{"id":2329,"date":"2019-11-05T16:46:00","date_gmt":"2019-11-05T08:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ctr-campaigns.hkjc.com\/rising-stars\/?p=2329"},"modified":"2019-11-05T18:35:25","modified_gmt":"2019-11-05T10:35:25","slug":"aethero-and-regency-legend-catch-the-eye-at-the-trials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/campaigns.hkjc.com\/rising-stars\/en\/news\/aethero-and-regency-legend-catch-the-eye-at-the-trials","title":{"rendered":"Aethero and Regency Legend catch the eye at the trials"},"content":{"rendered":"[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]
[vc_row el_class=”section-padding-top”][vc_column][vc_single_image image=”2016″ img_size=”medium” alignment=”center” css_animation=”none” el_class=”title”][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/div>\r\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image image=”2330″ img_size=”full” add_caption=”yes” onclick=”link_image”][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Karis Teetan was grinning like a cat with cream after riding John Moore\u2019s rising sprint star Aethero in a barrier trial at Sha Tin this morning (Tuesday, 5 November).\r\n\r\n\u201cHe reminded me a bit of Able Friend so let\u2019s hope I can do well on him,\u201d the rider said after partnering the chestnut for the first time.\r\n\r\nThe exciting three-year-old was among a handful of Hong Kong\u2019s high-end performers in barrier trial action ahead of the three Jockey Club Races on 17 November, known colloquially as \u2018Trials Day\u2019. The G2 Jockey Club Cup (2000m), G2 Jockey Club Mile (1600m) and G2 Jockey Club Sprint (1200m) are the prime lead-up races to the four LONGINES Hong Kong International Races on 8 December.\r\n\r\nTeetan slipped aboard Aethero for the morning\u2019s second batch in preparation for the gelding\u2019s next outing in the Jockey Club Sprint, for which he will carry a featherweight 113lb as a Southern Hemisphere three-year-old.\r\n\r\n\u201cYou just jump on him and he gives you the feel of a good horse,\u201d Teetan enthused.\r\n\r\n\u201cIt was nice to sit on him. John Moore just wanted him to have a nice, easy trial and he\u2019s got plenty of speed so I let him go through his gears to get him ready for November 17.\u201d\r\n\r\nAethero rolled through his trial with impressive ease, finishing ahead of the rest in a time of 58.15s.\r\n\r\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column]
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Aethero looks good in his barrier trial.<\/p>[\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]\u201cHe wouldn’t blow a candle out,\u201d Moore said as he watched his latest potential star warm down in the sand yard. \u201cHis gate manners were perfect, he got away cleanly and pulled up very clean in the wind. He\u2019s in a better comfort zone now.\r\n\r\n\u201cThey\u2019re all in that race in a couple of weeks but he\u2019s carrying a postage stamp in weight and it\u2019s going to be something to watch. We\u2019ve got all the newcomers on the block going against the proven sprinters.\u201d\r\n\r\nAnother of the new kids, the Danny Shum-trained Regency Legend, strode out in the first of the 13 batches and travelled easily under a Zac Purton hold to pass the post third, with Jockey Club Mile entrant Ka Ying Star leading them home in 58.23s.\r\n\r\n\u201cHe\u2019s a horse that has always had some internal problems so we don’t want to bust him 10 days out from a race – I just let him enjoy himself and I think he did,\u201d Purton said. \u201cHe\u2019s never had a problem with his action, he\u2019s always been a nice worker and a nice mover and he seems like he\u2019s in pretty good form.\r\n\r\n\u201cHe\u2019s four from four so it\u2019s hard to be too worried about him. He\u2019s been able to deal with his issues so far and Danny said he\u2019s been scoping clean recently so hopefully they\u2019re behind him.\u201d\r\n\r\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column]

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Regency Legend has an easy run under Zac Purton.<\/p>[\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Purton was pencilled in to ride Aethero this campaign but the champion jockey does not ride below 118lb and so will be aboard the unbeaten Regency Legend against the Moore runner in the Jockey Club Sprint.\r\n\r\n\u201cIt was always going to be a tough race with the young horses coming through and the established ones making comebacks – it\u2019s going to be an interesting race,\u201d Purton said.\r\n\r\nFormer champion sprinter Ivictory is one of five John Size-trained entrants to the Jockey Club Sprint and he strode out in batch 12 over 1050m on the dirt, finishing two and three quarter lengths third behind the smart Big Party and one spot ahead of talented stablemate Full Of Beauty. The six-year-old returned from a long spell with a modest effort first-up in the G2 Premier Bowl Handicap (1200m) last month.\r\n\r\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column]

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Waikuku cruises through his trial in sixth.<\/p>[\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Also in action was Size\u2019s BMW Hong Kong Derby (2000m) runner-up Waikuku, second and one place ahead of Beauty Generation in last month\u2019s G2 Oriental Watch Sha Tin Trophy (1600m).\r\n\r\nWith regular rider Joao Moreira in Melbourne Cup action, Regan Bayliss guided the four-year-old through a comfortable run to pass the post sixth in a 1200m trial on the dirt track.\r\n\r\nYoung gun sprinter Voyage Warrior ran fourth in that same heat but did not look entirely at home settled behind the leader along the rail and kept on only moderately for Teetan.\r\n\r\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] [\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image image=”2330″ img_size=”full” add_caption=”yes” onclick=”link_image”][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Karis Teetan was grinning like a cat with cream after riding John Moore\u2019s rising sprint star Aethero in a barrier trial at Sha Tin this morning (Tuesday, 5 November). \u201cHe reminded me a bit of Able Friend so let\u2019s hope I can do well on him,\u201d the rider said after… Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_oasis_is_in_workflow":0,"_oasis_original":0,"_oasis_task_priority":"2normal","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/campaigns.hkjc.com\/rising-stars\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2329"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/campaigns.hkjc.com\/rising-stars\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/campaigns.hkjc.com\/rising-stars\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/campaigns.hkjc.com\/rising-stars\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/campaigns.hkjc.com\/rising-stars\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2329"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/campaigns.hkjc.com\/rising-stars\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2329\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2338,"href":"http:\/\/campaigns.hkjc.com\/rising-stars\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2329\/revisions\/2338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/campaigns.hkjc.com\/rising-stars\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/campaigns.hkjc.com\/rising-stars\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/campaigns.hkjc.com\/rising-stars\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}