Last year’s race
Winner: Israr
Jockey: Jim Crowley
Trainer: John & Thady Gosden
Owner: Shadwell Estate Company Ltd
Age: 5
Weight: 9st 5lbs
Starting Price: 11/4
Season Form Figures: 932
Previous Best: 1st - Princess Of Wales's Stakes (Group 2), Newmarket (July 2023)
By Paul Jones
Last year’s race
Winner: Pledgeofallegiance
Jockey: Luke Morris
Trainer: Sir Mark Prescott
Owner: Victorious Racing
Age: 4
Weight: 8st 13lbs
Starting Price: 20/1
Season Form Figures: 31
Previous Best: 1st - Class 3 Handicap, Goodwood (May 2024)
By Paul Jones
Last year’s race
Winner: Rosallion
Jockey: Sean Levy
Trainer: Richard Hannon
Owner: Sheikh Mohammed Obaid Al Maktoum
Age: 3
Weight: 9st 2lbs
Starting Price: 5/2
Season Form Figures: 21
Previous Best: 1st - Tattersalls Irish 2,000 Guineas (Group 1), Curragh (May 2024)
By Paul Jones
Last year’s race
Winner: Asfoora
Jockey: Oisin Murphy
Trainer: Henry Dwyer
Owner: Noor Elaine Farm Pty Ltd
Age: 5
Weight: 9st 4lbs
Starting Price: 5/1
Season Form Figures: 2044
Previous Best: 1st - Schillaci Stakes (Group 2), Caulfield (AUS) (October 2023)
By Paul Jones
Last year’s race
Winner: Rashabar
Jockey: Billy Loughnane
Trainer: Brian J Meehan
Owner: Manton Thoroughbreds Ix
Age: 2
Weight: 9st 3lbs
Starting Price: 80/1
Season Form Figures: 32
Previous Best: 2nd - Class 2 EBF Maiden Stakes, Chester (May 2024)
By Paul Jones
Last year’s race:
Winner: Charyn
Jockey: Silvestre De Sousa
Trainer: Roger Varian
Owner: Nurlan Bizakov
Age: 4
Weight: 9st 2lbs
Starting Price: 100/30
Season Form Figures: 112
Previous Best: 2nd - Lockinge Stakes (Group 1), Newbury (May 2024)
By Paul Jones
By Leo Schlink
Chris So hopes rising star Hong Lok Golf (127lb) can eventually ascend to elite company after the gelding’s impressive victory in the HK$3.12 million Class 2 Cheung Sha Handicap (1650m) at Happy Valley on Wednesday night (11 June).
Making his Happy Valley debut after stringing together five wins from six Sha Tin starts, the Grunt four-year-old dug deep under Harry Bentley to overhaul Steps Ahead (123lb) by a short head in 1m 38.44s.
By Leo Schlink
One of Australia’s most decorated horsemen, James Cummings will join Hong Kong’s trainers’ ranks in 2026/27.
Cummings, 37, hails from one of Australian horse racing’s most illustrious families as a fourth-generation trainer and has enjoyed phenomenal success in his own right.
