HKJC CEO Blog

As much as COVID-19 has wrought significant change on Hong Kong over the past 13 months, impacting this amazing city and the incredible sport of racing in equal measure, some things remain mercifully unchanged. Two of the sentinels of Hong Kong racing – John Size and Golden Sixty – were again to the fore at…

The Hong Kong racing season reaches a lofty pinnacle on Sunday with one of the highlights of 2020/21 sporting calendar with two G1 races – the Stewards’ Cup and the Centenary Sprint Cup – as well as the Hong Kong Classic Mile to determine our best four-year-old miler. The staging of G1 contests and the…

Approaching the midway stage of another compelling season, the HK$12 million Hong Kong Classic Mile – the first leg of the Four-Year-Old Classic Series – shapes as one of the most intriguing races of 2021. Crammed with high quality entries, Sunday’s race at Sha Tin has attracted a fascinating blend of potential specialist milers, emerging…

Beauty Generation was a transcendent figure on the Hong Kong racing stage throughout a glorious career and it is only fitting that the Club should farewell this marvellous horse with a special ceremony. Champion horses have the capacity to quicken the pulse and gladden the heart and Beauty Generation fits comfortably into that category. For…

International racing has lost one of its greatest and most influential figures with the sad passing of Prince Khalid Abdullah. As a measure of his towering influence, Prince Khalid’s famous green, pink and white colours were carried to victory in 118 G1 races around the world, most notably by champions such as the unbeaten Frankel…

Hong Kong’s challenges appear in many different shapes and forms and the circumstances of the past year obliges the Club to remain vigilant. Unfortunately, for too much of the past year, COVID-19 has been a common theme – and a lingering test – for all of us. But, with the cooperation of all Club staff,…

A new chapter will be written at Happy Valley on Wednesday with the first meeting of the year at the famous city circuit and, with the running of the G3 January Cup, it is a significant occasion. As the only Pattern race at Happy Valley, the January Cup honour roll features familiar names, including some…

The start of the new year heralds the start of new beginnings and new opportunities and that, for me, holds true as much for horse racing as life itself. The pandemic means 2020 is a wretched year we would prefer to forget but, after 12 months of turmoil and disruption, it is with a fresh…

Who would have thought Christmas 2020 would involve people all over the world being asked to stay at home instead of heading off to celebrate with family and friends? All our lives have changed dramatically since the Covid-19 pandemic began to spread early in 2020 and there are still some tough times ahead before society…

And so, we come to the final Happy Valley meeting of 2020. There is no question this has been one of the strangest and most confronting years in the history of our spectacular city track. If ever a racecourse was built to welcome a party crowd then this is the one, but Covid-19 concerns have…