Champions Mile

Moore’s not looking back as he readies for FWD Champions Day

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

John Moore has the best overall record of any trainer in the Group 1 features that now make up Hong Kong's HK$63 million FWD Champions Day. Viva Pataca's brace heads up his five wins in the FWD QEII Cup (2000m), Able Friend and Beauty Generation are among his incredible eight FWD Champions Mile (1600m) successes,[...]

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

Champion horses and their jockeys are racing's great double acts. Seabiscuit had Red Pollard, Secretariat had Ron Turcotte, Hugh Bowman is forever Winx's man, Frankel wowed with Tom Queally up top, time after time Mike Smith unleashed Zenyatta, and then there's Silent Witness and Felix Coetzee, Black Caviar and Luke Nolen, Brigadier Gerard and Joe[...]

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

More Than This heads into Sunday's (26 April) HK$20 million Group 1 FWD Champions Mile in the midst of an identity crisis of sorts but reunited with Karis Teetan, the man with a perfect record on the Francis Lui-trained four-year-old. Reel back to early December and the British import had just completed a hat-trick of[...]

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

Beauty Generation is facing a strong challenge for Hong Kong's Horse of the Year award this season and anything but a record third straight victory in the HK$20 million Group 1 FWD Champions Mile on Sunday, 26 April, could see the crown go to Golden Sixty, perhaps Exultant, maybe even Waikuku or Beat The Clock.[...]

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

FWD Champions Day at Sha Tin Racecourse on Sunday, 26 April will bring together the very best of Hong Kong's elite gallopers in three exciting Group 1 races. World champion miler Beauty Generation is on track to attempt an incredible third consecutive win in the HK$20 million Group 1 FWD Champions Mile (1600m); the brilliant[...]

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

The Frankie Lor-trained Decrypt (128lb) who holds an engagement in the Group 1 FWD Champions Mile on 26 April, steps down in trip, as well as back into handicap company after a Classic campaign, in the last at Sha Tin on Sunday (12 April). The diminutive grey placed third in the Group 1 Irish 2,000[...]

Posted on April 6, 2020
in Australian Horse Racing News

Hong Kong champion Beauty Generation has continued his resurgence with victory in the Group Two Chairman's Trophy at Sha Tin. Sunday's win sets Beauty Generation up for a tilt at an unprecedented third Group One Champions Mile later this month. Racing is continuing in Hong Hong and Japan but has been put on hold for[...]

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

Beauty Generation brushed aside the younger challenger and shrugged off old rivals to win the Group 2 Chairman's Trophy (1600m) at Sha Tin yesterday (Sunday, 5 April), setting up the prospect of an unprecedented third victory in the Group 1 FWD Champions Mile at the end of the month. The New Zealand-bred gelding's success was[...]

Posted on April 4, 2020
in Hong Kong Horse Racing News

Beauty Generation showed last time out that any ‘has-been' talk was premature but when the champ takes on Waikuku in Sunday's (5 April) Group 2 Chairman's Trophy (1600m) he'll be facing a rival who has had his measure the last four times they've clashed. It's safe to say that the weekend feature and its Group[...]

Posted on March 31, 2020
in Hong Kong Horse Racing News

Southern Legend will take on an unscheduled assignment in the Group 2 Chairman's Trophy (1600m) at Sha Tin on Sunday (5 April) with plans for the rest of his campaign being a muddle of novel coronavirus-induced uncertainty. All roads were supposed to lead to the SIN Group 3 Kranji Mile (1600m) in Singapore on 23[...]

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

Joao Moreira relinquished his lead in the jockeys' title race to reigning champion Zac Purton at Happy Valley midweek and both riders are psyched for an unrelenting fight for the crown through the season's final four months. Purton appears to have the momentum at present. The Australian has sparkled in March with 18 wins, 11[...]

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

Elite Japanese raiders, high-class challengers from Australia and Europe, and Hong Kong's brilliant best are among the list of 85 horses holding 102 nominations for FWD Champions Day at Sha Tin on Sunday, 26 April, 2020. FWD Champions Day features three world class Group 1 races, the HK$25 million FWD Queen Elizabeth II Cup (2000m),[...]

Posted on December 7, 2019
in Hong Kong Horse Racing News, Japan Horse Racing News

In England it's long been the Derby, Australia has the Golden Slipper, France the Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe, North America looks to the Kentucky Derby, and you can throw in a couple of Breeders' Cup races too alongside all those other senior European Classics: these are some of the pinnacle races that have shaped[...]

Moore’s not looking back as he readies for FWD Champions Day

Purton’s dream partner, a Beauty of a double act

More Than This has questions to answer in FWD Champions Mile

Horse of the Year title is back in Beauty Generation’s sights

FWD Champions Day has top class contenders in three exciting races

Decrypt down in distance

Beauty Generation Back To Best In Hong Kong

Beauty Generation bosses the Group 2 Chairman’s Trophy

Beauty Generation and Waikuku primed for Chairman’s Trophy clash

Plan B enacted as Southern Legend heads to Group 2 Chairman’s Trophy

Purton and Moreira set for long tussle but first it’s FWD Champions Day

Nominations for FWD Champions Day at Sha Tin

Young sires Lord Kanaloa and Maurice are helping shift perceptions

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