Jockey Club chief executive Winfried Engelbrecht-Bresges is bracing for another challenging season in the face of Covid-19, but hopes the public will be able to attend race meetings again by the middl
The holidays (if you could call them that) are officially over and the 2020-21 Hong Kong racing season is upon us.There are 88 meetings, 820-odd races, endless possibilities with fortunes to be won an
Vincent Ho Chak-yiu believes Hong Kong Derby hero Golden Sixty has returned from his five-month hiatus bigger and better as he and Francis Lui Kin-wai plot a programme for the now five-year-old.Golden
David Hayes late father Colin was close to his heart as he made the perfect return to Hong Kong racing on Sunday, with the Australian celebrating Fathers Day with a winner with his first runner.Sporti
Richard Gibson turned Wishful Thinker from a handicapper to a genuine Group One performer but friend becomes foe at Sha Tin on Sunday when the horse he transformed becomes one of his key rivals.With t
Sundays 10-race card at Sha Tin is full of interest and intrigue heres five things to take into account when trying to find a winner.Shum on the doubleDanny Shum Chap-shing has a reputation for gettin
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Hong Kong punters have piled in to deliver record turnover for the opening day of the season.A total of HK$1.376 billion was bet on the 10-race card at Sha Tin on Sunday, delighting Jockey Club offici
It had been 15 years since David Hayes headed to the races as a Hong Kong trainer but on Sunday it felt like he had never left, so seamlessly did the champion handler slip back into proceedings at Sha
Hong Kong riders will undergo rigorous testing this season as the Jockey Club attempts to improve their long-term health for life after racing.Jockeys put themselves through huge stress during their c
Alexis Badel wasted no time affirming his decision to make a full-time move to Hong Kong, taking out the Class One HKSAR Chief Executives Cup (1,200m) with Danny Shum Chap-shings Perfect Match.The pop
No one was more surprised than Ricky Yiu Poon-fai when the veteran trainer turned in the season of his life to take out the 2019-20 championship, but hes certainly not planning on slipping back into t
Hong Kong racing has welcomed David Hayes back to Sha Tin with open arms and no one is happier about his return than jockey Keith Yeung Ming-lun.After a tough 2019-20 campaign that yielded only eight
Chad Schofield is hoping to channel the good old days when he climbs aboard his first Hong Kong runner for David Hayes at Happy Valley on Wednesday night.Schofield was a stable rider for the Australia
Wednesdays eight-race card at Happy Valley is full of interest and intrigue here are five things to take into account when trying to find a winner.The city tracks lethal combinationZac Purton and Fran
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Legendary jockey-turned-trainer Douglas Whyte has seen nearly everything there is to see in racing but he admits he experienced a first with talented galloper Enjoying recently.Withdrawn from last sea
Zac Purton has been the dominant jockey at Happy Valley for the past three years and the superstar wasted no time re-establishing his position at the head of the pack with a stunning quartet on Wednes
Caspar Fownes has big plans for his talented galloper Sky Field but admits he is prepared to see him get a couple of races wrong as part of his learning experience.Racing as a three-year-old last seas
If you just looked at the betting figures for Hong Kong racing, you wouldnt know we are living through a once-in-a-lifetime pandemic.We are now two meetings into the new season and turnover is (incred
Chad Schofield is looking to cash in on an extraordinary trend that has delivered a third of all Hong Kong winners so far this season the stable change.So far six of the 18 winners have come in their
Jerry Chau Chun-loks arrival in Hong Kong was anything but conventional but the young jockey is hoping to use what he has learned in his short time in the game to make the most of season 2020-21.Chau
A look at some of the more interesting aspects of Sunday's 10-race card at Sha Tin....
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