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The changing of the guard...
We’re backing you, Robbie! -------------------- Be disruptive in today’s Tikka Toker clicker clutter soufflé. Be so random and irreverent...
Dec 30, 20222 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...
Dec 1, 20225 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...
Nov 22, 20223 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...
Nov 21, 20222 min read


The Pinnacles: WA racing takes off.
It might not have the bells, whistles and Godzilla-like million dollar marketing budget of something like the Everest, but The Pinnacles,...
Nov 20, 20223 min read


Mahjong
Waaaaai??? Hello??? YES!!! All’s well that ends well!! It sometimes resembled a scene where the Keystone Cops are bumbling their way...
Nov 20, 20224 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...
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...
Nov 17, 20223 min read


RIDE: Taking you here, there and somewhere else.
------------------------------ Questions we’re asking ourselves??? Interesting to note that Sam Bankman-Fried, below, the 30 year old...
Nov 16, 20222 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...
Nov 15, 20223 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...
Nov 15, 20221 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...
Nov 14, 20224 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...
Nov 13, 20223 min read


Sasa: Making Hong Kong racing beautiful
As Jungle Magnate, the 4 year old gelding that made a winning debut at his new home in Shatin last Sunday and known as Beautyverse, is...
Nov 8, 20222 min read


Seeing the road ahead for Hong Kong racing...
Some might see it as giving horse racing a facelift and a new personality that’s more stylish and perhaps even fun- Remember fun- but...
Nov 7, 20222 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...
Nov 2, 20224 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,...
Oct 28, 20223 min read


Ruan Maia: Hitting his stride
Nothing about the quirks of Hong Kong racing should surprise anyone who’s been here for some amount of time, but it never fails to be...
Oct 27, 20222 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...
Oct 22, 20223 min read


The Vincent who Don McLean didn’t sing about...
It’s all about timing and with Golden Sixty about to make its debut for the season, it really is time for those whose job is to promote...
Oct 20, 20223 min read
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