Savvy Nine

Teetan’s back and eager to get rolling

Posted on December 7, 2022
in Hong Kong Horse Racing News

Karis Teetan will return to the saddle at Happy Valley on Wednesday evening after spending the past 21 local fixtures on the sidelines due to illness. Teetan, 32, collected five wins from the first three race meetings this season in September before his untimely interval. The Mauritian – who takes four mounts tonight – is[...]

Posted on November 18, 2022
in Hong Kong Horse Racing News

Douglas Whyte expects Blake Shinn will experience familiar sensations of power and quality when the Australian returns to Sha Tin on Sunday (November 20) to partner Russian Emperor in the HKD$5 million Group 2 BOCHK Jockey Club Cup (2000m). Shinn last season partnered Hong Kong's champion stayer to victory in the Group 1 Citi Hong[...]

Posted on May 28, 2022
in Hong Kong Horse Racing News

In the midst of a resurgent season, Matthew Chadwick hopes the combination of potentially rain-affected ground and Douglas Whyte's finesse will allow Savvy Nine to contend strongly in the HKD$3.7 million Group 3 Lion Rock Trophy Handicap (1600m) at Sha Tin on Sunday (May 29). Chadwick has posted 44 wins this season and, with 14[...]

Posted on April 21, 2022
in Hong Kong Horse Racing News

A pair of confidence-boosting track gallops has left Douglas Whyte confident Russian Emperor has fully recovered after a valiant last-start second to Golden Sixty and is now poised to assert staying superiority in the Group 1 FWD QEII Cup (2000m) at Sha Tin on Sunday (April 24). The imperiously-bred gelding was reported to have exhibited[...]

Posted on April 4, 2022
in Hong Kong Horse Racing News

He came, he saw and he silenced doubters with an unanswerable burst of speed. Golden Sixty flattened rivals at Sha Tin this afternoon (Sunday, April 3) with a familiar display of sheer dominance to recapture his winning groove in the HKD$4.75 million Group 2 Chairman's Trophy (1600m) for jockey Vincent Ho and trainer Francis Lui.[...]

Posted on February 26, 2022
in Hong Kong Horse Racing News

Chasing successive wins in Sunday's (27 February) HKD$12 million Hong Kong Classic Cup (1800m) at Sha Tin, Alexis Badel has armed himself with the ride on Turin Redsun – a progressive son of super stallion Dubawi – who seemingly floated below the radar until his eye-catching fourth in the Hong Kong Classic Mile (1600m) last[...]

Posted on February 21, 2022
in Hong Kong Horse Racing News

The inexorable rise of Douglas Whyte among Hong Kong's training ranks encompassed yet another milestone at Sha Tin this afternoon (Sunday, 20 February) as jockey Blake Shinn and Russian Emperor led home a one-two finish for the handler in the HKD$12 million Group 1 Citi Hong Kong Gold Cup (2000m). Just weeks after savouring Group[...]

Posted on January 7, 2021
in Hong Kong Horse Racing News

A collaboration of champion jockeys – past and present – and brutal discipline paved the way for Savvy Nine to belatedly break his Hong Kong maiden in emphatic style with victory in the Group 3 January Cup Handicap (1800), leaving Douglas Whyte to celebrate his first Group winner as a trainer. Christophe Soumillon ruthlessly delivered[...]

Posted on September 19, 2020
in Hong Kong Horse Racing News

Lakeshore Eagle soared to a hat-trick of wins at the end of last season and this Sunday (20 September) at Sha Tin the smart galloper will shoot for his fourth in succession when he lines up in a smoking hot Class 2 Cheung Shan Handicap (1600m). The six-year-old was a sensation for trainer Chris So[...]

Posted on June 20, 2020
in Hong Kong Horse Racing News

John Moore has only eight more race meetings as a Hong Kong trainer and on Sunday (21 June) the man with more big-race wins than anyone else in these parts will attempt to carry off this season's final two Pattern contests. “It would be nice to pick up two Group 3 wins – that would[...]

Posted on May 23, 2020
in Hong Kong Horse Racing News

The handler is in the blessed position of also training Furore, the horse he deems to be Exultant's main rival, but the weather is in the hands of a force far beyond the two-time champion trainer's control. “I don't want a downpour, that's my concern,” Cruz said. “As long as the track is good to[...]

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

Helene Leadingstar (119lb) will attempt to complete a hat-trick of wins when he takes on four rivals in the Group 3 Queen Mother Memorial Cup Handicap (2400m) at Sha Tin on Sunday, 3 May. Tony Cruz's charge has pulled off a smart turn-around recently, having endured 14 runs without success before nailing a breakthrough Hong[...]

Posted on March 18, 2020
in Hong Kong Horse Racing News

Savvy Nine was not John Moore's idea of what his final BMW Hong Kong Derby runner would look like but the trainer is hopeful that his useful European import will outrun his rating and “pick up a cheque” in Sunday's (22 March) HK$20 million feature. “He's in there and he's done everything right leading into[...]

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

John Moore is putting his confidence in an old and proven alliance at Sha Tin on Sunday (23 February) when Hugh Bowman will take the reins on the handler's prime Hong Kong Classic Cup (1800m) hope Enjoying. “Hugh has won a Hong Kong Derby for me on Werther and his confidence level at the moment,[...]

Teetan’s back and eager to get rolling

Russian Emperor building for Jockey Club Cup

Chadwick bids to continue winning run aboard Savvy Nine

Russian Emperor primed for Group 1 FWD QEII Cup tilt

Back in business, Golden Sixty steams to victory in Group 2 Chairman’s Trophy

Badel seeks Hong Kong Classic Cup repeat

Emperor leads one-two for Whyte in Citi Hong Kong Gold Cup

Savvy Nine breaks his Hong Kong maiden in style

Lakeshore Eagle shoots for four in hot Sha Tin feature

Moore hopes it’s Thanks Forever as he prepares for departure

Rain a concern as Exultant faces Furore in Champions & Chater Cup

Helene Leadingstar faces Moore assault in Queen Mother Memorial Cup

Moore relies on Savvy for ‘final’ BMW Hong Kong Derby

Moore believes Bowman will be Enjoying Sunday’s Classic Cup

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