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Bapak Chinta Storms to Norfolk Glory
16/06/11

1 Bapak Chinta 6/1
2 Boomerang Bob 20/1
3 Crown Dependency 8/1
NR: Ballesteros, Bear Behind (IRE), Caspar Netscher, Ebony Clarets, Frederick Engels, Lupo D'Oro (IRE)
15 ran Distances: 1l, 1¼l, ½l
TIME 1m 3.03s (slow by 3.33s)

Bapak Chinta blazed to a length victory over Boomerang Bob in the five-furlong Norfolk Stakes to put jockey Phillip Makin on the Royal Ascot winners' roll for the first time.

Bapak Chinta (Philip Makin) beating
Boomerang Bob (Seb Sanders) and Crown Dependency (Richard Hughes)
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The Speightstown colt, sent off at 6/1 and sporting the colours of Malaysian owner Tengku Rahman, has always been highly regarded at trainer Kevin Ryan's Hambleton stables in North Yorkshire and lived up to the promise of a recent sparkling piece of home work.

Makin revealed: "He gave a 102-rated horse a stone and a beating. I've never sat on one like him - he's a different breed. He doesn't just feel like an early sharp two-year-old. He feels like there's more to him than that.

"I have always had a lot of faith in this horse and I have never sat on a two-year-old as sharp as him, even from day one. Obviously, we thought that he just had to turn up at Hamilton (on his debut) but then it turned out not to be a bad race and he still did it very easily.

"Today he was just unbelievable. He took me down to the two and, when I let him off, I was just half thinking what was going to happen because we gave him a blow the other day and it was the first time he had ever been off the bridle. But he tried his guts out today and he didn't really like the ground. He will be a better horse on better ground.

"I think he will get six furlongs eventually but he has so much speed. We wanted to tuck him in and get a lead today but he is so fast.

"I have been so confident for the past couple of months but then you get to the day - you are having second thoughts and the ground went against him. I am just so glad that he has shown how good he is. It's a great occasion and I just hope that it is the first of many winners here."

Ryan was saddling his second Royal Ascot winner after Uhumagoo in the 2006 Buckingham Palace Handicap.

The winning trainer said: "He is a very good horse and he does everything right at home. We were very confident when we went to Hamilton and we came here very confident but the rain came this morning and we were a bit worried.

"His breeding suggests that he wants top of the ground but it's the sign of a good horse when they can overcome the ground as well. He will have found it tough work on that ground and his breeding suggests top of the ground but he just a very, very good horse.

"It takes an older horse to lead him on the gallops. He just relaxes and had never been off the bridle before he went to Hamilton and he has never come off it at home since. He had to come off the bridle today and, when he did, he found gears.

"We have got a lot of nice horses but there is something different about him - everything he does, he does it easily and he has a great attitude. He is a lovely horse to train and he is only a May foal.

"He will get a Nunthorpe entry because the weight allowance is massive."

Position	Horse Trainer	Jockey Weight	Starting Price Beaten Distance
1	Bapak Chinta K A Ryan	P Makin 9st 1lbs	6 - 1 Winner
2	Boomerang Bob J W Hills	S Sanders 9st 1lbs	20 - 1 1 length
3	Crown Dependency R Hannon	R Hughes 9st 1lbs	8 - 1 1 1/4 length
4	Burwaaz E A L Dunlop	R Hills 9st 1lbs	12 - 1 1/2 length
5	Signifer M R Channon	J P Spencer 9st 1lbs	40 - 1 3 3/4 lengths
6	Bannock M Johnston	S De Sousa 9st 1lbs	9 - 2 Neck
7	Forevertheoptimist Mrs L Stubbs	K Fallon 9st 1lbs	33 - 1 3/4 length
8	Silverheels P F I Cole	R L Moore 9st 1lbs	4 - 1 1/2 length
9	Pyman's Theory Tom Dascombe	R Kingscote 8st 12lbs	9 - 1 1/2 length
10	Charles The Great A M Balding	J Fortune 9st 1lbs	16 - 1 1/2 length
11	Everyday Dave Wesley Ward	Jeffrey Sanchez 9st 1lbs	8 - 1 3/4 length
12	Tell Dad R Hannon	P Dobbs 9st 1lbs	25 - 1 1 1/4 length
13	Sans Loi A J McCabe	R Winston 9st 1lbs	14 - 1 2 lengths
14	Cravat M Johnston	J Fanning 9st 1lbs	66 - 1 3/4 length
15	Marcus Augustus R Hannon	T P Queally 9st 1lbs	50 - 1 2 1/4 lengths
NonRunner	Ballesteros B J Meehan	Martin Dwyer 9st 1lbs	-
NonRunner	Bear Behind Tom Dascombe	William Buick 9st 1lbs	-
NonRunner	Caspar Netscher A J McCabe	N Callan 9st 1lbs	-
NonRunner	Frederick Engels D H Brown	Non Runner 9st 1lbs	-
NonRunner	Lupo D'oro J R Best	L Morris 9st 1lbs	-
NonRunner	Ebony Clarets R A Fahey	P Hanagan 8st 12lbs	-

BOOMERANG BOUNCES BACK TO BEST

Trainer John Hills was delighted with Boomerang Bob's effort to finish a length second to Bapak Chinta in the Group Two Norfolk Stakes and the runner-up could now be set for a trip to France.

"It was a super run and he's a lovely little horse with a professional attitude and he got his head in front at one stage," said Hills. "He is only medium-sized but he has a massive action. I thought he was twice the price he should have been and this is probably only the second time he's gone on grass in his life.

"He's never worked on it and, after winning on the all-weather, he came second to Charles The Great at Windsor when we felt he was taken across the course a bit and he was also giving 5lb to the winner. He could go for something like the Prix Robert Papin now although we'll look at what some of the other horses are doing."

Richard Hannon felt Crown Prosecutor was slightly unlucky when finishing third. "He got a bang which could have cost him the race and he's a nice long-term prospect," said Hannon. "He's a fine horse, he's very quick and we might leave him now until the end of July and go for either the Molecomb or Richmond at Goodwood."