Steward lodges objection on Royal Beauty

KUALA LUMPUR,  15 April 2005

Philip Dingwell, the Chief Stipendiary Steward in Malaysia, has lodged an objection on behalf of the connections of the 4th place-getter, O’BELLE, the grounds being that ROYAL BEAUTY, the 3rd place-getter in Race 5 on Sunday, 10 April 2005, at the Selangor Turf Club Gold Cup Meeting, was ineligible for the afore-mentioned race.

According to the Stipe's Report, the Racing Stewards will consider the matter in due course.

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

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catalogued for the NPS in Ipoh in November 2003 but when the sale was postponed to a month later in Penang, she was withdrawn.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