Hong Kong Racing Tips: Chadwick to keep Passion’s flame burning November 23, 2021 MANY of Joao Moreira’s followers will be whetting their lips in anticipation when the reigning Champion Jockey arrives for an eight-race card at Happy Valley on Wednesday. The ‘Magic Man’, currently trailing his arch-rival Zac Purton by nine winners in the jockeys’ championship, will be hoping to have made a sizable dent in that total [...]
Hong Kong Racing Tips: Cruz all set to have another day in the Sunshine November 16, 2021 TONY Cruz is the trainer to follow when racing gets underway with a nine-race programme at Happy Valley on Wednesday. Two-time Hong Kong Champion Trainer Cruz has his stable firing on all cylinders at present. He has saddled nine winners at the last 10 race meetings and picked up a winning double at Sha Tin [...]
Hong Kong Racing Tips: In-form Manfred Man unlikely to stop the winning feeling November 16, 2021 CHAMPION jockey Zac Purton gets his first ride of the season for the Douglas Whyte stable when taking over from Jerry Chau aboard Harmony Fire in the Kokura Handicap (1.15pm) over five furlongs. It seems strange that Chau has been substituted having won twice previously on the progressive four-year-old, but maybe the narrow nose defeat [...]
Hong Kong Racing Tips: In-form Badel can ensure Popcorn picks up the pieces November 9, 2021 LIFE hasn’t been easy in the racing world for trainer David Hayes and jockey Zac Purton in the past couple of weeks. Hayes, presently enduring a losing sequence of 29 runners, has suddenly found himself knocked off the top of the trainers’ leaderboard, while the ‘Zac-Man’ has found winners hard to come by with a series of short-priced [...]
Hong Kong Racing Tips: Stay Loyal to Valley punters’ God Moreira November 9, 2021 ALL-CONQUERING partnership of trainer Frankie Lor and jockey Joao Moreira are the combination to follow when Happy Valley hosts an exciting nine-race programme starting at 10.45am on Wednesday. Lor can’t stop saddling winners at present. Seven wins in the past fortnight, including another winning double at Sha Tin on Sunday, has seen the former assistant to [...]
Hong Kong Racing Tips: Frankie and Vincent can combine for Victory once again October 26, 2021 WHEN the in-form partnership of trainer Frankie Lor and Vincent Ho team up, it’s always worth noting. Lor’s stable have hit top-form in recent weeks, with the former assistant to John Size shooting up the trainers’ leaderboard with 11 winners to sit just behind leaders David Hayes and Jimmy Ting. Top local rider Vincent Ho is another who has [...]
Hong Kong Racing Tips: Purton to start Super Fast on Sha Tin’s dirt October 26, 2021 FRANCIS Lui’s SUPER FAST rates the best bet of the afternoon, when racing resumes with an eight-race programme on the dirt surface at Sha Tin. The local betting fraternity have always looked upon racing on the dirt surface with a certain degree of suspicion. There are so many variables to consider when looking for winners, notably, whether the track suit front-running tactics [...]
Hong Kong Racing Tips: Parterre can keep up Millard’s rich vein of form in finale October 19, 2021 IT HAS been good to see former South African champion trainer Tony Millard regularly visiting the winners’ circle in the past month, with the likes of Sunday’s Group Two Sha Tin Trophy winner Panfield, Silver Fig, Resolute and CP Brave all contributing to the stables upturn in fortune. Yoo Yoo King would have been another [...]
Hong Kong Racing Tips: In-form Purton can Storm to more success October 19, 2021 WITH sunny intervals forecast in Hong Kong today, it’s back to normal for racegoers visiting Happy Valley, following last week’s cancellation due to Typhoon Kompasu flooding the territory. Leading jockey Zac Purton is guaranteed to arrive at the city track with a smile on his face following last Sunday’s four-timer at Sha Tin, which further extended [...]
Hong Kong Racing Tips: Chau to prove previous victories were not a Fluke October 12, 2021 IT DIDN’T take Jerry Chau very long to steer home his first winner as a freelance jockey, when guiding Harmony Win Win to victory at Sha Tin on Sunday. The 21-year-old Chau, who graduated into the senior riding ranks, after landing his 70th winner in Hong Kong, on the previously frustrating Transcendent at Happy Valley [...]
