Loves Only You bids farewell with dazzling Hong Kong Cup success
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...
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Yahagi asks Loves Only You for one final effort in Hong Kong Cup
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...
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...
Vincent Ho engineers Japanese clean sweep of QEII Cup in remarkable Sha Tin coup
Yoshito Yahagi savoured redemption and Vincent Ho was jubilant on the best day of his burgeoning career after the veteran Japanese trainer and the young...
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...
Haruki Sugiyama confident Daring Tact is poised to rebound in QEII Cup
Unfazed by the memories of successive defeats, trainer Haruki Sugiyama is adamant Daring Tact can reproduce the stunning form which elevated the mercurial Japanese filly...
Loves Only You pleases Vincent Ho ahead of FWD QEII Cup tilt
Vincent Ho had his first feel of 2019 Group 1 Japanese Oaks (2400m) winner Loves Only You this morning (Monday, 19 April) as he partnered...
Lane finishes second in Group 1 Japanese Derby
Contrail has added the Japanese Derby to his unbeaten record with Australian jockey Damian Lane finishing second in the Grade One race on Salios.
Japanese horse Mozu Ascot to run in Sydney
Japanese horse Mozu Ascot has raced his way to a start in the Doncaster Mile for Cox Plate-winning trainer Yoshito Yahagi.
Lys Gracieux named Japanese champion horse
Cox Plate winner Lys Gracieux has been honoured with Japan's highest award, Horse of the Year, in an almost unanimous vote.
Another Group 1 for Cox Plate winning trainer
Cox Plate-winning trainer Yoshito Yahagi has saddled Contrail to win the Hopeful Stakes, the final Grade One race of the Japanese season.
Lane wins Arima Kinen on Lys Gracieux
Australian jockey Damian Lane has reunited with Cox Plate winner to claim the Grade One Arima Kinen in Japan.
Lys Gracieux’s trainer hopes to return
Cox Plate-winning Japanese trainer Yoshito Yahagi has had a runner at the past two Melbourne spring carnivals and hopes to return with more.
Japanese mare Lys Gracieux stars in Plate
The Yoshito Yahagi-trained Japanese mare Lys Gracieux has shown her class to win the Cox Plate, adding to Australian jockey Damian Lane's list of feature...
Cox Plate win special for Yoshito Yahagi
The Cox Plate has long been a race Japanese trainer Yoshito Yahagi wanted to win.
Lane senses weight of expectation in Plate
Star jockey Damian Lane is confident Japanese mare Lys Gracieux is the right horse for the Cox Plate but is trying to keep a lid...
Damian Lane wins second Japan Group One
Australian jockey Damian Lane has claimed a second Group One win during his highly successful two-month stint in Japan.
Japan: Lys Gracieux wins group 1 Queen Elizabeth II Cup
Third favourite Lys Gracieux, under jockey Joao Moreira, landed her first G1 triumph in this year’s Queen Elizabeth II Cup. The four-year-old has notched two...
Japanese stayers ready for Cup challenge
Chestnut Coat and Sole Impact will fly the flag for Japan when they line up in the $5 million Caulfield Cup.