HONG Kong star Golden Sixty made it 15 consecutive wins in last Sunday’s Group 2 BOCHK Jockey Club Mile at Sha Tin.

“It’s a Ferrari against six Hong Kong taxi cabs,” cried the commentator, as the champion racehorse, extended his winning streak in fine style, coming from last to first under Vincent Ho.

Passing the field in a handful of strides despite the early pedestrian pace, Golden Sixty proved once again that he’s in a league of his own over the mile in Hong Kong.

Golden Sixty’s next assignment will be the Group 1 Hong Kong Mile at the Hong Kong International Races meeting on Sunday, December 12th. He won the race in good style last year.

“It was a nice run and I think we both enjoyed it a lot. We had the perfect draw on the outside with no speed in the race. They tried to sprint from 600m out, but we were able to settle well early, trot through the race and then cruise up easily.

“As usual, he did his job. He saw the winning post and realised it was job done so started to slow himself down, so I had to ask him for a couple of extra strides,” Ho said.

“It was a good performance and a good lead-up for the International Races. I think there’s definitely more to come.”

Last beaten in July of 2019, the brilliant son of Medaglia d’Oro looked in fine fettle as he launched from his customary position to score by a length, clocking 1m 34.55s ahead of the dual Group 1-winning Waikuku and last season’s BMW Hong Kong Derby hero Sky Darci, respectively. The six-year-old registered 21.51s over the final two furlongs.

Record-equalling

The triumph takes Golden Sixty to a record-equalling 18 career wins in Hong Kong, alongside only Beauty Generation and Silent Witness, while his sequence of 15 successive victories has him just two short of Silent Witness’ record-setting 17 in a row.

Golden Sixty took four titles at last season’s Champion Awards, named Horse of the Year, Champion Miler, Champion Middle-Distance Horse and Most Popular Horse.

“I knew he was going to be fresh, last season we started at 1400 (metres) and I knew the pace was going to be faster than today. First-up over 1600 (metres) when he’s fresh and surely there’s no pace, it’s better to be slow but we know if I’m just at the back and nothing fires him up, he can relax very well and I can just wait to press the button,” Ho explained.

Trainer Francis Lui was equally as pleased with his star galloper’s effort, whose victory today enhanced his all-time earnings to HK$80.633 million.

“I must say we were confident in this race but I’m happy to see him win again. This horse has got a very good fighting heart and once he relaxes he has a very good turn of foot,” Lui said.