Casino Drive now just 5-1 for Cup; WORLD CUP COUNTDOWN.Byline: Nicholas Godfrey CASINO DRIVE, Japan's Dubai World Cup contender, is at the centre of a major price move for the world's richest race, having had his odds halved to a best-priced 5-1 over the last four days, writes Nicholas Godfrey. The four-year-old son of US dirt star Mineshaft mine·shaft n. A vertical or sloping passageway made in the earth for finding or mining ore and ventilating underground excavations. Noun 1. was a 9-1 chance on Monday before his price started to collapse. Coral yesterday cut him a point to 5-1 third favourite behind Albertus Maximus and Asiatic Boy, who are now a best-priced 5-2 and 3-1. It is 10-1 bar the three. Ladbrokes offer only 4-1 about Casino Drive, who will be ridden by Katsumi Ando for Kazuo Fujisawa. The trainer said yesterday: "I think he has settled well in his new environment." On only his second career start last May, Casino Drive was a runaway winner of the Grade 2 Peter Pan Stakes at Belmont. He was then fancied to give Big Brown a run for his money in the Belmont Stakes Belmont Stakes Oldest of the three U.S. horse races that constitute the Triple Crown. The Belmont originated in 1867 and is named after August Belmont (see Belmont family). The stakes is held in early June at Belmont Park, near Garden City, Long Island; the course is 1.5 mi (2,400 m). before a stone bruise a sore spot on the bottom of the foot, from a bruise by a stone. See also: Stone forced him to be withdrawn. Although he flopped in the Breeders' Cup Classic, Casino Drive returned to form in Japan, winning at Nakayama before finishing a close-up second to Success Brocken on the Tokyo dirt. JAPANESE legend Yutaka Take Yutaka Take (武 豊 Take Yutaka) , who partners superstar filly Vodka in the Dubai Duty Free, has revealed an ambition to be offered a ride in the Godolphin silks in the future. Take said: "I hope that one day I get picked to ride for Godolphin Stables. It is a dream to wear the blue silks of Godolphin." |
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