Monthly Archives: 02/2012

Whether or not you picked Ambitious Dragon as the winner of our Citibank HK Gold Cup last Sunday, I'm sure most of you will have been impressed with the manner of his victory on the day, which looked as comfortable as in the first leg of the Triple Crown, the Stewards’ Cup last month.  Douglas…

The victory of Peter Ng-trained Super Plus at Wednesday’s Happy Valley meeting has ensured that competition for this season’s 1O1O Million Challenge series will go right to the final night once more, as this seven-year-old gelding surpassed Mr Bond to move to the top of the leaderboard by a slender four-point margin.Any of the top…

I believe many of you enjoyed, as I did, the entertaining Mercedes-Benz Hong Kong Classic Cup this past Sunday.  I watched the race together with Mr Reiner Hoeps, Chief Operating Officer of our race sponsor Mercedes-Benz Hong Kong Limited, from a great vantage point right next to the track, and we were thrilled to see…

The keen football followers amongst you will have seen two worrying pieces of news coming from the British game this week, with Glasgow Rangers going into administration and Portsmouth followed them yesterday.  The latter was perhaps no great surprise, as Portsmouth have been in and out of financial difficulties for some while and it was…

Last Saturday at Sha Tin I witnessed the unfortunate coincidence of two jockeys getting injured in falls from their horses in separate races.  In the first race Brett Prebble was dislodged from Telecom Top Star after clipping the heels of other runners early in the straight.  Then Vincent Ho was thrown from his mount Gurus…

I'm sure that our many passionate football fans in Hong Kong have learnt about the news of Fabio Capello's abrupt resignation as England team manager on Thursday morning HK time, just a few months ahead of this summer's Euro 2012 Championships in Poland and Ukraine.  Though the news came quite sudden, I was not surprised…

In Sunday’s Chairman’s Sprint Prize we saw a new Group 1 winner emerge, with veteran runner Joy And Fun claiming the first top-level title of his career at the ripe old age of eight.  His jockey Brett Doyle, who left Hong Kong after Sunday’s meeting, delivered an equally superb riding performance to earn his first…

Those of you who patronised our Off-Course Betting Branches on Tuesday might have found you had wait in line behind some fairly lengthy queues.  We saw a huge number of extra customers coming along that day to buy Mark Six tickets, all hoping to fulfil their dreams of overnight riches after a jackpot of HK$57…

At Sha Tin Racecourse on Sunday we saw our reigning Horse of the Year Ambitious Dragon trounced 13 top-class opponents to win the first leg of the Triple Crown – the Hong Kong Group 1 Stewards’ Cup over 1600m.  Jockey Douglas Whyte had him positioned three wide early in the race and appeared to need…