Racing Man Talkin’ Blues (with apologies to Bob Dylan)
Thundering hooves are being revved up again The rumour mill is starting to go insane Hong Kong is ready for its favourite game And...
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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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Aug 29, 20225 min read
The Hong Kong Jockey Club and positive changes? Here's hoping.
Veteran racing writer for The Age in Australia, Patrick Bartley was on TABTouch Radio recently and asked about the move by Racing New...
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Aug 29, 20228 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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Aug 21, 20223 min read
Horse racing in Hong Kong and the Happy People, Happy City solution
It’s not gambling, but what horse racing offers many in Hong Kong at a time in the history of the city when nerves are frayed and there’s...
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Jul 24, 20223 min read
The Tao Of Zac
Riding those four winners at Shatin at the last race meeting of the Hong Kong season and winning his fifth Hong Kong Jockey Championship...
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Jul 19, 20221 min read
Who belongs in The Handsome Men’s Horse Racing Club?
Some years ago, American television personality Jimmy Kimmel introduced the world to The Handsome Men’s Club and its Members. Inspired by...
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Jul 18, 20223 min read
The day Hong Kong racing showed it had a heart
It was a form of positive emotional attachment to horse racing that some of us had been waiting for, and it must have been written in the...
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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 15, 20222 min read
Surviving The Bubbly Season Of The Witch...
Wallace and Donald, those loyal racing fans who capture what happens on the track They were there whenever they could With different...
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Jul 15, 20223 min read
THE FAST TRACK 2021-22 HONG KONG HORSE RACING AWARDS
Jockey of the Year Matthew Chadwick Determined, driven, tough, winner of the Tony Cruz Award, rarely smiles, kinda morose, and almost had...
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Jul 13, 20222 min read
Hong Kong racing and that win-win situation
Well, what’s there to say about the races on Sunday other than, We told you so. And we’ll get into more Told you so’s like sand in an...
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Jul 10, 20223 min read
Looking at where Hong Kong- and Hong Kong racing- might be heading...
On the one hand, it’s the tail end of this horse racing season, but far more important are the plans being put in place by everyone...
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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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Jul 6, 20222 min read
Tonight at Happy Valley: a real dog’s breakfast of racing...
Frankly, the one thing worth betting on in Hong Kong these days is new Chief Executive John Lee, who, just a couple of days into his new...
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Jul 5, 20223 min read
A win for Matthew Chadwick, Hong Kong racing- and Hong Kong.
It’s now pretty obvious even to those three blind mice that Matthew Chadwick will ride off with this racing season’s Tony Cruz Award...
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Jul 2, 20224 min read
Blake Shinn leaving and the twists and turns of the new Hong Kong taking shape...
This piece takes on different plot twists and turns like some Alfred Hitchcock or Twilight Zone movie script, but let’s start off with...
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Jun 29, 20224 min read
Whyte Magic and The Sunshine Kid
If there’s any doubt that like the city itself, Hong Kong racing is seeing a changing of the guard, this came screaming through when the...
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Jun 28, 20222 min read
Thanks to everyone in Hong Kong racing.
There was a snippet in the racing section of the South China Morning Post recently where Zac (Purton) showed what I believe to be genuine...
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Jun 27, 20225 min read
João Moreira: The human side to the Brazilian magic man...
The first time that we met, he was standing with wife Taciana in a corner of the venue Adrenaline and looking slightly uncomfortable....
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