Patrick James John Eddery was an Irish flat racing jockey and horse trainer. He rode three winners of The Derby, and was Champion Jockey on eleven occasions. He rode the winners of 4,632 British flat races, a figure exceeded only by Sir Gordon Richards.
David Joseph Hall is an Australian horse trainer.
Gérald Mossé is a jockey in thoroughbred horse racing. He began riding professionally in April 1983 and his success during his apprenticeship under Patrick-Louis Biancone led to an offer to ride for renowned trainer François Boutin and his stable of horses belonging to Jean-Luc Lagardère. Mossé went on to become one of his country's top jockeys, winning the 1990 Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe. In 1991, he rode Arazi to five straight wins in France then spent 1992 and part of 1993 racing in Hong Kong.
Anthony Stephen da Cruz is a prominent horse trainer and former Champion Thoroughbred horse racing jockey.
Olivier Doleuze is a French born jockey and is considered to be one of the world's premier jockeys. Doleuze began riding at the age of 14, and currently has over 700 career wins. In 2010/11 he rode 38 winners, bringing his Hong Kong career total to 375.
John Size is one of the most successful racehorse trainers in Hong Kong history and was inducted into the Australian Racing Hall Of Fame in 2018. After a successful career in his native Australia, Size arrived in Hong Kong for the 2001-02 season with a reputation for rejuvenating horses set back by illness or injury and for his ability to mould and develop young horses from the beginning of their careers. In his first season, he trained 58 winners to become only the second trainer ever to win the championship title in his first season. Size subsequently added more championships in 2003, 2004, 2006, 2008, 2010, 2012, 2016, 2017, 2018 and 2019, and shares the record of 11 Hong Kong title wins with another legendary Australian, George Moore. Size holds the record for the number of winners saddled in a Hong Kong season - 95 in 2016-17 and, in the 2017-18 season, broke the Hong Kong record for prizemoney won by his runners with HK$176,441,240. At the end of the 2019-20 season, he had trained 1,257 winners in Hong Kong, ranking him only behind John Moore (1,735) and Tony Cruz (1,294). He lives in Hong Kong with his wife, Coco, and their daughter, Carina.
Ricky Yiu Poon Fai is a horse trainer in Hong Kong. He rode 15 winners as a jockey between 1974 and 1981. He received his own training license in 1995/96. In 2010/11 he added 49 winners for a career total of 455. Yiu won the Champion Trainer for the 2019/20 season.
Dennis C. H. Yip rode a total of 59 winners when he was a jockey between 1984 and 1993. In 2002-03, he became a licensed trainer. Yip trained over 30 winners in every year of his nine-year training career, landing 41 winners in 2010/11 for an overall total of 368.
Douglas Whyte is a former horse racing jockey and now work for horse trainer. He became Hong Kong champion jockey in the 2000-2001 season and won 13 consecutive titles. In 2013-14, he relinquished that title to Zac Purton, finishing third with 88 wins to give him an accumulated total of more than 1,600 races in Hong Kong with career stake earnings of more than $HK 1.3 billion.
Brett Prebble is a leading Australian jockey, currently based in Melbourne, Victoria. Having ridden over 1200 career winners, Prebble’s most famous win came aboard Green Moon in the 2012 Emirates Melbourne Cup.
Darren Beadman is an Australian champion jockey. In 2007 at age 41 he was the youngest jockey ever to be inducted into the Australian Racing Hall of Fame, being the first to do so while still active.
Zac Purton is a horse racing jockey. He won the Brisbane jockeys' premiership as an apprentice in 2003, moved to Sydney and was quickly amongst the top jockeys there before he began his Hong Kong career in 2007/08. In the 2013/14 season, Purton ended the 13-year championship reign of Douglas Whyte, becoming the first Australian jockey to win the Hong Kong title since Noel Barker in 1991.. . He notched up 112 wins on his way to the title. Purton also raced to what was then the fastest 50 in Hong Kong history that season and became the second rider, after Whyte, to notch 100 wins in a season. Purton lost his title when he came second to João Moreira in 2014/15 with 95 wins then was runner-up to his Brazilian rival again in 2015-16 and 2016-17 before reclaiming the Hong Kong championship in 2017-18 in an epic battle. With 854 career wins as a jockey in Hong Kong, Purton sits third on the list behind Whyte (1,791) and Anthony S. "Tony" Cruz (946). He represented Hong Kong in the World Super Jockey Series held by Japan Racing Association in 2012, recording two wins and being crowned as champion. He won the prestigious Hong Kong Derby in 2015, with the John Size-trained Luger, and his Hong Kong Cup win on Time Warp in 2017 made Purton only the third jockey, after Gerald Mosse and Moreira, to have won all four of Hong Kong's December international races.
Keith M L Yeung is a horse racing jockey. He made his first start on 3 June 2007 in Australia and become Hong Kong's champion apprentice in 2009/10. In 2010/11 he partnered 18 winners for a Hong Kong career total of 57. In the 2012/13 season he rode 22 winners and in an injury interrupted 2013/14 season he scored 16 wins for an overall total of 132 HK wins.
Ben T H So is an apprentice horse racing jockey. He has had 19 victories in 2010/11, which brings his career total to 48. A tally of 12 wins in 2013/14 took his overall Hong Kong win total to 107.
Derek K C Leung is a horse racing jockey. He won the Asian Young Guns Challenge 2010 in Kranji, Singapore. He rode as an apprentice jockey until claiming his 70th win on board Star Of Fame on 1 June 2011. He is licensed as a jockey in Hong Kong for the 2014-2015 season
Mark Du Plessis is a horse racing jockey. He was champion apprentice jockey in Zimbabwe in 1994/1995 and the winner of Zimbabwe senior jockeys' championship in 1997/1998.
Brett Doyle in Newmarket, England is a flat race jockey. Doyle has ridden 147 winners in Hong Kong across a number of stints. He rode 18 winners in the 2010/11 season in which his best partnership was with Thumbs Up for a triumph in the HKG3 Mission Hills Sha Tin Trophy in October 2010.
Eddy W M Lai is horse racing jockey. He has been riding in Hong Kong for 19 years. In 2010/11 he rode 14 winners to bring his career total to 245. In the 2013/14 season, he rode another 10 winners to bring his career total to 282.
Neil Callan is an Irish horse racing jockey. He has been ranked in the top echelon of riders on the UK jockeys' championship and has finished runner-up in 2005 and 2007. In 2010/2011 he rode 5 winners during his first three-month stint in Hong Kong.
Gold-Fun was an Irish-bred Thoroughbred racehorse trained in Hong Kong since 2012. He is notable for winning the Hong Kong Classic Mile 2013, National Day Cup 2013 (HKG3–1400m), the HKG2 Oriental Watch Sha Tin Trophy, the HKG1 Queen's Silver Jubilee Cup 2014 and the Celebration Cup 2014.
