Beauty Generation stormed to victory in the Queen’s Silver Jubilee Cup at Sha Tine on Sunday to register a sixth Group One success.
The newly crowned LONGINES world’s joint best miler and joint top-rated horse of all time in Hong Kong, the six-year-old quickly went to the front and shook off Beat The Clock and Conte down the home straight.
"Everyone’s had a go at beating him,” trainer John Moore said. “The little bit of hype around a couple of the other horses was fair but he just keeps doing it. He only needed one slap around the backside to get him to accelerate. It was another great ride by Zac (Purton) because before the corner you could see he was saying ‘now I’m putting the revs up and you’ve got to chase me. He’s just too good and Zac’s the composite horseman, he knows exactly what’s going on.”
“It was easy for him,” Purton said. “Joao [Moreira, Beat The Clock] was always going to pull back and let me go and I just waited until he did that and rolled on. It was pretty straightforward; it was pretty easy.
“I just had to drag the sprint out of Beat The Clock, so I just made sure I did that and then the race was over.”
Owner Patrick Kwok is fixed on nailing that second Champions Mile to go with Beauty Generation’s back-to-back wins in today’s feature and the G1 LONGINES Hong Kong Mile.
“First things first, we are focused on the Champions Mile,” Kwok said. “We’re not sure if we’ll run him in the Group 2. After the Champions Mile we’ll see how he is and then we’ll decide about going to Japan for the Yasuda Kinen.
“The most important thing is the horse,” he continued “It’s such a rare opportunity to have a horse like this so if we can have another season like this season, we’d take that. We’ll look at his health and wellbeing before deciding whether we travel overseas: it’s very difficult to go to Japan and it seems to not favour leaders but if he goes we’ll be trying our best.”
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