Paul Lally:
R1 8-4-1-7
R2 1-7-8-10
R3 4-9-8-2
R4 5-10-1-9
R5 2-7-1-3
R6 1-10-5-9
R7 11-8-1-4
R8 4-10-11-2
R9 1-11-9-5-3
Best Bet R3 N4 Amazing Gaze
Longshot R2 N1 Happy Boys
Play Race8 QQP 4-10-11
Tom Wood:
R1: 8-4-3-1
R2: 8-7-3-1
R3: 4-8-12-10
R5: 7-2-3-1
R6: 9-1-4-10
Everything about Romantic Warrior indicates the champion is in excellent order, and Danny Shum’s star will need to be when he seeks a fourth straight HK$40 million G1 LONGINES Hong Kong Cup (2000m) win at Sha Tin on 14 December.
Romantic Warrior will return in Sunday week’s (23 November) HK$5.35 million G2 BOCHK Jockey Club Cup (2000m), marking 232 days between races – a period when the 10-time Group 1 winner underwent left fore fetlock surgery following his pioneering and lucrative three-race Middle East campaign.
By Leo Schlink
Brett Crawford celebrated the most significant triumph of a burgeoning Hong Kong, China career when the South African combined with familiar ally Karis Teetan to land the HK$4.2 million G3 Sa Sa Ladies’ Purse Handicap (1800m) with Encountered (115lb) at Sha Tin on Sunday (9 November).
Paul Lally:
R1 1-3-4-8
R2 6-5-3-10
R3 4-12-1-2
R4 8-1-7-10
R5 5-2-1-4
R6 7-1-4-9
R7 13-2-14-9
R8 2-11-9-7
R9 2-5-11-13
R10 13-2-11-8
Best Bet R7 N13 Californiatotality
Longshot R10 N13 Mickley
Play R8 QQP 2-9-11
Tom Wood:
R1: 3-8-1-5
R2: 3-11-5-6
R3: 4-1-14-12
R5: 4-5-2-1
Champion jockey Zac Purton believes the best is yet to come from Cap Ferrat (127lb) as he prepares to ride the Francis Lui-trained galloper for the first time in Sunday’s HK$4.2 million G3 Sa Sa Ladies’ Purse Handicap (1800m) at Sha Tin.
Remarkably, the sole victory on the five-year-old’s 21-race record (including 13 in Australia for trainer Chris Waller) is the 2025 BMW Hong Kong Derby (2000m), but Purton thinks it’s just a matter of tapping the Snitzel gelding’s potential.
By Leo Schlink
Preparing to contest the LONGINES International Jockeys’ Championship (LONGINES IJC) next month, Hollie Doyle opened her latest Hong Kong stint in perfect fashion at Happy Valley on Wednesday night (5 November), striking in tandem with familiar ally Run Run Smart (122lb) in the Class 4 Japan Racing Association Trophy Handicap (1200m).
By Declan Schuster
One of world racing’s leading female riders, Hollie Doyle, will begin her short-term contract in Hong Kong on Wednesday night (5 November) at Happy Valley, where she takes seven rides across the nine-race fixture.
Doyle, 29, has five Hong Kong wins. She began riding in 2013, and since then has won 10 Group 1 races before becoming Great Britain’s most successful female jockey by surpassing Hayley Turner with a 1,023rd British winner at Ascot in May, 2025.
