The Ka Ying Rising team celebrate

Ka Ying Rising lowers track record at Sha Tin again in Chief Executive's Cup

Horse Racing

Sun September 06, 2026 · 4d ago

Ka Ying Rising stormed to another Sha Tin success in the Chief Executive's Cup, smashing his own track record again.

The sensational six-year-old, ridden by Zach Purton, was resuming after 133 days off the track and, despite a minor injury scare in the build-up to Sunday's six-furlong Group 3 handicap, the David Hayes-trained Ka Ying Rising made it a stunning 21 wins in a row.

The son of Shamexpress bounded away from his five rivals to record a 21st straight win in a time of 1:06.11.

A pleased Hayes said: "When the Class 5 ran a good time in race one, I thought 'oh the (track) record's within reach'. Zach basically eased him down for the last 200m in the same race last year, but he let him run to the line today and he hasn't been let run to the line too many times.

"He's smashed his own record and you don't see that very often - by a second. It just adds more relevance to the win. There could be a few people out there saying he beat nothing, but a few of those horses have won 20-25 million Hong Kong Dollars, they are well-rated horses, they are Group horses around the world but they don't look it when they race him. They get taken out of their comfort zone."

"Look out Sydney, he's coming back!" ✈️

KA YING RISING breaks the track record by almost a second, winning the Chief Executive's Cup without breaking sweat!#HKRacing @HKJC_Racing pic.twitter.com/nQKShdljfJ
— At The Races (@AtTheRaces) September 6, 2026

Purton said: “He’s got improvement, there’s no doubt about that, so that’s why I gave him a bit of a push to give him that blow. We’ve got to try to bring him on for The Everest, but he handled himself really well and changed his leg - that’s what I liked.”

Ka Ying Rising will now enter quarantine ahead of his trip back to Australia as he looks to defend his title in A$20 million The Everest at Royal Randwick on October 17.

Hayes is in confident mood with that assignment in mind, saying: "We had him far too fresh arriving in Sydney. I don’t like to change much when they win like that, so we’ll just continue with a bit more base work and that’s holding him in better stead for when he arrives (in Sydney), mentally. It’s more about mentally not arriving too fresh.

“I have no fears because he thrives at Canterbury and he did well here (in quarantine).”

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