THE Remy Martin XO Cup at Sha Tin on Sunday was robbed of much of its glamour yesterday with the news that brilliant sprinter Winning Partners would not run.
Trainer Neville Begg will not declare his International Bowl-winning star this morning as a precautionary move and will aim him for Happy Valley instead.
Disappointed jockey Greg Childs said: 'Nobody knows this horse better than Neville and he just wasn't fully happy with him.
'Winning Partners may have picked up a minor virus or something like that, but he was just not 100 per cent.
'His main target, of course, is the International Bowl and not running on Sunday will not affect that with the Happy Valley race coming up.
'You obviously don't run horses if you are not happy with them and Winning Partners has had a couple of problems over the seasons.