Smiles all round at Happy Valley after record fixture July 19, 2020 Racing may have been a different proposition in much of the world this year, with good news at a premium during the Covid-19 pandemic. But in Hong Kong, there’s plenty around – with the finale of this season’s racing at Happy Valley seeing a turnover record for a fixture at the inner city track. Read [...]
Hong Kong Racing Tips: Fighter to come Racing home in Valley finale July 14, 2020 IT HASN’T been easy for form students in Hong Kong this season with plenty of surprise results and the form-book disappearing into orbit on numerous occasions. If there has been one redeeming feature of the action at Happy Valley it has been the impressive form of jockey Zac Purton, and it’s easy to see why [...]
Hong Kong Racing Tips: Be Prepared for a big run from Sell My Sole July 14, 2020 HONG Kong’s 2019/20 season finally draws to a close with a nine-race card at Happy Valley on Wednesday. Unlike most racing jurisdictions around the globe, forced to close due to the COVID-19 pandemic, racing in Hong Kong has continued for the past six months, despite the action taking place behind closed doors. Reigning champion jockey [...]
Brando looks a Threat to all in the July Cup at whopping 25/1 July 10, 2020 AFTER non-stop rain for most of the week, sadly Saturday’s July Cup (3.35pm) will be run on what looks pretty soft ground, so the ultimate test of speed becomes more of a test of stamina. Golden Horde deserves to be favourite on the back of an impressive win in the Commonwealth Cup at Royal Ascot, and he [...]
Hong Kong Racing Tips: Purton has Golden chance aboard Total Power July 7, 2020 THREE-TIME champion jockey Zac Purton is within sight of his fourth title following another suspension for rival Joao Moreira at Sha Tin last Sunday. Brazilian-born Moreira misses two of the last three meetings of the season and with the ‘Zac-Man’ currently half-a-dozen winners in front of his rival, the championship looks done and dusted. Purton [...]
Hong Kong Racing Tips: Harvest to mow down Valley rivals July 7, 2020 THERE will be plenty of pressure on local trainers Ricky Yiu and Francis Lui when they square up against one another at Happy Valley today. Yiu, with 64 wins, is just one ahead of Lui in the race for the trainers’ championship title, and with just three meetings left, it’s anyone’s guess who will lift [...]
Enable could well be Eclipsed on her return July 4, 2020 AFTER the thrill of the Investec Derby and Oaks on Epsom Downs on Saturday, the action comes thick and fast for racing fans with more Group One action at Sandown on Sunday. John Gosden’s wonder mare Enable returns to defend her Coral Eclipse (3.35pm Sandown) crown and its great to see her back as a [...]
The Derby: Behind closed doors but Epsom still at centre stage July 3, 2020 As the sun breaks over the Derby course this Saturday, for the 241st running of the most famous race in the world, it will be a very different scene to most years. There will be no packed infield full of double decker buses, no ferris wheel on the Hill, no HM the Queen in the [...]
Ed Walker updates on leading Investec Derby contender English King July 2, 2020 Trainer Ed Walker, trainer of leading Investec Derby hope English King, has given an update on his star colt ahead of next week’s Classic at Epsom. “He (English King) has come out of Lingfield very well, it was the perfect prep. I always wanted to go to Lingfield because I think it mimics Epsom really [...]
Andrew Balding updates on leading Investec Derby contender Kameko July 2, 2020 Trainer Andrew Balding has updated fans on his Investec Derby hopeful Kameko, who aims to win the second colts’ Classic of the season having won the 2000 Guineas at Newmarket earlier this month. “We are really pleased with the way that Kameko came out of Newmarket, he is a very laid back horse. He slept [...]