By Scott Burton (HKJC)
The 2 newest memories of French ace Mickael Barzalona lodged with Hong Kong’s enthusiastic followers is a set of late dashboards.
In 2020, he drove Ricky Yiu- educated expert Jolly Banner via the area to be 2nd in the G1 LONGINES Hong Kong Sprint (1200m), stopping working by half a size to attract Ryan Moore and Japanese leaflet Danon Smash.
Twelve months later on, he blinked home vast and rapid aboard Elon to catch Zac Purton and Shining Gem in the darkness of the Happy Valley winning message to land the 4th and last leg of the LONGINES International Jockeys’ Championship (IJC), an efficiency which made him a share of 2nd location on the last platform.
That was Barzalona’s ideal surface in 4 efforts at the LONGINES IJC extending back to his launching in 2016, while the opportunity to boost his document in 2022 went asking when a final clinical concern cost him his …