Opportunities for Brett Prebble with trainer Ricky Yiu Poon-fai have been scarce since the glory days of champion sprinter Sacred Kingdom, but the Australian jockey hopes a break through on...
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- Oct 3, 2013
- Updated: 11:49pm
Ricky Yiu Poon-Fai
Ricky Yiu is a famous racehorse trainer in Hong Kong. Born in 1957, he is the first Chinese trainer to have won at Group One level on foreign soil, taking out the Sprinters Stakes in Japan with Ultra Fantasy and the KrisFlyer Sprint in Singapore with Sacred Kingdom.
16 Jun 2013
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15 Jun 2013
Jockey Club officials will proceed to tomorrow's Sha Tin meeting confident the zilpaterol feed contamination will not play a role. The bulk of runners declared on Thursday for the meeting...
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12 Jun 2013
The possibility that Hong Kong's racehorses have been exposed to contaminated feed yesterday widened to cover more than half the population in training at Sha Tin after a second type of feed from...
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12 Jun 2013
Ricky Yiu Poon-fai has never won a premiership but he is well-known as the trainer of former three-time world champion sprinter Sacred Kingdom, who was also Hong Kong’s Horse of the Year in 2009-...
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11 Jun 2013
Eight horses from the stable of trainer Ricky Yiu Poon-fai have been withdrawn from today's public holiday fixture at Sha Tin and more scratchings may follow, with another 27 horses tested for...
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Playing the low barriers could pay off for Triple Trio players at tomorrow's midweek meeting at Sha Tin - with two legs on the dirt and the final leg on the turf with the rail set wide.
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When you pay HK$8 million for a horse, wanting to see it run must be fairly high up the wish list but trainer Ricky Yiu Poon-fai paid credit to Yat Ding Win's owner, Liang Guoxing, for having the...
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Ricky Yiu Poon-fai has had a steady stream of winners this season - 30 - and Fantastico should soon be added to that list following a top runner-up performance in the Class Four ATV Miss Asia...
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While trainer Ricky Yiu Poon-fai was perusing some new acquisitions at yearling sales in Australia, back at home his stable was firing on all cylinders with a couple of breakthrough performances...
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Trainer Ricky Yiu Poon-fai's Atacx is quickly finding his find his feet, judging by the way he performed in the Class Three The House Repp Handicap (1,000m) on Sunday.
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An exciting young horse tackling the best older ones is a highlight in most jurisdictions but a novelty here, where the Ricky Yiu Poon-fai-trained Amber Sky will on Sunday be the first in more...
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