Ivan Allan

Old friends Shum and Chin join forces to score low-grade win

11 Mar 2012

Trainer Danny Shum Chap-shing called on old friend and Macau-based jockey Stanley Chin Kin-ming to ride his Class Five winner Planet - a horse he called 'limited' - in the opening race. 'Stanley...

On the Rails

11 Nov 2009

Ivan Allan was a trainer of horses, a polariser of people.

As a horse trainer, he had more admirers than detractors. Perhaps as a person he piled up the latter at a considerably...

Marwing not worried about slow start

26 Sep 2008

While the Moore-Beadman partnership is soaring after four meetings, with each leading their respective premiership table, returned expatriate Weichong Marwing is far from concerned about the quiet...

Just like good old times for owner Ivan Allan

10 Jun 2007

Ivan Allan, the retired training maestro, has returned to Hong Kong as an owner and yesterday landed his first winner in that new role with the John Size-trained Maribeau ($92) in the Diamond...

Express on fast track to bright future

29 May 2006

'That's more my horse!' said a beaming owner Larry Yeung Chi-kin after Danehill Express announced himself as a future big-race contender in the Quicken Away Handicap yesterday.

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Allan backs Cruz's call to allow use of preventive medication

Retired champion trainer Ivan Allan yesterday added his weight to Tony Cruz's call for a change to Jockey Club regulations, allowing horses to train on preventive medication.

Double delight for flying Shum

The new-season battle of the sophomore trainers became even more exciting at Sha Tin with Danny Shum Chap-shing replying to the opening salvo of Caspar Fownes with a splendid double that could so...

In-form Fownes has feature in his grasp

Sophomore trainer Caspar Fownes couldn't have wished for a better start to the season, having won two features in the opening two meetings and the young trainer has a top chance to make it three...

In-form Shum on a revenge mission

Young guns Caspar Fownes and Danny Shum Chap-shing were the stars of opening day last weekend and the trainers may well quinella the feature race again at Happy Valley tonight in the Hong Kong...

allan adapts easily to new role

Retired trainer Ivan Allan has seamlessly made the transition from Hong Kong Jockey Club bete noir to favoured bloodstock agent with his first purchases on behalf of the club at Deauville in...

Scintillation set to snare Allan yet another prize

Retiring trainer Ivan Allan has won more than his fair share of silverware over the past decade in Hong Kong and appears to have a top chance of adding the $1.6 million Midland Realty Cup to the...