The international classification committee, which ranks and quantifies the best horses around the world each year, met on Sunday night after the Sha Tin meeting to ratify the provisional ratings of horses which competed during that afternoon.

The 2001 classification figures had mostly been decided by the panel of handicappers in Dublin early this month, but figures for any horses engaged in Hong Kong were provisional until after racing at the weekend. While the new, and final, figures decided are a matter of top secrecy until their announcement to the world in mid-January, one thing is for certain - that Electronic Unicorn's provisional 120 rating going into the Hong Kong Mile will not have been sustained.

Although Eishin Preston's performance was probably enough to put him close to or on a par with the Breeders' Cup Mile winner, Val Royal, on 124 pounds, the margin of 3.25 lengths to Electronic Unicorn will probably see the Hong Kong hero dropped a pound or two.