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Japan enters strong contingent for FWD Champions Day

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

Japan’s elite and Hong Kong’s brilliant best are among the list of 77 horses holding entries for FWD Champions Day at Sha Tin on Sunday, 25 April, 2021. FWD Champions Day features three world class Group 1 races, the HK$25 million FWD Queen Elizabeth II Cup (2000m), the HK$20 million FWD Champions Mile (1600m), and[...]

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 25, 2020
in Hong Kong Horse Racing News

John Moore has the best overall record of any trainer in the Group 1 features that now make up Hong Kong’s HK$63 million FWD Champions Day. Viva Pataca’s brace heads up his five wins in the FWD QEII Cup (2000m), Able Friend and Beauty Generation are among his incredible eight FWD Champions Mile (1600m) successes,[...]

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 23, 2020
in Hong Kong Horse Racing News

Playa Del Puente almost caused the biggest shock in BMW Hong Kong Derby history last month when at odds of 289/1 he forced Golden Sixty to prove there was substance to his brilliance. But a valiant almost doesn’t get you the trophy. “It was a bittersweet feeling to run second beaten so narrowly – a[...]

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

Tony Millard enjoyed one of his biggest days at Sha Tin when the exceptional Ambitious Dragon won the 2011 Group 1 QEII Cup (2000m) and this Sunday (26 April) the handler will saddle the talented duo Glorious Dragon and Elusive State in the HK$25 million feature. Ambitious Dragon was 2.3 favourite when he rolled off[...]

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 15, 2020
in Hong Kong Horse Racing News

A final decision is yet to be made on Golden Sixty’s participation in the Group 1 FWD QEII Cup (2000m) on 26 April but trainer Francis Lui is pleased with the Medaglia d’Oro gelding following his sparkling BMW Hong Kong Derby (2000m) win last month. “He seems good, he looks fine, everything is fine and[...]

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 18, 2020
in Hong Kong Horse Racing News

Elite Japanese raiders, high-class challengers from Australia and Europe, and Hong Kong’s brilliant best are among the list of 85 horses holding 102 nominations for FWD Champions Day at Sha Tin on Sunday, 26 April, 2020. FWD Champions Day features three world class Group 1 races, the HK$25 million FWD Queen Elizabeth II Cup (2000m),[...]

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[...]

Japan enters strong contingent for FWD Champions Day

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

Exultant carries great expectations into FWD QEII Cup

Moore’s not looking back as he readies for FWD Champions Day

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

QEII Cup victory would be sweeter for Shinn and Playa Del Puente

Millard’s team ready to mix it on FWD Champions Day

Golden Sixty set for rest, Cruz left smiling

Golden Sixty camp mulls QEII Cup, Derby form on show at the Valley

FWD Champions Day has top class contenders in three exciting races

Nominations for FWD Champions Day at Sha Tin

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

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