Monthly Archives: 03/2011

If you were watching last Saturday night's simulcast of the Dubai World Cup raceday, I'm sure you won't fail to have been moved by the very touching scenes following the memorable victory of Victoire Pisa in the final big race.  The Japanese connections in Meydan were simply overcome with emotion as they celebrated the result,…

I expect many of you will have watched the simulcasts from the Dubai World Cup meeting last night to check out the performances of the our Hong Kong runners there. They did not disappoint us as Sunny King and Green Birdie produced good efforts and finished a creditable third and fourth in the Dubai Golden…

Back in midweek our night race meeting was held on Sha Tin’s All Weather track, and I’m delighted to see some great results on the night’s turnover, which reached HK$909 million and was the highest amount for an all-weather night meeting since 2000.  This shows our racing fans in general have the similar confidence in…

The Derby is always a major event in any racing calendar, but I think we will find this year’s running of the Mercedes-Benz Hong Kong Derby particularly memorable because I’d like to believe we saw at least one horse who could rise to true greatness. The way Ambitious Dragon defeated a very strong field, and…

During the past week of increasingly worrying news from Japan, connections of Green Birdie and Joy And Fun – the two Hong Kong runners who have entered the Japanese G1 Takamatsunomiya Kinen on 27 March – have both decided to pull out of the race.  While it's obviously disappointing for local racing fans that Hong…

I know you'll have been as shocked and saddened as I have over the past few days to see the horrors of the earthquake in Japan and resulting tsunamis unfold live on TV news bulletins.  Watching whole towns simply reduced to debris in a matter of minutes has been heartbreaking for any of us to…

Every racing fan in every country feels a buzz of excitement when he hears the word ‘Derby’, and I can assure you I’m no different. Now as the great race is only just over a week away that buzz increases in intensity, and it will go on doing so until the runners pass the post…

Once again last Sunday we enjoyed a fantastic afternoon of racing at Sha Tin, highlighted by the Queen’s Silver Jubilee Cup.  Although there were only 10 runners in this final leg of the Hong Kong Speed Series, it was no less competitive for that, with Beauty Flash outgunning Sunny King and Lucky Nine to take…

As you may know, a water main at Wong Nai Chung Road was ruptured in the early hours of last Tuesday morning, causing serious inconvenience to thousands of people who live or work in the Happy Valley and Causeway Bay areas.  Many restaurants in the district are also forced to stop their business as freshwater…

For the second week in succession, we've seen a runner conceding more than 20 rating points storm through to win a local Group One event at set weights.  In the Citibank Hong Kong Gold Cup last Sunday, California Memory, trained by Tony Cruz, created one of the shocks of the season by leaving a top-class…