Piere Strydom dashes Dubai Turf hopes saying, “I was hoping that I might just make the World Cup meeting, but have been told that there’s no chance and I mustn’t even consider it.”
“He’s not just beaten them, he’s given them an absolute hiding” was the commentary from Sha Tin as Variety Club gave the world’s best a galloping lesson in today’s Hong Kong Champions Mile
Watch Variety Club contest the 2014 Hong Kong Champions Mile on the Dubai Racing live stream
“He looks well this morning. He’s a very tough, very sound horse. He’s the same weight, exactly, to the kilo, as he was when he won the Godolphin Mile on World Cup night.”
Hong Kong-trained horses have won each of the nine editions since the race was opened to overseas runners. Can Variety Club turn the tables?
Trainer Mike de Kock inspected the horse, this morning, in the quarantine stables and advised that he did not require any further work.
“It’s Hong Kong and they don’t generally just hand you the lead here. He generally goes forward but he has been ridden off the pace and won at home in South Africa. We’ll have a think about what we might do,” says Trevor Brown
“You’ve got to respect them” says Trevor Brown of their rivals in this Sunday’s Hong Kong Mile. “They grind and then they kick.”
Horseracing in KwaZulu-Natal takes the next step to the dawn of a new era at Hollywoodbets Greyville on Wednesday 1 January 2025
History shows that three-year-olds have it all to do in this prestigious mile race, given that there have been only ten sophomore winners since its inception in 1861, two of which in the new millennium
