Solid Win storms home down the outside under Hugh Bowman to win at Sha Tin. Photos: Kenneth Chan
Hugh Bowman produced a pair of outstanding rides to bag his first Sha Tin victories of the new season on Sunday, making light work of wide draws aboard Hakka Radiance and Solid Win.
The top Australian jockey got off to a perfect start in Sunday’s opener, helping Danny Shum Chap-shing’s Hakka Radiance break through for a maiden local win at start 25 in the Class Five Kowloon Tsai Handicap (1,800m).
Set a task from barrier eight in the field of 10, Bowman sent the British import forward to eventually settle outside leader Golden Fairy before taking control early in the straight.
He stayed on strongly on the yielding track to deny a fast-finishing Yeaboi by half a length, improving sharply on his first-up 11th over 1,600m two weeks earlier.
