Monthly Archives: 07/2017

Last week Hong Kong played host to the Premier League Asia Trophy, which featured Crystal Palace, Leicester City, Liverpool and West Bromwich Albion. The event is part of the Premier League’s ongoing development of the sport throughout Asia, and the tens of thousands that enjoyed the action at Hong Kong Stadium saw Liverpool emerge victorious…

We had more than 21,000 racegoers on track at our final Happy Wednesday meeting of the season earlier this week and they were treated to some phenomenal finishes. Happy Valley Racecourse is a real treasure and an incredibly popular tourist attraction, and I was delighted to see so many enjoying the fun and games in…

Our annual Champion Awards gala is this Friday, followed by the distribution of the Most Popular Jockey, Tony Cruz Award and a full ceremony to celebrate our Champions at the Season Finale race meeting on Sunday. Two winners have their names firmly engraved on the trophies at this point for their record-breaking seasons, Joao Moreira…

The graduates from our Apprentice Jockeys’ School (AJS) have enjoyed many accomplishments in recent years, all after emerging from the intensive programme the Club offers. While they all started as basic racing trainees, those on the path to becoming an apprentice will be engaged in roughly three or four years of curriculum, accredited by HKCAAVQ,…

On Wednesday, the Club announced a donation of HK$1.244 billion to the University of Hong Kong for the establishment of the Centre for Clinical Innovation and Discovery and the Institute of Cancer Care – the first purpose-built cancer specific research and service centre in Hong Kong. The donation was the largest single sum the Club’s…