Beauty Generation, Hong Kong’s joint-highest rated horse in history, extended his all-time prize money record to HK$100,422,500 at Sha Tin on Sunday.
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“That’s a target to set!” Moore said.
“The prize money will have to go up for a horse ever to do that! My own target for him was 120 million but it needed a win in Dubai to get there.”
Zac Purton celebrates on the return to the winner’s enclosure (Pic – HKJC)
The FWD Champions Mile on Sunday 26 April carries a purse of HK$20 million with HK$11.4 million to the winner.
With the ongoing Coronavirus situation making the participation of overseas horses unlikely, Beauty Generation stands a good chance of pulling off the hat-trick – but he might have to see off another rising star, the brilliant BMW Hong Kong Derby winner Golden Sixty.
“I’m worried!” Moore admitted.
“Golden Sixty is an exceptional racehorse on the up. He’s got age on his side, he hits the line seriously strongly, so it’s making for a great race and that’s what the world wants to see. He’s the new boy on the block and now he’s got to do it but I have to say, he puts a bit of fright into the team.”
Golden Sixty’s trainer Francis Lui is expected to make a decision in the next week about his exciting’s charge’s Champions Day participation.
Beauty Generation was bred at Highden Stud in Palmerston North, New Zealand by Nearco Stud Limited. In 2014 he was sold at the New Zealand Bloodstock National Yearling Sale for NZ$60 000 – purchased by Hermes Syndications.
He is by Road To Rock, a top-class performer whose wins included the George Main Stakes in 2009 and the Queen Elizabeth Stakes in 2010. He is out of Stylish Bel (Bel Esprit).
He began his career as a three-year-old in Australia where he won two races and ran second in the Rosehill Guineas before being exported to Hong Kong.
