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 17, 20223 min read
Mahjong
Getting ready for December 7 and the Hong Kong International Jockeys’ Championship? While many wait for Jamie Richards, now in his first...
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Nov 15, 20221 min read
We love Happy Endings.
Some might remember Pakistan Star, the enigmatic racehorse who won a few races in Hong Kong and then decided that he’d had enough and...
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Nov 14, 20224 min read
Brent Thomson: The Man known as The Babe
“Who’s Al Capone’s brother that’s just walked in?” This was something I asked friends I was with at the Kato Bar in Shatin Racecourse as...
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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 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 15, 20223 min read
The Everest and the Caulfield Cup: Lessons in winning.
While channel surfing and waiting to catch the running of The Everest from Randwick and the Caulfield Cup, we were stopped in our tracks...
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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 18, 20222 min read
A multi million dollar Six Up Jackpot at Shatin today. Enough said.
The Brazilian Magic Man João Moreira makes his much anticipated return to Hong Kong racing today though, to be frank, apart from perhaps...
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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 13, 20222 min read
The Hong Kong Handsome Men’s Horse Racing Club
As an official chapter of the global Handsome Men’s Horse Racing Club, voting for membership will continue for the rest of this Hong Kong...
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Sep 13, 20223 min read
The Most Interesting Characters In Horse Racing
This was a tough one, and so many with their own thoughts and many wanting to vote for themselves with bots. This might work on Instagram...
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Sep 11, 20223 min read
Cryptic notes from the crib
All kinds of stuff about horse racing, yes, but also other stuff that we find interesting and which maybe you will, too....
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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 2, 20224 min read
Why horse racing continues to stay in its own box
Most of us know why it does not happen, but it’s still worth revisiting to at least try and change the narrative though knowing this is...
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Jul 16, 20224 min read
Addressing the elephant in the room: Who can replace Winfried Engelbrecht-Bresges as CEO of HKJC?
If Nostradamus, I would look to the future and see that the racing season that comes to a close this evening will be one of the most...
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Jul 6, 20225 min read
Old dogs, new tricks, Ben Crowe and making horse racing fun...and not goofy.
You can’t teach an old dog new tricks. We’ve grown up and grown old hearing this truism. Now that times have changed and the shoe is on...
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