The Premiership Races

Saturday, 13 July 2024 by Gavin Haynes

Can Francis Lui come from behind to win the HK Trainers Premiership

the interest is in the trainers premiership with Pierre Ng holding a 1 win advantage over Francis Lui coming into the last day but neither have a runner in the first but Francis has Call Me Glorious at $1.50 in R2 and with a predicted rating of 99 our numbers have him also top pick. So we could well be all square going into the 3rd where PN has Medic Alert but he is a $14 chance.with Marvin having him longer than that.

In the 4th FL has Forever Glorious who ran 3rd as a Gold Miner for us last start with 95/97 reading well, he will be in my top 4 again and must be a chance but is currently $16 in early markets. R4 sees PN with the fav First Love who was +10 on debut and now ZR jumps on and he is $2.30 early, FL has debutant Packing Angel on debut off a trial win, he is $9 early.  Into the 6th PN has Fighting Machine who will certainly be in my top 4 with PN having a debutant that's not expected to trouble the scorers.

Things could get interesting after race 7 with FL having the $2.20 Fav Step Aside and Marvin has him on top with a predicted rating of 95. PN doesnt have a runner. FL backs up with Chancheng Glory at $1.80 in the 8th and as a 102 horse that has been good to us its hard to argue with that. he can then put the hear right on with Packing Hemod at $2.80 following on from his  tidy debut win,, he drops 5kg as he drops in grade with ZP sticking

PN has 4 runners in the last 3 races with none under $10 where Fl has Holy Lake in R10 and  Patch of Theta in e last who will bith be in my top 2 or 3.

For mine Francis Lui has the far better book and can come from behind to lift the trophy

Zac is still number 1 by a space.

The Jockeys Premiership was always over before it began with ZP on 124 winners, 39 ahead of Karis Teetan with 85 and he is 18 ahead of Hugh bowman on 67. Zac has ridden at 19% win strike rate and amassed $HK 225 Million in Prizemoney, Hugh actually had the 2nd best SR riding at 15% with KT winning at 12% Vincent Ho who had an injury riddled season only rode 40 winners but his SR of 11% was 4th best