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07-07-2008, 01:35 PM
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 Good one! * * * Retired today... Solar. Nine years old, hope he gets to go somewhere nice. * * * SCMP... (Awwww).   Tsui is man of the year MURRAY BELL The numbers show he finished third on the trainers' ladder, but for what he achieved and the class of cattle he achieved it with, Me Tsui Yu-sak is our trainer of the year. Tsui has grafted victory after victory with ordinary animals, many of them refugees from bigger-name trainers that couldn't make them go and were glad to see the back of them. But they received a fresh chance under the bespectacled local horseman, who turned around one equine career after another until suddenly, there he was, with 51 winners on the board and only the big names of John Size and Caspar Fownes ahead of him among the leaders of his profession. Tsui has just four horses in his yard rated Class Two or better and one of them is a transfer horse yet to race for him. The most amazing one is Fat Dragon, who arrived as a Class Five maiden just over two years and has now won seven races, earned nearly HK$3.6 million and these days earns his living in Class Two. Look at slow horses like On Shan Brave, never closer than 11th in his first five starts, but Tsui eventually won a race with him. Or Kingston Temple, a candidate for the slowest horse award, moved across and magically won at his first start for the "rejuvenation centre". Or Crystal, who had failed to win in 32 starts for two previous trainers but, in six starts for Tsui, had a breakthrough victory and three other placings as well. And just to show he's got what it takes with young horses as well as the old warriors, Tsui won two griffin races with Seize The Day and My Smartie. John Ridley, the Jockey Club's head of racing operations, says when Tsui was assistant trainer to Francis Lui Kin-wai, he was always top of the class in the club's formal education programme. "We knew then he had a good brain on him," he said. "And as for his work ethic, he's non-stop - the only person at Sha Tin I could compare with him is John Size." 
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#2
07-09-2008, 10:35 AM
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Hello Pretty and Helene Brilliant were both just retired.
 edit - other retirements... Bliss Star I'm No Square Carrizo Creek Island Sunrise Touch Down Telewin
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#3
07-11-2008, 01:48 PM
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Gelded... Visionario
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#4
07-18-2008, 12:12 AM
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Hapy retirement to King of Spades... 9 years old (from South Africa), he had had 98 starts, won his last one.
What a long, strange trip it's been. Record / replays... http://www.hkjc.com/english/racing/R...p?HorseNo=C056 * * * Welcome to HK, Achill Island! (To Schultz... due in on Saturday). * * * Swimmers of note (Thursday) ... Viva Macau, Able Prince, Able One, Medic Power, Armada, Warrior, Amo, South China Elite. * * * Good luck, Yam Lin Kee, with your new boy Dynamic Blitz. http://www.hkjc.com/english/racing/h...p?HorseNo=J339 Still waiting for news on Natural Blitz..... hopefully he's alive and enjoying life somewhere.
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07-18-2008, 08:35 PM
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Gelded today... Survey Survey.
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07-24-2008, 12:59 AM
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Gelded... Noble de Best (the former Lord Peter Flynt)...
(Overseas form)... http://www.hkjc.com/english/pp_formsheet/fse_J160.pdf ... London Express and Energetic Boy Retired... Lifeline Rapide. Name changes... True Alibi is now Winning Strategy, Infer is Royal Pumpkin (??), Victory Rock is Rain of Thunder, and... Indian Wells ... (overseas form) http://www.hkjc.com/english/pp_formsheet/fse_J333.pdf is Charitable Star. Yesterdays swimmers included Good Ba Ba... 
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#7
07-29-2008, 08:43 PM
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From SCMP.....
Wednesday, July 30, 2008 Boss turns his back on contract for new season MURRAY BELL Australian jockey Glen Boss has flagged the first shock of the new season, yesterday advising the Jockey Club he will not return as a club rider for the 2008-09 term. Boss had previously accepted a full-season contract, but has decided to return to Sydney with immediate effect, citing family reasons. "I have no complaint about Hong Kong, I had a good season and was looking forward to building on that," Boss said. "But during the break, I have done some thinking and my future is not in Hong Kong, my future and my family's future is in Sydney." Boss will return on Friday to collect his belongings and make final arrangements before leaving for Sydney early next week. "During my time in Hong Kong, the thing I missed most was the big buzz surrounding the carnivals and Group One races," said Boss, who won two Group Ones - the Golden Slipper Stakes and Doncaster Handicap - on hit-and-run visits in April. A key factor behind Boss' decision was the choice made by Ricky Yiu Poon-fie to engage Weichong Marwing as a stable jockey , despite the success the pair had enjoyed. http://racing.scmp.com/freeservice/n...ws20080730.asp
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