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Alexis Badel is a talented Frenchman with a rich racing background with his mother Myriam Bollack-Badel a trainer and his father Alain Badel a jockey. He first started coming to Hong Kong in 2016, having winter stints for four seasons before making the full-time move to Sha Tin in 2020-21.
Progressive galloper aims for back-to-back wins over 1,200m at the city circuit in Friday night’s Class Three High West Handicap
French jockey thinks the former Hong Kong champion trainer’s in-form recent recruit could be worth setting for Happy Valley’s only black-type race
French jockey warms up for next weekend’s Hong Kong International Races with Sunday successes on Ping Hai Galaxy and Summit Cheers at Sha Tin
Defending champion looks to join Viva Macau in winning back-to-back editions of the Group Three feature
Frenchman out to add to his impressive Group-sprint CV with Adios at Sha Tin on Sunday
Celebration Cup (1,400m) delivers French jockey’s first success this season and Frankie Lor-trained galloper’s first triumph since January 2022
As Zac Purton prepares to seal his sixth jockeys’ title, another Australian hopes to move closer to his 12th trainers’ championship
John Size runs his durable galloper in Sunday’s Class Two race on the grass eight days after the Street Boss gelding’s Class Three victory on the dirt
Brown lamped late in betting, veteran trainer’s second stringer relishes Sha Tin’s wet conditions to turn the tables on his odds-on stablemate
Voyage Bubble, who the veteran handler bought for A$380,000 three years ago, supplies the 2019-20 champion with his first victory in the race
Richard Gibson’s speedster locks horns with Beauty Joy in Sunday’s Class One TVB Yan Oi Tong Charity Show Handicap at Sha Tin
Frenchman chases more Group One glory aboard Richard Gibson’s speedster in Sunday’s Centenary Sprint Cup (1,200m) at Sha Tin
Alexis Badel concedes it is ‘a bit of a gamble’, but there is a precedent of a galloper winning the four-year-old series opener off a Bauhinia Sprint Trophy run
Frenchman heads to Happy Valley on Wednesday night with six rides and says November’s nasty fall is very much in the past
Champion jockey advises punters to treat the result of December’s Group One race with caution when they are assessing Sunday’s Group Three event
Frenchman is ruled out for a minimum of four weeks after suffering shoulder and ankle injuries in his fall at Sha Tin on Sunday
Star speedster’s regular rider says Jockey Club Sprint favourite’s increasing maturity makes it ‘even easier to use his great ability’ on the track
Horse seeks to extend his unbeaten record to three races, whereas jockey wants to snap his season-longest losing run of 35 rides
Accelerando and Wellington deliver the first and third of the French jockey’s three Sha Tin wins, with victory for Rise Brethren sandwiched between them
Frenchman is in the enviable position of being the incumbent rider of three-time Group One winner Wellington and the rising star, who runs at Sha Tin on Saturday
Frenchman has ridden more Group winners than any other jockey in Hong Kong this term and has some good mounts at Sha Tin on Sunday
Frenchman has won eight of Hong Kong’s 31 Group races this season after victory in the Premier Plate at Sha Tin on Sunday
With regular partner Blake Shinn unable to make the weight, the French rider teams up with Wellington’s trainer Richard Gibson in the Group Three Sha Tin Vase
With the Magic Man out of action for the next two meetings, there are plenty of nice mounts up for grabs and the Frenchman has the pick of the bunch at Sha Tin on Sunday
The Frenchman might not match last term’s numbers but it’s been a campaign to remember all the same
Top French jockey is looking forward to getting back on the sprint star next Sunday but also has plenty of chances at this Saturday’s meeting
French rider is hunting down Karis Teetan for a podium finish in the jockeys’ title race but he misses Sha Tin as he serves his fifth suspension of the season
Top French jockey looking to end lean spell aboard Richard Gibson’s speedster in the Centenary Sprint Cup