The Hong Kong International Sprint has been taken out 12 times by Australian bred performers since its introduction in 1999 but a victory by the Gary Moore-trained Takedown or Gary Portelli's Rebel Dane next Sunday would make either only the second winner bred, owned and trained in this country.

Day 2 of the Masters was held at Ascot on Saturday though you could forgive yourself for feeling like you were at golf's infamous "party hole" following Takedown's success in the Group 1 Winterbottom Stakes.

Hong Kong’s season still has a feel of the new term about it with only four meetings down but the opening weeks have already delivered plenty of excitement.

Peniaphobia (130lb) reminded race goers of his Group 1 class and banished the blot of a below-par run three weeks earlier with a no-nonsense victory in the HKG3 Sha Tin Vase (Handicap) over 1200m at Sha Tin racecourse this afternoon.

Australian sprinters Chautauqua and Buffering have both drawn in the first half of the field for the 2016 Chairman’s Sprint Prize in Hong Kong.