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CONTENTS AND MEDIA CONTACTS CONTENTS MEDIA CONTACTS 01 Contents & Media Contacts 02 Did You Know? 07 08 Record Dividends (Since 1986) Last Year’s Race Patrick Cummings Executive Manager, Public Affairs (Racing) patrick.cummings@hkjc.org.hk T: +852 2966 8977 03 04 05 06 Turnover and attendance (Since 1998) Barrier Draw Data (Since 1997) Race History Past Winners (Since 1986) 09 10 12 13 Last Start Performances of Winners (Since 1999) First Four With Sire (Since 1999) Winning Trainers (Since 1986) Winning Jockeys (Since 1986) Larry Yeung Public Affairs Manager (Racing Operations) larry.mh.yeung@hkjc.org.hk T: +852 2966 7696 Julia Tsang Public Affairs Manager (Racing Marketing) julia.yk.tsang@hkjc.org.hk T: +852 2966 7254 01
Did You Know? 01 The 2016 APQEII Cup carries a total purse of HK$20 million, 110 times more than was offered 30 years ago when, in April 1986, the field lined up to compete for HK$180,000. Pataca (2006-2011) and Indigenous (1997- 2002) each participated in the race a record 02Viva six times. Viva Pataca triumphed in 2007 and 2010, while Indigenous’ best result came in 1999 when 2nd to French runner Jim And Tonic. 03 Viva Pataca is also one of only two horses to have won the APQEII Cup twice, the other being Japanese runner Eishin Preston (2002 & 2003). 04 Local runners have outscored overseas raiders 8-7 since the APQEII Cup became an international G1 event in 2001. Moore is the most successful APQEII Cup trainer in the past 30 years, his four wins coming in the past nine editions (2007 & 2010 05John Viva Pataca, 2013 Military Attack, 2014 Designs On Rome). 06 Mick Kinane is the most successful jockey in APQEII Cup history with three wins (1994 Deerfield, 1995 Red Bishop, 2007 Viva Pataca). 07 The last 3yo to contest the APQEII Cup was local runner Wind Dancer, who finished 4.5L 8th behind Muhim in 1993. At that time the QEII Cup was still a local event, staged as a HKG2 handicap. 08 Red Bishop, the race’s first international winner in 1995, was also the first horse to complete a HKIR and APQEII Cup double in the same Hong Kong season, having won the 1994 HK International Vase four months prior to his APQEII Cup success. Others to have since achieved that feat include 1999 winner Jim And Tonic (1998 HK International Bowl), and 2002 victor Eishin Preston (2001 HK Mile). 09 In 2006 South African raider Irridescence became the only filly /mare ever to win the APQEII Cup. 10 Silvano, in 2001, won the first international G1 On Rome in 2014. edition. His son Vercingetorix attempted to follow his lead and finished a good 3rd to Designs 11 Runners starting from barrier eight have won five APQEII Cups since 2000. Conversely, it is more than 20 years since any horse breaking from the widest draw, gate 14, has placed in the race, with it being French contender Volochine who ran 2nd in the 1995 renewal. The last victor from 14 was one-time Hong Kong champion Quicken Away in 1990. At that time the race was a mile handicap and the grey carried 139 pounds to a seven-length triumph. 12 South African runner London News won the 1997 renewal in a time of 2m 00.3s, breaking the 2000m course record at Sha Tin. Two years later that mark was lowered as French runner Jim And Tonic scored in 2m 00.1s, a time that remains the 2000m track record at Sha Tin racecourse. 13 Australian rider Tommy Berry became the first Club Jockey to win a G1 on the first day of his contract when he partnered Military Attack to win this race in 2013. 14 The APQEII Cup was ranked 9th in the World’s Top 100 G1 Races in 2015 - the first Hong Kong race to break into the Top 10 and the highest-ranked race among the 10 G1s in Hong Kong as named in that list. 02
Page 4 and 5: APQEII Cup Day Turnover and Attenda
Page 6 and 7: RACE HISTORY In 1975 the British mo
Page 8 and 9: RECORD DIVIDENDS (Since 1986) BET T
Page 10 and 11: Last Start Performances of Winners
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