Headlong Overtakes Egyptian Empire To Win Kakarazuka Tinen

Last weekend in Japan was the running of the mile and one quarter Kakarazuka Tinen Cup, held over the inner turf track. The race proved to be as spectacular as the field itself. All horses loaded up into the starting gate without incident on Satuday and the tense moments passed until the bell sounded.

In the far outside twelve post it was Preferred Power , owned by dshock , who sprung out to an early lead over two and three-fourths lengths over the rest of the field. Smoking Sal was behind in second with Ale N’ Skittles in third, owned by tom and bigtime respectfully. Back in fourth was Headlong trained by thunderman and the jacklad trained Flawless Victory nipping at his heals in fifth. Trailing the pack was Rebel Yell N trained and owned by lordpye .

At the second call Preferred Power still maintained the lead, along with Smoking Sal and Ale N’ Skittles still in second and third. Egyptian Empire , owned by holyghost moved from seventh up into sixth with Wonderboy Da Vinci (IRE) trained by wonder4 fading pack into seventh.

Next at the third call it was still Preferred Power in the lead, Headlong had begun making his move from fourth and was no just two and three-fourth lenghts behind Preferred Power , rocketing out of sixth and into third came Egyptian Empire . Ale N’ Skittles fell back into fourth, Smoking Sal back into fifth, and Flawless Victory way back into seventh. Swampy Sturm , owned by timca began gaining ground and was now in sixth, moving up one postion into tenth was the bobo trained Kepler Of Rock (IRE) . Longshot S R King Oil (AUS) , owned and trianed by jeffdrew was now in ninth. One Funky Broad continued to hold his postion in eighth, trained by ovidius . Fading and now trailing the feild as the came for home was Wonderboy Da Vinci (IRE) .

At last the field came down to the wire, Headlong and Egyptian Empire battling almost neck to neck down the stretch. They were under the wire, Headlong putting out a final surge to win the race by three-fourths of a length, followed by Egyptian Empire for the place and the late-fading Preferred Power clinching the show position. Top speed figure of the race of course went to Headlong with a rating of one hundred four.

Also rans include: Swampy Sturm, Kepler Of Rock (IRE), Ale N’ Skittles, S R King Oil (AUS), Rebel Yell N, One Funky Broad, Smoking Sal, Flawless Victory, and Wonderboy Da Vinci (IRE).