Sirenia

The Cape Cross colt looked set for big things when running out a six-length winner on his second racecourse start and was duly sent off favourite when making the step up to Group Three company in the Sirenia Stakes.

The Cape Cross colt looked set for big things when running out a sixlength winner on his second racecourse start and was favourite in Group Three company in the Sirenia Stakes.

In the search of the dugong, a Sirenia (marine mammal) that lives along the coast of the Indian Ocean and in the western Pacific Ocean, test excavations were made in "dugong mound" of Akab in the 1990's and it was interpreted as a sea cow butchering site.

Richard Hannon may let Monsieur Chevalier take his chance in Saturday's Sirenia Stakes at Kempton.

ELNAWIN got up in a thrilling finish to take Kempton's toteswinger Sirenia Stakes.

The Sirenia Stakes saw 6-4 favourite Elnawin oblige in a three-way photo finish.

Weatherstaff is held in high regard by Mark Johnston and the Middleham handler will be hoping the juvenile can continue on his upward curve in the toteswinger Sirenia Stakes at Kempton.

Dugongs are one of only four species of the order Sirenia, all of which are listed as vulnerable to extinction by the World Conservation Union (IUCN).

As an extension of research on seagrass distribution and manatee use patterns, the Sirenia Project produced benthic (1) habitat maps in the 1990s for near-shore areas in eastern Puerto Rico and Vieques Island.

Like Haydock, Newmarket also starts a two-day card on Friday, with Saturday's fixture featuring two Group races, the September and Sirenia Stakes, which would usually be held at Kempton, which is currently being fitted with an all-weather surface.

Having won or been placed in eight of his 10 starts, Pastoral Pursuits won the Group Two Park Stakes last year and notched up a hat-trick as a juvenile including the Sirenia Stakes at

"Our ultimate goal is to help the animals achieve a self-sustaining population," says biologist Lynn Lefebvre, leader of the Sirenia Project, the U.S.

There are only four extant species in the Sirenia: the dugong (Dugong dugon) and three manatee species (Trichechus spp.).

Thanks to the trailblazing work of speleologists and other scientists belonging to La Venta Geographical Association (La Venta Esplorazioni Geografeche, website: http://www.laventa.it/en/palawan) that explored Palawan in 2007, 2008 and 2011, the sirenia fossil proved to be a rare find.