Overview
- Ka Ying Rising extended his unbeaten run to 19 with a dominant Group 2 Sprint Cup win at Sha Tin, stopping the clock at 1:07.12 for a new 1,200m track record.
- The five-year-old won by four and a quarter lengths after sitting behind the speed and quickening clear, with Zac Purton easing him late.
- He carried 128lb, giving away 5lb to every rival, and still ran a record time despite a headwind around the bend before a tailwind in the straight.
- Trainer David Hayes and jockey Zac Purton said he is at or near his peak, with a title defense in the Group 1 Chairman’s Sprint Prize on April 26 next and The Everest at Randwick targeted in October.
- The victory came 784 days into his unbeaten stretch and lifted his record to 20 wins and more than £13.2 million in prize-money, building on the streak that earlier surpassed Silent Witness’s Hong Kong mark.