Birthday: Aug 09, 1972
Nationality: Hong Kong
Background:
Age: 52. Jimmy Ting started out in 1988 as an apprentice jockey allocated to Brian Kan and became a fully-fledged rider in 1993. He retired from race-riding in 2003 and worked as assistant trainer to David Hill for two seasons, leaving to fulfil the same duties for Michael Chang with whom he worked for a further three years. Five years as assistant to Francis Lui preceded a five-year spell with Danny Shum. He was granted a full trainers' licence for the 2018/19 season and opened his account at the first attempt when Triumphant Jewel took the season opener at Sha Tin in 2018. He accrued 38 wins that season. Ting added 35 wins in 2019/20, including four from Amazing Star, the Most Improved Horse of that season. Amazing Star went on to land a first Group race win for Ting in the 2021 G2 Sprint Cup. Ting has previously worked overseas in Australia, Ireland and England.
Notable Race Wins Include
G2 Sprint Cup (2021 Amazing Star).
Hong Kong Career Wins
(at start of 2024/25 season): 172 (win strike rate: 7.8%).
Year | Happy Valley | Shatin | 1000m-1200m | 1400m-1650m | 1800m-2000m | 2000m+ | ||||||||||||||||||
1st | 2nd | 3rd | Total | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | Total | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | Total | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | Total | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | Total | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | Total | |
25 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 17 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 37 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 17 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 26 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
Distance | Win | 2nd | 3rd | Lost | Total Ride | Win% | ||
Happy Valley | 1000 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 0 | |
1200 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 35 | 40 | 2.5 | ||
1650 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 22 | 25 | 4 | ||
1800 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 14 | 16 | 0 | ||
2200 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 9 | 0 | ||
Shatin | All weather | 1200 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 12 | 13 | 0 |
1650 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 7 | 8 | 0 | ||
1800 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 20 | ||
Turf | 1000 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 7 | 9 | 11.11 | |
1200 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 38 | 49 | 12.24 | ||
1400 | 5 | 4 | 7 | 56 | 72 | 6.94 | ||
1600 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 18 | 18 | 0 | ||
1800 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 7 | 0 | ||
2000 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 0 | ||
2400 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Draw Year | <4 | 4-10 | 10-20 | 20+ | ||||||||||||
1st | 2nd | 3rd | Total | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | Total | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | Total | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | Total | |
25 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 12 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 12 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 28 |
Draw Year | 1-5 | 6-10 | 11-14 | |||||||||
1st | 2nd | 3rd | Total | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | Total | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | Total | |
25 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 19 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 28 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 |
Trainer | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | Lost | Total |
H. Bentley | 1 | 1 | 1 | 13 | 16 |
K. C. Leung | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 6 |
Y. L. Chung | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
A. Badel | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 |
A. Hamelin | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
B. Thompson | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
C. Keane | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
C. L. Chau | 0 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 8 |
C. Y. Ho | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
K. De. Melo | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
K. Teetan | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
L. Ferraris | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
M. Chadwick | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 5 |
M. F. Poon | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 4 |