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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.
- 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
The talented five-year-old makes an impressive return, taking out the Group Three Chinese Club Challenge Cup at Sha Tin on Saturday
The Frenchman takes out the Group Three Sa Sa Ladies’ Purse and features in a dead-heat in the afternoon’s Class Two contest
After partnering the Group One-winning sprinter in a pleasing trial, Alexis Badel turns his attention to chasing success at Sha Tin on Sunday
The Frenchman has seven rides at the midweek meeting before turning his attention to Sunday’s features, where he will partner Naboo Attack and Tourbillon Diamond
The six-year-old produces a brilliant run to take out Friday’s National Day Cup, giving the Australian his first feature win in the city since Ain’t Here in November 2004
The Frenchman believes Caspar Fownes’ five-year-old can overcome the top weight to prevail in Sunday’s Class Two Woodpecker Handicap
The Frenchman is hoping history repeats itself in Sunday’s Chief Executive’s Cup after teaming up with Danny Shum to claim the feature 12 months ago
The Frenchman won a Group One and the Classic Cup but he admits a stressful end to the term has been a lesson as he looks towards 2021-22
The Frenchman pleads guilty to failing to take all reasonable and permissible measures to achieve the best possible result aboard V Chevaliers at Sha Tin on June 6
Officials have taken issue with the Frenchman’s effort between the 300m and 200m aboard the Manfred Man-trained galloper
