by David Morgan | Sep 18, 2020 | Articles
John Moore sits at the open window. His elbows rest on the worktop, his hands cup binoculars in a steadying grip and his eyes study a horse galloping head-on towards his elevated position. He lowers the Zeiss glasses, tilting them away casually in his right hand; his...
by David Morgan | Sep 18, 2020 | Articles
Tony Cruz was spotted moving around on foot not so long ago. In the grave reality of the world’s current state, seeing Hong Kong racing’s original ‘living legend’ walking between his stable and the Sha Tin trainers’ stand is light years removed from being the most...
by David Morgan | Sep 18, 2020 | Articles
Vincent Ho shifts his weight to his left foot – the fingers of his right hand flick the outside seam of his thigh and for but a fleeting instant his steady lo-fi monotone stalls, intruded upon by what appears to be a prickling of self-consciousness. Ho is not a...
by David Morgan | Sep 16, 2020 | Articles
Hong Kong ‘gets’ Silvestre de Sousa. It has for a good while now. The city’s racing fans, its owners, its trainers, all of them hardheaded judges conditioned to appreciate jockeys endowed with strength, savvy, that all-important ‘fighting heart’, and, above all, an...
by David Morgan | May 24, 2019 | Articles
[This feature was published at HKJC.com: PHOTOS courtesy of Hong Kong Jockey Club]. Romain Clavreul remembers the day a horse hit him so hard he was knocked out for two days. In truth, he remembers everything up to the moment when his head felt the brute force of an...
by David Morgan | May 24, 2019 | Articles
[This feature was published at HKJC.com: PHOTOS courtesy of Hong Kong Jockey Club] Twelve weeks ago, Waikuku was a racehorse with only two races to show for what several good judges felt was an abundance of potential. Five further races and four beguiling wins later,...
