Monthly Archives: 06/2014

As I had thought, trainer Caspar Fownes had a good evening at the Sha Tin race meeting on Wednesday, as he notched a winning double thanks to Good Times Roll and Gun Pit.  The results placed him just a single win behind championship leader John Size, who also had a winner that evening with Silly…

Due to the Government’s drainage work at Happy Valley, we have had two midweek night meetings at Sha Tin in the past fortnight with one more to come, namely the season’s final night meeting there today.  Last Wednesday night I took the opportunity to have a walk around the racecourse, to take in the atmosphere…

Over the past few years, through our implementation of the Racecourse Master Plan we have carried out many renovation and refurbishment projects to improve our facilities at both Happy Valley and. Sha Tin.  As well as new facilities for the racing public, some of the projects have also been undertaken for the benefit of Club Members.Our primary aim in refreshing these older venues was to create…

I trust all of you football fans out there are enjoying the World Cup as much as I am! It has been a fascinating tournament so far, and it’s still such early days. All of the 32 participating teams have at least played their first group match and that includes my home team Germany.  I…

The long wait is over for football fans everywhere as the World Cup commenced early yesterday, with host nation Brazil enjoying a winning start.  Although they gave their supporting fans an early scare by going a goal down, they managed to recover, and was lucky to have been awarded a very soft penalty which changed…

From Australia winning the Epsom Derby, to California Chrome’s near miss in his attemptto become the first US Triple Crown winner in more than 30 years in the Belmont Stakes, it’s been a weekend of rare excitement for racing fans in some of the biggest races around the world. Underlining the international scope of top…

On Thursday we hosted our final Happy Valley meeting of the season and I must say that it was a really enjoyable night, especially as we had over 16,000 enthusiastic racegoers on-course at the Valley creating a fantastic atmosphere.  I’m sure that two of our horsemen, Caspar Fownes and Zac Purton, enjoyed the evening even more…

I think many racing fans would have enjoyed our various overseas simulcasts last weekend, with the chance to see My Name Is Bond winning the Macau Hong Kong Trophy for Hong Kong at Taipa, as well as One And Only and The Grey Gatsby winning the Japanese and French Derby respectively. For myself I was very…