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Centenary Sprint Cup
The Centenary Sprint Cup is a Hong Kong 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 the 2017/2018 season, the race was promoted to Group 1 status. Winners See also * List of Hong Kong horse races References *Racing Post: **, , , , , , , , , **, , , , , , , , , **, , , , 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) was founded in 1884 and is one of the oldest institutions in Hong Kong. ... [...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 it did not materialize due to the dates conflicting with the racing season. History The racecourse 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 M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brett Prebble
Brett Prebble (born 23 September 1977) is an Australian jockey, currently based in Melbourne, Victoria. Having ridden over 1200 career winners, Prebble's most famous win came aboard Green Moon in the 2012 Emirates Melbourne Cup. Personal life Prebble was born in Ballarat, Victoria. He and his ex wife have two children, one of them, Tom, followed his father's footsteps and became an apprenticing jockey. Brett is relatives to Jim Newman, an up-and-coming apprentice jockey based in Perth, WA. He is the brother-in-law of two Melbourne Cup-winning jockeys: Michelle Payne, who won the Cup in 2015, and Kerrin McEvoy, who won the Cup in 2000, 2016 and 2018. Career as a jockey Prebble was a champion jockey in Melbourne before he moved to Hong Kong in 2002. He held the record for the number of winners in a Melbourne Metropolitan racing season, with 99 winners and one dead heat in 1999–2000, until Jamie Kah set a new record in July 2021 when she rode her 100th winner for the 2020–2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Neil Callan
Neil Callan is an Irish horse racing jockey. He was the British flat racing Champion Apprentice in 1999. 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) - ''Blazi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul O'Sullivan (horseman)
Paul David O'Sullivan (born 6 December 1959) is a New Zealand Thoroughbred racehorse trainer. O'Sullivan trained in partnership with his father, Dave O’Sullivan, for 17 years in New Zealand, and was the champion trainer in New Zealand on 11 occasions. He is the brother of New Zealand premiership-winning jockey Lance O'Sullivan. 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. 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 * Milta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zac Purton
Zac Purton (born 3 January 1983) is an Australian jockey who has won the most races in Hong Kong racing history and won the Hong Kong Jockeys' Championship on seven occasions. Purton is married to Nicole Purton, the daughter of Hall of Fame jockey Jim Cassidy. Zac and Nicole have two children, Cash and Roxy. Purton has won all four of the Hong Kong International Races at least once and the all-important Hong Kong Derby twice. Lauded for his tactical awareness and race planning, Zac Purton is renowned for his toughness in a finish and his superb balance, making him one of the all-time greats. In the saddle, he has few weaknesses, and is an astute operator when it comes to off-track aspects of decision-making and relationship-building in Hong Kong. Background and early years From a non-racing background, Purton spent most of his childhood and teenage years in the sleepy coastal town of Coffs Harbour, on the New South Wales mid-north coast in Australia. He also spen ... [...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 Racecourse, 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 Ko ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
João Moreira (jockey)
João Moreira (born September 26, 1983), is a Brazilian jockey with extensive experience riding in Singapore, Hong Kong, Australia, and Japan. In 2017, Andrew Harding of the Hong Kong Jockey Club described him by saying, "You would have to say he was one of Brazil's greatest sporting exports. Joao is becoming to global racing what Pele or Ronaldo are to football." Early years João Henrique Almansa Moreira grew up in Curitiba, Brazil in the poor neighborhood of Pinhais. He was the youngest of eight children. His family was very poor, and his father died of stomach cancer when Moreira was seven. They lived in a small shack, and at one point he got a job as a stablehand. He was first recruited by a gang when he was eight, and he associated with gangs until he was 14, when his older brother helped him get out of that world, finding him a job at a furniture factory. Moreira explained in 2017, "I tell young people that I stumbled when I was that young, I got in with this crowd, but tha ... [...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 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 1848–1849, 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 Mi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Olivier Doleuze
Olivier Doleuze (born 19 April 1972) is a French-born jockey and considered 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. Doleuze announced his retirement in June 2019, putting an end to 31 years in the saddle racing all around the globe. 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)'' * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ricky P
Ricky may refer to: Places *Říčky, a municipality and village in the Czech Republic *Říčky, a village and part of Orlické Podhůří in the Czech Republic *Říčky v Orlických horách, a municipality and village in the Czech Republic *Rickmansworth, a town in Hertfordshire, England, sometimes nicknamed Ricky Film and television * ''Ricky'' (2009 film), a French fantasy film * ''Ricky'' (2016 film), an Indian Kannada-language thriller film Music * Ricky (band), a UK indie band * ''Ricky'' (album), a 1957 album by Ricky Nelson * "Ricky" ("Weird Al" Yankovic song), 1983 * "Ricky" (Denzel Curry song), from the 2019 album ''Zuu'' * "Ricky" (Game song), from ''The R.E.D. Album'', 2011 People *Ricky Owubokiri (born 1961), also known as Ricky, Nigerian footballer *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 ... [...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. 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 Racehorses bred in Australia Racehorses trained in Australia Racehorses trained in Hong Kong Thoroughbred family 22-b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Moore (horseman)
John Moore (born 17 March 1950) is a Thoroughbred racehorse trainer. Moore was born in Sydney, Australia, The son of jockey and trainer George Moore. He began working in Hong Kong racing as an assistant to his father in 1971. In 1985, John Moore took out his trainers license and built a highly successful career for himself in Hong Kong. Moore won the 2014 Dubai Golden Shaheen with Hong Kong–based Sterling City. live telecast of 2014 Dubai World Cup broadcast, 29 March 2014. Moore has won the Hong Kong Trainers Premiership five times and in 2005 broke Brian Kan's record for most career wins by a trainer in Hong Kong racing. The 55 winners he saddled in 2013–14 brought his career total to 1,400. Performance References Hong Kong Jockey Club linked list of horses trained by John MooreThe Hong Kong Jockey Club - Trainer profile of John Moore*The Hong Kong Jockey Club The Hong Kong Jockey Club (HKJC) was founded in 1884 and is one of the oldest institutions in Hon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
