The South African bred filly, Sweet Sanette, broke a class record at Happy Valley in Hong Kong on Wednesday night as she strode away to win a Class 1 five-furlong sprint.

It is extremely rare to find filly runners in Hong Kong, a place which contains largely gelded horses and the South African-bred Jallad sired filly made it somewhat of a landmark win for South Africa's Greg Cheyne and Hong Kong trainer, Gary Ng.

There are only around 1,200 odd horses in Hong Kong with a handful of the fairer sex. Greg Cheyne was naturally excited about the win, when in contact with SAHorseracing.COM, aboard his home country bred and in record time to boot.

"I knew her from home and she has kept her explosive early toe. She won in a lesser grade at Sha Tin last time with the same quickening to leave them alone and lead as she likes, but to do it round these contours and not be phased says a lot about her," Cheyne mentioned in an interview with Hong Kong journalists.

Gary Ng was equally thrilled with the South African import, "We knew she was good and had potential, but you must put your South African horses through longer periods of quarantine to get here and then hope they reproduce their form. It's even tougher with a female in Hong Kong but this one is special."

The South African Grade 3 winner was formerly trained by Roy Magner in South African and she won four times in seven starts before being exported. 

Sweet Sanette has earned HK$1,469,500 (approx R1,47 million) to date in three Hong Kong  starts for two wins and a place.