Hong Kong Sprint

O’Sullivan upbeat after a Hong Kong season like no other

Posted on July 17, 2021
in Hong Kong Horse Racing News

Expat New Zealand trainer Paul O’Sullivan was in a positive frame of mind after Hong Kong’s 2020-21 racing season drew to a close on Wednesday night. Now a veteran of almost two decades among Hong Kong’s training ranks, O’Sullivan was more than satisfied with his stable’s final result of 26 winners and 52 placegetters from[...]

Posted on May 31, 2021
in Hong Kong Horse Racing News

Caspar Fownes regained the Hong Kong trainers’ championship lead and celebrated the successful race-track return of BMW Hong Kong Derby winner Sky Darci in one fell swoop with a pivotal treble, crowned by Group 3 Lion Rock Trophy Handicap glory (1600m), at Sha Tin on Sunday (30 May). Trailing John Size by two winners entering[...]

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

Hong Kong sprinting sensation Courier Wonder (118lb) extended his unbeaten record to five at Sha Tin yesterday afternoon (Sunday, 23 May) with an age and experience defying win in the HK$3.5 million Group 3 Sha Tin Vase Handicap (1200m). Stepping up in grade as the least experienced runner in the race, the three-year-old juvenile capped[...]

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

Trainer Richard Gibson yesterday (Sunday, 25 April) claimed a second HK$18 million Group 1 Chairman’s Sprint Prize (1200m) at Sha Tin with potentially outstanding four-year-old Wellington as Japan’s race favourite Danon Smash performed below expectations. The Australian-bred gelding, a PPG (Privately Purchased Griffin) for Mr and Mrs Michael Cheng Wing On and Jeffrey Cheng Man[...]

Posted on April 23, 2021
in Hong Kong Horse Racing News

Amazing Star caused one of the biggest feature-race shocks in Hong Kong racing history when he landed the Group 2 Sprint Cup (1200m) earlier this month, and this Sunday (25 April) at Sha Tin the six-year-old bay is out to prove that his effort was no fluke when he contests the HK$18 million Group 1[...]

Posted on March 31, 2021
in Hong Kong Horse Racing News

Classique Legend, acclaimed as the world’s equal top sprinter in 2020, is likely to return to Australia after he bled from his left nostril following trackwork at Sha Tin this morning (Wednesday, 31 March). The winner of The Everest (1200m) at Randwick Racecourse last October, the grey finished 11th in the Group 1 LONGINES Hong[...]

Posted on March 2, 2021
in Hong Kong Horse Racing News

Classique Legend has taken a small – but significant – step towards returning to competition with a soft trial win at Conghua on Monday (1 March). Pitted against three other rivals, the world’s equal top-rated sprinter cruised over the 800m journey to win the trial after sitting at the tail of the small field. All[...]

Posted on December 14, 2020
in Hong Kong Horse Racing News

Danon Smash followed in the footsteps of his sire Lord Kanaloa with a thrilling victory for Japan in the 2020 Group 1 LONGINES Hong Kong Sprint (1200m), their third in the HK$22 million contest’s 21-year history. “It is a very pleasing moment that Lord Kanaloa and Danon Smash, sire and son could achieve their Hong[...]

Posted on December 13, 2020
in Australian Horse Racing News

Australian sprint star Classique Legend has finished unplaced in the Hong Kong Sprint with honours going to Japanese raider Danon Smash.

Posted on December 12, 2020
in Hong Kong Horse Racing News

The LONGINES Hong Kong Sprint (1200m) preparation – both flawed and challenging – is complete, but Caspar Fownes won’t know the success of the operation until Classique Legend shapes to unleash his scorching late sprint at Sha Tin on Sunday (13 December). Classique Legend arrived in Hong Kong on 11 November, presenting Fownes with a[...]

Posted on December 12, 2020
in Hong Kong Horse Racing News

Godolphin’s leading man William Buick will take the reins aboard the only Group 1 winner in Sunday’s Group 1 LONGINES Hong Kong Sprint (1200m) as he looks to replicate Pakistan Star-like heroics aboard Tower Of London in the HK$22 million dash. “It was a great day – it was a lucky ride for me [aboard[...]

Posted on December 12, 2020
in Hong Kong Horse Racing News

Wary and respectful of world-class opposition, Francis Lui carries a characteristically understated sense of confidence into the Group 1 LONGINES Hong Kong Mile with Golden Sixty at Sha Tin on Sunday (13 December), hopeful his flagbearer can continue an extraordinary winning streak. Only the fourth horse to win 10 consecutive races in Hong Kong’s professional[...]

Posted on December 11, 2020
in Hong Kong Horse Racing News

Classique Legend will have to defy LONGINES Hong Kong Sprint (1200m) history after the joint world’s top-rated sprinter drew barrier one in the HK$22 million Group 1 feature at Sha Tin on Sunday (13 December). In 14 previous editions of the race, the inside alley on Sha Tin’s “A” course is yet to produce a[...]

Posted on December 11, 2020
in Hong Kong Horse Racing News

Championship-leading jockey Joao Moreira is riding at the peak of his powers with 51 wins this term – 20 clear of his nearest rival – and this Sunday (13 December) at Sha Tin the Brazilian ace will leave no stone unturned in his bid to replicate the heroics which saw him capture two of last[...]

Posted on December 11, 2020
in Hong Kong Horse Racing News

Champion British jockey Ryan Moore believes Magical is primed to forge rare new territory for Aidan O’Brien in the HK$28 million Group 1 LONGINES Hong Kong Cup (2000m) when the Irish globe-trotter vies for an eighth Group 1. Magical currently shares top billing at Ballydoyle for the most wins at the highest level, occupying a[...]

Posted on December 10, 2020
in Australian Horse Racing News

Australian sprinter Classique Legend will jump from the inside barrier in the Hong Kong Sprint at Sha Tin's annual International meeting.

Posted on December 10, 2020
in Hong Kong Horse Racing News

Ricky Yiu heads to Sunday’s (13 December) LONGINES Hong Kong International Races with a three-pronged assault across the four-race HK$95 million showcase spearheaded by Voyage Warrior, who will look to secure his trainer a fourth Group 1 LONGINES Hong Kong Sprint (1200m) success. Yiu is the most successful trainer in the Sprint with three wins,[...]

O’Sullivan upbeat after a Hong Kong season like no other

Sky Darci snares Lion Rock Trophy Handicap in a thriller

Courier Wonder impresses in the Group 3 Sha Tin Vase

Wellington justifies Gibson’s faith with stunning Chairman’s Sprint Prize triumph

Amazing Star aims to prove he’s no fluke in Chairman’s Sprint Prize

Classique Legend setback, likely to return to Australia

Classique Legend passes early test with Conghua trial win

Danon Smash follows Lord Kanaloa’s footsteps with Hong Kong glory

Classique Legend Unplaced In HK Sprint

Fownes poised to unleash a potent Hong Kong International Races squad

‘Mature’ Tower Of London looks to boss his rivals in the Hong Kong Sprint

Golden Sixty on target to add to imposing record in the Hong Kong Mile

Mixed fortune for Caspar Fownes

In-form Moreira nears 1,000 wins with a solid book for Sunday

Ryan Moore bids for defining glory aboard Magical in the Hong Kong Cup

Everest Winner Draws Rails For HK Sprint

Yiu readies three as Voyage Warrior looks to fulfill potential

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