CONVEY and Stormy Antarctic will represent British form in Sunday’s Group 1 Champions Mile at Sha Tin.
Trained by Sir Michael Stoute, Convey was a smooth winner of the Easter Classic at Lingfield on Good Friday. Now gelded, the five-year-old races in the colours of Asian businessman Robert Ng, who bought the horse from Juddmonte last October for just 130,000gns and left the son of Dansili with Stoute.
Olivier Peslier has been booked to ride Convey at Sha Tin and the horse is rated an outsider, as is fellow British hopeful Stormy Antarctic, trained by Ed Walker.
The hot favourite is Rapper Dragon, an Australian-bred son of Street Boss who not only won the Hong Kong Derby in March but is also the first horse to win all three ‘classics’ for four-year-olds.
Among the horses John Moore’s charge has beaten are Pakistan Star and Eagle Way, both of whom ran well on last Sunday’s card. Moore has won the race six times.
The exciting chesnut, who placed second in the Group 1 Champagne Stakes as a juvenile when stabled with Gai Waterhouse in Sydney, will be ridden on Sunday by man-of-the-moment Joao Moreira.
“He has done everything he’s been asked and I still think there’s more improvement to come from him,” said Moreira, who has won the Champions Mile six times in the past.