This race will be a good spectacle watching a high quality horse, but that’s about it. BEAUTY GENERATION drops back to 1,400m but the dominant force in Hong Kong racing won’t be at a major disadvantage and he will be awfully hard to beat again. The pressure he receives in the early part of the race will be most significant and for a 1400m affair there doesn’t look like there’ll be many to really “take him on” early – CONTE and FIFTY FIFTY might be those that do. BEAT THE CLOCK finished a head second to Beauty Generation in last year’s edition of this race and I am expecting a similar contest this year, with a slightly bigger margin. If something goes wrong with the two market fancies, then Winner’s Way is the only other runner that I could make a case for.