Monthly Archives: 06/2017

I had a fruitful, albeit short trip to England for the final day of Royal Ascot and had the opportunity to speak with many key European connections while taking in the exciting races, including meeting the Coolmore and Godolphin connections. Given these early discussions, there is significant interest among them and many others for our…

We announced our latest football development partnership with Manchester United this week, as their U-16 team will visit Hong Kong for the first time. They will engage in an intense football and cultural exchange with our elite youth players in the JC Youth Football Academy Summit in mid-August. It was a great delight for me…

I hope you all enjoyed last night’s races from Royal Ascot. It was particularly exciting to see Lady Aurelia win the King’s Stand Stakes, the first three-year-old filly to win the race in its Group 1 history, and by an impressive margin of three lengths. It was a fantastic win. There were quite a few…

We are approaching the final few weeks of our local racing season as there are only eight more race meetings on the docket. But next week is a big one on the global calendar and our racing fans will be treated to three simulcast evenings from Royal Ascot. On Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday, we will…

At the Jockey Club, we never stop looking for ways to advance Hong Kong racing, and so one of our standard off-season practices is to review issues from the previous season, identifying areas where we can improve. However, in light of some of the recent issues and criticism over the last two weeks, I have…

I was excited to see the performance of Now We Can in America early this morning, running third in the G3 Belmont Gold Cup, beaten just more than two lengths. He was a fast finisher after having been eighth with 300m to run. After a close second last year and a tough field this year,…

We are back to Happy Valley tonight with an eight race card after a full weekend of our local racing at Sha Tin, the simulcast of the Derby meeting from England, Sunday night’s exciting Prix du Jockey Club and of course, the Yasuda Kinen. While I missed Sunday’s racing at home, I was in Tokyo…

I am on my way to Tokyo and am looking forward to another exciting renewal of the great mile race, the Yasuda Kinen, held here tomorrow and of course, simulcast to Hong Kong for many years. This top Japanese event has been a keystone in the development of Hong Kong’s global racing ambitions and has…