{"id":499552,"date":"2026-02-23T21:10:27","date_gmt":"2026-02-23T21:10:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/499552\/"},"modified":"2026-02-23T21:10:27","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T21:10:27","slug":"the-record-falls-win-no-18-for-ka-ying-rising","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/499552\/","title":{"rendered":"The record falls! Win No.18 for Ka Ying Rising"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"aspect-ratio:7464\/3732;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Ka-Ying-Rising_18thWin2_2x1hkjc-8266298.webp.webp\" alt=\"The Sha Tin crowd watches history as Ka Ying Rising and Zac Purton score an 18th consecutive win by taking out the G1 Queen's Jubilee Cup. (Image: HKJC)\" width=\"7464\" height=\"3732\"\/>The Sha Tin crowd watches history as Ka Ying Rising and Zac Purton score an 18th consecutive win by taking out the G1 Queen&#8217;s Jubilee Cup. (Image: HKJC)<\/p>\n<p>David Hayes believes Ka Ying Rising\u2019s extraordinary dominance can continue indefinitely after the world\u2019s premier sprinter demolished quality opposition to post a Hong Kong\u2011record 18th successive victory \u2014 and a course record \u2014 in the HK$13 million G1 Queen\u2019s Silver Jubilee Cup (1400m) at Sha Tin on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Stretching beyond Silent Witness\u2019 longstanding mark of 17, Ka Ying Rising stopped the clock at 1:19.36 to slash the previous 1400m benchmark of 1:19.92. Sitting second from barrier three behind Copartner Prance, he cruised into the straight, put the race to bed at the 400m and surged clear to score by three and a half lengths from Helios Express, with Lucky Sweynesse another one and a quarter lengths away in third.<\/p>\n<p>Improving his overall record to 19 wins from 21 starts, the five\u2011year\u2011old\u2019s unbeaten run since February 2024 now features eight Group 1s \u2014 the LONGINES Hong Kong Sprint (2024 &amp; 2025), Centenary Sprint Cup (2025 &amp; 2026), The Everest (2025), Chairman\u2019s Sprint Prize (2025) and now back\u2011to\u2011back Queen\u2019s Silver Jubilee Cups (2025 &amp; 2026).<\/p>\n<p>The stunning nature of Ka Ying Rising\u2019s latest victory prompted Hayes to declare that the five\u2011year\u2011old could sustain his current level of excellence for the next 18 months, fitness permitting.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf we can place him conservatively, we hope to have him for another couple of seasons, that\u2019s really exciting,\u201d Hayes said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe loves a month between runs, so we\u2019ll probably go for the (G2) Sprint Cup (1200m) next (on 6 April) and then we don&#8217;t have to train him too hard and babysit him into the Chairman\u2019s Sprint Prize (1200m on 26 April).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHopefully we can get another clean sweep of the season again with The Everest in the middle.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe&#8217;s more composed than ever, he&#8217;s changing legs and you can&#8217;t ask for much more than he&#8217;s doing. He&#8217;s breaking track records and his last three runs; he&#8217;d have broken the track record if Zac had let him go.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe jumped so well (today) and cruised through the bend beautifully \u2013 at the 300m, I could really enjoy it. I could tell he had the race in command. Zac went for him a bit more than he normally does and rode to instructions, which was good.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud83d\udde3\ufe0f &#8220;&#8230;a huge relief!&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>David Hayes chats following the smashing win of Ka Ying Rising in the Queen&#8217;s Silver Jubilee Cup at Sha Tin&#8230; \ud83c\udfc6<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WorldPool?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">@WorldPool<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/SpeedSeries?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">#SpeedSeries<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/HKracing?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">#HKracing<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/A7VtoCxDMy\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/A7VtoCxDMy<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 HKJC Racing (@HKJC_Racing) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HKJC_Racing\/status\/2025499475255697500?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">February 22, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI&#8217;ve trained a lot of horses that have gone 742 days without winning, so to continuously win for 742 days is mind\u2011numbing. It&#8217;s two and a half years and the thing people don&#8217;t realise is that he was the (equal) youngest horse in the race today. They always think he&#8217;s the big boy bashing them up, but he&#8217;s actually the baby.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt&#8217;s a huge relief. I didn&#8217;t think the team could have had him better for today and I was confident that if the track was riding fast, he could break the (track) record. I didn&#8217;t want Zac sitting up in the last 100m, I said to him &#8216;let him run through the post and we&#8217;ll see how strong he is at 1400m&#8217;. He&#8217;s just a star.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI just thought for his worldwide ratings, I wanted Zac to let him go today and hopefully he can keep climbing up that incredible ladder that he&#8217;s going up. When you&#8217;ve got a horse as good as him, he&#8217;s the one everyone will be comparing the next big horse too.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Sha Tin crowd watches history as Ka Ying Rising and Zac Purton score an 18th consecutive win&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":499553,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[251261,64,63,251263,251265,129903,251264,251259,251260,251262,85],"class_list":["post-499552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-18-straight-wins","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-helios-express-second","tag-hong-kong-speed-series","tag-ka-ying-rising","tag-lucky-sweynesse-third","tag-queens-silver-jubilee-cup-2026","tag-sha-tin-1400m","tag-silent-witness-record","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499552","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=499552"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499552\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/499553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=499552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=499552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=499552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}