There’s much perception versus reality involved, and speaking recently to a young overseas jockey who was considering applying for a license to ride in Hong Kong, I advised her that being part and parcel of Hong Kong racing first requires doing serious due diligence about how the city works and sees itself today and what the government is thinking about based on the financial and business objectives of China. It’s also about knowing exactly where a gambling driven pastime lik

Instead of writing about the 2025 Longines International Jockeys Competition and leaving this for the racing writers, something I wrote way back when about this night and the after party at Adrenaline caught my eye recently. It seemed far more interesting than anything I could write today.  These days, my interests are elsewhere, and when I do go racing, it’s not in Hong Kong, not for any other reason than there’s nothing and no one to attract me to the races, let alone most

Remember the saying about “United We Stand, Divided We Fall”? I most certainly do and need to bring some closure to a subject that needs clearing up in that thick jungle of confusion and clutter and, well, horrendous music marketing.  Of course, those involved in the “United” 6-7 project will deny it- and the denial mentioned here has nothing to do with the river in Egypt- but the marketing and promotion in Hong Kong of the international group Now United has fallen well short