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Matthew Poon has withstood an inspired season finale push from Derek Leung to claim his first Tony Cruz Award as Hong Kong’s leading homegrown jockey in dramatic circumstances at Happy Valley on Wednesday night (16 July).
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Mark Newnham’s stable is home to one of Hong Kong’s most exciting horses and the trainer, a superb winner of 43 races in his second campaign, heads into the Season Finale at Happy Valley on Wednesday night (16 July) already keen on what 2025/26 may have in store.
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The current 2024/25 racing season concludes with Happy Valley’s Season Finale on Wednesday night, 16 July. On the night, racegoers may witness the crowning of the season’s Tony Cruz Award winner and the Champion Griffin award. A Jockeys’ Parade on the night is where fans have the chance to get up close to their favourite riders.
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John Size secured a record-extending 13th Hong Kong trainers’ championship at Sha Tin on Sunday (13 July) as the master trainer embarked on a familiar coronation march with a treble, further burnishing an extraordinary career.
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Luke Middlebrook's Hong Kong Selections and Analysis for Wednesday, July 16, 2025, at Happy Valley.
Seventeenth last out in the Prix du Jockey Club, Leffard was first past the post Sunday at Longchamp in the Group 1 Grand Prix de Paris.
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Six 3-year-olds are entered in the Group 1 Grand Prix de Paris on Sunday at Longchamp Racecourse, but if established form holds, the race comes down to New Ground and Trinity College.
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A Grade 1 winner in America last year, Cinderella’s Dream became a Group 1 winner in England when she ran down favored January to capture the Falmouth Stakes at Newmarket.
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Hong Kong Selections for Sunday, July 13, 2025.
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Ka Ying Rising’s outstanding performance during the 2024/25 racing season saw the record-breaking speedster earn the Horse of the Year title at a special presentation held at the Grand Ballroom of the Rosewood Hotel in Hong Kong tonight (Friday, 11 July). In addition, he was also named Champion Sprinter and Champion Four-Year-Old at the ceremony.
