The Zac Man and changing of the sports entertainment guard.
It’s almost like saying, “Mate, let’s not get too ahead of yourself”. Maybe it is. When thinking how well Silvestre de Sousa is fitting...
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Dec 1, 20225 min read
Hong Kong’s racing uncles- and a ride through a city coming of age.
To understand how far anything in Hong Kong has travelled, and this includes horse racing, there’s always a need to revisit the past and...
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Nov 22, 20223 min read
A Tale Of One City And Two Horses: Golden Sixty and Silent Witness
Hong Kong has something to cheer on next month and it’s... a horse. Named Golden Sixty, not since the great and now happily retired...
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Nov 21, 20222 min read
Flying high: Hong Kong racing and its Made In Hong Kong brand
Cutting straight to the chase, the successes of Trainer Frankie Lor For-chuen often seem to go “silent running”. It’s even easy to forget...
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Nov 17, 20223 min read
Nudge nudge, Winx Winx, She’s apples and it’s The Bowman
He’s always reminded me of a cowboy from the Wild West who lost his way and time traveled to today and with writer H.G. Welles giving him...
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Nov 15, 20223 min read
When The Zac’s away tonight...
With him sidelined for at least tonight’s races for testing positive to Covid-19, it means that with The Zac Man away, the other cats...
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Nov 13, 20223 min read
Silvestre the Brazilian Cat and the Tweety Birds
While wondering when Hong Kong might see the return of the Brazilian Magic Man- Joao Moreira- another Brazilian is certainly doing more...
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Nov 2, 20224 min read
John Didham: The Magic Man of Macau racing.
He’s one of my closest friends and has been for over twenty years. Whenever we meet, whether in Melbourne where he and wife Andrea and...
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Oct 28, 20223 min read
Lunching with King Casibah Of The Valley
A lunch with “Casibah” aka Caspar Fownes goes through a rollercoaster ride of emotions, and all good in their own ways. In the end,...
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Oct 22, 20223 min read
João
When knowing that João Moreira was unwell, it made me call time on everything and re-evaluate my own life. I wouldn’t say that I know...
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Oct 17, 20225 min read
The world’s biggest coming out party happened at two racetracks in Australia...
It had to happen, and it should, with the talk in Australian racing circles these past few days being about the very successful two...
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Oct 9, 20223 min read
Don’t play it again, Sam. Please.
Sam Agars, below, is a workmanlike racing writer, and having to constantly produce racing news for English-speaking Hong Kong readers of...
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Sep 30, 20223 min read
Hong Kong racing... and maybe facing the facts?
Under the heading, “Can the Jockey Club attract star riders, or will a Covid hangover loom large?” South China Morning Post racing writer...
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Sep 23, 20223 min read
Batman and Robin and horse racing’s changing of the guard...
It was a pretty messy looking race with some of the riders looking like drunken sailors out to paint the town red and blue, but,...
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Sep 22, 20222 min read
Horse racing and celebrating the successes of all our sporting heroes.
Maybe he’s something of a late bloomer, maybe it was the time spent riding in Japan during the off-season, or maybe he’s simply found the...
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Sep 15, 20224 min read
Luke and Lyle and bringing storytelling to horse racing...
By Hans Ebert There’s a new gun in town and his name is Luke Ferraris. Hang on, wait. Luke Ferraris has been riding in Hong Kong since...
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Sep 12, 20222 min read
Over the moon cake about the new racing season...
The highlights of the opening day yesterday to the new Hong Kong racing season is that turnover was more than respectable considering the...
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Sep 10, 20224 min read
Pressing “Pause”, “Refresh” and looking at Hong Kong racing tomorrow.
During these very uncertain times and where we’re not only seeing a changing of the guard, but a complete reversal of fortunes and mighty...
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Sep 7, 20224 min read
Zac, João, Hong Kong and the next Field Of Dreams...
One doubts many can see it, but The Zac And João Show that has been going on since the mercurial Brazilian Magic Man arrived in the city...
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Sep 1, 20223 min read
August 31, 2022
........................................ It was the loudest secret in Hong Kong- and Singapore- for almost two months, and it was made...
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