Hong Kong’s 2016/17 season closed out at Sha Tin Racecourse on Sunday with Time Warp’s impressive Sha Tin Mile Trophy victory played out before a crowd of 36,949 and season-long turnover hitting a new high of HK$117.4 billion.

TRAINERS' RECORDS - 2016/2017

After racing at Sha Tin on Sunday Derek Leung was presented with the Tony Cruz Award as the season’s most successful homegrown rider.

Time Warp (112lb) ran his rivals a merry dance for the third time in as many races, with a powerful front-running display that annexed the Sha Tin Mile Trophy Handicap (1600m) at Sha Tin’s Season Finale fixture on Sunday.

It was a nail-biting start to the day at Sha Tin on Sunday for trainer Michael Chang. The popular handler went into the 11-race card with 15 wins for the season, one short of the minimum required to avoid a first career strike.

Horse Racing Turnover – Season Total

Rapper Dragon claimed the Hong Kong Horse of the Year award at a sparkling ceremony held at the Grand Hyatt on Friday night.

Sunday’s Season Finale at Sha Tin will bring down the curtain on Hong Kong’s 2016/17 campaign, and among the afternoon’s 11 competitive contests is a select yet mouth-watering feature, the Class 1 Sha Tin Mile Trophy (1600m),

With Sunday’s Sha Tin fixture being the 2016/17 “Season Finale”, Wednesday evening’s last Happy Valley meeting of the campaign was billed as the “Season Fiesta”.

Alberto Sanna went out for the fifth race at Happy Valley on Wednesday night concerned that his late-season call-up would ultimately undersell his abilities.

The Hong Kong Jockey Club will offer a record HK$1.16 billion in prize money across its 88 race meetings in the 2017/18 season, scheduled to commence on Sunday, 3 September at Sha Tin Racecourse, while also increasing purses for all three of Hong Kong’s spring Group 1 features.

Brazilian jockey Joao Moreira snared another little slice of Hong Kong history at Sha Tin on Sunday as the rider broke the record for most winners in a season for the third term in a row.

The Hong Kong Jockey Club hosted a special ceremony at Sha Tin Racecourse on Sunday to bid farewell to Designs On Rome, one of the most popular horses in Hong Kong.

Last Sunday, Italy’s former champion apprentice Alberto Sanna was at Budapest’s picturesque Kincsem Park, named for the remarkable Hungarian mare who retired unbeaten after 54 starts.

Hong Kong Jockey Club stewards' advise that for the meeting to be conducted on Sunday, 9 July 2017, the Club has arranged for Jockey Alberto Sanna to be available to accept race riding engagements at the stated race meeting.

Hang’s Decision (120lb) set a new track record in winning Saturday's Hong Kong Reunification Cup Handicap (1400m), and, in doing so, handed Chris So and Brett Prebble a trainer/jockey double.

Trainer Peter Ho and 7lb apprentice Dylan Mo teamed for a double at Sha Tin on Saturday.