DEL MAR, Calif. - Starlust was racing in his fourth country this year when he won Saturday’s Grade 1 Breeders’ Cup Turf Sprint at Del Mar in a 33-1 upset. There are possible plans for a start in a fifth country before the end of the year. Trainer Ralph Beckett said on Sunday that Starlust will be considered for the Group 1 Hong Kong Sprint, a $3.34 million race at six furlongs at Sha Tin Racecourse in Hong Kong on Dec. 8. “We’ll probably think about Hong Kong and then a holiday,” Beckett said in the Del Mar stables. “I think he’s very well suited to the six furlongs.” The BC Turf Sprint was worth $1 million. Starlust, ridden by Rossa Ryan, closed from last of 11 to win the five-furlong race by a neck over 12-1 Motorious, a leading turf sprinter in California. :: Bet with the Best! Get FREE All-Access PPs and Weekly Cashback when you wager on DRF Bets. Starlust, a 3-year-old colt by Zoustar, races for Fitriani Hay. Third in the 2023 BC Juvenile Turf Sprint at Santa Anita, Starlust was beaten in two allowance races for turf sprinters in Dubai in January and February and later won two of seven starts in sprints in Britain and France. The wins came in five-furlong races on a straightaway turf course at York Racecourse. Beckett said York’s surface is comparable to Del Mar's. “It’s no coincidence that his best form is at York, which is a bowling green,” Beckett said. The losses in Europe included a third in the Group 1 Nunthorpe Stakes at York in August and a troubled ninth in the Group 1 Prix de l’Abbaye at Longchamp in Paris in October. Starlust was racing on the inside at Longchamp when he was forced into the rail in the final furlong, losing all chance for a win or placing. Starlust has won 6 of 18 starts. Prior to Saturday, Starlust’s most prestigious victory was the Group 3 Sirenia Stakes at six furlongs on the all-weather track at Kempton Park near London in September 2023. Starlust’s upset win on Saturday is part of a successful year for Beckett and Rossa. They teamed to win three Group 1 races with the 4-year-old filly Bluestocking – the Pretty Polly Stakes in Ireland in June, the Prix Vermeille at Longchamp in September, and the Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe against males at Longchamp in October. In addition, Beckett, who is based southwest of London, won the Group 1 Irish Oaks with You Got To Me in July. Beckett’s 2024 portfolio did not include a Group 1 in Britain. The results are a change from 2023, when the stable won the Group 1 Grand Prix de Saint-Cloud in France with Westover, but had 11 second-place finishes in Group 1 races by Beckett’s recollection. “It was a little bit painful,” he said. On Saturday, Beckett won his first Grade 1 race in the United States that he was allowed to keep. In 2015, the stable’s Secret Gesture finished first in the Grade 1 Beverly D Stakes at Arlington Park - only to be demoted to third. There was an inquiry involving the stretch run on Saturday, but no change to the order of finish. “I’m delighted to get it done,” Beckett said on Saturday. “The inquiry did not take the edge off of it.” :: Want to learn more about handicapping and wagering? Check out DRF's Handicapping 101 and Wagering 101 pages.