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Classy event a test for Ruffian

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CHAIRMAN'S Prize hero Red Ruffian takes a major step on the road towards that important end-of-season showdown when he tackles the featured ATV Cup at Sha Tin today.

It has been a troubled season for David Hill's classy English sprinter but that's behind him and victory today would set up a tremendous clash with Sound Print in the Chairman's Prize.

Sound Print, with two wins in the first two rounds of the inaugural Sprint Championship, can obviously win it but impressive Red Ruffian, in form and fully fit, will be a massive obstacle.

And retaining the Chairman's Prize is the prime target for Red Ruffian as trainer Hill explained.

''That's the one we are after now. He has had problems this season with cracked heels and we had to take him out of work and his whole programme was messed up.

''But we have got over that now and I was pleased with his last run and since then he has been doing exactly what we have wanted.'' Red Ruffian did take part in the first leg of the Sprint Championship, the Happy Valley Trophy, but he was nowhere near his best form and beat only one home. It had been an interrupted preparation leading up to that race and the troubles with his heels continued although he ran better over 1,400 metres at Sha Tin.

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