Dennis Yip Chor-hong and Douglas Whyte will be hoping Happy Valley specialist Cosmo Success can return to winning ways over the 1,650 metres tonight and notch his fourth victory this season in the Hong Kong Rugby Football Union Cup.
Yip has to be given a lot of credit for maintaining the form of Cosmo Success throughout the year, in which he has registered three wins over the course and distance. The only time Whyte hasn't won aboard him was on a yielding track on February 4, when finishing fourth to Bumper Bumper.
That form now looks sound enough with Bumper Bumper going within half a length of adding to his tally last weekend despite an eight-pound lift in the handicap. In addition, Cosmo Success will be better suited to the firmer conditions he will strike this evening, with all his victories having come on good-to-firm ground.
Fortune Boy set the pace when finishing third, a neck ahead of Cosmo Success, in the race won by Bumper Bumper. He enjoyed a relatively soft lead on that occasion and although it was his best effort to date, there is no doubt he was aided by the state of the track and the tempo. He may find it a tougher assignment this evening.
Sean Woods-trained Agility is arguably the most progressive galloper in the field but, like Healthy Wealthy (a beaten favourite last week from gate nine), has to overcome an outside alley. In addition, this is his first run around the city course and, taking that into account, Wendyll Woods has a tough task ahead of him.
Nonetheless, he is on the upgrade and is difficult to leave out of calculations because he's good enough to win if he gets the breaks in the race.
