HKJC CEO Blog

With the theme of “Let’s Cheer for Sportsmanship,” the two-day Riding High Together Festival attracted about 26,000 visitors to Sha Tin Racecourse and Penfold Park last Friday and Saturday.  Among the events, there was a new Guinness World Record set at the festival as 1,000 school students created the world’s longest paper chain within just one hour.  The students successfully completed a 3,745.38-metre-long…

Happy Easter! Today sees the second and final day of the Club’s Riding High Together Festival at Sha Tin Racecourse and Penfold Park. This is the second year of the festival, and this year with the Olympics in mind, and also to promote the benefits of exercise and participation in sports, our theme is ‘Let’s…

It was great to hear that snooker star Ng On-yee won the 'Best of the Best' award at the Hong Kong Sports Star Awards on Monday night. She has worked incredibly hard to reach the top of her sport, and with two world titles last year she has brought a lot of pride to Hong Kong. At…

This coming Monday we're looking forward to the visit of Manchester United football star Denis Irwin. Denis, as football fans will know, was a legendary defender for the Reds in the 1990s, specialising in scoring off free kicks. He'll be sharing some of his skills on visits to two schools taking part in the Jockey…

Thousands of racing fans joined us last Sunday to bid farewell to Lucky Nine, who will soon depart to Australia to spend his well-deserved retirement at Living Legends.  Yesterday, one of his sprinting successors Aerovelocity, who similarly held the champion sprinter accolade and tasted overseas success in Singapore, also set off from Hong Kong to…

It was a great pleasure to join Financial Secretary John Tsang this morning at the awards ceremony of the SCMP Student of the Year, which is sponsored by the Club for the third consecutive year. Here we honoured the achievements of Hong Kong’s most outstanding students who have excelled in science, language, sports, music, the visual arts,…

I've had a busy few days in Beijing, joining with Stewards to host dinners for Hong Kong deputies of the National People's Congress and Hong Kong members of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, an annual event which is a great opportunity for deputies and members to catch up with each other. It was a particular…

Next week we will reveal the selected runners for the 2016 BMW Hong Kong Derby, and it certainly seems there will be several obvious candidates. One question that has been asked a few times since the Hong Kong Classic Cup was in relation to the handicapping changes to Eastern Express, the deadheat third in that…

Last night’s 40th anniversary Mark Six draw was a huge success. Turnover was around HK$446.39 million, making it the highest in Mark Six history, with five lucky persons winning the first prize, each one taking home HK$27.21 million. My congratulations to them. The draw also contributed nearly HK$112 million in Lottery Duty to the Government…

It seems like everyone is talking about the Mark Six 40th Anniversary Draw next Tuesday. With our biggest ever Snowball, we’re estimating the First-Division Prize will reach $100 million. So someone is going to be very lucky!But it’s worth remembering why the Mark Six was established 40 years ago – which was to counter all the illegal…