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Show Sunday. Marc 27, 2X5 I D A I T HEIAID HORSE RACING Roses in May wins racing's richest p rize Jim Krane THE ASSOCIATED PRESS DUBAI, United Arab EmirIt's party time in the ates desert for Ken Ramsey. After Roses in May won the $6 million Dubai World Cup on and added Saturday night $3.6 million to Ramsey's bank the owner hoisted a account giant glittering gold cup overhead, received congratulations from Dubai's ruling sheiks and said he plans to stick around for a while. "We're going to have a champagne and roses party tonight," Ramsey said. "This is the biggest moment I've had in racing so far, absolutely. Right now I feel like I'm king of the moun,:. tain." The return trip to Kentucky will have to wait awhile. Roses in May, runner-u- p in his last the Breeders' Cup two races Class and the Donn Handicap hit the jackpot in the world's richest thoroughbred horse race. Taking the lead after the first turn at the Nad al Sheba racetrack, Roses in May needed little encouragement frorn jockey John Velazquez in beating Dynever by three lengths. The Roses in May swept around the outside to seize control and become the fifth American horse to win the race held in this beachfront sheikdom. Choctaw Nation finished third in the 10th running of the World Cup, giving American horses a sweep of the 1 race. Dynever, a Kentucky-bre- d now racing in Saudi Arabia, was ridden by Jose Santos and Choctaw Nation had Victor 17 GOLF Weather delays The Players Championship Pete lacobelli THE PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla. Lee "Westwood only played seven holes before weather halted Saturday's second round again. But it was enough time for him to grab the lead at The Players Championship. ' Westwood, who started a shot off Steve Jones' lead, made his ROUNDUP fourth birdie of the morning on No. 7 to get to 9 under when the horn sounded a regular occurrence this week at the Tournament Players Club at Sawgrass. The round resumed Saturday after a delay of nearly three hours. Jones was to tee off at 3:40 p.m. But with more rain in the forecast, who knows when the former U.S. Open champion will get the chance d to build on his surprising play. Fog rolled onto the course Saturday morning, thickening as play continued. Right before they came in, golfers had trouble seeing fairways and greens in spots. Even worse, more thunderstorms (rain had postponed the second round Friday) are predicted for today and the prospect for completing golf's fifth major on time looked bleak. Already, PGA Tour officials made the rare move of wiping out Friday's play and starting again, giving golfers the chance to lift, clean and place their balls. The second round was suspended Friday after 44 minutes because of rain. lishman fought back with two birdies, chipping in from just short of the green on No. 7. ' He was safely on the green at the par-- eighth when play was stopped after nearly four hours. Vijay Singh, three shots off lead at the round's start, didn't give himself many birdie opportunities but was still 6 under for his round until the 18th devoured him. Taking an aggressive line over the water, his tee shot failed to reach land. He reloaded, then found water again. And when he missed a putt, the Fijian had a ASSOCIATED PRESS I Nabisco Championship: At Rancho Mirage, Calif., Aruruka Sorenstam all but wrapped up the first major of trie year, shooting a flawless 66 in the third round to take a commanding five-shlead over Rosie Jones. In her relentless quest to both win her first major of the year and enter the LPGA Tour record books once again with her fifth straight tournament win, Sorenstam birdied four holes on the front nine and two on the back to shoot the lowest score of the week on the Mission Hills Country Club course. Jones, in her final year on tour, birdied the final hole to shoot a 71 and inch a shot closer, but the only other players closer than 10 shots off the lead Kim and Crist ie were Kerr at seven shots back. : a " ih fit. vol - ot 10-fo- quadruple-boge- ld first-roun- wsmmmsmm STEPHEN MORTONAssociated Press par putt on the 18th green Saturday Lee Westwood lines up his during the second round of The Players Championship. Westwood took full advanbirdie tage. He had a on No. 1 and got for birdie on the par-- second, but he joined a long list of players who paid the price for the slightest mistake at Sawgrass' Stadium Course. He missed the fairway on No. 4, had to pitch out short of the water and then went over the green trying to get to the back hole location. That led to a double bogey, but the Eng 25-fo- 5 8. y That dropped him 31 spots on the leaderboard, from a tie for fifth to a tie for 36th. Zach Johnson also fought to the top during the morning. He caught Jones with birdies on the first and second holes. on After his own double-boge- y No. 4, he recovered with birdies on No. 7 and No. 9, landing a wedge a foot from the pin for birdie to get to It was the first time since the first round of the 2001 BellSouth Classic that a round had to be scratched. As expected, the decision affected everyone differently. Ernie Els faced a bogey putt when play was stopped Friday morning. He got to start over, and had a birdie putt on his "mulligan." He missed for par, and played listlessly the rest of the way, taking double bogey on No. 6 when his approach from the rough landed next to a palm tree, and he had to chip into a bunker. Mi-Hy'- I Indonesia Open: At Jakarta, Indonesia, Frankie Minoza was 8 under through 14 holes in the third round, leaving the Filipino star just a stroke out of the lead and in position to take a run at a 59. Minoza, the 1986 and 1990 winner, needs to play the final four holes in 3 under this morning to become the first player to break 60 on the PGA European Tour and Asian TourJHowever, a sub-6- 0 round woulanot count in the record books because players were allowed to lift, clean and place their balls in the fairways. , 14-mi- le g)S5SE tTffltw up. The World Cup was the centerpiece of a seven-rac$15.25 million card at the track, camel-racin- g coma horse-an- d plex outside the city. In the $2 million UAE Derby, ; Blues and Royals rolled to a victory for Shiek Mohammed's Dubai-base- d Godolphin Racing, and racing manager Simon Crisford said colt will run in the the Kentucky Derby on May 7. Velazquez said his horse got off to a slow start and was distracted by the bright lights of the track, but made up for it " ' tSZSVjS RBidual $9,144. Cap coKmluoion I ffiTMMifiR auto" lexI Sr WWM' $1500. e, i J ' SUBARU ', mm Amtriton 281 Fo-E- 4' 2S5!!I i" n " Available 4 MOLWAMAMEREA. quickly. "He didn't break well from the gate. I had to get him to a point where he was comfortable," Velazquez said. "I put him into a fast gear and I didn't look back. He just did what he needed to do. I never looked back. I didn't see anybody." Ramsey joked that pre-rac- e predictions that his outside post would make things tough for Roses in May didn't matter much. "It looks like I had the right post position after all, No. 12," Ramsey said. "He has a steady cruising speed. He just keeps on going, sort of like the Energizer bunny." Congrats, expected to be a top challenger, lagged behind and finished fifth. The American horse, trained by Richard Mandella, who won last year with Pleasantly Perfect, was expected to be among the front d runners. Another horse, Lundy's Liability, trained by Bobby FrankeL finished seventh. IM -- - U.S.-base- 1JVJL J0 UIU Z? iif ACCOtXiLXAutoSocian rutin's ..v. f mij4i yyf f ..lj'i, inn m ii I T)VM'WlKita4MKImaaii Mwyi MrrUJ0m Hondi Accord IX.,., '02KondiCRVEX44,LoKM 01 WHondiCMclX IX...... 81.:.., CMo. WHondiOdytttytX ,,, '02 Honda Civic IX Only i a 01 Hondi Accord LX. . mum . . . CREDIT PROBLEMS? HO PROBLEM... CB Jo Olbbont 714.2200 iKMaytamlLX Un MiiiMaamMill v (U) Ued Cut C2Hondi Accord oa Hondi Accord 03 Hondi Hybrid ' irwa4MMSMaaMhavyta7miMiii imlmotilltaillorMCWnOirlAi!. IKHimiWHpUiikC t ' p . "uwSk IfesC " field. $5,490,187. Civic VP Auto Sodan mus pwi aj Ruler's Court and Elmustanser, both owned by Sheik Hamdan d bin Rashid Al Maktoum, at the back of the pack, with Ruler's Court 10th and Elmustanser last in the Roses in May, who finished second to Jftorse of the Year Ghostzapper in last year's Breeders' Cup Classic, opened finish this year with a runner-uin the Donn Handicap at Florida's Gulfstream Park. But the son of Devil His Due was far and away the best in the World Cup field of 12, which did not include a Godolphin entry. It probably wouldn't have mattered as trainer Dale Romans had favorite Roses in May Yard-Arready for a top effort. set the early pace as Roses in May did.not break quickly. Once Roses in May got rolling, he was unbeatable. Dynever, trained by Christophe Clement, closed with a rush to edge Choctaw Nation, trained by Jeff Mullins, for second. Romans said the horse deserves a rest. "Well take him back to Kentucky and give him a little break after this, he said. 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