Blizzard of winners heading team Size and Purton’s way March 12, 2024 RACING at Happy Valley in Hong Kong today hosts its regular mid-week slot with a highly competitive nine-race programme, featuring a number of high-flying speedsters who excel around the sharp-turning track. Form book students are finding it tough going at the Valley at present. Once upon a time, selecting horses drawn low, and likely to [...]
Whyte’s Knight could be riding towards a Majestic victory March 12, 2024 LOCAL racing enthusiasts have a treat in store, with some of the fastest speedsters in the territory lining-up in the Soko Islands Handicap (2.50pm) over six furlongs. The 11 contenders have accumulated 40 wins between them in their careers, with 23 of those coming at the iconic sharp-turning city track. The likes of Tomodachi Kokoroe [...]
It could be Sweynesse’s Lucky day March 8, 2024 IT IS a day of reckoning for top-rated sprinter LUCKY SWEYNESSE, who lines-up in the feature race on the ten-race programme, the seven-furlong Group One Queen’s Silver Jubilee Cup (8.05am), at Sha Tin in Hong Kong on Sunday. For a galloper whose record reads 15 wins from 22 races, it seems strange that some pundits [...]
Bowman has Ambition for a Patch of winners March 8, 2024 LEGENDARY jockey Hugh Bowman has given his many thousands of supporters plenty to cheer about in Hong Kong in the past week. The 43-year-old has been at his indomitable best, riding a handful of winners and taking his total up to 40 for the current campaign – and that’s despite missing a large chunk of [...]
Fownes’ Atomic and Angel could be a Force to be reckoned with March 5, 2024 THE WHEELS appear to have temporarily come off the winning-machine stable of trainer Pierre Ng, who – despite still leading the trainers’ championship table by a dozen winners – has been floundering in recent times, and is still waiting for that elusive winner to give him his half-century for the season.While Ng is having his [...]
Hayes’ Boy could be his Strongest chance of the day March 5, 2024 RACING at Happy Valley in Hong Kong today once again serves up a nine-race programme of fiendishly difficult handicaps to solve, starting at 10.40am. Furthermore, there has been an anomaly at the city-track over the past month or so, with standard race-times well above average – despite very little rain – and a track bias [...]
Dragon can bring the Speed in Classic Cup March 1, 2024 SHA TIN in Hong Kong hosts a 10-race programme on Sunday, featuring the £1.3m Hong Kong Classic Cup (8.05am), run over nine furlongs. This is the middle leg of the prestigious four-year-old Classic Series in the territory, following the Classic Mile run last month, which concludes with the ultimate prize, the BMW HK Derby in [...]
Superb day in store for Bowman with Less Is More March 1, 2024 JOCKEY Hugh Bowman may not have tasted success in the past week since returning to action following a six-meeting ban, but it would be a major disappointment if he doesn’t get on the score sheet from his 10-booked rides on Sunday. Star ride Helios Express will be many pundit’s banker on the programme, while the [...]
Powerful Atzeni to be Joyful again at Happy Valley February 27, 2024 BANK on jockey Andrea Atzeni to continue his run of good fortune, when picking up seven rides on the nine-race programme at Happy Valley today. The 32-year-old Italian born-pilot has quickly made a name for himself since moving from the UK to his new home this season, and importantly has won the support of the [...]
Purton eyeing a Ruby red letter day with Beauty Infinity February 27, 2024 REIGNING champion jockey Zac Purton would have returned home after racing on Sunday evening sick of the sight of Australian champion James McDonald. Purton may have ridden a winning double at Sha Tin, but he was beaten narrowly by his arch nemesis on two occasions where it really mattered, firstly by Romantic Warrior in the [...]
