Race Track

Recreating Valley atmosphere at Sha Tin is a long shot

14 Nov 2012

The runaway success of Happy Wednesdays at the Valley has even got some racegoers asking what the Jockey Club is doing wrong at Sha Tin and wondering aloud if there's an avenue to attempt some...

1:12AM

Information is key to tackling track bias at Valley

24 Oct 2012

Whether the view of Sunday's Happy Valley meeting from the jockeys' room was correct or not is open to some question, but there is no doubt many players believe the track plays differently for a...

2:32AM

Transforming the CBD is clockwork operation

26 Aug 2011

There's four weeks until the the grand prix circus comes to town and work on the track - i.e. the main roads of the Marina Bay area of the city - is underway and becoming more visible every day...

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Pole position

6 Oct 2010

Fans of model racing cars put off by a ride to private, fee-charging tracks in the New Territories will find a newly opened circuit in Kowloon just the place to go. Not only is it free, it is...

7:00AM

Tracks are great, but bias rears its head

26 Mar 2008

Full, and long overdue, credit to the Jockey Club staff in charge of the tracks - punters here rarely have to deal with that scourge of racetracks in many parts of the world, track bias.

11:30PM

A complex weave designed to please

24 Sep 2004

Integrating cutting edge technology with history and nature - that's the secret to the new circuit.

7:47PM

Opinion

Attempts to diversify China's reserves have been a disaster

4:45AM

Howard Winn

China is like the EU; provinces are its member states

5:26AM

Punters' paradise

When the starter's gun sounded at Sha Tin racecourse on October 7, 1978, the Royal Hong Kong Jockey Club made history - again.

4:57PM

Unparalleled excitement of Valley spectacle comes at a cost

The amphitheatre of Happy Valley racecourse provides an excitement and ambience like no other in the racing world, with fields of twelve runners racing in tightly packed bunches and fighting out...

9:47PM

Congestion problems do not justify closure

I was quite shocked by the letter from Nick Pearson headlined 'Close racecourse' (South China Morning Post, March 6).

6:09PM

Spectators love unique Happy Valley

I refer to the letter from Nick Pearson headlined 'Close racecourse' (South China Morning Post, March 6).

Happy Valley is one of the better known racecourses in the world and its...

5:53PM

Sandmesh nightmare leaves public in dark

Just three meetings have been completed at Happy Valley and already the key to finding winners there is the track bias in operation as much as the form in the book.

10:52AM

Premises close

THE Hongkong Football Club closed its doors for the last time at its present site yesterday - its home for 107 years. The club is moving to make way for a multi-million dollar redevelopment of...

7:13AM