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Matthew Chadwick seeks second Champions & Chater Cup with Packing Waltham

Posted on May 20, 2021
in Hong Kong Horse Racing News

Matthew Chadwick is looking to win a second Group 1 Standard Chartered Champions and Chater Cup. Matthew Chadwick is taking a level-headed approach into Sunday's (23 May) Group 1 Standard Chartered Champions and Chater Cup (2400m) when he partners Packing Waltham, encouraged by his natural staying ability but wary of his adolescence as he steps[...]

Posted on May 19, 2021
in Hong Kong Horse Racing News

Tony Cruz is optimistic Hong Kong's reigning Horse of the Year Exultant can join a select band of multiple winners of the Group 1 Standard Chartered Champions & Chater Cup (2400m) when his stable flagbearer returns to Sha Tin on Sunday (23 May). Already the most successful trainer in the modern history of the race,[...]

Posted on April 22, 2021
in Hong Kong Horse Racing News

Tomohito Ozeki is confident Glory Vase can reprise a winning Hong Kong habit and add to Japan's imposing record in the HK$25 million Group 1 FWD QEII Cup (2000m) at Sha Tin on Sunday (25 April). Bidding to join Eishin Preston (2002 & 2003), Rulership (2012), Neorealism (2017) and Win Bright (2019) on the prestige[...]

Posted on April 13, 2021
in Hong Kong Horse Racing News

Exultant, the tough kingpin of Hong Kong's staying division, took a crucial step closer in his bid to become the second horse in history – after Eishin Preston in 2003 – to successfully defend his crown in Sunday week's (25 April) HK$25 million Group 1 FWD QEII Cup (2000m) with a smart trial effort at[...]

Posted on January 29, 2021
in Hong Kong Horse Racing News

Revitalised by a brief spell, emerging talent Columbus County will throw down the gauntlet to Hong Kong's premier stayers in the Group 3 Centenary Vase Handicap (1800m) at Sha Tin on Sunday (31 January) as Caspar Fownes plots an ambitious path. Freshened since a brave third to Ireland's Mogul in the Group 1 LONGINES Hong[...]

Posted on October 7, 2020
in Hong Kong Horse Racing News

Exultant pleased connections at Sha Tin yesterday morning (Tuesday, 6 October) as he stepped up his preparations toward the Group 1 LONGINES Hong Kong Vase (2400m) and a hoped for sixth victory at the top level. Hong Kong's Horse of the Year went through the motions in his first barrier trial of the season in[...]

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 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 February 17, 2020
in Hong Kong Horse Racing News

Time Warp delivered a blast from the past to level hot favourite Exultant in a rip-roaring Group 1 Citi Hong Kong Gold Cup (2000m) at Sha Tin yesterday afternoon (Sunday, 16 February). Two years ago, in this very race, the Tony Cruz-trained chestnut became the first horse to dip below two minutes for the course[...]

Posted on February 15, 2020
in Hong Kong Horse Racing News

Tony Cruz believes Exultant is on the right track to defend his crown in Sunday's (16 February) HK$10 million Group 1 Citi Hong Kong Gold Cup (2000m), a win that would see him become the fourth horse since 2008 to win back-to-back editions. “Hopefully he can repeat what he did last year, he's done everything[...]

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 15, 2019
in Hong Kong Horse Racing News

Tony Cruz is resolute in his expectation that Exultant can confirm his status as Hong Kong's pre-eminent ‘stayer' in Sunday's (17 November) Group 2 Jockey Club Cup (2000m) and beyond. This weekend's race at Sha Tin is the key lead-up to the Irish import's primary target, a repeat win in the HK$20 million Group 1[...]

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[...]

Matthew Chadwick seeks second Champions & Chater Cup with Packing Waltham

Tony Cruz upbeat as Exultant chases third Champions & Chater Cup

Glory Vase in peak form ahead of Group 1 QEII Cup tilt

Exultant builds towards FWD QEII Cup defence, trials on the turf

Caspar Fownes begins the journey towards staying features with Columbus County

Exultant gears up for Hong Kong Vase campaign

Exultant carries great expectations into FWD QEII Cup

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

Time Warp turns time to floor Exultant in Citi Hong Kong Gold Cup

Exultant goes for Gold again

Two for Fownes against Exultant in Group 2 Jockey Club Cup

Exultant’s tuned and ready to face Jockey Club Cup challengers

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

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