Golden Sixty extended his winning streak to five races with a victory in Monday’s $1.29 million Hong Kong Classic Mile for 4-year-olds at Sha Tin Racecourse, the first leg of the Hong Kong Triple Crown.
Golden Sixty (4-5) stalked the pace while racing on the inside in the first half of the race. Jockey Vincent Ho guided Golden Sixty toward the outside with a quarter-mile remaining before Golden Sixty took the lead in the last furlong.
Andrew Le Jeune
R1: 2-3-8-13
R2: 3-1-5-7
R3: 1-2-6-5
R4: 9-1-8-11
R5: 5-8-11-7
R6: 1-2-8-5
R7: 12-9-10-4
R8: 4-1-3-9
R9: 4-9-11-3
R10: 3-7-9-13
R11: 1-2-4-6
Best: R8 #4 More Than This
Each/way: R7 #12 Gayson
Play: Q/QP 1-3-4
Tom Wood
R1: 12 – 2 – 3 – 13 – 8
R2: 7 – 3 – 1 – 2 – 11
R3: 1 – 7 – 11 – 2 – 5
Golden Sixty, an Australian-bred gelding with an American pedigree, has the look, and race record, of a star in the making in Hong Kong.
Golden Sixty has won 7 of 8 starts, including his last four races, and will run in the richest race of his career in Monday’s $1.29 million Hong Kong Classic Mile for 4-year-olds at Sha Tin Racecourse.
World’s Best Racehorse of 2019 – in fact, there were three of them.
Enable, Crystal Ocean, and Waldgeist were announced as the tri-winners of Longines's annual award at a luncheon Wednesday in London.
Andrew Le Jeune:
R1: 8-2-5-9
R2: 12-10-2-9
R3: 9-11-8-4
R4: 9-1-8-5
R5: 8-11-10-9
R6: 4-1-5-6
R7: 6-8-2-7
R8: 12-7-1-6
R9: 4-3-7-10
Best: R8 N12 Winning Feeling
Each/way: R7 N6 Reynolds
Play: Q/QP R8 2-6-8
Graham Cunningham:
R1: 2-12-5-9
R2: 12-2-10-9
R3: 9-2-11-8
R4: 1-3-2-9
R5: 2-10-11-9
R6: 4-1-11-7
R7: 2-8-10-12
R8: 9-12-7-4
R9: 4-12-7-3
Relentless Me will start in Wednesday’s second division of the $186,634 Hoi Yuen Handicap at Happy Valley Racecourse in Hong with a good excuse for his 11th place finish at Sha Tin Racecourse on Dec. 8.
Relentless Me, trained by former Hong Kong champion jockey Doug Whyte, threw a tantrum before the start and briefly had his right front leg over a rail. Even though he sustained a small cut, according to the Hong Kong Jockey Club’s website, Relentless Me was allowed to start.
The change in leadership in Hong Kong’s turf mile division is official.
Waikuku won Sunday’s Group 1 Stewards’ Cup at Sha Tin Racecourse, the third consecutive race in which the 5-year-old gelding has finished in front of Beauty Generation, the Hong Kong Horse of the Year for the 2017-18 and 2018-19 seasons.
In the $1.28 million Stewards’ Cup around a one-turn course, Waikuku closed from last in a field of seven to catch pacesetter, and 9-5 second choice, Beauty Generation. Waikuku won by a neck under jockey Joao Moreira as the 1-2 favorite.
R1: 6-4-2-8
R2: 1-8-11-6
R3: 3-1-6-2
R4: 4-2-1-12
R5: 3-1-5-2
R6: 13-4-6-2
R7: 1-2-6-4
R8: 8-11-3-9
R9: 11-10-8-6
R10: 2-8-7-11
Best: R10 N2 Smart Patch
Each/way: R2 N1 Melbourne Hall
Play: Q/QP R10 2-7-8
Tom Wood:
R1: 4 – 6 – 5 – 1
R2: 6 – 4 – 3 – 1
R3: 1 – 3 – 6 – 2
R4: 1 – 2 – 4 – 3
R5: 3 – 1 – 5 – 7
