Monthly Archives: 11/2015

We unveiled the selected runners for this year’s LONGINES Hong Kong International Races on Wednesday, and I must say it is a stellar lineup. If you have gone through the list I’m sure you will agree with me that these four G1 races boast both quantity and quality and promise plenty of excitement.  It’s delightful to have 33…

Beauty Flame produced a bit of a shock in our Jockey Club Races day last Saturday as the reigning Hong Kong Horse of the Year Able Friend had to settle for third in the G2 BOCHK Wealth Management Jockey Club Mile. It was an unexpected result and there were many oohs and aahs among the racing…

We announced midweek the stellar line-up of jockeys that will participate in our LONGINES International Jockeys’ Championship on 9 December at Happy Valley.   In this year’s competition, we will have five of the top eight jockeys who are in the latest LONGINES World’s Best Jockey standings, not to mention champions from three overseas jurisdictions. The…

Over the past few days, many locals and expats posted their heartfelt messages and logos on various online platforms, showing their solidarity with France and to pay tribute to those victims of the attacks last Friday.  Our racing circle also has many French connections and we wish all of our friends our most sincere thoughts.Many…

I’m sure many of you heard the sad news about the passing of legendary Irish jockey Pat Eddery earlier this week. His achievements as a jockey were truly remarkable – he won the British champion jockey title on 11 occasions, a total of 34 classic races in the UK, Ireland and France, riding over 4,600…

We had a fabulous Ladies’ Day meeting in our Sa Sa Ladies’ Purse Day last Sunday at Sha Tin. The day’s handle of HK$1.45 billion was the highest turnover figure for our 17 race meetings so far this season and many of you came out to enjoy the day in person. I’m delighted to have…

While I enjoyed watching this year’s Melbourne Cup from Happy Valley, in past years I’ve always taken great pleasure in visiting Flemington and the great city that is so enthusiastic about this national sporting event.  The race result was not popular at the betting windows – won by outsider Prince of Penzance – who was…

Many of you experienced the outage to our eWin platform during Sunday’s race meeting, along with some issues on Saturday night for football. Each year, we accept more than a half billion racing bets through established accounts, and eWin serves as the input method for nearly 80 million of them. As you can imagine, our…