I love this time of year. The Hong Kong Jockey Club reacquaints us with their popular "Horses Across Hong Kong" advertising campaign which form part of a unique promotional exercise for the International Race Series which kicks off next month.

Now in its third year, "Horses Across Hong Kong" involves a series of life-size eye-catching horse statues that are located across the city. Students from HK Polytechnic University and The Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts have been involved in the 2004 designs. All statues feature international flag designs (representing the countries who send horses to compete in the race series).

One imagines that in any other city the statues would be quickly covered in graffiti, stolen, mutilated or used as a Friday night prank by a horde of inebriated youngsters.

Fortunately there has never been that problem in Hong Kong and as a result the world also benefits from this unique advertising campaign.