The interest in the pastime had been waning for some time, and when I woke up on Sunday afternoon after being back in Hong Kong for a few days and seeing how the rest of the world lives and not just survives, the usual weekend horse races were on. I wasn’t the least bit interested in who was riding what and even thinking of having a bet. All it did was make me wonder if gambling on horse racing is the most exciting consumer product the city has and where it rates with young H

Let’s maybe start with a little pimple therapy and build from here to things more multi dimensional and actually relevant to life, especially in Hong Kong where I have lived for over fifty years- important things like the costs of living with happiness instead of surviving with worry and fear because this city is STILL struggling with a locked down mindset… I’ve been asked about why turnover at the Hong Kong races last Wednesday night was down by over 13 percent. Think I care

Writing in Idol Horse, Adam Pengelly wrote a piece on Tom Prebble and how he’s doing today after his life-changing fall and how he’s working himself back to life going on around him .  Mentioned was the support group around him- his parents Maree and former champion jockey and Melbourne Cup winning jockey Brett, former jockeys Tye Angland, and Chris Symonds and the World’s Best Jockey James McDonald rushing over to see Tom right after winning the Cox Plate. Adam painted a pic