Though loathe to use the word “stupid”, I will settle on “miraculously delusional” when writing about Wini, the Hong Kong Jockey Club CEO going out on a limb, and perhaps even clutching at straws, to make mention to the English racing media how the wins of the brilliant Hong Kong gallopers- Ka Ying Rising and Romantic Warrior- gave Hong Kong- and the world- wait for it: Hope.  “The ‘poetry in motion’ of Ka Ying Rising and Romantic Warrior’s emphatic victory made it a day of e

We come into this world alone and we slowly close the door and leave this world alone. In the middle is lots of, well, stuff, most of it unnecessary, but one often becomes a hoarder. Amongst all this could be some good stuff- like those who become lifelong friends. You might fall in love, marry, maybe you become a parent and you might reconnect with your own parents as you now understand them what they were going through so much better. When in your bed, you often enjoy being

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