HKJC CEO Blog

I believe all of you still remember that the Club hosted a job fair in Tin Shui Wai last month to recruit staff for our new Telebet Centre there. The response was overwhelming as thousands of job seekers, most of them coming from Tin Shui Wai, attended the event and were interviewed that day. I am most…

Last week, our apprentice jockey Derek Leung was forced to withdraw from two race meetings as he was suffering from asthma. He is indisposed for this evening's races at Happy Valley for the same reason. The news has given me some concern, as this talented young lad has already bagged 21 winners in his debut season. Like another…

I've attended two different functions in the past two days, both rather meaningful ones. The first was a press briefing the Club hosted on Thursday to announce its donation of HK$133 million to the Hong Kong Federation of Youth Groups for the Phase III redevelopment of its Sai Kung Outdoor Training Camp. As part of the approval…

I hope you all enjoyed a lot the opportunity to gather with your families and friends over the long May Day weekend, as well as the double programme of exciting races that we provided. In recent weeks, I had to give some serious thoughts to my position as Chairman of the Asian Racing Federation, as I…

I'm sure a lot of you are getting rather concerned about the swift spread of swine flu across the globe, especially after the Government confirmed Hong Kong's first swine flu case last night. I must say I'm very concerned about this news, as are my colleagues in different departments of the Club, who are monitoring the…

Last weekend was a rather hectic but enjoyable one for me, as on Saturday I attended the Job Fair hosted by the Club in Tin Shui Wai, then on Sunday we staged our big springtime racing festival, the Audemars Piguet QE II Cup and Champions Mile raceday.Some 11,000 people came along to the Job Fair,…

Tomorrow you can all enjoy two world-class international races at Sha Tin as we will be hosting the Audemars Piquet Queen Elizabeth II Cup and the Champions Mile. Besides getting to see some of the world's top racehorses in action on our home turf, what always delights me about these occasions is the chance to meet…

Recently there are many discussions regarding the Club’s proposal of adding five more race days and 20 simulcast race days each season. I know that some of you would like to know more about a survey revealing Hong Kong people lost HK$20 billion of gaming money in those casinos in Macau in 2008. In fact, we have…

In the past few days, I've met different senior media journalists and exchanged our views in regard to the Club's proposal of adding five more race days and 20 more simulcasts of overseas races each season. Although not every of them are familiar with the details of our racing operation, I'm glad that they all…

I hope you all found the Chairman's Trophy raceday at Sha Tin last Sunday very entertaining. For myself, I was impressed by the performance of More Bountiful as he won this Group 2 event in a fantastic fashion. Although I favoured Fellowship in this race and he ran an honest race as he usually did, I…