Horse Racing Ireland confirmed the three all-weather fixtures on January 5th, 7th and 14th will be confined to apprentices claiming 5lbs or more and riders who rode less than 20 winners last season. In other news, Ireland’s leading flat jockeys will get an extended four week break and not return to action at Dundalk after Christmas until January 18th. Victory for either Ballydoyle hope will break new ground for O’Brien through a Group 1 success in a 10th different racing jurisdiction. Moore, a Japan Cup winner on Gentildonna in 2013, will break from stall three, next to the odds-on favourite Contrail. However he does have the most successful jockey in the race’s history as Take has won four times before. Japan was fourth at Del Mar and has been handed an outside draw in stall 18 of the 18 runners. The latest Irish challengers are owned by the Japanese businessman Masaaki Matsushima and both line up on the back of running in the Breeders’ Cup Turf at Del Mar.īroome was the stable outsider on that occasion but looked a likely winner until headed in the final strides by Yibir. O’Brien has failed in the past with Group 1 horses such as Powerscourt and Joshua Tree while sadly Jim Bolger’s Curragh Derby winner Trading Leather sustained fatal injuries in the race in 2014. The Japan Cup has proved elusive since the Frank Dunne owned and trained Stanerra famously emerged on top in the mile and half turf heat in 1983. by horses from all around the world, with those from Japan and all across. Just a single Irish-trained horse has been successful in the Japan Cup’s 40 year history but Aidan O’Brien will try to put that statistic right early on Sunday morning in Tokyo.īoth Broome (Ryan Moore) and the aptly named Japan (Yutaka Take) take their chance in the $3 million highlight of the Japanese racing year which is due off at 6.40 am Irish-time. The 2022 Melbourne Cup is Australias most famous horse race held over a.
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