Hong Kong racing continues at Sha Tin on Sunday (9 April) for an 11-race fixture.
Star four-year-old LUCKY SWEYNESSE is primed to score four wins on end in the Group 2 Sprint Cup over 1200m.
Boasting a formidable record of 10 wins from 14 starts since making his debut in February 2022, LUCKY SWEYNESSE has won his way to arguably be the best sprinter in Hong Kong after scoring his last three races since a luckless sixth place in December’s Group 1 Hong Kong Sprint.
On his last two outings, the Manfred Man-trained talent has dethroned the city’s top-rated sprinter and middle-distance horses, WELLINGTON and CALIFORNIA SPANGLE, with ease by 1.5 lengths and 1.25 lengths respectively. LUCKY SWEYNESSE goes head-to-head with WELLINGTON – who is now third-up into his current preparation – again on Sunday but is ideally suited under set weights conditions and remains the one they all have to beat.
The pair will be expected to fight out the finish given the lack of opposition.
Elsewhere, top-liner CALIFORNIA SPANGLE is expected to bounce back to his winning ways in the Group 2 Chairman’s Trophy over 1600m.
CALIFORNIA SPANGLE boasts a serious record of nine wins from 16 starts but has tasted defeat in his last two races after a close-up third to Golden Sixty two starts ago before being run down late to Lucky Sweynesse last start in the Group 1 Queen’s Silver Jubilee Cup.
Without the caliber of that strength lining up in this week’s feature, CALIFORNIA SPANGLE finds one of the easiest winning tasks he’s faced in some time and should be atoning in a big way
