Monthly Archives: 12/2014

With Multivictory’s win for trainer Tony Cruz in the last race at Sha Tin on Sunday, our racing in 2014 came to an end. The new year will start in just a few hours’ time, so this seems like a good time to take the opportunity to sum up the past year.  Whether viewed from…

The two-day Christmas holiday has come to an end, and I’m sure most of you will have enjoyed some great times with your loved ones and friends during the festivities.  I took the chance to take a short trip away earlier this week, so I did not spend the Christmas time in Hong Kong this year. Although I was away from home, I must say I enjoyed it as much as many of…

With the international race week just past, all of us at the Club are now focusing on our next major project, the Club’s 130th anniversary celebrations.  On Thursday we hosted a press conference to kick off the celebration campaign, and during that we announced the details of various events that will be staged to mark…

The dust has just about settled after Sunday’s fantastic racing.  The LONGINES Hong Kong International Races once again gave us a fitting climax to the year and it was as exciting and successful an occasion as we had hoped it would be.  Over 74,000 enthusiastic race fans at Sha Tin – a record since 1997…

There was a fantastic atmosphere at Happy Valley on Wednesday and I’m sure the 16,000-plus race fans who came to the racecourse must have left very satisfied afterwatching the wonderful performances from the world-class riders in the LONGINES International Jockeys’ Championship.  In the end it was Japanese champion jockey Yuichi Fukunaga who won the trophy, after riding his first two wins ever at Happy Valley that evening.It was a great riding…

LONGINES Hong Kong International Races week is finally here and just like all of our local racing fans, it’s a time of year that I have been eagerly looking forward to.  Last week I made a short trip to Guangzhou for another horse-related event involving both the Club and Longines, an equestrian event, the Hong…

Every year the LONGINES Hong Kong International Races offers an opportunity for local racehorses and horsemen to meet their overseas counterparts in exciting competition.  Our flagship event is also an occasion for horsemen and racing executives from all around the world to meet in Hong Kong and casually share latest information and bounce ideas off…

I was fortunate enough to be at Tokyo racecourse on Sunday for a thrilling edition of the Japan Cup in which Epiphaneia trounced a bunch of top-class opponents. Now I am back in Hong Kong and the next week and a half will be hectic as I, along with the rest of the team at…