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I've just attended the Hong Kong International Sale and I'm very grateful to see hundreds of our Members and Owners showing their huge support for the event at Sha Tin Racecourse this morning. I think it's entirely understandable that some potential Owners may be affected by the current economic sentiment and become more prudent in bidding…

Hong Kong will be in the spotlight of global sport this week as hundreds of international sports media, overseas horsemen and racing professionals to watch some of the world's top racehorses and jockeys competing in the Cathay Pacific Hong Kong International Races – our flagship racing event of the year.  This is the largest international…

This midweek, many of us in the Club and other overseas racing jurisdictions have been upset by the Racing New South Wales' decision regarding jockey Christopher Munce.  Although our Racing Stewards handed down a judgement on Monday disqualifying Munce for 30 months from international racing after his admitted breaching of the Club’s Rules of Racing…

Over the past decades, the Club has initiated and sponsored a great number of local charity and community projects, benefiting many needy groups and individuals in our society. Observing the trend of Hong Kong's rapidly ageing population, we set up the CADENZA project in 2006 to help our senior citizens achieve more active and positive ageing,…

Over the past decade, we've invited many top jockeys from different nations and racing jurisdictions to take part in the Cathay Pacific International Jockeys' Championship. On Thursday, we announced the 10 overseas jockeys who will be featuring in next month's 11th edition of this exciting annual event and showing local racing fans their amazing skills in…

With our biggest racing event of the year – the Cathay Pacific Hong Kong International Races – coming up next month, a large number of our staff in different departments are now very involved in preparation work behind the scenes, indeed they have been for many weeks now. They include, for instance, colleagues in our International…

Hi all, there was a sporting event that gave me some disappointment in midweek. It was not about racing but the defeat of the German national football team to England in an international friendly held in Berlin in the early hours of Thursday. As both teams were missing key players like Michael Ballack, Torsten Frings, Steven Gerrard…

At the Asian Racing Conference I attended in Tokyo last week, all delegates present agreed that the current global economic situation was set to pose severe challenges to the racing industry, and that its impact would not be short-term. Every jurisdiction in the region is now studying various measures to sustain its racing business under this…

Hi, it's great to have spent the past few days in Tokyo at the 32nd Asian Racing Conference. It's been a very thought-provoking week for me and for the many other delegates from racing jurisdictions across Asia, as we were able to share views on the latest developments and future prospects of racing at a crucial…

By the time you read today's blog, I am on a flight to Japan, getting ready to attend the 32nd Asian Racing Conference in Tokyo next week. The theme of this year's conference is “New Horizons for Racing” and I think it will provide a perfect opportunity for representatives of controlling bodies across the region to…