Hong Kong Mile results and replay

Jamie Kah is set to make a flying visit to Hong Kong this month, adding her star power to the racing scene. Kah will ride Packing Treadmill in the prestigious Group 1 Centenary Sprint Cup at Sha Tin on January 28. Trained by Francis Lui, Packing Treadmill has consistently delivered strong performances, most recently finishing third in the G3…

Romantic Warrior (left) winning the Hong Kong Cup | Horsephotos/Tomoya Moriuchi By Seven times has Romantic Warrior (Ire) (Acclamation {GB}) gone to post over the 2000 metres at Sha Tin Racecourse and on six of those occasions, he has proved victorious, more times than not in convincing fashion. His lone blemish over the course and distance came in…

Breeder: Asco International Pty Ltd Foaled: October 14, 2015 2023 Race Record & Fact file Races: 4 Wins: 4 Major wins: Stewards' Cup, Hong Kong Gold Cup, Champions Mile, Hong Kong Mile Owner: Stanley Chan Ka Leung Trainer: Francis Lui Principal Rider: Vincent Ho Golden Sixty won all four starts in 2023 and the performance he produced to win the…

Sixty-five thousand people witnessed, arguably, the finest individual performance in Hong Kong racing history last weekend, and so extraordinary was Golden Sixty's Group One Mile win you can bet thousands more will claim to have been on course when Hongkongers talk about the wonder horse in the coming years. Golden Sixty became the seventh galloper…

Japanese racing expert Toshi Onikubo has nominated emerging stayer Lebensstil as his country's best chance of winning a Longines Hong Kong International Races (HKIR) feature event for the fifth consecutive year. Onikubo - in Hong Kong to watch 14 Japanese gallopers attempt to add to the Land of the Rising Sun's 20 HKIR victories, which include at…

The Class One Chevalier Cup (1600m) has not exactly been a breeding ground for Longines Hong Kong International Races (HKIR) success, but John Size hopes Running Glory can use Sunday's edition as a springboard into a creditable performance at next month's marquee meeting. The 12-time champion trainer has taken a liking to using the Chevalier Cup as…

With Hong Kong racing to take a break following Sunday night's 11-race card at Sha Tin and the news season not due to kick off until September, here are my top five moments from the past ten months in the high-pressure jurisdiction. Golden Sixty's triumph in the G1 Stewards' Cup It was built up to be a race for the ages and it did not disappoint,…

There are still four meetings to go in the 2022-23 Hong Kong racing season and plenty to unfold in the way of milestones and records, but with the term's Group racing done and dusted, we take a look at who came to the fore in the city's biggest races. Zac Purton has dominated just about every riding metric this season, but his decision to partner…

The J-Mac and Zac show is set to light up Royal Randwick on Saturday. Champion jockeys James McDonald and Zac Purton will go head-to-head in five races including both Group 1 races. McDonald is riding the favourite in each major with Imperatriz ($1.90) for the $600000 Canterbury Stakes (1300m) and Aft Cabin ($2.60) for the $1m Randwick Guineas…

Laws Of Indices (right) finishes third to California Spangle and Golden Sixty in the Hong Kong Mile. Picture: Grant Peters-Trackside Photography It wasn't the dream result she'd hoped for but trainer Annabel Neasham couldn't wipe the small off her face after Laws Of Indices ran out of his skin to finish third in the Group 1 Hong Kong Mile at Sha…

The LONGINES Hong Kong International 2022 racing came to a dramatic close at Sha Tin on Sunday with two hot favorites being defeated in the Group 1 races, but the events of the day did little to diminish the world class racing we got to enjoy over the entirety of the past week. The first upset came in the LONGINES Hong Kong Vase when the heavily…

Asia's showpiece Group 1 flat horse race takes place this Saturday at the Sha Tin Racecourse, as thoroughbreds from around the world go in search of glory at the 2022 Hong Kong Cup. The headline act of this weekend's prestigious Hong Kong International Races, the Hong Kong Cup stands as the world's richest turf race over 2000 metres with a purse of…

2022 Hong Kong Cup Best Bet - Danon The Kid All credit to the winner (Serifos) in the Group One Mile Championships at Hanshin on Nov 20, who sustained a big run and let down strongly from the rear. While he didn't quite have the turn-of-foot at a mile, runner-up Danon The Kid was admirable in defeat, overcoming traffic and taking some tight…

The biggest crowd in more than three years is expected to converge on Sha Tin on Sunday to see Golden Sixty chase history in the Group One Hong Kong Mile. Good Ba Ba is the only horse with three feature wins at the Longines Hong Kong International Races (HKIR), and he achieved the feat Golden Sixty is attempting to match this weekend - a Mile…

It is a road less travelled to the Longines Hong Kong International Races (HKIR), but for the second year in a row, Excellent Proposal and Butterfield are using the Class One Chevalier Cup (1600m) as their last starts en route to Sha Tin's marquee meeting. Excellent Proposal and Butterfield, second and third respectively in last season's Chevalier…

Japan will launch a five-pronged attack on next month's Group One Hong Kong Cup (2000m) as it looks to win the city's richest race for the fourth year running. Panthalassa, Geoglyph, Jack d'Or, Danon The Kid and Lei Papale are set to make the trip from the Land of the Rising Sun to take on leading hometown hope Romantic Warrior in the HK$34 million…

Fellow Gr1 winners Gendarme, Naran Huleg, Schnell Meister, Saffron Beach and Mendocino have also been issued invitations by the Hong Kong Jockey Club to contest the "Turf World Championships". A cast of Gr1 champions is among 127 overseas entrants for the four Group 1 features - the HK$34 million Gr1 LONGINES Hong Kong Cup (2000m), HK$30 million…

Glory Vase a two-time winner at the LONGINES Hong Kong International Races (Courtesy of HKJC) Glory Vase, Kinross and Panthalassa head an impressive array of decorated international horses who have been invited to compete at the HK$110 million LONGINES Hong Kong International Races (HKIR) at Sha Tin on 11 December. Fellow G1 winners Gendarme, Naran…

The final nominees are out for the Jockey Club's Champion Awards and, like most years, things looks relatively clear cut. There are no official nominees for the Horse of the Year, with the victor selected from the winners of the other categories, but Golden Sixty looks a good thing to go back-to-back. Three gallopers have claims to the Champion…

The final fields for December's Longines Hong Kong International Races are just about everything Jockey Club officials could have hoped for but there was one galloper conspicuous in his absence - the mighty Southern Legend. The Caspar Fownes-trained nine-year-old has strutted his stuff on international day in each of the past four years but that…

The Hong Kong Mile - one of the four Group 1 titles that make up the annual Hong Kong International Races (HKIR) - is widely considered one of the greatest mile races in the world. Held every December, the HK$32000000 feature is run at Sha Tin and has been won by some of Hong Kong's greatest champion thoroughbreds. Initially the Hong Kong…