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Moreira lands fourth Hong Kong jockeys’ championship

Posted on July 3, 2021
in Hong Kong Horse Racing News

Joao Moreira will be crowned this season’s champion jockey in Hong Kong after a suspension to Zac Purton ruled the Australian rider out of the final two race meetings. Leading 149-122, Moreira’s buffer was still possible to pursue but now, with Purton only available for the next two race meetings, the Brazilian will officially be[...]

Posted on April 6, 2021
in Hong Kong Horse Racing News

Mighty Giant (123lb) bossed his rivals with an all-the-way victory in yesterday’s (Monday 5 April) Group 2 Chairman’s Trophy (1600m) at Sha Tin for jockey Neil Callan and trainer Ricky Yiu. Sent around as an outsider against four opponents, the baldy faced chestnut defied market expectations to land the HK$4.5 million feature under a daring[...]

Posted on April 3, 2021
in Hong Kong Horse Racing News

Ricky Yiu has a strong reputation when it comes to nurturing sprint talents, his four wins in the Group 2 Sprint Cup (1200m) are unrivalled among other exploits and on Easter Monday (5 April) he heads to Sha Tin with Voyage Warrior carrying the hopes of his team in a bid for back-to-back triumphs in[...]

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

John Size has soared higher into Hong Kong racing’s stratosphere after the 11-time champion trainer posted his 1300th winner with Waikuku’s triumph in the HK$12 million Group 1 Queen’s Silver Jubilee Cup – the world’s richest 1400m race. Joining John Moore, who retired at the end of the 2019/2020 season with a record 1,735 victories,[...]

Posted on February 11, 2021
in Hong Kong Horse Racing News

A leisurely 1200m barrier trial has filled Vincent Ho with confidence that Golden Sixty remains on target to extend an imposing winning sequence to 13 with a third Group 1 triumph in the Citi Hong Kong Gold Cup (2000m) at Sha Tin on 21 February. Placed under no pressure at all, Golden Sixty finished seventh[...]

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

John Size will bid for a seventh Group 1 Stewards’ Cup (1600m) at Sha Tin on Sunday (24 January) as Waikuku throws down the gauntlet to Hong Kong’s outstanding miler Golden Sixty. Beaten into fourth place behind Golden Sixty in the Group 1 LONGINES Hong Kong Mile on 13 December, Waikuku will attempt to become[...]

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[...]

Moreira lands fourth Hong Kong jockeys’ championship

Giant upset for Callan and Yiu in Easter Monday’s Group 2 Chairman’s Trophy

Back-to-back bid for Voyage Warrior in Easter Monday’s Group 2 Sprint Cup

Waikuku steams to Group 1 Queen’s Silver Jubilee Cup victory

Golden Sixty on course for second leg of Triple Crown

John Size returns to Sha Tin on Sunday seeking more Group 1 glory

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

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