Righteous Mate had only one horse behind him with 300m to race in the Class 4 Pui O Handicap at Sha Tin on Wednesday but rolled past the rest to land a 92/1 shock under Brazilian hoop Vagner Borges.
“He’s been running quite well and his last run wasn’t bad either, it’s just he was drawn a little bit wide last week and didn’t get the clear run. He pulled up well so I decided to run him back,” trainer Tony Millard said of the New Zealand-bred son of Savabeel.
“Today they went very fast up front and then died, and it suited him. He’s just a Class 4 horse but he’s done a nice job. He came to me a year ago as a stable transfer and he’s won three races since.”
Righteous Mate was sold as a weanling through Curraghmore’s 2014 New Zealand Bloodstock Weanling, Broodmare and Mixed Bloodstock Sale.
