Chilled Shum ready for Chibi to hand him Valley crown July 9, 2024 WHILE all eyes may be on the main protagonists Pierre Ng and Francis Lui in the trainers’ championship race, there is an equally exciting battle going on to be proclaimed King of the Valley. Trainer Caspar Fownes, for so many years the dominant force at the track, lost his mantle last season, and has been [...]
Purton and Hayes to bring Resilience to Sha Tin July 5, 2024 RACING in Hong Kong is coming thick and fast in the closing weeks of the season, with Sha Tin hosting racing for the second time this week, and its 10-race programme on Saturday features a number of exciting prospects who will be looking to end their current campaign on a high, before resting for their [...]
Blink looks a good Ting to Thunder past his rivals July 5, 2024 ALL EYES will be on potentially smart THUNDER BLINK, who puts his unbeaten record on the line, when going for a hat-trick in the Stevenson Cup Handicap (12.05pm) over seven furlongs. The Jimmy Ting trained three-year-old needed every inch of the six-furlong distance when getting up on the line in May, and that was after [...]
Ng not ready to Wave goodbye to trainers’ title July 3, 2024 WITH racing winding down for the season in Hong Kong, Happy Valley hosts another typically competitive nine-race programme, including a handful of hotly contested Class Four handicaps, and featuring a Class Two dash (12.10pm) over five furlongs. Hong Kong racing enthusiasts should be mindful that as the season draws to a close there are likely [...]
Manfred Man shooting for the stars again with Astrologer July 3, 2024 WITH racing at Happy Valley taking place on the ‘A’ track, bettors should heed the woeful record of gallopers with double-figure draw numbers, especially in six-furlong races. Statistics show that horses drawn wide have had very little success over the past three seasons, which is probably understandable with only a short straight of just over [...]
Holloway set for a Regal reward on Eclipse Day July 2, 2024 ALL EYES are sure to be on Aidan O’Brien’s Derby winner City Of Troy on Saturday as he takes on his elders for the first time in the Eclipse (3.35pm). The star colt’s Epsom form received a real rubberstamp last weekend as Ambiente Friendly and Los Angeles, who finished second and third behind him in [...]
Don’t go cold on Chillingham in Haydock’s Old Newton Cup July 2, 2024 WHILE the south basks in sultry conditions this week, Haydock looks set to face regular showers all the way up to Saturday’s Old Newton Cup Day. Therefore, as is often the case at the Lancashire track, we best expect ‘soft’ to be in the going description come race-day. In the feature Old Newton Cup (3.15pm), [...]
Purton’s Boy and Gangnam can find the winning style June 28, 2024 RACEGOERS will gather in their tens of thousands at Sha Tin racecourse on Hong Kong Reunification Day this Monday, each hoping for a slice of luck. Worth a whopping £285,000 for a Class Two Handicap, the Hong Kong Reunification Cup (11.35am) is rightly one of the most hotly contested heats on the bumper 11-race card. [...]
Lui to prove Second To None with another Win June 28, 2024 THINGS couldn’t be any tighter at the top of the Hong Kong Trainers’ Championship, with both Francis Lui and his former assistant Pierre Ng on 65 winners for the season. It was Lui who came out on top at Happy Valley in midweek, recording a double to level things up, and he looks to send [...]
Duke Of Oxford can reign for the day at Newcastle June 25, 2024 NEWCASTLE hosts its biggest Flat meeting of the year this weekend featuring the Northumberland Plate (3.10pm), also known as the ‘Pitmen’s Derby’ as it formed the traditional centrepiece of the holiday season for local mine workers. An all-weather surface replaced the turf Flat course at Gosforth Park in 2016 but that has done little to [...]