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Restricted Hong Kong Racing To Go Ahead

Posted on January 26, 2020
in Hong Kong Horse Racing News

One of Hong Kong’s biggest race meetings will go ahead with extreme restrictions on attendance because of coronavirus. Monday’s Chinese New Year meeting at Sha Tin normally attracts more than 100,000 patrons but will be limited to those with previous bookings, around 8000, as well as staff and participants. The outbreak of the deadly Wuhan[...]

Posted on January 26, 2020
in Hong Kong Horse Racing News

The Class 1 Chinese New Year Cup Handicap (1400m) is the traditional feature race at the Chinese New Year race day (Monday 27 January at Sha Tin) and a stacked field of 14 will do battle for a share of the HK$2.8 million purse, including Perfect Match (113lb) who will be ridden by Alexis Badel.[...]

Posted on January 26, 2020
in Hong Kong Horse Racing News

Exultant faces a weighty task in Monday’s (27 January) Group 3 Centenary Vase Handicap (1800m) at Sha Tin as he bids for back-to-back wins in the race. Hong Kong’s champion stayer will shoulder 133lb against his 10 opponents with eight of those allotted 115lb or less. Only Dark Dream and Time Warp sit above that[...]

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

Joao Moreira is hoping his decision to side with Beauty Legacy over Champion’s Way in Monday’s (27 January) Hong Kong Classic Mile (1600m), the first leg of the Four-Year-Old Classic Series, will not come back to bite him. “It was a difficult decision but I can’t ride two horses – it could be the wrong[...]

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

The Hong Kong Jockey Club has been closely following the development of the novel coronavirus. We are also well aware of public concerns over the health risks associated with crowds and the potential impact on the upcoming Chinese New Year Raceday scheduled for 27 January 2020. With this in mind, the Club has carefully reviewed[...]

Posted on January 24, 2020
in Hong Kong Horse Racing News

Beauty Generation ranked as the world’s best miler in the 2019 World’s Best Racehorse Rankings (WBRR), released by the International Federation of Horseracing Authorities (IFHA) on Wednesday, 22 January, while 10 of Hong Kong’s elite races featured in the World’s Top 100 Group 1 Races for the year just ended. Hong Kong was home to[...]

Posted on January 23, 2020
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Francis Lui is in an unusual position. Not only does he occupy a high berth in the trainers’ standings approaching the season’s halfway mark but he also has two of Hong Kong’s most exciting four-year-old prospects in his care. Golden Sixty and More Than This could well go to post as the top two in[...]

Three-Way Tie For World’s Best Racehorse

In a three-way tie, Enable, Crystal Ocean and Waldgeist have been named as the top-rated horses in the world. The John Gosden-trained Enable just failed in October to become the first horse to win the Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe three times. The horse who denied her a special place in history three months ago[...]

Posted on January 23, 2020
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Caspar Fownes ended a dry spell stretching back to 18 December with a double at Happy Valley last night (Wednesday, 22 January) that owed plenty to the skill and confidence of jockey Vincent Ho. “I’d forgotten what it’s like,” Fownes quipped after Ho had sealed the brace for his old boss aboard Shamport – fresh[...]

Posted on January 23, 2020
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Lyle Hewitson earned a long-awaited and deserved first Happy Valley win last night (Wednesday, 22 January) to help trainer David Ferraris continue his solid form this term, particularly with his stable’s old-stagers. The two-time South African champion jockey has had a stark introduction to Hong Kong racing, with his stats rolling into tonight’s nine-race card[...]

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

Frankie Lor swept the Four-Year-Old Classic Series in 2019 but one year after Furore set the ball rolling in the Hong Kong Classic Mile, the trainer is this time pinning his hopes prudently rather than nailing them assuredly. The horse carrying the Lor standard into the first race of the three-leg series is the promising[...]

Posted on January 21, 2020
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Zac Purton heads into Wednesday’s (22 January) Happy Valley card with his smallest book of rides this season but the champion jockey is upbeat that Winning Method might ensure a good strike rate on the night. “A few horses I was booked to ride didn’t get in; they were on the reserve list,” the rider[...]

Posted on January 19, 2020
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Beat The Clock displayed the class that has made him a champion to complete back-to-back wins in the HK$10 million Centenary Sprint Cup (1200m) at Sha Tin this afternoon (Sunday, 19 January). The ever-reliable bay’s narrow victory over Thanks Forever sealed a Group 1 double on the day for trainer John Size and jockey Joao[...]

Posted on January 19, 2020
in Hong Kong Horse Racing News

Waikuku defeated Beauty Generation in an exhilarating showdown for the Group 1 Steward’s Cup (1600m) at Sha Tin Racecourse this afternoon (Sunday, 19 January), a result that all but confirmed a changing of the guard at the very top of Hong Kong’s pecking order. Joao Moreira’s victorious mount quickened from the rear through a closing[...]

Posted on January 18, 2020
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Beat The Clock will face select yet stiff competition when he attempts a second consecutive win in Sunday’s (19 January) Group 1 Centenary Sprint Cup (1200m) but jockey Joao Moreira believes the John Size-trained speedster’s biggest threat could be a rival he knows all too well, stablemate Full Of Beauty. Champion sprinter Beat The Clock[...]

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

Waikuku is the slick young upstart to Beauty Generation’s brilliant but seemingly subsiding champion and a victory for the former in Sunday’s (19 January) Group 1 Stewards’ Cup (1600m) could confirm a new era for Hong Kong racing. Joao Moreira believes that possibility will likely be the new reality. “Form-wise, Waikuku is probably at the[...]

Posted on January 17, 2020
in Hong Kong Horse Racing News

Beauty Generation faces a pivotal test in Sunday’s (19 January) Group 1 Stewards’ Cup (1600m) at Sha Tin with not only the direction of future assignments but also his status as Hong Kong’s best miler in the balance. Trainer John Moore has his heart set on Beauty Generation enhancing his legacy as a world class[...]

Restricted Hong Kong Racing To Go Ahead

Hot contest for Chinese New Year Cup

Exultant must defy hefty impost in Centenary Vase

It’s Beauty for Moreira but Teetan hopes the Classic Mile goes his Way

Special arrangement for Chinese New Year Raceday on 27 January 2020

Hong Kong features highly among World’s Best and Top 100 rankings

Lui aims for Classic Mile glory with Golden Sixty and More Than This

Three-Way Tie For World’s Best Racehorse

Ho helps Fownes end drought

Hewitson gets his Valley victory on Ferraris veteran

Lor pins hopes of a Classic Mile repeat on Decrypt

Winning Method is one of only five at the Valley for Purton

Beat The Clock does it again in Centenary Sprint Cup

Waikuku rises to Stewards’ Cup glory

Beat The Clock faces a Full threat in Group 1 Centenary Sprint Cup

Moreira confident as Waikuku shoots for the top in Stewards’ Cup

Beauty Generation ‘diminished’ but not done

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