Hong Kong Mile
Scheduled to go to Hong Kong's Sha Tin Racecourse to run in the Hong Kong Mile, Val Royal developed a quarter crack that saw him sidelined him until March 2, 2002, when he returned to Santa Anita and finished fourth in the Frank E. Kilroe Mile Handicap. Sent to Nad Al Sheba Racecourse in Dubai for the 2002 Dubai Duty Free Stakes, he finished fifth in a sixteen-horse field in his final race.