Racing news

The racehorses formerly known as Desert Boy and Missile - useful performers for Peter Chapple-Hyam and Willie Haggas in the 1996 British Flat season, now racing in Hong Kong under the names of Oriental Express and Victory Star respectively - led home the field in the Group One Hong Kong Derby (1m 1f) at Sha Tin yesterday. Oriental Express, a 2.3-1 chance trained by Ivan Allan and ridden by Basil Marcus, won by 11/4 lengths from Victory Star, trained by David Oughton and ridden by Mick Kinane. Philip Robinson was a short-head back in third on Indigenous, while Richard Quinn, riding Citiluck, was a further two short-heads adrift in fifth. Kevin Darley's mount, We Know When, finished 12th of the 13 runners.

Today's meeting at Plumpton was abandoned on Saturday because the course is waterlogged.