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Audemars Piguet QEII Cup �V Trainer Profiles
16/04/2015
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Bary, Pascal
Age 62, the Chantilly trainer was an amateur rider and then worked for Sir Mark Prescott and Francois Boutin before taking out his own trainers�� licence in 1981. He has been closely associated with the Niarchos Family since 1995 and trained their brilliant fillies Divine Proportions (5-time G1 winner) and Six Perfections. He has won the French Derby five times and also took the Irish Derby with one of those victors, Dream Well (1998), while more recently he sent Natagora to England to win the 1,000 Guineas (2008). His impressive Group 1 haul also includes three Breeders�� Cup triumphs thanks to Miss Alleged (1991 Turf), Domedriver (2002 Mile) and Six Perfections (2003 Mile). He took the 2010 Dubai World Cup with Gloria De Campeao, a horse he had sent to Singapore to win the SIA Cup the previous year.
NG>Cruz, Tony
Age 58, Tony Cruz was six times Hong Kong's champion jockey and rode 946 winners. He achieved his first HK trainers' title in 1999/2000 and regained it in 2005, setting a then record for a season's winners (91) and earnings (HK$113m). His most famous horses have been Silent Witness, the dual HK Sprint and nine-time G1 winner, Bullish Luck, a five-time G1 winner and winner of the G1 Yasuda Kinen in Japan and California Memory, winner of back-to-back Hong Kong Cups in 2011 and 2012. California Memory also took the HKG1 Champions & Chater Cup in 2013 to claim the Champion Stayer crown. Lucky Owners' double in the HK Mile and HK Derby and Helene Mascot's Derby victory, as well as Blazing Speed's Stewards' Cup and Champions & Chater Cup wins in 2014, also stand out. This season he sent out Beauty Only to win the HKG1 Hong Kong Classic Mile. In 2010/11 in which he won two HKG1s and the G1 HK Mile with Beauty Flash, he was pipped late for the trainer's title by John Moore's late burst. In 2012/13 Cruz closed in to lead the trainers' title race with a double at the last meeting of the season, only to be overtaken again in the final race and finish the campaign in 2nd. He has 34 wins this term (as of 12 April) for a career total of 1009 wins.
Dunlop, Ed
Age 46, Old Etonian Ed Dunlop is a son of retired champion British trainer John Dunlop and took out his trainer's licence in 1994. In 1996, Ta Rib was his first Classic winner in the French 1,000 Guineas and Iktamal his first G1 scorer in Britain. He won the Irish Oaks in 2001 with Lailani and in 2004 with Ouija Board (after she won The Oaks at Epsom and before she won the Breeders' Cup Filly & Mare Turf). Ouija Board was European Horse of the Year in 2004 and captured the HK Vase in decisive fashion in 2005. In 2010, Snow Fairy won four G1s for him: The Oaks, the Irish Oaks and in Japan the Queen Elizabeth II Commemorative Cup, before crowning her season with victory in the G1 HK Cup. Snow Fairy scored a repeat victory in the QEII Commemorative Cup in 2011 and added the G1 Irish Champion Stakes in 2012. Red Cadeaux has been his standard-bearer recently, winning the G1 HK Vase in 2012 and running 2nd in the 2013 G1 Dubai World Cup. The tough gelding failed by the narrowest of noses to win the 2011 G1 Melbourne Cup and was 2nd again in 2013 and 2014. He saddled Joshua Tree to win the G1 Canadian International in October, 2013 the trainer��s 24th G1 win spread across eight countries.
STRONG>Fownes, Caspar
Age 47, Caspar Fownes assisted his trainer father Lawrie for several seasons before taking over the mantle in 2003/04. He eclipsed his father's best season stats in his rookie year with 44 wins. In 2006/07 he won his first trainers' premiership and added his second premiership in 2008/09. His third championship came in 2013/14 when his strong late charge brought three wins on the closing day to tie with John Size on 62 wins, and with one more second place than his rival he sealed the title on count-back. His most famous victories include The Duke's win in the G1 HK Mile (2006), Green Birdie's win in the G1 KrisFlyer International Sprint (2010) and Lucky Nine's wins in the G1 HK Sprint (2011), the G1 KrisFlyer International Sprint (2013 & 2014), the HKG1 Chairman's Sprint Prize (2013 & 2014) and the G2 Jockey Club Sprint (2012). On 20 June 2010 he sent out six winners in a single day, equalling the record in Hong Kong's professional racing era. He is vying of the championship again this season with 43 wins (as of 12 April), for a HK career total of 642.
Hayes, David
Age 52, Hayes is the son of Australian training legend Colin Hayes. He took out his own licence in 1990 and won every training title in Melbourne and Adelaide before moving to Hong Kong in 1995 where he stayed nine seasons, winning 458 races, principally the Hong Kong Derby with Elegant Fashion and the 2002 Hong Kong Sprint with All Thrills Too. Returned home in 2005 and became the youngest trainer inductee to Australian racing��s Hall of Fame. Hayes has won the Melbourne Cup (1994 Jeune), as well as the Cox Plate twice (1990 Better Loosen Up; 2006 Fields Of Omagh) and two Caulfield Cups (Fraar 1993; Tawqeet 2006). He also saddled Better Loosen Up to win the 1990 Japan Cup, while Miss Finland��s clutch of G1 wins included the Golden Slipper. Hayes entered into a training partnership with his nephew Tom Dabernig at the start of the 2014/15 season and the duo claimed G1 victories with Spillway in last month��s G1 Australian Cup, and with Criterion in this month��s G1 Queen Elizabeth Stakes.
, John
Age 65, Moore has been involved in Hong Kong racing since the professional era commenced in 1971 and is Hong Kong's winning-most trainer with 1425 career wins, (as of 12 April). He began training in 1985, before which he held the position of assistant trainer to his late famous father, George. In 2007 he prepared an international G1 double thanks to Viva Pataca in the QEII Cup and Able One in the Champions Mile and, in a feat perhaps unprecedented in the sport, won the same two races with the same two horses three years later. Moore is the first trainer to send out 1,000 winners in Hong Kong and has been the leader in prize-money won for the past nine seasons. His total prize money of over HK$136.7 million won in 2013/14 smashed Tony Cruz's HK prize-money record of HK$114 million and raised his career total to over HK$1.3 billion. After a 17-year gap, he clinched a sixth Trainers' Championship with a strong finish to the 2010/11 season and he is vying for the title this season with 43 wins so far. His major G1 triumphs also include further successes in the Hong Kong Mile (2011 Able One, 2014 Able Friend), Hong Kong Cup (2014 Designs On Rome), Stewards�� Cup (2015 Able Friend), Hong Kong Gold Cup (2015 Designs On Rome), APQEII Cup (2013 Military Attack, 2014 Designs On Rome) and Champions Mile (2011 & 2012 Xtension, 2013 Dan Excel). His first overseas G1 came with Military Attack in the 2013 SIA Cup and he saddled Dan Excel to win that prize in 2014. Between times, Sterling City won the 2014 G1 Dubai Golden Shaheen and Dominant landed the 2013 G1 HK Vase. 2013/2014 also saw Moore dominate the four-year-old series with the horse that would become Hong Kong��s highest rated ever, Able Friend (HK Classic Mile), and subsequent Horse of the Year Designs On Rome (HK Classic Cup & HK Derby).
NG>Fujiwara, Hideaki
Age 49, Hideaki Fujiwara obtained his JRA trainer license in 2000. Three-time JRA Award winner due to achieving highest winning percentage of runners in 2007, 2008 and 2013. He saddled 44 wins last season to sit 6th in the JRA premiership. This season he has six wins on the board, with his total number of career wins at 497 (as of 7 April). He has had no less than seven G1/JPN G1 successes to date. His stable's top performers included Asian Winds (2008 Victoria Mile), Success Brocken (2009 February Stakes), Eishin Flash (2010 Japanese Derby & 2012 Tenno Sho Autumn) and Tosen Ra (2013 Mile Championship).
Schutz, Andreas
Age 47, Andreas Schutz was formerly an amateur jockey who took over from his champion trainer father, Bruno, in 1998. Champion trainer in Germany on four occasions, he has won the German Derby five times and the same number of German Oaks. He has won more than 80 stakes races worldwide, including several G1s most notably via Samum, Caitano, Borgia, Elle Danzig, Dai Jin, Robertico, Waky Nao, and Epalo, the 2004 World Racing Championship winner. He guided superstar G1 winner and Horse of the Year Good Ba Ba to the first two of his three G1 Hong Kong Miles. His current stable star is Packing Llaregyb, winner of the HKG3 Sa Sa Ladies�� Purse in November. Schutz has trained seven winners in 2014/15 for an overall total in Hong Kong of 166 (as of 12 April).
STRONG>Shum, Danny
Danny Shum, 54, rode 24 winners in Hong Kong between 1977 and 1983. He learned the training ropes as former multiple Hong Kong champion trainer Ivan Allan's assistant, before setting out on his own in 2003/04 when he began brightly with 34 winners. He did better to rank third in the trainers' premiership in his second term with HKG1 HK Classic Mile victor Scintillation outstanding. The same horse won him the HKG1 Centenary Sprint Cup in 2006 and 2007. The 2011/12 season was a standout as he sent Little Bridge to Royal Ascot to clinch victory in the G1 King's Stand Stakes. The stable star also won the G2 Jockey Club Sprint and the HKG2 Sprint Cup. Shum has saddled 25 winners in 2014/15 (as of 12 April) for an overall total of 362.
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