Bullish Luck ({{zh, c=牛精福星) (foaled 1999) is a

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–based

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. Bred in

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, he is the son of the 1990

Breeders' Cup Mile The Breeders' Cup Mile is a conditions races, Grade 1 Weight for Age stakes race for thoroughbred racehorses three years old and up, run on a sod, grass course. It has been conducted annually as part of the Breeders' Cup, Breeders' Cup World C ...

winner

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and out of the

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mare Wild Vintage. He was sold by his breeders at the

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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

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and in the process put an end to the seventeen-race winning streak of stablemate

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. 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 The Yasuda Kinen (English: Yasuda Memorial, Japanese and Chinese language: 安田記念) is a Japanese Graded stakes race, International Grade I Thoroughbred horse race held at the Tokyo Racecourse in Tokyo. Raced annually each June, the Yasuda Ki ...

, 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 The Dubai World Cup (Arabic: كأس دبي العالمي) is a Thoroughbred horse race held annually since 1996 and contested at the Meydan Racecourse in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. The race is operate ...

at Nad Al Sheba Racecourse, Bullish Luck raced for the first time on dirt, finishing third behind Invasor. Bullish Luck is now retired in Victoria, Australia. He resides at Living Legends: The International Home Of Rest For Champion Horses, alongside his stablemate from Hong Kong Silent Witness.

References

Tattersalls article on Bullish Luck

Article on Bullish Luck's Yasuda Kinen win and owner Wong Wing-keung's donation to charity

Bullish Luck's Horse of the Year honor

Bullish Luck's pedigree and racing stats
1999 racehorse births Thoroughbred family 4-n Racehorses bred in Kentucky Racehorses trained in Hong Kong