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Hong Kong Jockey Club split sale into two parts.

The Hong Kong International Sale has been pushed back as the coronavirus pandemic continues to affect bloodstock sales globally. 

The sale is usually held on the Friday evening before the Hong Kong Derby (Listed, 2000m) in March, however, Hong Kong Jockey Club officials were forced to reschedule the sale to May 8 and it now looks like the sale will be pushed further back and into two divisions with the continued difficulties of transporting horses internationally. 

The northern hemisphere horses are due to be sold on May 23, whilst those coming from the southern hemisphere are due to sell on July 3. 

"There are 16 lots which are here from the northern hemisphere, they have been here with us for a while," Bill Nader, Jockey Club director of racing business and operations, told the South China Morning Post.

"The horses from Australia and New Zealand can't get in at the moment so they have been pushed back to the second sale which is tentatively set for July 3, but again that is touch and go. That is our target at this point and as we get closer, it will firm up."

The Hong Kong Jockey Club spent $5,145,000 on nine yearlings at last weeks Inglis Australian Easter Yearling Sale.