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It’s not very "Hong Kong" to go against convention and keep a horse in training around June/July.
I know it’s tempting, but I would’ve imagined Ricky Yiu Poon-fie not taking SK’s resurrection of form for granted, and spelling him to focus on the CX Hong Kong Sprint.
It would be great if they showed up with Sacred Kingdom, but every year we seem to have these HK "wonderhorses" duck the challenge of Royal Ascot.
Only Cape Of Good Hope has run (and indeed won) over here – and wasn’t his trainer English?
I’m betting the Ascot sprints will involve the same old faces you’d get in a Group 2 or 3- the foreigners are dropping out daily.
Thanks for the link Wit. I’ve been on to this since I left Singapore – we’ll have to see how things pan out.
Takeover Target arrives in Newmarket, from Singapore, on Saturday and Scenic Blast comes in from Western Australia on Thursday 28th.
well done Adrian:
http://racing.scmp.com/freeservice/news … 90525b.asp
world’s top sprinter by latest int fed rankings:
http://www.horseracingintfed.com/resour … 17_WTR.asp
best regards
wit
Are the australians on appearance money this year and how much of the supplementary fee will connections have to cough up in real terms?
The Hong Kong horse is not getting any help with the supplementary costs.
Luckily the owner is sporting and of course they have won a lot of money with him already.
The Hong Kong horse is not getting any help with the supplementary costs.
Luckily the owner is sporting and of course they have won a lot of money with him already.
Fair play to them then and I hope he runs a cracker for them.
spare a thought for HK punters, who at the moment won’t be able to see or bet him via the HKJC due to government simulcast restrictions:
more evidence of how Adrian makes a difference, since you’ll not hear it from the man himself:
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"With the help of Adrian Beaumont and the International Racing Bureau, we’ve arranged for Sacred Kingdom to be stabled at Manton, just outside Marlborough in Wiltshire," Player said.
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http://racing.scmp.com/freeservice/news … 90603c.asp
best regards
wit
Superb stuff from Adrian. If SK is back to his best he should burn them off including JJ the Jet Plane for whom I have a lot of respect. European so called sprinters are much of nothing. Wesley Ward’s Cannonball is an intriguing participant at the projected prices.
European so called sprinters are much of nothing.
Yes we hear the same thing every year but the Golden Jubilee has been won by European (British) sprinters for the last three years.
horse seems to have travelled well:
http://racing.scmp.com/freeservice/news … 90612a.asp
but i had to read this bit twice:
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Where he is staying at Manton, they don’t have any facilities for weighing the horse but just from the way he looks in the pictures and the video, I would estimate he has lost only about 10 pounds in body weight on the trip…
============is that for real ?
a modern facility like manton is not able to weigh horses ?
For quarantine reasons he is stabled in an isolation unit well away from the main yards at Manton.
The Aussie horses weigh regularly up here in Newmarket.
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