Hong Kong Racing Tips: Awesome Moore and Marquand take top IJC rides December 7, 2021 GET SET for the ‘Valley of the Kings’ extravaganza at Happy Valley on Wednesday, when a dozen of the best jockeys from around the world compete for the LONGINES International Jockeys’ Championship. With nearly £50,000 going to the winning rider, in what is the most lucrative jockeys series prize in horse racing, it’s no wonder [...]
Hong Kong Racing Tips: Purton and Tsui can grind out victory with Sergeant Pepper November 30, 2021 TRAINER Me Tsui and jockey Zac Purton will be hoping that lightning strikes twice when they team up with SERGEANT PEPPER in the Robin Handicap (1.15pm) over five furlongs. Purton had to get down to his minimum weight of 8st 8lbs and declare a pound overweight before winning by the narrowest of margins aboard Sparkling Dolphin for [...]
Hong Kong Racing Tips: Allstars to plunder more Treasure at the Valley November 30, 2021 PUNTERS are faced with some fiendishly difficult puzzles to solve when racing gets underway with a nine-race programme at Happy Valley today. When the local racing enthusiasts have faced similar scenarios in the past, they nearly always pin their hopes on Joao Moreira, and bet him blindly, expecting the champion can at least get a [...]
Hong Kong Racing Tips: Golden partnership of Ho and Lui to follow up Sixty’s success November 23, 2021 BOTH trainer Francis Lui and jockey Vincent Ho must have breathed a huge sigh of relief following the success of their very own ‘Pegasus’, Golden Sixty, in the Group 2 Jockey Club Mile at Sha Tin on Sunday. Expectations were huge in the territory about Hong Kong’s champion delivering his 15th straight victory and the population [...]
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 [...]
