HKJC CEO Blog

This year our apprentice jockeys have achieved some remarkable results in local racing.  It's very encouraging to see how much they've improved their riding skills and techniques over a short period of time.  Though, on a few occasions, they've also hit the racing headlines for the wrong reasons.  The performances of these young lads have…

I hope you're all enjoying a very happy Christmas holiday with your families and friends. This season we've arranged our festive race meeting on the final day of the holiday, instead of on Boxing Day as we've been doing in past seasons, so to give our fans a long X'mas holiday.Earlier this week I read a…

Last Wednesday we welcomed the Hong Kong Football Team to Happy Valley Racecourse for our special Salute the Legends ceremony, and I was pleased to see what a rousing reception our racing fans gave the East Asian Games gold medallists. During the evening I gave them a tour of the racecourse and they were all very…

Now that the dust from this year's International Races has settled, it's a good time to look back at the event in more depth. I was especially pleased to see our betting turnover on international day reach its highest in seven years – HK$1,033 million. I believe that one major contributing factor is the additional number of non-raceday…

I'm sure most local sports fans must have felt very proud and ecstatic over the past weekend as we saw some terrific results for Hong Kong. In horse racing, Sacred Kingdom and Good Ba Ba helped the home team take two of our four International Races once again, the Cathay Pacific Hong Kong Sprint and Cathay…

Last Wednesday's Cathay Pacific International Jockeys' Championship turned out to be quite special, as apart from the great atmosphere at Happy Valley Racecourse, we had a three-way tie for the honours between three European jockeys – Johnny Murtagh, Christophe Lemaire and Ryan Moore. It was a great night of sport and I'm delighted to learn that…

After all the hard work and planning, we've finally entered our International Races Week. Over the next five days, you can enjoy a series of top quality racing events, starting with the Cathay Pacific International Jockeys' Championship at Happy Valley tonight.  Unusually for Hong Kong in early December, the weather has been quite damp and cool so…

We've now entered our International Races Week, as this morning we had a breeze-up for the 20 horses to be offered in the Hong Kong International Sale. As well as this being our biggest racing week of the season, I'm sure you all know that another major international sporting event will be officially opened in Hong…

Hi, I've already returned from my Japan Cup trip earlier this week. I think those of you who watched our simulcast last Sunday would echo my views that this year's race was absolutely breathtaking. Most fans at Tokyo Racecourse were cheering for Vodka, hoping she would become the first Japanese mare to win the Cup. With Christophe Lemaire…

By the time this blog goes online, I will be in Tokyo as I'm attending the Japan Cup raceday at Tokyo Racecourse tomorrow. This was the first international race to be staged in Japan, dating back to 1981 when it was established by the Japan Racing Association with the aim of providing an opportunity for their…