Bullish Luck () (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 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 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 the four-race Asian Mile Challenge.
For his performances, Bullish Luck earned his second Hong Kong Champion Miler title in 2006, and was voted
Hong Kong Horse of the Year.
On March 31, 2007, in the
Dubai World Cup at
Nad Al Sheba Racecourse, Bullish Luck raced for the first time on dirt, finishing third behind
Invasor.
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