Brilliant Shadayid has pace to land Haydock Sprint .sx By HOTSPUR ( J A McGrath ) .sx THE OMENS look good for Shadayid in today's Ladbroke Sprint Cup at Haydock Park following the eye-catching victory of her stable-companion and younger half-brother , Badie , at Kempton Park yesterday .sx Shadayid , who shares favouritism with the sponsors at 2-1 with Skeikh Albadou - the Nunthorpe Stakes winner - is a brilliant filly , unquestionably too explosive and eager for middle distances , but one with enough class to win the 1,000 Guineas and gain a place in the Gold Seal Oaks .sx She faces a difficult task in coming back to a sprint trip , but as John Dunlop , her trainer , points out :sx " She had enough speed to be beating good fillies in the Fred Darling at Newbury , so she should be able to cope with six furlongs .sx " .sx Shadayid gets my vote today to beat Mystiko , the 2,000 Guineas winner .sx Badie , we are told , is a completely different type to his half-sister , being described yesterday by Dunlop as something of a playboy earlier on .sx " He's a very well balanced colt , but he had done nothing and although I say he was a playboy , he was a sweet character just the same .sx " .sx The significant feature of this exciting win was that Badie only really started to make ground after being taken to the outside and when fully balanced in the final furlong .sx He absolutely flew , pegging back the leader Lucky Lindy to score by half a length , going away .sx Bookmaker reaction was swift , with both Coral's and Landbrokes now quoting the Blushing Groom colt at 25-1 for next year's 2,000 guineas .sx But Willie Carson , the winning jockey , stressed that this colt was " potentially " a very nice type of horse , before adding that he thought Badie capable of winning a good race .sx " Two and a half furlongs out , they quickened and they left me , " said Carson .sx " But in the last furlong , he gave me a thrill with the speed he showed .sx " .sx Shadayid's task today was made slightly easier with the announcement that Elbio would be a non-runner after puncturing the sole of his off-fore after stepping on a flint .sx At Kempton Park , Quest For Fame should have little trouble in landing the Bonus-Print September Stakes on his way to a run in the Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe at Longchamp on Oct 6 .sx Quest For Fame will be an odds-on chance and those looking for value may try an each-way bet on Pelorus in the Geoffrey Hamlyn Handicap .sx Lester Piggot is selected to win today's National Stakes at The Curragh on El Prado , but his mount in tomorrrow's Moyglare Stakes , Fairy Fable , faces a tougher task , with Well Beyond , the mount of Richard Quinn , preferred .sx In France tomorrow , Hector Protector is fancied to maintain his outstanding record in the Prix du Moulin de Longchamp , in which Bold Russian may prove best of the three British raiders .sx Arazi is favoured in the Prix de la Salamandre , while Further Flight can take the Prix Gladiateur for Barry Hills and his son Michael .sx Alan Munro missed riding at Kempton yesterday due to torn ligaments in his right ankle , sustained in a fall at Salisbury on Thursday .sx He will also be out of action today and commences his 10-day riding ban tomorrow .sx Hampshire banking on Gower to plot Surrey downfall .sx By Christopher Martin-Jenkins .sx HAMPSHIRES'S decision to make David Gower captain for the county's first ever NatWest Trophy final against Surrey at Lord's today is a welcome return to the limelight for Gower himself after a sad decline in personal fortune from the high point of his two midwinter hundreds for England in Australia .sx But Gower would not have wished upon his friend , Mark Nicholas , who persuaded him to go to Hampshire , the broken finger which has forced him to hand over the reins a the 11th hour .sx The personal disaster which deprived Nicholas of the natural climax , not just to his benefit season but to his seventh season as captain of Hampshire , is only one of several reasons for Surrey's clear favouritism .sx Not only are Hampshire without their desperately unlucky captain , who loves this event enough to attend it every year as a spectator , but also their most prolific batsman , Chris Smith .sx Most unfortunately , not least in view of his record benefit for the county last season , he was unable to postpone his new job as marketing manager for the West Australian Cricket Association .sx More significant , however , than these negative factors are the positive ones in favour of Surrey .sx They have just beaten Hampshire in the championship by 171 runs .sx Waqar Younis took 12 for 92 in the match .sx He can only bowl 12 overs today but that was enough to make him the difference between victory and defeat in the last two rounds .sx He is , without doubt , the world's most incisive bowler .sx Waqar , profiled on this page by the man who plucked him from middle-eastern obscurity , is a cricketer quite unspoilt by the world-weary cynicism which sometimes afflicts players of renown after a few years at the top .sx Nor has he spared himself in two extraordinary seasons for Surrey so far :sx 58 first-class wickets at 28 last year at the age of 18 ; 104 this time at a cost of 15 each .sx More than 50 per cent of them have been bowled while 81 per cent of his 141 wickets overall this season have either been bowled or lbw .sx He bowls straight , pitches it up , swings it both ways and is as quick as an assassin's knife .sx It would be no surprise if Imran Khan advises him to take things a little more easily when he returns to the Oval after next year's tour of England with Pakistan .sx But he will not be holding back today and if the pitch is dry at the start as it should be , Gower , Terry and Hampshire's own trump card , Robin Smith , may prefer to face Waqar before lunch than after tea .sx Hampshire , however , won their semi-final batting second , Surrey going in first .sx It is often in this third or fourth spell of a one-day match that Waqar is at his most explosive .sx For this reason Ian Greig will use him in short bursts , keeping him for the moments when wickets are most needed .sx In both the quarter and semi-finals , against Essex and Northamptonshire , Waqar produced wickets on demand and Greig's hardest decision might come if he were to do in the first hour or so today what Phil DeFreitas did for Lancashire in last year's final :sx five for 19 to emphasise the value of fielding first in a game starting at 10.30am. Alarming reports from Lord's this week indicated a pitch being carefully protected from the sun by the ground-staff , so much so that Hampshire were thinking of leaving out Shaun Udal , whose off-spin has served them so well in limited-overs cricket all season .sx Happily , however , I can report that the pitch is straw coloured and that Udal will play in a nicely balanced team .sx Hampshire are here at last after seven previous losing semi-finals .sx Their nine-wicket defeat of Warwickshire this time was their sixth semi-final appearance in nine years .sx Their chairman , Donald Rich , has been walking from Winchester to London , as he promised he would if they finally made it .sx Surrey's fielding stood out almost as clearly as Waqar's match-winning quality in the victories which followed their tense and narrow " bowl-out " defeat of Oxfordshire in the Ken Barrington Centre .sx They , too , have an important bowler in their young off - spinner , James Boiling , and they have a more than useful replacement in Mark Feltham in the unlikely event of Martin Bicknell failing a test this morning on a groin strain .sx ( It is traditional for someone to have a test on a groin strain !sx ) .sx Gower may have the headlines this morning but it would be no surprise if two up and coming left-handers , Darren Bicknell and Graham Thorpe , claim them in his stead tomorrow - alongside Waqar , of course .sx British riders take the lead after dressage .sx By Alan Smith .sx MARY THOMSON on King William and Karen Straker with Get Smart gave Britain an excellent start to the European Three-day Event Championship at Punchestown , Ireland , yesterday .sx At the end of the first day of dressage , they are lying first and second , with a mere 0.2 of a penalty point between them .sx The British team are also in the lead , by only four points from Germany .sx Miss Thomson could not have made a better championship debut , although her eight-year-old , King William , on which she won last month's British Open , was " stronger than usual , a little more on edge .sx " .sx " He's still young and naive , so I let him look around before the start , but what is good is how , although he is so keen , he still controls himself .sx There is so much improvement in him .sx " .sx Tomorrow's speed and endurance will be his big test , but , apart from an unlucky slip-up on the flat , he went round Badminton well in May .sx Miss Straker and the 11-year-old Get Smart , which she bought as a four-year-old , set the early pace .sx Although he was in the Seoul Olympic and the 1990 world championship silver-medal teams , this was the best test he had ever done .sx Get Smart was given his worst marks for his walk , but everything else made up for that .sx For much of the year he has been in pure dressage competitions , under the tutelage of Jane Bartle-Wilson .sx But Miss Straker believes the cross-country course will suit her horse .sx " It is a galloping course , with fences to kick on at , " she said .sx Germany's Seoul Olympic team gold-medallists , Claus Erhorn , on his new ride , the 14-year-old Clanger , and Matthias Baumann on Alabaster , ended the day third and fourth .sx British-born Mandy Stibbe , who was nearly killed in a riding accident early in the year , is fifth for Holland on Autumn Heyday .sx The British team , sponsored by the Horse Trials Support Group , were drawn first of the 10 competing countries , which meant that Richard Walker and Jacana were first into the dressage arena .sx After the traumas of the previous day's horse inspection , when Jacana was held over for a second look before being passed , the tension was that much greater .sx The dressage judges , who comprise the ground jury , were also in charge of the horse inspection .sx Jacana's short-striding action always counts against him in a dressage test , but Walker's expertise showed him to good effect , and they finished the day in 12th place .sx Germany's surprise package exposed .sx By Graham Turner .sx IT HAS been a bad week for Hansa Rostock .sx Last Wednesday they were leading Fortuna Cologne 3-1 after 88 minutes , but the Division Two North tail-enders knocked them out of the German Cup by scoring twice in the last two minutes and twice more in extra-time to run up a 5-3 scoreline .sx Hansa's 2-0 defeat in Duisburg yesterday robbed them of top spot in the Bundesliga .sx The Rostock bubble had been expected to burst .sx Their League and Cup double had provided the colophon for East German soccer history and secured , along with runners-up Dynamo Dresden access to the unified first division .sx But standards on and off the pitch were rated so inferior to Bundesliga parameters that DDR could have signified Dynamo Dresden Relegated and the Dead Ducks of Rostock .sx Eyebrows were raised when Hansa opened the league by beating Nuremberg 4-0 to go top .sx A week later Rostock travelled to Munich and beat Bayern 2-1 in the Olympic Stadium .sx Hansa then confounded all and sundry by consolidating a position among the front-runners .sx Given the lack of big-name players , credit must go to coach Uwe Reinders .sx Injury forced Reinders , now 36 , to retire in 1988 after a career which saw him play for Scwarz-Weiss sic !sx Essen , Werder Bremen , Bordeaux and Eintracht Brunswick .sx The man who admits to having owed casinos pounds300,000 at one stage decided on one more gamble .sx Having turned down lucrative offers and healed a rift with club president Gerd Kirsche , he has extended his contract until 1993 .sx When top scorer Henri Fuchs left for Cologne this summer , Hansa were ear-marked as cannon-fodder for the big guns .sx