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Chapple-Hyam, Peter

Horse Race Al Qasi HK Mile Born 2 April 1963, Chapple-Hyam trained in Hong Kong between 1999 and 2003 and prepared a total of 30 winners. Prior to this stint he was known as one of the premier trainers in England and it’s a reputation he has redeemed since returning home, particularly with his second victory in this year’s Epsom Derby thanks to Authorized. His strike-rate with juveniles has also been exemplary. Overall, he has prepared 24 Gr.1 winners throughout Europe since 1991.

Cruz, Tony

Horse Race Floral Pegasus HK Mile Royal Prince HK Cup Born 24 December 1956 and six times Hong Kong's champion jockey. Approaching 600 wins as a trainer, he first landed the HK trainer's title in 1999/2000 and regained it in 2005, setting a new record for season winners (91) and earnings (HK$113m) in the process. Silent Witness, the dual CXHK Sprint and six-time HKGr.1 sprint champion, led the charge with Bullish Luck, five-times a Gr.1 winner. Lucky Owners' double in the HK Mile and MBHK Derby in 2003/04 stands out among many more big-race wins.

Fabre, Andre

Horse Race Kocab HK Vase Macleya HK Vase Born 9 December 1945, Fabre, astonishingly, has been France's champion trainer every year since 1987 – that’s 21 consecutive titles. Formerly a successful jump jockey, he began training jumpers in 1977 but switched codes to the Flat in 1983. Fabre has won 94 Gr.1 races in France alone, including the Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe a record seven times. He has landed more than 40 majors outside his homeland such as Breeders’ Cup and Classics in Ireland, Britain and Italy. He also won the 1999 Hong Kong Vase with Borgia. Other champions include Manduro, Peintre Celebre, Hurricane Run, Zafonic, Xaar and many more.

Ferraris, David

Horse Race Vengeance Of Rain HK Cup Born 18 August 1963, son of South African champion trainer, Ormonde Ferraris, began training in 1995. He won the South African trainers' title on four occasions, netting 25 Gr.1 victories in well over 1000 wins with the champions Classic Flag and Celtic Grove his most outstanding performers. He moved to HK in 2003/04 and has registered close to 150 wins. He will always be remembered for plotting six Gr.1 wins with Vengeance Of Rain whose victory in the 2007 Dubai Sheema Classic cracked the top ten of the all-time stakes earners.

Fownes, Casper

Horse Race Green Birdie HK Sprint Royal Delight HK Sprint The Duke HK Mile Born 12 August 1967, he assisted his trainer father Lawrie for several seasons before taking over the mantle in 2003/04. Eclipsed his father's best season stats in his rookie year with 44 winners and last year won his first trainers' premiership. Has a career total of around 200 HK wins with his most famous win via The Duke in the CXHK Mile in 2006. He also saddled the first four past the post when Green Treasure won the Gr.3 Sha Tin Trophy last season. Has a particularly good strike-rate with runners at Happy Valley.

Freedman, Lee

Horse Race Miss Andretti HK Sprint Born 12 August 1956, he trained his first winner in 1983 and his first Gr.1 success followed three years later - over 120 Gr.1s have since followed with champions such as Makybe Diva, Mahogany, Super Impose, Schillaci, Alinghi, Mummify, his Sprint runner Miss Andretti and so on. He has won the Melbourne Cup on five occasions and landed six Metropolitan Premierships and was inducted into Australian racing's Hall Of Fame in 2003.

Gibson, Richard

Horse Race Doctor Dino HK Vase Born on 12 September 1969 in England, assisted trainers in France and the USA. He took out his licence in 1997 and did not have long to wait for success at the highest level. In his second year of training he landed the Gr.1 Prix Marcel Boussac with top two-year-old filly in France, Lady of Chad. Other major winners have followed – Marotta, Swedish Shave and the stayer Cut Quartz. More recently, he has enjoyed great success with Doctor Dino, winner of the Gr.1 Man O' War Stakes in New York. Gibson is currently 31st in the French trainers' table with 26 winners.

Hall, David

Horse Race Absolute Champion HK Sprint Egyptian Ra HK Mile Hawkes Bay HK Vase Born 27 October 1963 in Adelaide; the son of trainer Joe Hall, he began training at Morphettville in 1988 and he moved to Melbourne five years later. Best known at home for winning the Melbourne Cup in 2003 with the brilliant Makybe Diva; he also trained Silent Witness before the champion sprinter switched to Hong Kong. Hall began in Hong Kong in 2004/05 and is on the brink of his first century of wins. Absolute Champion's 2006 CXHK Sprint provided his finest moment locally.

Hans-Albert, Blume

Horse Race Bussoni HK Vase Born 19 June 1940, Blume trains around 75 horses in Cologne and is from one of Germany’s most famous racing dynasties - his uncle and grandfather were both top trainers. Enjoyed his best ever season in 1997 when he saddled 88 winners for fourth place in the table. He has trained numerous Gr.1 winners including Ungaro, Kallisto, Nagoya, Meridiana and Senex. His Vase runner Bussoni has been his stable star of late, taking out the 2007 Bosphorus Cup and the Gr 2 Prix Maurice de Nieul.

Head, Freddie

Horse Race Marchand d'Or HK Sprint Born 19 June 1947, one of the greatest jockeys in French racing history he was champion jockey six times and won the Prix De l'Arc de Triomphe on four occasions. He retired in 1997 and was perhaps best known in the latter stages of his career for association with brilliant mare Miesque, twice heroine of the Breeders' Cup Mile. His father Alec was a successful trainer, as is his sister, Criquette. His CXHK Sprint runner Marchand D'Or is the best horse he has trained from his Chantilly base.

Jean-Marie, Beguigne

Horse Race Spirito del Vento HK Mile Born in 1954, he obtained his trainers licence in 1981 and is now based at Chantilly. His first major winner came in 1984 when Lady Tamara gook the Gr.3 Prix Minerve and his first Gr.1 arrived via Saint-Andrews in the Prix Ganay in 1988. He took a break from training in the mid 1990s but returned to the fold in 2000 and four years later won the 2004 French Oaks with Latice. This year he saddled Lawman to win the French Derby and Gr.1 Prix Jean Prat. He is currently 7th in the French trainers' table with 30 wins and almost 2 million Euros in prize money.

	Kato, Yukihiro
	Horse Race Shadow Gate HK Cup Born 14 September 1965, Kato is based at the Miho Training Centre and has been licensed since 2001. Since then he has prepared around 160 winners with Shadow Gate, his best performer having won the SIA International Cup at Kranji this year. He has won three graded stakes races on the JRA circuit.

Laxon, Laurie

Horse Race Why Be HK Sprint Laurie Laxon, 59, a Singapore-based New Zealander, has more than 28 years of experience in training. His biggest achievement was to win the 1988 Melbourne Cup with Empire Rose. He also won the 1993 Hong Kong International Cup courtesy of Romanee Conti. He began his Singapore career in 2000 and is on course for a fourth successive title this year and he is expected to beat his own record of 100 winners set in 2004. In that time he has won nine Gr.1 races with Why Be, a winner of 20 races from 27 starts including the coveted Lion City Cup, outstanding.

Lui, Francis

Horse Race Sunny Power HK Sprint Born 22 January 1959, Lui rode 36 winners locally between 1975 and 1983 and he has been licensed to train since 1996/97. In the interim he has prepared almost 290 winners and usually finishes the season mid-ranking or better in the trainers’ championship. His biggest winners in recent years have been in the 2001 Sha Tin Trophy (Gr.3) with Shaxi Fortune and Hello Pretty in the 2006 Mercedes-Benz HK Derby Trial (Gr.2). He also shared the Happy Valley Million Challenge last term thanks to Easy.

Meade, Noel

Horse Race Arch Rebel HK Vase Born 2 January 1951, Noel Meade started training in 1972 but first hit the big time with a win at Royal Ascot in 1978. Since the start of the 1990s he has concentrated more on National Hunt racing and he has been Ireland’s champion jumps trainer for the last six seasons with major wins on either side of the Irish Sea a frequent occurrence. Arch Rebel, his Vase runner, has been his best flat horse this decade though it says much about Meade’s priorities that, too, had a successful spell over timber.

Meehan, Brian

Horse Race Red Rocks HK Vase Born 16 June 1976 and raised in Ireland, he took out his training licence aged 25 in England and his first big winner was Tomba in the Gr.1 Prix de la Foret. A steady stream of headline horses has followed. Other major wins include Red Rocks in the Breeders’ Cup Turf and David Junior (Champion Stakes, Dubai Duty Free, Eclipse Stakes). In 2005 he was selected to take over lavish Manton training complex in Wiltshire.

Moore, John

Horse Race Sunny Sing HK Sprint Able One HK Mile Joyful Winner HK Mile Art Trader HK Cup Viva Pataca HK Cup Viva Macau HK Vase Born 17 March 1950, has been involved in HK racing since the professional era began in 1971. He began training in 1985, prior to which he held the position of assistant trainer to his famous father, George. Since then he has been leading Hong Kong trainer five times and he holds the HK record for winners trained – he is closing in on 1,000 wins. Last term he prepared an international double thanks to Viva Pataca in the Audemars Piguet QEII Cup and Able One in the Champions Mile.

O'Sullivan, Paul

Horse Race Ever Bright HK Vase Vital King HK Vase Born 6 December 1959, Champion Trainer in New Zealand on 11 occasions – was in partnership with his father Dave for 17 years. He won the Japan Cup in 1989 with Horlicks and added scores of other majors on either side of the Tasman Sea, including the Cox Plate with Surfers Paradise in 1991. Last season, his third in Hong Kong, he finished second in the Trainers' Premiership and he has over a first century of winners on the board with MBHK Derby victor Vital King the most memorable by far.

O'Brien, Aidan

Horse Race Excellent Art HK Mile Dylan Thomas HK Vase Born 16 October 1969, scored his first winner on his first day as a trainer in 1993, at time when was also a champion amateur rider. He has dominated Irish and much of European racing since - Irish Champion Trainer on ten occasions and this year he won the British title for a third time. Backed by the Coolmore bloodstock empire, he has plundered around 130 Gr.1s and Classics worldwide with the likes of Galileo, Giant's Causeway, Rock Of Gibraltar, High Chaparral and Dylan Thomas outstanding. Also set a new record for Gr.1 winners in a year (23) in 2001. He was also a multiple champion jumps trainer - Istabraq won three Champion Hurdles.

Rau, Peter

Horse Race Egerton HK Vase Born 19 November 1948, trains around 70 horses for many of the leading German breeders. Rau has trained numerous big race winners, the champion German Derby winner Lavirco outstanding. Recent top-level successes include Anna Monda winner of the Premio Vittorio di Capua in 2005 and Donaldson, the 2006 Deutschland Preis winner. His CXHK Vase runner Egerton also landed Gr.2 and Gr.3 wins in the last two seasons.

Royer-Dupre, Alain de

Horse Race Tiza HK Sprint Darjina HK Mile Born 24 September 1944, trains about 100 horses, principally for the Aga Khan, at Chantilly. Has won 43 Gr.1 races in France with Dalakhani perhaps his brightest star, winning four Gr.1s, including the French Derby and Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe in 2003. He has also won the Breeders' Cup Turf (Lashkari 1984) and the Cathay Pacific Hong Kong Cup (Pride last year) among 12 other international Gr.1s.

Ryan, Kevin

Horse Race Desert Lord HK Sprint Born 14 January 1967 in Ireland, Ryan is an ex-jump jockey that has developed into one of Britain's leading trainers. He sent out his first winner in 1998 and sent Eastern Purple and Desert Lord to contest the Hong Kong Sprint without much success in 2000 and last year. Won his first ever Gr.1 in 2005 with Amadeus Wolf in the Middle Park Stakes and quickly followed up in the Gr.1 Racing Post Trophy thanks to Palace Episode.Has just recorded his first century of winners in a year.

Schiergen, Peter

Horse Race Quijano HK Vase Born 23 March 1965, won the German jockeys' championship for the first time in 1992 and won five straight titles. In 1995 he won an incredible 271 races, breaking a European record. He retired from the saddle with 1471 wins and 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. He has been Germany’s champion trainer on three occasions and his Vase hopeful Quijano is his latest stable star to follow other Gr.1 champions such as Schiaparelli, Catella and Boreal.

Schutz, Andreas

Horse Race Good Ba Ba HK Mile Born 19 February 1968, formerly an amateur jockey he took over from his champion trainer father, Bruno, in 1998. Champion trainer in Germany on four occasions, he has won five German Derbies and as many German Oaks. He has won in excess of 80 stakes races, including several Gr.1s worldwide most notably via Samum, Caitano, Borgia, Elle Danzig, Dai Jin, Robertico, Waky Nao and Epalo the 2004 World Racing Championship winner. Made a nice impact in his maiden HK season last year and dual Gr.2 winner Good Ba Ba is his lamplighter.

Shum, Danny

Horse Race Scintillation HK Sprint Born 27 June 1960, rode 24 winners between 1977 and 1983. He learned the training ropes as former multiple HK champion Ivan Allan's assistant, before setting out on his own in 2003/04 when he began brightly with 34 winners. He did better to run third in the Trainers' Premiership in his second term with Gr.1 Mercedes-Benz Hong Kong Classic Mile victor Scintillation outstanding. The same horse won him the Gr.1 Centenary Sprint Cup in 2006 and 2007 and he has recorded over 150 wins overall.

Suroor, Saeed bin

Horse Race Creachadoir HK Mile Ramonti HK Cup Born 19 October 1966, he took out his trainer's licence in 1994 and joined Sheikh Mohammed's mighty Godolphin operation a year later. He has been champion trainer in Britain four times and has prepared a colossal 149 Gr.1 winners worldwide. Dubai Millennium is widely regarded as the best he has trained. Evidently, there are very few races to have eluded his grasp and in Hong Kong he has won the QEII Cup with Overbury in 1996, the Hong Kong Cup in 2000 with Fantastic Light and the CXHK Mile in 2004 with Firebreak.

	Van de Poele, Philippe
	Horse Race Musical Way HK Cup Born in Chantilly on 6 December 1962, trained his first winner at Amiens in 1986 and the best horse he has trained to date is CXHK Cup candidate Musical Way, winner of this year’s Group 2 Prix Dollar and multiple other stakes events. Van de Poele is currently 25th in the French trainers' table with 31 wins and over Euros 700,000 in prize money.

	Wallace, Mark
	Horse Race Benbaun HK Sprint Born 24 October 1972 in Ireland, he spent his formative training years working with John Oxx, Aidan O’Brien and Mick Channon. He began training himself in Newmarket in September 2002 and sent out his first winner in February 2003. Sprint runner Benbaun has been his headliner after several stakes wins, chiefly the Gr.1 Prix de l'Abbaye in October.

	Woods, Sean
	Horse Race Visionario HK Mile Born 2 July 1965, Woods is a former jumps jockey turned trainer. He trained successfully in England before decamping to Hong Kong in 2002/03. Before the 1 December 2007 meeting, he had trained 126 winners locally.

	Yamauchi, Kenji
	Horse Race Kongo Rikishio HK Mile Born 30 June 1949, a jockey-turned-trainer, he got his licence to train in the late 1980s. His first Gr.1 arrived in 1995 and four more have followed. His principal performer this year has been Kongo Rikishio, winner of the Gr.2 Yomiuri Milers Cup in record time and subsequently runner-up in the Yasuda Kinen.

Yip, Dennis

Horse Race Down Town HK Mile Born 28 July 1967, was licensed as a jockey in HK between 1984 and 1993. He rode a total of 59 winners and later learned the training game overseas and then acted as assistant to multiple champion trainer, Brian Kan. In 2002/03 when he became a licensed trainer in his own right. He had prepared over 200 winners at the start of the current campaign with Down Town, winner of this year's Gr.3 Sha Tin Trophy, one of his principal earners.

Yiu, Ricky

Horse Race Sacred Kingdom HK Sprint Born 12 July 1957 rode 15 winners between 1974 and 1981 and was first licensed as trainer in 1995/96 - he now has over 300 winners on the board. Greatest moment came with Fairy King Prawn's success in the inaugural Hong Kong Sprint of 1999. Bounced back impressively last season after a quiet 2005/06 season to prepare 24 winners with the best win strike-rate in town of 13.3 per cent. That strike-rate has improved this year and his team is led by the exciting four-year-old Sacred Kingdom, recent winner of the Cathay Pacific InternationalSprint Trial.