Hong Kong Jockey Club Apprentice Jockeys’ School graduate Vincent Ho racked up 44 wins as a young rider in New Zealand under the tutelage of leading trainer Lance O’Sullivan. He made a solid start to his Hong Kong career with 10 victories in his first season in 2009/10, including a trio of wins he achieved on only his fourth race day in Hong Kong. He sealed the 2010/11 Champion Apprentice title with 39 wins. Ho reached the graduation benchmark on 1 October, 2012 by claiming his 70th win in Hong Kong aboard Castle Hero, and he notched 33 wins in 2014/15 to be the season’s leading homegrown rider. By number of wins, Ho enjoyed his best season to date in 2022/23, when he amassed a career-high 96 wins. In that season he also became the second homegrown jockey in history to ride 500 winners in Hong Kong, and took a fourth Tony Cruz Award. However, 2020/21 could easily be regarded as his best season, when he won five Group 1 races, including victories aboard Hong Kong’s champion Golden Sixty and Japan’s Loves Only You. Ho added a trio of Group 1 wins to his haul with Golden Sixty during the 2022/23 season. He had an interrupted 2023/24 season due to injuries but made history as the first homegrown jockey to claim the International Jockeys’ Championship only four days before winning a third Hong Kong Mile aboard Golden Sixty. Ho rode a short stint in Europe during the off-season in 2018 and notched a first win in Great Britain at the first attempt, partnering the Mark Johnston-trained X Rated to success at Haydock on 9 August. He returned to Great Britain during the 2019 off-season and competed at the Shergar Cup at Ascot, where he won the Shergar Cup Mile aboard Power Of Darkness, helping the Rest of the World team secure Shergar Cup glory. His latest British stint in 2024 yielded one win atop Love De Vega for trainer Charlie Johnston. He reached his 600th Hong Kong win milestone in November 2024. Not long after, he added another Group race win to his tally with Galaxy Patch in the G2 Sha Tin Trophy. He was sidelined from February 2025 due to injury.
