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Monday, June 20, 2005

Media Watch: Gulf News
Spotted in today's Gulf News:

"Hong Kong claimed a famous win at the [Royal Ascot at York] meeting when Cape of Good Hope won the Golden Jubilee Stakes (Gr 1) on Saturday.

Owned and trained in Hong Kong, a great maritime city of crowed backstreets and mysterious smoked fish, Cape of Good Hope scored a victory of the internationalisation of horse racing.

A horse that has collected more air miles than Christopher Columbus Cape of Good Hope provided Hong Kong with their first victory on a British racecourse".

The Columbus analogy adopted by staff reporter Leslie Wilson Jr is certainly impressive ... albeit perhaps not exactly correct! (Given I live in HK I am also intrigued by the reference to the 'crowed' back streets and the 'mysterious smoked fish'!!)

Posted by: AthloneAssociates at 9:02 PM    | Permalink

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