{"id":2968,"date":"2020-02-21T16:17:00","date_gmt":"2020-02-21T08:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ctr-campaigns.hkjc.com\/rising-stars\/?p=2968"},"modified":"2020-02-23T15:06:43","modified_gmt":"2020-02-23T07:06:43","slug":"size-hopes-patience-pays-for-beauty-legacy-in-sundays-classic-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/campaigns.hkjc.com\/rising-stars\/en\/news\/size-hopes-patience-pays-for-beauty-legacy-in-sundays-classic-cup","title":{"rendered":"Size hopes patience pays for Beauty Legacy in Sunday\u2019s Classic Cup"},"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=”2971″ img_size=”full” add_caption=”yes” onclick=”link_image”][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]John Size believes patience is the key to unlocking Beauty Legacy\u2019s budding best as he prepares the former Australian galloper for Sunday\u2019s (23 February) HK$10 million Hong Kong Classic Cup (1800m) and beyond.\r\n\r\nBeauty Legacy made a name for himself in Australia as Hawkshot, a G2 winner and G1 placed, before showcasing a dazzling amount of ability when winning at his Hong Kong debut. The bay followed with a fair fourth in the Hong Kong Classic Mile (1600m) last time, the first leg of the Four-Year-Old Classic Series.\r\n\r\nBut, while talented and a striking athlete, the gelding has a sparky temperament that requires careful management – something that Size is working at controlling.\r\n\r\n\u201cHorses get into a routine, once the people (who look after them) get to know them; we\u2019re then able to help them and I think the second day at the races he was a little bit worse, but now I\u2019m expecting him to keep getting better as we go on,\u201d the trainer said.\r\n\r\nHong Kong\u2019s 11-time champion trainer indicated that with a consistent racing manner and just two runs under his belt in Hong Kong, the Fiorente gelding\u2019s best is ahead of him.\r\n\r\nSize and jockey Joao Moreira have been teaching the gelding to relax, dropping him out in the early stages of races and trials before running on to the finish. Even then, Beauty Legacy diminished his chance of a Classic Mile win when fighting for his head early in the contest.\r\n\r\n\u201cHe has to be ridden quietly \u2013 I think anyway \u2013 especially for the distance races because I think he\u2019ll over-race. So we\u2019re sort of locked into that situation but he seems to be happy to finish off a trial or race given those circumstances,\u201d Size said.\r\n\r\n\u201cHe seems ok – his latest trial was under tough conditions with the wet morning but I thought he looked nice and tough, and he seems good at home, after every trial and race he comes out of them well each time – I\u2019m pretty happy with his fitness, and his toughness and his progress.\u201d\r\n\r\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column]
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Beauty Legacy dashes home to cross the line first in a recent trial.<\/p>[\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]A winner of the G2 Autumn Stakes (1400m) pre-import, the galloper then grabbed second in the G1 Australian Guineas (1600m) behind Mystic Journey. He closed out his Australian career with a seventh-place finish to that same filly in the All-Star Mile (1600m) and she added further gloss to Beauty Legacy\u2019s r\u00e9sum\u00e9 when grabbing fifth behind Japan\u2019s Lys Gracieux in the G1 Cox Plate (2040m) last October.\r\n\r\n\u201cIt\u2019s just a matter of racing – I think racing is the only thing that brings him on and everybody is in the same position with the Private Purchases. They come in and sometimes they\u2019re a bit overawed by the situation in Hong Kong and I think racing is the thing that corrects them,\u201d the Australian handler said.\r\n\r\nThe 65-year-old will also have Champion\u2019s Way in Sunday\u2019s feature. He was crowned Hong Kong\u2019s champion griffin last season after winning his first five races but has failed to score so far this term.\r\n\r\n\u201cHe\u2019s good, he was ok last time out, it wasn\u2019t a high pressure race, he was three-wide facing the breeze but not too much damage because the race wasn\u2019t run at a frantic pace, it was pretty sedate; but he finished the race off nicely, he\u2019s gone home and done well, he seems to be happy within himself and I think that he can improve a little bit so he\u2019ll run well again,\u201d Size said.\r\n\r\nSize applied the pacifier and tongue-tie two starts ago before adding the blinkers last start. This Sunday the Australian-bred will jump from gate three with three-time British champion jockey Ryan Moore getting the leg up for the first time.\r\n\r\n\u201cHe seems to have taken to the blinkers quite ok, he looks a little bit more focused and he seems to be doing his work well and from his trial, they\u2019ve been good and I can\u2019t see anything that I\u2019m concerned about with him, I\u2019m confident that he\u2019ll do his best – whatever that may be,\u201d the trainer said.\r\n\r\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column]

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Golden Sixty leads the charge in the Hong Kong Classic Mile. <\/p>[\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Size, one of Hong Kong\u2019s all-time greats, knows a thing or two about training Hong Kong Classic Cup winners; first winning it with It Has To Be You (2013) before going back-to-back with Thunder Fantasy (2015) and Sun Jewellery (2016), while Unique Jewellery (2009) won the race when it was known as the Hong Kong Derby Trial.\r\n\r\n\u201cI\u2019m comfortable with both of my horses – they\u2019re both good but whether they can win or not is problematical as there are a couple of really smart horses in the race and there also might be another one in there coming on. So, we don\u2019t know who is going to emerge from the pack but as far as my two are concerned in regard to performing at their best, I am pretty sure they can both do that,\u201d Size said.\r\n\r\nThe HK$10 million feature also includes Hong Kong Classic Mile victor Golden Sixty as well as stablemate More Than This; Private Secretary, Playa Del Puente, Enjoying, Reliable Team, Savvy Nine and World Famous are also set to line up.\r\n\r\nSunday\u2019s 10-race card commences at 12.15pm with the Class 5 Wo Che Handicap (1200m).\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=”2971″ img_size=”full” add_caption=”yes” onclick=”link_image”][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]John Size believes patience is the key to unlocking Beauty Legacy\u2019s budding best as he prepares the former Australian galloper for Sunday\u2019s (23 February) HK$10 million Hong Kong Classic Cup (1800m) and beyond. Beauty Legacy made a name for himself in Australia as Hawkshot, a G2 winner and G1 placed,… 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\/2968"}],"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=2968"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/campaigns.hkjc.com\/rising-stars\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2968\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2974,"href":"http:\/\/campaigns.hkjc.com\/rising-stars\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2968\/revisions\/2974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/campaigns.hkjc.com\/rising-stars\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/campaigns.hkjc.com\/rising-stars\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/campaigns.hkjc.com\/rising-stars\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}