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Sun Sets on Moore's Storied Hong Kong Career Thursday, July 16, 2020 | Dedicated to the Australasian bloodstock industry - subscribe for free: Click here Sun sets on What's on Race meetings: Gosford (NSW), Moree Moore’s storied (NSW), Ballarat (VIC), Dalby (QLD), Northam (WA) Barrier trials/ Jump-outs: Moree (NSW), Hong Kong career Sale (VIC), Foxton (NZ) International meetings: Hamilton (UK), Sandown (UK), Leopardstown (IRE), Turffontein (SAF), Saratoga (USA) International Group races: Saratoga (USA) - Peter Pan Stakes (Gr 3, 9f), Schuylerville Stakes (Gr 3, 6f) Sales: Inglis Melbourne Gold Yearling Sale (Digital), Inglis Digital July (Early) Online Sale International sales: Ocala Breeders’ Sales July Two-Year-Olds & Horses of Racing Age (USA) John Moore HKJC up to last night, with his horses earning over BY ANDREW HAWKINS | @ANZ_NEWS HK$2.1 billion and taking some of the biggest he most successful trainer in Hong features in town. Kong history John Moore has Local trainer Ricky Yiu, best known for (65) and Francis Lui (63) with Moore fourth on officially ended his tenure in the preparing champion sprinters Fairy King 57. city after 35 years, with the Sydney- Prawn (Danehill), Sacred Kingdom (Encosta Zac Purton, who had already secured his boundT handler striking out at Happy Valley last De Lago) and Amber Sky (Exceed And Excel) fourth jockeys’ title on Sunday, rode a double night. and a regular presence at the Australian and at what was the last meeting in Hong Kong Moore, who has reached the Hong Kong New Zealand sales, brought up his first trainers’ until September 5. He finished the season on Jockey Club’s mandatory retirement age of 70, championship and the first for a Hongkonger 147 wins, with 101 seconds and 100 thirds; won 1,735 Hong Kong races from when he took since Dennis Yip’s famous success in 2012-13. Joao Moreira (138) and Karis Teetan (93) filled over his father George’s stables in mid-1985 His 67 wins was enough to see off Tony Cruz second and third. HKJC wrap on page 2>> Follow us @anz_news | 1 | Brought to you by Hong Kong News | 2 | Thursday, July 16, 2020 Hong Kong season finale sees cool Yiu claim the championship By David Morgan icky Yiu sealed the champion trainer title at Happy Valley last night to fulfill a lifelong dream, and he did it with a smile and a shrug. With Hong Kong in the midst of a coronavirus ‘third wave’,R the famous Valley crowd was not there to cheer his remarkable feat, LEADING TRAINERS IN HONG KONG - PAGE 10 and there was no presentation to mark his victory. Yiu was fine with that. Ricky Yiu HKJC “I’ve really achieved my goal, this is the peak of my career, but a lot of people are more excited than I am; the owners on WhatsApp were De Lago), with Amber Sky (Exceed And Excel) in Dubai and Ultra Fantasy messaging me ‘Add oil’! The staff are very happy – I’m happy too, but I (Encosta De Lago) in Japan. don't have this excitement,” the first-time champion said. But at the start of this term, no one expected to be calling Yiu “I’ve been in horseracing all my life – winning, losing, it happens every champion trainer. Despite his track record as an astute horseman, he is meeting so I take it very easily. Even when Sacred Kingdom won the Hong perennially mid-rank, and he entered this term off the back of a steady Kong Sprint, I kept quiet, I don't know why, it’s just me.” 29-win campaign. Despite his coolness, the sense of the achievement was not lost on “It wasn’t really expected,” he said. “I knew my horses would do well the handler, whose career goes back to 1972 when he joined the first from the start of this season but it was only about two and a half or three intake at the apprentice jockeys’ school; a career that has brought Group months ago that I thought I had a chance. From then on I thought, ‘I’ll 1 successes with the world champion sprinter Sacred Kingdom (Encosta work on this’ but before that, no. Continued on page 4>> Follow us @anz_news | 2 | Brought to you by st FOUR WHEEL DRIVE 1 Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Turf Sprint-Gr.2 (TURF) st 1 Futurity Stakes-Gr.3 (TURF) SWEET MELANIA 1st Jessamine Stakes-Gr.2 (TURF) 1st Wonder Again Stakes-Gr.3 (TURF) on June 20th rd 3 Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf-Gr.1 (TURF) HARVEY’S LIL GOIL 1st Regret Stakes-Gr.3 (TURF) on June 27th 1st Busanda Stakes st MAVEN 1 Prix du Bois-Gr.3 (TURF) CAFE PHAROAH 1st The Unicorn Stakes-Gr.3 on June 21st st 1 Hyacinth Stakes-L.R. DANON PHARAOH 1st Japan Dirt Derby-L.R. on July 8th st OCEAN ATLANTIQUE 1 Prix de Suresnes-L.R. (TURF) ANOTHER MIRACLE 1st My Frenchman Stakes (TURF) last Saturday, pictured 1st Skidmore Stakes (TURF) 3rd Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Turf Sprint-Gr.2 (TURF) Champion First Crop Sire in North America in 2019 2020 fee $55,000 (inc. GST) Colm Santry, John Kennedy, Paddy Oman, Tom Moore, Rob Archibald or Emma Pugsley Tel: 02 6576 4200. New Zealand: Gordon Calder Tel:+64 218 41612. www.coolmore.com Hong Kong season finale sees cool Yiu claim the championship | 4 | Thursday, July 16, 2020 << Continued from page 2 “I just put my head down, kept photographers before going about the business he knows best, saddling working and kept focusing. When I saw they weren’t catching up, it’s a horses to race. once in a lifetime chance, so I went for it. I always look forward but I did “It’s very strange, it’s never happened before like this, it’s totally look over my shoulder and there was Francis (Lui) and Tony (Cruz), these different, but I don't mind,” he shrugged again, content in the knowledge two trainers were catching me up.” that this season he is champion, his name will be written in the record Lui and Cruz were breathing down his neck into last Sunday’s Sha Tin books, crowd or no crowd. fixture. Cruz nailed a double but Yiu delivered a bazooka of a treble to And, even though the stands were empty, the turnover for the night arrive at the downtown finale with a four-win cushion, his tally running at was an all-time record for a Happy Valley fixture at HK$1.6 billion. 67 – including six trebles and 10 doubles – to his rivals’ 63. “I was four in front, so this last meeting at the Valley, to win three or Cruz in the money four would be a miracle – it’s a big ask. When I won the last race at Sha Tin, Tony Cruz put up a good fight with his late-season rally but was unable I knew the chance was mine,” Yiu said. to reel in Yiu, despite outpointing the new champ two to zero yesterday Cruz had only four runners on the card: the first, Power King evening. The two-time past champion was not complaining though, with (Written Tycoon), hit the mark to narrow the gap to three; but when his stable runners having notched 65 wins and banked more than HK$127 his California Rad (Fastnet Rock) placed second to the Douglas Whyte- million in prize-money. trained The Runner (Snitzel) in the sixth of the night’s nine contests, “I’m very happy,” he said. “I’m leading prize-money trainer this and with Lui winless, the championship was Yiu’s even without him season, I’ve won big races and Exultant could be Horse of the Year, what adding to his haul. else could I ask for? I’m pleased with what we’ve achieved.” The last time a homegrown hero won the title, flags waved and the Cruz struck early, with the first of his four runners, Power King, in the Class locals stayed well after the last to cheer – that was in 2013, when Dennis 4 Tsap Tseung Handicap (1200m). The four-year-old Hong Kong International Yip defied expectations to nail the championship in the season’s very last Sale graduate earned his breakthrough win with a rattling run under Vincent race. Ho – Cruz’s subsequent nemesis atop The Runner – to overhaul race favourite This time, Yiu was ushered out for a socially-distanced salute to Sell My Sole (Jimmy Choux) by a neck. Continued on page 6>> REDOUTE’S CHOICE and ENCOSTA DE LAGO the exquisite sireline combination that produced BENETEAU and ZOUSTAR New in 202 0 Redoute’s Choice - Lago Ovation (Encosta de Lago) · Fee $27,500 inc GST YULONG Call Sam Fairgray 0418 427 568 or Luke Wilkinson 0413 489 736 Follow us @anz_news | 4 | Brought to you by SET TO SHINE National Yearling Sale - Live on the Gold Coast 447 YEARLINGS INCLUDING 57 BROKEN IN $12.69M WORLD’S RICHEST SALE-BASED INCENTIVE RACE SERIES INCLUDING THE $10.25 MILLION RACEDAY AT THE GOLD COAST EACH JANUARY 129 INDIVIDUAL SIRES INCLUDING AMERICAN PHAROAH, CAPITALIST, DEEP FIELD, DUNDEEL, FASTNET ROCK, GALILEO, I AM INVINCIBLE, LONHRO, NOT A SINGLE DOUBT, PIERRO, REDOUTE’S CHOICE, SIYOUNI, SNITZEL, WRITTEN TYCOON & ZOUSTAR 328 BOBS ELIGIBLE MULTIPLE BONUS SCHEMES HIGHLIGHTED BY 73% OF THE CATALOGUE BOBS ELIGIBLE MAGIC MILLIONS NATIONAL YEARLING SALE I 3-4 AUGUST View catalogue online www.magicmillions.com.au or via the equineline app; and if you can’t make it to the Gold Coast, register now for LIVE INTERNET BIDDING www.magicmillions.com.au/online-bidding/ Cruz in the money | 6 | Thursday, July 16, 2020 << Continued from page 4 “He’s just a Class 3 horse and he was Purton looking forward to a rest pretty fit the last time I ran him at 1400 metres, I thought he’d get that Zac Purton is looking forward to kicking back and relaxing with a distance, but he’s actually only a 1200-metre horse as he’s shown tonight,” refreshing beverage now that his “hardest-fought” season is over.
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