Mongolian Saturday, the winner of the Breeders’ Cup Turf Sprint at Keeneland last October, will have his first start of 2016 in Sunday’s $1,289,191 Chairman’s Sprint Prize at Sha Tin Racecourse in Hong Kong.
The Group 1 Chairman’s Sprint Prize, run at six furlongs on turf, was not intended to be Mongolian Saturday’s first start of the year. The 6-year-old gelding was scratched from the Al Quoz Sprint in Dubai last month after developing an illness following a flight from the United States.