HKJC CEO Blog

Although our racing season was ended last Thursday, I will not stop writing this blog during our summer break. Apart from racing, it's great to have the chance to discuss more on other popular topics, and they surely include the Beijing 2008 Olympics and the Olympic equestrian events.These historical events are now less than a month…

I was glad to see that so many of you came to our Sha Tin finale raceday on Tuesday. With the weather having shown an amazing turnaround, the racing took place in glorious sunshine and I must say the atmosphere at Sha Tin was terrific. I hope you all enjoyed the special entertainment programmes we laid on,…

This time there was no dramatic finish for my home country Germany as they fell to a 0-1 defeat by Spain in the Euro 2008 Football Tournament final early yesterday. Of course, I'm a bit disappointed with the result as Germany were just 90 minutes from being crowned champions of Europe for the fourth time. But I…

Although the inclement weather brought by Severe Tropical Storm Fengshen on Wednesday forced to us to scratch our midweek meeting at Happy Valley, it does mean that we'll have a very special season-ending climax next week, as the last Sha Tin meeting on Tuesday 1 July will be followed two days later by a season…

Last weekend, I was very sad to learn that Nancy Tang, a volunteer leader for the Olympic equestrian events, had sustained serious injuries in a traffic accident while she was on her way to the Equestrian Company’s office in Sha Tin for a training session. I was even more saddened to hear the news that she…

I would like to share with you here a very interesting racing news story I read in midweek. As you all know, thoroughbred horses come in about a dozen common colours, from bay to chestnut and brown to grey. But there's a small number that are pure white in colour, possibly as few as one in every…

In less than eight weeks' time, the Beijing 2008 Olympic equestrian events will be held in Hong Kong. It will be a historic event for all this city's residents, and especially significant for us in the Club, as we have been heavily committed with making final preparations these past few months. On Monday, we reached another landmark…

Our Club Members have always played a vital role in the Club's development. It is their participation in the sport of horse racing, along with their staunch support for our membership services over the years, that has driven the Club forward and helped it flourish to its existing scale and status. We continue to put a…

I'm now back in Hong Kong after my trip to Tokyo at the weekend to see our three Hong Kong runners participating in the Yasuda Kinen, a race that I'm sure many of you also watched through our simulcast during last Sunday's meeting. If so, you will be probably have been as surprised as we all…

Several years ago, I was invited by the Japan Racing Association (JRA) to visit some of the horse training facilities in Japan. I was truly amazed by their enormous scale and settings, and one that especially stands out in my mind was the Miho Training Centre in eastern Japan.Miho is Japan's largest racehorse training centre and…