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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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Aug 20, 20222 min read
Making Hong Kong a welcoming and FUN City?
------------------------- ------------------------- To make the over three hour mental obstacle course welcoming tourists to Hong Kong...
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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, 20223 min read
Happy Wednesday Rewind
We created stories about magic We wrote many songs We sang about kindness And positivity They were what was needed For the journey to...
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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 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, 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 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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Jun 22, 20224 min read
Hong Kong racing’s Batman and Robin and the road ahead...
It’s quite extraordinary the long shadow that Douglas Whyte still casts over Hong Kong racing. To anyone trying to unseat him, well, that...
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Jun 21, 20225 min read
The Enigma And Success Story That Is Zac Purton.
Maturity and time always bring about a certain self-belief that everything is possible. It allows one to pick and choose what’s best for...
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Jun 19, 20222 min read
Shatin today: Will Size matter or will the Lor break out?
There’s the belief amongst some local racing fans and the new fangled, but steeped in old school conspiracy theories racing KOLs- online...
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Jun 17, 20224 min read
Singapore 2022 and what Hong Kong can learn from its unique relationship with its horse racing.
As Hong Kong waits to see what incoming Chief Executive John Lee might have in mind for the future of a city that’s been in a holding...
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Jun 16, 20221 min read
Greg Carpenter and his, well, taxing new gig in Hong Kong
Greg Carpenter being approached and poached by the Hong Kong Jockey Club was on the cards for well over a year. After all, in his forty...
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