Exultant

Golden Sixty named Horse of the Year at Hong Kong’s Champion Awards

Posted on July 14, 2021
in Hong Kong Horse Racing News

Golden Sixty’s outstanding exploits during the 2020/21 season earned the multiple Group 1 victor the Hong Kong Horse of the Year award at a special presentation function held at Happy Valley Clubhouse tonight, Tuesday, 13 July. The Francis Lui-trained five-year-old was also named Champion Miler and Champion Middle-Distance Horse. In addition, the son of Medaglia[...]

Posted on June 26, 2021
in Hong Kong Horse Racing News

Conceding the 2020/21 Hong Kong trainers’ championship is clearly Caspar Fownes’ to lose, John Size is optimistic Drops Of God and Blaze Warrior can preserve flickering hopes of a 12th championship when the emerging pair spearheads the trainer’s quality entry at Sha Tin on Saturday (26 June). Trailing Fownes by seven winners (68-75) with six[...]

Posted on June 25, 2021
in Hong Kong Horse Racing News

Exultant, one of the greatest champions in the history of Hong Kong racing, will farewell fans at a retirement ceremony this Saturday (26 June) in the Parade Ring at Sha Tin. Enthroned as last season’s Horse of the Year, the Irish-bred gelding was twice crowned Champion Stayer and Champion Middle-Distance Horse, both times in successive[...]

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

A perfect ride aboard Tony Millard-trained Panfield delivered Karis Teetan Group 1 success in the Standard Chartered Champions and Chater Cup (2400m) at Sha Tin on Sunday (23 May) – and also immeasurable personal solace. Grieving the death of close friend Nooresh Juglall in a race fall in Mauritius on 15 May, Teetan dedicated the[...]

Posted on May 22, 2021
in Hong Kong Horse Racing News

Vincent Ho will seek to triumphantly bookend the most successful Hong Kong Group 1 season of his flourishing career when partnering Glorious Dragon in the Standard Chartered Champions and Chater Cup (2400m) at Sha Tin on Sunday (23 May). Already armed with five Group 1 trophies for the 2020/21 term, victory on Francis Lui’s Glorious[...]

Posted on May 20, 2021
in Hong Kong Horse Racing News

Hong Kong trainer Francis Lui has no qualms over Glorious Dragon’s ability to answer the stamina queries when he steps into the unknown for Sunday’s HK$12 million Group 1 Standard Chartered Champions and Chater Cup (2400m) at Sha Tin. “I think he can handle the distance, no problem – he is in good form and[...]

Posted on May 20, 2021
in Hong Kong Horse Racing News

Matthew Chadwick is looking to win a second Group 1 Standard Chartered Champions and Chater Cup. Matthew Chadwick is taking a level-headed approach into Sunday’s (23 May) Group 1 Standard Chartered Champions and Chater Cup (2400m) when he partners Packing Waltham, encouraged by his natural staying ability but wary of his adolescence as he steps[...]

Posted on May 19, 2021
in Hong Kong Horse Racing News

Tony Cruz is optimistic Hong Kong’s reigning Horse of the Year Exultant can join a select band of multiple winners of the Group 1 Standard Chartered Champions & Chater Cup (2400m) when his stable flagbearer returns to Sha Tin on Sunday (23 May). Already the most successful trainer in the modern history of the race,[...]

Posted on May 4, 2021
in Hong Kong Horse Racing News

Sky Darci stepped onto the turf at Sha Tin this morning (Tuesday, 4 May) for the first time since his Hong Kong Derby (2000m) triumph in March as he builds towards his much anticipated return in the Group 3 Lion Rock Trophy Handicap (1600m) at the end of this month. Readying for the HK$3.5 million[...]

Posted on April 22, 2021
in Hong Kong Horse Racing News

Tomohito Ozeki is confident Glory Vase can reprise a winning Hong Kong habit and add to Japan’s imposing record in the HK$25 million Group 1 FWD QEII Cup (2000m) at Sha Tin on Sunday (25 April). Bidding to join Eishin Preston (2002 & 2003), Rulership (2012), Neorealism (2017) and Win Bright (2019) on the prestige[...]

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

Exultant, the tough kingpin of Hong Kong’s staying division, took a crucial step closer in his bid to become the second horse in history – after Eishin Preston in 2003 – to successfully defend his crown in Sunday week’s (25 April) HK$25 million Group 1 FWD QEII Cup (2000m) with a smart trial effort at[...]

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

FWD Champions Day at Sha Tin Racecourse on Sunday, 25 April will bring together the very best of Hong Kong’s elite gallopers and a top-line contingent from Japan in three exciting Group 1 races. The brilliant Golden Sixty will look to extend his unblemished run to 14 wins when he contests the HK$20 million Group[...]

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

Japan’s elite and Hong Kong’s brilliant best are among the list of 77 horses holding entries for FWD Champions Day at Sha Tin on Sunday, 25 April, 2021. FWD Champions Day features three world class Group 1 races, the HK$25 million FWD Queen Elizabeth II Cup (2000m), the HK$20 million FWD Champions Mile (1600m), and[...]

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

Declaring Golden Sixty the equal of the most outstanding milers in recent Hong Kong history, Zac Purton has warned against being too conscious of the glamour galloper in Sunday’s Group 1 Citi Hong Kong Gold Cup (2000m) at Sha Tin. Purton will partner Tony Cruz’s reigning Horse of the Year Exultant in an intriguing clash[...]

Posted on February 1, 2021
in Hong Kong Horse Racing News

Glorious Dragon has avenged defeat in the 2020 Group 3 Centenary Vase Handicap (1800m) by denying Exultant a third win in the staying feature while delivering Matthew Poon one of the most important triumphs of his career. Beaten by Tony Cruz’s Exultant in the same race last year, Glorious Dragon swept past the reigning champion[...]

Posted on January 29, 2021
in Hong Kong Horse Racing News

Zac Purton is hopeful Exultant can reprise a winning habit in the Group 3 Centenary Vase Handicap (1800m) at Sha Tin on Sunday (31 January) despite concerns Tony Cruz’s staying flagbearer’s elite qualities are in decline. Triumphant in the past two editions of the Centenary Vase, Exultant’s hopes of a trio of consecutive successes in[...]

Posted on January 29, 2021
in Hong Kong Horse Racing News

Revitalised by a brief spell, emerging talent Columbus County will throw down the gauntlet to Hong Kong’s premier stayers in the Group 3 Centenary Vase Handicap (1800m) at Sha Tin on Sunday (31 January) as Caspar Fownes plots an ambitious path. Freshened since a brave third to Ireland’s Mogul in the Group 1 LONGINES Hong[...]

Golden Sixty named Horse of the Year at Hong Kong’s Champion Awards

John Size upbeat over Drops Of God, Blaze Warrior as championship hopes flicker

Exultant bows out as one of Hong Kong’s all-time greats

Panfield soars to the top of Hong Kong’s staying ranks

Vincent Ho chases a sixth Group 1 for the Hong Kong season

Glorious Dragon ready for Champions and Chater Cup test

Matthew Chadwick seeks second Champions & Chater Cup with Packing Waltham

Tony Cruz upbeat as Exultant chases third Champions & Chater Cup

Hong Kong Derby hero Sky Darci satisfies Moreira, Conghua for Cruz’s Exultant

Glory Vase in peak form ahead of Group 1 QEII Cup tilt

Exultant builds towards FWD QEII Cup defence, trials on the turf

FWD Champions Day has top-class contenders in three exciting races

Japan enters strong contingent for FWD Champions Day

Zac Purton plots a Group 1 Hong Kong Gold Cup upset on Exultant

Poon and Lui combine with Glorious Dragon to snare Centenary Vase Handicap

Purton hopeful Exultant can strike a third time in the Centenary Vase

Caspar Fownes begins the journey towards staying features with Columbus County

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