2006 Cathay Pacific Hong Kong International Races Morning Works

Australian hope Takeover Target galloped in preparation for the Sprint, but his connections await the results of a drug test which might force him out. Trainer Joe Janiak said, "(The drug) was administered in Japan to help him travel over here. Normally it is out of the system within two weeks but now we are at the seven weeks mark. It has secreted itself, I believe, in the ligaments of the neck somewhere and it won't release. We will see what sort of level it has gone down to and if we are pretty close to the mark we might have to sweat it out until Sunday."