Moreira and Purton square off on a string of leading fancies right through Thursday's card, including aboard Big Party and Computer Patch in the Group 3 National Day Cup (9.05).īig Party is a high-class sprinter when on song and bolted up at this level on his sole run over the minimum trip last season.Ī slightly chequered profile is the sole concern, but Computer Patch has been highly consistent and progressive during his first year in Hong Kong and he gives Cruz a very solid chance of inching nearer to that 1,300 mark with Moreira back aboard. "But he is a horse with a lot of upside and he's one of the few horses that really excites me." Patch has Cup covered "You still respect your opponents as someone can get a soft sectional or you can get caught up in traffic," he said. The colourful Fownes – currently top of the trainers' table with ten winners after seven meetings – broke into dance mode after Sky Field bolted up at Sha Tin recently and may well do so again if the highly promising chestnut stages a repeat under Moreira in the Shanghai Handicap (8.00).Īll the signs suggest Sky Field will go off as the heavy odds-on favourite but Fownes is conscious of the challenge of a small field. Two top trainers are closing in on significant landmarks ahead of Thursday's Sha Tin card, with Tony Cruz needing just two winners to reach 1,300 in Hong Kong and Caspar Fownes needing a double to hit 900. "If he does those things then I'm always confident that he can run the leaders down." Fownes and Moreira reach for the sky "My job is to get him to break well and then to settle," he said. Small wonder Vincent Ho's confidence in him is growing by the win. Golden Sixty has broken 22.5 seconds for the final 400m in all his ten wins he has broken 22s for his final 400m three times, including for his last-gasp Derby success, and recorded the fastest closing split of the day five times in all. Official ratings seldom tell the full tale when it comes to assessing the potential of a fast-improving horse, but Hong Kong's detailed sectional timing system adds an important extra dimension to the Golden Sixty story.Īnd the tale is of a horse with a rare ability to quicken. "I think he has a big race in him for sure." Surging Sixty passes time test again "We don't have to panic and change things," said Hayes. Zac Purton feels David Hayes is intent on getting Beauty Generation to peak for the Hong Kong Mile in December and suggested the veteran could benefit from having blinkers refitted.Īnd, for all that Beauty Generation clearly isn't the dominating presence of old, the Racing Post Rating he ran to (127) was very close to his best.
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