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Today's Racing :

Noble Heir heading for Australia

David Thiselton
The Dennis Bosch-trained Grade 1 Computaform Sprint winner, Noble Heir, has been bought by an Australian client of Herman Brown’s, while the Greg Ennion-trained Grade 3 Byerley Turk winner, Nocturnal Affair, has been bought by a Russian client of Brown’s. Noble Heir and Nocturnal Affair have been in the African Horse Sickness Free Zone in the Western Cape since August 16 and will enter the Kenilworth Quarantine station on September 5 before flying to their respective destinations via the UK in mid-October. The Australian client, Sean Buckley, has not yet decided whether to take Noble Heir directly from there to Australia or via the Dubai Carnival. The chief sprint race in Dubai is the Group 1 Dubai Golden Shaheen run on a Tapeta surface over 1 200m. Noble Heir has never run on dirt before, but interestingly is by Kahal, who is a Mr Prospector line stallion, and the progeny of that line invariably take well to the surface. In fact Kahal’s progeny often improve on it as Art Of War proved at the 2009 Dubai Carnival by finishing third in a Group 2 race over 2000m. Nocturnal Affair, a now four-year-old by Victory Moon, will be heading for the Dubai Carnival like Brown’s other two travelling horses, his respective Grade 1 winners, Orbison and Chocolicious. Chocolicious, who won the Grade 1 Allan Robertson over 1 200m, will initially be targeted at the Listed UAE 1000 Guineas over 1 600m on the Tapeta surface. She is also by Kahal, but will have to prove she stays a mile. Orbison, who won the Grade 1 Champions Cup over 1 800m and finished third in the Vodacom Durban July, does not yet have a specific plan, but such is the class of this Mogok four-year-old that he could be a possibility for the Group 1 Dubai Duty Free over 1 800m, the Group 1 Dubai Sheema Classic over 2 410m or even the Dubai World Cup over 2 000m. Most of the other horses entering quarantine are part of Mike de Kock’s Dubai string. They include Bold Silvano, Irish Flame, Happy Valley, Here To Win, Equiparada, River Jetez, Zanzamar, Empire Rose, Ancestral Fore, Lizarre, Mahbooba, Clearly Silver and Star Empire. The former Robin Bruss-owned three-year-old Tamburlaine filly, Chastity, who won two out of three starts in Zimbabwe, including her latest over a mile by 14 lengths, has been bought by Prince Faisal of Saudi Arabia and will be going there. The Lucky Houdalakis-trained J J The Jet Plane will be making his way to Hong Kong's International meeting in December. A client of Ernst Oertel’s, Hamad M Kadfoor Al Mehairi, has three three-year-olds on the shipment, the Victory Moon colt, Major Victory, the Silvano filly Amica and the Count Du Bois colt, D’Artagnan. Oertel buys them here for this owner, who had the Jallad gelding Jaroslaw at last year’s Carnival. Jaroslaw finished third to Lizard’s Desire in his first start last year in a handicap over 2 000m, having won a race at Linfield in England, and he will be at the Carnival again this year. Major Victory, will be going to UAE Champion trainer Ali Rashid Al Raihe, while the other pair will join two other trainers that haven’t been decided upon yet.

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