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DON
ENRICO zoomed to the top of the standings with earnings
of P4.68 million as the Philippine Racing Commission (Philracom)
released the latest in the earnings of major players
from January to August this year.
The
three-year-old colt by Wind Blown out of Kayumanggi had
already posted nine victories and one third-place finish
in 11 outings so far this year and is expected to be one
of the major participants in the blue-ribbon
Presidential Gold Cup.
Don
Enrico’s archrival, Indelible Ink, dropped back to
second place with P3,542,866 after posting 3-2-1
first-second-third finishes after eight months.
In third
place is veteran Real Spicy, the stablemate of Don
Enrico, which had already won five races this year, with
P2.62 million so far.
Nowhere
in sight in the top 50 that we are printing here is Es
Twenty Six, the winningest horse of 2007 owned by Nery
Sunga, which is also expected to see action in the Gold
Cup.
THE
three major stakes races sponsored by the Philracom that
will be held this Sunday at the San Lazaro Leisure Park
promises to be a great rumble among the best
two-year-olds and imported runners.
Highly
fancied Go Army (to be ridden by JB Hernandez) of Hermie
Esguerra leads six other young colts in the second leg
of the Philracom Juvenile Colts Championship Series that
is set at 1,500-meter distance. The other contenders are
Jun Paman’s High Tower (EM Raquel), Eugene Tan’s Elgin
And Chairman (John Cordero), Patrick Uy’s So Real (Jesse
Guce), Bibiana Guce’s Batangas Baron (John Alvin Guce),
Eugene Poquinto’s Far Beyond (Kelvin Abobo) and Manny
Santos’s Oh Wacky (EP Nahilat).
Meanwhile, 10 two-year-old fillies are seeing action
also in the second leg of the Philracom Juvenile Fillies
Championship Series. They are Hermie Esguerra’s French
Vanilla (JB Hernandez) and Nuclear Power (Pati Dilema),
Romy Hernandez’s Lovable Frances (Jesse Guce), Manny
Santos’s Mind Music (Kelvin Abobo) and Love You By Heart
(EP Nahilat), Antonio Cayco’s Maimpok (MA Alvarez), Ric
Aquino’s Rhea’s Gold (CJ Reyes), Tony Eleazar’s Security
World (Fernando Raquel Jr.), Leonora Pasion’s Bon Jour
(Lyndon Guce) and Enrique Pineda’s Teen Titan (Roderick
Hipolito).
These
two major stakes races sponsored by Philracom stake P1
million each, with the winner receiving the top prize of
P600,000. The runner-up picks up P225,000, while the
third and fourth placers get P125,000 and P50,000,
respectively.
Meanwhile, there will be seven challengers in the
Philracom Sapphire I Stakes, which serves as the sixth
leg of the Imported/Local Challenge Series. The official
entries here are Raymund Puyat’s Al-Azeem, LB Tamano,
53; Tony de Ubago’s Frapuuvel, Karbin Malapira, 55;
Ruben Laureano’s Sweet Xarah, EP Nahilat; Joseph
Dyhengco’s Drama Belle, Dominador Borbe Jr., 54; Hermie
Esguerra’s Blind Date, JB Hernandez, 53.5; Gilda Bradd’s
Great Emma, Jesse Guce, 55; and SC Stockfarm’s Ziraz,
Roderick Hipolito, 54.
All
these stakes races will be disputed over the same
1,500-meter distance. The Philracom Sapphire has a total
of P500,000 at stake with the winner receiving P300,000,
while the runner-up picks up P112,500, third P62,500 and
fourth P25,000. |
