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Guhuo Cup is about to usher in a new king
Update time: 16:28 2023-07-31
Release time: 16:28 2023-07-31
The “Glorious Old World” competition will start this Tuesday (August 1), including the Old Wood Cup, a 3,200-meter first-level race that will be staged on the first day of the competition. “Stringed Instrument” has won four consecutive championships in the competition from 2017 to 2020. Last year, at the age of eight, it was only defeated by “Rapper Master” trained by Yue Boren, and finished second.
Yue Boren will send a four-year-old filly “Qiao Shi Cai” to compete in the Guhuo Cup this year, while Gao Shideng and Gao Sude will send “Courage” to the competition. It is hoped that this horse can follow in the footsteps of “String Instrument” and add another honor to the stable.
Champion jockey Dettori will ride “Boldness” who has not had many races in this battle, and strives to win the Goodwood Cup for the sixth time before hanging up his boots, adding another Group 1 honor.
Goldstein pointed out: “The track in Goodwood has unique requirements for participating horses. There are not only left-turn and right-turn positions, but also uphill and downhill sections. It is a test of the horse’s flexibility. “Boldness” has been obtained in Goodwood in the past. top horse.”
“Boldness” won this battle in a 2800m race in May this year, and then made another victory in the Ascot Gold Cup (3991m Group 1 race) in June this year, continuing its unbeaten record.
Four-year-old Courageous is vying for the top spot with Pao’s six-year-old Winning Horse. “Victory Horse” competed with “Boldness” in the Ascot Gold Cup in the last race, and was only runner-up by a short distance, handing over its masterpiece since its service. It also competed in the Goodwood Cup last year and finished fourth.
The field conditions of this battle may become the key to victory. The slowness may affect the performance of “The Winning Horse”, but the variation will be popular with the supporters of “Smart Poetry”.
Yue Boren said: “The horse ran into the softer ground I liked in the last race in Chera (on July 22, it won the 2,800-meter Grade 2 Chera Cup). Mo Ya felt that it won very calmly. We used to Looking forward to his performance at the Ascot Gold Cup (4th on fast track) and he did well as well, but he seems to do better on soft ground. Soft slow is not good for other horses to win, but “Sweet Poetry” ’ But it’s like a tiger with wings on soft ground.”
If these three key horses make a slight mistake in this battle, “King of Martial Arts” and “Flying Javelin” may have an opportunity to take advantage of it. The two horses faced each other in last year’s St. Leech Stakes (Grade 2,905m) and this year’s Yorkshire Gold Cup (Grade 2,771m).
The “King of Martial Arts” defeated the runner-up “Far Flying Javelin” Lun Yuan in the Sheng Liezhi Trophy, and “Far Flying Javelin” successfully defeated the “King of Martial Arts” in the Yorkshire Gold Cup to win the championship.
“King of Martial Arts” horse owner Bahrain KHK Racing (KHK Racing) race manager Wagel said: “He only finished seventh in the Ascot Gold Cup, we think he can’t cope with the distance, so this race let the horse The Goodwood Cup has a short return journey. It will be suitable for softer courts.”
The current site condition at Goodwood is good to soft or good. Ed Arkell, the track’s grounds director, said: “With the expected showers, the listings for the first day of the season are expected to be soft.”
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