2020-Hkir-Media-Guide-E.Pdf
Total Page:16
File Type:pdf, Size:1020Kb
2020 LONGINES HKIR MEDIA GUIDE Contents 003 Introduction to HKIR 048 Hong Kong Cup - Yearly Results 004 Did You Know...... 082 Hong Kong Mile - Yearly Results 006 Turnover and Attendance 112 Hong Kong Sprint - Yearly Results 007 HKIR Barrier Draw Data 134 Hong Kong Vase - Yearly Results 008 HKJC Directory 161 List of HKIR winners (by country/region) 009 LONGINES Hong Kong Cup 167 HKIR Trainers 019 LONGINES Hong Kong Mile 201 HKIR Jockeys 029 LONGINES Hong Kong Sprint 231 LONGINES IJC 038 LONGINES Hong Kong Vase 235 Media Contacts 002 2020 LONGINES HKIR MEDIA GUIDE LONGINES Hong Kong International Races The LONGINES Hong Kong International Races is a highlight of the international horseracing calendar. Known as the Turf World Championships, the second Sunday in December is the world’s year-end Group 1 extravaganza, the final confluence of elite international talent channelled into four great races. The LONGINES Hong Kong Cup (HK$28 million), LONGINES Hong Kong Mile (HK$25 million), LONGINES Hong Kong Sprint (HK$22 million) and LONGINES Hong Kong Vase (HK$20 million) are worth a combined HK$95 million. The event draws leading horses, jockeys, trainers and owners from around the globe to compete; the world’s media descends and tens of thousands of racing fans turn out to cheer on their heroes, all creating a vibrant and exciting atmosphere at Sha Tin Racecourse. It was on 24 January, 1988, that the Hong Kong International Races came into being. That pioneering race day was a long way removed from the epic programme we know today, but it was an important first step towards Hong Kong becoming a renowned venue for world class horseracing. Back in 1988 the one international race on the card, the first ever staged in Hong Kong, was the Hong Kong Invitation Cup, open to overseas entries from Malaysia and Singapore. The event was soon opened to all and since then the number of countries and regions that have sent horses to contest the international races in Hong Kong has increased to include Australia, Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, Great Britain, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Macau, New Zealand, South Africa, the United Arab Emirates and the United States of America. That one race - the fore-runner to the event’s main feature, the LONGINES Hong Kong Cup - has become four. And those four are now ranked as being among the very best races in the world. In the IFHA’s (International Federation of Horseracing Authorities) latest year-end list of the 2019 World’s Top 100 G1 Races, the Hong Kong Vase was ranked equal 13th, the Hong Kong Sprint in equal 22nd, the Hong Kong Mile in equal 24th and the Hong Kong Cup equal 55th. Great horses have triumphed. Asian heavyweights Silent Witness, Sacred Kingdom, Beauty Generation, Ambitious Dragon, Able Friend, Good Ba Ba, Lord Kanaloa, Eishin Preston, Maurice and A Shin Hikari have made their marks internationally with victories at the HKIR, as have Australasian competitors, such as the brilliant mare Sunline; European superstars like Snow Fairy, Ouija Board, Falbrav, Fantastic Light, Alexander Goldrun, Red Cadeaux, Ramonti and Highland Reel have all enhanced their reputations. Today, more than three decades on from that first invitation race, the LONGINES Hong Kong International Races stands as one of the world’s truly elite horseracing occasions. 003 2020 LONGINES HKIR MEDIA GUIDE Did You Know... 2020 marks the 34th running of the HKIR. More than 1,390 runners from 17 countries/regions took part in 1 the past 33 editions. All four HKIR events were named in the World’s Top 100 G1 Races in 2019. The Vase was the highest 2 ranked in 13th, the Sprint in 22nd, the Mile in 24th and the Cup in 55th. The first ever Hong Kong International Race, the 1988 Hong Kong Invitation Cup, carried prize money 3 of HK$1.47 million, just 5.3% of the Hong Kong Cup’s 2020 purse of HK$28 million. Japanese trio GLORY VASE (Vase), ADMIRE MARS (Mile) and WIN BRIGHT (Cup) won three of the four 4 events in last year’s HKIR, which was the second time Team Japan achieved such feat after STAY GOLD, EISHIN PRESTON and AGNES DIGITAL brought their nation’s famous HKIR hat-trick in 2001. At 15 wins, Japan surpassed France (14) to become the overseas country with most triumphs in HKIR 5 history. Next country on the list are Britain with 12 wins. 6 Japan is the only overseas country which have won each of the four races at least once. Last year’s Cup victor WIN BRIGHT became the fourth horse following DESIGNS ON ROME (2014), 7 VENGEANCE OF RAIN (2005) and JIM AND TONIC (1999) to complete the QEII Cup-Hong Kong Cup double in the same calendar year. BEAT THE CLOCK brought Hong Kong a sixth successive win in the Sprint last year. Home runners have 8 dominated the first four placings in each of the past five Sprints. Having won atop GLORY VASE (Vase) and BEAT THE CLOCK (Sprint) last year, Joao Moreira (2014 & 2019) is one of six jockeys to have ridden a HKIR double in the same year, the others being Zac 9 Purton (2016 & 2018), Ryan Moore (2015), Douglas Whyte (2013), Felix Coetzee (2003) and Olivier Peslier (1999). John Size remains the only trainer to saddle a one-two finish in a HKIR race. Size has twice achieved 10 the feat, first with MR STUNNING and D B PIN in the 2017 Sprint, and he did it again in 2019 with BEAT THE CLOCK and HOT KING PRAWN, also in the Sprint. Tony Cruz, the HKIR’s winning-most trainer, scored his 10th win with EXULTANT in the 2018 Vase. He is 11 the only trainer to have also won a HKIR race as a jockey, as he partnered COLONIAL CHIEF to victory in the second Invitation Cup in January, 1989. Tony Cruz and John Moore are the only two trainers to have won each of the four HKIR races at least 12 once. 13 Leading the overseas trainers on the HKIR all-time list is Godolphin’s Saeed bin Suroor with four wins. 004 2020 LONGINES HKIR MEDIA GUIDE Did You Know... Japanese trainer Noriyuki Hori is the only overseas trainer to have saddled a double at the same 14 HKIR. He achieved this unique feat with MAURICE (Cup) and SATONO CROWN (Vase) in 2016. 15 Zac Purton and Gerald Mosse are the winning-most jockey in HKIR history with eight wins apiece. Zac Purton, Gerald Mosse and Joao Moreira are the only three jockeys to have won each of the four 16 HKIR contests at least once. Two homegrown jockeys have won LONGINES HKIR contests: Matthew Chadwick aboard 17 CALIFORNIA MEMORY in the 2011 and 2012 Hong Kong Cup, and Derek Leung on BEAUTY GENERATION in the 2017 Mile. Hong Kong runners took all four G1 events at a single HKIR for the first time in 2018, thanks for the 18 victories of GLORIOUS FOREVER (Cup), BEAUTY GENERATION (Mile), MR STUNNING (Sprint) and EXULTANT (Vase). The visitors had also swept all four HKIR in the same year for once back in 2001. No horse has as many HKIR wins on their record as GOOD BA BA, who won the Hong Kong Mile three 19 times (2007, 2008 & 2009). Hong Kong runners have won 45 HKIR races since FLYING DANCER took the inaugural Hong Kong 208 Invitation Cup in January 1988. Some 39 of these wins were achieved after 2002. Seven northern hemisphere three-year-olds have triumphed, yet not one of that age has ever won the Sprint: (ADMIRE MARS, 2019 Mile; HIGHLAND REEL, 2015 Vase; SNOW FAIRY, 2010 Cup; 21 DARYAKANA, 2009 Vase; ALEXANDER GOLDRUN, 2004 Cup; VALLEE ENCHANTEE, 2003 Vase; ADDITIONAL RISK, 1991 Bowl) ABLE ONE is the oldest HKIR winner as he turned the clock back as a nine-year-old in the 2011 Mile. 22 Only two eight-year-olds have succeeded – COLLIER HILL in the 2006 Vase and AEROVELOCITY in the 2016 Sprint. A total of 10 fillies and mares have won at the HKIR, the latest being SNOW FAIRY in the 2010 Hong 23 Kong Cup. There have been 44 fillies and mares run since, with eight finishing second, including MAGIC WAND (Cup) and LUCKY LILAC (Vase) last year. LORD KANALOA holds the record for the widest winning margin at the HKIR - five lengths in the 2013 24 Sprint. The shortest-priced victor in the event’s history is SILENT WITNESS, who started at odds of 30/100 for 25 the Sprint in both 2003 and 2004; New Zealand’s GREY INVADER is the longest priced winner in HKIR history, as he won the third running of the Cup at odds of 72/1 in December, 1989. 005 2020 LONGINES HKIR MEDIA GUIDE HKIR meeting Turnover and attendance since 1997 NUMBER OF TURNOVER YEAR ATTENDANCE RACES (IN HK$ MILLION) 2019 10 1,710 27,965 2018 10 1,605 96,388 2017 10 1,600 94,560 2016 10 1,518 100,710 2015 10 1,449 85,552 2014 10 1,468 78,753 2013 10 1,364 68,611 2012 10 1,274 70,173 2011 10 1,240 67,153 2010 10 1,057 54,073 2009 10 1,033 60,528 2008 10 1,010 52,243 2007 10 1,002 56,569 2006 9 930 56,338 2005 9 848 44,359 2004 9 887 53,439 2003 10 967 65,411 2002 9 1,078 62,030 2001 9 1,160 58,224 2000 9 1,222 79,522 1999 9 1,218 66,944 1998 9 1,269 72,763 1997 9 1,437 66,745 006 2020 LONGINES HKIR MEDIA GUIDE HKIR Barrier Draw Data DRAW 1ST 2ND 3RD DRAW 1ST 2ND 3RD 1 4 1 1 1 0 2 2 2 0 3 2 2 0 0 1 3 1 6 2 3 1 1 0 4 2 2 2 4 2 1 1 5 3 1 3 5 0 4 3 6 0 0 1 6 1 1 0 7 2 0 4 7 3 2 0 8 3 2 1 8 1 0 0 9 1 1 2 9 3 0 6 10 1 3 1 10 3 3 2 11 1 1 0 11 2 1 1 12 3 0 1 12 1 4 4 13 0 1 1 13 3 2 1 14 0 0 0 14 1 0 0 LONGINES HONG KONG CUP HONG KONG LONGINES LONGINES HONG KONG MILE HONG KONG LONGINES Draw stats only counted for races at 2000m Draw stats only counted for races at 1600m DRAW 1ST 2ND 3RD DRAW 1ST 2ND 3RD 1 0 1 1 1 0 6 1 2 1 2 4 2 2 1 3 3 1 1 3 3 3 3 1 4 1 0 2 4 4 1 2 5 1 4 0 5 1 2 1 6 3 3 1 6 1 1 2 7 2 1 0 7 4 3 4 8 1 0 2 8 1 1 3 9 2 1 0 9 4 1 1 10 0 0 0 10 2 3 3 11 0 0 0 11 0 1 3 12 1 2 0 12 3 2 0 13 0 0 1 13 0 0 2 14 1 0 0 14 1 1 1 LONGINES