Monthly Archives: 09/2017

As I said in my midweek blog, I spent some great time with more than a dozen top local athletes at the Jockey Club Athlete Incentive Awards Scheme ceremony on Wednesday. It was enjoyable to meet all these top sportsmen on the same occasion and offer them the congratulations they thoroughly deserved. I wish them…

If you have closely followed local sports news, I’m sure you noticed our Hong Kong athletes fared quite well in recent meets such as the World University Games held in Taipei and the National Games in Tianjin. They won a total of four medals in the Universiade and 16 medals in the National Games, representing…

Fans of Manchester United and Manchester City should be delighted recently as their beloved squads enjoyed promising starts for the season. It is especially pleasing to see Manchester United with this strong start given their being a great partner of the Club in promoting football here in Hong Kong. Both teams share the top spot…

We announced yesterday an important change in our pattern schedule for this season. The Asian Pattern Committee endorsed our request to move the G1 Champions Mile and G1 Chairman’s Sprint Prize a week earlier, to the same date of the Audemars Piguet Queen Elizabeth II Cup raceday on 29 April next year. For the first…

It’s always great to see a young rider delivering good results and showing growing confidence at his craft. At Happy Valley on Wednesday, apprentice jockey Matthew Poon showed his statement of intent for the new season, having ridden the first four-timer of his Hong Kong career. By doing so he also became only the third…

It was a bit disappointing, although not surprising, to see our two Hong Kong horses Lucky Year and Circuit Land finish unplaced at the international meeting in Korea last Sunday. From the outset, it was quite obvious that they struggled on the deep sand track in Seoul and were not able to perform to their…

We will host our regular racing fixture at Sha Tin tomorrow and will host a special ceremony and presentation for the Hong Kong Equestrian Team, who just returned to Hong Kong after completing their competition in the National Games in Tianjin earlier this week. Our Club-sponsored riders earned some good results, landing a silver and…

Racing was back in a big way on Sunday at Sha Tin as over 66,000 racegoers joined us to kick off our new season – and we all stayed relatively dry too after the typhoon stayed well away from Hong Kong. At the same time, we registered a record turnover for a season opening meeting…

The summer break has come to an end and surely much to the delight of all, racing action returns tomorrow as the 2017/18 Hong Kong racing season opens at Sha Tin. It does look like it will be a rainy day tomorrow and we continue to closely monitor the weather. If the forecast were to…