Glorious Artist

Purton makes inroads into Moreira’s championship lead with a four-timer

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

Zac Purton's pursuit of a fifth Hong Kong jockeys' championship has continued with a Sha Tin quartet, capped by the success of Glorious Artist in the Class 2 Cuckoo Handicap (dirt, 1650m), as the Australia reduced Joao Moreira's still imposing lead to 18. With a dead-heat on Lucky Fun and outright victories aboard Hang's Decision[...]

Posted on January 16, 2021
in Hong Kong Horse Racing News

Kings Shield (133lb) has developed into a dominant force on the dirt in Hong Kong and this Sunday (17 January) at Sha Tin he'll look to stamp his authority on the surface once again in the Class 1 Egret Handicap (dirt, 1650m), doing so with a trip to Dubai on the radar. “Everyone knows he[...]

Posted on December 26, 2020
in Hong Kong Horse Racing News

Elusive State is among Hong Kong's top-ranking dirt-track specialists and this Saturday (26 December) at Sha Tin he'll contest the headline act, the Class 2 Chek Keng Handicap (dirt, 1650m), with the door still ajar for another overseas campaign. “He's going well – I've given him a good preparation and we've given him a couple[...]

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

Elusive State (133lb) returns to his happy hunting ground tonight (Wednesday, 4 November) when he steps on to the Sha Tin all-weather track for the Class 2 Hebe Hill Handicap (1650m), seeking a seventh success on the surface. The All American gelding was forced to mix it in Group races on turf last season after[...]

Posted on April 1, 2020
in Hong Kong Horse Racing News

Glorious Artist (133lb) was fourth in the 2019 KOR Group 1 Korea Cup (1800m) and returns to his preferred surface, the Sha Tin dirt, with trainer Frankie Lor pleased with his gelding ahead of tonight's (1 April) test in the Cheung Sha Handicap. “His form's good, everything is good – this time though he carries[...]

Posted on December 30, 2019
in Hong Kong Horse Racing News

Rich And Lucky justified 1.7 favouritism to break his maiden in the HK$2 million Griffin Trophy (1400m) at Sha Tin yesterday afternoon, (Sunday 29 December), giving Juddmonte stallion Kingman his second Hong Kong win within three days of his first. The race is restricted to three-year-olds unraced prior to import and has been won in[...]

Posted on September 8, 2019
in Hong Kong Horse Racing News

Hong Kong hopes of Korean big-race glory sank in the Seoul sand this afternoon, Sunday, 8 September. Glorious Artist ran best of the two Sha Tin-based challengers, running an honest fourth in the KOR Group 1 Korea Cup (1800m), while Ugly Warrior's legs laboured to 13th in the KOR Group 1 Korea Sprint (1200m). Glorious[...]

Posted on September 7, 2019
in Hong Kong Horse Racing News

Vincent Ho was bleary-eyed when he took his first look at Seoul's sand track this morning, Saturday, 7 September. It was a few minutes before 5am, just four and a half hours after his plane's wheels had touched the runway at Incheon airport. “I slept for one hour at the hotel,” he said. “I'll go[...]

Posted on September 6, 2019
in Hong Kong Horse Racing News

Hong Kong's KOR Group 1 Korea Cup (1800m) contender Glorious Artist threw his head around as he moved at an eager canter down the home straight on the inner training track. Trainer Frankie Lor, in attendance at yesterday's barrier draw, was back in Hong Kong but will return before Sunday's race to watch his first[...]

Posted on September 6, 2019
in Hong Kong Horse Racing News

Frankie Lor's options had gone when he dipped his hand to select a red ball from a box at yesterday afternoon's (Thursday, 5 September) barrier draw for the KOR Group 1 Korea Cup, there was only one ball left. Glorious Artist will break from gate one. That puts the Hong Kong raider right up against[...]

Posted on August 30, 2019
in Hong Kong Horse Racing News

Glorious Artist and Ugly Warrior departed Sha Tin yesterday morning, Thursday, 29 August, bound for Seoul and the Korea Autumn Racing Carnival on Sunday, 8 September. Vincent Ho, back home after a successful summer stint in Britain, which yielded six wins, will ride the Hong Kong raiders. The Frankie Lor-trained Glorious Artist is set for[...]

Purton makes inroads into Moreira’s championship lead with a four-timer

Dubai beckons for Kings Shield but first it’s Sunday’s dirt feature

Overseas still an option for Elusive State but first it’s Saturday’s feature

Elusive State returns to happy hunting ground

Artist tops the weights

Rich win in Griffin Trophy

No joy for Hong Kong as locals dominate in Korea

Korea first would be another step in Ho’s quest for the top

Lor looks for Glorious lift-off

Hong Kong raiders have barriers to overcome in Korea

Hong Kong raiders depart for Korea and Ho’s happy to join them

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