Well, it's curtains for James Winks in Hong Kong. He'd ridden only 5 winners from 89 rides for the season before deciding enough was enough. The official reason for ending his contract is problems with weight but to that you can add lack of good rides. Only a few jockeys make hay in HK and if you're not one of the glamor boys you've basically had it...Rice without the veggies. Winks is just one of a long string of Aussie riders who have found themselves washed away by the HK tsunami. Hong Kong f
Well, it's curtains for James Winks in Hong Kong. He'd ridden only 5 winners from 89 rides for the season before deciding enough was enough. The official reason for ending his contract is problems with weight but to that you can add lack of good rides. Only a few jockeys make hay in HK and if you're not one of the glamor boys you've basically had it...Rice without the veggies. Winks is just one of a long string of Aussie riders who have found themselves washed away by the HK tsunami. Hong Kong for many is the gold that doesn't glitter. The HKJC lures riders to HK only to make up the numbers.
John Size, though, continmues to top the training ranks. What a master! Like anyone on the brink of a milestone, Size had been made to wait two weeks, but the fastest 500 wins achieved by a trainer in Hong Kong arrived at the weekend as the popular Aussie landed a treble. Since Moonwalk's victory on Dec 6 left him on 499 wins, Size had managed two narrow 2nds during international week, but Hussler and Willie Pike took the sixth event at Sha Tin to ring up the significant mark, just under seven years and three months since his first Sha Tin victory with Dancing Surpass.