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I believe a lot of you will have been enjoyed the host of exciting races – both locally and simulcast races from Australia – we offered over the past week.  It was the kind of exhilarating sport that leaves us wanting more of the same, and so I can understand why I received messages from…

I expect many of you watched our Melbourne Cup Day simulcast yesterday and were as delighted as I was to see Brett Prebble achieve a career highspot by claiming his first Melbourne Cup aboard Australian runner Green Moon.  I know that it will have been extra-special for Brett to secure this famous win at Flemington,…

Every year, the first Tuesday in November is a very special day for Australia, and of course the Australian community in Hong Kong, as attention turns to Flemington Racecourse and Australia’s premier racing event, the 152nd Melbourne Cup. There are some aspects of the Melbourne Cup which are unique to Australia.  They call it “the race…

Although there was not any race meeting arranged on Wednesday, giving everybody a midweek break from racing, it has still been a very eventful week of sport, including on the football side.  I watched the highlights of two pulsating matches from the English League Cup, with Arsenal recovering from being 0-4 down to beat Reading…

There were some UEFA Champions League group matches in midweek and I’m delighted to see that all three German teams won their matches, including Bayern Munich and Schalke who secured away victories at Lille and Arsenal, respectively.  But I think the most impressive of the trio was Borussia Dortmund as they edged the extravagant Real…

I’m sure very few of you would have missed the live simulcast action of Frankel last Saturday evening, as this super horse ended his magnificent career on a high note with his comfortable victory in the G1 Champion Stakes.The sold-out crowd at Ascot, and his huge legion of worldwide fans watching via TV broadcast, had…

Here in Hong Kong we have 10 or 11 races each race-day at Sha Tin, and eight for every midweek race night.  All of those races are incredibly competitive and that’s why it’s a very good day for any trainer or jockey if they manage to get three or four winners at a race meeting. …

As ever, Sunday’s Sa Sa Ladies’ Purse Raceday at Sha Tin was a fantastic afternoon, with many racegoers dressing up brightly and elegantly for this special event.  If you watched our live broadcast or read some of the racing papers, you will know that even trainer Sean Woods decided to join the fun by wearing…

The dust is still settling in the aftermath of last Sunday’s sensational Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe in Paris and there has been quite a bit of comment about jockeyship following that famous victory. A lot of deserving praise has been heaped upon Olivier Peslier, justifiably so, for his skillful horsemanship and determined drive to…

For those racing fans who tuned in to watch the Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe from France via our simulcast on Sunday night, I am sure you would agree that this year’s race ended in most unbelievable fashion. When the Japanese champion Orfevre surged past almost the entire field of runners in the home straight,…