Australians are enamoured with the progeny of Too Darn Hot (GB) and a three year-old by the Darley shuttler kept his unbeaten record intact when making it three wins on the trot at Sha Tin in Sunday.
Hot Delight maintained a perfect record with a third successive win to give Francis Lui his 500th victory on Sha Tin turf with success in the Class 3 Werther Handicap (1200m) under Vincent Ho.
Hot Delight won by over a length as a short priced favourite and clocked 1m 08.19s – only marginally outside of Victor The Winner’s Class record mark of 1m 08.11s.
“He’s (Hot Delight) a nice horse, we know that. But he’s only three, so we want to excel as much as possible, but we also want to keep him for his four-year-old season, so it was a nice run,” Ho said.
Hot Delight was a $250,000 Magic Millions purchase for John Foote Bloodstock from the Attunga Stud draft as agent for Inglewood Stud and is very much a young sprinter on the rise.
“Good horse, he’s a very good horse and honest. Even in trackwork he’s showed he’s improved,” Francis Lui said.
Hot Delight is a three-quarter-brother to Group III winner Matchmaker and is the fifth winner from six to race from Love Somebody, a placed Fastnet Rock daughter of Group II winner Dynamic Love.
