Snow Fairy returns to Kyoto for another QE II Cup title

Snow Fairy(IRE) returns to Kyoto Racecourse to bid for another victory of the Queen Elizabeth II Commemorative Cup. The defending champ of the QE II Cup has yet to win this season, but she finished third in the Arc de Triomphe on her last outing.

Dancing Rain(IRE), winner of the English Oaks, is capable of making a big time run if she handles the Kyoto turf ground.

The main contenders among the local entries are likely to Aventura, Apapane, Animate Bio and Reve d'Essor.

The 36th Queen Elizabeth II Commemorative Cup, Grade One
Sunday, November 13, 2011
Kyoto Race-11
International 3yo+ 2,200-meter turf right-handed

pp/HorseName/AgeSex/Weight(inKGS)/Rider
1/Aventura/3f/54/Yasunari Iwata
2/Italian Red/5m/56/Suguru Hamanaka
3/Whale Capture/3f/54/Kenichi Ikezoe
4/Apapane/4f/56/Masayoshi Ebina
5/Walkure/7m/56/Ryuji Wada
6/Saint Emilion/4f/56/Mirco Demuro
7/Animate Bio/4f/56/Hironobu Tanabe
8/Reve d'Essor/3f/54/Yuichi Fukunaga
9/Rainbow Dahlia/4f/56/Yuga Kawada
10/Fumino Imagine/5m/56/Keisuke Dazai
11/Broad Street/5m/56/Shinji Fujita
12/Shimmei Fuji/4f/56/Yuichi Kitamura
13/All That Jazz/3f/54/Futoshi Komaki
14/Dancing Rain(IRE)/3f/54/John Murtagh
15/Erin Court/3f/54/Hiroki Goto
16/Gullveig/3f/54/Hirofumi Shii
17/Lady Alba Rosa/4f/56/Yutaka Take
18/Snow Fairy(IRE)/4f/56/Ryan Moore