When the Jockey Club touts the quality of integrity in Hong Kong racing, most would understand that as ensuring everyone is doing the right thing in races and all reasonable and permissible measures are being taken. A wider interpretation of the concept though would be that all punters, owners and other interested parties gain a fair crack of the whip with a chance to win and that's the definition we like in this column.
So, with due regard to fairness to all, let's talk about the all-weather track last Saturday, because it was simply a disgrace.
Track bias is a blight on racing in other jurisdictions where racing is constant - almost every day, if not every day of the year - and the tracks frequently throw up the white towel and devolve into moving walkways in different parts of the course.
Hong Kong is rarely troubled by it. Except on the all-weather, a purulent sore on the otherwise peach-like complexion of racing.
Yes, there are places where racing on all-weather or dirt or some other artificial surface keeps the wheels of the business grinding through the constant bombardments of scheduling and weather. Good luck to them, that's their bed, they can lie in it.
But Hong Kong touts itself as a centre of turf racing - the Turf World Championships even.
We make no secret of the fact that - did you guess? - we hate all-weather racing. Never mind the argument that some horses would be out of play without racing on the dirt - some of them would be better equestrian horses, too, but that isn't the catalyst to the Jockey Club widening its sporting umbrella to bet on eventing or dressage. It provides one more unnecessary variant in the many variants that already make horse racing complex.