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The 2021/22 season begins at Sha Tin in spectacular style with close to 18,000 racegoers in attendance – one of the largest crowds since the start of the pandemic. With turnover reaching HK$1.441 billion, a new record for the season-opening meeting, Hong Kong is once again a shining light of global racing.

Zac Purton breaks Douglas Whyte’s all-time Hong Kong prize money mark.

Golden Sixty stands alone as Hong Kong’s most prolific winner in history with 19 victories after he successfully defends his G1 LONGINES Hong Kong Mile crown.

Sky Field wins the G1 LONGINES Hong Kong Sprint, seeing off world-class opposition from Japan to continue Hong Kong’s dominance in the event.

Hong Kong signals it will continue to be the home of the world’s richest G1 turf races over 1200m, 1600m and 2000m when the collective prize money for the four G1 features at the LONGINES Hong Kong International Races rises to a new high of HK$110 million in 2022, an increase of HK$10 million on 2021. The Club earns global plaudits for its staging of the event, despite the emergence of the Omicron variant, with the closed-loop “Racing Bubble” being successfully extended to jockeys and trainers from overseas. The event showcases the quality of Hong Kong racing to the world and attracts record turnover.

Douglas Whyte achieves his first G1 success as a trainer with Stronger's triumph in the Centenary Sprint Cup.

Waikuku delivers a stunning blow to claim his second G1 Stewards’ Cup crown by ending Golden Sixty’s famed 16-race unbeaten streak.

Golden Sixty is rated joint-top miler in the LONGINES World’s Best Racehorse Rankings for 2021 and Hong Kong again figures prominently in the LONGINES World’s Top 100 G1 Races list, with eight of the city’s elite races featured.

Russian Emperor lands a well-deserved success in the Citi Hong Kong Gold Cup under a brilliant ride from Blake Shinn.

Romantic Warrior makes history as the first graduate of the Hong Kong International Sale to snare the HK$24 million BMW Hong Kong Derby, crowning a meteoric rise.

Hong Kong racing emerges as one of the world leaders in terms of both quality and international recognition, after announcing it will offer record total prize money and incentives of HK$1.62 billion across the 2022/2023 racing season, with the overall purse bolstered by a record single-season increase of 11.5% (HK$167.2 million).

Golden Sixty becomes the highest prize money earner in Hong Kong's racing history, after extending his win tally to a record 21 with the faultless defence of his HK$20 million G1 FWD Champions Mile title. The win also gives Vincent Ho his third consecutive FWD Champions Mile triumph, having previously won aboard Southern Legend in 2020.

Romantic Warrior soars into rare company with a brilliant G1 FWD QEII Cup triumph, making him the first Hong Kong International Sale graduate to complete the Hong Kong Derby-QEII Cup double in a single season.

Wellington claims his second G1 of the season with a back-to-back success in the Chairman’s Sprint Prize on FWD Champions Day, following his earlier victory in this season’s Queen’s Silver Jubilee Cup.

Four-time champion trainer Caspar Fownes becomes only the fourth horseman in Hong Kong racing history to saddle 1,000 winners.

Zac Purton’s storied career hits new heights as he notches his 1,400th Hong Kong winner.

Eleven-time champion trainer John Size creates history with his 1,400th Hong Kong victory.

Russian Emperor wins his second G1 of the season for trainer Douglas Whyte and jockey Blake Shinn, with a domineering last-to-first victory in the Standard Chartered Champions & Chater Cup.

Tony Cruz becomes the third Hong Kong trainer in history to reach 1,400 wins.