Fownes can crack Sha Tin Code with The Heir September 19, 2025 IT MAY be early days in the new Hong Kong season, but Caspar Fownes looks to have already set out his stall for a tilt at the trainers’ championship. Fownes has won the championship on four occasions, the last in 2020/21, and has been fast out of the blocks this campaign with six winners in [...]
Don’t Desert Purton as Star set to shine again September 19, 2025 EIGHT-time champion jockey Zac Purton leaving Happy Valley without a winner in mid-week is a real rarity these days. It certainly can’t be considered desired collector’s item, however, with Purton’s army of fans sure to have left the Hong Kong city track low in spirit and light of pocket after their man failed to find [...]
Don’t take Lor’s Keefy lightly at the Valley September 16, 2025 WITH the weather set fair in Hong Kong, racegoers can look forward to an exciting eight-race card at Happy Valley on Wednesday, with the Class Two Shek O Handicap (3.50pm) over the extended mile the feature race on the programme. It was mostly all doom and gloom for the Zac Purton fan club at Sha [...]
King Lotus ready to keep Newnham in the winning groove September 16, 2025 TRAINER Mark Newnham must have breathed a huge sigh of relief when Max Que finally got the stable off the mark for the 2025/26 season. It may be early days in the current campaign, but Newnham had failed to strike with his first fourteen runners, with seven of them starting at single figure odds. After [...]
Size’s charge Must Go and get back in winners’ enclosure September 12, 2025 SHA TIN in Hong Kong hosts a 10-race programme on Sunday, including a couple of contests on the all-weather surface. The Class Three Oi Tung Handicap (10.10am) over six furlongs on dirt is the most intriguing race on the card, with a number of all-weather specialists lining-up, and very little between them, judged on the [...]
Lucky and Joy could be Jubilant Winners at Sha Tin September 12, 2025 ZAC PURTON’s fan club will be out in force again at Sha Tin on Sunday, after their hero filled their pockets with plenty of dollars when bagging five winners a week ago. The Zac-Man is on a quest of his own this season, seeking to bring up another milestone in the city, by partnering a [...]
Richards’ Dragon can Storm home at the Valley September 9, 2025 RACING at Happy Valley returns today with an eight-race programme that features the Wan Chai Handicap (3.50pm) over six furlongs. With no racing at the iconic Hong Kong Island venue for the past eight weeks due to the summer break, it is guaranteed the racecourse will be jam-packed with fans flocking through the turnstiles. Despite [...]
Mighty Ho has right Steed to continue his winning return September 9, 2025 IT WAS great to see jockey Vincent Ho back in the limelight at Sha Tin on Sunday, when partnering The Heir to victory for his old boss Caspar Fownes. It has been well documented that 35-year-old Ho was seriously injured when his horse fell in a race back in February, suffering head, shoulder and neck [...]
General can shine brightest on seasonal return September 5, 2025 HONG Kong racing is back as the 2025/26 season gets underway at Sha Tin on Sunday with a 10-race programme, featuring the eagerly awaited HKSAR Chief Executive’s Cup (7.00am), a handicap over six furlongs. All eyes will be on one horse, the world’s highest-rated sprinter Ka Ying Rising, as he steps out on to the [...]
Bull and Ibis to give Newnham fast start at Sha Tin September 5, 2025 IT WILL be worth keeping a close watch of the weather in Hong Kong over the next couple of weeks. Racegoers and horses will turn up at Sha Tin on Sunday in sweltering heat, with the temperature in the mid-30s, and humidity sky-high. If that wasn’t enough, this is the ‘typhoon’ season in the territory, [...]
