Reliable Man’s well-related son Reliable Profit has excelled on his return to competition at Sha Tin.
He lightly raced six-year-old was making his first appearance for five weeks but was produced in forward condition by trainer Danny Shum to overpower his Class Four rivals over 1800 metres.
The Gerry Harvey-bred gelding was also the first strike in a winning treble on the card for Australian jockey Hugh Bowman.
“It’s just nice for the horses to be running well, winning is good,” said Bowman, fresh from a Happy Valley double on Wednesday night.
“It had been a frustrating month but, in saying that, there was only two or three meetings where I really went home thinking ‘what’s wrong?’
“The other times, even if I wasn’t riding winners, I was riding placings.”
Now the winner of his 16 appearances, Reliable Profit was originally sold out of Westbury Stud’s draft at the 2020 New Zealand Bloodstock National Yearling Sale for $330,000 to the Hong Kong Jockey Club and then realised $782,000 at the International Sale.
He is a half-brother to the G1 Railway Stakes winner Julius who was also successful three times at Group 3 level.
Their dam is the late Danzero mare Oh So Royal, who produced 10 winners in total including Reliable Profit’s brother Battenburg who placed in the G1 Spring Champion Stakes.
Successful on two occasions up to 1100 metres, Oh So Royal was a half-sister to the G2 Shannon Stakes winner Vashka and the immediate family of black type winers Renewal and Verb.
