Vincent Ho shares World’s Best Jockey ranking leadership
Vincent Ho has soared to joint leadership of the 2021 LONGINES World’s Best Jockey rankings after a career-best pair of Group 1 triumphs at the...
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FWD Champions Day again showcases the best of Hong Kong
A landmark FWD Champions Day, crowned by Vincent Ho’s Group 1 double, record turnover and the emergence of a potential future champion are evidence of...
Golden Sixty extends unbeaten run to 14 with Champions Mile triumph
Stretched to the limit, Golden Sixty bravely extended his unbeaten run to 14 at Sha Tin yesterday afternoon (Sunday, 25 April) with a slender victory...
Golden Sixty primed to excel
Armed with an impressive arsenal of Group 1 mounts at Sha Tin on Sunday (25 April), Vincent Ho is chasing perfection aboard Golden Sixty as...
Legendary Japanese trainer puts Danon Smash on a par with champion Lord Kanaloa
Takayuki Yasuda has sounded an ominous warning ahead of Sunday’s (25 April) HK$18 million Group 1 Chairman’s Sprint Prize (1200m) by declaring Danon Smash the...
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...
Classique Legend dazzles in trial as Lui mulls Champions Mile for Golden Sixty
Classique Legend has taken another significant step towards a competitive return with a blistering 1000m trial victory at Sha Tin on Tuesday morning (23 March)...
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,...
Golden Sixty extends unbeaten run to 13 with Hong Kong Gold Cup triumph
Golden Sixty extended his unbeaten run to 13 straight wins with victory in yesterday’s (Sunday, 21 February) Group 1 Citi Hong Kong Gold Cup (2000m)...
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...
Golden Sixty chases third Group 1 and 13th consecutive victory
Bracing for a return to 2000m for the first time since the 2020 BMW Hong Kong Derby in the Group 1 Citi Hong Kong Gold...
Golden Sixty on course for second leg of Triple Crown
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...
Golden Sixty into top 10 as Hong Kong figures prominently in World’s Best rankings
Golden Sixty is within touching distance of status as the world’s premier miler based on the 2020 LONGINES World’s Best Racehorse Rankings (WBRR), released by...
Golden Sixty extends winning streak to 12
Not even a slipped saddle and muddling tempo were enough to halt Golden Sixty’s burgeoning winning streak as the Hong Kong superstar posted a dramatic...
Punt Drunk : Golden Sixty A Class Above The Rest At Sha Tin
Punt Drunk News – 25/1/21 How bloody good is a Monday when it is in the middle of a long weekend? We’ll tell ya, really...
Birthday boy Francis Lui looks forward to a weekend of extended celebrations
Francis Lui is hoping for a belated birthday celebration on Sunday (24 January) after watching Hong Kong star Golden Sixty breeze through his final piece...
Lui lays down a Happy Valley treble ahead of Golden Sixty’s return
Four days out from the much-anticipated return of Golden Sixty’s attempt to post a 12th consecutive triumph, the champion galloper’s trainer Francis Lui continued an...
Rise High poised to return in Group 1 battle at Sha Tin
Bracing for a tilt at leading miler Golden Sixty, Caspar Fownes has complete faith in Rise High as the injury-ravaged galloper resumes in the Group...
Golden Sixty tunes up ahead of Group 1 Stewards’ Cup tilt
After his devastating win in last month’s Group 1 LONGINES Hong Kong Mile, hometown hero Golden Sixty pleased his connections at Sha Tin yesterday morning...
Lui has Lucky Patch on Classic Mile trail
After clean-sweeping last season’s Four-Year-Old Classic Series with the brilliant Golden Sixty, trainer Francis Lui is looking to Lucky Patch (117lb) this time around and...
Caspar Fownes heads to Sha Tin New Year’s Day with conservative hopes
The Group 3 Chinese Club Challenge Cup Handicap (1400m) – the second of two New Year’s Day features – sits as a symbolic 2020 launching...
Hong Kong Jockey Club overcomes pandemic challenge to stage unique HKIR
The Hong Kong Jockey Club’s Chief Executive Officer Winfried Engelbrecht-Bresges saluted Hong Kong’s “unique spirit and resilience” after a successful staging of the LONGINES Hong...
Golden Sixty takes the baton with sparkling Hong Kong Mile success
They came, they saw, they tried to blunt his dash, but they failed to conquer Golden Sixty: Hong Kong’s burgeoning hometown hero dismantled his international...
Golden Sixty on target to add to imposing record in the Hong Kong Mile
Wary and respectful of world-class opposition, Francis Lui carries a characteristically understated sense of confidence into the Group 1 LONGINES Hong Kong Mile with Golden...
Romanised readies for Golden Sixty task ahead of possible career finale
There has been something mesmerising about the sight of Vincent Ho sitting and waiting to pull the trigger aboard Golden Sixty during his inexorable rise...