The Cliff Brown-trained What’s New (NZ) (Casino Prince) will resume in this Sunday’s Fortune Bowl (1400m) with her trainer hoping of a good run. As planned by the Australian handler, the traditional Lunar New Year feature race will be the starting point to her 2020 campaign and serve
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New Zealand Bloodstock graduates went close to taking out the two feature races in Hong Kong on Sunday night. Former Hong Kong Horse of the Year Beauty Generation (NZ) (Road To Rock), a graduate of Highden Park’s 2014 yearling draft, went close to winning the Gr.1 Steward’s
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Beat The Clock (Hinchinbrook) displayed the class that has made him a champion to complete back-to-back wins in the HK$10 million Centenary Sprint Cup (1200m) at Sha Tin on Sunday. The ever-reliable bay’s narrow victory over Thanks Forever (Duporth) sealed a Group One double on the day for
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Beat The Clock(Hinchinbrook) will face select yet stiff competition when he attempts a second consecutive win in Sunday’s Gr.1 Centenary Sprint Cup (1200m) but jockey Joao Moreira believes the John Size-trained speedster’s biggest threat could be a rival he knows all too well, stablemate Full Of
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Ironside (NZ) (Jimmy Choux) provided Brazilian jockey Ruan Maia with his first win in Singapore as a long-term licensed jockey on Friday night. Two years ago, the then relative unknown, who had just begun plying his trade in Macau, came to Kranji for only one mission aboard the Lee Freedman-trained
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Prominent New Zealand horse owner Brian Court saw his colours shine for the first time at Kranji after Cavalla Court (NZ) (Sepoy) won the Open Maiden race over 1200m on Friday night. The owner-breeder behind the successful Westfield Farm and Courtco Racing had long toyed with the idea of racing
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Beauty Generation (NZ) (Road To Rock) faces a pivotal test in Sunday’s Gr.1 Stewards’ Cup (1600m) at Sha Tin with not only the direction of future assignments but also his status as Hong Kong’s best miler in the balance. Trainer John Moore has his heart set on
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Highly Proactive (NZ) (Coats Choice) put up a rallying fightback to outpoint Shining Ace (Testa Rossa) in a thrilling finish to the Class 3 Chater Handicap (1200m) at Happy Valley on Wednesday night. Shining Ace had the 1.9 favourite on the ropes half-way down the home straight, but with
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Furore (NZ) (Pierro) returns to a mile in the Gr.1 Stewards’ Cup (1600m) at Sha Tin on Sunday with trainer Frankie Lor hoping a short bout of sickness over the Christmas period will not have dulled the gelding’s big-race capability. “He had a temperature for a few days
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Richard Gibson is unperturbed by the outsider labels tagged to his stable stalwarts Rattan (NZ) (Savabeel) and Wishful Thinker (I Am Invincible) as they stride into Sunday’s two Group 1 features at Sha Tin Racecourse with eyes fixed on snagging a share of the lucrative prize fund. “They’re
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Wednesday’s (15 January) nine-race card at Happy Valley rounds out with a cracking finale as emerging talents Highly Proactive (NZ) (Coats Choice) and Snap Fit (NZ) (Nadeem) lock horns in the Class 3 Chater Handicap (1200m). Snap Fit won his first three starts, all at Happy Valley, before his
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Mr Stunning (Exceed and Excel) has a score to settle in Sunday’s (19 January) G1 Centenary Sprint Cup (1200m) at Sha Tin and trainer Frankie Lor believes his top-class charge is in the right shape to prevail. The seven-year-old was denied a hat-trick of wins in the G1 LONGINES