Breeders' Cup winner Starlust (GB) (Zoustar {Aus}) and Grade I runner-up The Foxes (Ire) (Churchill {Ire}) have both been supplemented to the Longines Hong Kong International Races, the Hong Kong Jockey Club (HKJC) announced on Tuesday.
The former won the GI Breeders' Cup Turf Sprint in the colours of Fitri Hay and trainer Ralph Beckett. A winner of the G3 Sirenia Stakes in September of 2023, the colt wound up third in the GI Breeders' Cup Juvenile Turf Sprint at Santa Anita two starts later. This term, Starlust managed a listed victory at York in July, and he was also third in the G1 Nunthorpe Stakes in August during a 10-start campaign. He has been supplemented to the G1 Longines Hong Kong Sprint over 1200 metres.
King Power Racing's 4-year-old entire is rounding back into form after some time in the wilderness. Successful in the G2 Royal Lodge Stakes as a juvenile, he would take the G2 Dante Stakes, and run second in the GI Belmont Derby Invitational Stakes last summer. Unplaced in his first four starts of 2024, he ran out a three-length winner of the Listed Churchill Stakes over the all-weather at Newcastle over proven Group 1 yardstick Dubai Honour (Ire) (Pride Of Dubai {Aus}) on Nov. 16. Trained by Andrew Balding, The Foxes joins the G1 Longines Hong Kong Cup field.
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