Monthly Archives: 03/2020

The strange feeling brought on by the sight of racing on a near-deserted racecourse ought to lessen over time. But that wasn’t the case at Happy Valley this week. Wednesday was a perfect night for racing, warm and still with no humidity, and under normal circumstances it would have been party time at our city…

The grey clouds parted at Sha Tin on Sunday as Golden Sixty and Vincent Ho produced one of the most stunning BMW Hong Kong Derby wins in history. It was a memorable day for many reasons but the rapidly changing news agenda continues to affect us all and every day brings new, important developments. The…

Consolidation and celebration are the key words as the Club strives to ensure that our sport goes ahead in the safest possible fashion while preparing for this year’s BMW Hong Kong Derby. The determination to consolidate comes, of course, from the continued challenges posed by the spread of COVID-19 virus all around the world and…

We are living through an era of rapid change that demands swift, sensible action and the challenges that have faced Hong Kong for most of 2020 are now being replicated in dramatic fashion all over the world. It now seems clear that some countries have taken much longer to react to the threat of the…

The world is a turbulent place at the moment and, as I have said several times in this Blog, racing can never exist in a bubble that is independent of society as a whole. Things have moved on again this week – with the World Health Organisation declaring Covid-19 a pandemic – and the situation…

One of the benefits of leading the Club team at a challenging time like this is the opportunity to get around the city and gauge the feelings of people from all sorts of backgrounds. The last week has been highly informative in that regard and, once again, it is so impressive to see how staff…

Time is moving on, with just two weeks until the BMW Hong Kong Derby and seven until FWD Champions Day. Recent months have shown that it seldom pays to look too far ahead but the time is right to take small steps back towards normality and that is why we have decided to refine our…

My cricketing friends in the Jockey Club tell me that when a batsman gets to 50 runs he has to re-focus and concentrate even harder. Something similar comes to mind as we approach our 50th meeting of the season at Happy Valley this Wednesday and all our team remain determined to work through our latest…