David Hall

Solar Great continues to rise up the ladder

3 Mar 2013

The David Hall-trained Solar Great completed his five-win transition from Class Four also-ran to feature-race winner in the Group Three Hong Kong Macau Trophy (1,400m) and spared jockey Douglas...

Racing Digest, February 25, 2013

25 Feb 2013

Thirty-year veteran Peter Ng Bik-kuen is on the downhill slope to retirement, but is reeling off a vintage season in what will be his last as a trainer - but he says horses like Smart Volatility...

Prebble's momentum slowly picking up

21 Jan 2013

Brett Prebble's season had been battling to gain real traction again after a suspension late in December, but he was back to joint-third on the jockeys' ladder after a double for David Hall and...

Country Charm makes mockery of 90-1 odds

23 Dec 2012

David Hall-trained Country Charm hasn't exactly been the pin-up horse for punters but his ability hasn't been in question, and a change of race pattern brought the best from him as he led...

Cheng knows how to get the best out of Jun Dao

17 Dec 2012

After David Hall squeezed another win from the battle-weary legs of rejuvenated straight-track specialist Jun Dao, the trainer gave credit to jockey Howard Cheng Yue-tin for his guidance both on...

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El Grande will relish returning to the dirt

Douglas Whyte and David Hall don't combine all that frequently, but when they do, it pays to take note - and on Sunday at Sha Tin El Grande looks a decent banker in the final leg of an extremely...

Racing Digest, December 3, 2012

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Stoush between Hall and vets lifts lid on joint treatments

We are happy enough to let the trainers and vets duke it out over whether cortisone injections to ease joint problems in racehorses should be governed by hard and fast rules, but there are other...

Chief vet takes issue with trainer's jab

The Jockey Club's head of veterinary clinical services, Chris Riggs, said local racing risked going down the path of the drug-tainted American industry had vets not placed a limit on the use of...

Super Tiger ready to pounce from gate one

Super Tiger is yet to win for trainer David Hall, but drawn one as he steps up to the extended mile, the five-year-old looks a decent banker in the Triple Trio at Happy Valley tomorrow night.

Jun Dao repays Hall's faith

There was nothing simple about David Hall's first winner of the season - problem-plagued sprinter Jun Dao - nor anything smooth in the painstaking process of getting European import Bubble Chic...