VINCENT HO WILL BE A NOTABLE ABSENTEE ON FWD CHAMPIONS DAY AT SHA TIN ON SUNDAY

By Darren Winningham | Tuesday, April 22, 2025

Vincent Ho will be a notable absentee from this year’s FWD Champions Day at Sha Tin on Sunday.

The 2023 LONGINES International Jockeys Championship winner has been sidelined since a horrific fall on February 9 at Sha Tin racecourse … a fall in which he suffered a head injury, a shoulder injury and neck fractures and was hospitalised for some weeks.

Ho is synonymous with the FWD Champions Day meeting having enjoyed great success on this day over the years.

Most significantly, Ho has an amazing record in the FWD mile where he has ridden four consecutive winners … starting in 2020 when he partnered the Casper Fownes trained Southern Legend to victory.

And then, who would ever forget the next three years with Ho winning the race aboard the Francis Lui trained Hong Kong champion Golden Sixty … and those amazing scenes at the track in each of those victories with the parochial Hong Kong crowd yelling and screaming their support for their superstar.

Ho has also tasted success in the FWD QEII Cup in 2021 winning aboard the Japanese runner Loves Only You for trainer Y. Yahagi.

Ho, who has been unlucky in recent years with several bad falls. posted on a video on social media a few weeks ago of himself in the gym, saying he had started his “rehab journey and will be taking it one step at a time”.

It is unlikely Ho will be seen prior to the end of the Hong Kong racing season. However, the professionalism and determination of this local riding ace should see him back in the saddle come the new racing season … fitter, healthier and, once again, eager to compete at the highest levels.

Whilst Ho is absent from the Sunday’s meeting – his outstanding achievements on this prestigious race day will not be forgotten and the moments he forged with Golden Sixty will forever be memories treasured by those who witnessed their extraordinary achievement.

We wish Vincent Ho well in his rehabilitation, his recovery and, ultimately, his return to race riding.

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