Hong Kong Racing Tips: Chariot in with an Excellent chance
REIGNING champion trainer Ricky Yiu has found it tough going in Hong Kong this season, with only 18 winners and languishing mid-table in the trainers’ championship.
This is due to having a stable full of handicappers who, after last season’s successful exploits, are too high in the ratings and are waiting for some relief from the handicapper.
One horse from the stable who has progressed from last season is
EXCELLENT CHARIOT, who takes his chance in the Bowrington Handicap (2:15pm) over six furlongs.
After winning a couple of early season sprints, this son of Jimmy Choux stepped up in class but found potential top-class sprinter Sight Success too hot to handle at Sha Tin back in January.
Hong Kong Racing Tips: All aboard the ‘Poon Train’
Matthew Poon looks the jockey to follow at Happy Valley.
MATTHEW Poon is the jockey to follow when racing takes place under floodlights at Happy Valley in Hong Kong on Wednesday.
The ‘Poon Train’, as he’s nick-named by the locals in the territory, has been on the crest of a wave over the past month, riding seven winners including a hat-trick at the city track three weeks back.
He has his card fully marked in the nine races, with unpredictable but talented Happy Hour in the opening Tin Lock Handicap (10.45am) and impressive last-start winner Triple Triple in the Bowrington Handicap (2.15pm), offering hope for his supporters.