Yuga Kawada

Yuga Kawada set for his third appearance in IJC

Posted on November 25, 2022
in Hong Kong Horse Racing News

The current leading Japanese jockey in the 2022 Japan Racing Association rankings, Yuga Kawada, will contest the International Jockeys' Championship (IJC) at Happy Valley for the third time on December 7. Featuring a stellar line-up for 12 of the world's best jockeys, Kawada has been selected for two consecutive years. “I am honoured to be[...]

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

Preparing to reunite with champion galloper Golden Sixty at Sha Tin on Sunday (November 20), Vincent Ho has almost certainly secured a coveted berth in the International Jockeys' Championship (IJC) next month with a double at Happy Valley on Wednesday night (November 16). With three places still to be assigned in the star-studded 12-rider roster[...]

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

Loves Only You set the perfect seal on one of international racing's most colourful careers with a spellbinding success in the HKD$30 million Group 1 LONGINES Hong Kong Cup (2000m) on Sunday (12 December). Yoshito Yahagi's globetrotting mare has flown the Hinomaru flag from Dubai to Hong Kong and on to the USA then back[...]

Posted on December 12, 2021
in Hong Kong Horse Racing News

As the end of Loves Only You's storied racing career approaches and the next chapter of her life beckons, trainer Yoshito Yahagi has his eyes firmly fixed on Sunday's (12 December) HKD$30 million Group 1 LONGINES Hong Kong Cup (2000m) at Sha Tin, hopeful of a fairy tale end for his globetrotting mare. “I'm just[...]

Posted on December 12, 2021
in Hong Kong Horse Racing News

Hidetaka Otonashi hopes genetics plays a decisive role in the HKD$24 million Group 1 LONGINES Hong Kong Sprint (1200m) at Sha Tin on Sunday (12 December) when the Japanese prodigy seeks to emulate the heroics of his sire, Maurice. A mercurial talent, Maurice annexed the Group 1 LONGINES Hong Kong Mile (1600m) in 2015 before[...]

Posted on December 9, 2021
in Hong Kong Horse Racing News

Accustomed to major race success, Yuga Kawada and Kiyoshi Hagiwara will lay siege to Golden Sixty's Group 1 LONGINES Hong Kong Mile (1600m) crown with Danon Kingly at Sha Tin on Sunday (12 December), carrying immense respect for the defending champion. Hagiwara, who successfully campaigned Normcore in the 2020 Group 1 LONGINES Hong Kong Cup[...]

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

The world's two top jockeys, the evergreen and effervescent Frankie Dettori and Hong Kong's own Zac Purton, head a stellar cast competing in the 22nd edition of the LONGINES International Jockeys' Championship at Happy Valley tonight (Wednesday 4 December). Dettori and Purton sit one-two on the current LONGINES World's Best Jockey rankings and they're joined[...]

Posted on August 26, 2019
in Hong Kong Horse Racing News, Japan Horse Racing News

Hong Kong representative Karis Teetan was unable to notch a win on the second and final day of the JRA World All-Star Jockeys series at Sapporo Racecourse, Japan yesterday (Sunday, 25 August), but a creditable second in the third leg helped him finish joint third behind eventual winner Yuga Kawada. Teetan had scored 31 points[...]

Posted on August 11, 2019
in Hong Kong Horse Racing News, United Kingdom Horse Racing News

Vincent Ho marked his first day in the saddle at one of the world's most famous racecourses with a win as his Rest of the World team captured the Shergar Cup at Ascot on Saturday (10 August). The 29-year-old Hong Kong star went close in the Shergar Cup Challenge (2300m) when the front-running Genetics was[...]

Posted on August 9, 2019
in Hong Kong Horse Racing News, United Kingdom Horse Racing News

Vincent Ho faces one of the biggest tests of his career and is relishing the challenge as he prepares to fly the Hong Kong flag in the prestigious Shergar Cup at Ascot this Saturday (10 August). The 29-year-old rider earned his invitation to one of the world's premier jockey challenges following a breakthrough season in[...]

Yuga Kawada set for his third appearance in IJC

Vincent Ho cements International Jockeys’ Championship hopes with double

Loves Only You bids farewell with dazzling Hong Kong Cup success

Yahagi asks Loves Only You for one final effort in Hong Kong Cup

Pixie Knight bids to emulate Maurice

Kawada, Hagiwara respect Golden Sixty, but upbeat about Danon Kingly

World’s top two, Dettori and Purton, clash in IJC

Kawada wins World All-Star Jockeys, Teetan ranks joint third

Ho shines as Rest of the World team triumphs in Shergar Cup

Ho riding high as Shergar Cup challenge beckons

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