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On Wednesday we hosted our first group race of the season, the HKG3 National Day Cup.  The result was a bit of a surprise as Bundle Of Joy defeated the likes of Amber Sky and Sterling City to claim the prize, giving his jockey Vincent Ho a first group race victory.  Certainly the light weight…

Some of you may remember that two weeks ago I wrote here about a few home-grown jockeys who had made a great start to the season.  Well, that initial success wasn’t a flash in the pan. Those riders are continuing do exceptionally well and at our Sha Tin race meeting last Saturday they won six…

The concept of green living has been increasingly popular in Hong Kong in recent years.  More people have now become willingly proactive in trying to live in an environmentally responsible way. Such a lifestyle helps better ensure the sustainability of our environment, subsequently benefitting future generations.  The Club is also a keen supporter of such…

Longines and the IFHA to present this prestigious global racing award in Hong Kong.  It will add gloss to our flagship international race week and further exemplified the status of our International week in the global racing calendar. Jockeys will receive points whenever they finish in the top three in any of the World’s Top 100…

We hosted our first night race meeting of the season at Sha Tin racecourse on Wednesday and things went very smoothly. I must say that while I miss the buzz and excitement of Happy Valley, which will re-open next month, I do enjoy the floodlit action at Sha Tin. There was plenty of excitement and…

After a two-month summer break, fans returned to the racecourse last Sunday as local racing resumed.  As I mentioned to media friends after the races on Sunday, it was a golden start to our season, as a record number of over 74,000 people went through the turnstiles of both racecourses to enjoy the excitement and…

Our new racing season will get under way at Sha Tin racecourse tomorrow.  Before the resumption of exciting horse racing action at our season opening meeting, earlier this week my focus was on a meeting of a different kind, our Annual General Meeting.  At the meeting we reported on the Club’s business operation for the…

Having stepped into September, quite suddenly, it seems, the new racing season will soon get under way; we are now less than 10 days from our opening day on the 14th.  Before things really hit top gear in the coming days, I took some time earlier this week to join Club Chairman Brian Stevenson for…

There is always a real buzz of excitement around the start of any new sports season, and with the Hong Kong racing season still a couple of weeks away, football fans have been focused on the first weeks of the major leagues in Europe. The English Premier League, the Bundesliga in Germany and Spain’s La…

The month of August is about to enter its final third, which means that the Hong Kong racing scene is beginning to stir from its summer rest with the new season now a little over three weeks away. There has been plenty of racing action elsewhere to keep our attention in the meantime, and this…