Monthly Archives: 06/2013

As it is early summer the sporting focus has been on events like Royal Ascot, the tennis at Wimbledon and the Confederations Cup in Brazil.  Many of you know that I particularly love horse racing and football, but as a sports fan my interest is by no means confined to those two sports – equestrianism…

With five race meetings to go it’s natural to take an even closer interest in the jockeys’ and trainer’s premierships. On the jockeys’ side of things Douglas Whyte is sitting in a commanding position after he landed a treble on Sunday and further extended his lead against Zac Purton to 11 winners.  That is a…

Just like the many racing fans watching on-course or through live broadcast, I was greatly concerned as I witnessed five jockeys fall during the unfortunate incident that occurred in the second race at Happy Valley last Wednesday.  I was watching the action from the grandstand and as soon as the fall happened, my concern turned…

With the exception of our international meetings, it’s not often that we arrange three trophy races in the same race day.  That being so, it was a rather special feat for trainer John Moore to claim a hat-trick of cup races wins with his stable runners in the HKG3 Premier Cup, Members Cup and Racing…

I'm sure that most of you have been taking a close interest this week in the unfolding story about our discovery of Zilpaterol in the urine samples of some horses over the past few days, as well as in two brands of horse feed.   With Zilpaterol being a banned substance under our Rules of Racing,…

Over the past fortnight I have paid much attention to the news concerning the serious floods affecting central Europe, including my home country Germany.  The scale and severity of the flooding this time has been the most serious in the past century, leaving some cities in the eastern part of the country submerged under water…

Wednesday at Happy Valley racecourse offered some entertaining contests for all racing fans to enjoy.  Among them, the most fascinating was the Happy Valley Vase.  As I said before the race, the fact that most runners in the field had posted decent performances in pattern races this season gave it the quality of a G2…

After their successes in the Bundesliga and Champions League, Bayern Munich became the 7th European club team to seal a “treble” in a season late on Saturday when they defeated Stuttgart to win their third trophy of the campaign, the DFB-Pokal.  They also rewrote the German football record books by becoming the first German side…

I have been the Club’s CEO for a number of years now and this has given me the opportunity, through different Club-sponsored projects, to regularly engage with the community, meeting with various community leaders and local people to the extent that I have been able to gain a deeper understanding of the characteristics of the…