![]() ![]() True, good horses have a wider range of options but the bottom line is that the only British runner in four G1 races worth almost £12m is the peripatetic Princess from John Quinn’s Highfield Stables in North Yorkshire. Tiny French filly Vallee Enchantee got the better of Andre Fabre’s Polish Summer and Clive Brittain’s Warrsan in the Vase, while old British favourites like Acclamation, The Trader, The Tatling and Deportivo were among those left trailing as the mighty local hero Silent Witness won the Sprint.įirebreak (Frankie) and Passing Glance (Martin Dwyer) came up short as the Silent Witness team of Tony Cruz and Felix Coetzee completed a famous double in the Mile with Lucky Owners but Luca Cumani’s ace globetrotter and Falbrav and Michael Jarvis’s fiery star Rakti put a British ribbon round the day’s feature by dominating the finish to a vintage Hong Kong Cup.īritain is a different place in so many ways nowadays. ![]() ![]() Local punters scanning broadsheet racing guides and tapping their mobiles urgently to scan the odds outnumber the British and Aussie contingent ten-fold but one visiting Gweilo is working his phone to scan the results from the corresponding day in 2003.įrom a European viewpoint, they make for fascinating reading. Just after 11am on a sunny Sunday LONGINES HKIR day in Hong Kong and the MTR train that runs from Admiralty to the back of the vast Sha Tin grandstand is rammed. ![]()
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