Caspar Fownes assisted his late father Lawrie for several seasons before gaining his licence in 2003/04. He eclipsed his father’s best season stats in his rookie year with 44 wins. In 2006/07 he won his first championship and has since added three more. Fownes claimed a fourth title in 2020/21 with an unrivalled 79 wins which included a second Hong Kong Derby triumph. He saddled his second Hong Kong Sprint winner Sky Field in 2021, and he also scored a trio of Group 3 triumphs with Zebrowski and Senor Toba that same season. Fownes is renowned for his fine record at Happy Valley, where he has notched 628 career wins – the most in history since Hong Kong’s professional era of racing began in 1971/72 – earning him the moniker as ‘King of the Valley’. His previous best performers from his stable are Lucky Nine, The Duke, Super Satin, Green Birdie and Southern Legend, among others. Fownes has five top-level wins in Singapore, while he is only the fourth horseman in Hong Kong racing history to surpass 1,000 training wins.
