I know I’m not alone when I say that at least some of the magic needed to reignite interest and a level of excitement and derring do returned to an averageWednesday nightHappy Valley race meeting last meeting with the reappearance in Hong Kong of the ever popular Brazilian rider Joao Moreira. Here for three months as stable jockey for Caspar Fownes, the Magic Man always brings with him a certain je ne sais quoi to horse racing that few have seen- and FEEL- from anyone else an

First things first: When Joao Moreira won the 2012 Longines International Jockeys Championship, this was the first time many of us in Hong Kong had ever seen the person known as “the magic man” ride though he was champion jockey in neighbouring Singapore. Never had many of us who are not “horsey” people seen a rider so in harmony with a horse and so aerodynamically born to ride. It really was wonderful to watch something almost balletic. I remember after the races that night,

Guess it must have been one of those karmic and third eye moments where when we tried to make those highly paid racing executives running...