Hong Kong Racing Tips: Trailblazing Aethero has the answers in Chairman’s Sprint April 23, 2020 THERE look to be more questions than answers when determining the winner of the £1.8m Chairman’s Sprint Prize (7:50am). Will potential superstar AETHERO, found sick after finishing a close-up third in the Group One HK Sprint in December, put a disappointing eighth on his return earlier this month behind him and bounce back to form? Can [...]
BeIN Sports urges Premier League to block Saudi bid for Newcastle April 22, 2020 Broadcasting giant BeIN Media has urged the Premier League to block a proposed £300m Saudi takeover of Newcastle United amid concerns about “industrial scale” piracy. Newcastle owner Mike Ashley is said to be on the brink of accepting a takeover offer from a consortium backed by Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund. However, the chief executive [...]
Hong Kong Racing Tips: Sweetie to give Ho and Shinn a Precious Valley winner April 21, 2020 IT IS hoped the gods of fortune may finally smile on trainer Peter Ho and jockey Blake Shinn when they team up at Happy Valley. They combine with PRECIOUS SWEETIE in the Jonquil Handicap – (Div I 12.15pm) and they’ll be hoping for an upturn in fortunes after a baron patch. Ho is currently bottom of the trainers’ table with [...]
Hong Kong Racing Tips: Good Guys can get back to Winning Ways April 21, 2020 IN-FORM trainer Ricky Yiu can continue his purple patch at Happy Valley on Wednesday. Yiu is on cloud nine at present. A treble at Sha Tin last Sunday pushed him past the half century of winners for the season and extended his lead in the Trainers’ Championship . The 62-year-old sends half-a-dozen raiders to the Valley and will be [...]
Coronavirus cancellations set to cost global sports industry $62bn April 20, 2020 The global sports industry is set to miss out on almost $62bn (£50bn) of revenue this year as almost half of all sports events are scrapped due to the coronavirus outbreak. The sector is forecast to generate $73.7bn of revenue in 2020 — roughly 45 per cent lower than the $135bn projected before the pandemic, [...]
Schofield can continue bright spell on Cruz’s Sunshine April 14, 2020 WHILE jockeys Zac Purton and Joao Moreira continue to hog the limelight in Hong Kong, facts and figures show that South African Chad Schofield has become the most improved jockey in the territory. Schofield, son of top Australian and Sydney-based jockey Glyn, was given a long suspension earlier in the season and his campaign didn’t properly [...]
Glory awaits Purton and his Master April 14, 2020 REIGNING champion Zac Purton looks to have the necessary fire power to eat into the four-win deficit at the top of the jockeys’ title race at Happy Valley on Wednesday. The Australian pilot would not have been in the best of spirits after racing at Sha Tin on Sunday. Not only did rival Joao Moreira become the first [...]
Coronavirus: Tottenham Hotspur Stadium to host NHS maternity services April 14, 2020 Tottenham Hotspur Football Club has offered its stadium as a place to host maternity and antenatal services to allow hospitals to focus on coronavirus. Pregnancy scans, antenatal clinics, a maternal day unit and a range of other services will be available inside the stadium from today. The move allows North Middlesex University Hospital to improve [...]
Coronavirus: Derby and Guineas Festival fall foul of virus April 7, 2020 The first four Classics of the horse racing season, including the Epsom Derby, will be postponed due to the Covid-19 pandemic. The Jockey Club, which operates the QIPCO Guineas Festival and the Investec Epsom Derby festival, confirmed the news late on Tuesday afternoon but said they were looking for alternative dates later in the season. [...]
Hong Kong Racing Tips: Smoothies has Grand chance at the Valley April 7, 2020 TRAINER Danny Shum is the man to follow at Happy Valley today. After a week’s rest to freshen up the grass, the turf surface at the Valley should be in pristine condition, but a word of warning – the recent rain in the territory is threatening to turn the ground on the soft side. This [...]