Sunday, January 29, 2012
Middle pin the key to Triple Trio hopes
A pair of horses screaming out for a mile and drawn in the bottom two gates can form the spine of selections in the middle leg of the Triple Trio at Sha Tin on Sunday.
Cruz hoping California Memory can again cut the Dragon down to size
Trainer Tony Cruz is probably the only man hoping it really isn't the Year of the Dragon as his natty grey California Memory renews his rivalry with Ambitious Dragon in Sunday's Group ...
Delighted owners to live life in Fast Lane
The Fast Lane showed he has acclimatised well with a stunning finish in the Lucky Star Handicap (1,200m) on Wednesday at Sha Tin. The Peter Ho Leung-trained youngster has ...
Black Caviar's odds at shortest ever
Bookmakers have posted champion sprinting mare Black Caviar at the shortest odds of her brilliant career to return today as a winner in the Group One Australia Stakes at Moonee Valley.
Kung Hei Fat Choi gives punters a new year treat
The omen bet of the year delivered yesterday when struggling racehorse Kung Hei Fat Choi thrilled tens of thousands of punters at the Lunar New Year meeting.
Ferraris savours Sweet success
When David Ferraris greeted Weichong Marwing on Sweet Orange as the final winner of the 2010-11 season last July after the Hong Kong Racehorse Owners Association Cup, he was looking to the colt as the ...
Glorious Days shows his fighting spirit
The Chinese New Year Cup has already launched some successful Group One careers, but fans of the John Size-trained Glorious Days will have to hold on for another six weeks ...
Cheyne heads for Lion City in confident mood
It seems Greg Cheyne's partnership with Richard Gibson is just beginning to fire, but unfortunately it is a week before the hard-working jockey departs for Singapore, where he hopes ...
Super-fit Peppermint takes step up in stride
Peppermint was not one of the four-year-olds on everyone's lips yesterday, but the Caspar Fownes-trained gelding did make the climb into Class Three a successful one.
Racing Digest
Despite Winning Apex having scored over a mile in New Zealand, Michael Chang Chun-wai's four-year-old might have his limitations getting over that trip here and will now have a let-up, ...
Common Goal case shows some suffer and some don't
Other jockeys must have been wondering about the outcome of the Common Goal inquiry last week, a case that bears out this column's unequivocal discomfort with many of the "reasonable and ...
PPs v PPGs - where's the value?
For all the money spent on Private Purchase (PP) horses for the four-year-old classics, the irony of today's Classic Mile is that the most likely players are predominantly horses which ...
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