Exultant

Exultant gears up for Hong Kong Vase campaign

Posted on October 7, 2020
in Hong Kong Horse Racing News

Exultant pleased connections at Sha Tin yesterday morning (Tuesday, 6 October) as he stepped up his preparations toward the Group 1 LONGINES Hong Kong Vase (2400m) and a hoped for sixth victory at the top level. Hong Kong’s Horse of the Year went through the motions in his first barrier trial of the season in[...]

Posted on July 17, 2020
in Hong Kong Horse Racing News

Exultant’s outstanding exploits during the 2019/20 season earned the multiple Group 1 victor the Hong Kong Horse of the Year award at a special presentation function held at Sha Tin Racecourse last night, Thursday, 16 July. The Tony Cruz-trained six-year-old was also named Champion Middle-Distance Horse and Champion Stayer for the second consecutive year. Exultant[...]

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. Purton rode four winners at Sha Tin on Sunday, including Exultant in the Champions & Chater Cup, the final Group One race of the Hong Kong season. But his quartet[...]

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

It was hard work but Exultant has never been one to shirk a challenge. The tough kingpin of the Hong Kong stayers’ division proved his preeminence with a gritty second success in the Group 1 Standard Chartered Champions & Chater Cup (2400m) at Sha Tin on Sunday, 24 May. The six-year-old bay dug deep to[...]

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

Exultant showed all his class to dig deep and defend his crown in the Standard Chartered Champions & Chater Cup at Sha Tin on Sunday. Known as Irishcorrespondent when with Michael Halford in Ireland, the Tony Cruz-trained six-year-old finished second in the Group One feature in 2018, but went one place better last year when[...]

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

Furore and a storm are Tony Cruz’s two fears as he prepares Exultant for what he hopes will be another major success in the Group 1 Standard Chartered Champions & Chater Cup (2400m) at Sha Tin on Sunday, 24 May. The handler is in the blessed position of also training Furore, the horse he deems[...]

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

Tony Cruz’s storied career as jockey and trainer has spanned almost every step of Hong Kong racing’s professional era. His name is woven into the very fabric of the sport here and in that respect he has commonality with one of the city’s oldest and most cherished races, the Group 1 Standard Chartered Champions &[...]

Posted on April 27, 2020
in Hong Kong Horse Racing News

Zac Purton was elated and deflated at the end of Exultant’s glorious, grinding victory in the HK$25 million Group 1 FWD Queen Elizabeth II Cup at Sha Tin on Sunday, 26 April. The brave bay’s willingness to stretch for his rider through every demanding stride of the 2000m feature meant the champion jockey became the[...]

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

Tony Cruz expects an Exultant victory in the HK$25 million Group 1 FWD QEII Cup (2000m) at Sha Tin on Sunday (26 April) but the veteran handler knows only too well that in horseracing the unexpected can occur at any time. Hong Kong’s champion stayer was a short-odds favourite to win the Group 1 Hong[...]

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

Tony Cruz was spotted moving around on foot not so long ago. In the grave reality of the world’s current state, seeing Hong Kong racing’s original ‘living legend’ walking between his stable and the Sha Tin trainers’ stand is light years removed from being the most unusual consequence but it is unusual nonetheless; Cruz without[...]

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 16, 2020
in Hong Kong Horse Racing News

Golden Sixty was the talk of Happy Valley on Wednesday (15 April) night with trainer Francis Lui revealing that his sensational BMW Hong Kong Derby hero will not contest the Group 1 FWD QEII Cup on 26 April. “He won’t run,” Lui said. “He’s achieved a lot this season and we feel he needs a[...]

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 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 February 18, 2020
in Hong Kong Horse Racing News

Golden Sixty’s participation in Sunday’s (23 February) Hong Kong Classic Cup (1800m) at Sha Tin remains in the balance but the classy Hong Kong Classic Mile victor improved his chances of making the line-up after he strode through a key gallop at Sha Tin this morning (Tuesday, 18 February). The bay suffered a fever two[...]

Posted on February 17, 2020
in Hong Kong Horse Racing News

Time Warp delivered a blast from the past to level hot favourite Exultant in a rip-roaring Group 1 Citi Hong Kong Gold Cup (2000m) at Sha Tin yesterday afternoon (Sunday, 16 February). Two years ago, in this very race, the Tony Cruz-trained chestnut became the first horse to dip below two minutes for the course[...]

Posted on February 15, 2020
in Hong Kong Horse Racing News

Tony Cruz believes Exultant is on the right track to defend his crown in Sunday’s (16 February) HK$10 million Group 1 Citi Hong Kong Gold Cup (2000m), a win that would see him become the fourth horse since 2008 to win back-to-back editions. “Hopefully he can repeat what he did last year, he’s done everything[...]

Exultant gears up for Hong Kong Vase campaign

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

Purton, Moreira HK Stoush Down To The Wire

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

Classy Exultant Defends Crown In Hong Kong

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

Cruz is the Standard Chartered Champions & Chater Cup maestro

Exultant grinds them to submission as Purton makes history in the FWD QEII Cup

Exultant carries great expectations into FWD QEII Cup

Tony Cruz is Hong Kong racing’s original ‘living legend’

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

Golden Sixty set for rest, Cruz left smiling

FWD Champions Day has top class contenders in three exciting races

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

Classic Cup still in the balance for Golden Sixty, no Dubai for Exultant

Time Warp turns time to floor Exultant in Citi Hong Kong Gold Cup

Exultant goes for Gold again

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