As those of us who still live here know, Hong Kong is desperately trying to get some semblance of its mojo back with the government’s...

With a new Hong Kong racing season around the corner and Zac Purton out to start chipping away, this time, at the record held by Douglas...

It was a long overdue dinner with someone I first met almost twenty years ago when with EMI Music. Back then, he was exploring and...

There’s something reminiscent of the old West just before the steam engines started going through towns when thinking about the horse...

Like Lazarus from the bible, the miraculous healing of his one-time seemingly career-ending hip injury and the resurgence of the...

It was the late Australian racing analyst Deane Lester, below, who mentioned a couple of years ago that if people don’t like horse...

“I can understand where he’s trying to come from, but I don’t know where he’s going with anything and how he’s going to get there, or...

Especially at a time when Hong Kong is trying to claw itself back to some form of relevance, music, especially ‘live’ music being part of...

What more is there to say about everything Zac Purton accomplished this year for and in horse racing, plus, after fourteen years in the...

Though he’s someone I consider to be a friend, I missed watching Zac Purton on Sunday break the record set by the brilliant Joao Moreira...

Who will dance their way into the multi million dollar role of eventually succeeding the 68-year-old German known as Winfried...

You never stop learning about human behaviour You never stop having to be on your toes So many torrents of insincerity So many saying...

Having divorced myself from it and learning to wean myself off even having the occasional fun bet, at least for me, horse racing these...

After one of my fairly recent Escapes From The Darkness Of Hong Kong, and arriving at the fabulous Changi Airport in Singapore, what...

“It’s like water off a duck’s back”. One of my female friends who knows the ins and outs and side trips of horse racing here in Hong...

“He’s no longer thinking about winning the race/He’s wondering if he’s going to lose ‘face’”. I had these lines playing in my head after...

In the brilliant “Mad Men” television series about the early days of advertising in Madison Avenue, the character known as Don Draper...

It’s not an Eureka Moment, but more of a reminder that has to do with words like “empathy” and “caring” and caring enough to do your part...

There are many things about horse racing, and especially Hong Kong racing, that the more I know, the more that I don’t understand. But,...

For someone who’s always been on the outside looking in and only flirting with this pastime known as horse racing, I’ve always listened...