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Hong Kong delayed for winning debutant

Breednet - Thursday August 16
Bought as a replacement for a top-class Hong Kong galloper, this winning debutant has had his Asian debut delayed and will instead "go through the grades" in Australia.

Happy Bubbles as a yearlingSnitzel three-year-old, Happy Bubbles races in the same ownership as Hong Kong sprinter Lucky Bubbles and was purchased at last year's Inglis Premier Yearling Sale with a view to replacing that horse when he retires.

A winner of the Group One HK Chairman's Sprint Prize in May last year, Lucky Bubbles went winless in the last racing season, but it has been decided the seven year-old will race on when racing commences there next month.

That means Happy Bubbles must cool his heels here and trainer Gerald Ryan didn't sound too disappointed after he made an impressive winning debut, overcoming trouble in the straight to prove a cut above his rivals over the 900m at Newcastle.

"We'll look after him," said Ryan.

"He's a nice enough horse to go through the grades."

Happy Bubbles cost $185,000 from the draft of Rosemont Stud and is the third foal, and third winner, for the Choisir mare Jesse's Girl, which finished stakes placed four times in the Group Two BRC Sires' Produce Stks, and Group Three Thoroughbred Club Stks, MVRC Champagne Stks and Dequetteville Stks.

Jesse's Girl is a full-sister to former multiple stakes winning speedster Eloping and a half-sister to two-year-old stakes winner Of The Brave.

She has a two-year-old by Sepoy, a yearling by Vancouver and was served by American Pharoah last season.

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