Hong Kong Vase results and replay

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…

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…

Listen to Adam Blencowe on any of Racing and Sports' podcasts, and it takes only a couple of minutes to realise the Australian analyst doesn't take himself seriously, but he's all business when it comes to assessing the performances of gallopers. With little more than a week to the Longines Hong Kong International Races (HKIR) at Sha Tin, this…

The Hong Kong Jockey Club (HKJC) stands as a global powerhouse in horse racing, orchestrating over 800 races annually at the prestigious Happy Valley Racecourse and Sha Tin Racecourse. Renowned for its thrilling and competitive events, the HKJC's races are among the world's most sought-after, attracting immense popularity. Beyond its sporting…

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…

After training the runner up in 2022, Andre Fabre has claimed the Group 1 Longines Hong Kong Vase at Sha Tin with Junko delivering a last to first victory. Andre Fabre has a strong record in the Hong Kong Vase having trained the 2014 Hong Kong International Vase (2400m) winner Flintshire followed by multiple runner-up finishes including Botanik's…

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…

Pitted against outstanding performers Wellington (128) and Lucky Sweynesse (125), Duke Wai (112) is among a string of quality sprinters bidding to upstage Hong Kong's two highest-rated speedsters in the HK$12 million contest after dead-heating for third with Sky Field behind Sight Success in the G3 Bauhinia Sprint Trophy Handicap (1000m) on 8…

A visit to the free-to-enter Hong Kong Racing Museum which overlooks the bend after the stands at Happy Valley racecourse gives an interesting insight into the sport's development in the former British colony. Racing in Hong Kong began as an amateur form of entertainment among the ex-pats in those colonial days but, for what remains a small-scale…

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…

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…

Since the turn of the century, 12 European invaders have embarked on successful raids to Sha Tin for the coveted and valuable Group One Hong Kong Vase. From 21 renewals that's more than half and that number increases to 13 if you include Saeed bin Suroor's Mastery who was trained from his base in Newmarket. In actual fact, go back to the preceding…

California Spangle, seen at trackwork Dec. 7, tackles champion Golden Sixty and some tough foreign competition in Sunday's Group 1 Longines Hong Kong Mile. Photo courtesy of Hong Kong Jockey Club HONG KONG, Dec. 9 (UPI) -- The Longines Hong Kong International Races take center stage in weekend horse racing, with competition from around the globe…

The 2022 Hong Kong Vase (2400m) is the first of four Group 1 races on Hong Kong International Race-day and it's for the stayers over the 2400m. It's been a race traditionally dominated by the international raiders from both Europe and Japan, with last year's champion Glory Vase looking to defend his crown and chalk up his third win in the…

It's closer to Christmas than the classics but Aidan O'Brien's Group One ambitions for 2022 extend one final time to Hong Kong this weekend. Ireland's champion trainer has a trio of horses in the mix for the final big international flat carnival of the year at Sha Tin. O'Brien will bid for a fourth success in the 1½ mile Longines Hong Kong Vase…

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…

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…

Challenged persistently by COVID-19, the Hong Kong Jockey Club (the Club) has continued to manage the global pandemic decisively, implementing world's best health protocols to protect the welfare of employees, racing participants and the public to ensure that racing continued without the loss of a single meeting to the virus. The Club closed out…

Joao Moreira has not ridden in Hong Kong since September 21 due to a recurring hip injury which saw him sidelined before he decided to return home to Brazil for further treatment and rehabilitation … and also, most importantly, to be with his family who had already gone back to Brazil at that time. Moreira then shocked many people by handing in his…

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…