Beauty bags fourth Group win: ‘He’s got as much head noise as I did when I was 18’

Beauty Joy takes out the Group Three Premier Plate (1,800m) under Brenton Avdulla. Photo: Kenneth Chan

One of Hong Kong’s old warhorses helped Brenton Avdulla celebrate a new arrival at Sha Tin on Sunday night, with Beauty Joy taking out the Group Three Premier Plate (1,800m).

Not long after welcoming baby boy Kobe to the family, Avdulla landed his second Group victory aboard the notoriously difficult Beauty Joy.

“He’s probably got as much head noise as I did when I was 18 years old. We seem to get along very well,” said Avdulla of the Tony Cruz-trained eight-year-old.

“He was good to me last season and we’ve won another Group race today. Obviously well handled by Tony to get him here in good form and he did his job well.”