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MARK READING THE TEA LEAVES ON AN OKTOBERFEST HAPPY WEDNESDAY
(Courtesy of http://www.fasttrack.hk) Perhaps it’s the stifling heat and too many mad dogs and Englishmen out in the midday sun, but we’re still easing ourselves into the new racing season. While the HKJC continues to pour cold water on all … Continue reading
Posted in brett prebble, casper fownes, DOUGLAS WHYTE, FELIX COETZEE, GERARD MOSSE, HAPPY WEDNESDAY, Hong Kong Jockey Club, Hong Kong Racing, Horse Racing, JOAO MOREIRA, JOHN MOORE, JOHN SIZE, The horse racing industry, www.fasttrack.hk, zac purton
Tagged Beer Garden, Ben Semmens, China Media Capital, Chris So, Felix Coetzee, France Galop, happy valley, HKJC, Home Made, horse racing Hong Kong, Joao Moreira, John Size, Katharine Coetzee, Kayla Nisbet, Li Ruigang, Macau Canindrome, Oktoberfest, Racing Hong Kong, SEAN WOODS, Zac Purton
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HAPPY WEDNESDAYS AND HAPPY ENDINGS
“Riding at Happy Valley is like having a disco full of thousands of people in your living room! I love it!” Jockey Neil Callan When, after Wednesday night’s racing, Nash Rawiller tweeted how great the atmosphere at the Beer Garden … Continue reading
Posted in brett prebble, casper fownes, DOUGLAS WHYTE, HAPPY WEDNESDAY, Hong Kong Jockey Club, Hong Kong Racing, Horse Racing, HORSE RACING AND SOCIAL MEDIA, JOAO MOREIRA, The horse racing industry, zac purton
Tagged Adrenaline, Beer Garden, Ben Semmens, Caspar Fownes, David Ferraris, Dougie Whyte, finding happy wednesday, happy valley, happy wednesday, Jennifer Palor, JENNY CHAPMAN, Neil Callan, Pharrell Williams, Sassy Wednesday, Tony Cruz, Zac Purton
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HONG KONG WONTONS, DING DONGS, THEN SOMES AND DIM SUMS
MAGIC MOSSE, MAGIC MIRCO AND, MAGIC MOREIRA AND THE UNITED NATIONS OF HORSE RACING There was magic in the air on Sunday at Shatin when SaSa Ladies Purse Day seemed to fall under the spell of Mandrake The Magician and … Continue reading
Posted in GERARD MOSSE, Hong Kong Racing, Horse Racing, HORSE RACING AND SOCIAL MEDIA, JOAO MOREIRA, JOHN SIZE, The horse racing industry, zac purton
Tagged @HappyHVFans, Adrenaline, ANDREAS SCHUTZ, Basil Marcus, Beer Garden, Ben Semmens, BenCam, David Hayes, Douglas Whyte, Gallery, Gérald Mossé, happy valley, happy wednesday, Happy Wendesday Fans, HKJC, Ivan Allen, Joao Moreira, Jockey Challenge, John Moore, John Size, Matthew Chadwick, Mirco Demuro, Nash Rawiller, Packing Llaregyb, Red Cadeaux, SaSa Ladies Purse Day, THE UNITED NATIONS OF HORSE RACING, Willie Cazals, Zac Purton
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MORE AND MORE HORSE RACING, LESS AND LESS OF EVERYTHING ELSE
When in advertising, a copywriter came up with the tagline “More television than you want” for the launch of STARTV, Asia’s first 24-hour satellite television network. All of us could not comprehend the logic behind the thinking and the … Continue reading
Posted in GERARD MOSSE, Hong Kong Jockey Club, Hong Kong Racing, HORSE RACING AND SOCIAL MEDIA
Tagged Ben Semmens, BenCam, Gérald Mossé, HKJC, Joao Moreira, Livin with the BenCam, Matthew Chadwick, Protectionist, Ryan Moore, social media, Spielberg, STARTV, the Breeders Cup, The Greatest Show On Turf, Zac Purton
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THE HKJC AND A SONG FOR THE HOME OF HAPPY WEDNESDAY
(www.fasttrack.hk) PRESS RELEASE Hong Kong, September 2, 2014: Home is where the heart is and, to many, home on a weekday in Hong Kong is attending a Happy Wednesday night at Happy Valley Racecourse. Now, there’s a song about all … Continue reading
HONG KONG AND THE HKJC RECEIVE THE MUSICAL GIFT OF HOME
Home (SoundCloud) Apart from the comical chop suey of a song made famous in the Sixties called “Kowloon Hong Kong” by a female group from the Philippines named The Reynettes, there have only been songs ely through movies like “Love … Continue reading
COS RACING SHOULD BE AS ENTERTAINING AS TONIGHT’S LONGINES INTERNATIONAL JOCKEY COMPETITION
(Courtesy of http://www.fasttrack.hk) SUGGESTIONS FOR TONIGHT AT HAPPY VALLEY FROM THE FAST TRACKER * Have a nap during all the speeches. * Dance like a horse possessed when the Ben Semmens Band performs Giddy Up at the Beer Garden. * … Continue reading
Posted in DOUGLAS WHYTE, HAPPY WEDNESDAY, Hong Kong Jockey Club, Hong Kong Racing, Horse Racing, JOHN MOORE, www.fasttrack.hk, zac purton
Tagged Beer Garden, Ben Semmens, Douglas Whyte, Giddy Up, JENNY CHAPMAN, John Moore, LONGINES INTERNATIONAL JOCKEY COMPETITION, TOMMY BERRY, Zac Purton
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THE HONG KONG JOCKEY CLUB AND THE EVOLUTION AND REVOLUTION OF HORSE RACING
I was wondering if this would be a horse racing story or a music story before deciding that horse racing really is part of entertainment and it’s only the hardcore racing media and having the sport pigeon-holed by those within … Continue reading
Posted in HAPPY WEDNESDAY, Hong Kong Jockey Club, Hong Kong Racing, The horse racing industry, www.fasttrack.hk
Tagged Ben Semmens, FASHION STYLES THE VALLEY, Giddy Up, HAPPY VALLEY RACECOURSE, HKJC, hong kong horse racing, Hong Kong International Week, Longines, Music Rocks The Valley, Shatin racecourse, Universal Music
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THE HKJC AND UNIVERSAL MUSIC MAKE SWEET MUSIC
(Courtesy of http://www.fasttrack.hk) When one party holds a race meeting- like it did at Shatin yesterday- and where turnover was HK$1.45 billion with an attendance of over 60,000 for Sa Sa Ladies Day- and the other party is the world’s … Continue reading
Posted in HAPPY WEDNESDAY, Hong Kong Jockey Club, Hong Kong Racing, Horse Racing, Music Industry, www.fasttrack.hk
Tagged Adrenaline, Beer Garden, Ben Semmens, BMW, Giddy Up, HKJC, Hong Kong International Races, horse racing and music, ibu, Longines, Sa Sa Ladies Day, Universal Music
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