MERCEDES-BENZ
HONG KONG
DERBY
Mercedes-Benz 香港打吡大賽
Review of Operations 業務回顧
Champion Trainer Caspar Fownes. The euphoria was shared by on-cour fans who also had a chance to compete in a Derby Challenge quiz game, hoping to carry off a HK$50,000 prize.
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On the night of 27 March when Dubai unveiled its stunning new
Meydan Racecour to the international racing community for this year’s Dubai World Cup meeting, it was another Asian showca city that stole the early honours when Derek Cruz-trained Joy And Fun took the International Group Three Al Quoz Sprint for Hong Kong. Ridden by Brett Doyle, Joy And Fun
cut down the front-running Breeders’ Cup Turf Sprint champion California Flag at the 200 metre mark and ran on strongly to hold off Godolphin challenger Fravashi . Later the same night One World snatched third place in the International Group One Dubai Golden Shaheen under Darren Beadman, emphasising that Hong Kong sprinters are now competitive not just at home, but throughout the world.
「時尚風采」揚威杜拜
三月二十七日晚，由告達理訓練的香港賽駒「時尚風采」，在杜拜世界盃賽馬日角逐國際三級賽阿喬斯短途錦標，以漂亮姿態勇奪冠軍。「時尚風采」在都爾策騎下出閘迅速，並一直緊隨領放的美國代表育馬者盃草地短途大賽盟主「加州旗幟」，至二百米處超越該駒，其後保持走勢，末段力拒高多芬馬房賽駒「守護靈」的挑戰，奏凱而回，為港增光。當晚，約翰摩亞旗下的「同一世界」的表現亦令香港馬迷感到自豪，在白德民策騎下，以勇猛的表現在杜拜金莎軒錦標（國際一級賽）中取得季軍。
HK
SUCCESSES NO MIRAGE IN DUBAI
Owner of Joy And Fun , Johnny Wong Chun-nam (2nd from left), winning trainer Derek Cruz (2nd fr
om right) and jockey Brett Doyle (1st from right), receive the winners’ trophy at the Al Quoz Sprint trophy prentation ceremony .「時尚風采」的馬主黃振南（左二）、練馬師告達理（右二）及騎師都爾 （右一）
，於阿喬斯短途錦標頒獎禮上，獲頒冠軍獎盃。
Joy And Fun (yellow silks) defeats Fravashi by three-quarters of a length to win the Al Quoz Sprint
over 1,200m in Dubai.「時尚風采」（黃色綵衣）以四分三馬位之先擊敗「守護靈」，勝出於杜拜舉行、
途程1,200米的阿喬斯短途錦標。
One World (No 1) earns a creditable third place in the 1,200m Dubai
Golden Shaheen.
「同一世界」（一號馬）於途程1,200米的杜拜金莎軒錦標跑入第三名。
For many years the extremely likeable Derek Cruz has been a relatively modest performer in Hong Kong
racing. As a jockey he retired with a few winners to his name. No-one has ever had the slightest reason to doubt his competence as a trainer, but at the very top level, apart from the victory of Natural Blitz in the 2005 International Group One Cathay Pacific Hong Kong Sprint, real triumph has somehow eluded him.
His popularity remains undimmed however, and it therefore was thrilling for all Hong Kong racing fans when in the
2009/10 ason Derek
Cruz’s fortunes took a
sudden and generally
welcomed upturn.
First he was
asked, quite
unexpectedly,
to take over
the training
of champion
miler Good Ba
Ba who had
already won two
runnings of the
五年憑「電光火力」贏得國際一級賽國泰航
空香港短途錦標之外，在本季之前似乎再
沒有其他特別意義重大的勝利。
不過，一直默默耕耘的告達理，在二○
○九 一○馬季終於吐氣揚眉，給本港馬
迷一再帶來驚喜。首先，冠軍一哩馬「好
爸爸」突然轉投其馬房，之前此駒在薛達
志馬房已兩度奪得國泰航空香港一哩錦
標。在告達理的訓練下，這匹年近八歲的
佳駟，於二○○九年十二月在該項國際一
級賽再度勝出，成功創下三連冠紀錄，也
向所有人證明告達理有足夠能力訓練馬王
級佳駟。
接著，告達理在二○一○年三月帶領旗
下優秀的短途賽駒「時尚風采」遠征杜拜。
在剛剛開幕的美丹馬場，於杜拜世界盃之
夜，「時尚風采」力挫美國育馬者盃草地短
途大賽盟主「加州旗幟」及其他勁敵，勇奪
國際三級賽阿喬斯短途錦標。雖然「好爸
爸」在季尾階段離開了告達理馬房，「時尚
風采」在六月出戰英國皇家雅士谷賽期的
國際一級賽金禧錦標也無功而退並且受了
傷，但都無損於告達理的名聲。憑兩項重
大的國際賽勝利，他締造了個人歷來成績
最輝煌的一個馬季，並且以更強大的馬房
實力迎接二○一○ 一一年度馬季。International Group One Cathay Pacific
Hong Kong Mile for Andreas Schutz. He
then proved all questioners of his ability
to train at championship level wrong by
nding out the great hor, now an eight-
year-old, to record an unprecedented third
successive victory in Hong Kong racing’s
most important international 1,600m
test.
Then he took Joy And Fun, the best
sprinter in his string but still not a prolific
winner in the fierce competition of top
class Hong Kong sprinting, to Dubai;
and on Dubai World Cup night at the
newly opened Meydan Racecour won
the International Group Three Al Quoz
Sprint from a very good Godolphin runner
and the Breeders’ Cup Turf Sprint winner
California Flag. Even though Good Ba
Ba subquently left his stable, the two
famous victories confirmed
Derek’s credentials. They
gave him the most successful
ason in his training career
to date, and although Joy
And Fun’s subquent trip to
Royal Ascot ended sadly when
the hor was injured while
travelling very well just behind
the leaders, it has guaranteed Derek
a full stable for the 2010/11 ason.
告達理揚威國際
多年來，待人友善隨和的告達理在
本地馬壇的表現尚算平穩。雖然他
在擔任騎師期間成績一般，但從練
以來能力卻從沒被人懷疑，然而
論到傑出的成就，除了於二○○
DEREK CRUZ
STAMPS
PROWESS WITH
INTERNATIONAL
DOUBLE
There was no doubting who remained king
of the sprinters in Hong Kong – or for that
matter
Hong
Kingdom
to take
Sprint
stablemate
This
million
Kong Speed Series, had been sponsored by
the exclusive menswear brand and hardly
could
Sacred Kingdom
When it was decided to nd Sacred Kingdom to Japan for the International Group One Takamatsunomiya Kinen it was widely assumed, not just in Hong Kong but in Japan itlf, that the race was at his mercy. Here after all was the world’s top rated sprinter for the last three years, back to his very best form, being pitched against what even Japane fans felt was a sub-standard group of home sprinters, the best of whom, Laurel Guerreiro, had already been well beaten by the Hong Kong champion when the pair had met at Sha Tin.
As he was about to be loaded at Hong Kong International Airport, however, for a racing comeback as early as September - a happy conclusion to a potentially disastrous occurrence that would have been impossible without the vigilance and efficiency of the Club veterinary staff.
蓮華生輝
在三月，準備前往日本角逐國際一級賽高松宮紀念賽的「蓮華生輝」，獲香港以至日本的賽馬界一致看好，認定勝出機會頗高。畢竟「蓮華生輝」能夠連續三年成為世界最高分短途賽駒，而且當時態況極佳，就連日本馬迷也認為當地芸芸對手，包括最出色的「桂冠戰士」也難以匹敵，因為該兩駒於沙田相遇時，該匹日本代表也曾敗給香港這匹短途馬王。「蓮華生輝」在香港國際機場準備赴日之際，突然狀甚痛苦。隨行的馬會獸醫霍品誠醫生即時為牠檢驗，斷定牠突然患了腹絞痛，對馬匹構成生命危險；倘若牠未被診斷而出發征日，情況可能會十分嚴重。
在證實「蓮華生輝」患了腹絞痛之後，獸醫隨即決定將馬兒送回沙田馬場馬醫院，進行診療及手術。結果手術非常成功。練馬師姚本輝表示其短途明星現已完全復原，且已回復操練，希望最快可於今年九月再度出賽。這算是不幸中的大幸，也全賴馬會獸醫的警覺性與高效率，成功化險為夷。
SAVING SACRED KINGDOM
Sacred Kingdom began to show signs of
what might have been distress. The Club
Vet Dr Bronte Forbes, who was prent
for the loading, examined him and imme-
diately recognid colic, a life threatening
condition in hors, and one which would
almost certainly have killed him, and in
particularly agonising circumstances, if
he had begun the flight with his condition
undiagnod.
Sacred Kingdom immediately
underwent an emergency operation for
what turned out to be a twisted gut. The
operation was a complete success, and
trainer Ricky Yiu now reports his star
fully recovered and ready to start training
