Hong Kong’s superstar galloper Ka Ying Rising stretched his phenomenal winning streak to 20 with a dominant victory in a track-record time in Sunday’s Group 1 Chairman’s Sprint Prize at Sha Tin.
The five-year-old, ridden by jockey Zac Purton, romped home in one minute, 7.10 seconds on Champions Day, one of the city’s marquee race meetings.
The gelding has now run four of the five fastest times ever at Sha Tin.
“You have good horses, and you have great horses, and then you have the really special ones,” Purton said.
Also on Champions Day, veteran Romantic Warrior extended his record when he claimed the QEII Cup for an unprecedented fourth time.
The Danny Shum-trained eight-year-old is the world’s highest-earning racehorse with accumulated prize money of over HK$268 million.
(AFP)
