Joy Lucky began her 2014 campaign in fine style with an easy gate-to-wire win at Seoul Race Park this afternoon.
If anything it was too easy with the 7-furlong class 1 race proving little more than a workout for the 4-year-old who ended 2013 as Seoul’s top filly.
Under Seo Seung Un, Joy Lucky took an early lead and settled into a steady pace before sauntering away from her rivals in the home straight to win by a leisurely 9 lengths.
Despite how easy it was, her time was only just over half a second outside the track record for the distance.
Joy Lucky (Ecton Park) now has 8 wins from 11 starts and looks set for a very interesting year. The Queens’ Tour, which begins with the Ttukseom Cup in just over a month’s time, may be on the agenda.
There was no joy for the foreign jockeys at either Seoul or Busan today, but it will still go down as a successful weekend for them. On Friday at Busan, Joe Fujii landed a double while there were also wins for Jerome Lermtye and Masa Tanaka.
Meanwhile in the capital on Saturday, Ikuyasu Kurakane notched a treble, taking him up to 11 wins for the season. The most notable of those victories came on the promising 3-year-old filly Clean Up Speed (Pico Central), who was recording her 3rd win from 5 starts.
Next week sees the return of big race action in the shape of the Segye Ilbo Cup, a Queens’ Tour trial, at Seoul. Joy Lucky doesn’t need to run in it but a host of domestic and imported fillies looking for their pass to compete for the big prizes will be there.
Well,my guesswork on Segye ilbo cup race is focused on who can handles the fast pace. If track condition gonna be the same as last week,deep closers cannot
sit within striking point. So I’d like to approach that who was the fastest
at the second call(800m-4furlong),and her position?
….Pelix Joy:her last outing was one of the most fast pace in this field..marking47.7(when track speed was 5)
and at second call+100M, her position was 4th ..approx.4.5lengths hehind from the leader. And she passed all the front packs ,and hits the wire first…
But as you already know well…
Believe or not…
There may be a different approach,angle,view…
Good luck!