Tag Archives: NEIL PAINE
RINGING IN THOSE CH-CH-CH-CH-CHANGES
By Hans Ebert When even we get bored of banging on and on about the same thing, which, in a nutshell is that racing in Australia has various leadership problems, with no one on the horizon to help pull things … Continue reading
THE BLAME GAME ISSUE
By Keyser Soze A LOSER’S ALIBI: PLAY THE BLAME GAME. Hearing the excuses offered up by sportsmen and women for losses, where in just about every instance the blame lies with someone else and external factors are always the culprit, … Continue reading
Posted in Australian horse racing industry, CHRIS WALLER, Horse Racing, The horse racing industry
Tagged Andrew Webster, Chautauqua, CHRIS WALLER, Flemington racing, GLYN SCHOFIELD, Godolphin, Gordon Gecko, JOHN O'SHEA, NEIL PAINE, RICHARD CALLANDER, Tabcorp, Terravista, Winx and Press Statement
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KARISMATIC TEETAN: THE MAURITIAN WILD CARD
By Hans Ebert When he rode the first winner on the first day of the 2012-13 season with his very first ride in Hong Kong aboard the David Ferraris-trained Amazing Always, Karis Teetan signalled his arrival in the most competitive … Continue reading
Posted in Australian horse racing industry, Hong Kong Jockey Club, Hong Kong Racing, Horse Racing, The horse racing industry, zac purton
Tagged Able Friend, Alex Lai, Amazing Always, BEN SO, Brett Prebble, Contentment, David Ferraris, Douglas Whyte, Gold-Fun, happy valley, Happy Valley Foodie, Howard Cheng, Joao Moreira, John Moore, John Size, Karis Teetan, NEIL PAINE, Not Listenin’ Tome, RICHARD GIBSON, Ricky Yiu, Sergeant Titanium, The Wizardofoz
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GaiTV: A Perfect Celebration of Horse Racing
By Jenny Bridle Three things come to mind when thinking of the Gai Waterhouse brand: The First Lady of Australian Racing; women who reach for and achieve the heights of success in male-dominated arenas; and, absolute passion for the sport … Continue reading
INTRODUCING FAST TRACK’S 2015-16 HANDSOME JOCKEYS CLUB
(Courtesy of http://www.fasttrack.hk) When American talk show host Jimmy Kimmel introduced the newest inductees to The Handsome Men’s Club a few years ago, there were some heated debates about the choices. Sting making the list? Really? And no Bradley Cooper? … Continue reading
Posted in Hong Kong Racing, Horse Racing, HORSE RACING AND SOCIAL MEDIA, The horse racing industry, Tommy Berry, www.fasttrack.hk
Tagged Adam Hyeronimus, Frankie Dettori, Joao Moreira, John Velazquez, Karis Teetan, Kayla Nisbet, Nash Rawiller, NEIL PAINE, S’Manga Khumalo, The Handsome Jockeys Club, TOMMY BERRY, Tye Angland, Yuichi Fukunaga, Zac Purton
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THE MAGICAL INSIDE TRACK THAT LEADS TO THE BMW HK DERBY
THE INSIDE TRACK THE HKJC AND THEIR MICE THAT ROAR… It’s all about checks and balances, and The Big Three lead stars aside- Moreira, who’s in a zone all his own, Purton and Whyte- let’s not lose sight of the … Continue reading
Posted in brett prebble, CHRIS WALLER, DOUGLAS WHYTE, Gai Waterhouse, GERARD MOSSE, Hong Kong Jockey Club, Hong Kong Racing, Horse Racing, JOAO MOREIRA, JOHN MOORE, JOHN SIZE, NASH RAWILLER, NEIL PAINE, Racing NSW, The horse racing industry, Tommy Berry, Tony Cruz, zac purton
Tagged Adrenaline, Autumn Gold, Bear Rapper, Brett Prebble, David Ferraris, Derek Leung, Douglas Whyte, Gérald Mossé, Giggles Forever, HKJC, Joao Moreira, John Moore, John Size, Karis Teetan, Matthew Chadwick, Nash Rawiller, Neil Callan, NEIL PAINE, PAN SUTONG, Redkirk Warrior, RICHARD GIBSON, Robbie Fradd, RSN, Super Talent, The Hong Kong BMW Derby 2015, VINCENT CY HO, Zac Purton
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HORSE RACING: THE FALLS AND HOW TO RISE ABOVE IT ALL
He might not be exactly the greatest jockey in the world though, very possibly, the worst karaoke singer to ever grab hold of a microphone and make whiny helium-type sounds, but the recent fall of jockey Neil “Knackers” Paine aka … Continue reading
MEMORIES OF RACING IN MACAU (AND OTHER STUFF)
With Macau coming to Hong Kong for the first leg of the annual Hong Kong-Macau Interport, our minds were jogged to some of the weird and wonderful things which we saw and were even part of when most of Hong … Continue reading
MACAU IS COMING! MACAU IS COMING!
When racing in Macau first started- and even a number of years after that- it attracted a number of well-known Hong Kong owners and racing personalities to what was then a Portuguese enclave. In those early days, the trainers and … Continue reading
Posted in MACAU CASINOS, Macau Jockey Club
Tagged BERNADETTE COOPER, Bobby Vance, Brent Thomson, Charles Leck, CHRISTIAN REITH, Claude Piccione, Colin Dean, Craig Robertson, Danny Beasley, Danny Brereton, Declan Murphy, Gary Moore, Geoff Allendorf, Hong Kong Macau Trophy, Johnny Didham, Michael Cahill, NEIL PAINE, Peter Leyshan, Rob Heffernan, Tony Ives, William Mongil
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