Hong Kong Sprint

Hong Kong Sprint beckons as Perfect Match takes the Chief Executive’s Cup

Posted on September 8, 2020
in Hong Kong Horse Racing News

Perfect Match landed the spoils in Sunday’s (6 September) Class 1 HKSAR Chief Executive’s Cup Handicap (1200m) and did so with plenty in hand and also with December riches in mind, as trainer Danny Shum confirmed the 2020 LONGINES Hong Kong Sprint as his long-term target. “I am aiming him toward December, he will go[...]

Posted on August 29, 2020
in Hong Kong Horse Racing News

Hong Kong racing returns on Sunday, 6 September at Sha Tin with the traditional season-opening feature race, the Class 1 HKSAR Chief Executive’s Cup Handicap (1200m) kicking off the 88-meeting programme. The Class 1 contest sees the return of Regency Legend, who is out to defend his title and use it as a pathway to[...]

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

Hong Kong racing will offer record prize money of HK$1.4 billion for the 2020/21 season, with the Group 1 LONGINES Hong Kong Sprint and BMW Hong Kong Derby featuring prominently among the Hong Kong Jockey Club’s upward adjustments revealed recently. The LONGINES Hong Kong Sprint (1200m) will regain its position as the world’s most richly-endowed[...]

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

Beauty Generation ranked as the world’s best miler in the 2019 World’s Best Racehorse Rankings (WBRR), released by the International Federation of Horseracing Authorities (IFHA) on Wednesday, 22 January, while 10 of Hong Kong’s elite races featured in the World’s Top 100 Group 1 Races for the year just ended. Hong Kong was home to[...]

Posted on December 9, 2019
in Hong Kong Horse Racing News, New Zealand Horse Racing News

New Zealand Bloodstock Sales graduate Beat The Clock recorded his third win at elite level when taking out the Group 1 Hong Kong Sprint (1200m) at Sha Tin on Sunday. The son of Hinchinbrook was purchased out of Prima Park’s 2015 New Zealand Bloodstock Ready To Run Sale of 2YOs draft for $200,000 and with[...]

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

Trainer John Size and jockey Joao Moreira spoke of vindication and feeling humbled in an unusually emotion-charged response to their win with Hong Kong’s most consistent sprinter Beat The Clock in the LONGINES Hong Kong Sprint (1200m), today (Sunday, 8 December), at Sha Tin. Moreira declared he would cherish the win “all my life” while[...]

Posted on December 8, 2019
in Australian Horse Racing News

Australian sprinter In Her Time has been scratched from the Hong Kong International Sprint because of a hoof problem. The Kris Lees-trained mare was found to have a quarter crack in her left front foot on Saturday. A day later she was re-examined but ruled unfit to run in Sunday’s 1200m-race. Lees had been confident[...]

Posted on December 8, 2019
in Australian Horse Racing News, Hong Kong Horse Racing News

At the conclusion of track work yesterday (Saturday 7 Dec) Stewards released a statement, “An examination of In Her Time, trained by Mr. Kris Lees, has found that horse to have sustained a quarter crack in its left front foot. In Her Time will be subject to a further veterinary examination tomorrow (Sunday) morning to[...]

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[...]

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

Frankie Lor’s achievements in little more than two seasons as a trainer should not be undersold. Yes, Hong Kong has a condensed pool of horses and trainers and he came into the role with vast experience but to claim an International Group 1 double and make a clean sweep of the Hong Kong’s Four-Year-Old Classic[...]

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

One Group 1 win on Sunday (8 December) will see Zac Purton become the outright most successful rider in the history of the LONGINES Hong Kong International Races. His victory 12 months ago aboard Beauty Generation in the LONGINES Hong Kong Mile drew him level at the head of the pack with Gerald Mosse on[...]

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

In the recent annals of the Group 1 LONGINES Hong Kong Sprint there have been few foreign challengers that have been able to seriously trouble the local flyers around one turn of Sha Tin’s 1200-metre course. The most striking exception has been Lord Kanaloa, who arrived in Hong Kong for the 2012 meeting with a[...]

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

Joao Moreira hopes loyalty will yield the pay-off of his first Hong Kong International Races (HKIR) victory in three years. The Brazilian ace enjoyed a purple patch with a pair of wins in 2014 atop the John Moore stable legends Able Friend and Designs On Rome; that continued thanks to Peniaphobia’s Sprint victory in 2015[...]

Posted on December 5, 2019
in Hong Kong Horse Racing News

There was a smile on John Moore’s face as he discovered the fate of his latest sensation Aethero at the barrier draw ceremony for Sunday’s (8 December) Group 1 Hong Kong Sprint (1200m). Gate 10 was considered perfect for the master trainer, whose three-year-old has cut a swathe through the division including with his triumph[...]

Posted on December 5, 2019
in Australian Horse Racing News

Dual Group One winner In Her Time has drawn ideally in barrier four for the Hong Kong Sprint at Sha Tin. The only Australian-trained horse at Sunday’s International meeting, the Newcastle mare will have 13 rivals, headed by local galloper Aethero. Regarded as the most exciting sprinter in Hong Kong, Aethero is a half-brother to[...]

Posted on December 5, 2019
in Hong Kong Horse Racing News

Aethero worked solo down the turf track’s back straight at Sha Tin this morning (Thursday, 5 December) in a manner which left John Moore satisfied that Hong Kong’s rising sprint star could well make history this weekend. “He went without a work mate because he’s a very fit horse, ready to go into Sunday’s big[...]

Posted on December 5, 2019
in Hong Kong Horse Racing News

Mr Stunning has never held the official title of Hong Kong’s champion sprinter, yet when December rolls around he is a champion in every sense of the word. And if successful in Sunday’s (8 December) Group 1 LONGINES Hong Kong Sprint (1200m), he will have scaled a peak that no other horse before him has[...]

Hong Kong Sprint beckons as Perfect Match takes the Chief Executive’s Cup

Regency Legend prepares for Chief Executive’s Cup defence with December in mind

Hong Kong’s record prize money increase includes Group races and HK Derby

Hong Kong features highly among World’s Best and Top 100 rankings

NZB grad wins Hong Kong Sprint

Beat The Clock’s emotional Hong Kong Sprint win

In Her Time Ruled Out Of Hong Kong Sprint

In Her Time Withdrawn From The Hong Kong Sprint

Young sires Lord Kanaloa and Maurice are helping shift perceptions

Frankie Lor’s following the successful path of past masters

Purton’s hungry for a Hong Kong International Races record

Danon Smash out to uphold family honour for Yasuda and Lord Kanaloa

Moreira keeps the faith into the Hong Kong International Races

Moore happy with the draws for Hong Kong International Races

In Her Time Draws Barrier Four In Sprint

Aethero’s ready to fly in the Hong Kong Sprint

December warrior Mr Stunning seeks a Hong Kong Sprint hat-trick

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