There were plenty of fireworks on the track during the Longines HKIR day at Shatin last Sunday. It’s tiring just thinking about it. There were the wins of Voyage Bubble, Romantic Warrior, the facile win that was almost an exhibition gallop by Ka Ying Rising- what did they beat?- a protester who nearly stopped the running of the Hong Kong Cup before being tackled to the ground, and the kinda odd Jesus Moment by the Club’s CEO who, as usual, described this year’s event, too, as

With Longines HKIR Week coming to a close for another year, came an idea pretty much out of left field, where horse racing in Hong Kong and the city itself could become more than the sum of its parts through cameras, lights, action, thundering hooves and storytelling creating a new brand personality for the city.  Back in the day, I would have suggested film directors with the status of a Steven Spielberg or China’s Ziang Yimou, below, be given a free hand to produce a ‘feel

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