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HKJC Horse Race Betting Limited will participate in France's "World Pool by PMU", a partnership launched by its overseas partner Pari Mutuel Urbain (PMU), starting with the Prix Ganay World Pool by PMU race on April 26. The initiative further enhances the World Pool branding, created by The Hong Kong Jockey Club (the Club), in continuing to provide racing fans with strong international liquidity. The Club has maintained a close partnership with PMU over the years. Since 2019, the Club and PMU have worked together to offer Win and Place...

You'd have to say the Ka Ying Rising camp is feeling fairly confident, if the reports coming out of Sha Tin are anything to go by two days out from FWD Champions Day. A winner of 19 straight starts, a record for a Hong Kong-trained horse, the son of Shamexpress is coming into the G1 Chairman's Sprint Prize with everything in his favour. Not only is the reigning Hong Kong Horse of the Year aiming for a title defence in Sunday's 1200-metre contest, but connections feel he can get the...

The scene is unmistakably Hong Kong. A field of high-class Thoroughbreds thunders down a lush turf straight, the pounding of hooves echoing against a grandstand and a large diamond-vision screen. To a casual viewer with no sound on, this is racing at Sha Tin. But as the horses pull up, no skyscrapers loom over the backstretch, and the stands are desperately empty. There is no Shing Mun River here; it is a barrier trial at Conghua, and for the horses involved, the transition between these two worlds has become part...

Hong Kong Horse of the Year Ka Ying Rising (Shamexpress) is one of the headline acts for FWD Champions Day at Sha Tin on April 26. A total of HK78 million (€8,522,110) is on offer across the three Group 1 races--the FWD QEII Cup (2000m), FWD Champions Mile and the Chairman's Sprint Prize (1200m). Overall, there are 38 entries for the three races (excluding reserves), 13 of them winners at the highest table. A winner of the Chairman's Sprint Prize in 2025, the gelding is aiming for his second win...

Newmarket's 1,000 Guineas and the Oaks from Epsom will return as World Pool races this year, with the full list of 2026 Q2 fixtures being confirmed by the Hong Kong Jockey Club. As was the case last year, the World Pool season in Britain will kick off with the 2,000 Guineas from Newmarket on Saturday, May 2, with a full card available to punters in 27 jurisdictions. The following day, the 1,000 Guineas, the second Classic of the British Flat season, will also be commingled, having last been a World...

Former Hong Kong Horse of the Year Romantic Warrior put his stamp on the G1 Stewards' Cup over 1600 metre at Sha Tin on Sunday, a 12th top-level victory for the son of Acclamation. Favoured at 1-2 in his first trip to the post since claiming a fourth consecutive score in the G1 Hong Kong Cup this past December, the eight-year-old perched just off the leading trio from the bell. Red Lion (Belardo) edged ahead of the field with 1000 metres to go, as Romantic Warrior drifted back to midfield...

World Pool turnover on overseas races in 2025 totalled HK$9.3 billion (around €1 billion), representing a 20% increase on the 2024 figure of HK$7.8 billion (€855 million). In total, the Hong Kong Jockey Club-powered pools were active across 57 racedays staged outside of Hong Kong. Most notably, those racedays included the Randwick card on October 18 which saw Ka Ying Rising extend his winning sequence in The Everest. Total turnover on The Everest reached a new record for a single race of HK$83 million (€9.1 million), smashing the previous high...

Richard Kingscote has been granted a licence extension by the Hong Kong Jockey Club (HKJC), and will ride from February 18 through the end of the 2025/2026 season at Sha Tin on July 12. The Derby-winning jockey currently has four wins and 28 placings from 165 rides with earnings of approximately £1.2 million. Overall, the 39-year-old boasts eight Hong Kong wins, having accrued four during the 2024/25 Hong Kong season, as well. Another jockey granted a licence extension is Australian James Orman, who has 12 wins to his name. The...

HONG KONG, CHINA - Hong Kong International Races day began under gray skies and chilly temperatures, but heated up quickly with an opening performance from K-Pop legend RAIN, who brought out the sun for a legion of fans lined up outside the paddock with signs bearing his name and had even HKJC CEO Winfried Engelbrecht-Bresges bopping along to his performance. The day's expected headliners and hometown heroes Ka Ying Rising (NZ) (Shamexpress {NZ}) and Romantic Warrior (Ire) (Acclamation {GB}) delivered in spades, but the quartet of international races opened with...

The 2025 International Conference for the Health, Safety and Welfare of Jockeys (ICHSWJ) was held in Hong Kong on December 11-12. Themed Performance Medicine in Racing - Developing and Protecting the Jockey, the conference took an applied, evidence-based approach, featuring presentations and panel discussions with leading experts in the field. "This conference represents one of the most important conversations taking place within the racing industry today," said Winfried Engelbrecht-Bresges, chair of the International Federation of Horseracing Authorities (IFHA). "For too long, jockey safety and wellbeing have been discussed with admiration...

All proceeds from the upcoming Sha Tin meeting on Sunday will be donated to support victims and their families from the Tai Po fire, according to a Hong Kong Jockey Club (HKJC) release. The fire ravaged a public housing estate in Tai Po, Hong Kong earlier this week, killing over 125 people. The HKJC said in a statement, "The Hong Kong Jockey Club is deeply saddened by the loss of so many lives during the tragic fire at Wang Fuk Court in Tai Po, as well as the injuries and...

A record 30 World Pool Moment of the Day prizes were awarded in 2025, with the stable staff of the winning horse receiving a cheque for HK$40,000, but now only four finalists remain in the running to be crowned the World Pool Moment of the Year. This year's shortlist for the World Pool Moment of the Year competition features winners from Japan and Australia. Voting is now open here and will close on Monday, December 1. The winner will be announced during LONGINES Hong Kong International Races (HKIR) week (December...