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Currie’s in for the hard yards, primed for FWD Champions Day

Posted on April 24, 2022
in Hong Kong Horse Racing News

Luke Currie is out to make up for lost time across the remaining 23 fixtures this season in Hong Kong after his dream start was curtailed following a fall in early February. The Group 1-winning jockey tasted immediate success at his first ride in Hong Kong, something most have been made to wait weeks or[...]

Posted on February 11, 2022
in Hong Kong Horse Racing News

Zac Purton’s assault on Joao Moreira’s Hong Kong jockeys’ championship lead continued apace at Happy Valley on Wednesday night (9 February) when the Australian posted a quartet to slash his arch-rival’s buffer to single-figures. With nine winners from 18 rides at the past two meetings, Purton’s bombardment has seen his deficit to Moreira tumble from[...]

Posted on February 8, 2022
in Hong Kong Horse Racing News

Gearing up to ride Healthy Happy in Sunday week’s (20 February) HKD$12 million Group 1 Queen’s Silver Jubilee Cup (1400m), Harry Bentley is first looking to maintain the momentum of his mid-season surge when he engages a solid book of eight rides at Happy Valley on Wednesday night (9 February). “I’m really, really happy with[...]

Posted on December 31, 2021
in Hong Kong Horse Racing News

Douglas Whyte paid Blake Shinn the ultimate compliment after the Australian closed a spectacular December with victory aboard Will Power in the Class 1 Fo Tan Handicap (1650m) at Sha Tin’s eight-race all-dirt meeting on Wednesday night (29 December). Revered as the most successful rider in Hong Kong history with 13 jockeys’ championships and a[...]

Posted on December 24, 2021
in Hong Kong Horse Racing News

The Joao Moreira juggernaut continues at top speed after the Brazilian capped a momentous three-meeting burst with a four-timer at Happy Valley on Wednesday night (22 December) to be on the cusp of overtaking injured Zac Purton at the head of the Hong Kong jockeys’ championship. With a quartet, treble and double at the past[...]

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

Zac Purton has overtaken Douglas Whyte’s all-time Hong Kong prizemoney record by posting a double as the perfect prelude to his title defence of the International Jockeys’ Championship (IJC) at Happy Valley on Wednesday (8 December). Trailing 13-time champion jockey Whyte’s record haul of HKD$1,587,210,086 – accumulated from 1,813 wins – Purton started the meeting[...]

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
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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[...]

Currie’s in for the hard yards, primed for FWD Champions Day

Zac Purton excels again to slash Joao Moreira’s lead

Bentley partners Healthy Happy in Queen’s Silver Jubilee Cup

Douglas Whyte lauds Blake Shinn as the Australian lands Sha Tin treble

Moreira dominates Happy Valley to continue remarkable surge

Zac Purton breaks Douglas Whyte’s prizemoney record ahead of IJC defence

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

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