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The 3-year-old filly Taken by the Wind has started her career with three wins, the most recent Saturday in the Silverbulletday Stakes. Her trainer, Kenny McPeek, sees Taken by the Wind as a Kentucky Oaks horse, and McPeek believes she needs only one more race before the Oaks.
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Ricky Yiu has declared it’s all systems go for Voyage Bubble ahead of his six-time Group 1 winner’s Triple Crown defence, which begins in Sunday’s (25 January) HK$13 million G1 Stewards’ Cup (1600m) at Sha Tin, when he clashes with Romantic Warrior.
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In the fifth instalment of The Hong Kong Jockey Club’s Road to the Derby series, we profile a contender who has charged up the ratings this season – the Jimmy Ting-trained Little Paradise.
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Luke Middlebrook's Hong Kong Selections and Analysis for Wednesday, Jan. 21, 2026, at Sha Tin.
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Six-time Group 1-winning sprinter Ka Ying Rising has been crowned Timeform’s Horse of the Year (2025). Trained by David Hayes, last season’s Hong Kong Horse of the Year (2024/25) also earned the accolade as Timeform’s Champion Sprinter (2025).
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With the 2026 Yonkers Raceway racing season soon to get underway, there is still time to recommend changes to the status quo that may prove beneficial to the product long-term. The recently-invoked rule that prohibits drivers from rating a second quarter in 30 seconds or slower could induce modest changes to the way races are run. At the same time, it may be hard to see the fruits of such labor if the focus is just on the second quarter, or for that part, a half-minute that somehow equalizes times whether the race is for $20,000 claiming trotters or Open class pacers.
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Daneyko edged Way Beyond by a nose to win the $100,000 Riley Allison Derby after a stretch-long battle in the Sunday feature at Sunland Park. It was another 13 3/4 lengths back in third to Forty Seven.
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The seizure of 26 slot-styled parimutuel gaming machines at Santa Anita late Saturday by law enforcement officers is expected to lead to legal action by the track as soon as this week, a high-ranking executive said Monday.
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The reorganization of Harris Farms, the famed California Thoroughbred breeding facility, has been underway since the death of owner John Harris last July.
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Golden Tempo came out of his Lecomte Stakes win in good shape, at least as of Sunday, and all being well will make his next start Feb. 14 at Fair Grounds in the Risen Star Stakes.
