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