Gio Ponti to race next year
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Dual champion GIO PONTI (Tale of the Cat), a candidate for a third career Eclipse Award as the nation's top male turf performer of 2010, will stay in training next year and be pointed for the Dubai World Cup (UAE-G1). The announcement was made Tuesday by Shane Ryan, the President of Castleton Lyons, who campaigns the five-year old. "We at Castleton Lyons are delighted to announce that we have decided to keep our dual champion Gio Ponti in training for one more year, with the 2011 Dubai World Cup as our main aim," Ryan said. "It is an exciting time to have a tough, consistent horse in training as prize money is generally one of the more lucrative sides of our business at the moment.
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"We would like to thank all his fans and well wishers to date. It is our hope
that we can continue to campaign him with imagination and of course, success."
A trip to Meydan racecourse in Dubai would be Gio Ponti's second trip to the
Middle East after contesting the same race this past March. His fourth-place
finish over the Tapeta surface was his only unplaced effort in seven starts this
year, as he claimed victories in the Man o' War S. (G1) and Shadwell Turf Mile
(G1) and placed second in the Tampa Bay S., Manhattan H. (G1) and Arlington
Million (G1). In his final start of the season, the Christophe Clement trainee
finished second, 1 1/4 lengths behind Goldikova (Ire) (Anabaa), in the Breeders'
Cup Mile (G1).
Gio Ponti was named champion turf male and champion older male in 2009 after
winning the Frank E. Kilroe Mile H. (G1), Manhattan, Man o' War and Arlington
Million, and placing second in the Breeders' Cup Classic (G1).
His record currently stands at 23-11-8-0, $5,037,800.
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