Monthly Archives: 04/2009

Last weekend was a rather hectic but enjoyable one for me, as on Saturday I attended the Job Fair hosted by the Club in Tin Shui Wai, then on Sunday we staged our big springtime racing festival, the Audemars Piguet QE II Cup and Champions Mile raceday.Some 11,000 people came along to the Job Fair,…

Tomorrow you can all enjoy two world-class international races at Sha Tin as we will be hosting the Audemars Piquet Queen Elizabeth II Cup and the Champions Mile. Besides getting to see some of the world's top racehorses in action on our home turf, what always delights me about these occasions is the chance to meet…

Recently there are many discussions regarding the Club’s proposal of adding five more race days and 20 simulcast race days each season. I know that some of you would like to know more about a survey revealing Hong Kong people lost HK$20 billion of gaming money in those casinos in Macau in 2008. In fact, we have…

In the past few days, I've met different senior media journalists and exchanged our views in regard to the Club's proposal of adding five more race days and 20 more simulcasts of overseas races each season. Although not every of them are familiar with the details of our racing operation, I'm glad that they all…

I hope you all found the Chairman's Trophy raceday at Sha Tin last Sunday very entertaining. For myself, I was impressed by the performance of More Bountiful as he won this Group 2 event in a fantastic fashion. Although I favoured Fellowship in this race and he ran an honest race as he usually did, I…

It's great to be back in Hong Kong after spending the past few days in France, where I met many other international racing directors to discuss the latest global racing developments. Even when I'm overseas, I always try to keep up-to-date with the news from Hong Kong, so I know that the Betting and Lotteries Commission…

At every one of our racedays, there are thousands of full-time and part-time staff who work non-stop at the racecourse to ensure the race meeting goes off smoothly.  Among them, one of the groups are always the first to arrive at the course and the last to leave.  You may have guessed correctly and they…