Chinese Club Challenge Cup Handicap

Master Eight lands Group 3 Bauhinia Sprint Trophy to remain unbeaten

Posted on January 2, 2022
in Hong Kong Horse Racing News

Joao Moreira believes Master Eight has the ability to rise to the top of Hong Kong’s sprinting ranks after the gifted speedster preserved his unbeaten record with victory in the Group 3 Bauhinia Sprint Trophy Handicap (1000m) to seal a memorable day for trainer Frankie Lor. Lor, who previously won the Bauhinia Sprint Trophy in[...]

Posted on January 2, 2022
in Hong Kong Horse Racing News

Healthy Happy (132lb) made a sparkling return to racing in Saturday afternoon’s (1 January) HKD$3.7 million Group 3 Chinese Club Challenge Cup Handicap (1400m) at Sha Tin. First-up after 194 days between runs, Frankie Lor’s charge made his seasonal reappearance a triumphant one under familiar ally Alexis Badel – holding on by a neck to[...]

Posted on January 1, 2022
in Hong Kong Horse Racing News

Armed with an imposing full book of rides at the Lucky Start Raceday on Saturday (1 January) at Sha Tin, Joao Moreira is intent on building a decisive lead in the jockeys’ championship as he prepares to partner Excellent Proposal and Master Eight in the meeting’s Group 3 features. Shading injured Zac Purton 51-49 in[...]

Posted on January 1, 2022
in Hong Kong Horse Racing News

Paul O’Sullivan is buoyant of a positive result with stable star Duke Wai in Saturday’s (1 January) HKD$3.7 million Group 3 Chinese Club Challenge Cup Handicap (1400m) at Sha Tin, hopeful his charge can reap the benefits from his remarkable reliability on the track. “He tries hard and the handicapper has done the right thing[...]

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

Yet to be convinced of Czarson’s affinity with Sha Tin’s turf track, Zac Purton is hopeful the brilliant last-start winner is able to transfer compelling all-weather track form to grass in the Class 2 Cherry Handicap (1200m) on New Year’s Day. Purton was aboard the gelding when a runaway five and a quarter length winner[...]

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

The Group 3 Chinese Club Challenge Cup Handicap (1400m) – the second of two New Year’s Day features – sits as a symbolic 2020 launching pad for Hong Kong phenomenon Golden Sixty, whose progress to Group 1 glory was both inevitable and compelling. The 2021 running of the HK$3.5 million contest on Friday (1 January)[...]

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

Golden Sixty made a big statement with an impressive win in the Group 3 Chinese Club Challenge Cup Handicap (1400m) at Sha Tin yesterday afternoon (Wednesday, 1 January). The exciting rising star dominated the New Year’s Day feature to cement his status as a chief protagonist for this season’s three-race Four-Year-old Classic Series. The first[...]

Master Eight lands Group 3 Bauhinia Sprint Trophy to remain unbeaten

Healthy Happy seizes Group 3 Chinese Club Challenge Cup

Moreira shapes to start 2022 in style

Duke Wai for O’Sullivan in Saturday’s Group 3 Chinese Club Challenge Cup

Zac Purton hopeful Czarson can make his mark on grass

Caspar Fownes heads to Sha Tin New Year’s Day with conservative hopes

Golden victory signals Hong Kong Classic Mile intent

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