{"id":11758,"date":"2025-12-14T16:25:00","date_gmt":"2025-12-14T08:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ctr-campaigns.hkjc.com\/racing-event-hub-hkir\/?p=11758"},"modified":"2025-12-14T18:38:20","modified_gmt":"2025-12-14T10:38:20","slug":"longines-hong-kong-sprint-post-race-jockey-quotes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/campaigns.hkjc.com\/racing-event-hub-hkir\/en\/news\/longines-hong-kong-sprint-post-race-jockey-quotes","title":{"rendered":"LONGINES Hong Kong Sprint &#8211; Post-race jockey quotes"},"content":{"rendered":"[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]<p><strong>KA YING RISING &#8211; Zac Purton<\/strong><\/p><p>\u201cIt felt good. Listen, we didn&#8217;t really have a fixed plan other than to be positive. I was surprised I led but I was always going to be happy to lead anyway. The fence was no good so I had to get off it. When I looked at the big screen, I was a long way in front! That&#8217;s what everyone wanted. Obviously after last year, it was a bit flat, but this year I think he showed everyone what he can do.\u201d<\/p><p><strong>RAGING BLIZZARD &#8211; Brenton Avdulla<\/strong><\/p><p>\u201cHe went terrific. He&#8217;s a genuine and honest horse, he&#8217;s run well his last three and he&#8217;s picked today on Grand Final day and he&#8217;s run second to the best horse in the world so you can&#8217;t ask for any more.\u201d<\/p><p><strong>FAST NETWORK &#8211; James McDonald<\/strong><\/p><p>\u201cThat winner was something else. He ran brave in defeat, though.\u201d<\/p><p><strong>LUCKY SWEYNESSE &#8211; Derek Leung<\/strong><\/p><p>\u201cHe ran very good for the owners, the fast tempo suited him, he had no excuse and he ran a very good race.\u201d<\/p><p><strong>HELIOS EXPRESS &#8211; Hugh Bowman<\/strong><\/p><p>\u201cI was delighted with him again, he ran another consistent race.\u201d<\/p><p><strong>TOMODACHI KOKOROE &#8211; Harry Bentley<\/strong><\/p><p>\u201cHe got into a nice position and travelled well. He still ran a decent race.\u201d<\/p><p><strong>LUCKY WITH YOU &#8211; Luke Ferraris<\/strong><\/p><p>\u201cHe had a lot to do from the barrier but he equitted himself well.\u201d<\/p><p><strong>WUNDERBAR &#8211; Craig Williams<\/strong><\/p><p>\u201cIt\u2019s not good being opposition against Ka Ying Rising but what a supreme racehorse. He\u2019s just too good for us and took our horse out of his comfort zone and everything else as well.\u201d<\/p><p><strong>SATONO REVE &#8211; Ryan Moore<\/strong><\/p><p>\u201cHe was a bit disappointing. The winner is exceptional &#8211; the best I\u2019ve seen at that trip.\u201d<\/p><p><strong>BEAUTY WAVES &#8211; Alexis Badel<\/strong><\/p><p>\u201cHe ran okay behind the speed, quite wide, but he did okay.\u201d<\/p><p><strong>WIN CARNELIAN &#8211; Kosei Miura<\/strong><\/p><p>\u201cKa Ying Rising broke quickly, so I went with him, but I couldn\u2019t keep up the speed and he had little left in his tank at the end. Still, I am proud of the horse &#8211; he was trying very hard.\u201d<\/p><p><strong>KHAADEM &#8211; Oisin Murphy<\/strong><\/p><p>\u201cThe stirrup leather broke, I was without one iron and unfortunately the race was over.\u201d<\/p><p><strong>DIVANO &#8211; Hollie Doyle<\/strong><\/p><p>Unavailable to comment.<\/p>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]KA YING RISING &#8211; Zac Purton\u201cIt felt good. Listen, we didn&#8217;t really have a fixed plan other than to be positive. I was surprised I led but I was always going to be happy to lead anyway. The fence was no good so I had to get off it. When I looked at the big&hellip; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"http:\/\/campaigns.hkjc.com\/racing-event-hub-hkir\/en\/news\/longines-hong-kong-sprint-post-race-jockey-quotes\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_oasis_is_in_workflow":0,"_oasis_original":0,"_oasis_task_priority":"2normal","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/campaigns.hkjc.com\/racing-event-hub-hkir\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11758"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/campaigns.hkjc.com\/racing-event-hub-hkir\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/campaigns.hkjc.com\/racing-event-hub-hkir\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/campaigns.hkjc.com\/racing-event-hub-hkir\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/campaigns.hkjc.com\/racing-event-hub-hkir\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11758"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/campaigns.hkjc.com\/racing-event-hub-hkir\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11758\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11870,"href":"http:\/\/campaigns.hkjc.com\/racing-event-hub-hkir\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11758\/revisions\/11870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/campaigns.hkjc.com\/racing-event-hub-hkir\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/campaigns.hkjc.com\/racing-event-hub-hkir\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/campaigns.hkjc.com\/racing-event-hub-hkir\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}