Gor Gor, appropriately with the pink colours on Valentine’s Day, provided Brett Crawford with his 16th win in Hong Kong in the first race at Sha Tin on Saturday and he was ridden by Karis Teetan (HKJC)
Brett Crawford has had the least number of runs in the season out of all the trainers in Hong Kong, just 141 in all, and the 16 wins he now has gives him the fourth highest strike rate on the island of 11.35%.
However, it will probably not be for long that he has the least number of runs, because his numbers have increased to close to 70 horses and he had eight runners at the Sha Tin meeting on Saturday, the first time he has had that number at one meeting.
His first season in Hong Kong is generally being described as “incredible” and when he recorded his 16th win on the island on Saturday with Gor Gor, who won the first race, it was the tenth time his former Cape Town stable jockey Karis Teetan had been in the saddle for one of his wins.
Crawford has gained a reputation for turning horses around after arriving in his yard, usually without so much as a barrier trial beforehand.
Gor Gor was having his second run for the Crawford yard.
He had finished last in his first two runs of the season before joining the Crawford yard and had never finished closer than ninth in his previous five-race career.
He finished fourth on debut for Crawford before winning on Saturday.
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Crawford has an entry in the HK$13 million Hong Kong Classic Cup and two entries in the $HK 26 million Hong Kong Derby.
