HK Direct, the informative weekly preview show, in the final part of a look back at Hong Kong racing in 2021, Nick Child revisits some magic moments including a Group 1 win for Wellington and a Sha Tin double for Loves Only You.
Paul O’Sullivan is buoyant of a positive result with stable star Duke Wai (NZ) (Per Incanto) in Saturday’s HK$3.7 million Gr.3 Chinese Club Challenge Cup Handicap (1400m) at Sha Tin, hopeful his charge can reap the benefits from his remarkable reliability on the track.
A stellar weekend for Trelawney Stud was crowned on foreign shores when farm graduate Sky Field (Deep Field) triumphed in the Gr.1 Hong Kong Sprint (1200m) at Sha Tin on Sunday evening.
Champion jockey Joao Moreira combined with the Tomohito Ozeki-trained Japanese stayer Glory Vase for a stunning win in the G1 LONGINES Hong Kong Vase (2400m) at Sha Tin on Sunday.
Caspar Fownes and Blake Shinn were left with conflicting emotions after Sky Field steamed to success in the HK$24 million G1 LONGINES Hong Kong Sprint (1200m) at Sha tin on Sunday, fending off world-class opposition from Japan to continue Hong Kong’s dominance in the event.
Golden Sixty stands alone as Hong Kong’s most prolific winner in history after he successfully defended his G1 LONGINES Hong Kong Mile (1600m) crown at Sha Tin.
Loves Only You set the perfect seal on one of international racing’s most colourful careers with a spellbinding success in the HK$30 million G1 LONGINES Hong Kong Cup (2000m) on Sunday.
The Hong Kong Jockey Club’s Chief Executive Officer Winfried Engelbrecht-Bresges has saluted Hong Kong’s “can-do” spirit and commitment after another successful staging of the LONGINES Hong Kong International Races, which saw G1 glory shared between Japan and Hong Kong at Sha Tin on Sunday.
Hong Kong's leading jockey Zac Purton, Lyle Hewitson and visiting Japanese jockey Yuichi Fukunaga were taken to nearby Prince of Wales Hospital after the fall in the Group 1 Hong Kong Sprint at Sha Tin on Sunday.
Zac Purton has joined Douglas Whyte and Frankie Dettori as a triple winner of the LONGINES International Jockeys’ Championship, claiming the title without a victory in the four-race series at Happy Valley on Wednesday night to add further lustre to a phenomenal resume.
Bidding to join Frankie Dettori and Douglas Whyte as a three-time winner of the HK$800,000 LONGINES International Jockeys’ Championship (IJC), Zac Purton believes fellow dual series champion Ryan Moore is the rider to beat at Happy Valley on Wednesday night.
Zac Purton has overtaken Douglas Whyte’s all-time Hong Kong prizemoney record by posting a double as the perfect prelude to his title defence of the LONGINES International Jockeys’ Championship at Happy Valley on Wednesday.
