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A month after his barnstorming stakes victory at Ellerslie, smart juvenile Do You Just (NZ) (So You Think) has been sold and will continue his racing career in Hong Kong. The son of So You Think showed promise through his two-year-old season, but it wasn’t until the Listed Champagne
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Cambridge Stud’s Almanzor has been firing in Europe this year with a trio of Group Two winning three year-olds and one of those is high class filly Gezora, who soared to new heights when taking out the Gr.1 Prix de Diane (2100m) at Chantilly. Trained by Francis-Henri Graffard
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The Manfred Man-trained Patch Of Stars looks one of the more progressive gallopers going through his grades after three successive Sha Tin victories over the past few months. The three-year-old son of All Too Hard is a graduate of the New Zealand Bloodstock Ready To Run Sale where he was
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New Zealand-bred sprinter Ka Ying Rising (NZ) (Shamexpress) has secured a coveted slot in the A$20 million The Everest (1200m), the world's richest turf race. The announcement follows his undefeated season in Hong Kong, culminating in a commanding victory in the Gr.1 Chairman's Sprint
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New Zealand bred horses won five of the seven races carded at the final meeting to be staged by the Penang Turf Club in Malaysia on Saturday. Trainer Simon Dunderdale was full of praise for jockey Blaike McDougall after he piloted Sacred Buddy (NZ) (Sacred Falls) to victory in the
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Trainer Michael Chang will consider a tilt at the HK$4.2 million Gr.3 Sha Tin Vase Handicap (1200m) on 31 May with Lady’s Choice (NZ) (Charm Spirit) after the much-improved gelding upstaged a class field of rising talents to win the Class 2 Pok Fu Lam Reservoir
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Hugh Bowman has described Fast Network (NZ) (Wrote) as one of Hong Kong’s most progressive horses as Dennis Yip’s emerging talent squares off against a highly-competitive field in the Class 2 Pok Fu Lam Reservoir Road Handicap (1200m) at Sha Tin on Saturday (10 May). Chasing his fifth
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Three-year-old gelding Dazzling Fit threw his hat in the ring as a potential Classic Series horse for next season with a sparkling win in the first section of the Class Four Cox’s Handicap (1400m) at Sha Tin on Sunday. Jockey Luke Ferraris settled David Eustace’s galloper in mid-pack
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Superstar Hong Kong sprinter Ka Ying Rising (NZ) (Shamexpress) completed a record-equalling season with scintillating victory in the HK$22 million Gr.1 Chairman’s Sprint Prize (1200m) at Sha Tin on Sunday. Taking his unbeaten record to 12 consecutive races in defeating a world-class field of 12 rivals in
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Hong Kong’s champion jockey Zac Purton plans to employ a familiar plan and use Ka Ying Rising’s (NZ) (Shamexpress) blistering speed against his 12 rivals in Sunday’s (27 April) HK$22 million G1 Chairman’s Sprint Prize (1200m) at Sha Tin. Purton said he doesn’t want
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Aiming for a 12th consecutive victory with Ka Ying Rising (NZ) (Shamexpress), David Hayes had to endure a few nervous moments before the world’s highest-rated sprinter drew perfectly in barrier four for the HK$22 million G1 Chairman’s Sprint Prize (1200m) at Sha Tin on Sunday (27 April)
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Owned by Cheng Ming Leung, Cheng Yu Tung, Cheng Mei Mei and Cheng Yu Wai, Manfred Man-trained Lucky Sweynesse (NZ) (Sweynesse) will resume after a long break in Sunday’s (27 April) HK$22 million G1 Chairman’s Sprint Prize (1200m) at Sha Tin’s FWD Champions Day amid hopes