Geoff Wragg

12 Dec 1999

Docksider can take this afternoon's inaugural running of the Hong Kong Mile, the fifth event on today's tremendous card.

Jockey Club deserves to take a bow

29 Mar 1999

Prominent English trainer Geoff Wragg predicted two seasons ago that International Race week could supercede America's Breeders' Cup as the world festival of racing after his First Island had...

Long odds no barrier as Hills opens his account

6 Dec 1998

ENGLISH Club jockey Michael Hills savoured his first taste of victory at Happy Valley yesterday when 31-1 bolter Harmony Prince came with a barn-storming run to lift the Class Four sixth event.

Harrison's Classic win

27 May 1997

Hong Kong-bound David Harrison scored the first Classic success of his career when Single Empire won the Italian Derby in Rome on Sunday.

Pentire's sale ends Sha Tin Vase plans

31 Jul 1996

The Japanese have ended Hong Kong's chances of luring the brilliant Pentire to compete in the International Races at Sha Tin in December by buying the colt privately, reputedly for $50 million.

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Big freeze no hurdle in Pentire's path to World Cup

WHILE British racing remains in the icy grip of winter, the well-credentialled Pentire may well fly out to the warmth of the Middle East to prepare for the Dubai World Cup at Nad Al Sheba on March...

Lammtarra popular prince of Europe

THREE cheers went up when the unbeaten Lammtarra was officially acknowledged as the best horse in Europe in 1995 when heading the International Classifications with a creditable rating of 130.

Gneiss in a dismal showing

HONG Kong-owned Gneiss finished a disappointing sixth in yesterday's Newgate Stud Middle Park Stakes, prematurely ending hopes that he would develop in a Guineas colt.

Abdullah has an enviable problem

THE strength of owner Khalid Abdullah's Classic hand this year was never better illustrated than when Armiger took the Dalham Chester Vase, one of the traditional Derby trials - and then eased two...