Sunday, June 4, 2000
PONTEFRACT ON
Pontefract's card today was given the go-ahead at an early-morning inspection.
Clerk of the course Norman Gundill said: "The news is good, we definitely race. We had 10mm of rain overnight but the course is perfectly raceable. The forecasters tell us there is no more heavy rain and on that basis we should have no problems. The going is soft, heavy in places."
TODAY'S GOINGS
FAKENHAM - Good.
PONTEFRACT - Soft, heavy in places.
WARWICK - Good to soft, good in places.
STAG TRIUMPHANT
Running Stag, trained by Philip Mitchell at Epsom, England,won the $600,000 Grade Two Massachusetts Handicap at Suffolk Downs in Boston, USA, last night.
The six-year-old, the 8/5 favourite ridden by John Velazquez, was four wide at the first turn, settled well with the fast pace and took command just over a furlong out to win the big race before 17,847 racegoers.
Running Stag won by a length and a quarter from Out Of Mind, with David the same distance away in third. He had finished second in the same race 12 months ago behind Behrens.
He had warmed up for the nine-furlong event with victory in an allowance race at Belmont Park last month, and will bid to complete a US hat-trick in the Brooklyn Handicap - which he won in 1999 - there next Sunday.
DIKTAT SECOND
The 50th running of the Group One Yasuda Kinen, over a mile at Tokyo Racecourse, Japan, saw the Godolphin challenger Diktat finish second under Daragh O'Donohoe this morning. The Hong Kong challenger Fairy King Prawn won by a length and a quarter.
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