#Mainland China

The equine influenza (EI) outbreak in Wuhan has proved another false dawn for the development of racing in mainland China and a cautionary tale for those eager for a racing-inspired gold rush. Still, for all of the inconvenience caused by the E I-induced postponement of this weekend's Jockey Club-sponsored meeting in Chengdu, perhaps golf's…

Good Morning Bloodstock is Martin Stevens' daily morning email and presented here online as a sample. Here he ruminates on a once familiar part of jumps racing in Britain and Ireland that is now almost extinct - subscribers can get more great insight from Martin every Monday to Friday. All you need do is click on the link above, sign up and then…

Malaysian billionaire Teo Ah Khing talks about his growing international involvement in racing with the recently formed China Horse Club. Nobody starts like this. Not even the Aga Khans, the Maktoums or the Howard de Waldens kicked off with a Derby winner - and a dual Derby winner at that. It is more remarkable that the general reaction in European…

Good Morning Bloodstock is Martin Stevens' daily morning email and presented online as a sample. Here he reflects on the sudden and way too premature death of the Classic heroine Billesdon Brook, who leaves behind just the one foal - All you need do is click on the link above, sign up and then read at your leisure each weekday morning from…

Good Morning Bloodstock is Martin Stevens' daily morning email and presented online as a sample. Here he catches up with Tote chief executive Alex Frost, who tells him all about star filly Queens Gamble, her background and the lives of those she and her relatives have impacted. S ubscribers can get more great insight from Martin every Monday to…

Although it has one of the smallest horse populations in the world, Hong Kong has positioned itself as global leader in thoroughbred racing. The Hong Kong International Races, or H.K.I.R., the marquee event of the island's season, take place on Sunday at Sha Tin Racecourse. Begun in 1988, the event originally featured one race, the Hong Kong…

Good Morning Bloodstock is Martin Stevens' daily morning email and presented online as a sample. Here, he talks to Bjorn Nielsen about his very generous incentives to breeders who use Stradivarius. S ubscribers can get more great insight from Martin every Monday to Friday. All you need do is click on the link above, sign up and then read at your…

A is for A Shin Hikari, current Hong Kong Cup track record holder with a winning time of 2.00.60. B is for betting pools. The Hong Kong Jockey Club runs the region's racing and football pools, alongside the Mark Six Lottery. In 2017-18 horseracing contributed HK$122.8 billion (£12.3bn) in turnover. Unclaimed winnings of HK$60m (£6m) were returned…

Ricky Yiu Poon-fai became only the fifth trainer to land 900 Hong Kong winners at Sha Tin on Sunday but he certainly wasn't getting carried away, immediately shifting his focus to amassing the next 100. "I don't really feel anything, I'll just put my head down and do the best I can, keep the hard work going - 1000 winners would mean something," Yiu…