Category Archives: FRANKIE DETTORI
WHEN HORSE RACING GIVES BACK: THE HKJC CHARITIES TRUST
(Courtesy of http://www.fasttrack.hk) By Jenny Bridle The social event for the international horse racing crowd on Friday night was the Longines Hong Kong International Races Gala Dinner held at the new Hong Kong Convention Centre in Wanchai. Here, Frankie Dettori, … Continue reading
Posted in FRANKIE DETTORI, Hong Kong Jockey Club, Hong Kong Racing, Horse Racing, The horse racing industry, www.fasttrack.hk
Tagged 2015 Investec Derby and Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe, Aaron Kwok, BREEDERS CUP, Frankie Dettori, HKJC Charities Trust, Hong Kong Convention Centre, Jenny Bridle, Jue Yao, Longines Hong Kong International Races Gala Dinner, Simon Baker, World's Best Jockey Award
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HORSE RACING: HOLDING OUT FOR A HERO (INCLUDING EFFECTIVELY MARKETING CO-MINGLING)
Back in the day, Bonnie Tyler channeled Rod Stewart and made an impassioned plea via her song, “Holding Out For A Hero”. If ever horse racing needed a theme song, this is it- a sport sorely lacking in heroes, and, … Continue reading
Posted in FRANKIE DETTORI, Horse Racing, HORSE RACING AND SOCIAL MEDIA, JOAO MOREIRA, The horse racing industry
Tagged Ahmed Zayat, American Pharoah, Black Caviar, Bob Baffert, Brent Thomson, Christophe Soumillon, Deep Impact, FRANKEL, Frankie Dettori, George Moore, Joao Moreira, Kingston Town, lester piggott, Michael Kinane, Pat Eddery, Phar Lap, Ryan Moore, Seabiscuit, Secretariat, Silent Witness, Steve Cauthen, Victor Espinoza
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SAY IT AIN’T SO, JOAO!
Though riding another treble including a brilliant ride on Fiery Patrol, another three-day suspension for an uh-oh steering effort- the Stipes got it absolutely right- aboard another winner in the David Hall-trained Bundle Of Joy, below, plus another $60,000 fine, … Continue reading
THE MOST INTERESTING PEOPLE IN RACING
PAN SUTONG Billionaire Chinese businessman and horse owner. Like Batman in Gotham City, he’s swooped on the world racing scene outta nowhere by first coming to notice with his million dollar purchases- Gold Fun and Akeed Mofeed- and then taking … Continue reading
Posted in Australian horse racing industry, FRANKIE DETTORI, Hong Kong Jockey Club, Hong Kong Racing, Horse Racing, The horse racing industry, WINFRIED ENGELBRECHT-BRESGES
Tagged PAN SUTONG, SHEIKH JOAAN AL THANI, SHEIKH MOHAMMED BIN RASHID EL MAKTOUM, THE AGA KHAN, THE YOSHIDA FAMILY, Winfried Engelbrecht-Bresges
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TREVE, FIORONTE, HARRY COFFEY AND HAPPY WEDNESDAY TONIGHT
(Courtesy of http://www.fasttrack.hk) Many of us are still stunned with the brilliant performance of Treve in the L’Arc de Triomphe and a magnificent ride by Thierry Jarnet. If not for a cruel injury to his ankle last Friday, Frankie Dettori … Continue reading
DID YOU HEAR THE ONE ABOUT THE IRISHMAN, THE FRENCHMAN AND WINNING?
Horse racing is a game of contrasting fortunes and no matter where a race is held by less than six degrees of separation and no Kevin Bacon in sight. In Hong Kong at Shatin, Irish jockey Colm O’Donoghue who is … Continue reading
FAST TRACK TAKES ON SHATIN, FLEMINGTON, SINGAPORE AND HIGHWAY KNOBBERY
(Courtesy of http://www.fasttrack.hk) It’s been a bad week for racing fans with news of the career-threatening injury to Ambitious Dragon and the fall of our old mate Frankie Dettori which will see him outta action for almost a year, but … Continue reading
Posted in AMBITIOUS DRAGON, FRANKIE DETTORI, Hong Kong Jockey Club, Hong Kong Racing, Horse Racing, JOAO MOREIRA, www.fasttrack.hk
Tagged AMBITIOUS DRAGON, Frankie Dettori, Gold-Fun, Joao Moreira, Kranji Racecourse, Michael DeKretser, Moonee Valley, RICHARD GIBSON, Richard Gibson's parrot, Scratchy Bottom, Stephen Baster
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THE FULL DISCLOSURE ISSUE
IT’S ALL ABOUT THE “D” WORD (Source: Ian Franco Palaz Zolo) It’s called disclosure, and from what we have learned from the saturation media coverage of the biggest racing story since the Fine Cotton scandal, whichever way you analyse the … Continue reading
JOCKEYS: THE GOOD, THE BAD AND THE UGLY
(Source: Shim Weasel) By Hans Ebert Jockeys are today’s gunslingers- well, some of them though most have done no favours to the profession by being what some call “ankle biters” and I dismiss as Willie Wonka’s Oompah Loompahs. But those … Continue reading
