Jim Bolger will be hoping that Dazzling Park's low key build-up will pay handsome dividends in the Group one Hong Kong Cup over 10 furlongs at Sha Tin tomorrow.

Although there is nothing riding on this, the final leg of the Emirates World Series Racing Championship, a first prize of $5,800,000 Hong Kong (around £450,000) is incentive enough to turn up.

Dazzling Park has looked on good terms with herself since arriving from Europe, and connections are clearly anticipating a big run from the Matron Stakes winner.

Fellow Europeans, Jim And Tonic, Lear Spear and Running Stag, also bid for their share of glory in a race upgraded to Group One status and extended by a furlong this season; so as to integrate the race in the World Series.

Sunline and Air Jihad, the respective New Zealand and Japanese stars, also command plenty of respect.

The Cup is, in fact, the mainstay of a lucrative card, which includes two Group Two events, the Hong Kong Mile and the Hong Kong Vase.

John Hills's Docksider, the Breeders' Cup Mile third, will be seeking to end his career in a blaze of glory in the Mile. Richard Hannon's Wallace also runs.

Mark Johnston's Fruits Of Love bids to improve on his 1998 fifth in the Vase. John Dunlop's Silver Patriarch is the other British runner in a tough contest.

Indigenous, the defending champion whose career began in Ireland, and the Melbourne Cup hero, Rogan Josh, will be tough propositions in the mile and a half race.

The number of international races has been increased to four this year, as the card ushers in the new era of the Hong Kong Sprint (5f) which carries Listed status.

There is plenty of European interest here with Tedburrow, Rudi's Pet and Proud Native making up the British trio in a cosmopolitan field. Michael Kinane rides local hope Night Star in this race. He also rides Self Feeder (Mile) and Irish import, Desert Fox, in the Vase.