Southern Legend

Fownes sets Legend and Dragon against Golden Sixty in Sha Tin Trophy

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

Championship leading trainer Caspar Fownes will launch a two-pronged assault on Sunday’s (18 October) Group 2 Oriental Watch Sha Tin Trophy Handicap (1600m) at Sha Tin when Southern Legend and Dances With Dragon take their places en route to December’s LONGINES Hong Kong International Races. While Golden Sixty and Beauty Generation are set to renew[...]

Posted on September 26, 2020
in Hong Kong Horse Racing News

Golden Sixty returns to action at Sha Tin on Sunday (27 September) with jockey Vincent Ho buoyed by his star mount’s preparations and intent on thwarting Beauty Generation’s tilt at a fourth straight win in the Group 3 Celebration Cup Handicap (1400m). The BMW Hong Kong Derby winner has not raced since he completed a[...]

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

Vincent Ho bagged his first Group 1 victory aboard Southern Legend in the FWD Champions Mile and on Sunday (21 June) at Sha Tin they pair up again in search of more Pattern-race success when they tackle the HK$3.25 million Group 3 Premier Plate Handicap (1800m). Ho has a soft spot for the tough galloper[...]

Posted on May 30, 2020
in Hong Kong Horse Racing News

Southern Legend dug deep into his gritty reserves when fending off Beauty Generation to earn a first Group 1 win in last month’s FWD Champions Mile and trainer Caspar Fownes anticipates another tough effort will be needed in Sunday’s (31 May) Group 3 Lion Rock Trophy Handicap (1600m) at Sha Tin. There is no Beauty[...]

Posted on May 1, 2020
in Australian Horse Racing News

A wide draw in a sprint race at Sandown usually sounds a warning for connections. But trainer Nick Harnett is not put off by gate 17 with Final Man in the Salute Frontline Workers Handicap (1200m) on Saturday. “It may turn out to be the best spot come that stage of the day,” Harnett said.[...]

Posted on April 27, 2020
in Hong Kong Horse Racing News

Southern Legend was supposed to be preparing for a third straight win in the Kranji Mile but Plan B worked out far better for the admirable stalwart at Sha Tin yesterday afternoon (Sunday, 26 April). With the Singapore target off the radar due to the global pandemic, the Caspar Fownes-trained galloper instead snatched the biggest[...]

Posted on March 31, 2020
in Hong Kong Horse Racing News

Southern Legend will take on an unscheduled assignment in the Group 2 Chairman’s Trophy (1600m) at Sha Tin on Sunday (5 April) with plans for the rest of his campaign being a muddle of novel coronavirus-induced uncertainty. All roads were supposed to lead to the SIN Group 3 Kranji Mile (1600m) in Singapore on 23[...]

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

Southern Legend heads to Happy Valley on Wednesday (8 January) night for the Group 3 January Cup Handicap (1800m), aiming to prove his last run to be nothing more than a blip in an otherwise admirable campaign. The high-class seven-year-old caused an upset when defeating Group 1 winners Exultant and Time Warp in the Group[...]

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

Three champion trainer titles; a raft of major race winners at home and in Singapore and a surname synonymous with Hong Kong racing only scratches the surface of the story of Caspar Fownes. “Born in Calcutta, India; 1967; August 12th,” Fownes replied when I asked his place of birth – seemingly emphasising the country and[...]

Posted on November 15, 2019
in Hong Kong Horse Racing News

Rise High and Southern Legend will lock horns in Sunday’s (17 November) Group 2 Jockey Club Cup (2000m) at Sha Tin to determine bragging rights as the Caspar Fownes stable’s top contender for next month’s HK$93 million LONGINES Hong Kong International Races. The trainer’s stalwart Southern Legend holds entries in three of the four Group[...]

Posted on November 4, 2019
in Hong Kong Horse Racing News

Southern Legend (127lb) pocketed the Group 3 Sa Sa Ladies’ Purse Handicap (1800m) at Sha Tin yesterday afternoon (Sunday, 3 November) after battling through a stirring duel with fellow Group 1 stalwart Time Warp (122lb). The Caspar Fownes-trained victor passed the post a neck to the good in a track record time of 1m 45.25s,[...]

Posted on November 1, 2019
in Hong Kong Horse Racing News

Exultant starts out towards the defence of his Group 1 LONGINES Hong Kong Vase (2400m) crown with a weighty task in the Group 3 Sa Sa Ladies’ Purse Handicap (1800m) on Sunday, 3 November. Hong Kong’s star stayer is slated to shoulder 133lb in a hot edition of the historic race, which features stablemate and[...]

Posted on November 1, 2019
in Hong Kong Horse Racing News

Caspar Fownes will send Southern Legend on a giant-slaying mission against Exultant in Sunday’s (3 November) Group 3 Sa Sa Ladies’ Purse Handicap (1800m). Nine days ago a Fownes runner downed Hong Kong’s ‘Goliath’ Beauty Generation when Rise High halted the seemingly invincible mile champion’s 18-month winning streak. Now the handler is setting Southern Legend[...]

Posted on October 18, 2019
in Hong Kong Horse Racing News

Two of the finest gallopers in Hong Kong history could stand between Caspar Fownes and glory at this December’s LONGINES Hong Kong International Races. The trainer is aiming his stable stars Southern Legend and Rise High at the HK$93 million event but he knows his talented contenders will likely face, respectively, the might of the[...]

Posted on May 26, 2019
in Hong Kong Horse Racing News, Singapore Horse Racing News

With Beauty Generation dominating the mile ranks at home, Caspar Fownes is likely to build Southern Legend towards the 10-furlong Group 1 LONGINES Hong Kong Cup through the first part of next season. “Now it’s a case of going back to Hong Kong and we’ll look forward to next season. He’s versatile, he’s won from[...]

Posted on May 26, 2019
in Hong Kong Horse Racing News, Singapore Horse Racing News

The difficulty of third-placed Singapore Sling’s task seemed to have increased when Tony Millard’s charge drew gate 10 at Thursday’s barrier draw for the Singapore Group 1 Kranji Mile, and so it proved. “There was no speed in the race, there was nothing I could do,” Karis Teetan said. “I was drawn outside and when[...]

Posted on May 26, 2019
in Hong Kong Horse Racing News, Singapore Horse Racing News

Southern Legend demolished his Singapore Group 1 Kranji Mile rivals for the second year in succession, quickening to an imposing win in Singapore’s invitational feature last night (Saturday, 25 May). The Caspar Fownes-trained six-year-old had two and a half lengths on his rivals, with former Hong Kong galloper Blizzard second and fellow Sha Tin raider[...]

Fownes sets Legend and Dragon against Golden Sixty in Sha Tin Trophy

Golden Sixty ready for Beauty Generation in Sunday’s Group 3 Celebration Cup

Ho hungry for more as Southern Legend eyes Premier Plate

Southern Legend ready to roar in the Lion Rock Trophy

Final Man In Line For Hat-Trick At Sandown

First Group 1 for Ho as Southern Legend edges Beauty Generation

Plan B enacted as Southern Legend heads to Group 2 Chairman’s Trophy

Purton’s back aboard Southern Legend for Group 3 January Cup

It’s a family affair as Caspar Fownes readies for the HKIR

Two for Fownes against Exultant in Group 2 Jockey Club Cup

Southern Legend pockets the Ladies’ Purse

Exultant ready to roll, Time Warp bids for repeat in Sa Sa Ladies’ Purse

Fownes aims at another giant-slaying in the Sa Sa Ladies’ Purse

Fownes looks for “something amazing” to topple Beauty Generation

Cup on the cards for Southern Legend

Hong Kong interests dominate Group 1 Kranji Mile

Legend strikes again in Kranji Mile

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