Australian raider Big Blue will test his credentials in the £140,000 G2 Unibet International Hurdle (3.05pm), the highlight at Cheltenham on day two of The International, Saturday, 14 December. A classy performer on the Flat in France when trained … Read more
Glory Vase streaked away with the G1 LONGINES Hong Kong Vase (2400m) at Sha Tin this afternoon, Sunday, 8 December. The Japanese raider with the most fitting of names carried Joao Moreira to his fifth LONGINES Hong Kong International … Read more
Trainer John Size and jockey Joao Moreira spoke of vindication and feeling humbled in an unusually emotion-charged response to their win with Hong Kong’s most consistent sprinter Beat The Clock in the LONGINES Hong Kong Sprint (1200m), today (Sunday, 8 … Read more
Admire Mars and an inspired Christophe Soumillon came to the fore in what was an emotional occasion for the Japanese racing industry in the G1 LONGINES Hong Kong Mile (1600m) at Sha Tin today (Sunday, 8 December). It was … Read more
Win Bright produced a performance hallmarked with toughness to go with his considerable class to complete the Group 1 double of the LONGINES Hong Kong Cup (2000m) and April’s FWD QEII Cup (2000m) for trainer Yoshihiro Hatakeyama and jockey … Read more
The LONGINES Hong Kong International Races delivered fantastic sporting action at Sha Tin Racecourse today (Sunday, 8 December) with Japan carrying off three of the four Group 1 features against the home team’s one. Win Bright fought off Ireland’s … Read more
Pentland Hills headlines 10 entries for the feature £140,000 G2 Unibet International Hurdle at Cheltenham this Saturday, 14 December, day two of The International. The two-mile, one-furlong contest is a leading trial for the £450,000 G1 Unibet Champion Hurdle … Read more
Aethero worked solo down the turf track’s back straight at Sha Tin this morning (Thursday, 5 December) in a manner which left John Moore satisfied that Hong Kong’s rising sprint star could well make history this weekend. “He went … Read more
“Let the show begin!” John Moore said after Beauty Generation worked through his final fast gallop before Sunday’s (8 December) G1 LONGINES Hong Kong Mile (1600m). The bay heads into the weekend with a chance to match Good Ba … Read more
Karis Teetan secured his first LONGINES International Jockeys’ Championship at Happy Valley on Wednesday, seeing off Ryan Moore thanks to a hugely consistent night across the four race-spectacular. Made favourite to lift the crown following Monday’s allocation ceremony, Teetan … Read more
Sulekha Varma has been appointed as Clerk of the Course at Aintree Racecourse and North West Head of Racing for Jockey Club Racecourses. Sulekha has been Racing Manager and Clerk of the Course at Hamilton Park Racecourse since 2016 … Read more
NEW TRAILS (third from left) and GRONKOWSKI (fourth from left) race for the first time since finishing 10th and 2nd in the $12m Dubai World Cup in March Image: Dubai Racing Club, Erika Rasmussen DUBAI (December 4, 2019)—Racing … Read more
Pia Brandt will not necessarily be a familiar face for many Hong Kong racing fans but aficionados are far more likely to recognise the silks carried by her horse Called To The Bar. The five-year-old will carry the blue … Read more
John Size has been Hong Kong champion trainer 11 times and already wears the mantle of an ‘all-time great’ and among his 1,222 Hong Kong career wins two have come in the toughest arena of all, the LONGINES Hong Kong … Read more
Mr Stunning 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. And if successful in Sunday’s (8 December) G1 LONGINES Hong Kong … Read more
Tony Cruz believes Exultant could prove to be the best stayer Hong Kong has ever produced. That may be so, but the three-time G1 winner will have to win a second LONGINES Hong Kong Vase on Sunday (8 December) just … Read more
One of the top 3-year-olds of the 2019 UAE season will end his sophomore year in an interesting spot when Phoenix Ladies Syndicate’s Ahmad bin Harmash-trained Walking Thunder (pictured) rolls into Thursday’s $72,000 Garhoud Sprint (Listed) against older horses. One of two … Read more
There are certain trainers that have acquired a real knack of travelling their horses for the biggest international events, while others are renowned as kings or queens of their home turf. Alain de Royer-Dupre has combined great success in … Read more
Note: Inter Dominion heats will be run at Alexandra Park in Auckland, racing right-handed (clockwise) Race 5. INTER DOMINION PACERS HEAT 3: SELECTIONS: CHASE AUCKLAND 1; A G’s White Socks 2; Ashley Locaz 3; The Fixer 4. CHASE AUCKLAND: … Read more
Charlie Fellowes has a charm and approachability that is probably nudging Group 1 class but talking to Prince Of Arran’s trainer one continually gets the impression of restless ambition and his comments regarding Sunday’s (8 December) G1 LONGINES Hong Kong … Read more
Hong Kong ‘gets’ Silvestre de Sousa. It has for a good while now. The city’s racing fans, its owners, its trainers, all of them hardheaded judges conditioned to appreciate jockeys endowed with strength, savvy, that all-important ‘fighting heart’, and, above … Read more
Defi Du Seuil (Philip Hobbs, 13/8 favourite with Betfair) features among eight entries for a fascinating renewal of the G1 Betfair Tingle Creek Chase at Sandown Park on Saturday, December 7, day two of the Betfair Tingle Creek Festival. … Read more
Randox Health Grand National hero One For Arthur and former winners Vieux Lion Rouge and Walk In The Mill headline 26 five-day confirmations for the £150,000 G3 Randox Health Becher Handicap Chase (1.30pm) over the Grand National fences at Aintree … Read more
Trainer Gordon Elliott revealed today that the £1-million Randox Health Grand National at Aintree on Saturday, 4 April, 2020 remains the plan for Tiger Roll this season. The remarkable nine-year-old, owned by Michael O’Leary’s Gigginstown House Stud, has won the latest two … Read more
Trainer Doug Watson, who currently leads UAE standings one month into the 2019-20 season with 10 victories ($349,139) and a 17% strike rate, could have as many as three starters for the first Listed Thoroughbred stakes of the season, … Read more
A high quality group of 25 overseas entries have been received for next month’s four-race, two-day Qatar International Derby Festival which takes place at Al Rayyan Racecourse in Doha on Friday December 20th and Saturday December 21st. Bangkok, owned by … Read more
Thursday, 21 November, 2019 – Defending champion Bristol De Mai headlines a classy field for the feature £200,000 Betfair Chase (3.00pm), the first G1 of the British Jump season at Haydock Park this Saturday, 23 November, Betfair Chase Day. … Read more
Vincent Ho will join Zac Purton, Joao Moreira and Karis Teetan as Hong Kong’s representatives in the 2019 LONGINES International Jockeys’ Championship on Wednesday 4 December, when 12 top class jockeys will clash at Happy Valley to battle for the … Read more
While plans are not yet secure for impressive Satish Seemar-trained opening night 2-year-old debut winner Barack Beach, much of the remainder of Team Zabeel’s enviable 100-plus roster appears to be ramping up for a strong December, including some notable new acquisitions. … Read more
Two high-profile former trainees of USA-based Rodolphe Brisset (pictured above left) are on their way to Dubai to join six-time UAE champion trainer Doug Watson’s Red Stables. Multiple Grade 2 winner Quip (pictured above) and recent sale topper Liam’s Legend have entered quarantine in … Read more