(Lack of) info from Mongolia leaves everyone in the dark

For months, we have all been hearing, ad nauseam, about Hohhot, Inner Mongolia and "China's richest ever race day" - just a query, who runs second in that particular "richest ever" contest? - and cold showers have been the order of the day as the big moment approaches this Saturday.

You can imagine our excitement. OMG. We haven't been this excited since we saw Miley Cyrus walking onto the construction site for a foam factory.

As with most 'events', one expected the publicity machine behind this spectacular club to pick up speed as we got closer to the day but the opposite seems to have happened, with no website posts since mid-August under their "news" section.

Not a peep anywhere about the outcome of the recent auction sale of horses from Australia, Ireland, France or Mars. Not a word from the in-house spin doctors to combat the, let's say, less than complimentary mentions the operation has been generating in some bloodstock circles.

At last, we noticed on Sunday that the website had posted something new, dated September 15, and we could only assume this to be what we sought.

It turned out to be nothing more than a gleeful winner's photo with words, trumpeting the easy win in Singapore of one of the club's racehorses.

So there is someone working there - someone apparently without sufficient security clearance to publicly push along the barrow of the long-awaited, once in a lifetime China racing breakthrough this weekend, the turning point in world racing history.

Days away and the crickets are chirruping?

Is it too much to hope for sectional times and stewards' reports?