Vincent Ho

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A graduate of the HKJC Apprentice Jockeys' School, Vincent Ho is one of the shining lights of the local industry. After spending time in New Zealand, he started competing in Hong Kong in 2009-10 and being the Champion Apprentice in 2010-11. He continued to climb up the ranks, going on to win the Tony Cruz Award as the leading local jockey in 2018-19. Ho reached greater heights in 2019-20, sweeping the four-year-old series with Golden Sixty and winning his first Group One with Southern Legend in the Champions Mile.

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After pipping Zac Purton in Wednesday’s prestigious competition, the superstar rider remembers asking his idols for autographs on Happy Valley’s night of nights

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Despite missing the feature and losing a winning chance through Enterprise Attack’s scratching, the jockey and the trainer still have reasons to be excited

Injured in Japan in the off-season, Ho says the ban will allow him to ‘take the time to heal 100 per cent rather than pushing the boundaries every meeting’.

Australian trainer leads by nine wins, and his nearest challenger can’t overtake him with entries in only nine races on Sunday and significantly fewer seconds

Trainer expresses his frustration at Jockey Club handicappers, who raised his sprinter’s rating by double digits after his two-and-a-half-length victory

Unfavourable gate one and absence of race experience don’t stop Frankie Lor’s newcomer smashing the clock and starting Vincent Ho’s Sunday double

In his horse of a lifetime Golden Sixty and Japanese raider Danon The Kid, the superstar jockey has the chance to further embed himself in the annals of the marquee meeting

Assistant trainer Keiichiro Yasuda says Hong Kong Cup runner-up is in better condition for Sunday’s QE II Cup than he was for December’s Group One

‘It’s a bit unfortunate in the big race we weren’t in that same position because it would’ve been the same result’, says trainer after Sunday’s Sha Tin success