The stage is set for a thrilling final round to the trainers' championship and although Caspar Fownes has to be favourite, John Size (pictured, left) will take an extraordinarily strong team to today's public holiday Sha Tin meeting.
Today is also our final On The Rails issue for the season and as our lead item, Alan Aitken has conducted his annual statistical review of the term and reveals some interesting trends in betting that illustrate exactly where and how the advantages have shifted.
In our second rails item, we express the hope that the stipes were reading between the lines on Sunday when promising jockey Thomas Yeung threw a bright and potentially lucrative career on the scrap heap and declared his intention to get a business management degree instead. AUDIO AFTER THE JUMP.
Caspar Fownes is two clear for the trainer's championship but is looking over his shoulder with a pair of race meetings left in the season.
Former champion jockey Basil Marcus will return to the region later this year with the Singapore Turf Club yesterday announcing that he has been successful in gaining a licence to train at Kranji racecourse.
The owner of Europe's best three-year-old this season, Sea The Stars, has put potential buyers on hold while his superbly bred galloper cements his racing credentials. And last night, the dual classic winner was ruled out of the Irish Derby, run tonight in HK local time. AUDIO AFTER THE JUMP
Former champion apprentice Marco Chui Kwan-lai was banned for six months yesterday after testing positive to the drug ketamine, completing a miserable first season for the 23-year-old as a senior jockey and threatening his career.
The Jockey Club’s highly-successful foundation training of apprentice jockeys in Australia has struck a hurdle, with the three Hong Kong juniors based there having been refused extensions to their visas.
Wednesday of course is On The Rails day, and the defeat of Sacred Kingdom at Royal Ascot on Sunday seems to have cleared the way for Viva Pataca to become Hong Kong’s Horse of the Year. AUDIO AFTER THE JUMP.
For this week’s podcast and video report, I have invited Professor Richard Petty, president of CPA Australia, to be my guest.
Richard is a professor of management at the Macquarie Graduate School of Management in Sydney. He is also chairman of an investment company headquartered in Hong Kong. In addition, he also acts as a consultant to the governments and listed companies in Hong Kong, China, the US, Britain, Australia and Singapore.
In my programme today, the president talks about his ambitious plans to expand CPA Australia in Hong Kong and China. He also shares his view on a number of issues about how the SAR can enhance its accounting transparency and bring back market confidence. AUDIO AFTER THE JUMP.
