Royal Beauty ineligible for NSF Trophy

KUALA LUMPUR,  15 April 2005

There were quite a few red faces at the Malayan Racing Association offices here this week when it was revealed that a horse which finished third in a race last week was in fact ineligible for the event.

In her debut, ROYAL BEAUTY (3 ch.a.f Royal Abjar - Sheer Gold) ran third to IMPERIAL CORSS (3 ch.a.g Victory Prince - Casanora) in the RM100,000 National Stud Farm (NSF) Trophy over 1,200m last Sunday.

On Wednesday, NSF general manager Ross Dorman confirmed that ROYAL BEAUTY was ineligible because the filly was never sold at the National Premier Sale (NPS) and the NSF Trophy was confined to NSF sales graduates.

ROYAL BEAUTY was catalogued for the NPS in Ipoh in November 2003 but when the sale was postponed to a month later in Penang, she was withdrawn.

More embarrassing for the authorities still, was the fact that the connections of ROYAL BEAUTY have not paid the RM500 nomination fee to run in the National Stud Farm Trophy!