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Some of our elite four-year-olds squared off against each other in the HKG1 Hong Kong Classic Mile at Sha Tin last Sunday.  It was Beauty Only who drew first blood in the Four-Year-Old Series this season as the Italian import won the HK$8 million race in an impressive manner.It was similar to Able Friend’s victory…

We always consider it vital to understand the lifestyle and ways on how the younger generation uses technology and process information.  Their engagement with the sport and entertainment of horseracing is at the heart of many of our initiatives.  Only by increasing and enhancing their participation can we ensure the sustainability of racing in Hong…

I was delighted to see a big crowd of more than 68,000 people turn out for our 130th Anniversary Raceday at Sha Tin last Saturday.  Their warm enthusiasm matched the day’s weather as the sun shone down on our celebrations.  We had a fitting winner of the day’s feature event, too, as the 130th Anniversary…

At Wednesday’s Happy Valley race meeting we saw home-grown trainers winning all of the evening’s eight races, including Manfred Man who notched the evening’s feature HKG3 January Cup with Pleasure Gains.  As expected it was a hotly contested race and the runners produced an exciting blanket finish approaching the wire.  All credit to the ground…

January can be a bit of a dull time after the excitement of Christmas and New Year, but there should be no sign of the “January blues” here in Hong Kong. This month we get the chance to see our elite horses of various ages competing in major racing series. It all starts with the…

Happy New Year! I hope you all had a bright start to 2015 and picked a few winners at our first race meeting of the year on Thursday.  It’s been a good start to the year for us at the Club as more than 67,000 racegoers attended our races that afternoon, and the day’s turnover exceeded HK$1.5…

With Multivictory’s win for trainer Tony Cruz in the last race at Sha Tin on Sunday, our racing in 2014 came to an end. The new year will start in just a few hours’ time, so this seems like a good time to take the opportunity to sum up the past year.  Whether viewed from…

The two-day Christmas holiday has come to an end, and I’m sure most of you will have enjoyed some great times with your loved ones and friends during the festivities.  I took the chance to take a short trip away earlier this week, so I did not spend the Christmas time in Hong Kong this year. Although I was away from home, I must say I enjoyed it as much as many of…

With the international race week just past, all of us at the Club are now focusing on our next major project, the Club’s 130th anniversary celebrations.  On Thursday we hosted a press conference to kick off the celebration campaign, and during that we announced the details of various events that will be staged to mark…

The dust has just about settled after Sunday’s fantastic racing.  The LONGINES Hong Kong International Races once again gave us a fitting climax to the year and it was as exciting and successful an occasion as we had hoped it would be.  Over 74,000 enthusiastic race fans at Sha Tin – a record since 1997…