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I was delighted to see the promising performances of some of our top runners in the international trials last Sunday. Among them, I was particularly impressed with the way in which up-and-coming runner Happy Zero won the Cathay Pacific International Sprint Trial. Facing his toughest test yet against some true sprint powerhouses, he couldn't find enough space…

I was glad to see our apprentice jockey Matthew Chadwick regain his form and confidence at our Happy Valley meeting last Wednesday evening, when he brought home three winners – his first successes since he was dislodged from his mount during a race at Sha Tin last month. It was a nice treble for him and…

Last Sunday, we hosted our 125th Anniversary race meeting and I'd love to offer my thanks to your great support as more than 38,000 people joined us to celebrate this big day at Sha Tin, with our turnover reached a season-high of HK$985 million too. Apart from the HKJC 125th Anniversary Cup which deciding the winner…

Let me first offer my heartfelt thanks for the great support you've all given to our HKJC 125th Anniversary Sweepstakes, for which all tickets were sold out on Wednesday evening. We've kicked off the sweepstakes selling campaign in early October, meaning the 2.5 million tickets have all been sold in six weeks' time. This is great news…

Those of you who watched our Breeders' Cup simulcast on Sunday will surely have been awestruck by the performance of Zenyatta, who took on her male counterparts so brilliantly to achieve her 14th career win in the Breeders' Cup Classic, possibly her final race before retirement. I saw from the TV coverage that many racegoers at…

You may have watched our simulcast of the Patinack Farm Classic from Australia this morning. In the early hours of tomorrow, we will also simulcast four of the Breeders' Cup races from Santa Anita in the US, giving our racing fans the chance to catch up on two major racing events from opposite ends of…

I'm sure most of you have been shocked to hear that our former champion trainer Ivan Allan passed away in Singapore on Wednesday evening, at the relatively young age of 68. I learned the news during Wednesday night's Sha Tin race meeting, and I must say I also felt very sad about that. But actually, Ivan…

Yesterday we simulcast the Melbourne Cup raceday to Hong Kong. Sadly I was not able to have a very good study on the form of the Australian horses and my analysis for the Melbourne Cup race proved not good enough. I've watched the replay of the race and in fact, I think most jockeys did not expect…

In less than an hour's time we shall be bringing you the simulcasts of five races from the Melbourne Cup raceday at Flemington. It's great that we are able to simulcast the Melbourne Cup, the famous “race that stops a nation”, as a standalone event this season, without affecting our midweek night race schedule. We've received…

Last Saturday, we arranged our first non-raceday overseas simulcast of this season, bringing you five races from the Cox Plate day at Moonee Valley Racecourse. I would say that both from a viewing and betting perspective, your responses to the simulcast were very encouraging, as there were a lot of racing fans stayed at our off-course…