Monthly Archives: 05/2015

Although we are approaching the end of the season there is no winding down just yet as my schedule remains full.  Last week I spent two days in South Korea and I can tell you it certainly wasn’t for shopping or sightseeing. I was there, invited by the Korea Racing Authority in my capacity as…

After the rainfall at Happy Valley last Wednesday our racing surface was put to the test once again on Sunday, this time at Sha Tin, as unstable weather affected our race meeting.  The rain was particularly hard during Race 9.  If you were at the racecourse or followed our live racing that day, or have…

A strong rainstorm affected Hong Kong before our midweek race meeting on Wednesday, with the Observatory issuing the red rainstorm warning about two hours before the start of our races.  Certainly Happy Valley was not spared from that as we had recorded a total rainfall of about 43 millimetres there, in just five and a…

The performances of Hong Kong’s runners in Singapore on Sunday are still very vivid in my mind. The Hong Kong team did not disappoint our racing fans, and I think it is right for me to say that all five of our runners at Kranji Racecourse that evening gave us plenty to be proud of, particularly…

In my blog a week ago I mentioned Joao Moreira was just six wins away from matching Douglas Whyte’s all-time record of 114 wins in a season.  We didn’t need to wait too long as it just took Joao three race meetings to equal Douglas’ mark, thanks to his hat-trick of wins at Happy Valley on Wednesday.   Joao is a driven competitor so it…

Peak fitness is essential for peak performance in all sports. We see that in our racehorses and our jockeys here in Hong Kong where they have to be hard fit to make the grade in such a competitive environment. A glance on our website at the trackwork schedules for our horses here will give you…

It is less than a week since we held the second of our two major springtime G1 events here in Hong Kong, the Champions Mile, and a little under two weeks since the first, the Audemars Piguet QEII Cup. The pace at which the horseracing calendar moves along is such that we’re already on the verge of the Singapore Airline International Cup…

Last weekend was a very entertaining and potentially busy time for all die-hard sports fans. In America there was the Kentucky Derby and the much-hyped boxing match between Floyd Mayweather and Manny Pacquiao, both on Sunday morning for those of us in Hong Kong. In Britain Ryan Moore was on the mark with a brilliant…

Our star runner Able Friend was one of the two world-class horses given the top rating of 125 in the LONGINES World’s Best Racehorse Rankings announced by the International Federation of Horseracing Authorities last month.  Perhaps some of you will have noticed that the other horse, Shared Belief, ran in a G2 in the US a fortnight ago. It was a huge drama, however, as the four-year-old was eased down by his jockey midway through the contest.…