NZ's Outstanding Hong Kong Season Continues

NZB graduates have continued their Hong Kong season in style over the weekend winning six races on the ten race card at Sha Tin, with the NZ suffix taking out nine races.

New Zealand stallions played a big hand in the meeting with the boom young sire Thorn Park notching up a winner through his son Gift is Gift, now unbeaten in three starts, as well as Waikato Stud stallions O'Reilly and Pins, and Newmarket Lodge's stallion Gold Centre who notched up his first winner in Hong Kong.

Little Avondale Stud had a successful meeting with their resident stallion Towkay notching up a winner through his son Fun Heroes, while Goodview Successor (O'Reilly) who was sold by the Stud won the Class 3 Wong Cup.

In another highlight, Prosperity, the son of Zabeel from the Group 1 winning mare Surprize Surprize, a $360,000 graduate of the 2008 Ready to Run Sale from Lyndhurst Farm, claimed his first Hong Kong win in only his second start. 

New Zealand is coming off one of the most successful Hong Kong seasons in recent years in 2010, with the NZ suffix carried to 11 black-type wins, more than any other country.

The 2011 season has seen New Zealand bred horses win an astonishing 10 black-type races already, with outstanding performances from Ambitious Dragon and Beauty Flash heading the kiwi contingent. The closest country to New Zealand in black-type wins in the 2011 season is Australia with six.

New Zealand bred horses also won five of the twelve race card in Singapore last night with winning progeny from NZ based sires Shinko King and Istidaad.