HKJC CEO Blog

While I enjoyed watching this year’s Melbourne Cup from Happy Valley, in past years I’ve always taken great pleasure in visiting Flemington and the great city that is so enthusiastic about this national sporting event.  The race result was not popular at the betting windows – won by outsider Prince of Penzance – who was…

Many of you experienced the outage to our eWin platform during Sunday’s race meeting, along with some issues on Saturday night for football. Each year, we accept more than a half billion racing bets through established accounts, and eWin serves as the input method for nearly 80 million of them. As you can imagine, our…

I believe many of you were pretty impressed with the wonderful performances of Able Friend and Contentment in our feature races last Sunday.  This week we took a race break in midweek but still made an important announcement on Wednesday, revealing the first entries for the LONGINES Hong Kong International Races on 13 December. This year we have 209 nominations…

There are plenty of happenings from the overseas racing world in the past few days. Most of the talk is focused on the strong European entries heading for next weekend's Breeders' Cup, and in Australia, various top runners are gearing up for some of the big Carnival races, with a few hoping to make the…

I attended the British Champions Day meeting at Ascot with a quick return journey between Hong Kong and London. Though it was a bit rushed, every minute of travel was worthwhile as the trip was good and all races were very exciting.  I wasted no time after races and proceeded to the airport to catch…

Every season, several European jockeys are granted licenses to ride in Hong Kong for a short-term stint at what is otherwise, their own home season’s winter break. Recent visitors Maxime Guyon, Umberto Rispoli and Mirco Demuro all delivered decent results and received plenty of support from our racing fans during their stay.This year we have…

Packing Pins was our star runner last Saturday as he landed an impressive win, making it five consecutive handicap wins when taking the Lukfook Jewellery Cup.  As for our jockeys, the spotlight of the day went to Kei Chiong, who earned her first local win partnering Hearts Keeper to a narrow score.Although it took Kei…

The Club is always reviewing our options and offerings to make sure we cater to the developing needs of our customers. Earlier in the week we announced the addition of Composite Win to our current line-up of race betting products. This new method of picking a winner will be available beginning with the Sha Tin…

Many like me who were at Longchamp, hoping to witness a historical racing moment, were left slightly disappointed on Sunday, as Treve could not seal a fairytale ending for her career with a third win in the Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe.  Watching from Longchamp’s grandstand, the champion mare travelled well in midfield but she…

Not Listenin’tome and Contentment took steps forward at Sha Tin Racecourse with  emphatic winning performances in the HKG3 National Day Cup and HKG3 Celebration Cup on Thursday.  This weekend let’s turn our attention to Japan as Rich Tapestry will be the Hong Kong horse in the spotlight, running in the G1 Sprinters Stakes at Nakayama…