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Mr Stunning (Exceed and Excel) has never held the official title of Hong Kong’s champion sprinter, yet when December rolls around he is a champion in every sense of the word. If successful in Sunday’s Gr.1 LONGINES Hong Kong Sprint (1200m), he will have scaled a peak
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Expat New Zealand jockey James McDonald will represent Australia at the International Jockeys’ Challenge (IJC) in Hong Kong next month The in-form hoop has been based in Sydney for several years and has won the premiership on three occasions. The IJC is scheduled to be held at Happy Valley racecourse
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Howl (NZ) (Showcasing) showed on Sunday that the best way to ride him was still at the head of affairs. The six-year-old has been switched to waiting tactics a few times in his 25 previous runs, but the results had not been conclusive. Back to his favourite positive tactics in
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Trainer Mok Zhan Lun made a big call after he branded River Radiance (NZ) (Rip Van Winkle) as one of the best horses he has ever trained following the Polytrack specialist’s sixth win on the alternative track at Kranji on Sunday. Mok, who has been plying his trade at
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The lethal combination of Destroyer Eclipse (NZ) (Alamosa) and Vlad Duric were again at their destructive best in the S$70,000 Class 3 race over 1600m on Friday night. Prior to that latest success, Duric had partnered the James Peters-trained Alamosa five-year-old to three of his previous four wins.
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John Moore declared Beauty Generation (NZ) (Road To Rock) “ready to win again” after watching the Hong Kong champion gallop along the Sha Tin back straight on Thursday morning. The world’s top-rated miler impressed his handler ahead of Sunday’s Gr.2 Jockey Club Mile (1600m), in which the
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Last-start winner Autumn Assault (NZ) (Rock 'n' Pop) will step-up in grade at Kranji on Sunday to Class 3 company chasing another victory over 1100m. The Rock ‘n’ Pop four-year-old was back to his best in October when making his debut for the Steven Burridge stable, having transferred
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Melbourne Cup-winning hoop Craig Williams jetted into Singapore on Sunday to partner Mr Clint (NZ)(Power) for champion trainer Lee Freedman and the combination proved lethal as they snared the spoils in the S$1 million Dester Singapore Gold Cup (2000m). Raced by Mr Clint’s former trainer, Laurie Laxon,
The Michael Clements-trained Countofmontecristo (NZ) (Echoes of Heaven) was meant to be chilling in his box on Singapore Gold Cup day, but a super fourth in the Queen Elizabeth II Cup has dashed those holiday plans. Ridden quieter than usual in the QEII Cup (1800m), the second Leg of the
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Frankie Lor will launch his star sophomore Furore (NZ) (Pierro) at the Gr.3 Sa Sa Ladies’ Purse Handicap (1800m) at Sha Tin on Sunday. Furore was Hong Kong's standout four-year-old last term thanks to wins in the BMW Hong Kong Derby (2000m) and Hong Kong Classic Mile
Punters were left blowing hot and cold in the first two races at Kranji on Friday night. After cheering odds-on favourite California (Written Tycoon) home in the opener, the S$30,000 Class 5 Division 1 race over 1100m, a deafening silence fell over Kranji when $263 pop Whizzy Waltzzy
Cliff Brown went to the races with one runner and returned home with one winner on Friday night. Brown would certainly not mind having such evenings, more so when the 100% record was achieved in Race 3, a S$50,000 Class 4 Division 3 race over 1200m. The crew