Champions & Chater Cup

Russian Emperor chases Group 1 history

Posted on May 26, 2023
in Hong Kong Horse Racing News

Poised to close a globe-trotting season with another Group 1 tilt, Russian Emperor will attempt to join a select band of multiple winners of the Group 1 Standard Chartered Champions & Chater Cup (2400m) when Hong Kong's reigning Champion Stayer tackles the $12 million feature at Sha Tin on Sunday. Douglas Whyte's flagbearer will face[...]

Posted on May 23, 2023
in Hong Kong Horse Racing News

Danny Shum is optimistic Romantic Warrior can enhance an already spectacular career in the $12 million Group 1 Standard Chartered Champions & Chater Cup (2400m) at Sha Tin on Sunday despite queries over the brilliant stayer's ability to cope with the extended trip. With 10 wins and two second placings from 13 starts and $81,725,400[...]

Posted on February 27, 2023
in Hong Kong Horse Racing News

Golden Sixty overhauled Romantic Warrior in a gripping finish to the HK$12 million Group 1 Hong Kong Gold Cup (2000m) at Sha Tin – the second leg of Hong Kong's Triple Crown – under Vincent Ho for trainer Francis Lui. Sporting the familiar white, blue and gold silks of owner Stanley Chan, Golden Sixty handed[...]

Posted on May 25, 2020
in Australian Horse Racing News

Australian jockey Zac Purton remains locked in a enthralling tussle with arch-rival Joao Moreira as he tries to defend his Hong Kong jockeys' premiership crown. But his quartet was matched by Moreira on the 11-race card and they ended the meeting level-pegging on 123 wins for the season. Both are chasing a fourth Hong Kong[...]

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

The six-year-old bay dug deep to repel the pressing Chefano and Furore and ensure Tony Cruz a seventh victory in the race as a trainer, all from the last eight renewals. Cruz rates Exultant the best of a bunch that includes California Memory, Blazing Speed and Pakistan Star, at least when it comes to ability[...]

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

The handler is in the blessed position of also training Furore, the horse he deems to be Exultant's main rival, but the weather is in the hands of a force far beyond the two-time champion trainer's control. “I don't want a downpour, that's my concern,” Cruz said. “As long as the track is good to[...]

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

Cruz's rise to ‘living legend' status, through six champion jockey laurels, two trainer titles, countless major wins and his handling of the great Silent Witness, can be tracked from the day he was accepted among the very first cohort of apprentice riders back in 1972; that was the year after the dawn of professional racing[...]

Posted on May 26, 2019
in Hong Kong Horse Racing News

The star stayer's success was Purton's fourth in a sparkling six-timer today that included both Group race features – his Group 1 score followed a triumph on the David Hall-trained Little Giant in the Group 3 Sha Tin Vase Handicap (1200m). And it could have been a magnificent Purton seven had Fast Most Furious not[...]

Posted on May 25, 2019
in Hong Kong Horse Racing News

“Both are in good condition, if the rain continues it should be better for Dark Dream,” said Lor. Frankie Lor prepares Glorious Forever and Dark Dream in Sunday's race and the handler is hoping the forecasted rain dampens the track for Dark Dream, as the four-year-old aims to bounce back from a sub-par seventh in[...]

Posted on May 24, 2019
in Hong Kong Horse Racing News, Japan Horse Racing News

“A lot of people are involved in this project; I want to make them happy from the race on Sunday,” Tanaka said at Sha Tin this morning (Thursday, 23 May). Happy Grin is the ‘international' interest in Sunday's contest, with the raider's connections keen to take up the Hong Kong challenge despite the cost of[...]

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

Trainer Paul O'Sullivan has opted to ditch the famous green and white headgear. The blinkers were off for a recent barrier trial and the star galloper's surging run suggested liberation from the eye-wear might be the way forward. “We just took them off to try to get the horse to switch off,” O'Sullivan said. “That's[...]

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

Sunday's (26 May) Group 1 card at Sha Tin could make or break John Moore's assault on the Hong Kong trainers' premiership. Eagle Way is seeking a first win since he set a 2000m track record in November's Group 2 Jockey Club Cup. The chestnut rattled home in fast time when runner-up to Beauty Generation[...]

Posted on May 21, 2019
in Hong Kong Horse Racing News

Exultant is one of three Hong Kong horses to have won the LONGINES Hong Kong Vase. Hong Kong's Champion Stayer title would surely be his; there's the matter of making history too; and then the possibility of a career-defining trip to Japan at the end of June for the Group 1 Takarazuka Kinen. “What's very[...]

Posted on May 16, 2019
in Hong Kong Horse Racing News

Trainer Junji Tanaka's talented galloper – seventh to the brilliant champion filly Almond Eye in the Group 1 Japan Cup (2400m) – is scheduled to arrive in Hong Kong from Japan on Saturday, 18 May, eight days out from the final Group 1 race of Hong Kong's 2018/19 season.

Russian Emperor chases Group 1 history

Shum confident ahead of Group 1 Standard Chartered Champions & Chater Cup

Golden Sixty wins Hong Kong Gold Cup thriller

Purton, Moreira HK Stoush Down To The Wire

Exultant stamps Horse of the Year claim with Champions & Chater Cup victory

Rain a concern as Exultant faces Furore in Champions & Chater Cup

Cruz is the Standard Chartered Champions & Chater Cup maestro

Exultant’s just Champion as Purton hits six

Lor’s Dream for rain ahead of season’s final major

Crowd funded Grin hopes to make Japan proud

Blinkers off for Pakistan Star

Moore needs a big day as Eagle Way bids for Group 1 glory

Exultant aims to seal honours in Champions & Chater Cup

Japan’s Happy Grin targets the Group 1 Champions & Chater Cup

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