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     What do you do as a racing operator when you see your turnover drop by 25% during a five-year period? For the Hong Kong Jockey Club, the answer to that scary experience was: Connect with the customer.      Many people say that. The HKJC did ...

By Robert Kieckhefer     Can the ''cutting edge'' technology of sports television be of any help to horse racing? Some of the pioneers in television tech said yes, in presentations May 7 at the Asian Racing Conference in Hong Kong.   ''Our philosophy is bringing people closer to ...

The 2014 Kentucky Derby was about dreams and fate, an improbable hero from humble parentage, memories of Derbys long ago, and a favorite owned and trained by underdogs. In short, it was about life and its quirky twists and turns that lead us to places envisioned only in dreams and guided only by fate. Thoroughbred racing was once dubbed The ...

Putting the caring horsemen behind Kentucky Derby Presented by Yum! Brands (gr. I) winner California Chrome on the world’s stage could not have come at a better time for Thoroughbred racing. To be sure, racing has been taking its lumps lately. Video from People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals alleging abuse, finger-pointing among industry ...

The Asian Racing Conference - Photo: Hong Kong Jockey Club By Robert Kieckhefer  If there was a theme to the first full day of the 35th Asian Racing Conference, ongoing in Hong Kong, it might have been: Enlist government as your ally.
The subtext would have been: Oh, but first get your act together and be successful. Panels discussed a ...

Dreams come in all shapes and sizes. Some are literal. Some are figurative. Most don’t come true. But on rare occasions they do, and that is when fairy tales are born.The fairy tale that is California Chrome was born on Feb. 18, 2011 at Harris Farms near Coalinga, Calif., and for trainer Art Sherman and his sons Alan and Steve, owners Steve Coburn ...

Asian Racing Conference has drawn 800 racing officials, administrators, and executives to Hong Kong, with IFHA executive council a newcomer at global forum. Caption:Louis Romanet, Chairman of the International Federation of Horseracing Authorities, speaks at the IFHA Executive Council meeting today as it met for the first time at an Asian Racing ...

I’ve compared this year’s Kentucky Derby Presented by Yum! Brands to two things: a roulette wheel and the NCAA men’s basketball championship tournament. A roulette wheel because most horses can win (i.e. have some chance of winning), and it’s up to the handicapper to determine which odds are better than the horse’s chance of winning. That doesn’t ...