With the glamour and the glory of one major race day still fresh in the memory, thoughts are already turning to the Four-Year-Old Classic Series in the early part of 2019 and Hong Kong’s next crop of potential stars.

A bulging contacts book is an asset to any Hong Kong jockey and champion Zac Purton added another name to his list of winning trainers when Applause aced the Hong Kong Golf Club Centenary Cup for up-and-coming Jimmy Ting at Happy Valley on Wednesday 12 December.

Leading global racing officials visited the Hong Kong Jockey Club’s Conghua Racecourse on Monday (10 December) for a glimpse of the future of the sport in Hong Kong and equestrian pursuits in the Mainland as a whole.

Glorious Forever’s victory in the LONGINES Hong Kong Cup wrapped up a first ever Hong Kong clean-sweep at the LONGINES Hong Kong International Races and capped a stellar occasion of world class sport at Sha Tin Racecourse today, Sunday, 9 December, 2018.

Hong Kong’s Frankie Lor, in just his second season of training, today may well have announced himself as a likely future champion of his home town when Glorious Forever claimed the flagship HK$28 million G1 LONGINES Hong Kong Cup (2000m).

The first three LONGINES HKIR competitors, British raiders Prince Of Arran and Red Verdon, and Irish star Latrobe, arrived at Sha Tin Racecourse last night (26 November) after flying into Hong Kong from Australia.

The Hong Kong Jockey Club announced the horses selected for the four international Group 1 events of the 2018 LONGINES Hong Kong International Races at Happy Valley.

The John Moore-trained Beauty Generation (No.1) storms home to take the G2 BOCHK Wealth Management Jockey Club Mile in a track record time at Sha Tin Racecourse.

John Size-trained Hot King Prawn (No 7), ridden by Joao Moreira, wins the G2 BOCHK Wealth Management Jockey Club Sprint (1200m) at Sha Tin Racecourse.

The John Moore-trained Eagle Way (No. 6), ridden by Silvestre de Sousa, wins the G2 BOCHK Jockey Club Cup (2000m) at Sha Tin Racecourse.