{"id":3092,"date":"2020-03-17T14:44:00","date_gmt":"2020-03-17T06:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ctr-campaigns.hkjc.com\/rising-stars\/?p=3092"},"modified":"2020-03-19T15:22:18","modified_gmt":"2020-03-19T07:22:18","slug":"golden-sixty-and-more-than-this-please-connections-ahead-of-bmw-hong-kong-derby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/campaigns.hkjc.com\/rising-stars\/en\/news\/golden-sixty-and-more-than-this-please-connections-ahead-of-bmw-hong-kong-derby","title":{"rendered":"Golden Sixty and More Than This please connections ahead of BMW Hong Kong Derby"},"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>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image image=”3089″ img_size=”full” add_caption=”yes” onclick=”link_image”][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Francis Lui was satisfied with Golden Sixty and More Than This after his two leading BMW Hong Kong Derby contenders worked at Sha Tin Racecourse on Tuesday (17 March) morning.\r\n\r\nGolden Sixty heads into Sunday\u2019s (22 March) final leg of the Four-Year-Old Classic Series with the Hong Kong Classic Mile (1600m) and Hong Kong Classic Cup (1800m) trophies already secured. More Than This was second in the former and third in the latter and will seek revenge on his stablemate when they both attempt 2000m for the first time in the HK$20 million feature.\r\n\r\n\u201cBoth jockeys were happy with how the horses galloped this morning,\u201d Lui said. \u201cIt\u2019s the same as usual this week, it\u2019ll be normal work and the two horses have good form. They\u2019re ready so now it all depends on Thursday\u2019s draw, we need a bit of luck.\u201d\r\n\r\nVincent Ho worked Golden Sixty through 1200m on the turf in company with Class 2 galloper Star Shine and clocked 1m 20.7s (27.9, 27.4, 25.4).\r\n\r\n\u201cGolden Sixty felt normal, quite relaxed, I\u2019m happy with him,\u201d Ho said. \u201cFingers crossed he can see out the 2000 (metres) this Sunday, we\u2019ll see, we just don\u2019t know yet.\r\n\r\n\u201cHe can be quite tricky at times, he can be quite keen and it depends on the day, he can wind up really easily but in general he\u2019s normal.\u201d\r\n\r\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image image=”3090″ img_size=”full” add_caption=”yes” onclick=”link_image”][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]More Than This worked under his big-race pilot Zac Purton but without the cheek-pieces he had sported in his previous two gallops. The Irish-bred galloped in company with the 74-rated Victoriam and worked through in 1m 21.3s (28.2, 28.9, 24.2).\r\n\r\n\u201cHe went nicely this morning, just the 1200 (metres) \u2013 we were only planning to go for 800 (metres) but the work rider in front of me took off and went a bit solid,\u201d Purton said.\r\n\r\n\u201cHe\u2019s just ticking over though; he\u2019s a very casual horse in the mornings, he just goes through the motions but he\u2019s fit; he\u2019s had a lot of racing he doesn\u2019t need to be doing anything flash in the mornings.\u201d\r\n\r\nLui and Ho are seeking a first BMW Hong Kong Derby success, while Purton won the race in 2015 aboard Luger. Golden Sixty will attempt to become only the second horse to win all three legs of the Classic Series, following Rapper Dragon who achieved the feat in 2017.\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=”3089″ img_size=”full” add_caption=”yes” onclick=”link_image”][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Francis Lui was satisfied with Golden Sixty and More Than This after his two leading BMW Hong Kong Derby contenders worked at Sha Tin Racecourse on Tuesday (17 March) morning. Golden Sixty heads into Sunday\u2019s (22 March) final leg of the Four-Year-Old Classic Series with the Hong Kong Classic Mile (1600m)… 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\/3092"}],"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=3092"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/campaigns.hkjc.com\/rising-stars\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3092\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3094,"href":"http:\/\/campaigns.hkjc.com\/rising-stars\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3092\/revisions\/3094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/campaigns.hkjc.com\/rising-stars\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/campaigns.hkjc.com\/rising-stars\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/campaigns.hkjc.com\/rising-stars\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}