Author Archives: KH Lau

The world is a turbulent place at the moment and, as I have said several times in this Blog, racing can never exist in a bubble that is independent of society as a whole. Things have moved on again this week – with the World Health Organisation declaring Covid-19 a pandemic – and the situation…

One of the benefits of leading the Club team at a challenging time like this is the opportunity to get around the city and gauge the feelings of people from all sorts of backgrounds. The last week has been highly informative in that regard and, once again, it is so impressive to see how staff…

Time is moving on, with just two weeks until the BMW Hong Kong Derby and seven until FWD Champions Day. Recent months have shown that it seldom pays to look too far ahead but the time is right to take small steps back towards normality and that is why we have decided to refine our…

My cricketing friends in the Jockey Club tell me that when a batsman gets to 50 runs he has to re-focus and concentrate even harder. Something similar comes to mind as we approach our 50th meeting of the season at Happy Valley this Wednesday and all our team remain determined to work through our latest…

And so we move into the second month with special measurements to minimise the risk of coronavirus in place. Sporting bodies around the world are feeling the impact – with the JRA among those to impose strict attendance limits this week – but having acted early we can now consider plans to aid a loyal…

A month has passed since the Club started to impose special measures to minimise the risk of coronavirus and, although we remain vigilant, we are also cautiously optimistic that some services can be restored in the coming weeks. Moving on to Sunday’s racing at Sha Tin, it was a pleasure to see Vincent Ho and…

With so much going on here at home in Hong Kong and at the Asian Racing Conference in Cape Town, this has been the sort of week to make you wish to be in two places at once. Technology has not yet extended to creating a Jockey Club Time Machine but it has enabled us…

And so we move on through another notable week at home and abroad. The 38th Asian Racing Conference is under way in Cape Town with significant topics on the agenda but the current situation demands that I stay in Hong Kong to help oversee another very important phase in our plan to keep racing. The…

The ability to adapt to rapidly changing circumstances is one of the things that has made Hong Kong one of the world’s great cities and racing is adapting to some difficult but highly necessary changes at the moment. With attendance restricted to owners, trainers, jockeys and essential officials on a night which saw Stronger break…

On the direction of government, we have reduced the gathering of crowds on race days. As a result, attendance for fixtures on 12, 16 and 19 February will be restricted to jockeys, trainers, officials with race day duties and owners with horses running on the card. I hope for the understanding of our fans but…