Ricky Yiu Poon-Fai

3 Mar 2013

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...

Atacx has the right tools to go higher

29 Jan 2013

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.

Ricky Yiu hopes youngster Amber Sky will score rare win

24 Jan 2013

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...

Going the extra mile pays off for moody Angland

7 Jan 2013

It took three days of bad moods and hunger but Tye Angland and Go Baby Go lowered the colours of boom three-year-old sprinter Amber Sky in the Victoria Racing Club Trophy (1000m) yesterday.

Racing Digest, December 23, 2012

23 Dec 2012

First win does little to win over trainer and jockey

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Romantic City can run his opposition ragged

It took nearly one year, 20 runs and a drop of 32 ratings points for Romantic City to become competitive again, but now that the bold front-runner has reclaimed some semblance of his best form,...

The Sky's the limit - but not just yet

We hope it doesn't come down to blows between trainer Ricky Yiu Poon-fai and martial arts star owner Sammo Hung Kam-po over three-year-old Amber Sky's immediate path because that would all be one-...

'Amber Sky not ready to take on big boys yet'

Ricky Yiu Poon-fai promised not to rush exciting youngster Amber Sky after the boom three-year-old reclaimed his status as a rising sprint star with another dominant straight-track victory.

Draw is the key for speedy Matsukaze

Matsukaze can deliver as a banker in the anchor leg of Sunday's Triple Trio at Sha Tin and the likely front-runner represents apprentice Dicky Lui Cheuk-yin's best chance of a maiden win in his...

HONG KONG

Legendary Dragon will fire up at Sha Tin, says trainer Ricky Yiu

Ricky Yiu Poon-fai is adamant Legendary Dragon can transfer his best form to Sha Tin after the tenacious galloper bulldozed his way to another Happy Valley victory, on a night when it paid to find...

RACING

Apprentice Dicky Lui Cheuk-yin to be eased into Hong Kong racing

Ricky Yiu Poon-fai says he will cautiously ease his new apprentice Dicky Lui Cheuk-yin into the hypercompetitive cauldron of Hong Kong racing, pr