Though with everything that has happened in the past almost two weeks and a sombre mood still hanging over Hong Kong after the fires in the three blocks of apartments in Tai Po, it’s “interesting” to see that the group known as Now United is suddenly back in the picture, and will be prancing around the racecourse in Happy Valley on HKIJC night with, one supposes, their Gangnam Style Giddyup dance moves. Frankly, Hong Kong needs to get back to some semblance of good times and

With many of us still trying to figure out what must be done to get Hong Kong back to some semblance of normality after the devastating fires in Tai Po and produce something approaching hope and happiness, it was oddly interesting timing to read racing writer Sam Agars of the SCMP tackle the subject of trainer David Hayes wanting the HKJC to think “out of the box” about the “oversupply” of Class 4 rated horses. A newspaper story is a newspaper story and this is not to say tha

It was the weekend, I refused to watch the non-stop news about the crippling fires in Hong Kong, finished a song I was writing and stumbled on a video where Michael Parkinson was interviewing the great Shane Warne. It was easy to see that the great British television host and Warnie were friends and nothing was off limits.  The more I watched this 2007 interview, I was reminded of how similar Zac Purton is to the great cricketer in his frankness, his pride in being an Austral