Classic Mile

"All the fancy stallions: Danzig, Forty Niner, Pleasant Colony, Halo. And then there were these two bottom-line fillies, a Spend a Buck and a Mari's Book. And they told me to get them ready for the 2-year-old sale." Eddie Woods is going back three decades, to the start of the business he closed last spring. He had rented a barn at Classic Mile in Ocala, with a single client in Elmendorf Farm. "Okay, so the Spend a Buck was a moose, great tall thing with a big pair of ears...

Enjoying the benefit of a feathery 116 pounds while making his black-type debut in Wednesday's G3 Chinese Club Challenge Cup H. at Sha Tin, Golden Sixty (Aus) (Medaglia d'Oro) easily and impressively validated odds-on favouritism against older rivals in this steppingstone to the Hong Kong Classic Mile versus fellow 4-year-olds Jan. 27. The mount of leading homegrown rider Vincent Ho, Golden Sixty took up a spot in the latter third of the field as Ka Ying Star (GB) (Cityscape {GB}) galloped them along up front as is his wont. Quietly...