HONG KONG SUNDAY<\/p>\n
Prior to flying down to Melbourne, Bowman has a busy day ahead of him at Sha Tin this Sunday, as he\u2019ll combine with fellow Aussie Mark Newnham in the two feature events.<\/p>\n
Bowman will be out to cause an upset in the G1 Hong Kong Gold Cup when he rides up-and-comer My Wish against 2023 Cox Plate hero, Romantic Warrior.<\/p>\n
Bowman has often warmed the seat for James McDonald aboard Romantic Warrior in his trackwork and trials, describing him as a \u201cspecial horse\u201d but he doesn\u2019t concede that he\u2019s already over the line this weekend.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s a horse race, so you never really know,\u201d Bowman said.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think if all things are equal, Romantic Warrior has a trouble-free run and there\u2019s no surprises, well, I would have to say I think he\u2019s got the measure of the field, clearly, but you just never know.<\/p>\n
\u201cMy horse is ready to run a really good race and I\u2019m sure he will.\u201d<\/p>\n
Later in the afternoon, the four-time Cox Plate winner will continue his association with Invincible Ibis in the Hong Kong Classic Cup over 1800m.<\/p>\n
Bowman is pleased that Invincible Ibis has been allocated barrier two in the middle leg of the Four-Year-Old Classic Series, which culminates with the Hong Kong Derby on March 22.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat\u2019s a much better scenario than the outside barrier in the Classic Mile,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe\u2019s ticking over nicely, so I\u2019m looking forward to riding him again.\u201d<\/p>\n
Bowman was in the winner\u2019s circle at Happy Valley on Wednesday night and is currently in second place in the Hong Kong jockeys\u2019 premiership on 35 wins, chasing tearaway leader and fellow Aussie,\u00a0Zac Purton.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HONG KONG SUNDAY Prior to flying down to Melbourne, Bowman has a busy day ahead of him at…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":304933,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[166890,79024,166892,166893,166888,166894,111,166891,139,69,116231,213,86990,166889],"class_list":["post-304932","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-all-star-mile-2026","tag-bjorn-baker","tag-caballus","tag-hong-kong-racing","tag-hugh-bowman","tag-mark-newnham","tag-new-zealand","tag-newmarket-handicap-2026","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-romantic-warrior","tag-sports","tag-stefi-magnetica","tag-super-saturday-flemington"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304932","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=304932"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304932\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/304933"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=304932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=304932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=304932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}