Author Archives: KH Lau

We announced yesterday an important change in our pattern schedule for this season. The Asian Pattern Committee endorsed our request to move the G1 Champions Mile and G1 Chairman’s Sprint Prize a week earlier, to the same date of the Audemars Piguet Queen Elizabeth II Cup raceday on 29 April next year. For the first…

It’s always great to see a young rider delivering good results and showing growing confidence at his craft. At Happy Valley on Wednesday, apprentice jockey Matthew Poon showed his statement of intent for the new season, having ridden the first four-timer of his Hong Kong career. By doing so he also became only the third…

It was a bit disappointing, although not surprising, to see our two Hong Kong horses Lucky Year and Circuit Land finish unplaced at the international meeting in Korea last Sunday. From the outset, it was quite obvious that they struggled on the deep sand track in Seoul and were not able to perform to their…

We will host our regular racing fixture at Sha Tin tomorrow and will host a special ceremony and presentation for the Hong Kong Equestrian Team, who just returned to Hong Kong after completing their competition in the National Games in Tianjin earlier this week. Our Club-sponsored riders earned some good results, landing a silver and…

Racing was back in a big way on Sunday at Sha Tin as over 66,000 racegoers joined us to kick off our new season – and we all stayed relatively dry too after the typhoon stayed well away from Hong Kong. At the same time, we registered a record turnover for a season opening meeting…

The summer break has come to an end and surely much to the delight of all, racing action returns tomorrow as the 2017/18 Hong Kong racing season opens at Sha Tin. It does look like it will be a rainy day tomorrow and we continue to closely monitor the weather. If the forecast were to…

I hope all of you are enjoying a pleasant summer. On Tuesday, our Chairman, Dr. Simon Ip and I were in Deauville for our annual reciprocal races with our friends in Deauville, the Group 3 Prix Gontaut-Biron Hong Kong Jockey Club and the Prix du Hong Kong Jockey Club. Prior to racing, we both visited…

Last week Hong Kong played host to the Premier League Asia Trophy, which featured Crystal Palace, Leicester City, Liverpool and West Bromwich Albion. The event is part of the Premier League’s ongoing development of the sport throughout Asia, and the tens of thousands that enjoyed the action at Hong Kong Stadium saw Liverpool emerge victorious…

We had more than 21,000 racegoers on track at our final Happy Wednesday meeting of the season earlier this week and they were treated to some phenomenal finishes. Happy Valley Racecourse is a real treasure and an incredibly popular tourist attraction, and I was delighted to see so many enjoying the fun and games in…

Our annual Champion Awards gala is this Friday, followed by the distribution of the Most Popular Jockey, Tony Cruz Award and a full ceremony to celebrate our Champions at the Season Finale race meeting on Sunday. Two winners have their names firmly engraved on the trophies at this point for their record-breaking seasons, Joao Moreira…