Golden Sixty rated joint-top miler in 2021 LONGINES World’s Best Racehorse Rankings
Golden Sixty has advanced further to the top of racing’s global elite based on the 2021 LONGINES World’s Best Racehorse Rankings (WBRR), released by the...
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Golden Sixty named Horse of the Year at Hong Kong’s Champion Awards
Golden Sixty’s outstanding exploits during the 2020/21 season earned the multiple Group 1 victor the Hong Kong Horse of the Year award at a special...
John Size upbeat over Drops Of God, Blaze Warrior as championship hopes flicker
Conceding the 2020/21 Hong Kong trainers’ championship is clearly Caspar Fownes’ to lose, John Size is optimistic Drops Of God and Blaze Warrior can preserve...
Exultant bows out as one of Hong Kong’s all-time greats
Exultant, one of the greatest champions in the history of Hong Kong racing, will farewell fans at a retirement ceremony this Saturday (26 June) in...
Panfield soars to the top of Hong Kong’s staying ranks
A perfect ride aboard Tony Millard-trained Panfield delivered Karis Teetan Group 1 success in the Standard Chartered Champions and Chater Cup (2400m) at Sha Tin...
Vincent Ho chases a sixth Group 1 for the season
Vincent Ho will seek to triumphantly bookend the most successful Hong Kong Group 1 season of his flourishing career when partnering Glorious Dragon in the...
Glorious Dragon ready for Champions and Chater Cup test
Francis Lui has no qualms over Glorious Dragon’s ability to answer the stamina queries when he steps into the unknown for Sunday’s HK$12 million Group...
Matthew Chadwick seeks second Champions & Chater Cup with Packing Waltham
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,...
Tony Cruz upbeat as Exultant chases third Champions & Chater Cup
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...
Hong Kong Derby hero Sky Darci satisfies Moreira, Conghua for Cruz’s Exultant
Sky Darci stepped onto the turf at Sha Tin this morning (Tuesday, 4 May) for the first time since his Hong Kong Derby (2000m) triumph...
Glory Vase in peak form ahead of Group 1 QEII Cup tilt
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...
Exultant builds towards FWD QEII Cup defence, trials on the turf
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 –...
FWD Champions Day has top-class contenders in three exciting races
FWD Champions Day at Sha Tin Racecourse on Sunday, 25 April will bring together the very best of Hong Kong’s elite gallopers and a top-line...
Japan enters strong contingent for FWD Champions Day
Japan’s elite and Hong Kong’s brilliant best are among the list of 77 horses holding entries for FWD Champions Day at Sha Tin on Sunday,...
Zac Purton plots a Group 1 Hong Kong Gold Cup upset on Exultant
Declaring Golden Sixty the equal of the most outstanding milers in recent Hong Kong history, Zac Purton has warned against being too conscious of the...
Poon and Lui combine with Glorious Dragon to snare Centenary Vase Handicap
Glorious Dragon has avenged defeat in the 2020 Group 3 Centenary Vase Handicap (1800m) by denying Exultant a third win in the staying feature while...
Purton hopeful Exultant can strike a third time in the Centenary Vase
Zac Purton is hopeful Exultant can reprise a winning habit in the Group 3 Centenary Vase Handicap (1800m) at Sha Tin on Sunday (31 January)...
Caspar Fownes begins the journey towards staying features with Columbus County
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...
Exultant gears up to recapture Hong Kong Vase crown
Exultant is already proven as one of the best stayers Hong Kong has ever produced but this Sunday (13 December) at Sha Tin he has...
Magical heads world class line-up selected for HKIR
Magical is among a stellar line-up of 45 horses selected for the HK$95 million LONGINES Hong Kong International Races at Sha Tin on Sunday, 13...
Furore proves previous win no fluke in Group 2 Jockey Club Cup
A classy win by Furore today proved his second-up success over Exultant was no fluke as he did it again to lead home a one-two...
Golden Sixty primed for Group 2 Jockey Club Mile test
Golden Sixty (123lb) worked through his final gallop on Thursday (19 November) morning at Sha Tin and trainer Francis Lui today (Friday, 20 November) confirmed...
Furore snaffles the Ladies’ Purse
Furore (122lb) snaffled the Group 3 Sa Sa Ladies’ Purse Handicap (1800m) at Sha Tin yesterday afternoon (Sunday, 1 November) to lead home a one-two...
Exultant ready to roll, Chefano and Dark Dream please Hayes
Hong Kong’s star stayer Exultant will shoulder 133lb in a hot edition of Sunday’s (1 November) Group 3 Sa Sa Ladies’ Purse Handicap (1800m) at...
Hong Kong International Races attracts strong nominations
The 2020 LONGINES Hong Kong International Races has attracted a bounty of stars among 162 nominated horses, with 61 Group 1 winners from 10 countries/regions...