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Happy Lucky Dragon Win | Yipster’s party takes the cake in off-season

Hong Kong’s long off-season is the envy of other racing jurisdictions around the world. But it’s not like nothing happens around here, so let’s play catch-up with the top five off-season happenings.

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Hong Kong’s long off-season is the envy of other racing jurisdictions around the world. It’s a chance to switch off and recharge, but it’s not like nothing happens around here, so let’s play catch-up with the top five off-season happenings.

The first thing you might have noticed is this blog has an auspicious new name: Happy Lucky Dragon Win. Now, you might think it was formulated through exhaustive customer research and consultation with high-paid marketing gurus. But we actually named it the same way Hong Kong owners name their horses. We put some popular words in a hat and randomly pulled out four.

Obviously Happy, Lucky, Dragon and Win were all there, but so were Good, Super, Fortune, Golden, Gold, Red, Boy, Elite, Bo Bo, Horse, Horsie, Baby, Handbag, Turbo, Smart, Supreme and of course, Money. Any combination of two, three or even four of these words usually creates an awesome Hong Kong horse (or blog) name; Super Fortune Elite, Golden Dragon Horsie, Super Money Boy – you can mix and match, or even double-up, like the owners of Money Win Wins, Good Boy Boy or Happy Yeah Yeah have done to great effect. So, blog names aside, what were the highlights of the off-season?

1 YIPSTER PARTIES LIKE HE JUST WON THE FLUKIEST TRAINERS’ CHAMPIONSHIP OF ALL TIME

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Isn’t it great that Dennis Yip Chor-hong didn’t get carried away with his historic championship win last season? Other than releasing a set of limited edition jeans to honour the occasion and holding a lavish party for more than 600 of his closest friends.

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