In Hong Kong, the bettor is not just king — he is fully informed.
Timed gallops, comprehensive post-race reports, veterinary updates, ultra-precise tracking, detailed sectional times, benchmark figures, track records… everything is there. Absolutely everything.
Welcome to the HKJC, where horse racing enters another dimension and where data tells the story before the movie has even ended.
The December 14, 2025 meeting, the flagship event of the year, was a striking demonstration of this reality.
Four international Group 1 races, a track officially rated good but objectively slightly fast, with a measured value of +0.022 seconds per 200-metre section 🧮.
In other words: ideal conditions to assess pure speed, the defining currency at Sha Tin.
The verdict was crystal clear: Hong Kong-trained horses won 3 of the 4 Group 1 races.
The only exception? The 2400 metres, a distance that is almost marginal in Hong Kong, where European runners — logically more stamina-oriented — occupied the first five places.
Here, the rule is simple: speed is king ⚡.
📊 Speed Rating: when data tells the truth
In Hong Kong, a Speed Rating is not an opinion — it’s an equation.
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⏱️ Benchmark time
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📏 Exact distance
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🌱 Track speed
Everything is measured, published, and verifiable.
The result: ratings that are robust, comparable, and above all… revealing.
🏆 KA YING RISING – Speed Rating 110
There is no debate. Ka Ying Rising delivered the performance of the day, and possibly of the year.
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🏟️ Track record (January 2025): 1.07.20
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⏱️ Race time: 1.07.70
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📊 Group-winning benchmark time: 1.08.15
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📏 Winning margin: 3.75 lengths
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🧘 Finish: completely eased down over the final 200 metres
His time is well below Group standard, despite a finish achieved without maximum urging.
The Speed Rating of 110, by far the highest of the meeting, confirms what the eye already suspects:
There is currently — and has been for several months — no horse in the world capable of beating Ka Ying Rising over sprint distances.
A total sprinter. Raw. Historic.
Aerial Virtual Replay based on our tracking data : racing.hkjc.com/racing/video/aerial.aspx?date=20251214&no=05&lang=eng
🏆 VOYAGE BUBBLE – Speed Rating 98
Holder of the track record in 1.32.55, Voyage Bubble had to dig deep this time.
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📊 Group 1 benchmark time: 1.33.90
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⏱️ Race time: 1.33.47
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📏 Winning margin: 0.5 length
Against the Japanese runner Soul Rush, the battle was intense.
But it was his finishing kick, the sharpest in the field, that proved decisive.
A champion’s victory, forged through high-speed stamina and mental strength.
Aerial Virtual Replay based on our tracking data : racing.hkjc.com/racing/video/aerial.aspx?date=20251214&no=07&lang=eng
🇫🇷 SOSIE – Speed Rating 93
Over 2400 metres, familiar territory for European runners, Sosie confirmed the international hierarchy.
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⏱️ Race time: 2.28.05
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📊 Benchmark time / course record: 2.24.60
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📏 Winning margin: 0.75 length
The overall time remains well short of the record, but the final sectional speaks volumes.
A genuine staying contest, capped by a decisive finishing burst, in a category where Hong Kong — for now — cannot compete.
Aerial Virtual Replay based on our tracking data : racing.hkjc.com/racing/video/aerial.aspx?date=20251214&no=04&lang=eng
🏆 ROMANTIC WARRIOR – Speed Rating 92
Holder of the track record in 1.59.23, Romantic Warrior asserted his authority.
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📊 Group-winning benchmark time: 2.00.20
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⏱️ Race time: 2.02.29
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📈 Final acceleration: +9% speed increase over the last 600 metres
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📏 Winning margin: 1.75 lengths
A slowly run, tactical, tightly controlled race… followed by a clean, precise, measured acceleration.
In Hong Kong, when the pace is slow, victory belongs to horses capable of changing gears.
Romantic Warrior is the perfect illustration.
Aerial Virtual Replay based on our tracking data : racing.hkjc.com/racing/video/aerial.aspx?date=20251214&no=08&lang=eng
🏁 Conclusion: Hong Kong, the world capital of modern racing
This December 14, 2025 meeting confirmed it once again:
Hong Kong is now the most advanced laboratory in global horse racing.
Here, performance is not a feeling.
It is a number 📊.
A time ⏱️.
A sectional 📏.
A rating 🧮.
And when data speaks, it delivers a very clear message:
True speed belongs to Hong Kong.
