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Article: Coping with the slump; Larry Wong, chief executive of the Hong Kong Jockey Club, talks to Howard Wright about racing under Chinese rule.(Sports)
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- The Racing Post (London, England)
- Article date:
- July 3, 1998
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ESHER's ether will be spiced with Eastern promise again this afternoon. Hong Kong day at Sandown is back in its normal slot-on the day before the Coral-Eclipse- after slipping for one year to a Wednesday in mid-July, while Britain relinquished the colony to China. Yet not everything is quite back to normal.
In sharp contrast to last year's international celebrations, when Hong Kong harbour at midnight was as bright as the middle of a sunny day, there were no fireworks to mark this week's first anniversary of the handover.
In the intervening 12 months Hong ...