Monthly Archives: 03/2009

Tonight, the Club will simulcast three of the races in the Dubai World Cup for the enjoyment of Hong Kong's racing fans.  This includes the Dubai Golden Shaheen, the world's joint-richest 1,200m dirt race, in which our star all-weather track performer Lucky Quality will be taking on some of the best dirt sprinters in the…

It has been almost a year since we launched Jockey Challenge – the Club's first fixed-odds racing betting pool – last April. With racing fans' strong support, this innovative betting pool has quickly established a sound footing and now attracts a similar amount of turnover to other exotic bet types each raceday. Despite of this success,…

I'm sure most of you watched the exciting Queen's Silver Jubilee Cup race at Sha Tin last Sunday. Though reigning horse of the year Good Ba Ba could only manage second in this Group One event, I would concur with some of my media friends that he gave quite a meritorious performance, considering that 1400m is…

I'm sure you'll all agree with me that turf quality is one of the most important factors in providing the best possible racing environment for our horses and riders. That's why we use different course settings at each race meeting to allow for turf maintenance work and recovery time. This ensures that the turf at our Sha…

As a horseman and racing lover, I always get very excited to see quality young horses put in outstanding performances on the turf to mark themselves as the sport's newest elites. That's just how I felt at Sha Tin last Saturday when I was really impressed by the way in which Collection won the final race. I'm…

I was in Beijing for the last two days on business and so happened it was the commencement of the National People's Congress and the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference. Probably like all of you in Hong Kong, I was most delighted to hear Premier Wen Jiabao's pledge that the central government would spare no effort to help…

In early February, the Club began announcing its gross margin figures and the amount of betting duty paid to Government after every race meeting, so as to give the public a clearer picture of the amount of revenue that goes to the Government's treasury. Since then, nine race meetings have been held and we have already…