HKJC CEO Blog

Besides being a leading provider of sporting entertainment, the Club plays an important role in the local economy as a major employer.  In total, we have over 26,000 staff, many of them working in part-time positions which are especially appreciated by, for example, housewives who have to fit their working hours around the needs of…

I guess many of you watched the Jebsen Centenary Vase at our Sha Tin race meeting last Saturday. I was glad to see Mighty High – one of the horses I picked for the season – finally living up to my expectations by snatching this Hong Kong Group 3 event. It will now be interesting to…

Our midweek Happy Valley races – which we themed as a “Joy Luck Party” to mark the Chinese tradition of “everybody’s birthday” on the seventh day of the Lunar New Year – gave us further cause for encouragement, with turnover reaching a season high for a night meeting of HK$933 million.  In fact, it was…

I hope you all enjoyed our Chinese New Year raceday on Saturday, which attracted a total attendance of 96,000 – nearly 90,000 of them at Sha Tin.  Our racing turnover also reached a season high of HK$1.26 billion, which is the highest CNY raceday figure since 2001.  Taking together some thrilling races, great entertainment programmes,…

There’s no doubt that in Hong Kong we can see some of the best jockeys in the world riding our local racetracks day in and day out.  But just as notably, we also have many world-class trainers earning their living here, several of whom had already established a high international reputation before moving their bases…

Last Sunday we saw our top-rated four-year-old Lucky Nine win the Mercedes-Benz Hong Kong Classic Mile in style at Sha Tin Racecourse.  Jockey Brett Prebble settled the horse nicely about two lengths off the pace in this HK$6 million domestic Group 1 event, then broke clear to the front in the straight.  From then on…

Over the past few weeks the weather in Hong Kong has been persistently chilly – not as bitterly cold, perhaps, as in much of Europe or the eastern coast of the US which have suffered severe snowstorms, but the abnormal trend has been similar.  Some meteorologists have suggested that this extreme weather is mainly attributable…

I hope you all had a chance to watch our races on Sunday, especially the performance of our reigning Horse of the Year Sacred Kingdom in dismissing the challenge of Dim Sum and quality mare Sweet Sanette to earn a fairly comfortable win in the Kent & Curwen Centenary Sprint Cup.  This was the 17th…

In the middle of January each year, the latest World Thoroughbred Rankings are announced by the International Federation of Horseracing Authorities, the world governing body for the sport.  The rankings are based on the performances of horses over different distances and surfaces during the calendar year just finished, and serve as a valuable way of…

Last Sunday we saw a highly entertaining battle in the GOME Cup, with Final Answer and London China Town going head-to-head in the final stage of this top-class, six-furlong race on the all-weather track.  Both horses delivered excellent performances: Final Answer coped well with a disadvantageous draw to take a comfortable lead, while London China…