All You Wish stretches out for Country Club Challenge Cup

All You Wish may need only a clean trip to win his first race of the season in Wednesday’s $322,268 Hong Kong Country Club Challenge Cup at Happy Valley Racecourse.

In two starts since early September, All You Wish has had troubled trips, finishing fifth and fourth in races at seven furlongs and five furlongs on turf. The 7-year-old gelding will start in his longest race in nearly a year in the Challenge Cup, which is run at about a mile. It will be All You Wish’s first start at the distance since a 12th-place finish in the Chevalier Cup last November, a race he won in 2014. All You Wish ended the 2015-16 Hong Kong season with a win in a seven-furlong handicap in July.

All You Wish will carry 127 pounds and will be part of a field of 11. The Challenge Cup is the sixth race on an eight-race program that begins at 7:15 a.m. Eastern.

Twin Delight also carries 127 pounds and is one of two last-race winners in the field, along with the outsider Sichuan Dar, a winner at Happy Valley on Sept. 29 against a lesser field. Sichuan Dar will carry 118 pounds.

Twin Delight, who will start from the rail in Wednesday’s race, won a seven-furlong handicap at Sha Tin Racecourse in Hong Kong on Sept. 11.

Helene Super Star, the 130-pound topweight, has slipped in status the last year. Helene Super Star won a Group 1 at 1 1/2 miles at Sha Tin in May 2015, but was winless in eight starts during the 2015-16 season and his first two starts of the current season.

Helene Super Star, a 6-year-old gelding by War Front, was previously named Lines of Battle before being sent to Hong Kong. Lines of Battle finished seventh in the 2012 Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Turf at Santa Anita, won the 2013 UAE Derby at Meydan Racecourse in Dubai, and was seventh behind Orb in the 2013 Kentucky Derby. He began racing in Hong Kong in early 2014.