Yasuda Kinen hero Fairy King Prawn made a faultless return to action when hacking up in one of six Happy Valley trials yesterday from the improving Gonlargo.
Fairy King Prawn, trained by Ivan Allan and ridden by champion jockey Robbie Fradd, became Hong Kong's first and, to date, only overseas Group winner in June. That might change later today, however, when Best Of The Best tackles the Sprinters Stakes.
Immediate plans for Fairy King Prawn are not penned in and underlined as Allan is at today's Arc and then moves on to do a bit of buying at Goffs Irish yearling sales.
But he is going to get a very bold run out of Fairy King Prawn at his first outing.
The trial was over 1,200 metres and Fairy King Prawn was content to run along in fourth behind early leader Expedient before moving up on the turn.
A shake of the reins was all it took to have Fairy King Prawn past Expedient and he cruised to the line three and a half lengths to the good of Gonlargo with Chiu Shan Glory a half length further back just ahead of the weakening Expedient who has usually been most effective over the minimum trip.
