Beauty Generation to continue career in Hong Kong with returning David Hayes

Record-breaking two-time Hong Kong Horse of the Year Beauty Generation will race on next season, and is set to join Melbourne Cup-winning trainer David Hayes.

The brilliant seven-year-old has been in the care of Hong Kong's winningmost trainer John Moore since 2016, but the long-serving horseman will retire this season due to the Hong Kong Jockey Club's rules which state no trainer over 70 is permitted hold a licence.

There had been speculation regarding where Beauty Generation would be in training next season, but it now appears that the Road To Rock gelding will join Australian trainer Hayes, who is returning to Hong Kong next season.

The 57-year-old previously enjoyed significant success when training in the region from 1995 to 2005, winning two premierships (1997-98 and 1998-99), as well as landing the 2003 Hong Kong Derby.

After a narrow defeat in the FWD Champions Mile at Sha Tin last month, Moore, who is set to relocate to Rosehill in Sydney at the end of the season, suggested he would like to bring Beauty Generation with him.

Speaking after his star performer was just touched off by Southern Legend, Moore said: "I'd like to take him for a mile race in Australia and then have him stay there at the Living Legends Farm.

Southern Legend beats Beauty Generation at Sha Tin last monthCredit: Hong Kong Jockey Club

"That's what I'd like to do but what the Kwok family [owners] wants to do is what counts, I don't know whether they'll keep racing him or retire him."

Beauty Generation may not have been at his unstoppable best this season but the eight-time Group 1 winner still managed to strike three times, including in the Group 1 Queen's Silver Jubilee Cup in February, and never finished out of the first three in eight starts.

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