Hong Kong Racing Tips: Winning tastes like Garlic at Happy Valley January 21, 2020 WITH the official Chinese New Year celebrations getting underway in Hong Kong, racing fans will be looking to make a fistful of dollars to pay for the weekend festivities at Happy Valley today. The nine-race card is full of head scratching puzzles, with luck sure to play an important part yet again. The best advice [...]
Hong Kong Racing Tips: Trainer Ferraris can continue fine form with Bear Again January 14, 2020 A MAJOR feature of this season’s racing in Hong Kong has been the upturn in fortunes of trainer David Ferraris. Former four-time South African champion handler Ferraris has found it tough going in the territory over recent years, but has bounced back into the limelight this season. He has trained a dozen winners so far [...]
Hong Kong Racing Tips: Victory looks In Hand for Highly Proactive backers January 14, 2020 GIVEN we are four months into the season, the trainers’ championship leaderboard in Hong Kong makes for surprising reading. The top three are all local handlers, while the likes of past and present champions John Moore and John Size are well off the pace. Of course, the wheels of fortune can soon change in the [...]
Hong Kong Racing Tips: Nothing will get Bai Purton in Great George Handicap January 7, 2020 FORM students will be scratching their heads at the Great George Handicap (1.45pm) over nine furlongs. All of the 12 contestants have a chance on their best form and unfortunately luck is going to play an important part in determining the result. Five of these contenders renew old rivalries following their course and distance form [...]
Hong Kong Racing Tips: What A Legend can be the Star for Valley punters January 7, 2020 WITH Christmas festivities and new year celebrations out of the way, it’s back to the serious business of finding winners at Happy Valley in Hong Kong today. Having had to endure a two-week break from any action at the inner-city track over the holiday period, you can guarantee racegoers with be flocking through the turnstiles [...]
Hong Kong Racing Tips: Moore’s lightweight Warrior can fly to Venus victory December 18, 2019 IT HASN’T been easy for seven-time champion trainer John Moore recently. The legendary handler, in his last season before retiring, has found lady luck hard to come by in the past few weeks. Winners have been in short supply, especially at the Hong Kong International Races meeting at Sha Tin 10 days ago where Moore [...]
Hong Kong Racing Tips: Big Party on the cards for Happy Alumni backers December 18, 2019 CHRISTMAS comes early in Hong Kong today with several festivities taking place at Happy Valley. With Father Christmas parading around the track dishing out a sack full of presents, traditional food and drink on offer and seasonal songs blasting from the famous beer garden, what more could racegoers want? In terms of what most racing [...]
Hong Kong Betting Tips: No Racing Luck needed with Ho’s mount in Valley handicap December 10, 2019 HAPPY Valley’s extended mile track tests both the adaptability of the horse and the skill of the jockey. Starting just past the grandstand in front of the noisy beer garden, both horse and rider have to negotiate four bends, with the home straight only just over one-and-a-half furlongs long. The draw is obviously vitally important, [...]
Hong Kong Betting Tips: Purton can make a Speedy return to winning form December 10, 2019 ‘MAGIC Man’ Joao Moreira is back in the big time having ridden a five-timer at the LONGINES Hong Kong International Races at Sha Tin on Sunday. When Moreira is in this kind of form he is unstoppable. Last weekend’s victories in two international Group Ones aboard Glory Vase and Beat The Clock may not have [...]
Hong Kong Betting Tips: O’Brien can wave Magic Wand to land illustrious Hong Kong win December 5, 2019 FOR MANY thousands of Beauty Generation fans, the moment of truth will arrive when the reigning champion lines up in the Group One Hong Kong Mile (7.30am). The world’s top-rated miler had his air of invincibility blown sky high with a couple of below-par efforts this season, and the jury is out as to whether [...]
