LUCKY FIND and ASIATIC BOY back to Dubai

LUCKY FIND is to be shipped back to Dubai to continue his career after last week's victory for Mike de Kock at Great Leighs.

Twice a winner at the Carnival in the early part of the year, he wound-up that campaign by finishing sixth in the World Cup itself.

On his first start since March he ran out a comfortable winner under Ryan Moore but a lack of options on his favoured dirt surface will see him return to Dubai.
"Lucky Find came out of it really well. I was very happy with him, he's a very versatile horse," said de Kock.

"He's improved with age but it was almost by error that we got him on to the dirt and he's shown a liking for it.

"We'll probably just ship him back to Dubai now though, there's nothing really left for him here but he's paid his way."

DUBAI WORLD CUP runner-up Asiatic Boy has settled back into familiar surroundings at Nad Al Sheba's Grandstand Stables after connections abandoned plans to run him in Britain, where “he just never really settled this year”, according to trainer Mike De Kock.

The 2007 UAE Triple Crown winner was soundly beaten in twoBritish starts last year, but the five-year-old did not even make it to the racecourse during his latest Newmarket stint.

However, the five-year-old – who finished just under eight lengths adrift of Curlin at Nad Al Sheba in March – looked a happy horse when on Wednesday put through his paces on an equine treadmill in Dubai.

De Kock's assistant Trevor Brown said: “He knows he is back and has soon reacclimatised.

“He is just in early preparation for the new season and we will build it up gradually.”
Brown also had news of Dubai Sheema Classic winner Sun Classique, who suffered a career-threatening injury during her final preparation for the Falmouth Stakes

He said: “She is back in Newmarket having been treated in Kent and has made great strides.

“She will probably be back here soon and we will take it from there. She owes nobody and will make a lovely broodmare if unable to race again.”

Asiatic Boy's owner, Sheikh Mohammed bin Khalifa Al Maktoum, has purchased South American stars Cagnotte, Indiscutible and India Tiberina to be campaigned in the UAE.

Cagnotte, an unbeaten filly in her native Argentina, won the Group 1 Gran Premio de Potrancas in May and is rated a serious prospect for the UAE fillies' Classics by hertrainer, who also has Classic aspirations for Indiscutible and India Tiberina, both of whom were previously trained in Chile.