Mighty K Breaks Through at Sha Tin

13 February 2012

Caspar Fownes’ stable runner Mighty K – an O’Reilly half-brother to the stakes winner Big River, broke through maiden ranks with a gritty 1400m performance at Hong Kong last night.

The Whakanui Stud-bred 3YO out of Zoilus fought stride for stride in the straightwith eventually runner up Lucky Nistelrooy, ultimately winning for owner Kirk Wong King Wai by a nose.

The Corner with Garry Chittick

I keep on proposing my retirement from the burden of a weekly Corner. I make the excuse it is hard to be credible, hard to let the two of you know about anything in our sport that hasn’t been covered before.

27 October 2025

WS-bred On The Lash scores at Sha Tin

Twenty-four hours following the final WS Cox Plate meeting run on the Moonee Valley track of old before it shuts for two years to make way for a new precinct, the race’s 2004 winner, Savabeel, continued his roll of runners, and this time it was via five-year-old On The Lash (ex Candelabra) at Sha Tin.