Hong Kong Good Ba Ba, a four-time Group One winner this season, was crowned Horse of the Year as well as the champion miler and most-popular horse of the year at the Hong Kong Jockey Club Champion Awards presentation ceremony TuesdaY at the final Sha Tin race meeting of 2007/08. Douglas Whyte was honoured...

From the Hong Hong Jockey Club Good Ba Ba is in line for one of the richest prizes in international racing should he prove successful in the Yasuda Kinen, the fourth and final leg of the Asian Mile Challenge, on June 8 in Japan. Hong Kong’s outstanding miler will collect a bonus of US $1 million for...

From the Hong Kong Jockey Club Archipenko produced an unstoppable stretch run under Kevin Shea to mow down some of the world's best in the Audemars Piguet QEII Cup on Sunday at Sha Tin. The South African-trained raider had a comfortable length and three-quarters to spare over French-trained outsider...

From the Hong Kong Jockey Club Hong Kong's Good Ba Ba on Sunday at Sha Tim won his fourth Group 1 race in a row for trainer Andreas Schutz when he took the Champions Mile in emphatic style under Olivier Doleuze and declared himself as one of the top contenders for the Horse of the Year honours, after...

From the Hong Kong Jockey Club An early mist on Saturday morning added another twist to the variable weather patterns of trackwork at Sha Tin this week, but cleared as the international contenders for Sunday’s AP QE II Cup and Champions Mile completed their final preparations. There were no last minute...

From the Hong Kong Jockey Club Viva Pataca is fit and well after his recent return from Dubai where he was a gallant second in the Sheema Classic and Hong Kong's leading stayer will take plenty of beating in his defence of the Audemars Piguet QEII Cup on Sunday, trainer John Moore said at trackwork...

No winner of the Derby Trial has won a Kentucky Derby since Tim Tam, in 1958, and a half-century-long trend in unlikely ever to be interrupted. Nowadays, the significance on the Derby Trial is that it remains the first stakes race of the week leading to the Derby and the opening-day feature at Churchill...

From the Hong Kong Jockey Club Kevin Shea arrived in Hong Kong late Monday evening minus his luggage, but that did not stop him borrowing the necessary kit from here and there to work his Audemars Piguet QEII Cup mount Archipenko at Sha Tin on the turf on Tuesday morning. In trainer Mike De Kock's...

From the Hong Kong Jockey Club The international challengers for Sunday's HK$14-million Audemars Piguet Queen Elizabeth II Cup and Champions Mile had their first sight of Sha Tin race track on a humid Monday morning at a little after 8.40. They followed the locals who look to have an exceptionally...

Though evidence is entirely anecdotal, the negative effect of racing on Polytrack is becoming evident at the bottom line as frustrated bettors opt for alternative opportunities. Handle is down by 17 percent compared to figures from the first half of last year’s spring meeting. The Daily Racing Form reports...