HELENE MASCOT ANOTHER TATTERSALLS HONG KONG STAR
Tattersalls purchase HELENE MASCOT justified his status as the well – backed favourite for the 2008 Hong Kong Derby with a determined victory in the 131st running of the Group 1 event at Sha Tin. The Tony Cruz inmate is yet another fine advertisement for Book 1 of the Tattersalls October Yearling Sale alongside Hong Kong multiple Group 1 winning superstar VIVA PATACA, another graduate of Europe’s premier yearling sale.
Formerly known as SALFORD MILL when trained by David Elsworth in England, HELENE MASCOT was a 45,000 guineas purchase by his former trainer at Book 1 of the 2005 Tattersalls October Yearling Sale where he was consigned from his breeder Gilly McCalmont’s Yeomanstown Lodge Stud. The striking son of PEINTRE CELEBRE, out of the KAHYASI mare RAZANA, boasted an official BHA rating of 111 before leaving Elsworth to join trainer Tony Cruz in Hong Kong. Sixth behind another Tattersalls October 1 yearling, AUTHORIZED, in the 2007 Derby, HELENE MASCOT won two races in England including the Listed Newmarket Stakes over 10 furlongs, before establishing himself as the top four year old in Hong Kong.
HELENE MASCOT winning the Group 1 Hong Kong Derby
To date HELENE MASCOT has won two of his three starts for owner Wilson Woo Ka Wah and partners including the Group 1 Hong Kong Classic Mile and has career earnings of £982,481. He is the fifth winner from the first five foals of racing age out of the Listed placed RAZANA who is herself currently in foal to NOVERRE.