Monthly Archives: 12/2008

Hi all, I hope you had a great time with your families and friends during the Christmas holiday.  Although there was a week-long break in our racing fixtures over Christmas, that was not sufficient time for me to head back to Germany to visit my father.  I hope I can make it up one day…

The year 2008 is almost coming to an end. Looking back over the past 12 months, there are quite a few Club activities that have brought us all great memories and I think it's worth looking back at some of them here in my blog. I'm sure the Club's involvement in the equestrian events of the Beijing…

I'm sure many of you were as sad as I was to hear the news that veteran South African jockey Felix Coetzee – the longest-serving rider among our current line-up in Hong Kong – has decided to leave us and return to South Africa after today's meeting at Sha Tin.Felix has had a phenomenal record…

It was great to see more than 47,000 people coming to Sha Tin for our International Races meeting last Sunday. If you were among them, I hope you enjoyed the racing action and on-course programmes as much as I did. Your enthusiasm and support created a terrific atmosphere at the racecourse. I’m pleased to see the International Race…

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,…