Francis Lui Kin-wai says he will wait until next season before deciding on Golden Sixty’s future, with the veteran trainer not ruling out a potential nine-year-old campaign for the world’s highest-...

Joao Moreira will not ride at the mega-rich Dubai World Cup meeting on March 28, with the star Brazilian saying the ongoing chaos caused by the coronavirus has “forced his hand”....

Blake Shinn had plenty of time to think while lying in hospital nursing a broken neck but only in his wildest dreams did he believe he would be beginning his Hong Kong career little more than 12...

Joao Moreira rode Rapper Dragon in his greatest victories but maintains it was in the fallen hero’s final moments on a racecourse that his beloved horse showed the most courage....

Blake Shinn will not ride in Hong Kong next season, with the Australian jockey saying the mental stress of living under suffocating Covid-19 restrictions has become too much....

James McDonald is set to ride in Japan for the first time in nearly a decade, with the superstar Kiwi confirming he will partner Romantic Warrior in June’s Group One Yasuda Kinen (1,600m)....

It is news that will delight Hong Kong racing fans – Japanese superstar Almond Eye is coming to Sha Tin in December....

Danny Shum Chap-shing has confirmed plans are in place to run reigning Group One Hong Kong Cup (2,000m) champion Romantic Warrior in October’s Group One Cox Plate (2,040m) at Moonee Valley in...

Neil Callan is free to return to race riding at Sha Tin on May 30 after the stewards of the Jockey Club sensationally slashed the ban that looked to have ended the Irishman’s career in the jurisdic...

One of the worst race falls in living memory marred Hong Kong’s showcase international meeting at Sha Tin racecourse on Sunday....

Superstar jockey Joao Moreira is poised to return to Hong Kong, with 10-time champion trainer John Size set to put in an application for the Magic Man to become his stable rider....

A two-year stand-off between Australian and Hong Kong has been broken with authorities agreeing to restore full horse movement protocols between the two jurisdictions on Monday....

Hong Kong racehorse owner Koo Ming-kown will donate HK$700,000 to the family of fallen Mauritian jockey Nooresh Juglall, while Karis Teetan has pledged his riding fees and a portion of his prize...

The curtain is likely to come down on the glittering career of Golden Sixty after the city’s most successful racehorse was defeated by Beauty Eternal in the Group One Champions Mile at Sha Tin on...

Zac Purton will partner Voyage Bubble in the Group One Yasuda Kinen (1,600m) on June 2, with Ricky Yiu Poon-fai confirming it’s all systems go towards the audacious overseas mission at Tokyo raceco...

Jockey Club chief steward Kim Kelly says the controversial decision to strip Maximum Security of the Kentucky Derby would not have happened in Hong Kong – and he hopes it is the catalyst for change...

Forgotten Japanese raider Admire Mars delivered an emotional Longines Hong Kong Mile victory for connections as a new reality confronts two-time Hong Kong Horse of the Year Beauty Generation....

Japanese jockey Kohei Matsuyama did not think twice about making the trip to Hong Kong to ride super filly Daring Tact in Sunday’s QE II Cup, saying he is undaunted by the prospect of missing Group...

Zac Purton has slammed Jockey Club chief steward Marc van Gestel’s ‘new standard’, saying the recently appointed official’s approach ‘isn’t going to be sustainable here’ and the head stipe has...

Legendary Hong Kong trainer John Moore has landed his first winner as an Australian trainer with his very first runner as Morethannumberone saluted at Newcastle on Tuesday....

Tom Marquand may not be hanging around for Sunday’s Longines Hong Kong International Races, but the British rider admits it is likely only a matter of time before he makes a permanent move to the...

Legendary trainer Aidan O’Brien is bringing the heat to next month’s Longines Hong Kong International Races with five of his stable stars – including fantastic filly Magical and English Derby hero...

He conquered the Group One Cox Plate (2,040m) in Melbourne in October and now Romantic Warrior will be set for an audacious tilt at June’s Group One Yasuda Kinen (1,600m) in Japan....

Zac Purton has been discharged from hospital and Lyle Hewitson is out of intensive care following Sunday’s horrific race fall during the Longines Hong Kong International Races at Sha Tin, while the...

Officials put safety first, aborting tonight’s card as turmoil in Hong Kong reaches new levelsThe decision will cost the government HK$130 million in betting duty

Pierre Ng Pang-chi experienced the highs and lows of racing on Wednesday, with the rookie trainer’s lowest-rated horse breaking his maiden under a world-class substitute jockey after a colic attack...

Jockey Club chief executive Winfried Engelbrecht-Bresges is “cautiously optimistic” Japanese superstar Almond Eye will make the trip to Sha Tin for next month’s Longines Hong Kong International...

Joao Moreira has handed in his Hong Kong licence and is planning a global farewell tour beginning at Sha Tin next month....

Chief steward Kim Kelly believes the most prudent phone call he has made was the one to Steve Railton in 2009 when he recruited him to the Jockey Club from Sydney to be his lieutenant....

He conquered Dubai’s Group One Al Quoz Sprint (1,200m) on Saturday and now Tony Cruz is eyeing a potential Japanese raid with record-breaker California Spangle....

Five-time champion jockey Zac Purton has committed his future to Hong Kong, confirming he will remain in the city for at least the 2023-24 season....

Star Australian jockey Zac Purton has been granted permission by the Jockey Club to seek external medical treatment after declaring he would sit out the rest of the season if he wasn’t able to obtain...

Lightweight Australian jockey Ben Thompson will join the Hong Kong riding roster next month, with the 26-year-old handed a short-term contract by the Jockey Club on Tuesday....

Zac Purton is pushing to return to the races at Happy Valley on January 5 after seeing a specialist on Tuesday to assess the injuries he sustained in Sunday’s brutal fall in the Hong Kong Sprint at...

Joao Moreira returned to Sha Tin with a bang on Sunday and quickly quashed speculation he wants to go back to Japan next year after completing his six-month contract as John Size’s stable jockey....

Happy Valley racecourse will see its biggest crowd in months with the Jockey Club relaxing the restrictions for Wednesday night’s nine-race card....

Zac Purton is riding at the peak of his powers, so it was entirely appropriate he brought up his 900th Hong Kong winner with a quintet at Sha Tin....

Guarded convoys carrying HK$100 million of racehorses will be tracked every step of the way when the VIAs (very important animals) are whisked through the Shenzhen Bay border checkpoint and on their...

Blake Shinn admitted it “could be years” since he’s walked off a racetrack feeling as satisfied as he was when leaving Sha Tin after a superb four-timer on Sunday, a dominant afternoon he hopes could...

Joao Moreira has handed in his Hong Kong licence and is planning a global farewell tour beginning at Sha Tin next month....

Racecaller John Blance brings his three-season Hong Kong stint to a close at Happy Valley on Wednesday night having transformed into something of a course specialist at the tricky city track and even...

Danny Shum Chap-shing confirmed Romantic Warrior will head straight to December’s Group One Hong Kong Cup (2,000m) after the Cox Plate hero arrived back at Sha Tin on Tuesday morning....

The world’s highest-rated sprinter Lucky Sweynesse has been ruled out for the season after the five-year-old suffered a fracture to his left fore cannon bone in Sunday’s Group Two Sprint Cup (1,200...

Mark McNamara will be unveiled as Hong Kong’s newest racecaller at Sha Tin on Sunday where he will call four races on the card....

Despite being hit hard by the social unrest in Hong Kong through the first part of the season and the Covid-19 pandemic compounding the situation during the second half, the Jockey Club still managed...

Hugh Bowman plans to remain in Hong Kong for the remainder of the 2022-23 season and has confirmed he will only take part in Sydney’s lucrative autumn carnival if “the right horse comes along in the...

For years the system worked against him – and in many ways it still does – but Sunday’s Group One double proved that nobody plays the politics of Hong Kong racing better than Zac Purton....

Golden Sixty will not travel to Japan for next month’s Group One Yasuda Kinen (1,600m), with jockey Vincent Ho Chak-yiu expressing disappointment that the superstar miler won’t get a “deserved”...

Incoming trainer David Hayes is building a war chest of unraced gallopers at his Lindsay Park operation in Australia before making the move to Hong Kong. ...

There was no fairy-tale farewell for Joao Moreira and Glory Vase at Sha Tin on Sunday, but there was more joy for Japan all the same in the Group One Hong Kong Vase....

Embracing and employing the newest technology is to the Japanese what barbecues in summer are to Australians – it’s ingrained in their cultural DNA....

Eleven months and 116 winners since a disgruntled Umberto Rispoli left Hong Kong to rediscover his love for racing, the straight-shooting jockey has his swagger back in a racing jurisdiction that has...

Like the sun rising in the east, the question of where and when Winx would go overseas to improve her profile arose even as the crowd at Moonee Valley was still cheering....

A final call on Golden Sixty’s future is yet to be made, with Francis Lui Kin-wai confirming the champion galloper would be “wound down” while remaining in his stable....

Leviathan Hong Kong owners the Kwok family have donated A$1 million [$HK 5.2 million] to injured Australian jockey Tye Angland....

Legendary trainer John Moore will bow out of Hong Kong racing a winner no matter the results of his final race meeting on Wednesday night. Moore, who will saddle up five runners at Happy Valley, said...

Blake Shinn tuned up for the biggest week of his Hong Kong career so far with a winner at Sha Tin on Saturday, with Golden Four’s victory adding to his excitement eight days out from his first Group...

Star Hong Kong jockey Zac Purton will return home to Australia this weekend to ride in the Caulfield Cup after his mount, Red Verdon, gained a start in the race....

After 10 winners across the first eight months of last season, one could have forgiven Blake Shinn for wondering whether Hong Kong was for him.A constant flow of victories and big-race rides in his...