Tag Archives: LUCKY NINE
CASPAR FOWNES AND HIS TOP 20 CHAMPION HORSES OVER THE PAST TWENTY YEARS
By Hans Ebert @hanseberthk It’s hard to think that he almost didn’t receive his license to train in Hong Kong.There are vague memories of those days when his father Lawrie went to bat for him along with the racing media … Continue reading
Posted in casper fownes, HAPPY WEDNESDAY, Hong Kong Jockey Club, Hong Kong Racing, Horse Racing, The horse racing industry
Tagged "Sacred Kingdom", Able Friend, Aerovelocity, Bullish Luck, Caspar Fownes, Designs On Rome, Electronic Unicorn, Fairy King Prawn, GOOD BA BA, happy valley, LUCKY NINE, military attack, Mr Vitality, Oriental Express, Quicken Away, Rapper Dragon, Silent Witness, Vengeance Of Rain, Viva Pataca
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DOUGLAS WHYTE AND HIS LIST OF HONG KONG’S TOP 20 CHAMPION HORSES
By Hans Ebert @hanseberthk When Douglas Whyte rode the first winner of the day at Sha Tin yesterday, it was one of those moments in time that made my mind wander. It was a lowly Class 5 event, but it … Continue reading
Posted in DOUGLAS WHYTE, Hong Kong Jockey Club, Hong Kong Racing, Horse Racing
Tagged "Sacred Kingdom", Able Friend, Able One, Aerovelocity, Akeed Mofeed, AMBITIOUS DRAGON, Designs On Rome, Electronic Unicorn, Glorious Days, GOOD BA BA, Indigenous, LUCKY NINE, LUCKY OWNERS, military attack, Oriental Express, Rapper Dragon, Silent Witness, Vengeance Of Rain, Viva Pataca, Werther
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HONG KONG WONTONS, DING DONGS, THEN SOMES AND DIM SUMS
AN ODD ODE TO LAST SUNDAY It was the Prelude to December 14 And the sun shone brightly last Sunday All the big guns were there to do battle It was a U2 Hum and Rattle Alex Lai won the … Continue reading
Posted in brett prebble, casper fownes, DOUGLAS WHYTE, HAPPY WEDNESDAY, Hong Kong Jockey Club, Hong Kong Racing, Horse Racing, JOAO MOREIRA, JOHN MOORE, JOHN SIZE, NASH RAWILLER, Racing NSW, The horse racing industry, Tony Cruz, zac purton
Tagged Alex Lai, Blazing Speed, Brett Prebble, Buffering, CHRISTIAN REITH, Designs On Rome, HK International Sprint, Joao Moreira, John Moore, Line Seeker, LUCKY NINE, military attack, Mirco Demuro, Packing Pins, RNSW, Robert Heathcliff, TOMMY BERRY, Tony Cruz, Zac Purton
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SIZE MATTERS AND SEEING THE BIG PICTURE
Saturday was a very strange day for racing fans starting with a series of flops at Flemington including the miserable performance of Hong Kong’s Lucky Nine down the straight 1200 metres in the VRC Sprint Classic. Not to be smart … Continue reading
Posted in casper fownes, HAPPY WEDNESDAY, Hong Kong Jockey Club, Hong Kong Racing, JOAO MOREIRA, JOHN SIZE, zac purton
Tagged Caspar Fownes, happy wednesday, HKJC, Joao Moreira, John Size, LUCKY NINE, Nico Penna, Prebble, Shane Dye, the Jockey Challenge, Tye Angland, VRC Sprint Classic, Zac Purton
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MAGIC, MARKETING AND CANCELING OUR SCMP SUBSCRIPTION
Joao Moreira has not only hit the ground running, he’s hit the tracks of Hong Kong flying as if on Steppenwolf’s Magic Carpet Ride. Well, he IS The Magic Man and at Shatin yesterday won his first Group race in … Continue reading
Posted in casper fownes, DOUGLAS WHYTE, HAPPY WEDNESDAY, Hong Kong Jockey Club, Hong Kong Racing, Horse Racing, JOAO MOREIRA, richard gibson
Tagged Akeed Mofeed, BRUCE CLARK, Cox Plate, Douglas Whyte, HKJC, Joao Moreira, LUCKY NINE, Nadia Horne, Olivier Doleuze, SCMP, Shane Anderson, sterling city
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THE WAKE UP CALL ISSUE
STOP TRASHING THE IMAGE OF RACING! Racing is unquestionably it’s own worst enemy. Need convincing? Just listen to a podcast of an interview on Melbourne radio station RSN conducted by host Shane Anderson with Australian Racing Board Chief Executive Peter … Continue reading
Posted in Australian horse racing industry, Gai Waterhouse, Horse Racing, Racing NSW
Tagged Atlantic Jewel, Australian Racing Board, Australian Racing Board Chief Executive Peter McGauran, Fiorente, Gai Waterhouse, LUCKY NINE, Melbourne radio station RSN, PETER MCGAURAN, Puissance De Lune, Shane Anderson, Underwood Stakes
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THE FACT OR FICTION ISSUE
HYPROCISY IN THE “HAYSON” RULE The six month racetrack ban on one of NSW racing’s “colourful racing identities” in our old mate “Fast” Eddie Hayson by a Racing NSW judge and jury is as hypocritical as it is yet another … Continue reading
Posted in Australian horse racing industry, casper fownes, Horse Racing
Tagged Caspar Fownes, China Horse Club, Claude Piccioni, Eddie Hayson, Group One Golden Rose, Jimmy Cassidy, John Warren, Johnny Gilmore, Kevin Connolly, LUCKY NINE, Mongolia racing, NSW, Parramatta Road, Patrick Lee, RACING VICTORIA, Rosehill, TVN
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THE ROLE OF RACING IN THE MARKETING OF HONG KONG
It’s disappointing that the significance of Hong Kong’s wins over the weekend Singapore’s biggest International Races have not been realized outside of the city’s racing world. (Source: SIA Cup) Then again, even international racing pundits gave these wins scant mention … Continue reading
Posted in casper fownes, HAPPY WEDNESDAY, Hong Kong Jockey Club, Hong Kong Racing, Horse Racing, JOHN MOORE, SINGAPORE TURF CLUB, www.fasttrack.hk, zac purton
Tagged atv, happy valley, happy wednesday, HKJC, LUCKY NINE, military attack, Singapore International Airlines Cup 2013, The Happy Wednesday Song, TVN
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HONG KONG LAUNCHES MILITARY ATTACK IN SINGAPORE. ATV ATTACKS PATIENCE OF HK RACING FANS.
We’re still trying to understand and come to grips with the ‘live’ simulcast from Singapore where, judging by the tweets, DMs, emails, phone calls and pigeon droppings received, most Hong Kong audiences managed to watch two races- the International Cup … Continue reading
Posted in brett prebble, casper fownes, Hong Kong Jockey Club, Hong Kong Racing, Horse Racing, HORSE RACING AND SOCIAL MEDIA, JO JO MCKINNON, The horse racing industry, WINFRIED ENGELBRECHT-BRESGES, zac purton
Tagged Adrenaline at Happy Valley, atv, ATV live streaming, Dan Excel, Gallery at Happy Valley, John Moore, LUCKY NINE, military attack, Singapore International Airlines Cup 2013, Zac Purto
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HONG KONG LAUNCHES MASSIVE ATTACK IN SINGAPORE
(Source: SIA Cup) (Source: SIA Cup) John Moore got that monkey off his back along with his safari suit by winning on foreign soil with one of his runners. And what a win it was, too with Zac Purton launching … Continue reading
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