The Hong Kong Jockey Club has confirmed the retirement of trainer Tony Millard. The club’s licensing committee approved Millard’s application to relinquish his trainer’s licence, as the 61-year-old brings down the curtain on a training career that had entered its fourth decade and yielded more
A jump-out at Casterton will determine whether Flying Mascot (NZ) (Tavistock) will have the addition of blinkers when she has her next race start at Flemington. Trainer Tom Dabernig was disheartened with Flying Mascot's first-up performance in the Gr.3 Sir John Monash Stakes (1100m) at
The Trent Busuttin and Natalie Young-trained Gottabesavvy (NZ) (Savabeel) will return to a staying trip at Caulfield. The consistent three-year-old will compete over 2400m when he runs in the MRC Membership First Renewal Edward Bode Handicap on Saturday. Gottabesavvy has raced only once at a similar trip
An impressive jumpout at Cranbourne on Monday morning has Trent Busuttin optimistic Forgot You's (NZ) (Savabeel) connections could be in for the lucrative spring they were denied by injury last year. The former promising staying three-year-old has not been to the races since finishing down the
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The 26-year training career of Hong Kong conditioner Peter Ho came to an end on Sunday when his five runners in the season’s final meeting failed to deliver the two wins required for him to avoid receiving his third and final strike. The trainer of 634 winners since
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An extraordinary 2022/23 Hong Kong horse racing season ended in remarkable fashion on Sunday, 16 July at Sha Tin Racecourse and reinforced Hong Kong’s world-class racing with history-making performances of outstanding horses, trainers and jockeys. With only 1,250 horses in training – or around 0.7
The wide barrier did not stop two-year-old Strike Gold (NZ) (Iffraaj) winning comfortably on debut over Ace Of Diamonds (NZ) (Swiss Ace) in the S$75,000 Restricted Maiden race over 1200m at Kranji on Saturday. Trainer Ricardo Le Grange who trains both horses could not have been
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Golden Sixty’s (Medaglia d'Oro) record-breaking performance during the 2022/23 racing season saw Hong Kong’s champion earn the Horse of the Year title for a third consecutive year at a special presentation in Hong Kong on Friday night. As such, the Karaka graduate becomes the
Golden Sixty (Medaglia d'Oro) is chasing a record third straight Horse of the Year title, but Zac Purton believes Lucky Sweynesse (NZ) (Sweynesse) has “clearly” been Hong Kong’s best galloper during the 2022-23 season. While both have three Group One wins to their name this campaign,
Trainer Peter Moody will break new ground with one of his two-year-olds at Flemington. Zed Or Alive (NZ) (Zed) makes his debut in the Byerley Handicap (1800m) on Saturday where he will be joined by stablemate Line 'Em Up Loui (Dissident) who has a win and two
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Having rediscovered that winning feeling, classy gelding Benaud (Reliable Man) will attempt to build on his newfound confidence with a maiden stakes success in the Listed Grafton Cup. The four-year-old has been a wonderful money-spinner for connections, placing in the Gloaming Stakes and Gr.1 ATC Australian
It will be a while before Aaron Laing ventures interstate again with Sir Rockford (NZ) (Shocking). The Cranbourne-based trainer is content to stay at home and hopefully pick up a second city midweek victory with the galloper in the Ladbroke It! Handicap (2100m) at Sandown on Wednesday. Sir Rockford