Bethell excited to unleash Hong Kong import Beauty Destiny

Ed Bethell is excited to see what he can unearth with Beauty Destiny as he prepares to make his British debut at Newcastle on Thursday.

The six-year-old has run his entire 19-race career in Hong Kong – winning six times –  amassing just short of £670,000 in prize money.

He will return to the racetrack following a 340-day absence in the Midnite, Building The Future Of Betting Handicap to give Bethell an idea of what he might have on his hands.

Bethell told the Press Association: “He’s a very exciting horse who I’ve inherited.

“I look forward to running him but it’ll be very much a real learning curve, it’ll be a steep learning curve I would imagine. It’s a big change from Hong Kong racing to race at Newcastle. You couldn’t get more opposites if you tried really.

“He’s done all of his work on the all-weather and he seems to go over it nicely. He needs fast ground ultimately and we’re not guaranteed that at this time of year so it’ll be very much a case of we needed to learn, we need to start off and it just looked like a suitable starting point.

“He came over quite a while ago. He came over in August last year and we gave him plenty of time to acclimatise, enjoy being here and he’s been at work since December time and I’ve been very, very pleased with where we are at and hopefully he can start off and run a nice race.

“It’s competitive and he hasn’t run for a long time and it’s a very different style of racing so he’s got a lot to contend with.

“He’s clearly a very talented horse. You don’t win that sort of money if you’re not that talented. He obviously had his reasons for leaving Hong Kong and we’re willing to make a start with him and he’s a lovely horse to have in the yard, to get a horse of that rating.

“I’m just going to get Thursday out of the way and I’ll learn a lot. I’ll learn a lot of where we are at and what we’re going to be doing.”