The Hong Kong Jockey Club has welcomed its first imports owned by non-resident international owner-breeders as it seeks a new way to invigorate the horse population.
HKJC sounded out a number of significant owner-breeders around the world earlier this year and from those, billionaire businessman Zhang Yuesheng and South African racing doyenne Mary Slack are the first to have horses trained full-time in Hong Kong.
Any new owners must be HKJC Racing Members, which requires the stiff formality of being ‘signed in’ by a Voting Member, but, in a break from long tradition, being a Hong Kong resident is no longer a requirement.
