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lace favorites Regaleira He received his third G1 race within the Queen Elizabeth II Cup held at Kyoto Racecourse on Sunday, setting a stakes report and avenging his fifth-place end in final 12 months’s race.
Ridden by jockey Keita Tozaki and skilled by Tetsuya Kimura, Regaira steadily took the lead from the seventh put up, making nice strides by means of the center group of about tenth from the entrance within the 16-horse subject. The Swerve Richard mare navigated the ultimate flip extensive and made a robust cost within the ultimate straight, stabbing the leaders 50 meters and simply pulling away for a 1 3/4 size victory. She accomplished the two,200 meter (about 1 3/8 mile) turf take a look at in 2 hours and 11 minutes, shaving 0.1 second off the earlier report set by Gorgeous Rose final 12 months.
Paradileine, the fourth favourite, rigorously broke out of the innermost stall, grabbed the rail in sixth place, steered to the skin to clear a path into the lane, and overtook the lead horse earlier than 200 meters to take the lead, however was unable to carry off the oncoming Regareira and completed in second place.
Lilac, the 2nd place horse within the 2022 race and the ninth favourite, didn’t rush in second place from the again, however as a substitute set an angle for the stretch run and commenced her pursuit for the quickest tie within the second half.Though she was unable to threaten the highest two, she secured a 3rd place by a head with Hyperlinks Tip simply earlier than the wire.
