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Trainers
(updated on 14 Dec.‚ 2002)

Brian Kan Ping-chee
Horse :
Hong Kong Vase
Born 24 November 1937‚ the doyen of trainers in Hong Kong and the very much the public's favourite. In his 25th and final season‚ he began in 1978 and he will be hard to replace. Has trained over 830 winners - a HK record - not to mention the winners of 100 Cup races. Champion trainer five times: 1986/87‚ 87/88‚ 88/89‚ 89/90‚ 2000/01 ˇV his best season was 63 winners in 1989/90. He won the very first Hong Kong Cup in 1987/88 with Flying Dancer. Has also trained five Hong Kong Derby winners (most recently Industrial Pioneer in 2001) and the winner of the 2000 Audemars Piguet QEII Cup‚ Industrialist.

Ivan Allan
Horse :
Hong Kong Sprint
Hong Kong Vase
Hong Kong Vase
Hong Kong Mile
Hong Kong Cup
Hong Kong Cup
Born 16 January 1941‚ is in his 11th season training at Sha Tin and is steadily approaching the 500 HK winner milestone. From his native Singapore where he had umpteen trainers titles and major wins to his name‚ he decamped to Hong Kong in 1992 in search of fresher challenges and has been champion trainer on three occasions (1993/94‚ 95/96‚ 96/97). He has won the Hong Kong Invitation Cup with Colonial Chief‚ and the Vase in 1998 with Indigenous. Oriental Express won him the AP QE II Cup and Fairy King Prawn the Yasuda Kinen in June 2000. Has also been a successful breeder and owner with Classic Cliche‚ Citidancer‚ Cicerao and Commanche Run some notable highlights.

Daniel Bougoure
Horse :
Hong Kong Sprint
Hong Kong Mile
Aged 36‚ has held his training licence for nine years come Christmas. His father Doug‚ who prepared the 1983 Cox Plate winner Strawberry Road‚ gave him a thorough grounding in the training game‚ and Bougoure Jr has rolled out a steady stream of winners from his Queensland base since taking out his licence. He labels his brace of victories in the Hong Kong Sprint with Falvelon as his greatest achievement to date. Falvelon has also landed Bougoure with a pair of Gr.1 Doomben 10‚000 victories. His HK Mile candidate Scenic Peak won the Emirates Stakes at the Melbourne Cup Carnival last month.

Donald Burke II
Horse :
Hong Kong Vase
Born in California in 1966‚ spent time in several top American stables and he was with Ben Cecil when he first met Gary Tanaka‚ who in 2001 asked him to train five horses for him‚ one of which was Falcon Flight. Burke accepted the offer‚ and got his licence one week later. Falcon Flight‚ successful in The Stars and Stripes Breedersˇ¦ Cup Turf Stakes at Arlington in July 2001‚ and in the Arlington Handicap in July 2002‚ has provided the trainer with the two stakes victories of his career to date.

Julio Canani
Horse :
Hong Kong Mile
Born 13 November 1938‚ moved to America from his native Peru to avoid political unrest and ended up taking out a training licence in 1968. He won the Gr.1 Santa Anita Handicap in 1989 with Martial Law. He held his training licence until 1993 when he took a break from the sport before returning with a vengeance in 1997‚ sending out Silic to win the Breeders' Cup Mile in November 1999. Eight months later he trained the Quinella in the Gr.1 Shoemaker Breeders' Cup Mile via Silic and Ladies' Din. The latter horse won the same race for Canani this year. He scored another Breeders' Cup Mile victory with Val Royal in 2001. His son Nick is also a trainer.

Peter Chapple-Hyam
Horse :
Hong Kong Cup
Born 2 April 1963‚ trained the winners of 24 Gr.1 races - including the 1992 Epsom Derby hero Dr Devious and several other Classic winners - during the 1990s before his sudden switch to Hong Kong racing in October 1999 to replace Patrick Biancone. This is his fourth (third full) season as a trainer in HK and had registered 21 winners in HK by the start of this season. His Hong Kong Cup hope Cellini provided him with his first HK Class 1 winner last month at Happy Valley.

Robert Collet
Horse :
Hong Kong Sprint
Aged 54‚ has an excellent international training pedigree. But perhaps the best horse to pass through his care was Last Tycoon‚ the champion sprinter in 1986 and winner of that year's Breeders' Cup Mile. His owner‚ Richard Strauss‚ has also owned amongst others No Pass No Sale‚ winner of the French 2‚000 Guineas‚ Truly A Dream‚ winner of the E.P. Taylor Stakes (which Collet also won with Choc Ice in 2001)‚ Volochine‚ who ran third in the Hong Kong Cup in 1994‚ and Cerulean Sky. Collet has also had great International success with Le Glorieux who was campaigned to win the Washington D.C. International‚ Grosser Preis der Berliner Bank and the Japan Cup in 1987. Other big winners include Son Of Love in the English St. Leger and Ukraine Girl in the French 1‚000 Guineas.

Lee Curtis
Horse :
Hong Kong Sprint
Aged 40‚ is a relative newcomer to training ranks but has spent almost half his life working in stables around Sydney and the south coast of New South Wales. Curtis took out his trainer's licence in 1994 and has notched around 75 winners in that time and credited an old Sydney trainer Dave Mills as having the biggest influence on his career. Mistegic‚ which credited Curtis with his one and only Gr.1 win in The Galaxy last April‚ is regarded as the horse that changed his fortune.

Neil Drysdale
Horse :
Hong Kong Cup
Aged 55‚ is one of the sport's top trainers and was voted into racing's Hall of Fame in 2000. Born in England‚ he was assistant to Charlie Whittingham in California from 1970 until he took the job as private trainer for Corbin Robertson's Saron Stable in 1974. His first big winner was Saron's Bold 'n Determined‚ who won eight races in 1980. He opened a public stable in 1983 and has trained five Eclipse Award winners and the winners of six Breeders' Cup races. In 1998 he trained the winners of 19 Graded stakes races including top mare‚ Fiji. He won the Kentucky Derby at this first attempt with Fusaichi Pegasus in 2000. Other outstanding performers to come out of his barn include AP Indy - Horse of the Year in 1992 - Princess Rooney‚ Hollywood Wildcat and Tasso.

David Elsworth
Horse :
Hong Kong Cup
Born 12 December 1939‚ was a professional National Hunt jockey between 1957 and 1972‚ riding about 50 winners. He first took out a licence to train in 1978 and has succeeded both on the Flat and under National Hunt rules but he has recently concentrated solely on flat racing. He is best known for his association with champion chaser Desert Orchid‚ winner of the 1989 Cheltenham Gold Cup and one of the most popular racehorses Britain has known. He also won the Grand National with Rhyme 'n' Reason. He has won the Irish 1000 Guineas with In The Groove and in recent years his tough stayer Persian Punch has been the stable's standard-bearer‚ winning top staying races year after year.

Andre Fabre
Horse :
Hong Kong Vase
He has been France's champion trainer every year since 1987. A successful jump jockey riding more than 250 winners‚ Fabre began training jumpers in 1977 but switched codes to training solely flat horses in 1983. Fabre has won just about every significant race in the French calendar‚ including the Prix de lˇ¦Arc de Triomphe a record five times. Peintre Celebre‚ French Derby and Arc winner in 1997‚ is possibly the best horse he has trained. Internationally‚ his successes include a Breedersˇ¦ Cup Turf (In The Wings 1990) and a Breedersˇ¦ Cup Classic (Arcangues 1993)‚ four English classics‚ the Irish Oaks and Irish Derby‚ an Arlington Million and two Canadian Internationals and the Hong Kong Vase‚ for which he sends Polish Summer this year‚ with Borgia in 1999.

Yoshiyuki Goto
Horse :
Hong Kong Mile
Born 16 May 1953‚ started out as assistant trainer to Katsumi Yagisawa in 1978‚ a position he occupied for five years‚ before moving on to be assistant to Yoshiyasu Takahashi in 1983. Goto took out a trainerˇ¦s licence on his own account in 1995‚ and started on his own in March 1996. Over the past seven seasons he has sent out a total of 136 winners and in the current season he has had 25 winners. Tokai Point provided him with the highlight of his season so far when winning the JpnGr.1 Mile Championship at Kyoto in November.

William Haggas
Horse :
Hong Kong Mile
Born 23 August 1960‚ is best known for his Epsom Derby success with Shaamit in 1996. His most recent Gr.1 winner was with Count Dubois in the Gran Criterium in Italy in 2000. He is married to Maureen‚ the daughter of the one of the all time greats of racing‚ jockey Lester Piggott‚ who was part owner of the champion two-year-old filly Superstar Leo in 2000. Haggas trains in Newmarket.

Mitsuru Hashida
Horse :
Hong Kong Mile
Born 15 September 1952‚ had a brief career as an apprentice jockey before deciding that his future was as a trainer. He spent five years as an assistant before receiving his first licence on 1 March 1983. Hashida is now based at the Ritto Training Centre and currently has 37 horses in his care. His best season was 1995‚ when he sent out 36 winners. He has been in great form in the past two seasons and won the 1999 JpnGr.1 Japanese Derby with Admire Vega. Hashida also won the 1998 JpnGr.1 Takarazuka Kinen with Silence Suzuka‚ and that year's JpnGr.1 Asahi Hai Sansai Stakes with HK Mile contender Admire Cozzene‚ who went on to land the JpnGr.1 Yasuda Kinen in June of this year.

David Hayes
Horse :
Hong Kong Sprint
Hong Kong Vase
Hong Kong Mile
Born 22 October 1962‚ is the trainer of Melbourne Cup (Jeune '94) and Japan Cup (Better Loosen Up '90) winners and the son of Australian training legend‚ Colin Hayes. David sent out a world record six Group race winners on Victoria Derby Day in 1990 and had racked up over 1‚000 winners and landed trainers premierships in Victoria and South Australia before starting training in Hong Kong in 1995. He won the Hong Kong trainers' premiership in 1997-98 and 1998-99 and has trained over 330 HK winners with his best season 62 winners in 1997/98.

Mark Johnston
Horse :
Hong Kong Mile
Born 43 years ago in Scotland‚ reached the 1000 winner landmark in September 2000. The fully qualified veterinarian set up in 1987 at his Middleham base in Yorkshire and won his first Classic with Mister Baileys in the 1994 2‚000 Guineas. Other major feats are winning the British Stayerˇ¦s Triple Crown in 1995 with Double Trigger and winning the Dubai Turf Classic in 1999 and two runnings of the Hardwicke Stakes at Royal Ascot with Fruits Of Love. He won the Ascot Gold Cup for a third time this year with Royal Rebel (also won in 2001) and has now trained 100 winners in Britain for each of the last four years and notched 132 winners in 2002.

Shuji Kitahashi
Horse :
Hong Kong Cup
Born 10 September 1935‚ took out his trainer's licence in 1977 and had sent out 4716 runners for 429 wins (9% strike rate) as of 11 Nov 2002. Eishin Preston would be probably the best horse he has trained‚ yet despite twice winning at Gr.1 level in HK‚ the five year old has not won a JpnGr.1 race on home soil since his two year old days. Kitahashi has had 22 winners this season from 233 starters‚ biggest success this year being in the Kyoto Himba Stakes (JpnGr.3) over a mile with Behind The Mask.

Elie Lellouche
Horse :
Hong Kong Vase
Born on 5 March 1952‚ was a professional jockey for ten years riding over 170 winners before taking out a trainer's licence in 1978. He currently has 150 horses in training at his yard in Chantilly‚ including many for the Wildenstein family with whom he has had a longstanding connection. One of the best horses Lellouche has saddled has been the four-time Gr.1 winner Bigstone‚ who scored top-level victories in Britain in the Queen Elizabeth II and the Sussex Stakes. Had international success in 1995 when Partipral won the Hong Kong International Vase at Sha Tin. Lellouche also saddled Helissio to win five Gr.1 races‚ including the Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe. He made a major impact again in 2001 via HK Vase contender‚ Aquarelliste‚ who won the Gr.1 French Oaks and Prix Vermeille and has continued to make the most of the Wildenstein connection with Bright Sky‚ winner of the French Oaks and the Gr.1 Prix de l'Opera.

Eric Libaud
Horse :
Hong Kong Vase
Aged 40‚ was assistant trainer to Alain de Royer Dupre in Chantilly for seven seasons before he took out his own trainer's licence at the end of 1992. Libaud trains in the provinces in the west of France and has made steady progress year on year. His star filly Terre A Terre catapulted him to international prominence with wins in the Gr.1 Prix de lˇ¦Opera‚ a close third in the Hong Kong Cup and a win in the Gr.1 Dubai Duty Free in March of this year. This year's HK challenger Ange Gabriel has managed to keep Libaud in the limelight with victory in the Gr.1 Grand Prix de Saint Cloud.

Shigeki Matsumoto
Horse :
Hong Kong Sprint
Born 21 October 1948‚ gained experience first as a groom‚ and then as assistant trainer to his father Masao Matsumoto‚ and then moved on to become assistant trainer to his brother Shoichi Matsumoto for a while. He took out his own licence in 1992 and sent out his first winner in October1993. Since then he has saddled over 200 winners‚ and in 2002 has sent out 22 winners from 221 starters. His biggest success as a trainer came when Believe won the JpnGr.1 Sprinter Stakes over 1200 metres at Niigata Racecourse in September.

John Moore
Horse :
Hong Kong Sprint
Born 17 March 1950‚ is better known for his success as a trainer but‚ like his father George and brother Gary‚ he too rode competitively although due to his weight‚ riding was limited to amateur events. He has been involved with racing in Hong Kong since the first season of professional racing in 1972 and he commenced training in 1985‚ prior to which he held the position of assistant trainer to his father. He has trained almost 750 winners in Hong Kong and has won stacks of feature races including the Hong Kong Derby (Makarpura Star '95) and Hong Kong International Cup (Motivation '94).

David Nicholls
Horse :
Hong Kong Sprint
Born 30 April 1956‚ is married to Alex Greaves‚ who also acts as one of his stable jockeys. Nicholls was himself a successful jockey. The highlights of 421 career wins came on the brilliant sprinter Soba‚ whom he won on 11 times. He first took out a training licence in November 1991 and now trains around 90 horses. His best score to date was 75 winners in 1999. His first Gr.1 victory was when Ya Malak‚ ridden by his wife‚ dead-heated for the Nunthorpe Stakes at York in 1997. The highlights of his 2002 season have been the Gr.1 successes of Continent in the July Cup and Prix de lˇ¦Abbaye de Longchamp.

Yokichi Okubo
Horse :
Hong Kong Sprint
Born 15 October 1944‚ has been training in Japan for 25 seasons and recorded his first win in 1977. Since then he has trained the winners of 550 races‚ from around 5000 starters. From the 2001 season to date he has trained 28 winners‚ including three wins at JpnGr.3 level. His biggest career wins have come through his association with Mejiro Dober‚ twice a winner of the JpnGr.1 Queen Elizabeth II Commemorative Cup‚ and winner also of the JpnGr.1 Japanese Oaks‚ and a champion at two‚ three and four years old.

David Oughton
Horse :
Hong Kong Sprint
Hong Kong Cup
Born 28 July 1954 in England‚ has been training in Hong Kong since 1987-88 and finished third in the trainers' championship‚ his best ever placing here‚ a season later. He has notched almost 400 winners in his time based at Sha Tin. His greatest Hong Kong success arrived in 1996 when Che Sara Sara won the Hong Kong Derby. Other notable triumphs include Group 1 glory for San Domenico‚ Starlight and most recently‚ Idol in the Hong Kong Gold Cup in 2001.

Amanda Perret
Horse :
Hong Kong Mile
Born 31 December 1969‚ is the daughter of dual British champion trainer Guy Harwood. She was a successful amateur jockey on the Flat and over the jumps and in 1995 married Mark Perrett‚ one of Britain's top riders over jumps who also had success on the Flat. Amanda took over the licence to train at her father's base in West Sussex in 1996 with her husband acting as her assistant and she now trains around 100 horses‚ including a number of jumpers. Her career took off in 2000‚ thanks mainly to Indian Lodge‚ who gave her a first Pattern race win in the Gr.2 Earl of Sefton Stakes‚ and who went on to land the Gr.1 Prix du Moulin and the Gr.1 Prix de la Foret. HK Mile challenger Tillerman has been the stable star in a season that has seen Perret send out 60 winners.

Todd Pletcher
Horse :
Hong Kong Sprint
Aged 35‚ though born in Dallas Texas‚ lives and trains in New York. The son of a trainer‚ Pletcher graduated from the University of Arizona with a degree in Animal Sciences in 1989‚ and was then assistant trainer to D Wayne Lukas for seven years‚ before starting out on his own in 1996.His career has gone well and he was leading trainer at the Saratoga Meeting in 2002. He saddled four runners in the 2000 Kentucky Derby‚ and has won stakes races on a regular basis with horses such as Balto Star‚ Impeachment‚ Graeme Hall‚ Invisible Ink‚ and Trippi‚ to name just some. Pletcher has won more than 100 races in 2002 and more than $6 million to establish himself in the top half dozen trainers in the US this season.

Flemming Poulsen
Horse :
Hong Kong Cup
Born in 1956 in Denmark‚ began his career in racing as an apprentice jockey when he was 15. He won sixteen races as a jockey before beginning his training career in the Danish provinces at the age of 20‚ and won his first Danish Classic when Succeed won the 1988 Danish St Leger (a race he has won since). Poulsen moved to Copenhagen to train in 1995‚ and since landed a string of Scandinavian Classics‚ including the Danish Derby (twice)‚ the Swedish Derby and Oaks. HK Cup starter Dano-Mast is the best he has trained‚ picking up a brace of Pattern wins in the Gr.3 Stockholm Cup International‚ and the Gr.2 Prix Dollar last October.

Luigi Riccardi
Horse :
Hong Kong Sprint
Born 2 March 1968 in Sardiniam‚ is the son of a lawyer and racehorse owner and breeder that set up Scuderia Lechereo‚ and owned the 1982 Italian Derby and 1983 Prix Royal Oak winner Old Country. Luigi Riccardi has held a licence since 1988‚ but really only started training seriously in 1999‚ after spending two years as assistant to Bruno Grizetti. He also worked with Christophe Clement for a year in New York as a groom and work rider‚ and has spent time with Pascal Bary in Chantilly and Luca Cumani in Newmarket.

Jenine Sahadi
Horse :
Hong Kong Vase
Born in Los Angeles in 1963‚ began her training career in 1993‚ having previously spent two years as assistant to trainer Julio Canani. In March 1998 she married trainer Ben Cecil. In her ten years as a trainer she has enjoyed considerable success and won around 40 Stakes races‚ the first being Creston in 1993‚ and the first Gr.1 winner Grand Flotilla in the 1994 Hollywood Turf Handicap. Most notably‚ she saddled back-to-back Breedersˇ¦ Cup Sprint winners in Lit de Justice (1996) and Elmhurst (1997) and in the process became the first female to train a Breedersˇ¦ Cup winner‚ and the first to win a race worth US$1 million.

Peter Schiergen
Horse :
Hong Kong Vase
Born in March 1965‚ won the German jockeys' championship for the first time in 1992 and won five straight titles‚ but it was his number of winners that was most remarkable. In 1995 he won an incredible 271 races‚ which broke the European record set by Gordon Richards back in 1947. He retired from the saddle with 1471 wins and now set up as a trainer in 1998 in Cologne and enjoyed instant success‚ preparing Tiger Hill to land the 1998 and 1999 Grosser Preis von Baden. Sumitas was another star‚ as have been the Gr.1 winner Catella‚ Gr.1 Deutsches Derby and Coronation Cup winner Boreal‚ and his HK Vase aspirant‚ Guadalupe‚ winner of the Gr.1 Italian Oaks.

John Size
Horse :
Hong Kong Mile
Hong Kong Mile
Hong Kong Cup
Born in Queensland on 10 July 1954‚ did extremely well with limited resources and finished the second-ranked trainer in Sydney before his arrival in Hong Kong in July 2001. The four Gr.1 races he won in Australia with Al Mansour‚ Georgie Boy‚ Padstow and El Mirada‚ were with horses whose best days were seemingly behind them‚ earning Size a reputation as a trainer capable of improving horses and rekindling their former enthusiasm. This tag has stuck with him in Hong Kong and Size broke the mould by winning the trainers' premiership in his very first season ˇV a phenomenal achievement with an equally excellent winning strike-rate of 20%. Although Electronic Unicorn was his star last season‚ he improved stacks of horses to their very best and is proving a huge asset to the HK training ranks.

Saeed bin Suroor
Horse :
Hong Kong Vase
Hong Kong Mile
Hong Kong Cup
Aged 37‚ took out his first trainer's licence in 1994. Success came quickly and in 1995 he was placed in charge of Sheikh Mohammed's Al Quoz stable in Dubai and the mighty Godolphin operation in Newmarket. He was champion trainer in Britain in 1996‚ 1998 and 1999 and‚ despite a few notable exceptions‚ he has won plenty worth talking about in international racing: Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe (Lammtarra '95‚ Sakhee '01‚ Marienbard '02)‚ Dubai World Cup (Almutawakel '99‚ Dubai Millennium '00) Epsom Derby (Lammtarra '95)‚ Breeders' Cup Turf (Daylami '99‚ Fantastic Light '01)‚ Hong Kong Cup (Fantastic Light '00) and scores more besides. Grandera is the fourth straight winner of the World Series Championship (after Daylami and Fantastic Light (twice)) to be trained by bin Suroor.

Alan Tam Man-chau
Horse :
Hong Kong Cup
Aged 44‚ was Macau's champion trainer in his first year as licensed handler in 2001/02. Tam was a Hong Kong Jockey Club licensed jockey from 1976 until 1986. In April 1996 he joined the Macau Jockey Club as a stable supervisor. The following season‚ he was promoted to assistant trainer before graduating to role of licensed trainer that he made such a successful start at last season‚ winning eight feature races. Tam won the Macau Derby with HK Cup-bound Royal Treasure and scored a record high both winners (106) and prize-money (HK$27million).

Dermot Weld
Horse :
Hong Kong Sprint
Born 29 July 1948‚ first took out a licence to train in 1972. Weld qualified as a vet and was a multiple champion amateur rider in Ireland and before taking out a licence to train‚ he acted as assistant to his father Charlie and to Tommy Smith in Australia. In 1998 he clinched his eighth trainers' title and his 136 winners in 1985 remains an Irish record. In August 2000 he recorded his 2578th winner in Ireland to become the country's winningmost trainer‚ surpassing the record of Senator Jim Parkinson that had stood since 1947. He remains the only Northern Hemisphere trainer to have won the Melbourne Cup (twice‚ Vintage Crop in 1993 and Media Puzzle in 2002). He was also the first European-based trainer to win a race in Hong Kong‚ landing the 1991 Invitation Bowl with Additional Risk. He also won the Gr.1 Belmont Stakes with Go And Go in 1990 and has kept the international momentum going with Dress to Thrill's win in the Gr.1 Matriarch Stakes at Hollywood Park on December 1. Weld has trained the winners of all of Ireland's Classics‚ including the Derby with Zagreb in 1996. Over the jumps‚ he saddled Perris Valley to win the 1988 Irish Grand National. He has also trained Cheltenham Festival winners.

Andreas Wohler
Horse :
Hong Kong Cup
Aged 40‚ gave up his studies aged 24 to take over the Bremen yard of his father‚ Adolf‚ one of the most successful German trainers of the post-war period. Perhaps Wohler's most outstanding success has been Lomitas‚ who won all his races as a juvenile and followed up with three Gr.1 victories the next year‚ including the Grosser Preis von Baden and the Europa Preis. Wohler has twice won the Deutsche Derby‚ with Pik Konig (92) and Belenus (99) and his HK Vase runner Paolini won a couple of Gr.1 races in Italy last year too. Silvano‚ a son of Lomitas‚ is the real stable star of recent times‚ however winning the Singapore Cup‚ Audemars Piguet QE II Cup and the Arlington Million.

Alex Wong Siu-tan
Horse :
Hong Kong Vase
Born 5 May 1944‚ is in his 24th season as a trainer in Hong Kong (began 1978/79). Is approaching the 400 winner mark locally and enjoyed his best season in 2001/02 with 28 winners. His last Group race winner was Idol‚ who won the HKGr.2 Queen Mother's Cup in June 2000‚ a race he also won many years ago with Dudley Wood and Midas Touch. Wong won the HKGr.3 Chinese Club Challenge Cup Supreme Goliath.

Sean Woods
Horse :
Hong Kong Vase
Hong Kong Vase
Born 2 July 1965‚ is in his first season in Hong Kong. Has made a bright start to his new post‚ a fact mirrored by a stable that is gradually expanding to capacity. A former jumps jockey‚ he started training in June 1992 with just 17 horses and could proudly boast that more than 50% of his 1‚900 or so runners on the Flat had won or been placed. He sent out a total of 263 winners‚ including a Gr.1 winner in Mistle Cat and a handful of other Pattern winners. His best year was 43 winners in 2001. He is the brother of Wendyll Woods who rode successfully in Hong Kong for 14 seasons.

A S Cruz
Horse :
Hong Kong Sprint
45‚ the winner of over 1700 races in a riding career that spanned the globe. Six times Hong Kong's champion jockey‚ Cruz was first jockey to the Aga Khan and he won a stack of big races in Europe during the late 1980s and early 90s. He won the Hong Kong Invitation Cup in 1988 on Colonial Chief. Has made a successful transition from jockey to trainer‚ winning the Hong Kong trainers' title in 1999/2000 with 57 winners. He also won the Gr.1 Centenary Sprint Cup in 2001 with King Of Danes.