Beauty Joy proved that age is just a number in quite remarkable style to go back-to-back in the Group Three Premier Plate (1,800m), the final Group race of the campaign, at Sha Tin on Sunday.
Before his triumph in the race 12 months ago, Cruz told the owners, the Kwok family, that if his then eight-year-old did not win the race, he would retire him.
That scenario repeated itself this campaign, with Cruz alluding just weeks ago that he would once…