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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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...
Oct 17, 20225 min read
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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...
Oct 9, 20223 min read
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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...
Sep 30, 20223 min read
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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,...
Sep 23, 20223 min read
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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...
Sep 22, 20222 min read
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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...
Sep 15, 20224 min read
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Thumbs up for tonight’s racing at Happy Valley?
Today is the first night meeting of the new season at the iconic Happy Valley Racecourse, and though bothering to go out in the evenings...
Sep 14, 20223 min read
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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...
Sep 13, 20222 min read
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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...
Sep 12, 20222 min read
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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...
Sep 10, 20224 min read
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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...
Sep 6, 20223 min read
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August 31, 2022
........................................ It was the loudest secret in Hong Kong- and Singapore- for almost two months, and it was made...
Sep 1, 20223 min read
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