Pejibaye can Star and be Richards’ end-of-season Hero July 11, 2025 YOU CAN guarantee trainer Jamie Richards will be pleased to see the back of the 2024/25 Hong Kong season. The legendary former New Zealand champion trainer has had a campaign to forget, languishing near the bottom of the trainers’ championship table with just 21 victories, and presently with a depleted stable of gallopers. Maybe a [...]
Magic Wong can add to his local Legend with more wins July 8, 2025 SERIOUS bettors will have one eye on the weather in Hong Kong, before a highly competitive nine-race programme gets underway at Happy Valley at 11.40am today. The forecast of heavy showers and possible thunderstorms during the action could scupper the chances of many in-form gallopers who have shown their best form on a fast surface [...]
Class-dropper Denfield capable of defying top-weight July 8, 2025 FORM students are guaranteed to have been burning the midnight oil to find the likely winners of some fiendishly difficult concluding races on the Happy Valley card. The Begonia Handicap (3.15pm), run over nine furlongs, includes a host of handicappers who can win on their best form, while a few lightly raced contenders could prove [...]
Wong can crack the Code to Dance to another victory July 4, 2025 HONG Kong racing is back at Sha Tin on Saturday for an 11-race card, featuring the £284,000 Class Two Philip Chen Trophy (1.40pm) over six furlongs. With 11 contenders lining-up in the main event having won 48 races between them, expect a blistering early pace, and especially with the likes of Lady’s Choice, Harmony N [...]
Perfect chance for Patch to Star again under Purton July 4, 2025 THERE will likely be long queues at Sha Tin’s on-track betting counters to support perceived good thing of the day PATCH OF STARS, when he seeks to complete a four-timer in the Chairmen’s Day Handicap (2.15pm) over seven furlongs. The old racing adage of a Group performer running in a handicap springs to mind when [...]
Eustace’s Charm can make Light of weights rise to land hat-trick June 30, 2025 WE MAY presently be basking in unrelenting sunshine in the UK, but it’s likely that bettors will be getting out their umbrellas when Sha Tin celebrates Hong Kong Reunification Day with a 10-race programme starting at 9.00am today. The forecast of heavy showers and possible thunderstorms could put a dampener on many stables’ hopes of [...]
Ferraris set to end losing streak aboard Infinite Resolve June 30, 2025 LUKE Ferraris has had a season to remember in Hong Kong. The 23-year-old – the youngest jockey riding in the city – has ridden 44 winners and currently sits fourth in the jockeys’ championship race, having exceeded all expectations this campaign. His partnership with trainer Mark Newnham has been the highlight of his season, riding [...]
Boy Wunder Wong can raise the Bar on Family Jewel June 27, 2025 SHA TIN in Hong Kong hosts another all-action 11-race programme on Saturday, including a couple of races on the all-weather surface, and featuring the Class One Pearce Memorial Challenge Cup (12.35pm), a handicap over five furlongs. It is good to see young five-pound claimer Ellis Wong back in action again, after serving a two-meeting suspension [...]
Purton one step closer to being Crowned champion again June 27, 2025 WITH the final curtain coming down for the season in Hong Kong in just over three weeks, it is understandable that local racing fans and bettors will be out in force at Sha Tin to support their money-making machine, jockey Zac Purton, as he hones in on his eighth title. Critics will say, the Zac-Man [...]
My Way could be set to make Chau’s Day at the Valley June 24, 2025 IT WAS good to see young jockey Jerry Chau with a smile on his face after partnering Fun Together to victory at Sha Tin last Sunday. It has not been easy for the 25-year-old this season with just 21 winners on the board – he collected 33 victories last term – and it seems many [...]
