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Whyte’s New Year double

Douglas Whyte's rich vein of form straddled the turn-of-the-year. The first-season handler snared the last race of 2019 with Last Kingdom and took the first race in 2020 when Iron Boy dug deep to take the Class 4 Palm Handicap (1400m) by a neck under Karis Teetan at Sha Tin yesterday afternoon (Wednesday, 1 January).[...]
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Hewitson’s breakthrough

It was a long time coming but Lyle Hewitson got his first Hong Kong win at his 141st attempt thanks to a well-judged all-the-way win on Last Kingdom in the finale, the Class 3 Pak Tam Chung Handicap (1650m) at Sha Tin yesterday afternoon, (Sunday 29 December). The two-time South African champion had his fellow[...]
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Whyte’s Kingdom

Last Kingdom (125lb) got off the mark at his 21st start and Hong Kong's newest trainer Douglas Whyte remains upbeat about his Frankel entire's ability to repeat the dose in tonight's (25 September) Tai Shue Wan Handicap (1650m) at Happy Valley. “He was his own worst enemy in the fact that he was a bit[...]
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Whyte’s Kingdom

Douglas Whyte saddled his third winner from 11 runners, and his second in tandem with Alberto Sanna, when Last Kingdom broke his Hong Kong duck at start 21 at Happy Valley last night, Wednesday, 11 September. The Frankel gelding barreled to the lead from the gate, threw his head around once there, but eventually settled[...]
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Moreira the key to Kingdom?

Paul O'Sullivan's Last Kingdom (124lb) has hit a smart patch of form, placing in three of his last four races, and the handler is hopeful the gelding can get off the mark in the Class 3 Lancashire Handicap (1650m). “He's drawn a bit of an awkward gate, I'll just leave it Joao (Moreira) to work[...]
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