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Zac Purton dominates Happy Valley with second quartet in four days

Posted on October 21, 2021
in Hong Kong Horse Racing News

Zac Purton has forged to a double-figure lead over arch-rival Joao Moreira in the 2021/22 Hong Kong jockey’s championship after slotting a quartet at Happy Valley on Wednesday night (20 October), crowning the display with victory aboard Harmony N Blessed in the Class 3 The LONGINES Cup Handicap (1000m). Leading Moreira by eight wins before[...]

Posted on October 6, 2021
in Hong Kong Horse Racing News

Benno Yung remains undaunted by the opposition against Not Usual Talent (132lb) in Wednesday’s (6 October) Class 2 Fleming Handicap (1650m), holding faith in his galloper’s ability and form – reserved only by the threat that gate 12 may pose. “Looking at the field, for him it’s not that strong but the only worry is[...]

Posted on July 8, 2021
in Hong Kong Horse Racing News

Jerry Chau’s quest for the Tony Cruz Award, the prize for Hong Kong’s most successful homegrown jockey in 2020/21, intensified with a treble at Happy Valley on Wednesday night (7 July) – and a massive compliment from 13-time champion rider Douglas Whyte. Chau’s three-timer on Benno Yung’s Sure Win Win in the second section of[...]

Posted on June 7, 2021
in Hong Kong Horse Racing News

Buoyed by a timely show of strength, Caspar Fownes is taking nothing for granted despite edging to a three-win lead over John Size in the battle for the Hong Kong trainers’ championship after scoring a double at Sha Tin on Sunday (6 June). Fownes’ hopes of annexing a fourth trainers’ crown were boosted with The[...]

Posted on May 13, 2021
in Hong Kong Horse Racing News

Douglas Whyte is confident Carroll Street can develop into a serious sprinting prospect next season after the youngster impressively laid waste to talented opposition in the Class 3 Grass Island Handicap (1000m) at Sha Tin on Wednesday night (12 May). Clocking 55.36s – almost a second faster than standard – in the first turf race[...]

Posted on April 18, 2021
in Hong Kong Horse Racing News

Winless for more than two years, Taking Aim completed a long, eventful trek from the brink of enforced retirement to Sha Tin’s winners’ stall after the Australian import trounced his rivals in the Class 3 Devon Handicap (1400m) on Saturday (17 April) Placed only once in 17 starts since the end of the 2018/19 season,[...]

Posted on January 11, 2021
in Hong Kong Horse Racing News

Reprising a latent winning habit, Not Usual Talent’s gate-crashing victory in the Class 2 Choi Hung Handicap (1400m) ended an 11-race losing streak while delivering a reality check to the claims of a string of Four-Year-Old Classic Series aspirants. Winless since July 2019, the former New Zealander saluted under a perfect ride from Frenchman Tony[...]

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

Karis Teetan heads into Wednesday’s (9 September) eight-race card at Happy Valley primed for the mount aboard California Rad in the second section of the Class 3 Causeway Bay Handicap (1200m). Happy Valley’s first meeting of the season marks the start of the 2020/21 DBS x Manulife Million Challenge, which runs until 24 February, 2021.[...]

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

It was a night for late-closers and Mongolian King maintained that trend to the last with a powerful late charge in the final race at Sha Tin on Wednesday (1 April) that sealed a worthy treble for jockey Karis Teetan. With Joao Moreira and Zac Purton perennially locked into the top two spots in the[...]

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

Stronger found his Hong Kong feet in fine style at Happy Valley last night (Wednesday, 12 February), blitzing the Class 3 Fanling Handicap (1000m) in a track record 56.11s. The Not A Single Doubt colt arrived in town with a smart juvenile profile from his time in Australia, having landed a Group 3 contest at[...]

Posted on January 30, 2020
in Hong Kong Horse Racing News

Joao Moreira completed a double when he delivered Cinquante Cinq through a sweet, cutting run to take the night’s silverware, the Class 3 Volunteers’ Challenge Cup Handicap (1650m) at Happy Valley last night (Wednesday, 29 January). Benno Yung’s charge went off the 2.1 favourite but Moreira was last-but-one and waiting on a split as the[...]

Posted on October 23, 2019
in Hong Kong Horse Racing News

Zac Purton heads to Happy Valley tonight, Wednesday (23 October) looking to banish memories of Beauty Generation’s shock weekend defeat with a couple of smart rides in Class 2. Hong Kong’s Horse of the Year met with his first reversal in 18 months when only third behind 16/1 winner Rise High in Sunday’s Group 2[...]

Posted on July 7, 2019
in Hong Kong Horse Racing News

Zac Purton has Joao Moreira’s single season record back in his sights after a blitzing six-timer at Sha Tin this afternoon (Sunday, 7 July) took the champion jockey to within striking range. The Australian had all but written off his chances of matching his Brazilian rival’s epic 170 – set in the 2016/17 season. Purton[...]

Posted on July 5, 2019
in Hong Kong Horse Racing News

Aldo Domeyer has made a rapid advance since arriving in Hong Kong at the start of May and he annexed his first Hong Kong treble when the promising Not Usual Talent took the finale at Happy Valley, Wednesday, 3 July. “I thought I had a pretty fair card and could go well but I didn’t[...]

Posted on June 22, 2019
in Hong Kong Horse Racing News

Chad Schofield has developed a solid working relationship with John Moore in recent months and the young Australian is keen to deliver his biggest win for the master handler in Sunday’s (23 June) Group 3 Premier Cup Handicap (1400m) with Styling City. “I’ve been riding a fair bit for him, it’s good to get a[...]

Posted on June 17, 2019
in Hong Kong Horse Racing News

Joao Moreira pocketed a treble and hit a milestone figure at Sha Tin yesterday afternoon (Sunday 16 June), notching his 800th Hong Kong career win aboard Class 4 galloper Such A Happiness. “It’s a nice round number but I don’t want to get stuck there, I want to be moving forward!” he said before admitting,[...]

Posted on June 13, 2019
in Hong Kong Horse Racing News

You have to go back two months and 17 meetings to find the last time Purton left the racecourse without a win and while the champion jockey was not in the kind of all-conquering form that has bagged six and four-timers for fun, he still walked home with a win at Sha Tin last night,[...]

Zac Purton dominates Happy Valley with second quartet in four days

Undaunted Yung hopes Not Usual Talent can defy wide draw

Jerry Chau closes in on Vincent Ho in Tony Cruz Award battle

Sha Tin double gives Caspar Fownes vital breathing space

Douglas Whyte’s faith vindicated as Carroll Street emerges as a quality prospect

Taking Aim justifies Douglas Whyte’s faith after breaking back into winners’ list

Not Usual Talent upstages Four-Year-Old Classic Series hopefuls

California Rad aims to keep on rising as Million Challenge kicks off

Teetan bags three at Sha Tin as ‘closers’ dominate

Stronger speeds to a Valley track record

Cinq makes two for Moreira

No Beauty blues for Purton with nine rides at the Valley

Purton’s big six brings Moreira’s record back into range

Talent gives Domeyer a treble at the Valley

Styling for Schofield

Winning, Happiness and Applause as Moreira makes 800 in record time

Purton keeps rolling

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