The Asian Mile Challenge is a series of four one-mile (eight furlongs) Thoroughbred horse races . Created in 2005, the series was launched with two races, one in Hong Kong , the other in Japan . In 2006, the Melbourne Racing Club of Australia and the Dubai Racing Club of the United Arab Emirates joined the series.
4-736: Raced approximately four weeks apart between March and June, a US$ 1 million bonus is given to any horse who wins two legs of the Asian Mile Challenge. In 2006, the Hong Kong–based horse Bullish Luck collected the bonus after winning the Champions Mile and the Yasuda Kinen . The Asian Mile Challenge now consists of four Grade I races: This article related to sport in the United Arab Emirates
8-518: Is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . This horse race article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Bullish Luck Bullish Luck ( Chinese : 牛精福星 ) (foaled 1999) is a Hong Kong –based Thoroughbred racehorse . Bred in Kentucky , he is the son of the 1990 Breeders' Cup Mile winner Royal Academy and out of the Alysheba mare Wild Vintage. He
12-590: The Champions Mile at Sha Tin Racecourse and in the process put an end to the seventeen-race win streak of stablemate Silent Witness . His performances in 2005 earned him the Hong Kong Champion Miler title. In 2006, Bullish Luck won his second Champions Mile, a part of the Asian Mile Challenge , and after finishing fourth in the 2005 Yasuda Kinen , he captured the 2006 race to earn the $ 1 million bonus given to any horse who wins two legs of
16-721: Was sold by his breeders at the Tattersalls October Yearling Sale to Gordon Smyth who named him "Al Moughazel" and sent him to Newmarket for training under Pip Payne. Sold to Wong Wing-keung of Hong Kong, his name was changed to Bullish Luck. In his first few years of racing, the colt met with only modest success. However, at age five he began to demonstrate real promise, winning the Group I 2004 Hong Kong Gold Cup and finishing second to Alexander Goldrun in December's Hong Kong Cup . In 2005 Bullish Luck won
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