RACING’S COOL FACTOR
Let’s face it, horse racing doesn’t exactly have The Cool Factor attached to the sport. While even “boring old cricket” attracts much of...
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Jul 16, 20134 min read
THE PADDY POWER AND RACING ISSUE
MARKETING MAGAZINE RACING LEFT BEHIND AGAIN? Horse racing has a history of being left in the barriers when it comes to being ahead of the...
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Jul 15, 20131 min read
THE BEAUTY OF THE HORSE
Peeo Ploff captures more of the beauty of this truly majestic and regal animal. Peeo Ploff #PeeoPloff
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Jul 12, 20132 min read
MORE UNSUNG HEROES OF HK RACING
The racing season might be over, but the awards keep on-coming. We mentioned all those patient and hard-working people who man-and woman-...
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Jul 12, 20133 min read
AND THAT WAS THE TIME OF THE SEASON
Let’s get this out of the way first and make it a priority: This season was a banner year for turnover- over HK$93 billion- and with the...
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Jul 11, 20132 min read
THANK YOU, TONY CRUZ!
It really was the race meeting heard around the world and even now, racing fans are talking about just what a fantastic finale it was at...
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Jul 11, 20132 min read
GALLOPING INTO THE FUTURE
(Source: Gallop Magazine) We recently met the couple from Sweden- lovely people- behind Gallop Magazine yesterday whose thinking and work...
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Jul 11, 20131 min read
YIP YIP HOORAY!
There’s Hollywood, there’s Bollywood and how there’s Happywood. All that was needed was for Johnny Depp to pop out and be the Mad Hatter....
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Jul 11, 20133 min read
ZAC AND DOUGIE AND FRANKIE AND CLASS
Some will say the recent Dougie Whyte-Zac Purton war of words is great for the sport- that it spices things up and how the competition is...
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Jul 10, 20135 min read
TIPS, DIM SUM AND THEN SOME AT THE SEASON FINALE IN HAPPY VALLEY TONIGHT
Things were going pretty well on Sunday with winners from Third Dividend and The Fast Tracker until the war gods rained on our parade for...
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Jul 8, 20135 min read
PSSST, NEED A TIP?
“Who is the best tipster in Hong Kong?” It’s a question often asked, but seldom answered ‘cos there is no such animal- not on any...
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Jul 8, 20131 min read
SOME OF THE BEST RACING PHOTOS WE HAVE SEEN
We get mail and we get mail, and to be frank, most of which we don’t read as our computers could implode and explode. By chance- or...
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Jul 8, 20134 min read
AND NOW TO HAPPY VALLEY FOR THE SEASON FINALE!
Before Happy Wednesday and the season finale with an early 6.45 start, the curtain fell for another season at Shatin where despite the...
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Jul 8, 20131 min read
HAS THE TRAINERS RACE BEEN RUN AND WON
When Douglas Whyte won the last race of the so-called “Shatin Finale Race” meeting aboard All You Wish, he racked up his 100th win for...
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Jul 7, 20132 min read
ADRENALINE POWER AT HAPPY VALLEY RACECOURSE
While those at the Beer Garden were trying their best to keep cool on a Thursday night that was as hot as a tandoori oven while the races...
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Jul 7, 20135 min read
TIPS AND DIM SUN FOR SHATIN
Thursday at Happy Valley will be remembered for a number of things- the nasty fall taken by Gerard Mosse on Mr Marfach, a surreal...
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Jul 6, 20133 min read
IS THE HKJC THE MOST MISUNDERSTOOD CLUB IN HONG KONG?
We had to pause to regain our thoughts when reading the South China Morning Post quoting a local artist named Kacey Wong who was...
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Jul 5, 20132 min read
TRAINERS BATTLE TAKES TWISTS AND TURNS
There was tension in the air at Happy Valley last night, especially in the Tony Cruz camp. The former champion jockey and trainer had...
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Jul 5, 20131 min read
WHYTE DOES AS HE WISHES!
Sometimes we expect too much from him. On Thursday, for example, many of us expected Douglas Whyte to rack up his hundred winners for the...
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Jul 4, 20131 min read
THE CLASH OF THE TITANS OF TURF
Once, they rode against each other. Today, Tony Cruz and Dennis Yip clash again with that great Australian horseman John Size. What’s at...
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