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New Zealand-bred star Beauty Generation (NZ) (Road To Rock) is facing a strong challenge for Hong Kong’s Horse of the Year award this season and anything but a record third straight victory in the HK$20 million Gr.1 Champions Mile (1600m) on Sunday could see the crown go
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Ricky Yiu is enjoying his best season ever in terms of his numerical success and on Sunday (26 April) at Sha Tin he will attempt to cap it with a Group One win. Voyage Warrior (Declaration of War) stunned the big guns with a front-running victory in the Gr.2
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New Zealand Bloodstock graduate Team Power secured his maiden win in Hong Kong on Sunday when victorious in the Class 4 Norfolk Handicap (1400m) at Sha Tin. The four-year-old was purchased out of Lyndhurst Stud’s 2017 New Zealand Bloodstock Ready To Run Sale draft by Bruce and Maureen Harvey’
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Former New Zealand galloper Mighty Giant (NZ) (Power) took another step up the ladder with an impressive performance in the Class 3 Dorset Handicap (1400m) at Sha Tin on Sunday. The Ricky Yiu-trained gelding had his work cut out in the early stages under jockey Zac Purton but had enough
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Jockey Zac Purton brought up his fifth Hong Kong century at Happy Valley on Wednesday night. “The target at the start of the season is always 100 and I think if you ride that amount of winners you’ve had a very good season,” Purton said. “It’s not easy
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France Galop remains hopeful of resuming racing behind closed doors in May. French racing was staged without spectators last month before France Galop announced a suspension of meetings between March 17 and April 15 due to the Covid-19 pandemic. While French President Emmanuel Macron has extended the country's
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Racing in Great Britain will remain on hold beyond the end of April after the British Horseracing Authority extended its suspension on meetings. Action ceased on March 18 because of the Covid-19 pandemic, with the BHA announcing a halt to all fixtures until at least May 1. The Government subsequently
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Golden Sixty (Medaglia D'Oro) was the talk of Happy Valley on Wednesday night with trainer Francis Lui revealing that his sensational Hong Kong Derby (2000m) hero will not contest the Gr.1 FWD QEII Cup (2000m) on April 26. “He won’t run,” Lui said. “He’s achieved
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A final decision is yet to be made on Golden Sixty’s participation in the Gr.1 FWD QEII Cup (2000m) on 26 April but trainer Francis Lui is pleased with the Medaglia d’Oro gelding following his sparkling BMW Hong Kong Derby (2000m) win last month. “He seems good,
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The Jockey Club of Saudi Arabia is withholding Maximum Security's winning prize money for the $20 million Saudi Cup after trainer Jason Servis was indicted on federal charges in the United States. The trainer is one of 27 people indicted by the District Attorney for the Southern District
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Plans for a resumption of racing in Britain will be reviewed by the board of the British Horseracing Authority next week. Racing has been suspended until at least the end of April amid the coronavirus pandemic, with the last meetings in Britain at Wetherby and Taunton on March 17, both
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Douglas Whyte bagged the 29th win of his rookie season as a trainer when Simply Fluke (NZ) (Keeper) broke his maiden in section two of the Class 4 Wan Tsui Handicap (1200m) at Happy Valley on Wednesday. It was the five-year-old’s first start for the handler following a stable