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Our elite Four-Year-Old Classic Series will commence this Sunday with the Hong Kong Classic Mile and a week later, we will host a Group 1 double with the Stewards’ Cup and the newly-promoted Centenary Sprint Cup. The focus of the week, though, is surely on the Classic Series generation. Many of the entrants enjoyed final…

It is not often that we can discuss an amazing feat never accomplished in the history of Hong Kong racing, but one of those rare moments occurred on Wednesday when Contribution won the fourth race at Happy Valley. This win provided Mr Hui Sai Fun with his 100th win as an Owner in Hong Kong,…

As I’m sure you have heard, Kei Chiong retired from race riding earlier this week. I completely understand and respect her decision, one which surely took a great deal of courage to make. Kei earned 102 wins over her career, 44 in New Zealand during her overseas stint before returning to Hong Kong and landing…

We had a wonderful start to 2018 as we recorded the highest turnover for our New Year’s Day meeting, at HK$1.65 billion, and the second highest attendance at the celebratory Lucky Start meeting. Champion jockey Joao Moreira got out to a fast start, riding his third five-timer of the season, with four of the wins…

We are just hours from the end of 2017 and it has been an exciting year for the Club. We have enjoyed many memorable events over the last 12 months. The late Rapper Dragon made history to become the first horse to win all three legs of the Four-Year-Old Classic Series. We reported a very…

I hope you all enjoyed a pleasant Christmas holiday. As I mentioned last week, I greatly enjoyed being in Tokyo for the presentation of the Longines IFHA International Award of Merit to Yutaka Take and the legendary jockey celebrated his 75th G1 victory with a third win in the Arima Kinen, guiding Kitasan Black to…

I was in Tokyo on Thursday with a chance to offer some words on the recipient of the 2017 Longines and IFHA International Award of Merit, the great jockey Yutaka Take. His lifelong contributions to racing were recognised in the ceremony, and it was indeed a great honour to review his career successes. Among them,…

Last week we announced that the Jockey Club Charities Trust would donate HK$281 million to Open University of Hong Kong (OUHK) to establish the OUHK Jockey Club Institute of Healthcare, which will be home to a suite of academic programmes aimed at nurturing the next generation of health care professionals to address our community needs.…

Following our LONGINES Hong Kong International Races, the Club, in partnership with the Agriculture, Fisheries and Conservation Department (AFCD) hosted the International Conference on the Equine Disease Free Zone (ICEDFZ) on Tuesday. We welcomed key government officials from Hong Kong SAR and the Chinese Mainland, along with industry experts from 18 countries and regions. We…

It’s all done and dusted and I can say this year’s LONGINES Hong Kong International Races was among the most memorable and emotional ones yet. The “irreplaceable” Highland Reel drew the first win of the day as he made a winning swansong in the Vase, helping his Irish trainer Aidan O’Brien extend the record G1…