Waikuku

In-form Moreira nears 1,000 wins with a solid book for Sunday

Posted on December 11, 2020
in Hong Kong Horse Racing News

Championship-leading jockey Joao Moreira is riding at the peak of his powers with 51 wins this term – 20 clear of his nearest rival – and this Sunday (13 December) at Sha Tin the Brazilian ace will leave no stone unturned in his bid to replicate the heroics which saw him capture two of last[...]

Posted on December 5, 2020
in Hong Kong Horse Racing News

John Size is banking on Waikuku’s class to offset a lengthy absence from competition as the 11-time champion trainer prepares to launch an audacious tilt on the Group 1 LONGINES Hong Kong Mile at Sha Tin on Sunday, 13 December. Waikuku will have been off the scene for 231 days before he throws down the[...]

Posted on April 25, 2020
in Hong Kong Horse Racing News

If any horse can stop Beauty Generation from winning a record third FWD Group 1 Champions Mile at Sha Tin on Sunday, 26 April, the form book suggests it’s most likely to be Waikuku. “He’s a very good horse and he has done well already this season so there’s no doubt he’s a winning chance,”[...]

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

Beauty Generation is facing a strong challenge for Hong Kong’s Horse of the Year award this season and anything but a record third straight victory in the HK$20 million Group 1 FWD Champions Mile on Sunday, 26 April, could see the crown go to Golden Sixty, perhaps Exultant, maybe even Waikuku or Beat The Clock.[...]

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 April 6, 2020
in Hong Kong Horse Racing News

Beauty Generation brushed aside the younger challenger and shrugged off old rivals to win the Group 2 Chairman’s Trophy (1600m) at Sha Tin yesterday (Sunday, 5 April), setting up the prospect of an unprecedented third victory in the Group 1 FWD Champions Mile at the end of the month. The New Zealand-bred gelding’s success was[...]

Posted on April 4, 2020
in Hong Kong Horse Racing News

Beauty Generation showed last time out that any ‘has-been’ talk was premature but when the champ takes on Waikuku in Sunday’s (5 April) Group 2 Chairman’s Trophy (1600m) he’ll be facing a rival who has had his measure the last four times they’ve clashed. It’s safe to say that the weekend feature and its Group[...]

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 March 28, 2020
in Hong Kong Horse Racing News

Joao Moreira relinquished his lead in the jockeys’ title race to reigning champion Zac Purton at Happy Valley midweek and both riders are psyched for an unrelenting fight for the crown through the season’s final four months. Purton appears to have the momentum at present. The Australian has sparkled in March with 18 wins, 11[...]

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

Waikuku defeated Beauty Generation in an exhilarating showdown for the Group 1 Steward’s Cup (1600m) at Sha Tin Racecourse this afternoon (Sunday, 19 January), a result that all but confirmed a changing of the guard at the very top of Hong Kong’s pecking order. Joao Moreira’s victorious mount quickened from the rear through a closing[...]

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

Waikuku is the slick young upstart to Beauty Generation’s brilliant but seemingly subsiding champion and a victory for the former in Sunday’s (19 January) Group 1 Stewards’ Cup (1600m) could confirm a new era for Hong Kong racing. Joao Moreira believes that possibility will likely be the new reality. “Form-wise, Waikuku is probably at the[...]

Posted on December 6, 2019
in Hong Kong Horse Racing News

Joao Moreira hopes loyalty will yield the pay-off of his first Hong Kong International Races (HKIR) victory in three years. The Brazilian ace enjoyed a purple patch with a pair of wins in 2014 atop the John Moore stable legends Able Friend and Designs On Rome; that continued thanks to Peniaphobia’s Sprint victory in 2015[...]

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

“Let the show begin!” John Moore said after Beauty Generation worked through his final fast gallop before Sunday’s (8 December) Group 1 LONGINES Hong Kong Mile (1600m). The bay heads into the weekend with a chance to match Good Ba Ba’s record of three wins in what nowadays is a HK$25 million race. But he[...]

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

Waikuku shifted out of Beauty Generation’s shadow with a decisive rail-side burst that has him vying to be Hong Kong’s number one hope for the Group 1 LONGINES Hong Kong Mile (1600m) in three weeks. “It looks a bit that way,” trainer John Size said after the improving four-year-old had upset the 1.3 favourite in[...]

Posted on October 21, 2019
in Hong Kong Horse Racing News

There was fist-pumping and whooping, high-fives and firm clasps for all hands within reach of the Rise High camp; deflation and ‘brave face’ acceptance from the Beauty Generation team. The champion’s win streak ended at 10 after a third-place finish in the Group 2 Oriental Watch Sha Tin Trophy Handicap (1600m) yesterday afternoon (Sunday, 20[...]

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

Joao Moreira expects improvement from the talented Waikuku (113lb) in Sunday’s (20 October) Group 2 Oriental Watch Sha Tin Trophy Handicap (1600m) and he knows the four-year-old will need to show it if he is to trouble Beauty Generation (133lb). Last season’s BMW Hong Kong Derby (2000m) second ran a race full of promise when[...]

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

BMW Hong Kong Derby (2000m) winner Furore caught the eye, running on for third under Grant van Niekerk in a dirt track barrier trial at Sha Tin on Tuesday, 17 September. Frankie Lor’s charge has not been seen in action since finishing a disappointing 10th in the Group 1 FWD QEII Cup (2000m) in April.[...]

In-form Moreira nears 1,000 wins with a solid book for Sunday

Size hopes history repeats on two fronts at the Hong Kong International Races

Waikuku looks to bounce back against Beauty Generation

Horse of the Year title is back in Beauty Generation’s sights

FWD Champions Day has top class contenders in three exciting races

Beauty Generation bosses the Group 2 Chairman’s Trophy

Beauty Generation and Waikuku primed for Chairman’s Trophy clash

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

Purton and Moreira set for long tussle but first it’s FWD Champions Day

Waikuku rises to Stewards’ Cup glory

Moreira confident as Waikuku shoots for the top in Stewards’ Cup

Moreira keeps the faith into the Hong Kong International Races

Tweaks have Moore believing Beauty Generation is primed

Waikuku hands another defeat to Beauty Generation

High for Fownes as Beauty Generation is beaten

Waikuku’s back for another shot at Beauty Generation

Furore return

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