Ariel Must Go close on Sha Tin’s dirt under Wong October 29, 2025 RACING in Hong Kong moves from its regular Wednesday Happy Valley slot to Sha Tin today, with an eight-race card on the all-weather surface starting at 11.15am. Regular bettors in the city are always wary when attempting to find winners on the dirt surface as there are so many imponderables to contend with. Will the [...]
Agility has Supreme chance to gain first Hong Kong win October 29, 2025 A WINNING double at Sha Tin on Sunday was just the tonic needed for the Pierre Ng stable, who had been languishing near the bottom of the trainers’ championship table with just a solitary winner from the first two months of the season. That must have felt like a poor return for a trainer who [...]
Lui’s Hermod and Divano can Pack a punch in Premier Bowl October 24, 2025 WITH the winter weather settling in and the clocks going back an hour at 2.00am on Sunday morning, Hong Kong racing fans will need to set their alarm clocks early if they want to catch the start of Sha Tin’s 10-race programme, starting at 4.45am. The card features the Group Two Premier Bowl (8.45am), a [...]
Dazzling is Fit and ready to re-enter winners’ circle for Eustace October 24, 2025 SUNDAY’s Panasonic Vitalift Handicap (8.15am) over 10 furlongs may look an open looking contest on paper but it is guaranteed to have a short-priced favourite in the line-up, with Gentleman’s Legacy and Purton seeking to gain compensation for a recent costly seasonal appearance defeat. A healthy revised weights advantage with the winner of that race [...]
Lotus ready to keep run going for red-hot Newnham October 21, 2025 THERE is no stopping trainer Mark Newnham’s stable at present. The former assistant to legendary Australian trainers Bart Cummings and Gai Waterhouse made the headlines again over the weekend, when stable star My Wish was a resounding winner of the Group Two Sha Tin Trophy. A look at past records this season show Newnham and [...]
King Purton to see Star rise up over Happy Valley October 21, 2025 REGULAR form students of Hong Kong racing are advised to keep an eye on the weather before the action starts with a nine-race programme at Happy Valley on Wednesday. There has been plenty of rain in the city over the past few days, and although the forecast is to be dry come race time, it [...]
Victory the only Wish for connections of rising star miler October 17, 2025 RACING fans will be in their element when they stream through the gates for a 10-race programme at Sha Tin in Hong Kong on Sunday. This could be the day of destiny for a number of gallopers on show, and none more so than champion miler Voyage Bubble, who steps out on to the turf [...]
Infinite Resolve can Max out his potential for Newnham October 17, 2025 CURRENT trainers’ championship leader Mark Newnham was back in the winners’ circle at Happy Valley in midweek, when Excellence Value obliged for the stable and kept up his impressive winning tally for the month. Since the beginning of October, the stable has already sent out half-a-dozen winners and nine places and are in the form [...]
Joy ready to Thrive again with Wong in the saddle October 14, 2025 HAPPY Valley in Hong Kong hosts an attractive nine-race card on Wednesday, with a couple of strong nine-furlong handicaps and a competitive sprint handicap over six furlongs at 3.15pm. Trainers Mark Newnham, David Hayes and Caspar Fownes continue to dominate in the early stages of the trainers’ championship race – the three of them were [...]
Glorious chance for Crawford to strike with Forever October 14, 2025 REGULAR racing pundits will have been quick to mark down Sunday’s Serenade as a next start winner in waiting after the Jamie Richards-trained gelding never saw daylight down the home straight over seven furlongs at Sha Tin a fortnight ago. The five-year-old seeks redemption in division two of the Hung Luen Handicap (1.40pm) over the [...]
