Ferraris savours Sweet victory in Classic Mile

Hong Kong Jockey Club CEO Winfried Engelbrecht-Bresges thanked the “extremely loyal fans” after a passionate crowd of 78,136 braved the biting cold and rain to enjoy an enthralling afternoon of racing, the day’s highlight being a thrilling climax to the HKG1 Mercedes-Benz Hong Kong Classic Mile. Despite the inclement weather, the 11-race card returned the second highest turnover in the past nine years. “Looking at the coldest Chinese New Year in 16 years, having over 78,000 of our fans coming to the races is an extremely good start to the year,” said Mr Engelbrecht-Bresges. “We were a little bit down on last year’s figure, which I think is understandable. Turnover today was HK$1.22 billion, which was also a little under last year, by 3%, but I think one has to again consider the impact of the weather - it is still the second best turnover for nine years. We think it is a very satisfactory start to the year of the ‘ice’ dragon.”

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Long-shot wins become habit for OldMike

"OldMike", the RacingHK stalwart who won big when 63/1 longshot Rich Unicorn got up at Sha Tin on October 30, has done it again. At the New Year's Day meeting on Sunday he unloaded on Aashiq which led all the way to win race 10, The Chinese Club Challenge Cup over 1400m, at odds of almost 21/1, holding off a late challenge from Captain Sweet.He was not the only RacingHK member to spot the overlay on Aashiq - "Singapore Sam" rang in to admit that he had "a tidy win" on it, which included the 30/1 quinella.  OldMike was happy to divulge the reasoning behind the coup: "I was having an average day until then, but I could not believe the odds on offer. Most punters believed that Captain Sweet was the horse to beat in the race, based on his win over course and distance on the day of the International Races in December.

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