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2025
Rising Superstar
Superstar Hong Kong sprinter Ka Ying Rising completed a record-equalling season with scintillating victory in the HK$22 million G1 Chairman’s Sprint Prize (1200m). Taking his unbeaten record to 12 consecutive races, Ka Ying Rising also completed a clean sweep of the Hong Kong Speed Series and collected a HK$5 million bonus, emulating the feats of Mr Vitality (1995/96), Grand Delight (2002/03), Silent Witness (2003/04 and 2004/05) and Lucky Sweynesse (2022/23).
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2024
To be Invincible
Invincible Sage has emerged as the newest member of Hong Kong racing’s elite with victory in the G1 Chairman’s Sprint Prize (1200m) on a rain-affected Sha Tin track, providing David Hall his most important Hong Kong success since Absolute Champion’s Centenary Sprint Cup win 16 years ago.
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2023
THE LUCKY ONE
Lucky Sweynesse joined elite company with a runaway win in the Chairman’s Sprint Prize. The Manfred Man trained speedster also collected a HK$5 million bonus for successfully completing Hong Kong’s three-race Speed Series.
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2022
Brilliant Wellington
The Richard Gibson-trained Wellington joined Mr Vitality, Fairy King Prawn, Silent Witness, Sacred Kingdom, Dim Sum and Lucky Nine as a dual Chairman’s Sprint Prize winners across recent years.
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2021
Powerful Wellington
The Richard Gibson-trained Wellington became just the fourth four-year-old to win the coveted contest – a Group 1 prize since 2000 – following Silent Witness (2004), Sacred Kingdom (2008) and Ivictory (2018).
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2020
Stunning success
As a 20/1 ranked outsider, Mr Stunning is one of only three outsiders winning this race at over 20/1 since 1985, the other two being Billet Express (24/1) in 2006 and Dim Sum (50/1) in 2011.
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2019
Size’s three-peat
John Size notched his third Chairman’s Sprint Prize win with Beat The Clock, following Ivictory in 2018 and Grand Delight in 2003.
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2018
Size’s dominance
John Size becomes the second trainer after Ivan Allan in 2001 to complete a one-two-three finish in the Chairman’s Sprint Prize thanks to Ivictory, Mr Stunning and Beat The Clock.
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2017
Lui scores first G1 victory
Lucky Bubbles brings local trainer Francis Lui his first G1 success. The race, in just its second year as an open contest, is also ranked equal 34th in the World’s Top 100 G1 Races and is listed as the fourth highest-ranked G1 sprint worldwide.
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2016
Chautauqua leads overseas charge
Australian sprinter Chautauqua becomes the first overseas winner. This year saw the race first contested as a G1 contest, with prize money upped to HK$10 million.
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2014
Lucky Nine makes it two in a row
Brett Prebble partners Lucky Nine to his second consecutive Chairman’s Sprint Prize victory.
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2010
Yiu’s third Chairman’s Sprint Prize
Ricky Yiu wins his third Chairman’s Sprint Prize with Sacred Kingdom, with him remaining as the most successful home-grown trainer in this race.
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2009
Longshot Dim Sum takes spoils
Dim Sum salutes as a 50/1 chance, the longest-price Chairman’s Sprint Prize winner in recent years.
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2005
New record for Silent Witness
Silent Witness equals what was then a world record in the modern era, extending his unbeaten sequence to 16 wins in this race.
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2001
Prawn rules newly-named Chairman’s Sprint Prize
Fairy King Prawn wins this race for the second time. The race is renamed as the Chairman’s Sprint Prize the same year.
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1992
Concert King takes first HKG1 Chairman’s Prize
The race is first run as a Hong Kong Group 1 event, with Concert King denying Quicken Away a fourth Chairman’s Prize success.
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1990
Quicken Away dominates rivals
Having won the Champions & Chater Cup (1800m) six days earlier, Quicken Away steps back to 1200m, crushing his rivals by five lengths to win the second of his three Chairman’s Prize trophies. The popular grey remains the only three-time winner of this race.
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1979
First Prize to Ever Win
Ever Win took the inaugural Chairman’s Prize, titled the Hong Kong Sprint Championship at that time, under the legendary Tony Cruz at Sha Tin.
