While the top end of the market continues to grab the headlines as prices for commercially bred horses skyrocket around the globe there is an outstanding opportunity developing for the owner breeder in Australia. According to our research the number of broodmares has halved in the last 10 years and the prize money and racing […]
Hong Kong Horse Racing Planning a Big 2018/19 Hong Kong will stage its 2018/19 season opener at Sha Tin Racecourse on Sunday, 2 September, the first of 88 fixtures worth a record total of HK$1.22 billion. The season will consist of 47 day meetings and 41 night fixtures at Hong Kong’s two iconic tracks, Happy […]
China Horse Racing: HKJC’s Conghua Training Centre A momentous new era in Hong Kong racing began with the arrival of the first in-training horses at Conghua Training Centre (CTC) on the Chinese Mainland, marking the integration of CTC into the Hong Kong training system. The shipment of 21 horses – seven each from the Dennis […]
2017/18 Racing Season in Hong Kong was Exceptional World class sport and incredible global growth underpinned a memorable 2017/18 racing season in Hong Kong, which concluded today, Sunday, 15 July, with overall turnover of HK$124.2 billion, representing a 5.8% increase on the previous season. A crowd of 31,903 turned out at Sha Tin for this […]
Following the two successful shipments of a total of 35 Racing Development Board (RDB) horses from Hong Kong to the Conghua Training Centre (CTC) on 12 June (Tuesday) and 14 June (Thursday), all horses have been settling extremely well in the Club’s state-of-the-art training centre. Mr. William A Nader, Director of Racing Business and Operations, […]
Jockeys’ challenge won by International Jockeys The 5th Chengdu Dubai International Cup meeting featured a competitive and thrilling day of racing at Jinma Lake Racecourse, a 2000m right-handed turf course just outside of Chengdu, Sichuan, China. The day also featured the second edition of the Chengdu Dubai International Cup Jockeys’ Challenge, which comprised of two […]
China Horse Racing: Chengdu Dubai International Cup The 2018 edition of the Chengdu Dubai International Cup will be held on Saturday, April 7, 2018, and marks the fifth running of this highly successful partnership between Meydan Group, the Chengdu Municipal Government, the Chengdu Sports Bureau, the Wenjiang District Government and China Guangsha Group. The venue […]
Horse Racing News: China May Make Gambling on Races Legal With existing exceptions on Basketball and Soccer, talk of Casino’s in Hainan and the move by Hong Kong Jockey Club into China there seems to be an increasing chance of live betting coming to China’s racetracks. China has embraced the sport with a passion over […]
China Horse Racing: Rui Severino Takes the Training Championship Rui Severino has claimed the Championship Crown in China’s Kunming Province home of the Rider Horse Club CITIC RIDER JIALIZE Jockey Club. Rui has had a golden run since leaving Australia to train in China, he has claimed 2 Group 2 races and finished an unlucky […]
At the opening of the International Conference on the Equine Disease Free Zone (ICEDFZ) today (12 December), Hong Kong SAR and Chinese Mainland authorities signed four memoranda of understanding reinforcing policies and procedures governing the operation of the biosecurity zone in the Conghua District of Guangzhou and related horse movement arrangements between the Club’s new […]
Hong Kong Racing to Come to China Knightsbridge are very excited about the news in China, our 1st syndicated horses will be arriving in China in 2018 and the outlook for the sport there looks bright. By J A McGrath at Godolphin A visit to Hong Kong for the International Races in December never fails […]
Bank of China Race Day in Hong Kong Selections A very exciting Bank of China Race Day. The BOCHK Jockey Club Cup is one of three G2 features on Sunday, alongside the BOCHK Wealth Management Jockey Club Mile and BOCHK Wealth Management Jockey Club Sprint (1200m), which are the prime lead-up races to the LONGINES […]
Hong Kong Racing: G2 Premier Bowl Handicap From Knightsbridge’s John Heffernan It’s hard to go past the top 3 Mr Stunning, Thewizardofoz and Luck Bubbles. On past performances Lucky Bubbles has to come out on top, but Thewizardof oz does have “Magic” Joao Moreira on board and that is a real advantage. Thewizardofoz will be […]
Thoroughbred breeding plays a vital role in Australia Thoroughbred breeding plays a vital role in the rural economy and Australian society: that was the message echoed by Federal Government ministers and senior politicians at an event in Canberra last night. Defence Minister Marise Payne and Leader of the Opposition Bill Shorten traded stories of their […]
Inglis Doubles Up on Yulong Race Series in China Inglis is pleased to announce it has doubled its sponsorship of the Yulong Race Series in China, taking its total financial support to RMB 2million. The Yulong Race Series is contested over several heats for Inglis graduates racing in China. The final is the Inglis China-Australia […]
All Hail the Emperor: Honorius Settles in at Stud Honorius (Holy Roman Emperor) has settled in like a Champion at Larneuk Stud in Victoria. Honorius has seen a steady flow of mares in his first season and has had his first mares test positive for pregnancy. Honorius is a son of Danehill’s highest ever rated […]
A full field of 14 will line up in Saturday’s A$200,000 Inglis China-Australia Cup Final (1200m) at Yulong Racecourse in Shanxi. The race – the richest in China at RMB 1million – forms part of Inglis’ program to support horse racing in China. The field of 14 is made up of runners sourced by several […]