I started working as a horse racing commentator more than 20 years ago. The novelty of being a woman helped me get a start when Sky Racing was trying to build a female on-air presence for its launch into the great unknown of the Pay TV space.  Taking racing into people’s homes meant they had... Read More

Caspar Fownes has claimed victory in the gripping battle with John Size for the 2020/21 Hong Kong trainers’ championship after a pulsating final Sha Tin meeting of the season yesterday saw Fownes emerge with an unassailable lead. With only nine races left at Happy Valley’s season finale on Wednesday night (July 14), Fownes leads 79-72... Read More

Trainer Jason Lim’s staunch belief that Metal World’s (Paynter) strongest suit resides in more ground was vindicated by a gutsy win from the US-bred win in the S$50,000 Class 4 race (1600m) on Saturday. The Singaporean handler did tinker around with 1400-metre to 1600-metre trips for Metal World before, with one seven-furlong win as a... Read More

One of the most glorious eras in the history of Japanese bloodstock will come to a poignant end this week with the Japan Racing Horse Association select sale of yearlings and foals, which will mark the premier auction finale for offspring of the late leading global sire Deep Impact (Sunday Silence).  While the ongoing pandemic... Read More

Galileo (Sadler’s Wells), the sire of 338 individual stakes winners, including 91 at Group 1 level as he became one of the most decorated sires of all time with his offspring including the likes of Frankel and Australia, has died aged 23. Coolmore Stud, where the 12-time champion sire stood throughout his record-breaking career, announced... Read More

Rider saluted aboard Deep Speed to become the first jockey to notch a century of Melbourne winners in a season Jamie Kah etched her name into the history books yesterday when becoming the first jockey – male or female – to ride 100 metropolitan winners in Victoria.  After missing out on the feat at Sandown... Read More