First season sires are always a big part of any weanling sale as the market looks to get a glimpse and hopefully a good insight into something new and Mike O’Donell of Fairhill Farm has some confidence around one of these guys.

As featured in May's edition of Hong Kong Racing World, New Zealand has long been a source of champion milers, middle-distance and staying horses with many Hong Kong legends of the turf purchased from the land of the long white cloud. But in recent years, Hong Kong has seen the emergence of the New Zealand-bred as a dominant sprinting force, with three of the world’s top-rated sprinters