Lightly raced three-year-old Mr Vigorous has yet to finish in the placings since arriving, but that can change in style tonight at Happy Valley in the Hong Kong Football Club Centenary Challenge Cup (1,200m). The Peter Ho Leung-trained youngster arrived with a record of three seconds from four starts in his native Ireland, so he remains a maiden anywhere at this stage. Mr Vigorous (Ben So Tik-hung) has shown enough in his short career in Hong Kong to expect he will make the grade in Class Three
Lightly raced three-year-old Mr Vigorous has yet to finish in the placings since arriving, but that can change in style tonight at Happy Valley in the Hong Kong Football Club Centenary Challenge Cup (1,200m). The Peter Ho Leung-trained youngster arrived with a record of three seconds from four starts in his native Ireland, so he remains a maiden anywhere at this stage.
Mr Vigorous (Ben So Tik-hung) has shown enough in his short career in Hong Kong to expect he will make the grade in Class Three and, particularly, at the tricky city track.
He has run twice at the Valley for an eighth to Team Work Douglas Whyte), and an eye-catching fifth to Tai Sing Yeh two runs back and they have been the standout efforts for him so far.
On the back of his run behind Tai Sing Yeh, Mr Vigorous had some support to break through at Sha Tin last time out over 1,400m, but punters would be well advised to ignore that performance.
Not only was it at Sha Tin, where Mr Vigorous has yet to show much at all, So unwisely contested a fast lead and left the colt with nothing to finish the race off and he dropped out tamely.
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