Romantic Warrior (horse)

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Romantic Warrior (Chinese: 浪漫勇士, foaled: March 18, 2018) is a multiple Group 1 winning champion thoroughbred racehorse that was born in Ireland and trained in Hong Kong. After arriving in Hong Kong in June of 2021, he scored a five-race winning streak, including a championship of the Hong Kong Classic Mile. He was owned by Peter Lau Pak Fai and trained by Danny Shum Chap Shing. In 2022, Romantic Warrior was named Champion Middle-Distance Horse, Champion Four-Year-Old, and Most Improved Horse. He is notable for winning the Cox Plate in 2023 and the Hong Kong Cup in 2022, 2023, 2024 and 2025. He also won the Yasuda Kinen in 2024, being the first foreign-trained horse to win at Tokyo Racecourse since Bullish Luck in the 2006 Hong Kong Cup. Romantic Warrior is the only racehorse to win four Hong Kong Cups. In 2026, Romantic Warrior became the third Hong Kong triple crown horse, winning all three of Hong Kong Stewards' Cup, Hong Kong Gold Cup, and Hong Kong Champions & Chater Cup.

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