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At the start of the 2025-26 Hong Kong Racing Season, Romantic Warrior was hardly on anyone’s radar. After a grueling campaign the season before, when he raced in the UAE, Saudi Arabia and then, back to the UAE, he came home and had surgery on his left fore fetlock on May 21, 2025.
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The HK$13 million G1 Standard Chartered Champions & Chater Cup (2400m) at Sha Tin on Sunday (24 May) will center around the performance of overwhelming favorite Romantic Warrior – Hong Kong racing’s superstar.
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Frankie Lor is optimistic that implementing new tactics for Numbers can help the BMW Hong Kong Derby (2000m) runner-up go to another level in Sunday’s (24 May) HK$13 million G1 Standard Chartered Champions & Chater Cup (2400m) at Sha Tin.
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Luke Middlebrook's Hong Kong Selections and Analysis for Wednesday, May 20, 2026 at Happy Valley.
Embroidery, Japan’s champion 3-year-old filly of 2025, is thriving as a 4-year-old.
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No rider will be busier than Andrea Atzeni at Sunday’s (17 May) Sha Tin meeting when the Italian takes 10 rides as he closes in on his best-ever Hong Kong season.
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Hong Kong Selections for Sunday, May 17, 2026 at Sha Tin.
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Luke Middlebrook's Hong Kong Selections and Analysis for Sunday, May 17, 2026, at Sha Tin.
Notable Speech unleashed a furious rally in the final furlong to win Saturday’s Group 1 Lockinge Stakes at Newbury Racecourse in Britain, his first victory since the Breeders’ Cup Mile at Del Mar last November.
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