HKJC CEO Blog

I hope you haven't been feeling too bored during the past week, when we've had a rare break in the local racing programme.  I've missed my midweek racing too, though the break has provided a good opportunity for my colleagues and I to catch up on other pressing work – especially the final planning for…

As you all know, the Community Chest has provided essential financial support to various social and community organisations in Hong Kong for many years, and the Club has long been one of its major donors.  We also subsidise a grant to the Chest every year, so as to cover all costs of its administrative operations. …

Apart from the great importance of the feedback you raised with me through this blog, I believe face-to-face contact and communication with racing fans is always the most effective way for me to hear everyone’s views.  That’s why since I become Club’s CEO, when my work schedule allows me to do so; I would visit…

While I’m writing this blog earlier today, I’ve watched how Hong Kong runner Mr Medici performs in the Group 1 Caulfield Cup through our live simulcast from Australia. As our racing season just began for a month, it’s certainly a bit difficult for a Hong Kong horse to take his season debut in an overseas…

As a not-for-profit organisation and the city’s largest charitable benefactor, the Club has long played an important role in local heritage preservation and cultural and arts development.  On Monday, we announced our participation in two major cultural and heritage projects, underlining the Club’s continued commitment in these areas. If you haven't had the opportunity to visit…

As in the past few years, I was in France over the Arc weekend to attend a number of meetings of the International Federation of Horseracing Authorities as well as the Asian Racing Federation.  Regrettably, this meant I could not be in Japan to give my personal support to Green Birdie and Ultra Fantasy in…

It has been more than a decade since I came from Germany to join the Club and started living here in Hong Kong. To me, Hong Kong is such a fascinating and dynamic city, and over the years I’ve come to treat it as my home. More and more friends tell me that I’m now…

On Thursday we hosted the first Happy Valley day race meeting of the season, and it proved very successful.  We're always mindful of Chinese traditions when doing our race scheduling, and I know that the Mid-Autumn Festival is a very important date for family gathering, so that's why we moved the normal Wednesday night meeting…

No matter how busy I am with my schedule, I will always find some time to read the comments you leave me here through this blog, as I often find them to be very thoughtful and insightful.  I ask my colleagues to follow up on the issues you raise where appropriate, and to reply to…

I believe many of you know that the 2010 Asian Games will be held in Guangzhou in November. As part of the final preparations, the venue for the equestrian competitions in Conghua, which has been designed and built by The Hong Kong Jockey Club, is currently staging its debut equestrian event. I attended the second…