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Centenary Sprint Cup
The Centenary Sprint Cup is a Group 1 Thoroughbred horse race over a distance of 1200 metres at Sha Tin in January. It was originally known as the Centenary Cup, which was first run on 24 November 1984 to celebrate the centenary of The Hong Kong Jockey Club. It offers a purse of HK$10,000,000. In the season of 2005/06, it becomes the first leg of the Hong Kong Speed Series (formerly the Champion Sprint Series). In 2017/2018 season, the race was promoted to Group 1 status. Winners See also * List of Hong Kong horse races References *Racing Post: **, , , , , , , , , **, , , , , , , , , **, , {{Racing Post, 832726, 2023, 02, 05, 416, sha-tin The Hong Kong Jockey Club official website of Kent & Curwen Centenary Sprint Cup (2011/12)Racing Information of Kent & Curwen Centenary Sprint Cup (2011/12)* The Hong Kong Jockey Club The Hong Kong Jockey Club (HKJC) is one of the oldest institutions in Hong ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sha Tin Racecourse
Sha Tin Racecourse is one of the two racecourses for horse racing in Hong Kong. It is located in Sha Tin District, Sha Tin in the New Territories. It is managed by Hong Kong Jockey Club. Penfold Park is encircled by the track, and the Hong Kong Sports Institute is located immediately south of the property. Michael Jackson planned to perform at the racecourse on his Dangerous World Tour, which was the start of the third leg, but was cancelled due to the conflict of the racing season. History It was built in 1978 (under the administration of Sir David Akers-Jones, the then-Secretary for the New Territories) on reclaimed land and is the larger of the two tracks in Hong Kong. The course has 474 races per season including: * Hong Kong Cup * Hong Kong Mile * Hong Kong Sprint * Hong Kong Vase * Centenary Sprint Cup * Hong Kong Stewards' Cup * Queen's Silver Jubilee Cup * Hong Kong Gold Cup * Hong Kong Derby * Queen Elizabeth II Cup * Champions Mile * Chairman's Sprint Prize * H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Hall (horse Trainer)
David Joseph Hall (born 27 October 1963 in Adelaide, South Australia) is an Australian horse trainer. The son of trainer, Joe Hall, he obtained his trainer's license in 1988 at Morphettville. In 1993, he moved to race in Melbourne where he became famous for training Makybe Diva to the first of her three successive Melbourne Cup victories in 2003. David Hall was granted a trainer license by the Hong Kong Jockey Club in 2004. In 2010/11, he trained 21 winners and by the end of that season had run up an overall Hong Kong total of 209. In 2013/14 he trained 25 winners, including Bubble Chic who won the HKG3 Premier Plate and HKG3 Queen Mother Memorial Cup. He has accrued an overall Hong Kong total of 292. Significant horses * Absolute Champion Performance References The Hong Kong Jockey Club – Trainer Information*The Hong Kong Jockey Club The Hong Kong Jockey Club (HKJC) is one of the oldest institutions in Hong Kong, having been founded in 1884. In 1959, it was grante ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vincent C Y Ho
Vincent C Y Ho (born 25 May 1990) is a horse racing jockey. He made an impressive start to his riding career with 10 wins in his first season in 2009/10. He became Hong Kong's champion apprentice with 39 wins in 2010/11. In 2012/13 he rode 28 winners, and in 2013/14 season he has notched 22 for a HK total of 116. Performance Major wins Hong Kong * Champions Mile - (4) - ''Southern Legend (2020)'', ''Golden Sixty (2021, 2022, 2023)'' * Queen Elizabeth II Cup - (1) - '' Loves Only You (2021)'' * Hong Kong Mile - (2) - ''Golden Sixty (2020, 2021)'' * Hong Kong Derby - (1) - ''Golden Sixty (2020)'' * Hong Kong Classic Mile - (1) - ''Golden Sixty (2020)'' * Hong Kong Classic Cup - (1) - ''Golden Sixty (2020)'' * Hong Kong Stewards' Cup - (2) - ''Golden Sixty (2021, 2023)'' * Hong Kong Gold Cup - (2) - ''Golden Sixty (2021, 2023)'' * Centenary Sprint Cup - (1) - ''Stronger (2022)'' References External links *The Hong Kong Jockey Club The Hong Kong Jockey Club (HKJC) is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Neil Callan
Neil Callan is an Irish horse racing jockey. He has been ranked in the top echelon of riders on the UK jockeys' championship and has finished runner-up in 2005 (151 wins) and 2007 (170 wins). In 2010/2011 he rode 5 winners during his first three-month stint in Hong Kong. In seasons 2021/2022 and 2022/2023. he was the Bahrain Champion Jockey. Major wins Great Britain * Fillies' Mile - (1) - ''Hibaayeb (2009)'' * Middle Park Stakes - (1) - ''Amadeus Wolf (2005)'' * Nunthorpe Stakes - (1) - ''Borderlescott (2009)'' * Queen Anne Stakes - (1) - ''Triple Time (2023)'' * Racing Post Trophy - (1) - ''Palace Episode (2005)'' * Sun Chariot Stakes - (1) - ''Fonteyn (2022)'' ---- Germany * Bayerisches Zuchtrennen - (1) - ''Pressing (2009)'' ---- Hong Kong * Centenary Sprint Cup - (1) - ''Peniaphobia (2017)'' * Hong Kong Champions & Chater Cup - (2) - ''Blazing Speed (2014,2016)'' * Queen Elizabeth II Cup - (1) - ''Blazing Speed (2015)'' * Hong Kong Classic Mile - (1) - ''Beauty Only (2015 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul O'Sullivan (horseman)
Paul O'Sullivan (born 6 Dec 1959) is a New Zealand born thoroughbred racehorse trainer. O'Sullivan trained in partnership with his father, Dave O’Sullivan, for 17 years in New Zealand. He was the champion trainer in New Zealand on 11 occasions. O'Sullivan moved to Hong Kong to train in 2004. In 2010/11, O'Sullivan brought up his double century of winners in Hong Kong. In 2022 he finished there with 516 wins and total earnings of HK$525,837,109. Paul is the brother of New Zealand premiership winning jockey Lance O'Sullivan. Significant horses * Aerovelocity (Naisoso Warrior), winner of the 2014 and 2016 Hong Kong Sprint, 2015 KrisFlyer International Sprint and Takamatsunomiya Kinen, 2016 Centenary Sprint Cup * Coogee Walk, winner of the 1998 Railway Stakes * Ensign Ewart, winner of the 1994 Railway Stakes * Fellowship, winner of the 2010 Hong Kong Stewards' Cup * High Regards, winner of the 1985 Telegraph Handicap * Horlicks, winner of the 1989 Japan Cup * Miltak, winner ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zac Purton
Zac Purton (born 3 January 1983) is a horse racing jockey. He won the Brisbane jockeys' premiership as an apprentice in 2003, moved to Sydney and was quickly amongst the top jockeys there before he began his Hong Kong career in 2007/08. In the 2013/14 season, Purton ended the 13-year championship reign of Douglas Whyte, becoming the first Australian jockey to win the Hong Kong title since Noel Barker in 1991. . (112 wins). He notched up 112 wins on his way to the title. Purton also raced to what was then the fastest 50 in Hong Kong history that season and became the second rider, after Whyte, to notch 100 wins in a season. Purton lost his title when he came second to João Moreira in 2014/15 with 95 wins then was runner-up to his Brazilian rival again in 2015-16 and 2016-17 before reclaiming the Hong Kong championship in 2017-18 in an epic battle. With 854 career wins as a jockey in Hong Kong, Purton sits third on the list behind Whyte (1,791) and Anthony S. "Tony" Cruz (946 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Douglas Whyte
Douglas Whyte (born 15 Nov 1971 in Johannesburg, South Africa) is a former horse racing jockey and is now a horse trainer. He became Hong Kong champion jockey in the 2000-2001 season and won 13 consecutive titles, a record in flat racing. In 2013-14, he relinquished that title to Zac Purton, finishing third with 88 wins to give him an accumulated total of more than 1,600 races in Hong Kong with career stake earnings of more than $HK 1.3 billion. Douglas Whyte retired as a jockey on 10 February 2019 Shatin meeting. He started as a horse trainer for the 2019/2020 season and finished with 42 Wins. He has two children Sheikara and Ethan Major wins (As a jockey:) * Queen Elizabeth II Cup - (3) - ''London News (1997), Oriental Express (1998), Ambitious Dragon (2011)'' * Hong Kong Derby - (3) - ''Super Satin (2010), Fay Fay (2012), Akeed Mofeed (2013)'' * Hong Kong Stewards' Cup - (3) - ''Armada (2007), Ambitious Dragon (2012), Glorious Days (2013)'' * Hong Kong Gold Cup - (2) - ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
João Moreira (jockey)
João Moreira (born September 26, 1983, in Curitiba-Paraná , Brazil), is a jockey currently based in Hong Kong after successful seasons in Brazil, Hong Kong, Japan and Singapore. He is believed to have a set a world record of riding eight winners from eight rides on the nine-event card on Friday September 6, 2013, at Kranji race course in Singapore. His career started as an apprentice in 2005/06 season in his native home country of Brazil. Major wins United Arab Emirates * Dubai Golden Shaheen - (1) - '' Sterling City (2014)'' * Al Quoz Sprint - (1) - ''Amber Sky (2014)'' * Dubai Turf - (1) - Vivlos (2017) Australia * Champagne Stakes - (1) - ''Militarize (2023)'' * Coolmore Classic - (1) - ''Brazen Beau (2014)'' * Newmarket Handicap - (1) - ''Brazen Beau (2015)'' * Oakleigh Plate - (1) - ''Sheidel (2017)'' * Sires' Produce Stakes - (1) - ''Militarize (2023)'' Hong Kong * Hong Kong Mile - (1) - ''Able Friend (2014)'' * Hong Kong Cup - (1) - '' Designs on Rome (2014 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Manfred K
''Manfred: A dramatic poem'' is a closet drama written in 1816–1817 by Lord Byron. It contains supernatural elements, in keeping with the popularity of the ghost story in England at the time. It is a typical example of a Gothic fiction. Byron commenced this work in late 1816, a few months after the famous ghost-story sessions with Percy Bysshe Shelley and Mary Shelley that provided the initial impetus for '' Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus ''. The supernatural references are made clear throughout the poem. ''Manfred'' was adapted musically by Robert Schumann in 1852, in a composition entitled '' Manfred: Dramatic Poem with Music in Three Parts'', and in 1885 by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky in his ''Manfred Symphony''. Friedrich Nietzsche was inspired by the poem's depiction of a super-human being to compose a piano score in 1872 based on it, "Manfred Meditation". Background Byron wrote this "metaphysical drama", as he called it, after his marriage to Annabella Mill ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Olivier Doleuze
Olivier Doleuze (born 19 April 1972) is a French born jockey and is considered to be one of the world's premier jockeys. Doleuze began riding at the age of 14 and finished his career with more than 1,400 wins, 571 of those in Hong Kong. In 2010/11 he rode 38 winners, bringing his Hong Kong career total to 375. Major wins France * Critérium de Saint-Cloud - (1) - ''Special Quest (1997)'' * Grand Critérium - (1) - ''Okawango (2000)'' * Poule d'Essai des Poulains - (1) - ''Green Tune (1994)'' * Prix de l'Abbaye de Longchamp - (1) - ''Kistena (1996)'' * Prix du Cadran - (1) - ''Chief Contender (1997)'' * Prix de Diane - (1) - ''Egyptband (2000)'' * Prix de la Forêt - (2) - ''Occupandiste (1997), Dedication (2002)'' * Prix d'Ispahan - (1) - ''Green Tune (1995)'' * Prix Jean Prat - (1) - ''Rouvres (2002)'' * Prix Marcel Boussac - (2) - ''Loving Claim (1997), Juvenia (1998)'' * Prix Maurice de Gheest - (1) - ''Occupandiste (1997)'' Hong Kong * Hong Kong Mile - (3) - ''The Duke (2006) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ricky P
Ricky may refer to: Places * Říčky (Brno-Country District), a village and municipality in the Czech Republic * Říčky v Orlických horách, a village in the north of the Czech Republic *Rickmansworth, a town in England sometimes called "Ricky" Film and television * ''Ricky'' (2009 film), a fantasy film * ''Ricky'' (2016 film), a Kannada thriller movie Music *Ricky (band), a UK indie band * ''Ricky'' (album), a 1957 album by Ricky Nelson * "Ricky" (song), a 1983 song by "Weird Al" Yankovic * "Ricky" (Denzel Curry song), from the 2019 album ''Zuu'' * "Ricky" (Game song), from ''The R.E.D. Album'', 2011 People * Ricky (footballer, born 1973), Spanish football forward * Ricky (given name), a diminutive of Richard, Enrique, Fredrick or Patrick * Ricky (musician), Japanese singer Other uses * Ricky (dog), decorated for bravery in service during the Second World War * "Ricky" (''Trailer Park Boys''), See also * Ricky's (other) * Rickey (other) * Rickie *Riki *Ri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sacred Kingdom
Sacred Kingdom (Chinese: 蓮華生輝), (foaled 18 November 2003 in Australia on Kornong Stud) is a Thoroughbred racehorse trained in Hong Kong. His group one success came in the Hong Kong Sprint The Hong Kong Sprint is a Group 1 flat horse race in Hong Kong which is open to thoroughbreds aged three years or older. It is run over a distance of 1,200 metres (about 6 furlongs) at Sha Tin, and it is scheduled to take place each year in mid De .... His retirement was announced in April 2012. In Australia he was known as Jumbo Star. References The Hong Kong Jockey Club - Sacred Kingdom Racing recordThe Hong Kong Jockey Club {{The Most Popular Horse of the Year 2003 racehorse births [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
