John Moore, 65, has been involved in Hong Kong racing since the professional era commenced in 1971 and is Hong Kong's winning-most trainer with more than 1,400 career wins to his name. The Australian began training in 1985, before which he held the position of assistant-trainer to his late famous father, George. In 2007 he prepared an international Group 1 double thanks to Viva Pataca in the QEII Cup and Able One in the Champions Mile and, in a feat perhaps unprecedented in the sport, won the same two races with the same two horses three years later. Moore is the first trainer to send out 1,000 winners in Hong Kong and has been the leader in prizemoney won for the past nine seasons. His total prizemoney of over HK$136.7 million won in 2013/14 smashed Tony Cruz's HK prizemoney record of HK$114 million. After a 17-year gap, he clinched a sixth trainer’s championship with a strong finish to the 2010/11 season and he is vying for the title this season with 48 wins so far. His major Group 1 triumphs also include further successes in the Hong Kong Mile (2011 Able One, 2014 Able Friend), Hong Kong Cup (2014 Designs On Rome), Stewards’ Cup (2015 Able Friend), Hong Kong Gold Cup (2015 Designs On Rome), APQEII Cup (2013 Military Attack, 2014 Designs On Rome) and Champions Mile (2011 & 2012 Xtension, 2013 Dan Excel, 2015 Able Friend). His first overseas Group 1 win came with Military Attack in the 2013 SIA Cup before Dan Excel doubled the dose in 2014. Between times, Sterling City won the 2014 Group 1 Dubai Golden Shaheen and Dominant landed the 2013 Group 1 Hong Kong Vase. 2013/2014 also saw Moore dominate the four-year-old series with the horse that would become Hong Kong’s highest rated ever, Able Friend (Hong Kong Classic Mile), and subsequent Horse of the Year Designs On Rome (Hong Kong Classic Cup and Hong Kong Derby). Now a regular visitor to our International races, Moore will be back with last year’s SIA Cup winner Dan Excel in a bid to claim that race for the third year in a row.