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Only twice since 2000 has a Hong Kong-based horse won the Vase, but one of those occasions came when Exultant won in 2018, and Exultant probably is a better horse now than then.
Declan Schuster's Hong Kong selections and analysis for Sunday, December 8, 2019 at Sha Tin.
Magic Wand has come to Hong Kong for one of the Hong Kong International Races, to be contested Sunday at Sha Tin Racecourse, and her start in the Group 1 Hong Kong Cup caps a campaign that has entailed about 60,000 miles of traveling
Mauritius-born, Hong Kong-based Karis Teetan won the International Jockeys' Championship on Wednesday night at Happy Valley.
Ryan Moore has seen enough of Bricks and Mortar. He finished second behind him in the Pegasus World Cup Turf when riding Magic Wand and was third to Bricks and Mortar aboard Hong Kong Vase hope Anthony Van Dyck in the Breeders' Cup Turf.
Deirdre, second a year ago here in Hong Kong to Glorious Forever in the Hong Kong Cup, shipped from Japan to Dubai to finish fourth to Almond Eye in the $6 million Dubai Turf. She returned to Japan, finished sixth in the QEII Cup in late April – and hasn't been home since.
For the entire 2018-19 Hong Kong racing season, Beauty Generation was literally unbeatable. Eight starts, eight wins, four Group 1's, a second straight Hong Kong Mile, and an international rating that put him near the top of the world.
Hong Kong Selections for Wednesday, December 4, 2019 at Happy Valley.
Hong Kong Week in Review for December 1, 2019
Almond Eye and Beauty Generation were supposed to anchor the 2019 Hong Kong International Races, and while it's unfair to say Sunday's four Group 1's at Sha Tin have been cast adrift and are sinking, the ship definitely has taken on some water.
