Form Pointers – Up and comers
'Form Pointers' is a weekly column offering expert horse racing analysis and punting tips from the TechTeam. This week the TechTeam takes a look at some exciting new prospects.
BRINGING ASIAN RACING TO THE WORLD
'Form Pointers' is a weekly column offering expert horse racing analysis and punting tips from the TechTeam. This week the TechTeam takes a look at some exciting new prospects.
Each Tuesday the TechTeam will review the previous week's meeting at Happy Valley. This week the TechTeam has found three horses to follow.
This year's Golden Slipper will take place on Saturday 23rd March. Tim Whiffler scrutinises the breeding of the leading contenders.
David Morgan profiles the man who has been a constant through the last 40 years of Japanese racing and whose fame transcends the sport in his country.
The Hong Kong Jockey Club has charged Harry Bentley, but whatever the outcome of that, a week and a half from now the focus will have moved on to which jockeys made the IJC shortlist.
Romantic Warrior’s Cox Plate victory at Moonee Valley was the first major in Australia for a Hong Kong horse, but the champ is back at Sha Tin and the focus now falls on the Hong Kong Cup.
As the current Japanese racing season ends on December 31, it is terribly sad to have to come to the realisation that the reign, as King of Japanese breeding, by that great horse Deep Impact (2002-2019) has ended.
Jockey Kota Fujioka seized his late call-up to execute a perfectly judged Group 1 ride on four-year-old mare Namur at Kyoto on Sunday.