{"id":2520,"date":"2019-12-05T13:01:00","date_gmt":"2019-12-05T05:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ctr-campaigns.hkjc.com\/rising-stars\/?p=2520"},"modified":"2019-12-06T09:09:39","modified_gmt":"2019-12-06T01:09:39","slug":"aetheros-ready-to-fly-in-the-longines-hong-kong-sprint","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/campaigns.hkjc.com\/rising-stars\/en\/news\/aetheros-ready-to-fly-in-the-longines-hong-kong-sprint","title":{"rendered":"Aethero\u2019s ready to fly in the LONGINES Hong Kong Sprint"},"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\r\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image image=”2519″ img_size=”full” add_caption=”yes” onclick=”link_image”][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Aethero worked solo down the turf track\u2019s back straight at Sha Tin this morning (Thursday, 5 December) in a manner which left John Moore satisfied that Hong Kong\u2019s rising sprint star could well make history this weekend.\r\n\r\n\u201cHe went without a work mate because he\u2019s a very fit horse, ready to go into Sunday\u2019s big one,\u201d the trainer said.\r\n\r\n\u201cHis work has gone to plan and everything has shown he has the talent. Now he\u2019s got to prove that he\u2019s a world class sprinter.\u201d\r\n\r\nThe Sebring gelding will on Sunday (8 December) attempt to become the first Southern Hemisphere-bred three-year-old to win the G1 LONGINES Hong Kong Sprint \u2013 only two others have tried.\r\n\r\n\u201cHe\u2019s very exciting, he has an engine,\u201d Moore said as the tall chestnut circled post-workout on Sha Tin\u2019s floodlit grass to the soundtrack of clicking camera shutters.\r\n\r\n\u201cHe looks like he could go on to be a champion. He\u2019s got everything about him \u2013 appearance, stride, the athleticism, it\u2019s very exciting,\u201d he added.\r\n\r\nMoore has been often quoted making comparison with his past champion, the similarly coloured and conformed Able Friend. Aethero is ahead of even that great gelding\u2019s curve in terms of his precocity, and while it has been a rapid ascent from his April debut, through six races, to arrive at one of the world\u2019s biggest sprints, Moore believes his charge can handle it.\r\n\r\n\u201cHe was beaten first-up this season when things went wrong at the start but that was only greenness, it was him being a work in progress and you expect those things to happen when they\u2019re not yet the finished product. You\u2019re going to see inexperience come out in races when things don’t go right at the start,\u201d he said.\r\n\r\n\u201cBut last race, when everything went right and he got there to the front and just blitzed them. If not for headwind he\u2019d have probably broken the track record.\u201d\r\n\r\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column]
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Aethero wins the Jockey Club Sprint.<\/p>[\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]That impressive victory in the G2 Jockey Club Sprint (1200m) saw Aethero defeat Hong Kong\u2019s best, with Hot King Prawn second and champion sprinter Beat The Clock third. But the youngster carried 10lb less than the former and 15lb less than the latter. In Sunday\u2019s set-weights contest, he will carry 8lb less, if jockey Zac Purton puts up the expected 1lb over-weight.\r\n\r\n\u201cYou can’t get away from the fact that he\u2019s up against Hong Kong\u2019s very, very best, and horses that are coming into form. They\u2019re going to be very hard to beat,\u201d the trainer said.\r\n\r\n\u201cAt levels, he\u2019d have his work cut out against those seasoned gallopers. But they\u2019ve still got to give him weight \u2013 if you go to the handicap, he\u2019d be the pick in this race.\r\n\r\n\u201cHot King Prawn and the likes will lay up much closer this time and he will have some pressure put on him but that\u2019s what you expect and accept in these big races.\u201d\r\n\r\nKing Of Danes (3rd in 2000) and Moore\u2019s own Anabatik (7th in 2002) are the two previous early-season three-year-olds to attempt the feat.\r\n\r\n\u201cWe\u2019ve done everything that we\u2019ve had to do and I\u2019m really looking forward to it, he\u2019s going in as likely favourite \u2013 but he is only a three-year-old,\u201d Moore added.\r\n\r\nAt the late-morning barrier draw\u2019s conclusion, some five hours later, he said: \u201cI\u2019m happy with barrier 10, it\u2019s not a bad gate at all \u2013 I was looking for eight. There\u2019s a lot of pace influence inside him but he\u2019ll gather pace quickly and that\u2019ll give him options to where he wants to be.\u201d\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=”2519″ img_size=”full” add_caption=”yes” onclick=”link_image”][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Aethero worked solo down the turf track\u2019s back straight at Sha Tin this morning (Thursday, 5 December) in a manner which left John Moore satisfied that Hong Kong\u2019s rising sprint star could well make history this weekend. \u201cHe went without a work mate because he\u2019s a very fit horse, ready… Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"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\/2520"}],"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\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/campaigns.hkjc.com\/rising-stars\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2520"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/campaigns.hkjc.com\/rising-stars\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2520\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2526,"href":"http:\/\/campaigns.hkjc.com\/rising-stars\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2520\/revisions\/2526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/campaigns.hkjc.com\/rising-stars\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/campaigns.hkjc.com\/rising-stars\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/campaigns.hkjc.com\/rising-stars\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}