Horse Racing in Great Britain

30 Dec 2011

A former chief executive of the stock exchange has had his Jockey Club membership suspended for a year, reportedly after a dispute with a property tycoon heir.

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Simplicity is the best policy for success

30 Nov 2011

The damp squib of the Global Sprint Challenge limps on into 2012, but it is one race heavier and with a better bonus system. Yet it still lacks the simplicity and rewards to make it attractive....

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Racing needs to move with the times

12 Oct 2011

Two conferences early last week in Paris and London tried to address racing's decreasing share of the wagering world last week, with one resorting to older, failed solutions and another looking...

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Grand prix-style series hits barriers

8 Jun 2011

The comments by Jockey Club chief executive Winfried Engelbrecht-Bresges regarding the failure of the Asian Mile Challenge (AMC) held resonance not only for that series but for series racing in...

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Injury may hit Happy Zero's hopes

26 Jun 2010

Trainer John Moore will give Happy Zero six days to show he has overcome an injury to his lower back before deciding whether he will push on with a tilt at the July Cup at Newmarket racecourse in...

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Enthused's planned Tokyo adventure over

14 Sep 2009

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Opinion

Attempts to diversify China's reserves have been a disaster

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Howard Winn

China is like the EU; provinces are its member states

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Kingdom set for Japan showdown with Blast

Nakayama racecourse in Tokyo will be the neutral venue for a world sprint champion showdown after trainer Ricky Yiu Poon-fai confirmed yesterday that Sacred Kingdom would make the trip for the HK$...

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Southern hemisphere trainers fit the bill

One of the big training performances Down Under in recent weeks was turned in by Melbourne-based Peter Moody, who has taken a smart filly called Typhoon Tracy from a maiden to Group One winner in...

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Shrewd move on explaining profits

The Jockey Club's latest move to notify the day's 'gross margin' rather than a raw betting turnover figure may seem like semantics to some, but it could prove to be a shrewd move as the club...

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Commercial horse racing revives memories of Wuhan's past glories

Today, Hong Kong is known as the country's capital of horse races, but that title once belonged to Wuhan , the provincial capital of Hubei .

First introduced by British merchants in...

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Attracting new clients a challenge, but let's keep out the louts

This writer is not entirely sure why traditional Japanese dance would necessarily involve lions, but there they were at the opening ceremony as the curtain went up on the 32nd Asian Racing...

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More, not longer, meetings the solution

Just when we were all coming to terms with the likelihood that 11-race cards were going to become standard issue in the chase for turnover, Jockey Club chief executive Winfried Engelbrecht-Bresges...

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