported. Ultimately Ace Korea was untouchable.

He didn’t even get off to the best of starts. While Perdido Pomeroy looped the field to take an early lead, Ace Korea stumbled out of the gate slightly with jockey Jo Sung-gon coming perilously close to slipping out the side. He held on and Ace Korea was quickly into stride and on the shoulder of the leader. When Perdido Pomeroy inevitably faded in the home straight, the young colt took things up and was a winner all the way.

Silver Wolf rallied home for a good 2nd with 80/1 chance Morning Daero grabbing an unlikely 3rd, a head in front of Today. Doraonpogyeonseon endured a difficult trip and once he finally found some room it was too late, and he could only manage to come home in 5thplace.

An American import by Smiling Tiger and out of the Broken Vow mare Queen Rolex, Ace Korea is trained by Australian Peter Wolsley, who with the win moved onto a remarkable 497 winners in Korean racing. Ace Korea has accounted for six of them now and while this is his first triumph in Listed company, he had already dropped a big hint as to his potential when 5th in the international Korea Sprint in September having briefly led the race close to home.

A trip to the Dubai World Cup Carnival is a potential next step for Ace Korea. With his trainer still convinced we haven’t seen the best of him yet, he could provide a lot of interest come the New Year.

 

Goffs TV guest presenter Nick Luck talks pinhooking, possibility and why the Goffs November Sale is the only place to be this week.
Each type of thoroughbred sale is a very different signifier. The premium yearling sale grabs the headlines, is used as a barometer for the overall health of the industry and offers as much in the way of gossip and people watching as the blue blooded animals under the hammer. The breeze-up suggests the emergence from winter and enables you to scent an imminent Royal Ascot winner as well as the first cut grass.A ‘Horses in Training’ sale can be a rewarding experience if you’re on the right end of it, but – as one leading owner put it to me with no little melodrama – can just as well be called the “sale of shattered dreams.”A foal sale is the diametric opposite: with its bulging catalogue and limitless possibilities, it is perhaps the happiest of all sales, where every miniature model is a champion in waiting and every dream is intact. To the untrained eye, of course, each and every one of these weanlings is a gorgeous creation, their newness doing its best to mask any shortcomings that may manifest themselves more readily a year or two down the road.And this is why it is so easy to admire those whose eye for a foal is either well-trained or (more likely) a brilliantly instinctive knack of seeing beyond the obvious and envisioning how bones and muscles will grow, strengthen and develop. Then, as with all horse trading, there’s a chance you might get a spectacular slice of luck with a sensational pedigree update or an emerging stallion that suddenly becomes flavour of the month.But, mostly, sourcing the best racehorse or most saleable yearling at this infant stage is a game of skill, intuition and a fair bit of bottle. In this column twelve months ago, I wrote extensively about Edie Murray-Hayden and the supreme all-round horsemanship that had seen her turn a €56,000 foal into a €500,000 yearling.The barnstorming Orby sale last month offered up similar success stories. Flash Conroy – a grand master of the pinhooking game – converted in royal style, passing on his No Nay Never filly out of Starlet to MV Magnier for €700,000, having acquired her for just €52,000 twelve months ago.Needless to say, Magnier took heed of Conroy’s lofty opinion of his charge, an opinion whose credibility has been in little doubt since he snaffled a Fairy King filly for a measly Ir1,900gns in 1992 before watching the sire’s stock rise sharply through the following summer and securing 190,000gns for the very same filly in the autumn.Further evidence of the quality on offer at last year’s Goffs November Sale came in the shape of €60,000 and €82,000 purchases that realised €300,000 and €350,000 respectively, while a 1,000,000gns yearling was originally sourced at Goffs for €330,000.The numbers tell you that you will see some of the very best foals in the world through the next few days, with the two phases of the sale (Mon – Wed and Saturday) sandwiching the breeding stock catalogue on Thursday and Friday. If you want to speculate and accumulate or, like me, you simply have a passion for bloodstock in its purest form, there is only one place to be this week. There will be precious little rough and more than a handful of diamonds.

Nick Luck will be Goffs TV guest presenter during the November Foal and Breeding Stock Sale.  Follow @goffs1866 on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram and YouTube for all the action from the sales and watch live on the Goffs website.
 
 
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Ippodromo del Mediterraneo, Siracusa, arrivi di sabato 17/11. Di Irish Mountain il sigillo della TQQ, ma fa “tris” anche Mister Restuccia.

Irish Mountain vola sul traguardo del Premio Tarlazzi, Tris-Quarte-Quinte, che ha chiuso il convegno di galoppo all’ Ippodromo del Mediterraneo. In sella Sebastiano Guerrieri che si allunga ai 250 metri dal traguardo, concedendo a Martin Blonde, risalita dalle retrovie, solo la migliore piazza. Buona la prova di Ebenezer Scrooge, reduce da due bruschi non piazzamenti, che anticipa sul traguardo due i grigi: Vennarecci e The Dreamer. Questi, nello stesso ordine, vanno a completare la quintè dell’ handicap discendente per cavalli di 3 anni ed oltre, impegnati sui 1500 metri della pista grande. Pomeriggio da incorniciare per il trainer Marcello Restuccia e il jockey Giuseppe Gentilesca, a segno per ben tre volte nel piovoso pomeriggio siracusano. Royal Victory, replica la vittoria del debutto, volando sui 1200 metri della condizionata dedicata alla nursery. Attacca a passa Alba di Domani, arginata al secondo posto, mentre Miss Concy chiude la trio del Premio Silver Horizion, la prova più quotata del convegno. Facile e per nulla scontata, invece, la vittoria di Sopran Luna che, ad oltre 16 quota, sigla il Premio Maribelle. Non teme, infine, i tosti 66 chilogrammi in perizia Special Rush, al bersaglio nel Premio Maribelle, che regala il terzo successo il tris al team Restuccia-Gentilesca. Doppia soddisfazione anche per la scuderia Alca di Torre di Canicarao, curata da mister Fabio Brogi. Alegro, apre le danze andando a segno nella vendere riservata agli anziani; mentre Cuore del Grago, risolve da un capo all’altro, il Memorial Raffaele Festinesi, la seconda condizionata in programma che ha misurati i 3 anni ed oltre sui 2300 metri di pista grande. Se Immortal Romance si accomoda sul secondo gradino del podio, la terza moneta è ancora “Alca” con  Shocking Blu.

 

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Siracusa, 17 Novembre 2018