Ferraris one jump from a jackpot

LUKE FERRARIS failed by a hair's breadth to win Hong Kong's most prestigious local race, the HK26 million Hong Kong Derby over 2000m at Sha Tin yesterday.

- DAVID THISELTON

Ferraris had to jump from the widest draw of all in the 14-horse field. He was riding the Mark Newnham-trained My Wish, who had won the Hong Kong Classic Mile and finished second in the Hong Kong Classic Cup over 1800m, which we both raced for a cheque of HK$13 million and Ferraris was aboard in both races. The Hong Kong Derby has a stake of over 60 million when converted to South African rands, meaning the winning rider scoops a cheque of about R6 million, so Ferraris was a hair's breadth away from a massive payday aboard the small but coura- geous four-year-old New Zealand-bred gelding, who is by the stallion Shocking.