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Golden Sixty takes the baton with sparkling Hong Kong Mile success

Posted on December 14, 2020
in Hong Kong Horse Racing News

They came, they saw, they tried to blunt his dash, but they failed to conquer Golden Sixty: Hong Kong’s burgeoning hometown hero dismantled his international rivals in the HK$25 million Group 1 LONGINES Hong Kong Mile at Sha Tin with an exquisite performance. “He’s amazing, isn’t he?” jockey Vincent Ho said, moments after the brilliant[...]

Posted on December 11, 2020
in Hong Kong Horse Racing News

Aidan O’Brien is satisfied with reports out of Sha Tin as his stable’s travelling trio Magical, Order Of Australia and Mogul wind up for Sunday’s (13 December) HK$95 million LONGINES Hong Kong International Races, but believes the task of winning will be as tough as ever. “We don’t expect it to be easy. Those races[...]

Posted on November 23, 2020
in Hong Kong Horse Racing News

Hot King Prawn will carry high hopes into the Group 1 LONGINES Hong Kong Sprint (1200m) in three weeks’ time after shrugging off a wide passage and nine rivals to win the Group 2 Jockey Club Sprint (1200m) at Sha Tin yesterday (Sunday, 22 November). The eye-catching grey was three quarters of a length too[...]

Posted on November 20, 2020
in Hong Kong Horse Racing News

Hot King Prawn’s grey coat is another shade closer to white, one more year is on his withers, but trainer John Size is not yet letting go his belief that yesteryear’s precocious star-in-waiting might yet snare that Group 1 win that has so far eluded. The Denman six-year-old is now into his fifth season and[...]

Posted on November 18, 2020
in Hong Kong Horse Racing News

Stronger heads into Sunday’s (22 November) Group 2 Jockey Club Sprint (1200m) with trainer Douglas Whyte optimistic that his smart charge can lift his game again off a first-up success and maybe prove his suitability for December’s Group 1 LONGINES Hong Kong Sprint (1200m). “He’s come out of that win as good as you’d expect,”[...]

Posted on July 16, 2020
in Hong Kong Horse Racing News

Ricky Yiu sealed the champion trainer title at Happy Valley on Wednesday (15 July) night to fulfill a lifelong dream, and he did it with a smile and a shrug. With Hong Kong in the midst of a coronavirus ‘third wave’, the famous Valley crowd was not there to cheer his remarkable feat, and there[...]

Posted on July 15, 2020
in Hong Kong Horse Racing News

Ricky Yiu is on the verge of the most extraordinary achievement in his 48-year career with the Hong Kong Jockey Club; an accomplishment greater even than his preparation of a three-time world champion sprinter. Yiu is within nine races of having ‘champion trainer’ appended to his name forever more. Rewind 11 months and few would[...]

Posted on July 13, 2020
in Hong Kong Horse Racing News

Zac Purton locked up a fourth Hong Kong champion jockey title when Fast Most Furious (130lb) carried him past the post for his 144th win of the campaign in the Class 1 Sha Tin Mile Trophy Handicap (1600m) on Sunday, 12 July. The Australian ace had an eight-win lead at the start of the 11-race[...]

Posted on July 10, 2020
in Hong Kong Horse Racing News

John Moore sits at the open window. His elbows rest on the worktop, his hands cup binoculars in a steadying grip and his eyes study a horse galloping head-on towards his elevated position. He lowers the Zeiss glasses, tilting them away casually in his right hand; his left hand takes hold of a stopwatch and[...]

Posted on July 9, 2020
in Hong Kong Horse Racing News

Zac Purton returned a favour at Happy Valley late on Wednesday night (8 July) to keep Tony Cruz in the frame for the champion trainer title. With front-runner Ricky Yiu enduring an evening of misfortune and his closest pursuer Francis Lui forced to settle for a pair of seconds, third-placed Cruz closed the gap when[...]

Posted on July 8, 2020
in Hong Kong Horse Racing News

Zac Purton has the jockeys’ title more or less wrapped up – the shiny bow is all that’s needed – but the trainers’ race has plenty of yardage left with three race meetings to go, and Ricky Yiu is hoping to maintain his recent, dramatic form. Yiu is under intense pressure from Francis Lui’s relentless[...]

Posted on July 6, 2020
in Hong Kong Horse Racing News

John Moore’s five-decade career in Hong Kong will come to an end in 10 days’ time but the handler hammered home a hat-trick of wins at Sha Tin on Sunday (5 July) to show that he’s not winding down just yet. Sunny Boy set the ball rolling with an all-the-way win under Zac Purton; So[...]

Posted on July 2, 2020
in Hong Kong Horse Racing News

Columbus County struck a blow for Zac Purton and this year’s BMW Hong Kong Derby crop with a victory full of promise in the Class 2 Hong Kong Reunification Cup Handicap (1800m) at Sha Tin on Wednesday, 1 July. Purton saw title rival Joao Moreira bag a brace that ate into his championship lead in[...]

Posted on June 28, 2020
in Hong Kong Horse Racing News

The heat is on in the race to be champion trainer with front-runner Ricky Yiu feeling the burn at his back after closest rival Francis Lui maintained his excellent form with a double at Sha Tin on Saturday, 27 June. Yiu had to sit and suffer on Wednesday night when a Lui four-timer lifted the[...]

Posted on June 25, 2020
in Hong Kong Horse Racing News

Zac Purton struck a four-timer at Happy Valley on Wednesday (24 June) that left his great rival Joao Moreira with a mountainous task in the title race and lifted Francis Lui right back into champion trainer reckoning. Moreira narrowed the gap on Purton to three wins with an early success on the Caspar Fownes-trained Daily[...]

Posted on June 22, 2020
in Hong Kong Horse Racing News

Zac Purton extended his lead in the jockeys’ premiership to four wins thanks to a double at Sha Tin on Sunday, 21 June. The Australian has 132 on the board to Joao Moreira’s 128 after the latter’s single win. The three-time champ struck first when Winning Brew took section one of the Class 4 Garnet[...]

Posted on June 22, 2020
in Hong Kong Horse Racing News

Dances With Dragon demolished his rivals in the Group 3 Premier Plate Handicap (1800m) at Sha Tin on Sunday, 21 June, to give jockey Keith Yeung a much-needed boost. The rider, champion apprentice in 2009/10, nailed his first career Group race win to take his season’s tally to seven wins. That prompted buoyant scenes, with[...]

Author: David Morgan

Golden Sixty takes the baton with sparkling Hong Kong Mile success

Magical has star billing at the Hong Kong International Races

Masterly Hot King Prawn seals a second Jockey Club Sprint

Hot King Prawn shoots for a second Jockey Club Sprint

Stronger into Group 2 Jockey Club test, Big Time Baby returns

Hong Kong season finale sees cool Yiu claim the championship

Yiu’s four-win lead has him optimistic that this one won’t get away

Fast Most Furious for Purton and Hall, Yiu keeps Cruz at bay

Hong Kong’s clock ticks out for John Moore, the big-race king

Purton delivers for Cruz as Yiu and Lui stall at the Valley

Yiu’s still swinging as title challenge intensifies

Moore slams a Sha Tin hat-trick, Moreira’s out and Yiu’s still fighting

Columbus helps Purton’s cause, Yiu keeps Lui at bay

Yiu feels the heat as Lui closes in trainers’ premiership battle

Fantastic four sees Purton and Lui boost championship claims

Zac Purton opens up HKJC jockeys’ premiership lead

Yeung Dances to Group 3 Premier Plate Handicap glory

Chances are you’re about to lose.