{"id":186657,"date":"2025-10-08T23:39:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-08T23:39:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/186657\/"},"modified":"2025-10-08T23:39:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-08T23:39:10","slug":"francis-luis-packing-hermod-to-tackle-g2-premier-bowl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/186657\/","title":{"rendered":"Francis Lui&#8217;s Packing Hermod to tackle G2 Premier Bowl"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Francis Lui has confirmed his exciting five-year-old Packing Hermod is set to drop back to 1200m for the G2 Premier Bowl on October 26, as the trainer outlines the next targets for a number of his leading players.<\/p>\n<p>Packing Hermod, who collected four wins and a Group 3 placing during his four-year-old season, will revert to sprinting for the first time since October last year as Lui looks to swerve a red-hot renewal of the G2 Sha Tin Trophy next week.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe thought we\u2019d try him over 1200m again,\u201d Lui told Idol Horse. \u201cThe [Sha Tin Trophy] looks a tough race, especially with Voyage Bubble in there. The Premier Bowl looks a bit easier, so who knows.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>With Manfred Man saying his is \u201cunsure\u201d whether Lucky Sweynesse will head to the Premier Bowl after his disappointing effort in the G1 Sprinters Stakes in Japan last time out, and Ka Ying Rising still in Australia after the G1 The Everest next weekend, Lui hopes Packing Hermod can capitalise on a potentially weaker field.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe has shown he has lots of speed previously and his last run in the [G3 Celebration Cup] over 1400m was also good,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>While Packing Hermod won\u2019t be lining up in the Sha Tin Trophy that is going to include Voyage Bubble and My Wish, Lui confirmed he will have two runners in the contest. Last year\u2019s Hong Kong Derby winner, Cap Ferrat, will join the 111-rated Copartner Prance in the race.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe will have two in the race,\u201d Lui said. \u201cCap Ferrat will go and Copartner Prance ran a great race last time out in the [G3 Celebration Cup]. He will try a mile.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The 2023-24 champion trainer also stated his highest-rated horse, Chancheng Glory, will target the G3 Sa Sa Ladies\u2019 Purse over the same distance on November 9. The five-year-old finished a gallant second under Jerry Chau in the G3 Korea Cup over (1800m) last month.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019s doing well after his race in Korea,\u201d Lui said. \u201cHe\u2019ll go to the Sa Sa, which looks a good race for him. He won over 1800m last season, so hopefully he can run well.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Lui also said his 109-rated galloper, Patch Of Theta, will be on the sidelines for some time after a \u201csmall setback\u201d following his sixth in the G3 Celebration Cup. \u220e<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/francislee.jpg\" alt=\"Francis Lui wins Hong Kong trainers title\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"feature-link-subtitle\">Related<\/p>\n<p class=\"feature-link-title\">\u2018From The Bottom To The Top\u2019: The Evolution Of Francis Lui<\/p>\n<p>          <a href=\"https:\/\/idolhorse.com\/horse-racing-news\/hong-kong\/from-the-bottom-to-the-top-the-evolution-of-francis-lui\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Jerry-Chau.png\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"feature-link-subtitle\">Related<\/p>\n<p class=\"feature-link-title\">How Jerry Chau And Self Improvement Pulled Off The Unthinkable In South Korea<\/p>\n<p>          <a href=\"https:\/\/idolhorse.com\/horse-racing-news\/hong-kong\/how-jerry-chau-and-self-improvement-pulled-off-the-unthinkable-in-south-korea\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Francis Lui has confirmed his exciting five-year-old Packing Hermod is set to drop back to 1200m for the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":186658,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[82221,82222,82223,6875,82224,82225,82226,3004,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-186657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-racing","tag-cap-ferrat","tag-chancheng-glory","tag-francis-lui","tag-hong-kong","tag-hong-kong-racing","tag-packing-hermod","tag-premier-bowl","tag-racing","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186657","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186657"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186657\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/186658"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}