Horse racing news: Hong Kong International Races – Al Riffa tops Timeform ratings in G1 Hong Kong Vase
With the Hong Kong International Races 2025 this Sunday, Timeform can reveal the four horses who top the ratings for each of the four Group 1 races.
The Hong Kong Cup should be the highlight on the card, being the most valuable of the races, and it may well see history made with Romantic Warrior bidding to become the first four-time winner at the fixture.
Horse racing news: Joseph O’Brien seeks success with Al Riffa in LONGINES Hong Kong Vase
Joseph O’Brien regards his HK$26 million (approx. £2.5m) G1 LONGINES Hong Kong Vase (1m4f/2400m) contender Al Riffa as the horse who can help further his ambition to become a regular face at the major race meetings around the world in the coming years.
Al Riffa, a strapping five-year-old by Wootton Bassett, has already given a glimpse of that potential with a second to Godolphin’s globetrotter Rebel’s Romance at Royal Ascot in June and a much-debated seventh to Half Yours in the 2025 G1 Melbourne Cup.