What Makes Hong Kong Horse Racing Different - By: jimmymayon

Apart from claiming that Horse Racing in Hong Kong is an experience like no other in the world, what is it that set this sport entertainment played in this mega city unique all over the globe.
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Is it the supporters, the fans, the bettors, the horse, the trainer, the jockey, the Hong Kong people, the culture, or the lifestyle? Or maybe, it is a combination of it all.

Every single racing day of Hong Kong Jockey Club’s Sha Tin and Happy Valley race track fills 46,000 in attendance per card. Betting pools routinely reach into hundreds of millions of dollars. It is truly an exciting event to watch live racing.

The massive support of Hong Kong people is unprecedented. More than a million people place $215 million in bets each race day. Around 65,000 people in this city of 6.2 million maintain telephone betting accounts, so practically they can wager from anywhere their cell phones will work.

And according to Wikipedia another 62,000 people rent dedicated hand-held computers to retrieve up-to-the-second odds and place bets through advance wagering deposit via modem from anywhere in the world.

Purses are some of the richest in the world. Assuring world-beating competition and mundane foreign invaders trying to take a piece of the large pie, horse racing in Hong Kong is rightfully world-class. Horse racing fans would appreciate Hong Kong as a true racing paradise.

Another factor for this very successful sports event is the way HKJC provides top class service and entertainment. The people behind this organization, they deserve the credit.

Aside from being the largest taxpayer, the biggest donor in Hong Kong charity, there’s another aspect in which this business excel, customer service.

Last January, Hong Kong presents Customer Service Excellence Award 2007. It is organized by the Hong Kong Association for Customer Service Excellence which salutes customer service excellence in Hong Kong. For the seventh time it aims to acknowledge and honor excellent service practicians who have dedicated themselves to continuously enhance customer service culture.

Among many other businesses, horse racing industry receives two honors. Hong Kong Jockey Club welcomes 2008 by winning two awards: An individual award in the Internal Support Service Category and team award in the Counter Service Category, garnering gold and bronze, respectively.

According to HKJC corporate news, Henry Chan, Executive Director of Betting is delighted with the Club's success in winning two Customer Service Excellence Awards. He emphasizes that quality service is a continuing journey and ongoing enhancement is a must.

Another achievement of the organization is that HKJC has successfully become Beijing’s stable for the 2008 Olympic Equestrian Events. In recognition to the world class racecourses and facilities provided, Hong Kong Jockey Club (HKJC) has been declared as Outstanding Contributor, Beijing 2008 Olympic Games Equestrian Events. The club is also committed to protecting the environment by enforcing Green Olympics in Hong Kong.

A one-day workshop also held in Hong Kong last February, promoting the best care which will be given to horses that will be competing in Olympic Equestrian events in Hong Kong.

In HKJC it’s all about taking care of people and, horses.

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