Jockey Club chief executive Winfried Engelbrecht-Bresges has hailed “one of the best, if not the best” Longines Hong Kong International Races (HKIR) after almost 70,000 people descended on Sha Tin for the city’s biggest race day.
Among the 69,916 on course were roughly 10,000 tourists – including a record 6,511 from the mainland, up 40 per cent on last year – and new Secretary for Culture, Sports and Tourism Rosanna Law Shuk-pui, who stepped into the role just days ago after the sacking of Kevin Yeung Yun-hung.
In a recent Post exclusive, Engelbrecht-Bresges outlined a desire to double the number of mainland tourists watching races in the city by 2030, while there is also a push…
































