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Longines Hong Kong International Races

Copartner Prance wins at Happy Valley for champion jockey Zac Purton. Photo: Kenneth Chan

Lui books Buick for Derby ride and continues top form at the Valley

Veteran handler confirms star Englishman will ride Classic Cup runner-up Chancheng Glory in the city’s most prestigious race

  • Veteran handler confirms star Englishman will ride Classic Cup runner-up Chancheng Glory in the city’s most prestigious race

Meagher hopeful Hong Kong hasn’t seen its last Singapore runner: ‘I’d jump at it’

HKIR ‘one of the best – if not the best – days of racing’ the city has ever seen

McDonald declares back-to-back HK Cup champ ‘toughest racehorse I’ve ever sat on’

Romantic Warrior joins California Memory as a two-time winner of the city’s richest race, pipping Luxembourg six weeks on from his Cox Plate triumph

Romantic Warrior wins the Group One Longines Hong Kong Cup (2,000m) at Sha Tin on Sunday. Photos: Kenneth Chan

Ng continues purple patch on a day of doubles at Sha Tin

Second-season handler joins Danny Shum, Ricky Yiu and Manfred Man with a brace on international day to maintain his double-figure championship lead

Electric Golden Sixty stuns Sha Tin crowd with spine-tingling HK Mile success

Racing for the first time since April, the city’s most successful galloper joins Good Ba Ba as a three-time international day winner

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Superb Lucky Sweynesse completes historic set with Hong Kong Sprint triumph

Manfred Man-trained, Zac Purton-ridden speedster becomes the first galloper to win all four of the city’s Group One dashes in the same calendar year

Lucky Sweynesse wins the Group One Longines Hong Kong Sprint (1,200m) at Sha Tin on Sunday. Photos: Kenneth Chan

Junko wins slowest HK Vase to end France’s nine-year wait for 15th HKIR victory

Trainer Andre Fabre and rider Maxime Guyon combine to great effect in the stamina test again, following up their success with Flintshire in 2014

Golden Sixty out to make more history and kick off farewell tour in perfect style

Eight-year-old makes his last appearance at the Longines Hong Kong International Races at Sha Tin on Sunday

Crisford-trained West Wind Blows becomes latest scratching from Hong Kong Vase

James McDonald loses his ride in Sunday’s HK$24 million race at Sha Tin after narrowly missing out on Group One glory at Ascot in Australia on Saturday

Group One Longines Hong Kong Vase (2,400m) scratching West Wind Blows at Sha Tin on Saturday. Photo: Kenneth Chan

Avdulla sets Sight on Success in Hong Kong Sprint

The 32-year-old jockey makes his belated first appearance in a Sha Tin Group One and hops aboard four last-start winners on Sunday’s 10-race programme

Brenton Avdulla celebrates his Group Two Premier Bowl (1,200m) win aboard Sight Success. Photo: Kenneth Chan

Moore prepares to do feather weight as O’Brien chases fourth Hong Kong Vase win

British rider’s acceptance of Warm Heart ride at 117 pounds surprises Irish trainer: ’Since he came to us, I don’t think I’ve ever seen him do that’

Purton rates Lucky Sweynesse ‘marginally better’ than HK Sprint hero Aerovelocity

Champion jockey seeks his third win in the city’s top sprint following his 2014 and 2016 victories aboard the Paul O’Sullivan-trained globetrotter

Riding a wave of Cox Plate glory, Warrior’s most important test of 2023 awaits

By completing an enormous year in style at Sha Tin on Sunday, Danny Shum’s star can show success abroad does not have to come at a cost at home

James McDonald salutes as Romantic Warrior wins the 2022 Hong Kong Cup. Photos: Kenneth Chan

Japan at HKIR: trailblazing Mori returns to Sha Tin after 27-year absence

Winner of the 1995 Hong Kong International Cup looks to spring another surprise on the city’s biggest race day

Japanese trainer Hideyuki Mori. Photo: Kenneth Chan

Hong Kong Cup victory on the Horizon for French ace: ‘We are very confident’

Owner Kamel Chehboub thinks his galloper could dethrone Romantic Warrior, while trainer Andre Fabre runs Junko in the Vase and Tribalist in the Mile

Equine physio Simpson gives Romantic Warrior the Winx treatment

Australian has been working with Danny Shum’s star since before his Cox Plate adventure and is rapt with how he is tracking ahead of Sunday’s Hong Kong Cup

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Marquand on a permanent HK move: ‘You have to take the hook eventually’

Despite leaving this year’s International Jockeys’ Championship empty-handed, racing’s glamour couple could one day swap Hungerford for Happy Valley

Tom Marquand (right) and Silvestre de Sousa share the 2022 International Jockeys’ Championship. Photos: Kenneth Chan

Romantic Warrior’s connections hope seven is magnificent for them again on Sunday

Owner Peter Lau draws same numbered Hong Kong Cup gate as the one from which James McDonald rode the Danny Shum-trained star to his two greatest wins

Golden Sixty draws barrier 14 for Hong Kong Mile, the widest gate of his career

Nine-time Group One winner’s momentous international day task becomes even more complicated

HKIR: Watch the last start of every Hong Kong Vase runner, including Lebensstil

Navigating international form can be a minefield for punters, but the Post is here to help you back a winner at Sunday’s Hong Kong International Races

Lebensstil (left) stretches his legs ahead of Sunday’s Hong Kong Vase. Photo: Kenneth Chan

HKIR: Watch the last start of every Hong Kong Cup runner, including Luxembourg

Navigating international form can be a minefield for punters, but the Post is here to help you back a winner at Sunday’s Hong Kong International Races

Trainer Aidan O’Brien chats to Luxembourg’s work rider at Sha Tin on Wednesday morning. Photo: Kenneth Chan

HKIR: Watch the last start of every Hong Kong Mile runner, including Namur

Navigating international form can be a minefield for punters, but the Post is here to help you back a winner at Sunday’s Hong Kong International Races

HKIR: Watch the last start of every Hong Kong Sprint runner, including Highfield Princess

Navigating international form can be a minefield for punters, but the Post is here to help you back a winner at Sunday’s Hong Kong International Races

Three-time Group One-winning Japanese stayer Shahryar out of Hong Kong Vase

Latest withdrawal from the first of Sunday’s Hong Kong International Races feature events reduces the HK$24 million stamina test’s field to nine

Japanese stayer Shahryar gallops at Sha Tin on Wednesday. Photo: Kenneth Chan

From towel boy to IJC hero: Ho becomes first home-grown winner

After pipping Zac Purton in Wednesday’s prestigious competition, the superstar rider remembers asking his idols for autographs on Happy Valley’s night of nights

Vincent Ho celebrates his victory in the Longines International Jockeys’ Championship at Happy Valley on Wednesday night. Photos: Kenneth Chan

Japanese analyst’s most positive prognosis regards HK Vase contender Lebensstil

Toshi Onikubo believes Hiroyasu Tanaka’s young galloper represents Japan’s top shot at extending its streak of Hong Kong International Races successes

Longer the race, better the chance of O’Brien celebrating HKIR success

Legendary Irish trainer is the only handler with runners in all four of Sunday’s Group One events at Sha Tin’s marquee meeting

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Longines Hong Kong International Races
The Longines Hong Kong International Races, known as the "turf world championships", will be run on December 10 at Sha Tin. Horses from all over the world flock to the New Territories to run in the HK$25 million Hong Kong Cup (2,000m), HK$23 million Hong Kong Mile (1,600m), HK$18.5 million Hong Kong Sprint (1,200m) and HK$18 million Hong Kong Vase (2,400m).
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