Kentucky Derby Winners

Double delight as Moore caps the season in style

16 Jul 2012

John Size retook the mantle as leading trainer yesterday but John Moore had no qualms about handing it over, keeping his regular role as the major feature-race trainer with victories in the day's...

Double delight as Clark beats his own target

9 Jul 2012

Australian Tim Clark had already exceeded his own expectations in his rookie season, and a double yesterday - including his first win for a local trainer - catapulted him into the top 10 of the...

Turbo King to put best foot forward

4 Jul 2012

Talented sprinter Turbo King is having to make up for lost time after losing most of the season through injury, but last year's Happy Valley Million Challenge winner gets his chance to strike an...

'Glorious will only get better from first foreign foray'

5 Jun 2012

Champion jockey Douglas Whyte believes a career-worst performance could yet be the making of Glorious Days after the potential star's all-at-sea effort in Sunday's Yasuda Kinen.

Slick Bullet ready to fire on all cylinders

1 May 2012

While Caspar Fownes' Thumbs Up ran a cracker in the Audemars Piguet Queen Elizabeth II Cup and Dance For Gold continued to flash untapped potential with a second win from as many starts, their...

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Blight on racing will not be allowed: Kelly

Chief steward Kim Kelly says the Jockey Club will not consider the issue of pacemakers in the wake of Sunday's Mercedes-Benz Hong Kong Derby, calling their use in other jurisdictions 'as a blight...

Whyte: rival's speed could boost Fay Fay's chances

Leading trainer John Size goes into tomorrow's Mercedes-Benz Hong Kong Derby double-handed with Real Specialist and Fay Fay, but his most important weapon as he hunts the HK$16 million classic...

Super six are all in with a Derby chance, says Moore

John Moore has a record six of the 14 runners in Sunday's Mercedes-Benz Hong Kong Derby - but it could have been even more.

'If Packing Whiz hadn't got a temperature at the wrong...

Derby horses can't be judged only on the race itself

There is a famous story in Australian racing, going back to the 1970s, when a Sydney-based trainer renowned for betting well took a lightly-raced horse he rated very highly in private to a low-...

Derby-bound Specialist 'will only get better'

Mercedes-Benz Hong Kong Derby-bound Real Specialist topped a treble for the John Size-Douglas Whyte Dream Team, but a miserable tempo and dropping back in distance did him no favours in justifying...

Diamond just getting better and better

John Moore's unraced youngster Sea Diamond continued to catch the eye with another fast-finishing turf trial at Sha Tin, and the trainer gave his Group One Mercedes-Benz Hong Kong Derby-bound...