On Friday at Meydan, Antonio Fresu rode three winners for trainer Musabah Al Muhairi. Emdakam, Vasari, and Street Mood are the products of a successful jockey-trainer partnership. The Italian and Tadhg O'Shea were locked in a tight struggle for the jockey's title last season, with the Irishman eventually pulling away to win his 10th title. Fresu won the fourth race on Emdakam and the featured han ...

For the seventeenth year in a row, Japanese horses dominated the Japan Cup (G1), the country's premier race, with Vela Azul, a relative newcomer to the top level, in the lead role. Inside the final 100 yards of the 42nd edition of the Japan Cup, the odds-on favourite, Shahryar, appeared to be pulling away from the second-place finisher, the equally popular Weltreisende. But the tides turned, and ...

Champion jockey Zac Purton is in excellent shape leading up to the Hong Kong International Races on December 11. On Sunday, Purton became the fastest jockey in Hong Kong history to reach 50 victories in a season. This came just a week after he broke the record for most wins by a jockey at the Happy Valley track. At Happy Valley, he broke the record held by Doug Whyte, and in the 2015/16 season, P ...

Lindsay Park's Ben & Jd Hayes are considering entering their promising 3YO Angry Skies in the Gr.2 Sandown Guineas after he showed he was not ready for a rest. After placing 10th in a Listed 1400m race for 3YOs at Flemington on the penultimate day of the Melbourne Cup Carnival, Angry Skies has not competed since September, when he won his first race, a Swan Hill maiden. He had previously finished ...

Mark Zahra, riding the 7YO gelding Hongkong Great, maintained his stellar month of November by winning the S$1 million Singapore Gold Cup on Saturday. Several Australian jockeys, including Jamie Kah, Craig Williams, and Michael Dee, flew in and out for the meeting, and Zahra was one of them. Williams, a two-time champion in 2016 and 2019, is only one of several well-known Australians to have triu ...