HKJC CEO Blog

Another big weekend of Group 1 racing in Hong Kong is under way, with everyone looking forward to seeing how Beauty Generation and Mr Stunning follow up their LONGINES HKIR successes in the Stewards’ Cup and Centenary Sprint Cup this Sunday. However, we also have an interesting midweek card at Happy Valley this Wednesday which…

Good stories are seldom hard to find in Hong Kong racing and this week has been no exception. Beauty Generation came through a Tuesday turf trial in style ahead of the G1 Stewards’ Cup on 20 January. The Hong Kong Cup hero Glorious Forever was equally impressive in his trial under Silvestre de Sousa and…

Our first two Hong Kong fixtures of 2019 have shown just how swiftly things can change from meeting to meeting. The New Year’s Day card at Sha Tin was dominated by fancied horses, with eight of eleven races won by favourites and the other three won by the second choice in the market. However, the…

I think it is safe to say that Hong Kong racing has celebrated the arrival of 2019 in style this week. The weather may have been chilly, but a strong New Year’s Day card at Sha Tin drew a huge crowd and record turnover on a day which produced eight winning favourites and some very…

It is always important to reflect on what has been accomplished in the racing world as the old year ends and 2018 has clearly had so many highlights. America had another Triple Crown winner in Justify. The remarkable mare Winx continued her amazing domination of Australia’s top races, while the Japan Cup heroine Almond Eye…

The final race meeting for 2018 in Hong Kong is a rearranged fixture to replace the card lost to the typhoon in September. This sort of rescheduling can pose challenges with a limited horse population, but I am delighted to see that owners and trainers have supported a day that will mark the 40th anniversary…

The holiday season is well and truly upon us now and I wish you all a happy and healthy Christmas. We have some very strong racing coming up over the next few days and Sunday’s meeting at Sha Tin is well worth reflecting on before we move on to Wednesday’s Happy Valley card. The weather…

This Sunday sees Sha Tin stage the last Hong Kong race meeting before Christmas. It looks a strong card, with plenty of highly promising young horses on show, and we head into the weekend on the back of Wednesday’s informative AWT programme at Sha Tin. Two of the winners – Zilong and Gunnison – had…

The holiday season is fast approaching and this year’s Christmas period promises to provide a good store of racing enjoyment. Amongst the forthcoming fixtures the Sha Tin meeting on 29 December – which replaces the meeting lost to the weather back in September – will celebrate the 40th anniversary year of Sha Tin racecourse. It…

It’s amazing to think that this Sunday’s Sha Tin meeting means we are already a third of the way into a new season and the last few months show how swiftly and dramatically things can change when you combine a fast-moving sport like racing with a high-energy city such as Hong Kong. Joao Moreira has…