Date:18/12/2008 URL: http://www.thehindu.com/2008/12/18/stories/200812185208a900.htm

Sport - Racing : Horse

Aquitaine pleases

BANGALORE: Aquitaine pleased when the horses were exercised here on Wednesday morning (Dec. 17).

Inner sand:

800m: Mighty Heart (Gnaneshwar) 54, 600/42. Easy. Aquitaine (Ruzaan) 51.5, 600/38.5. Impressed. Marcegalia (Zia), Scramjet (L. Marshall) 52, 600/40. Former finished four lengths ahead. Spearhead (Ruzaan), Clouseau (rb) 55, 600/42. Former moved better.

1,000m: Corbett (Ruzaan), Asiaticus (rb) 1-8.5, 800/52.5, 600/40. Former showed out.

1,200m: Sugar Ray (rb) 1-24, (1,200-600) 41.5. Moved freely.

1,600m: Chemerique (rb) 1-53, (1,600-600) 1-9. In fine trim.

Inner sand – Dec 16:

800m: Spearhead (Ruzaan), Asiaticus (rb) 53.5, 600/40.5. They moved freely.

1,400m: Lady One (rb) 1-35, (1,400-600) 49.5. Moved fluently.