Though certainly remaining something of an enigma, horse racing and those who still sail in her always being interesting enough for me and who learned much about the pastime when writing as the Racingbitch. Though running the regional offices of Universal Music and then EMI Music with my friend Norman Cheng, below, who was a horse owner and knew many of the players in Europe, being Racingbitch offered me an inside track into viewing this world of horse racing, which I certain

Firstly, and just to get boring and repetitive, around a couple of decades ago, the then-government’s almost token gweilo mouthpiece-Duncan Pescod- announced to Hong Kong, and I guess, the world, how there would be a “worldwide search” for the “right person” to head up what was something called CreateHK. The search for this very special someone to lead the much anticipated launch of CreateHK through the marshes ended up being someone named Jerry something or another from, I t

“So, you’ve gone from being the most affordable port of call for day trippers with no spending power to trying to attract those extremely few high end travellers, but what with? What does Hong Kong have that’s going to get people on a plane and want to come out there when the entire concept of tourism has morphed into something else?” She wasn’t being critical, but being someone I had worked with when in advertising and knowing what Hong Kong was when marketed as “Asia’s wor