John Size’s Ensued is the early front runner, but Frankie Lor has yet to show off his blue blood

Tony Cruz targets the city’s most prestigious race with his Irish import, who surged past his rivals in the Sha Tin home straight to win on Boxing Day

Douglas Whyte’s evergreen sprinter breaks through in Class Two company at Sha Tin on Boxing Day, winning the Choi Hung Handicap (1,200m) on the dirt

On Boxing Day at Sha Tin, Francis Lui’s Classic Series dark horse attempts to make it four wins in a row, and two jockeys make their comebacks

Highly successful second-season trainer and New Zealand’s former premiership-winning jockey took two days to settle on a name for their first child

John Size’s three-year-old galloper wins an incident-packed Class Two Yan Chai Trophy at Sha Tin over the Classic Series finale’s course and distance

Star sprinter’s Group One wins, progressive Encountered’s black-type victory and governing body’s new criteria prolong 66-year-old handler’s career

Nephew of former HK horseman David Oughton will dissolve his Australian partnership with Ciaron Maher next month to train out of Sha Tin next season.

Second-season trainer’s phenomenal numbers make him the man to beat in the championship, even at this early stage of the campaign

Damien Oliver hangs up his boots after winning his final race, a Group Three contest named in his honour, aboard another former inhabitant of the city

The Sunday victories of Mugen, Aestheticism and Jumbo Fortune maintain the second-season trainer’s winning streak that began on November 5

So extraordinary was the eight-year-old’s performance that all on course will never forget it and plenty off course will tell people they were there

Romantic Warrior joins California Memory as a two-time winner of the city’s richest race, pipping Luxembourg six weeks on from his Cox Plate triumph

Trainer Andre Fabre and rider Maxime Guyon combine to great effect in the stamina test again, following up their success with Flintshire in 2014

James McDonald loses his ride in Sunday’s HK$24 million race at Sha Tin after narrowly missing out on Group One glory at Ascot in Australia on Saturday

Champion jockey seeks his third win in the city’s top sprint following his 2014 and 2016 victories aboard the Paul O’Sullivan-trained globetrotter

Owner Peter Lau draws same numbered Hong Kong Cup gate as the one from which James McDonald rode the Danny Shum-trained star to his two greatest wins

Latest withdrawal from the first of Sunday’s Hong Kong International Races feature events reduces the HK$24 million stamina test’s field to nine

Toshi Onikubo believes Hiroyasu Tanaka’s young galloper represents Japan’s top shot at extending its streak of Hong Kong International Races successes

Legendary Irish trainer is the only handler with runners in all four of Sunday’s Group One events at Sha Tin’s marquee meeting

Three of the Post’s seven-strong panel think Kiwi superstar James McDonald will either take out Wednesday night’s competition on his own or tie for first.

Trainer of Singapore star Lim’s Kosciuszko says his legendary father’s dementia means he is unaware of the imminent end to racing in the Lion City

Hong Kong’s six-time champion jockey and four-time champion trainer will combine with Kaholo Angel during Happy Valley’s marquee meeting on Wednesday

French jockey warms up for next weekend’s Hong Kong International Races with Sunday successes on Ping Hai Galaxy and Summit Cheers at Sha Tin

Australian analyst takes nothing seriously except assessing elite gallopers, including those contesting next weekend’s Hong Kong International Races

Kiwi rides Wunderbar to win a Class Four sprint and remain unbeaten before steering The Golden Scenery to his Class One Chevalier Cup (1,600m) success

Wife of Hong Kong’s six-time champion jockey reveals her son provides direct – and funny – feedback to his father whenever he returns home winless

Stormy Liberal, 11th behind Mr Stunning in the 2017 Sprint, is the most recent runner at Sha Tin’s marquee meeting from the United States

Eight overseas gallopers, including three Group One winners from Japan, feature among the 14 runners in this year’s HK$32 million showpiece

Cheng Yu-tung describes next month’s Group One international race as ‘our mission’ after his family’s superstar wins the Group Two dash in consecutive years